The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 14, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now the bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on
news Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Monday morning to you. You had a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
And I'm just going to start this off by saying
I'd rather shave the podcasts ass in.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
The phone booth than indoor.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The month of April ever again in my life, can
we just wipe it off the calendar? Worthless month, depressing month,
horrible month weatherwise. I've always hated April, all the way
back to when I was a kid and my relatives
from Michigan who were wealthy would come down and their
Easter basket would look like this glorious, magnificent candy store

(00:54):
in a basket, big chocolate bunnies. Solid I get my
chocolate bunny. It's the size of my Thumbinus hollow from Lafferty.
What can I say? Always hated April and I still do.
Looks like we've got to endure this week and we're
turning the corner.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
But with this month, you never know, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I got a couple of things that I experienced over
the weekend that I want to share with you. And
I know you're gonna be able to feel me on
this because you go through the same thing. I had
to make a trip to Pittsburgh, and I had to
make a trip to Columbus.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Let's start with Pittsburgh. Is it just me?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Or has there been construction in Washington, PA for sixty
five years straight? I'm being serious here. Has there ever
not been construction in Washington, PA. It's got to be
a scam. There's no way pen Dot could have a
project that lasts this long in and around Washington, PA.

(01:51):
And don't give me while they did this and any movie,
it's Washington PA. That drive on seventy East is the
most miserable drive from the Highlands to Carnegie that you
can possibly imagine. I'm going Weirton from now on. I
don't care if it costs me more time, I don't care.
I'll go up Route nine, I'll head up through Wharton

(02:12):
and I'll go twenty two. But serious question, has there
been construction there for sixty five straight frickin' years, because
it sure seems that way. Now, let's go the opposite direction,
seventy west. Has there been construction in Zanesville for sixty
five frickin' years?

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm being serious once again.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
When have you gone through Zanesville, Ohio and not had
one lane or stuff impeded by orange barrels in the
last sixty five years? Seventy east seventy west. Absolutely miserable.
I try to avoid it at all costs, but I can't.
There's certain things that got to go to Pittsburgh for

(02:55):
my son plays baseball at Wright State University that's Columbus,
and head to dating. I have no choice, but it's
got to be a scam. There's no way this stuff
can last this long, o Dot, pen dot. I don't
know what the hell you guys are doing, but you
are milking it. Love you, but you're milking it. There's

(03:18):
no way in these two locations that construction can last
sixty five frickin years. And while I'm on it, little
request pen dot, no dot, when you've got a merge
coming up into a single lane on the highway in
which everybody's going seventy to eighty miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Could you please put.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
That big flashing arrow that tells you to get over,
I don't know, maybe a quarter of a mile before
you actually have to get over. Almost died three times
over the weekend because you're driving and all of a sudden, boom,
there it is.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
But the lane closes with the flashing arrow. I mean,
you can't put.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It two hundred yards, four hundred yards, eight hundred yards
before the.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Lane actually shuts off. I thought that's how it was
always done, but apparently not anymore. I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
The first cone that starts angling to cut the lane
off is where the damn big arrow is. If you're
behind a couple of semi trucks and you're coming up
on this thing, good luck. I almost got pinned in twice.
I mean, I know I say, I sound like I'm
picking on you. Pen Dot no dot, and you know

(04:33):
what I am. Get your crap together, Get this stuff fixed.
People are tired of it. Washington, PA, Zanesville, Ohio. Absolute
train wrecks, of situations for let's just say one hundred
in sixty five years, Sam and Otis, I know you
know exactly what I'm talking about here.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
He's not wrong. No, there's always, there is always construction.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
So let's take the let's take the Devil's advocate side,
and where Bloomer's an idiot. Okay, Okay, So I have
traveled I seventy east west to Washington, PA, to Pittsburgh,
to Morgantown, whatever. Yes, there is construction, there is only
a certain time. I seventy is the most traveled interstate

(05:22):
in the country, so he gets the most wear and tear.
We are also in a region where when it rains
or snows and it freezes and it gets in those cracks,
it expands. That's what creates the potholes. Okay, So what
pen Dot does. And I've seen this happen over the
course of the years, I mean from the time I've
been going to Morgantown as a student in the mid eighties,

(05:44):
mid to late eighties to today. They do the same thing.
They take sections of the road that are the worst,
they cut them out, and then they reput the section
in so they don't redo like a whole mile stretch.
They might do sections in like a two mile stretch,
and then they'll move it. So, yes, it does appear
that it's going all the time, but it's really not.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
It's different areas.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
It's different areas, and you know is Zanesville that's a
whole different that's a whole different animal. Do I think
that that O dot pen dot West Virginia Department Highways?
Do I think that they could maybe move a little faster? Yeah?
I do, you know, but it is what it is.
The job that takes six months. Could they get it
done in five? I think they could. Could they get

(06:30):
it done in four? That might be pushing it, but there,
I mean, if they would just go and you'll see
in Pennsylvania, they'll be working twenty four hours a day,
they'll have a day shift, night shift, everything else. A
lot of times they'll work more at night, especially on
the highway because it's safer. There's less traffic if you're
doing that. And then when it comes to the arrows,

(06:52):
hey bloem daddy, there are signs right lane closed one mile,
right lane closed five thousand feet, right lane closed fifteen
hundred feet, and then there's the arrow to make sure
that you get over. How about getting over when you're
supposed to when there's a sign.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Okay, first of all, I'm going to defend him on
that a little bit, because this just happened to me,
like two weeks ago. I was driving up for seventy
towards Saint Clair'sco. And you know where the underpass is
where all the accidents accidents have been recently where for
seventy and seventy.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Merge merged and they're going westbound.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yes, then there's the sideway that takes you to them
all that way, and okay, there were no signs and
the merge area was right before that underpass, and if
you I was stuck behind a semi truck, so I
couldn't see anything in front of me. Now, that's a
failure on their part because.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
And that's probably one of those ones where it's a
temporary they're probably patching, and it was instead of a
it's not a permanent one.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
No, no, no, it wasn't. It wasn't a major job
or anything like that. But before I knew.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
It, I'll give you that one, I was.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
On top of it. But I'm going to point out
a partiarticular portion of the road that you want to
talk about has been under construction since before my husband
moved here, which was probably two thousand and six, two
thousand and seven north on seven between Tiltonsville and Brilliant
where they have the storage containers that has that has

