The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam March 10, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good Monday morning. It is seven oh six. Are you awake?
Has the time change affected you? I'll tell you what
otis last night. I'm sorry, I'm Sam. He's otis? This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. I didn't say that part,
did I?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I didn't. Well anyways, I could not fall asleep last night.
I don't know if it has to do with the
time change. I don't know what it was, but man,
I was flipping and flopping. It just I could not
fall asleep. Or maybe it's because I basically sat on
my couch all day.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
I was super tired about nine o'clock. I couldn't go
to sleep like it like it's like eleven eleven thirty.
By the time I realized that that's.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Kind of how I was. I don't know what was
up with that.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, it happens. It's that time of year, man, But
what a weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, give it to me, oh you did.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
I mean like you weren't excited. I mean like we
had the MEC tournament here and we only we got
Aaron Lewis, we had Vicky Lawrence yesterday. I mean just
the MEC tournament alone was I mean Friday night I
went to this. I went to the quarterfinals Friday night,
river City packed with West Liberty people. Then you go
to the game, great, good game. West Liberty blows out Concord.

(01:38):
I mean they win by thirty. Saturday, I go to
the wv game where wvu's up twenty at halftime, and
of course you know they don't score. You know, it
comes down to a three or four point game because
they changed their game plan in the second half.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Typically WVU, if it's working, you better change anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
And then got to spend some time with my dad.
And then yesterday we went to the NEC finals with
West Liberty and Fairmont State for a triple overtime thriller.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Fairmont State came out on top. It's all right, it's
it's fun. Uh one fourteen and triple overtime wow? And
thirty six points in one game.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Wow? Okay, so go back triple overtime. So I'm not
familiar with how the overtime rules fall for this, So
how many additional minutes?

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Five? So they played fifteen extra minutes. Basically they almost
played another half.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's that's a lot for those guys because they actually
playing all weekend.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well they played, they definitely played Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
So you know, three games three days in a row.
I will say this, and not because you know, I
mean I didn't go to West Liberty obviously. I mean
I went there for one class so in summer school
and just to knock it out, and and but you
know their local team, you're going to reform, right, So,

(03:02):
as an outside observer, probably one of the worst officiated
games I've ever seen, for both sides, both sides, worst
officiating I've ever seen in a championship game in.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
What regards like defensive fouls.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Wouldn't call fouls UH would call. Wouldn't call like the
like the forearm of the throat. Didn't call that as
a foul. They called the handchack.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh yeah, four under the throat is a pretty you
know obvious.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
UH didn't call that where the offensive player runs over
the defensive player. But yet two guys going for the ball,
they call foul on the floor, you know, diving on
the floor, they called foul.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
But yet you said it was balanced the bad calls both.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Absolutely, absolutely, I mean that there's a good way to
look at it.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
But at least it's that one.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I mean, I think it leaned one way a little bit,
but not a lot. I mean, I think it was
a consistently poorly officiated game.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
So overall, just using the West Liberty guys as an
exit as the test, how many minutes of basketball did
they play?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Fifty five? Oh, they played fifty five yesterday. Okay, that's
just one game, and then they played forty forty, so
eighty and fifty five, one hundred and thirty five minutes
and three days, three days. Yeah, and the loss did
not hurt West Liberty. They are the number one seed
in the Atlantic Region for the NCAA Tournament, so they
will be hosting. So there will be games at West

(04:36):
Liberty later this week, so I think it starts tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
And there was also girls too.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Right, there is, but not at West Liberty. No, No, no,
probably at maybe at Fairmont. Okay, I don't I'd have
to look at that. I didn't see the Division two
women's bracket.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Did you get your Phillip basketball?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Probably not, No starts back up tomorrow. My Mountaineers played,
they got they got a first round by so they
they played the winner of TCU Colorado. They split with
TCU beat Colorado, so they'll play one of those two
teams on Wednesday, and then if they win, lucky them,
they get number one Houston. So that's just how it rolls.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, Unfortunately, it's funny because my sports came to an
end with football ending, and then you roll right into
your happy time. We'll say basketball, and of course the bracket.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Baseball, Yeah, I mean when football season. Oh and tonight,
let's not forget the Wheeling Miners make their debut tonight. Oh,
a new league down at West Banko Arena, so we
want to It was funny because they must have had
to walk through scheduled for after the tournament, and the
players are standing there, I mean, they're all like waiting
to kind of get in and then the next thing,
you know, overtime and then you go, okay, overtime, Okay, overtime.

(05:51):
So they're they're walkthrough kept getting pushed back farther and farther.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
That had to be fun though, to sit there and
watch that in the crowd, and oh it was exciting.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
I mean you and anytime you any you know, I
look at it as free basketball because you know, you
got your forty minutes. Now it's bonus time, baby. So
you know, anytime there's overtime, it's always good. You know,
when you're a fan of the team, you want to win,
But anytime you get free basketball and a little extra,
it's nice, especially in college basket.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Did you happen to run into Kelly Tucker, who we
had on the show Friday?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I did not see Kelly.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
I'm sure it was a lunch here she got. She's like,
I have a long week and ahead of me.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
She very easily could have been up here. Oh that's
because there were two shows up here on Saturday, and
obviously I wasn't there Saturday.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
So yeah, because Aaron Lewis was Friday.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Aaron Saturday, Yes, yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I wish I would have went to that. I didn't
have tickets though, because they were they went quickly, like
she And that's the think. Listen, everyone we've met, We've
said this over and over again. People still say there's
nothing to do, there's nothing to do. Look at that,
Look at what we just rattled off. There's something for
sports fans, there's something for the older generation with with
the Vicky Lawrence and Mama Harper and that whole show.

(07:04):
And then there's something for music fans with Aaron Lewris. Aaron,
I'm sorry, Aaron Lewis. So there are three major categories
of entertainment right there on one weekend. So this talk
about there's nothing to do, there's nothing to do, sorry,
not anymore. That excuse does not doesn't go anymore.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
The funny thing is with the West Liberty Fairmont. You
know they've played three times and they you know how
the famous aying is, it's hard to beat a team
three times in a season. So West Liberty won the
two regular season matchups, Fairmont wins. If they win their
first round game in the in the NCAA tournament, they'll
they'll pair up again. Seriously, they'll play for a fourth time.

