The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam August 26th, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed number one touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on News Radio eleven SEVENTYWVA starts now the.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on News Radio
eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Monday morning to you. Oh, you had a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I know the weather was perfect, I mean absolutely perfect
other than a lack of rain. And I know you
farmers are upset. This summer has been spectacular. Heat, dryness
a rarity here in the Ohio Valley. But here we
go on Monday, and what a firestorm out of East
Ohio Regional Hospital. I'm just going to read you some
of the Facebook postings that were sent to me, along

(00:52):
with a couple of other things regarding payroll not being met.
So the first one that I got said, just thought
the Ohio Valley should know there will not be any
staff in East Ohio Regional Hospital due to no employees
getting paid full diversion. Diversion means anybody going to East
Ohio Regional for anything, they're going to divert you over
to Wheeling Reynolds wherever it may be. Now, as far

(01:15):
as the Facebook postings, I know it's social media, but
you can get a lot of insight out of what
people are saying. Here's a couple of them. Yeah, blame paylosity.
Go and ask the hospital ambulance employees about having credit
cards declined when they try to get gas to transport
a patient. They had to get a local fire department
to fill their squad with gas and they could take

(01:36):
the patient. Here's another one, Bernie, you are not qualified
to be CEO of a hospital. Your degree is a pharmacist,
not business. I realize you have classes in business, manage
it to obtain a degree as a pharmacist. This isn't
a qualification to be CEO of eo RH. E RH
will have the same fate as OVMC unless the institution
is treated as a large business entity. The supplies are necessary.

(02:00):
Come on, Bernie, if you can't make this happen, step
down and let somebody else get in there. Here's another one, Bs,
you are late paying employees every single payday and they
always give an excuse another People work to earn money
to pay their bills. They should never have to worry
about getting paid. This has been happening a very long
time now and more. It's not the bank. My husband

(02:22):
and I have been with Unified for forty years. Not
once have our paychecks been deposited late.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Not once? Another one? Right?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Why continue to use a bank or payroll system? This
seems to always be the issue unless it's not really
that another I worked there years ago before they closed
out checks relate a few times, nothing's changed, I guess
talking about working at OVMC. Here's another one, and maybe
time to find a new bank and payroll company because
this is an every week occurrence and far too many

(02:51):
times this has been an issue, and there's always an
excuse after excuse after excuse. So when does the fault
land on the hospital for doing business with companies that
can't seem to manage the money and payroll professionally and punctually.
And if the fault doesn't land on the payroll company
and bank, then what's really going on? People are tired
of their banks getting overdrawn with automatic bills coming out

(03:12):
and not having their money when they're supposed to have it.
It's unacceptable and unprofessional. And if the problem can't be
resolved by the current CFO and COO, then maybe it's
time to replace them with qualified professionals who can solve
the problem if in fact it is the problem. And finally,
this one, this is a one hundred percent legit question.
I do payroll for municipal town. This is a bunch

(03:35):
of bs and excuses to try to settle down the
public and the employees. If you can issue checks, you
can issue acch payment. Because it's drawn on the same account,
something is fishy, and I feel really bad for the employees.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
So that brings me to this.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I can remember, well, I've been in Cleveland for nearly
three years. I can remember talking about East Ohio Regional
Hospital having money issues when I was still right here
at WWVA before I left for Cleveland, so that's over
three years ago, four years ago.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's always been an issue.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I've heard from countless people, countless people that this hospital
is on the verge of bankruptcy, this hospital can't meet payroll,
this hospital is going to be shut down. And it
seems like East Ohio Regional Hospital has nine lives because somehow,
some way it keeps functioning. And I don't want to
see anybody lose their jobs, and I'm hearing rumors that

(04:32):
WU Medicine may buy it, which is not a good
thing because we already have a monopoly in this valley
as it is. You need more hospitals because more competing
hospitals means more competition and it means better care for you.
But what I'm trying to say is it seems like

(04:53):
this has been a recurring issue for a long long time, and.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think the blame putting being put on Unified.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Is an excuse based on who I've talked to, based
on the fact that I've been talking about this now
for nearly four years. I mean, when you start looking
at it and you start going through all of the
issues and you know what's this and what's that, it really,
as somebody says, it really does smell fishy. Now. I

(05:27):
know that East Ohiower Regional put out a press release
or a letter to employees. Sam, I know you have that.
Why don't you let everybody hear what they're saying.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes, it was a busy weekend for myself and bloom Daddy.
As you mentioned, my phone was blowing up. Also, I
do have an important message that was put out Friday
by COO Bernie Albertini. But first off, I want to
give an update to everybody listening from I have been
speaking to an employee that will remain anonymous, of course,

(06:00):
but let me know as of this morning at six
point thirty, checks have started being deposited into employees banks.
So as of six thirty this morning, some employees are
beginning to receive deposits in their banks. So just an
update on this situation with employees being paid at east
O High Regional Hospital. But back to the important message

(06:22):
that was put out by COO Bernie Albertini. It says,
dear team, first, please know that east O High Regional
Hospital is open with staff and that there has not
been police involvement whatsoever with this issue. I am writing
to inform you of an update regarding this week's payroll distribution.
We encountered an issue with Unified Bank and it resulted

(06:43):
in a delay in processing our wire transfer to the
payroll company Paylocity. Unified Bank has acknowledged their air and
will cover any late fees associated with this situation. As
a result, some employees receive their paychecks on Friday, others
on Saturday, and the remainder will be processed on Monday morning.
This timing is dependent on the processing capabilities of individual

(07:06):
banks for late wires. Please be assured that the payroll
was submitted by East O'higher Regional as usual and in
a timely manner, and will be addressing this issue with
the leadership of Unified Bank on Monday morning. We apologize
for any inconvenience this delay may have cause and appreciate
your understanding and patience. Should you have any questions or

(07:27):
need for their assistance, please contact Human Resources Department and
gave the phone number. Please understand that we understand the
gravity of this situation and are not taking this lightly.
Please submit any fees incurred to be reimbursed by Unified
And to Rick Oliver in HR and he will get
them to asap. Thank you for your attention to this

(07:48):
matter and for your continued commitment to our team. Best regards,
Bernie Albertini, Administrator and c oh That was put out
for the public on the East Ohio Regional Facebook page.
So that is nothing behind the scenes or anything like that.
That was put right out on the Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
So here's my thing. If if it was an error
on the bank in the institution. Let's say it wasn't
an error on the bank or the institution. He puts
that out there, I mean that you're subject to I
mean you're going to be subject to a lawsuit for sure.
So I mean I would think that that that part
would have to be somewhat I mean, it would have

(08:29):
to be true, because if not, you're going to cost
your company. You're going to cost East Ohio and the people.
They're a hell of a lot more money in a
lawsuit than you would by just admitting your mistake.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, I will say this, we have been reaching out
to Unified Bank to get a statement for them, because
you're exactly right. If if the blame should not be
put on that particular institution, they're pulling in another very
long established mistakes happened, sure, but from a lot of