(08:21):
been there for twenty years.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Because of the Hillside folly. Yes, yeah, in twenty years. Actually,
I think it's open now it's and now it's it's
between Smithfield. It's between Smithfield and Steubenville where it's closed
Smithfield at the exit whatever you mean whatever, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, but those have been sitting there for twenty years
and it doesn't feel like they move. It's the same section.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Let's put it this way. It's between Mingo Junction and
Stephen Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
There you go. But it has been that way. No, no, no,
it's still south of Mingo. They're still sitting there.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
I think it's over. I was just there. I just
came that way the other day and I don't think
it was.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Oh okay, Well then it's changed recently, because last time
I drove up there, which was about a month ago,
I remember thinking those things are still there, Well.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
The trailers are still there, but I think the roads open.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I think I don't. Like I said, I just came
that way Friday, but it was dark and I was
I was talking to him to my cousin, So.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Either way, that portion of the highway has been under
construction for decades at this point. At this point, well,
nothing like starting off a week on a positive note,
but it is something we deal with every spring. So
coming up, a certain person crashed Coachella seven point sixteen.

(09:41):
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven twenty. Welcome back to Blue
Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Before
we get into Coachella, which, by the way, I've never

(10:02):
been to and have no interest in going to. But
I want to say this, yesterday was one of my
favorite things to do. What I did yesterday, and it's simple.
It was the first mowing of the season. I mowed
the grass for the first time this year. And you're
rolling your eyes at me, Otis, I see you.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
I was real eyes.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
There's just something about the first spring day that you
spend outside for a good amount of time where you
mow the grass, the birds are chirping, the sun is
in your face, like it's just it was just a
good day, a reminder that listen. For as negative as

(10:46):
a lot of stuff is around us all the time,
take a step back, take a breather, put on a
pair of headphones, or and just give yourself that hour,
even fifteen minutes, and just close your eyes and just
enjoying what's out there. And I'm not trying to get

(11:08):
all deep and all sappy and all emotional on this Monday,
but it kind of hit me yesterday as I was
chugging along on a cub cadet where it's.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Like, that's not mowing the grass. If you're riding.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
We have a huge yard. Okay, I'm not pushing that,
I'll give you that, but anyways, it just hit me
where it's like, you know what, we are very very
lucky for what we have and where we are despite
all the negativity that surrounds us all the time. So there,
I just wanted to put that out there. I just
wanted to put that out there a little bit more

(11:44):
positive for your Monday morning. All right, now, let's talk
some politics. Let's take a hard left turn. No, no, no,
I bring up Coachella because if you're not familiar with it,
of course, it's a multi multi day concert that goes
on out and out West, and it is hugely attended
by the rich and famous. It is the rich and

(12:10):
famous version of Woodstock, with no purpose and no message,
unlike Woodstock was.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's a rock and roll Jamboreine Hill, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Sort of again, but for the rich with a little
uh oh, what do I want to say? And I
lost my train thought. But anyways, so over the weekend
you go to a concert, otis, what are you there for?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
You're there too, I'm there for the music. I'm there
mostly for the music, for the for the entertainment, you know,
whether it be you know, you know, that's what you're
there for, is the music. It's because you like somebody
that's performing. You're there with all your friends, your most
of the time, yeah, most of the time. And then
you're there to people watch.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Right, oh yeah, that would definitely be a people watching environment.
So you get you hear the announcer saying no now,
special surprise guest, and you sit there and you go
You're thinking, oh my gosh, is this somebody like Beyonce?
Is this somebody like Lady Gaga? You know, not you otis,
of course, But for the fans that are there, they're

(13:14):
thinking it's going to be some amazing appearance. Out rolls
mister oligarchy himself, Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Really nothing says Coachella like Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
I mean, seriously, he is.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, he's gonna run for president. That's why they're putting
him out there as much as they can.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
That's I mean, no, I know, I understand that.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
But he is.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Older than the grandparents of those that are attending Coachella.
He would be their great great great grandfather at this point.
And he goes out there, the human fossil that he is,
and starts preaching to a crowd of young adults who

(14:05):
are probably, let's be honest, drunk and stoned out of
their minds, and they want to party, they want to
enjoy a concert, and here rolls out this fossil. Just
politicians need to realize, and honestly, the news organizations, everybody

(14:29):
needs to realize it is okay to take a break
from politics. It is okay. So when somebody goes to
a concert, they want to see a concert, they want
to be entertained by musicians. It's the same thing as
watching pro sports or going to a football game, going
to a baseball game. They're there to watch the game.

(14:51):
They don't want some sort of cultural message, they don't
want some sort of political war stands want to watch
a football game. It's the same thing as what happened
this weekend. These people went to watch a concert. Now,
the funny thing about it is, you know, he's there
preaching about how the rich and the billionaires and the

(15:11):
Republicans are destroying this country, and Trump is you know, Hitler,
and he's, you know, the rich billionaire that's destroying the country.
Yet let's all keep in mind, Bernie Sanders is one
of the richest politicians that.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
We have.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
In talking to a crowd of some of the richest
probably spoiled children in our country, but rich people were bad.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Hm.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
I don't know. And then also this weekend, Stephen A.
Smith basically teased that he is going to run for president.
At this point, he said, I'm trying to find his
quote here. At this point he basically said, it's it's

(15:55):
inevitable that he's going to run for president. Find it
interesting because there have been different conversations that I have
seen him on different news organizations where I agree with
a lot of what he says. But I don't know

(16:18):
if he is qualified or should run and what ticket
would he run under? Because he can't run under the
Democratic ticket, not with the things that he has said
of late, because it does not toe the company line
of the liberal agenda. A lot of what he has said. Now,

(16:41):
I'm gonna take some flack because I said I don't
think he's qualified. He's a celebrity, and I understand Trump
was too, but Trump was a businessman. That's where the
difference is between the two. That's personally what I think.
But I think it's an interesting narrative that as we
pres seed through how our political construct our political generations

(17:07):
have changed through the years, the different names, the different
types of people that are now starting to consider or
get more involved in our political world because people are
tired of the lifelong politicians. That's what we've got to remember.

