The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 15, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Sucks of politics right now.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Jim and Acy, former Congressman, bloom Daddy show politically, always
joining me as he always.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Does on Monday Sport Tuesdays. Jim, how you doing today?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good?

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Boom Daddy, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Let's start with this violence out there. You had Pennsylvania
Governor Josh Shapiro's mansion set on fire by a lunatic
who said he basically hates Democrats and just is nuts.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
And his family got lucky.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Apparently if a door wasn't closed, it would have spread
into where they were sleeping. Who knows what we're talking
about today. You've also got a Wisconsin teenager, seventeen year
old Nikita Cassip apparely plotted to kill Donald Trump to
start a political revolution. They know this because he's accused
of killing his mother and stepfather in their Wisconsin home.

(01:10):
And we've talked about rhetoric, We've talked about what's going on.
You had two assassination attempts on Trump's life as he
was running for the presidency. It's a very simple question, Jim,
what the hell is going on? And what do we
do about this stuff?

Speaker 5 (01:25):
We'll move that. I got to tell you it is
it seems to be part of American politics. And I
was looking some stuff up after I heard about Governor Shapiro.
There's actually been sixty one actual assassinations that have occurred
in American political history. Sometimes we don't realize that, but
these are elected officials that have been assassinated, whether it's judges,

(01:48):
whether it's presidents and so forth. So those are the
ones that actually occurred and assassinations were completed. There are
hundreds of others attempts, and it's just in many cases,
as you said, it's a crazy people, and it's the
tone and it's the attitude. I know. When I was
in Congress my second year, Gabby Gifford was there was

(02:10):
an assassination attempt on her and Arizona congresswoman. It put
all of us on high alert. Every meeting we went
to after that, we had to have bodyguards around us.
Remember the Steve Scalise situation where the entire Republican baseball
team they were attempting to assassinate. So it's a crazy world.

(02:31):
But I think it's part of American politics even though
it shouldn't be. It seems like it goes all the
way back to the eighteen hundreds, but it has gotten
It does seem it has gotten worse in the current
age because we seem to be you're either on one
side or the other and there's no in between anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Do you think right now is the most dangerous time
to be a politician?

Speaker 5 (02:58):
I do think that right now now is one of
the most dangerous times. And I also think there were
other times in history, But right now we do have
a situation where the level is up, and I think
politicians will have to be extremely concerned. Just like I
said in twenty eleven when every member of Congress was
told you're on high alert, you better be extremely concerned.

(03:20):
I think we're at that stage again in American history.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
How do we get back to sanity?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
And does it start with these very politicians we're talking
about on both sides of the eye.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
We know, we were always told that in the old days,
Republicans and Democrats could sit down and even if they
had problems, they could iron things out. We've lost that.
When I was in Congress, I attempted to do it.
I had a weekly breakfast with Democrats. I was chastised
for that, but in the end, there's always things that
you could agree upon, shake hands, even though you disagreed

(03:52):
with so many things. And I think if we can't
get back to that, and we're going to draw lines
between anybody who's a republic and anybody who's a Democrat,
they're bad on both sides. I think with that in mind,
we're always going to have problems. And I think somehow
we got to get that back to where Republicans and
Democrats can at least talk even if they disagree.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Let's move on to these tariffs.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
What do you make of Trump putting a pause on
most tariffs other than China. I mean, was that the
game plan all along to isolate China?

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Now? You know what, and I said this last week,
I think the problem was President Trump. And again, I
know what he's trying to do. He loves One thing
I've learned about him and watch him. He loves to
throw a little chaos out, see what happens, and then
learn from it and make adjustments. I do think the
chaos got a little bit out of hand last week
when the bond market really looked like it was going

(04:49):
to tumble and would have caused serious problems for the
American economy. And the President was smart enough to say,
wait a minute, I'm going to pause tariffs for nine days.
I really, I do believe, and he even admitted it
that he saw that there was some issues with the
bond market and he decided to pause them. But let's
not forget we still have a ten percent tariff across

(05:09):
the board on all countries. The reciprocal tariff's been paused,
but the ten percent tariff is still out there. And
then of course we have the tariff with China, a
much larger tariff with China, which, by the way, China's
not back and down, which is also kind of an
interesting situation. Ultimately, that's where even in twenty seventeen, President

(05:31):
Trump knew we had a problem with China. He went
after them with tariffs. China came to the table. Today
he's going after China and they're not coming to the table.
That's the real key that we got to keep an
eye on.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
All right, So what does that tell you?

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, I think what that tells us is that China
has finally, China is trying to stand up and be
one of the most powerful countries in the world. The
United States already is there, and I think that standoff
is really the key, and somebody's going to have to give. Now.
Do I think they've given the end? I absolutely believe

(06:09):
they do. We need China's markets whether we like it
or not. They need the United States more than we
need them. And in the end, I think you're going
to see something transition where President Trump says I won,
that China is going to say they won. In the end,
we're going to get something better, especially with President Trump
in the lead on this.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, Jim, always appreciate talking to you.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Thank you, thank you, You have a good day.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well, first of all, the first part of that conversation,
we're an angry country, we're angry people right now. There
is such a clear line drawn between the two sides
that it influences so much in our day to day lives.

(07:03):
And I'll be honest, I have I have. I made
the comment earlier or at the end of last week.
I believe it was about the pronouns and an email signature.
I immediately thought, this is this is a stupid person,
and of course that's tied into to politics. I admit that, completely,

(07:27):
admit that. But otis wouldn't you say we have gotten
to the point where leading people almost lead with the
side of the aisle they favor a lot of the times.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Well, I think that's always been the case. I mean,
even though people that are willing to cross the aisle,
they're they're still going to lead with their party.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
But hasn't it become more prevalent.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
No, I just think that there's I think that there's less.
There's less, there's less communication between the two, between the two.
I mean, like, like you.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Take an idiot, like AOC.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
She's not going to agree to anything that's on the
left hand side or on the right hand side of
the aisle. She's just not going to because she's she
can't comprehend that there are there are certain things that
may work now and I doubt this would ever happen.
But let's just say she has a phenomenal idea and