(07:48):
See the same, but it'll be at West Liberty.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
So oh that makes a difference. No matter what people say,
I'm sorry, home full advantage Home courtyp it always had,
it should it doesn't all it factors in it factors in.
It was a busy weekend for most people. I tend well.
I will say this Friday night, I went to a
charity event for Valley Hospice. It was a beautiful event

(08:11):
at Wheeling Park. If you've not been to the White
Palace and the renovations they've done, it is gorgeous over there.
It was a really really lovely, lovely event. And for
anybody who has dealt with Valley Hospice, please understand there's
a lot of wonderful people behind that organization that make
it happen. It is a nonprofit organization, which until I

(08:34):
became involved, I was not aware of the fact that
it was nonprofit. So when you have events like I
got the opportunity to go to on Friday, the fundraising
they do is for the facilities and being able to
bride the care that they do, so I was very,
very lucky to be one of the people that was
at this wonderful event. After that, I was done. I

(08:58):
was done for the weekend, and I decided I need separation,
I need a break, and I honestly needed to get
some crap done at my house that I've been putting off.
It was one of those weekends.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Just one quick thing. Yeah, so I said that Fairmont
State may host. What they don't. They're to the five seed,
so that the women's tournament they will be playing at Edinburgh.
Oh okay, so that's where that region will be. Edinburgh
is the host for that region. No, Farmont State's in
all right.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
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(09:48):
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phone number, and business. Coming up. Somebody had a magic
pen for the past four years. We're gonna talk about that,
the bloom Daddy Experience here on news radio eleven seventy

(10:10):
w w VA. Welcome back seven twenty one on your
Monday morning. The bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
I like that play a little longer because I like that.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
I got it. I'm doing a little little jig in here.
Got me, got me moving in my seat this morning.
Oh all right, so.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Hey, let me ask you a question. Okay, we talked
about the free lunch. Yes, do we have any other
prizes that we're doing today or no?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Okay, I mean we're gonna have chances to win today.
You didn't say that early.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, we are gonna have chances to win. I've got
to break that out. I'm sure we've got Jason Bonham
and we've got Tusk the Fleetwood Mac very good tribute
ban which, by the way, they're supposed to be like
the best out there this particular I've seen group.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me started on tribute bands.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
But anyway, I figured that might be a touchy topic.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
I mean, I know, I mean you could. I mean,
you can enjoy a good tribute band, I get it.
I mean it's not it's good entertainment. Yeah, okay, sometimes
I don't think that the ticket prices coaches validate. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying, it's not the real deal exactly.
And you know, and listen, I get it. They have

(11:33):
expenses and everything else. You know, they have roadies, they
have you know, people behind the scenes and so on
and so forth. I get all that it's not cheap
to be in a band. I got a buddy of
mine that I used to work with. It's in one.
So but when you have tribute bands, and it's great
because here's the thing, like Fleetwood Mac's never going to

(11:54):
tour again now that Christine mcviee passed away, So they're
never going to tour again. So the only way you're
gonna be able to see a Fleetwood Mac experience is this. Yeah,
and you know, I know that there's another one out there.
I think they're out of Atlanta. They're not Tusk, but
there's something I can't remember what the name of their band,
but they're they're supposed to be one of the better

(12:15):
ones too. Yeah, and the and the lead singer looks
like Stevie Nicks. That's what's really Yeah, I mean hair.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Did they even like each other anymore?

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, Stevie Nicks can't stand Lindsey Buckinghands.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah there's a hole.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, well they do that. It's like a love hate relationship.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
They could have started in days of our lives. Let's
put it that one.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Oh yeah, I mean, well most bands, it doesn't matter
if there you don't have to be in a relationship.
I mean, you're already in a relationship as a band,
because whether it's I mean, whether it's Motley Crue, whether
it's Kiss, whether it's whatever, you eventually get tired of
each other. Oh yeah, and you know you you have
different different opinions, and and who gets credit for writing

(12:59):
the songs, and then all this goes down. And I
mean like when Fleetwood when Fleetwood Mac did Rumors, which
is like their greatest album and one of the greatest
albums of all time, Like they were barely talking to
one another, and.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
They got some of their best Mexican out.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Well, and then they sat down and when they wrote,
when they when they the song the chain came out. Uh.
Then when they sat down, they all took a credit
for writing it because they all had something to do
with it. And that's kind of like how they worked
out all their differences moving forward, yeah, or I don't
want to say worked them out, but got through their

(13:36):
differences at that point in time.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well, just think of what that atmosphere would be like
when you're with somebody basically twenty four to seven, either
touring and then when you're creating music and you throw
in the emotional aspect of it, and you know, and.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Then you go back then you're throwing in cocaine and
everything else. So I mean, you know, there was there
was a lot, there was a lot of outside factors
thrown in there as well.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
You had a little dust of this and a dust
of that, and it adds to adds to the high
stress levels.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
And high is right. Yeah, But there's a there's a
great I think it's it's on one of the I
saw it either on Netflix or Amazon or one of them.
But there's a great documentary on on Fleetwood Mac making
rumors and everything that they were going through and the
production and so on and so forth. I mean it's

(14:26):
pretty good. I mean, Lindsey Buckingham just you know, he
kind of wanted to take the band over as far
as like a songwriter and everything else, and wanted to
be in charge and it.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Was a very dominating figure.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Mick Fleetwood didn't. He just was like trying to stay sober,
you know.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
So oh oh, anyways, okay, so this I have I
said this before. I'm a child of the eighties, So
hopefully most people get this reference. Possibly not otis. I
don't know if you will, and not because of who
he is is because he's of course not good anymore.

(15:04):
But does anybody remember Bill Cosby's picture picture.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Poes used to be on Captain Kangaroo?

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Okay, So when I saw this story, that was the
first thing I thought of, was I could hear Bill
Cosby making that voice of the pen and the song
and the whole thing. Okay, It has now come to
light that the majority of official documents signed by former
President Joe Biden used an auto pen now playing Devil's Advocate.

