The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 11, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See 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 seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. Good Monday morning, took get a fantastic weekend.
I don't know about you, but I cannot get used
to this getting dark at five five point thirty. It's horrible,
it's miserable. I can't stand it. I'm never gonna stand it.
It's beyond me. Why we keep doing this. It's twenty
twenty four. There's no reason for it.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Don't give me.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You don't want kids waiting at the bus stop when
it's dark. That's why parents wait with them at the
bus stop when it's dark or when it's light. This
is just horrendous and incredibly depressing. There, I'm done with
my Monday morning rant. It is Veterans Day. I hope
the you, if you know any veteran, please thank them

(01:02):
for their service. I'm thanking every veteran out there listening
right now. Their families, thank you for your service.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Growing up, it's kind of funny. I grew up a
Red Sox fan because I was a big baseball fan.
I still am. But growing up in Lafferty, you only
got two channels seven and nine. Like most of you
out there listening right now, in the NBC Game of
the Week back in nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine,
always seem to be the Boston Red Sox. I'm a lefty,

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so I fell in love with Carl Ustrumsky the Red Sox.
That's how I became a Red Sox fan. But I
never grew up idolizing baseball players to sports heroes. As
big of a sports fan as I am, I grew
up idolizing veterans. I grew up idolizing those who serve
our country. It I think it resonated with me because

(01:53):
I always used to think, could I have done what
they did when it comes to courage, when it comes
to leaving your mom, your dad, your family. At eighteen
nineteen years old, never did I truly truly respect anybody
who has and is still serving.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
But I grew up idolizing veterans.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I did whether it was Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army
special Ops.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
It didn't matter.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
And I found myself even now when I'm on YouTube
or I'm watching social media. I told you I kind
of have gotten into the backcracking thing and the air
wax removal. Those are some of the bizarre things. But
I'll tell you what I find myself doing. I find
myself watching interviews with veterans all the time, especially special
ops guys, Delta operators, Navy seals, rangers.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I just love hearing their stories.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And again, I just sit there and I wonder, back
in the day, would I have had the guts to
do what they did. So I just want to say
on this Veterans Day, I grew up idolizing you men
and women.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I still do to this day. It's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was looking through boxes the other day at my
house trying to move stuff around, and I have hundreds
and hundreds of books. I was a vocious reader back
in the day, and it started out, like I said,
when I was younger. I think I read my first
book when I was eleven years old, full book cover
to cover. It was the Autobiography of Babe Ruth by

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Robert Kremer, and I look at my books, and the
first one hundred books I got all sports books. The
last probably two hundred to two hundred and fifty books
I got.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
All military books.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
D Day, World War two, Vietnam, I mean, all the
way down through on this day. You can guarantee, at
some point in time today I will be watching The
Longest Day, which I think is the best military movie
of all time. John Wayne Robert Mitcham just a fantastic movie.

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So if you've never seen it, it's called The Longest Day.
It's in black and white. It is fantastic. It shows
D Day from every angle, the French resistance, the English,
the Americans, the Germans.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I mean it is. It is tremendous.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
So on this Veteran's Day, I just do want to say,
without a doubt, all you veterans out there, I cherish you,
I respect you, and God bless you and thank you
for serving this country. So you out there today, if
you could catch a service, do whatever. Later in the day,
if you want to listen on the iHeartRadio app my
show in Cleveland on WTAM eleven hundred, your favorite veteran,

(04:32):
Billy Carpenter, is going to be on me, on with me,
because I never forget my man, Bill Carpenter on this day.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Now, let's start to politics here for a second.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
There's a lot of people out there who are still
on the Democratic side saying, how did we lose?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
How did this happen? How in the.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
World did Kamala Harris get blown out like she did?
And I've heard racist and sexist comments, which is hilarious
to me, because Trump kicked her rear and in men, women,
young men, young women, Hispanics, Latinos, blacks, he ran the gamut.
So if you're going to call, if you're going to say, well,

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America wasn't ready for a black female for president, You're
going to sound like a fool because a lot of
black females voted for Donald Trump, a lot of black
males voted for Donald Trump. And I heard probably the
most ridiculous thing that I've heard in a long long
time a couple of days ago. Now the blame game
is out, everybody on the Democratic side pointing fingers at everybody.

(05:31):
Now they're pointing fingers at Obama. Well you didn't endorse
her early enough. And the best one I've heard is
it's Joe Biden's fault. And the reasoning is, well, if
Joe would have dropped out earlier, it would have given
Kamala a chance, a better chance to win. I hate
to break it to you if you think this because
Joe didn't drop out period, your party threw him out.

(05:56):
Your party waited too long. I mean, think about how
long your party, the Democratic Party lied to the American people,
including Kamala Harris, about the cognitive ability of Joe Biden.
They lied, and they denied all the way until the
polls started showing he could not win the election, and
then they threw him out in the most undemocratic way

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you could possibly throw somebody out. And they put in
a woman who didn't even get one vote in the
Democratic primary of twenty twenty. Her own party didn't want her,
so why would Why would anybody have thought she would
win a general election? They thought, because Trump is so polarizing,

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didn't happen. That's how bad of a candidate she was.
But this blaming Joe Biden, blaming Obama, Kamala Harris was
a terrible candidate, period, end of story. As I mentioned,
go back and look in twenty twenty, she was the
first one in the Democratic field to drop out zero
support even amongst black voters. So you take a look

(07:05):
at that liberal, far left Democratic voters didn't want her,
Why in the hell would mainstream media want her. This
was a monumental, monumental loss because Kamala Harris was a
terrible candidate.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
It didn't matter when Obama endorsed her. She was bad.
She could have jumped in there a year and a
half ago.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
She was bad, and her ship sank the more she
started doing interviews. As soon as she was thinking about
going on Joe Rogan, as soon as she did that
sixty minutes interview, even though they tried to help her,
I realized right then and there, Trump's gonna win this thing,
because she wasn't doing any interviews when she thought she
was going to win this thing. And as soon as
she's started to popping her head out of the hole,

(07:51):
I knew this is bad news for Democrats.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Today is Veterans Day, a solemn oays for all Americans
to honor the service and the sacrifice of our men
and women in uniform, both past and present. These citizen
soldiers protect our nation and our way of life from
those who seek to destroy it. It's difficult to truly
appreciate the immense sacrifice of these fine folks and their

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families unless you've walked in their boots. So today, let
us all take time out of our busy lives to
simply stop and reflect. Imagine what our nation would be
today without the service of generations who've come before. Consider
the unprecedented challenges of today, and our brave men and
women around the globe who face this adversity with such

(08:43):
courage and resolve, And most of all, take a moment
to think about America's future generations safe and free because
of the actions of our valiant and courageous veterans. Today,
let us all join together insane thank you, Happy Veterans.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Day, and we are saying thank you this morning. Today
is Veterans Day, and.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Thank you to our veterans.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
Absolutely and we want to hear from you. If you
have a veteran in your life that you want us
to mention and honor, please call us one in one
hundred and sixty four eleven seventy or do like Misty
did on our Facebook page. She wanted to honor Dave Smith,
US Army veteran of the Gulf War. We want to

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hear about our local men and women who have served
this country, And throughout the show, I have some really
good quotes about our veterans that I want to read
to you. I'll start off with one from Abraham Lincoln.
Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not
long endure. And you know it is statements like that.

