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Speaker 1 (00:00):
See number one talk 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 SEVENTYVA starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're back at eight six on this Friday morning. The
lights are the lights are flickering out in the Capitol Theater.
So what's happening tonight? Last night was the Big Country
concert with Terry Clark. Saw great picks online for that.
I'll have to look up what this one is happening tonight.
(00:44):
I'm sorry to say it. I can't remember, but anyways,
it's Friday. So before the break, we were talking about
health trends and what you can and you can't eat,
and one minute's bad for you, the next minute's good
for you, and listen it. Everybody's had this conversation at
this point in time where you say technology is listening
(01:06):
to you, right, how many of you have been in
a group of people and you're talking about I don't know,
something random, like you need a new lawnmower, I don't know,
something out of left field. That night you go on
your social media, next thing you know you've got every
ad possible from cub Cadet to Kboda to John Deere lawnmowers,
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because they are listening to you. So, as I said
before the break, we're talking about health trends and what's
good and what's not good. I jump on social media.
I'm given this story. It's about the newest health trend,
the newest fad. If you will, Oh, has you been
(01:54):
on your walking very consistently? Kudos to you, And I
don't want to know if you do this while you walk,
but maybe you're part of the trend and you don't
even know it. They are calling them fart walks. Okay,
(02:17):
there's health benefits, including how they can possibly even prevent cancer.
So basically, yeah, and that it's going for a fart
walk after dinner is something that can that is going
to help you age wonderfully. So there you have it.
(02:42):
It aids with the digestion, it helps keep away type
two diabetes, it prevents other things, and possibly it lowers
our risk of cancer. So there you have it. I
don't know what else to put on top of that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I'm just going to tell you what is at the
Capitol tonight. Oh yes, please, So today, Tomorrow, and Sunday.
It is the Believe National Talent Competition. Oh so this
is the twenty twenty five tour and this weekend they
are in Dublin, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling. And this
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Belief is a new world dance competition that believes it's
all about you the performer, featuring fabulous venues, professional stage
and sound, knowledgeable judges, and an event experience like no other.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So we need to get on auto tap shoes.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There's no shot. I don't have tap shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So it's just dancing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, so okay, that's about all it. Like for ticket info,
I think you have to buy from the Believe website,
not from the Capitol Fare. So okay, just to let
you know. That's just was looking at it, because it
doesn't say there's not a buy tickets to the event
that's on the Capital Theater page like there.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is for some of the Yeah click here, all right,
but it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Says but there's a link to the Believe Tour, so
that must be where you have to purchase your tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
All right. Well, if you haven't heard Tomors the Kentucky Derby.
Here are some of the names of Well, before you
go through the names, Okay, there's a little interesting fact. Okay,
give me some facts. So you've got a couple two.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
In nineteen seventy three, Secretariat was the Triple Crown winner
and probably one of, if not the greatest hours of
all time. Okay, more than half a century after Secretariat's
record breaking performance in the seventy three Kentucky Derby, Big
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Red's bloodline still features prominently in American horse racing. In fact,
every horse in the twenty twenty five Run for the
Roses descends from second Tariat. Really, yep, every every horse
in that races is a descendant of Secretariat. Wow, that's
that's that is impressive right there.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was a kid when Secretariat ran. But you know,
my mom loves watching the horse. The two things my
mom loves it's horse racing. She likes to watch the horse.
Is not a gambler, she just likes she likes the
beauty of it and figure skating, which we always I
always kid her about that. But anyway, she was in
love with Secretariat and the shed. They actually went to
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the Preakness in seventy three with some of her colleague
room mate and some friends from Maryland and they they
just said it was phenomenal. Like, I mean, you watch
the movies. Have you ever seen the movie Secretariat? It's
it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is that the one with Toby Maguire? No, that's that's
the other horse. That's it. No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, if you watch, if you watch Secretariat, that that
horse had a personality. I mean, like you can get
a dog, you know, you have dogs that are dogs,
and then you have that one dog that's almost human,
you know, like it seems like it understands everything you
say and.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It wants to respond yes, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's the way Secretariat was. It's just like it's like, hey,
I can do this, and we just but what an
amazing horse? Just you. But so every horse this So
that was my little trivia for you there that every
horse in this year's Kentucky Derby is a descendant of Secretariat.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's amazing, amazing. Was it the last horse to win? Okay,
I didn't think so.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now he was the first. It was the first horse
to win the Triple Crown in like thirty five years
or forty years or so. They say there was a
long break in between Triple Crown winners and that secretariat
then you had that was seventy three, and then I
think you had seventy seventy seven and seventy eight or
seventy eight seventy nine Triple Crown winners. So you've had
a few since then, and I think the last one
was about four or five years ago, six years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, and some of the facts that I have, the
most of the winning horses in the Derby have come
from Kentucky. The Derby is called the most exciting two
minutes in sports, which of course everybody hears that. What
do you think the entry fee is to have a
horse in the Derby?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
M it's it's probably up there. I'm going to say
it's somewhere in the vicinity of about two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Actually, no, the entry fee is twenty five thousand.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, that's a lot lower.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Than what you'll see. You'll see like there's twenty horses
in tomorrow's race. By the time it gets to the
Preakdness two weeks from tomorrow, that'll be down to about
twelve or thirteen. And then when you get to the Belmont,
it'll probably be like ten now, it'll be a ten
or under. It's especially if, especially if there's not a
triple Crownwe yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I've always it's one of it's one sportive sporting event.
I would love to go to just to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I've been to the Preakness.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh have you?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I was in I was in junior high when I
went to the preak News.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
There's not as much pomp and circumstances there is there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh yeah, there is. I mean it's but the Kentucky
Derby is the first one of the Triple Crown. So
that's the that's like it's the granddaddy. You know, there's
obviously the three races. So you have the Derby tomorrow,
two weeks you have the Preakness, and then three weeks
after that you have the Belmont. So you know, it's fun.
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Secretariat holds the record for at the Kentucky Derby and
the Belmont. So for the Belmont, secretariyat has the time,
the time, and this one by thirty one lengths like
like the other horse finished the next day. The one
that got second place came in like on Sunday. That's
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how that's how far ahead secretariat was.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
So then once they're retired, do they okay you may
not even know this, do they just run one season?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Depends it's up to you, Okay, I mean it's up
to the owner.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And then once they're retired, they go off for stud
work they could. Is that the right term? Stud work?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You go out the sire.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's it. That's the word I knew. It started with
an ass. Stud work sounds pretty good too.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's basically what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
There's a lot of men that think that too. Anyways,
it's eight fifteen. Speaking of the Kentucky Derby. We're gonna
talk the hat of it all because that's a big
part of the conversation. Tomorrow you want to be seen
on TV. That's part of the pretty much the goal
and it's a tradition. It's a fifteen on your Friday.
