The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam April 30, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The Bloomdaddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. Good Wednesday morning to you, and welcome to
the Bloomdaddy Experience. On eleven seventy WWVA. You're gonna have
a News Nation town hall special airing tonight called the
First one hundred Days. So it is by Chris Cuomo
with moderators Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith, taking a
look at President Trump's first one hundred days in office.

(00:44):
As far as how the general public thinks about Trump
right now, you had a number of polls come out
on Sunday three, to be exact, showing that a majority
of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the presidency.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
His approval rating when you take.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
A look at all three polls is anywhere between thirty
nine and forty five. That is the lowest for any
newly elected president at the one hundred day mark. In
more than seven decades. I'm going to say that again
just to let it sink in. His approval rating right
now at the one hundred day mark is the worst
of any newly elected president in more than seventy years.

(01:18):
You go back to January when he returned to the
White House, he saw an uptick in his favorability ratings.
Not now you got a lot of Americans out there
losing confidence on his ability to handle the economy. That's
an issue that he made a centerpiece of his twenty
twenty four bid for the White House. So if Trump
were to receive a letter grade for his first one
hundred days, the question is what would it be and

(01:40):
was it a mistake for him to start these trade wars.
I just saw where this one hundred and forty five
percent duty on Chinese products could lead to mass bankruptcies.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's according to one ceo.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
He said, you're talking like eighty percent of small businesses
that buy from China will just die in. Millions of
employees will be unemployed. That's the specter that's looming out there.
As far as how politicians view as trade policies, Democrats,
for their part, as you would know, opposed to the tariffs.
Nine in ten think they will negatively impact inflation and

(02:16):
US economic leadership in the world. Eighty nine percent do
not like what's going on, and a near unanimous ninety
six percent of Democrats disapprove of Trump's handling of the tariffs,
and they do not think that they'll create manufacturing jobs
in any way, shape or form. Republicans, Twenty five percent

(02:37):
of Republicans disapprove of Trump's handling of tariffs, as do
thirty percent of Conservatives. That figure reaches forty eight percent
among non college educated white men and forty seven percent
of rural Americans. Those are two of Trump's core support groups.
So nearly fifty percent of two of Trump's core support groups,

(02:58):
non college educated white men and rural Americans, disapprove of
his handling of.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
The tariff situation.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
When I take a look at these first one hundred days,
I love what he's done with illegal immigration, I love
what he's done with DEI I like some of the
purging by Doge, others I thought were not warranted or
maybe done too quick. I think with every president you're
going to have likes and dislikes. The thing with Trump

(03:28):
is he hit this so fast. He hit the ground
running so fast because he knows he's got two years
that he's just trying to shove all this stuff through.
That's why you have so many lawsuits out there. He
has tried to implement his thought process on everything very
very quickly to try to get it done because he
knows that in twenty twenty six in the midterms, if

(03:51):
he loses the House, he's done. He's going to be
facing another impeachment. He's going to be facing all kinds
of scrutiny if Democrats win the House at twenty twenty six,
So he knows he's got a two year window. Have
there been some mistakes, I would say so, But there
are some other issues, if you will, that he has

(04:13):
tackled that I think have needed tackled. And he's done
some unpopular things that needed to be done.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Though. And here's the thing that.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think we've got to remember with all these polls,
what do we want as an American? You, me, everybody else?
We want instant gratification. That's the society we live in.
So what he's doing, it may take time to see
the benefits. It might take time to see the light
at the end of the tunnel. We don't want to
give anybody anytime. Whether you're ordering at McDonald's, Chick fil A,

(04:45):
whatever it may be, you want it right now. And
that's why I think you got to give things time.
The scary part for Republicans is if it takes too
much time, those midterms are going to be a slow
So one hundred days in sam otis, what kind of
a grade do you give Trump?

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well, first of all, I've got to acknowledge that bloom
Daddy stole one of Otis's lines from yesterday. Yep, yeah,
yes he did. He did.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, I don't know if he stole it, because I mean,
it really wasn't my original life, no.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
So, but I'm just saying it's it's a kind of
deja vus esque from.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, just the fact that you know everything's not gonna
happen overnight. Yeah, it's a little you have to have patience,
and you know, some changes you can do relatively quickly,
like what we've seen at the border and what we've
seen with deportations and so on and so forth. But
when it comes to like so these these car manufacturers

(05:51):
that are gonna that are building plants here in the
United States, that doesn't happen overnight. So those jobs are
coming and those things are coming, but it's going to
you have to build it. You have to build the facility,
you have to stock it with the machinery that you need.
I mean, it's something that's going to take two years,
three years possibly.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, and let's keep in mind, so the tariff conversation,
President Trump in this administration is trying to reverse the
selling out of this country that has been going on
for the past what forty to fifty years.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
And let's not forget that. Nancy Pelosi and all of
them said, oh, we need tariffs, we need, we need,
we need to do these things. We need to because
we're getting screwed in the long run.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yes, the the the word hypocrisy in the dictionary, if
you look it up, is going to look like the
squares on the Brady Bunch of a majority of law
lifelong political leaders. Just just take that into account because

(06:54):
between Obama, Clinton, both Clintons, like you said, Pelosi, Schumer, listen,
they have been preaching for decades what President Trump is
trying to do, but because it's him, they have to
disagree with it. And again, like I said, let's keep
in mind, he is trying to reverse forty plus years

(07:18):
of economic damage of the selling out of this country,
the workers of this country, in the income of this country.
We have been taken advantage of on so many levels
by outside countries. That otis exactly like you said, you're

(07:38):
not going to flip a switch and take it back.
And also to keep in mind what he walked into
on day one, what he walked into the opposition to him,
it doesn't matter what he would say or what he

(08:00):
would offer as a strategy or a direction he wants
to take this country, It doesn't matter if it comes
out of his mouth or anybody in his administration. There
are those that are dug in so deep and have
such an enormous case of Trump arrangement syndrome. They will

