The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 18, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news radio eleven seventy and
I want to give you an update on everything about Drunes.
Let's go liued to Los Angeles ABC News Correspondence Alex Stone. Alex,
I've been saying over and over and over, they're hours.
If the US military and everybody else is acting like
there's nothing to see here, then that means it's it's us.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
But what are you hearing?

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Yeah? I mean, bottom line is at every level, nobody
except for the public seems to be flipping out about it.
And it seems that there is a kind of a
mix going on here of maybe something that is our
military or whatever level. Plus you have a lot more
people just looking at the sky every night, so you
get a lot of reports of regular aircraft to people

(01:08):
who filmed them and go look at that light, and
then everybody freaks out about it. Uh, And then yeah,
I mean just the hysteria around it. And then you've
got law enforcement flying their drones and power companies that
fly theirs to check out lines, and they say, you
put it all together and you get where we are
right now. Then you got like the former governor of
Maryland who posted video and everybody said, look, the former
governor saw it. Turned out to be the Constellation O'Ryan.

(01:31):
So you know, people make mistakes about it too. And
then there was there's a lot of hoopla overnight in
San Diego where law enforcement came out and tracked what
was reported to have been a drone over San Diego
for over an hour. They were watching it and they
were tracking it. I just took to San Diego Harbor
Police and they said, oh, yeah, yeah, that thing got
we uh that was just a regular airplane and we
figured it out and figured out who it was, and

(01:53):
it was a manned airplane that had everybody worried. So
there are a lot of misreports, but those in New
Jersey and in New York there saying yeah, but they
are seeing something different that all of the rest of
us may be seeing airplanes and hobbyist drones, but that
they are seeing something very different. In that area, and
today there is a hearing on Capitol Hill about it.

(02:14):
The FBI and Homeland Security are deploying technology to begin
detecting drones over New York and New Jersey. There's not
a good answer yet of what these things are. The concern, though,
bloom Daddy, is that somebody is going to try to
take one of these down. I'm surprised somebody hasn't done
it already and shoot at one of these and oops,
it turns out to be a United airplane or American

(02:35):
Airlines or helicopter with people on board, or shining a
laser at it. That is all the illegal to do.
But the FBI is very worried people are going to
do it.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Alex.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's amazing when people get worked into a frenzy, all
common sense goes out the window. And I contact a
couple of my sources in DC at different agencies and
their RESPI to, hey, what's going on with these drones,
and their response was I haven't been following yet. I
got other stuff I'm busy with, which told me right
then and there that this is not Little Green Men,

(03:06):
it's not Iran, it's not somebody dropping a dirty bomb
on US.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, if it's little green men or I mean even
Iran or somebody else, that they would have the FAA
mandated strobe lights on them and the green and red
navigational lights. All of these things are blinking lights. It
seems like if you're trying to be stealthy, if you're aliens,
you don't know that what the FAA laws are, if

(03:31):
you're Iran or China, that you would probably try to
go a little bit darker than flashing up in the sky.
But I don't know. Maybe they think because we would
think that they would do it. There are about eight
hundred thousand registered drones in the US now, and the
FAA now allows flight at nighttime up to four hundred feet,
So even if they were hobbyist drones, technically what they're

(03:52):
doing unless they're over restricted areas like near an airport
or over a military base, that they're not doing something illegal.
There have been people online who have said, look, is
this some kind of like organized prank with so many
registered drones out there where people are saying, hey, every
night on some you know, chat forum, go out and
fly these things, and now it's it's kind of catching on.

(04:12):
There's no indication of that, but who knows when we
find out. You know, the best thing that we're being
told to do is to download Flight Radar twenty four
the app and set the filters. You see every kind
of aircraft. You won't see lower drones, but you'll see
higher and many of these the people think that they
are seeing. If they look on the app, they're going
to say, oh, that's Delta Airlines flying over. Oh that

(04:35):
is a police helicopter. It will answer a lot of this,
but in the meantime, it's you know, a lot of
looking at constellations and saying, look at these drawings over here,
and it's a star up in the sky.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
All right, Alex, thanks so much for the update.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
You got it, Thanks Bim Betty. All Right.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That is Alex Stone, ABC News correspondent live from La.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Okay. At this point, I don't want to make light
of this because there are people and it is a
concerning topic, and there are people that are very much
concern about what they are seeing in the sky with
these drones. Put at a certain point, you got to
take a step back and put common sense in the conversation.

(05:20):
I would say there's a ninety eight percent chance that
this is us, this is our military doing this, they
just can't reveal it to us. What I'm worried about,
or what pops into my head is if somebody is
going to take action into their own hands and say, oh,

(05:44):
I'm going to get one of those and start shooting
like crazy, to shoot one down out of the air.
Who knows there's people out there, They'll do ridiculous stuff.
That's where I don't want to see this get to
and that falls in the responsibility of those who are
in charge of doing this. If this is somebody within
our government, they can't let it get to that point.

(06:08):
But this kind of stuff is so accessible to everybody
anymore with a drone. I mean, you can walk into
any store right now and buy one. The difference is
these are not your typical walk into a Target or
Walmart and buy a drone for your kid. The size,
the capabilities, the speed that we're seeing out of these

(06:30):
are what sets them apart.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well. The one thing in Bloom Daddy touched on it.
You just touched on it is the fear of the unknown.
And there have been studies in fact, over the weekend
or one day, I don't know. I can't remember there's
actually like a Twilight Zone episode that deals similar with
something similar. So like they sit there and they turn

(06:56):
on each other because in the episode, they think somebody's
an amp and they all start turning on each other
because it's it's a mass mob. They don't know. And
then the next thing, you know, somebody gets killed and
it's not the right person, and you know, at the end,
it's like it's the aliens are saying, look, look how
we can cause so much chaos And it was just

(07:17):
on one street.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
They used the paranoia and that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
You can't but that's how that's how we as human
beings react. And this I mean, look at the war
or the World's broadcast that you know, people that didn't know,
they weren't they weren't crazy, they weren't they weren't absolutely
ballistic because they thought we were being invaded by martians.
Now you know, now obviously we know we're a little

(07:42):
more advanced than we were seventy years ago, eighty years ago,
but the thing is, it's still the same premise. If
you it's the fear of the unknown, it's not. And
it is like these things can cause the paranoia. So
you have to kind of you have to diffuse the
situation before something bad happens.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Well, I mean, we have seen over the past ten
years how easily manipulated a person's thinking can be done
to just by social media. That's just one element that
is used to manipulate, control the minds, influence, whatever terminology

