The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 7, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now the bloom Daddy Experience. He's seven oh six on
news Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Monday morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And the weather sucks. Yeah, I know you know that,
but I'm just telling you in case you didn't. I
am hoping, I'm praying this is the final week of
being cold, because I'm sick of it.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm over it and I can't stand it. Now.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
With that said, on a Monday, usually I start off
this show with some hard news.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I don't want to do that today.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
You want to know why, because Monday suck and because
last night I watched the interview on Netflix. Now I
have seen this movie at least twenty times. Seth Rogen,
James Franco. It's kind of a spoof, a spoof on
Kim Jonga and North Korean's leader, North Korea's leader. If
you've never seen the interview and you want to laugh

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and you just need uplifted, you've got to watch it,
and as I'm watching this movie, I'm thinking, this might
be the greatest comedy ever made, the funniest movie ever made.
And as I start racking my brain, there were three
other movies that came to mind that could give it
a run for its money. One of them is Tropic Thunder.
If you've never seen Tropic Thunder. First of all, that

(01:25):
is a movie that probably could not be made today
because it is so politically incorrect that it's genius. The
cast is unbelievable, and the movie is downright hilarious. Ben Stiller,
Jack Black, I mean, just go down the list. Robert
Downey Junior, fantastic. Also the Campaign with Will Ferrell and

(01:49):
Zach Galifanakis. I think the campaign is so funny because
it's so true to life. I mean it's a spoof
on politics today, but everything they do, honestly, there's some
real life to it when you watch it.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
And Will Ferrell's Will Ferrell.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So you've got the interview, you have Tropic Thunder, you
have the campaign. And the fourth one that every husband
out there can relate to is Hall pass Owen Wilson,
Jason Sedekis those four movies I don't think there's a
comedy made and we can go back in time.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
You could go back to Caddyshack, you could go back
to all these other movies.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't know if there's been a comedy made that
is any funnier than those four movies that I just
named right there, Hall Pass, the Interview, Tropic Thunder, and
The Campaign. So if you're having a bad day you
just want to laugh a little bit, you grab one

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of those movies, and I guarantee you, I guarantee you
you're gonna forget about things. You're gonna laugh. You're gonna
laugh out loud if you're by yourself, and you know
a movie's funny if you're laughing out loud and there
is nobody around you. But Sam, I know you're a
big movie person. Have you seen any of those? Number
one and number two? Do you have another comedy if

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you will, that you would add to the list.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Well, first of all, I have seen Tropic Thunder. I
have not seen the Kim Jong und An Interview. I
have not seen that one.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
That's the only one I've seen.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Oh, you haven't seen Tropic Thunder.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
I'm not a Ben Stiller person. I'm not either I
don't think he's very funny.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
No.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
No, I mean Meet the Fokkers, great movie, yes, and
the Second One great movie.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Ben Stiller other than those two movies does nothing for me,
like Zuelander stupid. Oh, I mean like most of his
movies are dumb.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I will say I like Dodgeball, but not for him again,
never saw it. Oh yeah, not for him, It's for
everybody else involved. You can tell Bloomer's been stuck in
the house due to the rain, you can kind of that.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
And knowing bloom Daddy for as long as I've known him,
like he is not the Siskel and eBird of movies.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
No he is not.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
I mean his choice of movies, like what he what
he likes is like polar opposite or whatever any any
other person in the world. I mean, like you might
have a little bit of overlap here. And I thought
the Interview was was a halfway decent movie. I thought
it was. I thought it had its moments. It was
funny for a while, and then it tried to get

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serious at the end, didn't didn't mix well, and then
you know, they kind of went back to funny again,
and you know it was I mean, I thought it
was a good movie. Yeah, I mean, is it one
of those ones that if I see it, I'm gonna
stop and watch it again.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
No, see, I'm I do not like what. I can't
think of the term I want to use stupid humor
like slapstick.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
No, I don't like that kind of humor. I like
humor that is relatable to everybody, Like you can you
can look at a joke or a circumstance and say, yes,
I can see my family like that, like something like
you know, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I know it's a
holiday movie, but everybody can look at a character in

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that film and say, oh, that's just like my great
great aunt Mildred, and that's just like her crazy uncle
or husband with the cat burning in the tree. Everybody
can relate to that. When it comes to stupid slapstick,
you know, fart humor, not really my my jam.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
I mean, it's okay if you mix it in a
little bit, but right, I mean, I don't want the
whole movie to be like that.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
No, And.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
How can I say this? Like I like dry wit
humor kind of like Seinfeld humor. Yeah, well, in a way,
maybe maybe you know, just you know, I like when
somebody has a quick wit, you know, I mean, even
even if it's scripted. Sometimes if you can deliver it perfectly,
it's great. But you know, I like the person that

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can come up with something.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Like that a zinger yeah yeah, comes out of nowhere,
or their timing is just perfect.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, And it's okay if it takes a jab at somebody,
because nine times out of ten it's a harmful jab.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
No.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
The best is when it's a fly by jab where
the person, you know, the line is said and then
fifteen seconds later the person that it was after goes, oh,
wait a second.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I like when you watch a TV show that's a
scripted TV show and you know something happened off script
because the actors start laughing, and I see it's happened
in like All in the Family, it's happened in Cheers,
it's happened in a bunch of other TV shows. And

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that's when Betty White the Golden Girls see was famous
for going off script and acting up. You know, b
Arthur and Rue McClanahan. Those are the things that I like,
if you can see the real the actor that just
like I did not see that coming, and by god,

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that was funny.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, that's like SNL. Some of the best clips of
SNL all time are when the actors can't control them,
like they can't stay in care.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
And see the king. The king of doing that was
Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett Show. Yes, he would
have Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Lyle Wagner, and he would
he would be deadpan and he could just I mean,
he could get them laughing to where they could not
continue the scene. And then he would just keep going

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to he would keep ad libbing and making them laugh
even more. That is that's what you call comedy.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
If you have not seen clips of the Carol Burnett
Show Tim Conway, please do yourself a favor on this
rainy Monday morning for a laugh. I'll see if I
can find some some good ones. I'll post on our
Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Oh there's I mean there. I mean the Krabradets Show
is great for that, not just Tim Conway, I mean,
but he was the king. Every once in a while,
one of the other ones would get something in where
they would they would lose it. But Conway, I mean,
it was like he could do it.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Once a show, and you're right, he would be completely deadpans.
Oh yeah, the rest of them would be losing it.
That's see when everybody else is laughing around me, I
laugh at everybody laughing. I couldn't do that. I wouldn't
be able to completely stay focused like that.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
And and well, you know, if you if you say
something funny, it's almost how do you not laugh at yourself?
I mean, how do you not laugh with it? And
you know who the other one was good at. I
can't think of his name off the top of my head,
but the actor that played Niles Crane on Frasier. Oh yes,
I can't think of his real name, but anyway.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
The little guy, Yeah, yeah, Niles.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, but I guess what happened with him? He uh
he developed like how how to be the deadpan you
know and not have any reaction whatsoever? And that's what
And so they played that into his character where he
would just you know, he would give you that dead
pan comment.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
He was the straight lace.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, never say.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Somebody texted me his name. I guarantee you what do
we got? I get to open it up?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Uh no, no, Well while you're doing that, we have
a busy day in store. Coming up in the eight
o'clock hour, we're gonna be talking to a local physician
who has been through everything at East O Higher Regional Hospital,
and we're gonna get into a lot of topics around that,
of course, including the community impact when he we're gonna

