The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam February 24, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ze number one talk 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):
Seven oh six. Good Monday morning to you out there,
otis good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning. I'm
going to be one hundred percent up front. I am.
I'm not feeling it this morning. I am not feeling well,
moving a little slow. Oh wow, Yeah, you had the

(00:46):
sniffles couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I still do. Yeah, I still do. Yeah, little congested.
I probably have pneumonia. To be honest with you, That's
all that keeps running through my head. Like I go
to sleep at night and I'm going maybe I might
not wake up because I got pneumonia.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh that's nice. How was your weekend?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Wasn't bad? I did the I will say this. I
went to the card show that they had at vance
A Memorial Church where CJ. Goodwin came and signed autographs
and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Else, and FYI, I was all excited because I sent
you a link that a listener sent us and said, hey,
and You're like oh no, I heard it got booth. Okay,
I thought I was going to tell you something you
didn't know about it yet.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
So it was actually kind of funny because where I
set up, the lady that was behind me, she left early.
She had three kids, so they probably had something to
do and so she left early. So they were going
to have CJ sign autographs on the on the stage,
but he actually came down to the table right behind me,
and I will say this, what a nice young man.

(01:48):
He was very cordial. Every kid that came he spoke
with him. He said, you know, if they had a jersey,
oh is that your favorite player? And it didn't matter
if you were it wasn't bad, or if you were
fifty six.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
The guy came in, he had a Jordan Love t
shirt on and he was all green bayed out. But
yet he got CJ's autograph. He goes, oh, green Bay
your team, He said, I get it. He's you know
a lot CJ SIDN Steeler helmets, which was kind of funny.
But I mean, he was very very kind and very
nice to everybody and I and so my hat's off

(02:25):
to him and his family. And he had his sister
I believe his sister and his brother there as well,
and they and he did this all, you know, for
they you could. They had a little jar there that
if you got an autograph you could put a donation in,
and that all went to the the scouting organization that
sponsored it. So it was a good turnout, had some fun.

(02:46):
I made a few bucksy so you know, and I
turned around and spent it and even spent more than
what I made. So that tells you how dumb I am.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I won't call on that. I looked him up. He
currently plays for the cow Boys, but he was signed
by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
One thing I didn't realize he's thirty five. I thought
he was younger and number. And the other thing is
he only played one year of college football.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Let's see, he played college basketball for Bethany and college
football for Fairmont.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
State, and he only played for one year. But he
said he he was telling somebody how he got his
foot in the door, and he knew somebody and they got,
you know, kind of got an agent, got to try out,
got this, got that, and the rest is history. So
but just a just a nice young man, you know,
talk to some of the people that he knew from Wheeling.

(03:43):
You know, didn't If somebody wanted multiple autographs, he didn't hesitate.
He signed them. They had little pictures there that you
could take on your own, So I mean took a picture,
and if anybody wanted a picture, he took it with him,
whether it was with the son, the daughter, both, the
whole family. But it didn't matter. He took as many
pictures as you wanted. He was just super cordial.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
And I will say this. You know, I've had the
opportunity to meet many people. I've not met this him,
but you know, out at Jammery and Hills and things
like that. You know, we tend to put quote unquote
celebrities on a certain pedestal. But nine times out of ten,
when you get to meet them face to face, they're
just people. They're just people, and they act that way.

(04:28):
They don't have any type of errors about them. For
those that I have met, one of the nicest people
I ever met was Neil McCoy.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Oh absolutely.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
And here's the thing that was crazy. He was at
Jammerin and Hill's year after year he was It was
a tradition and he remembered me, Oh yeah, because I
brought him barbecue. Shout out to Mason Dixon Barbecue who
helped us out, and he was like, oh, you're the
barbecue girl. I mean he remembers that, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
I mean he would he would always when I was
on the when I was working at WVK at the
time and we were doing jamboree. Obviously Jimmy Elliott was
with us, and he'd say, hey, jim how you doing.
I mean, he didn't never forgot a name, just super
nice guy. Now you will have like you go to
these autograph things and you know it's X amount of

(05:15):
dollars for each autograph that you get, and then there
they won't sign certain things like they like Jason Williams
played at DuPont with Randy Moss and played in the
NBA for multiple teams or whatever. They called him white chocolate. Okay,
he would not sign. He will not sign anything that
says white chocolate. Oh. He won't. Like if you ask

(05:35):
him to put Jason Williams white Chocolate on there, he
will not do it. He'll just write Jason Williams.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Because I've seen like he does a lot of card
shows down in the Huntington Charleston area, and it tells
you specifically that he will not sign the term white chocolate.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know why, but
it's funny because the funny thing about imagine that basketball.

(06:00):
I mean, they won the state championship. But you got
Jason Williams who goes to the NBA, and you got
Randy Moss on that team. You don't need anybody else. No,
you know, you might need somebody to set a pick
or to get a rebound, but after that, you don't
need him.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
No. No, there are some people that are just Randy
Moss is a great example that is just a natural
born athlete, doesn't matter the sport.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
And I remember sam Andy whiellim Parks coach, was coaching
in the North South All Star Game, and he was
talking to I think he was talking to Randy. I
don't know if he was talking to Randy or Randy's coach,
and they said that, you know, obviously baseball and tracker
at the same time. So Randy played was playing baseball

(06:43):
and running track. Okay, what he did?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
They usually don't let that, Well, well, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
You make exceptions when you got Randy moss. Okay, So
I guess Randy went to run one hundred meters and
he was running in basketball us and they said you
need to put on track leads, and he said, I'm
going to run in my basketball shoes. And I guess
he ran so faster than one hundred meters that the
coach said, you can run him whatever you want. He

(07:12):
never wore track shoes, your socks, yeah, barefoot, But that's
what Sam. Sam told that story, and he just goes,
it's just amazing that that's how talented he was and
probably still is and he can probably still play.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh sure. Like I said, some people are just some
people are just blessed, naturally gift. Yeah, naturally gifted however
you want to live.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
It was not that individual, no me neither.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
No.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
No.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
The the card show was this in support of any.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Organizations it supported? Uh so it's it's supported. It supported
the boy Scout troope that the the boy Scouts were
all girls.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Didn't they just officially change the name from boy Scouts.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
It might be just Scouts ye, yes of America.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That was like two weeks ago or something like that
was Scout.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
I think it was Scout Troop six thousand or something
like that. Boy stands out.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
In my mind, I see Boy Scouts of America.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
But it was but it was sponsored by ian K
Sports Cards out of Moundsville.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh yeah, and Scouting America is what it's officially now.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
They did it really, ian K did a really nice job.
And actually there's a card show coming to the a
High Valley Mall next month on the fourteenth and fifteenth,
and I think ian K is going to be there
as well, so you know, if you have questions about
sports cards or gaming cards or anything like that, we're
going to try to get one of the guys from