(15:37):
This is not new. An autopen's stamping situation with a
signature is not unique to Joe Biden and his presidency.
The problem is the amount of usage of this tool,
and also as the presidency went on through the four years,

(15:58):
how it became more prod through the years. So this
is bringing to light the question that we have all
been asking since the beginning, basically who controlled the presidency,
not the president, who controlled the actual presidency, who was
making the decisions? Because what it comes down to now,

(16:22):
at light with all of this information that's coming out
about this magic pen if you will the autopen who
was making the decisions? And it calls in a question
the mental acuity of the president, the decisions that were made,
and the gatekeepers. So my question is, along with Republican

(16:44):
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who sent a letter to
the DOJ demanding an investigation into his cognitive decline, and
who through the staff, who was not elected? FYI if
people want to argue about who's been elected and who's
not been elected, who was making these choices and these decisions.

(17:08):
Hopefully the DOJ will pick this up. But I think
it's just I think it's amazing that finally these questions
are being addressed by more than those in the media.
Will continue this conversation when we return. It's seven twenty
eight on your Monday morning, The Blue Daddy Experience, Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are back

(17:35):
seven thirty six Otis. We're not alone.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
No, we got a surprise.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
We have some surse surprise visitors with us this morning.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Just showed up and they can come anytime.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yes, because they came with gifts in hand in hand
joining us in the studio, we have Kirk Porterfield along
with son Mark. Well, thanks guys, they brought us ice cream,
Yes they did.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Thanks for having that.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I figured that it would be you know Porterfield. You
know then, Kirk, we knew we'd get ice cream. What
a great surprise on this Monday morning.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Well, I f figured you needed it this morning. Well
the weather it's getting warm, and yeah, very for ice cream.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's why you're a genius, Kirk. I just give it
to you. Anybody that can does key lime pie ice
cream is a genius in my mind.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, the I mean today is the day, right, Yeah,
we open today.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
At twelve twelve thirty something like that.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Twelve twelve thirty to eight.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Will we open today seven days a week. Summer hours
will probably expand to like nine thirty somewhere, well.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Somewhere between twelve.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Twelve twelve thirty. Who cares?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I love that mentality. Okay, So Mark, I'm gonna put
you on the spot. You are you are kind of
climbing the ladder taking the reins, no fence from the
old man over here, from dad. So what what's your vision?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Just kind of put my the younger generation line into
the business it's my dad has and expand it to
as far as I can go and as far as
I can see, and I really want to take it
more places than just Saint Clairsville. I want everybody to
try our ice cream and enjoy it like we enjoy it,

(19:17):
and just grow our customer base, because that's what we
do it for, is for the people and the customers
and just showing everybody.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
That we can our ice cream well. And you do
get your ice cream out there because you have your
mobile truck that you take to certain events and so on,
and so you do sell ice cream outside of Saint Clairsville,
but normally just add a special event. Correct.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, So we are usually just about double booked every weekend.
Summer's coming up quick. Even in the fall springtime, we're
still booking events.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
We're getting just.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
About anywhere and everywhere that we can. We've got some
wholesale counts such as Michelas Meat Market, ogil By Neely's Grocery.
I've got about twenty five thirty wholesale locations and we're
starting to grow that a lot. It's picking up pretty good.
We sell half gallons cups. A couple of different people
scoop our ice cream even and it's really starting.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
To go good well, and then on top of that,
starting in May, I believe a second location.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, so here coming up in the beginning of May,
we're opening up a second Kirks on Shady Side where
we're going to scoop it do Sundays do just about
the exact same that we do in Saint Clair's will,
but it'll be in Shady Side as well.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
All right, Kirk, I gotta ask you so to see
him Mark step into this role and kind of grab,
you know, take it by the reins. How does that
make you feel as a dad?

Speaker 5 (20:46):
Oh? That makes you happy? You know, you know it'll
continue for another forty or fifty years.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's great. I mean, we don't see. I hate to
say this, and I'm not putting you on the spot. Mark.
A lot of times your generation is kind of painted
not the most politely or with the most prettiest of
brush when it comes to being have that entrepreneurialship attitude

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or having a go for it, And I think you're
the polar opposite of that. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I definitely try to implement everything that my dad does,
try to do it and some more, you know, implement
you know, my ideas as well, and just kind of
take it to the next step and keep making it
bigger and better and change it. Obviously, still the same
delicious ice cream, the same everything that we do, just

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the other side of, you know, kind of bringing it
to other places.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
And so we're going to start seeing TikTok videos of Kirk.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yes, that's scary.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
You know.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Here's the thing. I mean, you see, you see family businesses,
and you know, some of these businesses have been around
for a hundred years, and what happens is the people
that are running them right now, the kids don't want
to take over the business. They want to they you know,
they have their own goals and everything else. And to
see this, you know, we see it with respects that

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you know that that they have a family tradition one
hundred years this year exactly. And you guys, you know
this is this is this is great for not only you,
but for the local community.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well thanks, yeah, thinking of one hundred years, My granddad,
her Walker started to make an ice cream in nineteen
twenty six, So next year it will be one hundred
years of ice cream in the family.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
You'll be celebrating one hundred years with WWV.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
A oh boy, oh wow, that's right.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
That also little marketing.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
To make it make a special.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
I was going to say, we're going to need a
special flavor.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Sounds like a contest to me. Flavors.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Just you remember who came up with that? You're too quick?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
So you mentioned your grandfather? What made you decide to
you started? When did you start?

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Kirks nineteen ninety two?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
So you just said, we're gonna We're gonna replicate we're
going to go back to our roots and bring back
Walker's ice cream.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
And well, basically, yeah, my aunt and uncle Chubb and
Eugene or Chub and Margaret Walker, they were you know,
slowing down kind of like I am now, and you know,
they just thought that'd be good if we started up.
So that's what we did.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's fantastic. And here and here's I think one of
the things. And Mark, this is for you to keep
in mind, you Kirk, you and Judy, which, by the way,
shout out to Judy, the brains behind here we go.
I was gonna let you if you finish that statement.
Notice one thing that I think that has made your
your footprints so successful and so strong on the market, Kirk,

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is the fact that you're always involved in the community.
So and what I mean by that is you step
up when there's a request, when there's an ask. Everything
that you did with the United Way being a part
of the rotary, those types of things. Being involved in
the community, I think adds to a small local business
because you become part of the fabric, and I think

(24:11):
you are a shining example of a local entrepreneur that
has made himself and the business part of our community.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Well thanks, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
See look what you get. Just bring us some free
ice cream and we'll.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Give you all the compliment you want.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
One thing I did want to mention we've had a
local artist, Roxanne Bruce.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yes, it's a store.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
She's been painting for probably two or three weeks now
and she's just turned that place and it's spectacular.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's bright and colorful. I'm gonna I'm going out later
this afternoon take some pictures to put them out'll put
them out on our Facebook page. Because is there any
new flavors this year that we're working on?

