The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 6, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
The Bloomdaddy Experience. He g'its seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Jim or Nacy's no idiot. He's a former congressman.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Bloo Daddy showed plitical analist and he joins me right now, Jim,
hope you had a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I did Boom Daddy about yourself?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I good one, Yeah, no complaints. Get some sleep, which
is always a good thing. Speaking of the weekend. Going
into the weekend, Jim stocks rose Friday. Wall Street had
better than expected numbers, The S and P five hundred
had a winning streak. This comes a day after the
tech heavy Nasdaq accomplished the same feat. Question to you
is does this signal that recession fears have been overblown?

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Boom I will tell you that when Liberty Liberation Day,
as President Trump called it was announced, I do believe
the market was very concerned because much steeper tariffs were
imposed on all US trading partners and expected and that's
what we're talking about. The market fell twelve percent, the
dal Jones average fell eleven percent. It was the fear of,

(01:22):
oh no, what's happening? And I think that's what happens
to businesses, That's what happens to economies whenever they don't
have certainty and predictability. So there was a lot of
that there. Thank goodness, and I say this because I
do believe this is what changed the market. President Trump
realized when the not the stock market, but when the

(01:46):
bond market started to weaken, and he realized that what
was going on was the US dollar also saying and
there was a signal of diminishing faith in the United States.
He eased those tariffs, and because he eased the tariffs,
people started to say, Okay, this president isn't willing to
push the throttle all the way. And that's what started,

(02:06):
I believe, to bring this market back. But I also
tell you, and you said that some of the things
that brought the market back, or earnings reports are still good.
The jobs report last week was still good. With all
of this issues of tariffs, the underlying reports are still good.
Now here's the fear though. The tariffs really haven't hit

(02:28):
yet because product was already on people's shelves. Cars were
already here. And the real key is what will happen
in four to five months if President Trump continues to
push these tariffs and these products do come in at
a higher cost, will there be a recession?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
What do you foresee?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I mean, are we about to get some trade deals
that will allow the stock market to keep going higher?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, here's what I do think. I know President Trump's
a very smart man, and he's not going to push
to the point where he says he's going to. He's
going to pull back. He's already talking about dealing with China,
even though China has said we're not dealing with you
unless you pull these tariffs down. So China's holding pretty stiff.
But I think the president's smart enough that he does

(03:11):
not want this to happen. And I will bet we'll
get some deals. They won't be what we expect. We
won't even know what all the deals are. The President
will say we won We're happy, we move forward. I
think that's where we end up. At some point in time.
We're going to get a couple of deals announced, They're
going to look great. But quite frankly, the question is
should we have gone through all this because Boomdaddy, I

(03:33):
take you back to twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen, Trump
threatened tariffs, did not imposed tariffs, and we got better
trade deals back then. Now we're renegotiating the trade deals
that he got without pushing tariffs. This time he did
push tariffs. Do we get some movement? I'm sure we do.
Do we lose some things? I think we do as well.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Talking to Jim or Acy, former Congressman, bloom Daddy showed
political analyst. Let's jump over to some senate Democrats. They're
floating the idea that former Vice President Kamala Harris should
make another presidential run in twenty twenty eight. Is this
really the route Democrats want to go after she lost
all seven battleground states to Trump.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
You know, it's amazing that they're still talking about her. Now, look,
in politics, you only have a short shelf life. Her
shelf life is going to diminish year after year, and
she's going to lose a lot of steam. So that's
why if you are even considering running for something, you've
got to get out and start talking about it. And
that's why I think she's doing that. In the end,

(04:38):
I do believe there are other Democrats going to step up,
whether it's the governor of Kentucky, the governor of Pennsylvania.
There's a bunch of governors who have Governor of Pennsylvania
has a seventy percent approval rating with Republicans and Democrats.
I think this is the type of person that's probably
going to step up and be the next leader of
the Democrat Party. It's certainly should not be Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
You're mentioning Josh Shapiro but he wasn't selected as her
VP because he's Jewish, because a large swath of that
left that controls the Democratic Party are anti Israel. So
do you really think they'll get behind him to be
the face of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, keep in mind, now, see I heard, and I
did hear that was part of it. But I also
heard he did not want to be her VP because
he did not want to go down a losing train,
and that was probably a smart move on his part too.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
So so do you think AOC and Illjuan Omore and
the left that seems to be controlling everything in that
party will get behind Shapiro.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
It'll be interesting. I'm not saying they will. I think
things will change. Politics is strange. You know, by the
time this rolls around another year and a half from now,
they're going to be wanting somebody who's going to have support,
who's going to get national attention. And I'm not saying
it's going to be him, but I'm saying there are
governors out there that could attract that middle of the

(06:04):
road independent and Trump's biggest problem, and it's of course
going to be JD Vance if he runs is right now,
the Independence have totally tanked against him. I think I
saw a poll that shows only twenty seven percent of
Independence support the Trump Vance program right now. So somebody's
got to win those votes, either Trump JD the Republican

(06:27):
Party has to win those back, or a solid middle
of the road Democrat's going to take them.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
All right, So let's go back and look at this objectively.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
With Kamala Harris, everybody thought Trump's political career was on
the Democratic side, was over after that loss in twenty twenty,
and he had arguably the greatest political comeback in history.
Is Kamala Harris capable of something like that. I mean,
you just said things switching politics very quickly.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Well, I do. Look, I do believe that anything is possible.
Richard Nixon, you know, loss to John F. Kennedy and
then he came rolling back too. So this is all possible.
It all depends on where the wins are, the economy are,
and anything could happen. I think what people really do
is trend its sentiment and where they're feeling today. People

(07:17):
are not happy. I just saw another poll. I know
a lot of your listeners always contact me and say,
I don't know why you watch those polls, but I
saw several polls now that are showing the Democrat seven
point lead on Republicans, which shows that it happened in
twenty eighteen. It could happen again in twenty twenty six.
It could happen again in twenty twenty eight It depends

(07:39):
on where public sentiment goes and what the current administration
does to change that.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
All right, I'm going to push you one more time
before I let you go. You mentioned polls. Can we
really take polls serious anymore? Can we even take the
national media serious anymore?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Jim?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
What could Americans do to really gauge what's going on
in politics after the holes got everything.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Wrong in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And we know the national media, the vast majority of
them are the pr arm of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, so national media. Look what I try and do,
and as I try and look at all media, and
I tell you it's tough. But I don't just focus
on one station because I want to try and be objective.
I'll focus on five saves. My wife sometimes says, what
the hell are you doing watching that station? Well, it's
my way of trying to figure out what they're saying,
what Fox is saying, what they're all saying. So can

(08:34):
you trust them?

Speaker 5 (08:34):
No?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
But can you get somewhat of an opinion from all
of them? Yes. It's like the polls. Can you trust
one pole? No? But I do think polls are best
used if you just follow them as a guide and
see what the trends are telling us. And that's the
real key. When look, you got eight or nine polls
have come out last week to show that Trump is

(08:55):
anywhere from thirty nine percent to forty five percent approval
rating a good feelling that's where he's at. I spoke
with a group of businessmen today, they're not happy with
President Trump, and they all voted for him. So I
think those are the kind of things that do come
out in a poll that you almost have to just
take some consideration of, but not count on any single poll.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hi, Jim, thank you for the time.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
All right, thank you?

