The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 24, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:17):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
The Bloomdaddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
There's two things that I wanted to hit on here locally.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Number one the announcement the press conference called whatever you
Want by the Ohio Valley Mall. I really truly do
believe it's going to be the announcement of a new cinema.
Remember we lost the theaters. I can't remember how long ago,
it was, maybe a year, maybe a little bit longer.
Time flies. I do believe ninety nine point nine percent
sure that that announcement is going to be that there

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is a new cinema group that's taking over the Ohio
Valley Mall.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
So you'll be able to go see movies again.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
And from what I understand, this one's way better than
what was there before, Like this is top of the line,
state of the art movie experience. So that's a very
very good thing for the Ohio Valley, and I know
there's some other announcements coming up that I'm not privy
to as far as exactly what's going on, but as
soon as I find out, I will obviously tell you.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
I did see something the other day that just ticked me.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Off so bad beyond words, and that was Paul Skin's
bobbleheads Saturday in Pittsburgh, thirty thousand plus people showing up.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
You are showing up for a damn bobblehead when you've
got an owner that doesn't give a damn about you
are putting a good product on the field. What are
you doing? As a Pirates fan? What are you doing?
If you love that team, you should not go to
a game. You should boycott the Pirates. Force this cheapskate

(01:49):
to sell the team. All he's got to do is
pack you in there ten fifteen times a year, fireworks, bobbleheads,
blanket giveaways, and an average about eleven thousand people the
rest of the way, and he pockets about thirty million dollars.
When don't you get to understand? When are you gonna
get it? You bitch about spend nutting, win nutting, but

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yet you go to his ballpark for a damn cheap bobblehead.
Tell me how much that makes sense. I mean, I
don't know what more you need to know about this
guy as an owner to make you understand he is
never going to put a competitive team.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
On the field.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Paul Schemes might as well enjoy him now, because as
soon as that contracts up, he's gone. It's either the Yankees,
the Dodgers, the Padres, the Mets, or the Astros gone.
And Bob Nutting doesn't give a damn You gotta remember something.
This is a guy who used to go to the
coffee shop at West Virginia Northern.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
And tip ten cents ten cents.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
This is a guy whose dad is a billionaire, was
a billionaire and would walk around the streets and wheeling
and look like a homeless guy. This is a family
who knows nothing about baseball, cares nothing about baseball.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
All they care about is green, that is it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
And yet Pirates fans continue to go for a damn bobblehead.
Every time you do this, You show up for fireworks night,
you show up for a blanket giveaway. He's winning. He's
winning every time you go. Have some sense, have some
dignity quick on one of the ballparks and don't give
me this. Oh, well, we're there to support the players,

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or well, we're fans of the Pirates, win or lose.
If you're a true fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, you
will not go to a single damn game, even if
you have free tickets. Force this guy to sell otherwise
he's going to continue to put a loser on the field,
rake in the dough, and not give a damn about
Pirates Nation.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Here's the thing. He doesn't care. He doesn't care about
the product that he puts on the field. He doesn't
care about the concerns of the fans. He doesn't care
about the dedication of the fans. He cares about one

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thing and one thing only, and that is how much
thicker his wallet can get.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Okay, So, just to go back on what bloom Daddy says,
and he's not wrong. I'm not going to say he's wrong.
But there are a couple things. Number One, your kid
wants to go to a game. He's nine, ten, eleven,
twelve years old. He wants to go to see the Pirates.
He wants to go to see his Maybe they want
to go see the visiting team. It's hard to say

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no to your kid when it's something he wants or
she wants. Okay, then you have the reason. Why do
you think these people want these Bible heads? What are
eighty five five percent of I'm going to do with
their bubble heads?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Keep them in a box hopefully that he turns into.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Now they're going to resell them. They're on eBay right
now for anywhere from one hundred to one hundred and
seventy five dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
But wouldn't it be better to save them in box
till he.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
What if he blows his arm out at the end
of the year. Well yeah, and here's the other thing.
A lot and just knowing from collectibles, most of your
pictures don't hold value, like you know, like a Mickey
Mantle or a Hank Aaron or a Roberto Clemene or
something like that. Like Sandy Kofax is an exception to

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the rule. Nolan Ryan is an exception to the rule.
Pictures normally don't hold up their value.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well it's a bubblehead? Are those really that?

Speaker 5 (05:47):
But when there's only thirty thousand of them out there,
they become collectibles? So yes, I mean again, The first
thing is if you have kids, it's hard to tell
them no. It's if that's something that they want, or
if it's something if they want to see the other team.
I mean, I remember being here.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's a tradition. I mean, it's a tradition for a
lot of families. So you're right your point, yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
So, and then the second thing is when they now
fireworks night, why do you have to go to the
game to enjoy it. Just go up to Mount Washington,
just sit out, pay for the parking, do something. You
don't need to be in the stadium to see the fireworks,
you know. So, and he's you know, he's absolutely right
on ninety five percent of his stuff when it.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Comes down to the sports side of it. Though, in general,
I think he is the poster child. I've talked about
this before. He's the poster child for holding ownership responsible
for making an effort to make the team viable.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Well, look a look at the bad things that he's
done already this year. He took the twenty one off
the Clemente wall. Okay, they've since put it back up
after people just blew their mines. They got rid of
all the tribute bricks around the stadium, outside the stadium
or in wherever they were, and they ended up in
a landfill. And now he's going to replace them. So

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you're going to get a keepsake that says that you
you contributed a brick.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay, okay, and.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Then they're going to do something. They're not going to
put the bricks back in the ground. They're going to
put them like on the wall or something and so
where they'll stay longer. That ended up costing him more money.
What was the.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Reasoning for tearing up those bricks because.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
They wanted something new and they just pitched them. People
paid for this.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
People paid money in honor of their loved ones or.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Or or or something whatever, right, but they still paid for.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Then they should have reached out to those people.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
You think just poor management there was. I saw it
this morning and I was like, oh, this can't be true.
And then you get to the bottom and it says
fake news for more fake news stories. But the headline
was PNC ushers put up fight or struggle or bock