(08:23):
you want to use. So if you have somebody, I mean, look,
this is going way off the drone subject, but look
at like a cult leader. Look at how very easily
some people can can be manipulated. So when you have
mass hysteria, it doesn't start off as mass. It starts

(08:43):
off with a handful of people, and then it just
like like an octopus with its tentacles, it reaches out
to a multitude of people.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
It just takes one. It just takes one to get
the message out. And then then as people spread the
message and start believing the message, that's when you run
into the problems.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
Well, and again back to if somebody films themselves and
posts on posts on social media that they shot one down,
well then somebody else is going to want to do it,
and somebody else is going to want to do it,
so it can't Again, if the government is the one
who is doing this. They can't let it get to
that point.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Just say, hey, if you're the government, just say we
are conducting experiments with some new drones that we have,
and we're just these are all test flights.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Yeah, yeah, there there there have to be consideration, even if.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
You don't want to give away what you're actually doing.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, there has to be some consideration into the the
influence that this is having on a lot of people
right now, and and concern and worry. You can't just
say look over there, don't pay attention to it. People
are still going to pay attention to it.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
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Speaker 6 (09:53):
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(10:38):
You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back seven twenty two

(11:10):
The Bloom Daddy Experience Otis and SAM News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. A little bit more on the topic of
the drones. Members of the House Intelligent Committee have received
a classified briefing about the recent activity over New Jersey
and New York reps from the FBI, CIA, and National

(11:31):
Intelligence Agency. Attend In the briefing, which happened yesterday, longmakers
exited saying they were assured nothing nefarious is going on
in the skies. So there you have it, nothing nefarious.
But we have Wes from Wellsburg on the phone. You

(11:52):
have a theory or have you seen one yourself?

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Wes, I have not, Sam and Mary Christmathe years to
you in Otis. I have not seen one myself, and
I don't know that this is a theory but something.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
But I just want.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Everybody to think about back after nine to eleven, we
all jumped up and down and said government's got to
do something. Government's got to do something, and that gave
us the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and the ridiculous
TSA craft buys a warrantless wire tabs, etc. COVID comes along, Oh, government,

(12:28):
save us, Save us. So we got locked down and
masked up and plexiglass everywhere and government mandated jabs, et cetera.
I'm just saying, don't be surprised if somewhere in Congress
there's a piece of legislation that's going to expand government
and take away our freedoms. And we're freaking out the

(12:52):
public right now as a reason to do. We have
to pass this because government's gotta do something. What you
just said on your lead in about these classified briefings
and the FBA, FBI and the CIA and all these
other three letter agencies briefed Congress that worries me more

(13:12):
than the drones. Okay, if we've learned nothing from COVID,
we should have learned don't trust a dead gum thing
that comes out of any politician or the government's mouth.
Don't let them take your freedoms because they will not
give them back.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
So basically what you're saying, Wes, is create the worry,
create the the the speculation that something bad is going on.
The government rides in on its white horse to protect
the people of the United States, i e. Giving the
government more control.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Heck yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
Mean if you look at seventy five plus percent of
the nation's issues, whether it's education or healthcare, or the
deficit or all of that the government has caused. Yet
the same government that's caused all these problems keeps turning
around and telling us, Oh, you keep electing me and

(14:11):
just give me another trillion dollars and we'll fix it. Well,
I ain't fixed nothing yet.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
We keep throwing money at problems, and we just have
more problems.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
And giving up freedom and giving up freedoms. We keep
throwing money at it and giving up freedoms, and before
long we'll just be living in a prison state.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Wes, thank you so much for your call this morning.

Speaker 7 (14:34):
See you, Sam, see Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Honest um bye. Thoughts.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
I don't know if it's as bad as he's making
it out to be. I mean, do I agree with
him to a point? I do. I don't know if
I agree with it one hundred percent, but he's not wrong.
I Mean one of the things that I heard this
morning coming in was, you know, we have to do
we're doing the where we we need money to fund

(15:06):
the government because if not, we're going to be in
a partial government shutdown by the weekend. So why don't
we just approve the money that we need? Okay, they're
talking about one hundred billion dollars or something. I can't
remember the number, but it's up there, and it's a
fifteen hundred page, you know, proposal. Why does it have

(15:27):
to be fifteen hundred pages because there's more crap in
it that we don't need that they're trying to hide,
and they're saying, oh, we need this money to keep
from shutting the government down. So I mean, why don't
you tell us what's in there? Because they don't want
to because then we would be like they front it
with something that makes it sound like we need to

(15:49):
do it, which is we have to avoid the government shutdown. Okay,
I get that, Do we really need the hundred billion
dollars or do we need five five? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (15:59):
And then the rest of it is is is pork
is shrimp running on a tread bill exactly?

Speaker 4 (16:07):
You know? Or is it you know? You know? And look,
I mean you can do that stuff, but you can't
get money. Did you get the blame bridge fixed?

Speaker 6 (16:13):
Right?

Speaker 4 (16:14):
I mean, there's just there's so many different priorities out there,
and I think that's that's where our government doesn't come
into play. And that, you know, like I said, the
one I think it was Dan Bongino one time. He
said this a year or two ago, that that if
you you know, when you get your paycheck and it
says federal you know, taxes taken out, if they would

(16:36):
itemize what that money went to, you would be so
poed that you wouldn't want to give the government any money.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
It's like an itemized bill from a from a hospital. Stay.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, but if you saw what where that money actually went,
you would be seeing so jacked well.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
And I also think our government relies upon the American
people to not dig deep into things. Sure, they just
hear a title, I don't know a good example Inflation
Reduction Act, and they don't expect you to dig more
into it.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
But then what does that do that that goes into
more conspiracy theories and everything else. So it's just that yep, yep.

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Well, let's let's remind everybody sam Atiheartmedia dot Com free
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It is seven twenty eight The bloom Daddy Experience, samin

(17:35):
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are back seven

(18:06):
thirty six on your Wednesday morning, The bloom Daddy Experience.
I want to see a drone now now, I feel
like that's that's like now a goal that I want
to see a drone. I just want to be one
of those people, one of the cool people. Now. I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
No, it is the season. We're playing holiday music obviously,
you know we have a couple we have Christmas karaoke
coming up on Friday, you know, so some of this,
some of.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
The cast are your calendars, ladies in general.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
You yourself, myself, we'll have the dude, we'll have Elgin.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
We have some new faces.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
We have Davo coming in to sing, We have the Dude.
Did I already say the Dude? Okay?

