The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam February 13, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Indeed number one tuck 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. The announcement caught. I'd say a lot
of people by surprise. I have Governor Mike Dwine his
pick for lieutenant governor, former Ohiose Date coach Jim Tressel. Now,
the nomination has got to be approved by the House
Senate and the Ohio House.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Let's bring on the coach right now.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
And Jim, you know, when I talked to you before
the National Championship game, you could have said, hey, bloom Daddy,
by the way, I'm probably gonna be appointed lieutenant governor,
but you kind of let that out.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Well, you know, I was disappointed you didn't ask me
about more academic oriented so forth on that interview. So yeah,
we left it and said you didn't ask Hey.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
You already the perfect politician.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You're deflecting, So congratulations, you're well on your way. Hey,
all right, So I got to ask you, you know,
Lieutenant Governor, you still got to be approved by the House, Senate,
Ohio House.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
But does this lead to you wanting to be governor?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, from what I understand, the House and the Senate
has voted okay, and I think I've been approved from
what I heard. Now, you're the first person I've talked
to since that. I was just walking out of the
building and I.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Was told that, well, congratulations.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
No, well thank you. To answer your question, No, that
doesn't necessarily mean that. I learned long ago when I
first became a coach, and the first advice I got
from the athletic director at the university backround, his name
was Gordon Larson, and he said, I'm gonna give you
some advice you better remember the rest of your life.
He said, keep your mind and your rare end in

(01:55):
the same place. And he didn't use he didn't use
rare end. And he said, if you'll do that, you
never know what's going to happen. And so I can
promise you that in this new world where I'm doing
a lot of homework trying to catch up on the
complexity of what goes on, you know, I'm going to

(02:17):
keep my mind and rear end focused on that. And
it's really a humbling thing that Governor Dowain I've worked
with for years and when he approached me and said, hey,
I want to really continue to try to have positive
impact on every Ohio and my last two years, uh,
you know I've done. I can't run again, but I

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want to run fast through the finish line. Would you
be willing to run with me? And so I said, well,
where is it do you think I could help? And
he said, well, we'll determine that, but I guarantee you
two of the areas are in education and education as
it results in the work force that we need do

(03:03):
to our wonderful opportunities here in Ohio that we've got
all these new companies moving in, all these expansions, We've
got a real strong task ahead of us to get
the workforce trained. And I'm looking forward to seeing how
we can get people together and try to accomplish that goal.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, I'm trying to you know, I've always everybody's always
known you as a coach, as an educator, not a politician.
So I guess my question to you is what kind
of Republican are you, I mean, are you a Trump
supporting agenda Republican? Are you a middle of the road Republican?

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Where do you stand politically?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well, you know, I've always thought that a politician is
a servants that serves the people that they represent. And
you know, I'm I've always felt that I was a
servant who just at one point I was serving my
team and my universe, and then I was trying to
serve the entire university. And since I've been retired, I've

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been trying to help whoever needs help, whether it's former
players or former coaches, or businesses or universities. And so
I've not spent a whole bunch of time. I didn't
take political science. My reading over the course of time
was not necessarily geared towards that. You know, I've always

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believed that when the people select their leaders, and that's
my leader too, and that each of us, you know,
can have our input and and so you know, I'm
certainly a tremendous supporter of governors want and our General
Assembly on both sides of the island Ohio. And I'm
a supporter of President Trump and all of our senators

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and congress persons on all sides of the discussion, and
so now I'm going to learn a little bit more
about how complex it is just listening. I was sitting
in editorial board, questioning that the governor was answering questions,
and the wide variety of things that the governor has

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to keep in mind on behalf of all the Ohio
citizens is amazing. And my goal is to learn and
see if I could gain the trust of the Ohio
citizens and see if I could do some good.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
And I understand that, Jim, but as you know, people
are going to want to get to know you as
a politician, not as a not as a coach, and
not as a educator or university president. So they're going
to want to know where you stand on policy and
kind of where you are on the spectrum. And I
know in the past you've supported Democrats and Republicans. So
I mean, let me ask you again, I mean, where

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do you see yourself once people get to know you
now that you are officially the lieutenant governor? I mean,
how would you label yourself? We label everybody in everything,
how did you describe Jim Trussell the politician?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well, Jim Trussell the politician Right now, is trying to
learn all that he can about all of the issues,
and I've got a briefcase full of readings to get
up to speed on. You know, we're in the midst
of a General Assembly in Ohio where there's a lot
of things being debated. We're in the midst of that,

(06:25):
I suppose on the federal side, and so Jim Trussell,
the politician, will try to be as informed as I
can be. Try to be a great listener, try to
be a great learner, try to get all the information
I can so that every voice is heard, and try

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to meet the needs of the people that we're representing.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Okay, all right, let me ask you this, and again
I'm talking to Jim Trussell, who has been approved as
the Lieutenant governor of Ohio. If you ran for any
political office in the past twenty years, you would have won.
And I'm going to go on a limb and say,
even if you had a D in front of your
name or a R, I think you would have won.

(07:11):
Why now, I guess, And everything is about timing. So
with what I just said, you never thought about it before,
But why now at the stage of your life.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, you know, as I was working as a president
of the university. I got more interaction with our public
servants politicians however you would like to label them. And
I saw how we could interact specifically from an education standpoint,
also from an economic development standpoint, from a business standpoint,

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from a social services standpoint, And so it became more
interesting to me the more I learned about the good
work that is done every day. The answer to the
question why now you know, it's really the first time
anyone officially came to me and said, hey, would you

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join this team? You know, never before, no one ever
asked me to run for office. No one ever asked
me to join their team running for office. Don't know
if I would have, you know, depending on what was
going on in my life. But when Governor Dowaine sat
down and said, hey, I really think you could help

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us for the next hundred weeks, I have as much
impact as possible. Talked it over with Ellen, and Ellen said, well,
it sounds like God has worked for you to do.
You love the work. I know your passion is serving others,
and I have confidence you can be helpful. Go for it.

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And so that's kind of the long and the short
of it. As to how it came to be and why.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Now, talking again at Jim the lieutenant governor in Ohio
newly minted lieutenant governor in Ohio, I want to give
you a quote by Mike DeWine, the governor said, the
most important thing is someone who could step in if
I couldn't be governor, if something happened to me. I
want someone who's got great judgment, who's a people person,

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who knows Ohio, who's a leader. You know, everything is
based on experience. I mean, you're not going to get
a job coaching the house day buck, guys, if you
don't have experience somewhere else. Politics is also a job,
it's a profession. What do you say to somebody who says,
wait a minute, how can Dwine say that he wants
somebody to step in the governor's role, which is a

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huge role, and take over if something happens to him who's.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Never been in politics his entire life.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
What do you say to somebody who says, Jim Tressel
has no experience, so why should he be lieutenant governor?

