The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 9, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
D number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is the.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His goal inform,
entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy Experience on
news Radio eleven seventy. WVa starts now the.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. How about the Pirates have fired Derek Sheldon.
Sixth season with Pittsburgh twelve and twenty six start. He's
got a record of three hundred and six wins four
hundred and forty losses. That's a four to ten winning
percentage cross parts of six seasons as Pirates manager back

(00:41):
to back one hundred lost seasons in twenty twenty one
and twenty two, never finish better than fourth indianl Central.
But at the same time, his entire time there, the
Pirates never ranked higher than twenty sixth in opening day
payroll during Shelton's tenure. So, in other words, the Pirates
aren't the Guardians when it comes to developing their guys

(01:04):
in the farm system and getting the most out of
young guys. And the Pirates will never go out and
sign somebody big, never, And I know Jose gave us
a break, but Pirates, you're not getting any players there.
I can remember when Derek Shelton took that job. I said, dude,
don't take it because this is the beginning of the
end of your career, because nobody's going to hire you
because you can't win in Pittsburgh. You can't. And here

(01:27):
he is. But this is the icing on the cake.
This is Pirates owner Bob Nutting. Remember the t shirts
they wear in Pittsburgh Spen Nutting, win Nutting. They hate him.
He said. Derek's a good man who did a lot
for the Pirates in Pittsburgh, but it was time for
a change. The first quarter of the season has been
frustrating and painful for all of us. We have to

(01:49):
do better. I know that Ben knows that, our coaches
know that, our players know that. Now this is Bob Nutting.
Remember this guy is so cheap. He calls his three
kids Deduction one, Deduction two, and Deduction three. He goes on,
there's a lot of baseball left to be played. We
need to act with a sense of urgency and take
the steps necessary to fix this now to get back
on track as a team.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
In an organization.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
That is a joke, coming from possibly the worst owner
in Major League Baseball. I know this family well. They
still live in Wheeling, West Virginia, one of my old markets.
I used to go to a coffee house where I
knew the people who worked there, and Bob Nutting would
walk in there and get coffee and tip them a dime.

(02:33):
This guy's a billionaire and would tip them a dime.
Went to private school, never played any athletics, had no
idea what a baseball looked like until his old man
bought the Pittsburgh Pirates. And his old man used to
walk around Wheeling looked like a homeless guy, and this
guy was a billionaire. They made their money off newspapers,

(02:53):
buying up newspapers, paying their employees nothing. I can remember
in Wheeling, one of my buddies was their main guy.
He'd been there ten years, he was making twenty two
thousand a year, college educated ten years, twenty two a year.
And he called me one day he said, you're never
gonna believe that the Nuttings are doing now, And I said,
what's that? He goes, He said, they're repainting the parking lot.

(03:14):
And I said, well, why are they doing that, he said,
because they're going to start charging us parking their own employees,
and they were making the line smaller so that more
of their employees could park in the parking lot so
they could charge them. That's the guy who owns the
Pittsburgh Pirates who says there needs to be a sense
of urgency. This guy figured out a long time ago

(03:37):
that with revenue sharing and all the other money he
gets from the bigger clubs, he figured out a long
time ago that if he keeps his payroll in the
bottom five and he just puts eleven thousand people in
panc Park and every now and then he shoots off
some fireworks and he gives away blankets and gets thirty
four thousand in there, that he can make thirty million

(03:59):
a year running the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's an embarrassment. And
Bob Nutting is the number one reason why there should
be a salary floor floor, not ceiling floor in Major
League Baseball. Force these guys to spend money, and if
they're not going to spend it, sell the team get

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out of town.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, I'll say this because we could talk about Bob
Nutting all day long, and we all know he's cheap,
and we all know that he's not going to spend
any money. I mean, it's and nothing is going to
change until they get out. So but I pulled up

(04:42):
while bloom Daddy was talking. I pulled up on the internet.
You know, like Derrek Shelton's record, and it's like like
forty two percent win percentage or something like that. The
people that have like Connie Mack, who has the most
wins as a manager and he's in the Baseball Hall
of Fame and everything else, actually has a lose record.
He's his his percentages is like forty seven percent winning percentage.

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Your bigger names of that you would probably know like
Tony LaRussa, Bruce Bochi, Dusty Baker, you know, all all
people that are Terry Francona, who was what the Indians.
Terry Francona has got a winning percentage of fifty four
percent fifty three, five thirty eight, Tony Larussa's five thirty six,
Bobby Cox with the Braves five fifty six, Joe Torre

(05:27):
with it who did he took the Yankees did the
World Series? Five thirty eight. Bruce Bochi, He's the he's
the leading active manager with wins, but his percentage is
under five hundred. He's at four ninety eight. I mean
he's just under five hundred.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
So you're not going to see you're not gonna say this,
he falls within that window of average percentage.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, the highest, the highest winning percentage I can see
is Frank Seeley at fifty five ninety eight, which is
almost you win in sixty percent of your games. Chuck
Tanner to coach the Pirates to a World Series in
seventy nine, his winning percentage four ninety five. So I mean,
if you're looking at it wins and losses. The manager,

(06:10):
first off, doesn't hit the ball, he doesn't throw the ball,
he doesn't field the ball. Now he puts the people
in place to do it. But you can only work
with what you have.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
That's exactly what I was going to say. If you,
by ownership, are only provided three tools in a toolbox
that holds five hundred to kind of paint a picture,
you're not going to be successful. If you are not
provided with the equipment, the players, the money to be

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competitive on a national level. The responsibility cannot fall to
just the manager.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, somebody's head has to roll and.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
They're always the sacrificial way.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
And that's it. I mean. And first off, you hire
if you are a up and coming manager, the last
job you probably won is the Pittsburgh Pirates because number one,
they're not gonna give you what you They've got Paul Schemes,

(07:17):
maybe maybe the best pitcher in baseball right now, probably
he's definitely in the top ten. Okay, you have nothing
around him. The guy can't get wins because you can't.
You can't score runs well.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
And you're only going to have him until his rookie
contract's over.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
You're gonna have him. See so he last year, this year,
next year, and they'll trade him. So twenty six they'll
probably they'll trading towards they'll trading before the trade deadline
of twenty seven to see if they can get prospects
well or draft picks or whatever.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
And again, this is a situation where Major League Baseball
needs to step in. Ownership needs to be held accountable
when it's blatantly obvious that they have no interest in success,
they have no interest in putting a competitive product on