Speaker 4 (24:48):
The cookie butter okay.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Is gonna be really big, and I think we're gonna
make pistachio today. There we go Saint Patti Days is
coming up. So the other thing one far as pricing,
everything has just been skyrocketing. But I think we're going
to be able to hold her prices the same as
last year. Some of our stuff, well a lot of
our stuff has gone up, but some has actually come down,

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So when you average it out, I think we're going
to be all right.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
And if anybody ever has an idea or a crazy
idea for an ice cream flavor, you're all for it.
Oh yeah, yeah, where did I've got to ask? This
was last year? But where where did the sweet corn
ice cream come from?

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Iowa? Iowa?

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah? Well Missouri? Yeah, one of our flavor companies we
deal with. I was ordering some flavors and I said,
do you have anything new and exciting I can't live without?
And she said sweet corn? I said sweet corn? I
said really.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Everybody's response?

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah, And I said, well, I guess you could send
me a sample. She said, I don't think we have
any here to even send you. And I said, well, okay,
I'll get back with you. So we went down to
tu Lock for lunch and one of the waiters came
up and said, you ever made a sweet corn ice cream?

Speaker 2 (26:03):
On the same data the same day.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, so I looked at Judy, I said, we got
to do it. I said, we've been doing it for
thirty two years and nobody's ever mentioned sweetcorn now twice
in one day. So it was actually pretty popular. I mean,
you know a lot of people said, oh, it's good,
but I don't think I got to eat a whole
dish and other people.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I had it. I had an entire scoop. It was
one of those things where it was so weird it
was good. Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Like it was it tastes better if you didn't know
it was sweet corn.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, that's probably part of it, because it's in your mind.
It doesn't compute the two things, ice cream and corn.
It just doesn't go together.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
One of my buddies came in and he wanted a
cone of it, so I dipped it for him and
I put another cone on top and handed it to
him horizontally, like, yeah, he got a chuckle out of that.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
That's a that's presentation.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
That's exactly.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah, that's exactly. That's that's perfect.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, guys, again, this more it's sometime between new in
twelve thirty today.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
What happens when when we get back.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, Kirk's ice Cream will be opening in Saint Clair's
and of course Mark, as you said, you can get
it at a lot of local businesses here across the valley.
And then the new Shady Side location will be opening
in Movie Bay. Yes, wonderful.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Well, guys, thank you.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
We're gonna kick you out because we've got some ice creamdya.
That's right, Thank you guys. It's seven forty six on
your Monday. The bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA seven fifty one. Welcome back the bloom

(27:40):
Daddy Experienced salmon Otis. I'll tell you what, I'm not
usually one for surprises. They just not mind make me nervous.
I'll take that surprise any day.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
I will say this. I will say this, we are
not above if you are bringing us free food, putting
you on the air and promoting your business. Keep that
in mind. So if you have a business, a restaurant
or something, and you want to bring us free food,
we will put you on the air.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Although we will say Kirk and the ice Cream Shop
have been very good partners for for many many years,
and I give Kirk.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
You a hard time sometimes because I always telling the
Judy's the brains.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
How fun to be the ice cream man?

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Like you know just well, you know, Kirk's had he's
had his hand, he's had his hands in everything. I
mean he had the feed store there for a while,
he was collecting garbage for a while. I mean, oh
that's right. I mean he's done it. He's done it all.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
He's your jack of all trades.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Absolutely, and there's nothing wrong with that. And I mean,
here's a guy. There's nothing that I see. I mean
you and I said this, I mean, and I see
it sometimes. You see it in the bar, in the
restaurant business a lot where the kids don't want to
do with them. You know, the dad took over for

(29:05):
the dad and the son were together, and then when
the dad passes away or moves on, then the sun
takes over and he's hoping that it remains in the family.
It doesn't always work out that way.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
And honestly, here in the Ohigh Valley we are very
lucky when it comes to generational businesses. I mean, Kirks
is an example. Another example Front of Show is Lolini,
Brick and Stone. I mean Randy his father, Randy Senior,
I believe, and back and back and back they've been around. Oh,

(29:40):
he'll probably get on me about I want to say
eighty five years. I mean, and you mentioned respects. Is
that one hundred years. We're celebrating one hundred years next year.
We've got Michelas, We've got Jacob and sons. These are
all family businesses and I think that is a very
unique aspect to the High Valley. We still have those.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Oh and you have. I mean look at you and
if you look at some of the bars and clubs.
I mean, Wakem's celebrated one hundred years and twenty twenty four,
so you know, and that was that's been a family
run business, you know, for for a hundred years. Undos
been around forever. I mean it's hard. I mean we
could sit.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Here and oh, we could rattle them off, you know.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I mean, I know, I know there's a bunch of
businesses out there that you know that are family businesses
that have been around for a long time, and it's
just it's sad when you see, you know what I mean,
you can't blame the kids sometimes now when you know
maybe they don't want to go into that you know,
maybe they you know, like I know, I know the

(30:43):
one business owner his son's an eye doctor, and the
other ones in insurance and everything, you know what I mean,
So they take different routes. And let's be honest, I mean,
there's as much as we love the Ohio Valley, some
people just can't sustain it. You know that you have
to go outside to find work.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, oh, absolutely, absolutely. Well on the other side of
this is I mean a big generational businesses has been farming,
and I know that was a decision that hit my
family was do do you continue that world? Is it
financially feasible to raise a family still being a full

(31:19):
time farmer? And unfortunately we have seen a lot of
that lifestyle go by the wayside. There's multiple layers to it,
but one aspect is a lot of the times the
children do not want to continue the business. They don't
want to continue that career. So to see somebody like