Speaker 6 (18:44):
And we've got Randy, Wendy and Brandy.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yeah. Well we don't know if Randy singing, that's right. Yeah,
So Randy may be here, but we don't know if
he's singing. So yeah, And with it being the holidays,
a lot of people ship gifts to friends and family.
You know, a Postal Service UPS whatever, Oh, I've been
checking my yep, yep. So you know you're running out
of time to get their holiday gifts to them on time.
So the US Postal Service says that Wednesday today is

(19:11):
the last mailing day to insure delivery before Christmas for
first Class and Ground Advantaged services. UPS says packages will
need to be with them by tomorrow for their three
day Select service, and FedEx recommends getting boxes shipped by today,
December seventeenth for their ground and home delivery options. So,
I mean, you obviously have obviously have priority mail next

(19:32):
day and things like that, but overnight, but you're gonna pay.
You're gonna pay out there, you U haul for that.
So just if if you're shipping something. If you're shipping
a package to a loved one or a family member
or a friend, you probably need to get it out today.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
What I've actually seen a lot of people who have
have received deliveries but it's not theirs, and they're you know,
putting it on social media. Do you know this person?
They mark out the address and everything, just the name,
So kind of pay attention to that. If you have
not received your delivery, you know, maybe not attack your
ups driver or FedEx or whatever. Be patient. I mean,

(20:09):
could you imagine how busy they are.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
I had to laugh. I ordered some baseball cards or
I bought some off of a guy in Florida, and
he sent him out December fifth, which was, you know,
almost two weeks ago, on a Thursday, and they were
coming from like Daytona Beach or Boca Raton or something.
I so I've ordered from him before. It's on really
been about three days he sipped. He ships postal service

(20:34):
ground advantage, so and it's got a tracking number, so
I track it, you know it. He may not have
mailed it, he may have printed the label and then
it didn't get to the So I'm giving it a
day or two there. But then I'm watching where it goes.
It goes from it goes from Florida to like somewhere
in Memphis or Knoxville, and then it comes to Pittsburgh

(20:55):
and I'm thinking, okay, well, then the next stops wheeling
and I'll get it. Probably in a day or two.
You still have it, No, I can't. But it finally
came like on Monday. But after it was in Pittsburgh
and it didn't come that next day, I was like, okay,
so I look something from Pittsburgh to Chicago and then
back to Pittsburgh. So it got misrouted a little bit.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
I mean, it wasn't anything that I needed per se,
but I just it's one of those things where you're trying.
You're going, I should have this by now, right, you know.
So yeah, that's the one advantage of tracking. Now you
can always track your packages. Yeah, and I and I
get it. Sometimes they get misorted or well, and.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
That gets addictive too. Track.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
It can't be, Yeah, it can't be.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
I'm I'm I I do that a lot. I have
no patience for that.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, like I had, I had some other things coming
in that I needed to sign for. So you just
I have to kind of prepare for that with my job,
you know. So if I know that I have to
sign for a package, I got to kind of and
I know roughly with time my mail comes, so I
got to try to plan my day around it.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
It's kind of like, I don't care if it's just
a package that they can leave on my porch.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
That's different.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, because I have like neighbors that watch They're like,
they're like the neighborhood watch.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh oh yeah, So you gotta love those neighbors. Though
they come in useful and then sometimes not so useful.
But talking about shopping and deliveries and all that kind
of stuff. Another thing to keep in mind, and this
actually caught my husband's attention over the weekend. Be diligent
right now for cyber scams. I mean, there's a lot

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of people who shop online. There's also a lot of
people that end up on sites that are not the
most reputable and you pass your information out all of
that kind of stuff. So right now, cyber scam artists,
this is their busiest time of year. If you see
anything questionable about your credit card account, your debit card account,

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any of that kind of stuff, be very, very diligent.
My husband, like I mentioned, over the weekend, his Apple Pay,
which I do not use. He does it on his
on his I don't have it on my phone. But anyways,
he noticed something not right hinky with it, and he
went and there was something had disconnected from his account

(23:12):
to his Apple Pay, and he got it all changed around.
He's like, I didn't do anything, you know, so just
kind of just kind of be diligent and pay attention
for anything that seems a little out of out of
the usual.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
And if a deal looks too good to be true,
it probably is.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yes, Yes, staying on kind of the Christmas theme, you know,
right now, everybody's baking. It's unlike unless you're me and
you ordered a cookie tray from somebody like Judy Porterfield.
Yes I did that because her cookies are better than mine.
But anyways, Kansas bakes the most over the holidays. But

(23:52):
I want to ask you otis and then of course
if you want to call in one sixty too for
eleven seventy, what is your apps? Sol must have Christmas
cookie every year?

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I don't know if there's must have. I like just
about any cookie, but you know, it all depends because
some people. You go to some people's house and they
offer something, and then you to another person's house and
they offer something different. So I mean it's like you
look forward to the different flavors. You.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
Oh no, no, no, seat, no, you're wrong. I'm sorry.
I'm gonna say it out loud. You're wrong. Everybody has
the one Christmas cookie, right, Mine's the peanut butter blossom
with the Hershey kiss, I've got to have one every Christmas.
I've gotta have one, at least one, because you only
get them once a year.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Mazy, they come up all the time. People make those
every all year round.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
I don't know anybody it makes us all year round.
Oh yeah, oh see see my immediate circle. It's just
it's a Christmas cookie. If they're only made a Christmas.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
No, I've seen those all the time. I mean, you
go to a wedding, They're at weddings all the time.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh seem to me they're a Christmas cookie. I don't know,
I don't know. I think there's just this there's something
about a Christmas cookie, and everybody has a favorite. How
can you not have a favorite Christmas cookie?

Speaker 4 (25:11):
I like cookies. I don't have a favorite.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Oh gosh, come on, the most.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Cookies get year round. I mean, I just there's not
really a I don't really consider anything a quote unquote Christmas.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Cookie, like a snowball, a sugar cookie, a peacontassie, A Oh.
I'm trying to think of some of the other ones.
I don't know all the names of them. I can
see them. I mean, there are certain cookies that only
are at Christmas.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
You must have run in different circles than me.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh, you disappoint me, You disappoint me. Come on, now,
come on. Now, here's a little bit of trivia last
night that I stumbled upon and it I had no idea,
And you're probably gonna laugh at me. Otis and you're
gonna say, hell, did you not know that everybody knows that?
Did you know that the US is finally going working

(26:06):
to designate the bald eagle as the national bird, that
it actually, despite what everybody thinks popular belief, it is
not received that honor yet did you know that?