(08:08):
the field. Listen, sports is sports. You're gonna have your winners,
you're gonna have your losers. But when you have a
ball club that you can very well see is as
cheap as possible by ownership and purposely sinking season after
we're going on how many.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Seasons now for if it's purposely sinking. But they just
don't want to go after anybody.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Which, in a roundabout way is purposely losing.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
No, they just don't want to They don't want to
spend the money, and they don't care if they lose.
It's basically what okay, there you go. Yeah, yeah, they're
not tanking. They're not throwing games. These kids are out there,
they're trying to win.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well, okay, you're right. I phrased that improperly. Yeah, it's
not like they're tanking for TUA like in the NFL
and draft picks on all this and that, And it's
not the players tanking. That was not an attack on
the players. This is this is ownership. But again, there
should be some sort of criteria when it is this
blatantly obvious that there is there is no caring the ownership.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
There's they're supposed to spend that revenue sharing money. You're
supposed to reinvest in your team, and what they're doing
is they're reinvesting minimally by building baseball fields in third
world countries and saying, oh, well, this is our development.
So it's it's a joke. I mean, they're a joke.
Bob Nutting's a joke. I feel sorry for the players, Yeah,

(09:32):
I feel sorry for the fans. And the only way
that you stop it, like bloom Daddy says, is you
don't go to the games. But you know then what happens.
Then ownership moves the team to a city where the
fans will come, whether they win or lose.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah. Yeah, it's unfortunate. It's it's unfortunate. It's frustrating. It's
frustrating for everybody who likes loves baseball. Let alone is
a fan of the Pirates. And it's not going to
get any better. It's we're standing in the face. It's
not going to get any better. Oh, by the way,
Mother's Days. This weekend, we're gonna talk about that a
little bit of course throughout the show and coming up

(10:05):
next special appearance on the View yesterday, we're gonna talk
about it the Bloomdaddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA seven twenty one. So I ask you

(10:27):
who else is happy that it's Friday. I sure, am hey,
it's sam Otis manning the Star Trek Enterprise board in there.
Or of course you're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience here
on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So before we get
I get into the the cringe of it all from

(10:47):
yesterday on the view, just a reminder, Mother's Day is
this weekend. Do not forget go out get her something special.
She's Mom. Come on, Mom has done everything for us everything.
We need to celebrate her this Sunday, so you still

(11:09):
have time, Still have time and coming up. Got some
ideas for you on some of the best gifts for
mom on Mother's Day. Also throughout the show, if you
want to call give your mom a early shout out
for Mother's Day. Tell us a great story about Mom,
call us one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy.
Or you can leave a comment on our Facebook page,

(11:30):
because listen, everybody wants to say Happy Mother's Day to Mom,
So call us one eight hundred and sixty two four
eleven seventy. And if you have a great story about Mom,
love it. We want to laugh here on laugh here
on this Friday, So I'm gonna try and save everybody
some time. Although if you want a good laugh, go

(11:53):
back and watch it. But I suffered through the Biden
Jill Biden, former President Joe Biden's interview on The View yesterday.
Oh fifteen minutes of my life. I won't get back.

(12:15):
But cringe, cringe, cringe, cringe. No hard questions, nothing, not really.
They were fawning over him, as if he was JFK,
as if he was the best president we've had in

(12:38):
the past fifty years. It was comical. It was absolutely comical.
They did ask, and I will give credit where credit
is due, the quote unquote token conservative of the panel
did ask about the cognitive ability topic that, of course

(13:07):
surrounded the Biden administration. Of course, this is alyssa fair Griffin,
the conservative. I put that in quotation marks because I
know you can't see even with radio. She did ask about,
once again the cognitive question about the decline, the thing

(13:28):
that was so funny about it. As he stumbled and
bumbled as he does to answer the question, he couldn't.
He couldn't. Jill had to step in. Jill had to
step in, just like she did as she sat and

(13:50):
ran in the White House Cabinet meetings because he couldn't
answer the question. There were a few questions about Vice
President Harris and her campaign, why he thought she lost,

(14:10):
and of course it got to sexism and racism. The
American people are not ready for a female president the
let alone a woman of African American descent. I can't
do that. Yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with
the fact that she was a bumbling, cackling, completely unqualified candidate.

(14:40):
Nothing to do with that. But the conversation also came
back to the most recent books that have been out
that are challenging his state once again, his mental state
while he was president. They go on and and Jill

(15:00):
once again steps in and defends and says, you know,
the people that wrote these books, they were not in
the White House with us. No, they may not have been,
but their sources were. That's where they got the information
from people who were in the White House with the

(15:21):
Biden administration. But at a certain point in time, as this,
as this interview was going on, I'm thinking, Okay, got
a bit of a got a bit of a tense harder,
you know, little bit harder a question with with the
mental state, Maybe we're gonna talk about the border. Maybe

(15:43):
we're gonna have questions on the economy. Maybe ask questions
about I don't know, the fentanyl epidemic that was a
result of the open border. Maybe about the Americans that
have lost their lives or have been viciously attacked by

(16:03):
the illegals that came across the border. What about the
New York City police this week that were attacked by
fourteen fifteen year old gang members that are here illegally.
Thought we might have some of those questions. We did not, Oh,
of course not or the most recent report. This goes
back to a topic Otis and I we hit on yesterday,

(16:25):
the men and women's sports. It came out I believe
it was last week or the week before that Biden
agrees that men should not be competing in women's sports.
That has leaked. Why was that? Why was that question
not asked? Because it was hard, That's why. So the

(16:51):
groundhogs came out of their Heidi hole, had their appearance,
got the ooze and the oh's and you know everybody, oh,
you know, got the softball questions, tried to clean up
what is coming out and it was a failure. So
there's a little overview of if you didn't get a

(17:11):
chance to see it, if you want to go for it.
But it was what you would figure it was. It
was Cringe seven twenty eight. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA seven thirty six.

(17:38):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio at eleven seventy WWVA. As I mentioned, we're gonna
celebrate Mother's Day a little bit early. So if you
have a story or you want to wish mom in
early Mother's Day, give us a call. One in hundred
six two four eleven seventy so otis not now, but
think about a good mom's story.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Don't want something funny or do you've earn something.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
It's up to you. It's up to you. I'm going funny, right,
but it's up to you. But not now, not now,
So again Carlus one hundred and sixty to four eleven seven.
He give mom a shout out. It's her special weekend.
So moving on. If you have been living under a rock,
you don't know that a new pope has been decided upon.

