The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam February 20, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy, his
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good Thursday morning. Thank you for jumping on with us.
I'm Sam hughes Otis and this is the bloom Daddy
Experience on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. If you have
been following our Facebook page, I mentioned that we have
a huge show this morning, and we do. We absolutely do,
and I'm going to jump right into it. So there

(00:50):
is one particular story in the Ohio Valley that when
I am out about pretty much once a week at minimum,
I get asked about, is there any new news, any updates?
What are you hearing? And the story I'm talking about

(01:12):
is the murders of Tom and Angela's strustion. So with that,
you know what we do here is keep your ear
to the ground sources conversations.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
So let's go back because people that may not be
familiar with what we're talking about, you know, you might
want to just kind of we might want to set
up like what happened, Yes, in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, I have the timeline here. Let's getting to that.
But one of the things is, you know, you keep
your ear to the ground. You continue to have conversations,
talk to sources to keep abreast of what is happening.
And that is what I have been doing now to
go to the timeline in September of twenty twenty one.

(02:06):
On September twenty first, to be exact, in the early
morning hours, Cruz responded to the home of Tom and
Angela's struction in Belmont County. They responded to a fire.
When the fire was extinguished, the couple was found in
their home, but it was determined that they had been

(02:32):
murdered prior to the house being set ablaze. A few
days later. Belmont County Sheriff David Lucas at the time
announced that the death of the couple was being classified
as a double murder. Now, if you're not aware, Tom's
Strutson was a local businessman who owned two Sausage Joe's restaurants,

(02:55):
one on National Road in Belmont, which opened in the
summer of twenty twenty, and the second was located in
elm Grove. Here and wheeling open in May of twenty
twenty one.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
You know, the big thing about that day that September
twenty first, Blue Daddy and I were on the air
and we were getting basically live updates as it happened
from law enforcement, from witnesses, and one of the things
that they brought up was that the reason the person

(03:31):
that set the fire in the house, the reason that
the house didn't burn down was because it was so
well built and the guy didn't open up with the
person I said, gud, but the person didn't open up
any windows oxygen. So when they set the fire, once
all the oxygen in the house burned out, that the
fire went out. Had they opened a window, it could

(03:52):
have been it could have been I don't want to
say this in a demeaning wait, but it could have
been a quote unquote or crime.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
The structure would have been yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Right, I mean, what I'm saying is that the structure
would have caught fire and there would have been probably
maybe harder evidence to find.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
So continuing with that's kind of the the overview, the background,
simple background of what initially happened. So for the past
two months weeks, six to eight weeks from sources. I
have been being told that something was happening, Things were happening,

(04:36):
and arrest was eminent. And as I said, I've been
having these discussions since roughly late November early December. But
we decided to keep things close to the vest, not
even reveal the few tidbits that we were being told,

(04:57):
to not hinder any parts of the investigation, to not
tip off anyone possibly involved. But what I did do
is I kept checking with my sources, but also diligently,
pretty much every evening, checking public records for arrests. Well,

(05:20):
last night I did what I have been doing, and
one thing I was looking for as I checked these
records was names that have been spoken throughout different reports
during this investigation, anything associated with the strustions, the business,
the events, anything that threw up a red flag. So

(05:41):
last night a name appeared. The name is thirty three
year old Andrew Isaac Griffin. If that name is not familiar,
I'll remind you this is the Oklahoma gentleman who was
the former business partner of Tom Strushan at the second
Also Joe's location, which as we mentioned was here in

(06:03):
West Virginia and Elm Grove. He is also the man
that went missing in quotation marks in June of twenty
twenty three. So what I'm saying is I am connecting
the dots. I am connecting the dots. Former business partner
of Tom Struschan and the charge the two charges on

(06:29):
the documentation, two counts of aggravated murder. This popped out
last night. So once again, let me connect the dots
for you got online checked arrest records last night. A
name appears thirty three year old Andrew Isaac Griffin, former

(06:56):
business partner of the victim Tom struss Griffin is charged
with two counts two. There are two victims of aggravated murder. Now,

(07:19):
how would you connect the dots?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
You know, it's it's it's kind of it's kind of
weird because in my other job, obviously Sausage's had a
liquor license, and I met with Tom's wife. I met
with Tom, and at one point in time I met
with this guy this this uh and you know how

(07:45):
you get an instant vibe from somebody like there was
just something weird about that guy, and there was there was,
you know, I got a vibe from from Tom's trussing
as well, but it was a different vibe and but
that like that the Griffin guy when I when I
met with him and was going over some of the
rules and regulations and answer questions, he he just had

(08:11):
that like there was a there was a feeling that
there was like this guy, you know, just wasn't on
the up.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
And up our gut. You know, people always say my
gut told me this, or I had this feeling nine
times out of ten, that natural gut reaction is right.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, I mean I didn't have a fear of like right,
but I mean I just felt like this guy wasn't honest.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah. Now, aggravated murder in the state of Ohio is
punishable for adult offenders by either life imprisonment without the
possibility of parole, or the death penalty. But with that
being said, Governor Mike Dwine has put a moratorium on
the death penalty in Ohio. So now got to reiterate

(09:01):
in a sent until proven guilty. We are in the
very very early stages of the justice system, and if
you've heard the moniker, the wheels of justice move slowly.
But wanted to bring this to you first. We are
bringing this to you first, and when we get back

(09:22):
want to go into the timeline of this investigation the murder,
because it has had crazy twists and turns, crazy twisting turns.
So we're going to get into that here. When we return,
it is seven point fifteen on your Thursday Morning, The
bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(10:02):
We are back seven twenty the bloom Daddy Experience here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA, revisiting our top story
of the morning. An arrest has been made in the
double homicide of the structions, Tom and Angela out in
Belmont County. Now, the person listed on the arrest is

(10:26):
thirty three year old Andrew Isaac Griffin. Now the destruction
name is not on the arrest documentation. I'm going to
go back and clarify. This is something that I've been
following for many months now, got online every night pretty
much checked to see if there's any connections with the
Strussians to any recent arrest. Last night stumbled upon the

(10:49):
name Andrew Isaac Griffin rang a Bell of course, former
business partner of Tom's Trussian and charged with two counts
of aggravated murder. So, as I say said before the
break connecting the dots. That is why I'm bringing this
to you because this gentleman is from Oklahoma, former business partner.