(08:10):
at Nutting's new request, and it was for them that
The story was that the ushers were supposed to go
around the stadium looking for loose change and any dropped money,
and then they were supposed to collect it and turn
it into the into the organization so that they could
invest back in the team.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
And then as I'm sitting down going all this can't
be true, and they just scrolled down it says for
more fake news. But I mean, if I can find it,
I'll send this fun because it is funny.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's fine. I mean, how many other professional sports organizations
do you see individuals paying for billboards, criticizing ownership, paying
for the flyover.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
The plane to the advertising.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, out of their own part. I mean to criticize
the owner of this team, and he doesn't care. That's
that's how I started, is he does not care. I
was speaking to somebody that used to work for the organization,
not necessarily the pirates, but we're donder him and said,
you're not getting my point. He doesn't care. And I said,

(09:16):
but what about this, and what about this and the
people that pay for season tickety is it doesn't matter.
He doesn't care.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
He's got his accountant that tells him this is what
he made for the year. As long as it's a
certain amount. I'm sure he's happy.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
He's perfectly satisfied.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
YEP. Doesn't care about it, don't care about you, doesn't
care about the product, just doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's all about the bottom dollar, folks. It's all about
the bottom dollar. Oh it is seven fifteen on your Thursday.
Coming up, We've got your chance to win Kirk's have
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(09:59):
and of course your name, so that'll be coming up
here at the end of the show seven sixteen. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Otis Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We're back seven twenty one on your

(10:19):
Thursday morning bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. So Otis. I try to, or I
think I try to give topics, people, conversations, the benefit
of the doubt. I try to see things from opposing

(10:43):
points of view, try to be open minded. I really do,
or at least I think I do. Maybe I don't.
I try so I don't know if you've been following
the Supreme Court case currently that supposed that there there
is supposed to be a ruling in early roughly in June.

(11:06):
They're they're guestimating, but the Supreme Course case is the
uh uh mumad versus Taylor. This is in regards to
l G B t Q plus YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA
YadA story books in elementary school classrooms. Parents are speaking

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out saying that the the information the they're calling them
fairy tales, the fairy tales are too much adult content.
They do not want their children exposed to it, and
they are They are saying that they want to have
the option to opt out their children from being part

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of the the story time with these books and so on,
and they're using religion as the footing for having the
ability for this opt out. Personally, I don't think they
even need to use religion. I think it's a parent's

(12:13):
choice of what their children are exposed to, especially when
we're speaking about topics like this particular content. So there
is a handful of books that they have referenced throughout
this case. So I'm going to ask you out there

(12:34):
along with you otis, would you want your children exposed
to this again, and I'm going to give you the
ages that these books are recommended for, So we'll go
with the one for four to eight year olds readings

(12:56):
called Born Ready. A little boy gets confused about his
is transitioning into a boy, prompting the mother to inform
him that not everything needs to make sense.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
What does.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Sense is always good? Common sense is even better, So
that's recommended for four to eight year olds. There is
one called Intersection Allies. It is recommended for k through
fifth grade students. It explains transgender and non binary concepts
while asking the question what pronouns fit you? Yes, that's

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really what. A kindergartener worries about their pronouns until they're
told that they need to worry about it, which is
what this does. You put that little nugget into their mind,
and that's where it grows from. That little seed will

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then grow into the questions. Another book, What Are Your Words,
tell students in a similar age range that one's pronouns
can change like the weather. So if that's true, if
you address somebody with their non preferred pronoun, stop yelling

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at us, because, as this book tells us, it changes
with the weather. This is the one that amazes me.
It is recommended for babies to two years old, and
that is according to its posting on Amazon. If you
go to purchase the book, it's a picture book, it's

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very colorful. It instructs kids. It's more of a do book,
not necessarily a story, more of look for things. It
instructs kids to look for items that might be found
at a gay pride parade, such as underwear. Again, this
is for children up to two years old, three and

(15:06):
four year olds. We're not even talking in school age yet.
Look for underwear, lip rings, and drag kings, not queens kings,
and then also look for a sex worker. This is

(15:27):
what people are fighting to have in our educational system.
This has made it to the Supreme Court that parents
have to argue that they do not want their children
being instructed to look for sex workers in drag kings.

(15:49):
This is this. This goes back to common sense. Where
has our common sense gone? If you listen to a
lot of those on the other side, on the liberal side,
they're saying, you know that the conversation about LGBTQ and trance,
it's all being blown up by the conservatives. It's all
a big political talking point by the Conservatives. No, it's not,

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because this is the kind of stuff that is happening
that is being fought against, because they are trying to
indoctrinate our children before they even get into school. I
don't even know what a drag king is, and I'm
an adult. I know what a drag queen is. I

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guess a drag king is a woman who I don't know.
I don't know, but this has made it to the
Supreme Court. Supreme Court. Pride Puppy, what happened to?

Speaker 5 (16:48):
Run?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Run? Spot Run? Where are those stories? These are fairy tales,
absolute fairy tales. Seven twenty eight. You're listening to the
bloom Ditty Experience salmon OTAs News Radio eleven seventy WWVA

(17:11):
seven thirty six. Glendatty Experienced salmon OTAs News Radio, eleven
seventy WWVA. Let's talk food. Let's talk some food.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
So.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior has announced plans
to remove eight synthetic food dyes from our food by
the end of twenty twenty six. The dyes are red
number three red forty blue one blue two yellow five yellow,
six in green, three. These hues can be found on candies,

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in cereals, and in some sodas. However, these popular particular
dyes have been linked to hyperactivity in children and allergic reactions,
which popular products could soon look or taste a bit different.
You might see changes in skids, Jolly Ranchers, M and MS, tricks, cereal, Ooh,
sunny d don't mess with the sunny D man and

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flame and hot cheetohs. We have some of those out
in the out in the room, don't We have a
box of those. And those are just a few examples.
But listen. The US government, being led of course by
RFK Junior, is seeking to ban these are petroleum based
food dyes, including our favorite Skittles candy, which has forced

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the candy maker, known for its bright rainbow colors, to
make a drab gray candy.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Instead, introducing gray Bow Skittles, the colorless candy that complies
with the government's ban on food dies with fun flavors
like gray lemon, gray cherry, and gray. Because artificial flavors
haven't been banned yet, every graybo Skittle is like a