Speaker 6 (09:19):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Jim Ernacy, former Congress and Bloomdaddy show political analysts. Those
same polls, which again, what can you really take from
these things anymore, also say that the Democratic Party has
got the lowest approval rating since they've been doing it.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
So there's another poll for you.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
Well, Good morning, seven twenty one The bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Thank you
once again to bloom Daddy and Jim Ornacy for kicking
off the show this morning. A couple bits of housekeeping,
just to remind you tomorrow we're going to be doing
our randomizer for our free lunch, So get in your submissions,

(10:06):
your entries Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. Just need your name,
company and phone number, and then of course we will
bring you free lunch on Friday thanks to our friends
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Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name company and phone number.
Pretty simple for free lunch. I mean, come on now

(10:30):
and we feed ten of you. So the eleventh person
in your office that loses out tough luck. But anyways, Sam,
that's brutal. Yeah, that's brutal vicious this.

Speaker 8 (10:45):
Morning, Like you could share, maybe cut one of those
little things in half, or maybe get a couple people
to like trim the edge off and so that there's
like a next extra one.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Okay, fine, maybe I'm just I'm a selfish brutal mate.
So okay, you otis you made? You probably don't get
the same ads that I get for a lot of
things on streaming TV. But recently, and and here's why

(11:17):
I'm bringing this up twofold, there are two things that
have come to my attention in the past forty eight
hours that has made me start asking, is there anything
that we will not in this day and age consider entertainment.

(11:39):
My first point is TLC. Everybody remembers that that television
station TLC actually stands for the Learning Channel, but they
are also the channel that brought us the Mormon Wives show.
It is it is no fiance all of these controversial

(12:03):
reality shows. It has taken a hard left turn from
what it originally started as as the Learning Channel. Well,
it's latest in programming is called Pauly Family and what
it does is it highlights and magnifies a new trending
type of relationship which is called a closed quad. So

(12:27):
there are two couples Alicia and Tyler and Sean and Taya.
They all four live together, they date each other, and
they parent one another's children. Currently, one of the women
is pregnant with another child, and due to their special

(12:48):
sleeping arrangements, they're not sure which man in the quad
is the biological father. This is their newest programming on
the Learning Channel FYI. On top of that, I saw

(13:10):
about a new video game. So if you remember the days,
my video games growing up were Super Mario Brothers, Doc Hunt,
Cubert Otis. Did you have a favorite video game?

Speaker 8 (13:23):
Well, you got to remember when I was video games,
Like I was there when Pong came.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
So but yeah, I mean I liked when when I
had my Atari, I liked Pitfall, and then when I
had the Nintendo, uh it was Technobil.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
Okay, Well this this is definitely not your grandpa's Pong.
Or techno bill.

Speaker 9 (13:46):
It's not my games.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
Yeah, it's called No Mercy. And when I saw the headline,
I was like, Okay, that's not that's what. Why is
this causing such a you know, wrinkling, you know, fluffing
everybody's feathers. Why is this god everybody in such an uproar?
Then I read what it is. It's a streaming video

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game that was released in April. The game I'm going
to read this. The game allows players to control a
character who rapes, tortures, and kills women, and it did
not carry an age rating or content Warrior warning when
purchasing the game. Critics are calling it a rape simulator.

(14:36):
Now this brings me back to my original question. We
started this off at a certain point in time. Have
we lost sight of our morals? Our values? Do we
have a limitation when it comes to what we call entertainment?

(14:58):
So there are countries that have stepped in. Again, this
is a streaming type of video game. We're not talking
the old style. You know, I couldn't tell you how
video games are played at this point in time anymore.
I have no idea. I know teenagers that have four
or five monitors on their wall. And they play with
people all around the world. When it comes to video games,

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the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, they have banned the
video game now the platform that it was housed on,
and the maker of the video game, which is Zought Games,
they have removed the video game from the platform. The

(15:41):
United States, it was still allowed up until the day
it was removed, so the US was okay with having
this accessible to people now. One thing that people always
argue when it comes to conversations like this, when it
comes to topics like this, it's the parent's responsibility. I

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do not disagree. It is the parent's responsibility to monitor
what their children have access to. My question is to
the makers, why why? What is the point of this
video game? What is the point of this content? Why

(16:25):
is this considered in this day and age a form
of entertainment. They did put out a statement where they
were pretty much defending the different particular themes within this,
one being incest. They started off with, real, incest is

(16:47):
something disgusting, but it's also one of the most popular
kinks worldwide. Really, you're defending it rape once again, it's terrible.
No one wants anyone to get hurt. However, it's a
popular fetish. This is what we're putting in video games.

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And in the end of the press release PS, if
you have purchased the game, you will not lose access
to it even though it's been fool Thank goodness for that.
Where have we gotten people? Seven twenty eight The Bloomdaddy
Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome

(17:36):
back seven thirty six on your Tuesday, The Bloomdaddy Experienced
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. As you
wake up this morning, just a little note if you
have folks like this who chose this career path in
your orbit. Today is National Teacher's Day and it's the

(17:57):
kick off of National Nurses Week. Today is Nurse's Day,
making it again the first day starting the celebration of
Nurses Week. So if you have a you know, a
family member or somebody that you're close to who's a
nursery teacher, you know, celebrate them today a little bit,
take them to lunch. I don't know the week at
the Nurses week Ends May twelfth, on the birthday of

(18:20):
Florence Nightingale, which of course is widely recognized as the
founder of modern day nursing. So if you know a nurse,
you know a teacher, celebrate them today. So otis, I
was walking around Wheeling at the end of last week,
and I don't know if you've seen those. I'm sure
you have based on what you do besides here, but

(18:45):
I noticed popping up around the city are these new
little signs and they're talking about PODA. Okay, And if
I'm familiar, the city of Saint Clairsville has something very similar.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
And for Wheeling, it's the private outdoor designated area. It
has to do with alcohol.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
It does, so.

Speaker 7 (19:13):
Edgemacate me a few, okay.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
So it's funny that you brought this up because this
was a big conversation yesterday.

Speaker 7 (19:20):
Oh okay, perfect.

Speaker 8 (19:22):
So PODA, what it does is a city. Morgantown has
it right now. I think Charleston has it, maybe Huntington.
And what they've done is that it allows so in
the state of West Virginia, it is illegal to take
an open drink out of a licensed establishment. So in

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other words, I can't go into Joe's Bar and grill
order a rum and coke in a plastic or paper
cup or a beer or a glass of wine or
anything of that nature and carry it outside the premises.
That that's that's is against the state code, against the law,
whatever you want to call it, even if.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
You're going to another drinking establishment.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
I'm not this doesn't have to do with PODA. I'm
just saying. I'm just saying in general, that's the law, okay, Yes,
And you can't carry a an open containers. In other words,
I can't say leave maybe maybe I live two doors
away from a bar. I can't leave my house with
a can of Budweiser drinking it and walk into an
establishment drinking my own beer.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
That's against state.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
CODEA Currently, you have to finish it where you bought it.