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I did not. I know that Ben Franklin wanted to
make the wild he wanted to make the wild turkey
the national bird. I do know that.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
And then we would eat it every year for Thanksgiving. Okay, yeah,
but you know, despite what everybody thinks, the bald eagle
is not actually the national bird.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's not actually bald.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
Either, if you could see the look that I just
gave him different, buddy.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
No, just being honest, it's not bald.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Well, No, it's got fat.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
They're white. It gives the appearance of being bold.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
Okay, On that note, how about it, let's do a
pair of tickets to Ralphy A Christmas Story.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Christmas Story here at the Capitol Theater this Sunday Question
and Answer with Peter Billingsley after the show, and you
get to watch the movie. One of the greatest movies
of all time, not just a Christmas movie. It's a
great movie.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
You can watch it year round, but most people watch
it at Christmas.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Especially when it's on for twenty four hours.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
Yes, okay, what number you want to do?

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Let's do caller number twelve.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Caller twelve one hundred six two four eleven seventy caller
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Speaker 4 (28:24):
That's one good thing about our show. You can hear
it all throughout the valley.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Yes, but we have a big stick.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
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Speaker 6 (28:35):
I'll leave it. I'll leave it at that. A yeah,
I said that. All right, let's get into so let's
get into some local, local things. A willing woman is
being held behind bars after she was caught with drugs.
The discovery was made during a traffic stop along State

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Route seven. A canine sniffed the vehicle a forty one
year old Amber Gregory, and found a white pottery substance.
Gregory was charged with the possession of fentanyl, tampering with evidence,
and trafficking of fentanyl. Not the best Christmas gift they

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are for miss Amber. Attention to those in Weirton, Hundreds
of residents are under a boil order boil water advisory
this morning. It comes after city officials worked on a
waterline yesterday morning. Anyone that lives on Label Avenue or
has a business there should boil their water before using it.

(29:38):
Some people may also have to deal with low or
no water pressure at all. Again, this is in Whirton
and if you live or have a business on Label Avenue,
so pay attention to your water this morning. It's not
worth it. Yeah, boil it. Be cautious about that. Then,

(29:59):
some news from the High Valley Mall. Sam Goodie is
going to close. It first opened at the Ball at
the Mall back in nineteen eighty. It's most known for
selling music and entertainment products. These stores expected to close
in February.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
It's only one of two left.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
That's exactly why what I was going to say. There
was a lot of negative responses to this announcement, going
after the mall, the mall, property ownership, the whole thing.
It's one of two left in the entire country. This one,
the mall, has nothing to do correct this one and
the other one is located in Oregon and both are

(30:42):
being closed. The fact that they're still around is amazing.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Well, the funny thing is, I mean, because the way
the way we get our music now And it's kind
of funny because with my new vehicle, I found a
new satellite channel and it's The Bakersfield Beat and it's
hosted by Dwight Yoakum and he'll have he'll have guests
on and he had Jacob Dillon from The Wallflowers, Bob

(31:08):
Dylan's son, and he had another I can't remember who
the other person was, but they all talk about how
the industry has changed and how people get their music.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
How people get media in general.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Well, but they were talking about how it was like
when they were coming up through the music industry. You
had to you know, you had to cut your teeth
and then if you were lucky, you get a record deal.
Now you can be anybody and just put your song
on the Internet. And he said, it's just, you know,
in the quality of music has gone down, but the
way we get our music. You know, back in the

(31:38):
day used to buy albums and forty fives and then
you went to cassettes and then you went to CDs
and the record stores were the place to be. I mean,
oh yeah, I wasn't a huge Sam Goodie fan. I
like the National Record Martin better. I don't know why.
I just the way it was set up, and I
think their prices were a little better. They were more
of a regional company as opposed to a national company.

(32:03):
But you went the national record Mark or Sam Goody
for your music, You went for your posters, you went
for I mean anything that was T shirts. T shirts
back in the eighties you used to wear the band
pins or whatever. You used to go there to get
your pins. And I mean, I mean, I remember being
in high school. The first place you went when you

(32:25):
went in the mall with the two places you went
were the record store in Spencer's. Yeah, I mean that's
what it was.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Yeah. Well, I mean, well here's the other thing. I mean,
and then we got into the DVD and the vhs
and then the DVD culture and Sam Goody always also
had that. I remember going to Sam Goody at Christmas
time a long time ago when south Park first came
out and looking for the first season a south Park

(32:52):
and a T shirt to go along with it as
a Christmas gift for my brother. So it But back
to the original conversation, the point was we everything is
at our fingertips. We don't have to go looking for
things anymore.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
We don't.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
You know, it's right, We literally have a computer in
our hand twenty four to seven.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
And you can, I mean with with the technology that's
out there, you can record a song. You can you
can you can have the music on your computer and
record a song right there in your in your living
room or your bedroom or whatever, and you can release
it on the internet and you know you have all
the the auto tune. I mean, there's just so many

(33:36):
things that are out there now that that that did
do that. But I mean going back to the Sam
Goodie thing like or the national when you went, I
mean back in the day like when somebody when when
you heard that a band was releasing an album on
say Friday, man, you were you were at that record
store to get that copy, whether like if it was

(34:00):
the new Van Halen or the new Bruce Springsteen or
the new Pink Floyd or whatever whatever your whatever your
flavor was. It was like you were busting humped to
get there just because you didn't want you wanted to
make sure you get your cop Well.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
Was also part of date night too, Oh yeah, you
know how many times I can remember standing there and
the CDs in alphabetical order and flipping that flip. Everybody,
if you're from my generation, you know the flip that
I'm talking about. Digging through the CDs. So yeah, so,
but keep in mind again, the one that is closing
at the High Vall mall is one of two.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
It's just like a Blockbuster. It's like Blockbuster closing down.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Yeah, So, I mean it's not it's the mall has
nothing to do with this. It has nothing to do
with like rent going up or anything like that. Sam
Goodie is going out of business, just like Blockbuster went
out of business, because unfortunately, in today's day, in today's
day and age, it's you know, it's it's it's just
like the typewriter store. The typewriter stores are no longer around.