(18:28):
We have one happened yesterday as the conclave of Catholic
cardinals chose Robert Francis prevost As to be the twenty
two hundred and sixty seventh Pope. Two hundred and sixty
seventh Pope. That's crazy. He will now go by the
name Pope Leo the fourteenth and is the first American

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born pope in church history. Diocese of Wheeling Charleston Bishop
Mark Brennan says Pope Leo will unite the church just
as his predecessors did. Brendan believes the new Pope's existence
extensive background serving in Latin America was key to his selection,
rather than just seeing him as a representative of a superpower.

(19:13):
I was surprised because we talked the other day about
some of the possibilities and I don't remember his name.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
I don't think he was at the top of the list.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yeah, I was kind of.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
It was probably a long shot if you were a
betting person.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, I don't remember him falling in the top three
that they were speculating.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I was leading. He had Robert Prevost on DraftKings congratulat
and you threw a five dollars bill on him. You're
probably raking in the dough this morning.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah. Have you seen some of the memes that are
not memes but tweets and stuff that have come out
because of Chicago his ties to his you.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Know, well, I do know this that the Cubs oh yeah,
quickly claimed with a message at Wrigley Field Marquis that
read he's a Cubs fan. Brother, he said that he's
actually a lifelong White Sox fan. John Prevos, who's the

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younger brother of the new pope, said he's always been
a fan of the White Sox, and the White Sox
responded to the Cubs saying family knows best and that
they have also already sent a White Sox jersey with
the pope's name and a cap to the Vatican. It's

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on its way.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Oh, I hope you're ready Vatican for American nah.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
So du bears. Du bears are going to be on
the TV in the Vatican every Sunday after Mass.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, that was one of that was one of the
memes out there was you know, Chicago gets a pope
before they get a quarterback. Wow, over four thousand passing
yards or something.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Well, some of the things that I did see were
they picked the Pope faster than Shador Sanders was drafted.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
Didn't see that one.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
It said picking the pope two days, picking Shador Sanders
three days.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
You know, so what Okay, he's the younger brother. You
mentioned he was the younger brother.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I saw there was an interview there's he has a
brother that lives in Florida, and he was, you know,
saying that he was really surprised and the younger brother
kind of no, maybe he was. This was the oldest
brother that lives in Florida, okay, and he said that,
you know, as kids, we used to get into and
he caught himself and he said shinanigans. And he said,

(21:36):
but you know, Robert was always the the holy one,
is how he described he.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Was the good one.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah. So could you imagine though, So you were at
an event at dinner party, right, and you're talking to
people and you say, oh, I'm I'm John and and
I do this for a living, and you have any siblings.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Oh yeah, my brother's a pope.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
My brother's the pope.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Wouldn't you look at somebody and go uh huh yeah, sure. Okay,
Well you'll.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Probably see more people visits to the United States now.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Probably he needs to come back and get us some
deep dish while he visits Chicago.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Or Chicago dog. Yeah, yeah, he just he gets out
of the popemobile and pulls into the pizza joint and
goes in and gets you're in Italy and you're going
to Chicago for pizza. Figure that one out.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Yeah, what do you do though? With all the white
regalia he has to wear?

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Or if he goes to a White Sox game that
what hat does he wear? The Pope hat or he's
White Sox hat or you put it on the door
and then and then he's sitting in the front road
and you're the guy behind him, it's got to look
for around that hat.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, that was funny because they were doing a mask
this morning here they were broadcasting live and all the
all the cardinals and everything. They all take the tall
triangular I don't know what it's called, my apologies, and
they fly and they all flipped it, uh simultaneously, and
they and it has these additional pieces of material that

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hang and it was all It was actually quite pretty
how they all flipped at the same time and and
it was very organized, very organized. But yeah, could could
you imagine talk about feeling like the underachieving sibling. Yeah,
what's your brother do? He's the pope.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
The papal head is called a zuketto zuketto.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Okay, if I'm pronouncing, I am not Catholic, so that
is you know.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's also called mitra miitra a camera or a miter
m i t r e or papal tiera.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
So wonder if he'll was.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Like I said, you're you're at the White Sox game.
He's sitting in front road you're behind and you're dog Hey, dude,
can you take your head.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Off or you're taking your popcorn trying to.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Hit the Hey, your holiness, I can't see. It's like
to somebody wearing a sombrero in front of you down
in front.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yeah, how do you heckle the pope down in front?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Does he have the little bulletproof box around him when
he's sitting in the stands.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
So I wonder if the popemobile will upgrade.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
To like it becomes out of the bullpen in it.
That would be great. When they used to come out
when relief pitchers used to be driven to the mound
in the in the golf cart. That had the team
helmet on it back in the day. That's what you
could do. You could bring the Pope out of the
bullpen for the first pitch for Sarah. That would really be,
that would be that would really be a ceremonial first pitch.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yes, say the White Sox make it to the World Series,
they invite the Pope.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
They're not making it to the World so I think
they've already been eliminated. They're like the pirates.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Maybe they need all the help they can get. If
they've got the Pope in their corner, he.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Needs a bless them for sure.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah, a little bit of pope history for you. The
longest conclave in history, this dates back to twelve seventy one,
was two years, nine months, and two days it took
to decide on a pope.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Keep in mind, in the twenty four hour news channels were.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Busy they twelve seventy one, Those birds were flying back
and forth with the announcements. They don't leave though. When
you're in, when you're in conclave, you're you're segregated. You
were in there. Could you imagine two years, nine months?

Speaker 3 (25:25):
What would you do in twelve seventy whatever? Well, yeah, yeah,
you didn't really. It's not like, yeah, you're not Hey,
I'm going to check what was on Facebook.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
You're having a withdrawal from from uh from the internet. Yeah,
I guess you wouldn't miss that. The let's see here
the modern day history. The longest was five days in
nineteen twenty two. That gave us Pope Pious. The second
the shortest was only ten hours, and that was let
me see here, where was it? Oh that was in

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fifteen o three. My fault, I apologie.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, the White Sox are ten and twenty eight right now,
which is two games worse than the Pirates. Pirates are
twelve and twenty.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Six, so they would need a holy intervention.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
So let's put it this way. If the if the
Pirates were in the American League, they would be in
second the last place, instead of last place because the
White Sox would be behind them.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Oh well, there you go. There's some positive. There's a
positive angle for Pirates fans out there.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
I guess I'm just looking at it's terrible. What the record,
I mean, that's that's absolutely horrible. Twenty You're winning percentage
is two sixty three. The Pirates are three sixteen. So
that's just horrible. That's that's the worst. That's the worst
than the Major. Oh no, I'm sorry. The Colorado Rockies