(08:28):
you know, where everybody's like, hey, you know, that's not
a bad idea. I think we can all get behind that. Now,
she's never going to have that because she's too radical.
But she just I mean, you see where I'm coming from.
You So, I mean like she wants something that everybody
that she thinks everybody should agree to, but she's not
willing to agree to something every that somebody else might suggest.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
Well. And the thing that's funny is, and we I
brought this up. We talked about this last week. If
you go back into the archives and you look at
some of the conversations or the statements made by Bill Clinton,
Hillary Clinton, Obama, George W. Bush, it reflects or it's

(09:11):
verbatim what President Trump is trying to accomplish now. But
as you said, because it comes out of Trump's mouth
and it's his plan, your version otis was AOC. There
are certain people that aren't even going to listen. Same
thing with Nancy Pelosi. There's a video of her floating
around out there where she's pushing for tariffs. We'll talk

(09:35):
about that in a little bit more. I want to
get into the tariffs conversation. And then also today's tax Day.
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(09:59):
twenty one that experienced Otis and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. A little bit on the tariff conversation I
wanted to hit on. I was talking with neighbors this
weekend and they had to go and get Unfortunately, this
happened to me two years ago, a new refrigerator, and

(10:20):
it got me to thinking, so, how many times have
you had a conversation or have had to go and
purchase a major something for your house, major appliance, let's
say so a refrigerator, washer and dryer, television, things like that.

(10:42):
And when you're doing that, you have a thought to yourself,
or you're talking to people and you say, you know
what used to be back in the day. Those lasted
so much longer. I remember, I mean there are still
people that have refrigerators from the forties, the fifth these,
the sixties that probably will be around longer than the cockroaches,

(11:04):
and they still work, still work nowadays. If you get
five years out of a television. You feel lucky. So
my question to you is this in otis maybe I'm
maybe I am on the wrong path. Maybe I'm speculating
and not looking at this the right way. But it

(11:26):
seems as if since we have lost the greatest, the
greater majority of our manufacturing of things plug in there
what you will to places like China, Thailand, Vietnam, name it.

(11:46):
There's always another country on a label. It is not
as well made as things once were when they were
made here. Now the price, I look at it this way.
If I have to pay an extra hundred, two hundred

(12:08):
and fifty dollars for a product, but I am going
to get five, ten, fifteen more years of use out
of that product, I would rather pay the higher cost
to have something made better that's going to have a

(12:29):
longer lifespan, and if that is made here in the
United States, I would rather have that pay the more
money upfront for a longer lifetime of a product, because
I think in the long run, financially, you're a head.

(12:51):
And if that is one of the goals with these tariffs,
to bring manufacturing back in here, back here to the
United States, because that's one of the biggest points is, Well,
if it comes back here, it's going to be more expensive,
but if it's a better product, in the long run,
you're saving yourself money. I mean I can specifically remember otis.

(13:12):
Maybe I'm off here, but I remember refrigerating. My grandmother
had that sucker ran it made it through three floods
and it was still running when she passed away. It
was one of those bubble ones, the round kind of
the round ones, and it had the little freezer in
the top. I forget what they were called, but I
bet whoever that purchased us that off of us, I

(13:34):
bet that sucker is still running somewhere.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well, I don't know if they were made better. There
was different parts being used. We didn't have the technology
back then, so I mean everything was It's just like
a car. You know, you open up a car, You
open up the hood on a car from the fifties
or the sixties, and you can actually work on it.
You open up a hood on a car today you
can't even get to the battery half the time because

(14:01):
they've they've compacted everything and they've put fuses and microchips
and everything else over. You know, everything's buried inside. I mean,
you need a college degree basically to have to just
work on your car.

Speaker 6 (14:16):
But weren't the parts and pieces of a lot of
products that were made here in the in the US.
They just seemed more stout, they seemed they weren't as
cheaply made. They seem just more.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's the technology, because you know, here's what we do.
We look for lighter and smaller and more efficient. And
so when you do those things, you sacrifice. You sacrifice
certain things, and so you know, depending on what you want.
I mean, you know, back in the day, that refrigerator
that your grandmother had, that you're talking about probably way

(14:50):
two hundred.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
And fifty three hundred parles a beast.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
You know, now you can buy one probably three times
the size of that, and it's the same weight.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
I mean, there's different there's different materials being used. It's
I mean, it's you're comparing. You're not you're comparing apples
to apples, but apples to oranges as well. Okay, so
I mean, yes, it's a refrigerator, So yes, you're comparing apples. Yes,
I'm comparing this refrigerator to the old refrigerator. But when
it comes to the parts that are being used in

(15:18):
everything else and the technology that's in that refrigerator, and
that's what that's what craps out on you first is
the technology.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Okay, so okay, so that that's that's electronics and appliances
and things like that. That's one example. But then you
take into example just the basic things that are you know,
are are apparel that we purchase, you know, look at
how long does it last? Nowadays? It just seems as
if a lot of the foreign made products that everybody's

(15:46):
worried about the price is going up on are not
as well made as things used to be. They just
seem more cheaply made because people want the lower prices.
So that's one way I'm looking at the terriffs that
if we get better made products, they're made here in
the US, and they're gonna last longer. As I said

(16:11):
up front, it might be a little bit more costly,
but if it's going to last longer in the long run,
I think financially that is better. Personally, I don't know,
I don't know. I can't tell you how many things
we've gone through in our house that you just stand
back and go, gosh, should you would think if technology

(16:33):
is so great, you would think things would last longer,
but they just don't for some reason. And I think
it goes back to the fact that it's cheap, cheaper
price parts that are purchased to give a larger profit
margin to the maker. So the cheaper they make it,
they can still put a higher price on it and

(16:54):
they make larger profits.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
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(17:19):
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(17:43):
at seven thirty six The bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis
News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA this morning, we're hanging on
some national topics. One of the things earlier that we
kind of touched upon was how angry we are as
a society and how we tend to we jumped to conclusions,
and those conclusions are based upon political viewpoints and otis.

(18:07):
You have a great story. That's a fantastic example of this.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
I wasn't expected to do this on the air, but
I guess. I ran into a friend of mine yesterday
and we get to talking and basically he said, his
ex wife doesn't like me. I'm not gonna say how
sure anything, yes, so anyway, And I said, okay, but
why is that? And he said, because you're on the

(18:34):
radio and you're a Trump supporter, so she and I'm like,
I have no idea who his ex wife is. I
have no idea, you know, I don't. I mean, I
know him, that's it.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
So there's no other connection.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
I don't know his family. I mean, I know he
has daughters.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
But you never had a conversation, no, nothing, So there's
just an assumption of because you have you voted this
way or because.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
I'm on this show and I and we support Trump
and and basically it's it's the result of this show.
Is why this person I guess doesn't.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Like me, but this person listens.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
I can't answer that question.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, sounds like it, I would.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
I mean, if you would have to assume that they'd
listen if there's a reason that they don't like me.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Well, first of all, thank you for listening. If that's
the case, and.