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It is the men and women who serve this country
that give somebody like myself and Otis the ability to
do what we do every day. They stand up for
our constitution, for our rights, freedom of speech, freedom to
bear arms, which one, whichever one you want to acknowledge.
It is thanks to those men and women that we

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are able to do what we do.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
And most recently, the freedom to vote.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yes very well said yes, absolutely yes. So again we
want to hear about our local veterans. And of course
later on in the show, we've gone into the archives.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
We've dug deep.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yes, we have gone back into the archives because.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
Three years since people have heard this story.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
It's become a tradition.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
It was a tradition every year, I think it was
twice a year, because I'm not mistaken, a bloom Daddy
would have Vietnam veteran Bill Carpenter come in and tell
his story, and of course the end result would always
be the Orangutang story. And if you haven't heard the

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Orangutang story, you're in for a treat because we are
going to be playing that in the eight o'clock hour.
So if you haven't heard it, just be pay attention
because in the eight o'clock hour, the Orangutang Story will reair.
It is from Veterans Day of twenty twenty one, Bloom Daddy,

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Bill Carpenter, and briefly myself into that, and you will
be a one hundred percent entertained.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
It's a fan favorite. It's one of those ones that
have gone down in history.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
It's one of those ones where every time you know
what's coming, but you can't help but laugh every time
Bill tells the story. And so we've decided it took
us a while to find it.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
But we found it.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
But we found it well.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
And here's the thing. You know, days like today, Veterans
Today Day, Memorial Day, you know a lot of the
times it's heavy, it's heavy stories. But you know, here's
a story from a veteran that is lighthearted. It's funny,
but it's still from a veteran, so it kind of
breaks up that that the heaviness a little bit, which

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you know, we're not making light of anything, absolutely no way,
shape or form.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
But it was a story that Bill shared from his
days in Vietnam or before he went to Vietnam, and
it is it is highly entertaining, to say the least.
And you know, again, if you have a veteran, you
would like us to recognize. I mean, there's there's you know,
you know, we were talking about this earlier. Just so
many people that we know that are veterans, some that

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are with us still and some that aren't. And it's
just you know, we want to thank you for what
you've done for this country.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
So yeah, and and you know, we were talking about
our age different a little bit, you and I And
you know, I know I have some people from my
generation who have served. I don't know and I don't
have direct contact with them. To me, veterans in my
life were my two grandfathers, but of course they are
both gone now. So I feel like I have a

(13:18):
bit of distance or separation from any type of veterans unfortunately,
and I think the younger generation, some of the same.
You know that direct connection is no longer there as
we lose a lot of our veterans to time, and.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
You know, just being a little bit older than you,
you know, the people that I went to school with
that maybe served in a lot of them that I
know that we're in the service, A lot of them
served in the Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom. There were
so many things, and then they continde if they were

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in for any length of time. You know, they were
also part of the next wave, you know, in the
early two thousands of Afghanistan and post nine to eleven,
So you know, you know those people. You know, obviously
we're losing our World War Two veterans daily. You know,
their numbers are becoming smaller and smaller every day, as

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is the veterans from the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
So you know, those of you know, let's put it
this way, the guys that were in Desert Storm are
probably in their late fifties and sixties now, So that
tells you where we are. You know, with some of
these people, some of them might be in their early fifties,
but I mean, you figured that was nineteen ninety.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Before you know it time passes.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Thirty years ago, so you know, almost thirty five years ago.
So I mean, you know, those guys that were twenty
are now fifty five, you know, so it's not that.
But the nice thing, the good thing is that we
haven't been in any major major wars like like Vietnam
or Korea or World War Two since that. You know,

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we've we've been in you know, police I want to
guess you can call them police actions or where we're
going and we're trying to you know, and in the
way that the military has become more sophisticated, I guess
you want to say where you know, now you can
use drones.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Technology, technology is.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
Just you know, you don't necessarily need the hand to
hand boots on the ground stuff, right, so you know,
that's that's which cuts down on your loss of life.
So that's that's that. If there's any good thing.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
That's that's a good thing. Yeah. Also from Dave Smith,
the Smith family. I'm assuming this is the same Dave
Smith that Missy. Missy mentioned. They have a lot of
veterans in their family. William Smith US Marine Corps, Korean War,
Leo Smith, US Navy, the Vietnam War, James Smith, US

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Army Vietnam Era. So we're gonna be again. We're going
to be reading names of Ohio Valley veterans throughout the show,
so post them on our Facebook page, or of course
you can text them to us three zero three eight
two started off with bloom Daddy and leave your message
for us, or you can call us one eight hundred
and six two four eleven seventy if you have a

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story about a veteran in your life that you would
like to tell, we would absolutely love to hear it, or.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
Just mention their name and thank them for their service.
I mean, it's if you do it yourself, it makes
it a heck of a lot more personal than us
doing it. I mean, we're happy to do it for you,
but you know, maybe that veteran wants to hear you
say it, so you know, just you know, it's funny
because a lot of people, you know, you see somebody
maybe with a Vietnam warhead or you know something that
says Vietnam vet. And one of the things that somebody

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said one time, and it's always stuck with me, is
that instead of just going up to a Vietnam VET
and saying thank you go up to him. It might
have been Bill Carpenter. He said somebody came up to
him and said welcome home, because the Vietnam vets were
not welcome when they so. And they said that that
goes a lot farther than just thanking them for their service. Yeah,

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So just just putting that out there.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah, and we're going to put out also throughout the show.
Different restaurants throughout the Ohio Valley are doing things throughout
the day for our veterans. We'll kick it off with
Applebee's Veterans and Active Duty Military receiver free meal from
a select menu today. This is for dine in only,
so we'll be reading those throughout the show. Also seven