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surprise for my taste buds. Best of all, you're not
eating petroleum anymore. Sweet gray bow skittles are sweet because
they're still chopped full of massive amounts of addictive sugar.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Their drab gray color is dull delicious.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
New synthetic dye free skittles taste the gray bow, It
just won't.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
Be the same dull delicious.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Think about it, though.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Here's the thing. When you open up all those colors. Yeah,
whatever pack you buy, the flavor that you buy, every
skittle is the same flavor. Oh yeah, I don't like
skittles they like so the yellow one isn't lemon, the
red one's not cherry. They're all they all have the
same taste.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, because it's just straight nasty sugar. I don't get
what is what is in a skittle? What is that
in the middle.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Probably just some sort of sugar that's been some sort
of petroleum.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I mean, at least an eminem is chocolate in the middle.
You can, oh, well, at least we can say what
we think it is. But the other ones, the skin
like loh, you don't even you don't even know what
it is. It'll be other things. It'll be affected starburst,
kool aid, ooh, mountain dew.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
It's the color it's the coloring that's all that's being affected.
It's not going to be the flavor.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
No, no, no, But that coloring is what draws you to it,
what makes you buy it for a lot.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
I mean, you don't see the color of the product
because the bottle's green.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
No, But for kids in candy, the brighter the colors,
the more they're attracted to it, and the more they're
gonna want to buy it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
But again it's a lot of it's the packaging too.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
So right, yeah, I mean they're messing with the mountain dew.
That's gonna be uh, but think about it.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Nothing on that list that I can't live without.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
No, I'm trying to think here, what else is?

Speaker 5 (20:46):
They're lucky charms, Uh haven't eaten in forty years.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Blue number one has links to kidney tumors. Let's see here.
Blue number two, blueberry pop tarts, I don't eat blueberry
pop tarts has research suggesting higher rates of brain tumors
and rats. This is from the testing they've done. But
think about it. Petroleum based dies, that's what we're putting

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in our bodies for more color on things.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
And yet.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
People are criticizing RFK junior for this. But these are
also the same people that want everybody to eat organically.
So here's somebody who is trying to make a difference,
get this stuff out of our food, and yet they're

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going to criticize him because of the administration that he's under.
But if you go as the across the pond into
Europe and the same brands of items that are sold
here in the US versus the way they are in Europe,

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they're so different. The way they're made, the way they look,
the things that are in them, it's it's they're so
different than what we have here in the US. I mean,
if you look at just uh, just McDonald's in general,

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it's it's completely different. I'm looking at something here I
was trying to find. Let's see here, Europe significantly, they got.
Their approach to food safety and ingredients is completely different.
Europe often prioritizes stricter food safety regulations and they limit

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Here's where Here's where a huge difference between the two
is they limit the use of certain additives and chemicals
that are found in US food products. Cuisine tends to
emphasize fresh, locally sourced ingredients and seasonal eating, while we
depend on processed food foods and larger portion sizes. So

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the difference in our foods is night and day, absolutely
night and day. If you just look at McDonald's fries
compared in the US versus the UK. In the US,
the ingredients include potatoes, vegetable oil, canola oil, soybean hydrogenated
soybean oil, sodium acid, dextra salt let's see here, and

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fried in a vegetable oil blend with citric acid. And
that's a big one dime thigh poly's siloxane. That's just
French fries in Europe, hears. They're ingredients potatoes, vegetable oil
and fried in non hydroenated vegetable oil. Salt is added

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after cooking. So the one word in the American version
of fries, the dime dime thiopoly silo exain, I don't
know is is longer than basically the entire write up
for the UK version of American fries. I mean, that's

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how how opposing or how far apart the way we
eat is and the way we make our food. I mean,
Quaker oats, everybody thinks Quaker oats are not don' just
just oats in general are healthy for you. The entire
list of ingredients that I'm looking at right now, let's

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see here one, two, three, four, five, six.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
Are there are these the regular like just regular oats,
or are they like the maple sugar? Are they the flavor?

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Let's see, this is strawberry.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
So I mean, if you look at regular oats, they
are good.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
For you, just plain okay, but this is a.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, but it just makes I'm just saying, make sure
you clarify.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah. So this is like there's about twelve lines of
ingredients for the the US version, the UK version, one
two three lines.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
I don't I don't look at if I look at that,
Like when I purchased my hot cereal, okay, two things.
I look for sugar. The only thing, realistically, the only
thing I look for is the sugar content. And then
I look at the sodium. And if the sugar content
is over like two percent or four percent, I don't

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buy it. I just don't, because the sugar is what
kills you. And I mean all the other stuff in
there is not doing you any good. Look at the
less sugar there is, the probably the more the less
other stuff there is in it.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Well, and and when my husband was diagnosed for being
a diabetic. There was a lot that I had to
learn when it came to shopping for basics like bread.
For example, Yes, you look at the sugar count for
a diabetic, but then you also look at the carbs
in the the Uh, there's the carbs and then there's

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also fiber dietary carbs. I believe that is more dangerous
to a diabetics sometimes than the sugar because your body
processes the carbs and it makes it into sugar in
the whole thing. So yeah, our eating habits here in
the United States not the best. We have more than
ten thousand chemicals and additives that are allowed here in

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the US compared to Europe ten thousand. That's why when
I'm gone Otis, You're gone, and everybody else is gone,
there's still gonna be a twinkie, still gonna be a twinkie.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
From nineteen seventy three.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh seven forty five, you're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We seven
fifty one has whim Daddy experienced. Salmon Otis News Radio

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will have that here. A little bit later in the show,

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otis lost something.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
No, I forgot my mede.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
You stood up like a lost your pen or something. Anyways,
let's get into some local news. The city of Stuphentville
is in trouble with the EPA of Ohio. It comes
to Stuphenville's public water system doesn't have a record of
a certified professional operator. It's a major violation, but the
city is working to make a new hire is not

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impacted by this situation. So basically, nobody's manning the ship.
That's that's how I'm taking this. The nursing program at
West Virginia Northern Community College is getting some financial love.
The program recently received a two hundred and forty three
thousand dollars check from the state. Faculty will receive a stipend,

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but most of the money will go toward the students.
West Virginia Northern has Community College has been around since
nineteen seventy two and right now nursing is one of
the biggest positions across the country, but especially in this
area that needs filled. A lot of our medical facilities

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is desperately looking for nurses of all levels, so that
will come in very handy. Also yesterday, the accused murderer
of Tom and Angela Shushen appeared in a Belmont County
court for a pre trial hearing. Of course, the gentleman
is The accused is thirty two year old Andrew Isaac Griffin.