(09:02):
the responses on social media from those that have reached
out to us via Facebook and email, this is a
pattern and there is a lot of examples of those patterns,
and we're gonna dig into those. I have a lot
of commentary that blew up on social media this weekend.
Like I said, this went from being a statement to

(09:25):
hundreds of responses and tons of examples, and I'm going
to get into those examples when we returned. Now, if
you are an employee or you have experienced anything at
East Ohio Regional, would love to hear from you one
eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. Of course you
can text us three zero three eight two. We want

(09:46):
to hear your thoughts, experiences or have you gotten your
paycheck yet? You know a lot this is. This is
turning into something that blew up over the weekend. So
it is seven sixteen The Blue Dad Experience, salmon Otis
News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It is seven

(10:25):
twenty one on this Monday morning, The Bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Before we get
back into the conversation about East High Regional Hospital in
the delayed pay situation, you've probably heard during the break
we have a new giveaway this week and we're doing
something new and that's the talkback button.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
And if you're if you're in your fifties and you
have no idea what a talkback button is, we're gonna
explain it.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yes, exactly, So basically, if you listen to us and
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Speaker 5 (11:00):
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Speaker 4 (11:01):
Download it. It's free. It's very simple. It's a little heart,
it's red.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's iHeartRadio.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
That's what you gotta look for. Okay. So then in
the search bar when you open the home page of
the app, type in WWVA play live and that will
bring our beautiful voices playing through your phone.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
There's an exact.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
At the top there of the player. There's the talkback button. Okay,
that's what you hit. Touch the talkback button and.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
It records your voice so you can ask questions. You
can do whatever you want exactly. But in this case,
we're giving away tickets to Donnie Iris, a pair of tickets,
whining before you can buy them. Donnie Iris is going
to be here at the Capitol Theater October.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Twelfth is the show. So what we're gonna do a
little bit later on in the show, we're gonna ask
you the trivia question. We're gonna have a trivia question
every day this week, a different question, and we're.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Gonna ask multiple times during the show. So you have
until now nine o'clock to submit your answers correct.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Correct, and how you submit your answers As you hit
the talkback button and record your answers. After you say
your answer, say your name and contact phone number. That's
how well we get We will get a hold of
you if you are the winner.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
And what we'll do is we'll take all the correct
answers and we'll we're gonna lump them into a thing
and we're gonna randomly draw. They're going to go the randomizer,
the randomizer, and we anybody that has the correct answer
will be put into the randomizer and we will pick
a winner from there.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
So and that winner will be announced on tomorrow's show.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yes today, right, And so what you have to do
just remember your answer, your full name, you know, like
Jim Smith or you know, we don't need your like
we don't need James Robert Smith. Uh, just Jim Smith
and the phone number. And make sure you just speak clearly.
That's all just so we can understand it. If we
can't understand it, we're gonna have to throw it out.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
So this is new for us, it's new for you,
but we will get through this. We will get it.
And once we do it, a couple of times, and we'll.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Do we'll do a quick explanation before we ask that
or when we ask the question as well.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
And again we're gonna be giving away a pair of
tickets every day this week. Donnie Easy, I, Doney Iris
and the Cruisers October twelfth here at the Capitol Theater.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
That's how they say it in Pittsburgh Ours. It's all
one word Irish.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Oh, so we're gonna have fun with this. I'm learning
more about Donnie Iris than I ever thought I needed
to know.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
But and so will get eighty one years old?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Eighty one years old? I guess that can't be a
question now.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
But we'll have like like I would hope we'd come
up with a better question than how old is Donnie Iris?

Speaker 4 (13:40):
But like Otis said, we're gonna ask the questions all
throughout the morning.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
It'll be the same question, same question.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
We'll pick the winner after the show and that winner
will be announced.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
To So basically, you're gonna have time to Google with
our answers.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, but if you're driving, pull over to Google.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah. If you if you don't give us the right answer,
that's that's shame you, because you're we're gonna give you
enough time to google the answer.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Oh all right, So after all that, we got that
all squared away. Back into the conversation about East to
High Regional Hospital. My first thought when I saw all
of this start to blow up was this is unfortunate
because East Ohio is a small hospital, but it is

(14:25):
a very needed hospital. And what do I mean by that?
It services a lot of communities. A lot of people
think just Martin's Ferry, but that's not true because there's
a lot of communities that East Ohio. As they're trying
to get to Wheelings, say, for example, or Moundsville, they
can't get that, they'll stop in Martin's Ferry because it's

(14:47):
a closer drive. It is a beautiful, nice little hospital,
community hospital. It services a lot of people. My other
thought with this when it came to the employees is
an employer employee relationship is a contract, and when an

(15:08):
employee works, say forty hours a week, every week or
every two weeks, they expect the employer to hold up
their end of the contract, which is paying them but
playing them on time. Because if you are like a
lot of folks, a lot of folks have direct deposit,

(15:32):
which of course this is what they were expecting. But
then they also have automatic withdrawals for payments to different
whether it's your mortgage, your car payment, your electric bill.
A lot of people have automatic withdrawal from their checking
account to pay those bills on time. So then that
way it's taken care of and they don't have to

(15:53):
worry about it. This situation has really impeded a lot
of people when it comes to things like this. Candace
on Facebook said, my daughter's bank froze her account because
the funds were not sent to them from Unified were
insufficient funds. She was at Myrtle Beach with my grandchildren

(16:14):
at the time. Great trip for them. Now, Michelle says,
Bernie cares about the employees, and she's, of course, are
referring to Bernie Albertini, the COO. Bernie cares about the employees,
and the administration also cares about the employees. They have
a boss, They have a boss to answer to. Also,

(16:35):
I work at East Ohio. Never had a problem with
Bernie or administration. They come down ask how our day
is going. They make us feel important. They are there
are wonderful people in caring. They are wonderful people in caring.
So you know there are those out there defending the
administration in the COO Bernie Albertini. But people live paycheck

(16:55):
to paycheck. People have bills to pay and this has
turned into a pattern and that's what's expressed in a
lot of the comments on social media. And you know,
the letter was, like I mentioned, the letter was put
out on Facebook. So the ridicule in the backlash that
they're getting, they sort of open the door to. But

(17:18):
there's also more things coming to light about this besides
just the paycheck supplies demand, credit card bills not being
paid on time, credit cards being frozen. We're going to
talk about a little bit more of that also when
we return and Otis, you want to give the first question, Okay,

(17:39):
we'll do the question for our first Donnie Iris giveaway
of the week. So stick with us. The bloom Daddy
Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven

(18:05):
thirty six The Blue Beatty Experience Otis and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. There's another new drop for us,
little Rock Sound in Music there. So want to remind
everybody we are having a giveaway your chance to win
this week using our talkback button. Now again, this is
new to us, it's new to you. So just a