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twenty eight The Bloomdaddy Experience OTIS and SAM News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Go back to the bloom Daddy Experience on your Veterans'
Day Monday morning. Once again, Veterans appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
One.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Want to talk a little bit about the media. First
of all, just want to let you know I signed
a two year extension in Cleveland, so at least for
another two years, bloom Daddy's going to roll on. But
you probably saw in the news or the trades where
iHeart had massive layoffs this past week across the nation,
number of stations, and it's just another reminder that this
is a very very tough business. It's constant stress, it's

(18:12):
constant got to perform, constant ratings and revenue. But when
you get in this you know that this company, I
Heart Media has been very good to me, whether it's
been here and Wheeling, when I had a syndication in Pittsburgh, Akron, Youngstown, Parkersburg,
now in Cleveland, they've been very.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Good to me.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
But I also know that my number is going to
be up at some point in time. Even before I
know I took that job in Cleveland. I always used
to say here that it's only a matter of time,
and in this business it is everybody's replaceable, especially now
when you've got technology and AI and everything else. But
I can tell you this otis and Sam, I'm doing
a great job here in the mornings with me. I

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signed a two year extension in Cleveland. This company has
been very very good to me, and I thank them
for that every step of the way. And if all
of a sudden my number comes up, I will figure
out something else to do. I mean that's the key.
You've always got to have a backup plan. And I
like you or anybody who's tried to survive career wise

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in this Ohio Valley, which is very, very tough, I
like it too. I just had this conversation with my
son the other day. I like it to a rock
on a cliff and wave after wave from that ocean
just keeps.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Pounding and pounding and pounding.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's what it's like, especially here in the Ohio Valley
where there's not a lot of job opportunities, and if
there are jobs, you know, you might not have benefits,
you might not get the most pay.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
It's tough, but you got to be a rock.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
You got to take on wave after wave, and you
just got to keep on moving forward.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Now, speaking of the media, you.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Know I was talking about this election, the national media
showed their true colors once again, NBC, ABC, CBS, even Fox.
I mean, they all slat, but I think Fox does
a better job of trying to be somewhat objective. And
I'm not talking about their opinion shows. I'm talking about
their news CBSNBC, and ABC. Though there was no doubt

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they were trying to get Kamala Harris elected again, just
like they did back in twenty twenty with Joe Biden.
And they have egg on their face now because they
pushed false narratives, they pushed lies. They made you believe
this thing was razor tight. When looking at the results,
you realize it wasn't even close. It wasn't even close.

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ABC one day I took a look on their website.
Eight negative stories about Donald Trump, eight one story about
Kamala Harrison. It was positive dot Come on, this was
right after the garbage comment by Joe Biden. Not one
negative pertaining to Kamala Harris. Eight negative stories on Donald Trump.

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Disingenuous national media. They have egg on their face right now.
And I'll tell you what. I think a lot of
Americans have woken up to the national media, specifically minorities.
Now they're getting their news other places, podcast, looking at
some other websites.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Talk radio.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I think what you saw not only did you see
an absolute butt whooping of the Democratic Party, you saw
an absolute butt whooping of the propaganda arm of the
Democratic Party, which is your national news media.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
I can't even watch NBC.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I couldn't watch NBC for one second leading up to
this election biased beyond belief, unbelievable, and now they're sitting
there once again going what happened?

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, people have woken up.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think a lot of you out there listening are
getting your information from other sources, and I think talk
radio is stronger than ever. And I think very soon
I'm going to have my third interview with the former
and soon to be future President of the United States,
Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
And when I do, I will let you know when
that's going to be.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
But Sam was wondering what your opinion is on the
national media who have egg all over their face as
of right now.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Well, first of all, let me read you some statistics. ABC,
NBCCBS is now considered the most lopsided coverage in American
history when it comes to the media, and this is
according to an independent study study by Media Research Center,
seventy eight percent of positive coverage for Harris eighty five

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percent negative coverage of incoming President Trump. That tells you
right there the bias of our media. And we have
a new woke movement and I'm not ashamed to say
this one. We are waking up to the terrible coverage
of our media. So if anybody wants to say they're woke. Now,
that's what we're referring to when we say we're woke,

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because we have a woken to Is that the Is
that a right word?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
No?

Speaker 5 (22:58):
No, I didn't think we have awaken to the media coverage.
Here's another example. He mentioned Joe Rogan's podcast in Trump
Going on there forty seven million views. Wow, that's just
on YouTube, that's not through podcasting and all of that.
So that right there tells you people are getting their

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information in different places.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
But we have I'm going to ask you to hold
death though, and we're going to come back to the media. Yes,
but we have Fred from Glendale. Fred, good morning, Yes,
our good morning.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
So tell us about it at your veteran.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
My veteran is my son. His name was Sergeant Matthew D. Hunter.
He was in the one hundred first Airborne Aristol Screaming
Eagles out of Fort Campbell. He's a senior combat field
medic and he is killed January the twenty third of
two thousand and six at nine forty a m bagdad
time by a roadside bomb. Is an Army fourteen a

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half years. He's making the career of it and when
he cut out. He is going to be a marian.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
Well, we're sorry for your loss and we want to
thank him for for for his service and making the
ultimate sacrifice.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
Thank you, sir. I served in Vietnam a very long
time ago in the United States Navy. Thank you very
much for honoring my son.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Thank you, and we honor you as well. So and
welcome home.

Speaker 7 (24:21):
At folks, okay, Fred, and bye bye bye bye bye. Wow.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Well, And and that's one thing we tend to see
military families absolutely, and you know that is a sacrifice
in itself, because there are those that stay home and
they worry and they work, you know, you know.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
So there's doesn't just affect the soldiers, right.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
Right, So again call us like Fred did one six, two, forty, eleven, seventy,
talk about the veterans on today. So going back to
the media coverage a little bit.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
Kind of hard to Yeah, I understand, we got to
do it.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
But Meg, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
It.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Well, the media itself, I mean we've been preaching to
the choir for how long. I mean this this probably
started back in twenty sixteen that if not before that.
But the media has been so biased and I mean,
you know, I find it's funny that, you know, and

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we talk about NBC being so biased toward Donald Trump,
yet they loved him when he was on the Apprentice
and he had a top ten show where they taught him.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
He brought him a lot of money too.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
He made them tons and tons of money. And then
all of a sudden he decides to enter politics and
they just turned their back on him and treat him
like do do well.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
And here in this time around, in this campaign, they
didn't even try to hide it anymore. Yeah, you know,
twenty sixteen, twenty twenty, they were sort of kind of
flying under the radar with the bias. This time they
didn't even try to try to hide it. But here's
a great here's a great example this morning. So big
story over the weekend was the FEMA story out of Florida,