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are six and thirty one, six two winning percentage.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh oh god, they've only won six games. Boy, talk
about being depressed.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
On seventeen on the road, four and fourteen at home.
There's a there's a there's a ticket seller for you.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
So, man, that would be miserable going to work every day.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
The Rockies need a blessing from the pope. The Pope
needs to go to a road game of Colorado, so
you can bless them, both of them. This White Sox
and the Rockies.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well we saw history first American pope.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
I hope wearing these bears jersey on Sundays, but during
during mass underneath underneath the robe, Well, what.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Happens if they go on a winning streak? You can't
you know he's got a cure.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, you don't know. It's just like a judge. You
don't know what a judge has underneath that robe. Maybe nothing, Mmmm.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Judge Judy, there's an image for you.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Stop all right, I'm done.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Seven forty six. You're listening to the bloom Duddy experience.
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy w w V.
We're back flim that experience here on your beautifully sunshiny

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Friday morning. It is peeking through the front of the
Capital Theater right here that we get to sit in
every morning every morning. Of course, I'm Sam, he's otis.
You're listening to us here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Let's jump into some local stories East to higher Regional Hospital.

(28:28):
Once again in the news continues the drama, the forecloser
process it has started. This, of course, is following a
breach in the payment in the contract that they had
set up in regards to taxes. They did not hit
the April thirtieth deadline, so Belmont County Treasurer Kathy Kelch

(28:55):
Is started the process. She did make a statement to
our news partner WTOV. They did contact me on the
last day, April thirtieth, to ask if there was any
way they could make a partial payment or if we
would accept anything less than what was owed, And the
answer is nope. I think Miss Kelich has had her

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fill of this entire situation. It sounds like from there
this decision now ensures accountability to all taxpayers adhering to
the rules the process, the foreclosure process is expected to
take between six and twelve months, so this is not
a fast acting scenario. And as I mentioned a couple
weeks ago, WTOV is also reporting this. The potential briers

(29:44):
have expressed interest in the part in the property, and
I have been contacted by multiple sources that have said
the same thing, and the different scenarios of who is
interested is pretty vast. So and as I've told you before,
I have not been able to validate any of these rumors,

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so not going to get into the details of those,
but it is good news that there is interest. One
thing that may hold purchasers back or cause some hesitation
is the whoever purchases the property, they would be required
to settle the outstanding taxes and loan payments, which I

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have a hard time with because those that got it
in this situation, I would think would have to be
held responsible for the taxes that they didn't pay. But
I don't know the intricate and you know all the
ins and outs of the tax system and how all
of that works. It just amazes me that somebody who

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brought this facility to its knees and has gotten it
in all of the financial mess, could possibly sell the
property off with this financial mess for somebody else to
clean up. It's almost as if somebody would be getting
away with something. That's how I feel about it. But again,

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as I said, I don't know all the ins and
outs of how all of that tax you know, specific
details work. It just leaves it leaves a bad taste
in my mouth. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Also,
I'm wheeling. Police have charged a man in connection to
a twenty twenty three killing. Forty nine year old Christine

(31:37):
King was found with serious trauma back in on October
twentieth of twenty three. After a lengthy investigation, thirty seven
year old Dennis Evans was charged with the murder. Evans
was already in jail for another crime when he was
sentenced in this case. And an economic story for you.
Cleveland Cliffs is abandoning plans for a new electrical trance

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former production plant in Wharton as part of cost cutting measures.
The steelmaker announced to withdrawal Wednesday evening, citing an unnamed
partner's unwillingness to commit to a properly scaled plant. The
CEO expressed disappointment but stated he remained open to supplying
materials if the builder. If the partner builds in Wharton,

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the project would have required one hundred and one hundred
and fifty million dollar investment with a fifty million with
fifty million coming from a forgivable state loan that will
now likely be returned. That's that's disappointing. And then West
Virginia locals are reacting as West Virginia has decided to

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end DEI. The Governor Patrick Morrissey signed Senate Bill four
seventy four on Wednesday. Several litigators and supporters, I'm sorry,
legislators and reporter supporters joined Morrissey for the ceremonial ceremonial signing.
The bill in them eliminates all programs, training, activities, and
offices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. That's been a huge,

(33:10):
huge conversation, huge topic nationally, and there's a lot of
ins and outs with it. But when it comes down
to me, when it comes down to it, it's the
best qualified for the precision. That's one of the big
portions of that. So again, as we talked about, Sunday

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is Mother's Day, So give us a call, honor your mom,
give her a shout out one one hundred and sixty
two four eleven seventy say happy to Mother's Day Mom.
Here are some worst gifts to not get your mom
weight loss products unless she needs it. You do not
tell your mom she needs that, what is wrong with you?

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Or how about this cleaning supplies. Do not say, hey, Mom,
I've got you a new vacuum.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yay, she needs one.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Here's a new toilet brush.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Maybe she needs one. M what if she asks for it?

Speaker 4 (34:11):
If she asks for it, that's different. But if I
gave my mother a new cleaning toilet brush or something
to that accord, my mother would say, you know where
you can take that toilet brush. My mom would just
do it, not clean the toilet, give it back to you. Yeah.
Those are just a few of the uh don't buy

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mom those for Mother's Day. Seven fifty eight. We're going
to jump to a quick break. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy wwva.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Z number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
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Radio eleven seventy gets the Blue Daddy experience.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Hey, it's eighth six, Let's get this hour rolling. How
about the Pirates have fired Derek Shelton. Sixth season with
Pittsburgh twelve and twenty six start, He's got a record
of three hundred and six wins four hundred and forty losses.
That's a four to ten winning percentage cross parts of
six seasons as Pirates manager back to back one hundred
lost seasons in twenty twenty one and twenty two, never

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finished better than fourth in the l Central. But at
the same time, his entire time there, the Pirates never
ranked higher than twenty sixth in opening day payroll during
Shelton's tenure. So, in other words, the Pirates aren't the
Guardians when it comes to developing their guys in the
farm system and getting the most out of young guys.