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talk to him about that and what it was like
going through this. It is seven sixteen on your Monday.
You're listening to the Bloom Ditty Experience. Salmon otis news
Radio eleven seventy wwva.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
We are back.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
It is seven twenty one. The Bloom Diddy Experience. Salmon
otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. All right,
otis real quick. I didn't even tell you this yet.
We're gonna have chances to win this morning. First one
coming up, it's gonna be a family four pack two
the Globetrotters. We got new stuff today. Nice, We've got

(10:34):
new stuff. So family four pack to see the Globe
Trotters down at West Banko Arena. That's gonna be coming
up here very very shortly.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Okay, hint, hint, hint, Hey, we have an announcement. We
do we have another announcement.

Speaker 7 (10:47):
Oh yes, today is April seventh National Beer Day. Yes,
the calendar may say seven, but after you throw down
enough Bruskies, it'll start to look like a ten. Drink
up National Beer Day.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
Did you get that? The calendar says it's a seven,
but the more bruises you drink it, it'll look like
a ten.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Oh no, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I did.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
I knew you didn't because you weren't laughing, You're making
you didn't even react to it whatsoever.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Well I was. I was also considering the fact that
it's World Health Day in collaboration with Beer Day. I
don't know how well that makes makes sense, those two
things going together. It's also Beaver Day. So take that
as you will. I'm gonna leave it right there. You

(11:40):
have another update for.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Us, don't you come on?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Give me my results? How did I do? How did
I do it?

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (11:47):
We're talking. You're talking bracket challenge. Yeah, So in the
celebrity bracket, I believe you are the winner. Me I'm
grabbing them here. So in the celest brackets, I have
actually have I had Florida going into the championship game,
but you have Florida and Houston. So you've you you

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got thirty two extra points and then if if Florida,
I'd have to look at this. We have to, we
have to do the math. But okay, I think I
think you're because I had ours on different pieces of
paper and I think somebody threw my paper away. Are
our points leading into this?

Speaker 6 (12:26):
I got you?

Speaker 4 (12:27):
I got you.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
But most of the people have been eliminated from our
bracket challenge. We do have some people that are alive
and I'm and these are just kind.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Of yes, they're alive.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
We have Wes with Florida going into tonight. We have
Jeff with Houston, Houston and Florida playing, so he got
both both and he has Houston winning. We have Kaylee
who has Florida winning. We have Bubby that has Houston winning.
So Bubby was in the league going into the weekend.

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But Jeff, I think right now, because he picked both
teams in the in the finals, he got a bonus
thirty two points, so that he could have very easily sneaked
by Bubby. And if that's the case, Jeff would be
the If Houston wins, Jeff would be the winner. But
we have some Florida's, we have some Houston's. Anybody that
didn't pick Florida or Houston is definitely out of the race. Yeah,

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so we have about six sheets that are still alive.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I'm just going to sit here. We will I relish
in my.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
We will try to have I'll try to get you
more of an update, okay before the end of the show.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Okay, I'm just gonna like sit back and enjoy it.
I'm gonna do math the spotlight of currently holding.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
You should I think I think I don't think you can.
I don't think you that you can be beat because
you picked up sixty four points going into the finals. Nice,
but I don't know where you were. You were, I
think you were in last place. Either you were Kevinise
I can't remember. Well, then Kevin's out.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Also this we were living the excitement this weekend.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Yes, we were. Okay, you talked me into it.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
I just even decided to spend Saturday with me, Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
You did. How much fun did we have it? Bingo?
Would you like to tell everybody how I completely dropped
the ball?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (14:25):
So the one game I think it was an next game? Yeah,
where the bingo. You had to have an ex for
the bingo and you're just sitting there Nadi Dai da,
and they called somebody called Bingo and then they said
any more winners, and you were like I did, and
then you were like, oh wait a second, I won, yeah,
because you forgot the market number.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Here's the thing, though, I would have won prior to
that person even calling Bingo, because what happened was on
one square. I missed one number, and that number is
twenty three, and the number twenty three is going to
haunt me for I can't tell you how long. Because
I missed that one stupid number, I would have had

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a bingo. I don't know what I would have won.
I don't know. I honestly don't even know what each
winner wanted. I know if there were multiple winners they
split the plot. But no, we went to bingo Saturday
at River City. It was all in support of the
y w c A. It was a really good time.
It was packed. You know, you've hit a different part
of life.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
It was a little long for me, like I could
tell yeah, I was like the last three or four games,
I was like, okay, I could leave.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
But again, you know when you when you hit a
point in life, a stage where you're like, oh, going
to Bingo.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Well that was not the reaction that I had. You said, hey,
do you want to go to Bingo to help support.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
The y w c A.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
And I said, sure, I hope you.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
But you went with a smile on your face. Sure
did you? And I brought snacks. Did you like my
dep You never said anything.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
I didn't really try it. I had one little taste
of it was in bed.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
It was okay, fine.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
I eat the pretzels. Plane.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh yes, I made dip.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
The dip was too fattening, so I only tasted it.
I'm on a challenge here.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Oh that's right, that's right. Any update on.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
That, not really. I mean we check in weekly, so
maybe I'll give you an idea on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh I got you, I gotcha. Speaking of sports a
little bit, we talked about the bracket challenge just real quick.
Did you see the home opener for the Pirates. The
crowd reaction, Yeah, the airplane, Yeah, just chanting at him.
Sell the team, Sell the team. I mean, yeah, at

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least they're starting to wake up at this point. I
had a conversation with somebody last week with well.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
The fans have been awake for a long time.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh, that's what I mean, but that now they're even
more they're being more vocal about it.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well that when they introduced Derek Shelton the manager, I mean,
he got booed.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
I didn't see that far.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
I mean it was like, I mean like it was
like he was an opposing manager, like from the team
that they hate the most.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Ooh, yikes, all right, we got to do it. One
eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy Our first chance
this morning for a family four pack to see the Globetrotters.
One eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy. Let's do
caller number fifteen, Call her number fifteen. One eight hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy seven twenty eight The bloom