(18:26):
quick explanation once again, we are giving away a pair
of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers tickets October twelfth here
at the Capitol. One pair every day. But you go
to the iHeart Radio app on your phone or your
device or your device. Yeahad your device in the search bar,
type WWVA. It'll take you to our live broadcast of

(18:50):
the station, our show this morning. And then there's a
button there that's the talkback button. All you do is
you hit it, You record your answer to our question,
and then your name and phone number, and that is
your submission. It's clearly, yes, speak clearly. That is your
submission for the giveaway. So it's pretty simple. Once you
do it once or twice, you'll have it down.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
And then what we'll do is we'll take all the
correct answers, we'll lump them in, we'll do a randomizer,
and we'll pick a winner out of all the correct answers. Right,
And if you don't get the correct answer, don't shame
on you, because you we're going to give you enough
time to google. You have until we'll accept up till
nine o'clock this morning.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yes, again, your name, phone number and the correct answer.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
So do you have the trivia question right now? And
we're going to ask this a couple times during the
show so that you have time to answer.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
The question is where did Donnie grow up?

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Where did Donny Iris grow up?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Where did Donny Iris grow up? Again, this is your
chance for a pair of tickets to Donnie Iris and
the Cruisers October twelfth, right here at the Capitol Theater.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
And we need the city, not just Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
We need to see and I just helped you out there.
It's in Pennsylvania, so there you go. So that's not
going to help you in the answer. So just we
need the city.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
There's a little bit of a hint.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, So just to be clear, that's what we're looking for.
And don't say the United States because that's it. Even
though that's a correct answer, that's not what we're looking for.
We're looking for the city that Donnie Iris grew up.
Let's be And then again that's on the talk back
button on the iHeartRadio app, name, answer phone number.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Specific and this is one before you can buy.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Them, So before you can buy them, don ours.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Ours don't talk like that.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
There used to be a skit that they used to
do with Donnie Iris back in the day that was funny,
And I told you if I could find that, I
might bring it in. But I don't know what the
legality about playing that would be. We might have to
get permission. And I could, I could, I could. I
could message that one of the people that's in charge
to ask if we could play it.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Hopefully we'll get to talk to him on the show.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah. Maybe interesting man. Yeah, I mean, you figure anybody
that's been in rock and roll for that, like, I
mean from the late sixties on, and that's eighty one
years old. I mean, he's seen a lot of things.
He's been in multiple groups, been a solo artist with
his band. You know, he's had I believe three or

(21:23):
he had a song go to number two on the charts.
This might be a trivia.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Well, they don't give anything away, but.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
He had a song that went to number two on
the charts at one point in time, and had a
couple of hits. He played with bt E Taylor at
one point in time, So you.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Know, local legend. Yeah, local legend.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
So I mean, you know, I'm sure he's got stories
to tell.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Oh, I bet, I bet. So let's get back into
the he's a higher regional hospital conversation a little bit.
I just wanted to highlight a couple more statements that
I found on social media as I was scrolling through,
because you know, yes there's anger and frustration, but again,
just an update. There are checks being deposited this morning.

(22:04):
They started at six thirty, So an update on the
situation there. But wanted to point out there are those
in support. This isn't all negative, This isn't just people
airing their dirty laundry. There is support. As John says,
let's keep things in perspective. We've come a long way
since not having a hospital. If the hospital faces challenges,

(22:26):
so do our jobs in local economy. Keeping everyone in
my thoughts and John, I agree with you, but those
jobs are to be paid, and if it's to stimulate
the local economy, the money has to go to the
employees to then thus go spend the money in the

(22:46):
local economy.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Let me say this. You know, with everything that I've
been through in my last eight to ten years, with
my situation, and I did a lot of things at
the Cleveland Clinic, the way that the Cleveland Clinic is
run compared to the local hospitals here is night and day.

(23:09):
If you're scheduled for an appointment at eight o'clock, you're
normally in by eight o'clock. A worst case scenario, it's
like eight oh five. You are, I mean, they don't.
It's a well oiled machine. If you go to get labs,
the longest I mean they might send you down for
labs at the Cleveland Clinic. You go get them and

(23:31):
the longest you wait is five minutes. That's the longest
you wait. I've been to a local hospital where I
went to get labs and had to wait forty minutes.
Now I get maybe there's more people working at the
Cleveland Clinic. Okay, it might be two or three times
the amount of people drawing blood. But when you go in,
when I went into the local one, and you got

(23:53):
somebody texting on their phone, you got somebody doing this,
you got somebody doing that. You know, do your job.
Worry about texting. I don't get me wrong. I get emergencies.
I get an emergency. But if you're just texting your
your spouse or your kid or whatever, just to text
them or to answer like, hey, mom, can I go

(24:14):
to the park with Billy? Well, okay, do that on
your break.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
My last experience locally was you know how the receptionist
the glass window, open to the glass window and just
looks at me, just stares at me. No, good morning, No,
what time is your appointment? Just staring at me.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
It's like, well and again really like and you know,
I mean I just there was there was a guy
that just posted I played guy I played softball with,
took his dad to the emergency room and was there
for four hours. Now, I mean, I get that. Sometimes
when you go to the emergency room if there's a

(25:02):
car accident or there's something, you know, if there's something
that is truly pressing that comes in and you may
have to wait because you've got.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
A broken arm or something based.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
I get that, but there's no reason anybody should have
to wait in an emergency room for four hours.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Sometimes it's just the attitudes, like I said, the windows situation,
or they they basically throw the clipp board at you.
Fill out these forms. Fill out these forms. I need
a copy of your insurance card.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Well, it's like but pleasant, but here's the thing they're show.
They're so short staffed.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
They're overworked and they're tired. I understand that.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
But but the thing is they're they're so short staffed
that there's nobody to press them for their job. So
in other words, like you may you may be the
meanest person in the world, but there's nobody. They have
nobody to replace you with.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Oh yeah, the employees have the control currently over employers
because of the hiring situation. But also I think the
attitude and the delivery to patients comes from the leadership down.
Doesn't disagree because they see that. They absolutely see that.
But other issues that are now being highlighted from statements,

(26:18):
you know, Kelly says, the true tale is when you
can't get supplies. They're having issues at East Ohio getting supplies.
Asked the lab. They'll know before anyone except maybe environmental services.
They know everything. This from a patient. My dad had
to be taken by e st squad to the er,
then admitted to ICU. No male yurinals, no cups for ice,

(26:42):
no pillows, et cetera. It was a joke. So there
seems to be a pattern here with the things that
are happening at East Ohio. But I'll leave I'll leave
this topic with this this statement. The truth is that
this little gem of a hospital has never had a
shortage of amazing employees. The employees in hospital have so

(27:03):
much love and life to give. Administration needs to step
aside and let them work their miracles. So a ringing
endorsement for the hospital and their employees themselves, because it
is as I mentioned we started this conversation, it is
a small community hospital that is necessary, and it obviously

(27:24):
has good employees who just deserve to be paid on
time so that they can pay their bills on time. Again,
a reminder, we're going to giveaway today.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
It's a nice question.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's your chance to win. So the question is where
did Donnie Iris grow up?