Speaker 7 (19:23):
If you don't like me, that's okay, just get in mine. Yeah,
there's a lot.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
I'm I'm in the front of the line. No, I'm kidding,
I'm kidding, no, no, no. But but that's a great
example of assuming you you're not going to like somebody
just because of how they voted or their their beliefs politically,
you know, you believe in being a conservative or or

(19:47):
you know, you can be kind of down the middle.
There's certain things where I kind of ride the fence
of you know, I understand the conservative side, I understand
the liberal side. I lean this way, I lean that way.
It just on the particular topic.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
But there's so many people that just hate Trump that
if you.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Even it doesn't matter, right.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
It doesn't even matter if you like if I just
if I said, oh, I like what Donald Trump's doing,
and it could be that, you know, he brought the
kid with terminal cancer to the you know, to the speech,
and it's like, well, I really like that. That was
a great idea, nice, nice gesture on his part. And
then you and then they go, oh, he's an idiot,
and it's like, well, wait a minute, I just say

(20:26):
I just said I liked what he did with the kid.
I didn't say anything.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
Else, right, you know, And if you try to even
have a conversation and point out the hypocrisy, like the
whole Elon Musk in the Nazi salute conversation that they
all jumped upon, it was everywhere, it's all over social media.
Well you point out that it's an arm gesture, and
there's folks on the Democratic side, there's still pictures of them.

(20:53):
It's me right now the way I'm talking with my
hands right.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
If I I mean, how many times have you seen
somebody like put their hand, they tapped their chest and
then they get they raise their hand because they're just
they're sharing the love.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
Didn't Haulk Hogan do that all the time or one
of the wrestlers. Yeah, it's just But my point is
you can show them visual facts and say look, it's
a moment in time captured as a still photograph. Here's
Nancy Pelosi doing it.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
They had Kamala doing it, they had Waltz doing it.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Hillary doing it. And they'll say, oh no, those pictures
are manufacturer, or they start screaming something else that doesn't matter.
That doesn't matter. It's not the same thing. But it
goes back to if we can't have a conversation, where
are we going to end up? And one thing I
shared yesterday on our Facebook page was the commentary by

(21:48):
Bill Maher from his HBO show. Now, I watch his
show every once in a while, I do not watch
it every week, but he visited with President Trump last week. Now,
Bill Maher is a liberal, and he has said over
and over again he does not care for Trump. He
did not vote for Trump, he would never vote for
Trump again. But he was invited to the White House.

(22:11):
He accepted the invitation and according to he spent roughly
two hours with him, got a tour, got to see
parts of the White House that other people don't have.
Go and watch the video that I shared on our page,
because listen, whether you like Bill Maher, you don't like
Bill Maher, it's an interesting perspective into what his experience

(22:36):
was like with the President. And he went in there
and this is now, he's a comedian. If you're not
aware of who the gentleman is, he's a comedian since
the eighties roughly, I believe. But he went in with
an entire list of names the President Trump has called
him through the years. And he actually had President Trump

(22:56):
sign sign the list of yeah, yeah, autographed it, which
was funny. Which was funny, but he was willing to
take a step back and say, you know, the man
I met and the man I had a conversation with
is not the man that we see in front of
the cameras. And I have always said that that's a

(23:21):
problem Trump turns on a particular facade in front of
the cameras. He also said that you know, I forget
what topic it was about. I believe it was Iran.
And he asked, you know, Bill Maher his thoughts on it,
and he gave his thoughts, and he was shocked that

(23:43):
President Trump asked for his thoughts on this particular subject.
And listen he within his monologue on his show, He's
still made fun of Trump. He still had opposite views
on certain things, and he acknowledged that, But he also

(24:05):
acknowledged that he's a president who's willing to listen, who's
willing to have a conversation, who's willing to invite you
into his home to hear your side of things. It's
a very good monologue, it is worth a.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
Listen, and it is R rated. Yes, so just yes,
be aware of who you're listening around.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Yeah, he is a comedian.

Speaker 7 (24:29):
There are a couple. It's on HBO, so just late.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
Night, not late night, but out later out.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
And just remember that there are a few swear words
in there, so if you're around kids or people that
get offended, don't listen to it around them.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
But my point to all of that is, this is
the first time in a while that here's somebody from
the opposite side who did not go in there aggressively,
did not go in there on the tack, and is

(25:02):
willing to say whether he's ripped apart by the other side.
He's willing to say, this is the man that I saw,
this is what I liked about him, this is what
I disagreed with. And then, of course Keith Oberman, if
you remember that name from ESPN days, he's he's completely

(25:24):
fallen off the cliff. He's completely lost it, he tweeted yesterday.
Don't overanalyze Mar prostituting himself to Trump. Mar works for
the same fascists as Warner brothers who took over corrupted CNN.
This is also he can keep his HBO show Right there,

(25:49):
right there is a prime example of it doesn't matter.
There are some folks, no matter what, that will be
interested in having an open, honest conversation. They're politicians, people,
they are going to make mistakes. They are not perfect,

(26:12):
they are not gods. There are going to be certain
things that they come up with Trump included, that are
completely out of left field that will completely not work.
But there are also things that will work, and there
is a reason behind the ideas and the plans. So

(26:35):
you've got to give credit where credit is due, but
you also have to give judgment where judgment is due.
And you have to be able to have an intelligent,
open conversation with your neighbor and your family and your
friends when you disagree. Because we've gotten way too angry

(26:56):
at one another, just based upon views. Too angry, too angry.
It's seven forty five. You're listening to the bloom Ditty
Experienced salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. We are

(27:24):
back at seven fifty The bloom Ditty Experienced salmon Otis
News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Want to give you a
little alert, little heads up. Once again, we've got scams circulating,
so people are being fooled into thinking they've missed jury
duty here in the Ohio Valley. That's why authorities are

(27:45):
warning people about the missed jury duty scam that has
resurfaced in our area. Scammers have been asking people for
money to avoid legal punishment or ramifications. Officials are reminding
people to avoid giving up their personal information over the phone.
So if you get a phone call or a text

(28:05):
or any type of communication saying that you have missed
jury duty, do not please, do not give any of
your personal information out, any of your personal information out.
It's funny because recently, over the past two weeks, my
husband keeps getting phone calls. This is tied into Amazon.