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If convicted, he could face the death death penalty for
the aggravated murder of the couple and the arson that
he is accused of, along with the aggravated burglary that
he is also accused of. There will be two phases
in the trial, and Judge Berholter informed him of those phases,
first to determine the guilt or the innocence of the

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accusations and then also to determine the sentence, which as mentioned,
could be the death penalty. Pre trial hearings will continue
every two weeks starting May seventh. Currently, there is no
bond in the case. High profile case that we've been
talking about for many years now. Unfortunately, some good news.

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A High Valley tradition is back for its fourth year.
Its fourth year, make it a tradition. Notice when is
some become a tradition? Ten years?

Speaker 5 (30:02):
You can maybe go five?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Five? Okay, Well they're they're knocking on the door.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
So it's an annual event.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
There we go. Annual event. It's the Backyard Barbecue Festival
up at Ogleby. It will be back May twenty third
through the twenty fifth. I have been many times. It
is a wonderful event. It is free this year and
will feature live music of course, the barbecue, a bourbon tasting,
pitmaster demonstrations, and there is plenty for the kids. The

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music lineup will begin on Friday at five o'clock and
conclude on Sunday with here's a name, the Clerks. I
partied to the Clerks when I was in high school,
not high school college.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
I think everybody did. Yeah, I think I did.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
So that will be happening May twenty third through the
twenty fifth up at Ogleby. It's like I said, it's
a great event, absolutely wonderful event. And if you like barbecue,
you do not want to miss it. You do not
want to miss it. We were talking about food before

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the breakout is so Walmart, along with many other stores,
has been having issues with sticky fingers, if you will
shot yes. Yes. They have now gotten to the point
where they are locking up high you know, high ticketed items.

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We've seen the razor blades and things.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Like that, and some medications.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Well now it's hitting the grocery section of Walmart and
they are locking up beef like steaks, so they're putting
them in. I'm trying to think how to describe these things.
They almost look like like a like chicken wire. They're
individually wrapped in this chicken wire and then they have
this plastic handle on it, so they probably when you

(32:02):
check out, they remove all of that, kind of like
a security tag for coloss.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
I was just going to say, they ought to just
put a security tag on them like they do with clothes.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, that's kind of what this looks like.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
And it doubles is a thermometer. When you take it home, it.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Pops up when it gets warm. En off, I.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Mean listen, uh, you know, I get it. People. Have
you ever been around have you ever been through a
store where they actually cut somebody. No, So I was
I was at.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
A seeing somebody who I thought was a secret shopper.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Well, I was. I was at a Walmart and I
was I had checked out and I was exiting and
there was a you know, they have the person that
tries to check your receipt. Oh yeah, okay, so I don't.
I never show them my receipt. I always told them whatever,
So I said. So the people in front of me,
it was a couple and I think they had one
or two kids with him, and I see these guys

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approaching from the outside and as they're going out the
second door, the they said, hey, we need to see
your receipt or something. I can't remember what it was.
And they said, we've got you, We've got you on camera.
So they went through. They paid for some of their things,
but they had things in their pockets and everything, you know,
like in the purse and back so that they stole.

(33:16):
They didn't check everything out. And so I hear the
guy say, well, he said okay, he said, let's let
we'll just go back and pay for it. And the
guy says, too late for that, and I was like, oh,
I'm moving. I wanted to stay and watch. But I
was like, oh, I gotta go. I can't do that.
I can't stand watch because the next thing, you know,
they'll be wondering what the hell I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I am not a Walmart shopper. Maybe two or three
times a year I go in there. But there was
one time a while ago that I was carrying a
small piece of makeup I think it was it was lipstick,
and I checked out and everything, and here you can't
put into your car fallen. I went back in and said, listen,
I accidentally took. They were shocked, shocked that I went

(33:58):
back in with it.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Well, I'll tell you. I'll be after the break. I'll
tell your story.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Okay. Seven fifty eight. The Bloomdaddy Experience samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Indeed number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy, his
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Now news Radio eleven seventy It's the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Hey, it's eight six.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Let's get this hour rolling There's two things that I
wanted to hit on here locally. Number one, the announcement,
the press conference, call it whatever you want, by the
Ohio Valley Mall. I really truly do believe it's going
to be the announcement of a new cinema. Remember we
lost the theaters. I can't remember how long ago it was,
maybe a year, maybe a little bit longer. Time flies.

(34:54):
I do believe ninety nine point nine percent sure that
that announcement is going to be that there is a
new I'm a group that's taking over the Ohio Valley Mall,
so you'll be able to go see movies again. And
from what I understand, this one's way better than what
was there before, Like this is top of the line,
state of the art movie experience. So that's a very
very good thing for the Ohio Valley. And I know

(35:16):
there's some other announcements coming up that I'm not privy
to as far as exactly what's going on, but as
soon as I find out, I will obviously tell you.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
I did see something the other day that just ticked me.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Off so bad beyond words, and that was Paul Skeene's
Bobblehead Saturday in Pittsburgh, thirty thousand plus people showing up.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Are you kidding me? You are showing up for a.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Damn bobblehead when you've got an owner that doesn't give
a damn about you are putting a good product on
the field.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (35:48):
As a Pirates fan? What are you doing? If you
love that team, you should not go to a game.
You should boycott the Pirates. Force this cheapskate to sell
the team. All he's got to do is pack you
in there ten fifteen times a year, fireworks, bobbleheads, blanket giveaways,

(36:10):
and an average about eleven thousand people the rest of
the way, and he pockets about thirty million dollars.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
When don't you get to understand? When are you gonna
get it?