Speaker 5 (27:42):
What city? What city?

Speaker 4 (27:44):
City? Yes, what city did Donnie Iris grow up? You
can and then of course you use the talkback button
on the iHeartRadio app. Just record your name, phone number
and your answer and the winner for today will be
announced tomorrow. So it is seven forty six The bloom
Daddy Experience SAM and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA

(28:31):
seven fifty one The bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam
News Radio eleven seventy wwva, so kind of switching gears
hair a little bit. Thirty six days. We are on
day thirty six of Kamala Watch. Will we get an interview?
Will we get a press conference? Well? Wait, hold, hold

(28:53):
the presses, hold the presses. I turned on the news
this morning and it said the hair campaign promises an
interview this week. Here's my question scripted? Who will do
the interview?

Speaker 5 (29:08):
To be scripted?

Speaker 4 (29:09):
I bet you, and I'm gonna say this now, oatis
I bet you breakfast? Okay, and I'll hold my and.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
I think you already owe me to breakfast.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Put me down for another possibly, I bet you it's
something like an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
I don't really consider that an interview.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
Then it doesn't matter. It's softballs. It can be easily
manipulated and scripted, and she can do her Oh geez,
everybody like me act. I'm telling you that's what it's
going to be.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
I think it's going to be somebody. It's going to
be a prominent female news person, I think. And that'll
put a feather in that person's cap and they'll be predetermined,
spoon fed softball questions.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'll tell you what after the after the DNC last week,
watching I feel like I'm been talking about social media
all morning, but I kind of have been. But watching
the memes, the commentary, the pointing out of the hypocrisy
that was the DNC was pure entertainment this weekend for me.

(30:23):
I mean, just there's one meme floating around there where
they have quotes of uh Obama, Michelle Obama, and Oprah
and there, you know, quotes of where they said, you know,
we all need to share to uplift this country, that

(30:44):
whole kumbai Ya attitude that they they portray, and then
they break down the homes that each one of them
own as as millionaires and billionaires, and and it's it's
just it's ridiculous where they're they're pushing share and lifting
one another up and supporting one another financially and emotionally

(31:05):
and that whole thing. But then also what are they sharing.
I mean, they point I think it was the Obamas
had three or four houses between Chicago, the Hampton's, Martha's Vineyard,
maybe there was a DC DC condo I think was
another one. And then of course Oprah has everything that

(31:25):
she has. But then now on the same regards, the
other mean that I saw that really was hilarious, where
people are pointing out, you know, they're giving financial advice
on taxes and this and that, and taking all of
these financial advice from from these billionaires. I don't see

(31:47):
them stepping up to pay the way for you and I.
It's nice to be able to sit there and preach
it us.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
Oh yeah, Well, the people that don't have the problems
are the ones that are doing that. You know, they
don't see the issues. So I mean, like you know,
when you have somebody like you know, Pink performing and
Beyonce and all these people that are backing you know,
Springsteen and all these people that are backing these democrats,

(32:17):
none of them are struggling at the at the food
counter or paying their electric bill or doing anything like that.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Well exactly, like I said, we've talked about this last week,
and it's very easy to sit there and preach to
the little people how to live and what decisions to
make when you are not facing the same problems that
everyday Americans are facing.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
Here.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Here's here. Here, here's the one that really got me.
Irony Alert, someone worth seventy million and another worth three
billion telling you trust rich people. I mean, it's just
it's absolutely ridiculous. But we just got an email from
Randy says Otis is, however, probably right about it being

(33:07):
a female to interview her. His prediction is, uh, Stephan Stephanopphalis.
I can never say his name right.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
George Stephanopolist. It's like stuff against.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Is he still an ABC?

Speaker 5 (33:22):
He's on PBS on Sesame Street, stephanoply, Yeah, he's still
at ABC.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Okay, I haven't seen him on there recently, although I
probably I don't really watch it like I used to, but.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I see somebody, I see
a female like, uh, who's the O'donnald does she do?
Or Katie Curic, somebody that's uh, somebody that's uh, you know,
one of these diehard liberals.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
They can giggle together.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Kind of you know that that's that's willing to you know,
basically say I am no longer a journalist. I'm just
gonna be a fluff piece now from now on. So
you know, anybody that's willing to sacrifice, you know, no,
but none of them are going to ask the hard
question because they don't. They can't because if they ask
the hard question she's gonna just flop and that's not
what they want.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Well that and then what they're gonna try. What they're
doing is they're counter they're trying to counteract the big
announcement Friday from RFK. They're trying to take the wind
from that big push that the Trump campaign got on Friday.
So now they're gonna roll her out. And it's basically there.

(34:27):
They've both been doing this where when something good happens
and they've got the momentum, then the other party is saying,
oh wait, no, here's this and they're trying to steal
the momentum. Back and forth is basically what they're doing.
But the entire thing was was.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
And Randy's not wrong with Stephanoppolis because he's a he's
a liberal kiss but.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Well, there's a lot of people that are really mad
because they promised a Beyonce appearance Thursday or possibly Taylor Swift.
It was like floating around out there that there was
gonna to be this big surprise, and there's a lot
of Democrats that are not.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
I don't think that's gonna sway there bit.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
No, because well, if that's what they're worrying about, watching
at the DNC Beyonce, God save us. They have a
vote if that's what they're worried about. It is seven
fifty eight. Hey, our question once again, Donnie Iris, pair tickets.
What city did Donny Iris grow up in? Talk back Mike,

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Speaker 4 (35:54):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloo Day Experience. Hey,
it's eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Good Monday morning to you. I if you had a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I know the weather was perfect, I mean absolutely perfect
other than a lack of rain. And I know you
farmers are upset. This summer has been spectacular. Heat, dryness
a rarity here in the Ohio Valley. But here we
go on Monday, and what a firestorm out of East
Ohio Regional Hospital. I'm just going to read you some
of the Facebook postings that were sent to me, along

(36:30):
with a couple of other things regarding payroll not being met.
So the first one that I got said, just thought
the Ohio Valley should know there will not be any
staff in East Ohio Regional Hospital due to no employees
getting paid full diversion. Diversion means anybody going to East
Ohio Regional for anything, they're going to divert you over
to Wheeling Reynolds wherever it may be. Now, as far

(36:53):
as the Facebook postings, I know it's social media, but
you can you can get a lot of insight out
of what people are saying. Here's a couple of them. Yeah,
blame paylosity. Go and ask the hospital ambulance employees about
having credit cards declined when they try to get gas
to transport a patient. They had to get a local
fire department to fill their squad with gas and they

(37:15):
could take the patient. Here's another one, Bernie, you are
not qualified to be CEO of a hospital. Your degree
is a pharmacist, not business. I realize you have classes
in business, manage it to obtain a degree as a pharmacist.
This isn't a qualification to be CEO of EO rh
erh well have the same fate as OVMC unless the
institution is treated as a large business entity the supplies

(37:37):
are necessary. Come on, Bernie, if you can't make this happen,
step down and let somebody else get in there. Here's
another one, BS, you are late paying employees every single
payday and they always give an excuse another. People work
to earn money to pay their bills. They should never
have to worry about getting paid. This has been happening
a very long time now and more. It's not the bank.