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Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Welcome back to the show on your Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Now, Usually when I have a great meal around the
Ohio Valley, I share it with you because I think
those people should get credit. Because if you talk to
anybody who works in the restaurant industry, it's an unforgiving
business and a lot of times you're dealing with people
who are rude, who have no tact and who want
to complain over and over and over. So whenever I

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do have a good meal, I want to let you
know about it. But this is not about a good meal,
and this is not about me being a richard head.
I'm going to point out two instances of places that
I love where I recently have had some meals that
are subpar. Never said anything to the waiters, never asked
for my money back. Not that kind of guy unless

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it's really bad. But the reason I'm going to bring
this out, I'm going to tell you where they were too.
The reason I bring this out is because I want
these places to do better, and maybe if they hear this,
they will do that.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm gonna start.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
By giving the positives, but i also want to hit
on the negative, and I'm going to start with Bob
Evans at the Ohio Valley Mall.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
I go by there all the time.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
There's nobody there, and I think I know why because
I went and ate there for the first time in
quite some time, about two weeks ago, and the service
was fine, but the food was not and the presentation
of the food was awful.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
I love Bob Evans.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I took my kids when they were small to that
bob Evans all the time.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
It was always packed.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
You go by there now at dinner time, you won't
see more than twenty cars in a parking lot. And
I think that's very telling. And I want them to
do better because I love bob Evans, I really truly do.
And it's got great memories for me taking the kids
there when you know the three of them are ten,
eight and two years old, and all the way up

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through high school. I mean we went there all the time,
and I to this day, I had one of the
greatest hamburgers I've ever eaten in my life at that
bob Evans.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
But I just couldn't believe. And it wasn't a one.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Day thing because I talked to a couple of people
who used to go there and they said the same
thing that they feel that it's just not where it
needed to be. And I know the restaurant industry is
it's tough, and I know that finding good people is tough,
but bob Evans is a national chain. Bob Evans has
a great reputation. But that bob Evans at the mall

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has got to do better. It's got to do better.
And when you go to the mall on a Friday
night and you see every restaurant packed except that one.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
I think that tells you all you need to know. Now,
let's go to the other one.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I love this place, okay, And it's side by side
with Bob Evans, almost the Cracker Barrel in Saint Clairsville.
I got meat loaf there about two months ago. I'm
gonna say three months ago. It was fantastic. Got meat
loaf there about a month and a half ago. I
couldn't eat it. One of the rare times in my life.
I actually told the waitress, this is so bad, I.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Can't eat it.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Then I got I tried it again, and I don't
know why I wanted meat loaf, but you know, when
it's cold, you kind of want that food that grandma
made you back in the day.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
I tried it again. I even told the waitress I said, look, I've.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Had a real good experience with meat loaf here and
a real bad experience with meat loaf here. And she said,
you know, oh, I've heard that from people. I said,
just make sure this thing's cooked like the inside on.
The bad experience was just it just didn't taste like
it was cooked.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Third time wasn't bad.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
But then just went there this past weekend, got fish
and chips. That's pretty simple. The fish came out, it
was so overcooked. I thought they gave me chicken tenders,
but it was fish. Didn't say anything because the waitress
was really good. But my point is this. You know,
when you go out for a meal and you're spending

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a kount of money you spend today because prices are up.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
And everybody wants to tip.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
If they even look at you, they might not even
provide a service. And they turned that little key card
or that little credit card thing around and it's tip.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Tip tip, tip, tip tip tip. I expect to have
a decent meal.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
It can't be hit and miss, and that's what I've
gotten recently at Cracker Brow, kind of that hit and
miss type of thing. Once again, I know times are tough,
and I know sometimes it's hard to get good employees.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
But at the end of the day, that's not my
problem and that's not your problem out there listening.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
If you've had a rough day and you just want
to go to a place where you feel comfortable and
you want to just a solid meal, you're not looking
for anything off the charts. I just want a solid meal,
and you get disappointed like that. It's a hard thing
to swallow. And like I said, I don't want to

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be that person where I'm sending everything back all the time.
But I have just found that more often than not,
when I go to some of these chain restaurants in
the valley, it's a swing and a miss more than
it's a double.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
To the gap.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
And I just wonder if you've kind of experienced the
same thing. And look, as I'm saying this, I support
all the mom and pop shops around here too. Believe me,
I go to more family restaurants. I try to do
that all the time. But some times, from a convenience standpoint,
I just want some meat loaf, or maybe I just want,
you know, a good burger and a little side sund

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and a places can't get that right on a consistent basis.
We've got a major problem. Otis, Sam, have you experienced
anything like this either?

Speaker 4 (23:18):
We've all had bad meals. I mean that that's unfortunately,
that's part of it. I have started. I have always
made it a point to not complain that I worked
in the restaurant business. I know what it's like. Especially
when it is jam packed. They're hustling, they're working like crazy.

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So I try not to be nitpicky or complain or
you know, send something back number one, because you hear
the horror stories about what happens when something gets sent back.
But I've gotten to the point where now I do
speak up because of the prices of things. You know,

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if I'm going to go out and drop forty fifty
sixty seventy bucks on a meal because we're treating ourselves
to go out, I want it to be a good meal.
I've looked forward to it. I want it to be good.
And listen when it comes to national chains. Unfortunately, this

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is standards in general have dropped. And it's not just
in the restaurant world. I think it's in the world
in general. Our standards for a lot of things have
have have dropped, and the customer has become secondary. I mean,

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I can't tell you how many times I have been
at places and I have wanted to reach across the
counter and rip a cell phone out of somebody's hands
because they're standing there on a cell phone and I'm
standing there waiting to place an order or pick something up,
and they're just texting away or scrolling away, whatever they're doing,

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just you know, and I'm standing in there, toddle of
my thumb's like, hello, Hello, I am the customer. And
then when they finally notice you, you get sort of
this this look of disdain, like, I guess I gotta
do my job now. Otis we got a call?

Speaker 3 (25:38):
We do?

Speaker 5 (25:39):
We have James for mealing, what's to come in on this?
Go ahead, James, good morning.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
We agree with him about the whole issue with the
food situations. Just for instance, I'm going to give you
two scenarios. The first one was I went to Wendy's
and I ordered a baconator, and of course everybody knows
it's like eight or nine strips of bacon on a baconator.
I get back to the table and I have one
strip cut in a half, literally, so I take it
back up there and they just look at me and

(26:06):
basically tell me it is what it is. I think
a lot of it has to do with just it's
it's the personnel. I think the younger generation they just
don't care. They don't care about their job, they don't
care about what's going out of that window, et cetera.
You know, So I'm totally on board with the whole
and like the price is also, you know, the prices

(26:28):
are astronomically crazy.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
So I'm with you.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Man, when you go out, you just want a good meal. Then,
you know, I don't want nothing extra or nothing special.
I just want what I pay for. Another incident is, uh,
just recently, I went to a local ice cream shop
here and Uh and Wheeling, and I ordered a vanilla
I a caramel Sunday, So there was literally no caramel

(26:53):
on the bottom and just like a tea spoon on
the top. So it just goes back to I don't
think they care. I don't think they care what goes
out the window. The younger generation in my eyes, and
just they don't care anymore. You know.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Standards, standards have dropped. Standards have dropped in a lot
of different things when it comes to our society, unfortunately, James,
thank you so much for your call this morning, seven
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Welcome back to seven fifty one, The bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. We're not alone
in the studio now. We are now welcoming Victoria Power,
the coordinator for the local Chapter of the Belmont County
Special Olympics. Good morning, Victoria, Good morning. So what did

(28:09):
have you and because you guys, you have an event
coming up here shortly, but I wanted to take this
opportunity to learn more about the local chapter of the
Special Olympics. So tell us the mission of the Special
Olympics in general.

