The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news radio
eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Thursday morning to you. And if you haven't looked
at the weather forecast, you might as well start building
the arc right now.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Literally what two to three to four to five inches
of rain over the next four days. I've heard pretty
much about everything, but if you look at the forecast,
it looks like the next four days are going to
be absolutely miserable. And then next Tuesday, not sunshine, not
seventy degrees, not even rain, snow.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Snow, snow. I hate April.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I mean, if I've never told you this before, I'm
telling you right now. I hate April. I hate spring.
I hate everything about it. I hate the colors, I
hate Eastern colors. I hate the weather. I hate it.
I absolutely despise it. Fall, I love summer, I love spring.
Can go straight to you nowhere, and of course it
coincides with the opening of high school baseball. I went

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to watch Saint Clairso and Martin's Ferry last night, had
a light day at work because of the Guardians game,
and of course I got rained on three times during
the course of the entire game. It's always made me
wonder why the state of Ohio does not push the
high school baseball season. First of all, it should be
flipped with football. That'll ever happen because football rules the state.

(01:42):
But at least delay the start of the season two
to three weeks because the first two weeks are nothing
but what we are seeing right now. It's games getting canceled,
games getting delayed. And I realize more and more teams
have turf in the valley now, but you still have
an out field. Most outfields are not turf, and even

(02:02):
with turf, you can't play in the rain, a consistent downpour.
So why not start the season in mid April instead
of the end of March. Because I'll tell you why,
because it makes perfect sense, and because the state doesn't
care about high school baseball. But you want to talk
about some horrendous weather over the next couple of days,

(02:24):
we are going to sit right in the middle of
it all. Right, a couple of political things. First of all,
Trump the tariffs, stock market down eleven hundred points, people
freaking out. Look, it's gonna be a rough ride. I mean,
there's no doubt about it. I get what he's doing.
He's trying to get everybody to play fair with us.
He's trying to bring jobs manufacturing, specifically back to America.

(02:47):
This is only going to work if we've got guts
and we've got a backbone. That's the only way it's
going to work. I mean, over the course of the
next three, six, twelve months, might have to cut back
on some things, might have to figure some things out.
But I think if you believe in what he's trying
to do, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

(03:08):
The big question politically is going to be are Americans
willing to wait? And most will say no, because when
it comes to the pocketbook, I mean, let's face it,
people don't like their money being messed with. The midterms
are going to be here quicker than you can say midterms. Historically,
the incumbent president's party takes a hit in the midterms.

(03:31):
And I'll tell you what if the economy is still
lagging because of these tariffs, then Republicans are going to
get absolutely slaughtered in the midterms, and then you're talking
about twenty twenty eight the repercussions there Again, I get
what he's trying to do, and I'm hoping that these
other countries back down, because there's one thing that if
you've seen about Trump, whenever he puts somebody on blast,

(03:56):
whenever he plays chicken with somebody, usually they're the ones
that back down. I'm hoping China, Japan, Canada, Mexico take
a big step backwards because that'll be a huge win
for Trump to take the tariffs off and everything will
be back quicker. Worst case scenario for Republicans is that
this drags on. And believe you me, the Democrats do

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not even have a pulse right now, but if they're
hoping to get one, it's going to be because of
the economy. So I guess what I'm saying to you
is get ready for a rough ride, because it's going
to be very rough. The question is how long is
it going to be rough? Is it going to be
two months, is it going to be six months, Is
it going to be a year? God forbid? Is it
going to be two years? Because there's always pain before

(04:43):
the pleasure. But how much will the American public be
willing to deal with that pain? That's the question. The
other political thing I wanted to throw out there to you,
or I should say social angle. I saw the other
day where somebody on the mental health board in Seattle,
Washington I identifies as a turtle. Let me say that
again so you fully understand what I just said. Somebody

(05:06):
on the mental health board in Seattle identifies as a turtle.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I'm not kidding you. This is a dude or an
it or whatever they're.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Calling themselves these days, and this is an individual who
identifies as a turtle who is making mental health decisions
for the residents of Seattle.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
It's either Seattle or Oregon. And I guess it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
The fact of the matter is there's some idiot out
there who identifies as a turtle. So you're telling me
the people out there on the left, Democrats who say, well,
you know, everybody should be able to be what they
want to be. You're telling me that somebody who identifies
as a turtle is not mentally ill. Because if that's
what you're saying, you are mentally ill and somebody like

(05:54):
this should not be allowed on a board anywhere that's
making decisions for anybody. Look, I refuse to play the game,
and I hope you refuse to play the game too.
If somebody wants to identify as a turtle, or some
dudes got a crank in some ball bearings and he
wants to say he's a chick, they can do that
in their own made up world. The problem is when

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they try to force you to believe in their made
up world.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I refuse to do it.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
If I run into somebody who's a chick and I
say ma'am and they're offended by it, I'm gonna go off.
Not my problem. That's your made up world that you
live in, not mine. Same thing with somebody who says
they identify as a turtle. You tell me you identify
as a turtle, I'm gonna say you got major mental problems,
and I'm gonna feel no remorse saying it. What I'm

(06:42):
trying to say to you is we got to quit
playing the game. If people want to make up their
own sense of reality, that's fine. They can live in
their own sense of reality on their own time. They're
not gonna do it on my time, and they're certainly
not going to force me to do it. If you
are a guy, I'll call you sir. If you're a woman,
I'll i'll call you ma'am. And if you've got a
problem with it, that is your issue, not mine. And

(07:07):
once we take this mentality, we can walk away from
this reality that is so mentally ill driven that it's
almost comical. But I can't laugh at something when people
are losing jobs or being forced to say or address

(07:29):
people in certain ways that simply is not reality. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy experience eleven to seventy wwva.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Ooh, and nobody is off limits. Bloom Daddy straightforward in
your base radio.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
A little baseball right now in these torpedo bats that
the New York Yankees are using. First of all, before
I say anything, I just want to say it's too
small of a sample size before we make any kind
of judgment on yeah, these bats are enhancing offense or
whatever we want to say.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
We haven't played enough games.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
We haven't seen enough of a sample size to really
make a determination whether or not they are affecting the
game in a much more positive way offensively.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
If you don't know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
The Yankees have basically slid the barrel of the bat
closer to the trademark, closer to the middle of the bat,
so the very end of the bat, the first three inches,
is now skinny instead of being the same with as
the barrel from three quarters of the way to the end.
So they've slid it down. It's perfectly legal by Major
League Baseball standards. And they did it because Anthony Volpi

(08:36):
kept on hitting balls near the trademark, which was not
the sweet smart sweet spot of the bat. And they thought, okay, well,
you know, let's talk to the MIT graduate on our staff.
What would you do about this, Hey, let's slide the
sweet spot down for Anthony Volpi, in other words, personalizing
the bat for him, like you can get a pair
of golf clubs personalized for you, and whila, Volpi's hitting

(09:00):
better than he did. He's hitting home runs better than
he did. And other Yankees started using this torpedo style bat,
and through the first three games of the year, I
think they tied the record with like thirteen home runs
or fifteen home runs through three games.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Couple of things.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
First of all, the Yankees led the major leagues in
home runs last year, so it's not like they don't
hit home runs already. I don't know if it was
the bat, but if you take a look at what
they did last year, they led all of Major League
baseball and home runs, so I guess it shouldn't be
that much of a shock that they tied the all
time record, which, by the way, the all time record
was set with regular wood bats, So again, small sample size.