(08:27):
never listen. They will never ever listen. And that is
what he is fighting. If you look at what they're
doing with the judicial system and the opposition that they're
laying out, Listen, here's what they're doing. They're going to

(08:48):
put everything in the slow moving wheels of the legal system,
so ragging out the next four years or two, if
you want to look at it that way. Anything he
wants to accomplish. They are putting in the legal system

(09:12):
so they can slow play it and nothing can get accomplished.
And that's what should make you angry. That's what should
make you angry as a voter, is because people voted
to put him in the office to make these things happen,
and they are stalling, installing, installing, and doing everything in

(09:34):
their power to stop him accomplishing anything that he promised
the American people. Seven sixteen coming up. Of course, it's Wednesday,
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(09:56):
I'll tell you that after the break seven sixteen. You're
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Welcome back seven twenty one on your Wednesday morning, The
Blue Betty Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(10:21):
Just a little a couple of things here to let
everybody know about. First of all, Ohio County schools this
morning is on a they are all on a two
hour delay, so just an alert on that. And then
also Brooke County schools closed for today. Of course, that
has to do with power issues and.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Some water issues. There's there's several schools that are closed,
maybe not the whole county, in certain areas. So just
you know, check your your school's updatelys website, website or face.
I'm sure they've got that robocall now, So if you're
not in school, you've probably got you probably got that
called last night or early this morning.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, we got those two, those two alerts sent to
our newsrooms. So just wanted to pass those long. Yeah.
I don't know if I'm any noticed.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
There was a couple of storms yesterday.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Wow. Wow, I don't know you were you hit hard
at all?

Speaker 5 (11:10):
I wasn't home.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Oh so you weren't driving through that, were you.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yeah. I was on my way to I was on
my way from from Elmgrove to the island, so yeah,
I was ready as it came through. I was getting
whipped around a little bit. Wow. And I showed you
the pictures this morning. A couple of years ago, I
looked at a house down in Marshall County on Rude
eighty six there in Glendale Wood overlooks the river in

(11:35):
shady side, and the house had a crow's nest on it,
And I'm glad I didn't buy that house because that
crow's nest got taken off last night. It took flight,
the crows nest flew the coop. Yeah, so I feel
sorry for the people that have that house now. But
you know, obviously, but that was just that. It wasn't me.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
It was intense, but I will say this, at least
it was short lived. It didn't last. It was almost
like a cloud reversed when the towers, for he was
very reminiscent of that. Winds reached nearly eighty miles.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
An hour, I think there. I think one of the
people that I was with works at West Liberty University,
and I think they had seven or eight trees down
on campus and like some of them crossing the road
and things like that. So a lot of a lot
of quick, A lot of it was short but quick
and damaging.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah. A friend of mine showed me pictures of her
relative's house and three other houses on their road. They
have the metal roofs and honestly it looked like an
anchovy can where they rolled the literally it rolled in. Yeah,
rolled those roofs right off I mean just intense. I
we had a bit of an incidentt nothing like that,
but our two hundred and fifty pound planter fell into

(12:50):
our swimming pool.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
That's always good.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
That was an adventure last night. Had to call some
neighbors to come help get that out of the pool
because that could have caused a lot of damage. But yeah,
I don't even know how it blew in there.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
It was.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
It was insane. But yeah, if you are, you know,
go on AEP dot com if you're having you know,
powers out in multiple areas across the across the valley.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
So and that's a never changing thing. So I mean,
we're not going to sit here and give you the
numbers of how many people have it and how many
people don't, because that's changing minute by minute, you know,
so as they're as they're working and getting power restored,
you know, people are getting back on, but it may
not be you. So we don't want to give any
false hope or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, and just be careful if there's a tree down,
if you see power, like, don't touch anything, don't try
to move anything that you're not sure about, especially if
you see like I said, power lines, things like that
don't don't mess with things, wait until the authorities and
those with the power companies are there. Even if you
want to get off your road and that kind of stuff,

(13:52):
just be be careful and don't don't push it. Basically.
Also today, a little bit of good news is to
highlight today is that National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day.
The annual observation raises awareness about the thousands of pets
and shelters across the country waiting for their forever homes.

(14:14):
And I'm a huge, huge dog person, so if you
are looking for a pet, go to the shelter.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Last three of my last four dogs have come from shelters.
The other one came from a foster home. So I
mean it was they just didn't take that dog to
the shelter, the one I currently have, and I'm looking
at another one.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
I know you've talked about it now for what two weeks?

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah, I just don't know if my dogs that
are will help out with two dogs.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Aka mo yeah pretty much. Well, and then you also
have to take into account how they would personalities.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Would match you also. But what they want me to
do is they want me to bring my dog down
to see how they act inside, and so we'll see
what happens.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well, and here's the other thing. If you're not looking
to adopt, you can donate. And if it's not financially stuff,
So if you're food, dog food, if you're cleaning out closets,
things like that, they'll take. They'll take old throw rugs,
they'll take old towels, any of that kind of.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
You right, anything that a dog can maybe, like if
you have old dog bones or something of that nature.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Any of that kind of stuff. They're always thankful for it.
So yesterday was pay it forward. Yeah, yeah, so here's
the way pay it forward for.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
No, was it yesterday or Monday was paying forward? It
doesn't matter. It was this week.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was this week. What is today? Today's Wednesday?

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Today is the last day of April.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Wow, does it even feel like it?

Speaker 5 (15:50):
No?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
No, No, April flew by, flew by.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
It just.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
I don't know. April showers. We're going out with April showers,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Well, there's may dandelions in my yard right now. And
not that. Not the yellow ones that look halfway decent.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
It looked pretty.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
It's the ones that they spread the seeds and then
like as soon as they hit the ground that they
just sprout up new ones, Like my grass got cut
the other day and they're already back. Oh yeah, I
mean it's like, so I'm gonna have to probably do something,
spray my yard or something.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh my husband has been obsessed with getting rid of those. Yeah, obsessed.
One other thing, just want to give a huge shout
out to Community Coffee yesterday in bel Air for hosting
us over there for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Good coffee, good food.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yep, Rob and Mark were austched. I'm sorry, Chad, What
did I say?