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, you know, I've had that question asked to me
about a lot of the things that I stepped in
to do. When I became the head coach a young
Town State, I had never been a head coach, And
of course the question, by and then it's not a
bad question at all, by the media and by maybe
the people at the university, was how do we know

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he can be a head coach? He's never done that.
And then the same thing happened when we went to
Ohio State. It's like, well, he's never been a head
coach at this level. You know, this is different. And
then maybe even more of a stark difference was when
I became the head coach or the president at Youngstown

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State University and he said, well, he's never been a dean,
or he's never been a provost, or he's never been
a department share you know, how do we know that
you'll be able to do that? And I think, as
I look back, the things that I know I can do.
I know I can listen well, and not just here,

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but I can listen. I can learn pretty quick. And
one of the things that I wanted to do as
a president of diversity was just be a sponge and
learn everything about the complex nature of a university. And that,
you know, I would spend countless hours trying to to

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read about the craft, talk to people about the craft,
and so to your point, the governor, that was what
the Governor said to me right off the bat. He said,
one of the reasons I want, you know, to have
you consider this is I think you would listen. I
think you would use good judgment. I think you would

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not think that you know everything and that. And then
he of course said, but I feel fine, I don't
plan on going anywhere, but we still have to recognize
that that's a tremendous responsibility. So I think the answer
to your question, jury's out. How fast can I learn?

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You know, how quick can I get up to speed?
And how hard will I work? And so stay tuned.
We'll see, you.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Know when you well, let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
When the Senate seat was vacant, were you approached about that?

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Were you offered that position?

Speaker 4 (12:13):
No?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
No, where nicknames the senator it would be appropriate.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Right, you know, That's what they were kind of joking
with me in the last couple days here, is that,
you know, everyone calling me the senator, they they you know,
they misnamed me. So but no, I was not approached,
nor did I.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, So, so as of right, now, Jim Tressel has
zero aspirations to be the next governor of Ohio.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, right now, Jim Trustle is gonna work as hard
as he can for six hundred and ninety seven days
to see if he can be helpful to the state
of Ohio and helpful to the governor's cabinet, be a
good lieutenant governor.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
So yes, all right, Jim, Jim, thanks for coming on
here today. Okay, thanks, thanks for coming on. I appreciate it.
That is Jim Tressel, former Ohio State Buckeye head coach
and newly minted, if you will, Lieutenant governor of Ohio.
One thing that he definitely has down already as far
as a politician goes, not answering a direct question.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Four on your Thursday morning Thank you for tuning in.
Of course you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience with myself,
Sam and my counterpart otis over there on news Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We have a big show on tap,
so we're gonna jump right into it. Had multiple sources

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reach out out to myself about something that touches close
to home where I went to school in high school.
Actually brought it up multiple times, but according to multiple sources,
a teacher at Buckeye Local High School who is a
history teacher and coach assistant cross country coach, Charlie J. Simkowski,

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has been suspended with pay pending an investigation into allegedly
inappropriate behavior with a student. According to these multiple sources,
the behavior began on a trip to Spain between the
two individuals. Allegedly, a photo was found that appeared questionable

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or inappropriate, and that picture was turned into authorities, which
set into motion the investigation. From the information we have
received from these multiple sources, the investigation is being conducted
by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. We currently have messages
into Superintendent Koi Sudvery at Blackey Local School District along

(15:05):
with a message left to the investigation office at Jefferson
County Sheriff's Department. We are hoping to get statements by
both entities involved in the investigation, and when we do,
of course, we will bring that to you. As more
information comes to light, we will be here to continue
the story. Again, please keep in mind this is a

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current investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior. But again, this
at this point in time. These are allegations. Listen, otis
you know this touch is close to home. As I
said when I started this off.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
But.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
You know, the rumor mill is powerful, it is absolutely powerful.
But when it comes to these types of accusations, I
think those that are involved, and when I say those,
the leadership within a school district need to be transparent

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because what happens is the rumormil kicks in and when
there isn't transparency, there is a lot of assumptions made.
There is a lot of guilty by association. There is
a lot of guilty period before hearing the entire story,

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and things cannot be left in the dark. When they
are left in the dark, it turns into it possibly
can turn into more than what the truth is. It's exasperated,
it is inflated, it is it's the old fishing story,

(16:54):
if you will. So the fact that we are able
to bring this to you I'm proud of. But again
please keep in mind as this continues to develop, these
are alleged allegations and the investigation is on going, but

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transparency it is needed. Unfortunately, in a lot of instances,
things like this are the attempt is to handle them
within the walls of the entity. But we're going to
continue this conversation more. It is seven twenty eight the

(17:36):
bloom Daddy Experience sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
If you've got an iPhone, you need to listen up
make sure your devices are updated because Apple announced the
security breach. It could allow other parties to bypass your
pass codes and pull data from locked devices, so a
hacker or law enforcement could gain full access to your device.
Let's bring on Mary Hamilton, an expert in data protection.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Mary.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
This is a big deal because I believe nearly sixty
percent of Americans have iPhones, making the iPhone the most
popular smartphone in the US.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
What should they do?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
Well, really, it's as simple as running an update. That's
the beauty of Apple is that they found this exploit,
they found the flaw, and they automatically go in they
create the update. So if you have an iPhone that
is an XS or later, or an iPad that is
within the last like four generations, then you go into
your settings into general and you just press the update

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and you do that, and that will actually prevent hackers
from going in through the USB accessing bypassing your pass
codes and essentially becoming the admin and taking over your
phone and stealing your data.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
So a lot of people bypass those updates because as
soon as you get used to the damn phone, Mary,
they change it, they update it, and it's annoying. A
lot of people are like, I'm not taking the update.
They feel like it slows their phone down. But in
this instance they better do it.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Yes, this is essentially you imagine your house, right you
if you had a lock that was broken, would you pay?
Would you take the time and go fix that lock,
because that's where criminals can come in. You don't want
people to walking in your house. You don't want, you know,
frankly things coming in and out. It's the same thing, right,
It's super simple. This should not affect performance at all.

