The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 17, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ze number one touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is no bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal in form, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom
Daddy Experience on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seven.

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

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And if you've had a rough week, I got a
couple of positives for you. First of all, week's almost over.
There's number one, number two. The weather's finally breaking. Looks
like this weekend we're going to be in the seventies
or at least close to it. The whole following week
looks to be really, really good. Want to let you
know about an upcoming event. This is going to be
at River City ale Works Saturday, May tenth. It starts

(00:47):
at five o'clock. It's Brave Men Incorporated Presents Blue Tie
Gala in Evening of Hope. Now, if you've never heard
of Brave Men Incorporated, Basically this is kind of prompting
guys to talk talk about their health, to get checkups,
to do all the things that we don't do that
we put off that women do much better than us.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Brave Men Incorporated.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Their mission is to elevate awareness, emphasize the significance of
early detection and prostate cancer. They also want to foster
open conversations about men's health and also provide support to
individuals and their families throughout the journey. That's the mission statement.
Their mission statement, as a matter of fact, is no
man fights alone. So once again, this is going to

(01:31):
be a blue tie gala in evening of Hope River
City air Works on Saturday, May tenth, So get your
tickets now. And I mean, this is an important subject.
It really truly is. Because I mentioned it earlier. Women
do a really good job of staying on top of things.
And I just had a conversation with somebody about this
the other day. Their statement to me, it was a female.

(01:54):
Their statement to me, excuse me, was you know, why
do you guys shy away away from checkups? You know
why do you guys you know, just hope things take
care of themselves. And I think a big part of
it is And this is what I told her. It was, well,
you know, you ladies, you start getting check ups. I mean,
I'm assuming thirteen, fourteen years old, visits to the gynecologists

(02:15):
becomes your part of your routine.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Early we don't have that.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, as guys, we don't go to the doctor
unless we're basically bleeding to death. So we grow up
not feeling comfortable with somebody rooting around down there like
you ladies do. I mean, it's kind of part of
what you do from an early age. That's not what
we do. So the whole thought of going to a

(02:40):
checkup and have somebody with a finger the size of
et check your prostate not real enticing to us.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
But we got to get over it.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know, I'm sitting here making jokes about it because
it's an uncomfortable thing to talk about, but I mean,
we got to quit joking about this stuff as guys.
I mean, we've got to take our health serious. I
get prostate exams once a year. They're not fun. I
mean it's over quick, but it's not fun, especially if
your doctor has really Yeah, anyway, you know what I'm saying,
Just get it done. And prostate cancer is something early

(03:13):
detection can be very very curable. I mean, there's no
reason that we should have men dying of prostate cancer.
If you take the proper precautions. So if you have time,
get your tickets. Brave Men Incorporated presenting the Blue Tie Gala,
an evening of Hope River City Ale Works. This is
gonna be Saturday, May teenth. This is literally right around

(03:34):
the corner. I mean, notice, I know you've had your
issues with health, but when's the last time you had
that back door check buddy?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Go ah ah the visualses, so you know anymore they
can actually they can do like a pre prostate exam
with your blood work. So I have labs done every month,
so and every once in a while they'll call for
that that test. And so I mean I think I

(04:05):
get that checked about every three months and then if
if the if the blood levels are elevated, then then
you have to go get the actual exam. But when
it comes to like colon oscobies and things like that,
I'm on schedule. Uh. You know, I do have to
be careful what I do. I mean, I me personally
because of my transplant. You know, I have to have

(04:25):
a dermatology appointment once a year where they checked me
for for for skin lesions and cancers and things like
that just because they want. You know, those are things
I'm I'm highly susceptible to because of my medication. Uh
and in fact, you know I did earlier in the year,
or I'm sorry, I guess it's not earlier this year.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
It was last year.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
I actually had a ah, I had some skin cancer
on the back of my head that I had to
have taken out. So you know, I mean, it's it's
as you get older and blue Daddy says, why do
women check? Keep in mind, women are the child bearers
as well, and I think that, you know, they just
in their mind it's about taking care of Well, it's.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Another example of where males, men and women differ. Oly
we Women tend to be planners. Women tend to be
the organizers. They're the decision makers within out within the household.
Men they do more of the stuff with their hands.
They take care of the cars. And I'm listen, I

(05:29):
am not lumping us together or separate or anything like that.
Well that's the way it is. That's just you know,
the responsibilities.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I can honestly say that, you know, before I went
and got checked for all my issues back in twenty fourteen,
at your mentality is you're indestructible.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
That's I was going to bring that up. Men are
taught to yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Know, I mean and you know, I mean, I mean
I was doing stupid things when I was like, you know,
you look at a talent All bottle and it says,
do if you drink more than three alcohol drinks a day,
do not use this product. Well, that didn't apply to
me because I'm superman, you know, and you know, and
I learned my lesson the hard way, so you know.

(06:12):
And I think the other thing is with women and men.
The breast cancer awareness has has been around and publicized,
I think a lot more than say prostate cancer or uh,
you know, ovarian cancer or anything like that. But I

(06:33):
think when if you get the women out there and
they get there, you know, the mammograms and so on
with the breast cancer and as much as it's publicized,
the NFL wears pink for the whole month of October,
Major League Baseball wears pink on Mother's Day. You know,
there's there's things that there's things that are out there
for breast cancer, and it's it's I don't want to
say it's jammed down your throat, but I mean they

(06:54):
push it to get your checked, get checked, and and
when you go get your mammogram. Then they'll say, hey,
have you had this exam? You know, do you get
you know with your going to call it.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
It opens the conversation. It gets you in the door
to have those tough conversations with your physician. The other
side of of the breast cancer part of it is
the marketing in the conversation has taken away the the
taboo side of having that conversation. That is what the
breast cancer awareness leading the forefront has done because now

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it's not a big deal to say it. It's not
a big deal to talk about it. And for men,
it's still what did he say, the back door? Yeah,
it's still not a comfortable subject. And and as you said, men,
you know you're you're indestructible. You're you're the the the

(07:47):
the oh, what's the word I'm looking for. You're the foundation,
You're the you're gonna make everything right, You're going to
you know.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well, it goes back to your primal being right, you know,
I mean, it goes back to your hunter.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
You're the defense. And to even consider any any chances
of that you have any weaknesses is not something that
anybody wants to have. But I mean there's a survey
out there that sixty percent of folks ignore symptoms that
they don't feel is serious. Fifty eight percent of that