(09:38):
And you know what, me personally, I don't like this
because what I would say to Anthony Volpi and the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Is fix his damn swing. You're the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Your hitting coach gets paid three million dollars a year
to help guys hit. If he's hitting the ball too
much down on the trademark, I'm assuming he's probably casting
his hands when he swings, So guess what fix him?
Have him do wall drill, pull his hands in a
little closer to his body, fix his swing instead, the

(10:12):
Yankees say, well, yeah, he's got a flawed swing, and
instead of us fixing it, let's just go change the bat.
That's in essence what they've done, and other guys have
followed suit. Ellie Dela Cruz are the Reds. He used
the torpedo style bat a couple of games ago, went
four for five with two home runs. Somebody will say, well,
look it had to be the bat. Ellie Dela Cruz

(10:33):
is an All Star. This guy's one of the top
players of Major League Baseball. So a four to five
with two home runs is not out of the realm
of possibility for a guy with that kind of talent.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Every year it's the.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Balls are juiced, or the balls are not juiced, or
the players are juiced, or it's something. I don't like
when equipment becomes manipulated, because if it is giving hitters
an advantage, it just skews all the numbers that have
made Major League Baseball what it is when we talk
batting average, home runs, RBIs and everything else. But as

(11:08):
far as the torpedo bats go, I think the jury
is still out. I think it's been too small of
a sample size. Let's wait until we get closer to
the All Star break before we make a determination as
to whether or not these bats are enhancing a player's ability.
I think that's the that's the safest thing to do,

(11:28):
and of course, all the teams to do it the
damn Yankees. It's not like we don't hate them already,
and then they got to go and do something like this.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I mean, notice you're a baseball guy. What do you think.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, I agree with you. I think the sample size
is too small right off the bat to see if
right off the bat, yeah, oh yeah, but I think
the sample size is too small. I mean they haven't
been in it.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
What the Yankee should have done, or what these bats
should have done, they should have been previewed in spring
training and then you would have thirty games from thirty
teams and you'd have a little better sample size. You'd
have been able to see. And you know the thing
about baseball is it's a thinking man's game. So you

(12:13):
have to find an advantage somewhere. What's the advantage. Well,
the advantage right now appears to be these torpedo bats.
And so what you know, when they thought the pitchers
had the advantage, they lowered the mound six inches. Okay,
now you have pictures, you know pictures. Would you know,

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legally or obviously illegally, they would have pine tar, they'd
have nail fouls, they would do whatever they could the
doctor the ball to gain the advantage or get a
better grip. So if you're going to allow the batters
a new advantage, what are you going to counteract that with.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
For the pictures, well, if you look at them, they
kind of look like bowling pins.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, there's like that's a super weird look for a yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yeah. And I think part of the controversy that that
has hit this it's the Yankees. Oh absolutely, And that's
part of it too. They're kind of like the the
Doctor Evil of major League baseball because they are they
sit atop everything.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Twenty seven World championships kind of right right, puts the
target on your back.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
It's kind of like that, you know, the rich get richer.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
That kind of sure.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
That kind of well, and now you know, here's the
other thing. If they're gonna be if they're going to
be available to every major league team, then that's different.
Then then then in every major league player, then it's
one hundred percent different. But you know, the Yankees debuted
the torpedo bat.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Now.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Bloom Daddy said that Elie Dela Cruz from the Reds
would used one the other day, so somewhere along the
line he got one. And if he can get one,
just about. I'm sure any major League baseball team can
get one, but who makes the bats? Are they going
to have enough on hand? You you know, because normally
a player probably has about ten bats in his arsenal

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for every game, and the reason being, you go up
to the plate, you hit it in the wrong spot,
that bat breaks, but now you need another one. You
do that two or three times a game. You better
have bats on hand. So you know, it's are they
going to be available? Are these bats going to break?
Are they Are they actual wood or are they some
sort of a composite? You see what I'm saying that
they look the pictures that I've seen almost make them

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look like a composite because of the way that they're
polished or whatever, which means they're not all wood, but
there's some there's some other substance, you know, like a
plastic type.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Well, and like you said at the beginning of this,
you know, major sports, professional sports, they're always trying to
find the next innovation or the next dynamic play that
nobody else is. Like, I mean, think about the touch
push right now in the NFL. That's a big topic
of conversation because they're talking about out I don't know

(15:01):
if they have completely.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Voted on it.

Speaker 6 (15:04):
Voted on it yet, but they're talking about eliminating that
as being allowed in the NFL. So it's it's, well,
you come up with something, and then the leagues have
to They're constantly chasing.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Well, Innovation is as part of a part of any sport,
whether it is to gain an advantage, as to say
in baseball as a hitter or as a fielder or
as a pitcher, there are innovations being made. I mean,
we talked about the helmets the other day that are
supposed you know, that are made a little differently because
they are there to protect against concussions. So innovations are

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not only for advantage but also for safety. I mean,
you had a catcher back in the seventies from the Dodger,
Steve Jeger. He's the guy that invented the plastic flap
that hangs down from the catcher's mask to protect your
throat on a foul ball. Now that has since evolved
into they've they've they've ungated the mask as opposed to

(16:02):
having an extra piece hank. But I mean again, at
one point in time, they didn't have chest protectors, you know,
I mean or they didn't have shin guards.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
Well, wasn't it like ten or fifteen years ago in
baseball there was the the sticky stuff? What did they
call it?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, well, I mean and like the pictures are saying, look,
we're not asking for an advantage, but if you're allowed
to put pine tower on your back for a better grip,
why can't we put a little pine tar on our
finger for a better grip? Okay? Well, okay, I mean
I don't I can see the argument. Yeah, you know,
if you're only using it for a better grip, Okay,
I get it there. Because your hands are sweaty. I

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mean they have the rows and bag and so on,
but your hands sweat, The ball gets wet, you know,
rain if it's raining. I mean, there's all kinds of
things that are coming to play on that stuff.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, it's it's always changing, it's always evolving either way.
They still look like a bowling pin pin to me,
the bats.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, I'm not going to disagree with it.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
Yeah, they're always looking for something. It's an advantage. That's
part of sports. That's what they're that's part of it.
Oh goodness, coming up, it's seven twenty eight coming up
after the break Otis and I will be speaking to
Art del Cueto, friend of show. If you're not familiar,
of course, he's the vice president of the Border Patrol.