Speaker 8 (20:33):
Well, I'm just saying, yeah, you can't bring it in.
You can't bring it in, you can't take it out, right, Okay.
So this POTO. What this does is it allows participating
bars to in the designated area of the city to.

Speaker 9 (20:50):
Go from bar to bar.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
And allow them to leave a bar with a drink
and go to the next bar with that drink.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
Now they have to be participating ours. And the city of.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
Wheeling has designated basically from heritage Port to Chaplain Street
from tenth to fourteenth and then Maine in Market all
the way down in the center market. Do you want
me to give my opinion on this or do you
want me to explain a little bit more so what

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it allows. So if you are a member there, it
has to be in a designated cup which has to
have the Poda logo on it, and the establishment has
to have the Poda sticker in the window. So there
is a there's a blue wind for Poda drinks sold here,
Poda drinks welcome here is green, and then there's a

(21:44):
red wind, no PDA drinks. So that would be for
a non participating license.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
And this allows you to walk from establishment to establishment.

Speaker 9 (21:55):
Whatever. Okay.

Speaker 8 (21:57):
And I'm not familiar with where Charleston's is. I'm not
familiar where where any of the other ones are. But
Morgantown on High Street, there are bars up and down
High Street, bars and restaurants, and so you're talking like
one street, maybe six to eight blocks. I don't know

(22:21):
exactly how many that you're going, maybe two streets. I
don't know the exact area of Morgantown, but everything's basically
on High Street. They may include one street on each side.
But and that allows you to leave an establishment with
your drink and go to the next participating establishment with
that drink. Now, it's not meant for you to stay

(22:43):
on the street and socialize and and have a big
outdoor party. That's not the intent.

Speaker 10 (22:50):
Yeah, it's not bring your own pop up and set
up a right, It's basically it's basically allowing you to
walk from bar restaurant A to bar rest rawn B.

Speaker 7 (23:00):
Okay. So let me let me just paint a picture
of an example. So you're out with a bunch of
friends and there's ten of you, right, and you start
off at bar A okay, and six of the ten
people they got through their drinks quickly. There's that bar
is kind of slow. They're not enjoying it. They want
to go playpool somewhere yep, okay. But the other four

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are kind of nursing their drinks. So what this does
is give all ten people in that group, even those
that have not finished their drinks, as long as they're
in that special cup, the ability to move on to
bar b sure without having to wait for or thing
is to finish right, or you can take one to
like if I finished ahead of you.

Speaker 9 (23:45):
I can.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
I can say, hey, let me have a beer. I'll
put it in the cup and as we're walking, you're
finishing yours. I'll finish mine on the way, so you
can get a roady, yeah, you can get ready.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 8 (23:54):
So the intent is to go from bar to bar.
I'm not sure or what the city Wheeling's thinking, okay,
because I've had multiple phone calls and they think that
it's just open season, that you're gonna be able to
just shut down a street and have your festival like
they used to do First Fridays in Center Market. That's

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not the case. If that's the case, they somebody still
has to get what they call a special event license.
So the PODA doesn't cover that. And that's if you
get the special event license, then you have to apply
for the PODA, which is an extra hundred dollars. You
have to apply for beer, wine and liquor, which is
five hundred dollars, get the application fee. So it's going
to cost you seven hundred dollars just to have your
your event. Now you can do it for up to

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ten days, but if it's a one day event, you're
already seven hundred.

Speaker 9 (24:38):
Dollars in the hole.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Okay, that's for an event.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
That's for an event.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
Okay, Now if you're a participating member. As far as
I know, there are two participating members in Wheeling so far.
That's the Bridge Tavern here on ten Street in River
City down on fourteenth.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (24:54):
I don't know if many people they're going to gonna
want to walk from River City no offense to the
Bridge Tavern because of the hill. Now you can go
over to market and come up and you know, but
you know, I think the City of Wheeling is, at
least from my understanding, that the the person that's in
charge of this just thinks it's an open free for all. Now,

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this is going to have an effect on the Italian Festival,
the blues Fest, brew Fest, any any event that's held it,
and there has to be certain changes. Now they can
suspend the poda for the length of the Farror festival.
So in other words, so in other words, that weekend
at the Italian Festival that is happening, the whole pote
is canceled. So in other words, you couldn't I can't

(25:36):
leave the Bridge Tavern to walk to River City that
weekend with a beer or a drink in my hand
because they've suspended it for three days and there's only
certain times, so it's only four too. I think it's
weekdays four to eleven and then Saturday Sunday, or maybe
it's Friday Saturday.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
It's weekends are different hours.

Speaker 8 (25:57):
Yeah, weekends are different hours. I have it here somewhere,
but I just I don't have it in front of
me at the moment. But yeah, there's there's different hours.
It's posted on the signs actually, and but you know,
I don't know if if the City of Wheeling understands,
like when when you have a group of bars together,

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that's when it makes sense. Let's just say, let's say
say Center Market had no other businesses but bars and restaurants. Okay,
so take Coleman's Fish Out or whatever, you know, leave
the Center Market part alone, but on each side.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
Of the marts.

Speaker 8 (26:33):
Okay, if they had, If they had, if that was
all bars and restaurants, then it might make sense because
then then you could go from bar to bar in
that area. But it doesn't make sense to have a
bar that's a participating board, which there aren't any at
the moment in Center Market. Nobody's going to walk to
the bridge tavern. You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (26:55):
I mean that those are the two ends of it.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
So if you go, if there's a if there's there's
a bar restaurant in market, in the center market, you're
talking twelve to thirteen blocks, and nobody's gonna walk that.
It just doesn't It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
I have a couple more questions.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
Okay, we can hit them after the break.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah, let's do that. Let's do them to a break.
I got a Yeah, I got a couple more questions
on this. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience Otis
and Sam news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are back
at seven fifty one the bloom Daddy Experience Otis and

(27:39):
Sam here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Before the break,
we got into the conversation about the new.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
Law. Yeah, it's a new it's just a new Yeah.
I guess you could say it's a new ordnance.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
Or whatever you go called PODA, which is private outdoor
designated area. If you've seen the signs like I have
posted popping up around the mapped area that this is
going to be allowed. It caught my attention of course,
and thought, of course, I'd ask otis about this?

Speaker 9 (28:11):
So well?

Speaker 8 (28:11):
The signs also contained the hours of operation which we
were talking about, so Monday through Friday that's four to eleven,
Saturday Sunday ten am to eleven. It also states that
the alcoholic beverages must be in a PODA cup and
stay in the PODED district. And then there's a QR
code that you can scan to see that what the
boundary map is and along with any other information, and

(28:33):
that's on all the signs that are posted either on
a light pole or.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Wherever around the PODED district.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
So okay, from a managing of this perspective, who is
going to be in charge of watching what people do?
Who's going to be the person walking around looking at
every single little cup to make sure it's the right
one with the right sticker and the hole, and who's

(29:02):
going so if and then also on top of that,
if if you get a ticket or a you know,
a violation and you're the consumer walking around with the
wrong cup and then you say, well, this is the
cup that such and such gave me. Who then pays
that violation? I mean there's a lot of.