(08:20):
is fifty eight percent of women ignore those symptoms because
as women, we just push along. You just fight your
way through it. You ignore it.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
It's just you know, well, sometimes a little pain here.
You know, as you get older, you get pains everywhere,
and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, that's
just another pain, and you don't really consider it. And
then the next thing you know, it's it's blown out
of proportion and it's something worse than what you originally
thought it was.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, and nobody wants to Let's be honest, nobody wants
to go into the doctor's office and find out something bad.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I mean, been there, done that.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, a lot of people. If you ignore it, you
think it's going to go away.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, if you're saying sometimes, if you ignore it, unfortunately
you dot yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah. And it sounds like the organization that Bloom Daddie
mentioned with their event in May is definitely going to
open up a conversation for men here in the High
Valley to learn more about things that are happening and
connections they can make medically and personally, so good for them,

(09:28):
good for them. Coming Okay, just a reminder today we're
going to be doing our ice cream, so you still
have time send us your flavor choices or guesses from
the picture on our Facebook page, Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
Just need your name, phone number, and your guesses and
you might you'll be registered for a chance to win
your own half gallon of of course from Kirks. I

(09:50):
think correct answer, yes, if you have the correct answers.
I'm sorry, didn't put that in there. So that is
coming up, and then coming up next is the world
upside down? Or is it just?

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Is it just me?

Speaker 5 (10:04):
At seven sixteen, you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Welcome back on your Thursday, seven twenty one, The bloom
Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy ww
VA VA.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
So we kind of were we were jam packed yesterday,
didn't get to this, but today we're gonna have a
couple of chances for you to win on top of
our free half gallon from Kirks. So we've got three
different things to win. You have chances to win today.
So we've got the Kirks. We've got some tickets to

(10:53):
see the one and only George Thurroughgood coming here to
the Capital in June, so we'll have those and then
we have a gift certificate from our friends at McCormick's
Auto Service, So stay tuned for those. George Thurgood, is
that one of your am I saying that thorough Good? Yeah,

(11:16):
didn't sound like was coming out right.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Not a George thur a good fan.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
No, No, I just give me one of his.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
One bourbon, one shot, one beer.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
Oh that's a good one.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
So I started to tell you the story this morning
about George Thurgood. He was scheduled to come to Wheeling
back in the mid to late eighties.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
And so it's like the big the big rejuvenation for
the Wheeling Civic Center at the time was they brought
in Foreigner, Okay, and then and then they had Aerosmith
that came in a couple of times. Well in the
midst of this was a George Thurgood Because I mean
I had one of the George Thurgood posters that you
know back in and you know they would put those
posters out on the telephone poles. Yeah, yea, yeah that

(12:04):
And so I had the announcement that he was coming
to Wheeling and it was on my wall in my bedroom.
And old George didn't sell enough tickets to come to
Wheeling back in the mid eighties.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Well hopefully this time around.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
And the more I listened to George Are good, the
more I don't like him. I just, I mean, I'm sorry.
It's just it's me, that's it is. It is. I
just I think all this song sounds the same. So
I just I'm not a George s are a good fan,
although if you are, it's great, great opportunity to see.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Yes, And if you have not seen him before or
you're not sure you are a fan, this is your opportunity.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
He's he's got like he's like a rock and blues guy.
But like to me, like everything sounds the same.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
So alrighty then alrighty. Then so before the break, I mentioned,
am I living in the upside down? If anybody watches
Stranger Thing, of course that's a reference to that.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
You know.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Yesterday in this Morning hit me that things in the
way people are reacting to particular subjects has gotten out
of control. But also the way people are reacting is

(13:28):
a head scratcher. So first off, let's address the conviction
of the illegal for the murder of Rachel Morin. Now,
this is all over. Certain news organizations covered the trial,
covered the entire story from the day that the horrible,

(13:55):
horrible murder occurred. The majority of news outlets that we'll say,
the big three ABC, CBS, NBC. Let's compare the mitnantes
of coverage between Rachel Morin and the Maryland man wrongly

(14:21):
deported the coverage of that. Now, of course I am
referring to Garcia. This is who that the Maryland Senator
is traveling to Al Salvador to check on him, to
make sure that he's okay. This gentleman is in connection

(14:41):
to MS thirteen, which has been reported by multiple outlets.
But when you look at the news coverage the trial,
just the trial of the killer of Rachel Morin, buy
those three big networks again, ABC, CBSNBC, zero minutes zero.

(15:12):
This mother of five was viciously raped and murdered, this
mother of five, and those three media outlets could not
spend one minute of coverage on that trial. But for
the Maryland man who has tons of sympathizers. Now sixty

(15:36):
four minutes, sixty four minutes last time I checked, a
murderer is the bad guy. Then we have the twin
the track murder. We spoke with Elgie mccarlo yesterday about

(16:00):
the bond reduction and she gave the background on that.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Well.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Now reports are out that the accused killer, Carmelo Anthony,
has received almost half a million dollars in fundraising from
folks online, now is living in a nine hundred thousand
dollars house and according to neighbors in the area, is

(16:27):
driving a new car. And then late yesterday I saw
reports that the family has a merch website. When have
we gotten to the point in this culture, in this
society that we are making criminals celebrities. We are making

(16:51):
criminals the victims. We are putting them on this pedestal
of being a celebrity. Luigi Mangione, the killer of the
CEO of United Healthcare, I don't understand where we have
flipped culturally that killers, accused killers are put on these

(17:18):
pedestals and they have these sympathizers. How did we get here?
Somebody has an answer? Call us one eight hundred and
sixty two four eleven seventy, because I sure don't seven
twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, all.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Right, this topic is pretty near and dear to Sam's heart,
and I'll let her kind of embellish on this a
little bit later. But I had a conversation the other day.
It's just kind of funny. I mean, everything I tell
you here on the bloom Daddy Experience usually is prompted
by conversations. But I had somebody say to me the
other day that they actually advertised on a different station,

(17:58):
and I said, well, why would you do that. Their
exact response was, well, his rates are really cheap. And
I looked at him and I said, this is somebody
I know pretty well. And I said, you know what,
for a smart guy, you are really stupid. And they
just looked at me, and I said, why do you
think his rates are cheap? Because nobody listens. He has