(38:00):
My husband and I have been with Unified for forty years.
Not once have our paychecks been deposited late.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Not once. Another one?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Right, why continue to use a bank or payroll system?
This seems to always be the issue unless it's not
really that another I worked there years ago before they
closed out checks relate a few times. Nothing's changed, I
guess talking about working at OVMC. Here's another one, and
maybe time to find a new bank and payroll company
because this is in every week occurrence, and far too

(38:30):
many times this has been an issue, and there's always
an excuse after excuse after excuse. So when does the
fault land on the hospital for doing business with companies
that can't seem to manage the money and payroll professionally
and punctually. And if the fault doesn't land on the
payroll company and bank, then what's really going on. People
are tired of their banks getting overdrawn with automatic bills

(38:51):
coming out and not having their money when they're supposed
to have it. It's unacceptable and unprofessional. And if the
problem can't be resolved by the current CFO and COO,
then and maybe it's time to replace them with qualified
professionals who can solve the problem if in fact it
is the problem. And finally, this one, this is a
one hundred percent legit question. I do payroll for municipal town.

(39:13):
This is a bunch of bs and excuses to try
to settle down the public and the employees. If you
can issue checks, you can issue acch payment. Because it's
drawn on the same account, something is fishy and I
feel really bad for the employees.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
So that brings me to this.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I can remember, well, I've been in Cleveland for nearly
three years. I can remember talking about East Ohio Regional
Hospital having money issues when I was still right here
at WWVA before I left for Cleveland, so that's over
three years ago.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Four years ago. It's always been an issue.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
I've heard from countless people, countless people that this hospital
is on the verge of bankruptcy, This hospital can't meet payroll,
this hospital is going to be shut down. And it
seems like east to how a regional hospital has nine
lives because somehow, some way it keeps functioning.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
And I don't want to see anybody lose their jobs.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
And I'm hearing rumors that WU Medicine may buy it,
which is not a good thing because we already have
a monopoly in this valley as it is. You need
more hospitals because more competing hospitals means more competition and
it means better care for you.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
But what I'm trying to say is it seems like
this has been.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
A recurring issue for a long long time, and I
think the blame putting being put on Unified is an
excuse based on who I've talked to, based on the
fact that I've been talking about this now for nearly
four years. I mean, when you start looking at it

(40:53):
and you start going through all of the issues, and
you know, what's this and what's that, it really, as
somebody says, it really does smell fishy. Now I know
that East Ohiowoer Regional put out a press release or
a letter to employees. Sam, I know you have that.
Why don't you let everybody hear what they're saying.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
I do have the press release from CEO Bernie Albertini.
I read it earlier in the show, so I'm not
going to go back to it. I will actually share
it on our Facebook page so you can go read
it for yourself if you didn't hear it in the
seven o'clock hour. Just a few comments on this. First
of all, you know, the employees deserve to be paid.
It's a contract between the employee and employer. That's just

(41:37):
the way it works. You do the work, you get
paid pay plain and temple, and you get paid on
time because these people depend on their paychecks to be
deposited on time, so when their bills are being withdrawal
to be paid on automatic payment, the money's there.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Well. And you know, as a former business owner, you
know the business that I had was relatively seasonal, okay,
so you know you had your good you had good months,
and then you had your slow months. I still had
to pay my employee in the slow months, and if
I didn't, if we didn't do the business to pay
the employee, I had to take it out of my
personal account to make sure that that person got paid.

(42:14):
And it's not always the best thing, you know, So
I'm sacrificing my pay to make sure that she's covered.
Nine know them. I was a small business, you know.
It was myself and one other person and then maybe
some you know, summertime help or something like that. But
it's it doesn't matter if you're a big corporation. You
still have to you have to make sure that you
have the money to pay your people. And if you
don't have the money to pay your people, then you

(42:35):
shouldn't be in business.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Well, I think the biggest issue here is now, you know,
if this was a one time occurrence.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
Okay, I can't understand it.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
But it seems as if from a lot of the
things that I am reading and being told from a
couple people who have reached out to me privately and anonymously,
that this is a reoccurring thing. This is not the
first time this has happened. This started happening roughly three
years ago. The other problem with this is is throwing
out the name unified bank. If there was an issue

(43:04):
on the bank side, I'm sure it will be you know,
corrected obviously, As I said, paycheck started being released at
six point thirty this morning into being deposited into accounts.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
And maybe this, this incident was the fault of the banks. Yeah, yeah,
But okay, then what happens if you know, if this
is a recurring thing, you know, and how often does
it happen every week? Does it happen every two weeks?
Does it happen every month? You know, depending on how
you get paid? And the question is, okay, so even

(43:36):
though this has been going on, you're gonna throw it
out there and blame the bank even though it could
be their fault. Okay, it could.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Be that's just bad practice business.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
Right, But I mean you're just but you're covering your
rear end. But then you know, what about.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
All the other times, right exactly? And as a business leader,
if this has happened multiple times and you have been
using the same finance institution and the same payroll company Paylocity,
then why have you not made the change in support
of your employees If this has happened before and the

(44:11):
blame is on those two financial institutions in the Payroy,
the Payroy payroll company. Then why have you not made
the change prior to this?

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Could be a contract, you know, there could be some
things that you.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Know, but if they're not holding up there under the contract,
you would think they'd be able to get out of it.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Exactly. Yeah. So sometimes, but again sometimes these contracts are
very worded that even though we might make a mistake,
you're still obligating.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
And we did reach out to Unified. We have not
heard back to see if they would provide a statement.
We have not heard back. But again, just say you're
our financial institution. You don't have to name the bank,
but you know, hey, just a reminder, we are doing
your chance to win all week long Donnie Iris and
the Cruisers October.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Twelfth, win them before you can buy them, before you.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Can buy them. We're doing talkback trivia. So what that is?
You go to the talkback Mike on the iHeart app
search WWVA, pull us up. There's the little button, click it,
hit it, touch it whatever you want to say. Oh,
all right, and leave your name, phone number. And the
answer to the question and our question today is what

(45:19):
city did Donnie Iris grow up in? This is your
chance to win.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
We will take answers till nine o'clock, so you've got
plenty of time. You're gonna google it. We know it.
We're okay with.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
That pull over if you're driving, yeah.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Absolutely, And if you're not at your destination, you've got time.
So we'll take answers up till nine o'clock and then
all will take all the correct answers, we'll throw them
into a hat and we'll randomize it and pick a winner, and.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Then the winner will be announced tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
So again, your name, phone number, and the answer to
what city did Donny Iris grow up in?