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And the Pirates will never go out and sign somebody big.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Never.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
And I know Jose gave us a break, but the Pirates,
you're not getting any players there. I can remember when
Derek Shelton took that job I said, dude, don't take it,
because this is the beginning of the end of your career,
because nobody's going to hire you because you can't win
in Pittsburgh. You can't. And here he is. But this
is the icing on the cake. This is Pirates owner
Bob Nutting. Remember the t shirts they wear in Pittsburgh

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spend Nutting, win Nutting. They hate him, he said. Derek's
a good man who did a lot for the Pirates
in Pittsburgh, but it was time for a change. The
first quarter of the season has been frustrating and painful
for all of us. We have to do better. I
know that Ben knows that, our coaches know that, our
players know that. Now this is Bob Nutting. Remember this

(36:38):
guy is so cheap. He calls his three kids Deduction one,
Deduction two, and Deduction three. He goes on, there's a
lot of baseball left to be played. We need to
act with a sense of urgency and take the steps
necessary to fix this now, to get back on track
as a team in an organization that is a joke
coming from possibly the worst owner in Major League Baseball.

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I know this family well. They still live in Wheeling,
West Virginia, one of my old markets. I used to
go to a coffee house where I knew the people
who worked there, and Bob Nutting would walk in there
and get coffee and tip them a dime. This guy's
a billionaire, it would tip them a dime. Went to

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private school, never played any athletics, had no idea what
a baseball looked like until his old man bought the
Pittsburgh Pirates. And his old man used to walk around Wheeling.
Looked like a homeless guy, and this guy was a billionaire.
They made their money off newspapers, buying up newspapers, paying
their employees nothing. I can remember in Wheeling, one of
my buddies was their main guy. He'd been there ten years,

(37:44):
he was making twenty two thousand a year, college educated
ten years, twenty two a year. And he called me
one day he said, you're never going to believe that
the Nuttings are doing now. And I said, what's that?
He goes, He said, they're repainting the parking lot and
I said, well, why are they doing that? He said,
because they're going to start charging up us parking their
own employees. And they were making the line smaller so

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that more of their employees could park in the parking
lot so they could charge them. That's the guy who
owns the Pittsburgh Pirates who says there needs to be
a sense of urgency. This guy figured out a long
time ago that with revenue sharing and all the other
money he gets from the bigger clubs, he figured out

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a long time ago that if he keeps his payroll
in the bottom five and he just puts eleven thousand
people in panc Park and every now and then he
shoots off some fireworks and he gives away blankets and
gets thirty four thousand in there, that he can make
thirty million a year running the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's an embarrassment,
and Bob Nutting is the number one reason why there

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should be a salary floor floor, not ceiling floor in
Major League Baseball. Force these guys to spend money, and
if they're not going to spend it, so all the
team get out of town.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
He's absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, have you ever heard that parking lot story before?

Speaker 3 (39:08):
No, me neither. It doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
That's cheap. That's like using a paper towel, washing the
paper towel and drying it to use it again. I
mean that's cheap.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Let's go let's go back thirty years. Okay, let's go
back forty years.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
Okay, so that takes us to.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
What mid eighties? Ok yeah, okay, let's go back to
the mid eighties when I was in high school. When
you opened up. Of course I played high school sports.
I played high school basketball, but I had friends that
played football. I had friends that ran track at baseball whatever.
When you opened up the paper, you had line scores

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from high school baseball and softball games. You had little articles.
You had reporters that went to games to interview coaches,
and you know, you can't listen. I understand you. There's
so many high schools in this valley, especially in the
eighties before some of them consolidated.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
But you had boots on the ground.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
You had people out there and they went out and
they interviewed coaches or whatever, or if they didn't make
it to your game, they would have called you. Okay.
They had on Saturday, they had an entire little like
you know how like when you get the Sunday paper,
you had parade that like little magazine. Yeah, okay, so
they had a sports section that was similar to that

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obviously not on that magazine type paper, and so there
was always a local athlete on the cover you opened
it up. They ran Sunday comics on Saturday that they
didn't run in the Sunday comic paper. You know, there's
a different type of it was different comics. And I
mean it was a whole section ten twelve, sixteen pages

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of sports, high school sports mostly. I mean they had
some college in there, like a WVU preview or something
of that nature, but that's what it was. And then
that went away after they had a fire, so that
went away. Okay. Then then they just then fast forward
ten years. I'm coaching high school girls basketball. Never never

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send anybody to a game, never did any You had
to call in and tell them, and then maybe maybe
they give you a paragraph and then they put your
box score in. Okay, that's fine. Now they don't even
do that.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Oh, they didn't even to put the box scores in anymore.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
They might, but you know, I mean, but there's no articles.
They don't even put the paragraphs in because and then
you don't have a Sunday paper anymore. They put the
Sunday paper out on Saturday, so they don't have to
have anybody working on Saturdays. It's a joke. And that's
how they run the Pirates, right, you run the Pirates

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as a joke.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Chip Away, Chip away.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
The Nuttings just bought when we were in high school.
When I was at WU, we called it the dumb
as a post. But they bought the Dominion Post paper. Okay,
they stop, say they stop Sunday papers. You're in Morgantown,
West Virginia, where there's WU football on Saturdays, WU basketball
on Saturdays, WU baseball on Saturdays. That is your that's

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that's your pro team in your town, in your state,
and you don't cover them on a site you have
to the people that subscribe to your rag have to
wait until Monday to see the story. It's stupid and ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Well, I mean, think about it. State of West Virginia
doesn't have a pro football team, doesn't have a pro
basketball team. They have the Mountaineers, not pro anything, right,
I mean four But for the hometown, the Morgantown newspaper.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Not to cover WVU for a Sunday morning newspaper, you're
out of your mind.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Yeah. Well, and here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
The imagine doing that in Columbus.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
They don't.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
They would kill the.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Paper exactly exactly. But but the way they have done it,
it's not a quick slashing of things to save money,
so it flies under the radar. They chip away a
little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit here.
So it's happening if folks don't know it. And that's
what they've done with the pirates. You know, cut here,

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cut there, signa has been charging pose parking?

Speaker 3 (43:22):
What that I mean?

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Come on, come on, yeah, you got to help people
out somewhere along now, Yeah, the frustration I couldn't even imagine.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
If you know, look, if this is this isn't New
York City where you have to come in most or
a big city where you know, parking's at a premium
and you have to pay for it. There's no reason
why you cannot let your employees park free somewhere or
pick up the tab for their monthly parking. So if
you're at the if you're at the Wheeling News Register Intelligencer,

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and there's no parking spaces in your lot, but you
have the intercommodal intermodal center, I call it the intercommodal center.
You have that parking there let's say it's thirty dollars
a month. You can't pick up the tabs for your employees.
If you have ten employees, that's three hundred dollars a month.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
But there's a reason why there are certain people that
get rich and rich and rich and rich because.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
They don't spend, spend, spend, They're tight tight tight.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Yep, exactly.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
And I think my one of my favorite phrases is
somebody's tighter than two coats of paint. He's he's tighter,
tighter than that. I mean, like two coats of paint
would be loose compared to what Bob Nutting spends.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yes, he has turned it into an art form. Oh
a fifteen. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience salmon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back eight twenty one,
The bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

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What was real, quick otis the Christmas Party?