(18:20):
no ratings. You see, advertising is set according to your ratings.
The higher ratings you have, the more it's going to
cost advertise because you're reaching a larger audience. You actually
have people listening. If somebody is coming to you saying, hey,
I've got a great deal for you thirty second spots
on my show or three dollars, there's a reason for that.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's because they suck.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's because nobody's listening to them.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
So, I don't know how.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
You think you're getting a deal. Hey, I got a
thirty second spot for three dollars. Well, you know that
stuff adds up. You you know, you throw in fifty
spots three dollars a piece, whatever the package may be,
it is a waste of your money. I don't know
how people walk away think they're getting a deal or
thinking that this is the best route for their business,

(19:09):
because you've got to have listeners.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
The whole point of advertising is to reach people.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Correct correct, Well, if you're advertising with somebody for cheap
that doesn't reach anybody, are you winning in the end.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
The answer to that is absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
You know this mentality in the valley of well, I'm
always going to go the cheap route because it's just cheaper,
and you think you get a deal, You're not getting
a deal because the quality is not there. And oh,
by the way, this individual who they advertise with I mean,
this is a guy who's trying to get a job
here here, begging for a job here at iHeart. I mean,

(19:53):
I wish I could drop names. I'm just told not to.
I wish I could give you the full scoop because
it's priceless. But all I'm going to tell you is this,
and you can figure out who it is on your own.
This dude absolutely stinks. I don't know how else to
put it. And he's he's enticing people somehow some way

(20:18):
to advertise on his show, and I don't get it.
But this is what I do get. And this is
where Sam comes in because she can tell you because
she deals with this. Ask us what our ratings are. Okay,
we'll tell you we're number one or number two in
every demo in the Ohio Valley. That's not bragging. That's fact.

(20:39):
When these individuals from other radio stations come into your
business and ask you to advertise with them and tell you, hey,
it's really cheap, ask them what their ratings are. Just
do that and then write down how many excuses you
get as to why they won't provide you with the ratings.
It's just kind of frustrating because these individuals undercut the market,

(21:03):
and they heard every station in this valley. The bottom
line is get better or get out.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Sam. You take it from here.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I'm so glad he called you out.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
It's going to be.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Because I may have gone their different direction.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Okay, all right, I'm gonna start it off with this.
I'm going to give you a little bit of background
on myself. I have been in marketing at these radio
stations going on twenty four years. I will celebrate twenty
four years in early August. I have worked in this
market again with these radio stations for twenty four years.

(21:43):
If our products and I did not believe in our stations,
I would not have stayed here for twenty four years.
This conversation about cheap versus quality has been a battle
my entire career. Here's what it comes down to, and
this is the comparison I give advertisers when I talk

(22:04):
to them, When they say such and such came in
the door and they're going to send sell me one
hundred commercials for fifty bucks or whatever. The outrageous pricing is.
I say this, do you want a chivette or do
you want to BMW? That's what it comes down to
or I use their own product and say, okay, you

(22:27):
sell I'm grabbing one out of the air. Product wise, Okay,
you seidgets. Okay, you sell widgets, and you've got the
top brand widget out there, you know it, all of
the research says it. And then your competitor has like
the fourth or fifth level best widget, right and they're

(22:53):
selling it at two bucks. You're selling yours at one hundred.
There's you how the people when they come shopping at
your store. There's a reason why we're priced our way
because we're the better product. That's what I tell advertisers.
And here's the other set. The other sad side to
this is the fact that when people lowball their pricing

(23:19):
on products, it hurts the entire industry. It hurts the
entire industry. And if you're not talking to somebody about
a comprehensive marketing plan across the board as a business owner,
then you're doing yourself a disservice, an absolute disservice. And
Bloom Dinnie mentioned ratings. Listen, I do not like to

(23:42):
lead with ratings. There's always going to be somebody nipping
at your heels. But I am very confident in saying
if you don't even show up in the book, then
you don't have a leg and on plain and simple.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
Well, and the other thing is, would you rather advertise
on a show that's live five days a week or
would you rather advertise on a show that reruns three
days a week.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Listen, I don't want to get into a back and forth.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, it's not a peeing contest.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yeah, I will say this over the past year. Well,
we're working on two years now together. Otis right, We're.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
About about aye and a half.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, So we have been developing not only our rapport
with one another, are footing in the market with a
live show. Like I said earlier, I did the advertising
side for twenty four years, as I continue to do now.
This is newer to me. I'm beginning to get my footing,
getting contacts building up this show. One thing I will

(24:47):
say that I'm incredibly proud of is the fact that
we were the only media outlet that attended the RNC
and brought you live coverage of that. We were the
only media outlet that was at the inauguration. The local
media outlet, yes yes, brought you coverage of that. We
have been talking about the situation at East to Higher

(25:10):
Regional Hospital since last August.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Well, and you broke the story about the arrest of
the Stratia murders. Yes, so you broke that. Yeah, it
doesn't matter who says that they did. You did, I did.
You did it in the morning, you did it very
first thing, and you know, people jumped on that bandwagon
later on in the day.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
But again, where we have gotten in under a year
and a half, I'm incredibly, incredibly proud of Well.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
And here's the thing. We're not going to take a
topic and beat it to death. No, no, okay. When
we interview people, we're going to have them for maybe
one segment, maybe two, because they're going to give you
everything that they need in that fifteen minutes or twenty
minutes that we have them on. We don't have to,
you know, talk about personal lives and everything else, and
little sometimes on the side story gets you into something.