Speaker 5 (45:52):
And you've got five chances to win because we got
one winner every day.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Yep, every day. It is eight sixteen Monday Morning, The
Blue Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(46:25):
Good Monday morning. It is a twenty one The Blue
Daddy Experienced Salm and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Oh it's Monday, but let's kick it off strong. Let's
head up to the Highlands. Kevin Cook's draw ab Automotive.

Speaker 6 (46:38):
Good morning, Kevin Morning, guys How y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Good? You have a good weekend. I'll put the up
on the hilltop there.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
We did. We had a great weekend across all to
do with ship. Since we can't sure, so.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
I'm gonna give you something, Kevin. Today is National Dog Day.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
It is Oh yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Just wanted to give out out there. I know you,
I know you. You have several dogs. Sam's got a
couple of dogs. I have a dog, so it's a
good day to be a dog owner.

Speaker 6 (47:05):
I do. I have Argus, August August.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
What kind of dog is August?

Speaker 6 (47:12):
Argus is an old English bulldog?

Speaker 5 (47:14):
All right, I get that's it. That's a good one
to have.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
Where did the name protected, Where did the name come from?
I've not heard that one before.

Speaker 6 (47:22):
That was Ulysses dog that he left behind to take
care of the family when he went on his.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Dog.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
Look at you, vigilant protector, August, look.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
At you going all the way back.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
That's deep there a dog name.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
Hey important? Yeah, it's very fitty. Yeah, he's a great dog,
sure is for sure.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
So how are we getting through the dog days of
summer at Straw Automotive?

Speaker 6 (47:48):
You know what we're talking about? What a great weekend
we had, and normally we have great weekends like this.
We tried for a lot of vehicles and I got
to look in this morning. We have thirty seven pre
owned crvs okay, and they range in price starting as
low as ninety six hundred dollars right, and the Cerab
is the number one selling vehicle in the Ohio Valley.

(48:11):
And when we sell a bunch of them, we get
a bunch of trades. And what we do with those
is we make them as new as possible just for you.
Any of them that are new or seven years newer
and have less than seventy five thousand miles, they will
also have ever drive, they'll have lifetime powertrain protection on that,
so you know, jump online check them out for yourself.

(48:33):
Like I said, thirty seven pre owned Honda Crvs out there,
ranging in price as low as ninety six hundred bucks, and.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
They're the number one. They're the number one Honda in
the valley for a reason.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Yep, that's for sure. Yeah. People, I mean people, I
absolutely love them. And it's probably we probably get more
repeat business on Seravs than we do any any other
model we have.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
And I think I've mentioned this before my mom. I
think she's on her third one.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
Yeah, yeah, great vehicle, Like I say, go to drive
shop dot com check him out for yourself, and come
on up here and take a chest drop.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
All right, buddy, Hey, all right, guys, tell Argus. We said, hi, Argus.
I like that.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
I know what I'm doing after the show, sharing some
some puppy pictures.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Okay, uh, you're you have? How many? You have? Two?

Speaker 4 (49:18):
I have two now?

Speaker 5 (49:19):
And what are their names?

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Oliver, Oliver and pow Bear.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
I like Oliver?

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Who's new? Okay, who's my new rescue?

Speaker 5 (49:30):
I didn't get I I did not get to name
my dog.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Not all you got her from.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
I got him, Yeah, I got I got I got
him from a foster home. And the people that originally
had him named him Rory, after the golfer Rory McElroy.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
So I'd hate to say Rory. I can't say that name.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
It's tough. I just call him meathead or Bub. I
hate meathead. Come on, hey, bub, it's a lot easier
than Rory.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
So he used to be Oliver and Milo, and then
we lost Milo and now Poo's the Poo's the new one.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Okay, but it is National Dog Day. Nothing better than
the dog. No, no, oh you cat Lever's out there.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
Sorry, sorry about your life.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
It's not the same as a dog.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
And you know what, it's the one not person, but
it's the one thing that's always happy to see you
no matter what, no matter what. Because there's times where
I've come home and you know, the husband just kind
of looks at you, Hey, what's up. But guaranteed they're
like hey, and their tails are you know, they're.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Just I see. Rory's nine and sometimes like I'll walk
in the house, He's laying on the floor and I
have to step over him. Like he won't even get
he's just like oy, Like his eyes will maybe make
contact with you, but that's about it. Like he's like,
I'm just laying here.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
That's kind of That's kind of where Oliver is. He's eighteen. Geez,
yeah he's eighteen.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
But for a lot of the bigger dogs don't live
that long.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
He shouldn't have made it this long.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
Yeah, well, I mean, but a lot of bigger dogs,
you know, they they're about they make it to about
ten or eleven, so I mean, and Rory's one hundred
and fifteen pounds, so olivers like just you can see
sometimes you can see it any hips.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Oh yeah, you know, yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
But like I said, dogs, I mean it's National Dog
Day and perfect for the dog days this summer.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
All right, here's the statistic for you, okay, men spend
an average of seven hours a year hiding in the
bathroom for peace and quiet. Hiding hiding in the bathroom.
This is a survey of one thousand men. They're seeking
an escape while enjoying some quiet time. They do it

(51:44):
to avoid or to take a break from the nagging
of their spouse, or to avoid their kids.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
I'm thinking back to when I had all those things
I can see. Yeah, maybe a little bit. I don't
know how much.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
How what was the average seven hours a year?

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (52:06):
Oh, that's probably you know. I mean if you do
five or ten minutes here and there, I mean out
of three hundred and sixty five days, that wouldn't be
hard to get to seven hours.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
No, not really. I think I would find somebody somewhere
better to hide than the bathroom.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
Yeah. Well, sometimes what you do is you go in
and you do your business and then you just kind
of sit there and yeah, you figure, well i'm here,
I might as well, just wait another five or ten minutes.
You know, I can hear the kids out there. It's like,
oh good God.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
The thing of it is a lot.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
I know.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
I know parents friends of mine that her parents said
that that doesn't even stop the kids.

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Nah, something that depends on how the kids are.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
They knock on the door, they yell at.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Your little though. They'll even just barge in on you.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Well, my new thing with the new dog. My other
ones didn't do this as much. And since it's it's
National Dog Day, I can't even escape in the bathroom.
Sometimes she pushes the corner of the door open if
I don't close it all the way, and she just
sits there and stairs at me while I'm sitting there
with my pants around my ankles, and it's like, hey,
what's up? What do you want?

Speaker 5 (53:05):
I was a vision we didn't need.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Sorry, Or she's staring at me through the shower.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Yeah, move on.