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Speaker 6 (35:56):
Now we're back. It's eight oh six on your Wednesday morning.
The Blue and Dotty Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA joining us in studio. Now we have
former Ohio State Trooper Don Britton.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Good morning, Dawn, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
So we're here to talk about the Blaine Bridge closure
closure situation. And there is in you're hair representing a
group the concerned citizens of the Blain Bridge closure, and
uh you the voice for him.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, right now, that seems to be what's happening.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
I was told you were nominated, so and you were
you were the gentleman to speak to about everything.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, I didn't run for it.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
So first off, let's get let's give everybody a little
bit of a background on what is going on. So
the Blain Bridge on Route forty in Belmont County is
currently closed. That's great, plain and simple, and it's been
closed since July cor.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
I think in July they were still running one lane
okay eastbound, and then I believe it was August when
they closed, and.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
That's because people were not following things properly when it
came to the one lane situation.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
That's what they said.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
Yeah, yeah, And now both lanes are closed in this
main thoroughfare in Belmont County. It's causing a lot of
issues for people.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
It is, I mean, many people in that area elderly,
and they don't like to drive on the interstate. They're
fearful of it. And as you know, we're not the
County's not valley is not rich in ubers and other
forms of transportation. So Lauren Burrell from ODOT, who's their
public information ulster, said there is public transportation down here,

(37:48):
and I don't think she meant anything by that, except
for the fact that I think she's unaware that we're
talking about a bus and only people can't stand await
for a bus to go to Kroger's and pick up
groceries or doctor's appointments for pharmacy.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Right, it's limited compared to larger populated areas.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Absolutely, And now the.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
Group has had several meetings. The group is also on Facebook,
so you can follow them there. Again, it's concerned citizens
of the blame bridge closure. There has been a lot
of reaching out to senators and representatives in Ohio. What
is the feedback you're getting from leadership?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Well, right now, Senator chalv is supposed to meet with
us in January sometime and we're trying to get an
aid from the Governor's office to come. The commissioner said
they will be there to Belmont County commissioners and we've
reached out to Ferguson's office and we're waiting for a
reply from them.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
And it's understandable the bridge needs repair work, it needs
you know, safety is top priority, absolutely, but to completely
close this down, I mean, as a former or a
retired state troop, I'm sure you have a lot of
experience with road closures and how that affects the population

(39:06):
and the just the general flow of traffic in an area.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
It does, and what you're looking at is the finished
State seventy shut down for a crash or for a
hazmat's bill or for whatever reason. Then it creates a
massive problem because you have people from all over the
country travel that road. So let's say it's it's closed
westbound people are going to get off a Bridgeport and
where they're going they have to go to four to seventy,

(39:30):
but everybody doesn't know that. Can you imagine a traffic
flow in Bridgeport. I mean it's heavy with traffic now,
and it just take one incident and we would have
a giant mess there.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Well.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
And along with the citizens that are affected, there's also
the businesses in the Lansing area and the Bridgeport area
then I'm sure have to be financially affected by this closure.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, they're all down forty percent. And you know, just
for an example, the owner of the dairy Queen Bridgeport
talked at the commissioner's meeting a little bit and she advised,
you don't know if you'll be in business two years
from now. Wow. And then you have people having to
lay off their employees, which creates another pardship and I
mean it's a mess.

Speaker 6 (40:14):
Well, and I think the most shocking part of this
situation that people are dealing with it's not again, it's
not the work being done. It's the fact that they've
closed it down and nothing's going to start until twenty
twenty seven. That I think is what is the most
unacceptable portion of this conversation.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yes, they actually I think they told the commissioners now
it will be the summer of twenty twenty six when
they started, but still who knows how long it's going
to take. They said it'll probably open sometime in twenty
twenty seven, but we don't know that. Initially they talked
twenty thirty. I mean, that would have been extremely unacceptable.
And you know right now they're doing an environmental study.

(40:56):
Someone told me it's about bats and bass, and that's
supposed to be done in March. Bass the fish, that's yeah,
that's what That's what someone told me.

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Okay, but the bridge has been.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
There since nineteen thirty two, So if.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
It hasn't affected those two creatures, what's the problem now?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I have no idea. I mean, if there's bats under
the bridge, I'm sure they'll find somewhere else to go.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Well, last I checked, bats and bass were not on
the endangered species list, So I mean, I don't think
you really have to worry about them. But the other
thing you think about, you know, when that truck ignited
under the bridge in Philadelphia and that the six lanes
of Interstate collapsed and created all that havoc in Philadelphia.

(41:43):
They had that repaired in the six lane highway repaired
in three months. You can't replace a bridge in a year,
I mean, or lass, I mean, I really have a
hard time comprehending. It's just a matter of I guess
it's priority and where they want to spend their money.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Well, and let's be honest, living here in the Ohio Valley,
we are very lucky when it comes to traffic. It's
not something that we all have to deal with a lot.
The other day, I was driving back from Martin's Ferry
and they were working on the railroad tracks and there
was backed up traffic and I thought, I'm sitting in
traffic in Martin's Ferry Like that doesn't happen, right, So

(42:22):
we're all pretty lucky when it comes to that situation.
This is not about that. This is not just an inconvenience.
This is turning into a very possibly dangerous situation. I mean,
if you think about say, ambulance response time, if somebody
is at the foot of that bridge in the Lansing area,

(42:44):
how long is now emergency personnel delayed getting to them
because of this closure?

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Absolutely and then getting them back out right. So not
only do you have the time there. But you have
the time because before, let's say there was something right
there at the bottom of the Blame Bridge, they could
go up the Blame Bridge, get on the highway and
loop around. Now they have to go all the way
out forty down to Bridgeport to get on the interstate.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Well, I know people that are going up to fifty
up and around who come to the Sant Clairsville area.
There are people jumping on Ream Road and they're flying
and that's a pretty quiet road, residential road. Those people
are being affected. So now the trickle down effect is
really impacting a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yes, it is. And think about law enforcement response times,
you know. And also if you have a law enforcement
officer that's in trouble needs back up getting to that individual,
that creates a problem, you know. I mean you're talking
if the bridge is open and there's something down there,
three minute response time. Now you're looking at to drive
all the way around, you know, fifteen minutes. That's a

(43:49):
long time to fight with somebody. If you're in an
altercation with someone as a police.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
Officer, well with the group. There is currently a petition
circulating correct is over a thousand signatures, so.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Far Yeah, forgers a thousand signatures and for.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
Our listeners, who where can they get on board to
sign the petition?

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Right now? The Trap in Barton, the Lansom Supportsman Club,
Route forty Antiques, the excellent station of two fourteen Sons
of Italy and Blair, Double J Laundromatt, Advanced Auto Zone,
Sonoco Food Market, Joe's Tires Shop, Feno, Deep Ascene Winery,
sewn on as Pizza Nice. It's everywhere, Yes, It's circulating everywhere.

Speaker 6 (44:34):
Yeah, because people are concerned, If people.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Are worried, do you have to be in a higher
resident to sign the petition?