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The Bloomdaddy Experience salmon otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back. It's eight twenty one. The bloom Daddy Experience
salmon otis here on your Friday news radio WWVA. Before
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the break, we were talking about, of course, the big
Derby's tomorrow and one of the things with the Derby
is the tradition of the hats. The ladies, of course
go all out, but now the guys have gotten more
and more involved. So I met this wonderful lady that
joins me now in the studio, Betsy Dale. She's an
entrepreneur here in the Ohio Valley and it ties in
(10:27):
perfectly with the Derby because we're gonna talk hats, and
you have become kind of like the official hat person
of the High Valley with of course her company named
Betsy Dale Hat. So thanks for popping in this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Oh, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And what got you? What got you into this?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She brought us a couple to try on. Yes, kind
of the country themed and we'll take some pictures and
put those out there on social media so you can
see others the sparkles. O, this one's cool. Nice, nice,
So for everybody out there, we'll put some pictures up
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on our social media. I'm going to get Otis to
put one on so he like the smooth criminal he is, Oh,
this one's what's that? So?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That is an authentic porcupine quill?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So a weapon self defense? Oh? I need it?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So when we went to Montana last fall, my mom
and I went there on a bucket list trip and
we went all through Montana and Wyoming, and I came
home inspired. Hats are a big popular signature piece out
there for a lot of people, and they are extremely
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extremely popular, so I wanted to start making hats. Probably
ten years ago, when my husband and I attended the
Kentucky Derby, I always wanted to go, so he bought
tickets we went. I ended up designing my own hat
to go, and then after we went, I wanted to
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start making hats. Things happened, I didn't quite get into it,
and then yeah, life happens. And then when we went
to Montana this past fall, I just came home inspired,
I'm gonna make my own hat. Ended up making the
hat and wearing it to Ogilby Fest last fall, and
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I had a lot of people complimenting wanted to know
where I got it, and I told him, well, I
made it. So I thought, well, I'm going to make
a few more and see what happens. So I made
some more and started getting a lot of good reviews,
and I decided to take a few of my hats
up to Niini's Treasures at the Islands and they wanted
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to have some of my hats displayed in their store,
so we have a small showcase up there. And now
I've been obviously on social media posting things trying.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
To you were here last night for the concert.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, so last night was our first event that we
attended with our mobile vendor trailer that showcases a lot
of our hats and some different merchandise. We decided to
kind of add to it to create outfits and such
for people, and it people love it. It's I think
it's gonna be a hot new ticket.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Did you did you always want to be an entrepreneur
or did it just you saw the right thing and
it sparked something for you.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I've always been a very driven person. I grew up
with horses, loved horses, wanted to do something with horses.
And right now I own a farm Rowdy Rhythm Stables,
and we teach lessons and do horsemanship and I board horses.
But there was something my creative side wasn't being quite fulfilled. Yeah, fulfilled,
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and this was something I just kind of I just thought, well,
do it on the side and see what happens. And
it seems to.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Be doing well, very popular. Well, you mentioned that you
had the opportunity to go to the Derby. Yes, so
for those who haven't been able to attend in person,
kind of explain, paint the picture of what it is
like in person. Because we were talking Otis and I
were talking about it. Otis, you said you went to
the Preakness. Correct, all right, I've never had the opportunity
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to go to anything like that, So tell me what
it's like.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Oh my, it's it is quite the experience. It is
definitely if it's something you want to attend, you're interested in,
you should definitely at least.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Do it once. People watching good Oh yeah, yeah, it's
you will see.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Any and every kind of hat imaginable from fashionable, trendy.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Old school, old school.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You will see people walking around with beer cans on
their head for a hat. I mean, it is just it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Sounds like some events around here.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I've been anything and everything. You will see it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There are the guys getting into it too, ladies.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh no, there are just as many men. They're dressed
very dapper, bright collars, pastels. That's you would look out
of place if you didn't wear that.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It suspenders and everything. It's it's it's a big deal.
Kentucky itself is a different vibe with the with the
horse industry. That's the heart horse country in my opinion
of the ye whole United States. I mean it's Kentucky's
a big horse state. So they take it very seriously.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, I'm sure. With with the derby coming up and
and what you're doing, have you been able to or
have you been contacted to make specialty hats? Do you
do any thing that is that is specific to a
buyer or is it what you come up with your
own self personally?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, So last night we actually had the owner of
Ditto boutique, okay, buy a hat here for her dollar daughter.
Excuse me, Kelly Greer an upcoming musician. So, and I
was actually contacted first thing this morning by a young
lady that is interested. She's must do some judging at
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the casino for hat competitions and different things for the derby,
and they want to make would like me to make
them a couple of matching hats.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Like the co host of the show, I.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Don't have all the specifics and names and information, sure, right,
but yeah, so it seems to be I think it's
going to be really popular.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And the reception has been wonderful for yes, so congratulations,
we're going to we're gonna do a little mini fashion
show when we go to a break. Here, take some
pictures and we'll put them up on face Book because
you did bring us some beautiful hats, and like I said,
we're gonna get Otis involved too. So again, Betsy Dale Hats,
you can find you easily on Facebook, right, yes, all right,
(17:09):
and I'll share your page. Okay, yeah, wonderful. Well, thank
you and congrats on all your success. Thank you so
much for having me. Wonderful. It's a twenty eight. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. That was fun, the bloom
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Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. We
took some pictures during the break. We were doing some
hat tryons in honor of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, and
of course, once again, thank you to Betsy Dale of
Betsy Dale Hats for coming on in and bringing us
some bringing us some to try on and have some
fun with. So I'll get those pictures out on our
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Facebook page here shortly, and I will just tell you
that OTIS was thrilled, thrilled understatement. Did it fit?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Surprisingly, it was pretty close.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You and I both have pretty large noggins, if you will. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
That happens.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
But you had fun with it. You had fun with it.