(17:32):
That's what it goes back to. People are tired of
the lifelong politicians. And I think Stephen A. Smith is
just the first in what we're going to see continue
to grow of those that become more and more interested
in politics. It's interesting. It'll be a uh if he
goes for it, be interesting debates with him that would

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be that's gonna be Musty TV seven twenty eight You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. I'm Sam, He's otis.
Here are our news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience on your Monday.
From construction woes to something very very heavy. Actually two
subjects that are pretty heavy, But I think you need
to hear this because it might help you out in
some way, shape or form. And I don't handle death
very well, but I just wanted to relay this to

(18:25):
you because it may help you in some way, shape
or form.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
So I'm going to start with this.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
When I had a conversation with somebody in Belmont County
about all the suicides recently among young people in Belmont County,
I believe there have been five in the past month
to two months. And we got into a discussion and
this person is very close to the situation as far
as handling these things, and they said, you know what
I'm seeing with a lot of these individuals and talking
to family and other kids twenty twenty two, twenty three

(18:56):
eighteen is they do not have the capacity to cope
with life. And a big part of the reason is
their parents have done everything for them. A big reason
why they can't handle life when it gets difficult tough
is because they've never had to while they were growing up,
and all of a sudden they reach an age where

(19:16):
things don't go their way and they have no coping
skills and the easiest thing to do is to take.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
That way out. And if you take a look in society.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Whether it's fast food or whatever it may be, I mean,
we always want the easiest, quickest way, and it comes
to the mentality of a seventeen year old, nineteen year old,
twenty two year old. They think the same way when
life kind of hits them hard and they don't know
what to do. So the message with this, and I've

(19:47):
talked about this on this show many many times, is
if you're a parent out there, you've got to let
your kids fail, whether it's in sports, life, whatever it
may be. This whole idea that you can build confidence
you've got to be positive all the time to build
your kid's confidence is the wrong way to do it.

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The only way a kid's going to build confidence is
if they know when they fail, they can pick themselves up.
That's how you build confidence. Think about you in life.
If you're successful, if you're a pretty strong person, think
of what you had to deal with adversity wise growing up.
It built you into the person you are today. So
if you take that away from your child and you

(20:30):
just take care of everything, you're going to have a
young adult who has no coping skills. And when life
gets tough and we all know that's going to happen
sooner rather than later, they don't. They can't deal with it,
and sometimes picking up a gun or a bottle of
pills is their answer. So the message that I'm telling

(20:51):
you in talking with this individual and from the stuff
that I've read that I've seen, quit babying your kids,
Quit being positive ever second of the day.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Be honest with them. You know, I'll use a sports analogy.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
If your kid goes oh for four with four pop ups,
you don't tell them good game. It was not a
good game. You say, hey, got to work on some things.
Not a good game. You can do better. I'll help
you out any way.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
You could throw some positives in there, but you've got
to be real with your kids and you've got to
let them fail homework, whatever it may be. Let them fail.
Let them pick themselves up. That's how they're going to
get through life. The other thing that I wanted to
relate to you is I talk to somebody who I've
been friends with for a long long time. I heard
a rumor out there that their health was failing and

(21:41):
reached out in this individual inform me that they do
not have much time left on this planet. It's a
hard thing to hear from somebody who I've admired for a.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Long long time.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
So I asked them and I said, look, this is
this is probably not and I don't even know how
I said it. I you know, this is probably not
a great question to ask you, or maybe it's a
selfish question to ask you, But with you staring at

(22:18):
the end right now, what would be your best advice
to me as far as the rest of my life goes,
God willing what I.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Should focus on?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Because let's face it, if you were facing a couple
months to live, I'm sure it would bring a different
perspective than maybe you have right now, Like would you
do things differently? How would you approach certain situations? And
this is what I asked this individual, And that's a
that's a tough question to ask somebody you care about,
and the response was pretty simple. Family, family, family, Never

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forsake your family. Spend as much time as you can
with your family and just your family. So this is
message number two on a Monday, use the time you
have wisely, because it's going to go quick and you
never know when you might be or I might be
in the situation of the individual that I'm speaking about. Family. Family, family,

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because at the end of the day, that truly is
all that matters.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
He's one hundred percent true. I you know, working dealing
with those kind of things, unfortunately, is something that we
all have to deal with and it's hard. It is hard.
There is no right answer, there are not the right
words to say, and it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. I want
to go back to the first portion of the conversation

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in regards to teens and suicide. Later this week on
the show, we're going to have doctor Amanda Fisher Belmont
Klin County Corner who has thought this and that will
be will be bringing to you again later in the
week because in the month of March in Belmont County alone,
there were five suicides and the majority of those were

(24:13):
young people, teenagers, so we're gonna have her on the
show to talk about that. But just some some some
thoughts on kids young adults. I think we are we
are seeing the repercussions of the participation trophy award parenting

(24:39):
that started. Ohis when you say we started hearing that
terminology roughly ten years ago, I'm trying to think back.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Well, I think you know, everybody says that participation trophy thing,
and let's let's be honest. I mean, yes, you should
earn your trophies, but there are there are times when
you you do you do things is like awards, medals, trophies, whatever,
to keep the kids interested. When they're young, they need
they need reinforcement. So if they feel like they've you know,

(25:09):
they're five and six years old, they're not playing in tournaments,
they're not doing this, So you give them something to
keep them interested in the sport, whether whatever the sport is. Now,
once they get to a certain age and start competing,
then yes, you then you stop the participation trophies. But
there's a there's a there's a time when and I
don't know when it all started, but the terminology, but

(25:30):
I mean, participation trophies have been around forever to be honest.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
With you, right. But I think not just in sports,
not just in sports, But what I'm saying is that mentality,
that way of parenting where everybody is a winner, nobody
has to face any trials, nobody has to admit to losing.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yes, But I think the other thing that comes into
play is you look at I mean, I look at
the little school in Bethlehem where I live. M When
I was in school there, almost probably fifty years ago,
kids would walk to school, ride their bikes, whatever. Now
there's like four hundred cars for one hundred students. It's like,

(26:12):
there can't be that many kids for as many cars
that drop their kids off and pick them up. It's like,
let them ride the bus. I mean, now I get it.
If you get like, okay, maybe you have to go
to work or something, and you don't we stood at
the bus stop by ourselves. Now you've got a slew
of people in their cars with their parents waiting for
the bus to pick them up. It's like, just let

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kids be kids.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
But I think we are seeing the first generation of
young people who, at a very young age, they had
the helicopter parents, they had the participation trophy, mentality where
they were never forced or they never lost, they never
learned or learned how to cope of, you know, adversity

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at and when and when I.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Could, I could go into this big time?