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Oh yeah, we get a text message from somebody that said,
this is no joke. He heard that Nuttings Christmas party
this year was bringing a covered dish.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
I thought you were joking when you said that to him,
you said, no, it prefaces by saying this is not.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
A He actually ended the text he said, no joke.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Wow, wow, you can't can't get any tighter than that. Goodness,
Grace's that's that's funny. Oh but I digress. Switching gears
here a little bit. We are winding down our symphony series,
but we can't end it yet because next week I'm
going to be celebrating the ninety fifth anniversary. So of course,

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welcome back to the show, Sadie Varlis with the Wheeling Symphony.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Welcome back, lady, Hi, thanks for having me again.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
So ninety five years that's huge.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Yeah, that's huge, a huge reason to celebrate, and that
is what we are hoping to do on Thursday next week.
It's just have a big celebration with our concert and
celebrate how far we've come in the past almost one
hundred years. It's very exciting.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Have you ever dug through the archives and like, you know,
like who was the first performer, big name, any of
that kind of stuff you could share with us.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
Well, when we had Yo Yoma come and perform here
a couple of years ago, we found a play bill
from when he first performed with the Wheeling Symphony in
the fifties and he was only like eighteen years old.
Oh really, and so it was really cool to have
him come back after he's you know, one of the
most celebrated classical musicians in the world. So that is

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probably like one of the biggest names that I can remember.
But we've also had like Leonard Bernstein conducted the orchestra
in the you know, in our past, and then Betty
Goodman was a soloist. So we've had some big names
over the years. And I think that this season has
been just a testament to how far we've come and
release celebratory of what we've been able to do as

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an organization.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
And I think that's one thing with the Wheeling Symphony
that makes it special is you know, we're not the
High Valley is not a large population. I mean, it's
not a huge amount of people. So to be able
to have what we have right here in our own backyard,
I think makes us stand apart from a lot of
other small, small areas.

Speaker 5 (47:19):
Like us, oh one hundred percent. That's one of the
things that I hear the most is how great it
is that Wheeling even has an orchestra because there are
a lot of towns of our size or even bigger
that don't. So I do think it's something really special
about our community and really points to how supportive our
community is of the arts and music and just all
sorts of different elements of culture.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
And with hitting the ninety five year mark, what can
people look forward to? Of course, this is happening next
Thursday on the fifteenth, So what is on the playbook
for the event, So what.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
We are probably most excited for that We're excited about
every piece on the concert, but we will open with
the debut of our brand new community Choir. So this
community choir is made up of forty individuals from the
Ohio Valley and they will be performing on this newly
composed piece by doctor Matthew Hard who is a professor

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at West Liberty. So he has written this piece for
the Wheeling Symphony and the choir, and they will be
singing these lyrics written by a local author and professor,
doctor Christina Phisnik, And it's all about the love that
we have for our community. So that's something that's really
exciting is that. And then our previous music director, Andre

(48:35):
Raffel will be coming back to conduct a piece, and
then our principal cellist is going to be soloing on
a new composition that was inspired by her in All
for Travels. She's actually performed on her cello in every
continent of the world, including Antarctica where she like performed
for penguins.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
It's really cool. And did they.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
I don't know if they're a little flip can fit
in front of their bodies to clap.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
How that works well? Even with the event the concert
next Thursday, the ninety fifth anniversary, the season is technically over,
but the symphony is not done. Right, there's going to be,
of course, the traditional summer events that we have all become,
you know, we look forward to every year, which of
course is the fourth of July celebration that's going to

(49:26):
be happening at Heritage Port and what other you know
on top of that, what are the other things happening
this summer?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Right?

Speaker 5 (49:32):
So the July fourth tour is definitely one of our
biggest things of the summer. So we don't just perform
in Wheeling, but we also go around to Canaane Valley,
Clarksburg and Weirton for a big four day tour. So
that's going to be really great. And then in September
we have our annual Labor Day concert Music under the Stars,
and all of these events in the summer are free

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events to go to.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
It's just a way for our community to get.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Together and enjoy some free music outside and our beautiful
you know, natural environment.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Well, and part of this is there's a lot of
people that work on the symphony. There's there's different portion organizations,
I guess. So there's the Wheeling Auxiliary, Wheeling Symphony Auxiliary
that's part of this, and there's a lot of fundraising.
So coming up on June twentieth is the annual Pig
and Swig, Yes, and that helps with the symphony and

(50:25):
it's a fundraiser and all of that too, So got
to highlight those people that work really hard on that, right. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
The Wheeling Symphony Auxiliary is such a great group and
all year round they do all of these different fundraisers
just to help support the symphony. But it's nice because
the events that they host are a little more based
around the social aspects, so people can go and chat
with each other and just sort of you know, socialized.
So that's what the Pig and Swig is is you

(50:52):
can get some beer, some barbecue and just hang out
and have a good time.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Can't chit chat while these symphonies playing, right, So unfortunately,
these events where we can actually chit chat and have
the conversation, you don't want the conductor turning around and
go with the right No, no, no no, no, no
talking right now. So again, the ninety fifth anniversary celebration
happens next Thursday, which of course is May fifteenth. You

(51:16):
last time you visited teased a little bit next year's cinema.
Can we make the announcement yet?

Speaker 5 (51:22):
Yes we can. Okay, we have officially announced our twenty
twenty five twenty twenty six season and our movie that
we will be showing this year. We do a film
with live orchestra. Is going to be Star Wars, a
new hope. Ah, buddy, buddy, to be really really exciting
that it's going to be April of twenty six.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
Yes, indeed, I'm a Star Wars nerd. So yeah, that's awesome,
absolutely awesome. Well again next Thursday, May fifteenth, the ninety
fifth anniversary. Sadie, thank you so.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Much this morning, of course, thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
All right, it is eight twenty eight. You're listening to
the Bloomdaddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back to eight thirty six Glendaddy Experience, samon Otis

(52:12):
News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. So just real quick,
remember yesterday Otis, we talked about the raccoon and the
meth pipe.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
That whole story last couple of days. Well, you shared
the video yesterday. It was the story. We had the
story on Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Oh okay, it starts all it just blends together for
the second week. So the raccoon now has a name,
Oh rocket Chewy Chewy. I personally think he should be Smoky.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Crack.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
I get it, I get it.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
Sorry, I was expecting a laugh.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Yeah it wasn't. It was good, but it wasn't good.
Better than Rocky, I said, rocket Rocket from uh Guardians
in the Galaxy?