(08:32):
ian K on here before the card show next month.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh nice, nice. Girl Scouts are still the Girl Scouts,
but boy Scouts are no longer their Scouts of America.
I won't go into that black hole of debate. Well
that's no, that irritates me. Anyways. No, my weekend, I
had the opportunity. I went I did something for the
first time Saturday morning and I can't go into details,

(08:57):
but I was part of a market survey group. That
was interesting. I've always wanted to do something like that.
I volunteered for it.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Did you like screen a TV show? Or something I.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Can't say, oh okay, but it was. It was really interesting.
So if you ever have the opportunity to do something
something like that, I absolutely, you know, go for it.
It's you know, it's just really interesting. And then I
went to the Heartball So and that was a great
time as absolutely it always is. Big shout out to

(09:29):
John Ratazac and Melissa Radazak thirty years that they've been
doing this, so a huge part of the Ohio Valley
and I was so excited to get to go to that.
It is seven point fifteen. All throughout the day, we're
gonna have your chances to win tickets to see Buddy
Guy here at the Capitol Theater.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Legend Legend Laes guitarist and singer.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes that we're gonna have a couple of those throughout
the show, and also coming up an update on East
Ohio Regional Hospital. It is seven sixteen on your Monday morning.
The bloom Daddy Experience. I was gonna say, I'm otis,
He's otis. I'm Sam here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(10:17):
We are back seven to twenty one The Blundaddie Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA want to
jump right into this. We have been bringing you updates
about East to High Regional Hospital for gosh otis how
long you mean for a couple of months. Yeah, it's
been a while we've been covering this story. Have another update.

(10:38):
This was sent to me actually by two separate sources
last night and earlier over the weekend. They have told
me that the hospital will be announcing as early as
this morning that they will be closing the skilled slash
long term care center. Along with that, though, is the
patients and their families have roughly sixty days to find

(11:02):
new placement for the patients. Now, if you've ever been
through anything like that with long term skilled care and
finding the right place and working out the insurance and
the financial side of it and the needs that the
patient has meeting properly with the facility, it is not

(11:22):
an easy task. Not an easy task. Sixty days seems short,
I am not sure. Seems like a quick turnaround. But again,
East Ohio Regional Hospital, according to two of my sources,
as early as this morning, will be announcing that the
skilled long term care center will be closing. Patients and

(11:45):
families have roughly sixty days to find new placement for
those patients. Now back to we brought you this story
first last week. The insurance situation with the health plan
that is still ongoing. I have received documentation from one

(12:08):
of my sources where questions are being asked prior to
the announcement, issues with prescriptions, not being able to get them,
asking for help, being put off, not getting a direct answer,
basically begging for help, still not getting a direct answer,

(12:29):
then finding out the insurance was terminated on the seventeenth
of February, which we brought you last week. But on
the fifteenth of February, the paychecks the medical coverage was
still deducted from the paychecks on the fifteenth.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
That's not good.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
That is not good. That is not good. Here's another
part that's not good, which is copy of an email
that I received that was from COO Julie raw. This
email was on the twentieth where she said keep using
the insurance. Basically, just keep using the insurance even though

(13:12):
it was terminated on the seventeenth, Keep using the insurance.
Listen for closure is knocking at the door, whether it's
the front door, the emergency room door, East Ohio Regional
hospital has major major problems, from paying employees on time

(13:36):
to now closing a portion of the facility, owing six
figures to the health plan. And then, according to our
news partner WTOV nine, the property that the hospital sits upon,
which is under access Martin's Ferry LLC, has an outstanding

(13:57):
one point five million dollars in taxes due a large
substantial payment was due on the twenty first of this month.
This has been delinquent since twenty nineteen. So right there,
there's two sets of figures that this hospital owes that

(14:19):
are huge numbers, huge numbers. But yet you go to
their Facebook page and they're hiring. They're still hiring. Listen,
I understand people need a job. I get that. I
would I would, yes, I would be quite hesitant on

(14:43):
going there to work because if you're not going to
get paid on time, why bother?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
I will say that, you know, with the with the
continuous care stuff, and they're giving the people sixty.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Days timeframe wise, do you think that's not.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
I think it's fair.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean it's better than just saying hey were shutting
down in your your sol yeah, or you have a
week to find someplace, you know, sixty days at least
that gives you an opportunity to maybe tour another facility,
check with your insurance, and then you can get your
person where they need to be. So I think sixty
days is sufficient. I mean, it may not be for

(15:20):
the working person, you know, because if now all of
a sudden you have to you know, your your whole
life shifts because now you have to try to find
a place but with you know. But but just in
my sense of time frame, I think that sixty days
could be enough time to do that.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, there is there is so much rumor, speculation, inn
window circling this hospital. And you know, some of the
sources that I've spoken to, they they they work there
because they care. And we've we've talked about this.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Being in the healthcare profession that very far. Yeah, it's
it's a it's a very demanding and mental job because
you you're dealing with emotional emotions, people that are sick,
people that are dying. I mean, when we had Robert
Horsey in here last week and just talking about how
he has to you have to you have to kind

(16:17):
of separate your job from your emotions. You know, when
you're you know, he's in there, in that operating room,
taking procuring organs that they're going to be donated to
somebody else. And you know, this person when you're done
is basically, I mean, is dead, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
So how do you not take that home with you?

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, exactly, And there there's a thin line between probably
you know, being on the same side of it and
just going absolutely off the wall.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, and part of the part of the conversations that
I've had with with multiple sources is the fact that
they don't want to leave their job, but they also
want to see a different solution. And we're going to
get into that solution, possible discussion, solution when we come
back from the break, because I want to get into

(17:09):
the medical conversation in the Ohio Valley period because we
are seeing a lot of changes and what could the
future hold for this little location in Martin's Ferry and
what best for a high Valley residents. Seven twenty eight
The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven

(17:30):
seventy WWVA seven thirty six, Welcome back the bloom Daddy

(17:53):
Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So we've
been talking about East o High Ridge hospital and the
issues that they've been having now for a substantial amount
of time. You know, according to our news partner, they've
been delinquent since twenty nineteen on hospital property taxes things
like that. So this has been a very long issue.