Speaker 5 (27:04):
Oh yeah, Oh and we can. We can, We can
definitely go into this because I think that if you
don't learn how to fail, and you don't learn how
to pick yourself back up, you then when you do
accomplish something, you don't have that feeling of accomplishment. You

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also don't have that feeling of pride of accomplishing something.
So what are we taking from our youth that is
hindering them as young adults, which is leading to a
lot of things like this. We can we can really

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get into this when we get back. It's seven forty five.
The bloom Daddy experienced samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Wellcome back at seven fifty on your Monday morning, The
Blue Daddy experienced Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy

(28:06):
w w VA. So we kind of struck a chord
here this morning talking about teens kids. You said, you Otis,
you wanted to to hit on something.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Well, I've lived this firsthand.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
I mean I have two sons. My oldest son, you know,
is into his own things and and things like that.
But when he was little, so we had I was
I was fortunate, and we were fortunate as a family
that you know, my mom was available to watch the kids.
My ex's mom was available to watch the kids, and

(28:40):
a lot of times they spent the day at my
ex mother in law's house. So I remember one time
I got home from work or whatever it was, and
I went to their house to pick my oldest son
up and we were playing candy Land or Shoots the
Ladders or one of them games you played with three
year old kids, right, And I can remember, you know,

(29:00):
playing two or three games with him, and then one
game I won and my mother in law looks at
me and she goes, what are you doing? And I'm like,
what do you mean? And she goes, well, he's supposed
to win every game. I said, he can't win every game.
He has to learn how to lose. And she goes, oh, no, no,
he's only three. He has to you know, you let
him win all the time. I'm like, then he learns nothing,

(29:21):
and we got into this. I don't want to say
an argument, but it was a it was a healthy conversation. Yeah,
I mean, we just we we didn't agree on that.
And and my oldest son has issues with that to
this day. He doesn't handle criticism well. Instead of instead

(29:42):
of taking the criticism and saying, Okay, I'm going to
prove you wrong, he takes the criticism and just forgets
about it and goes completely to the other side, like
he'll find something else to do. He he had I
noticed that when he was in college. I mean he

(30:03):
had he had sometimes professors that you know, critiqued him
on something or he didn't like the way that the
professor taught, and so he would just quit and change
change directions. And so, you know, knowing how to lose

(30:24):
and knowing how to deal with adversity is huge. And
because he you know, because of the way that certain
things that happened, and and just I mean, I'll take
part of the blame for that, that that I didn't
correct that sooner that I didn't correct it at all,
to be honest with you, you know, I mean I tried.
You know, you try to, and you know I coached

(30:46):
my kids in literal league, and you know, you win games,
you lose games. I mean, it's that's part of it.
And he was okay with things like that, but I
mean he just he never I don't think he liked
the losing aspect of it, so he would he would
basically try something different or just give up on sports altogether. Well,
and some people lose interest in it.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Well, yeah, that too, but there has to be a
healthy balance, absolutely of criticism and failure. But then that again,
like you said, it teaches them, you know, teaches young
people that if you get knocked down, you get back up,
you get back up, and you lose with grace.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yeah, yeah, I mean a perfect example. And I mean
we talked about it before the show. But Justin Rose
yesterday and the Masters loses in a playoff hole they
interview him, you know, after the loss, I mean, probably
the most gracious. I mean he said, Look, he said,
I wanted to be the bad guy, he said, but
you know, I'm glad that he won. You know, you know,

(31:43):
the monkey's off his back. But Justin's never won a
Master's so he wanted to. You know, I'm sure he
wanted to win one, but he lost with grace, and
and I think that's important as well, and I think that's.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
Just one aspect of what is affecting a lot of
our young people. And like I said, we're seeing the
repercussions of a lot of parenting styles where you know,
kids don't have chores anymore. Everything's handed to them. They
win everything they do, and it creates a lack of

(32:16):
motivation it, you know, and they've done that. Yeah, they
can't handle failure. They can't.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
I said to my I said to my ex wife
one time, I said, why don't we let why don't
we let my son do the dishes? And she goes,
we have a dishwasher. I said, you're missing the point together,
you're missing the total point. It's about teaching responsibility and chores.
And I said, let's let him cut the grass. Oh
he's too young, it's too hilly. Okay, well let him
cut this. I'll cut the hill. Let him cut the
safe part, you know. Okay, so you know it's twelve

(32:46):
years old. He never you know, he never cut the
as long as I lived in that house, and he
was there till he was until you graduated high school.
Almost never cut the grass. Never, really, Nope.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
I'll see my my parents. The one thing my mother
taught me was as soon as you wake up in
the morning, after you go to the bathroom, the second
thing you do is you make your bed in the
morning because it gets you up, it gets you moving,
and it's a sense of responsibility and achievement. Yeah, I
mean if you don't, if everything is handed to somebody,

(33:21):
then they have no motivation to be successful adults. If
they and it's it's not reality. Kids need to know.
Young adults need to know that this world is hard.
You're going to get knocked down. Life is not a handout.

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You're not gonna win everything. You know.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
I have a neighbor. I mean I remember as a kid.
You know, you sat there and you tried to hustle
to go out and cut grass just for some extra money. Right,
that's what you did. And back in my day, you
got five dollars or six dollars for cutting somebody's yard.
My neighbor lives two doors up. For me as a
young son, probably in the vicinity of i'd say twelve ish,
give or take a year or two, and he wanted

(34:07):
the kid wants to go out and cut grass for money.
Now I can cut my grass. It's not that big
of a deal. I don't have a big yard. It
takes me about an hour, okay to cut my yard.
He said, hey, he said, my son, you know, would
you be interested? And I said yeah. He said what
are you going to charge? He said twenty bucks. I'm like, well,
it's worth more than twenty bucks. But anyway, here's a
kid that wants to get out there, and I remember