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This is strictly security. This is them putting extra dead
bolts and frankly putting you know, some hired mercenaries out
in front of your house to make sure that criminals
can't get in.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I'm talking to Mary Hamilton, an expert in data protection.
Is this say big black eye for Apple? Because correct
me if I'm wrong, Mary. They always pound their chest
saying that you know, we guarantee users privacy, the government
can't access your phone, blah blah blah.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Actually I would think that it's the out. What happened
was that there's a company called its Citizens Alert and
there was a gentleman by the name of Bill Mazark
who or Citizens Lab and Bill Nazark actually found this.
So one thing about Apple is they do protect the
data and they have gone head ahead with governments all

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over the world, especially in the UNS to not get
access to it. Last year, they passed an update or
they created an update on the phones that automatically rebooted
the phone if it had not been unlocked for seventy
two hours. So that's where law enforcement the government was
trying to access phones. Apple is extremely responsive. I think

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it shows there anything in security. You're not bulletproof, right
like they're not going to be, but it's how you respond.
And Apple found that very specific targets were being gone
after in this This wasn't people hackers, weren't coming after
random people to get into their phones. There was high
value targets that were being trying to be accessed. And

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so that's who found this, and then they put the
pass out there so that it doesn't affect millions of
Americans and frankly users worldwide.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, so before I let you go once again, tell
people with an iPhone what they need to do.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
So you're going to go to your settings and to
General and you're gonna press update. You are looking for
your update. It's going to be for Io. Your iPhone
is eighteen point three point one, so your iPad it's
OS eighteen point three one. So I thought you have
to do press the update. Let it update. You'll be
off your phone for a little bit or an iPad,
and when you get it back on, guess what doors

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are locked? Hackers can't bypass and take control.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Just did it? Thank you, Mary, Thank you all right,
bye bye.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
That is again Mary Hamilton, an expert in data protection
protect your phone. So the best way to think about
it is you wake up every day thinking about how
you're going to be productive, what you're going to do
with your kids, what you're gonna do with your parents,
whatever it may be. There's other idiots that wake up
every day trying to figure out how to get into
your phone or your stuff.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
Okay, first off, I'm gonna call him out, bloom Daddy.

Speaker 7 (22:06):
Mister tech wizard.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
You did not just do it. That's what he said, Ray,
I just did it. No you didn't. No, no, no, no,
calling him out. He has the the uh.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Not very tech savvy. He'll take it home and let
one of the kids do it.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
Exactly, not even close. I was surprised when he got
a new phone. When I saw it, I was like,
oh holy, I mean that's within the last ten years
of his phone was probably ten years old. So no, no,
tech savvy is not.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
I'm guessing descriptive. He probably worked that into his new
contract that he didn't have to pay for it.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
Oh maybe maybe maybe listen knowing him, Yeah, so listen.
Cell phones, let's call him what they are. They're many computers.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
Oh absolutely. They say that the computer chip in your
phone has more memory and power and everything else then
the entire computer system did when they when they launched
the rocket to land on the moon.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oh I'm sure. I mean just think about Okay, when
I started here so many years.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Ago, nineteen No.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
It was in the two thousands. No, but we were
still had flip phones and the advancement of technology and
where it has taken us to.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
My first phone was a bag phone.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Oh were you were you Zach Morris from like Saved
by the Bell. No, it wasn't a bag phone. It
was the big gray block FAE.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
I didn't have the block fan.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
What was the bag phone was that was in your
car pretty much.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
You just plugged it into your car and then it
kind of sat in your console or someplace like that,
and then you know, you really couldn't take it with
you per se. You could, but the battery life was minimal,
and it was it was like carrying around like a
piece of luggage.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yeah, well, and and nowadays, and I do not do this.
And this is nothing to any financial institution out there.
They all have apps where you can do your banking
and do all this purchasing on your phone. I will
not do it. I do because of things like this.
It just I don't pay for things like that where

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you tap your phone. I don't do that, none of
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
Well, I don't tap my phone.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (24:29):
I don't pay with my phone like at a retailer.
But I do pay my electric bill via my phone.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I do.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
I do have my three bank accounts, the three banks
that I deal with, I have their mobile apps. That's
more for precautionary measures. So like if I had if
I find out that I have an expense coming up
and I want I don't want to put it on
a credit card because I don't want to earn I
don't want to have to pay interest. Right, So like

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this allows me to transfer money from my means to
my checking to cover that expense.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Now, most people would probably say you're thinking like an
old person, because I'm the old person, but you me
where I just I don't trust things. I just don't
trust things. And when you hear stories like this, it
reiterates why. And then you hear I've had multiple people say,
you know, don't run the update. It screws up your phone,
it slows your phone down.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
But then you hear this, you have you're better off
to do the updates. And what it'll do. It'll change
some of your settings and your apps to where you
have to readjust it can be a pain in the
rear end, but in the long run, it's probably better,
and it's it's very what you really need to do.
And I'm guilty of not doing this as often as

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i'd like to, but sometimes my phone makes me because
it screws up is turn your phone off every day
for a minute, at least a minute, then restart it
because what will happen is it'll do little mini.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
Up dates behind the scenes.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
Yeah, you know, because you might have an app that
needs an update or this or that and the other.
And then what it'll do is it allows it allows
your apps in all your little settings in your phone
to reset to where they should be. Now, these are
major updates that they're talking about. When you do when
they send you a notification for an update, but that's
just to keep your that's just to keep your phone

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current on the system.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
In this day and age, they are trying to We've
talked about it multiple times, the scammers everything, They are
trying to get to you and get your information any
way they possibly can. With that being said, we are
when we return, we're going to get back into this
conversation that is happening at the Bucket Local School District
because during the break otis you found a heck of

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a picture. We're going to get into that and then
nationally some some statistics and information about why are instances
like this more and more are they can tinding to grow?
We're going to talk about that here shortly. It is
seven forty five the bloom Daddy Experience. Salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It is seven point

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fifty here on the bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So we were talking earlier
in the show about a situation, alleged situation in the
Buckeye Local School District, and this is in regards to
a history teacher and a and assistant cross country coach,

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Charlie J. Simkowski, who has been suspended with pay pending
an investigation into allegedly inappropriate behavior with a student. Otis
you found a picture I did, and it goes along
with It's a Facebook picture, a Facebook post that I found.
I just didn't see the picture.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
And it's it has Charlie standing in some buck Eye
Local looks like Christmas gear, standing in front of the
buck Eye Local logo. And underneath it has a little
i don't know, pla like a plate, like a little
like a look like you would see on a plaque.