(11:11):
Two counts of aggravate and murder. Put it together. That's
why I'm bringing this to you. But let's go back.
Let's do a timeline of this horrible incident, because we
are now three and a half years roughly since it happened.
In September of twenty twenty one. Again, the officials were

(11:37):
called to the home in Belmont County for a fire.
Once the fire was extinguished, they realized the homeowners were
in the home deceased. Upon further review, a few days later,
Belmont County Sheriff at the time, David Lucas, announced that
the couple was being classified as a double homicide. This

(12:01):
investigation has had many twists and turns, and that's why
I want to go into the timeline of what has
happened through this. This was the morning that it happened.
This was shocking. It's not as if crime's murder has
not happened here, but this was just shocking. Tom was

(12:24):
a businessman, he was out in the community. I've had
the opportunity of working with him on several occasions. I
knew him through different organizations in Belmont County. I can
remember of one specific event where whoever was handling the

(12:49):
cocktail bar at this event fell through. Something happened. It
was the morning of the event, no questions asked. Tom
and his crew stepped up to help out and make
sure that the event went off without a hit. That's
how I knew Tom as somebody who was there for
the community and friends and neighbors. I'll leave it at

(13:13):
that now. As we mentioned otis you you worked with
him through his different businesses. At Salsage Joe's.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Right now, I had to deal with him Tom and
his wife and this Griffin because of they they did
have an ABC license at the Elm Grove location of
Sausage Joe's. We had to kind of reel him in
on a couple of things because obviously the state rules
are different. So the guy from Oklahoma thought you could
do one thing, and Tom thought, because you can do

(13:42):
it in Ohio, you can do it here. And we
had to reel him in a little bit. But I mean,
there was nothing. There was never any like I don't
think we ever wrote any violations or anything like that.
For any anything that they did.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
And I and I have met and had a meeting
with the business partner, Griffin, and what I took away
from it was I found him abrasive and full of
questions to almost make me feel lesser than less.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Than yeah, kind of talk down to you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I don't know if that's because I'm a female
or what, but I did find him very abrasive. And
you know, a lot of people have asked me, how
did he become a business partner. The stories that I
have been told was he was a great customer at
the original location, wanted to get out of the industry.
He was in offered to become a business partner, and
then it went from there. And if you have not

(14:44):
been in the restaurant business, which I was a waitress
but not ran one, it's a whole other beast. So
from there. Now the investigation about a week after everything happened.
This is one of the first twists in this story.
There were two people that were charged with extorting tom'struction.

(15:09):
They demanded a considerable amount of money from him, and
according to the assistant prosecutor Chris Gagan, Mianna Smith and
Anthony Debacchio, blackmailed Tom after he allegedly had an affair
with Smith in twenty twenty. From December of twenty twenty

(15:30):
two May of twenty twenty one, prosecutors say Smith and
Debacchio extorted a total of twenty five thousand dollars from struction.
Now both pled guilty in this extortion scheme. That's the
first twist, but they were eliminated as suspects in the murder,

(15:57):
and that the extortion was a completely separate crime from
the horrible murder incident, and it was not. It was
completely unrelated. So then in January of twenty three, the
families of Tom and Angela released billboards along with crime
stoppers on both sides of the river. They offered a

(16:19):
twenty thousand dollars reward for anyone who comes forward with
information that leads authorities to the person or persons who
committed the murders. Tips now did come in, but none
led to an arrest. Also in January of twenty three,
a pride of It firm was hired by the family
to do a deep DNA extraction of the scene. The

(16:44):
group was called Cold Case Investigative Research. Now. This organization
aims in assisting families and law enforcements with unresolved crimes,
but no results were ever released. In another Baziz twist,
in June of twenty three, Tom's business partner, Andrew Isaac

(17:07):
Griffin of Oklahoma, was reported missing in Oklahoma. Four months later,
on October eighth, eight, authorities located Griffin at the George
Bush Airport in Houston as he deported a flight from Honduras.
Griffin was arrested and taken to Lafour County, where he
was facing charges of kidnapping and domestic violence. At this

(17:31):
point in October of twenty twenty three, Griffin had never
been named as a suspect in the murders. We hit
the one year anniversary, a press conference was held, but
from this point on it was a lingering mystery here
in the Ohio Valley. We got more on this and
another huge story out of Martins Ferry seven twenty eight.

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The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy ww We're Back seven thirty six. The bloom Daddy
Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA to say,

(18:19):
last night and this morning has been busy is an understatement.
So we just brought you the information about the investigation
into the Strettion murders and where that stands. Now, we're
going to turn the page a little bit and go
back and revisit Martin's Ferry in. East Ohio Regional Hospital

(18:41):
had sources reach out to me last night about a
situation happening there. So what I was provided with is
that East o Higher Regional Hospital has not paid the
health plan since last February. Due to the non payment,

(19:02):
the health plan has terminated all employee insurance as of
the seventeenth of February this year, so anyone who works
at the hospital and carries the health plan insurance is
now on. In short, I have documentation here from one

(19:22):
of my sources from the health plan where in the
body it says membership for East Ohio employees has been
terminated due to financial obligations not being met. For more information,
please contact East Ohio Regional Hospital human Resources. That is

(19:44):
from the.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Health plan and if it's if it's like most employers them,
the employee pays for a portion of your insurance and
then they deduct a portion out of your pay to
kind of it's you basically co pay for your insurance.
So and it may not be fifty to fifty, it
could be seventy thirty, sixty, forty, whatever. But you know