(17:21):
I just lost my train of thought. Vice President of
the Border Patrol Union Council. I'm sorry, that's the word
I was looking for, council, not union. So stay tuned
for that because we get into a couple different things again.
It's seven twenty eight, The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back to the bloom

(17:46):
Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Joining
us now, friend of show and of course, National Border
Patrol Council Vice President Art del Cueto. Good morning, Art,
how are you. It's been a.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
While, it's been it's been quite some time. How are
you good? Good? It's good to be on first and foremost,
so I appreciate that and a little bit of a
different attitude from the last time we were on. I
guess there's a new sheriff in town and uh, and
the border is Uh. It's just amazing how much better
it is now just by having somebody in office. That

(18:21):
wants criminals to face consequences because there hasn't been any
immigration laws that have been changed.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
And you know what, and I can I can hear
it in your tone. It's almost like just your tone
of voice. I can feel the weight is gone from
the last time we spoke before the new sheriff was
in town.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
As you said, no, no, absolutely, I mean think some
things have changed. So it's uh, it's it's apparent when
you talk to agents just everyone's attitude is different because
they realize, look, they're doing their job first and foremost.
They're doing more of their enforcement job as opposed to
just sitting in a room processing and allowing people to
enter the country. They're doing an enforcement job, so they're

(19:01):
happy that they're out there. You've seen it. Look, the
numbers have gone down. But I'll tell you what you
have seen the news that you didn't see before as
much the last four years is you're seeing agents sees
drugs out there in the middle of nowhere. Because you know,
obviously these drugs fetnal, heroin, methannpetamines, they were coming into
the country under the four years of President Biden, and

(19:25):
there was no one out there to arrest them to
find them, to detect them. Now the agents are out there,
now they're detecting it. So you know, that's a that's
a fantastic thing, to be honest, And the attitude of
the agents is completely different now that President Trump is
in office.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
That's what I was going to ask you. The feeling
overall for everybody involved, is it feel like they're finally
doing their job what they were what they chose to do,
That they're doing what they set out to do with this.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Career now, absolutely, I mean it's it's I'm telling you
when you talk to them, the added to this change.
That's one of the reasons, you know, I've stayed on
as the vice president of the National Border Patrol Council.
I don't know if you know this, but I did
retire from the agency itself on the last the twenty
eighth of December. I actually retired from the agency, but

(20:15):
I remained with the National Border Patrol Council. I'm looking
at other avenues at the same time. Maybe I picked
the wrong time to retire, right I could have been
out there arresting these individuals myself. But it's something that
I did for over twenty years, and you know law
enforcement Arizona for close to thirty years, so it's and
it's a great opportunity for me where I can continue

(20:36):
to still speak about the issues. I'm still you know,
direct connection with the agents. Like I've said before, I
grew up on the border, i was raised on the border,
i was born on the border. I've been here my
whole life. So that's not going to change. As far
as speaking up for the agents. There's still all my friends.
They are my heroes, as I like to say. And
I'm still pretty much in the thick of it all
because I'm on the border.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
So for the changes that have happened under the Trump administration,
what grade would you give what is currently happening a plus?

Speaker 5 (21:08):
You know, honestly, it's an a plus because now individuals.
The first and foremost what he did was he lowered
the numbers of those coming into the country. That alone
is huge, right, people are coming across, and those that
are coming across are having to prove that they actually
have an asylum claim if they're claiming asylum. However, the
number of people that were claiming asylum has dropped because

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now everyone's gotten the notice of that they know you
can't just come and say it. You have to prove it, right,
So it's strange. I was making the joke the other day. Apparently,
you know, all the people that were suffering their countries
and other countries aren't suffering and asking for asylum no more.
The world changed. The whole world is safe for never
because no one's coming and asking for asylum. So the

(21:50):
numbers dropped, first and foremost, and second of all, now
you're actually doing enforcement in the interior of those that
we know will found loophoss circumvented the law and you know,
had no intentions of actually proving a case. They were
just saying the words so they could be released. So
it's been you know, several different areas where we've advanced,

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one securing our nation's border, two putting agents out in
the areas where we knew drugs were coming in and
now they're intercepting those drugs, and three interior enforcement and
finding those individuals that just came in to say asylum
and have committed crimes in the US.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Hey ar one of the questions, I'm glad you brought
up about the interior. There has been posts on social
media about either ice or border patrol agents going after
these people that are here illegally, and social media warriors
are calling these these agents gestapo and everything else because
they've got their faces covered, and you know, they're approaching

(22:45):
these people on the street, you know, that are unarmed,
and so on and so forth. The bottom line is
these people are here illegally and to protect their identity,
they have to keep their faces covered. Correct.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Absolutely. Look, there's a lot of nut jobs out there,
I'll be honest, you know, and I can tell you
that I've had to deal with them for a long time.
I've been the voice of the agents for so many years,
and I can fine to do that. And I'm out
there in the public and I speak about all the
issues I've been I've received many death threats, you know,
but that happened back since twenty sixteen when I was

(23:18):
supporting presidents from the first time that he was running
for office. So I've received them. My faces out there.
You know, people follow my social media through Instagram, through
x and you know, I get so many threats through
my messages. These agents are out there. They don't need
to be exposed. And I kind of tell people, Look,

(23:38):
I do what I do because if you are angry,
take it out on me. Send me the messages, you know,
send me the messages of Hey, I don't mind them,
I don't care. I've been receiving them, you know, for
you know, a long long time. But yeah, they have
to protect their identity because you have nut jobs. I
for one, I mean, I'm very active on social media,
as you know, but I don't post family pictures. I

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don't put my my children's pictures. I don't post them
up there because I know how cruel and how crazy
the world is. So yeah, they cover their faces. They
got to protect their identity. You know, they live in
certain in their neighborhoods, and you know, now with social media,
everyone takes pictures, everyone posts them. These individuals don't need it.
Like I said, I've been receiving death threats for a

(24:20):
long time. I've had you know, FBI security checks just
to make sure if any of these death threats were real.
So you know, they're out there doing their job. If
there's hate to be had on them, take it out
and me. That's all I've got to say.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, in one thing, as Otis said, the keyboard warriors
of the protesters, the image they try to paint with
with ice and also border patrol agents. Is the tearing
apart of families like they paint a picture of this
dramatic like movie scene. Is that what is actually happening?
Please tell our listeners.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
So there's it's called targeted enforcement. So the agents there's lists,
there's names of individuals, and they know where they're living,
they know what area they're at, so they go to
those apartment complexes, their housing units, or wherever it is
that these individuals may be to try to arrest them
and affect the arrest as safe and as quick as possible, right,
because they want the community to be safe, they want

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the person that they're arrested to be safe, and of
course they want themselves to be safe. Unfortunately, criminals attract
other criminals, right, and being in the country illegally, being
in the country and never going to your immigration court,
that's against the law itself. That makes you in an
illegal state as well. So when you're doing this targeted enforcement,

(25:37):
they're going to areas where they're trying to get these
individuals that have circumvented the law, and when they get there,
just what, there's other individuals there then also don't have
proper documentation or individuals that don't have documentation. You can't
turn a blind eye to those individuals. It's called the
fruit of the poisonous tree. So those individuals have to
be detained and arrested and face consequences as well because

(25:59):
they themsel have also laughed at our immigration was well.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
Art.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
We never have enough time and it's been too long,
but thank you. And just fyi, you forgot the other
title host podcast host the green Line. You can find
on of course, any of your podcast platforms.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Correct, absolutely, I know I'm on iHeart Spotify as well.
But also look, people can follow me on my Instagram
page as the official art to put the page. Follow
me there, send me messages, not just of hate, because
I received enough of those. And if you have any questions, honestly,
if there's any questions on people back or four things

(26:36):
that you know they're interested in, they can always send
them to me. I take the time as crazy as
the towns. I take the time to answer every single
message that I get.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Yes, you do well, Art, Thank you once again, keep up.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Keep up the good work, keep the fighting man.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yes, thank you guys so much. I hope to see
you soon.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yes, Sir.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Art del Cueto, He's the man.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
He is the man you're listening to the Blue Daddy
Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back,
Swim Dad Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(27:20):
I love talking to Art Delquedo. We had the opportunity
to meet Art and develop our relationship thanks to our
trips through the FAIR organization. And one thing that we
didn't mention earlier when we talked with him is he
is now part of FAIR, so he now sits on