Speaker 8 (28:28):
So with Special Olympics, Ohio, and I'm the local chapter
of Bemont County. We provide year round athletic competition and
a variety of supports for all athletes with intellectual disabilities,
which that rans from autism down, syndrum down, syndrome, cerebral policy,
that's just a name a few of them. We compete

(28:50):
in winter and state summer games, all around On, Ohio
and recently we just took for athletes to Louisiana for
Baton Rouge's bowling. Okay, for nationals. We have close to
one hundred athletes in Belmont County and we do have
some coming from Harrison and Noble and Monroe County as well.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
What are some of the different events, so you said
you just recently went to Louisiana. What are some of
the different events that these athletes get to compete in?

Speaker 8 (29:19):
So we have seven different sports we do bowling, basketball, cheerleading,
batchie jack and field, try to remember softball, and swimming. Swimming.
As long as they have a physical and file with us,
they can get a year free membership at the MCA,

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So we offer swimming for that.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Pickleball hasn't made it yet.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Pickleball has not made it yet. However, we are starting
up cornholes.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yere Okay, And you said you service one hundred athletes
in Belmont County and a couple other county surrounding. How
do people get involved if they have a family member
that they think this would be beneficial for So.

Speaker 8 (30:06):
A lot of my referrals come from the Board of
d D of Elmont County okay, but I also get
this word of mouth referrals as well. Some of the
local schools even when refer their students to me as well.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
And when when you go to an event and you
have worked I'm sure you've uh worked with some of
these athletes athletes for many years now at this point,
what what are the benefits? I understand the exercise, But
when you see one of them win or just complete
one of the events, say the track and field, what

(30:43):
is that experience like for the athlete and for and
for for you?

Speaker 8 (30:47):
I knew for me, I get teary eyed. They're like
very excited. They they're full of proud of themselves. They cheer,
they laugh for their teammates, and they work hard for
their whether they want to accomplish. I see a lot

(31:08):
of determination and our athletes pride.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Is there a lot of pride in yeah, completing the event?

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah? And what does it do interpersonally for these athletes
to to spend a lot of time together and associate
with one another. Is there a bond between them?

Speaker 8 (31:28):
Yes, they have a strong friendship. Even amongst the other
counties that we compete with, they have friendships that they meet,
They met friends down in nationals from other states and
they get excited when they get to see their friends
from all around Ohio.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
And and part of this, of course is nonprofit and
the part of that is where we need your help everybody, which,
of course break takes us to the trivia and Rigatoni
dinner that you're having, Yes, because these are the things
that make everything that you guys do possible with the

(32:05):
Belmont County Special Olympics. So tell us a little bit
about what's happening this Saturday.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
This Saturday, we're having Rigatoni. It starts at eleven am
till four pm. We will have gluten free option and
it's ten dollars. They will get the reggaetoni, the salad,
the bread, and a drink of choice. And we do
have baked goods to go with a.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Nice ten dollars. That's and you can't even cook a
family meal for that much to know. And this is happening.

Speaker 8 (32:32):
Where it is happening at the Bamont County Board of
DG in Saint Clairsville at six eight four two on
Hammond Road. It's formerly known as the School of Hope
near Beaumont College in the Sheriff's Department.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, okay, now get me to the let's go to
the trivia side of this, because I love a good
trivia content as long as it's like stupid information like
celebrities and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
And it's after two thousand anything anything before two worthless.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
So you're taking teams, yes, for for trivia. And some
of the categories are pop culture, there's where I'm good at, geography. Music.
There you go. Otis how many teams have you have
signed up so far? And is there still availability?

Speaker 8 (33:19):
Yes, you can come that day and sign up. I
do not have the mount that we have right now
on hand. My gracious volunteer will know that information.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
And of course there are tons of local businesses that
have become involved that have that have donated to this cause.
If you want to throw some of those out there
for us.

Speaker 8 (33:42):
Yeah, So the Dogwash, Kirk's ice Cream and v Salon Generations,
Peucha Shack, Quaker Steak and loub Abby's Frizzies, hot Rod Tattoos,
Steak and Shake, Applebee's, Saint Clearings, just the.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Name of nice, nice, and well, just to get back
to the trivia, how many people on a.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
Team so the minimum you can just be by yourself
and won the three the full three hundred first gift
card prizes, or you have a team of six fo
one hundred dollars or twelve I think.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
But if you have so, so basically you can have
more than yeah, than usual.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
As long as the people pay, you can have as
many people on your team.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
As absolutely well, if we can't if we did it,
notice we need a.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Team name we can work on. It depends on how
many people we have.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Radio riff Rath, I get bed. Oh, I'm sure you do,
Sure you do. So again you said there is still
time to sign up and they can easily go to
the Facebook page. Correct, Yes, wonderful, wonderful again. That's happening Saturday,
April twelfth at the Board of d D and it's
trivia and RIGATONI dinner, so fun, a little bit of

(34:56):
education and a full belly. Absolutely wonderful, all in support
of the County Special Olympics. Thank you so much for
popping in this morning. Thank you for having well, good
luck with the event. I hope it's a huge success.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
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Speaker 4 (35:42):
Welcome back on your Monday. It's eight oh six. The
bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA joining us now in studio. We have been talking
about this conversation four months, dating back to Oh my goodness,
otis what was it August of last year we started
talking about it's been a while, of course, we are
talking about the situation with the East Ohio Regional Hospital.

(36:04):
Joining us in studio is doctor Shallifo. I'm so excited
to have you here this morning to really get into
a deep conversation about what is happening at East Ohio,
the repercussions, the accountabilities, everything. So good morning and welcome.
Thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 9 (36:22):
Well.

Speaker 10 (36:22):
I appreciate the opportunity to be here, and I also
appreciate the fact that you said my name correctly, which.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
You heard that otis right.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, it makes you one for one hundred.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Okay, So let's get into the nuts and bolts of things.
So the hospital officially closed on March twentieth of this year.
That was not the beginning of the issues. So can
you give us a brief overview since you were there
boots on the ground, you have talked to, of course,

(36:56):
multiple employees, including your you know yourself, what you've gone
through with your office, what the environment was like the
past couple months.