Speaker 5 (16:43):
Mark?

Speaker 4 (16:44):
What did I get? Mark? I don't know? Who knows?
Who knows? It's seven twenty eight. But also don't forget
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Speaker 5 (17:06):
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There you go, you drop the bomb. There you go.
That's where we have family four back for Sesame Street
that's coming up here shortly. Seven twenty eight you're listening
to the Bloomdaddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience on your Wednesday morning.
I'm going to talk some sports right now, and Shoudre Sanders,
because he really was the storyline, it still remains the
storyline of the just completed NFL Draft. I don't know
if you saw this, but former NFL quarterback Boomer Assizin
said he spoke with three different personnel people in the
NFL that removed Sanders off their draft boards completely because

(17:45):
the team owners made it clear they didn't want him.
Bes Eizen said, and I'm quoting here, Shaudre Sanders torpedoed himself.
So you had a number of owners out there, according
to Boomer, who just pretty much told their gms their coaches,
I don't care if you want him, you're not taking him.
And I think this shows exactly why he wasn't taken.

(18:09):
And I said it the other day, there's a lot
of teams out there that did not want these should
or Sanders' circus. Now, mind you, thirty two NFL teams
only about six needed quarterbacks, maybe seven, So it's not
like thirty two teams passed over him four complete times.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
It's just the teams that needed quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
But nonetheless, this is very telling and I think it
shows there's a big difference between confidence and arrogance. One
guy that he sat in on the interview process with
shoud Or Sanders, and he said he's never seen anything
like it before in his life.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
As in the entitlement, the arrogance.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Deon dictating what was going to happen behind the scenes,
so on and so forth. And I saw where there
were some out there saying, oh, you know, this is racist,
which is laughable. The first quarterback taken black. The league
is eighty percent black. This league will take any white, black, purple.

(19:08):
It doesn't matter if you can play. They'll take you.
If you kicked your girlfriend in the face, if you
got caught stealing. I mean, we've seen it over and
over and over. But the one thing this league doesn't
like to deal with is continuing drama or a circus
like atmosphere. Go back to Tim Tebow. Guy was a winner.

(19:29):
He might not have been the greatest quarterback, but he
could he could have helped teams. Nobody would sign him. Why,
I mean if you remember, he was a media circus
everywhere he went, whether it was his religion or just
the fact that he was Tim Tebow. Teams just don't
want to deal with that. Colin Kaepernick another one, the
kneeling in it. Colin Kaepernick, right after that happened better
than probably thirty out of the thirty two backup quarterbacks

(19:51):
in the NFL, Yet nobody would sign him. Why because
of the circus that came with Colin Kaepernick. It's the
same thing with Shoudoor Sanders. And when you say a
young man who's incredibly arrogant, who's entitled, whose dad is
dictating and saying things, You're sitting there going, no way,
this guy's going to destroy my locker room.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
This guy is not worth the hassle. I'm not gonna
do it.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Now. The Browns finally did it, because I think they
should have. You're looking at a talent. You're looking at
a guy who is the second ranked quarterback coming out
of college that you could get in the fifth round
for barely any money.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
And guess what if he doesn't make it?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
So what you don't have millions invested in him and
maybe him being embarrassed and humbled will turn him into
a great teammate and player, or maybe it won't. But nonetheless,
if you are a Browns fan, Sam, you are going
to have a front row seat, get your popcorn to
see if Shador Sanders turns out to be what some

(20:54):
thought he would be and that is a great NFL
talent or what others thought he would be and that's
an egomaniac loser, Sam, which way you're going on this one?

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Honestly, time will tell. What I hope is that he
has been humbled by the past weekends events as a fan.
That's what I hope to see as somebody who's watched
the NFL for many years. Don't know if that's actually
what will happen. Don't know because when you walk around

(21:33):
with a chain on saying legendary and you haven't really
accomplished anything yet in the.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Pros, but yeah, you're number retired.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
In Colorado right when you went seventeen and eighteen or
whatever it was right, So, as far as I'm concerned,
that doesn't fall under the term legendary, but it brings
to light I think the power or the the direction

(22:08):
that things like the NIL is giving entitlement and power
to the student athletes. Now, he's a little bit unique
of a scenario because of who his dad is in
the world that he was raised in that most of

(22:28):
us can not and never will relate to his childhood
and how he grew up. But I think this is
an example of the amount of power that we put
in the hands of student athletes, that the NFL ownership

(22:49):
and coaches said, hold up, young man, you may not
be everything that you've been told you all are for
the past couple years. You're still gonna be a rookie
coming into this league of men. So slow your role,

(23:11):
humble yourself, and be ready to work. I think that
was the message that was put across and exactly like
bloom Daddy said, listen, this was not a quarterback heavy draft,
so the fact that he dropped as far as he
did was very telling. But there also were only a
handful of teams that needed a quarterback. So the message

(23:36):
that a lot of the talking heads are putting out
there the thirty two teams passed on him. Thirty two
teams passed on him. Not all thirty two teams had
to need a quarterback, So they're over dramatizing what happened
this weekend. Now, if his last name was not Sanders,

(23:59):
we wouldn't be having this conversation to begin with. He
would be another quarterback that had high expectations and fell
in the draft. That's all this would be. But because
his last name is Sanders, we are seeing what we
are seeing. And I took I. I think it was
Monday night. I watched a clip of Stephen A. Smith,

(24:24):
who there are times where I agree with him and
there are times where I vehemently disagree with him. And if,
of course he took the spin that this was racist,
didn't have anything to do with that, had nothing to
do with that. As bloom Daddy said, the first pick
in the draft, the first two picks in the draft

(24:45):
were black men. The majority of the athletes in the
NFL are black men the past two seasons, two drafts.
I believe the number two picks, we're black quarterback quarterbacks
for the past two years. So the racist spend just

(25:06):
to meet doesn't hold hold Muster. What it comes down
to is his ego was over inflated by those who
surrounded him. He was told over and over again he
was this he was going to be in the top
five he was going to be in the top three.