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Okay, fine, whatever, all right, what was that?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
My mom wasn't meant to be funny. It was just
throwing it out there.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
Yeah, well that ship just sank. Okay, all right, let's
let's talk our moms.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Okay, since it's you know, Mother's Day, I kind of
forget where were going here.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
But okay, okay, so just just you know, give me
a give me a mom's story. No, you go first,
I'll go first. Okay. So, first of all, this is
not to be this is this is to be funny.
So I am one of those people that one of
the horrible traits that I have is when somebody gets hurt,

(53:37):
I laugh. I don't know why I find humor in
certain things. Well, there was a scenario probably fifteen twenty
years ago. I had a boy at the house, the
guy I was dating, and no, yeah, we're not going
that route. And we're all in the backyard of my
home and my childhood home, and he will in college

(54:01):
he played the Ultimate Frisbee. And if you know anything
about that game, the frisbees they use are not your
traditional frisbee. They are not the ones that you get
you get from for free, from the bank or some
They are hardcore, solid plastic frisbees. So we're all sitting

(54:25):
there at summertime and he's tossing the frisbee back and
forth with my brother, and my brother basically says to him,
throw it his heart. You know this is You're supposed
to be so good at this, this is the ultimate.
This you won prize throat as hard as you can,
so they just start whipping this thing. I mean, it
is flying, and God bless my mother. My mother's maybe

(54:51):
five foot one, five foot two, shite little thing. Uh
to the point where sometimes people question where I came from.
But that's besides the point. She was not paying attention.
And she walked down our backyard and from where she walked,
in the level of the yard down she walked right
in between the two of them throwing this frisbee, and

(55:18):
she got clocked. And when I say clocked, she went down.
And from the angle that I was sitting, it was
like she disappeared. She was there one minute, the next
minute she was gone, and I was rolling and everybody

(55:40):
runs to her attention, and I felt so horrible. But
that is my mother, my mother, God bless her, best
one on the planet. If there is an opportunity or
a chance of some sort of injury, some sort of
broken bone, it's going to happen to her. And I
do not know why. But Mom, despite the fact I

(56:06):
laughed as hard as I've probably ever laughed when you
almost had your head taken off, I apologize. I apologize.
On this Mother's Day it's not funny, but it was
funny at the time. But for some reason, God bless her,
she is prone to freak injury and accidents. So Mom,

(56:30):
the personal body suit of bubble wrap is in the
mail because that's the way we will keep you from
breaking anything else.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Otis all right, I'm not going to take as long
as you did. So when I was a kid, probably
about ten, between ten and twelve, you know, you'd get
a little sassy maybe or whatever with your parents. So
every once in a while, your mom would find something
to basically hit you with, crack you across the rear end.
Could be a wooden spoon, could be what ever, the

(57:00):
back of her hand, the back of her hand. Sometimes
it wouldn't be the rear end. Sometimes it would be
in the face.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Oh, I got one of those ones.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
So one time I did something or said something and
my mom had a yardstick in her hand.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Mmm.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
So she decided that she was gonna crack me on
the butt with the yardstick. Well, the yardstick broke, and
then I just started laughing, which made matters worse.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
Oh so you laugh at inappropriate times too.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Well, I mean I just saw I'm like, ha ha,
you think you hurt. You think it hurt. No, you
break the yardstick. Ha ha, You're not gonna be able
to use that anymore. And then when I started laughing,
she's she was it made her mad, But then she
started laughing too, And then after that it was like
like there was nothing she could do to make the
like there was no punishment that could fit at that

(57:46):
point in time.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Yeah. So, and sometimes it's gonna be hard as a
parent not to laugh when something is funny, like the
first time your kid says a bad word. I've laughed
at my niece and my brother's like, don't laugh. Just
she'll say it over and over. Yes, you can't help it.
Did your mom ever have a certain like line that
she would use to comfort you or like calm you down.

(58:11):
You're not one to kind of fly off the hand,
like you don't let a lot of stuff bother you.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
You've never seen that side of me.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
Oh okay, I don't want to see that side.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
So there are times like when now normally she'll just
yell my name, Like there was one time we left
a concert. She was our designated driver when we went
to concerts. Oh, and some kid used a phrase that
probably shouldn't be used on a woman or a word
rhymes with the football and a baseball term. You can

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figure it out. And I kind of jumped out of
the car and went after the guy. No alcohol was involved.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
He was referring it to your mother, yes, oh.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
And so I kind of went that crap crazy and
rightfully so. Yeah. And I was married at the time,
so my wife kind of jumped out behind me, and
really after I got a couple punches in. Yeah, but yeah,

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there are I tried, well, the guy was in his
car and I tried to pull him out. He was
the driver. Oh, and I mean I I first off,
I hit him and then I tried to pull him
out of his car, which probably wasn't good. I mean,
I'm not proud of myself for doing that.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
No, but it's your mother.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
But then I heard her yell like that was the
only thing I could hear. Like there was there were cars, people, horns, music,
The only thing I heard was my mom yelled my name.
And then I was like, yeah, I probably better stop.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
And isn't that weird how it's like you can pinpoint
and stop everything there There are two phrases with my
mother that are ingrained in me. One is, whenever there's
something wrong, whether it's you know, heartbreak or something here
makes me angry or whatever, she always says to me,

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this too shall pass, no matter how deep in the
midst of some sort of what you think is a
tragedy or just heartbreak or whatnot. That is her go
to line, This too shall pass, to the point where
it rings in my head that I now use it
as my own personal mantra to calm myself down.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Is that what she told you when you swallowed the penny?
This too shall pass?

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Yeah, exactly exactly. The other one is I remember when
as a teenager. For anybody out there who has there,
it is ah surprise if you've ever had, if you
have teenage daughters, or if you are honest enough to reflect,
if you're a female, what you were like is a

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teenage girl. We're awful. Teenage girls are awful.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Some are worse than others.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Yes, they're vicious, they are snippish. I was an absolute brat,
and that is putting it mildly because I cannot use
the terms that I probably should. And I remember her
saying to me one time, you know I gave birth
to you I have to love you. I do love you.