Speaker 10 (37:05):
Oh, the past couple of months. Okay, I thought you
wanted to find out from my way back then, But
the past couple months were just, in a I guess,
an acceleration or an amplification of what had happened even
earlier than that. One could see that we're having a
situation now where things weren't being paid for. I mean,
vendors weren't being paid, weren't being paid their appropriate amounts.

(37:28):
The surgery list went way down because obviously, if we
don't have vendors, you can't do cases. There's a big
need for a lot of cases. A lot of patients
have needs, surgical needs, et cetera. But the doctors are
basically being told to not do cases, just see patients
in the office and.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
With I don't even know where to start with this
entire thing, because it has been such a roller coaster
for the nurses full were the day to day workers,
to the janitors, to the people in the cafeteria. Were
you were you having conversations with those folks, Oh?

Speaker 10 (38:10):
Sure, I mean every day people. Well, you could tell
that that whole attitude was going downhill real quick. And
these are people, I mean, let's face it, these employees
are the backbone of the hospital.

Speaker 9 (38:21):
They are the.

Speaker 10 (38:21):
Most loyal individuals I've ever met. And you could see
that they were hurting because they weren't getting answers. And
I think that's probably the biggest, you know, argument people
will say about the so called downfall of East Ohio.
As we know today, no one really from the administration
would actually try to educate us or at least give
us a heads up, and I think that that's a

(38:43):
big problem. So as a result, you know, there's a
lot of innuendos, a lot of gossip, whatever, when in reality,
they could have circumvented all that very quickly by just
keeping us in the loop because they had the people
there that really wanted to keep us place open, but
you know, one week Starbucks is closing, another week the

(39:04):
pharmacy is closing early. That kind of gives the aura
that there's a problem here.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Yes, yes, And the speculation, of course, I'm sure from
the employees that created a lot of misnomers about what
was floating around. But the writing was on the wall
and the lack of communication. Did they think that just
completing completely not responding to anything, like the problem was

(39:35):
going to just disappear? Was that the like, how do
you not answer your employees? How do you not keep
people abreast of what is happening with their employment.

Speaker 10 (39:47):
I think what was happening too at times was that
the way the hospitals organized, at least I interpret it,
was that we had a lot of these so called
chiefs or you know, managers, and they would normally go
to the administration office to get some information from the administration,
and then they were supposed to go out and talk

(40:08):
to different departments, be it radiology, be it the ICU
being in different areas well. In the beginning, this was
a pretty consistent thing, but towards the end, I would say,
maybe February, things were not as often.

Speaker 9 (40:24):
I mean they were not coming as often.

Speaker 10 (40:25):
People would just go up and talk and then leave,
and then there wasn't that cohesiveness that used to be there.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
And there's been a lot of figures thrown around. Financially,
there's been a lot of conversation about different tax debts.
We last week, of course, the situation with the power happened.
Do you have any idea roughly the amount of money
that is owed? What have you heard from people?

Speaker 10 (40:56):
What I would say is this, you know, I'm not
going to I don't know the exact amount. So what
I do know is very simple. You know, doctor Johnson
kept his cards close to him and everyone knew that,
and people didn't like that. He actually had, you know,
individuals that would actually supposed to pay people, but he
kept the checkbook. So, like I say, very secretive to

(41:20):
a degree, very non non transparent. Which is interesting because
every time when I first entered the hospital situation, I
was told, we're very transparent, we're going to try to
get things moving. You can see what's going on with
the buildings, all about how much of the expenses are
But come to find out they didn't even have budgets

(41:40):
for each department and how do you run a department
without a budget? How do you know how much radiology
is spending for chemicals or whatever, and how much are.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
They bringing in?

Speaker 10 (41:52):
They kept everybody in the dark, and that's something that
really kind of baffles me, because how are you supposed
to make something better and productive if you don't even
know what you're doing and how it's coming about.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
When did you start at East Ohio when he reopened
or no.

Speaker 10 (42:09):
I actually just started in January. They basically wanted to
hire more physicians, and it was a good idea, actually,
the higher physicians that already had already made practice because
you were already bringing your and I've got over two
hundred and thirty patients that I brought over with me,
and we obviously got more when we were there, But

(42:30):
you bring patients there, and that's what he did with
a couple of other surgeons and general practitioners that already
had patients. So the goal was to bring patients there
and to essentially just go wild. Now you have a
hospital that's waiting to get cases done and all that.
But almost right from the beginning, it was difficult to
get things done, and I think a lot of it

(42:52):
was there was some resentment up in surgery at times
that they didn't have the equipment and so how do.

Speaker 9 (42:58):
You schedule cases? How do you do that?

Speaker 10 (43:00):
So we decided to actually go downstairs to radiology and
do most of our things down there, because the nice
thing about what I do is that you don't always
need an a war You just you can do a
lot of things as an outpatient as long as we
have the trays, which became in short supply, you know, medications,
numbing medication, things like that. So that's how my department

(43:23):
and we had our own people. So we were kind
of like even though we were part of the hospital.
The interesting thing was, I really felt that we were
like our own little island within the hospital.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
And that was sort of what happened to the two
doctors last week. The power was shut out and they
gave him a little reprieve till the next morning to
get out, but it was basically like you're out, no
heads up, no warning, no nothing.

Speaker 10 (43:50):
And shame on on doctor Johnson because now I guess
that's what I'm saying. He's made it so that it's
very easy to blame somebody because he didn't really spread
any of his so called power base or his administrative
to anybody else. But people were expecting to practice do whatever.
They were paying rent to him, and he was keeping

(44:12):
the funds and not paying aep And unfortunately for the
two doctors you're talking about, and there's actually those four
down there, but what happened was here they are going
to work and powers off. So again, very tricky, very
kind of, you know, underhanded.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
I think, yeah, well you hang around with us a
little bit more because I want to talk about the future, sure,
and goals in your thoughts and where we should go
with this. It is eight point fifteen. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis. When we return, we're
going to continue the conversation on East Ohio Regional Hospital,
the Bloomdaddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVN

(44:58):
eight one. You're listening to blod I Experience salmon Otis.
We're going to continue our conversation with doctor Shallafoe from
formerly East Ohio Regional Hospital. So let's talk the community
impact with East Ohio closing. How is this affecting not

(45:18):
only the patients but also things like Martins Ferry high School.
They're the taxes in that side of this conversation, along
with the doctors themselves, because not only are the patients displaced,
the doctors are displaced.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
It's a very good point.