Another thing that is going on here soon is your
real familiar with this. I've seen clips of this event,
but live aid the fortieth anniversary is there's a new
documentary series that will revisit, of course, the historic event
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concert marking its again, marking its fortieth anniversary. The series
was co produced by a BBC and CNN, will explore
the concert's impact on music, politics, and global awareness from
the nineteen eighty five event.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I actually recorded it on VHS and I have no
idea where that recording is. Oh, but you got to
figure So it was the summer of eighty five, so
for me, that was between my senior year and freshman
year of college. Okay, and MTV was probably at its peak,
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if not, you know, very close to its peak. I
mean it was, it was there. So it was hosted
by the MTV VJs. It was it was in two stadiums.
It was in Wembley in London and Philadelphia, I believe
so it was it was Wembley in Philadelphia. So London
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and Philadelphia were the two the two stadiums that they used. Amazing.
I mean, you know, you had all these people, all
these artists that came together and you know, performed a
you know, twenty minutes set, thirty minutes set, whatever it was,
and you had reunions and you had like compilations of
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people that you wouldn't have expected together. Phil Collins played
at Wembley, got on the concord, flew to Philadelphia and
played drums with Led Zeppelin in Philadelphia that night. Of
course he didn't you know, it was good as as
good as drummers Phil Collins was. He didn't carry Zeppelin.
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It was Tony Thompson who who was actually the drummer
for Chic. So like Lafreak and and all those seventies
disco songs. I don't know what she is, well you
would know the songs, okay, but you know they did
Lafreak and and they're the The one song that they
did is the backing song for rappers to Light and Okay, okay,
(20:43):
but anyway, that's Niles Rogers Tony Thompson anyway, but Tony Tony,
Like if you watch Tony Thompson during the Led Zeppelin set,
I mean, it's just impressive the drumming that he did.
But you know, it was just it was an event.
It was an all day event. If you were watching
it on MTV, like you, it was almost like you
could not leave your TV. Well, and it was.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Also excuse me, not only the music side of it,
but technology and whatever what they were able to pull
off for broadcast television at that point in time, that
was historic too well.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And then of course Freddie Mercury and Queen's.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Performance that was one of his last ones.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It was one of the last performances by Queen live,
if it wasn't the last one he and like Freddie was.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So ill, he was very thin.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well he like he almost like like it took everything
he had to go out on stage, and but he
just gave like the performance of a lifetime for thirty
five or forty minutes. And if you if you just
watch Queen's performance, it's worth worth it's worth it right.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
There, that performance. Knowing what we know now, you can
see through him and his energy in his eyes that
it is his love letter to the fans farewell. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can really see. And it's highlighted in the Queen
movie that came out what three or four years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
At this point, I actually I think I have I
have somewhere buried in somewhere, I have a live a
DVD which has all almost all the performances anybody that
you know, if you were, if you signed off on.
But it was it was the eighties. It was the
eighties Woodstock, but it was it wasn't a three day event.
It was a one day event in two cities. So
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it was more for TV than.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Woodstock was well, and at that point in time, MTV
was new and not new, but it was like right
in its in its yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It was at its peak. Yeah, yeah, I mean once
once they started to go to game shows and all shows,
it just kind of went downhill from there.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What was the game show Jenny McCarthy was on Rember.
It was a love connection that was that was an
old school but yeah, you're right when it started going
to things like that, and then was it fIF sixteen
and pregnant and all that kind of the reality shows.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It they broke ground with the Real World.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
No, right, No, that's different.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That was a little different, but you know that was
a groundbreak. Yes, But as far as like when you
when you when you turned on MTV, you wanted to
see videos and you wanted to see that, you know,
the interviews behind them and stuff like that. So I mean,
it was, it was. It was definitely the peak time.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, don't get me started on reality show conversation. Because
when I was in college, Survivor was maybe two years
old at that point, and I of course went to
school for communications in television history was one of the
classes I had, and it was it was great, it
was fascinating. But I remember my professor at the time
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giving Survivor the Moniker as the original, the first reality show,
and so you know, we're living through this, we haven't
seen this type of television before. And I remember saying, no,
you're not correct, and went back. Yeah, we went back
and forth, and I said, no, I'm sorry. The Real
(24:10):
World New York was the first reality show. It really was.
It was nobody had done anything like that before and
that was on MTV. And and but yeah, yeah, don't don't.
Don't argue with your college professor. And you can argue
with him, but don't straight out tell him you're wrong.
That didn't go over well. No, that did not go
(24:32):
over well. So back to the documentary. It will feature
six and a half hours of highlights, backstage footage and
interview from of course, the the numerous people that performed,
and of course we can't forget to talk about Bob Geldolf,
who was kind of the the mastermind behind this entire thing.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, he was. He was in the Boomtown Rats, which
is a band.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He's gone, correct.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I thought he had passed of cancer.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm sorry, I don't think so. I can do a
double check.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Also included in the documentary are conversations with Bono and
let's see here us former president. Uh no, I'm sorry
not it highlights key figures.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'm sorry, seventy three years old.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Seventy three.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
The thing about I think the three performances that stood
out for me, okay were obviously Queen was the led
Zeppelin and you two, you two just they were like
that's that. They were like the unforgettable fire with you know.
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Their early stuff was still banging at that time. It
was before eighty seven's uh the Unforgettable Fire and before
they got before they got huge.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Didn't they try to do a second Live Aid?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It might they did.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
They they did a second lives, uh not lives, So.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I don't know what they called it. There was a
there was a there was a i've aide here like
ten years ago or something like maybe at twenty five
years they tried to do it again. It just didn't
didn't have the same didn't have the didn't have them.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
The same effect.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So yeah, but that's happening, that will be happening and
being released. Let's see here. Like I said on BBC,
I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
To Uh, I'm sure it'll be released on video at
some point in time where you can purchase. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I was looking for dates and I don't see dates
or anything. So if you're a music fan, if you
haven't seen even clips from Live Aid, you're doing yourself
at disservice. Go and at minimum go watch the Queen performance.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I mean, if you watch one, if you have a
half an hour or so forty five minutes, you just
have to watch it. It's it's Freddie Mercury. And Queen
You're just incredible, and the effect that they had on
the audience, like all the when they did well No,
when they did Radio Gaga, which is a song I
can't stand. Okay, but they did Radio Gaga, and if
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you watch the like the audience is, it's almost like
it's scripted. How they didn't they look like they're all
I mean, everybody's in tune in time. It looked like
they rehearsed it for years.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
In modern day you would say the crowd was cgi'ed. Yeah,
that they're not real.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It was. It was. I mean, like it gives I
got chills just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, it's crazy, but yeah, do yourself a service this weekend.