(20:09):
the cost of health insurance. You know, at one point
in time, your your employer would always give that to you,
and then it became just out of reach financially. So
now what they do is they kind of you paid
for part of it, but your employer should pay for
at least half, if not more.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
One other source that I was speaking with last night
said that employees have been getting medical bills dated back
to last year. So you can't blame the health plan
for sending out these bills. If they're not getting paid
by East Ohio, they are now reaching out to who

(20:47):
would have been the patient. Basically, you know, we need paid.
According to sources, it is roughly around eight hundred thousand
dollars that is owed to the health plan.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
So what would make me mad? And I'm just going
to use this as as an easy number. So let's
say the health insurance cost one thousand dollars. The plan
I'm on Okay and East Ohio pays six hundred dollars
a month, and I pay four hundred dollars a month. Well,
you're still deducting that four hundred from my check or checks,

(21:22):
you know, because it could be over a couple of checks.
And now I don't have health insurance, but you've been
deducting this, And where's it going exactly?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah? Yeah, where's it going? And moving forward? Will that
deduction be removed from paychecks moving forward?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
So is that going to be four hundred dollars in
my pocket now so that I can go out and
get some sort of health insurance to cover me? You know?

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, and let's be honest. The financial issues problems that
East Ohio has been having is no secret. It's been
going on for well over a year now, since we've
been talking about it. I mean, originally started with the
coverage about Albertini COO. He stepped down. There is a

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new COO, Julie Ross, who was moved into that position.
She was prior to that, she was the chief nursing
officer for East Ohio. He stepped down. Those originally were
that employees were not being paid on time or at

(22:32):
basically at all. A week later, you know, we've talked
about that multiple times. So there is no secret that
there are financial problems at East Ohio. Here's another part though,
according to my sources, one thing that they do, they
are so in dire streets that they send people to

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get supplies at places like CVS. Think about that. Listen,
that's not a knock on CVS at all.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
No, but they are not a medical supply company.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
We need band aids. Oh right, can you go to Walmart?
So can you go to CVS? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
So think of the desperation that those that are working
boots on the ground are in if they have to
say to the nursing aid or run down the CVS
and get me some gauze in some time and all
because we don't have any here in our hospital. Not good.

(23:41):
Not good. So to hear that they owe all this
money to the health plan, you know, I.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Just wonder if and I know the people that work
there don't want to hear this, but what if something
like East Ohio Regional would just condemn and say, look,
we're no longer a hospital per se, but we will
be almost like an urgent care, a clinic, a clinic
you know where they do offer you know, maybe a

(24:12):
minor you know, like obviously minor surgeries, Like if you
had a you know, if you cut your hand or
you did this, or you did that, and you know,
maybe they offered mammograms or you know, you know those
type of things, and and then candense it down instead
of trying to be a hospital where you have overnight
patients and you know, things like that. I just wonder

(24:35):
if that would be you know, is is that a
cost cutting move, because obviously you're going to eliminate some positions.
And I mean, you hate to you don't. You don't
want to talk about somebody losing a job, But if
you're a nurse, you can pretty much get a job.
I mean, I hate to say, you can get a
job almost anywhere because nurses are in short.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Huge demand right now. So let's let's keep in mind
on let's let's remember that those that are working there,
you know, being in the medical field in a way,
it's a calling. And for those that are there working
day and day out in what seems to be according

(25:15):
to the sources, that we have a very stress filled
walking on a tight rope of supplies. Dealing with that
day to day has to be a horrible way to
have to work. But there is a reason why, and

(25:36):
I would maybe I'm being presumptuous, but they do it
because they care about their patience, yu.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
They care about people.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yes, they want to be there. They want to take
care of the people of their friends and neighbors of
their community. I think a lot of people would say,
you know, look for something different. If it's terrible, look
for something different. But there are people that they will
stick it out because they care. It's not about them,

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it's about others. And that might be what we're seeing there.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
And sometimes if you live in Martin's Ferry and you
work in Martins Ferry, it makes it a lot easier.
I mean you don't have a ten minute commuter, or
a twenty minute commuter, or maybe even a half an
hour commute. You know, these these these people that work,
whether it's a doctor or a nurse, or maintenance or
housekeeping or whatever, they may live in the community. That

(26:30):
makes it easier for them and their life and their
family by working there, you know, working five ten minutes
away from home as opposed to half an hour. You know, hey,
I get done at three, the kids get off the
bus at three thirty. This makes it so much easier,
you know, as opposed to maybe working at the convenienting
or wet or Washington or Pittsburgh or wherever you know.

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So there's there's things. There's a lot of factors that
come into play when you pick a job and where
you work.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
So yeah, so there you have it. Health Plan East
of Higher Regional Hospital separating going opposite directions due to nonpayment.
But back to real quick before we go to this break,
we talked about you know, this all started with people
not being paid on time. According to my source, doctors

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were to be paid last Monday. As of yesterday, they
have yet to receive their checks. So that issue is
still happening at EASTA Higher Regional Hospital. Seven forty five.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven fifty one. The bloom

(27:55):
Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy w
w VA. So we've spent a lot of time on
the high side of the river this morning in Belmont County.
We have I know, your favorite state, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
That's just where the news is.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's where it is. Let's let's let's jump across the
river hitting Marshall County. So former West Virginia State Senator
Michael Moroney's trial was set to start in Marshall County yesterday,
but it has been stayed as a second trial for
dui charges. Maroney is facing misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure

(28:29):
and disorderly conduct. The defense filed motions to recuse and
disqualify Magistrate Zachary Alman. Motions were also filed to change
the venue and suppress evidence that can be argued at
the hearing. This is this has stayed until a circuit
judge rules on that motion, So that's why there's another

(28:51):
stay in the continuance. According to Marshall County prosecuting Attorney
Joe Kenstroro, the reason for it is disqualification doing with
timelines and not being in the defense's mind efficient to
prepare prepare for to trial. So basically the defense is
saying they don't have enough time to prepare for everything.

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So a little local news out of West Virginia otis
I want to I'm not. I don't think we we're
not ones to brag. Would you say?