Speaker 10 (45:36):
The main thing is, you know, the the what East
Ohio would say, at least one of their one of
their sayings was, you know your community you're a hospital.
So everyone really thinks that, you know, East Ohio is
the community hospital for Belmont County, but more specifically Martins Ferry. Well,
they kind of like got up and left, and patients
are like saying, what's going on here, what's happening? But

(45:59):
what's worth like you said, but like you've just reiterated,
there's money that the hospital was supposed to pay and.

Speaker 9 (46:06):
They never did.

Speaker 10 (46:08):
And that obviously is just the whole domino effect is
it's going to be really bad for the next I'm
sure the next couple of years because Min's Ferry obviously,
you know it's a small It's got six thousand people
i think per census, so you're only going to collect
so many as taxes. You've got a hospital that is
supposed to be you know, generating, and then once they are,

(46:29):
they're not even paying for their time. They haven't paid
the water bill. Apparently they haven't paid the electric bill.
So it's really it's just like I said, it's a
conception and all. This is a business. This has nothing
to do with patients, which is really sad because ultimately,
because of poor business decisions, the patients are the ones
who suffer. They didn't ask for this. They relied. They have,

(46:50):
you know, loyalty, that's the whole thing. They had loyalty.
They had total belief that this hospital was their place
and the physicians were there for them. Now they basically
been left. It's kind of like the hospital blew up
one day. They're not even sure where they're going.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
Well, I mean it comes down to when we talk
about Martins Ferry, is the community. How many employees? How
many employees were there at East Ohio total do you know.

Speaker 10 (47:17):
My understanding was between five to six hundred people. Now
that's a lot of employees. That's a lot of employees.
Obviously a good payroll, good paying jobs, and people obviously
were relying on that account. Now, you know, you go
to the unemployment office and people are talking all this
now is going to go to the state. So why

(47:38):
are we burning a state that's trying to actually make
you become better and actually help the area. I'm sure
they're going to help these individuals, but this was a
self surviving kind of situation.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Well, and you take into account so five to six
hundred employees, say half of them a day are coming
to work because I know there's rotations, and so three
one hundred people a day coming into Martin's Ferry. That
goes down to affecting small businesses, well, the gas stations,
the local restaurants. That's how much of an impact this
closure is having.

Speaker 10 (48:11):
Well, people don't realize economics here is terrible because a
you know, they were relying on the hospital and into employees.
Employees would always either go out get lunches or get food.
We would contact certain vendors just to come and take
care of us, and they would come over and see
the hospital and all that. So you're right, I mean
there's a lot of things going on that Unfortunately now,

(48:33):
I'm sure if you want to talk to the businesses,
they would say, we are hurting right now, we're struggling.

Speaker 8 (48:39):
And.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
What do you want what do you want to see happen?
Do you want to see the hospital reopened. Do you
want to see doctor Johnson investigated? What levels should this
go to?

Speaker 10 (48:55):
Well, I really think as far as investigations, that's more good.
That's going to have to be the Attorney General's office,
our representatives and things like that, and the city and
the pay. Apparently a lot of the employees are complaining too,
which I don't blame them, and I think that that
needs to be investigated, but that's a separate issue right now.
Our hope is that with good communication and discussions with

(49:17):
other hospital corporations. And that's the thing that people don't
realize now, it's very hard to get a nonprofit to
take over a hospital. Everything now is for profit and
that is the new thing now with healthcare. Fortunately for profit.
We've seen how it happens here a couple of years back,
and now again it's happened again. I think what's going

(49:38):
to have to happen is whoever wants to purchase this
group and they'll realize there is a lot of potential
funds for people. You can know, anybody can make a
good living here having this hospital. The issue is we
need better transparency and more oversight. I really think that
the state is also responsible for not really checking the

(50:01):
books doing things like that. I mean, there has to
be a checks and balance.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Well, that's one thing when you talk about you know,
you say checks and balances. Where did That's the biggest question.
Where did the money go? We have seen many write
ups articles about the funds, the grants that were given
from the state of Ohio. I have an article here.
I brought this up last week from Finance Fund fifteen

(50:26):
million dollars of federal NMTC money. I'm not going to
read it again. The thing that was very interesting this
morning I went to pull this up once again and
the page is no longer found, but I have a
hard copy, which I find very questionable. But fifteen million dollars,
they're two million dollars. There are such large numbers circulating.

(50:47):
That is the biggest question. Where is the money. That
doesn't even take into account the unpaid money to employees.
Where is the money for the healthcare situation with the employees.
That's the biggest question. Where's the money? And then coming
up April thirtieth is the next tax deadline that's hanging

(51:08):
over the head of doctor Johnson. So what is for
a potential buyer, what is the state of the facility physically,
is it appealing to a buyer?

Speaker 10 (51:23):
The hospital, believe it or not, is in actually very
good shape. And I'm very impressed with it because I've
obviously trained in major medical centers and it's done really well.
And so no, they've got everything that anyone could ever need.
The thing is is to attract people, and I think
what happened was the attraction is not there when you
start hearing a lot of in the windows that there's

(51:47):
you know, either not going to get paid or they're
not going to give you supplies like cardiac. We could
do so much cardiac work there. They've got stench, They've
got doctors that want to go there. But if you
don't have staff or administration that's going to support you,
see these it costs money to make money, so to speak. Right,
what was happening here is they were making money, but

(52:08):
they weren't spending it after so it was like a
one way It was a scoring in one direction. Now,
if he was having that much of a problem with billing, then.

Speaker 9 (52:16):
I don't understand. Then he should have told himself that
I need.

Speaker 10 (52:19):
To find somebody that can help me out here, because
we know how to bill we know how to bring
an income. The question is where to go when it
come in? When it came in, and that's the whole
that's what everyone's asking us.

Speaker 9 (52:31):
Where is it? We think he has it?

Speaker 4 (52:33):
So do you think we'll ever hear from him?

Speaker 9 (52:36):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 10 (52:37):
You'll probably hear from him when he's being seen, when
he's in courthouse or something.

Speaker 9 (52:41):
But you know that's probably the only time we'll hear
about it.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
I know no questions have no phone calls have been
returned that we have left at the office. So but
doctor Sellifoh, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Good luck with everything. Please keep us posted as things progress.