(27:41):
the board with them and continuing which was.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Not in place the last two years.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
I believe.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
Yes, they have not done the in person radio event
that we have done in the past, but yeah, he
now is part of that organization. So even though he
has retired from the boots on the ground work, he's
still doing the work well.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
And the nice thing about Art is he he comes
from a family that immigrated here legally, yes, and he
grew up on the border. Before we went on the air,
he said, I said, so he goes. I said, hey,
how's it going, and he says, because he's out in Arizona,

(28:22):
And he said how's I said, how's it going, budd,
He said, oh, doing good? He said, weather here's better
than it is there. And I was I wanted to
say no, bleep, right, but I didn't. I said, well,
I said, first off, I said, it's pouring down rain here,
I said, And you're in Arizona, so it's dry and warm,
so don't don't give me your stuff. Right unless you're
in the mountains, then it's probably a little chili. But

(28:44):
for the most part, if you're on the Arizona border,
it's dry and warm. And we just kind of laughed
about that before we went on the air. But you know,
you look at these people, they have a job to do.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Mm hm.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
And and Arch retired obviously, but I mean when he was,
when he was in the border patrol, you know, he
had a job to do.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
And you know.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
The people that you know, he like, I said, his
family immigrated here legally and he has to do like
that's like you know, turning and arresting your brothers when
they're crossing illegally. But he realized he had a job
to do, and he realized that this was a problem,
and he was able to separate and you know, we

(29:28):
talked about, you know, the social media warriors going after
these people that are that are wearing masks and everything else,
and how he talked about, you know, you have to
protect yourself and your family because listen, if they're if
these crazy wackos are going to attack Tesla cars that
are owned by average people, what do you think they're
going to do to a border patrol or an ice

(29:50):
agent and they find them on social media and then
they're going to go after their family and their houses
and things like that. There's too many wackos out there
not to protect your identity.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Yeah, I mean he said he doesn't post anything private
or kids pictures or anything like that to protect his family. Yes,
and that's that's a really sad statement. And that's what
you made it perfectly. You said it perfectly. That's one
reason I really like speaking to Art because he has

(30:20):
such a unique perspective where he has seen both sides.
As you said, he and his family came here legally.
He has served our nation and the border. I mean
ten years ago, fifteen years ago, you didn't we didn't
talk about the border.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
We didn't really it was there, but it was talked about,
but it was not on the forefront.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
No, not to this level. And the fact that you
know a friend of show, that we have that connection
and can call him up any morning, no matter the
time zone, and he'll jump on with us.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Is for the most part, it's pretty Yeah. Yeah, he's available,
right exactly. Yeah, I mean he does, he does have
a job to do.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
He does, he does no prior to us, he said,
give me two minutes. I just got off a broadcast
with with Newsmaxe.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, fine, well hey listen, I'll take second. I'll take
second place to news Max. Oh yeah, you know, hey,
if news Max was one and we were.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Two, I'll take it. Yeah, I'll take it. And just
a reminder, we mentioned Fair.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
You know what, he's on our show, not anybody else.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
That's true.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
That is true. Wait wait, it's repeats today.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
But we did mention FAIR and for those that it
stands for Federation for American Immigration Reform. And that's the
event that we got the opportunity to go to d
C for what three.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Or four times I went. I only went once I
went because yeah, because at the time, the host of
this show was not invited to FAIR.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
Okay, okay, well, hopefully.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Is that is that that that's I mean that that's
a fair way to say it. I mean, that's that's
that's that's what happened. But I didn't get to go
because I had to run somebody else's show.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Gotcha. Well, hopefully they will bring back bring back the
radio radio road that they used to do. So we'll
see if that happens.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
And you know, you talk about we talk about that
until you're there and you see these people face to
face and you hear the stories, whether it's whether it's art,
whether it's Brandon Judd, whether it's the sheriff from Idaho,
whether it's the resident, you know, the rancher lady, the
rancher from Arizona. You know, we we share their stories here,

(32:40):
but you learn a lot about people when you talk
to them off air before you get in. And unfortunately,
you know, we're in a limited time window when we
do these things, so you know, we have we have
a ten minute segment with them at best, maybe two
ten minute segments, and and we turn around and you
can't share everything, you know, because one of the stuff

(33:00):
that they share is personal, right, and you know, but
as you get to know these people, and you and
whether it's only for ten minutes or whatever, you see
the struggle, You see the pain, you see the impact,
and it opens your eyes.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Everybody says, oh, well, we're not on the border. Well
really we are.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Well and you're exactly right now, and you said, you know,
you see the pain, you see the impact. And that's
the one thing I was going to mention is you
physically see it. I can still see the face of
the rancher lady and I honestly apologize, cannot remember her
name as she was staying as she was sitting there
telling us the story that she has to carry on

(33:45):
her hip when she's washing her breakfast dishes. Think about that,
Think about living in that.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Circumstance, or the lady that was a legal immigrant that
came from Europe and her son was killed by an
illegal immigrant. Yes, you know, I mean, you know, first off,
I can't imagine losing a kid, you know, I mean,
that would be absolutely horrible. But the fact that this

(34:15):
could have been prevented, you know that just I mean,
that just tugs at you even more because you know,
you know it was it was easily preventable.

Speaker 6 (34:26):
Well, the good news is for the month of February,
illegal border crossings dropped by ninety four percent.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
And imagine that why that happened.

Speaker 6 (34:35):
See, they were saying for four years there was a
bill that needed to be passed. That's the only way
it could stop.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
We need more money. Yeah, we need more money. Send
us your money.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, hm no, just needed a change in leadership.
All right.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Later we got Steve Waters coming in. We do okay,
some financial it's tax season.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
It's tax season, and we've got to talk tariffs because that,
of course is the story of the week. We're going
to talk with him about that. It is seven fifty eight.
The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA, z.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
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.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Now News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Good Thursday morning to you.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
And if you haven't looked at the weather, forecast, you
might as well start building the arc right now. Literally
what two to three to four to five inches of
rain over the next four days. I've heard pretty much
about everything, but if you look at the forecast, it
looks like the next four days are going to be
absolutely miserable. And then next Tuesday, not sunshine, not seventy degrees,

(36:02):
not even rain, snow, s n ow snow. I hate April.
I mean, if I've never told you this before, I'm
telling you right now. I hate April. I hate spring.
I hate everything about it. I hate the colors, I
hate easter colors.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
I hate the weather. I hate it.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
I absolutely despise it. Fall, I love summer, I love spring.
Can go straight to you nowhere, And of course it
coincides with the opening of high school baseball. I went
to watch Saint Clairso on Martin's Ferry last night, had
a light day at work because of the Guardians game,
and of course I got rained on three times during
the course of the entire game. It's always made me

(36:43):
wonder why the state of Ohio does not push the
high school baseball season. First of all, it should be
flipped with football. That'll never happen because football rules the state,
but at least delay the start of the season two
to three weeks because the first two weeks nothing but
what we are seeing right now. It's games getting canceled,

(37:05):
games getting delayed. And I realize more and more teams
have turf in the valley now, but you still have
an outfield. Most outfields are not turf. And even with turf,
you can't play in the rain, a consistent downpour. So
why not start the season in mid April instead of
the end of March. Because I'll tell you why, because

(37:26):
it makes perfect sense, and because the state doesn't care
about high school baseball. But you want to talk about
some horrendous weather over the next couple of days, we
are going to sit right in the middle.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Of it, all right.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
A couple of political things. First of all, Trump the tariffs,
stock market down eleven hundred points, people freaking out. Look,
it's going to be a rough ride. I mean, there's
no doubt about it. I get what he's doing. He's
trying to get everybody to play fair with us. He's
trying to bring jobs manufacturing, specifically back to America. This
is only going to work if we've got guts and

(38:01):
we've got a backbone. That's the only way it's going
to work. I mean, over the course of the next three, six,
twelve months, might have to cut back on some things,
might have to figure some things out. But I think
if you believe in what he's trying to do, there
is light at the end of the tunnel. The big
question politically is going to be are Americans willing to wait?