Speaker 3 (29:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Throw our hat around. I will say this though, to
other media outlets who decided yesterday that it was time
to cover the story out of Buckeye Local. Welcome to
the party. We had that story last Thursday. Actually, why

(29:56):
so long?

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Why so we're at all?

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Why bother at that point? You know, it's been over
a week. We broke the story last week. Here's what
goes along with that. Though, it's just you and I,
otis it is just you and I. We don't have
an entire newsroom of reporters. We don't have those that

(30:28):
do the digging and the investigating for us. It is
you and it is me and our beautiful smiling faces.
And the fact that we got the tip, did the digging,
had the conversations, and brought the story last week to you.

(30:53):
I think it's kind of sad that it took a
week for other outlets to catch up to us.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see who copies us today.
You know, I just want to You know, our sister
station Eagle one oh seven five carries the Penguins, and
of course they're on hiatus because of the Four Nations Tournament,
which the USA plays Canada tonight, and the Penguins return
to return to action on Saturday. I think it would

(31:27):
be remiss if we didn't mention the passing of Mike Lang,
the former voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Hall of
Famer broadcaster The statement from the Penguins, You know like
Mike Lang was a wordsmith, a magician behind the mic,
The Californian quickly became a quintessential Pittsburgh and his color
for calls and smooth cadence brought Penguins hockey to life.

(31:50):
The Hall of Famer's voice is synonymous with the biggest
calls in franchise history, including all five Stanley Cup Championships,
and his unique one liners and knack for anticipating game
changing plays set him apart from any other announcer. Only
Mike could make the biggest names in hockey seem even
more magical with just his voice. He was so much
more than a legendary broadcaster. He was respected by the

(32:11):
players and coaches and beloved by the fans. Because of him,
Hockey Knights in Pittsburgh had the entire city smiling like
a butcher's dog, which was one of his phrases. Oh
really okay, Mike Lang was was.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I'm not familiar, I'll be on, I'll be Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
He magical, I mean there's a reason he's in the
Hall of Fame, and you could tell he was there
was something, you know, I don't know if there was
something wrong the Penguins and the Pittsburgh Sports Network or
whatever you want to call it at the time, you know,
just I think they decided to part ways with Mike,
and Mike kind of just I think he phased himself out,

(32:52):
and I think there were some health issues in there.
And the thing is he was if you go back
and listen to some of his calls, and I'm sure
you can find him on YouTube or you know, they're
probably on Facebook someplace. They are. I mean, he had
scratched my back with a hacksaw and you know, move

(33:14):
over to Grandma, get out of the fast lane ground.
I can't I can't remember all of them off the
top of my head. Oh yes, I mean, and and
just you know, like smiling like a Butcher's dog, and
there were just so many, so many that I mean,
he's a Pittsburgh icon and to lose somebody like that

(33:34):
is you know. I mean, it's a sad day in
Pittsburgh and Penguins, you know, in the franchise. Because I
didn't grow up on hockey. I started like liking hockey,
like when I was in college, And so when you
would watch the games or listen to the games, it
was Mike Lane that you heard. I mean, you weren't.

(33:54):
They weren't on national TV all the time. I mean
you might get a game on ESPN here or there,
but the Penguin were always on the local channel. And
so when I say that I grew up with Mike
Lang calling hockey, you know, Penguin hockey. You know, I
was already an adult when I became a hockey fan.
So it's sad, you know, when when you lose somebody

(34:16):
like I mean, he was he was the the Bob Prince,
the equivalent, like what Bob Prince was the Pirates baseball,
or Myron Croke Cope was the Steelers football. That's what
Mike Lang was the Penguins hockey. And it's just, you know,
it's sad that that somebody like, I mean, obviously we
all have our time, but you know, it's just sad
when somebody like that passes.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Does it say his age?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
He was born in forty eight, So let's see my dad.
They so he seventies, like seventy.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Six somewhere, Yeah, say to early.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Seventy five, seventy six, somewhere in that area. I don't
have his actual birth.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Date math off the top of my head. Oh gosh,
what a morning, What an absolute morning. It has been busy.
When we return, we're going to I don't even know
if I say lighten it up, but we're gonna talk
to a local award winning filmmaker about his movie Hitman

(35:15):
the Slaughter. Like I said, not exactly lighting lightening it up,
but gonna go a different direction. It is seven fifty
eight on your Thursday morning. The bloom Daddy Experience Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
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(36:18):
Seth Nardo the director, and Ian Balcio there we go.
Let him say, the writer and actor, and they are
the creators of Hitman the Slaughter. Where did that name
come from, Seth?

Speaker 5 (36:34):
Well, it originated. We had a bunch of different names
for it. But there is a deranged pig farmer and
I'll let you fill in the blank.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Deranged pig farmer. Okay, all right, So brought you in
here today because you are having your big opening night
this weekend.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Correct, that would be correct.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Yes, So this is coming Saturday at six pm. We've
read carpet and seven pm our film plays. It is
an incredible experience.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
You know.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
We've been working hard on this for two years and
I'm just excited for the world to see it.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
And it says you're an award winning filmmaker.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
This is correct?

Speaker 2 (37:09):
What is the award?

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Okay? All right?

Speaker 5 (37:10):
So I went to WU and I studied film and
I was able to get first placed with a short
film that me and Ian actually worked on together, and
then we got some backing from it and we turned
that short film into a feature film, which is what
it is today.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
So you guys have been collaborating since high.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
School, oh before high school.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
So am I looking at the next Ben Affleck Matt Damon? Possibly?

Speaker 5 (37:33):
I would like to say maybe one day, but I
think we have our tastes of our own, so we're
the next Sethane.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
And I think, okay, okay.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
So you said this took two years, correct, So right
after I graduated, we kind of started working on the script,
and then he went to school for writing. I went
to school for film, and our love and compassion for
art just kind of worked together, and we've been making
stuff since forever really, and then eventually we're like, yeah,
maybe one day we'll make a movie. Maybe one day
we'll make a movie. And the day has come and

(38:03):
we've worked our butts off for it, for sure, And
I think it's really cool to make something within the valley.
Not too many artists I know around here, and we
really used our resources to the best of our ability.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
So you said you returned here to shoot the film, correct?