Speaker 4 (53:11):
Oh they're always looking at me.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
I'm now blinded by images.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Oh god, all right. It is eight twenty eight. Bloom
Daddy Experience ww V A Welcome Back eight thirty six

(53:45):
The bloom Daddy's Experience. News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So
I'm sure people have noticed, especially since COVID a lot
of then I've noticed it in our industry and just
business in general. A lot of what we wear has
become casual. Wouldn't you say? Otis you don't see men

(54:06):
in suits as much anymore. You don't see ties.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
I mean, you know what's funny is you bring this
up and sometimes when you watch footage of old baseball
or old football games or all the fans are in this.
You know they're in they're in a shirt and tie
and a jacket and you know, I mean obviously if
it's hot, then they take the jacket off, but they've
got their you know, the hat on and the and
like kind of like the ray band glasses, you know,

(54:31):
the wayfarers. And it's just like, I can't imagine going
to a baseball game and a shirt and tie because
we went yesterday. Yeah, and there's nobody. You know, you're
lucky if people have their clothes arms.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Well, people used to wear suits and skirts on an airplane.
I mean, just the way we present ourselves and are
in what we has changed drastically.

Speaker 5 (54:56):
I remember my grandparents. Now my grandfather had a driver's license,
but didn't have a car, you know, I mean they
couldn't afford one back in the day. And then it
just you know, it got to the point where they
didn't want him driving anyway. So he never really renewed
these driver's license. But my grandmother never drove. But when

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they they got they went to see my my uncle
and my cousins in New York. So they flew to
New York and like I can remember, my grandfather, this
would have been in the seventies. You know, he put
on his best shirt and tie, says, oh, I mean,
and so did my grandmother because they were flying, so
you had to you had you dressed up to fly.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
Oh yeah. If you go back to shows like mad Men,
you know they were always completely dressed to the nines
going to work and everything else. I bring this up though,
because for a lot of business owners out there, maybe
you've you've dealt with this too, or recruiters. This is
out of Texas. A woman went to visit a recruiter,
not actually a job interview, but recruiter, and the recruiter

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sent her home and basically said, you know, would you
like to go home and change your clothes before I
send you out? On possible interviews, and her statement in
her TikTok video said, I cannot believe the recruiter asked
me to change my interview clothes then come back. Well,
she posted a picture of herself. She was put together,

(56:25):
she was nicely put together. But she had on a
white T shirt, a little sweater and a very not
ridiculously short pair of shorts, but a pretty short pair
of black shorts.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Okay, I don't think a pair of shorts is good
for an interview.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
And that was the point of the recruiter was, you know,
this is not appropriate to go to job interview.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
If it was a skirt appropriately length, then I could
understand that.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Well, okay, if this was a skirt, it would not
be the appropriate length, Okay, Okay. So now she of
course went on social media TikTok and posted a video
and it's all gone viral, and you know, she's all upset. Well,
people are speaking up saying, you know, you're going for
a job interview, you have to wear appropriate clothing, you

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have to look professional, you have to be put together. Now,
I'm sure it depends on the type of job you're
applying for. If you're going to say I don't know,
be a landscaper. If you had on a nice jeans
and a nice shirt, that would be appropriate.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Pair of khakis. You don't have to, I mean, you
can find something other than.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Jeans, right right. But we have we lost a sense of.

Speaker 5 (57:41):
Personal pride, yeah yeah, and respect.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
For what you want to earn. If you want to
earn a good employment position, you should have respect enough
to carry yourself and dress appropriately for the position that
you want. And it seems like that's become less and
less of importance in our society. I mean, just going
to the grocery store. Some of the things you see, oh,

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things that I don't ever want to see.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Ever, I mean there's entire websites out there about the
people of Walmart. We've all seen it.

Speaker 5 (58:19):
Well, you can say what you want about Walmart. And
I was just telling my friend yesterday when we were
at the baseball game. I was actually at a target
when a woman came in. She had a T shirt
on and she didn't have anything holding the puppies up there.
Oh yes, Nora. And her shirt was pulled up so
that everything was everything was exposed as she walked into

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the target.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
You mean the waistline of her shirt was up over up.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Basically in other words, you could see your breast, she
was flashing. She I don't think she was doing it
on purpose. I mean, it was a hot day. Now,
this wasn't recently. This has probably been about a year
or two ago. And I'm I'm walking toward the exit
and she this person had just come in, and you
can see like people just turning like, oh my god,

(59:12):
what you know? And and but what you could see
was that this person was mentally challenged. Oh so, you know,
I don't think it was done intentionally, you know. And
then finally, after she had been in the store for
probably a minute to a minute and a half, somebody

(59:34):
from Target came over and said, ma'am, you know you're
gonna have to pull your shirt down and blah blah blah.
And she did. But you could definitely see that, you know,
that there was there was something. Yeah, not she could
tell that there was there was a little bit of
a mental challenge there.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
That's that's a little bit different.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
But it's still you know, you know, you're sitting there
and you're going my first and I'm not trying to
make fun of the situation by any means. But I'm
sitting there and my first thought is this is in Walmart,
And I mean, I hate to say that I know,
but you know, but because you know, as where I
was originally, you know, I didn't see that, and as

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I got closer than you could see that there was
an issue.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Yeah. So yeah, that that's a little bit more of
a unique situation. But I think that we have, like
you said, and I think it's very well put, that
we have lost pride in our person A lot of
people have lost pride in you and personal appearance, carrying
yourself well, presenting yourself well put together. I think when

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you're put together and and you know, your shirt's iron,
those basic type of things, and and you know, we
all we all say, you know, appearance doesn't matter, but
it does because it is your first impression. It is
your first impression to the new people you meet, the
people you know, people walking down the street that you

(01:00:58):
may never have a conversation with, but they're going to
look at you and draw a conclusion about you based
about on how you look and how you're put together.
And you can you can argue me and say argue
with me and say, well, you know those those are
those are heartless people. You know, we shouldn't have to
be that way, but that's reality. Well, absolutely that is.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
I can also say this that in my other job,
I applied for a supervisor's position. Okay, I really didn't
want it, but I didn't want the other person to
get it. There were three of us that were applying,
and the two of us were like, we don't want
this guy to get it, so if one of us
gets it, we're okay.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
You're kind of like RFK, Yeah I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
I don't really I don't really want the position, but
I definitely don't want this person to get it. But
when I went to my interview and our job, you know,
we can wear you know, casual khaki style pants. You know,
we can wear like police pants if we want. And
then but you know, you're kind of like a golf shirt.
You know, you can wear a polo or something of

(01:02:00):
that nature. Doesn't have to be shirt and tie. But
when I went for my interview, I mean I had
a shirt, I had a tie, I had dressed pants
on dress shoes, you know. I mean I didn't go
looking like I didn't go as my everyday employee. I
went as because I'm I'm applying for a higher position
and a supervisor's job, and I'm glad I didn't get it,
to be honest with you, But you know, it's just