(25:26):
He was the number one quarterback to be drafted, and
he sunk his interviews. Some say purposely, some say not.
But when it comes down to it, the draft interviews,
the draft in general, is a job interview, and if
you sit down with your future employer, you don't handle

(25:50):
yourself well, you don't present well, you don't speak well,
you don't answer the questions where and if you come
off with a sense of entitlement and a high ego,
you fail the interview process. You're not offered the job.

(26:13):
And that's what happened over the weekend. Employers did not
think he earned the job, so he was not given
the offer for the Browns and for the pick listen,
fifth round, pick one, four. The potential is worth the
risk at that point, but at number two or at

(26:36):
number one, it's not worth it in everything all the
baggage that comes with him, because listen, the baggage is there.
The media circus will be there, and we've lived through
it before if you're a Browns fan, and we're gonna
live through it again. But there's five quarterbacks in that

(26:59):
quarterback room, so we are going to have a competition
the best part of this season coming up may be
the preseason for us, who knows. But again, if you
tank the interview process for a job, you're not going
to get the offer. And Shador Sanders learned it the
hard way. Seven forty six, you're listening to the bloom
Ditty Experience Salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We

(27:30):
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and company and from what I've been told, bye, pretty
much everybody, it's the best pasta salad they've ever had
in their lives. So take that for what you will
if you're a fan of pasta salad.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Okay, I didn't. I didn't realize, like, like pasta salad
to me is pasta salid. It's hard, It's like it's
one of those meals that's hard to screw up. Or
it's a dish. It's not necessarily a meal. No, it's
a dish. Yeah, I mean I guess you could do.
I mean, I guess you could overspice it or something
maybe like if you if you use different things in it.

(28:32):
But I mean, like pasta salad, you boil the noodles
and then you pour Italian dressing evert and throw some
veggies in.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
That's just what Listen, more power to them if that's
the case. I mean, there's nothing wrong with pasta salad.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
No, but we went really hard on postosecond. I mean
just to say we're kind of taking a break from
the political talking.

Speaker 5 (28:57):
That's I say, Man, that's the best cracker I ever ate.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
That saltine just wow, knocked my socks off.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
I couldn't believe it. I can't. I can't wait to
get seconds again.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
We're taking a break because we've got we have politics
on leash coming up in the eight o'clock hour, so
kinda kind of taking a break from from all that
hard stuff because listen, the past twenty four hours has
just been non stop.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yes, yeah, We've had Trump's one hundred days, we had
obviously the storm that blew through yesterday, and you know,
it is what it is. But obviously, you know, I'll be.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
You know, it's it's the topic of the day. Yeah,
and honestly some of the most the what was that.
The funniest part is watching people lose their minds that
that the overreaction by some people is just amazing. Chuck
Schumer last night on the Senate floor, just going on
and on and on with just we'll get into that.

(29:53):
Like I said, we'll be getting into that. And of
course at the top of the hour, are coming up
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nice little surprise gift there for you. So to send
me that video you showed me during the break of
the Catch.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
The Bar show, Yeah, from the Blue Jays.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, explain it. It's pretty impressive. I'll put it on
our phone.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
I don't know what anything it was or you know,
obviously it's it happened in Toronto and there was a
long fly ball his center field and Dalton var Show
turned around to get to the warning track to turn
around and then catch the ball. Well as he was
running he fell basically did a sumrsault and had his
back to the ball and put his glove out behind

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him and still caught the still caught it. Yeah, And
like the batter from the Red Sox is like, did
that really just happen? Did you really just catch that?
And then the pitcher is looking around like, holy crap,
what just happened. Then he takes his hat off and
tips it to him and Dalton Varsity just gets up
there is the ball back in and kind of looks
over at one of the other fielders and just smiles

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and starts laughing.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
So yeah, but yes, they're playing it right now. On what.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
About it?

Speaker 4 (31:21):
I was just looking up something. There's something happening with
Pete Rose plans to issue ruling on possible reinstatement that.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Rob Manford, Yeah, Rob Manford is is considering reinstating Pete Rose,
which would make him eligible for the Hall.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Of Fame should he be in.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
In a way, he's already there. He just doesn't have
a bronze plaque. There's a there, well at least there
was the last time I was at the Hall of
Fame in Cooperstown. There's a whole I don't want to
say section, but a whole display for Pete Rose because
he is the all time hit king. So there there

(31:59):
are different things that are there. So like you know,
whether it's I can't remember everything, whether it was the
bat that he used in the uniform that he was wearing.
You know, they have it on a mannequin.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
So he's just not an inductee.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
He's not an inductee. He's not a member of the
Hall of Fame. But his accomplishments are in the Hall
of Fame. Well that's which is the same thing. But
here's the thing, and you know what this This is
what ticks me off is when they're doing this now
because Pete Rose passed away.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
M hmm.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
So he's never going to know that he got into
the Hall of Fame. His family will and it'll be
it'll be if he gets in, which if they reinstadium
he's in. I mean, there's it's it's hands down the
it might be unanimous to be honest with you, you don't
think people hold a I mean I think I think
they'll look past enough. Enough time has passed it. You know,

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here's the thing. You're penalizing for something he did. You're
penalizing him for something he did as a manager. His
his accomplishments as a player should still be recognized. So
you banned him as when he was a manager, you
didn't ban him when he was a player. That's my
That's that's my only beef with the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
And I don't want to sound uninformed ill informed. Did
he bet on his own games?