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At this point in time, I cannot stand you, and
I can still see her, but I can. We're standing there.
I can still envision it. So Mom's out there. You
get us to where we accomplish things in our lives

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and we can't thank you enough. Ay forty five, you're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA A fifty one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam had a
meeting to get to by nine fifteen, so kind of
let her sneak out of here just a little bit
early so she could make it on time. So you're
stuck with me for the last segment. Just want to
let you know one of the things out there right now.
There's a new trend on TikTok. We've seen the tide
pod challenge and all these crazy things, but some public

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schools are warning of this new online trend and it
involves students setting their laptops on fire. So if you
have a school age child, you might want to kind
of make sure that they're not going to do this.
What happens is they take place in this challenge where
they short out their laptops by puncturing the lithium battery.

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Parents and guardians are being asked to speak to their
children and discourage them from participating in this kind of activity,
which you know doesn't make a whole lot of sense anyway.
You take a computers, I know they're not as expensive
as they used to be. I mean, but if you
have a halfway decent one, you know, six seven hundred
dollars in a computer, and then they punk your to
the lithium battery and catch your laptop on fire, it's

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not doing you or your wallet any good. So just
keep in mind, talk to your kids, don't do everything
that's on TikTok. There's a Pennsylvania woman. Her name is
Mildrin Seminar little Simon Erlito. She purchased a Pennsylvania Cash
five ticket last May so May have twenty twenty four.

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Her ticket came up a winner. However, she couldn't find
the ticket and she couldn't claim the two point five
million dollar prize because she had made a huge mistake.
She left it in a jacket, and then she took
that jacket and donated it to the Vietnam's Vietnam Veterans

(01:03:58):
of America. She says, I was stupefied. There are no
words for it, there's no expression. How can I get
it back? She said that unfortunately, the jacket could have
been sent around the country or even overseas, and there's
no way to track the item. She's notable to claim
the prize without the physical ticket, which expired yesterday. So
you have a two point five million dollar winning lottery

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ticket and it was in a jacket that you donated
that you have no way to track. So basically you
just threw away two point five million dollars. Or if
the person had found it, if they got it and
were able to get back to PA by May eighth,
maybe they claimed it. Who knows. This is if you've

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ever flown, and if you've flown recently anymore, you know everything.
They don't give you anything for free very much anymore.
You have to buy almost everything. There is a lady
that was She's an english woman. She was on Ryan Air,
was a Ryan A flight. She was unable to pay
for her pringle snacks on her flight to Bristol. Her

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name's Anne Marie Murray. She claims that her card didn't work,
and while she offered to pay in cash for the chips,
the flight staff said they couldn't take cash payments. Then
this is what's kind of a little disturbing, she said.
I was shocked when the police came on board and
we were asked to leave. It was so embarrassing. Luckily,

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the police were lovely and after I explained the situation,
they took me to a cash machine and I was
able to pay. Murray said she's now been banned from
flying with Ryanair, but wouldn't want to fly with them
again anyway after the incident. And listen, I don't know
five or six bucks for a thing of pringles on
an air flight. It's one of them little lunch size
when it's not the big can. First off, they overcharged you.

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And if you know your credit clerk card doesn't work
or it's declined for someone, you know, maybe the chip
went bad, or maybe the you know, barcade got compromised,
or the the magnetic strip got compromised. And if that's
the only card you have, I mean, just say, hey, look,
I'll make it good. What can we do here to
make it right? Or if you're maybe you're a passenger

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sitting next to them and just say, hey, for five bucks,
I'll help you out. I can't. I can't imagine her
being banned from an entire airline for not paying for
pringles when it was just the fact that her card
didn't work. Have you ever wanted to just disappear? Well,
there's a cold case out of Wisconsin that spanned six decades.

(01:06:32):
It's finally been solved. The Sauk County Sheriff's Office says
Audrey Backenberg, who disappeared at the age of twenty in
nineteen sixty two, has been found alive and well. There
was an investigation by the Sheriff's office determined that she
chose to vanish and no criminal activity or foul play
was involved. Back of Berg disappeared from her home on

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July seventh, nineteen sixty two. She just didn't want to
be involved with the people that werender I guess there's
also a we talked about the TikTok trend a little
bit ago. There's a I don't know if it's TikTok
or it's on reels, but I've seen it on Facebook.
There's like a little compilation where, you know, an adult

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you're in the kitchen and you have an egg, and
you smash the egg off your child's head just to
see their reaction. Some of them, I find them funny.
To be honest with you, it's not causing any harm,
I don't think. But there's a twenty four year old
Swedish mom who was convicted of harassment after she cracked
the egg on her daughter's head for a TikTok video.

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The trends of parents cracking eggs on their small children's
head took off back in twenty twenty three, and while
many saw this as harmless, others did not agree because
they have no sense of humor, probably no personality to
record and humiliate the child and then broadcast it the
thousands of viewers. I find that incredibly degrading. And that's
my personal opinion. That's prosecutor Cecilia Anderson. The mother was fine,

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just over two grand and must give the some to
her daughter. Okay, no big deal there, I guess. But
it's not degrading. It's just having a little bit of
fun little kids, just to see their reaction. Sometimes you
just do things to see a child's reaction. Some of
them are funny. Some of them, aren't. If it's not funny,
you don't post it. You're not humiliating. Sometimes you get

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humiliated in return. I've seen where the parent cracks the
egg on the kid's head, and then the kid turns
around and cracks the egg off the parent's head. So
I personally I find that kind of funny. And then
or they got the mixing bowl and it's full of
flour and the kid throws the flour all over the parent.
Now you know, I don't necessarily condone all that, but
in I guess in the line of humor, I would

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find that kind of funny. So last story for the day.
A Japanese bus driver lost out on his life's work
over seven bucks. He worked for the Kyoto City for
nearly three decades and will not get his eighty four
thousand dollars pension after being fired for stealing seven dollars
from the passenger's fare. He was caught on camera on

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his bus pocketing one thousand yen bill, which is seven bucks.
Fifty eight year old driver sued the city for being
denied his pension, but ultimately lost the case as the
Supreme Court delivered a finer ruling in the city's favor,
so don't steal. Simple as that. Hey, that's it. Happy
Mother's Day to all the moms out there. For those
of you that maybe have lost your mom, you just

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keep her in your thoughts. Have a good weekend everybody.
We'll see you on Monday.