(38:25):
And most will say no, because when it comes to
the pocketbook, I mean, let's face it, people don't like
their money being messed with. The midterms are going to
be here quicker than you can say midterms. Historically, the
incumbent president's party takes a hit in the midterms. And
I'll tell you what, if the economy is still lagging
because of these tariffs, then Republicans are going to get

(38:49):
absolutely slaughtered in the midterms. And then you're talking about
twenty twenty eight the repercussions there again. I get what
he's trying to do, and I'm hoping these other countries
back down because there's one thing that if you've seen
about Trump, whenever he puts somebody on blast, whenever he
plays chicken with somebody, usually they're the ones that back down.

(39:12):
I'm hoping China, Japan, Canada, Mexico take a big step
backwards because that'll be a huge win for Trump to
take the tariffs off and everything will be back quicker.
Worst case scenario for Republicans is that this drags on.
And believe you me, the Democrats do not even have
a pulse right now, but if they're hoping to get one,

(39:34):
it's going to be because of the economy. So I
guess what I'm saying to you is get ready for
a rough ride, because it's going to be very rough.
The question is how long is it going to be rough?
Is it going to be two months, is it going
to be six months? Is it going to be a year?
God forbid, is it going to be two years? Because
there's always pain before the pleasure. But how much will

(39:57):
the American public be willing to deal with that pain?
That's the question. The other political thing I wanted to
throw out there to you, or I should say social angle.
I saw the other day where somebody on the mental
health board in Seattle, Washington identifies as a turtle.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Let me say that again so you fully understand what
I just said.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Somebody on the mental health board in Seattle identifies as
a turtle, not kidding you.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
This is a dude or an it or whatever they're.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Calling themselves these days, And this is an individual who
identifies as a turtle who is making mental health decisions
for the residents of Seattle.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
It's either Seattle or Oregon. And I guess it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
The fact of the matter is there's some idiot out
there who identifies as a turtle. So you're telling me
the people out there on the left, Democrats who say, well,
you know, everybody should be able to be what they
want to be. You're telling me that somebody who identifies
as a turtle is not mentally ill. Because if that's
what you're saying, you are mentally ill. And somebody like

(41:05):
this should not be allowed on a board anywhere that's
making decisions for anybody. Look, I refuse to play the game,
and I hope you refuse to play.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
The game too.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
If somebody wants to identify as a turtle, or some
dudes got a crank in some ball bearings and he
wants to say he's a chick, they can do that
in their own made up world. The problem is when
they try to force you to believe in their made
up world. I refuse to do it. If I run
into somebody who's a chick and I say ma'am and
they're offended by it, I'm gonna go off.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Not my problem.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
That's your made up world that you live in, not mine.
Same thing with somebody who says they identify as a turtle.
You tell me you identify as a turtle, I'm gonna
say you got major mental problems, and I'm gonna feel
no remorse saying it. What I'm trying to say to
you is we got to quit playing the game. If
people want to make up their own sense of reality,

(41:59):
that's fine. They can live in their own sense of
reality on their own time. They're not going to do
it on my time, and they're certainly not going to
force me to do it. If you are a guy,
I'll call you sir. If you're a woman, I'll call
you ma'am. And if you've got a problem with it,
that is your issue, not mine. And once we take

(42:19):
this mentality, we can walk away from this reality that
is so mentally ill driven that it's almost comical. But
I can't laugh at something when people are losing jobs
or being forced to say or address people in certain

(42:41):
ways that simply is not reality. You're listening to the
bloem Daddy Experience eleven seventy wwva, we are back at.

Speaker 6 (43:01):
It's eight nineteen on your rainy Thursday morning. My goodness.
The bloom Ditty Experience Sam and otis first off, Well.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Speaking of the ring, just real quick, Yes, there are
all kinds of posts on Facebook where their trees are
down and the roads are closed and things. So if
you are traveling, give yourself a little bit extra time
just in case there's some debris in the road and
you need to get around it. So I know ogle
By estates several trees have fallen. No way in, no
way out.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
Oh okay, yeah, so be diligent about that. Take your time.
There was a tree on my road this morning, but
it didn't completely cut off the road, so yeah, take
your time this morning. Also, coming up here in a bit,
we're gonna have your first chance to win this morning,
a pair of tickets to the Toughest Monster Truck Tour
coming to West Banko Arena in April. But before we
get to that, we're on a loane in studio Steve

(43:48):
Waters of Riverbridge Wealth Management back at it with us.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Good morning, Good morning, Sam.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
You haven't been busy or anything. How was yesterday?

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yesterday?

Speaker 7 (43:58):
Well, I'm more so worried about today because the announcement
came after the market was closed.

Speaker 6 (44:02):
Okay, okay, so you've got a day ahead of you shortly,
all right, So let's kick it off there. For folks
who and of course we're talking about the big announcement
yesterday they called it Liberation Day. We're talking about the
tariffs and everything that President Trump is doing. So for
those who are panicking, what is your big piece of advice?

Speaker 7 (44:28):
The big piece of advice is that the uncertainty around
what's going to happen with these tariffs could and may
very well, in fact, be worse than the tariffs themselves.
So if you look at kind of the detail of
the policies, it just seems like President Trump is where
he wants to be with a lot of these countries
right now, and that's bringing them to the negotiating table.

(44:49):
He loves to negotiate, and so we're just gonna have
to see how this all plays out. You know, if
any of these tariffs are actually going to be in
place for the long term.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
Now for those that are saying I've got to move this,
I got to move that, it's it's the long game.
That's what I keep telling myself. It's the long game.
Plan for he has a plan. Would you would you
agree with that or advising people?

Speaker 7 (45:14):
Yeah, that that's exactly right, And you know, I think
it's it's important to put all this in context. Right, So,
last year, the United States had a trade deficit globally
of one point two trillion dollars. That means that other
companies sold one point two trillion more to the US
than more than the US exported out. Compare that to
five years ago. It's it's doubled since then. So we've

(45:36):
kind of been heading in the wrong direction. You know,
China accounts for a quarter of that deficit, Mexico accounts
for fourteen of that deficit. And these countries have been
doing things, you know, for the past fifty years. You know,
they you know this has been talked about a lot,
but they have They impost terraffs on the United States.
They revalue currencies, they subsidize products and make them cheaper.