Speaker 5 (33:24):
He did? Okay, he eventually came and that's part of
his problem. I think if he had just come out
and admitted everything.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Up front, because he denied it for a while.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
He denied it, then he said, well I didn't better
on our games. Well I did, but only bet has
to win, you know. So, I mean, if you had
just come out and said the truth right out of
the gate, I think it would have been a totally
different story.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
It wouldn't have drug on as long as it did,
and it wouldn't have been.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
I think it would have been more forgiving.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, well you know what sesame Street.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Goo Gee, Google Gee googe. All right, it is seven fifteen.
Let's do it. Family four pack to see Sesame Street
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You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience here on news
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
Number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This is
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(34:51):
It's the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Hey, it's eight o six. Let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Good Wednesday morning to you, and welcome to the Bloomdaddy Experience.
On eleven seventy, you're gonna have a News Nation town
Hall special airing tonight called the First one hundred Days.
So it is by Chris Cuomo with moderators Bill O'Reilly
and Stephen A. Smith taking a look at President Trump's
first one hundred days in office. As far as how
the general public thinks about Trump right now, you had

(35:18):
a number of polls come out on Sunday three, to
be exact, showing that a majority of Americans disapprove of
Trump's handling of the presidency. His approval rating when you
take a look at all three polls is anywhere between
thirty nine and forty five percent. That is the lowest
for any newly elected president at the one hundred day
mark in more than seven decades.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
I'm going to say that again, just to let it
sink in.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
His approval rating right now at the one hundred day
mark is the worst of any newly elected president in
more than seventy years. You go back to January when
he returned to the White House, he saw an uptick
in his favorability ratings.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Not now.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
You got a lot of Americans out there losing confidence
on his ability to handle the economy. That's an issue
that he made a centerpiece of his twenty twenty four
bid for the White House. So if Trump were to
receive a letter grade for his first one hundred days,
the question is what would it be and was it
a mistake for him to start these trade wars. I
just saw where this one hundred and forty five percent

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duty on Chinese products could lead to mass bankruptcies.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
That's according to one CEO.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
He said, you're talking like eighty percent of small businesses
that buy from China will just die in. Millions of
employees will be unemployed. That's the specter that's looming out there.
As far as how politicians view as trade policies, Democrats,
for their part, as you would know, opposed to the
tariffs nine to ten think they will negatively impact inflation

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and US economic leadership in the world. Eighty nine percent
do not like what's going on. In a near unanimous
ninety six percent of Democrats disapprove of Trump's handling of
the tariffs, and they do not think that they'll create
manufacturing jobs in any way, shape or form. Republicans, twenty

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five percent of Republicans disapprove of Trump's handling of tariffs,
as do thirty percent of Conservatives. That figure reaches forty
eight percent among non college educated white men and forty
seven percent of rural Americans. Those are two of Trump's
core support groups. So nearly fifty percent of two of
Trump's core support groups, non college educated white men and

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rural Americans, disapprove of his handling of the tariff situation.
When I take a look at these first one hundred days,
I love what he's done with illegal immigration, I love
what he's done with DEI I like some of the
purging by Dosee. Others I thought were not warranted or

(37:53):
maybe done too quick. I think with every president, you're
going to have likes and dislikes. The thing with Trump
is he hit this so fast. He hit the ground
running so fast because he knows he's got two years
that he's just trying to shove all this stuff through.
That's why you have so many lawsuits out there. He
has tried to implement his thought process on everything very

(38:16):
very quickly to try to get it done because he
knows that in twenty twenty six in the midterms, if
he loses the House, he's done. He's going to be
facing another impeachment. He's going to be facing all kinds
of scrutiny if Democrats win the House at twenty twenty six.
So he knows he's got a two year window. Have

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there been some mistakes, I would say so, But there
are some other issues, if you will, that he has
tackled that I think have needed tackled. And he's done
some unpopular things that needed to be done.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Though.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
And here's the thing that I think we've got to
remember with all these polls, what do we want as
an American? You, me, everybody else? We want instant gratification.
That's the society we live in. So what he's doing,
it may take time to see the benefits. It might
take time to see the light at the end of
the tunnel. We don't want to give anybody anytime. Whether

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you're ordering at McDonald's, Chick fil A, whatever it may be,
you want it right now.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
And that's why I think you got to give things time.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
The scary part for Republicans is if it takes too
much time, those midterms are going to be a slaughter.
So one hundred days in sam otis what kind of
a grade do you give Trump?

Speaker 4 (39:37):
I'll say what I said yesterday. I give him a bee.
I give him a bee. And that window of time
is a good point when it comes to this conversation
with President Trump. That window of time that he has
to accomplish what he promised the American people he would accomplish,

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which got him vote. The votes to get him in
the White House is a very very small window. So
that is why you are seeing a machete on how
he's doing things as opposed to a scalpel. He doesn't
have eight years. He has a minimum two two and

(40:25):
a half depending on how the midterms go. But I
love the question that bl blim Daddy asked, what do
we want? What do we want out of this administration?
How do we want this country to look when Trump
leaves office after this second second term? What do we want?

(40:49):
We said what we wanted in the election. We want
to return to common sense number one common sense, and
we want a return to where our leader puts America first.
We want the citizens considered first. We want the financial

(41:12):
health of this country first. We want the priorities, the
number one priority of our sitting president to be America first.
And that is what he is attempting to do. Ladies
and gentlemen, that is exactly what he is attempting to

(41:32):
do despite every single roadblock that they are throwing in
front of him. There was a quote yesterday by Senator
John Kennedy and I love this quote. The Democratic Party
today is not defined by its principles. It's defined by
one thing. It's hatred of President Trump, even when he's right.

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And that's perfectly said. That is perfectly set because, as
I said, they're putting up every single roadblock that they
can for him to accomplish why he was put into office.
Now to the polls, take them for what you will.