(34:29):
being that kid. So I'm trying to help him. No,
if he doesn't get to it all the time, I'll
cut it myself. It's not that big of a deal.
But here I'm trying to help this kid get ahead.
He wants. First off, he wants to make some money. Second,
Rould's going to help him in the long run, you know.
And I'm going to tell him, you know, he did
a nice job.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Well. And the thing of it is that happened over
the wintertime too, where I saw posts on social media
where somebody said, all these two young boys came up
and asked if they could shovel my driveway and sidewalk.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
The fact that that is a highlight because we don't
see it as much as we used to anymore, that's
actually sad. Yeah, that it catches people like what the
young boy asking to know your grass. The fact that
those types of things have become such a rarity in
our teenagers is actually a sad statement. Yeah, but there

(35:21):
are those that are still out there doing it. So
seven fifty eight, you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy wwvad.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This is
the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy, his goal inform,
entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy Experience on
news radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Hey, it's eight six, let's get this out. Good Monday
morning to you. I hope you had a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
And I'm just gonna start this off by saying I'd
rather shave the Bobcat's ass in a phone booth than
indore the month of April ever again in my life?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Can we just wipe it off the calendar?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Worthless month, depressing month, horrible month weatherwise. I've always hated
April all the way back to when I was a
kid and my relatives from Michigan who were wealthy would
come down and their Easter basket would look like this glorious,
magnificent candy store in a basket, big chocolate bunnies.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Solid I get my chocolate bunny.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
It's the size of my thumb and it's hollow from Lafferty,
what can I say? Always hated April and I still do.
Looks like we've got to endure this week and we're
turning the corner. But with this month, you never know.
All right, I've got a couple of things that I
experienced over the weekend that I want to share with you.
And I know you're gonna be able to feel me
on this because you go through the same thing. I

(36:56):
had to make a trip to Pittsburgh, and I had
to make a trip to Columbus.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Let's start with Pittsburgh. Is it just me?

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Or has there been construction in Washington, PA for sixty
five years straight? A'm being serious here. Has there ever
not been construction in Washington, PA. It's got to be
a scam. There's no way pen Dot could have a
project that lasts this long in and around Washington, PA.

(37:27):
And don't give me while they did this and it's Washington, PA.
That drive on seventy east is the most miserable drive
from the Highlands to Carnegie that you can possibly imagine.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
I'm going Weirton from now on. I don't care if
it costs me more time, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I'll go up Route nine, I'll head up through Wharton,
and I'll go twenty two. But sirious question, has there
been construction there for sixty five straight frickin' years? Because
it sure seems that way. Now, let's go the opposite direction,
seventy west. Has there been construction in Zanesville for sixty

(38:05):
five frickin' years?

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I'm being serious once again.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
When have you gone through Zanesville, Ohio and not had
one lane or stuff impeded by orange barrels in the
last sixty five years. Seventy East seventy west absolutely miserable.
I try to avoid it at all costs, but I can't.
There's certain things that got to go to Pittsburgh for
my son plays baseball at Wright State University. That's Columbus,

(38:35):
and head toward Dayton. I have no choice, but it's
gotta be a scam. There's no way this stuff can last.
This long o Dot, pen dot. I don't know what
the hell you guys are doing, but you are milking it.
Love you, but you're milking it. There's no way in

(38:55):
these two locations that construction can last sixty five frickin years.
And while I'm on it, little request, pen dot no dot,
When you've got a merge coming up into a single
lane on the highway in which everybody's going seventy to
eighty miles an hour, could you please put that big flashing.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Arrow that tells you to get over.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
I don't know, maybe a quarter of a mile before
you actually have to get over. Almost died three times
over the weekend because you're driving and all of a
sudden boom, there it is.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
But the lane closes with the flashing arrow. I mean,
you can't put it.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Two hundred yards, four hundred yards, eight hundred yards before the.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Lane actually shuts off.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I thought that's how it was always done, but apparently
not anymore.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
The first cone that starts angling to cut the lane
off is where the damn big arrow is. If you're
behind a couple of semi trucks and you're coming up
on this thing, good luck, I almost got pinned in twice.
I mean, I know I say, I sound like I'm
picking on you pen Dot no dot, and you know

(40:09):
what I am. Get your crap together, Get this stuff fixed.
People are tired of it. Washington, PA, Zanesville, Ohio. Absolute
train wrecks, of situations for let's just say one hundred
in sixty five years, Sam and Otis.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
I know you know exactly what I'm talking about here.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Just a little bit, just a little bit. I will
say this not necessarily a major interstate, but downtown Wheeling
on Main Street, we're through that rough patch. Market Street
is getting there. So what the state of West Virginia

(40:55):
has lost a few of its state birds, if you will,
the yellow or orange construction cans. So we're seeing some
light at the end of the tunnel there. Listen, we
are in an area where we have four seasons a year,

(41:16):
so it's a constant battle to keep the roads good.
But there are a few points, like bloom Daddy pointed out,
areas that seems like it never comes to an end. Ever, ever, ever,
ever comes to an end. North going to Brilliant on
Route seven Oops is one of them. So at a

(41:43):
certain point, it all becomes numbing. It's just there. It
just becomes part of the fabric of the roads that
we drive on and listen. Last week I was going
on about a particular pothole that's outside of sheets in

(42:04):
Saint Clairsville, which I saw on social media this week.
Two vehicles just this weekend alone that got pretty substantial
damage by hitting that hole. But here's the thing. When
you have a situation like that, it has to be repaired.
So when it has to be repaired, lanes are gonna

(42:25):
be shifted, and there's gonna be a hindrance when it
comes to correcting and repairing the road issues we have.
So we can complain when the roads are bad, and
then we complain when the roads are being worked on.