Speaker 3 (36:19):
You bitch about spend nutting win nutting, but yet you
go to his ballpark for a damn cheap bobblehead.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Tell me how much that makes sense?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
I mean, I don't know what more you need to
know about this guy as an owner to make you
understand he is never going to put a competitive.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Team on the field. Paul Schemes might as.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Well enjoy him now, because as soon as that contracts up.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
He's gone.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
It's either the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Padres, the Mets,
or the Astros gone. And Bob Nutting doesn't give a damn.
You got to remember something. This is a guy who
used to go to the coffee shop at West Virginia Northern.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
And tip ten cents ten cents.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
This is a guy whose dad is a billionaire, was
a billionaire and would walk around the streets and wheeling
and looking like a homeless guy. This is a family
who knows nothing about baseball, cares nothing about baseball.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
All they care about is green, that is it.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
And yet Pirates fans continue to go for a damn
bobblehead every time you do this. You show up for
fireworks night, you show up for a blanket giveaway. He's winning,
He's winning every time you go. Have some sense, have
some dignity quick going to the ballpark and don't give
me this all. Well, we're there to support the players,

(37:44):
or well we're fans of the Pirates, win or lose.
If you're a true fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, you
will not go to a single damn game, even if
you have free tickets. Force this guy to sell otherwise
he's going to continue to put a loser on the field,
rake in the dough and not give a damn about
Pirates Nation.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
And he doesn't. I mean we've been saying it for
it's been said for years. He doesn't care. He absolutely
one percent doesn't care. I want to go back to
before we get into that a little bit deeper. We
want to go back to the conversation about the High
Valley Mall. Today's the announcement at eleven o'clock. I will
be there covering that. We'll be doing it on our
social media on Facebook, so you can tune into that

(38:29):
if you don't want to wait to find out what
the big announcement is. I will be there again covering it.
There's a lot of speculation, of course, we have been told,
as bloom Daddy said, a new cinemas is coming in.
There is a conversation whether it's going to be in
the same location as the former cinemas or if it

(38:49):
is going where construction is being done in the old
Seers location. If it is going in where the cinemas
were that shut down, then what is happening at the
Seers location. There's a lot of construction going on there.
I've heard a couple scenarios, a couple, you know, a

(39:09):
couple theories, speculation, but nothing that I can confirm as
of right now, so I can't put it out there,
but I am looking into that and trying to confirm
the different options that I have been been told that
has been speculated. So as soon as I know anything specific,
we'll let you know about that in the Seers location.
But again we'll be there today at eleven o'clock for

(39:30):
the announcement. Back to the Pirates conversation, the bibbleheads and
that whole thing. Listen, I I've said this for a while.
He's an owner that doesn't care. He's the He's the
flagship version of a professional sports ownership that should be

(39:52):
held responsible or should be held accountable when it is
blatantly obvious that there is no character concern for the
product put on the field and the fans that support
the team. I think if you are privileged enough to
not only have the financial means to own a professional

(40:12):
sports team, I do believe, depending on it doesn't matter
what league you're in, whether it's the NFL, MLB, NHL,
any of them, there should be some sort of governing
board that has to step back and evaluate the ownership
and say, Okay, this owner is making an effort, it's

(40:34):
just a bit of an effort. There's no effort from
Pittsburgh ownership. They should be held responsible.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
I would say that ninety nine percent of owners of
sports franchises now, normally it's not one person. You know,
there's a face. So like Jerry Jones owns the Cowboys,
I don't know if he owns one hundred percent of
the Cowboys. How old is he at this bo He's
like seven hundred. So, but like Bob Nutting owns he

(41:05):
is the majority owner of the Pirates, He's not like,
I don't think he owns one hundred percent. I think
there's other investors as well. I don't think. I mean,
unless you're like a Mark Cuban or somebody, you're you're
more than likely not the sole owner of a of
a franchise.

Speaker 7 (41:20):
But if you're the majority, you're you're the you're the
face of the franchise.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Okay, So that being said, as bloom Daddy said, Bob
Nutting knows nothing about baseball, and obviously he hires people
that know nothing about baseball because there's no reason that
you're that you're starting lineup. They're batting averages under two
or is right or hovering around two hundred combined, and

(41:46):
that's terrible. I mean, you're getting two hits out of
ten at bats, that's it. Uh, you know, two eighty Okay,
you could probably live with that in today's day and age.
I mean you really wouldn't want to. But I mean
to eighty would be acceptable. What would you say, is
the league average probably somewhere around two seventy five to eighty. Okay,

(42:07):
maybe that might be a little high on the league average,
but you know, maybe two sixty might be the average.
But the Pirates drag him down. I mean they're the
ones dragging that average down.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
But you know, you don't you go out, you get
guys on the cheap, guys that are you know, that
are journeymen or past their prime.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Listen, I make the replacements of baseball.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Listen, Andrew McCutchen and the Pittsburgh Pirates. That's great. Number one.
He's a leader. Yeah, he is great in the locker room.
He's good for bringing up these younger players and giving
them advice and everything else. I have no problem with
keeping somebody like an Andrew McCutchen. Okay day, but you don't, Well,
he loves Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh loves him, so you know,

(42:55):
I mean, how do you argue with that? And but
you know, you bring in this journeyman for year or
two years, and he has no ties to Pittsburgh, doesn't care.
He's coming in to collect a paycheck. That's it. And
because you're the one dumb enough.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
To pain well and being a Browns fan, that's we
used to I mean we used to say not as
much recently, but ten fifteen years ago we would say
this is where where big names come to die because
they won't retire. And we at that point in time
were starry eyed by the big names. I remember we

(43:30):
was his name, Bo, huge receiver for Kansas City. He
was a big, big, big name. We paid him crap
ton of money. It was blatantly obvious he was there
to collect a paycheck. Retire he was. He was terrible.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
Well, just what they did with Rowdy Tiles last year.
The first baseman he needed like ford bats or six
at bats or something like that to get one hundred
thousand dollars bonus or whatever it was. And they released
him right before that. Wow, they're released him like the
last series or whatever it was. He was six at
bats shy of getting the bonus they released of course
because that way they saved one hundred thousand dollar. Sure, sure,

(44:05):
and they said, oh, that's not why we did it.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Oh right, okay, we're all believe that. One eight sixteen,
you're listening to The bloom Doddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA returned The Bloom Daddy Experience.