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one of those things.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
I mean, first impressions will linger and they last, especially
if you're going for a job. If you're going for
a job and I know somebody that showed up for
a job interview wearing Chuck Taylor's cut off jean shorts,
a black T shirt, and a black hoodie and sat
in the waiting room waiting to go talk to the
person they were going to interview with, wearing the hoodie

(01:02:44):
over their head like some angry teenager at the principal's office.
It was such a terrible impression. Terrible impression. Obviously that
person didn't get the job.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Let's give last call trivia.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Oh yes, last call for trivia Donnie Iris and the Cruisers,
October twelfth, here at the Capitol Theater. We have your
chance to win them before you can buy them.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Go to the talkback button, answer a trivia question, leave
your name, the answer and the phone number clearly clearly,
and explain the talkback.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Okay, so you hit the talkback button, you go to
the iHeart app search WWVA. Once you get to the page,
there's a little button towards the top. You just hit
that and then you will start recording. It's kind of
like leaving a voicemail basically, very similar to that. And
the question is where did Donnie Iris grow up? What city?
What city did Donnie?

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
Pennsylvania?

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
In Pennsylvania, Donnie Orius.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
And you've got basically fourteen minutes to give us an answer.
Last answers at nine o'clock.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Nine o'clock and then we'll reveal the winner on tomorrow's show. Yep, YEP,
Play It and Simple. The bloom Gotty Experience sam i
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, A fifty one. The

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Blue Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
So we were talking about a tire before the break.
Appropriate you know, what's appropriate to wear for a job
interview or just out shopping at the grocery store basically.
But you know, one of the other things that's a
big conversation piece when it's that kind of topic is tattoos.

(01:04:38):
I have some otis. You have a couple, right, two
or three? Oh, okay, those that I can see.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Well, I got it. I've got a group of them
on my arm. So there's it looks. I mean, it's
more than one tattoo, but it just kind of one
just takes up. It goes from my elbow to my shoulder.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Gotcha.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Well, there's a woman on social media. She applied for
a job at at Target actually, and I don't have
it in front of me, but she of course puts
a TikTok video out there saying she doesn't understand why
you know, she didn't get a callback and this, and that.
She's covered in tattoos all over her face, her neck,
her chest, and a lot of them are like satanic pictures.

(01:05:18):
She's got piercings, all this kind of stuff. And you know,
again it goes back to impressions. First impressions. I hate
to say. You know, you decide to do that, you
have to deal with the consequences. That's so that's part
of it. Well, this woman, thirty six year old Esperanza

(01:05:38):
fr Zena, I hope I say that right, okay, is
now the most tattooed woman ever. She's an army veteran
and has ninety nine point ninety eight percent of her
body tattooed.

Speaker 5 (01:05:53):
That's I mean, you have two one hundreds, oh my
shortage of your body not covered. Yes, and they're not
I'm guessing you can guess where they.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Are well, and they're Yeah. I was gonna say, they're not.
Just talking about what can see be seen on the
outside of your clatter talking to everybody to the point
where she has the soles of her feet, her scalp,
her gums, her eyeballs, not her eyelids, her eyeballs, and

(01:06:25):
her tongue tattooed. She received her first tattoo at twenty one.
Now she's only thirty six years old, so in fifteen
years she has done this much work. She claims that
the tattoos help her remember her life story and says,
I am grateful and excited for the future, and of
course I am not done. Well, honey, you're kind of done,

(01:06:47):
because where else are you going to?

Speaker 5 (01:06:48):
I mean, well, you know, look, I know people that
get tattoos, and they call it ink therapy because there's
something about when you get a tattoo, a little bit
of pain. Kind of yes, it's hard to describe, but
they're also tattoos are also addictive. They are once you

(01:07:10):
get one, you almost you basically you can't wait, you
want a second one. And I think it's the Oh,
I just looked her up, so you know now I'm
not a person. And in fact, I shared a picture
yesterday with my son off of West Virginia mug Shots
and I'll show it to you later. But this guy

(01:07:31):
has a tattoo on his face and it's like above
his eyebrows and it's solid and then it comes down
under his like to his cheekbones. He almost looks like Magneto,
but minus the helmet. And I mean when you go
to West Virginia Mugshots and there's like a it's a
if it's a good mugshot, meaning like entertaining. Yeah, the

(01:07:55):
comments are priceless, and they just riped this guy. I
mean they had like they were showing pictures of the Ultimate.
They had like little gifts of the Ultimate Warrior sting Magneto.
The comments where that's not how you get your your
eyebrows tattooed. I mean it was quite comical. If I

(01:08:17):
if I can send it to you, you can share
it on our Facebook page. But you got to see
this guy's face tattoo. It's I mean it's absolutely comical.

Speaker 4 (01:08:26):
Well I just I just pulled this woman up and
she was pretty. I mean, oh, she's got her tongue split.
She's got that reptile tongue split thing. Yeah yeah, oh
oh listen, I have tattoos. When I got my first one,
which was only four years ago, I think three or
four years ago, I thought, oh, this is bad. This

(01:08:48):
is bad because I really enjoyed it. And there is
something and this is gonna sound weird, there is something
about being able to sit through that pain and come
out on the other end of it where you're like, yeah,
I did that, like it's it. And I think that's
where a lot of the the addiction comes from. But

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percent of her body, look.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
Yeah, I couldn't. Look, there's certain things if you have tattoos.
I'm not going to be judgmental, no, but you know
when we went to the Pirate game yesterday and we
ate it the North Shirt Shore tavern before the game,
and our waitress had face tattoos, face piercings, tattoos everywhere

(01:09:32):
all over her body, and like just the piercings alone,
I'm like, thank god none of us are magnetic, because
I could just picture them coming out of her face.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
She doesn't fly a lot, I guess.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
And you know, the thing is if you're if I don't,
I don't get the face piercings. It just to me,
like the first time I saw a girl had her
face piercing, she had like two under her where your
lip's me kind of like on your almost on your chin.
And I was thinking about it, and she wasn't. I mean,

(01:10:06):
she wasn't, you know, super She wasn't super model material,
but she was an attractive young young girl. Yeah, And
the only thing I could think of is why you're
an attractive girl? Why would you ruin it? I mean,
that's how I look at it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
The thing I can't stand is the septum piercing of
your nose. Oh yeah, I call it a bull ring
because I think that looks so bad. And all I
can think is when you sneeze.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
And I have a nose.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Yeah, I have a nose ring. It's very tiny, it
doesn't do anything, but that thing, I just think to myself,
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. And here's something I
never thought i'd hear. Sports Illustrated is predicting the lions.
You heard me right the Detroit Lions to win Super
Bowl fifty nine. The sky is falling, Ladies and.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
Gentlemen, that'd be one off the list.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
There's a shocker for you on a Monday morning. Hey,
we are out of here on this Monday. Enjoy your Monday.
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