(31:44):
Kirk and then his son Mark come in and I'm
glad Mark Kin because as I mentioned, you know, to
see a young guy who is who is stepping in
and taking a lot of responsibility on his shoulders at
the age that he's at is refreshed to see. Unfortunately,
that generation, and I'm guilty of it, is judged very

(32:04):
harshly for not having a lot of initiative, for not
having a lot of drive. And here's an example of
a young man who has the drive, has the.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Initiative and wants to stay in the valley and.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Once yeah and expand yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
And has a vision. Yeah, and I think it's a
positive vision, you know, I mean, you know, I mean
he's a young kid. He's in his twenties. I didn't
ask him how old he was, but I mean I
have two kids that are in their twenties, and I
have one that has more ambition than the other one does,
you know, I mean they both have ambitions, but one

(32:41):
son's ambitions a.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Little little off center.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Yeah, I mean it's just you know, I mean, it's
great to have that ambition, but at the moment, like
you're not going to make a living off of it.
You have to establish yourself. So but I mean, I
appreciate his vision. I mean, I appreciate what he wants
to do, but I think he has to use it,
use that as a supplement or as opposed to it.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Mean, well, and that's kind of what your your early twenties,
let you do, you be a dreamer, and then.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
It's hard to start something from scratch too, right, So
you know, I mean mark is going into an established
business and then going and taking it and looking to
expand it. Whereas if you're if you're a young guy,
you're your young lady and you want to start something
from scratch, that's that's that's a tough nut.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well, knowing that that's what you want to do. Heck,
when I was in my twenties, yeah, I have any
idea what I wanted to do. I just wanted to
survive school and get a degree. How handy does that
come in, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, it was my goal was to have fun, and
I'm just gonna leave it. I say, There's a couple
other things I could say in there, but I'll just
pass on that I.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Have an idea of what type of fun you're referring to.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
You.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Sometimes you think you're a rock star. Let's put it
that way. Just putting it out there.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
And there are those that that eventually, you know, reality
hits and you have to grow up and you have to.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
It does hit. Reality does hit no matter where you are,
who you are reality will hit at some point in
time and you have.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
To get a real job and be an adult and
sometimes adulting is not fun. But anyways, all right, so
we're going to jump to a quick break. It's seven
point fifty eight. Coming up after the break, finally going
to get into this. Have an update once again on
East O Higher Regional Hospital. Now what it's a it's

(34:37):
kind of like groundhog Day for a lot of employees
over there. The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
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Speaker 2 (35:14):
Eighth six. Welcome back on your Monday morning, The bloom
Daddy Experience sama Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So
back to the topic, East Ohio Regional Hospital. Friday came
Friday went for the employees over at East to High

(35:35):
Regional Hospital. You know what did not appear once again?
A paycheck? Of course, We've posted this on our social
media page. Friday afternoon when we were made aware from
our multiple sources who also shared the email from the

(35:56):
administration in regards to this, and here's one quote from
the email. After exhausting all possibilities for immediate release of funding, today,
we are working hard to enable a disbursement to take
place on or before March eleventh. It is March tenth,

(36:18):
so by tomorrow, four days past, they hope to pay
their employees. According to one of my sources, who I
have mentioned multiple times, there are those that are still
waiting on paychecks from February twenty first. Think about that

(36:41):
February twenty first. So here's a question for those that
were not paid this past Friday and those that are
waiting from February twenty first, are they going to get
back pay? So those that are still waiting on the
checks from the twenty first, will they receive that tomorrow

(37:01):
along with this most recent pay. That's the huge question.
This continues to go further and further into multiple rabbit holes.
I've been provided with additional information which hopefully I will
be able to bring to you once I do a

(37:22):
lot of digging into questionable disbursements of funds grants in
different situations that follows the money going to be digging
into that now. I reached out to multiple sources because
as of Friday, when people were not paid, there were

(37:45):
those who decided, I'm not going to work finally, and
this is not a knock on those that have continued
working at East Ohio, but finally they're starting to make
a statement and they're not going to work rightfully. So
why go to work if you're not going to be paid? Now?

(38:08):
According to my sources there, the third floor has been
shut down at the facility in Martin's Ferry and all
patients were moved to ICU. The ICU E and er
R ends called off, so the third floor r N
went to ICU with the house supervisor to make sure

(38:33):
the remaining patients were taken care of. But the employees
are finally starting to say enough is enough. But my
question once again goes back to and I mentioned last
week how the the group came in the Joint Administrators

(38:54):
to speak to employees that work there. When is this
approaching on the pre the edge of a legal situation.
How long can can a facility get away with not
paying people one time or at all? At this point,

(39:18):
if people are still waiting on a paycheck from February
twenty first, and listen one of the signs of this
conversation that is being left out, and I will absolutely
say that I've dropped the ball on that is the
human side of this.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Last week I had the opportunity to speak to a
spouse of an employee at East Ohio this person, and
once again I am doing everything to keep my sources anonymous.

(40:00):
There is a lot of pressure to find out who
is speaking out, so I will be using no references,
to pronouns, anything to give anything away. Because these people
who are reaching out to us, providing us with information
are incredible. I cannot stress how appreciative I am. So

(40:24):
I'm doing everything I can to keep sources off the radar.
But this particular person that I got to speak with
has now thanks to the issues with health insurance being canceled,
has now picked up, unbeknownst until some phone calls were

(40:45):
made an eighty five hundred dollars bill due to the
health plan insurance going lax or being canceled by the
health plan. When called. When this person called, there was empathy,

(41:09):
but it comes down to you're basically sol unfortunately, and
this person's spouse works there was under the thought they
had health insurance. Now, this source, one thing I wanted
to ask and bring to you again is the human

(41:33):
side of this. If you think you have health coverage,
and you believe you're being covered, you went through open
enrollment at the beginning of the year, you do all
of those things. You think I have health insurance. I
have had health insurance. This test has been been covered
since I've been getting it for the past two or

(41:54):
three years. You have no reason to think anything else
has changed. But unbeknownst to you, the health coverage has
been canceled, even though the deductible is still being taken
from your spouse's paycheck. So anybody would think, if money

(42:18):
is being removed from my paycheck for my benefits, part
of it being health insurance, I still have health insurance.
If I'm paying for it, then I still have it. Hmm.
Not the case here. But one of this is what
are the families experiencing? What are the employees taking home
with them that then is falling in the lapse of