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It has a plate that reads Teacher of the Year,
mister Charles Semkowski. Relationships first twenty twenty four.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
I would take that down.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah, probably not what you want on your Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yes, yes, and I think that goes along with the
post that was on May thirtieth. Is that what that
is dated? Can you see what the picture doesn't say? Okay,
well I found a post dated May thirtieth, twenty twenty
four that announces on mister sam Kowski as the twenty
twenty Teacher of the Year. Yeah. So again, all of

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this is a legend.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
And let me say something because I have in my
past life I was a high school girls basketball coach
and well my first year I coached the middle school
and then I was promoted to diversity after our first year.
Teenage girls are I'm trying to say this in a

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nice way, but their hormones are raging, and so are
teenage boys in general. Okay, So I can remember some
of the middle school girls, you know, trying to ask
me like sexual questions. They were innocent sexual questions, you know,

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and it was like rumors that they had heard. Like
they'd say, hey, hold your hand up, let me see
your hand, and then they'd start giggling and then you
find out what they're talking about. So you know, I mean,
that's stuff that you can't control because you may not
even you don't even know what they're looking at. You know,
you don't know what the aspect is. But as I

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got to the high school level, you know, and and
you look you're a human being. I mean, my dad
was a high school principal, I mean a junior high principal,
and he would see people and he'd say, that's that
is a good looking girl, that she is a very
pretty girl. That's not going above and beyond. I don't
think you're just making you're making an observation. You make

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a comment. I mean I can remember and the one
girl that he said is very pretty and very talented
has had a career in acting for her whole life. Okay,
the other girl that you know, she was tall. He goes,
she could be a model. She ended up on some
soap opera, you know. So I mean it's not like
it was any there was nothing there.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
It's just appreciating, right.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
I mean I can I mean, like I can look
at somebody walking down the street and I can say, man,
that's a beautiful girl. I don't know how old she is.
She might be seventeen, she might be twenty two. I
have no idea, but I can look at that and say, man,
that's a beautiful girl, and I don't have any intentions.
You see what I'm saying. So, I mean that happens.
You get into a situation where you're around sixteen, seventeen,

(31:20):
eighteen year old girls day in day out. Sometimes those girls, again,
their hormones are raging. They find somebody that's in their
twenties attractive, and then what did they do? They start
to flirt. But you have to be smart enough, you
have to be the adult. You have to know what

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the ethics are in teaching.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
But I think this whole thing calls into question. We
need to have the conversation because if you think back,
if you're old enough to remember the Mary Kay Laturna story,
it's not just male in this case.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
I'm relating to myself.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
No, I understand that, But we need to have the
conversation because Laturno was shocking, right, It's not anymore, It's
not anymore. But that's the problem. It's just like school shootings.
Where have we become numb to this? I mean, according
to a study between twenty ten and twenty nineteen, alleged

(32:26):
sexual violence against students from K to twelve tripled, Yeah, tripled.
And one thing to throw into that conversation is social
media and cell phones. We have how we have expanded
our technology and for a teacher or administrator, everybody has

(32:51):
a camera in their pocket all the time. How stupid
can you be? And listen, there is no defending this.
And I'm not talking about this particular situation that we're
having here locally. In general, there is no defense to it.
Whether you are a twenty two year old, brand new teacher,

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you are still the adult. You have to put up
the guardrails.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
There's a line that you can.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yes, exactly exactly, and when you talk about social media,
According to research, it has opened the doors to teachers
making contact with their students in a different arena, which
creates a narrative that takes it away from the teacher

(33:44):
student narrative.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Well, look at Snapchat. You can send a picture, view
the picture, replay the picture, and then it's gone. Now
they can pull it up. Snapchat can find it, but
you don't see it. They don't see it. Nobody else
can see it unless you screenshot it.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Are they gone forever?

Speaker 7 (34:01):
For you?

Speaker 5 (34:02):
They are, but not not for Snapchat the entity itself.
See I have Snapchat. I'm not just I'm real not
you know, real savvy in it.

Speaker 7 (34:12):
But as I was getting to real quick, these girls,
you know, they will they will test you sometimes. You
still have to be Whenever I met with a girl,
if I met with him in the private in the office,
I always either had another player come in there, another
another adult, or I had the door open because there

(34:32):
you were not going to accuse me of anything.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Yeah. Yeah, you as the the educator, have to protect
yourself also. Absolutely, you know that has to be part
of the part of it too, because listen, anybody can
say and throw an accusation out there. That's why with
the conversation we just had about the local teacher, it's
allegedly as of right now, it is allegedly.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
I remember the one time the one girl I had,
she made a great play. We came out of it,
we were coming, they called time out. We come in
and I gave you just out of habit. You give
him that little butts mack, great job, And I was like,
oh my god, what did I just do.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
It was completely innocent.

Speaker 7 (35:12):
Absolutely, yep. It was just what you do.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
But if it was the wrong person with the wrong
Yeph seven fifty eight. Thank you for tuning in on
your Thursday morning. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
He's OTAs some Sam. We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
The number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rollinge. The announcement caught.
I'd say a lot of people by surprise. I have
Governor Mike DeWind. Let's pick for lieutenant governor former Ohiose
state coach Jim Tressel. Now, the nomination has got to
be approved by the House Senate and the Ohio House.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Let's bring on the coach right now.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
And Jim, you know when I talk to you before
the National Championship Game, you could have said, hey, bloom Daddy,
by the way, I'm probably going to be appointed lieutenant governor,
but you kind of.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Left that out.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Well, you know, I was disappointed you didn't ask me
about more academic oriented so forth on that interview. So yeah,
we left it unsaid. You didn't ask.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Hey, you're already the perfect politician. You're deflecting, so congratulations,
you're well on your way. Hey, all right, So I
got to ask you. You know, Lieutenant governor, you still
got to be approved by the House, Senate, Ohio House.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
But does this lead to you wanting to be governor?

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Well, from what I understand, the House and the Senate
has voted okay, and I think I've been approved from
what I heard. Now, you're the first person I've talked
to that. I was just walking out of the building
and I was told that, well, congratulations, No, well thank you.

(37:07):
To answer your question. No, that doesn't necessarily mean that.
I learned long ago when I first became a coach
and the first advice I got from the athletic director
at the university backer and his name was Gordon Larson,
and he said, I'm going to give you some advice
you better remember the rest of your life. He said,
keep your mind and your rear end in the same place.