(18:17):
Now it is trickling down into obviously employees being paid
on time. Now a particular portion of the facility is
going to be closed. According to my sources, the announcement
is coming this morning, which of course is the skilled
long term care center portion of the hospital. That announcement
supposedly is coming this morning that they will be shutting

(18:39):
that down and patients and their families will have sixty
days to find replacement care needs. It brings into the
conversation medical care here in the Ohio Valley in general,
we have seen a lot of changes recently. We have
seen a lot of announcements recently. And talking to the

(19:03):
sources that I have at East Ohio, you know, I've asked,
do you want to be bought? Plain and simple, do
you want an outside company coming in and purchasing you?
And those that I have spoken to say resounding yes
and absolutely resounding yes. The one thing that they have

(19:27):
pointed out, which surprised me, but I understand the point
is having a completely new company or ownership group come
in and purchase them. Somebody from Ohio has been, has
been what has been thrown at me. And you know

(19:48):
when you say that, you think of Cleveland Clinic, you
think of Ohio State University Hospital. What they're saying is
bring in a whole other ownership group that is new
to the valley. And I can't help but agree with them,
and that is not a knock on those that we
have here already, But I think competition breeds better results,

(20:11):
and I agree with them.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I don't disagree. The thing. The thing is when somebody
is when you have a hospital like this that is
in such financial arrears, that you were not attracted to
a potential buyer, because it's what ends up happening is
that potential buyer then absorbs a lot of debt, a
lot of debt. And I hate to say, but with

(20:38):
the competition at Wheeling Hospital with Reynolds and you know,
Weird in Trinity and you know all those things that
are out there, are you going to be successful in
such a small hospital or also with.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
That debt than any purchaser would take on what type
of buyer does that attract? Is it going to be
anybody better than what they already have?

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Could you come in and possibly purchase it for what
the amount owed is and then just be out? You
see what I'm saying. So, in other words, the people
that own it, they're going to get their themselves out
of debt, but they're not going to make any money. Well,
an ownership group, I should say, I'm sure it's not one.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Person, and then the new buyer would be just basically
ground zero because they're not taking on debt.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
They're just yeah, they're paying off the debt as the
cost of the of the as their investment.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, then there's also this option, what about downgrading it
from a hospital tier into a clinic's kind of like
an urgent care type, but maybe a little bit more more,
you know, kind of that in between a hospital and
an urgent care level.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, you probably have like an emergency room, yeah, for
the smaller and then if you needed, if somebody needed
to be admitted overnight, you could. You know, it's not
gonna be a long term care facility, like if I
were to like when I broke my hip, Oh.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
You have a kidney stone I mean just something like
that where you go in for emergency care, you have
to take some meds and you need to stay somewhere
for a twenty four hour period, not a long term stay.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
But like when I broke my hip, I was in
the hospital for over a week, you know, because I
just there was no place else for me to go.
I just couldn't do anything. And so something like that,
you know, you go in your break your hip, maybe
you're in there for a day or two, and then
they put you in a different facility that's a little
more you know, where you could go five to seven
more days, you know, or maybe you just I mean,

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like the maximum stay at the hospital would be a week,
you know, roughly. I'm not saying they're going to boot
you out if you need to stay one more day
for observation.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
But we have seen the landscape of our medical care
here in the High Valley changing drastically. We've seen major announcements.
We've talked about this before. Trinity Hell System. Of course,
they're building the community hospital out in Saint Clairsville over
by the Respects Plaza that is already up. The walls
are up. I mean, they are making headway very quickly.

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But then we also have WVU, whose footprint has grown
exponentially up and down the.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
River, basically taking over it.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yes, between what they have purchased that's already.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Here, they're almost like Dollar Generals. I'm sorry, but that
they have bopped into my head. Hey, every time you
turn around, there's a Dollar General going up. Oh there, wait,
there's a WU Medical Center.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
And it's you know what, you crack me up because
I stopped at the Dollar General in Saint Clairsville over
the weekend, no listen, and I was on a phone
call and I was facing the road and the building
that's right across from that Dollar General is now I forget.
It was like a chiropractor. Now it says WVU something.
It just cracks me the two things anyways, because I

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remember thinking, when did that happen? Okay, there's another WVU signed,
but anyways, we digress.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
The point to this is, along with not only what
WVU has purchased up and down the river, they've made
their major announcements also too. I mean, East Ohio's gone.
I'm not East Ohio a VMC down in Center Wheeling.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's gone, literally gone.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
And they have begun the building of the WVU Cancer
research that's going to be there, which is going to
be huge for our area, along with the pediatric center
that is on the first floor at one of the
buildings over at Wheeling Hospital. So we are seeing change,

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we are seeing growth, we are seeing new offerings that
we have not had here before. But going back to
the original font within this conversation with East Ohio Regional
Hospital and what they're dealing with, I honestly believe bringing
in a third ownership or medical provider is a good

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thing for this valley.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'm really surprised like Ohio State hasn't expanded eastward, you know,
because like like the like there's WVU Barnesville, WVU Harrison County.
I believe you would think that that would be like
a Hio state territory, and and maybe they don't. Or
even the Cleveland Clinic expanding south. I mean they do

(25:33):
have some there's a Cleveland Clinic in Florida, So what's
that tell you? But there are you know, satellite branches
of the Cleveland Clinic, just like there are WVU hospitals.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
And there's more of them actually up around Cleveland. There
are now tons of satellite facilities, and like you said,
bring them this direction, because honestly, you don't want any entity,
whether it's healthcare, whether it's media, whether it is car sales.
I don't care what you're saying a dollar general. You

(26:05):
don't want a monopoly and and I.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Have unless you're the cable company. Well did I say that, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah you did. But in healthcare, for sure, you don't
want something like a monopoly. You want people to have choices.
You want people to have the ability to compare, get
second opinions. It's out there for a reason. I mean,
one hundred percent is there for a reason. And again,

(26:36):
as I said, not degrading what we have, I'm not
downplaying who we have. No, we're not talking bad, absolutely not,
absolutely not. But when it comes down to it, competition
breeds a better product. Sure does, really truly does. Seven.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
All right, you're chance to win coming up. No, I
thought you were. We thought we were doing it.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
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Speaker 2 (27:00):
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Speaker 3 (27:03):
No, okay, you already said it. All right, I called
you what number.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
During the break, and I said it wrong. I'm sorry,
Caller number nine, one hundred six four eleven. Second, we
need to tell him who it is, Buddy.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
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Stevie Ray, Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Junior, John Mayer. Sheez,
that's who he's influenced. He's played with Bonnie Ray, Chicago
blues legend, Hall of Famer, Rock and Roller. Uh. Just
if you want good blues music, you got to see

(27:36):
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Speaker 2 (27:37):
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Speaker 3 (27:40):
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him now.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
The show is July sixteenth, here at the Capitol Theater.
Caller number nine, one hundred sixty two four eleven seventy
seven forty six. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA seven