(42:42):
their families. And this source that I spoke to said
that their spouse repeatedly says, I feel betrayed and completely misled.
I feel used. Think about that. Think about going to

(43:04):
work every day, and that is how you feel about
your employer, and you're bringing that home with you. And
I'm sure for employees they do everything they possibly can
to not let work go home with them. I do, Listen,

(43:25):
you don't want the stress of your work to go
home with you every day. This is a unique situation.
According to my source that I got to speak to
last week home life, the person is exhausted, Their spouse
is exhausted all the time, and the spouse said that

(43:45):
they have noticed a difference over the last six months
with the energy level, the personality, and just the stress
level of their spouse who works at East Ohio. Let
alone the physical stress that has now started to affect

(44:08):
this employee. Listen, it's one thing to spout off the numbers.
It's one thing to spout off the taxes that are owed,
the paychecks that have not been received. But for the
folks that are living with the workers at East Ohio,
they're dealing with it also along with the stress of

(44:29):
medical bills, car payments, house payments, electric bills. Think about it,
if you didn't get your paycheck on time. Do you
have enough to survive? That's what's going through the minds
of the people at East to Hire Regional Hospital. And again,
as I said, there is additional information that I'm being provided,

(44:50):
but before I bring it to you, I have got
to do some more digging. And once again to anybody
at East Ohio, whether it be in the administration employee,
you are more than welcome to come on and have
a conversation. We want to hear from you, especially those
sitting in the offices. You're invited anytime. It's very simple
to get ahold of us Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.

(45:12):
It is eight sixteen. You're listening to The Bloomdaddy Experience
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are back
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(45:34):
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Was a busy
weekend in sports. Otis talked at the top of the
show about his weekend watching basketball here and wheeling and
also down in Morgantown, WVU along with the MEC tournament. Well,

(45:56):
it was also busy in the NFL. If you have
no been following this. I'll tell you what first of
all Steelers, this bout made me punch the television As
a Browns fan, Steelers have now found their number one receiver.

(46:18):
ESPN is reporting that the team has acquired DK Metcalf
from the Seahawks. If you have, by any chance ever
seen Dk Metcalf, if you have not, he is an
absolute physical specimen. He is a beast size wise for
a receiver tight end. Okay, receiver, he's a beast. Seattle

(46:40):
is receiving a second round pick in exchange, along with
flipping sixth and seventh rounders in next month's draft. Pittsburgh
immediately signed the vertical threat to a five year, one
hundred and fifty million dollar contract following the trade, so
they have locked him in for the next five years.

(47:02):
I gotta give it to him. Listen. Unfortunately, Pittsburgh congrats
on that pickup. As a Browns fan, I'm not afraid
to say I am envious, but you're.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Gonna have somebody that can get him the ball.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
You are correct, Yeah, the quarterback situation is a big,
big question now staying in the AFC North, Let's hit
up my Browns. So listen, the past two weeks, two
and a half weeks has been It's been a roller
coaster with Miles Garrett and the Cleveland Browns. See reports

(47:38):
he's leaving. I see reports he's staying. You see reports.
The ownership won't speak to him. He's at the NFL Combine.
I'm saying that he has no intention of staying with
the Browns. He once traded. Immediately, he will not have
a conversation with anybody. Then yesterday, my phone starts blowing up.

(48:00):
It starts blowing up, not only alerts from Bleacher Report,
but Brown's apps that I have. I have my dad's
texting me super fan Tim from Smithfield, Brown's ultimate fan
couple years ago, through the team. He's blown me up
well out of nowhere. Miles Garrett signs a new contract

(48:25):
with the Browns. Okay, didn't see this coming anywhere. So
the deal includes just over one hundred and twenty three
million dollars in guaranteed money, which comes out to roughly
forty million dollars per year. That's rough. That's tough. Here's

(48:47):
the thing, here's where this is uh a little bit
different than most contracts. This now makes Garrett the highest
played I'm sorry the highest paid NFL player. Not that
is not a QB. So I don't know where the

(49:09):
Browns found the money with the whole Deshaun Watson in
that disgusting contract, but somehow they came to it. They
wanted to lock it in, and somehow both teams came,
both parties came to the table and did the contract's
extension that goes for four years. So we go from

(49:31):
has no interest in saying there will be no lines
of communication, Jimmy Haslam, the owner, says on Saturday he
will not sit down and talk to Garrett and his people.
Now twenty four hours later, four year extension, highest paid
player other than a quarterback in the league. Okay, fine,
we're not done. If I said the NFL was busy yesterday,

(49:55):
there were tons of moves that happened yesterday. Here's another
big one. This one is huge. Josh Allen for the
Buffalo Bills now has a six year deal worth three
hundred and thirty million dollars. The deal includes a whopping

(50:16):
quarter billion dollars in guaranteed money. The two hundred and
fifty million dollars is guaranteed money, which is the largest
such number ever given an NFL player. Think about that.
The previous highest guaranteed figure was two hundred and thirty
one dollar up dollars. Yeah, two hundred and thirty one

(50:38):
million dollars to QB for the Cowboys Dak Prescott. This
takes him from the fourteenth highest paid quarterback in the
NFL to the number one. So breaking this out, these
numbers just real quick. Think about it. This over the

(51:01):
next six years, after signing three hundred and thirty million
dollar extension per year, that's fifty five million dollars per month,
four point five for a week, a little over a
million dollars. He's going to be paid per day, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars per minute, one hundred and

(51:23):
four dollars and sixty five cents he's going to be
making per minute. These numbers that are coming out of
professional sports are insane, absolutely insane. When when will we
hit a billion That's my question. What player at what
sport is going to get a billion dollar contract? It's coming,

(51:46):
we know it's coming. So it's a big busy day
yesterday in NFL free agency and it's not over. We're
just at the beginning of it. So it's more big
deals are made, we will bring those to you of course.
Again Steelers name got yourself a beast? Eight twenty eight
The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven

(52:07):
seventy wwva Hey thirty six. Welcome back to bloom Daddy Experience.
Just real quick going back to the NFL. Thanks to
listener Wayne just sent me a quick cover shot from

(52:30):
Katie Ka out of Pittsburgh. Aaron Rodgers is being considered
as an option for the Pittsburgh Steelers at the quarterback position.
So that goes right into what you said, otis, doesn't
matter how good of a receiver you have if you
don't have a good quarterback. But I will say this,
the Aaron Rodgers experiment did not play out very well

(52:51):
for the Jets. So Steeler fans, would you want Aaron Rodgers?
Or is he way too past his prime? He's what
would you say, forty two?