(44:29):
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. Otis,
you mentioned you have a shoplifting story, remember before went
to break and you said, I wanted to go back
to that.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
I was, I'm interested to hear what you shoplifted.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
Well, so I'm going to kind of give something a
way that I really didn't want to give away. Oh.
I spoke with a friend of mine who is in
the Title one program one of the schools here in
o High County, which that helps out the kids that
you know need help in math and reading and so
on and so forth. And I asked her, Hey, do

(45:09):
any of your kids need any school supplies? This was
back in the in the in the fall, and she said, yeah,
we know, she goes, we're tight to one, and you know,
we're one of these schools that people don't think that
we need these things. So I went out and bought
a bunch of school supplies. In my purchase of buying
school supplies, there were these like tubs. Did you like

(45:33):
storage tubs? Yeah, yeah, yeah, storage tubs, and so they
were on sale and they were huge, and they were
like six bucks apiece, and I was like, well, I
can't pass this up. So I didn't have a cart
because I wasn't planning on buying you know, these tubs.
So I put some of the things in the tub

(45:56):
and then put the lids. So I pulled, you know,
all my stuff out and everything else, and it were
scanning and everything goes through. Well, there were a couple
of products that were underneath the lids the way I
had them stacked, and so I walked out without paying

(46:17):
for probably like ten or fifteen items. Well I mean, like,
I mean, the value doesn't matter, but they were like
boxes of crayons that were on sale for like fifty
cents or something like that. So I mean it was
maybe eight or ten dollars. That's not the point. I
put all the stuff in my car and I go
home and I start to unpack all the stuff and

(46:39):
I go, oh, shoot, only I didn't say shoot. So
I gathered everything up that was in the bind that
I didn't pay for, and I went back to that
same store and said, hey, this is what happened. I
need to pay for these. Shocked because I came back
like two days later. Yeah, I said, here's my original reset.

(47:00):
This is what I did not pay for. Could you please?
They're like, why didn't you just keep them? And I'm like,
because that's not who I am, right, you know, I said.
And it was like ten bucks, twelve bucks, eight bucks.
I can't it was. It was minimal in the grand
scheme of life. But I, in my mind, I could not.
I could not do that. And the one time I

(47:23):
was at Sam's and I had bought some cheese or something,
you know, the pre sliced cheese. It was like hot
pepper cheese or whatever, and it was in a part
of the cart that I forgot to scan it. So
I took everything out to my car. I walked back
in with my receipt and I said, hey, I forget
to pay for this, or I said, I did not
scan this, can I And they were like, again, why

(47:45):
didn't you just go? I mean, they're telling you we'll
just go, And I said, because that's not who I
am here, here's the six dollars or whatever it was
for the cheese. I can't. I can't. My conscience won't
let me do that now if I do it on accident,
or let's say I'm out of town and in something,
you know, like if I were to forget to scan

(48:07):
something like one item and I drive off and then
like maybe I'm on vacation or someth maybe I didn't
scan sun sunscreen or something, I just missed it. I'm
not going back, you know, right, Yeah, But if it's
local and I just I.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Can't do that now, no, because then you're not even
gonna want to use the item because you know you
didn't pay for it. I wouldn't. But it also makes
you wonder more and more stores are going to you're
locking everything up, Well, no, they're going to the self checkout.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
And there has been occasions where I have been at
different stores and I'm standing there and I'm scanning, and
I'm scanning and it is irritating. So it's like, why
am I doing all this because it's not like their
prices went cheaper because there are stores where you know,
all these is a great example. You you don't have
like you rent the shopping cars, the whole thing, but

(49:05):
they don't have the overhead, so then they can have
the lower prices and that's always kind of been their thing.
While these other stores they're cutting overhead because they don't
have as many checkout people and you're doing the work.
Their prices aren't getting any getting any lower.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
And you don't get invited to the Christmas party.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
No, yeah, you don't get the free ham at the
end of the year. But it makes you wonder how
many people go, Okay, so I've got I don't know,
two bags of chips, I'll pay for one, you don't
pay you.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Well, a lot of people. What they'll do is they'll
because they be losing money. Bananas are relatively cheap, so
like if it's something that you have to weigh and
it's more expensive, they'll put the bananas on the scale, okay,
And so they'll ring up the bananas, but put the
grapes in the cart because the grapes are four ninety
nun but the bananas are fifty three cents a pound.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
But these stores have they've got to be losing money.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
They've got to be well.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
I mean even okay, say you have something very very small,
something very very lightweight. It's ten packets of kool Aid mix, right,
the paper packets, and you scan five and you take five.
Now those are what a quarter apiece? I don't know,
but that stuff adds up. I don't see how in

(50:26):
the grand scheme of things, these stores aren't losing money.
And I'm really tired of bagging my own groceries too.
If you want to complain a little.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
Bit, well, I mean, yeah, I mean I get it.
Like sometimes if I go to Respects or something and
they're busy, and normally the person that's bagging your stuff, yeah,
and I know again there's people behind me. I'll help
bag it.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
No, Yeah, that's different. Yeah, But the other ones they
give you there's a circle thing and it only holds
four things, and you've got it. Yeah, you've got an
entire part of groceries. And then if you take them
off of that.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
And then the bags always like you can't get them open.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Yeah, it's me or if you take it off, that's
a weight, so then it looks as if it messes
with the computer. Yeah, it's just it's irritating. It's one
of those things that are irritating. Anyways, it's a twenty eight.
When we return, there's something new you can bet on,
and it's quite funny. You're listening to the bloom Daddy

(51:25):
Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA square Back.
It's eight thirty six here on this Thursday morning, and
you know what Thursday means. We're gonna have mean what's
the mean ice cream? We're gonna have our drawing here

(51:49):
before the end of the show for your chance to
win half gallon of Kirk's ice cream. Of course, go
guess the flavors. They're on our Facebook page and then
just email me Samontiheartmedia dot com, just like Amanda did
with her two guesses. Then you're thrown in the pot
and you may win half gallon.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
Should I tell the story about what I told you
this morning about my turkey burger?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Yes, So I get home last night and I have
some stuff that I needed to cook up. So this
is about ten o'clock. So I had a couple of
pork chops. I throw those in the air fryer, get
them going. I had some turkey burger that I wanted.
I was going to ground up and just make some
taco me. So as i throw the turkey burger in
the skillet and I'm seizing it with some garlic powder,

(52:34):
and I got some the min's onions and I'm throwing
them in there. Well, I didn't put the men's onions
in yet, but I have pepper, and I have those
like Sam's Club, Industrial size.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
The Big Boys.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
Yeah, the seasoning of the seasonings, taco whatever. So the
pepper at one time got a little too close to
the oven or the air fry or something, and so
it doesn't shake out as easy. Because I closed up
the it melted the plastic a little bit, so you
have to kind of squeeze it to get some of
the pepper out. So as I'm shaking it, nothing's coming out.