(28:06):
fifty one. Welcome back. First off, congratulations to Matt our
first winner of the day. Don't let that hold you back.
We are going to have more chances for you to win.
Buddy Guy.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, and if you're not familiar with Buddy Guy, I
mean we were kind of rushed.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
There, which, by the way, I was not.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, tell him what you thought it was.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
So listen. I heard Buddy Guy and I thought, oh,
that must be like a children's show thing. Yeah, I
was way off, way off.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
So Buddy Guy, he's an American blues guitarist. He's in
like the Chicago Blues. He actually has a club in
Chicago for blues and where he brings the big names in.
And I've mentioned before the break some of the people
that he influenced, which was Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page,
Keith Richards, although I think Keith Richards is like two
hundred years older than Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Beck,

(28:58):
Gary Clark, Junior, John Mayer. He played with Muddy Waters.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
You know, it's just the stories he could tell.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
He's won eight Grammy Awards, He's won the Lifetime Achievement Award,
the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors, he
was ranked twenty seventh and Rolling Stone Magazine's twenty twenty
three list of greatest guitarist of all time. You know,
he's played with the best, and when Eric Clapton introduced

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him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Eric
Clapton said, no matter how great the song or performance,
my ear would always find him out. He stood out
in the mix simply by the virtue of originality and
vitality of his playing. So it's just you know, just
people that I mean, amazing, amazing, amazing. So if you

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get the chance. He was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in two thousand and five by
Eric Clapton and BB King, a couple of average guitar players,
you know. But yeah, if you've if you've never seen
him or heard his music, you know, pull him up.
Listen to one of his big songs that I recognized
was the Hucci Cucci Man. And you know there's there's

(30:15):
other ones out there, of course, but it's you will
not be disappointed. And anytime you get to see a legend,
it is, it's huge. It's I mean, yeah, I mean,
it's gonna be worth the price of admission, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Right, Well, and that's the opportunity. What did you say
is eighty eight years old?

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Eighty eight years old and in July you listen, I'm
not trying and I'm not trying to Jinx anything here.
But Merle Haggard was booked at the Capitol Theater and
Merle Haggard never showed up. There's a reason. So if
you get the opportunity and our our winner, Matt said

(30:57):
he actually got to see Buddy Guy in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Oh wow. So well, and listen, that's one thing that's
great about the Capitol Theater. It is a smaller venue.
It's more intimate. So and I'm not saying this gentleman
is going to do this, but a lot of times
when artists get in facilities like this, I think they
feel closer to their audience, so they may interact more

(31:23):
tell stories. Imagine what his stories would be.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Well, Blues artists normally don't play big venues, you know.
I mean he may have played, say an arena or
like an arena tour back in the day, maybe at
the height of his popularity, but you know, blues performers
like the small venues or like a festival, a small

(31:46):
festival they don't want, not like Jamboree and Hills, but
more like the Heritage Music blues festival. It's a little
you know, you're in a little tighter situation. But yeah,
I mean buddy guy, this is when I think I'm
going to.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Go to It's an opportunity to see, to see a
legend right in your own backyard, your own backyard.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
What's the date of the show again? It is July.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Sixteenth, Okay, July sixth.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I'm gonna have to look and see what day of
the week that falls on. Doesn't say I'll look it up.
Go ahead, you go ahead and do what.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
I don't know what I was going to do.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Hold on, imagine that. Oh week before we go any farther,
it's Monday. We got a text. We were talking about
Randy Moss earlier. Yes, and I got a text from
a former high school track coach and he said when
he was teaching and coaching at Wheeling Park, we were
at the West Virginia State track meet at Ladleyfield in Charleston.
It was either ninety three or ninety four, and some

(32:41):
of the kids kept telling him and the other coach,
Bernie Dolan, to watch the guy in lane four. They
had no idea who he was. Never heard of him.
The gun goes off in a two hundred meters dash.
Everyone starts sprinting except for the tall kid. I was
told to watch he literally stands up out of the block,
strides basically jogs. Then it gets to the turn in

(33:02):
the two hundred and starts to run the straightaway and
beats everyone by ten minutes. Oh yeah, he said, he said,
that was my first learning of Randy Moss.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
So yeah, I mean, listen to see that in person,
that's got to be crazy. That's got to be crazy.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, you know, And and when you when you talk
about that, I mean, like I said, you know, we
talked about the sam Andy story about him running track
with just his tennis shoes or basketball shoes, whatever it was.
But they said that when he played center field for DuPont,
like he covered the entire outfield. It was just and
you know, of course when he played basketball and football,
I mean he was the I think they were. DuPont

(33:39):
was the state champs in football. Jason Williams was the quarterback,
Randy Moss was the receiver. They were the state champs
in basketball. Jason Williams was the point guard. Randy Moss
was on that team. And I don't know what they
did in baseball and track, but they had to they
had had to be competitive, if nothing else. So and
I want to give a quick shot out to bloom

(34:01):
Daddy's son, Braylan, former Saint Clairsville star now playing for
Wright State. They were playing Auburn at Auburn yesterday. There
were some video I think there's some video online one
of bloom Daddy's websites or Karen's and Braylan Bloomquist goes
three for three against Auburn, scores two runs and had

(34:23):
a walk. So, you know what an incredible, incredible day
for him playing against SEC competition SEC baseball probably, you know,
the best college in the I mean the best college
competition in the in the country, you know, with all
the teams you got, you know, Texas, Texas A and

(34:43):
m All, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Florida, you know Georgia.
You know, got all those teams in there. And he
goes three for three, two runs in a walk as
the starting shortstop yesterday. So congratulations to young Brillon Bloomquist,
freshman at writes date. And I'm sure bloom Daddy is

(35:06):
super proud of Sun number three. I know he's proud
of Suns one and two, but you know, on the
baseball dime, he's definitely got to be pretty pumped up
about that showing. We'll be back with more on the
bloom Daddy Experience right after this.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Ze number one talk 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 (35:50):
We're back eight oh six The Blue Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Our top story of
the morning, a update on the financial and ongoing troubles
at East to Higher Regional Hospital. Over the weekend. Two
sources reached out to me letting me know that as

(36:12):
early as this morning, the facility may be announcing the
closing of the skilled Care long term care center. Patients
and family members will have roughly have sixty days to
find a new placement for those patients. And we've talked
about the ongoing struggles at East Ohio, the slow to

(36:36):
pay the employees. Last week, we brought you the story
of the insurance situation with the health plan, owing six
figures to the health plan, the employees dealing with issues
getting their prescriptions filled. It's just an absolute mess at
Easter to higher regional hospital. So that is the newest

(36:58):
in the ongoing struggles there. Once again that as early
as this morning the closed long long term Skill Center
maybe announced that they are closing patients and families will
have sixty days to find a replacement facility for those patients. Unfortunately, unfortunately,

(37:18):
to kind of go back a little bit, otis you
were we were talking about Buddy Guy and the things
we have coming up, we got any email from listener Lynn. Uh,
she just said, really enjoyed the thirty eight special show
Friday night. Thanks for the tickets. I heard that was
a phenomenal show.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Well, I had you are loving that show. I ran
into a couple of our winners over the weekend, was
at the card show. One sent me a text because
he and I are friends. He just happened to, you know,
win the tickets and he and I got I heard
nothing but positive. You know, I heard it was the
crowd was good, heard the you know, the show was good.