(42:49):
So are we just always looking for something to complain about.
She can't have it both ways. You're not gonna have
perfect roads all the time if you don't have construction
pairing what were once not good roads. If you want
terrible roads to be in better shape, they have to

(43:10):
be fixed. The problem is some of it takes too long.
Some of it takes way too long. Prime example, North
heading towards Brilliant and Stupidville. Otis oh I thought you
were going to say something.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
No, I mean, well, I was just gonna say. You know,
bloom Daddy talks about the arrow. There are signs normally
unless it's a temporary as we talked about earlier. If
it's a long term construction, they tell you right lane
closed one mile, Right lane closed five thousand feet, right
lane closed fifteen hundred feet. I mean there are signs

(43:51):
that tell you, and then the arrow is to let
you know that this is where you are merging. If
you can't read the signs, you shouldn't have to wait
till the arrow get to the get oh, and then
you don't have any problem. But I've seen Blimdaddy drive it.
It's not good. I've ridden with it. It's not good.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Yes, it's not He's.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
A typical Ohio driver.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
Oh there, we gotta gotta take it that direction. Speaking
of driving, I don't know who it was on Friday.
There is a merge lane on a ramp when you're
getting onto the highway for a reason. If you are
the car that is coming down the highway and you

(44:30):
see another car merging onto the highway, move go to
the left lane. That is what it is there.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
For the other thing is if you're on the on ramp.
The idea is you're there's an en ramp. Yeah, you
it's to get to the speed to get on the interstate.
Don't just ride your brakes on the on ramp. Yes,
it's not a stop at the end.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
No, No, you have to go. I couldn't tell I
can't tell you how many times I've been behind a
buick and have been like go and nine because nine
times out of ten it's a buick for some reason,
I don't know why. It's always a buick and a
buckless saber and I just scream, like go, you're gonna
get us both killed. Anyways, Anyways, it's eight fifteen when

(45:19):
we return. We got a visitor from a friend talking
about space. Who would you want to send us space?
It's a fifteen The Blue Daddy Experience Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA Experience oisin Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. So today it's launch date for all

(45:46):
Women for the all Woman mission on Jeff Besis, this
Blue Origin. It's happening this morning. In addition to women
astronauts and celebrities like Gail King and Katie Perry. Bezos
fiance Lauren sam will also be on board. The Amazon
Evil Genius is here to give the crew a proper sendoff.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
I'm Jeff Bezers.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Today's the day Team minus zero, when six women will
climb aboard my rocket, so to speak, to be thrusted
to a place they've never been before, space, among them
superstars like Gail King and Katie Perry, but more importantly,
my astro naughty fiance Loren Sanchez. It shall be the

(46:30):
first time she'll experience weightlessness without the aid of her zempic,
and providing her with the experience of zero gravity technically
counts as me paying for a butt lift. And of course,
my greatest concern is that she returns to Earth safely
for two reasons. One, she's the love of my life
and two, the down payment on the wedding is non reflectible.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Gotch feed ladies.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
He tell us a couple of weeks ago what they're
spending on that wedding. It's some stupid amount of money,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
I do remember exactly what if their gif it gave
us a thing a total, but it was there was
definitely some information there.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
So over the weekend Lauren Sanchez, the fiance mister Bezo's fiance,
posted a video of the suits that they're wearing. There's
not a lot well, as I say, it's left the imagination,

(47:35):
but it is like a second skin layer. And of course, now,
if you remember, Lauren Sanchez is the woman who made
a lot of news coverage on Inauguration Day due to
her particular outfit that she decided to wear. We'll just
say cleavage was a lot visible in this particular space suit.

(48:04):
Here's my other question.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
It was kind of like the Star Trek of the sixties,
but the mini skirts in there.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if it has been tested.
I'm sure it has the reaction that lip fillers in
breast implants will have in the zero gravity situation of space,

(48:30):
because there is definitely, definitely some fillers that are going
to make their first trip to space nice and I
don't know exactly how all of that is going to
going to transfer in outer space now. Of course, along

(48:53):
with Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry, is Gail King, journalist,
talk show host, journalist is yes, yes, And then there
are two other ladies that are going and let's see here,
I have their names somewhere and I let's see here

(49:15):
rocket science is there? We go, there's there's a there's
a thought. Uh. NASA rocket scientist Asha Beau and civil
rights activist Amanda Win will also be on board. I
don't know where did carry. Katie Perry is like out
of left field for this. I don't know why or

(49:36):
where or how she got brought into this conversation, or
she just said I wanted to be the one to go.
I don't know. She just seems like a weird a
weird match. Maybe Besos is hoping the fiance doesn't come back.
Who knows? Who knows? If you could ship somebody off
to space? Who would you any any?

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (49:57):
Yeah, I hope it's one way trip too.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
I guess you're not.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Actually, I hope they don't even make it. I just
hope the rocket explodes.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
Okay, so we won't say names of who that would be.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Okay, there's about five people, Okay, so that actually there's
probably ten. Let's take no Listen, people talk about this
all the time.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
Would you go?

Speaker 4 (50:17):
Would I go into space? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Absolutely? I wouldn't even think twice about it. If they
said to me, hey, we want to send you before
they had the word, before they could get this this
out in space, I'd be there.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
You'd be on board.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yep, I don't. I have no problem. I would do
it in a heartbeat.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Really yep, I don't know. I don't know if I
could do it or not. Once i'd be up there,
i'd be all right. But it's the whole I don't know.
I can't even barely do roller coasters, so I'm a chicken.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
You are. You won't eat there's you won't even eat
certain foods, So I mean, you're not going to go
into space.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
I'm terrified of heights, and that's about as highs you
could possibly.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
You're going to be inside something. You're not even going
to realize that you're that high up unless you look
out the way, and if you do, you're gonna be
in space anywhere.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
Well, and think about the conversations we've had recently, whether
it's this, this launch, or what we have seen Elon
Musk and his team accomplished by a rocket coming back
and landing back in the I don't know the technical
but the gripping the landing mechanism look.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Landed right back where it took off.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Right along, we've seen that happen, and then we're having conversations.
I heard Elon Musk on a podcast. He's talking about,
you know, having people on Mars by twenty fifty. Like
all of these conversations are going on, and I feel
like a lot of the stuff that I listen and
I read, I feel like I'm reading a sci fi novel.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Yeah, I believe it, mean, because that's what it is.
I mean, we're we're living science fiction. Science. As Jimmy
Buffett said, science fiction is now science fact.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
So yeah, I mean it's crazy to think about everything
that it has come into our everyday lives that fifteen
years ago, twenty years ago we couldn't even have contemplated.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
And we're still waiting on the flying cars.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
Now, still waiting on the flying cars. I'm still waiting
on the jetson thing where you just walk through it
and in the morning you're ready to go.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
That's what I'm not worried about that one.