(45:59):
In the United States, there's wage suppression. So like an example,
auto workers right in the US. The average hourly wage
in the US is thirty five dollars. Mexico caps it
at three dollars an hour in Mexico. So there are
these little games that countries play in order to, you know,
make sure that that goods are manufactured there. And you know,
President Trump looks at it and he says, well, even

(46:20):
though the US only accounts for four percent of the
population globally, we account for twenty five percent of the
spending in the world. So you know, it would be
economic suicide for these countries just been like, oh, we're
cutting the US out. So so I think Trump and
his administration he knows that these countries have to come
to the negotiating table to talk through some of this,

(46:40):
and I think that's that's what he's lined himself up
to do.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Well, one thing I've said talking about is, you know,
politicians and businesses have sold out our country for the
past fifty years.

Speaker 8 (46:55):
And.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
Now what President Trump is trying to do is bring
that back to back to our shores. So it's not
just about the tariffs. It's about the long term. So
if you bring back just say, two auto manufacturing plans
and you put them in small town Usa, Like here,
what does that financially do for the community and the

(47:18):
people the trickle down effects?

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Sure, it's it's I mean it's it's going to increase
demand for jobs, which increases wages.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Right.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
But on the other side of that coin that you know,
the folks they're anti tariff is Like.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
I just gave some stats.

Speaker 7 (47:33):
It's more expensive to make things in the United States
than it is in other countries for a variety of reasons.
So if if wages go up at prices go up,
it could be a net zero in some of those
communities in that example.

Speaker 6 (47:47):
And what are we seeing aluminum, steel, auto, medications? Those
are some of the top topics or businesses that the
tariffs are going after. What are some of some of
the lower, smaller types of manufacturing that are going to
be hit with the tariffs too?

Speaker 7 (48:08):
Yeah, so I saw Vietnam forty six percent tariff effective
as of right now. You know, Nike does a lot
of business in Vietnam, Wayfair does a lot of business
American Eagle. So those stocks are down significantly today because
a big portion of the things that they make. And
think of like if you buy new clothes, right, I mean,
how often do you look at the tag and it
says in Vietnam. So these these companies are going to

(48:31):
have some challenges if prices are going to go up,
and you know, it's going to be challenging for them
to not pass that on to the consumer. But it's
also not good for Vietnam if all of a sudden,
Nike's like, hey, it doesn't make sense for us to
work to have our factory there. So there's gonna be
some negotiating all around.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
What about somebody like Amazon, Because I hate to admit it,
I do a lot of shopping on Amazon, which everybody
does at this point, but nine times out of ten,
a lot of this stuff, like you said, when you
look at the tags, it's from the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand
is a big one. How is that going to affect

(49:09):
a juggernaut like Amazon?

Speaker 7 (49:10):
Yeah, any any company that has manufacturing outside of the
United States, this is going to impact it. The idea
is to incentivize these companies to make their products within
the United States. I mean, look, we there's there's there's
twelve million million manufacturing jobs in the United States today.
That's down from twenty million not all that long ago.
So I mean, manuf we become more of a service

(49:32):
oriented country than a manufacturing.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
And haven't we seen, like we talked with Kevin Cook
from Straw Automotive that Hyundai is moving a manufacturing auto
plant to Louisiana, And I think I read where Ford
is bringing back four new plants to the United States.
So you know that that's that's what these tariffs are
they're meant to accomplish, correct.

Speaker 7 (49:57):
Yeah, Yeah, And there's there's a there's a number of companies,
I mean, Navidia that they've they're going to move some
of their their chip manufacturing on shore the United States,
hundreds of billions of dollars there. So I think, I mean,
I think that they're they're very well. Maybe over the
coming weeks, you know, some victories that that the Trump
administration can can point to, but of course there's there's
most definitely going to be short term pain in the

(50:18):
market today and over the next couple of weeks, for sure.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
That's what I was going to ask, how rough of
a ride are we in for just as is average
Joe American? What are we going to be dealing with?

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (50:30):
So, I mean the the the the s and P
five hundred so that's a general benchmark for the US
stock market. It's down eleven percent over the past six weeks.
Before trading opens this morning, it was down two percent today.
You know, a lot of this could be the market
was trading at all time highs. There's uncertainties around these tariffs.

(50:51):
Really the easiest thing for for for investors to do.
They're just like, Oh, I'm just going to lock in
these profits and see how this how this all shakes
out again. I think it the Trump administration's rhetoric on
negotiating these tariffs, I think is more important than what
happens here over the next couple of weeks. If these
tariffs are going to be in place for the long term,
that's going to be more problematic for the for the economy.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
One thing, I've seen a couple of interviews with economists
on different national talk shows or morning shows. They're giddy,
they're excited about this. I saw one gentleman that said,
you know, this will stop the trade war, this will
bring businesses back to the United States. And his remarks

(51:35):
were for everybody to stay stay calm and just let
it play out and let it do what the the
plan is. But I've never seen economists like, yeah, like
they were a football game. Man, they're excited about this.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Are guys actually giddy?

Speaker 6 (51:52):
Gidy?

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Maybe the wrong just asking for a friend? Although I
know Steve like, can you hang with us a little
bit longer?

Speaker 6 (52:04):
Okay, well think about your answer to that question, because
I've got a couple more. But we've got to do
our first chance to win this morning. So Steve, give
us a number. Give me a number.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
Between one and twenty seventeen.

Speaker 6 (52:15):
All right, caller number seventeen. I think that's what Elgin
said yesterday.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
One hundred sixty.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
Sixty two four eleven seventy. Caller number seventeen for your
chance to win a pair of tickets to see the
Toughest Monster Truck Tour down at West Banka Arena Nex weekend. Yeah,
next weekend. Actually, it's a twenty eight Listening to the
Bloom Daddy Experience Sam Otis with Steve here in studio.
We'll be back square back. It's eight thirty six The

(52:51):
Blue Daddy Experience Sam and Otis, and we're going to
continue the conversation with financial advisor Steve Waters from river
Bridge Wealth Management. So of course we're talking about tariffs,
and before the break, I mentioned a couple of the
economists that I've watched on some of the morning shows
here and the excitement they tend to have behind what

(53:13):
President Trump is trying to accomplish. One actually stated that
if this goes to plan, this will end the trade wars.
Do you agree with that?

Speaker 7 (53:27):
Not necessarily? Now, I've I mean, I I've I've other
economists that I've seen they think that this is all bad.
So I think there's there's a there's definitely.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
A big divide.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
There's a big divide on on viewpoints here listen.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
I mean, I think that that what with these tariffs,
it's ruffled a lot of feathers. And I think that,
you know, many of these countries are going to respond.
I think China you kind of have to carve.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Out by itself.

Speaker 7 (53:52):
But well come, we'll come back to that in a second.
The other countries though, I mean, as I mentioned, the
United States has for so much of the global spending,
they're going to have to play ball one way or another.
And President Trump has left a lot of room for negotiation,
and I think that's that's what he wants to do do.
I think that this is going to stop the trade war. No,

(54:15):
but I think I think there's a possibility that the
United States could have better terms on trade deals with
some of these other countries. China is I think it's
a it's a it's a different situation. China is going
to do what's best for China. That's what that's what
they care about.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
So although I.