(28:25):
I think it's happened four times now. It's usually about
every two to three days. He gets a phone call
and it's always from a different phone number saying and
he lets it go straight to voicemail and it says,
I am such and such calling to verify your purchase
of a fourteen and ninety nine dollars item from Amazon.

(28:49):
Please give me a call back so we can verify
that you have made this purchase. YadA, YadA, YadA. It's
not real. As I said, it's a different phone number
every time, and it's it's funny to me that it's
fourteen ninety nine, so one four hundred and ninety nine dollars,
not fourteen dollars and ninety nine cents. It's almost as

(29:10):
if they're purposely keeping it under fifteen hundred dollars. So
that is happening also. So please just be diligent and
be aware and pay attention, pay attention, because, honest to god,
I'm to the point where if I see an odd
phone number, if I see an odd email address, text anything,

(29:34):
I either quickly delete it or I don't return anything.
And it's amazing because these people work really hard to
come up with these scams. If they used that intelligence
for good, look at where where we could be. Think

(29:54):
two weeks ago, we had you know, local resident Lisa
on the show talking about the alle awful, absolutely awful
trauma she has gone through since she was hacked through
Facebook and it went on and on and on into
her Walmart account and her her PayPal and everything else.
And that Lisa, who I know, is a very very

(30:19):
intelligent person who is very diligent and aware of things.
So it can happen to absolutely everybody, and once it does,
it turns into an absolute mess for people. So just
please be aware and be diligent. Otis, have you had
anything recently?

Speaker 7 (30:40):
Not really. I mean I get scam calls all the time,
but I never answered nothing.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
That throws up a red flag.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
No.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
I get asked to jury duty all the time, but
it's legit. They never take me for some reason. I
don't know why.

Speaker 5 (30:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
I Am not going to say.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Come on, I threw that it was a soft That
was it. That was an underhand, easy, underhand, underhand soft
pitch for you. Just some good news. Let's kind of
turn it a little bit some good news.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Now.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
We've talked about the United Way the Upper High Valley,
but we're big supporters of the organization. We've been involved
here at iHeart in general with multiple events that they
do throughout the year. Well, some amazing News. In March,
they do their event called March Madness Matchness. I'm sorry
I said that wrong, and it's a fundraiser they do

(31:34):
throughout the month. Well, the results are in and thanks
to the United Way are amazing community, and of course
the sponsor Burger and Green. They raised one hundred and
seventy three thousand dollars for one hundred and seventy three,
four hundred and sixty six thousand dollars, six figures.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
People.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Just I want to give a huge shout out to
Stacy and her team and everybody else that was involved
in this year's fundraiser because that's a huge amount of
money that's going to stay here in our valley, in
our valley and help our friends and our neighbors. So

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congrats the United Way and everybody involved in those results,
because as I said, those are huge, huge numbers. And
then also we got results yesterday afternoon when the big
Space Travel returned. Anybody else noticed the shape of the
rocket or was it just me?

Speaker 4 (32:38):
No, it's the same rocket that Shatner and the rest
of them went up onto, is it okay?

Speaker 6 (32:44):
I don't remember. I don't remember Shatner's rocket. I don't
remember seeing pictures of that one.

Speaker 7 (32:49):
It's the exact same one.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Yeah, I'm just I'm sitting there watching it on my phone,
you know, the live and I'm thinking, I can't be
the only one. But they returned safely yesterday. But the funny,
funniest part, I don't know if you saw the clip
where Besos himself was running around the pod that landed

(33:10):
and there was like a I don't know what it was,
a crevice in the ground and he tripped and like
face planted. Didn't you see that as he was trying
to get to the door to let him out. Yeah,
he face planned into that one big time, big time.
I thought it was funny. It was funny, but they
returned safely. I thought it was a little dramatic. I

(33:33):
thought Katy Perry was a little dramatic when she crawls
out and starts kissing the ground and the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Well, I mean, well, you asked William Shattner, what you
know his reaction after going up into space and then
coming back, and you know, he said, you know, if
my memory served me right, he was talking about, you know,
the appreciation that he has for the Earth now and
that it was basically surreal. I mean, so, I mean,

(34:01):
you know, I mean, I would have to look at
that as you know, you get up there, you're waitless,
and and you know you're looking down on this little
blue marble.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 7 (34:12):
I'm sure it gives you a different perspective of things, so,
I mean to and then just to know that you
made it back.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
I'm not gonna say she overreacted, but when you're up
there and you're thinking to myself, you know, you're going
through all the space disasters in your head while you're
in the in the air, and you know, so I'm
assuming she was just thankful that she was.

Speaker 7 (34:33):
On the ground.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Well, it's going to give you a perspective from that
distance that you know, we all we're all pretty knee
deep in our own drama and our own lives and
our own stress. But to be that far up above
the planet to look down and think, yeah, I'm not even.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
In the grand scheme of things. We're very insignificant there.

Speaker 6 (34:54):
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. That's a
good good way of putting it. We're one one particle
of sand on an entire beach. That's how important we are.
Seven fifty eight you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
The number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now, News
Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey, it's eighth six. Let's
get this hour.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Rolling sucks of politics right now.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Jim and Acy, former Congressman, bloo Daddy Show political analysts,
joining me as he always does on Mondays or Tuesdays.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Jim, how you doing today?

Speaker 5 (35:50):
Boom Daddy, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Let's start with this violence out there. You had Pennsylvania
Governor Josh Shapiro's mansion set on fire by a lunatic
who said he basically hates Democrats and just his nuts
and his family got lucky. Apparently if a door wasn't closed,
it would have spread into where they were sleeping.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Who knows what we're talking about today.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
You've also got a Wisconsin teenager, seventeen year old Nikita
Cassip apparently plotted to kill Donald Trump to start a
political revolution. They know this because he's accused of killing
his mother and stepfather and their Wisconsin home. And we've
talked about rhetoric, We've talked about what's going on. You
had two assassination attempts on Trump's life as he was

(36:32):
running for the presidency. It's a very simple question, Jim,
what the hell is going on?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
And what do we do about this stuff?