Speaker 10 (52:57):
I definitely will thanks again for your time, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
It's a twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Welcome back to the show on your Monday morning. Now.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Usually when I have a great meal around the Ohio Valley,
I share it with you because I think those people
should get credit. Because if you talk to anybody who
works in the restaurant industry, it's an unforgiving business and
a lot of times you're dealing with people who are rude,
who have no tact, and who want to complain over
and over and over. So whenever I do have a

(53:38):
good meal, I want to let you know about it.
But this is not about a good meal, and this
is not about me being a richard head. I'm going
to point out two instances of places that I love
where I recently have had some meals that are subpar.
Never said anything to the waiters, never asked for.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
My money back.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Not that kind of guy unless it's really bad. But
the reason I'm gonna bring this out, I'm going to
tell you where they were too. The reason I bring
this out is because I want these places to do better,
and maybe if they hear this, they will do that.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
And I'm gonna start by.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Giving the positives, but i also want to hit on
the negative. And I'm going to start with Bob Evans
at the Ohio Valley Mall. I go by there all
the time. There's nobody there, and I think I know
why because I went and ate there for the first
time in quite some time, about two weeks ago, and
the service was fine, but the food was not, and

(54:34):
the presentation of the food was awful.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
I love bob Evans.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
I took my kids when they were small to that
bob Evans all the time.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
It was always packed.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
You go by there now at dinner time, you won't
see more than twenty cars in a parking lot, and
I think that's very telling. And I want them to
do better because I love bob Evans, I really truly do.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
And it's got great memories.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
For me taking the kids there when you know the
three of them are ten, eight and two years old,
and all the way up through high school. I mean,
we went there all the time, and I to this day,
I had one of the greatest hamburgers I've ever eaten
in my life at that bob Evans.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
But I just couldn't believe. And it wasn't a one.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Day thing because I talked to a couple of people
who used to go there and they said the same
thing that they feel that it's just not where it
needed to be. And I know the restaurant industry is
it's tough, and I know that finding good people is tough,
but bob Evans is a national chain. Bob Evans has
a great reputation. But that bob Evans at the mall

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has got.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
To do better. It's got to do better.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
And when you go to the mall on a Friday
night and you see every restaurant packed except that one,
I think that tells you all you need to know.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Now, let's go to the other one.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
I love this place, okay, And it's side by side
with Bob Evans, almost the cracker Barrel in Saint Clairsville.
I got meat loaf there about two months ago. I'm
gonna say three months ago. It was fantastic. Got meat
loaf there about a month and a half ago. I
couldn't eat it.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
One of the rare times in my life. I actually
told the waitress, this is so bad, I can't eat it.
Then I got I tried.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
It again, and I don't know why I wanted meat loaf,
but you know, when it's cold, you kind of want
that food the grandma made you back in the day.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
I tried it again. I even told the waitress I said, look, I've.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Had a real good experience with meat loaf here and
a real bad experience with meat loaf here.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
And she said, you know, I've heard that from people.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
I said, just make sure this thing's cooked like the
inside on the bad experience.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Was just it just didn't taste like it was cooked.
Third time wasn't bad.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
But then just went there this past weekend, got fish
and chips. That's pretty simple. The fish came out it
was so overcooked. I thought they gave me chicken tenders.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Fish.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Didn't say anything because the waitress was really good. But
my point is this.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
You know, when you go.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Out for a meal and you're spending a kunt of
money you spend today because prices are up and everybody
wants to tip. If they even look at you, they
might not even provide a service, and they turn that
little key card or that little credit card thing around
and it's.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Tip tip tip, tip, tip tip tip.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
I expect to have a decent meal. They can't be
hit and miss, and that's what I've gotten recently at
Cracker Brough, kind of that hit and miss type of thing.
Once again, I know times are tough, and I know
sometimes it's hard to get good employees. But at the
end of the day, that's not my problem and that's

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not your problem out there listening. If you've had a
rough day and you just want to go to a
place where you feel comfortable and you want to just
a solid mood meal. You're not looking for anything off
the charts. I just want a solid meal, and you
get disappointed like that. It's a hard thing to swallow.

(58:09):
And like I said, I don't want to be that
person where I'm sending everything back all the time. But
I have just found that more often than not, when
I go to some of these chain restaurants in the valley,
it's a swing and a miss more than it's a double.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
To the gap.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
And I just wonder if you've kind of experienced the
same thing. And look, as I'm saying this, I support
all the mom and pop shops around here too.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Believe me.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
I go to more family restaurants. I try to do
that all the time, but sometimes from a convenience standpoint,
I just want some meat loaf, or maybe I just want,
you know, a good burger and a little side salad.
And if places can't get that right on a consistent basis,
we got a major problem. Otis, Sam, have you experienced
anything like this?

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Either?

Speaker 5 (58:58):
Go ahead, I have. I think everybody has.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
We all have, Yeah, we all have.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
I think part of it is, you know, I having
worked in the service industry throughout my college years, and
a little post afterwards. You can't please everybody, no, and
but you know I can. I can deal with.

Speaker 8 (59:26):
You know.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
First off, you bloom Daddy said something about presentation. I
don't care what my food looks like as long as
it tastes good. I'm not worried about how you dress
it up.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
You're not a judge on Top Chef. No, you don't
factor that in.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
But I mean, there are certain things that I like,
and there are certain things that I like. You know,
I don't. I don't ever recall ever sending anything back, as.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Far as I'm.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Not saying I haven't done it, but i'd I don't think.
I mean, I've been with people that have done it,
you know, And I get I get it. Like if
you if you want let's say you order a steak
or a hamburger or something like that, and you tell
them you want it medium, and it comes in it's
and it's very red and pink inside and everything else. Okay,
I get it. You might want to send it back

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because it's probably a little too too rare for you.
Maybe it was medium rare as opposed to medium. But
it's when you send it back as when I'm like
good lucky.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
I'll never forget the time that I was three bites
into a grilled chicken sandwich. And when I mean three bites,
I mean the edge, the skin air part by the
fourth bite, and I was in the meat of the sandwich,
if you will. And the meat it was raw. It
was raw, and it was cold.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
That's graves.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
It was horrid. Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
I've heard people that have had fish sandwiches from a
fast food restaurant and it's still frozen in the middle.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
There is something about well, first of all, it's raw chicken,
so number one, you can get violently ill. Number two,
the texture was just awful. And then I kept thinking,
I've had three other bites. How undercook was that it was?
Obviously it wasn't bad that I noticed it, but it
was awful. And the thing that was said, I sent
it back and the waitress came back and said, would

(01:01:23):
you like another one? And I said, no, you know,
my appetite is gone, and she kind of like did
one of those huff things or whatever. It was still
on the bill, and I went and when we got
the bill and I said, you know, I didn't eat this.
It was raw. I could have you know you can
make me really well. Yeah, but you you ate the baked.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
Potato, then charge me for the baked potato.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Yeah, I know, yeah, like it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
That's a side. So what's a side? Three fifty five
dollars something like that. Then charge me the five dollars.
Take the sandwich off.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Either way. You serve somebody a raw chicken sandwich, you
charge them nothing. Don't even charge them for their drink.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
You know, here's bo sorry about that, good morning. That's
what happens when you go to a break and then
there's a bloom daddy segment.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Here's my thing.