(26:01):
But we're not going to dwell on a side story,
you know, just like when we had the Gentleman in
here that was performing down at River City that you
went to school with, oh, Ellie, Yeah, yeah, you know,
a couple of little side stories along the way. But
I mean that basically everything was about him, but with
the side stories, kind of get to those stories. You know,
you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
It just turned into a really great conversation.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, you know, we're not talking about oh, hey, I
knew your brother and and then to go on that
for like eight minutes when nobody really cares.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well and when I when you know, when we go
to different things to cover it, you know, it's not
there to be self serving. It's to get the story
out of the people that are going through a certain thing.
For example, if I go to a quote unquote walkout
or protest and doing interviews, I'm there to talk to
those that are putting their their selves out there going

(26:53):
against an issue. I'm not there hand delivering business cards
of my advertisers to to be self serving. So I
had to laugh that that's where, you know, I'm proud
to say that we've acco accomplished a lot in this
short time.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
So hey, just an update. Yes, Nailers on Mixed ninety
seven three to night game two of the semifinals with Norfolk. Unfortunately,
the Nailers dropped one last night for nothing, so they're
down one in the series, but they can bounce back
tonight again next Wednesday, Friday and Saturday games at West
Banko Arena.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
All right, it's seven forty six. Like we said, we're
gonna have chances for you to win throughout the show.
One will be coming up here very shortly. The Bloomdaddy
Experienced Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w
VA seven fifty one. If you're listening to The bloom

(27:48):
Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy w
w VA, we.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Could carry that last topic on for probably two more segments.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
We probably that's probably not.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
A good night.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
But let's let's let's take our let's let's take our
own statements to heart and not beat a subject to death.
How's that sound perfect? Okay? So I want you to
do something for me. Turn your microphone off, take your
headphones off, and come look at something here on my laptop.
So as he comes in here, I just want to

(28:21):
get his his otis. I want to get his instant
reaction to this new gadget. Okay, So how would you,

(28:42):
oh wait, let me wait for him to put his
headphones back on. How would you how would you describe
to everybody what that is?

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Disturbing.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
So there's a new gadget out that popped up this
morning in my social media feed. It's called the licky Okay,
I have and and for for for cat folks out there.
You know it don't mean this harshly.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
It looks like it's something that you would put, like
like a mouthpiece into your own mouth.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Then there's a piece of plastic on the front and
whatever it looks like. And then there's something that looks
like a big tongue.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
It looks like a tongue, and it is for cat
owners to.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Brush your cat or do whatever they're doing.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Yes, with it, with your fake.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Tongue, with your fake tongue.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Why would you even have to come up? Why wouldn't
you just have the material that's on the fake tongue
and put it like on a glove.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
I don't know. I don't know. It says it lets
you lick your cat. That's that's the description of it.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
I just I didn't realize we were at the Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Just it's it's disturbing, that's all I have to say.
It's disturbing.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Again, Well, that's there's a reason I don't have cats.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
You can't make stuff up. Sometimes you just absolutely could
not make stuff up? All right? I thought you would.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
That was a little disturbing, to be honest with you.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
It actually silenced you.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
I was like, I looked at it and I was like,
no way.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
So it's real.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
It's real the things that people come up with, and
somebody that the person that came up with that will
probably sell a million of them.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Oh yeah, probably like the something stupid like a pet rock?
Is that today's pet rock? Oh?

Speaker 4 (30:53):
I just you know, you sit there and you go,
why didn't I think of that? Because if I had
thought of it, it wouldn't have been a success. That's that's
the bottom line.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Well, yeah, because like you said, you know, whoever came
up with it is going to make a crap ton
of money and it'll probably.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Be some infomercial where the shamwill guy's doing it.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
So the sham I thought the shamwall guy's dead. Didn't
he die?

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Oh? He was in I think he was in jail.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Oh is that what it was? I know, I think
I knew he did something. It'll be an ass scene
on TV shelf somewhere. It'll be somewhere there.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Anyways, disturbing.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
So the ten Best States to Raise a family list
has been released.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
The top five Massachusetts, Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Are you going from one to five or five to mine?

Speaker 5 (31:46):
I'm sorry, one to five, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and
New Hampshire, followed by New York at number six. Yeah, Illinois, Wisconsin,
and Maine in Connecticut is rounds it out at number ten.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Very democratic states there.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah. It was done by relature dot com. Is there
a state you've ever wanted to you'd ever consider? I know, yeah,
I know Ohio tops your list.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
No, it doesn't, not at all. It's probably it's fifty
first out of fifty. So the states that I've been to,
I mean, it's hard to argue with Florida. South Carolina's
not bad North Carolina.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
And you'd want to live there.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
I don't know if i'd want to live there.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
Oh, that's what I asked.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
Yeah, I know, Tennessee. I mean, I'm just I'm throwing,
I'm spitballing.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
I think I need I think I need hills. You know,
I just can't.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
Okay, I can't go flat You don't want to be
a flat lander.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
I mean, obviously, if you're at the beach. You know,
if you're close to the beach or something, it's going
to get flatter than the hills. But yeah, I mean
I need I'm so used to the hills, like when
I when I travel and I and I have to drive,
Like if I've driven, like I've driven across Indiana, it's
like I'm looking at the same and once you get

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past Columbus, it's the same way. Everything's flat and it's
just like, h I can't like it weirds me out.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Well, And for as much as I complain about the weather,
I still need to have four seasons.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yes, yeah, I just it would be nice if they
were that they didn't overlap as much as they do.
Well yeah, you know, like right now, we were in April,
when you could get any season of the of the
year that pops up right.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Oh yeah. I got in my car this morning and
my temperature said it was thirty one.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, it's like, well there were frost warnings all over
the place.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
Oh I know, I know. But the other day I
was outside playing with the dogs and it was t
shirt weather. Yeah, it's the up and down, but that's
the High Valley weather.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Well, it's just where we are.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Yeah, yeah, it is it. So let's uh just a reminder.
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Speaker 4 (34:21):
Yum, and you get to pick your flavor.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Yes, you do get to pick your flavor once you go.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
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Speaker 5 (34:29):
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Speaker 3 (34:58):
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Speaker 1 (35:02):
Indeed number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal in form, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom
Daddy Experience on news Radio eleven SEVENTYWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling. Good Thursday
morning to you.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
And if you've had a rough week, I got a
couple of positives.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
And we have.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
First of all, week's almost over. There's number one, number two.
The weather's finally breaking. Looks like this weekend we're going
to be in the seventies or at least close to it.
The whole following week looks to be really, really good.
Want to let you know about an upcoming event. This
is going to be at River City ale Works Saturday,
May tenth. It starts at five o'clock. It's Brave Men
Incorporated presents Blue Tie Gala in Evening of Hope. Now,

(35:56):
if you've never heard of Brave Men Incorporated, Basically, this
is kind of prompting guys to talk about their health,
to get checkups, to do all the things that we
don't do that we put off that women do much
better than us.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Brave Men Incorporated.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Their mission is to elevate awareness, emphasize the significance of
early detection and prostate cancer. They also want to foster
open conversations about men's health and also provide support to
individuals and their families throughout the journey. That's the mission statement.
Their mission statement, as a matter of fact, is no
man fights alone. So once again, this is going to

(36:34):
be a blue tie gala in evening of Hope River
City air Works on Saturday, May tempt So get your
tickets now. And I mean, this is an important subject.
It really truly is. Because I mentioned it earlier. Women
do a really good job of staying on top of things.
And I just had a conversation with somebody about this
the other day. Their statement to me, it was a female.