(53:08):
I start squeezing it. Well, the other side of the
lid opened up where you go to put the spoon
in to like scoop out like a teaspoon or a
tablespoon of pepper or something.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
The big hole.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Yeah, about a cup of pepper or more ended up
on my turkey burger. I mean it was a mound,
and I was like, are you e fing kidding me?
So I pulled a turkey burger out, try to scrape
off as much pepper off the top as I could,
and then I got a spatula. And if i'd have

(53:40):
taken a picture of it. I didn't think about it
until after I dumped it all out, but I was like, oh,
I could have posted this picture and said anybody want
any turkey burger with their pepper? Because I think there
was more pepper than there was turkey burger.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
It sounds like a scene from a cartoon that what
would have been perfect ending is if you look down
and when it landed, it did the big like wolf
of the pepper.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
I mean like the dust came up. I was sneezing
like crazy, but if.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
You would have sneezed right into the mound and then
it would have No, that wasn't gonna happen, but like
something out of a cartoon.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
So I tried the salvage. The turkey burger was edible.
I get it browned up. I do everything with the
taco seasoning. I let it cool down a little bit
and I and I take a taste of it. It's
not bad, but it's very peppery.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
It has a kick.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
It's like it's not red pepper spicy, it is black pepper, overpowering.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
It'll clean out the sinuses if you're having some a
little bit.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
No, it's not. It's not because it's not hot. Yeah, so,
but it's definitely a peppery tacos meat. Maybe I'll bring it.
Maybe I'll bring a spoonful two in for you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Oh please, please please, Yes, exactly what I need, exactly
what I need, and you.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
Just but I need somebody else. If it's just me
that I because I know that it's peppery, or if
it's if it's really peppery, you want somebody else.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
I need, I need a second opinion to suffer the
mishap sounds. I can't wait for that.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Yeah, there's excitement, Yes, I can't wait.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
Just you just figure, oh man, I just wasted all
this money on this, Not that it's like a ton
of money, but you figure. You know, it's six or
seven bucks worth of turkey.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Burger and twelve dollars worth of Pepper.

Speaker 5 (55:31):
Well, yeah, it's just about I mean, I could have
been an import exporter on pepper. There was so much air.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Shoot. Shoot, well, listen, I have I have a bet
for us. Okay, So first of all, let's let's let
me go back a little bit. So of course we
all know and the coverage has been extensive all week
long of the passing of Pope Francis Monday, right, it
was Monday, Yeah, Monday after it, right after Easter? Have
it on Monday. Well, now people are taking it to

(56:02):
an entire new level where there are international markets that
are taking bets on who the next Pope will be.
Odds Checker list Pietro Petro Pietro Perilyn is the favorite,
with a plus three point fifty odds that this means

(56:23):
if someone wages one hundred dollars and he is selected,
that person would win one hundred and fifty dollars. Cardinal
Tagel is the second favorite. Who became the to become
the pope? Listen, we've gotten to that point where we're
betting on who becomes the next pope. Wow, Now let
me ask you this. Forget who the pope is going

(56:45):
to be? What name will he choose? That's what I
want our bet to be. Otis So will it be John?
Will it be Paul? What do you think his name
will be? That he chooses whoever it is to become
the party.

Speaker 5 (57:02):
There's too many to choose from, because I mean, like,
who was it? What was the pope before this one?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Ben Benedict?

Speaker 5 (57:10):
No, this was Benedict, wasn't it. Yeah, this is Pope Benedict.
That just tests away. But anyway, the one before that
he went back to a name that nobody had used
in like centuries. Oh okay, so like that. They always
throw those like that. That could be because you had
like Pope John, you had Pope Paul the eighth Pope Paul,
and you Pope John Paul, John Paul the second.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Okay, well it goes Pope Francis.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Is who we just as Francis A. Benedict was before?

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Who new Law? It was prior? Then it was John Paul,
and then John Paul, Paul John Pious.

Speaker 5 (57:46):
I'm not guessing the name. There's too many to choose from.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
I would say either John or Paul would be high
on the list of possibilities.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
What are some of the crep But here's sometimes what
they'll do is if this, if the next pope was
tight with this Pope, then he may go. Pope Francis
the whatever number second you see him, sir, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Pope Clement is a bigger name. Pious, innocent, Pope innocent,
HM Alexander. Yeah, so Paul or John Paul, those seem
to be some front runners. But listen, then the Conclave

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the movie I mentioned it on Monday. The interest in
that nominated film has of course surged after the passing
of Pope Francis. The acclaimed political thriller stars Ralph Fines
and Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci. It jumped
in viewership two hundred and eighty three percent because it

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does give a behind the scenes story of what does
go on during a conclave. It's slow. I watched it
over the Winner. It's to me, it's a very slow movie,
but it does. It's it's very it's very political, very

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politically driven, and it shows the the conversations, the the bickering,
if you will, between the cardinals, and the votes and
and and campaigning for votes because you're backing this guy,
and and it's it's it's very very political. Now how
factual is it? That's that's debatable. Of course, Let's keep

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in mind it is. It is a movie, and the
conclave is very well known to be incredibly secretive. It's
a very secretive event when it comes to choosing the
next Pope. So the movie factual? How good is it?

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Not sure? Not sure? But you can bet on who
the next the next pope is going to be. I'm
gonna say he's going to pick the name John. I
think the odds are in my favor if you go
with John, although I don't know, there hasn't been a
pious in a while.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
Paul's a big one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Paul's a big one. Leo George.

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
But whatever they do, I mean, could you just pick
a name like that's just totally off the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Wall, Ringo John, Paul, Ringo.

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
Pope Banksy Banks, how about Pope Leroy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Lee Roy Wilburt.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
Wilburg it's a good one or just something like so simple.

Speaker 7 (01:00:57):
Ed yeah, two like Ed Hope, Pope ed the first, Yeah,
that would be Pope Edward so Otis, Yeah, there you
pop Otis that would that?