Speaker 8 (29:21):
Well the person that gets sighted to pay the violation.
But I know what you're saying. So here's so, here's
the thing.

Speaker 9 (29:26):
It has to be.

Speaker 8 (29:27):
If you go out of the if you go out
of the designated area, or you do not have it
in the proper cup, then you are violating the city's
open container law. Okay, which is you know, obviously a citation.
I mean, it's not anything fantastic. I'm sure there's probably
a fine that goes with it. It's probably not cheap.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
You're not going to end up in handcuffs.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
No, you shouldn't know. Uh, and you'll probably be told
to pour the drink out or something of that nature. Now,
according to the paperwork when you do, when you fill
out your application and everything, the the ones that are
supposed to be enforcing it would be local law enforcement. Okay, Okay,
I am not going to speak for local law enforcement,

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but I think they have bigger fish to fry.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Well, they already have a lot on their plate, That's
what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
Yeah, And unless they're going to designate officers, whether it
be the Wheeling Police, whether it be the High County Sheriff,
it's not gonna be the state police. I can tell
you that, whether they're gonna add you know, make an
additional shift for these times that tota's in place, it's
probably not going to be enforced that strictly.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Now.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
It may be like on certain events or you know,
maybe on certain weekends or something of that nature, depending
on how it takes off. But I mean, and again
I'm not speaking for the Wheeling police, but I just
I don't think that that's going.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
To be a top priority. Let's put it that way.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
Unless it's a weekend of a huge event.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Sure, maybe the Italian Festival, which again this could affect
the Italian Festival.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Okay, before we get into that. So I can understand
the purpose of this. As you said, if main street
in the streets designated were similar to the the main
streets in Morgantown where it is bar.

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Bar, restaurant, restaurant, bar restaurant.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Correct, I I kind of take a I look at this.
They're putting the cart before the horse, where they don't have.
Wheeling does not have as of right now, the draw
of of an entire street of bars and restaurants for

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people for convenience factor, just in general just convenience factor
that this would be needed.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
Well, let's just look at it.

Speaker 8 (31:50):
Let's look at the north end, and let's just let's
just go a couple of blocks from us down front. Okay, okay,
So the people that the places that could participate. You
had the Bridge Tavern that's already on the line. You
have the Capitol Theater, they could be on the list.
Then you don't have another one until you get the
River City, okay, and then you have West Bank Arena,

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and then let's just go down the block a little bit.
You've got Deans Omega on Market Street, which is next
to the seven eleven. You come up the street and
you've got the Taco place to Kiro three oh four.
Now they can't they cannot be a participant at this
time because they are beer and wine only. You have
to be beer, wine and liquor, and that's a that's
a different license.

Speaker 9 (32:31):
Okay, Okay.

Speaker 8 (32:32):
So there's a beer license, there's a beer wine license,
and there's a beer wine and liquor license. So for
them to be a participant in PODA, they would have
to upgrade their license, which is going to cost them
considered about another five or six hundred dollars a year. Okay,
then if you go to Chaplin Street you've got Ellen Jacks.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
Okay, So there's what eight at the most that.

Speaker 9 (32:51):
You named off at the very most.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
Yeah, so I think again, they're putting the car before
the horse when it comes.

Speaker 9 (32:57):
To this and vagabond, did we say vagam No, no,
you did.

Speaker 7 (33:00):
Not say bag them one. But and then there's the
price behind it, the cost.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
So if you if you want to be a participant
in the PODA, not only are you paying for your
ABC license, which is eleven hundred and fifty dollars a
year plus one hundred dollars application fees to twelve fifty.
The POTE is another hundred. That's thirteen fifty now one
hundred dollars. If if you really think about it, over
the course of the year, it's going to be pay
eight dollars a month, you know, nine dollars a month
and a big deal. I mean I've wasted more money

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on in a month and more than nine.

Speaker 9 (33:29):
Dollars in baseball cards.

Speaker 8 (33:30):
Go ahead, yeah, exactly. And so you know, you know,
I get I get the fact, I get the idea.
I just don't think that wheeling is set up for
this right now at disappoint in time. Yeah, And that's
my personal opinion. That's not my professional opinion from my
other job or this job. That's my personal opinion that

(33:53):
I think you need. I think Wheeling would have been
better off waiting to see what happens, as opposed to
in the fact that you only have two participants at
the time this at this moment, Yeah, out of and
just go just from tenth to fourteenth Street, you only
have seven you only have seven businesses that.

Speaker 9 (34:13):
Are eligible or twelve, Yeah, sixteen, we'll go to sixteen.

Speaker 7 (34:19):
Yeah, just jumping the gun, jumping the gun a little
bit on it. Interesting. Seven fifty eight, you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (34:59):
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Speaker 3 (35:05):
Jim or Nacey's no idiot.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
He's a former congressman, Bloomdaddy show Political anlist, and he
joins me right now, Jim, hope you had a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
I did, boom Daddy about yourself?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
I good one. Yeah, no complaints. Get some sleep, which
is always a good thing. Speaking of the weekend. Going
into the weekend, Jim stocks rose Friday. Wall Street had
better than expected numbers, the S and P five hundred
had a winning streak. This comes a day after the
tech heavy Nasdaq accomplished the same feat. Question to you
is does this signal that recession fears have been overblown?

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Well, boom Daddy, I will tell you that when Liberty
Liberation Day, as President Trump called it was announced, I
do believe the market was very concerned because much steeper
tars were imposed on all US trading partners unexpected. And
that's what we're talking about. The market fell twelve percent,
the dal Jones average fell eleven percent. It was the

(36:02):
fear of oh no, what's happening? And I think that's
what happens to businesses, that's what happens to economies. Whenever
they don't have certainty and predictability. So there was a
lot of that there. Thank goodness, and I say this
because I do believe this is what changed the market.
President Trump realized when not the stock market, but when

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the bond market started to weaken, and he realized that
what was going on was the US dollar also saying
and there was a signal of diminishing faith in the
United States. He eased those tariffs. And because he eased
the tariffs, people started to say, Okay, this president isn't
willing to push the throttle all the way. And that's

(36:46):
what started, I believe, to bring this market back. But
I also tell you, and you said that some of
the things that brought the market back. Our earnings reports
are still good. The jobs report last week was still good.
With all of this issues of tariffs, the underlying reports
are still good. Now here's the fear, though. The tariffs

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really haven't hit yet because product was already on people's shelves.
Cars are already here. And the real key is what
will happen in four to five months If President Trump
continues to push these tariffs and these products do come
in at a higher costs, will there be a recession.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
What do you foresee?

Speaker 2 (37:24):
I mean, are we about to get some trade deals
that will allow the stock market to keep going higher?