Speaker 5 (38:18):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
How many High Valley landmarks do you think film goers
will be able to recognize?

Speaker 5 (38:24):
I would say, yeah, quite a bit. There's a lot
of familiar areas and aspects where people.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Were like, is that Blair?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Where is that at?

Speaker 5 (38:32):
I'm not too sure. So it's a fun little easter
egg hunt of finding places that you never thought you'd
see on film. And it does look pretty cool, I
gotta say.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
And was the High Valley welcoming? I to just say, hey,
you have run in the mill, shoot wherever you want
to shoot, or I own this building. It would be perfect.
Did you run into any hurdles?

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Well, no, not really any. Like a lot of people
were happy to have us. A lot of people were
like knew personally, We're just happy to like have their
place in a movie. And I'm like from Pittsburgh and
tried to make my own stuff up there, and it's
a whole different game up there, like you gotta get
permits and paperwork and like so much legal stuff. But
around here, it's like it's like the you know, it's

(39:12):
like we use Blair as our whole set, Like the
streets are empty and I'm sure people and they're like,
how did you get permits for this? I'm like, didn't
have to do.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
That's what you call small town, yeah, exactly, and independent filmmaking,
so we have no one above us to tell us
how they want things. So for the first time in
our life, we're able to do something creative to our
life's extent. Eventually down the road when more people see
it and more people kind of are aware of what
we're capable of, well, we won't have that a much
creative freedom. And I'm excited that our first film we've

(39:41):
had complete creative control. We've had no one telling us
how it should go, and we've able to build a
script and an awesome story that I think people are
excited to see this coming weekend.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Well, once again we're talking to Seth Nardo, the director,
and Ian Falcione. I got it right, shady shady Side
natives who created the film Hitman the Slaughter. Now you
are Ian, you're the writer.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
So when you hear writer, a lot of people think
novels things like that. How hard is it to write
a script for film? How does that differ?

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Well, like, I've first got into novels and stuff and
tried to like do it like that, But it's a
different pacing, it's a different like, it's all things that happens.
You can't be too descriptive or too like you cannot
mince words. Basically you have to keep the plot moving. Well,
this script was very easy to write because I know
personally a lot of the actors who are in Like,

(40:36):
you know, Seth's dads in it. Here's a great good
friend of ours, like introduce us to this, you know,
to a lot of like films and stuff back in
the day, and like just a lot of people that
I already know how they act and what they can
do and what.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Would work with exactly their movements and their way of
speaking and exactly. So how many people are totally involved
in this project, I.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
Would say almost fifty. I'd probably say leading casting crew.
I mean, that's pretty small. It is an independent film,
and we've raised the money ourselves for it, so it's
not multimillion dollars. But if I weren't to tell you that,
you probably wouldn't know. We do a good job at
hiding how low the budget.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well, next time you need radio hosts, you've got two. Yeah,
if you need the use of a radio studio.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
And I have acting experience. I was in I was
in one of the locally produced movies that was filmed
probably about twenty years ago, also by a couple of
guys from Shady Side.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Oh really yeah, so he has an IMDb page.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Yeah I do.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
Actually, we actually just started up our first n I
M D page from the movie, so that's pretty exciting.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yeah. So, I mean, you know, I do have experience.
I played the bad guy, so I mean I'm okay
with that. I can be the heavy.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
We get the heavy who's a radio host.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Yeah, you know, so just keep that in mind.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Oh, we're already script writing about ideas.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Okay, so we'll get back and I work cheap. Just
all I want in my contract is that there's any royalties.
So like if they make an action figure of me
or something like that, then I would I want the
royalties for that.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
But there are perks to having an independent film. I think,
like I mentioned before, just the creative freedom we've had,
and like I've loved putting people in positions where I
know that they'll excel. Like a lot of people, this
is the first time ever working on a movie set,
but I mean I've been on short film sets before,
so I was able to put people that have never
been there before in a position where I.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Know that they exceed.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
So give us the background. The premise of the film,
just just a quick over over life what people can expect.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Okay, So me and so I play a guy named
Foxy who's hit man and really enjoys his work, enjoys
his life a little too happy. He's frankly a little creepy.
People seem to think. When my buddies with this guy
named Chauci, and we're sort of like I've been Costello,
Like Laura and Hardy were like little We're just you know,

(42:50):
chummy and like friends. We go around this, we do
hits together. But he decides that he wants to go
and straight and narrow, so he leaves Foxy and they like,
you know, just it's kind of like both their dual
like where do they take their lives and how they
eventually you know, what they run into on their separate
journeys and.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
They and then somehow a deranged pig farmer fits into
the equation. This is true, okay, Okay, who plays the
deranged fig part of a farmer?

Speaker 5 (43:19):
So Steve Poland from mcmeckan. Actually he's acted in a
few other things. He was able to reach out to
us and we're like, yeah, we have a role for
you actually, how would you like to play a crazy
pig farmer that's covered in dirt and where's.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
We didn't even have to change his clothes. It's perfect,
it was.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
He did an excellent job. I think everybody, cast crew,
everyone did a phenomenal job, especially with how new it
is to everybody, especially around the area. Like like I mentioned,
me and he and have been working together. But once
we added more people to our team, we really made
a cavalry. We made a team where we know that
by the end of it, like from start to finish
two years ago to now. Oh, we have progressed so much.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
I thought you had a question.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Oh no, I'm sorry, I time case, I got you.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm sorry, I thought you never mind. So again, the
opening is this Saturday up at Marquee Cinemas, Okay, And
can people get tickets online or just at the door.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
Yes, so you can actually do it online.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
And that's a door.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
So I'll have Q QR kids, you can scan there
and you can buy your tickets. We are going to
have a special Q and A after our film too, so
you can ask questions about the movie and if anything,
are interested in maybe our next projects. We're more than
willing to talk about. And yeah, you can buy tickets
online at event bright dot com and you can buy
tickets there. I'd recommend getting there at six o'clock and
get some pictures with cast and crew and the director

(44:40):
and writer, and the movie starts at seven.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
I was going to ask what after after we have
tons of success with this one, what what's next up
in the works for you too?