(36:57):
Their statement to me, excuse me, was you know, why
do you guys shy away from checkups? You know, why
do you guys you know, just hope things take care
of themselves. And I think a big part of it
is And this is what I told her. It was, well,
you know, you ladies, you start getting check ups. I mean,
I'm assuming thirteen fourteen years old, visits to the guynecologists

(37:18):
becomes your part of your routine.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Early we don't have that.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
I mean, as guys, we don't go to the doctor
unless we're basically bleeding to death. So we grow up
not feeling comfortable with somebody rooting around down there like
you ladies do. I mean, it's kind of part of
what you do from an early age. That's not what
we do. So the whole thought of going to a

(37:43):
checkup and have somebody with a finger the size of
et check your prostate.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Not real enticing to us. But we got to get
over it.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
You know, I'm sitting here making jokes about it because
it's an uncomfortable thing to talk about, but I mean,
we got to quit joking this stuff as guys. I mean,
we've got to take our health serious. I get prostate
exams once a year. They're not fun. I mean it's
over quick, but it's not fun, especially if your doctor
has really Yeah, anyway, you know what I'm saying, Just
get it done. And prostate cancer is something early detection

(38:17):
can be very very curable. I mean, there's no reason
that we should have men dying of prostate cancer. If
you take the proper precautions. So if you have time,
get your tickets. Brave Men Incorporated presenting the Blue Tie
Gala in evening of Hope River City Ale Works. This
is going to be Saturday, May teenth. This is literally
right around the corner. I mean, notice, I know you've

(38:39):
had your issues with health, but when's the last time
you had that back door checked, buddy.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Well, it's been relatively recent. They don't because I get
my labs done every month because of my transplant. There's
a test out there that they'll do occasionally that will
test it's a blood test that can test your prostate
and so if there's certain numbers that are elevated, then
you have to go get a prostate exam. So I

(39:09):
have that done all the time. I have my colonoscopy regularly.
I had to have one before my surgery in twenty sixteen,
I had to have one after a year later, and
then I had to have one two years later, and
now I'm back on I think five years. So you know,
it's here's the thing. Men and women are different when

(39:31):
it comes to it, and it goes back to you know,
our primal instincts. You know, we are men think that
they're invincible, and women are more of the nurtures and family,
you know, they're they're the child bearers and everything else.
So they're the ones that are always looking out for
the kids themselves and their husbands or made or whatever

(39:54):
you want to call it. You know, I think it
it's important to get checked.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
You know.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Had I gone to the doctor more in my forties,
I may not have had the issues that I had.
But I was hard headed. I didn't want to go
to the doctor because I didn't want I didn't want
to hear what he had to say. And that's on me.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Again, we all we all think we're superman and we're invincible.
And when you read the warning labels and you disregard
them and you think that you're superman because that doesn't
affect you, you're out of your mind, you know, because
I was.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
Well, and and there's the other side of it, where
you as you age m things start to ache sure
and appear and change and you just you in your
own head and I've done this where you go, well,
that's just part of the aging process, where it possibly
is not, and you tend to ignore or make an excuse,

(41:00):
you justify why you're having.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
This feeling well, and a lot of people will say, oh, okay,
well you know, oh gee, my shoulder hurts and that's
just you know, I slept on it wrong or whatever.
Well that could be a sign of a heart attack.
You know. You just because you wake up with aches
and pains as you get older, you don't always think
that it's the worst or that this is what's happening.

(41:24):
You know, it's there are things out there that you know,
I mean, the reason you get a colonoscopy is to
you know, is to check to make sure everything's okay.
And I can remember my second colonoscopy. I think they
actually removed some polyps that you know were potentially cancerous.
You don't know that. Well if you don't go get it,

(41:44):
how are you gonna know? And and so they remove
those and they haven't returned. And you know, the bottom
line is had I not gotten that done, could that
have been a lot worse? You know, could I could
I have developed colon cancer? And the answer is yeah,
you could have. But you know, we kind of well
and we're also bud so.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
To speak, literally and figuratively. But you also, I know,
as a woman, I don't want to overreact. I don't
want to, you know, for some reason that that is
in my mind.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Well you don't want to be the hypochondriac.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
Yeah, and and I'll be I'll be up front. I
have had some experiences with physicians. This was this was
a long time ago. That was so frustrating and he
was so condescending to me. That an issue that I
have dealt with for many years and I'm not going

(42:49):
to go into what it is, but I have it
has just become part of what how I feel every
single day because I went to multiple doctors trying to
get an answer, didn't get an answer, was made to
feel as if, like you said, a hypochondriact, Well you

(43:10):
can't have a pain there. It doesn't show anything. It does.
And it's completely on my part that I let that
person get to me to the point where I've just
let it become, as I said, part of my makeup.
You just get frustrated, you know, because I was made

(43:33):
to feel as if I was overreacting. I was, you know,
it's saying something that wasn't really happening. It's like, well, no,
it's my body, I feel it, but yeah, it's it's
part of Unfortunately. It's part of aging, it's part of
being a person. You have to be proactive about your

(43:54):
own health. And whether it's good news or bad news,
it's it's news. A lot of people just avoid, yeah,
because they don't want they you know, it'll go away
if ignored, it goes away.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
I mean you look at some people that you know,
sometimes it doesn't show up or you don't have any symptoms,
and then the next thing you know, it's right on
top of you.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
And I mean, I think and it's too far gone.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Yeah, And I mean I think that's what happened with
you know, local attorney Robert mccoyd. You know, I mean
I don't I'm not saying he ignored anything, but I
mean it came up on a him quick.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
And you know, unfortunately, you know, the results were not
good or not good.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Unfortunately. It's eight point fifteen. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
It's eight twenty on your Thursday, The bloo Daddy Experience
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Coming up,

(44:58):
we're gonna have your chance to win of tickets to
go see George Thuragood right here at the Capitol Theater,
happening June twenty eighth, June twenty eighth, So that is
coming up here very very shortly. And of course last call,
not last call, but we're close to it. To enter
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(45:22):
guesses for the picture up on our Facebook page of
the flavors. So and if you are drawn, then you
will win your choice out at Kirks of a half
gallon of ice cream. Otis we've I think we may
have missed the boat.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Have you been on I've missed the boat once or
twice in my life.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
Have you been on social media recently?