(37:58):
I'm a little spoiled when I go to a concert now,
so like when a concert only lasts like an hour
and a half, I feel like I got cheated because
I'm so used to going to a Springsteen show that
lasts for three hours and you just sit there and
you go it's over already, like you had twenty more
songs you could have played, and I just you know,

(38:18):
you go to a Springsteen show and you see thirty
songs in three hours, and it's like, okay, you get spoiled.
But yeah, I mean I heard heard nothing but positive
comments on thirty eight Special. You know, like I said,
the show itself, the crowd was good and into it,

(38:41):
you know, everybody, and I got you know, multiple thank you.
Is the one guy that I ran into. He works
for the State Road and I see him at the
card shop every once in a while, and he said, yeah,
I was trying to win tough Man tickets and because
he's a little bit younger, and he goes, I was
trying to win tough Man tickets. But man, I got
thirty eight Special. It was a pretty good show. I'm
glad they enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
And listen on top of thirty eight Special. The night
before was country artist as Ashley McBride. We had tough
Man last weekend the weekend before, yeah, the weekend before
we had what did we have this week and we
had thirty eight special, we had the Heartball. I mean
to say, there's nothing to do listen, don't want to

(39:26):
hear it anymore. Because they are those that run the
theater and one run West Banco. They are working their
tails off to bring not only entertainment, a complete reimagining
of entertainment. I mean it's not just old country stars anymore.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
It is or old rock shows.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yes, yeah, it's in a ray.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
There is a calling for eighties and nineties and seventies music.
I mean, you look at the do Wop shows here
do want They do great? You know, so there is
a calling for that type of entertainment, and you don't
always have to have the headliners no. Two. You know,

(40:12):
when Rio Speedwagon was here, the capital was full of
much boys. I'm not I'm not a huge r O
Speedwagon fan, but it was a good show, you know.
I mean they put on a heck of a show.
And you know, with this job, we are able to
sometimes take advantage of being able to go to some

(40:33):
shows that other people maybe aren't. And I have yet
to be disappointed in a show that's come to Wheeling.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Well, I mean, think about it. The Beach boys were
here talk about legends, I mean the Beach Boys. And
we've had the look at the and look at the
different stuff like the dirty dancing that was here Valentine
right before Valentine's Day. You know, that's completely different the
Broadway shows, the Broadway shows Ralphie with a Christmas story.
I mean, we've got ancient Ali's coming up. So there

(41:01):
is something for everybody, absolutely everybody.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And you know Travis
Tritt is coming. I believe in May, and you know
Travis's eighties, nineties country.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
But everybody knows Travis Tritt.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
And I will say this. I remember there was one
summer saw I think I saw the Charlie Daniels band
five times in one summer, and I think three of
the five shows Travis Tritt opened for him. One was here,
One was the Pittsburgh Ribfest, one was It's Stay je
or No, it was the old Icy Light Amphitheater. And

(41:38):
then I saw him at Jamboree. And there was one
other venue I saw him. I can't remember which what
the fifth venue was, but it was myself and a
friend of mine. We went to five shows to see
Charlie Daniels and like I said, Travis opened number three
and trad that's when here's a quarter called someone who Cares.
And Travis would literally stand on stage with his back

(42:01):
to this to the people when he sang the song
because people were throwing quarters on the stage.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I'll say this. When my husband heard that try, he
saw some paperwork that I had and he said, is
that Travis Tritt. Travis Tritt's coming wheeling? And I said yeah,
and he goes, Now, that's a show I'd like to see.
So the fact that my husband, who doesn't like to
leave the house when he's off, he loves to hang

(42:28):
in his garage and tinker and hang out with the neighbors.
For him to actually say I would like to go
see that, that is all those that are booking the
shows need to know. Because if you can get him
out of his Heidi hole, his cave, his his black
hole that I like to call it, that is his garage.

(42:48):
Kudos to you.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Well, you're told me that he wants to go to
a WU basketball game with me.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah, I think that's more because he wants to hang
out with you.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Well, that's what people want to do, because I am
I am that guy. I don't know why I'm the leader.
You know. I was telling the story about when I
was in Florida last week and my cousin she says,
I'm not allowed to come back down because her husband
said I. Well, otis said this and notis said that.
Notice that because it just knows what he's talking about.

(43:16):
Be a cult leader, Yeah, I could be.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
I was watching a documentary about a cult leader this
morning getting ready for work. I don't know. I have
weird interests.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Well, yeah, and you watch those shows about killing your husband,
so yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Yeah, I know, I know. Anyways, you mentioned Florida. Did
you see this, mister baseball? Major League Baseball used robot
umpires in Friday's game between the Rays and the Yankees.
The Automated Ball Straight Challenge System, or ABS, has been
tested in the minors the past three seasons. There was

(43:52):
still a home plate umpire, and players could challenge the
machines calls by tapping their helmet or cap within two seconds.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
I did not see it.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Is it a good direction? Do you think? You know?

Speaker 3 (44:07):
There's pros and cons? Yeah. Part of part of the
game is human error, you know, and part of it
is if you are a if you're like the Greg
the Greg Maddox pictures of the world, the guys that
paint the corners, and you know, if you're that good

(44:29):
of a picture and you get that outside corner call,
maybe it's not a strike, but it's close enough that
you should take a swing at it. I'm perfectly fine
with that, you know, I don't. I'm not a huge
fan because here's the other thing that the robot can't
make the call safer out if there's a play at
the plate.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh so they can only do balls and strikes.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Right, and it's not you know what if there's catcher's interference,
what if there's there's a lot of things that come
into play, and you know, was it a foul tip
was it not? You know, there's certain things that that
that you know that the that the computer or the
robot is not going to be able to figure.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Out well, and you said human error, human factors that
go into things like sports. But it seems like every
week we're getting another story more information about automated this
AI that at a certain point in time, you know,
what is the point of humans, right? I mean that
may seem over dramatized.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
What are you going to do have robot players, right?
You know it?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Just yeah, it's it's I don't know, it's a little
too jetson for me. It's eight sixteen. I just want
the one that cleans my house. Yeah, eight sixteen. The
bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy wwva

(45:54):
A twenty one. We are back The blim Daddy Experienced,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy w w v A.
I thought you, I thought you were chewing it.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
No, I was a little, this little discombobulated because I
called our buddy Kevin from strawb Automotive just a little
bit late, and I just want to let him know.
Do you have a favorite tortilla chip?