Speaker 2 (44:40):
No? I think this affects everybody in the valley.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
I agree with you one hundred percent. But I mean,
I know sometimes when it comes to petitions and things
like that, they look at it certain things like do
you live in the area or so on. So I
just wanted to make it clear that if me being
a West Virginia resident but still affected by the blame
bridge closer, I should be able to sign that.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Sure. I mean, obviously, I think the Governor's office and
our representatives are probably going to look at a higher
resident a different light, which still it affects everybody into Valley.

Speaker 6 (45:08):
Well, and I will say I follow the page on Facebook.
The the representatives and a lot of the workers for
the senators in Ohio are responding. They're they're not pushing
you put you know, putting you off. They are getting
back to the to the group.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Yes, I mean and the fact that Senator bron chav
is going to meet with this big you know. And
we're right now obviously in a transition period federally, but
when uh Marino goes into office, if we have to
contact that, that office will be contacting them also.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
Well, don thank you so much for your time this morning.
What I will do is I will take the page
and I will share a link on our page for
for people to follow what's happening and if they want
to get involved. And is there any public meetings that
people can attend that you're that you're holding.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Well, Odett told us there would be no public meetings.
That we haven't decided on a public meeting. That's something
that committee will have to discuss. I believe we're meeting
again December thirtieth, Okay, and that's something we'll probably discuss then.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
Okay, perfect, I'll share the page, and then when people
want to get if people want to get involved, they
can reach out to the page and kind of go
from there.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Absolutely, I'm so glad you took the time. It is
eight sixteen on your Wednesday morning. Have a great.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Holiday, by the way, you too, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 6 (46:22):
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News Radio, eleven seventy. I just doe this makes me.
I envisioned the l working in the toy shop with
this song. They're making all the trucks and the baby dolls. No, okay.
I love when you look at me like I smoked
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(47:17):
thank you. Sometimes they think you do it on purpose.
No don mean no, no, no, no. Well, I hate
to tell everybody. The Mountaineers fell short last night at
the Frisco Bowl. The game wrapped up well past midnight.
I e I did not see this.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
I didn't see one play me neither this. I turned
on I went to my ESPN Plus because it won't
let me watch the game. But at least it will
give me the score. So I just clicked that on
and they were down seventeen nothing, and I said, I'm
not missing anything, and I went to bed.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
Well, the final score was forty two to thirty seven.
Memphis held on to win obviously, and intercepted Garrett Green
to seal the win. West Virginia ended their year with
a six win and seven loss record. So I guess that. Yeah,
so rich Rod, there you go.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Well it's not him, so he's got a whole new
cast of characters coming in.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
Well, since it was the first bowl game of the season,
he kind of gets an earlier jump, I guess than
the rest of the other coaches. Is there any type
of like delay on when they can start meeting with
player not like no, And.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
Chris Henry's son, Chris Henry Jr. Who has committed to
a highest state, is now considering leaving and coming to WU.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
Wow, that's a that's a step down.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Maybe maybe not Chris Henry played for rich Rod made
it to the NFL.

Speaker 6 (48:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, Okay, this is new. Maybe
I'm wrong. This last year was the first year for
the Pop Tarts Bowl.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Right, I don't know it. Yeah, the sponsor, I mean
it's probably it's probably not the first year for the Bowl.
It's the sponge.

Speaker 7 (49:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
Yeah, Well this year it's getting better because they have
partnered with Ge Appliances to make this year's trophy trophy
a fully functioning toaster.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Nice.

Speaker 6 (49:17):
Here's the thing that's that's a little creepy about this.
So I watched the clip online. There's there's the pop
Cart Pop Tart mascot. Right, they take the mascot, they
throw it in a huge toaster.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
Then the mascot comes out the base of the toaster
like on an assembly line because it's been toasted, and
then you can eat it. Then there's just something to
me that is disturbing about that. I don't know, there's
just something a little the these these bowls are are

(49:58):
getting more and more a little a little ridiculous if
you ask me. But also a little sports news out
of the NFL. The rumor mill around Chicago is speculating
that the Chicago Bears might be for sale, and the
most likely buyer that would be Jeff Bezos because he

(50:18):
doesn't own enough obviously. The Amazon founder and evil genius
is here to confirm the rumblings.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
I'm Jeff Beziers.

Speaker 9 (50:28):
I be here to address the rumors that I wish
to purchase the Chicago Bears. It is true, However, I
assumed they were actual Bears, and my team of evil
scientists would attach frickin' laser beams to their heads. But sadly,
Da Bears is a sportsball organization in the National League

(50:48):
of Footballing. But I shall purchase the team regardless and
run the organization like Amazon. I will rename the team
to the Chicago Primes, DAP Trimes. Alexa shall be the
new stadium PA announcer, Fear and bronze will be delivered
to your seats via drone delivery. And it goes without

(51:09):
saying the players will technically be Amazon employees, so.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Kiss your half time break could buy.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Touchdown pazers.

Speaker 6 (51:22):
There we have it. There's the drone explanation. It's Jeff
Bezos and an Amazon Prime.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
There you have it, sports fans.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
Does it ever get to a point where some of
these names, like the Bezos, the Musks, I mean Elon
Musk just broke what is his value, forty billion dollars
or some stupid amount of money that he's worth that.
Is there anything that they can't buy? I mean buying
a football team, buying a baseball team, setting off rockets,

(51:56):
buying rockets. Do you think if you're that well, it
ever gets boring to be that rich? Well?

Speaker 4 (52:04):
I mean I guess, I guess it depends on how
innovative you are. Like Elon Musk, his wheels are always spinning. Yeah,
So I mean.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
I wonder how much he sleeps.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Probably not a lot. And Bezos, you know, I mean,
he had a great idea and has just yeah, you know,
just added on to it.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
So you know, I mean the Amazon things started with
books and look at where it's right.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
So I mean, you know, you take an idea and
then you expand it and you if the idea works,
there you have it.

Speaker 6 (52:39):
So why didn't we come up Why don't we come
up with something.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Because we're not tech savvy and we're too damn lazy.

Speaker 6 (52:46):
Wow. There you have it.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
That the truth? There it is?