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Well, here's what I do think. I know President Trump's
a very smart man, and he's not going to push
to the point where he says he's going to. He's
going to pull back. He's already talking about dealing with China,
even though China has said we're not dealing with you
unless you pull these tariffs down. So China's holding pretty stiff.
But I think the president's smart enough that he does

(37:52):
not want this to happen. And I will bet we'll
get some deals. They won't be what we expect. We
won't even know what all the deals are. The presidents
say we won we're happy to move forward. I think
that's where we end up. At some point in time,
We're going to get a couple of deals announced. They're
going to look great. But quite frankly, the question is
should we have gone through all of this because boom, dad,

(38:14):
I take you back to twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen,
Trump threatened tariffs, did not impose tariffs, and we got
better trade deals back then. Now we're renegotiating the trade
deals that he got without pushing tariffs. This time he
did push tariffs. Do we get some movement, I'm sure
we do. Do we lose some things? I think we

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do as well.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Talking to Jim or n Acy, former Congressman bloom Daddy
showed political analysts, let's jump over to some Senate Democrats.
They're floating the idea that former Vice President Kamala Harris
should make another presidential run in twenty twenty eight. Is
this really the route Democrats want to go after she
lost all seven battleground states to Trump.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
You know, it's amazing that they're still talking about her. Now, look,
in politics, you only have a short shelf life. Her
shelf life is going to diminish year after year, and
she's going to lose a lot of steam. So that's
why if you are even considering running for something, you've
got to get out and start talking about it. And
that's why I think she's doing that. In the end,

(39:18):
I do believe there are other Democrats going to step up,
whether it's the governor of Kentucky, the governor of Pennsylvania.
There's a bunch of governors who have Governor of Pennsylvania
has a seventy percent approval rating with Republicans and Democrats.
I think this is the type of person that's probably
going to step up and be the next leader of
the Democrat Party. It certainly should not be Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
You're mentioning Josh Shapiro, but he wasn't selected as their
VP because he's Jewish, because a large swath of that
left that controls the Democratic Party are anti Israel. So
do you really think they'll get behind him to be
the face of the Democrat Party.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Well, keep in mind, now, see I heard, and I
did hear that was part of it, But I also
heard he did not want to be her VP because
he did not want to go down a losing train,
and that was probably a smart move on his part too.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
So so do you think AOC and illhan Omore and
the left that seems to be controlling everything in that
party will get behind Shapiro.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
It'll be interesting. I'm not saying they will. I think
things will change. Politics is strange. You know, by the
time this rolls around another year and a half from now,
they're going to be wanting somebody who's going to have support,
who's going to get national attention. And I'm not saying
it's going to be him, but I'm saying there are
governors out there that could attract you know, that middle

(40:44):
of the road independent and Trump's biggest problem, and it's
of course going to be JD. Vans if he runs,
is right now, the Independents have totally tanked against him.
I think I saw a pull that shows only twenty
seven percent of independence support the Trump Vance program right now.
So somebody's got to win those votes, either Trump JD.

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The Republican Party has to win those back, or a
solid middle of the road Democrats going to take them. All.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Right, So let's go back and look at this objectively
with Kamala Harris. Everybody thought Trump's political career was on
the Democratic side, was over after that loss in twenty twenty,
and he had arguably the greatest political comeback in history.
Is Kamala Harris capable of something like that? I mean,
you just said things switching politics very quickly.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Well, I do. Look, I do believe that anything is possible.
Richard Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy and then he
came rolling back too, So this is all possible. It
all depends on where the wins are, the economy are,
and anything could happen. I think what people really do
is trend its sentiment and where they're feeling today. People

(41:57):
are not happy. I just saw another poll. Know, a
lot of your listeners always contact me and say, I
don't know why you watch those polls, But I saw
several polls now that are showing the Democrat seven point
lead on Republicans, which shows that it happened in twenty eighteen.
It could happen again in twenty twenty six. It could
happen again in twenty twenty eight It depends on where

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public sentiment goes and what the current administration does to
change that.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
All right, I'm going to push you one more time
before I let you go. You mentioned polls. Can we
really take polls serious anymore? Can we even take the
national media serious anymore?

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Jim?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
What kid Americans do to really gauge what's going on
in politics?

Speaker 3 (42:40):
After the polls got.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Everything wrong in twenty twenty four And we know the
national media the vast majority of them are the pr
arm of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Yeah, so national media, look what I try and do,
and as I try and look at all media and
I tell you it's tough. But I don't just focus
on one station because I want to try and be objective.
I'll focus on five, says. My wife sometimes says, what
the hell are you doing watching that station? Well, it's
my way of trying to figure out what they're saying,
what Fox is saying, what they're all saying. So can

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you trust them?

Speaker 6 (43:15):
No?

Speaker 4 (43:15):
But can you get somewhat of an opinion from all
of them? Yes. It's like the polls. Can you trust
one pole?

Speaker 2 (43:22):
No?

Speaker 4 (43:22):
But I do think polls are best used if you
just follow them as a guide and see what the
trends are telling us. And that's the real key. When look,
you got eight or nine polls have come out last
week that show that Trump is anywhere from thirty nine
percent to forty five percent approval rating. I have a
good feeling that's where he's at. I spoke with a
group of businessmen today. They're not happy with President Trump,

(43:46):
and they all voted for him. So I think those
are the kind of things that do come out in
a poll that you almost have to just take some
consideration of, but not count on any single poll.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Hie Jim, thank you for the time.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
All right, thank you, all right.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Jim or Nacy, former Congressman bloo Daddy Show political analysts.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Those same polls, which, again, what can.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
You really take from these things anymore, also say that
the Democratic Party has got the lowest approval rating since
they've been doing it.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
So there's another poll for you.

Speaker 7 (44:26):
Oh goodness, welcome back to eight twenty one The Blue
Daddy Experience. Oh damn News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I
thought you want to say something like sorry, I know,
I was.

Speaker 9 (44:40):
I was hitting the buttons. I wouldn't even make an eye.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Contact with you, your mouth open.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
No, I just kind of moved closer to the mic
because I was I was just trying to I don't know.

Speaker 7 (44:48):
I just saw you, like in the corner of my eye.

Speaker 8 (44:50):
I thought, that's that's one of the few times you've
ever paid attention to what I'm telling you, okay, And
I normally give you handsignals and you don't even look.
It's like, I'm telling you two minutes and it's like
a minut in a half before you even look over.

Speaker 9 (45:01):
And then they're like, You're like, well, what do you know?
We didn't have that much time because you didn't look
over here.

Speaker 7 (45:06):
Okay, let me move my chair. Then they're a better ankle. Goodness, man,
I can't win for losing around here sometimes.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
Anyways, work wife, work husband. You can tell by the
arguments in some of the conversations.

Speaker 7 (45:22):
I have too many of them. Let's put it this way.
I just have way too many men in my life period.
Not that didn't sound That did not sound good. I
take that back. Sound retraction, retraction.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
You can't put the toothpaste back.

Speaker 7 (45:37):
I cannot know. Oh goodness. Anyways, Okay, let's let's all
right jump into something. I stumped myself there.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
For a second.

Speaker 9 (45:46):
I threw you off your game.