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
If I go to a restaurant and I don't like
the food, I'll give you. I'll give you one, I'll
give you two tries. Yeah, okay, so maybe maybe it
was just a bad day. I'll go back the second time.
After the second time, I'm not coming back to your restaurant,
or I will not eat at your restaurant. Yeah, it
doesn't mean I'm not coming back. It just means I'm
not going to eat there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Yeah, I agree. I agree. We have another visitor coming up.
We do, we do, but I'm not going to tell
you who.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Okay, Okay, Well, so we'll also give you who the
two people are that are in contention for oh the
bracket challenge.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
Oh yeah, you did some more math. I did my math,
You did your math, and we have one more chance
for you to win Family four pack to see the
Globe Trotters that will be coming up here in a
little bit, so stay tuned for that. It's eight forty five.
You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It is eight fifty

(01:03:17):
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(01:03:39):
Some are claiming will even cause a shortage of their
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Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
I'm Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 11 (01:03:49):
Despite my kular businessman vibe, deep down, I'm a softy.
I cry at weddings, but one thing I shan'n't do
is cry about weddings, like all the babies blathering on
about my wedding and how it will destroy Venice.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Some say it will cause a gondola shortage. Yeah right.

Speaker 11 (01:04:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Do you remember do you remember? You may or may not?
There used to be a show on MTV called Celebrity Deathmatch.
Do you remember that? The clamation?

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Yeah, I mean I remember it. I never really watched it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
I never either. I seen a couple episodes, but I
just envision Musk and Besos in Celebrity Deaths.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
They could they could bring that back for for a
couple of special episodes. You could do Musk against anybody
because they're all they all hate him right now, most
people hate him. I mean, let's put it this way,
that there's one side that hates him.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
I am halfway through a podcast with him. I believe
that it was recorded early March, sometime before it has
gotten the vandalism has gotten to the level it is now.
So it's a little early on in the quote unquote
protesting of Musk, who's with Joe Rogan and they talk,

(01:05:43):
They talk all kinds of stuff. He is fascinating to
listen to because number one, they kind of start off
with Doze and the money that they're finding and the
amount of money that they're saving. And he goes over
the people that's working on doge in their ages and
their intelligence levels. And you know, it comes down to
the question that I asked last week. You know, everybody's

(01:06:05):
mad at the man who's finding the money that has
been you know, spent willy nilly, no talk about checks
and balances that we don't have. Everybody's mad at this guy.
They're not mad at the government officials that have been
spending our tax dollars like water. But to listen to
him explain it, it's it's it's fascinating. And then he

(01:06:28):
starts talking about rockets and it's just the mind he's
like a human computer. It's it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Well, they're mad because what he's doing is working, and
there are I mean, look, it's not perfect and there's
there's gonna be mistakes. I think, you know, I think
there was a story out of Morgantown where you know,
so many people have been laid off under John F.

(01:06:57):
Kennedy's you know, osha, oh okay, and you know there
were some union people that have lost their jobs in
Morgantown and so on and so forth. And I guess
Bobby Kennedy is saying, hey, maybe we don't need we
don't need to cut as many people as you have listed.
So we're going to reevaluate what's going on. And that's fine,

(01:07:18):
but at least look at it. And they should look
at it before they let the people go. Yes, And
I think what they're doing is I think some of
them are just they're they're acting in haste and getting
rid of them, and then they're realizing that, you know,
not everybody should go. So it's not it's it's it's working,
but it's not perfect, right, and it needs it needs tweaked.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Yeah, And I don't think anybody's saying it's perfect. But
the revelation that and he played. He put it as
simple as this, he said, you own a small business, right,
you know the money going in, you know the money
coming out, and the money going out. You know where
it's going. It's paying this bill or it's paying that bill.
There is none of that in the federal government, he said.

(01:07:59):
He explained, you know, with a particular system, you know,
they would put check numbers such and such as going
to this organization, Okay for what, no explanation, just we'll
just use us. We'll just say USA does an example.
You know, they're getting fifteen million dollars for what and

(01:08:21):
then there's no follow up? Was that money used appropriately?
What was it used for? That's what That's what's amazing.
And he he kind of he he made it sort
of a pyramid scheme. He said. It's like the biggest
fraud in human history that all of this money is

(01:08:41):
coming in and going out and we continue to pay
it off of our backs, no questions ask right, no
questions asked. There's no checks and balances. So I highly
recommend go listen to this because it is you know,
we hear, we hear the news report, but to hear
it from the lips of the gentleman who's doing this

(01:09:04):
along with then he goes into rockets and physics and
lost me on that part. But it was fascinated. It
was very interesting. So, yeah, you look like you have
deep thoughts. Oh give us the calculation.

Speaker 5 (01:09:17):
I just was looking at the people that are in
the brackets. So it appears that you are going to
win the celebrity side of the bracket challenge because you
do have Florida and Houston in the finals, so that
gets you sixty four points and you have Florida winning
it at all, so it doesn't matter who wins or
loses today for you because Kevin had Auburn and I

(01:09:40):
had Duke, so we're both eliminated out of the finals.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
I'm doing a little little dancing here, people.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
But our our our bracket challenge has come down to
two individuals. One has Houston, one has Florida. So Jeff
Turner is in the lead with currently with two hundred
and fifty two points and has Houston winning tonight, and
Matt Porter has two hundred and thirty eight points and

(01:10:06):
has Florida tonight. Okay, so it's come down to those two.
One of those two will be the winner of our
bracket challenge. And you know, actually, uh, the one what
got Jeff into the finals was the fact that he
picked Florida and Houston to make it to the final game.
There was somebody that was way ahead of him but
only picked one team to make it to the final

(01:10:27):
and they picked Houston, So they can't catch you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
I gotcha, and I get to have bragging rights for
a year.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
You do, and we have we have a new winner
this year because we had oh that's right, we've had.
We had our back to back champion. Good run did
not make the three peat. But Eric Staffelino, you know,
he was either the first or second person eliminated this
year after being a two time defending champion. Well, you know, hey,
you can listen. The runs don't always last forever. Look

(01:10:55):
at look at South Carolina yesterday and the women's final. Okay,
they got beat Oh yeah, Yukon, which I was kind
of glad.

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
Yukon always is.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
Well, they haven't won a championship since sixteen? Has it
been that long South Carolina has been they've won the
national championship I think two three out of the last
four years. I think they beat Iowa last year, and
then LSU and then South Carolina was the year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
Before that, So I don't really pay that close of
attention to women's basketball. Pay attention to this though. One
hundred and sixty two for eleven seventy caller number eighteen
our last set of family four pack to see the
globetrotterst night tomorrow night. That was my mistake. I looked
at the dates wrong. One eight hundred and sixty to

(01:11:43):
for eleven seventy caller number eighteen, color number eighteen. Otis
you done.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
As far as I'm concerned?

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
All right? Once again, thank you to doctor h. Chalafou
for coming in this morning and talking to us. Of
course we are done on this Monday. Have a great