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where a FEMA representative basically told people on the ground
during her the hurricane damage, if there's a Trump sign, banner, whatever,
any type of supporting of Trump, avoid them, stay away. Well,
that person has now been relieved of their duties. That

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headline Fox News. I went to the homepage of CNN.
I haven't gone to NBC, but went to CNN nowhere
to be found. That quartory and I'm sorry that should
be a story. Yes, so there is just one example
of how biased the media is, and that's that's a huge,

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huge story.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
And you have one person that is, you know, messing
with people's lives and the guy rightfully so got relieved
of his duties and hopeful he doesn't get another job
working for the government.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah, So again, we are celebrating Veterans Day today, one
sixty forty eleven seventy To tell us a veteran you
would like to be, you would like honored, or of
course you can text us three zero three eighty two
or on our Facebook page. We are honoring the veterans today.
Here's another quote, this one from Abraham Lincoln. Once again,

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honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere who bravely bears
his country's cause. We'll leave you at that. Seven forty
six The bloom Daddy Experience Otis and sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We are back seven fifty one The

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Blue Daddy Experienced samin Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
We are honoring veterans this morning. We want to hear
from you mention anybody in your life who's served one
one hundred and sixty to fort eleven seventy or of
course you can text us three zero three eight two.
Started off with.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Bloom Daddy and don't forget coming up in the next hour,
we dug into the archives and we will be playing
the Bill Carpenter Orangutang story. If you are familiar with
the Bloom Daddy show, that that was a staple on
Memorial Day in Veterans Day, and it's been about three

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years since it's been told. So we dug into the archives.
We went back three years. We found the interview with
Bill Carpenter. If you've not heard the Orangutang story, you
want to stick around, because you will do. I've heard
it probably eight or nine times, and I do nothing
but laugh every time I hear it. So it's like that,

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it's that it's that TV show, that comedy bet that's something.
Doesn't matter how many times you watch it and you
know what's coming, you still laugh.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
And he paints the picture where you.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Can easily absolutely see.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
It playing out in your mind's eye.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
So he does a great job of telling the story.
And don't forget this morning from nine am to noon
the PAP Club. It's located in South Wheeling. It's at
forty four to ten Jacob Street. That's the corner of
forty fifth in Jacob in South Wheeling. They are offering
a free Veterans Day breakfast from nine to noon. That's
all men and women, non member vets, first responders, They're

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all welcome. The menu's going to include eggs, toast, cream,
corned beef, sausage, bacon or donuts, and coffee. If you
are a veteran, you are encouraged to bring your metals,
your ID tags, any hats, photos, any memorabilia that you have.
And if you're a veteran, you're gonna they're they're gonna
offer drink specials all day. That is at the pap
That is at the Pap Club in South Wheeling at

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forty four to ten Jacob Street.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
Well, then also Denny's is for veterans an active active
duty military personnel receive a free original Grand Slam breakfast
that is from five am till noon. You must show
valid military ID. The Grand Sam Slam Breakfast. Oh, that's
one for the ages. And then of course there's I
mean everybody's doing stuff all over the area. Out Back Steakhouse,

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free bloomin onion and Coca Cola for veterans an active
duty military, dine in or and to go orders are valid.
So there's dinner for you. We've got breakfast and dinner
so far.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Right, so Wendy's they are if you are a veteran
or an active duty service member, you can receive a
free small breakfast combo today.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
And then for dessert. Uh oh, the one and only
Kirks in Saint Clairsville.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
There we go, that's what we're talking about.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
He texted me this morning. They are doing from twelve
thirty to eight o'clock this evening. Veterans that stop will
receive a free cone or a cup of your choice
of ice cream.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
And you can't pass that up. I'm just going to
tell you right now, take advantage because once you try
Kirk's ice cream, nothing tastes like it. It's the top
of the line, it's the cream of the crowd.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Nothing compares. So yeah, we've got breakfast, lunch, and dinner
and dessert. Yeah, all taken care of for you. And
I'll post these different availabilities of all these different restaurants
on our Facebook page here. A little bit later in
the show, we were talking about military ID. I don't
know if you've seen this image over the weekend. I
probably should have showed it to you. It was the map,

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the campaign map SURE results States with and without ID requirements.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Oh, I saw it, saw it, Okay.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
It is the most telling map to come out of
this election cycle. I swear it truly is now if
you haven't seen what I'm referring to. Basically, it shows
that the states that Harris won did not require ID.

Speaker 6 (32:04):
SURE, which means that anybody could have voted.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
It means that you could have been an illegal immigrant.
You might be dead, you might be you may have
moved away, who knows if you were still on the
voting record. Somebody probably voted for you, or somebody that
you know isn't actually registered to vote got to vote.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
I think this is a very strong theme that argues
the case that there should be a nationwide voter identification requirement.

Speaker 6 (32:37):
Doesn't take much.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
There's no argument.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
If I go to get it on an airplane, I
have to provide an ID.

Speaker 8 (32:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
If I want to buy cigarettes or alcohol, I have
to provide an ID. If I want to pick up
tickets at will call for a concert, I have to
show an ID. Yeah, I mean so how many times
if I want to cash a check at my bank,
I got to show an ID.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
I'm sorry. There's there's no valid argument for there not
to be ID requirement to vote.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
I mean just there's just not what every everything that
you have to do, you know that that has any
significant consequence, You have to have some sort of an ID.
And why is it that when you vote that you're
not required to show night Right, That's that's the most
ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Well, and and continuing the the the Trump era has
begun already. He has already moving and shaken. I mean
this morning waking up to news that he is naming
Tom Homan.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Oh this is huge.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yes, I had the opportunity to see him speak. We've
we've met him, we've had him on the show. I mean,
he is a no holds barred I mean, he doesn't
sugarcoat anything. He's going to get the job done.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
He's a dude I would not win a mess with like.
I mean, he's got like those hands, he's got the
sausage fingers. Like if he hits you. You never grabbed
a hold of you. You're gonna know it.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yeah, but think about it in under four days.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
Look at all day week a week.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yeah, in a week that Trump has already accomplished. Tom
Homan's gonna be borders are first female chief of staff appointed.
New York City has stopped giving out debit cards.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
To the illegals.