Put it on in the background while you're doing stuff.
You've got to hear it. It's a forty six. You're
listening to The bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back at day fifty one,
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The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. So I've been corrected.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
H Yeah, we can get to that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Oh okay, first we got to go to our wonderful friend.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, our buddy up in the Highlands Straw Automotive. Kevin Cook, Kevin,
you wearing pants today?
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, wait, there's a reason it's National not pants Day.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Okay, that's for everybody to work from home.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So no, no, no, I have hope.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I have a hope.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I have another one. This is the man that knows
about horse power. It's Kentucky Derby Weekend. Yeah, there you go.
I thought that was pretty good. All right, fine, and
she's a rookie.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Swinging a miss swinging as Yeah, I'm pulling for Toby
Key's horse.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
How can you not?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
How can you know?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Rendered judgment?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yes, that's it. You were asking me earlier and I couldn't.
Had to pull up my list here.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
What's the odds on render judgment? Now?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I don't have the odds?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Thirty one?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I think they just changed that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I did they update it?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Okay, it's the number fifteen horse yep.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
So that's who I bet.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
That's who you're going for, going for the long shot.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
I'm going for the long shot.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You bet need to win or you bet need to
show Yeah. So that way, if he comes in third,
you get a little bit, you get a little Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
You get a little better, but everyone's on winter. Here
we go pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Strap everybody comes in first.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
To a great weekend to say, had an absolutely phenomenal April.
Had some records broken in service. Okay, we don't talk
enough about our service department, all right. It is the
highest rated service department in the valley. Whether it's Google reviews,
whether it's Facebook reviews, whether it's the manufacturer's Customer Satisfaction Index,
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which they track every day. These guys do an absolutely
phenomenal job of getting your vehicle in, making sure that
they go over it with one hundred and fifty one
point inspection every time it comes in, letting you know
what it needs now and you know what it may
need in a few months. They just do an absolutely
outstanding job. We're proud of each and every one of them.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Well, I can honestly say that at Elmgrove Dodge, where
I take my car plus my work card to get serviced,
those guys are Those guys and gals are absolutely phenomenal.
Everybody does a great job and they put up with me.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Well, that's very true, and we want to thank everyone
that did business with us, whether it was in the
service department sales, new used body shop parts. Everybody that
you know honored us with their hard earned money. You know,
last month, we're truly grateful for everyone that came out
and did business. But it was a great month, and
we're gonna have another great month this month. Still got
employee pricing at Forward Cross the Jeep and Ramp. You've
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got tear free pricing still at Honda, Hyunday, Nissan. Uh So,
come on out see for yourself how much you can say.
Start your shopping experience right there at drivestob dot com.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And if you go up today you'll see Kevin with
no pants on. Truth for no pans day.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
That is not.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
True shopping, that is not true.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Sure anyway, okay, all right, all right, he loves us.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
He's so afraid when his phone rings now and he
hears your voice.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So we did get a call from Richard from Wheeling
and he said that The actual first reality show aired
on PBS back in nineteen seventy three. It was called
An American Family. It chronicled their daily lives in Santa Barbara, California.
It followed Bill and Pat Loud along with their five kids, Lance,
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Kevin Grant, Delilah and Michelle, and it was an experimental
documentary is considered to be a landmark in reality TV.
And some of the things that I just little things
here are the Loud Family of Santa Barbara. It was
an audience of ten million viewers watched, so I mean
back in seventy three, that's pretty big. That's good numbers there.
It was a cultural phenomenon. They gained some fame out
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of it.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So was it like a one time thing or was
it a serial thing?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
They followed the family for twelve weeks of a rare
glimpse into the lives of a family.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
There were episodes. Okay, I mean it wasn't live obviously,
right not.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But from from what Richard told us was that they
came under scrutiny because eventually some of the things got
scripted because it maybe wasn't interesting enough. So I guess
maybe I think he said one of the sons came
out as gay, and obviously in seventies the seventies, that's
you know, a.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Little groundbreaking, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And so they somehow like how he did it maybe
got scripted, how he came out kind of got scripted,
And so I guess there was some scrutiny. I mean,
I'm just going on what what Kevin shared?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, thank you Kevin, right, I'm sorry, Richard Richard to
Shay Richard, I've not heard of that, and so now
I was incorrect, and so was my college professor.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
So well, you know, I mean it may not have
been labeled at the time as reality TV.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
That's it was important.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
It was listed probably is a document Well, excuse me,
the documentary?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well does PBS count?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I think it did, because I mean it was the
fourth network back then if you really think about it. Okay,
you had NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS. That was it.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Because seventy three there would not have been cable.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Correct, there was cable, but you wouldn't have had the mass. Right,
you still only had X amount of channels. Okay, so
like my grandparents had cable from the time it started
because that's the only way they could get Like, so
you only got you still only got thirteen channels, Okay,
you know you got seven and nine, and then you
got the Pittsburgh channels two, four and eleven.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
See I didn't have any of that, and then you got.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I think channel fifty three at one point in time,
and then you had Channel twenty four out of Morgantown
and Channel thirteen out of Pittsburgh, which were both PBS stations.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah. See, I didn't have anything like that until DirecTV
was available. We were never able to get that kind
of stuff. So but Richard, thank you for that. Thank
you for that call.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Little enlightening. Today we learned something.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We were edumacated this morning.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Which is very rare for us. We very rarely learn anything. Okay,
we got learned.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
We got so I said, we got edumacated, we got educated.
So I'm gonna just give you my pick for the Derby, Okay,
based on the name. We never got to it. So
I am going with Flying Mohawk, okay, because I just
love that name.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
So's I gotta look at the names.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Here, okay, uh their Citizen Bull.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna go with,
just because because of where we live. I'm going with
Cold Battle.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's what I was gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Okay, I'm surprised you didn't since your husband, I'm telling
you that you didn't backing.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, I'll be in trouble this week.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
You're working for the e p A.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh yeah, exactly, exactly. Okay, well those are our picks.
I'll put it up on Facebook. Tell us who you
think is gonna gonna pull it off tomorrow at the Derby. Hey, everybody,
wonderful Friday and enjoy it, Enjoy your beautiful weekend that's coming,
and we'll talk to you on Monday. See you then,
See number one talk 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 SEVENTYVA starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're back at eight six on this Friday morning. The
lights are the lights are flickering out in the Capitol Theater.