Speaker 6 (52:52):
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doing that drawing here in a few minutes. So we
were talking with with Dawn earlier and he kind of

(54:09):
brought up transportation here in the High Valley. How we
don't have a lot, we don't have lyft, we don't
have uber or not as much as larger cities. So
I'm gonna take us to Florida. Love Florida. Love the
stories that come out of Florida. So in Florida, a
lift passenger was arrested after he allegedly undressed in the

(54:36):
back of his ride. Nice The driver had been giving
the unnamed man a ride on December seventh, when he
heard a strange noise. The driver said that when he
turned around, the passenger had taken off his clothing. Lyft
then contacted the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Police say the

(54:58):
suspect told them he got a little naked after having
a feeling quote unquote. He has been charged with exposure
of sexual organs.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
Maybe the lift driver had to heat on too high.

Speaker 6 (55:12):
I don't know. He got more of a tip than
he was bargaining for though, So you know that's not
really what you want to look in the roof view
mirror and see. Oh I get the look. Okay, this
is new. A funeral home in Columbus could soon start

(55:33):
serving alcohol. Evergreen Funeral, Cremation and Reception applied for and
obtained a liquor license, the first funeral home in the
state to do so. Owners say they want to change
how people view celebrations of life. My role in this
position is to be kind, be kind of a party

(55:53):
planner for the dead. Hunter Triplett said. We will only
be serving alcohol when people are on there and remain
on the premises until the continuation of the services. Do
you think that's uh? In good taste.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Well, I think it should be up to I mean,
it should be up to the family. I think it
should be up to the family. I mean if if
I mean, I know people, and I know that myself.
You know, I would rather not have my money spent
at a funeral home. You know, I'm just that's just
who I am. Keep it minimal and take whatever money

(56:30):
that you want and have a memorial party where people
can so I mean, if you want to do that
at the funeral home instead of doing it at the
you know, somebody could have their last drink with their
friend or their loved one, or you know, they can
send them off with a toast or her.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
Well, there's there's a change in the perception of what.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
I don't think it needs to be. But I don't
think the intent is for the people to get there
at all.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
It's not a party, right, yeah, I mean, And and
people they're adults, you know, you would hope. Yeah, And
and there's there's a change in that business that it's
not about. People are looking at it more and more,
is it. Yes, it's a day of sadness, but it's
more of a day of celebration of that person. And

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and that's the direction that that industry, I think wants
to change the way people think about that industry.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
I mean, and you know, you know, I was at
a funeral home yesterday for for a very you know,
good friend of mine, basically my second mom, and you know,
sitting there with her four sons and just you know,
kind of reminiscing on some of the things that had
happened in the past and celebrating her and and you know,

(57:50):
sometimes it's not it's not you know, it's not necessarily there.
You're there to grieve, but you're also there to remember
the good times and share story. Sure, And you know,
like one of the things that she loved to do
was needle point, So her sons had her different needle
point you know, her works on display, and I mean
a couple of them were holiday themed. A couple of

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them weren't, you know, I mean, but I mean I
didn't I mean, I knew she was in the needle point.
I knew she was good, but I didn't know how good.
Because there was a couple there that they almost looked
like paintings, that's how good they were. And you know,
so I mean, it's it's one of those things, and
we're sitting there, you know, and we're telling us you know,
because like I said, I grew up at that house,
and you know, there was a time that of course

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they you know, the brothers, and and everybody told me
how the one uncle was, you know, this fun loving
guy and loved good jokes and this and that and
the other. And I don't want to say I told
an off color joke, but I probably told her a PG.
Thirteen joke without knowing and nobody, of course, nobody stopped me.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
That's that's how this this family is. And I love
them for it, but they just let me go. And
you know, it went over like a lead balloon. So
but that came up yesterday, you know, you just and
you know it was and everybody laughed, you know, because
they knew that it was. It was just one of

(59:13):
those things. And I was like, yeah, well at least
it wasn't one of you guys. They were going, yep,
the adopted son got it. So but but I mean,
that's what that's what it's about. You go and you
tell the stories and you're in your in your great
memories of the of the person that has passed away.

Speaker 6 (59:29):
So well, and you get to you you hear a
story from somebody that was part of that person's circle
but you didn't know, and you hear their stories of
that person from a completely different source, and you learn
more about that person that you lost.

Speaker 4 (59:44):
I mean when I passed away, I mean obviously, I
you know, hopefully my kids know that. I want to
be that. I don't want to be on display. I
don't I'm not a I'm not a big fan of that,
but that I want to be cremated. But if you
want to have a service for me, and I'm all for,
or if somebody wants to have a beer at the
service or a drink or whatever to maybe toast. I mean,

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there's only going to be two or three people there anyway,
because nobody likes me, so but that's okay. I can
live with that. Hopefully my kids will be there. I
don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
I think there's more people that like you than you
think nobody in this building.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
But true, true that, well, trust me, there's and I'm
okay with that. I've come to accept that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
Well, okay, no, I I'm actually lucky enough to know
a couple of people that work in that industry. And
you know, it takes. It takes a certain type of
person to work in that world. And I hear stories
that they tell me about just the different requests from
the families and also from the person as they're pre

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planning and some One of the things that one of
my dear friends told me is the the the creativity
that a lot of people put into what they're planning,
because you know, they're not going to be there, but
they're thinking about their friends and family and the experience
that they become their own party planner sort of, and

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what they want their family and their friends to experience.
You know, it's not a conversation anybody wants to happen, right,
It's not something that anybody wants to think about.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Well, my friends that their mom just passed away, they
were talking yesterday how their mom left a list It
says things to do when I die, And it was
kind of like she had written her own obituary and
she had done a couple of different things and she
had things ready to go. Oh so, I mean, I mean,
but that's smart.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Oh, yes, for the people that stay behind it, because.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
I mean, I mean, I know when my uncle passed
away and it was unexpected you know, and it's to
this day, it's still a cluster, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
So there is so much that goes into it that
you Yeah, it happened to me a couple of years ago,
and I have.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
No problem with with this funeral hym No, you know, no,
And again I don't. I don't want it to be
a bar, now, you know, I don't think that's the
I don't think that's the intention. But I mean, if
I think if they want to be able to sell
a if you want to be able to offer that
at the funeral, yes, as a package.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
If a family member wants to do a champagne toast
to the person, Yeah, I don't see why I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
I don't think you need a cash bar.

Speaker 6 (01:02:22):
Right, Yeah, nobody's gonna be dancing in cages. That's not
what this.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Client. It depends on who the client is.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
Maybe that is the last wish.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
If it was Hugh Hefner going, do you imagine what
could be going on in that place? I mean, that'd
be awesome. So that could be I mean, I'm not
trying to I mean that could be a good one.

Speaker 6 (01:02:47):
You want to do our lunch winner, you want.