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
That that would never fly? Trust me that that's a
parade that would never march.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
No matter how you campaign.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
No, that is a parade that will never march.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
I'm gonna get your little hat and everything, little beanie,
Little beanie, No, you need the big white, the tall one.
I'm sure it hasn't. Just go to the alright, A
forty six the Bloemdaddy experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy w w V. Well it takes fifty one when

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that experience damon otis.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
So I have to say this. This little musical diddy
that we're playing here, the title of it is Accelerator.
So our buddy Kevin Cook is on the road and
we don't need you to hit the accelerator while you're
talking to us. Wow, or don't hit it too hard,

(01:02:18):
let's put it that way. Okay, So don't get a
ticket me absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
I have.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
An old badge if you want to borrow it anytime.

Speaker 8 (01:02:28):
Okay, all right, Yeah, you know I just sit and
listened y'all this morning. It's just when I think you
can't be more offensive sometimes, I.

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
Mean really, and I said, that's never gonna happen. Come on,
it might be better than pope ed. Yeah, if you're
going to predict a name, if you're going to predict
a pope name? Are you gonna try one?

Speaker 8 (01:02:58):
Am? I know I'm saying, I'm okay.

Speaker 9 (01:03:02):
I'm out anyway, Okay, all right, that's good. I've had
it to the one of the number one handed dealerships
in the entire state of Western Didy. These guys keep
going back and forth here at the Mountaineer Honda headed
that way down in the Bridgeport, West Virginia.

Speaker 8 (01:03:21):
And Strive Honda right there at the Highlands.

Speaker 9 (01:03:23):
And a great selection you know of tariff for in
the south there right now.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
But we've got hrvs are like two o nine a
month at crv's.

Speaker 9 (01:03:35):
The number one selling vehicle on.

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
The High Valley is to fifty nine a month, and
you get the full size pilot.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
Nine a month.

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
I mean, there's some great payments.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
That's incredible.

Speaker 8 (01:03:47):
Yeah, you know, and we've said this over and over again.
These are payments that you know, we were talking about,
you know, ten years ago. I went back and looked at,
you know, some of the advertising that we did, some
of the old tear sheets stuff, and these are you know,
within ten dollars.

Speaker 9 (01:04:03):
Of what we were paying ten years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:04:05):
So I've just done a great job of keeping you know,
their their payments down for their customers and delivering incredible value.

Speaker 9 (01:04:15):
And with the lifetime power train.

Speaker 8 (01:04:18):
Coverage, were the only conded dealer in.

Speaker 9 (01:04:20):
The entire state to provide lifetime power train coverage on
everything that we sell. It's ever drive and you can
also get in on our crea. You know, it's less
than seven years of seventy five thousand miles.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
And that's a great feature to have.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
It is when something goes wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
Especially when something goes wrong eventually, when.

Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
Something goes wrong, yeah, and that's the thing, you know,
eventually things are gonna wear out. Eventually, you know, things
are gonna break at some point. And the strip out
of other group, you know, believes that you should be
covered for.

Speaker 9 (01:04:53):
The entire length of time that you own that vehicle.
And we stand behind everything that we sell with every drive.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
It's awesome, It is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
You can't put a price on that feeling of security.
Yeah yeah, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
I don't know, I don't know where you are, but
you're cutting in and out now, all right, gods all right,
we'll say yep. We just sometimes there's some spots on
seventy nine that you can lose people you didn't like
our Pope jokes, Well, they really were jokes. They were
just names, and we weren't throwing out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
We weren't the one that started it. People are betting
on who it's going to be. We were just I
just said, you know, what's the name going to be?

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
I like Pope Wilburt myself. Oh, just saying that's what
I like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Yeah, yeah, Frodo.

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
You're there. We go, there comes the nerd out of
the here you go.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Huh speaking of nerds AI, Listen, we've we've heard all
these different trends with AI. Now it's affecting the classroom,
it's affecting everything basically. At this point, it's it's it
is coming sooner than we wanted people and it's going
to be affecting a lot of things. But the one
thing it's now getting at, and this kind of ties

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into there's a creepy video that I posted last night
of otis f YI, folks, go on our Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
To be honest, I did not make this.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
You didn't make this. A friend of yours made it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Inside friend is stretch you Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Okay, not that you're creepy, just it's a little the
first time I watched it, I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
Like, oh, this is sort of disturbing me too, but
I did find it funny.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
So that's kind of an example of what they're able,
what people are able to do now with AI and
all these different apps and things. But now the latest
trend is turning your pet into a human. So there's
a very popular AI filter that allows people to transform
their pets into people. Some examples include switching an Australian

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cattle dog into a forlorn man with a brown sweater,
a Turkish cat morphing into a sophisticated young lady, and
a fluffy be Sean Freeze emerging as a smiling grandpa
with glasses.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
The mercier kind of animal shoulder did this?

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Oh did that?

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
They did it within the last day or two. So
some of the dogs that they have up for adoption,
and I think there's maybe a cat in there as well.
So they did up. They put the dog that's up
for adoption, and then it's the human counterpart next to them.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Do they talk to It's is a still photo.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
The dogs didn't talk.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Now, Okay, okay, Because now there's another AI filter that
will soon be able to translate what your pet is
saying to you. So you know, never had your pet
look at you and you think to yourself, Oh god,
what do they actually think of?

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
I know what mine thinks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
I mean, I do too, and it contains a couple
four letter words, I think. But now they're saying this
new technology that they're developing will be able to translate
their thoughts to us. I don't know if I want.
I've always imagined my dog to have a like a
British Butler accent for some reason. I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Yeah, because he's been to Britain and could could really
just it's just the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Look this, this like perturbed, sort of your beneath me
sort of superior look that he gives.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
You all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Yes, exactly, yes, mister Belvedere, exactly like that. Oh we
got to do?

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Do we have? Do we have more than one?

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
One through eight?

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
Give me a number one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
I'm standing sitting here even looking at it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Number six.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Number six is Justin, and Justin. I'm not even going
to try to say your last name because I will
butcher it, but I will be giving you a call
so we can work out getting you your ice cream.
So congratulations Justin Kirk's free ice cream coming your way.
Everybody having a wonderful Thursday. We'll talk to you tomorrow.