Speaker 5 (44:51):
You know that is a loaded question, I think because
we are both very creative people and we both have
our little desires to do. Ian has already finished the
script for the next hit Man movie. Oh yeah, okay,
and I've been also writing my own script as well
for more creative work. I think, uh, you know, we'll
never stop creating.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
That's just who we are.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
We're creatives and we always want to be filmmakers and
support independent films. And see, we want to collaborate with
other people too. That's an more important thing, is I
think we want to gather artists together to collaborate and
make movies.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Well, congratulations you guys. I mean it's that's an absolutely
huge accomplishment. What you what you have put together? And
where can people see the trailer?

Speaker 5 (45:32):
So the trailer is on my YouTube if you look
up Nadia Entertainment, or you can look up Hitman the
Slaughter and it will be the first thing come up.
There are several trailers you can check out for this
movie and it's gonna be a good night.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Wonderful Saturday.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
I'll share it on our Facebook page.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Two.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Also, by the way, oh yes we have the kids.
Yeah no, not no, not kid friendly, not kid friendly.
I figured when people heard dranged pig farmer they got
the message. So NOWS, thank you so much for stopping
this morning, and again, congratulations. She's a huge accomplishment and
hopefully this weekend will just be the cherry on top.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
I think you see you at the red carpet of
Marquee Cinemas.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
It is eight sixteen The bloom Daddy Experience. We are
back eight twenty two, The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and
otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. So once again,

(46:28):
congrats to those guys that we just had in the
studio with Hitman the movie Shady Side Natives that are
that's coming this Saturday.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
What's nice is they're young, and so if it's successful,
then you know that that breeds you know, success breeds
more success, so you know, let's let's try to support
them and get out there.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
And as I said, that's a huge undertaking. I mean,
I wouldn't even know where to begin a process.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Well, having been involved in a movie, you don't.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
You don't you don't see the expert speaking.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
But I'm just saying, like, you don't know all the
stuff that goes on in the background. And there are
some like little things that you realize that you know,
there's sometimes you just can't what you want, you can't get.
So like I was supposed to get shot in the
face in the last movie, all right, and so like

(47:23):
we must have done twenty takes to where I had
to spin and get basically what they did. They had
a spray bottle when they squirted, you know, red dye
water on your face. We did twenty takes and never
got it right. So it never made There was nothing

(47:43):
that all you saw was my body on the floor.
You did not see me get shot in the face.
And the one time that we actually got it right
when they filmed it and it was perfect and it
was usable. The thing was I had closed my eyes.
My eyes were.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Closed when before you were dead right.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
So in other words, like they couldn't like the one
time I got it right, they couldn't use it because
either I had blinked or I was waiting for the
spray to hit me in the face knowing it was coming,
so my eyes were closed.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Yeah, it revealed that you knew it was coming. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
And they kept saying, no, you need to spin, you
need to spin, And I said, look, I'm a basketball player.
I pivot, I don't spin.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Well, if you are just joining us in this eight
o'clock hour, want to go back to our top story
of the day. We brought this to you again earlier
in the show and basically breaking this story not to
toot our own horn, but if you are familiar with

(48:50):
the events, or if you are not going to address
those again, kind of go back on the timeline to
remind everybody. On September twenty first of twenty twenty one,
in the early morning hours, the fire department and other
first responders sorry were called to the residence in Belmont

(49:12):
County of Tom and Angela's Strusson. After the fire was
put out, the bodies of the homeowners were found inside
of the home, but it was then determined that they
were murdered prior to the fire being set. A few

(49:33):
days later, Belmont County Sheriff at the time, David Lucas,
announced that the death of the two people was classified
as a double homicide. And if you do not know
Tom's Strutsen, he was a local business owner. He had
two restaurants, one in Belmont County in Belmont, along with

(49:55):
a second location that was opened in Elmgrove here in
West Virginia that was opened with his business partner Andrew
Isaac Griffin. Now remember that name. Since doing this this show,
there is one topic that has brought up to me
over and over again. What are you hearing about the

(50:18):
Shushion murders, any news, anything you can tell us, and
if you talk to anybody who's familiar. There are so
many rumors, speculation, theories that have floated for the past
three and a half years since this has happened. But

(50:39):
one thing that I have done, we have done and
been very diligent about, is keeping up with sources, having conversations,
basically keeping our ear to the ground to find out,
you know, what is happening. So for the past couple months,
I have been told by multiple sources that something was
going to happen, It was close, something was going to break.

(51:03):
We made it a point not to divulge anything, so
not to hinder the investigation or tip anybody off. One
thing I have been doing is checking arrest records, trying
to watch for anything that connected a name to the event,

(51:24):
somehow connected to the Struss story. Well, as of last night,
a name did appear with two charges of two counts
of aggravated murder. That name is thirty three year old
Andrew Isaac Griffin. Now I told you to pay attention
to that name earlier. That is the former business partner
of victim Tom Strutchan. This is the gentleman from Oklahoma

(51:48):
who in twenty twenty three of June went missing and
now has two charges of aggravated murder against him. On
the paperwork, it does not say the name Streussion. But
my point is putting connecting the dots following things. It

(52:10):
adds up. It adds up. So again, thirty three year
old Andrew Isaac Griffin, former business partner of Tom Strutshan
of Sausage Joe's, the murder victim along with his wife
Angela from September twenty twenty one has been charged with
two counts of aggravated murder. Please keep in mind innocent

(52:34):
until proven guilty, and we are just at the beginning
of the legal steps that goes in to charges like this.
The saying wheels of justice move slowly is an understatement,
but as it continues. Of course, we will continue to
bring you all the information and details that we learn
as this moves forward. Eight twenty eight on your Thursday morning,