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
To know, we'll do it. We'll we'll give him five
more minutes to register and then we'll draw it here
to it just started the next break.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
All right, you heard that, five more minutes to register.
I am at iHeartMedia dot com. Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name,
phone number, and company.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
And we still have another set of monster tracks.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
And we've just got two more in my email, two
more registrations, so we are counting it down. We're gonna
do that here next. It is eight forty five. You're
listening to The Bloomdaddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy ww v A welcome back eight fifty one The

(01:03:44):
bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
My email is blowing up. It is blowing up, all right,
so we're gonna cut it off, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
Whoa easy there the rain of Bobby.

Speaker 6 (01:04:00):
DJ. You got in under the wire. Just so you know,
that is for our lunch drawing. We're gonna do that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
How many entries do we have?

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
We have twenty two two. This is the biggest one
the area.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
The first number is easy because it's one and then
so now I just have to type in twenty two.
Oh and I will hit generate and our winner is
actually number one.

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
Are you serious? It's number one? Randy Taylor from Saturn
Bronze in Wheeling.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
Okay, so any idea where it is?

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Oh you do? Okay? Perfect? All right, Randy. We will
be getting in contact with you, and I.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Believe it's down by kind of like the West Virginia
State Police parents there on twenty sixth Street. It's in
that area.

Speaker 6 (01:04:47):
Oh okay, good, good, good good. So you have a
better understanding than I do. So hey, listen for all
you that registered, we will be doing this when we
come back in January, and you have to reregister.

Speaker 7 (01:04:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Just you know, we wipe the sight clean every.

Speaker 6 (01:05:02):
Week, so we will be bringing you lunch. All right.
So there's a new ranker out. Okay, the top ten
Christmas movies. I know we talked about Christmas movies a
couple weeks ago, but now this is according to Rotten Tomatoes,

(01:05:24):
so they're they're legit even with that name. So the
list starting at number ten includes It's a Wonderful Life.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
Okay, that's number ten.

Speaker 6 (01:05:38):
A Christmas Carol.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Die Hard, does it say what You're Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:05:43):
Carol, and it does not. No die Hard made the list. Yep,
Come on, little Women, Okay, I don't think of Little
Women as a Christmas movie the Night before Christmas clause
or class class Tangerine.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
I never heard of it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
I have no idea what that is. The original miracle
on thirty fourth Street and the shop around the corner. Okay,
and at number one meet me in Saint Louis. I
humbly disagree.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
I would agree, I would agree with you. Yeah, I don't.
I mean, it's a wonderful life miracle on thirty fourth Street.
I get that a Christmas Carol. I get that you
want to throw the Nightmare before Christmas in there. Okay,
i'll give you that. But like these, I've never even
heard of Tandria. Like this is like the Academy Awards,
Like you don't like they'll give you the five movies

(01:06:44):
and you're going, okay, I've heard of one.

Speaker 6 (01:06:46):
Yeah, but let me see. I'm gonna see what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
I'm assuming some of these could be foreign films too,
and that's maybe why we don't know them. So like
it sounds like Klaus might be a Klaus, or Closs
or whatever might be a foreign.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
Okay, Tangerine. Let's see what this is. Oh, they're okay.
It's a twenty fifteen American comedy drama and it's a
story that follows a transgender.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I mean, it's out. I wouldn't even watch it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
And I'm not going to read what the rest of
this is.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Okay, Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
Because in no way, shape or form does have anything
to do with Christmas. It's just that it happens on
it's set on Christmas Eve. Okay, So, Rotten Tomatoes, congrats
to you. Yeah, you have filled your your your annual
woke slot on your Christmas movie ranker.

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
Oh yeah, there you have it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:46):
I'll hold myself back. I'll hold myself back on that one.
That's not what I expected when I look that up.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
Okay, And it looks like well, Klaus is a twenty
nineteen family comedy, and it looks like it's animated. So
so it's somebody. When Smeerensburg's new postman, Jasper befriends toymaker class,
their gifts melt in old age feud and deliverous slayful

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holiday traditions. So I don't know how you rank something
that's been out for five years or six years as
the top movie. I mean, you want to, I'll even
give you. I'll even give you Diehards a Christmas movie,
even though I don't think it is right because it
happens at Christmas. But I don't think it's a Christmas movie.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
Yeah, I mean, how do you not have home alone?
How do you not have a Christmas story.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
Or Christmas vacation?

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
Yeah? Instead you have the shop around the corner. Again,
I never heard of that little women Little I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
Know unless it happens, unless the movie is set around
Christmas time, which it could be.

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
I mean, I remember there's snow. I don't remember it
necessarily being Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
An well, and you know, well we will disagree with
Rotten Tomatoes and take care. We give Rotten Tomatoes one
hundred rotten tomatoes for their.

Speaker 6 (01:09:10):
Selection, and I know it will keep them up it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
You know what didn't happen last night?

Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
You watched watching the WVU.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
Game Magi millions did not get hit last night.

Speaker 6 (01:09:23):
I still didn't. It was what seven six seven?

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
So look forward to be somewhere upper eight nine, one
hundred million. Maybe nice?

Speaker 6 (01:09:33):
That will be Christmas gift on Friday?

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Yeah? Wow, Well, what would happen if it rolled over
to the following Tuesday, and that would be Christmas Eve.
That would be oh myke and you would hit that
on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
There's a Christmas movie storyline for you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
Yeah, Daddy would not be at work on January second,
a lot of a lot of it's been fun to
see you later.

Speaker 6 (01:09:57):
How do they catch you? Explain this to me off
the air? How do they calculate the amount when it
rolls over?

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
I think they just it's just it's a projection.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
Yeah? I mean because they look at the people that
the number, they look at the average play and then
they factor in the people that are coming on board
is to buy. Yeah, and that number can.

Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
Go up, so they kind of guesstimate charge of the
ticket purchases.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
Yeah, it's gonna be it's they probably go to a minimum,
like they know that it's going to hit at least
this number. It could go higher, which has happened before.
So wow, that'd be a nice little Christmas gift.

Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Imagine if you sign me up, well, and my mom
buys us lottery tickets every year for Christmas. Could you
imagine if you bought that ticket for somebody.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
You'd have to return to favor as part of a gift. Oh,
you have to do something that's a gift.

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
I want rewrapped to me. All right, before we're out
of here, let's do it. One hundred and sixty for
eleven seventy Family four pack too, the toughest monster trucks
coming in April again, Family four pack. How being in
April tickets, pit passes, and a gift certificate for merch.
I'm gonna let you pick the number.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Number sixteen, number, eight hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
Everybody, have a good Wednesday.