Speaker 7 (45:47):
Yeah yeah, okay, So let's get into a couple of
local things happening out of the state of West Virginia.
This kind of ties into something that bloom Daddy talked
about yesterday. But the West Virginia National Natural Reces Commission
has voted to remove the minimum age requirement for youth
hunting seasons. Current regulations only allowed children ages eight to

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fifteen to participate, creating an inconsistency where seven year olds
could hunt during regular season but not during youth specific seasons.
After years of complaints from parents, commissioners unanimously decided to
leave the age determination to parental discretion. The legislature also

(46:34):
adjusted laws to allow adult mentors to safely assist young
hunters by handling firearms when crossing obstacles.

Speaker 9 (46:43):
I mean that makes sense, It does make sense.

Speaker 8 (46:46):
Just I mean, just make it may just make the
youth hunting season fifteen and under.

Speaker 7 (46:51):
Yeah, yeah, make it more general.

Speaker 8 (46:54):
Because I mean, obviously, if you're common sense tells you
you're not taking a one to two year old, three
year old out hunting. But you know, I mean, you
might take them with you to teach.

Speaker 7 (47:06):
Them, but they're not holding a firearm.

Speaker 9 (47:08):
But they're not holding a firearm.

Speaker 8 (47:09):
But now as they get to be I mean even
like I'm thinking back to mind, when my kids were seven,
I don't know if I would have trusted a seven
year old with even eight.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
Yeah, that's you know.

Speaker 8 (47:20):
I mean you're talking like first, second, third grade. Yeah,
I mean, and I know people used to take their
kids hunting. I mean, blim, daddy's one you know that
probably did this or he went hunting at that age.

Speaker 9 (47:34):
It just seems it just seems a little young.

Speaker 8 (47:37):
And like I just don't I don't I wouldn't trust
a seven year old with I mean, obviously you're with them,
it's not like they're one by themselves.

Speaker 9 (47:45):
So just to me, that's a that'd be pushing.

Speaker 8 (47:51):
Yeah, Like I mean I could get ten, maybe even nine. Yeah,
I mean my one son, I could see him doing
it at eight, but seven would be a little I
think a lot of.

Speaker 7 (48:02):
It depends on what the kid too.

Speaker 9 (48:04):
Yeah, sure, absolutely, you know a lot. You have that
hyperactive kid that yeah, doesn't pay attention.

Speaker 7 (48:09):
Right, And there's a lot of kids that are old
for their age, you know, a little more mature. Yeah,
I mean, I think that's where the parental discretion comest.

Speaker 8 (48:21):
Having coached youth baseball both of my kids at that
age group, there are kids that are You have the
seven year olds that are more mature than some.

Speaker 9 (48:28):
Of the other seven year olds.

Speaker 8 (48:30):
Yeah, and you have seven year olds that are more
mature than the eight year olds. So you know, I mean,
I would say, you're right, parental discretion is perfect, and
it would depend on the kid.

Speaker 7 (48:40):
There was a kid I stopped in a local store
yesterday and Uh, there was this kid and you would
have thought he was being tortured. He was just screaming
at the absolute top of his lungs. And I felt
so bad for that mother because she was doing nothing

(49:01):
to him. I think he wanted something and he was
told no.

Speaker 8 (49:05):
Yeah, and here's there's an adoption.

Speaker 7 (49:07):
He lost his marbles. I have no blood curdle roughly
four out of diapers, out of diapers, but not in
school yet. So kind of that little that gap right there.

Speaker 8 (49:22):
That little yeah, that's that's a temper tantrum age.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
Yeah, you could tell somebody was told no and didn't
get what he wanted.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
But and if you if my kid would have done that,
they'd get the neck pinch. The neck pinch, you know
how you just put your hands on somebody back in
the neck and then you hit that muscle right there
and you kind of just jerk up. That's what that's
what I would do. I'll show you break, could you not? Yeah, well,
I mean it's just I mean, but my kid, when
I can put my hand on the back of my
kid's oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:49):
They shrug.

Speaker 7 (49:50):
Yeah, I don't know that move.

Speaker 8 (49:51):
It was just that was like that was the calm
way of nothing like because then you could you could
squeeze a little bit, put a little more pressure on.

Speaker 7 (49:58):
Just give him the hint, a little.

Speaker 8 (49:59):
Yeah, like we're not doing this yeah, click, And then
then they stopped.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
Well, and then it was something you could do without
drawing a lot of attention.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
Whacking them upside their head.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
Judgment from surrounding eyes to jail well yeah, yeah, that's
a whole other Oh goodness out of Harrison County. This
is unfortunate. Another story about animals, a building in Jewett
has been rated if you will. The windows were all
covered with cockroaches and flies. There was a lot of complaints,

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tons of complaints, and they found over thirty dead animals
in the building along with thirteen surviving animals. The police did,
of course, there was a lot of production uses used
to go into this particular residence. It has not been
occupied for the last couple of weeks, but it seems

(50:57):
as if these animals were left in abandoned, along with
the carcasses of those that did not survive. As of
right now, the prosecuting attorney has all the information and
all the evidence and will determine what charges will actually
be for the two individuals involved. Oh god, I don't

(51:18):
understand people. This is the kind of stuff I don't understand,
there are a lot of people out there that I
think they believe they're doing a good thing. You know,
feeding that and they're not hoarding animals is not a
good thing. And I think the intentions are there, and
I'm not saying that's the case in this particular circumstance,

(51:38):
but unfortunately, there are people that think they're doing a
good thing. And just a reminder for any of those
planning on boarding an airplane and doing some flying. Tomorrow
is the deadline for obtaining your real ID the yes, yes, yes,
the real all in caps, the real ID. So get
to your DMV to get taken care of. The identification

(52:01):
will hold a gold star in the upper right hand
corner and costs ten dollars or more than a regular license.
While wait times are typically short, officials expect longer times
as the deadline approaches. So if you're in need of that,
got to get it taken care of. It's a twenty
eight The Bloomdaddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA eight thirty six. We are back the bloom

(52:36):
Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Real Quick an update out of Pittsburgh on the young
man who unfortunately fell last week from the wall at
Pirate Stadium. The fan who fell continues to improve. The

(52:56):
sister of twenty year old Cavin Markwood said yesterday her
brother is now breathing on his own and his condition
has been upgraded from critical. He has also started to walk,
So good signs, good, really good signs. Have we heard anything.
I haven't seen it reported anywhere. The cause of this

(53:19):
as of yet. You know, alcohol, of course is being
thrown around. I've seen where two were supposedly drank, but
that's all speculation.

Speaker 8 (53:28):
Well I'm going to guess that judging by the way
he felt that alcohol was probably there were some sort
of substance that played in a factory.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
Because he was like a rag doll.

Speaker 8 (53:39):
Yes, yeah, And I think what happened was when he
jumped up when Andrew McCutcheon hit the double, not only
did he jump up, he jumped forward, and you know,
basically his body and momentum just took him over the railing.
And it is what it is.

Speaker 7 (54:00):
Yeah, unfortunately, but good signs.

Speaker 8 (54:03):
With that moderation, yeah, drink in moderation, and the fact
that he's twenty that that could send up some red
flags too, because I'm sure there's gonna be an investigation
of where and how he got served in today's day
in age, Oh, these kids have those fake id's and
they are they come out of China and they are good.

Speaker 7 (54:24):
Oh they're not like what we used to do.