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Do I have a favorite?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Yeah, yeah, nacho cheese.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Okay, a traditionalist, you're you're right up my alley there, Kevin.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Because today is National Tortilla Chip Day?

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Is it really?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Yep? So free free, free tortilla chips at Straw Automotive
all locations today, is that right? Just just for the employees, just.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
For the employees.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
All right, We'll bet you better send a runner.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Out, get a get a couple of bags of chips.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
So I just threw a promotion out there.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Okay, all right, you're working, you're working.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Speaking of promotions, what do you want to promote today?

Speaker 4 (47:00):
There you go, there you go. This segue, this segue
right there. Now, let's talk about all the great deals
that we have up here at a Honda, Hyundai and
Nissan right now. Honda twenty five model HRV LX in
stock right now to nineteen a month, to seventy nine
a month for a Honda CRV number one selling vehicle

(47:22):
right here in the Valley Pilot Sport three forty nine
a month, all right, and yeah, I mean that's we
talked about this what last week? These are payments that
we were seeing ten years ago. Okay, I mean this
is just absolutely incredible. Twenty five model Hyundai Elantra one
ninety nine a month. A twenty five to Tucson is

(47:44):
only two seventy nine a month. A Palisade beautiful vehicle
is only three fifty nine a month. Where's Nissan? Where's Nissan?
One sixty nine a month for Nissan Kicks? And how
about two thirty nine a month for an e sn Rode.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
I mean, it is just all of the the number
of payments that we have right now that are under
three hundred dollars okay, and that seems to always be
the sweet spot for everybody. Slide around at three hundred
dollars more and in your full sized vehicles, everybody wants
to stay under four hundred. Hey, if that's what you're
trying to accomplish, you can accomplish that goal today right
here at the trib Automotive Group. Check it out online.

(48:24):
You can do ninety nine percent of it, actually can
do one hundred percent of it now online and we'll
deliver the vehicle to really.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Simple and free tortilla chips.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and free tortilla chips. You heard
it here.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
I can't wait for somebody to come into one of
your salespeople and they say, Hey, I'm looking for the
free tortilla chips and they go, what the hell are
you talking about.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
I'm sure it'll happen. When it happens, I will let
you know.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I appreciate that you do have my private batfoon number.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Sea. Do you say bathfood? I did?

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, you know what I wanted to
ask him, because he's a music guy, was ask him
about Buddy Guty. Oh yeah, yeah, so I did. We
did talk about it before I got him on the
on before we put him on air. Oh yeah, but
he said, he said, all he is, that's a show
I'm going to go to. He said, I'm gonna have
to check out now. So yeah, I mean, so people

(49:20):
are you know, people that are music, people know Buddy Guy.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Yeah, it's just a couple of top headlines wanted to
hit on real quck ahead. So Apple is kind of uh,
how do we say it? Following the lead of our leader,
our president, they are moving a lot of uh manufacturing

(49:44):
back into the United States. They have committed to five
hundred billion dollars to the US economy with this historic initiative.
They announced it this morning at six am, and they're
bringing it back into the borders of the United States.
What they're saying is the commitment we're all over the
next five years. It will involve building an advanced AI

(50:05):
server manufacturing factory near Houston, as well as doubling the
company's advanced manufacturing from fund from five billion to ten billion,
will hire twenty thousand new employees, and it just keeps
going on and on. So listen, that's that's that's a
huge announcement for sure, and how I didn't have time

(50:28):
to look, but how many of those have we already seen?
Since President Trump took office, There's been multiple announcements of
different manufacturing, whether you know, coming back, whether it's auto, automotive,
or like this in the tech industry that's coming back
within our borders. And then something that hits a little
close to home. If you have listened to Dan Bongino

(50:50):
in his podcast on the iHeartRadio app, which you can,
he has now been hired as the next Deputy Director
of the FBI. Now, before any of the liberal talking
heads say, oh he's a radio guy like they did
with HEG. Sath, you know, oh he's just some TV
guy on Fox News. Now, he was in the Secret

(51:11):
Service for many years. This man has he's been.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
In law enforcement along with Secret services in correct. So
he's got his resume is very very good. Yes, yeah,
And one of the things that I saw on the
TV this morning was, you know, they made the comment
that here's a guy that when he was in the
Secret Service was predicting Barack Obama. Did not like Barack

(51:36):
Obama's politics, but would have taken a bullet for him
because that was his job.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
It was his job. Yeah yeah, if like, like I said,
if you've ever listened to his show, he has been
one of the ones leading the charge, if you will,
against a lot of the ridiculousness. I know that's not
a real word.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
But he's also the one to pointed out I heard
him say that. He said that if you knew where
your tax dollars were going, if they broke it down
penny by penny, where your tax dollars were going, you
would be irate. Guess what's happening. We're finding out where
our tax dollars are going, and people are our rate.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Yeah, So to him, congratulations on the new appointment there.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
I think it's a I think it's a good pick.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I did too, And honestly, when Trump was running, he
was one of the names thrown out there for a
lot of the positions. Was he going to get one?
So obviously obviously he has the question is when are
we getting the phone call to uh take over?

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Twice? Yeah? Yeah, good luck with that. He's built quite
the following.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Quite the following. All right, before we go to this
next break, let's do it. Caller number eleven one eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy caller number eleven to
see Buddy Guy here at the Capitol Theater. July sixteenth,
one eight hundred sixty for eleven seventy A thirty six

(53:08):
Welcome back the bloom Dead experienced samon otis. So, I
don't know if you have any plans for February twenty eighth,
which is what this Friday. Yes, this Friday. There is
speculation online that has been going on over the past
few weeks that there's going to be a nationwide economic

(53:32):
protest called the February twenty eighth Economic Blackout. The call
to action is asking that American consumers reframe from making
any purchases at major retailers on that day again, February
twenty eighth, of Friday. The protest comes as people continue
to endure rising prices on everything from food and gas

(53:55):
to housing and utilities. Of course, egg prices has become
the visual target, yes, getting the message across about inflation, which,
by the way, they have gone up on average. In January,
the average price was four dollars and ninety five cents

(54:15):
for a price for a price a dozen of eggs,
so listen, some of the postings are saying that you
should stay away from McDonald's, Target, Walmart, all these different things.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
So, and this is Amazon. It's from a group called
the People's Union USA and they're supposed to be this
grassroots organization and they're promoting the consumer blackout because they
think that it has no political relationship. It focuses on fairness,
economic justice, and real systematic change. Let me just say this.