(52:59):
you're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We have returned as eight point
thirty six the blim Daddy Experience sam and Otis News

(53:20):
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder our top story
of the day, thirty three year old Andrew Isaac Griffin,
former business partner of Tom and angela stression of Sausage Joe's,
the two murder victims from September of twenty twenty one,
has been arrested with two counts of aggravated murder. We've

(53:40):
been talking about that all morning. One other top story.
We've also been talking about more things happening at East
O Higher Regional Hospital. Of course, we have brought you
multiple times the financial issues that the hospital has been
having when it comes to delayed payment to employees. Well
now they're is an additional financial situation that was brought

(54:03):
to our attention last night by multiple sources, which is
the severing of the relationship between East to Higher Regional
Hospital along with the health plan. What is being said
is that the health plan, who's the insurance provider for
employees at East to High Regional Hospital, has not been
paid by the hospital since February of last year. Also,

(54:31):
from an additional source that employees have been receiving medical
bills dated back to last year. So there are additional
financial problems happening at East Ohio. Listen, they have been
dealing with this for a while a while, and now

(54:56):
that this is happening, where where do you go from here?
Not only as an employee but ownership of the hospital.
I mean, I hate to say, and I hate to
be blunt, but it's it's sort of like the writing
is on the wall for for ownership. Does does another

(55:18):
another hospital need to come in and purchase East Ohio?
Would current ownership be willing to to sell I don't know,
I don't know, but in the but in the the
grand scheme of things, those that are feeling the brunt
of this are the employees and the patients. And it's

(55:40):
it's very unfortunate when when employees are worried about being
paid on time in a reasonable amount of time, that's
an issue. And when your contractors, as a business that

(56:01):
you work hand in hand with, has to terminate the relationship,
the business relationship between the two entities due to financial
obligations not being met, that is a huge problem. And
otis's we talked about earlier. You know, the the employees.

(56:25):
The way insurance works with most businesses, the employees pay
a portion every month sure towards their their medical insurance
i e. This would be the health plan.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Correct, And.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
If the employees have been paying their portion every month premium, yes,
and the health plan is not receiving payment, where is
that money?

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (56:53):
That's that's a huge question. That's a huge question.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
So, you know, I mean are are is the OHIO
paying a percentage? You know? So in other words, are
they making the minimum the well are they making a
payment of what the what the employees are paying into it?
So if the employees are paying forty percent, right, so
Are they sending health paying forty percent of the payment

(57:20):
and leaving the other sixty percent out or are.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
They just being their portion?

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Right? It begs it begs us to ask that question,
where has my money gone?

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Well? And as I mentioned, you know the employees have
had issues, ongoing issues with being paid on time. So
now they're left without medical insurance. Yeah, I mean talk
about leaving people hung out to dry. God forbid, somebody's

(57:54):
in a car accident, God forbid, somebody's child breaks their arm.
And say, the employees didn't know about this, and they
go to get treatment, like.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Yeah, you don't have insure your insurance card and they say,
I'm sorry, this has been declined. Right now, what do.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
You do exactly? And listen, we all know medical insurance
is not cheap, right, and thank.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
You Barack Obama?

Speaker 2 (58:20):
And you know it's your child has a broken arm,
has to have this done. The majority of people do
not have a huge slush fund of money sitting around
to come up with that. So then what do you do?
You put something on a credit card, So then what happens?
Then the interest builds and you end up paying twice
as much for this procedure. So this is not just

(58:44):
an issue. This is an evil circle that could be
created for a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Well, and I would say this, don't never put your
medical bills on your credit card because as long as
you make a payment to your medical bill, they can't
charge you interest and they cannot you know, come after
you as long as you're making payment. So even if
you're making a twenty five dollars a month payment, they
can't do anything because you're making an effort to pay
that off.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I guess I was saying desperations where a
lot of people just say, here's a credit card, sure,
you know, in an emergency situation. Yeah. And unfortunately, along
with what is happening between the relationship with the health plan,
there is additional information coming from sources that doctors who
were to be paid last last Monday, they still as

(59:35):
of yesterday had not received their checks yet, So over
a week past due and walking around now without medical insurance.
That's crazy. It's just it's crazy. Listen, the writing's on
the wall East Ohio. It's on the wall. There needs

(59:58):
to be something figured out of.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
This employee at East Ohio. I would be searching for
I would I would be looking to see who's hiring.
Let's put it that way. Doesn't necessarily mean that I
would put in a resume or something of that nature,
but I would look. I would look around to see
who's hiring, and then if somebody that meets the requirements
for me as a as an employee, then I would

(01:00:20):
probably send my resume just I mean, just to get
because the uncertainty, it's it's I would rather know what
my outcome is as opposed to all of a sudden
get getting hit with it and then happen to try
to find it because you're not gonna get any severance.
They don't have any money, right, so it's not like

(01:00:40):
they're gonna say, hey, we're closing, we're closing East Ohio,
but we're gonna give you two months pay. Well, that's
not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, they're not paying you now, right, And it's and
it's it's it's it's awful because you know, it's an
unspoken agreement between employee and employer. I do the work,
you pay me, that's the basic agreement, and you pay
me on time. We have talked about this before. Listen,

(01:01:08):
with the way things are automatically withdrawn out of your
checking account. People set up payments monthly based upon when
their paycheck is deposited in their checking account. So again
it's not just if you have a paycheck for one
thousand dollars, just round number and two hundred goes to

(01:01:30):
your car, three hundred goes to groceries, and the other
three hundred goes to your car insurance. Right there, that
all is deducted immediately. If you get paid on the fifteenth,
for example. And the fact that this employer is not
paying things on a timely manner, then fees incur late fees,

(01:01:55):
and that just adds up and adds up and puts
the person in a deeper and deeper financial whole. So
they're not only just hurting them by not paying them,
the part that it is delayed is an additional financial
expense that these employees could be incurring. It's not acceptable,

(01:02:21):
it is not acceptable, and something needs to be done,
absolutely needs to be done. It's eight forty five. What
a busy morning, otis we have been on top of it.
It is eight forty five. The bloom Daddy experience here
on news radio eleven seventy WWVA A fifty one The

(01:02:52):
Bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
You know we've been breaking the stories today. Do you
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he missed my good, my good intro.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
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was in yesterday and he turned your mic off, so
he Kevin couldn't hear the intro.