Speaker 8 (54:27):
And they're not I mean they are. So it's actually
an American guy that lives in China that's doing these, okay,
and so he has operatives here in the United States
in all fifty states. And then they send the license,
the most current license to this guy and he duplicates

(54:48):
it as best as he can.

Speaker 7 (54:50):
Wow, there's this whole like dark web network.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (54:54):
Yeah. And then what they do how they ship him over.

Speaker 8 (54:59):
The It's like you go to the website and they'll
put them in a like socks or gloves or something
of that nature. So it looks like it just it
doesn't send up any red flags.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
All to be able to drink.

Speaker 8 (55:15):
And you normally get two of them, and I know
it's not cheap. I think I think they're like three
hundred dollars.

Speaker 9 (55:19):
For two of them.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (55:21):
But then what happens is you're giving this guy your
credit card information.

Speaker 9 (55:24):
Ah there there, you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
There's there's all kind of red flags around this. Besides
the fact that you're ordering fake IDs. If you look
at your license, I don't care what state you live in,
so wherever you're listening, if you look at your license,
there's a barcode on the back, and in that barcode,
everything that's on the front of your license is in
that barcode. So if you don't have the proper scanning

(55:52):
like it's if you if you have a scanner at
your place of establishment and you scan, it's going to
scan what's ever on that barcode. So yes, the sophisticated
barcode systems, it's like updated weekly and so there are
things in that barcode that people don't know what's in there.
So like in West Virginia, it might be the lyrics
country roads might be in that barcode. So the sophisticated

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system will read that and if it's not there, it'll
tell you that it's fake really, or it'll say it
don't tell you it's fake, I just tell you there's
something wrong.

Speaker 9 (56:24):
With the license.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
It sends up a red flag.

Speaker 8 (56:26):
Yeah, and I have that on my work phone as
a scanner, So a lot of time it'll tell us
if it's expired, it'll come up yellow. If it comes
up that it's good, it'll come up green, and if
there's an issue with it, it'll come up red.

Speaker 7 (56:39):
So when like I'm trying to think last time mine
was scanned, because they don't even look at me in question, off,
I'm twenty one anymore, but I guess, okay, the casino.
So when those guys, the security guys sit there and
they scan, you're saying that it depends on the level
of equipment that they have if it pulls all of

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that info.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (57:02):
I mean, I have a couple of fake id's at
my house that I've confiscated, and they may be expired
by now, but the there are places that will read
that fake I D and say that it's good because
that's how good they are. I mean, the overlay, because
a lot of times it used to be just generic.
Now they get the holograms when you turn your when

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you look at your license and everything, the secondary picture
that's on your license normally, and you know they do
there's all kinds of things that states do to prevent fraud.

Speaker 9 (57:37):
So like in West Virginia.

Speaker 8 (57:38):
There's your birth date's kind of in bold, big letters numbers.
I guess in the one corner. If you rub your
fingers over it, it's actually raised. The hios are raised too.

Speaker 7 (57:47):
So then how is this new real ID going to affect?

Speaker 9 (57:53):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 8 (57:54):
I mean, all that does is give you a gold
store or star to allow you to that says, and
that's probably in the barcode somewhere. So like if I
would scan a fake ID and it says it's a
real ID, but it's not in that barcode, then it's
going to come up as fake.

Speaker 7 (58:09):
Wow, that's wild. I never knew any of that little secrets.

Speaker 8 (58:14):
I mean, I'm I mean just and you know, like
we have I have bar owners asking me all the time, well,
what if somebody comes in with a fake ID? I said,
if it's a good one, I mean, I don't know
what else. I mean, just try to do your best. Yeah,
if if it's obvious, then then we're gonna have a
problem with you, you know what I mean, Like, whose
fault is it?

Speaker 7 (58:32):
So the days of sitting there.

Speaker 8 (58:34):
With putting your picture out posted on somebody else's license, yeah,
long gone.

Speaker 7 (58:38):
That's long gone. Yeah, you'd pay somebody in school good
fifty bucks for that.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
But if they were good at what a couple of
my buddies did was they got you had a friend
that would say they lost their license, and so all
you had to do was fill out the paperwork and
take it to the DMV and get your picture taken
on somebody else's license. They never you didn't have to
have the utility bills and your birth certificate because it
was all pre nine on it.

Speaker 9 (59:01):
They didn't care. Oh yeah, So there was.

Speaker 8 (59:03):
Like, I'm not gonna say the guy's name, so I'll
just say Joe Smith. Okay, So there were like for
Joe Smiths with the same driver's license with different pictures
on him in Morgantown.

Speaker 9 (59:13):
At one point in time.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
He had glasses on. He didn't know. This is a
completely different person.

Speaker 9 (59:20):
Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 7 (59:23):
That's pretty good. Oh well, this person wouldn't have to
worry about the drinking age. So a one hundred and
fifteen year old woman in England has the honor of
being the world's oldest person. She does not get carted anymore,
but she has some competition biting at her heels in
this tribute, we hailed the special someone who's next in line.

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Hang in there.

Speaker 6 (59:49):
This station presents real American heroes.

Speaker 9 (59:53):
Real American.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
Today We so do you world second oldest person, the world.

Speaker 9 (01:00:01):
Second oldest person.

Speaker 6 (01:00:04):
The media is spawning over the world's oldest living person,
but we all know they won't be defending that title
for long. So get ready, old timer, because you're next
to carry the geriatric crown.

Speaker 9 (01:00:15):
Let's hope you can hold that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:18):
Whatever you do, don't walk toward the lights les.

Speaker 11 (01:00:21):
Six lights of the news cameras game, So get those
stories ready about model te's and polio and when some
whippers snap, A reporter asks how you did it?

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Say quitting smoking at age ninety seven, Because you're the
world's second oldest person, a real American hero.

Speaker 11 (01:00:41):
World second old disperson.

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
Hey, world's third oldest person. You're on deck.

Speaker 7 (01:00:49):
That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Well, this all comes
in because the woman who was recognizes the oldest person
in the world has passed away at the age of
one hundred and sixteen. Sister, I'm gonna she's Brazilian, so
bear with me here. Sister Ana Connabaro Lucas died when

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last week in Brazil. Her death was announced by the
Congregation of the Torresian Sisters of Brazil, who called hers
a life of dedication and devotion. And now the mantle
of the world's oldest person passes on to the english
woman Ethel Cardihan, who is who is one hundred and

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fifteen years old. She's actually thought to be the last
surviving subject of the Court of King Edward the Seventh.

Speaker 9 (01:01:45):
I don't even know when he served.

Speaker 7 (01:01:47):
Well, somewhere within the past one hundred and fifteen.

Speaker 9 (01:01:49):
Your dad. That was probably before Queen Elizabeth.

Speaker 7 (01:01:53):
Yes, that might have been her dad.

Speaker 9 (01:01:56):
I think it was.

Speaker 7 (01:01:57):
It might be, yeah, yeah, I think about that one
hundred and sixteen, one hundred and fifteen years old. I
don't know if i'd want to make it that long.