(37:29):
And he didn't use he didn't use rear end. And
he said, if you'll do that, you never know what's
going to happen. And so I can promise you that
in this new world where I'm doing a lot of
homework trying to to catch up on the complexity of
what goes on, you know, I'm going to keep my

(37:50):
mind and rear end focused on that. And and it's
it's really a humbling thing that Governor DeWine, I've worked
with for years, uh and when he approached me and said, hey,
I want to really continue to try to have positive
impact on every Ohio and my last two years, you
know I've done. I can't run again, but I want

(38:12):
to run fast through the finish line. Would you be
willing to run with me? And so I said, well,
where is it do you think I could help? And
he said, well, we'll determine that, but I guarantee you
two of the areas are in education and education as
it results in the workforce that we need due to

(38:36):
our wonderful opportunities here in Ohio that we've got all
these new companies moving in all these expansions, We've got
a real strong task ahead of us to get the
workforce trained. And I'm looking forward to seeing how we
can get people together and try to accomplish that goal.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Well, I'm trying to you know, I've always everybody's always
known you as a coach, as an educator, not a politician.
So I guess my question to you is what kind
of Republican are you? I mean, are you a Trump
supporting agenda Republican? Are you a middle of the road Republican?

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Where do you stand on politically?

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Well, you know, I've always thought that a politician is
a servants that serves the people that they represent. And
you know, I've always felt that I was a servant.
It was just at one point I was serving my
team and my university, and then I was trying to
serve the entire university. And since I've been retired, I've

(39:39):
been trying to help whoever needs help, whether it's former
players or former coaches, or businesses or universities. And so
I've not spent a whole bunch of time. I didn't
take political science. My reading over the course of time
was not necessarily geared toward that. You know, I've always

(40:00):
believed that when the people select their leaders, and that's
my leader too, and that each of us, you know,
can have our input. And so you know, I'm certainly
a tremendous supporter of Governor's wine and our General Assembly
on both sides of the isle in Ohio. And I'm
a supporter of President Trump and and all of our

(40:25):
senators and congress persons on all sides of the discussion.
And so now I'm going to learn a little bit
more about how complex it is just listening. I was
sitting in editorial board questioning that the governor was answering questions,
and the wide variety of things that the governor has

(40:46):
to keep in mind on behalf of all the Ohio
citizens is amazing. And my goal is to learn and
see if I could gain the trust of the Ohio
citizens and see if I could do some good.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
And I understand that, Jim, But as you know, people
are going to want to get to know you as
a politician, not as a not as a coach, and
not as a educator or university president. So they're going
to want to know where you stand on policy and
kind of where you are on the spectrum. And I
know in the past you've supported Democrats and Republicans, So
I mean, let me ask you again, I mean, where

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do you see yourself once people get to know you?
Now that you are officially the lieutenant governor. I mean,
how would you label yourself? We label everybody in everything.
How would you describe Jim Trussell the politician.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Well, Jim Trussell the politician right now is trying to
learn all that he can about all of the issues,
and I've got a briefcase full of readings to get
up to speed on. You know, we're in the midst
of a general Assembly in Ohio where there's a lot
of things being debated. We're in the midst of that,

(41:58):
I suppose on the Federals, and so Jim trust as
a politician, will try to be as informed as I
can be. Try to be a great listener, try to
be a great learner, try to get all the information
I can so that every voice is heard, and try

(42:19):
to meet the needs of the people that were representing.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Okay, all right, let me ask you this and again
I'm talking to Jim Tressel, who has been approved as
the Lieutenant governor of Ohio. If you ran for any
political office in the past twenty years, you would have won.
And I'm going to go on a limb and say,
even if you had a D in front of your
name or and are I think you would have won?

(42:44):
Why now, I guess, And everything is about timing. So
with what I just said, you never thought about it before.
But why now at the stage of your life.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Well, you know, as I was working as a president
of the university, I got more interaction with our public servants, politicians,
whatever however you would like to layel them. And I
saw how we could interact specifically from an education standpoint,
also from an economic development standpoint, from a business standpoint,

(43:17):
from a social services standpoint, and so it became more
interesting to me the more I learned about the good
work that is done every day. The answer to the
question why now, you know, it's really the first time
anyone officially came to me and said, hey, would you

(43:40):
join this team? You know, never before, no one ever
asked me to run for office. No one ever asked
me to join their team running for office. Don't know
if I would have, you know, depending on what was
going on in my life. But when Governor Dowaine sat
down and said, hey, I really think you could help

(44:00):
us for the next hundred weeks, I have as much
impact as possible. Talked it over with Ellen, and Ellen said, well,
it sounds like God has worked for you to do.
You love the work. I know your passion is serving others,
and I have confidence you can be helpful. Go for it.

(44:24):
And so that's kind of the long and the short
of it as to how it came to be and why.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Now talking again to Jim Tressel, the Lieutenant governor in
Ohio newly minted lieutenant governor in Ohio, I want to
give you a quote by Mike DeWine, the governor said
the most important thing is someone who could step in
if I couldn't be governor, if something happened to me.
I want someone who's got great judgment, who's a people person,

(44:50):
who knows Ohio, who's a leader. You know, everything is
based on experience. I mean, you're not going to get
a job coaching the hostate buck guys if you don't
have experience somewhere else. Politics is also a job, it's
a profession. What do you say to somebody who says,
wait a minute, how can Dwine say that he wants
somebody to step in the governor's role, which is a

(45:10):
huge role, and take over if something happens to him,
who's never been in politics his entire life. What do
you say to somebody who says, Jim Tressel has no experience,
so why should he be lieutenant governor?

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Well, you know, I've had that question asked to me
about a lot of the things that I stepped in
to do. When I became the head coach at Youngstown State,
I had never been a head coach. And of course
the question, by and then it's not a bad question
at all, by the media and by maybe the people
at the university, was how do we know he can

(45:44):
be a head coach? He's never done that. And then
the same thing happened when we went to Ohio State.
It's like, well, he's never been a head coach at
this level. You know, this is different. And then maybe
even more of a stark difference was when I became
the head coach or the president at Youngstown State University

(46:06):
and he said, well, he's never been a dean, or
he's never been a provost, or he's never been a
department share. You know, how do we know that you'll
be able to do that? And I think, as I
look back, the things that I know I can do.
I know I can listen well and not just here,
but I can listen, I can learn pretty quick. And

(46:29):
one of the things that I wanted to do as
a president of the university was just be a sponge
and learn everything about the complex nature of a university,
and that you know, I would spend countless hours trying
to read about the craft, talk to people about the craft.

(46:49):
And so to your point, the governor, that was what
the Governor said to me right off the bat. He said,
one of the reasons I want, you know, to have
you considered this is I think you would listen. I
think you would use good judgment. I think you would
not think that you know everything. Uh, and that, and

(47:10):
then he of course said, but I feel fine, I
don't plan on going anywhere, but we still have to
recognize that that's a tremendous responsibility. So I think the
answer to your question, jury's out. How fast can I learn?
You know, how quick can I get up to speed?

(47:31):
And how hard will I work? And so, uh, stay tuned,
we'll see you.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Know when you well, let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
When the Senate seat was vacant, were you approached about that?