Speaker 4 (53:02):
Forty?

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:05):
I mean he's in his early forties. So listen, Steeler fans,
would you want him? What's the better option? I don't know,
I don't know. So again, more things happening across the NFL. Also,
the weekend was busy for a lot of folks, which,
by the way, I've got to give a shout out
to a friend of mine who the event I went

(53:26):
to Friday night. I forgot about this. She came up
to me and she was like, you look so nice,
saying she gave me these wonderful compliments, and I'm like,
that's really nice. You know, I thought, I said, all thanks.
You know, I felt very flattered. I was wearing black
pants and a gold jacket. She's a Steelers fan, so

(53:47):
she got one over on me. So Jess, congrats, you
got me on that one. Anyways. Also this past weekend
was the power Ball in the Mega Millions, the jackpots
in the nation's two most popular lotteries. It's now There's
now soaring. There was no grand prize winner in the
Saturday night Saturday night drawing for the power Ball, pushing

(54:10):
that jackpot up to three hundred and thirty five million dollars. Hey,
you could get yourself a Josh Shallon for one of those, right,
Wasn't that three point thirty was his contract? So the
next drawing will happen tonight. That means a lucky winner
or winners taking the cash option would walk away with
just over one hundred and fifty seven million dollars. Plus

(54:32):
no one had any luck with the grand prize for
the Mega Millions on Friday, so that jackput jackpot jumps
to two hundred and fifty six million dollars. The next
chance to hit that one is tomorrow. So the jackpots
are growing for the Mega millions. But there's one guy.

(54:52):
He's already a billionaire. I mean this dude, listen, and
he's come to visit us again. The tabloids have discovered
that Jeff Bezos will marry Lauren Sanchez. You remember her.
She was the big uproar the suit jacket at the
Trump administration. That's happening this summer in Italy. The wedding
will take place on his Meggaocht the carew and there

(55:15):
is much speculation about who will earn a coveted spot
on the guest list. The evil Amazon genius is here
to speculate on that speculation with a message about his
upcoming nuptials.

Speaker 6 (55:29):
Five Jeff Bezos, the piskey Paparopsi is confirmed by marrying
my brick hair delicious bride to be this summer in Italy. Now,
these irksome shutterbugs are speculating on the wedding list. They
include the usual suspects. You note, the Kardashians, the Cloononies
of the world. They're guessing Leo DiCaprio will have the
prime rib while this pus one will have the Dino nuggets.

(55:53):
Who some wonder if my ex wife Mackenzie will attend.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
If she does, she.

Speaker 6 (55:57):
Best bring a fat envelope.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
I need to recop some of that divorce settlement.

Speaker 6 (56:02):
And then there are those who think my arch nemesis
Elon Musk.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Will be invited.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
Yeah, sorry, Elon, but we're thinking of downsizing the list.
So maybe you can email a bullet list of five
wedding gifts you might bring.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
You're getting doged. Oh they have it.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
They're so stupid, but they're so funny. Oh gosh, oh
my gosh. So oh sorry, sorry I was laughing too much.
So these two guys, tell me how you would handle this.
You might need your you need a Wilson for this.
So there were two guys that were lost at c

(56:48):
for twenty nine days. Unlike Tom not Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks,
they did not end up an Eye Island. They were
stuck in a boat. The entire twenty nine days. But
one of them is saying that they look for it.

(57:09):
He looks forward to going home, back home, But it
was a nice break from everything. Twenty nine days days
is a little long to be stuck on a boat. Honestly, though,
if I could be stranded on an island for maybe
a I don't know, ten days, Yeah, let's say ten days,

(57:34):
I think I could handle a break like that, a
complete disconnect from everything, just to kind of recharge. I
don't think i'd really want to have to go through
like a Gilligan's Island, the boat crash, its situation. That
wouldn't be fun. Would you Would you want to have
that break otis? Would you want to have that? Could you?

(57:58):
Could you do ten days stranded on a deserted island?

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Oh? Probably?

Speaker 2 (58:05):
What's the one thing you would have to have there?

Speaker 4 (58:08):
You go, I'd have to have something that. I just
have to have something background wise, you know, just whether
it's my whether it's on my phone, whether it's on
you know, some sort of I would have to have
some sort of music.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
I just I think it would be such a shock
to the system for so many people to have a
complete disconnect from everything. I think one of the problems
with the way we live today. We are so connected

(58:43):
all the time. I mean, think about it. We have
a mini computer in our hands or in our purse
twenty four to seven hours a day. It's always with us.
We're always in some form of communication because about it.
We've got texting, We've got phone calls, which how many

(59:05):
people actually make phone calls anymore? We've got email, we
have Facebook, we have instant Message, we have Instagram, we
have TikTok, we have Snapchat. Right, there is eight things
I rattled off where you are constantly in connection with

(59:26):
other people, so at any point in time, people can
get a hold of you. And one of those things
that we always take work. I'm constantly reachable when it
comes to work. There are times so I have to
make an absolute conscious effort to put everything on silent

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and also stop vibrate on my phone because I am
like Pavlov's dog. Look just heard that. I look right
over whenever there's any type of an alert that something
on my phone has happened, whether it's a text and email,
what I immediately operate to it. And that's where we've

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gotten to as a society is we never give ourselves
a break. We never turn it off. We never turned
the phone off, and we never turn the brain off.
That's why I think something like ten days on a
deserted island doesn't sound that bad. I can eat pineapple

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for ten days. I can eat coconut for even though
I absolutely hate coconut. I would make it work for
ten days to completely separate and reboot, because again, we're constantly,
always connected. Think about it. In twenty twenty four, the

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majority of how people spend their time, sixty one percent
of their time is spent online. And that's a very
broad way of putting it. But some somehow connected online
through different whether it's the Internet, social media, all of that.