So what's happening tonight? Last night was the Big Country
concert with Terry Clark. Saw great picks online for that.
I'll have to look up what this one is happening tonight.
(00:44):
I'm sorry to say it. I can't remember, but anyways,
it's Friday. So before the break, we were talking about
health trends and what you can and you can't eat,
and one minute's bad for you, the next minute's good
for you, and listen it. Everybody's had this conversation at
this point in time where you say technology is listening
(01:06):
to you, right, how many of you have been in
a group of people and you're talking about I don't know,
something random, like you need a new lawnmower, I don't know,
something out of left field. That night you go on
your social media, next thing you know you've got every
ad possible from cub Cadet to Kboda to John Deere lawnmowers,
(01:33):
because they are listening to you. So, as I said
before the break, we're talking about health trends and what's
good and what's not good. I jump on social media.
I'm given this story. It's about the newest health trend,
the newest fad. If you will, Oh, has you been
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on your walking very consistently? Kudos to you, And I
don't want to know if you do this while you walk,
but maybe you're part of the trend and you don't
even know it. They are calling them fart walks. Okay,
(02:17):
there's health benefits, including how they can possibly even prevent cancer.
So basically, yeah, and that it's going for a fart
walk after dinner is something that can that is going
to help you age wonderfully. So there you have it.
(02:42):
It aids with the digestion, it helps keep away type
two diabetes, it prevents other things, and possibly it lowers
our risk of cancer. So there you have it. I
don't know what else to put on top of that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I'm just going to tell you what is at the
Capitol tonight. Oh yes, please, So today, Tomorrow, and Sunday.
It is the Believe National Talent Competition. Oh so this
is the twenty twenty five tour and this weekend they
are in Dublin, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling. And this
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Belief is a new world dance competition that believes it's
all about you the performer, featuring fabulous venues, professional stage
and sound, knowledgeable judges, and an event experience like no other.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So we need to get on auto tap shoes.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There's no shot. I don't have tap shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So it's just dancing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, so okay, that's about all it. Like for ticket info,
I think you have to buy from the Believe website,
not from the Capitol Fare. So okay, just to let
you know. That's just was looking at it, because it
doesn't say there's not a buy tickets to the event
that's on the Capital Theater page like there.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is for some of the Yeah click here, all right,
but it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Says but there's a link to the Believe Tour, so
that must be where you have to purchase your tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
All right. Well, if you haven't heard Tomors the Kentucky Derby.
Here are some of the names of Well, before you
go through the names, Okay, there's a little interesting fact. Okay,
give me some facts. So you've got a couple two.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
In nineteen seventy three, Secretariat was the Triple Crown winner
and probably one of, if not the greatest hours of
all time. Okay, more than half a century after Secretariat's
record breaking performance in the seventy three Kentucky Derby, Big
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Red's bloodline still features prominently in American horse racing. In fact,
every horse in the twenty twenty five Run for the
Roses descends from second Tariat. Really, yep, every every horse
in that races is a descendant of Secretariat. Wow, that's
that's that is impressive right there.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was a kid when Secretariat ran. But you know,
my mom loves watching the horse. The two things my
mom loves it's horse racing. She likes to watch the horse.
Is not a gambler, she just likes she likes the
beauty of it and figure skating, which we always I
always kid her about that. But anyway, she was in
love with Secretariat and the shed. They actually went to
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the Preakness in seventy three with some of her colleague
room mate and some friends from Maryland and they they
just said it was phenomenal. Like, I mean, you watch
the movies. Have you ever seen the movie Secretariat? It's
it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is that the one with Toby Maguire? No, that's that's
the other horse. That's it. No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, if you watch, if you watch Secretariat, that that
horse had a personality. I mean, like you can get
a dog, you know, you have dogs that are dogs,
and then you have that one dog that's almost human,
you know, like it seems like it understands everything you
say and.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It wants to respond yes, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's the way Secretariat was. It's just like it's like, hey,
I can do this, and we just but what an
amazing horse? Just you. But so every horse this So
that was my little trivia for you there that every
horse in this year's Kentucky Derby is a descendant of Secretariat.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's amazing, amazing. Was it the last horse to win? Okay,
I didn't think so.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now he was the first. It was the first horse
to win the Triple Crown in like thirty five years
or forty years or so. They say there was a
long break in between Triple Crown winners and that secretariat
then you had that was seventy three, and then I
think you had seventy seventy seven and seventy eight or
seventy eight seventy nine Triple Crown winners. So you've had
a few since then, and I think the last one
was about four or five years ago, six years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, and some of the facts that I have, the
most of the winning horses in the Derby have come
from Kentucky. The Derby is called the most exciting two
minutes in sports, which of course everybody hears that. What
do you think the entry fee is to have a
horse in the Derby?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
M it's it's probably up there. I'm going to say
it's somewhere in the vicinity of about two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Actually, no, the entry fee is twenty five thousand.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, that's a lot lower.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Than what you'll see. You'll see like there's twenty horses
in tomorrow's race. By the time it gets to the
Preakdness two weeks from tomorrow, that'll be down to about
twelve or thirteen. And then when you get to the Belmont,
it'll probably be like ten now, it'll be a ten
or under. It's especially if, especially if there's not a
triple Crownwe yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I've always it's one of it's one sportive sporting event.
I would love to go to just to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I've been to the Preakness.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh have you?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I was in I was in junior high when I
went to the preak News.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
There's not as much pomp and circumstances there is there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh yeah, there is. I mean it's but the Kentucky
Derby is the first one of the Triple Crown. So
that's the that's like it's the granddaddy. You know, there's
obviously the three races. So you have the Derby tomorrow,
two weeks you have the Preakness, and then three weeks
after that you have the Belmont. So you know, it's fun.
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Secretariat holds the record for at the Kentucky Derby and
the Belmont. So for the Belmont, secretariyat has the time,
the time, and this one by thirty one lengths like
like the other horse finished the next day. The one
that got second place came in like on Sunday. That's
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how that's how far ahead secretariat was.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
So then once they're retired, do they okay you may
not even know this, do they just run one season?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Depends it's up to you, Okay, I mean it's up
to the owner.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And then once they're retired, they go off for stud
work they could. Is that the right term? Stud work?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You go out the sire.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's it. That's the word I knew. It started with
an ass. Stud work sounds pretty good too.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's basically what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
There's a lot of men that think that too. Anyways,
it's eight fifteen. Speaking of the Kentucky Derby. We're gonna
talk the hat of it all because that's a big
part of the conversation. Tomorrow you want to be seen
on TV. That's part of the pretty much the goal
and it's a tradition. It's a fifteen on your Friday.