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Were you offered that position?

Speaker 9 (47:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (47:47):
No, the senator it would be appropriate.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Right, you know, That's what they were kind of joking
with me the last couple days here is that, you know,
everyone calling me the senator, they they you know, they
misnamed me. So but no, I was not approached, nor
did I.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Okay, So, So, as of right now, Jim Trestle has
zero aspirations to be the next governor of Ohio.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Yeah, right now, Jim Trustle is gonna work as hard
as he can for six hundred and ninety seven days
to see if he can be helpful to the state
of Ohio and helpful to the governor's cabinet, be a
good lieutenant governor.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
So yes, all right, Jim, Jim, thanks for coming on
here today right now.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Okay, thanks, thanks for coming on. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
That is Jim Trestle, former Ohio State Buckeye head coach
and newly minted, if you will, Lieutenant governor of Ohio.
One thing that he definitely has down already as far
as a politician goes, not answering a direct question.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
Welcome back. It's eight twenty four. The gloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA all right.
It is a staple of the Ohio Valley it is
tough Man weekend, perfectly for Valentine's Day, so of course
we've got to bring on the original tough Man himself.

(49:24):
Jerry Thomas.

Speaker 8 (49:24):
Good morning, Jerry, Good morning, Sam. How you doing notice?

Speaker 7 (49:30):
I'm great? How are you doing?

Speaker 8 (49:32):
Good? Doing great?

Speaker 7 (49:33):
Are we ready? Are we ready?

Speaker 8 (49:36):
We are? We are not quite ready, but by tomorrow night,
about five thirty or six pm, we will be ready.
We're setting up today, of course, in forty fourth annual
Ohio Valley tough Man Contest this weekend at West Banko Arena,
my home away from home. Love it the best verena

(49:57):
in not only West Virginia, but I think the region,
maybe the United States? Who knows?

Speaker 5 (50:03):
Awesome?

Speaker 8 (50:03):
I think it's great. All right, yes it is, it
really is.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
I've got to ask you tomorrow, being Valentine's Day, any
any surprises for the tough Man fans that you can
you know, tease us.

Speaker 8 (50:15):
With absolutely always there's always going to be surprised that
tough Man. And this this weekend, of course, Friday night,
being Valentine's Day, we do have a couple of things
in store. I can't say too much about it, just okay,
for some obvious reasons, which you will you'll know tomorrow

(50:38):
evening or tomorrow night. But it's gonna be fun, it's
going to be great, to be exciting, it's going to
be very memorable for some people. And I'm going to
try to leave it at that.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
Okay, okay, how many how many fights are on tap
for for first night?

Speaker 8 (50:57):
I'm guessing between forty and fifty or take, give or
take a few either way. And you know, we literally
can't handle the number of requests from people who want
to participate in this event. Of course, has been going
on for forty four years, and you know it happens
every year in the valley. People look forward to it,

(51:18):
and you know, there are a lot of tough people
in the Ohio Valley. They've proven that over the last
four and a half decades about and I don't expect
anything less than outstanding and exciting. You know, you just
never know what you're going to see, as as I
think you can attest to, I can't never know, never

(51:40):
know what you're going to see at tough Man. I
know you'll be there at ringside, and we have your seats.
We will have your seats ready by tomorrow night. Our
guys are actually on their way to the arena right
now to set up. Uh, it's gonna be great. You know,
we've we're always tweaking things. Some of it you don't see,
some you do. But I think you like what you're

(52:00):
going to see. And uh, we're we're working on some
uh you know, great matches, I think this weekend, and
we have some returning champions, and we also have a
lot of new faces, which is part of the deal.

Speaker 7 (52:14):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (52:15):
That's I think what makes tough Lands so exciting. You
never know who you're going to see or what you're
going to see.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
Well, and of course just of course, tickets are still
available online at West Vanco Arena dot com or just
show up at the ticket window.

Speaker 8 (52:34):
Absolutely, I think the best way to buy is that
at the arena box office. Uh you know they're open
all day and of course tomorrow they'll be open uh
from early morning till late in the evening. Uh and
Saturday as well. But yeah, get them at the box
office windows save you know, save some some online fees.

(52:54):
But actually the online fees.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Are not wonderful, terrible at all. Welcome back, Otis. I
don't know about you. Today is flying by.

Speaker 9 (53:13):
It has been.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Quite the busy show. Listen talking about tough Man real quick.
Didn't get a chance to mention this to Jerry, I'm sorry.
If you're from the Ohio Valley, it's a rite of passage.
It's one of those things that you have to And
surprisingly I still run into people that have never gone,
and if I know them well enough, I will then
take them with me because it is so entertaining to

(53:38):
watch the response of tough Man virgins if you will
experiencing it for the first time. So listen, you gotta go.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
If you's definitely interesting.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Yes, if you've never gone, do yourself a favor. You've
got to go. Trust me, it's worth it. It's fun
and it's Valentine's Day. Perfect date anyways. All right. With
that being said, what is turning into a staple in
Belmont County is country music thanks to the Dutton family.
So joining us now is creator Chris Dutton, the man

(54:12):
behind the stage in Belmont County at the Dutton Ranch.

Speaker 8 (54:17):
Night.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
Good morning, Chris, Hey, good morning, guys. How are things?
You've got a big announcement for us?

Speaker 9 (54:27):
We do, man, We've been keeping a secret for quite
a while, but we're we're exed I mean, maybe not
that long, but we're really excited. You know, last year
was so great. I came away from that thing thinking
if I do this again, there's one there's one act,
there's one nineties act that I would do this with
a second year particularly, and we were fortunate enough to

(54:51):
get them. So yeah, so I'm I'm excited. We're actually
expanding the lineup too, to add a few more acts
that night. Uh, and I hand picked them, and I
actually got all my first choice this year, which is
a way different than how I did with Blame my roots.
But uh, but we've got a heck of a lot

(55:13):
of plans and and in fact, I can only announce three.
We have one more opening spot that we have not
booked yet. Okay, but yeah, we're excited. Man, It's it's
gonna be great.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Can you give us those names?

Speaker 9 (55:24):
Oh, I'm just gonna stall a little longer. We are.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
Why don't you explain the event night itself?

Speaker 9 (55:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (55:31):
Give us the concept?