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Like? What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Like Facebook?

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (45:47):
Have you seen the whole action figure stuff?

Speaker 4 (45:50):
Oh yeah, oh my god, mine was. I did one,
but I didn't post it.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Oh you did do it? Oh, I didn't do it.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
So I was a shirtless black mail with tattoos all
of for the front of my body, my whole, my
whole torso, my upper arms, and I forget what else,
but I was. I was extremely black and very extremely.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
Tattooed because of I don't even isn't an app that
does that.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
It's one of those like I forget what it's called.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
I'm sure I could easily go on and find it.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
It's one of those things where they do a bunch
of games, you know, oh yeah, you know they where
they do those things like hey tap this and yes.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I'll have to do my act.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
I forget what it's called. MG something.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
I wish you would have saved it.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Well, I did it three times, and two out of
the three times I was black.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
Okay, I don't know why that would be.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
I mean, okay, I mean I have no idea how
that works. So and it was like nothing that I like.
One was something about like money and everything else and
like almost like I was like a pimp, drug dealer
or something. I don't know what it was, but uh,

(47:12):
you know, it just I was like, okay, I'm not
sharing this.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
Yeah that that that, Yes, that was probably the the
the right idea. That would be the right idea.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
It's like they I think they just do them random
because I mean there's people that I know that are
that you know, they they posted them and they've they've
been black, which is kind of funny.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Oh so here's Brian. Oh this is Brian, yes, seafood Showman.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Uh so a friend of show Buck just sent me
the one from def Leopard and has the drummer. Oh yeah,
did you see that one?

Speaker 6 (47:50):
No?

Speaker 4 (47:51):
So you know the drummer lost his arm in a
car accident, right Oh no, So like it's him holding
the drumstick in his good hand and then it's like
a next extra piece for his arm. So the sign. Yeah,
I saw that yesterday. I couldn't help but laugh. And
I know I'm going to Hell for that. I'm on

(48:12):
the Hell Express anyway. So well, but yeah, I uh yeah,
they've been around. I'm trying to see if I just
got on social media real quick here to see if
I can find one where.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
That's what I'm doing. Of course, I've seen him now
for you know, non stop, and now when I want
to I don't see any Sure that's.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
The way it works.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
So anyway, anyways, I haven't done one yet, so maybe
if I do find it, I'll do it and see
how that turns out. Maybe I'll be like, I don't know,
Indian or something, Middle East.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
I don't think there's well, I don't think there's like
I've seen them like they've done. The football coaches. There's
one there for Bob Huggins, one for Rich Rodriguez, some
of the some of your bigger name coaches have been
in there. So some of them are funny, is all out?

Speaker 5 (48:59):
Yeah, I've got to give it to people who who
come up with these different something like this, or the people.
I always if I see a meme for the first
time and it goes viral and people go crazy with it,
I sit and think who created it, Who was the

(49:22):
first person that came up with who had the humor
to put you know, because they never get any recognition
as the person that was clever enough or funny enough
to come up with that particular joke or meme or
whatever you want to say, because sometimes it's like, ooh,

(49:43):
who thought of that? Who's got that type of mind?
But anyways, and then along listen. We've said now for
years that they're trying to rewrite history. They're trying to
eliminate people out of our history, good and bad. Well
now they're cutting out they're trying to eliminate people from movies.

(50:12):
So the director of Home Alone too his name is
Chris Columbus and he's done multiple movies. Says he wishes
that he could wipe out the cameo that President Trump
has in that movie. And if you haven't seen that movie,

(50:35):
basically mcaulay Culkin's character Kevin is walking through I think
it's Trump Tower, and there comes Trump. He bends over,
he says a couple of words to me and moves on.
It's not that long at all. But now the director,
as I said, is trying to what wishes he could
cut it out, but I don't think at this point
you could. It's just this is schill. It's just silly. Petty, Yes, petty,

(51:03):
that's a better word for it than silly. But it
goes back to you can't rewrite history. You can't go
in and just cut people out.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
And something that happened thirty years ago. Yeah, I mean,
he was just he was a real estate mogul back
in the day, and you wanted him in your movie,
right because people recognized him and he was famous. And
now because you don't agree with his economic or his
whatever his presidential policies are, that you want him out
of your movie. Now, it's just that's that's like.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
Well, I mean and listen, there's all these old clips
out back. Trump was like the interview to Land thirty
years ago. He was on Oprah. He you know, the
women of the view loved him. You turn on Amazon
Prime right now, at least at my house, the first
thing that shows up as TV available to watch are

(51:56):
the old seasons of The Apprentice that they they just
released on I think it's on Prime. So you know,
when he makes you a dollar or lands you, the viewers,
you really.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
NBC loved him for fifteen years when he was on
when he was on the Apprentice, Yeah, because he sold advertising.
He was probably he was in the top ten ratings wise.
Now they hating and that's just you know, that's.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Yeah, if somebody doesn't benefit you in some way, shape
or form, then you've got to hate him. Say twenty eight,
you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
All right, this topic is pretty near and dear to
Sam's heart, and I'll let her kind of embellish on
this a little bit later.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
But I had a conversation the other day. It's just
kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
I mean, everything I tell you here on the bloom
Daddy experience usually is prompted by conversations.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
But I had somebody say.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
To me the other day that they actually advertised on
a different station, and I said, well, why would you
do that. Their exact response was, well, his rates are
really cheap. And I looked at him and I said,
this is somebody I.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Know pretty well.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
And I said, you know what, for a smart guy,
you are really stupid. And they just looked at me,
and I said, why do you think his rates are cheap?
Because nobody listens. He has no ratings. You see, advertising
is set according to your ratings. The higher ratings you have,
the more it's going to cost advertise because you're reaching