(54:50):
They tried to do this with the gas prices a
couple of years back when gas prices went real high. Oh,
don't buy gas on this certain day. It's not going
to make any impact whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Now and it just amazes me now they're doing it.
Where was this two years ago?

Speaker 3 (55:06):
And here's the other thing. Yes, they want you to
boycott these big businesses, but you know who suffers in
this situation, the situation the small business.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah, that's the way it always works. That's the way
if you do.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
It, that's who's going to software. It's the small business.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
But there's somebody else that has some words on this.
A billionaire evil genius looks ahead to Friday's so called
economic blackout and cast doubt on America's ability to boycott
big businesses like Amazon by not buying anything at all
for twenty four hours. Yeah, good luck with that challenge.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Where a Jeff Beziers. It has come to my attention
that you insolent American consumers are planning a revolt calling
for an economic blackout to this Friday following to purchase
nothing for a full twenty four hours.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
And that is nothing short of or door horrible.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
Oh, you guys are so cute thinking you could resist
frivolously spending your Monday. It's who you are, it's what
you do, and that's why Amazon is holding an economic
blackout black Friday sales event. His Friday everything is eighty
percent off. We'll see how dedicated you are to your
little cause when you can get a pair of beats

(56:22):
for thirty nine bucks.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
And free shipping. There you have it.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
I love it all, speaking of Amazon, as you wear
your beats as I wear my beats. Yes, they were
not thirty nine ninety nine. So yesterday, Saturday was a
long day. Yesterday I said I'm not doing anything. Well
that didn't happen. Of course I did stuff. But there
is a new section on Amazon. I don't know if

(56:51):
you've seen it otis. I just discovered it a couple
months ago. It's called Hall Haul. And why do I
keep doing that?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Keep hitting the microphy because you keep putting your hands
right in front of it.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
I do I talk with my hands. I'm sorry. Anyways,
this new section is almost like a going out of
business clearance section. So it's all kinds of stuff that
if there's one or two things left that they put
up there. So if it's a shirt, they may have
one extra small and one four X. You know, it's
just the random things that are left over. Don't go

(57:29):
to it because all it's so bad, so bad. I
could not get off of it yesterday. I just kept
scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Now I will say I
ended up with I think there's twenty two items in
my hall for like eighty two bucks. That's it. I mean,

(57:54):
it's good deals. But if you have a hard time
like I do, not online shopping for just entertainment value,
do not go to that section. Kind of like me
last night, Yes, yes, yes, spending six yes, and they
have it hidden. It's kind of hard to find. But
once you find it and you go down that yeah,

(58:18):
not good, not good at all. Yeah, there's no baseball
cards on it, so I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
Yeah, well, any money that I made on Saturday, it's
good already.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
One of the craziest things. If you've been following this
and it's getting out of control, let's be honest. And
I thought it was silly to begin with, but I
heard somebody explain this to me. So the whole conversation
about the Golf of it's not the Golf of Mexico anymore. Now,
it's the Golf of America. And when it all came
out and Trump first started talking about, I thought, really,
this is what we're putting a lot of time towards.

(58:54):
But I did hear somebody say, and I forget who
it was, that it's not about, do you know States
of America? The Gulf of America is because it separates
North and South America. So that makes sense once I
heard it explain that way. Well, now map Quest, which
by the way, I didn't even know it was still around,

(59:20):
they're getting in on it. Where what they're doing is
that you can now within its system, rename a particular
body of water, so users can call the Golf of America,
also known a KA Golf of Mexico whatever you would
like it to be.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
So we wanted to name it the Gulf of salmon
Otis we could, I.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Guess, yeah, yeah, maybe we'll maybe we'll do that and
get some sort of world map and put it up
here in the studio.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Okay, so here's you're gonna do it. I'm gonna just
let's see here, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I was just gonna say it. Like I said, I
didn't even know, uh, map quest was still around, but
that would be fun. What would be a good name
for it? Like, no, I don't know, you know what,
Here's here's the thing. He could have said, the Golf
of Trump. Well, that would have uh, you would have

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seen you would have seen liberals' heads exploding if if
he would have went some sort of direction like that.
But like I said, when I first heard it, I thought,
this is this is so stupid. We have better things,
We have way more important things to spend the time
on with this administration. But then, like I said, when
I heard that talking head say, it's about the fact

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that it splits between it splits the two Americas. That's
why I should be called the golf of Americans out
of Mexico. So I don't know what would you name it?
What would you name it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Golf of so I just put it in there. It
says golf of Salmon. Notice, what did you use? It
gives you no no, it just says but you just
type in, it'll automatically generate golf of So you just
type in whatever you want and then I'm sure you
can print it. And it's there's a there's a thing
that says surprise me, huh, so let me click on that.

(01:01:14):
It says the golf Golf of Mystery, Golf of Adventure,
Golf of Pelican, Golf of Exploration, Golf of Gael.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Oh you know what, at least they're having.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Golf of Treasures, Golf of Paradise.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
So because somehow play off the golf game Golf of
tiger Woods.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Mm hm yeah. And just you all you have to
do is it automatically generates the golf of so like
I did, Golf of salmon otis and it says golf
of Golf of Salmon os. So just type in salmon otis.
I don't know, says share your creation, so nice copy,
map downloaded, whatever you can do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
There, so well and there to map quest. Congratulations your
back on everybody's right arms.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
Somewhat relevant. Now you're back. Listen. We used I used
to use map Quest all the time. Turn by turn,
you'd print that baby.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Out, and it was always a pain to get it
to print right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Yeah, like it would either go landscape and it would
cut off half the directions or yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Yeah, we need to be a little smarter than your printer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
And that don't get me started on printers. I was
about ready to throw one through the window this weekend.
Ooh ooh, all right, eight forty five. When we get back,
let's talk facial hair. The Blue Daddy Experienced salmon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are back. It's eight

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fifty The Blue Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Got one more chance to win this hour coming up?