Speaker 9 (55:33):
Great, Okay, So barbecue in concert along with the country
music show on our farm out here in Flushing, Ohio. So, uh,
you know, it's a farm, a true farm to table
concert experience. So the brisket and barbecue burn ins burgers
that we offer are all produced on the farm, you know,

(55:57):
within walking distance I guess of where of where you're
watching the acts. So it's a great night June sixth.
It's that kind of that, you know, one of those
first opening weekends of the summer, and that's the deal man.
Just get get people onto the farm, see some real
good live country music coming up from Nashville, and eat
some good burgers and eating some good barbecue.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
Well, and I will say I did not. I was
supposed to go last year and ended up having a conflict.
Everything that I heard from people about last year's event,
which of course was headlined by Sammy Kershaw, they were
they people loved it. They loved the concept, They loved
the layout, the music, everything it was. It was so

(56:42):
unique for an event here in the Ohio Valley. Everything
I heard was good. Did you obviously you got the
same response.

Speaker 9 (56:50):
Yeah, I mean yeah, absolutely, you know, coming off of
just all of our experience with live country music, you know,
we it was sort of an accident that we did
it that way. I mean I had that concept planned
on a smaller scale, but I need to you know,
transition from blame my roots to a couple of Actually
I had booked and that's what I came up with,
and it worked. It works better than I thought it
was gonna work. And you know, sitting there after the show,

(57:12):
watching people kind of file out after the fireworks, it
just seemed like, Okay, this is this is probably something
that I can beg my wife that she needs to
let me do again. So so that's what did. It
worked out again. I said I would do it again
a year two, particularly like a follow up year with
this one act. And and and he was wholly available

(57:34):
in June on the weekend that I was looking for.

Speaker 8 (57:36):
So it was sort of fate.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
Happy accidents, as Bob Ross like to say, turn into
some of the best things. Now, there are some additions,
new additions this year. If you want to let everybody know, yeah, we.

Speaker 9 (57:51):
Thought, you know, one thing last year. I thought that
camping would be a good thing to offer. You know,
we're all we're out and Flushing and the remoteness of
it to the whole atmosphere. But you know, there's a
ride share is not readily available in Flushing, and there's
not a whole lot of hotels and Flushing for better
or worse. So I thought, you know, uh, not only

(58:12):
just the tailgating aspect of being onto the farm early,
not just the the the ability to you know, camp
under the stars with cows moving nearby, but also uh
just having that ability to to to hang out and
and and and end your night there on the farm too,
rather than you know, finding your way home and all

(58:34):
those kind of uh uh issues. So yeah, it's a
it's a service as much as it is just adding
an experience to people that want to you know, continue
having a camping country music, uh concert or experience here
in the High Valley.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
Again, we're talking to Chris Dutton, the creator behind Dutton
Ranch Night, the concert held in Flushing, Ohio. I also
heard that you had one heck of a fireworks display. Well,
that'll be back this year. I think we have somebody
in common here.

Speaker 9 (59:04):
That'll be we do that'll be uh, that'll be back.
And we just we just we just we just actually
put a deposit on that yesterday and I asked for
thirty three percent bigger. So so that's that's the plan.
I don't know why I came over that number, but
it felt like a good number.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
So that's what we're doing.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
Felt like a good number, fantastic all right. So tickets
go on sale when.

Speaker 9 (59:28):
Thursday, March thirteen, so another the month from now.

Speaker 8 (59:31):
It gives me some time to put that.

Speaker 9 (59:33):
Whole platform together. Tickets are very similar to last year.
There's some things we might we might slide around there,
but basically, forty nine dollars GA ticket. Night's approachable ticket
for these for this kind of a night. The night
really is going to feel like a summer festival kind
of night, you know, for Acts of Nashville, that kind
of thing. So you know, forty nine dollars, that's the
heck of a deal.

Speaker 8 (59:53):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (59:53):
And then we'll have some premium offerings too for that,
just like last year.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
So all right, can can you tell me now? Can
you give me some names?

Speaker 9 (01:00:02):
Okay, all right, yeah, I think it's time again. We
have an opening slot that we that that we haven't booked,
but we're excited that the that the headliner for this
year is Tracy Bird Nice. He is just one of
my favorites from that era. He's ninety minutes of a jukebox,

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great up tempo, honky tonk style. It's just I'm so
excited to be able to bring him to our family farm.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
Okay, who can't hear Watermelon Crawl in their head when
you hear that title of that song, I mean, come on.

Speaker 9 (01:00:39):
Now, I know, and it's and that's and that's probably
my fifth or sixth favorite song of his. I love
I love his, like the First Step and Hold in
Heaven and some of those early nineties stuff, and then
of course like ten Rounds and Drinking Bone. I mean,
oh my gosh, it's uh, it feels like Jamboree. It

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feels like being in a Texas honky tonk all at
the same time, like it's I'm excited for it more.

Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
Than the hills of Belmont County will be on fire
in June.

Speaker 9 (01:01:12):
Basically, yes, they they will. We will not have Jose Cuervo,
but we will have a similar competitor on the shelf
there at the bar. But but yeah, it'll be quite.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
A lot wonderful. And remind everybody tickets go on sale when.

Speaker 9 (01:01:30):
They will be March thirteenth, Thursday, March thirteenth, and we
have yeah, they'll all be ready for them.

Speaker 5 (01:01:36):
And of course everybody can check things out on Dutton
ranch Night dot com.

Speaker 7 (01:01:40):
Who are the other two acts that you have, right.

Speaker 9 (01:01:43):
So I wanted to go Yeah, So I went to
Nashville and hand and hand picked this thing. I wanted
to keep that honky Tonk bible. I ran into this guy,
Braxton Keith, new upcomer. The dude is just like shot
out of a rocket. So he if you look him up,
he's got this handlebar mustache. He's you know, early twenties.
Sings a song called Cozy that's on the radio now.
He's just he's amazing. He comes out right out of

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the gate with this big loud song that he opens
up with. And then and then a goal named Mackenzie
Carpenter who is a songwriter for Megan Maroney.

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
She has her.

Speaker 9 (01:02:12):
Album coming out next month and she just released a
song with Midland Real attractive, young young singer songwriter that's
just kind of getting on the scene now. So wonderful
it'll be performance wise, it will be one of the
Pound pro Pound, one of the best shows I've ever done.
Wonderful why singer songwriter wise everything back.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
For year two, Dutton Ranch Night. Can't wait for it. Chris,
thank you so much for your time this morning, and
keep us when you get that additional name you know
where to come and tell everybody.

Speaker 9 (01:02:43):
Hey, thank you all.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
All right, it is eight forty five here on the
Blue Dotty Experience News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We have
return eight fifty one the Blim Daddy Experience. Just real quick,

(01:03:09):
we were talking about the Dutton Ranch night and the
food that's going to be provided from the farm of course,
steaks and everything from Dutt and Cattle Company. Hopefully PETA
doesn't get w into this. They're visiting Wheeling today with
their Hell on Wheels chicken truck.