Speaker 5 (52:28):
That's what I'd rather have. But yeah, we are seeing
so much stuff happen that has been speculated upon and
we're living it. We're living it. Think about our grandparents,
they couldn't even imagine some of the stuff we're seeing.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
Well, you just look at I mean, if you look
at the way you're able to video conference. I mean
that was unheard of twenty years ago, and it was
a word that you could talk to like the Dick
Tracy watch you talking to your into your what you
can do it. It's all it's science fiction has become
science fact.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
It's eight twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Welcome back to the Bloomdaddy Experience on your Monday. From
construction woes to something very very heavy. Actually two subjects
that are pretty heavy, But I think you need to
hear this because it might help you out in some way,
shape or form. And I don't handle death very well,
but I just wanted to relay this to you because

(53:37):
it may help you in some way, shape or form.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
So I'm going to start with this.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
When I had a conversation with somebody in Belmont County
about all the suicides recently among young people in Belmont County,
I believe there have been five in the past month
to two months, and we got into a discussion. This
person is very close to the situation as far as
handling these things, and they said, you know what I'm
seeing with a lot of these individuals and talking to
family and other kids twenty twenty two, twenty three, eighteen

(54:08):
is they do not have the capacity to cope with life.
And a big part of the reason is their parents
have done everything for them. A big reason why they
can't handle life when it gets difficult tough is because
they've never had to while they were growing up, and
all of a sudden, they reach an age where things
don't go their way and they have no coping skills

(54:31):
and the easiest thing to do is to.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Take that way out.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
And if you take a look in society, whether it's
fast food or whatever it may be, I mean, we
always want the easiest, quickest way, And it comes to
the mentality of a seventeen year old, nineteen year old,
twenty two year old. They think the same way when
life kind of hits them hard and they don't know
what to do. So the message with this, and I've

(54:58):
talked about this on this show many many times, is
if you're a parent out there, you've got to let
your kids fail, whether it's in sports, life, whatever it
may be this whole idea that you can build confidence,
you've got to be positive all the time to build
your kid's confidence is the wrong way to do it.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
The only way a.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Kid's going to build confidence is if they know when
they fail, they can pick themselves up. That's how you
build confidence. Think about you in life, if you're successful,
if you're a pretty strong person, think of what you
had to deal with adversity wise growing up. It built
you into the person you are today. So if you
take that away from your child and you just take

(55:41):
care of everything, you're going to have a young adult
who has no coping skills. And when life gets tough
and we all know that's gonna happen sooner rather than later,
they don't. They can't deal with it, and sometimes picking
up a gun or a bottle of pills is their answer.
So the message that I'm telling you in talking with

(56:03):
this individual and from the stuff that I've read that
I've seen, quit babying your kids. Quit being positive every
second of the day. Be honest with them. You know,
I'll use a sports analogy. If your kid goes oh
for four with four pop ups, you don't tell them
good game. It was not a good game. You say, Hey,

(56:23):
got to work on some things. Not a good game.
You can do better. I'll help you out any way
you can. You could throw some positives in there, but
you've got to be real with your kids and you've
got to let them fail homework, whatever it may be.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Let them fail, let them pick themselves up. That's how
they're going to get through life.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
The other thing that I wanted to relate to you
is I talk to somebody who I've been friends with
for a long long time. I heard a rumor out
there that their health was failing and reached out in
this individual inform me that they do not have much
time left on this planet. It's a hard thing to
hear from somebody who I've admired for a long long time.

(57:07):
So I asked them and I said, look, this is
this is probably not and I don't even know how
I said it. I you know, this is probably not
a great question to ask you, or maybe it's a
selfish question to ask you, But with you staring at

(57:29):
the end right now, what would be your best advice
to me as far as the rest of my life goes,
God willing, what I should focus on? Because let's face it,
if you were facing a couple months to live, I'm
sure it would bring a different perspective than maybe you
have right now, Like would you do things differently, how

(57:50):
would you approach certain situations? And this is what I
asked this individual, and that's a that's a tough question
to ask somebody you care about. And the response was
pretty so simple. Family. Family, family, Never forsake your family.
Spend as much time as you can with your family,
and just love your family. So this is message number

(58:13):
two on a Monday, use the time you have wisely
because it's going to go quick and you never know
when you might be or I might be in the
situation of the individual that I'm speaking about.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Family.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Family, family, because at the end of the day, that
truly is all that matters.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
It is all that matters because at the end of
the day, it is family and your loved ones, because
sometimes you have your chosen family. Also that they're the
ones that are going to hug you at night, They're
the ones that are gonna be there when you're upset,

(59:02):
and they're the ones that are there to say the
words that you need to hear at the worst time.
My mother told me something once many years ago, and
I try to follow it. I don't know if I
follow it as best as possible, But she told me,
she was like, no matter what career you have, that career,

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no matter how much you put into it, time, effort, stress,
at the end of the day, it's not going to
hug you at night when you crawl into bed because
and I think a lot of us have lost sight
of that. Our work lives have become so demanding that
we've lost sight of the fact that your job is

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not there to emotionally, emotionally keep you strong. Your family is.
So with that being said, I'm gonna go back to
the teenager conversation about the suicide rates as they continue
to grow otis we talked about the participation Trophy awards angle.

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One of the other things I wanted to hit on
with this is screen time and exposure. I think our
children are exposed way too early in life to adult content.
And I know I've said this before, and when I
say adult content, I am not speaking of sexual things.

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I'm just talking adult topics in general. Whether it's politics,
whether it's crime, whether it's it's conversations about drug any
of that kind. Of stuff. Our young people are exposed
way too early, and they're exposed through things on screens.