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The Bloomdaddy Experience salmon otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back. It's eight twenty one. The bloom Daddy Experience
salmon otis here on your Friday news radio WWVA. Before
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the break, we were talking about, of course, the big
Derby's tomorrow and one of the things with the Derby
is the tradition of the hats. The ladies, of course
go all out, but now the guys have gotten more
and more involved. So I met this wonderful lady that
joins me now in the studio, Betsy Dale. She's an
entrepreneur here in the Ohio Valley and it ties in
(10:27):
perfectly with the Derby because we're gonna talk hats, and
you have become kind of like the official hat person
of the High Valley with of course her company named
Betsy Dale Hat. So thanks for popping in this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Oh, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And what got you? What got you into this?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She brought us a couple to try on. Yes, kind
of the country themed and we'll take some pictures and
put those out there on social media so you can
see others the sparkles. O, this one's cool. Nice, nice,
So for everybody out there, we'll put some pictures up
(11:08):
on our social media. I'm going to get Otis to
put one on so he like the smooth criminal he is, Oh,
this one's what's that? So?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That is an authentic porcupine quill?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So a weapon self defense? Oh? I need it?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So when we went to Montana last fall, my mom
and I went there on a bucket list trip and
we went all through Montana and Wyoming, and I came
home inspired. Hats are a big popular signature piece out
there for a lot of people, and they are extremely
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extremely popular, so I wanted to start making hats. Probably
ten years ago, when my husband and I attended the
Kentucky Derby, I always wanted to go, so he bought
tickets we went. I ended up designing my own hat
to go, and then after we went, I wanted to
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start making hats. Things happened, I didn't quite get into it,
and then yeah, life happens. And then when we went
to Montana this past fall, I just came home inspired,
I'm gonna make my own hat. Ended up making the
hat and wearing it to Ogilby Fest last fall, and
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I had a lot of people complimenting wanted to know
where I got it, and I told him, well, I
made it. So I thought, well, I'm going to make
a few more and see what happens. So I made
some more and started getting a lot of good reviews,
and I decided to take a few of my hats
up to Niini's Treasures at the Islands and they wanted
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to have some of my hats displayed in their store,
so we have a small showcase up there. And now
I've been obviously on social media posting things trying.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
To you were here last night for the concert.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, so last night was our first event that we
attended with our mobile vendor trailer that showcases a lot
of our hats and some different merchandise. We decided to
kind of add to it to create outfits and such
for people, and it people love it. It's I think
it's gonna be a hot new ticket.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Did you did you always want to be an entrepreneur
or did it just you saw the right thing and
it sparked something for you.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I've always been a very driven person. I grew up
with horses, loved horses, wanted to do something with horses.
And right now I own a farm Rowdy Rhythm Stables,
and we teach lessons and do horsemanship and I board horses.
But there was something my creative side wasn't being quite fulfilled. Yeah, fulfilled,
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and this was something I just kind of I just thought, well,
do it on the side and see what happens. And
it seems to.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Be doing well, very popular. Well, you mentioned that you
had the opportunity to go to the Derby. Yes, so
for those who haven't been able to attend in person,
kind of explain, paint the picture of what it is
like in person. Because we were talking Otis and I
were talking about it. Otis, you said you went to
the Preakness. Correct, all right, I've never had the opportunity
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to go to anything like that, So tell me what
it's like.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Oh my, it's it is quite the experience. It is
definitely if it's something you want to attend, you're interested in,
you should definitely at least.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Do it once. People watching good Oh yeah, yeah, it's
you will see.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Any and every kind of hat imaginable from fashionable, trendy.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Old school, old school.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You will see people walking around with beer cans on
their head for a hat. I mean, it is just it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Sounds like some events around here.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I've been anything and everything. You will see it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There are the guys getting into it too, ladies.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh no, there are just as many men. They're dressed
very dapper, bright collars, pastels. That's you would look out
of place if you didn't wear that.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It suspenders and everything. It's it's it's a big deal.
Kentucky itself is a different vibe with the with the
horse industry. That's the heart horse country in my opinion
of the ye whole United States. I mean it's Kentucky's
a big horse state. So they take it very seriously.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, I'm sure. With with the derby coming up and
and what you're doing, have you been able to or
have you been contacted to make specialty hats? Do you
do any thing that is that is specific to a
buyer or is it what you come up with your
own self personally?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, So last night we actually had the owner of
Ditto boutique, okay, buy a hat here for her dollar daughter.
Excuse me, Kelly Greer an upcoming musician. So, and I
was actually contacted first thing this morning by a young
lady that is interested. She's must do some judging at
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the casino for hat competitions and different things for the derby,
and they want to make would like me to make
them a couple of matching hats.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Like the co host of the show, I.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Don't have all the specifics and names and information, sure, right,
but yeah, so it seems to be I think it's
going to be really popular.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And the reception has been wonderful for yes, so congratulations,
we're going to we're gonna do a little mini fashion
show when we go to a break. Here, take some
pictures and we'll put them up on face Book because
you did bring us some beautiful hats, and like I said,
we're gonna get Otis involved too. So again, Betsy Dale Hats,
you can find you easily on Facebook, right, yes, all right,
(17:09):
and I'll share your page. Okay, yeah, wonderful. Well, thank
you and congrats on all your success. Thank you so
much for having me. Wonderful. It's a twenty eight. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. That was fun, the bloom
(17:32):
Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. We
took some pictures during the break. We were doing some
hat tryons in honor of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, and
of course, once again, thank you to Betsy Dale of
Betsy Dale Hats for coming on in and bringing us
some bringing us some to try on and have some
fun with. So I'll get those pictures out on our
(17:52):
Facebook page here shortly, and I will just tell you
that OTIS was thrilled, thrilled understatement. Did it fit?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Surprisingly, it was pretty close.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You and I both have pretty large noggins, if you will. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
That happens.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
But you had fun with it. You had fun with it.