Speaker 6 (01:03:28):
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Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
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we were breaking news and you were making deals.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said, we're breaking the
news and Kevin Cook is cutting the deals.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
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two Honda dealers in the state of West Virginia. How
about we do that. How about we look at how
low right now the Chica purchase? Hey, Honda HRV, how
about two hundred and nineteen bucks a month?

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
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Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
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I'm looking back ten twelve years and we're looking at
the basically the exact same payments that you could get
ten to twelve years ago. All right, looking right now,
what else we got over here? How about a passport? Okay,
full size EXL Now that's with leather. Okay, thirty thirty

(01:04:24):
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Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Those are ridiculous prices.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
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Ever? Drive? Of course that will go.

Speaker 6 (01:04:42):
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you're ready for you know, you're big queued up for
you right now?

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
Yeah, you're you were lucky I was paying attention.

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
Yeah, I hear that a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Hey, Kevin yous, you mentioned the Honda passport. That's a
full size suv.

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
I that is a full size yeah, full five five passenger,
full size suv. And let me get back to that payment.
Look at it again. Make sure it's right, three thirty
nine a month. I mean that's it, all wheel drive,
you know, leather. That's not a strip down model either. Okay,
that is a very very well equipped vehicle carries all

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will drive, you know, full size leather into your heated seats. Heated.
What else is important?

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Steering will thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Es.

Speaker 6 (01:05:30):
Basically, this morning is like ten degrees.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Oh it's chili.

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
Yeah, it's a little nasty, but supposed to. We're lucky
we didn't get all that bad weather everybody else is getting.
So yeah, get out here, you know, over the next
few days and the take advantage of some of these
great deals.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
It's seventeen degrees, by the way, what it is now? Yeah,
and it's no possible around then.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yeah, and going up.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Yay, come on, yeah, I mean, come on, focus on it.
You know, it's the temperatures warming up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
I just told you what that what I saw on
the forecast real quick, Okay, I wasn't. I wasn't trying
to play favorites or give you any downers or anything
like that. I just said, seventeen degrees and snow afternoon,
and it's always warm when you shop online, right, Kevin, very.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
Good, in your PG agent home.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
We can do it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:17):
You can sign all the pipers will deliver the vehicle
to you. It's so simple to buy vehicles.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
So nice.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Anything else you want to push today.

Speaker 6 (01:06:25):
I'm good, you good, Yeah, life's good.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Okay, all right, let's go all right, have a great one.
Sometimes it's just nice to mess with him a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
I know you can hear him pause, like, uh, how
do I answer these two?

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Yeah? The bad thing was we did not have him
as a guest on National Fart Day because that would
have just Wednesday. Yeah, it would have just it would
have just thrown him all off. He'd never been able
to do the hit.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
And somehow we get back to National Fart Day, which
was what two weeks ago?

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Yeah. Well, you know, sometimes you gotta celebrate great holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Who needs Easter?

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Like, we should have that day off.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
We should have that day off. Absolutely, President's Day off.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
I would rather have National part Day off than President's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
How would you celebrate that holiday?

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
You know what, don't eating beans?

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Don't answer that question.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Eating lots of beans. What else? Broccoli? I think, Brussels sprouts,
all those little things that kind of increase the percolate. Yeah,
increase the methane output.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Wow, talk about a hard left.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Okay, what the what the rest of the show is about? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Yeah, yeah, Which, by the way, if you did not
hear everything, go back to our podcast and listen. It's
very simple. It's on the iHeart app. It's under the
bloom Daddy experience with Sam and Otis. And you can
hear the earlier parts of today's show with our two
top stories on the e.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Stretch murders east of Higher Regional and we had a
little story on Mike Moroney. We're there as well, so yeah, yeah,
low update on him.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Yeah, And one thing we did not get to today,
which are going to apologize today was jam packed last night.
Everything it's just been the past fourteen hours have been
been crazy. But wanted to let everybody know we will
get to tickets tomorrow. We're sposed to do it today.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Yeah, tickets, Yeah, just wasn't it wasn't their data to
permit it. It was kind of hard to go into
a heavy subject and then come out and say, hey,
your chance to win.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Exactly, And remember you mentioned the subject matter. Listen these
stories today, especially the struction story, This is not entertainment.
And I understand that true crime has become a huge
portion of our entertainment world. I just want to reiterate

(01:08:52):
this is not entertainment, This is family, this is friends.
These these were loved ones of many people here in
the Ohio Valley and abroad. Keep that in mind. I know,
it became a lot of water cooler talk in the area,

(01:09:13):
but now as we are starting to see some answers,
I just want to remind everybody this is not for entertainment.
We did not bring this today for entertainment. This is
news and very important.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
And you know, I mean, I'm sure there could possibly
be some you know, you get these shows that they
hear of stories like this and then they will come
in and do a story on it. I mean, but
that's not That's not our job. No, absolutely, and that's
not your job. It's this, you know. I mean, you
have the true the true crime. You have you know,
the real, real whatever they're called, the date lines.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
The fourty eight hours, Yeah exactly, yeah, the podcasters.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Yeah, so when that when that? Because it's probably gonna happen.
I mean, even one of the guys that I work with,
who's a former state trooper, there was something that happened
down in What'sill County, and I mean they he was
on a show years ago, and now they've actually contacted
him again because they want to revisit.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
It, revisit the story. So yeah, and again, as we
develop and continue to get additional information, we of course,
will bring that to you first. Everybody, have a wonderful Thursday.
Stay warm out there. As Kevin said, it's about what
what did you say, otis about seventeen degrees yep, old buddy, Hey,
we'll talk to you tomorrow