Speaker 9 (01:02:07):
I just hope I make it the sixty.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
I haven't make it till tomorrow. It's eight forty five. Goodness, gracious,
you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA eight fifty on your Tuesday.

(01:02:35):
Now you have me confused. The Blue Daddy Experience.

Speaker 8 (01:02:38):
I almost forget to call Kevin because I was thinking
it was Wednesday. He's not on on Wednesdays, and I've
and then.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
I just had had a brain fart because yeah, I
heard your brain fart and I hesitated.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:02:48):
So anyway, speaking of brain farts, what's going on there?
Kevin up as draw automotive.

Speaker 5 (01:02:54):
Wow, wouch, just listening to talk about events this morning? Okay, okay,
just hanging on every word.

Speaker 7 (01:03:05):
Give us, give us your two cents on something.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Are you guys talking about the roady cups this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:03:12):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:03:14):
They call them in the Wheeling, Well it's gonna be
called it's PODA. It's the public outdoor something that is
a designated area.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
See what they do in Louisiana, all right, They literally
have drive through Dacre and frozen Margarita barns where you
could drive your vehicle. What point, point at the mixed
drink of your choice. They will put it in a
forty four ounce big golf and hand you a straw.

Speaker 9 (01:03:46):
Wow. Nothing like encouraging drinking and driving.

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
And all you have to do is point.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Yeah, I mean seriously, Like, I mean you can look
them up. Have you know drive up windows? Now they
put a piece of Scotch tape. I think on the
on the straw. You put straw in the cup. Yeah,
that's supposed to be the turrent.

Speaker 9 (01:04:06):
Yes, of course, I've seen that in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
In Pennsylvania you can purchase uh pre mixed like slushies
and and they put them in a cup that says,
you know, out alcohol or whatever it is, or spiked
or whatever. And then they put this little sticker over
top of the straw hole like that's supposed to discourage you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
But then olia you literally drive up through them. I mean,
it's it's nuts. Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Well, let's just say that every state has their own
they all have different rules, so we'll just leave it
at that. Anyway, what's going on? But you're up there, Drew.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
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we can guarantee is the price we have out there today.
So see for yourself how much you can say.

Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
And what are you driving right now?

Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
I'm driving a twenty twenty five Ram Laramie.

Speaker 9 (01:05:48):
Okay, very nice vehicle.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
It's that it's got that new straight six silver for
the Cotton Hurricane motor.

Speaker 9 (01:05:58):
So you're going from Honda hard to drive in a Ram.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
It's okay.

Speaker 9 (01:06:05):
Well, when you're in charge, I guess you can do anything.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
You know. It's a part of the job that I
get it. It's a great drug that it's got twenty
eight miles. I'll drive it for another probably a couple
of thousand miles, and we'll put it out as a demo.
And somebody's really gonna say, pick buck, super nice truck.

Speaker 8 (01:06:22):
There you go, so you can always take a look
at that when when when you're back in the area.

Speaker 9 (01:06:26):
There you got all right, body, Hey, enjoy your day.

Speaker 8 (01:06:30):
We'll talk Thursday. A right, there's times that Listen, I've
been to New Orleans and.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
It's a free for all I have I have never been.

Speaker 9 (01:06:43):
And yeah, you could, you can like that. You could.

Speaker 8 (01:06:45):
You don't have to go into a bar. You can
walk up to a window and get a drink and
just carry it around.

Speaker 7 (01:06:50):
Well, yeah, don't the bars have their own individual cops.
They go around the theme of what their bar is.

Speaker 8 (01:06:56):
And the big drink in New Orleans is hurricanes, so
you know.

Speaker 9 (01:07:01):
The it is.

Speaker 8 (01:07:04):
You know, again, every state has different rules, every municipality
has different rules.

Speaker 9 (01:07:08):
And you know, we were talking about the poda earlier.

Speaker 8 (01:07:11):
And again, if you're on Bourbon Street, it makes sense
because like every other building's a bar, so.

Speaker 9 (01:07:19):
It makes sense to have something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:21):
Well we're lucky here. Every other building actually has something
in it.

Speaker 9 (01:07:25):
True.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
I mean not to be to be downer, but.

Speaker 8 (01:07:28):
It's the truth, right, you're right, So you know, it's
just you know, I don't you know again. I spoke
with a certain council person and the council person said, look,
I'm not in charge, this one is, and I'll give
him your number. And that was like a month ago.
And so I reached out to the council person that
I know again and said, hey, I've never heard from
the other council person. He said, I'll let him know again.

(01:07:51):
And I still haven't heard from this person. So, you know,
I think you have somebody that maybe has a little
bit of a.

Speaker 9 (01:08:00):
Ego.

Speaker 7 (01:08:00):
Ah, I got you so.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
And that's just my you know, that's my outside opinion
looking in I could be one hundred percent wrong. I'll
be the first person to admit it if I am.

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
Oh again, is the idea there? Yes? Is the timing
of it right?

Speaker 9 (01:08:14):
Probably not?

Speaker 8 (01:08:15):
No, that would be And if you think about it,
in the area that they have, and I'm just going
to go off the top of my head, you're probably
only talking about twelve to thirteen locations anyway, at the
most you're talking's fifteen.

Speaker 9 (01:08:28):
Yeah, I could go through.

Speaker 8 (01:08:30):
I mean I could sit there and kind of work
my way up and down the street and tell you
who is and who isn't but you know, again, you
have bars and restaurants that are in that code of
floor plan that don't qualify to be a PODA member.

Speaker 7 (01:08:45):
Well, and it's not official yet, correct, it has no
I think the City of Wheeling has been approved, right,
but it hasn't been used as of yet. Aren't they
shooting for Memorial Weekend?

Speaker 9 (01:08:55):
I don't know what they're shooting for.

Speaker 8 (01:08:58):
I have Again, nobody tells me anything, So I'm just
going once they're approved, I guess it's okay, you know,
I mean, maybe we maybe we call Chief Schartzfiguer and say, hey, who's.

Speaker 9 (01:09:08):
Going to enforce this? And what are you going to do?

Speaker 8 (01:09:11):
If you know, I guess they're going to be special
patrols from four to eleven on weekdays or ten to
eleven on weekends. I'm going to tell you that I
don't think they're going to be because I just don't
think they have the manpower for it.

Speaker 9 (01:09:22):
I think because I think.

Speaker 7 (01:09:24):
Well, and there's the small details of they walked in
this bar, but didn't walk in that bar, and the
right cup during the right I get timeframe of owurs.
It says little things. Yeah, I mean, what if somebody
walks to their car. That's one block outside of the
designated area.

Speaker 9 (01:09:43):
Here's the other thing.

Speaker 8 (01:09:44):
So let's say let's say I'm in Center Market at
a participating place, and I want to come up here
to the tenth Street. I'm probably not going to walk.
I'm either going to cab or uber. Okay, So you
can't have an open container in a vehicle in a vehicle, yeah,
I mean, there's just so much wrong with this. The

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idea in a different type of a city.

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
Works here not yet questionable?

Speaker 7 (01:10:10):
And how many of the cups will end up in
our beautiful bump outs to day fifty eight. We're done.
We'll catch you tomorrow. Talk to you then.