(53:35):
a larger audience. You actually have people listening. If somebody
is coming to you saying, hey, I've got a great
deal for you thirty second spots on my show or
three dollars, there's a reason for that.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
It's because they suck.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
It's because nobody's listening to them. So I don't know
how you think you're getting a deal. Hey, I got
a thirty second spot for three dollars. Well, you know
that stuff adds up if you know you throw in
fifty spots, three dollars a piece, whatever the package may be,
it is a waste of your money. I don't know

(54:09):
how people walk away think they're getting a deal or
thinking that this is the best route for their business,
because you've got to have listeners.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
The whole point of advertising is to reach people.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Correct correct, Well, if you're advertising with somebody for cheap
that doesn't reach anybody, are you winning in the end.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
The answer to that is absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
You know this mentality in the valley of well, I'm
always going to go the cheap route because it's just cheaper,
and you think you get a deal, You're not getting
a deal because the quality is not there.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
By the way, this individual who they advertise with, I mean,
this is a guy who's trying to get a job
here here, begging for a job here at iHeart. I mean,
I wish I could drop names. I'm just told not to.
I wish I could give you the full scoop because

(55:04):
it's priceless. But all I'm going to tell you is this,
and you can figure out who it is on your own.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
This dude absolutely stinks.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
I don't know how else to put it, and he's
he's enticing people somehow some way to advertise on his show.
And I don't get it. But this is what I
do get. And this is where Sam comes in because
she can tell you because she deals with this. Ask
us what our ratings are. Okay, we'll tell you we're

(55:38):
number one or number two in every demo in the
Ohio Valley. That's not bragging. That's fact. When these individuals
from other radio stations come into your business and ask
you to advertise with them and tell you, hey, it's
really cheap, ask them what their ratings are. Just do
that and then write down how many excuses you get

(55:58):
as to why they won't you with the ratings. It's
just kind of frustrating because these individuals undercut the market
and they heard every station in this valley.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
The bottom line is get better or get out. Sam,
you take it from here.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Okay, So where do I start? Where do I start? Okay? Advertising?
So listen, how can I How can I explain this?
So if you are going to invest in your business
and you're going to use advertising and remote promotion to

(56:38):
grow your business, first of all, you have to have
a comprehensive plan, and that is using multiple marketing tactics,
whether it's radio and billboards, TV and radio, digital and radio,
social media, there's you have to speak to a professional

(56:59):
that knows what are doing and that they're going to
direct you in the right way, refer you and educate
you on the right products. That's going to be beneficial
for your for your business. It's not going to be
here's a package, here's a package. It's cheap. There's a reason.
Exactly like bloom Dotty said, there's a reason something is cheap.

(57:24):
It's It's the same thing as if my husband once
told me when we first got married, there are two
things within the house at the grocery store that you
don't go cheap on, toilet paper and generic mayo. He said,
do not buy the good stuff.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
I'll go with it, I'll get but the toilet paper
makes it. Life's too short for cheek toilet paper and beer.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
Right, So it goes back to there's a reason something
is cheap because it's not good. The other side of
this is for doing this as long as I have.
When others in the same realm of business under values
or cheapens the entire business platform, it hurts everybody, and

(58:12):
it's an unfortunate, unfortunate reflection of what some folks do.
Now when it comes to the show side of things,
like I've said, I have done. I have been with
radio in radio twenty four years. I've never left. Whether
that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on
who you ask, I guess, but I love it. I

(58:34):
love it. And now that I've gotten the opportunity to
work with bloom Daddy, to work with Otis on this
side of the business, I have learned so much more,
so much more, and I've been able to develop a
relationship with the community that I didn't have before. And
I've been able to excuse me, bring to the Forefront store.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
And I am.

Speaker 5 (59:01):
I am loving the opportunity to do that. And that's
the point of this show. This is a community show.
This is a local show, five days a week that
we try to entertain you, inform you, make you laugh,
and if you're lucky, you might win a couple of
things from us.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Well.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
And here's the other thing. Not only are we five
days a week, we're on a fifty thousand flamethrower. So
you know, the week that I had to go to Charleston,
I basically listened to WWVA from Wheeling to Charleston. Okay,
a couple places. You may be lost it a little
bit here and there. You know, you get in a
valley or you know, you get somewhere like that, you

(59:42):
lose it for maybe thirty seconds or so. If you're
if you're if you're advertising on a station that can't
get from Wheeling the Moundsville, then who are you trying
to reach? Your your your target audience is so much smaller.
You're reaching the people that you need to reach. So
you know, when when you're on a fifty thousand, what

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flamethurer like we are, then you know we can reach Columbus,
we can reach Cleveland, we can reach Charleston, we can
reach you know as far east, you know wherever. And
you know at nighttime, especially when this when the signal switches,
because your your signal goes from east west to north south.
We're heard up in Canada and all the way down.

(01:00:27):
I mean, we've had we've had people call this show
that listen in in in North Carolina, in Florida. Now
they may be streaming it as well. Okay, but the
bottom line is we're there's there's a reason we're bigger.
We were called the big one for a reason. It's
fifty thousand whats and Blue Daddy knows how to use it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
Excuse me, I will say yes there it used to be.
I now get the opportunity to say to people that
I have a really big stick and I it's it's
great to have the opportunity to to be on here. Listen,
we're gonna be celebrating one hundred years next year, one
hundred year anniversary on this.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
Radio, ninety nine and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
We're ninety nine and a half. And the other thing
is listen for the person that bloom Daddy was referring to.
I'm proud to say that we were able to cover
the RNC in person the inauguration. Have been talking about
East Ohio since last year before anybody else was talking
to the employees over there about not being paid on time.

(01:01:31):
There's just listen. There's no point in bickering, if you will.
The point to all of this is decisions.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
What's more about the advertising?