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
Are they serving wings?

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
Just a heads up if you are near TJ's Sports
Garden today, along with other possible local restaurants, keep your
eye out for the Hell on Wheels Chicken truck. Buy PETA.

Speaker 7 (01:03:40):
Not a bad place to be. You got TJ's, you
got the nineteenth total, and you've got Bob Evans right
across the street. So not a bad place to be.
But you know what PETA stands for. And I know
my buddy right here agrees with me. People eating tasty animals. Sir,
I knew you would agree with me.

Speaker 10 (01:03:59):
Are y'all kidding?

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
That really gonna happen?

Speaker 6 (01:04:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:04:01):
Yeah, yeah, They're supposed to be protesting in front of
your supposedly.

Speaker 7 (01:04:04):
What they have it. They have a truck that's lined
up for some kind of a vehicle and it's got
the you know, the wraps on it. It looks like
chickens in cages and you know, like in their worst
case scenario. And then they transport it and then they
and then they play like chicken screaming and stuff like
that over the loudspeaker.

Speaker 11 (01:04:22):
Okay, so you know what I would do. I would
order out.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
Order out for all the Straw employees today and watch
them carry it out.

Speaker 5 (01:04:33):
Take take the driver, Take the driver some uh some
wing sauce from somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
Great.

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
Great, So, speaking of speaking of sauces, what special sauces
do we have it Straw today?

Speaker 10 (01:04:47):
You know what, I'm almost to the point to tell
you about I don't think we could top alright, I'm
just you know what I'm out, But anyway, I'm not
how about hun das Man. You know, we U.

Speaker 11 (01:05:00):
A lot of folks never consider a Hyundai, all right,
but you know, at one time, you know, and we're
always striving to be the number one hunday dealer in
the state.

Speaker 10 (01:05:08):
All right.

Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
The way we're doing that now. Is we have got
incredible deals, an incredible selection. You can get a brand
new twenty five madel Okay, not a close out twenty four,
a twenty five model a Luntra right now one hundred
ninety nine bucks. You can get a brand new twenty
five to two song for just two seventy nine And
have you ever checked out a Palisad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
I have not.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
My friend has one.

Speaker 9 (01:05:33):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:34):
They love it.

Speaker 11 (01:05:36):
Probably the best value there is right now in seven
and eight passion your SUVs okay three fifty nine a
month and without a doubt, some of the best technology
that you're going to get. Okay, really frustrating when your
phone doesn't you know, your Bluetooth doesn't work right, or
you know you can't get car Play to work like
you want it to. You don't have any of those

(01:05:58):
problems with Hyundai. Man the fantastic technology. Uh it's some
of the best in the business right now. It rivals anyway.
So if you're in the market, check it out this weekend,
come on out and see for yourself just how much
you can say and give Hunday a shot.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
And they all come with ever drive, they.

Speaker 11 (01:06:15):
All come with ever drive. Okay, lifetime power train coverage.
So you know, Strab stands behind every vehicle they say,
we believe in it so much if we stand behind
them for.

Speaker 7 (01:06:25):
Life in free lunch and straw. If you buy a
car today courtesy of Peter.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
Okay, if you.

Speaker 10 (01:06:34):
Want to, we'll buy you some wings. You say, you
heard it here today, Right there you go, We'll do that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
We'll buy you.

Speaker 7 (01:06:43):
See, I'm working the magic for you.

Speaker 11 (01:06:45):
You are you know, the magic Man has got it
going on this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:06:49):
So there you have it? All right, gods, all right,
we'll talk next week.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Oh yeah, he never knows what he's informed.

Speaker 7 (01:06:57):
But he's one of those guys he rolls with it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
But the funny thing is, I mean, I've known him
for so long now that I knew as soon as
you started out with that story, he was gonna be
like what and are you serious? I'm sure came back
with it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
So listen, Peta, seriously, Like you don't have something better
to do, like go go medical experiments that kind of stuff.
This is I don't know, don't you know what.

Speaker 7 (01:07:28):
It's gonna do. It's just gonna increase restaurant traffic in
that area. Yeah, so because people that are so against
peta are gonna go just to say middle finger.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
Yeah. Well, and it's funny because like there's a bunch
of course restaurants having Valentine's Day specials that are starting
tomorrow and today, today and all weekend. You know, River
City's having filet mignon, there's going to be Applebee's is
having all kinds of stuff. What do they have? They're
having discounts on different things. I mean, Valentine's Day, it's

(01:08:00):
you go out for a really good meal and a
good most of the time, you know, a good steak.

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
But well, today's Gallentine's Day, Gallantine, So that's the night
for the girl Gal's night out? Or do you have
any plans for Galentine's Day?

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Dirty dancing tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:08:16):
Is you going with a going with a good friend?

Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
I am ya. I couldn't drag the husband of that,
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 7 (01:08:22):
You know, sometimes it takes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
He'd probably rather have toothpicks jammed under his fingernails than
sitting through that with me. But that's a perfect that's
a perfect thing to do for Gallentine's Day. Right here
at theater, right here at the Uh, what are we
sitting in the theater but.

Speaker 7 (01:08:38):
We're talking about dining?

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Uh huh.

Speaker 7 (01:08:40):
And Valentine's Day, Well, guess what, there's an inflation dating
tip that's out there right now helping.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
You save money on courtship.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
This is the inflation dating tip of the day.

Speaker 12 (01:08:51):
Is a traditional date burning a hole through your wallet,
don't fret, plan a romantic evening, aint costco, share an
intimate meal, a free samples, and then make out as
you watch the TV displays.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
There it is dinner in a movie.

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
Join us again for another inflation dating tip.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Of the day.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
It's how you beat the system and put your phones down. Oh, absolutely,
put your phones down and have a conversation.

Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
So are you looking forward to Valentine's Day?

Speaker 7 (01:09:25):
No, I never do. It's just one of those days.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Yeah, we've never it's.

Speaker 7 (01:09:30):
A hallmark creator of the day, so we're just so
to speak, or it was. It probably had some significance
at one time, but it's just gone way too commercial.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Yeah, it's never been.

Speaker 7 (01:09:41):
I mean, like, if you go to deflice in order
the heart shaped pizza, part of that goes to the
Heart Association. So I mean things like that, I'm okay,
but don't you know I don't need to do the whole.

Speaker 5 (01:09:54):
And FYI, if you do do the defilice heart shaped pizza,
be patient because it is like the most insane day
of the year for those those pizza makers. So it's
all in good, good support of something. Hey, we're out
of here on Thursday. We'll catch you tomorrow.