Speaker 5 (36:41):
We'll move that. I got to tell you it is
it seems to be part of American politics. And I
was looking some stuff up after I heard about Governor Shapiro.
There's actually been sixty one actual assassinations that have occurred
in American political history. Sometimes we don't realize that, but
these are elected officials that have been assassinated, whether it's judges,

(37:04):
whether it's presidents and so forth. So those are the
ones that actually occurred and assassinations were completed. There are
hundreds of others attempts, and it's just in many cases,
as you said, it's a crazy people, and it's the
tone and it's the attitude. I know when I was
in Congress my second year. Gabby Gifford was there was

(37:26):
an assassination attempt on her and Arizona congresswoman. It put
all of us on high alert. Every meeting we went
to after that, we had to have bodyguards around us.
Remember the Steve Scalie situation where the entire Republican baseball
team they were attempting to assassinate. So it's a crazy world.

(37:47):
But I think it's part of American politics, even though
it shouldn't be. It seems like it goes all the
way back to the eighteen hundreds, but it has gotten
It does seem it has gotten worse in the current
age because we seem to be you're either on one
side or the other and there's no in between anymore.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Do you think right now is the most dangerous time
to be a politician?

Speaker 5 (38:14):
I do think that right now is one of the
most dangerous times, and I also think there were other
times in history, But right now we do have a
situation where the level is up, and I think politicians
will have to be extremely concerned. Just like I said
in twenty eleven, when every member of Congress was told
you're on high alert, you better be extremely concerned. I

(38:36):
think we're at that stage again in American history.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
How do we get back to sanity?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
And does it start with these very politicians we're talking
about on both sides of the isle.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
We know we were always told that in the old days,
Republicans and Democrats could sit down and even if they
had problems, they could iron things out. We've lost that.
When I was in Congress, I attempted to do it.
I had a weekly breakfast Democrats. I was chastised for that,
But in the end, there's always things that you could
agree upon, shake hands, even though you disagreed with so

(39:08):
many things. And I think if we can't get back
to that, and we're going to draw lines between anybody
who's a Republican anybody who's a Democrat, they're bad on
both sides. I think with that in mind, we're always
going to have problems. And I think somehow we got
to get that back to where Republicans and Democrats can
at least talk even if they disagree.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Let's move on to these tariffs. What do you make
of Trump putting a pause on most tariffs other than China?
I mean, was that the game plan all along to
isolate China?

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Now you know what? And I said this last week
I think the problem was President Trump. And again I
know what he's trying to do. He loves. One thing
I've learned about him and watching he loves to throw
a little chaos out, see what happens, and then learn
from it and make adjustments. I do think the chaos
got a little bit out of hand last week when
the bond market really looked like it was going to

(40:05):
tumble and would have caused serious problems for the American economy,
and the President was smart enough to say, wait a minute,
I'm going to pause teriffs for ninety days. I really
do believe, and he even admitted it that he saw
that there was some issues with the bond market and
he decided to pause them. But let's not forget we
still have a ten percent tariff across the board on

(40:26):
all countries. The reciprocal terraff's been paused, but the ten
percent tariff is still out there. And then of course
we have the tariff with China, a much larger chaff
with China, which by the way, China's not back and down,
which is also kind of an interesting situation. Ultimately, that's
where even in twenty seventeen, President Trump knew we had

(40:48):
a problem with China. He went after them with tariffs.
China came to the table. Today he's going after China
and they're not coming to the table. That's the real
key that we got to keep on.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
All right, So what does that tell you?

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Well, I think what that tells us is that China
has finally China is trying to stand up and be
one of the most powerful countries in the world. The
United States already is there, and I think that standoff
is really the key, and somebody's going to have to give.
Now Do I think they give in the end? I

(41:24):
absolutely believe they do. We need China's markets whether we
like it or not. They need the United States more
than we need them. And in the end, I think
you're going to see something transition with President Trump says
I won, that China is going to say they won.
In the end, we're going to get something better, especially
with President Trump in the lead on this.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
All right, Jim, always appreciate talking to you.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Thank you, thank you, you have a good day.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
Let me ask you this otis, so we're talking about angry,
assassinated attempts, all of that stuff. Do you think and
I understand that go to this go to this trough
many times. But do you think it's the communities and

(42:14):
the access to information on different platforms, whether we're talking
Facebook x, all of them, that there is too much
information out there that is not true or is exasperated
that people who have mental issues, behavioral issues, that it

(42:41):
warps their way of thinking. And then we see the
things that we continue to see increase day in and
day out.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Well, I don't I don't know exactly, but you're where
you were going with that. But anyway, I will say this,
social media doesn't matter what platform you use, is the
is the root of most of these problems and whether

(43:15):
it be you know, there's a lot of things that
you can't trust. I mean because you know, you have
the whole COVID thing where supposedly if you were against
what was coming out from the government in early in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, that they censored you
and they fact checked you, and they did everything else
because they wanted they wanted you to get the vaccines.
They wanted you to do this, they wanted you to

(43:37):
do that, and I think you know, but then you know,
now you're thinking to yourself, Okay, they've come out it
admitted that they did that. So, now how do you
believe what's on social media? And so you know, now
you have the people that live and die by social media,
you have the people that look at social media as
a conspiracy theory. You have the people that you know,
just don't believe anything on social media, and it's just

(43:58):
you know, it's it's social media has become a disaster.

Speaker 6 (44:02):
Well, what I was getting at is okay, okay, So
say you have person A who lives in Phoenix, and
then you've got person B who lives in Wheeling, West Virginia,
and they both have this anti Trump they can't standing,
and somehow on a social media platform they get to
talking and they start spinning their web of conversation of

(44:26):
of you know, falsities, and then then that just builds
and it builds and they feed one another. That's kind
of what I was getting at is access to people.

Speaker 7 (44:35):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
That has increased like lot.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
I mean, I mean you just look at like chat
rooms and things like that. I mean, you're gonna you're
gonna go with like minded people. You're not gonna you're
not gonna go into a chat room where you're the
outcast or you have totally different ideas than the other
people in the chat room, and that's one of the negatives.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
But let's be honest, there's also positives from social media
that we have gained from it also, and it's also politically.
You know, look at what we learned during the time
of COVID that did get out that if it wasn't
for social media, we probably wouldn't have learned about. So
there's positives and negatives to all of it. It's a sixteen.