Speaker 7 (54:34):
Think there will be a response, I don't think that
they're going to do anything that's going to hurt them
themselves economically. So they'll they'll try and thread that needle
or some of these other countries. It might just be
a tit for tat for a little while, and then
they'll come to the table and hammer out a deal.

Speaker 6 (54:49):
There are a lot of numbers being thrown around, a
lot of percentages. So you mentioned China. So according to
the article I have in front of me, up to
a sixty seven percent tariff and other trade barriers on
US goods, and then they throw in there thirty four
percent reciprocal tariff. Now I'm a novice, please explain.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
Yeah, these numbers that were on the big board at
the Rose Garden yesterday. I think a lot of people
are kind of scratching their heads around where those numbers
actually came from, because if you do the math, it's
it seems like those numbers came from the actual trade
in balance. Right, So if if the United States sells
two hundred billion, you know, to a country, but then

(55:33):
in return we import eight hundred billion, they were just
doing you know, two hundred billion divided by eight hundred
billion and coming up with, oh, they're charging us a
twenty five percent tariff, so we're going to do twelve
and a half. That that's really not what a tariff is.
A tariff is half. So I feel like with those
numbers that were put out there, it just it leaves
an awful lot of room for negotiation. A reciprocal tariff

(55:55):
would be if another country charges, you know, a ten
percent tariff, were going to charge ten percent or five
percent for half.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
And one thing I did here is the the goods
that are bought from the United States. The countries that
may react against these tariffs towards our industry that may
suffer the most are the farmers of the United States.
Have you heard that?

Speaker 7 (56:24):
I have, But I've also heard that like so in
the in the Europeinion Union, for example, they are not
allowed to buy like chicken from America, and so that's
a that's like why why aren't we able to do so?
And that aspect, the farmers are probably excited at the
possibility of them being able to export to those countries.

Speaker 8 (56:44):
Well.

Speaker 6 (56:44):
And here for our area, a good portion of our
coal industry goes to the Asian market, especially China, and
I'm concerned personally about how that's going to affect the
coal industry here. Have you heard anything about that industry.

Speaker 7 (57:01):
I haven't studied the coal industry extensively with the terroriffs.

Speaker 6 (57:04):
Okay, So for those that are not panicking, is the
best thing? How long of a ride is this going
to be for us?

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (57:17):
If you could guesstimate when will things kind of balance out?

Speaker 7 (57:22):
Yeah, it's going to depend on the rate at which
these negotiations occur, you know, I mean, I think I
think over the coming months. One of the things that
we haven't talked about here, Sam, is the counterbalance to
all this, and that's the Federal Reserve. Okay, So the
Federal Reserve, because interest rates are higher right now, they
have some tools in their toolkit in order to jump

(57:43):
in and assist the economy if need be. If they're
negatively impacted from these tariffs. The challenge, though, is going
to be inflation, because the Federal Reserve has two jobs, right,
they want inflation to be around two percent growth per
year and they want stable employment. If we the employment
start to drop as a result of you know, economic

(58:04):
decline with these tariffs, that's that's one signal for the
Fed to step in and cut interest rates.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Right.

Speaker 7 (58:11):
But if the tariffs turn out to be inflationary and so,
then the Federal Reserve could be could be in a
tough spot ultimately, though, I mean I think that if
if the if the economy really starts to go down
in a negative path, I think they'll step in and
cut cut interest rates and that'll give they'll give us
a boost.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
Well, let's be honest, where's a big man on campus
is the US? So these tariffs are going to hurt
the smaller countries that more than they're going to hurt us.
I mean, we can ride the wave, whereas they're not
going to be able to ride the wave as long
as we are. Is that is that a fair statement?

Speaker 7 (58:44):
I would agree with that? Yeah, especially you look at
you look at a country like Vietnam, where that the
United States is going to impose a forty six percent tariff.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Yeah, that would that would crush them, right, So.

Speaker 4 (58:53):
They're they're eventually, what they're gonna do is they're gonna
play ball. So you know, I mean, I get it.
And and that's what people don't see because you know,
we we hold all the cards. Yeah, maybe not with China,
like you said, China's a whole. That's a whole another subject.
But you know, I mean, you have the Canadians that
are up in arms, you have the Vietnamese, you know,
all these countries that are all up in arms about

(59:15):
the tariffs. In the long run, you might be able
to you might be able to stay in toe to
toe for a short you know, for a period of time,
but in the long run, you're gonna have to buckle.

Speaker 7 (59:24):
Yeah, And and the question is, you know, how much
how much short term pain are we all willing to
to bear in order to do that. I mean, you know,
from a pure economic standpoint, there's no tariffs. There shouldn't
No country should have a tariff. It should just be
supply and demand, and that's kind of the flow of things.
But the fact that you know, other countries have have
these restrictions in place. You know, the United States wants

(59:46):
to equalize that a little bit.

Speaker 6 (59:48):
When if you looked at those boards yesterday, there were
random countries on there that I didn't even think about
that we like the Dominican ever heard of? No, no, no,
like the Dominican Republic. You know that's a tiny any,
tiny little country in the Caribbean. You know what do
we get from them that we have to say?

Speaker 8 (01:00:06):
Rum?

Speaker 6 (01:00:07):
Oh, yeah, you're right, you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Rom You know alcohol very good, rom too. Some of
it is Caribbean rahm Is it's top it's top Dodge, Yes,
it is. I mean it's just like if you're if
you if you drink Canadian whiskey. I mean, it's gonna
have an effect on that. You know, whether if you're
a multi seruh Molson, if you're a Moulson fan or whatever.
I don't know, they can't take all of that bats.

(01:00:31):
You know, it's gonna have an effect on all those
I mean, it's so there's little things that could that
could affect you in the long run. And again, you know,
we had this conversation the other day. If you go
to if you go to a restaurant, you ask for
a pepsi and they say, we don't carry pepsi products.
We have coke. You're probably gonna drink a coke or
you're gonna you're gonna find something else. So if you
drink Canadian McMasters, you're probably gonna switch to something American made.

Speaker 6 (01:00:55):
Well, the Canadians smashed all the Jack Daniels, didn't they
or they did something.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
The news side of this, that's okay.

Speaker 7 (01:01:01):
That's the other challenge with this though. I think like
it's the international relationships, right, like, you know, everybody's kind
of mad at the United States.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
That's yeah, that that's that's a little you know, not
a good not a good look. So so if you
would give a grade so far to the economy, because
when a new leadership takes over and we're close to
one hundred days, now, what grade would you give currently?

Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
So before this this terror started, we were the US
economy was in a bull market. It was about halfway
through the bull market. Whenever you look at historically how
long it lasts. You know, artificial intelligence service industry was
doing great, Wages were going up, inflation was coming down
like we were ripping. As I mentioned, over the past

(01:01:47):
six weeks, the u s doock market has dropped eleven
percent off that high. And you know, these terrts bring
a lot of uncertainty, so we're just gonna have to
see how these negotiations play out. I just think it's
it's difficult to believe that the Trump administration is going
to drive our economy into the ground and it would

(01:02:10):
be all our own doing, you know, And a lot
of what what you know Trump talks about is you know,
the economy, and he wants the stock market to be up.
And I mean, I think I think he's comfortable with
some short term volatility here, but over the long term,
I just struggle to see a world in which he's
just you know, taking us into a rat and do
or session.