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And the categories are online, friends, coworkers, bar, restaurant, family, school, church, neighbors,
in college, and that's how it goes down. So sixty
percent of our time, I'll round it up, sixty one
percent of our time is spent online. Fourteen percent is

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spent with friends, eight percent with coworkers, five percent, bar restaurant,
family comes after all of that at four point five percent, school,
three percent, then church, neighbors, college, and so on. So
sixty one of our percent of our time is spent

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with no human contact. Think of that sixty one percent
of our time is spent with no human contact. It's
date forty six on your Monday morning, the Blue Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA Day fifty one

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on your Monday Welcome back to the Bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis. So listen, I want to put this out there.
Got to get an email from a listener, Otis. This
ties in perfectly perfectly because we have your chance to
win coming up here at the top the end of
the show pair tickets to see Tusk, the Fleetwood Mac

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tribute band. But we got this email made me smile.
So first of all, thank you. Landing between ice cream
and this email this morning, it's been a it's been
a great Monday, he says. I just wanted to say
thank you Sam and Otis for always supporting the Capital
Theater and local businesses, but especially giving away tickets. I
was lucky enough to win tickets to the Aaron Lewis concert,

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which was amazing, by the way, and I appreciate that
very much. It was me and my girlfriend's first concert
ever and I will never be able to thank you
guys enough for that experience. I listened to the Blue
Daddy experience every day and always love to listen to
what you two have to say. Thank you, well, you're welcome, Landon.
I'm glad you got the opportunity to go see that

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show and take your girl with you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
What not that I was trying to think of something
to say, just a rip on us, but I just
let it go because that's a nice compliment. I was
just gonna I was gonna be something. I was just
gonna say, well, if you're listening to us, you know,
just I was gonna have some fun with it. But
it's kind of hard.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
No, So, land and thank you for the nice email
this morning. Like I said, it makes me smile between
the ice cream and that gotta you know, you gotta
take or you can sometimes. You know, a lot of
the times what we have to talk about is, you know,
it can be some heavy stuff, but we try to
put in some fun and we try to provide some
goodies for all you out there, so listen. We try

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to mix it up. We try to mix it up
also this week. If this is up your up your rally,
you're in for a treat. As a blood moon will
phase into a total lunar eclipse. The event will start
on March thirteenth during the evening, and it will then
continue through the early hours of March fourteenth, So that

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will be Wednesday and Thursday. Yeah right, No, Thursday and
a Friday, you gotta okay, sorry, Thursday and a Friday
this week. The astronomer says the amount of dust in
cloud cover will determine how red the eclipse will appear.
While the total lunar eclipse won't require any special equipment
to watch it, a telescope or binoculars will give you

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a better view. So there you go. If that's your
kind of thing. It's happening this Thursday and two Friday.
Did you have I sent I texted you yesterday morning.
Did you have that dust all over your car?

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
I did?

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Oh my god, I had no idea. I posted a
video on Facebook and everybody's like, that's the mud, rain
and rain mud. Never seen it before. Sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
The first thing I thought of was I was going
that damn cat from across the street was walking all
over my food of my car, and then I was like, oh,
hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Yeah, my car's white, so you could see it everywhere
and listen you want to talk about We've mentioned that
we had a couple times throughout the show. You know
who had a fantastic Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
Car wash companies And Saturday, Yeah, I said, in mind
for forty minutes to get my car washed.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Oh I went yesterday. I had to run into the
grocery store and I was like, ah, while I'm out
and I was waiting on a prescription at the pharmacy,
and I thought, I'll go get my car washed. And
I'm in Saint Clairsville area. The sheet car wash was
backed up to where the gas pumps were at basically.
Then I went to the one the the ones at

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oh what is the exit ramp where the Bell stores
is at? It was it was crazy. I need. I
ended up driving all the way to Belmont and going
to that big one out there and doing it by hand.
It wasn't even one of the auto ones. I did
it with the gun and the whole thing. But yeah,
that's who the big winner of the weekend is are

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the auto car washes thanks to the dirt rain. Dirt
rain is oh rain, mud rain. Yeah, so they made
it out pretty good. They made out pretty good. Oh,
gosh goodness. And then I don't know if you saw
this story. This is uh. I didn't even know we

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still did this in the United States. So this guy
did not have a good weekend. Brad Sigmund of South Carolina.
He's a murderer. He's been on death row since two
thousand and two, when he received the death sentence for
killing his ex girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
Yikes.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Yeah, so in South Carolina, the convicts must have the
choice choice of how they want the execution to happen.
Because the sixty seven year old opted out of lethal injection,
which is claimed to be the most humane way of

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doing it. He instead chose to be executed by firing
squad and it was done. Yikes. I like again, didn't
even know this went on. He was taken to the
chamber at six pm on Friday, strapped into a chair
and had a target placed on his heart, a bullseye.

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I mean when I saw that again, didn't even know
it still went on. Didn't even know it still went on.
So mister Sigmund did not have a good weekend. On
that note, let's win. Let's uh, Let's wrap up this
show with something fun for your chance to win one
eight hundred sixty two for eleven seventy a pair of
tickets to see the tribute band to Fleetwood Mac called

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Tusk one eight hundred sixty two for eleven seventy. Otis
you want to give us a number seventeen caller number
seventeen for your chance to win. And they're going to
be here when let me see he right, I'm going
in front of me. They're going to be here marchw

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so next roughly next week, next Thursday, yeah, next Thursday.
So again. One eight hundred six two four eleven seventy.
You said, caller number.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Seventeen.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
I'm sorry, seventeen for some reason, thirteen stuck in my head.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
No, don't, don't give out other numbers now I know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
I'm sorry, Okay, caller number seventeen. My apologies. One hundred
sixty two forty eleven seventeen and then Charles just send
us an email. I'll post this picture on our Facebook
page of upcoming lunar events eclipses in blood moons, so
if that is of interest, I will post this on

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our Facebook. Caller number seventeen, one eight hundred sixty two
for eleven seventy. Kirk and Mark, thank you this morning.
I've got a treat now after the show. I got
some Kirks homemade ice cream. They open the doors today
at twelve thirty. Everybody, have a good Monday. We'll talk
to you tomorrow. The bloom Daddy Experience samon otis here

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on news Radio eleven seventy w w V A

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
M hmm