(45:17):
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy WWVA. It's eight twenty one. Welcome back to
the bloo Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
Here's an interesting stat that came out oddly interesting stat

(45:43):
the average American starts to panic when their phone charge
is a thirty percent or less thirty eight percent or less,
and we start to kind of get that feeling of
oh disconnection, oh my phone. Thirty four percent of Americans
are fine with waiting until the twenty percent mark before

(46:06):
they look for their charger. This is called charger charging worry.
Seems to impact younger generations more, while older adults are
okay with letting charge drop lower before heading for the outlet.
Do you have a I can't say I've ever had
that feeling when the when the battery is dying, but

(46:29):
we are so addicted to our phone.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
I also think it depends on where you're at and
when it happens.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Oh yeah, if you're in your house, then no, it's
on a bomb.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
I mean so like I've been I've been out and
about and looked at my phone charge and I'm like, Okay,
am I going to have enough to get me through
the rest of this trip, this adventure that I'm on
or whatever before I get back to charge it. I
do have a couple of portable chargers that I that

(46:59):
have if I'm in question, I will take with me.
But you know, just to get yourself a little bit
of life back into your phone. But I don't think
I've ever hit the panic button. In fact, it's good
sometimes they'll let your phone run That's what somebody told
me one down to especially after when you first get
your phone, like the first two or three times, let
it run down below like fifteen percent.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
For the health of the battery, right.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Well, your battery builds a memory.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
So like if you start like so, if you let
it run down to sixty percent and then put it
back on the charger, then that's what that's where that's
going to figure that the end is so. So in
other words, it builds a at least they used to.
They may have, you know, they may have improved the
battery since then.

Speaker 6 (47:40):
But well, I'll be honest thinking about it, you know,
I don't really freak out about it because I have
a spare charger here right beside me. I have a
spare charger in my car, So I guess I kind
of have been proactive in pre planning that I always
have a charger with me somewhere so that that doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
I mean, I can remember at the transplant games, and
you know, you don't know if you're going to have
you don't know how long you're going to be someplace,
if you're if you're in an event or something like that,
and so I always throw the extra charger in just
in case I'm there all day and then you need,
you know, all of a sudden, you're you're like, hey,
I'm down to twenty percent. I better at least get

(48:20):
this back up to fifty because I'm going to need
another two hours for sure.

Speaker 6 (48:25):
So well, it's funny. About a month ago, I made
a pretty conscientious decision that I started noticing myself in
the evenings watching TV, playing on my phone, all at
the exact same time. I was not giving my my
my brain time to wind down, like that hour or

(48:49):
two before you go to bed, to kind of just decompress,
turn off. And I was having trouble sleeping, and I
still have trouble sleeping, but just to kind of decompress, well,
I made a decision that between seven and seven thirty
every night, I take my phone and I put it
back in the bedroom, away from the living room, the

(49:10):
main part of the house, and I just completely make
myself separate from my phone, just to give myself a
break from it, because, as I said, I would catch
myself looking at this, looking at that, and I'm talking
about going to to apps that I have no interest
in whatsoever, Like why am I on here? Why am

(49:31):
I on Amazon shopping through stuff? Why am I on
this website bidding on stuff that I do not need?
Spending money on stuff that I do not need? Just
forgetting a good deal and another excuse or reason to
stay on my phone, you know. And it's kind of

(49:51):
irritated some people in my life because they're like, why
don't you answer your phone. Well, I've got it on
silent and it's not near me, and I'm doing that
on purpose.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Yeah, I've been accused of not answering my phone and
some you know, when I work, sometimes we turned the
ringers off because we have to take pictures, so you
don't want that camera sound to go off. And I
can remember I had a fact that wasn't too long ago.
I had a boss say, well, I sent you a text.
You didn't respond. I'm like, I didn't even know I
got it because my ringer was turned off. And I said,

(50:22):
and I said, you know the question that my boss
asked me, I answered twenty minutes later anyway.

Speaker 7 (50:28):
Just in PaperWorks.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
So I mean it was like, you really didn't need
it when you texted me. You were just that was
just your way of being a smack off.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
Right. Well, we've all become to that ding or that
buzz or whatever.

Speaker 7 (50:41):
Sure you're addicted to it.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
We've become Pavlov's dogs to cell phones. I mean bam,
we hear it, your head turns, your head snaps, and
when you don't have it connected to you, you've got fomo,
what are you going to miss? What post? Haven't you seen?
What do you missing out on? Who's talking about? What?
You know? All that kind of stuff, And it's it's hard.

(51:05):
You know, the first couple of days, I'm like, what's
going on? Did any you know? And I would go
and touch my screen anything pop up? Anything, pop up? Nothing.
But I've noticed that I've kind of that has diminished
throughout time. But we did it before. I grew up
without cell phones. I survived.

Speaker 7 (51:24):
Most of us did.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Yeah, most of us, most of the people listening to
this show grew up without cell phone.

Speaker 6 (51:29):
Yeah. I mean, here's here's here's a disturbing statement. Children
are stuck on their phones are likely to become depressed teenagers.
That ties into what we were talking about yesterday. A
study found that kids who use mobile devices more often
tend to have more stress and depressive symptoms as teens.
It was an eight year study that studied kids from

(51:50):
elementary school all the way to adolescents. That ties into
exactly what we were talking about yesterday. So think if
that's you know, it's affecting all of us, that attachment
to these mobile devices, your phones, your tablets, whatever you
want to say. As I sit here with one right
in front of me, We've got to know everything that's
going on every minute of the day, and if we

(52:13):
miss out on something, we just feel as if we're
completely disconnected to the world. We're actually this kind of
stuff is disconnecting us from the world because we're not
having human interactions anymore. It's becoming less and less. Why chatted?
You know, anybody you need anytime you need help with anything,

(52:33):
you got to go to a chat. No, I want
a human to talk to. I want a human to
talk to. That's a whole other conversation, whole other conversation.
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(52:55):
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(53:15):
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. You know we've said multiple times
that they listen to us. Who does they? Okay, this
just popped up on my newsfeed. A study found that's
staying off the internet on smartphones for two weeks boosted

(53:36):
mental health, focus and well being.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
Nice.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Isn't that convenient that that just showed up as we
were just talking about about that similar topics like that.
It just creeps me out. It just creeps me out.
Here's a little bit of we talk about our weird
food combinations. Maybe this was right up your alley. Otis

(54:02):
flaming hot dill pickle Cheetos.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
I'm in really yeah?