Another thing that is going on here soon is your
real familiar with this. I've seen clips of this event,
but live aid the fortieth anniversary is there's a new
documentary series that will revisit, of course, the historic event
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concert marking its again, marking its fortieth anniversary. The series
was co produced by a BBC and CNN, will explore
the concert's impact on music, politics, and global awareness from
the nineteen eighty five event.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I actually recorded it on VHS and I have no
idea where that recording is. Oh, but you got to
figure So it was the summer of eighty five, so
for me, that was between my senior year and freshman
year of college. Okay, and MTV was probably at its peak,
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if not, you know, very close to its peak. I
mean it was, it was there. So it was hosted
by the MTV VJs. It was it was in two stadiums.
It was in Wembley in London and Philadelphia, I believe
so it was it was Wembley in Philadelphia. So London
(19:35):
and Philadelphia were the two the two stadiums that they used. Amazing.
I mean, you know, you had all these people, all
these artists that came together and you know, performed a
you know, twenty minutes set, thirty minutes set, whatever it was,
and you had reunions and you had like compilations of
(19:57):
people that you wouldn't have expected together. Phil Collins played
at Wembley, got on the concord, flew to Philadelphia and
played drums with Led Zeppelin in Philadelphia that night. Of
course he didn't you know, it was good as as
good as drummers Phil Collins was. He didn't carry Zeppelin.
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It was Tony Thompson who who was actually the drummer
for Chic. So like Lafreak and and all those seventies
disco songs. I don't know what she is, well you
would know the songs, okay, but you know they did
Lafreak and and they're the The one song that they
did is the backing song for rappers to Light and Okay, okay,
(20:43):
but anyway, that's Niles Rogers Tony Thompson anyway, but Tony Tony,
Like if you watch Tony Thompson during the Led Zeppelin set,
I mean, it's just impressive the drumming that he did.
But you know, it was just it was an event.
It was an all day event. If you were watching
it on MTV, like you, it was almost like you
could not leave your TV. Well, and it was.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Also excuse me, not only the music side of it,
but technology and whatever what they were able to pull
off for broadcast television at that point in time, that
was historic too well.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And then of course Freddie Mercury and Queen's.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Performance that was one of his last ones.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It was one of the last performances by Queen live,
if it wasn't the last one he and like Freddie was.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So ill, he was very thin.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well he like he almost like like it took everything
he had to go out on stage, and but he
just gave like the performance of a lifetime for thirty
five or forty minutes. And if you if you just
watch Queen's performance, it's worth worth it's worth it right.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
There, that performance. Knowing what we know now, you can
see through him and his energy in his eyes that
it is his love letter to the fans farewell. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can really see. And it's highlighted in the Queen
movie that came out what three or four years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
At this point, I actually I think I have I
have somewhere buried in somewhere, I have a live a
DVD which has all almost all the performances anybody that
you know, if you were, if you signed off on.
But it was it was the eighties. It was the
eighties Woodstock, but it was it wasn't a three day event.
It was a one day event in two cities. So
(22:33):
it was more for TV than.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Woodstock was well, and at that point in time, MTV
was new and not new, but it was like right
in its in its yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It was at its peak. Yeah, yeah, I mean once
once they started to go to game shows and all shows,
it just kind of went downhill from there.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What was the game show Jenny McCarthy was on Rember.
It was a love connection that was that was an
old school but yeah, you're right when it started going
to things like that, and then was it fIF sixteen
and pregnant and all that kind of the reality shows.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It they broke ground with the Real World.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
No, right, No, that's different.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That was a little different, but you know that was
a groundbreak. Yes, But as far as like when you
when you when you turned on MTV, you wanted to
see videos and you wanted to see that, you know,
the interviews behind them and stuff like that. So I mean,
it was, it was. It was definitely the peak time.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, don't get me started on reality show conversation. Because
when I was in college, Survivor was maybe two years
old at that point, and I of course went to
school for communications in television history was one of the
classes I had, and it was it was great, it
was fascinating. But I remember my professor at the time
(23:50):
giving Survivor the Moniker as the original, the first reality show,
and so you know, we're living through this, we haven't
seen this type of television before. And I remember saying, no,
you're not correct, and went back. Yeah, we went back
and forth, and I said, no, I'm sorry. The Real
(24:10):
World New York was the first reality show. It really was.
It was nobody had done anything like that before and
that was on MTV. And and but yeah, yeah, don't don't.
Don't argue with your college professor. And you can argue
with him, but don't straight out tell him you're wrong.
That didn't go over well. No, that did not go
(24:32):
over well. So back to the documentary. It will feature
six and a half hours of highlights, backstage footage and
interview from of course, the the numerous people that performed,
and of course we can't forget to talk about Bob Geldolf,
who was kind of the the mastermind behind this entire thing.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, he was. He was in the Boomtown Rats, which
is a band.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He's gone, correct.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I thought he had passed of cancer.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm sorry, I don't think so. I can do a
double check.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Also included in the documentary are conversations with Bono and
let's see here us former president. Uh no, I'm sorry
not it highlights key figures.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'm sorry, seventy three years old.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Seventy three.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
The thing about I think the three performances that stood
out for me, okay were obviously Queen was the led
Zeppelin and you two, you two just they were like
that's that. They were like the unforgettable fire with you know.
(25:37):
Their early stuff was still banging at that time. It
was before eighty seven's uh the Unforgettable Fire and before
they got before they got huge.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Didn't they try to do a second Live Aid?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It might they did.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
They they did a second lives, uh not lives, So.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I don't know what they called it. There was a
there was a there was a i've aide here like
ten years ago or something like maybe at twenty five
years they tried to do it again. It just didn't
didn't have the same didn't have the didn't have them.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
The same effect.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So yeah, but that's happening, that will be happening and
being released. Let's see here. Like I said on BBC,
I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
To Uh, I'm sure it'll be released on video at
some point in time where you can purchase. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I was looking for dates and I don't see dates
or anything. So if you're a music fan, if you
haven't seen even clips from Live Aid, you're doing yourself
at disservice. Go and at minimum go watch the Queen performance.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I mean, if you watch one, if you have a
half an hour or so forty five minutes, you just
have to watch it. It's it's Freddie Mercury. And Queen
You're just incredible, and the effect that they had on
the audience, like all the when they did well No,
when they did Radio Gaga, which is a song I
can't stand. Okay, but they did Radio Gaga, and if
(26:56):
you watch the like the audience is, it's almost like
it's scripted. How they didn't they look like they're all
I mean, everybody's in tune in time. It looked like
they rehearsed it for years.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
In modern day you would say the crowd was cgi'ed. Yeah,
that they're not real.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It was. It was. I mean, like it gives I
got chills just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, it's crazy, but yeah, do yourself a service this weekend.