(42:26):
The poles are so I hate to use this word
fluid because it depends on as we discussed yesterday, it
depends upon who's doing the polling in what parts of
the country they're polling. Are they in a blue state,
are they in a red state, Are they in the city,

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are they in rural America? All of that is so flexible.
You have to take the poles as you will, depending
on where they were done. That's one thing to keep
in mind. And everything that we saw yesterday, the attacks,

(43:11):
the anger, the vitriol, the late night what would you
call it a protest on the Senate floor, I don't know,
but to say one hundred days of chaos. The majority
of the chaos is coming from the Democratic side, who

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are Let's be honest, there's no other way to say it.
They're losing their minds. They're losing their minds. As Senator
Kennedy said, it doesn't matter what President Trump is fighting for.
It's because it's him fighting for it. That's all they

(43:54):
care about. That's all they care about. If he would
walk out and say, with a snap of my fingers,
I can completely erase the deficit of this country. I
have the magic bullet. All I have to do is
snap my fingers and the deficit is gone, they would

(44:16):
rally against it. They would pitch tens on the White
House lawn or on this you know, on the center floor. No,
absolutely not. That is not for the best of this country.
That will ruin democracy. They would fight it tooth and
nail just because President Trump said it. That's the delusion
that we're living with and that he in this administration

(44:39):
is fighting against. And again, take the polls as you will,
because we don't really get the details on who was polled,
the demographics or where, So take that as you will.
It's eight sixteen. Just a little note, we're having some
phone difficulties, so with our register to win or the

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Speaker 5 (45:20):
And we'll draw two winners.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
And we'll draw two winners, so get those in by
the end of the show and then we'll get in
contact with you. So again, our apologies, apologies, the storm
got us too. You're listening to The Bloomdaddy Experience SAM
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(45:44):
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having some issues with our phone lines. Otis is in
the booth working his magic currently working on some things,

(46:05):
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Also wanted to remind everybody and let you know as
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having some we're kind of we're flying by the seats
of currently I'm looking at otis we have an update.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Well, we're trying to get l John on via zoom.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
I'm not sure if it's even going to work. But okay,
I just invited her and just waiting to see if
she's joining. Okay, God only knows.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Okay, Well, that's a that's a reassuring So let's let's
stay in the political realm since that's what we had planned.
One thing I wanted to hit on. Bloom Daddy talked
about the polls in his segment. Here's a poll for
you from Harvard. So one of the biggest demographics that

(47:36):
is really followed heavily during election season is the young adults,
and traditionally the past multiple elections tends to be very
left leaning. Listen to these statistics. The Harvard Spring poll,

(47:58):
which covers the demographics eighteen to twenty nine year olds,
approval rating for the Democratic Party is twenty three percent.
That's down from the past poll at forty two percent.
Trump in that Democrat demographic, according to the Harvard poll,

(48:20):
is at thirty one percent. Republicans is at twenty nine percent. Now,
completely up front, those numbers for either side of the
aisle are not good. They're just not Democrats again, twenty

(48:43):
three percent, Republicans twenty nine percent. Those are not good
approval ratings for either party. So if we take a
step back and look at those numbers, what is that
telling those parties? What is that telling our leadership? The

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young adult is not happy with the direction that either
party headed or what they have accomplished in recent years. Now,
according to a National Gallop Pole, the Democrats hit a
historic low at twenty five percent, down from thirty four percent.

(49:36):
Republicans are at a thirty nine percent, went up from
thirty six percent, so they're not exactly the same. The
Harvard Spring Pole and the Gallup Pole, but they're within
the same realm of numbers. So again, what is this

(49:58):
telling leadership in this country for both parties? Is it
saying that we need fresh faces? Is it saying there
needs to be new messaging? Is it are they saying?
Are the numbers saying that people are burnt out on politics?

(50:25):
The same rhetoric, the same mantras, the same faces. Have
people turned off? Has it become the the what's the

(50:46):
word I'm looking for? Has it become repetitive? Have people
zoned out? Do they not pay attention anymore? Is that
what these poll numbers are saying. And if you just
take the past twenty four hours and what we have
seen the reactions, you know, President Trump gets out there

(51:13):
last night, makes it makes a pretty demonstrative speech, has
a heckler, calls the heckler out. That's the kind of
stuff people do not like about Trump. Sometimes, unfortunately, he's

(51:34):
his own worst enemy, and I've said that since twenty fifteen.
Sometimes his his his tweeting or now I don't even
know if you see it xing, I'm not sure how
you say it gets him in hot water. Sometimes the
persona he has in front of the cameras gets him
in hot water. I will say this second time around,

(51:57):
that has diminished. It is not as imposing as it
was the first time around. But he can be his
own worst enemy. But you've also got to take into
consideration when you see these numbers and hear these numbers,

(52:23):
the coverage the President Trump receives for the past ten years.
Let's just say, in general, in the past ten years,
the legacy media has been so biased, so biased, there's
no arguing yet. I'm sorry, But when you see these
numbers for the coverage for the past the first one

(52:47):
hundred days in office, the top three, ABC, CBS and
NBC coverage, ninety two percent of it has been negative.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Those really are.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Buttons are hard? Has been negative. Seven point eight percent
has been positive. If that is not manipulating the mind
of the American public, show me another example that is

(53:25):
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Speaker 5 (53:33):
So what we tried to do, Okay, because we have
a computer in here that we can access and put
things that are on this computer through the board, So
we actually got Elgin on a zoom call to and
I heard her, and she was coming through loud and clear.
But the problem was she couldn't hear us.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
So it's hard to have a conversation.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Yeah, and she was if she said, well, I can
listen on the app. Well, the app's about thirty second
behind us. So if we would ask her a question,
then you'd have thirty seconds of dead air before she
would be able to respond.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
It would be awkward. Yeah, it would have sounded terrible.
Would it sounded terrible? So we're going to.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Push her back till tomorrow. Yes, so what we'll do
at least one, maybe two segments with elgend tomorrow for
politics on lease.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Yes, I thought we got a we got through the
storm unscathed, but nope, No.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
There's little there's little due deads that are like the
little gremlins are here today.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
They hit us, They hit us. Okay, just a reminder,
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(55:08):
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Speaker 5 (55:11):
Yeah, because we get so many of them.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
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(55:36):
flying as we go right now, sort of flying by
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Speaker 5 (55:41):
What we thought was going to be a smooth show
has turned into a rocky road.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Very well said it. Kirk's ice Cream Rocky Road free
plug free plug, which, by the way, tomorrow will be
our ice cream giveaway. So and here's what we've learned.
We need to get back to our ext line. Sure,
I'll be honest kind of drop the ball on it myself,

(56:06):
since I'm the one that has the computer in front
of me with all the information. So we're gonna go
back to it. We're gonna start reminding you all you
have a question, you have a comment on anything that
we're talking about. Seeing that I know people know how
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So if you don't want to call textas three zero
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(56:27):
with us. So we're going to bring that back. We're
going to bring that back, all right, otis, what do
you want to talk about? Like, I'm so thrown off
my game?