Speaker 6 (54:08):
Okay, well they're back. I never heard of them before,
so they're back by popular demand. Cheetos made the announcement
on their official Instagram page. Let's see that flavor was
taken away from fans when you needed it most. The
snack combines a spicy, flaming hot Cheeto with the tang
of a sour dill pickle pile pickle.

Speaker 7 (54:30):
I'm definitely in.

Speaker 6 (54:31):
I got a case of flaming Hot Cheetos in like
the The snack size lunch size.

Speaker 7 (54:37):
I thought, you never mind.

Speaker 6 (54:40):
I was putting them in my husband's lunch for like
two weeks straight, and he finally said, you got to
stop like something else because it was not well, if
you do too.

Speaker 7 (54:51):
Much of a good thing, then you get tired of it.

Speaker 6 (54:53):
Well, just wasn't treating well, yeah the body, let's put
it that way. So I didn't see. Never had them.
I can't do spicy stuff, so I didn't.

Speaker 7 (55:02):
Realize house sometimes spicy stuff burns twice.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
That's what I was getting at. Yes, I didn't realize
how potent they are. Staying on the food topic, Olive Garden,
which I think I've only been to once or twice
to be honest, is no longer the biggest food restaurant
in the US. Hello, the one that has taken over

(55:27):
is can you guess.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Olive Gardens not number one? The one that has taken over.
I'm gonna go Buffalo Wild Wings.

Speaker 6 (55:37):
You were close Texas Roadhouse. Okay, here's the problem. When
you go to Texas Roadhouse, if you're like me, you
end up eating I don't know, two maybe three of
the rolls with that cinnamon butter, and by the time
your entree gets there, you're not hungry anymore. That's my
issue when I go to Texas Roadhouse. But congrats to them.

(55:59):
They have overtaken as the number one earning restaurant chain
in the US. Others included Chili's, Applebee's, and B Dubs
as the top earners here in the US. And then also,
I didn't think we were allowed to say this anymore,

(56:21):
but I guess we are. Speedy Gonzalez has been arrested
in a string of Walmart.

Speaker 7 (56:26):
Thefts Underlay Underlay.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
I guess there's a lot of Latin American folks that
won him back in luney tunes, like they want to
bring that character back. But anyways, of course, this happened
in Florida, in Gainesville, to be exact, where in collaboration
with Walmart and the Gainesville Police, they apprehended Speedy Gonzales,
forty years old, for allegedly committing thefts at multiple stores.

(56:52):
The accused is suspected of targeting various Walmart outlets in
northern Georgia, with the total stolen of goods exceeding twenty
thousand dollars. Gonzales vases theft charges and is detained on
felony offenses. They didn't give his first name.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
Wasn't a bunch of cheese, That rascally rabbit.

Speaker 6 (57:15):
It's got to catch him. They didn't give us his
real last name is Gonzalez, but they don't say if
his real first name is Speedy. I very much doubt it.

Speaker 7 (57:23):
Why could be?

Speaker 4 (57:26):
Doesn't say anything else in this story, doesn't give it
like it doesn't have it in quotes.

Speaker 6 (57:36):
Bring Speedy back. He got the he got the chefs.

Speaker 7 (57:41):
They band funk Gordon, like Gordon too.

Speaker 6 (57:44):
They did the chicken, Why the rooster? Oh okay, whatever,
the big bird.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
Right because of it, not that because he he is
he represents Southern ideals.

Speaker 6 (57:59):
So I thought you're gonna say he was too masculine.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Just some of his Southern ideals from you know, the
fifties and sixties cartoons. They've oh, well they've kind of
put the they've put they've eliminated fog Horn Leghorn because.

Speaker 7 (58:17):
He's too controversial with his opinions.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
Say, I never picked up on any of that with him.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
If you're if you're a regular human being, you don't
you just look at it for what it is. It's
just comedy entertainment.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
But isn't that The problem with a lot of things
is the people who find fault in some of the
most innocent things. They're the ones that have the problem
because they see negativity, whether it's whether it's racism or sexism.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
And cartoons, that's what they're that's a lot of it
is violence. But they look at they look at fog
Horn Legorn is like a Dixie type, you know, Southern
Confederate flag.

Speaker 7 (59:04):
Individual.

Speaker 6 (59:05):
But again, if we stop talking about things in our past,
number one, we don't learn from them. Number Two, you
can't just swipe sweep things under the carpet. And number three,
it leaves us open to to replicate the same problems again.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
I just I just think that the people that like
want to ban Elmer Fudd because he carries a gun
or do you know any of the any anything that
you know has to deal with the looney tunes from
the forties and the fifties and the sixties. I mean,
you can't be that anal Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Are they wanted?

Speaker 6 (59:47):
Didn't they go after mister Potato had too?

Speaker 7 (59:49):
They've gone after everything.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
I did read an article over the weekend. I should
have brought it in with me. Where the family or
the tribal leadership up behind the gentleman who was the
inspiration for the Redskins helmet logo is fighting. Yeah, I
heard this story to bring it back because they looked

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at it as it as it bring him back as
an honor.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Well, that's what it was. His likeness was donated to
the NFL and the Washington Redskins to pay homage to him.
And the NFL now has said, oh, we can't do
that because it's racist.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
But yet, shouldn't the people who.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Who donated it that are actual a Native Americans? Yes,
shouldn't they actually call themselves Indians.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
Shouldn't they be the ones to have the final say
if it's offensive to their heritage?

Speaker 7 (01:00:54):
You would think.

Speaker 6 (01:00:58):
Sometimes it gets to the point where you know, you
can't make any of this stuff up.

Speaker 7 (01:01:02):
You can't fix stupid.