Speaker 6 (34:21):
We you know, as much as Eric Adams is a
failure as a mayor of New York, he's actually starting
to put his foot down.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Well they attacked him, No, they're they're going after him.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
Sure, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
So we are already seeing results from the election. And
I'm telling you, the night he won, probably within three hours,
he was already sitting down planning out his cabinet and
everything else. So the ball is already rolling on some changes.
So when we return, we're going to talk about veterans
some more here on this Veterans Day. It is seven

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point fifty eight on your Monday morning. The bloom Daddy
Experience samon Otis Radio eleven seventy wwva.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Z number one Touch show in the Ohio Alley. 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 seventy.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six. Let's get this hour rolling. Good Monday
morning to you, O, get a fantastic weekend. I don't
know about you, but I cannot get used to this
getting dark at five five point thirty. It's horrible. It's miserable.
I can't stand it. I'm never gonna stand it. It's
beyond me. Why we keep doing this. It's twenty twenty four.

(35:51):
There's no reason for it.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Don't give me.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
You don't want kids waiting at the bus stop when
it's dark. That's why parents wait with them at the
bus stop when it's dark or when it's light. This
is just horrendous and incredibly depressing. There, I'm done with
my Monday morning rant. It is Veterans Day. I hope
that you, if you know any veteran, please thank them

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for their service. I'm thanking every veteran out there listening
right now. Their families, thank you for your service. You know,
growing up, it's kind of funny. I grew up a
Red Sox fan because I was a big baseball fan.
I still am. But growing up in Lafferty, you only
got two channels, seven and nine. Like most of you
out there listening right now, in the NBC Game of

(36:33):
the Week back in nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine,
always seem to be the Boston Red Sox. I'm a lefty,
so I fell in love with car Yustriumsky the Red Sox.
That's how I became a Red Sox fan. But I
never grew up idolizing baseball players to sports heroes. As
big of a sports fan as I am, I grew
up idolizing veterans. I grew up idolizing those who serve

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our country. It I think it resonated with me because
I always used to think, could I have done what
they did when it comes to courage, when it comes
to leaving your mom, your dad, your family At eighteen
nineteen years old.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Never did I.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Truly truly respect anybody who has and is still serving.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
But I grew up idolizing veterans. I did.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Whether it was Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army special ops,
it didn't matter. And I find myself even now when
I'm on YouTube or I'm watching social media. I told
you I kind of have gotten into the backcracking thing
and the air wax removal. Those are some of the
bizarre things. But I'll tell you what I find myself doing.
I find myself watching interviews with veterans all the time,

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especially special ops guys, Delta operators, Navy seals, rangers. I
just love hearing their stories. And again I just sit
there and I wonder, back in the day, would I
have had the guts to do what they did. So
I just want to say on this Veteran's Day, I

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grew up idolizing you men and women.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
I still do to this day. It's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
I was looking through boxes the other day at my
house trying to move stuff around, and I have hundreds
and hundreds of books. I was a vocious reader back
in the day, and it started out, like I said,
when I was younger. I think I read my first
book when I was eleven years old, full book cover
to cover. It was the Autobiography of Babe Ruth by

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Robert Kremer. And I look at my books and the
first one hundred books I got all sports books, the
last probably two hundred to two hundred and fifty books.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
I got all military books.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
D Day, World War two, Vietnam, I mean, all the
way down through on this day. You can guarantee, at
some point in time today I will be watching The
Longest Day, which I think is the best military movie
of all time. John Wayne Robert Mitcham. Just a fantastic movie.

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So if you've never seen it, it's called The Longest Day.
It's in black and white. It is fantastic. It shows
D Day from every angle, the French resistance, the English,
the Americans, the Germans.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
I mean it is. It is tremendous.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
So on this Veteran's Day, I just do want to say,
without a doubt, all you veterans out there, I cherish you,
I respect you, and God bless you and thank you
for serving this country. So you out there today, if
you could catch a service, do whatever. Later in the day,
if you want to listen on the iHeartRadio app my
show in Cleveland on WTAM eleven hundred, your favorite veteran,

(39:43):
Billy Carpenter is going to be on me. On with me,
because I never forget my man Bill Carpenter.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
On this day. Now, let's start to politics here for
a second.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
There's a lot of people out there who are still
on the Democratic side saying, how did we lose?

Speaker 3 (39:58):
How did this happen?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
How in the world did Kamala Harris get blown out
like she did? And I've heard racist and sexist comments,
which is hilarious to me, because Trump kicked her rear
end in men, women, young men, young women, Hispanics, Latinos, blacks.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
He ran the gamut.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
So if you're going to call, if you're going to say, well,
America wasn't ready for a black female for president, You're
going to sound like a fool because a lot of
black females voted for Donald Trump. A lot of black
males voted for Donald Trump. And I heard probably the
most ridiculous thing that I've heard in a long, long
time a couple of days ago. Now the blame game

(40:39):
is out, everybody on the Democratic side pointing fingers at everybody.
Now they're pointing fingers at Obama. Well you didn't endorse
her early enough. And the best one I've heard is
it's Joe Biden's fault. And the reasoning is, well, if
Joe would have dropped out earlier. It would have given
Kamala a chance, a better chance to win. I hate
to break it to you if you think this because

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Joe didn't drop out, period, your party threw him out.
Your party waited too long. I mean, think about how
long your party, the Democratic Party lied to the American people,
including Kamala Harris, about the cognitive ability of Joe Biden.
They lied, and they denied all the way until the

(41:24):
polls started showing he could not win the election, and
then they threw him out in the most undemocratic way
you could possibly throw somebody out. And they put in
a woman who didn't even get one vote in the
Democratic primary of twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Her own party didn't want her.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
So why would Why would anybody have thought she would
win a general election? They thought, because Trump is so polarizing,
didn't happen. That's how bad of a candidate she was.
But this blaming Joe Biden, blaming Obama, Kamala Harris was
a terrible candidate, period, end of story. As I mentioned,

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go back and look in twenty twenty, she was the
first one in the Democratic field to drop out. She
had zero support even amongst black voters. So you take
a look at that liberal, far left Democratic voters didn't
want her.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Why in the hell would mainstream media want her.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
This was a monumental, monumental loss because Kamala Harris was
a terrible candidate.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
It didn't matter when Obama endorsed her. She was bad.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
She could have jumped in there a year and a
half ago. She was bad, and her ship sank the
more she started doing interviews. As soon as she was
thinking about going on Joe Rogan, as soon as she
did that sixty minutes interview, even though they tried to
help her, I realized right then and there, Trump's gonna
win this thing because she wasn't doing any interviews when
she thought she was going to win this thing. As

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soon as she's starting to popping her head out of
the hole, I knew this is bad news for Democrats.
Much more coming up, The bloom Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
Welcome back eight nineteen on this Veterans Day morning. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We got to go to Kevin
Cook Strawb Automotive. Good morning, Kevin.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Morning, guys.

Speaker 9 (43:35):
How y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 5 (43:37):
Good? How are you doing?