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And if you think back to otis when we were kids,
we've talked about this, where you know, you go outside
and you play all day long, and when the when
the street lights came on, that's when you knew you
had to go home. They don't do that today.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
No, because parents are wait, they have to be up.
Their kids were end the whole time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Now we do live in a scarier time. We know,
we know more about predators and we hear those horrible stories.
So I understand the parents protecting their kids. But what
I'm what I'm saying, what I'm getting at, is they're
not outside playing. There's always a screen in front of
their face somehow, whether it's a whether it's a phone,
whether it's a tablet, a TV, there's always a screen

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in front of them. And through those screens, they are
being exposed to adult content way too young in life.
If it depresses us, if it's hard on us to
read this stuff over and over and over again and
it wears you down, imagine what that kind of stuff
does to our young people. So we can't be surprised

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when we hear these horrible stories of you know, twenty
percent of teenagers considered attempting suicide this past year. Think
about that, twenty percent. Nine percent reported attempting suicide in
the past year. So through access to a lot of

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topics that our children have, they're going into these dark places,
these dark mindsets, that leads to thoughts like this. Unfortunately,
because of this exposure, you know, the innocence of our
youth nowadays has been taken, has been minimized. It's a

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shorter window of time where that innocence exists for our
young people. It's unfortunate because it leads to numbers like this.
It's eight forty five. You're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Well to

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back a Bate fifty The bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis
News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. A little bit of uh
information for you here, some little out of left field.
A new study says that inhaling the aroma of freshly
baked pizza can uplift your mood and relieve anxiety. So

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if you're in a bad mood, put a pizza in
the oven.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
I don't know who comes up with these studies. I
wish I had that job, come up with just rare
crazy studies. Otis you were talking about this during during
the break. Rory McRory McElroy is the winner of the
twenty twenty five Masters. You watched it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I watched a good bit of it. I probably turned
it around about somewhere between four thirty and five. And
you know, a lot of people, you being one, find
golf boring, but I will say this, it was exciting
to watch, you know, just Patrick Reid holding a chip
shot in. You know, basically he was out of contention

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until he did that, and of course he didn't he
needed a lot more time, but it and Justin Rose
thinking a putt on eighteen to force a playoff, I mean,
Rory missing a putt on eighteen to force the playoff.
I mean he could have won it outright, And yeah,

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it was just you were you were gonna see history yesterday,
no matter what, because it would have been Justin Rose's
first Masters and he would have been the oldest first
time Masters winner had he won. And with Rory winning
the Masters, he becomes the sixth player to win the
Grand Slam, so to speak. So he won, He's won
all four majors, and he's he's only the sixth person

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to do that. So and he's in good company. So
I mean Nicholas Tiger, Ben Sarah's and I believe Ben Hogan.
And there's one other one, Gary player I think is
the other one.

Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
Are you a golfer?

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
I used to be, and I'm a bad one. So
I mean I I until I screwed my back up.
I had some back spasms there and then I stopped playing,
and then of course when I broke my hip. I can't.
I can't drive the ball like I used to say,
because it just I don't have any power.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Well, i'll tell you what I tried. There was a
summer where my husband and I said, you know what,
we're going to try to golf. You know something we
can do together gets us outside, Like you know, we're
gonna try golfing. It was an epic fail. I was terrible.
He was terrible. He could hit it. I couldn't even there.
There's something about the motion that is just not I can't.

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I can't take a lesson my arms. Whole thing I
was I was absolutely terrible. Now, I will say this,
I am a very very good volunteer at golf scrambles
when it comes to driving the drink cart.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
That What's funny is I can look at somebody golfing
and tell them what they're doing wrong, but I can't
correct myself.

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
It's just I don't know if it's because I'm a
girl and I have certain things, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Just because there's other girls at golf.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
I get that, but for me, it's such an awkward
You're just not used to it, an awkward twist.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Of the like you're first off, you're wrong right there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
It just doesn't even feel doesn't feel natural, doesn't feel natural.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
You're you're extending your arms out when you should keep
them in. When you're back.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
I got a microphone in front of me. I can't
do it, you know. Anyways, I'm a failure at golf.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
I mean, you're not going to go out the first
time and be a success.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
No, I know, I know, but it just wasn't I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
You just couldn't get past the windmill. That was your problem.

Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
Now wait a second, I'm a heck of a putt putter. Listen,
I grew up going to Myrtle Beach. That's what we
did every night was put putt. I'm pretty I'm pretty
darn good at that, although it's been years since I played,
so I should stop bragging. So but Myrtle Beach. Talking
about vacations, have you ever thought about going to Thailand?

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
That would be me neither.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Here's what you do not do at Thailand, which a
couple from let's see a Chinese couple actually found out
is illegal, which I would think is in most places.
So the gentleman's name is oh Oh Jijiang, sixty seven
years old, and his thirty five year old partner Lynn

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Tingting set up a tripod and hit record in the
on a major main street. Well, they proceeded to then
take their clothes off in broad daylight in a main street,
high traffic area and do the deed, do the deed,

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bump buglies if you will. Well, they found themselves in jail.
They were arrested, and they face a pretty hefty fine
along with possible jail time for their sidewalk activities. So
if you plan a vacation to Thailand, you're not allowed
to have that on the main street.

Speaker 4 (01:08:26):
I don't think that's on my list of things to
do Thailand or either or.

Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
Who even thinks to do.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Hey, there's people out there that are exhibitionists, and that's
the part of the thrill is getting caught.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
Well, I guess if you're sixty seven and you have
a hot thirty five year old, yeah, God bless you.
That's a way of bragging.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Maybe if I was sixty seven and she was thirty five,
maybe I might do it. Maybe because what do I
get to lose. I'm sixty seven years old.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
Oh yeah, I guess, and you have the money to
pay the pay the fines. I don't. I don't know.
They don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
You.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
I mean like their their money's not worth anything.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Oh, I have no idea. I have no idea. And
then this great story will end with this. Out of Vermont,
there was a janitor. His name was Ronald Reid. He
was the janitor at a gas station for years, for decades.
Through the decades, he was very, very disciplined in his

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his financials. He invested well, he never touched it well.
Over the forty years that he was a janitor, where
he earned forty five thousand a year, he bought stocks,
he reinvested them. He built up a fortune of eight
million dollars eight million dollars, and then he donated it.

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He donated it nice. So love to hear those stories. Sure,
love to hear those stories. With the money, some of
it was invested with the Memorial hospital in his area,
along with the library in his area. So he spread
his fortune to others, just you know, great people. It's

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wonderful to hear great stories like that, because there are
wonderful people in this world. We tend to ignore wonderful
stories like that. And then finally, otis you're safe because
there's a trend from the nineties in the early two
thousands that's coming back, the tramp stamp. No, you're in style,

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So I've come full circle. I do not have one,
Sure I don't. I do not have a tramp stamp.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Bloom Daddy told me you did.

Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
Bloom Daddy would not know. And no, I do not
have one. Everybody have a great Monday, enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Love. Daddy's got a tramstamp.