Speaker 5 (56:33):
I was ready for well because we elgin and the
law about this. I just find this interesting. There was
a man in who played hockey for the University of
Minnesota Duluth, Okay, during a game in England back in
twenty twenty three. They were it was a hockey game.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
But it was played in England. Yes, Okay.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
So British prossters made a decision on Tuesday in the
connection with the twenty twenty three death of Adam Johnson.
What happened was. Adam was playing for the Nottingham Panthers
when Matthew petgrave skate blade connected with his neck. Oh no,
just kind of a in one of those freak accidents accident.

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Johnson died at the hospital, while pet Grave was arrested
days later. Now, why would you arrest a guy that
for something.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
That happened There was no intent, you know.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Obviously not authorities say. After a lengthy investigation, it was
determined that there was no prospect of conviction for any
criminal offenses. It was an accident, you know, that's unfortunately,
there's there's been several of these that have happened in hockey. Well,
you're wearing a few have been fatal, a few.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
Have not been and you're wearing a weapon on your feet.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
Right and if you fall. I mean there was there.
I can't remember exactly when it was. It might have
been late seventies, it might have been in the seventies
or early eighties where a goalie like the guy came
in and he slid on you got taken off his
feet and his his skate hit the neck of the
goalie and the blood just started gushing out. And thank god,
the trainer was smart enough he got out there. He

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was a he had been a medic in one of
the wars, and he was able to stop the bleed,
you know, not stop it, but slow it down and
to where the goalie survived. There's actually an ESPN thirty
for thirty on that one. But why would why would
why would they? Why would they even consider it? Like, like,

(58:33):
I mean, I guess because.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
Let alone drag it out this long.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
I mean, that's a great question. I mean, obviously it's British,
it's British laws, so it's a little different. But I
don't know how you would hold this kid, This young
man was responsible for for for an accidental death in
a hockey game. And it's not like he took the
skate with his hand and then brought it across his throat.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
Well, and let's be honest, this young man is going to, oh.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
He's got to live with that for the rest of
his life. I mean that's I mean, yes, it's going
to that's going to be haunting it. I mean probably
could end your career.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Right even as even as he progresses through life, that's
always going to be a lingering life moment for him.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Yeah, I just not a tragical and just just a sad,
sad story, you know. But you know, we don't want
to end the break on a sad story, so let's
just end with something funny.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Okay, you got something?

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Yeah, okay, okay in ogden utah uh huh. This little
boy didn't have McDonald's at home. Seven years old.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Okay, he had a craving for some fries.

Speaker 5 (59:39):
He had a craving for something. Yeah, so he took
the family car on a joy ride.

Speaker 4 (59:43):
Oh well, you know.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
He brought and he brought his five year old sister
along with him.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Oh, he said he drove.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
He drove ten miles after convincing his sister that he
should go to McDonald that they should go to McDonald's.
Police were able to stop him and no one was injured. Goodness.
And it says due to the driver's age, no charges
are being pursued and the identities of the individuals involved
will not be released. But that's when listen, I get
First off, it's seven years old, how do you reach

(01:00:12):
the pedals? Well, I mean, I mean I'm impressed he
didn't wreck. He didn't like maybe he drives the family
tractor around and cuts the grass or grass, you know,
does something. But I mean, obviously he drove ten miles.
Like nobody sees this. Like you look over and you're like,
is that kid? Is that? Is that a little person

(01:00:33):
or is that a seven year old?

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
Or is that a little old lady?

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
I mean you're sitting there, You're going, Holy cow. And
then you find out that they're going to McDonald's. That's
what I mean. Did they have any money?

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
What did they have playing on the radio at the.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Time, just short people I don't know, by Brandy Newman.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
Or the Disney Channel, Disney Music. Maybe hey, listen, I
get it. Sometimes you get a craving and no matter.

Speaker 5 (01:00:58):
What, as a seven year old McDonald's, I get it.
Maybe even the chicken nuggets or a happy meal or something.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Maybe it was a release of something in the Happy Meal.
They just had to have to finish their collection, you understand.
Finishing a collection?

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
Yep, one card away for seventy five, So working on that.
You can't get anybody to get me a Johnny bench o.

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
God, what a morning.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Weird? Just a weird, yeah, weird. The computer sloed like
you hit the button, it doesn't fire.

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
Well, we were firing on all cylinders until we went
for the registration or the chance to win for Sesame Street.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
So anything after eight it's eight forty five right now,
anything after eight forty seven for the Sesame Street is
it will not be valid? Yes, yes, So we're giving
you a minute and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
There you go, last chance.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Last chance for texting at what's the number?

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Give them to it real quick, three zero three eight two.
Started off with bloom Daddy and then your name in
phone number.

Speaker 5 (01:01:55):
The first word in the text has to be bloom Dad.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Yes, exactly, okay, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
We got lunch coming out and we've got Sesame Street.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Yep, it's a forty five. You're listening to the Bloomday Experience.
That's otis talking in there, and I'm Sam here on
news radio eleven seventy w w V. A. Well, we've
made it, say fifty one, the bloom Daddy Experience, News
Radio eleven seventy w w VA. My goodness, what a Wednesday?