Speaker 9 (43:39):
Good? Good Veterans Day.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 9 (43:42):
Yeah, big, big shout out to all of those that
have served and those that are serving now. We are
so so grateful that you are out there keeping our
country free and safe. Very very very proud to be
an American.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Absolutely, you said it best.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (44:00):
You know what a lot of people don't know this,
but all the manufacturers, okay, Honda, Hundai, Nissan, Christi, Doogicy,
bram Forward, they all have a military appreciation qu pon.
It's worth five hundred dollars, okay, and that's right off
any deal that you get on any new Honda, Hunday, Nissan, Christodotogity,
bram or Forward. And today the Strib Automotive Group is

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going to also make that available on any pre owned vehicle.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (44:28):
So come in today and you purchase a pre owned vehicle,
you will get and you serve in the military or
have served in the military, you will get an additional
five hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
Now awesome.

Speaker 9 (44:39):
Isn't that cool?

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, wonderful, very nice of the Strub family.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
It is.

Speaker 9 (44:44):
It is, and a lot of great deals out there.
You can find them simply by just logging on to
a strab automotive. You can look at it. They're all
clearly sell priced, whether they're new or pre owned. You
can even see what interest rates are. You can check
out the express store. You can look at what payments
will be. You can look at what a least payment
or a finance payment. You can even get your trade

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evaluators right there online strab automotive dot com.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
It's it's one stop shop.

Speaker 7 (45:11):
It is.

Speaker 9 (45:11):
You should look.

Speaker 6 (45:14):
Yeah, you and I went for a little ride the
other day.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Didn't we We did?

Speaker 9 (45:17):
This is this is as close as he's come. Okay,
this is it right here. We're so close.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
Yeah, well, you know today would have been the good day.
But the banks are closed.

Speaker 9 (45:28):
Okay, okay, all right, so I will say this. You
are tighter than two coats.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Will give me a break?

Speaker 7 (45:36):
Okay, listen to you.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
I asked, hey, listen, I did he gave me a
price on a car?

Speaker 5 (45:43):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (45:43):
And I told him I had fat fingers, but I
made it a thousand dollars last one. I texted him back,
and you you're I could just see your face. You
were you were shuffling and run running the numbers. You
sent me pictures everything else, and I just said fat fingers.

Speaker 9 (46:00):
Yeah, fortunately I had saved all of that information. I
don't know who.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Kevin the day. The day you get him to close
on a vehicle, I will take you to lunch, just
for your suffering, just for that.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
Okay, listen, she owes me to breakfast that she's never
paid me for, So good luck on that one.

Speaker 9 (46:21):
But I didn't hear y'all talking about all the veterans
that are the places that are getting bread free breakfast morning.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
To the bed.

Speaker 7 (46:28):
Yeah, that's really cool, man.

Speaker 9 (46:29):
It's really cool that the community steps up and honors
honors are men and women of service.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
Yeah, there's a lot of them out there. And it's
not just breakfast, it's lunch, it's dinner's dessert. And we
have a whole list of that on our Facebook page.

Speaker 9 (46:40):
So yeah, her Kirk ice cream. That's really cool.

Speaker 6 (46:42):
That's the best one. That's the best one is I
have a great day. All right, you do the same.
We'll see you.

Speaker 7 (46:49):
I did.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
I did do that. He's me a text with the
price of the vehicle, and it was a day later
or whatever, and I sent okay, pray still, and I
knocked a thousand dollars off of it just to see
if he'd catch it. I would I wasn't going to
take advantage of me, but I just wanted to see
if he catch it. And he said, he said, see
text above, whoop. See well you'll have that. Hey, it

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was worth a shot.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Hey, you never know, you never know.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
He called me my last four of my last four.
This would be my fifth vehicle in a row if
I buy it from Strap.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
So nobody's judging.

Speaker 6 (47:26):
I know. He tells me I'm too tighter, and two
kids of paint smack camera upside his head.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
Back to let's get back to Veterans Day a little bit.
Wanted to mention a couple other names we have received
on our Facebook page. Robert Fowler Senior served in the
US Army in World War Two. Charles J. Link Senior
served US Army World War two along with Lauren's tuttle.
Also the US Army also served during World War Two.

Speaker 6 (47:56):
Yep, thank you for your service.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Yes, thank you for your service. Also more more businesses, Uh,
getting on board.

Speaker 6 (48:05):
We were just talking about it.

Speaker 5 (48:06):
Yep, Perkins happening today Veterans and active duty members will
receive a free magnific, magnificent, magnificent, that word seven breakfast
for Veterans Day. That's a big breakfast too. That is
a big that's like one step below the Lumberjack.

Speaker 6 (48:24):
And if we're going you know, also today, bob Evans
will be offering a special menu of seven home style
favorites available to veterans and active duty military free at
their local Bob Evans restaurant.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
So yeah, yeah, so we and like I said, we're
going to post all of these.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
Let's let's do our newest location, Dunkin Donuts.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
Veterans and active duty members get a free donut of
choice today at participating locations. Offer are available in store only.
So Dunkin Donuts out there on National Road just hopeing
in the last couple of weeks. So I have to
give them a shot.

Speaker 5 (48:56):
I have to visit. I will say I have never
had a Duncan's dough Nuts donut, but I haven't. I've
never had a donut from Dunkin Donuts.

Speaker 6 (49:05):
You've never eaten a bowl cereal? You never, There's just done.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
I know, I know I'm behind the time.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
You're such a weird do I know.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
I know coming up here in a little bit, we're
gonna have the orang and a hang story.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
I think it's going to come up in the next segment.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
Okay, But also I want to ask if you saw this.
So you saw that Nick Bosa got fined by the
NFL right for the maga hat.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
I didn't. I think I saw where he got fined,
but I saw where he did it.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
It was like over eleven thousand dollars he got fined.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
Well, yes, drop in the bucket.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
Yeah, well, yesterday during a play, I think he sacked
the quarterback. I didn't see the entire play, but there's
a celebration dance. He did the shimmy. He did the
Trump shimmy.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
Good for him. You know that's you know, it's it's And.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
There were all kinds of football players that did that. Saturday.
In high school football, there were tons of end zone
celebrations that were the s It's all over social.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Media, high school college it it.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
Looked like all of them. Okay, high school college pros.
The shimmy. The shimmy is taking.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
Over a little bit of a little bit of news. Here,
tell me if this if this rings a bell.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Okay, you've got mail. Oh oh h you got mail.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
It takes me to like twenty five years ago.