Speaker 6 (01:02:27):
Politically doesn't make any sense either that, you know, this
early into his term, that he would sink the economy
with midterms coming up in all of that side of things,
when it comes to the political side of the conversation,
that doesn't make any sense either. So and it is
tax season, so now's the time to take care of

(01:02:48):
all of that. Remind everybody and put that money away.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
And that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
If you haven't, if you haven't started on your taxes.
Yet you better get moving.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
You have twelve days.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
He see, I'm good, I'm done. Well, you know what.

Speaker 7 (01:03:03):
Thank you so much this morning, Steve, thanks so much
for having me.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
Give me another number fifteen through twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Let's go with sixteen.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
Oh, I knew it. I knew it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
You were esp like, yeah, absolutely one eight hundred and
sixty two four e eleven seventy one, eight hundred sixty two,
four eleven seventy caller number sixteen. It's eight forty six
The bloo Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy.

(01:03:36):
We are back eight fifty one, The bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
Hey, I'm over here playing ticketmaster and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Yeah, you can always do that post show. You don't
have to do it during the break.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I know.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
I just I'm always afraid I'm gonna forget stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
Oh that doesn't surprise well, you know you know what.
We never forget Ooh, our good buddy Kevin Cook up
at Strawb Automotive. What's going on? My man?

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
That is not true.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I have forgot so that's a lie. But our listeners
don't know that I forgot you until now, until now.

Speaker 8 (01:04:09):
Look, look, we are living in a teriff free environment
right now. It's drab automotive. Look at you, look at us.
Did you did you know what Ford's doing?

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
I think they would do? Is it for new plants
in the US.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
They're doing that. But the pricing that they're doing for
the next two months, okay, I did.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
I missed that when I saw your post on Facebook,
but I didn't really look at it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:32):
So yeah, here, you know, I mean Ford has all
kinds of you know, there's all kinds of incentives like
if if you work for one of their suppliers, then
they have what's called supplier pricing, like if you work,
you know, for good Year, you know, the supplies tires
or you know, uh, something along those lines.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
They have.

Speaker 8 (01:04:50):
They have actual supplier pricing, okay, which is really good.
It's really close to you know, the true invoye pricing.
It's a you know, negotiation, you get the price no
matter what if you work for one of these companies,
all right, but they have better pricing for actual forward employees.
It's far below invoice okay. And it's for the people

(01:05:13):
that you know assemble this sure, it's great. Okay, Well,
guess what they're gonna give true employee pricing to everyone.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
Okay, yeah, I mean this is this has happened in
the past, and it's been years and years and years
since they've done it. But this is true employee pricing. Okay,
you pay what the actual forward employees pay, all right,
even dealership employees could not get this pricing. Okay, yeah,
I mean this is absolutely incredible. So if you're in

(01:05:47):
the market for a four, if you've even been thinking
about a Ford product, okay, whether it be you know,
a car truck, you know a super Duty, you know
a Bronco, want to huh a Bronco, a Bronco Mustang
raptor Okay, all right, everything has employee pricing. So up online. Okay,

(01:06:10):
it should be loading the pricing today and we should
have should have it all in there so you can
see what you actually pay. Plus you get the incentives
as well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
And there's no negotiating none.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
It's so easy.

Speaker 8 (01:06:23):
Okay, It's not gonna get any easier than this, So
take advantage of it, get online, pick your vehicle out,
get in and take advantage of this because this this
is really going to create a stir in the world.
Afford so you need to get in here quick before
they're gone.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
So well, other will other manufacturers, you know, kind of
maybe follow suit.

Speaker 8 (01:06:46):
Do you think a you know, let me get my
crystal ball. Let me look.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
I mean like, I mean like like if Chrysler Dodge
sees this, do they do they go, hey, we need
to offer something similar.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
Well, everyone's going to be super great right now. Okay,
no matter what, everybody's going to be super super aggressive.
But I mean this is this is kind of off
the charts right here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Yeah. Well, I mean if you want to sell vehicles,
you gotta you always have to rethink.

Speaker 8 (01:07:13):
You do you do, You gotta be ready, So take
advantage of it. It's all terror free, get out, save
some money, do it today.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
And you know, just just to clarify, I told you
on Monday, even though you asked on Tuesday, you still
have a shot to win the celebrity challenge on your bracket.

Speaker 8 (01:07:29):
Man, you just dog with a bone on that mar
you chastised off the air.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
I mean, I just I want you. You asked on
the air, so I'm answering on the air.

Speaker 8 (01:07:39):
Okay, all right, Wow I'm gonna win.

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
That's fine. Yeah, I wish you luck. Sam's in the league.
Sam's in the league, and you're in third place. But
depending on who goes to the final four and who wins,
we all have a shot to wins because the big
the big points are for the championship. You know, you
get sixty four points. Okay, you know that right now.

(01:08:03):
That's fine if that's what you think. Huh. I took Duke, okay,
and Sam took Florida. So if Auburn beats Florida, she's out.
When listen, listen, just because they're from the South, and
you know they eat crawfish.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Like you do.

Speaker 8 (01:08:23):
Thank you very much. Little.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
I was wondering, well, you got SEC versus SEC in
the final four. Well, but you guys don't consider Florida SEC,
do you know?

Speaker 8 (01:08:35):
I mean yeah, kind of. They're down there.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
They're like the second cousin that they don't really acknowledge.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Right, they're all related down there anyway. Wow, wow, great
talking to you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
It's always fun just to take it's it's always good
to get that one little jab in. And if you could,
and I hope I control the buttons so I can
always make sure mine's the last one because I can
just kind of hang up on it. So you have
plans for lunch yet I don't even know what I'm
doing in ten minutes, let alone lunch.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
Well, it's National Burrito Day.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Oh, so we should ask Kevin kind of burritos he likes.

Speaker 6 (01:09:21):
Oh, we should have had breakfast burritos.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
Oh, Steve should have brought breakfast. You know, Steve, we
got we got to really work on our guests. When
you book them to come in or I book them
to come in, we got to tell them they have
to bring us something.

Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
Oh okay. So the fact that they're volunteering their time
and their.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Expertise, Hey, we're promoting them. They still we're promoting them.
They can bring us a Listen, they could go someplace
and get two breakfast burritos for like four dollars. I
mean we're giving up. We're giving them four dollars worth
of advertising.

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
Elgind that's gonna get pricey for you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Yeah, she doesn't count.

Speaker 6 (01:09:58):
So anyways, it's National Burrito Da. If you don't have
lunch plans, Oh god, that does sound good?

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
Right now?

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Does sound good?

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
Hold on a second.

Speaker 6 (01:10:08):
Oh okay, I guess I'm gonna continue to talk. I
guess we got a phone call also for fans.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Of I thought it might be Kevin calling back to
chime in, Oh, it's not okay.

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And then, if you are a fan of all the
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(01:10:42):
will be on forty years. I cannot believe it, cannot
believe it. So there you have it. We're done. We're done.
We're out of here on this rainy Thursday. Want to
do another one? Another chance to win?

Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
Ry?

Speaker 6 (01:10:56):
What a one hundred sixty to forty eleven seventy caller
number nineteen one, eight hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy. Everybody,
have a great Thursday, the bloom Daddy Experience. We'll talk
to you tomorrow.