(01:02:24):
What a Wednesday? So otis, let's you want to do
our street?

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Okay, so you gave me the total of people with
it are in there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
We were struggling over the break.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
You had a hard time counting No I was going.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
To say remembering the theme.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
Song, but you still had a hard time. Okay. So
I've got the numbers put in, so I'm going to randomize,
and the first one is number eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Okay, let me get to my page here. Okay, we
have John L L John L. I don't want to
say the last name.

Speaker 5 (01:02:54):
No, no, it's okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
John L.

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
And then randomize again and number sixteen.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
I'm sixteen. Okay, wait, let me get up here. Okay,
well Margaret L. Okay, So both last names start with
an el.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
So not the same last name.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
No, no, not the same last name, not the same
phone number, nothing, So Margaret and John I will be
calling you after the show to.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Get your address and everything else because we're gonna drop
the's in the mail since the show's next Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Yes, so we can get everything out to you in
plenty of time, and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
We will still draw their lunch drawing here at the end.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Yes, that's coming up. That is coming up here shortly.
So this is funny. Is there anything if your friend
came up here? Is there anything that your friends have
asked you to do that you will do everything anything
possible to avoid saying yes too? They're asking for help.

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
Okay, they're asking for help.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
Yeah, and not to be dramatic, just like you know, hey,
can you help me change a flat tire?

Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
Oh? Yeah, I mean yeah? Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
Is there any one one thing that you just.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
Wouldn't you try to avoid? I mean, I'd probably do
just about anything, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
But.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
Man, the one thing that I hate moving furniture.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Okay, Well, you and me both, and twenty two percent
of Americans feel the exact same way. You wiggle your
way out of helping someone lose.

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
Oh okay.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
That seems to be the biggest thing that most people
try to avoid if they're asked to assist with. I
hate moving. I told my husband when we bought this
house and we went through everything, we went through with it,
I said, we're dying here. I'm not doing this again,
especially if you're somebody who has moved in and out

(01:04:48):
of college for four or five years all that it's
such a pain in that you know what, let alone
when somebody else asks you to be a part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that I would rather
pay somebody to do it than do it myself. Yes,
even if I don't care what it costs. I mean,
well I do care what it costs, but I mean
if it's say a couple hundred bucks or whatever. Like
I had a couch that I needed to move from
one place to another. It's a nice sectional and it

(01:05:20):
was going to take me two or three trips, and
then you need somebody to help you carry the stuff.
Then you have to load it unloaded and everything else.
I paid X amount of money for these guys that
I know. Just I'll give them a free plug Livingstone
Brothers Movers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Oh yeah, So.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
I called those guys because I know those two meat
heads and they're great guys. They're great, they're great guys. Yeah,
but yeah, they said, yeah, we'll do it. And so
they picked up the couch for me, brought it to
my brought it to the next location. Boom, all said
and done. And they did it in a half an

(01:05:58):
hour where we're taken me half a day.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
Well, I used to be the person that say, say
you did buy furniture or a new refrigerator or whatever.
I would be the person that would find a way
to not pay the delivery fee. So I'd call that
friend you know, oh you have a truck, you know this,
and that opinion on what it is. Yeah, I would
do all that to save save a buck. Not anymore
one hundred dollars delivery fee, fine, tack it on there.

(01:06:24):
I don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
I'm because they get it in the house, they get it,
they get it ra they get it everything ready to go.
That's yep. When I had to replace my refrigerator, I
mean I don't think I got charged the fee if
I was. If I did, it was very very minimal.
I mean, even if it was twenty five bucks. But
I mean they get it, they unbox it, they take
the box with them, the garbage, every you know, they took.

(01:06:45):
I don't know if they didn't take the old refrigerator,
but they could have. You could have paid to have
them make it. But yeah, so I mean it was
just like it's just moving.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
Is one of those things.

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
That what's a pain in the buck?

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Oh yeah, I will say this. When we moved into
our new house, one of the best things I ever did,
and if anybody out there deals with this kind of stuff,
I hired an organizer and this woman came into my
house the day that I was setting up the kitchen,

(01:07:20):
my office, the closets, things like that. And she helped
me organize and unpack and we got four rooms done
in like five hours, okay. And the best thing was
as we were going through stuff, she would ask me,
have you used this in the past three years? Have

(01:07:42):
you warned this in the past three years? And she
would I was. I got rid of I purged so
much stuff too. But honestly, do yourself a favor. If
you're struggling. Yeah, if you're struggling with clutter, or you
are moving, whether you're you know, unpacking or packing, hire
an organizer. I honestly I hate. Her name is Lisa,

(01:08:03):
and I cannot remember the name of her business right now.
But honestly, do yourself a favor.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
She might have a stroke if she came to my house.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
Yeah, you might be the downfall of her, of her company.
But I've never been in your house. Just by the
way you talk about.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
It, I mean, I mean, there's it's it's it's it's
organized clutter, it's your version of organized. Yeah, you asked
me for something, is that can probably find it. You're
going to look and go. I don't know how you
found it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
There's a lot of people I have been.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
I have been working on it. So it's not it's
been a slow process, but at least it's a process.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
You're making the attempt. That's all that matters. Hey, you
know what, let's do it. Let's do our free lunch.
Of course, this is courtesy of our friends down at
River City, home of the best pasta salad.

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
I've been told, right, how many entries we have?

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
Twenty two?

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Twenty two entries, okay to randomized number thirteen.

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
Okay, we have Joe Ann. So Joe Anne, I will
also be calling you after the show to arrange the
drop off on Friday. Oh I'm sorry. Joanna is from
Howard Long Wellness Center. Howard Long Wellness Center.

Speaker 5 (01:09:17):
Hopefully the phone lines will be back up but running tomorrow.
That's not our necessarily our fault.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
But yes, hopefully we will be off the struggle bus.

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
Yes, hopefully in more ways than one. And we will
have Elgin tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Yes, so a special edition of Politics on Leash happening tomorrow. Everybody,
enjoy your day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.