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Yep, that's coming up here shortly. Want to go back
to our top store the morning, which was East O
Higher Regional Hospital closing operations of the long term long
term care facility. I was told over the weekend by
two sources that this was going to happen as early
as this morning. Well, it is official. Have an email
here from COO Julie Ross that a source reached out

(01:03:19):
and sent to me. In our ongoing efforts to prioritize
patient care, our long term care and skilled nursing facility
will begin the process of shuttering operations. This will allow
the organization to refocus resources and energy on the care
and delivery of acute medicine. So there you have it.
My sources were absolutely on top of this, and we

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brought it to you here this morning. So just basically
reconfirmation of what we have been saying.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
All morning, all morning, and again we were the first
to bring it to you, not where somebody claims to
bring it to you first.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Let's not go down that path to say, let's be.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
It's funny the morning show claims it, but the Afternoon
show said that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
They claimed, Yeah, let's just yeah, be bigger than let's not. Yeah,
that's right, that's right. Okay, So we're gonna we're gonna
go switch away from hospital care to beards, I mean,
facial hair. Weird, a weird transition. So listen, I didn't
even know this was a thing. I'll be upfront with you.

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But big changes for the Yankees. So they're changing. They're
infamous facial hair policy. They are now going to allow
players to have well groomed beards and that begins this season. Now,
the yank is of barred players from having facial hair
other than a mustache. There's nothing I'm sorry to those

(01:04:51):
who have just a mustache, no creepy stat No, don't
like a creepy stash since the nineteen seventies. The manager
managing general partner hal Steinbrenner said the decision I can't
hear Steinbrenner without thinking of Seinfeld anyways, said the decision
was made after speaking with former and current players, saying,
it is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar

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comfort of our former policy, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
I mean, well, the Yankees had that policy. I think
the Reds, the Reds for a long time had a
no facial hair policy, like no mustaches or anything. And
I think they the Reds got rid of it a
couple of years ago, maybe even a little bit longer
than just a couple of years. But yeah, I mean,

(01:05:39):
you know, they just didn't. I mean, you look at
some of these guys, Jason Worth, Charlie Blackman. They've got
these beards.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
That are just like Duck Dynasty.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Oh, yeah. Yeah, long hair. You know, the whole works.
And I'm not saying that it's bad, but it just
kind of you know, there's you're you're supposed to be professional.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Yeah, you can't look like an out of control like
hobo that jumps on the train.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Yeah. And there's some do and you know that's just
who they are.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
You have to take care of it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Yeah, So, I mean I can understand it well groomed.
I don't have a problem with well groomed.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Ye, you have well groomed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I try maintained, Yeah, I try. My kids have never
seen me without facial hair.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
I've never seen my husband without facial hair.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
Never.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
My kids are twenty soon to be twenty seven and
twenty four, so they've never seen me without facial hair.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Yeah, I've never seen whether it be a goatee or
a full beard.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Yeah, I've never seen my husband's chin. And one time
he sent me a long time ago. Use we I'll
shave all this off if you want me to, and
I'll just keep a stash a no do not. I'm sorry.
Maybe it's just me. There is something creepy about just
a porn stash like it just I don't know what
it is like you're for some reason, I just envisioned

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you drive a van with no windows from the seventies.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Or you're Freddie Mercury.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Yeah, I just I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
I can't do Tom Sell. Tom Selling did just a stash.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Him and Sam Elliott are about the only two.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
I'm sure there's a few other ones out there works with.
There was a guy that I saw a weird at
the card show that had a I mean, this thing
was impeccable. It was a handlebar mustache. Oh And I
was like, dude, you're rocking it. And I had a
Raleigh Fingers the guy the guy didn't. We were talking
at the at the card shop after the show and

(01:07:33):
I said, dude, I said, I was going to tell
you you need to buy my Roley Fingers card because
Raley Fingers when he played for the A's perfected the
handlebar mustache. Now do they put something in yeah, wax
mustache backs. And and the guy, this guy, I mean,
he's a little bit younger than me, but he goes,
who's rolly Fingers? And I'm like, oh god, but he's
not a baseball guy either.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
But wasn't it when was it? The Red Sox. They
came back and they beat the the Bambino curse or
whatever they called it. Didn't they all have beards? Didn't
they have playoff beards?

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
They may have, I don't remember off the top of
my head.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
They must not the same rule some.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Of you, no, like. I mean, you go to different teams.
Different teams have different rules when it comes to facial hair.
You know, your hair length, things like that, And the
Yankees are one of them because they are considered the
premier team in baseball. I mean, you have twenty seven
championships or whatever it would be, and you know they

(01:08:31):
had rules which was facial hair mustache only. You know,
you don't see any long hair on the Yankees or
anything like that. They're all, yeah, clean cut for the
most part. Yeah yeah. And but then you go to
some of these teams and you know they got the
hair all whacked out. I will say this. There's there's
an old seventy six and I'm trying to think he's

(01:08:53):
the guy is I can't think of his name, but
he's got a Yankees hat on. He's got an afro.
I think I showed it to you that sticks out.
Oh yeah, every bit of like ten inches on each
side and.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
The hat just kind of sits on top.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Oh yeah, and it's like, well he pulls it down
to where but I mean like it is. It is
the epitome of nineteen seventies afro and it's like, yes,
just like if you if you look at old pictures
of oh uh, not George Gervin but from the NBA,
but he had like the mutton chops going down the side,

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and it's like, oh, yeah, you're rocking it, man.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Oh my dad had an afro nice when he when
he married my mom. Nice is their wedding picture. He's
got on the the quintessential powder blue tuxedo with the
ruffled what is this right here called the yeah what
I don't know, Yeah, I don't know underneath and then
just this ginormous hair and listen if there's.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
A lot of work put into that, well normally it
was probably it was probably some sort of a perm Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Yeah it was, yeah, because my mom still she'll say
that he spent more time I'm at the salon than
she ever did getting his part.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Good for your dad, man, Rocket, I like it. You
might have to share that picture with me. Oh yeah,
he'd love because I'm digging. I mean I could listen.
You know, I was a kid that grew up. I
looked like Jimmy from HR Puffin Stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
So he was the only human on hr puffin Stuff son,
but he had like long brown hair, like over his ears.
And that's what I wanted my hair because I wanted
to be Jimmy from hr Puffin Stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Oh, we all have those haircuts that I had.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
I call it the it's kind of like a mop top.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
I had what I call like the little Amish bowl
cut as a girl, and it still kind of do
shut up anyways. Yeah, so I kind of looked like
a little boy anyways. Also, starting today in sports, the
NFL Combine kicks off.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
So well let's give him away. We got another pair
of Buddy Guy tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Yeah, Buddy Guy one and six for eleven seventy another pair.
The show is July sixteen, Wednesday, one, eight hundred sixty
two four eleven seventy. Caller number twelve twelve. Caller number
twelve one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. Hey,
we're done on this Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
We'll be back with you tomorrow shavy beard,