Speaker 6 (50:24):
Well, the man who voiced AOLS You've Got mail has
passed away. Oh no, he's seventy four years old. His
name was Elwood. Edwards passed away on Tuesday at his
home in North Carolina. His daughter told The New York
Times that Edwards died from complications from a stroke. In
nineteen eighty nine, he was hired by Quantum Computer Services,
which became AOL and he was hired to record several

(50:47):
alerts for the online service, including You've got mail. The
gig paid how much? How much did he make off
of doing that? And it inspired a movie? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (50:59):
People know tones, let's say two thousand dollars two hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
For you've got mail. You've got mail?

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (51:09):
That was that?

Speaker 5 (51:09):
Not like the coolest thing when you would hear it though?

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (51:12):
Well that in the ah when you would go to
the doll up. Yeah so, and I'm not doing that again,
by the way.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
No, okay.

Speaker 6 (51:21):
Also, but here's here's the thing about that. How many
people do you know that still have an AOL account?

Speaker 5 (51:29):
Not many? But when people tell me their email address,
and they say AOL. I'm like, really, same thing with
hot mail that still exists.

Speaker 6 (51:37):
I have an AOL account really yeah, And what I've
done is because well I started it for the business
a long time ago when AOL first came out. I've
never gotten rid of it. I honestly probably don't even
check the email. I think I have like over ten
thousand emails in there right now. So that tells you

(51:59):
how often I check.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
Your emails are sitting on a server somewhere that there's
people that have to watch them going. Now, are these
people that of.

Speaker 6 (52:07):
Them are junk?

Speaker 7 (52:08):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (52:08):
Sure they are, you know so, But I mean, like
so anything I do with my PayPal or like some
of my some of my other there's probably out of
that ten thousand, probably about three hundred of them were legit.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
Yeah. Hey, Before we jump to a quick break, George
Marshall said, the soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's
soul are everything. Words to keep in mind on this
Veterans Day eight twenty eight. The bloom Daddy.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
Experience You Rangu Tang Stories.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
Next Sampaoda's News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy. We have dug deep
into the archives going back to November eleventh, Veterans Day,
twenty twenty one, the interview with Bill Carpenter, Vietnam veteran,
bloom Daddy and myself. Please enjoy.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
We've got Bill Carpenter in here, Bloomdaddy, military analysts, member
of Tiger Force, Vietnam sniper.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Okay, here we go. You ready, I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
This ranks is one of the greatest. Otis is already laughing?
Why are you already laughing in there? Because I know
what's coming?

Speaker 3 (53:27):
All right.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
June nineteen sixty six, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Little Billy Carpenter,
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You're with your buddies outside of a beer garden, getting drunk,
and all of a sudden, you see ambulance after ambulance

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after ambulance going by.

Speaker 6 (55:42):
Yes, what do you do?

Speaker 10 (55:44):
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Speaker 6 (55:49):
Obviously we have some thanks. Yeah, something happened there on
our recording. I'm not one hundred percent sure what happened,
but obviously our story got recorded over. That's very st
It's very strange because I was listening to the whole
thing and none of that happened while we were recording.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
You gotta love technology. Yeah, so it's your friend and
not your friend.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
Yeah, unfortunately, folks, we will be We will try to
re record this and maybe bring it to you tomorrow.
How's that That's only a plan.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
Sounds like a plan.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
So we want to apologize, yeah, for that, because that
was not supposed to happen. And when again, again we
were I was sitting right here when we recorded it. Yeah,
I was here, and none of that came through on
the recording. So I don't very strange. I don't know
what happened there.

Speaker 12 (56:35):
Very strange, very very very strange, you know anyway, But
so okay, so let's stick along the veterans, the veterans,
the veterans thing.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Like I said, have some quotes that I worked on
this morning. Pulled up Ronald Reagan. I've heard a lot
about Ronald Reagan in the last couple of weeks. If
you haven't noticed, there's been a lot of references to
him and his administration. He said, free is never more
than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it
to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,

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protected and handed on for them to do the same,
you know. And that's true. One of the things that
I think that we are all guilty of some more
than others, is taking for granted what we have in
this country, the freedoms that we have in this country,

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the abilities and options for growth and prosperity in our
own lives. And that comes at the sacrifice, the blood,
the sweat, the tears of others who fight to keep
that within arm's length for us as American citizens. And

(57:58):
that's what today is about. It to remind us to
appreciate those that do that for us, and to remind
us not to take a lot of what we have
for granted. You know, we've all in the past months,
handful of months, you know, there's been a lot of
terminology thrown around. There's been a lot of names thrown around,

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a lot of judgment, accusations, ugliness. To put it simple,
there's been a lot of ugliness towards one another here
in this country. And it's unfortunate because that is not
what the men and women who serve fight for when

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it comes to to us, and it is days like
today is where politics should be set aside. Judgment, anger,
frustration should be set aside, ridicule, name calling, And today
is day when the word unity.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Should be used well and You're absolutely right. But here's
the thing. We have people that are still we're a
week away out from the election, we have people that
are still not happy with the election results. So last week,
the day after the poll was closed on Tuesday, Google

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searches for move to Canada rose one than two hundred
and seventy percent. Searches for moving to Australia and New
Zealand also rose eight hundred percent and two thousand percent, respectively.
Americans also seem to be looking to relocate to Ireland.
In the UK, the majority of Americans voted for him,

(59:44):
and some people don't necessarily feel comfortable living in that
kind of society anymore. That was Evan Green of Canadian
immigration law firm Green and Spiegel. He says people are
afraid they are going to lose freedoms. Actually, you're not
going to lose your freedoms. You're probably going to get
them back.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
And this goes back to one of the original topics
earlier in the show. That is the the the scared
message or the fear mongering that the media forced on people.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
And you can see it like I see it in
Facebook posts from people that I went to high school with,
and I and mostly girls that I went to high
school with. And their comments are I hope you're going
to be happy with your lower egg prices, and.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
Yes, I will be, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will be. And I'll also be
happy that the border secure and that you know, we're
going to get back to what we should be doing.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
And I will be happy that we will no longer
be letting criminals cross into this country that threaten the
lives of women. I'll also be happy when it'll be
girls playing girls sports and girls and girls' bathrooms. I
will be happy when that happens also, So yes, I
am very happy. And to these people, I mean, listen,
there are some people, unfortunately for themselves and their family members,

(01:01:08):
they're losing their minds. I mean, I hate to say it,
and I'm not trying to sound dramatic, but these people
are losing their minds.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
And if you look at what they're arguing, it is
what the media has been pushing for as long as
they possibly can.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
And if you try to say to them and just
very simply ask what liberties are you going to lose?
You know the big thing is the female side of it. Sure,
you know women are going to lose all of their
freedoms and their rights.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
There's going to be a national abortion band.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Yeah, what what has happened? They said the next day,
you know, we've lost everything. What have you lost? What
have you lost? Nothing? What did you lose during the
first four years he was president? Nothing? But I think
these people's reactions and the absolute hysteria that some of
them are having is a prime example of the influence

(01:02:03):
that the fear mongering of the media forced upon them.
But they also chose to watch it, so I can't right,
I shouldn't really say forced upon them, but the message
that they drilled into their head over and over again,
you want to talk about mental health problems?