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
Yeah, yeah, the decisions is about what is going to
be best for your business and what I can say
after doing this for as long as I have the
person that you're working with and the person that advises
you needs to care about your business as much as
you do. And if they don't care about your business,

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how are they going to recommend the right idea or
marketing platform to help grow your business? And if it's cheap,
there's a reason why it's cheap.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Oh, we could always spend a week on a culvert
replacement someplace.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
Yeah, or a pothole.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Yeah, we could spend weeks on that, but we won't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
We won't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
How about we do your chance to win? Okay, George Thurgood,
you could be bad to the bone one eight hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty four
eleven seventy. Let's do call. Let's do Lucky number thirteen,
Lucky number thirteen one eight hundred sixty two, four eleven

(01:02:55):
seventy you're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It's eight fifty one The
blim Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.

(01:03:17):
Hold on, Oh, I lost something I was gonna read
to you. Never mind, never mind, quick the meteor showers
on its way or it's underway. The lybrid is that
how you would say it is lurid? Okay, meteor showers underway.
The annual celestial display started Wednesday night and will last

(01:03:40):
through April twenty fifth. The meteors are flying trails of
debris left behind by a comet in that shower the
Earth each year in the third week of April. This
happens every year.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
NASA says the lurid meteor shower is expected to peak
peak next week on April twenty first and twenty second.
Astronomers say no special equipment is required to observe the
meteor shower. All you need is clear weather, a dark sky,
and about thirty minutes of your eyes to adjust to
the dark. I didn't know that happened every year.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
Yeah, there's two meteor showers every year, ones in April
and I think the other ones in September, maybe August
or September. Maybe I'm always on one's the I think
it's called the Proper City. Pity, I can't remember what
it is. Beans are the pea anyway?

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
Anyways, Also, we were we were talking about the doing
the dolls, the action figures. Yes, we did that during
the break. My first one looked came up. I looked
like my grandmother. I was nice, even though oh thank you.
It even had a cane, even came with a cane.

(01:04:54):
But then they started getting a little bit better. So yeah,
that was fun. That was fun. Speaking of dolls, Lebron
James is uh going to be in the toy aisle,
but it's not going to be what you would think.
So the NBA superstar is getting his own Ken doll Barbie.

(01:05:21):
That Ken it's it's going to be. He's going to
be the first ever Canbassador for Barbie. The doll is
taller than regular Ken dolls and features James wearing a
Varsity's jacket, headphones, and U Nike Terminator Hi high shoes.
James said it's an honor to release the doll as

(01:05:42):
part of the new Cambassadors series. It will be sold
for seventy five dollars. Don't take it out of the box.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
It may be worth more. Down to it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
Yeah, yeah, I know there's something you're gonna run run
the store.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
For it, aren't you?

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
Absolutely not? Is there anything that like we we've talked
about this in the past, but I mean, like even
as an adult, was there something that you wish you
would have bought and just put away because now it's
gone up in value so much. Like we talked about
Cabbage Patch Kids, and we talked about, you know, some
old toys that when we were growing up, like a

(01:06:22):
lot of like a lot of things that you know
if you keep them in the package, and.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Yeah, they I was never really a collector, like I
never not really, No, I do wish I had my cousin.
My cousin had one of the original Millennial falcons and
it was I mean it it was nice. Yeah, and
he used to have it hanging from his ceiling. I

(01:06:47):
wish I had that. He wishes he had that so.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Early on, and I think we had a story and
it's probably somewhere in this pile of paperwork here, but
the Simpsons have actually been renewed again. Yeah, and they're
gonna so they'll be on the air for forty years
by the time this contract runs out. My mom had
bought me the it's probably about eighteen to twenty inches tall,

(01:07:11):
and it's kind of you know, it's got the but
it's got the pool string where Bart Simpson says Calabunga
and all that stuff. So it was like right when
The Simpsons came out, and it's still in a box
at my mom's. And then she had she also bought
me the pee Wee Herman one. Oh yeah, I know
you are, but what am I? You know, stuff like that,
And unfortunately that one got removed from the box by

(01:07:34):
a girl I dated in college because she loved pee
Wee Herman and so she was like she pulled it
out of the box. She didn't, you know, but I
still I think I still have the box, but it's
been removed. So and there's no like cover or anything
on it. You can you know, but they're they're tied in.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
If you go back and look at like the first
season of The Simpsons or when it was originally.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
On Tracy Allmond, that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
They were so weird looking.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
Yeah, so weird.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
They developed, Yes, Yes, the artistry got a little bit better.

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
Yeah they well they I think what they did it
was just you know, it was a fill in on
the Tracy Allmon show. Was like just little clips like
yeah for thirty seconds to a minute, maybe two minutes long.
And then Fox realized that hey, this could be successful
and so then you know Matt Groenig and everybody else
that's involved with the Simpsons that you know, they they

(01:08:24):
up their game, so to speak.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Well, and here's a weird piece of trivia. I escape
through watching the Real Housewives. Okay, and I watched the
Real Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Listen. It's not I'm
nothing I'm proud of, but you know it's an escape.
Jennifer Oh Tilly, Jennifer Tilly, Screampoint, I think that's her

(01:08:51):
last name. She was married to one of the co
creators of the Simpsons.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Okay, she is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
Phenomenally wealthy. Now he passed away, I don't I don't
know which one it was, but yeah, she is. She
she married, well, we shall say, and every time they
get renewed, she probably throws herself a party.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Is she the one that also does the poker tournaments?

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Yes? Okay, yeah? Uh Chucky, the one that was in
all the Chucky movies.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Jennifer never seen.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
Jennifer Jennifer Tilly.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Yeah. I think there's two of them. There's Jennifer and Meg.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
I don't know, but either way, like I said, she is,
she's got like a weird voice. Yes, Yes, she's doing
quite well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
And I think she I think she's been on like
what her she's a voice actor on Family Guy. She
plays somebody. She played Joe, the guy in the wheelchair.
She's she's his wife on Family Guy.

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
They need to bring back King of the Hill. That
was a good one. That was a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Was all right, I mean I enjoyed it somehow. I
like the band did the theme song. Yes, some refreshments.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
Somehow. Fox has been able to keep this adult cartoon
thingk one for decade.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
Well, I think they They've renewed Bob's Burgers, they renewed
The American Dad is coming back to Fox. I believe
it went to TS. Yeah, so it's coming back to Fox.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
Well, hopefully you'll renew us and come back and listen
to us tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
Yeah, because we'll be live.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
We'll be live, and it's Friday. But before we go,
our winner today Kirk's ice Cream. Cameron from Belmont County
Board of Election. I will be getting in contact with you.
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