Put it on in the background while you're doing stuff.
You've got to hear it. It's a forty six. You're
listening to The bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back at day fifty one,
(27:40):
The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. So I've been corrected.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
H Yeah, we can get to that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Oh okay, first we got to go to our wonderful friend.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, our buddy up in the Highlands Straw Automotive. Kevin Cook, Kevin,
you wearing pants today?
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, wait, there's a reason it's National not pants Day.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Okay, that's for everybody to work from home.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So no, no, no, I have hope.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I have a hope.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I have another one. This is the man that knows
about horse power. It's Kentucky Derby Weekend. Yeah, there you go.
I thought that was pretty good. All right, fine, and
she's a rookie.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Swinging a miss swinging as Yeah, I'm pulling for Toby
Key's horse.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
How can you not?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
How can you know?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Rendered judgment?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yes, that's it. You were asking me earlier and I couldn't.
Had to pull up my list here.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
What's the odds on render judgment? Now?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I don't have the odds?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Thirty one?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I think they just changed that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I did they update it?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Okay, it's the number fifteen horse yep.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
So that's who I bet.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
That's who you're going for, going for the long shot.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
I'm going for the long shot.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You bet need to win or you bet need to
show Yeah. So that way, if he comes in third,
you get a little bit, you get a little Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
You get a little better, but everyone's on winter. Here
we go pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Strap everybody comes in first.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
To a great weekend to say, had an absolutely phenomenal April.
Had some records broken in service. Okay, we don't talk
enough about our service department, all right. It is the
highest rated service department in the valley. Whether it's Google reviews,
whether it's Facebook reviews, whether it's the manufacturer's Customer Satisfaction Index,
(29:38):
which they track every day. These guys do an absolutely
phenomenal job of getting your vehicle in, making sure that
they go over it with one hundred and fifty one
point inspection every time it comes in, letting you know
what it needs now and you know what it may
need in a few months. They just do an absolutely
outstanding job. We're proud of each and every one of them.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Well, I can honestly say that at Elmgrove Dodge, where
I take my car plus my work card to get serviced,
those guys are Those guys and gals are absolutely phenomenal.
Everybody does a great job and they put up with me.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Well, that's very true, and we want to thank everyone
that did business with us, whether it was in the
service department sales, new used body shop parts. Everybody that
you know honored us with their hard earned money. You know,
last month, we're truly grateful for everyone that came out
and did business. But it was a great month, and
we're gonna have another great month this month. Still got
employee pricing at Forward Cross the Jeep and Ramp. You've
(30:36):
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Speaker 3 (30:46):
And if you go up today you'll see Kevin with
no pants on. Truth for no pans day.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
That is not.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
True shopping, that is not true.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Sure anyway, okay, all right, all right, he loves us.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
He's so afraid when his phone rings now and he
hears your voice.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So we did get a call from Richard from Wheeling
and he said that The actual first reality show aired
on PBS back in nineteen seventy three. It was called
An American Family. It chronicled their daily lives in Santa Barbara, California.
It followed Bill and Pat Loud along with their five kids, Lance,
(31:27):
Kevin Grant, Delilah and Michelle, and it was an experimental
documentary is considered to be a landmark in reality TV.
And some of the things that I just little things
here are the Loud Family of Santa Barbara. It was
an audience of ten million viewers watched, so I mean
back in seventy three, that's pretty big. That's good numbers there.
It was a cultural phenomenon. They gained some fame out
(31:50):
of it.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So was it like a one time thing or was
it a serial thing?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
They followed the family for twelve weeks of a rare
glimpse into the lives of a family.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
There were episodes. Okay, I mean it wasn't live obviously,
right not.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But from from what Richard told us was that they
came under scrutiny because eventually some of the things got
scripted because it maybe wasn't interesting enough. So I guess
maybe I think he said one of the sons came
out as gay, and obviously in seventies the seventies, that's
you know, a.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Little groundbreaking, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And so they somehow like how he did it maybe
got scripted, how he came out kind of got scripted,
And so I guess there was some scrutiny. I mean,
I'm just going on what what Kevin shared?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, thank you Kevin, right, I'm sorry, Richard Richard to
Shay Richard, I've not heard of that, and so now
I was incorrect, and so was my college professor.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
So well, you know, I mean it may not have
been labeled at the time as reality TV.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
That's it was important.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
It was listed probably is a document Well, excuse me,
the documentary?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well does PBS count?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I think it did, because I mean it was the
fourth network back then if you really think about it. Okay,
you had NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS. That was it.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Because seventy three there would not have been cable.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Correct, there was cable, but you wouldn't have had the mass. Right,
you still only had X amount of channels. Okay, so
like my grandparents had cable from the time it started
because that's the only way they could get Like, so
you only got you still only got thirteen channels, Okay,
you know you got seven and nine, and then you
got the Pittsburgh channels two, four and eleven.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
See I didn't have any of that, and then you got.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I think channel fifty three at one point in time,
and then you had Channel twenty four out of Morgantown
and Channel thirteen out of Pittsburgh, which were both PBS stations.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah. See, I didn't have anything like that until DirecTV
was available. We were never able to get that kind
of stuff. So but Richard, thank you for that. Thank
you for that call.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Little enlightening. Today we learned something.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We were edumacated this morning.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Which is very rare for us. We very rarely learn anything. Okay,
we got learned.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
We got so I said, we got edumacated, we got educated.
So I'm gonna just give you my pick for the Derby, Okay,
based on the name. We never got to it. So
I am going with Flying Mohawk, okay, because I just
love that name.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
So's I gotta look at the names.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Here, okay, uh their Citizen Bull.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna go with,
just because because of where we live. I'm going with
Cold Battle.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's what I was gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Okay, I'm surprised you didn't since your husband, I'm telling
you that you didn't backing.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, I'll be in trouble this week.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
You're working for the e p A.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh yeah, exactly, exactly. Okay, well those are our picks.
I'll put it up on Facebook. Tell us who you
think is gonna gonna pull it off tomorrow at the Derby. Hey, everybody,
wonderful Friday and enjoy it, Enjoy your beautiful weekend that's coming,
and we'll talk to you on Monday. See you then,
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