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
Well, and I like the people that quote Project twenty
twenty five. Oh god, but then they misquoted they call
Project twenty five. It just it's some of the things
that these people put out there are comical because not
only do they take the misinformation and try to regurgitate it, Yeah,
they regurgitate it wrong, which is the best?

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Yeah, Oh, it's a forty five. When we return, who
actually on the liberal side of this story won out
through this campaign. There's some people that brought in some
big bucks a forty six Veterans Day the bluem Daddy
Experience sam and Otis NewsRadio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Today is Veterans Day, a solemn occasion for all Americans
to honor the service and the sacrifice of our men
and women in uniform, both past and present. These citizen
soldiers protect our nation and our way of life from
those who seek to destroy it. It's difficult to truly
appreciate the immense sacrifice of these fine folks and their

(01:03:35):
families unless you've walked in their boots. So today, let
us all take time out of our busy lives to
simply stop and reflect. Imagine what our nation would be
today without the service of generations who've come before. Consider
the unprecedented challenges of today, and our brave men and
women around the globe who face this adversity with such

(01:03:58):
courage and resolve, And most of all, take a moment
to think about America's future generations safe and free because
of the actions of our valiant and courageous veterans. Today,
let us all join together in saying thank you. Happy
Veterans Day.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
And honestly, saying thank you is just a small drop
in the bucket of getting across what we need to
on today on a day like today. You know, I
love this quote from Claudia Pemberton, America without her soldiers

(01:04:43):
would be like God without his angels. I've never heard
that before.

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
I haven't either.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
That's yes, one very short sentence filled with poignancy and emotion.

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
I mean, you know it should happen every day. But
this thing, we obviously, you know, stress on Veterans Day
to thank a veteran, and whether they served in a
time of war, time of peace, they're still a veteran.
They still they were still there. You know, they were
on call, to say the least. And so you know,

(01:05:21):
like I know, you know, my dad served in the Army,
but did not serve in He never left the United States.
So but he served in the early sixties. I can't
tell you the exact dates, but I actually have his
dog tags hanging in my room. So you know, it's
those are things that you know. I have an uncle

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that served in Vietnam. My grandfather served in World War Two,
you know, so it's it's there. You know, I understand
that my cousin served in peacetime. I was in the
Air Force, have a very good friend his He has
two kids, both of them one is still there. She's
a senior at the Air Air Force Academy and his oldest,
his oldest son has graduated from the Air Force Academy

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and is is operating the drones that fly across the world. So,
you know, it's it's we all know people that have served.
We have them in our family. We have friends that
have served, we have friends kids that have served, friends
parents that have served. So it's always good just to
say thanks.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
I remember, like I said, my two grandfathers both served.
My one grandfather was actually the cook and my father
has his army recipe book from from back then, but
served in World War Two. And you know, one of
the things I remember growing up, my grandmother was from

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a Dina, my family's from Adena, and I would spend
summers with her, and my grandfather ended up being the
cook at the American Legion in Adina, and then when
he passed, my grandmother took over. But I remember going
to the American Legion for many different events, and if
you really want to have amazing conversations with veterans, visit

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a legion. Look at the pictures that they have hanging
on the walls because you can get first hand accounts,
you can visually see the regimens, and they're in your towns.
So these are people born and raised in your towns
that are honored at your local legions.

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Well, you know, I mentioned that my uncle had served
in Vietnam, and you know, up until my freshman year
in college, I never heard him talk about Vietnam other
than that he served, and you know, he never really
went into detail. And I was with him. He was
a school teacher and he was at a conference and
my dad was kind of running the conference at the time,

(01:07:50):
and it was in Morgantown, so he invited us over
to the hospitality room and my uncle sat down and
the guy, I don't know where this guy was from,
but he was another teacher from the state of West
Virginia was also a Vietnam War veteran. And I just
happened to be standing behind them as they were sitting
there talking and it's the first time I heard my
uncle open up about Vietnam. And he was an engineer,

(01:08:12):
so he was you know, he would build the like
the little pontoon bridges, Okay, And he said, as he
was crossing the bridge, if he would have been out
of like if he would have been out of step
one like one step ahead or one step behind. He
said he heard the bullet basically go by his ear,
and had he not been stepping, say with his right foot,

(01:08:33):
if he'd have been with stepping with his left foot,
it would have hit him in the head. Wow. So
you know, and he never told those stories, never shared
him with at least not with me, but sitting behind
him at that point in time, that was the most
the most that I heard him talk about it, and
the most emotional that he got about it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
And you hear that a lot about Vietnam vets that
they tend to and all vets do, but for some reason,
Vietnam vets tend to hold it tighter to the chest.
I think a lot of it has to do with
the reception they received when they returned home.

Speaker 6 (01:09:09):
And I think I think it has to do with
what they saw. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot
of things that were a lot different back there, you know,
with the killing of innocence. You know, you know, some
people just snapped, yeah, and they did things that they
probably shouldn't have done. And when you witness that, you know,

(01:09:30):
sometimes it takes you, know, it takes something out of you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Well, you got to remember a lot of the times.
They were eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. I mean they
were boys, boys, not men. Boys.

Speaker 6 (01:09:41):
Well, and it's just the same as D Day. I mean, yeah,
you know, you storm in that beach and you know
people I mean, I hate to say it, but dropping
left and right, and you make it to the decider,
You make it to the you make it to the wall,
and you're thinking to yourself, how did I get here?
And how am I not back there? And you know,
you just did what you had to do. I don't

(01:10:02):
know if I could have done it. You know, there
was a lot of people that couldn't do it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
Yeah, it's a hard question to ask yourself until you
are put in that position if you could do it.
But just remind everybody all the different specials we have
posted on our Facebook page of the different businesses honoring
our veterans today. I wanted to leave you with two quotes.
I've been on a quote roll this morning for Veterans Day. First,
this is from unknown, we don't know them all, but

(01:10:29):
we owe them all. And finally, from another unknown to
our men and women in uniform, past president, future, God
bless you and thank you. The bloom Daddy Experience. Glenn
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