Speaker 6 (01:01:04):
Here's the thing, though, Let's be honest. The people, the
folks that implemented a lot of this stuff or pushed
leaders to bend the knee to the woke movement, if
you will, they're a very very very small part of

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our country. It goes back to I mean, it's like
the squeakier the wheel almost it seems as if those
that are the most ridiculous, over the top squeaky wheels
over the past four five six years are the ones
that have gotten their way. The other side of it

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is because if you disagree, they then throw a horrible
label on you. But what we're seeing is a reverse
of that, and I think that was very well represented
in the election, where people are tired of being called
names because they just want common sense. Just because you're loud,

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just because you're squeaky doesn't make you right, does not
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seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Wealk back to day.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
Fifty one, the Glen Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. You know what we haven't talked
about what today is?

Speaker 7 (01:03:14):
Yeah? Yeah, tax Day.

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
I just heard some shivers go down people's spines.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
I wrote my checks yesterday, I haven't mailed them yet.
They're going out today.

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
Well, I was just going to say to all the
accountants out there, the tax filing people, all the folks
working in those offices, everybody be patient with them today.
Same thing is at the post office, because the post
office is going to get hit pretty bad today too,
don't they don't they? Yeah, well now there's a lot
of that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
They used to be that they'd stay open until midnight.
So did you get your taxes postmarked today? And they
used to have you know, they used some the Wheeling
post office at one point in time, Like they would
have entertainment at the post office, like they might have
an acoustic somebody playing, you know, just just to make
your day a little brighter, because you know, it sucks

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that you have to send the government money because they
don't get.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
Enough of it all. Well, you know they've got to
pay for that shrimp on a not a trampoline or treadmill. Treadmill,
they've got to pay for that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
Yeah, well, and hopefully next year, you know, you know,
we see some different things because of you know, maybe
we get some of that back, maybe we don't.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
Maybe we get it in tax cuts.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:04:29):
I'm not worried about getting a checked back per se,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
But my problem is I have two jobs and neither
job takes out enough money for the combined salary.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
So that's you get dinged both ways, right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
So my accountant told me that just to call and
have more money taken out. So we we hopefully crossed
that bridge yesterday, and with them taking out money from
both paychecks, I'm not going to get hit hard at
like from one to the other. So I just kind
of did it. I did half and half half on

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this one, half on the other one.

Speaker 6 (01:05:07):
So you use somebody, Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
Absolutely, well, I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
I can't do my taxes because being there's like being
a homeowner, being you know, in just little things, the
two jobs, everything else that the factors in. I'm like, look,
I'd rather pay somebody to do it because if something
comes back, yes I had, I mean, I'm still on
the hook. But because they did my taxes, they have

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to meet with the people that did my taxes first.

Speaker 6 (01:05:35):
I'll see. I've come to realize, listen, there are people
that have certain careers and certain jobs because they're the
experts in it. And I am more than willing to
let the experts handle that for me. Because our neighbor
one time, a couple of years ago, he laughed and
he's like, I can't believe you don't do your own taxes.
There's all these these programs and it's real simple. You

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just plug in the numbers and YadA, YadA YadA. And
I said, listen, I said, I know my limitations, and
doing my own taxes is one of those. And if
I have to pay somebody a couple bucks, and I
know it's being done right and it's being done professionally,
and it's one less thing for me to worry about,
I'm okay with that. I'm one hundred percent okay with that.

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So this is your reminder. It is tax.

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
Deadline day, so file your taxes.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
File your taxes. But there's also some restaurants that have
gotten on board to make it a little bit more fun.
Buffalo Wild Wings is offering reward members a free sandwich
with a fifteen dollars minimum order, which is part of
their month of free deals. So you can jump on that.
Krispy Kreams is doing. I think it's a customers get

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can get a free original glaze dozen with the purchase
of any dozen at Krispy Kremes. There's a lot of
different places involved. Shake Shaw Oh no, we have ours
of steak and Shake, not steak check. So there's a
couple of places involved. So yeah, hug your account, be
nice to your postal worker.

Speaker 7 (01:07:02):
No, doesn't I like him, But I'm not hugging hugg.
He's white. Whoa, No, we've been friends for a long time.

Speaker 6 (01:07:11):
I'm kidding. Okay, maybe not hug. Just be patient.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
Yeah, I hope they get a laugh out of that
if they're listening, because they're two good people.

Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
Oh, the government, the taxman will get his money, no
matter what, always does, always does, always does. So we
had the naked guy yesterday, the naked vacationing couple that
did the dirty deed on main Street. Well, now Disneyland, Disneyland. Really,

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there's a man who's behind bars on suspicion of roaming
around Disneyland in the Nude The Man, a Canadian citizen,
was arrested Saturday night in Disneyland's New Orleans Square area.

Speaker 7 (01:07:59):
Good Place.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Witnesses say he stripped down and climbed a building. Whoa
exposing himself to everybody below? Wow, that's quite the vantage point.
The Anaheim Police Department rested him on suspicion of trespassing,
public nudity and being under the influence of narcotics. Surprise,
there no who gets naked and decides to scale a building.

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Even Spider Man wore a suit.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
I mean, you know, normally, I'm gonna say that if
I if I was a betting man, he was probably
on X.

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
Oh you think that's the drug of drug of choice.

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Yeah, because here's what happens. When you take X, your
body temperature, your internal body temperature goes up. Oh, I
didn't know that a lot of times when you like,
when they would have those rave parties and X was
the big drug, that's what they would They wouldn't have
alcohol at those parties. That if you if it was
an X party, then what you would do is they
would they would have tons and tons of bottle water

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because people are trying to hydrate and cool off.

Speaker 6 (01:09:03):
Is it even still around anymore? X yeah, oh yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
There's another thing they did, but they would give out
passifiers too because there was something. It was something to
do with your mouth. Yeah, passifiers and bottled water. Then
you know it's the next party.

Speaker 6 (01:09:21):
Huh Okay, I learned something today I've never done X pacify.

Speaker 7 (01:09:30):
Okay, I forget what.

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
I forget what the I forget what it was, what
causes the what the what the.

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Trigger is to wear because you're thirsty.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
No, it's there's something else that goes with it. I
can't remember. It's been a couple of years since I
had that class.

Speaker 6 (01:09:45):
So yeah, okay, very interesting, very interesting. Huh okay. Well, anyways,
there you have it. There you have it. Just a reminder,
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Speaker 7 (01:10:16):
Three hours and.

Speaker 6 (01:10:19):
Oh okay, okay, we're going to get exact here. All right,
we're done, We are out of here. Everybody, have a
great Tuesday. We'll talk to you tomorrow