The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 12, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. You got a lot happening within the state
of Ohio. First of all, Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussell.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Announcing that he's leading the door open to run for governor.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Not is not what he told me on this show
about two months ago, but I knew this was coming.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
At the same time.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Vivike Ramaswami just got the state party endorsement as of
this afternoon. That means he has access to the state
party's voter data, campaign services, field staff support, bulk mill permit.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
That means he is off in running.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Jim Ornacy, former Congressman, bloom Daddy Show political analyst, Let's
start with Vivek. Jim, I got a buddy in Columbus
and this is what he told me about Theveke getting
that endorsement today from the state Republican state Party. He said,
it's hard to get a supermajority of the Republican State
Committee to agree that today is Friday. Yet Alan, what
Viveke did, He's truly done something remarkable here. He was

(01:15):
able to win the overwhelming majority of a fairly diverse
committee and this endorsement is both impressive and historic.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do you agree or disagree?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Well, here's what I do agree. And look, I've spoken
of Avik multiple times. This endorsement is needed for not
only for the data and everything else, it's for the money.
Make sure your listener this is all about the money.
But they can now fundraise. Instead of just been able
to get sixteen thousand dollars per person, he can now

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get millions of dollars because people can put any amount
of money they want into the Higher Republican Party and
say I near mark that for the vake Lamaswaman. So
that was really the key for Aveke today. A lot
of people don't understand that. That's why he wanted it.
That's why he actually pushed and pushed and pushed for
he made phone calls. It's because now he knows he

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can start raising money into the party. But I will
also tell you he had the entire Trump team behind him.
Laura Trump called in this morning and asked them to
vote for the endorsement. Don Junior put out a tweet
yesterday asking the party for the endorsement and talking to
many of these individuals, they said, look, if this is

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who Trump wants, this is who we're going to give.
This is who we're going to endorse. Even though when
Daddy think about this, there's still nine months for people
to get in this race, and the primary is still
a year out. So it's amazing that the party actually
did this, But you know, it is done, and it
will be very helpful for a fight and very harmful

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for anybody that tries to get in.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, I was going to say, you say, this is
amazing they did this this early. Is that a clear
sign the party is united and not interested in dragging
this on?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well, it depends on who's saying that. So you've got
a lot of people that don't believe the party should
be making the decision for them. So yes, I could
say the party wants to appear there united, but what
they've really done is they've taken away the voter's choice. Look,
I went through this in eighteen and in twenty twenty two,
when the party endorsed the wine over me instead of

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standing down. What it really means is whoever gets that
it's all the resources. But on the reverse side, if
somebody really good wants to step in, they now have
a very high hilled to climb. So what many voters
are going to say is, here goes the heavy hand
of the Republican Party making a decision for me.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
All right, that was a great segue, Jim, that you
did for me. And again I'm talking to Jim Ornacy,
former congressman, because Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussell just announcing he's
leaving the door open to run as well on this
show about two months ago. I asked him point blank,
because I think we all knew, Jim, we talked about it.
Dwine tabbed him as lieutenant governor because he does not
want one of Trump's.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Proteges to be the next governor. At least that's how
I feel about it. And Jim said, no, no, no,
I'm not interested. I'm not interested. Now all of a sudden,
he's interested.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I knew this time was coming, But this state party endorsement,
Republican state Party endorsement for the Veik.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
How much of a blow to Trestle is that now?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, I think I think that's exactly what happened over
the last forty eight hours. People were telling Trust, well,
look they're going to get in. You better start telling
people because they're going to be voting for an endorsement
for Avake on Friday. And I think that does show
that coach Jim Trussell has an interest because he would
not have sent that signal out last night. Now in

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the end is if he decides to get in, you
have to remember he's going to have the full he
might not have the RP, but he's going to have
a full faith and trust of Mike Dwine and his
donors and his support, which probably is a match for
the ARP as well. And that's what's going to be
really interesting if Trussell gets in. It's not an automatic.

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Trussell can't do this. He'll have Mike, Mike Dwine's donors,
Mike Dwine's support. Uh, that's going to be the real key.
You know, who will be able to outmatch who if
Jim Trussell does get in.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Jim Banks of the time on this Friday, we'll talk
a good Monday, all right, thank you.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's interesting as this plays out in the state of Ohio,
It's going to be very interesting to follow. I will
use a football term since, of course, Jim Trussell, former
Ohio State Bucke's head coach, he's he's sort of he
hasn't officially announced, but he is sort of showing up

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midway through the first quarter of the game because Vivek
Ramaswami he boots on the ground. He has been boots
on the ground as soon as he announced. He has
been hitting the circuit. He's been hitting small towns a
couple weeks ago. Are of course, political analyst Elgri mccardo

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and myself got to go see him speak up in
Stubonville in Jefferson County, and he was a great speaker.
He is knocking on doors, he is visiting small town USA.
He has great terms and quotes that he's throwing around
to voters. He is shaking hands and kissing babies. And

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he got out there first. And I hope that Tressel
and his supporters, if he does make the announcement and
he does go for it, I hope he does not
think that. Being the former football coach for Ohio State
is what is going to carry him across the winning

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the finish line, winning line, finish line. There has to
be more to that, but I honestly, I think the
veik has gotten out there so quickly and now has
the endorsement of the Ohio GOP. It's now a bigger
mountain to climb for Trestle again if he does decide

(07:29):
to make that leap. He has not officially announced, but
we know that this has been teased, has been thrown around,
and obviously, as bloom Daddy said, he has made it
so that the door is still open. It's not completely closed,
the door well.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
Not being in an Ohio resident. I mean, Jim Tressel
is going to get votes because of who he is
and who he was, Let's put it that way. And
there's no doubt about that because name recognition number one
and number two is there are so many uninformed voters

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out there and and I'm not saying I don't mean
that as far as like everybody.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
But they'll just see that name.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
They'll see the name, and that's what they'll do. They'll
vote because you have you have people that have no
idea what's going on in this country. Or in your
neighborhood or in your state, and they just they see
a name and they go, oh, okay, I'll vote for
this person. They have no idea what they stand for
where they'll say, oh, it's a Democrat, I'm voting, or
if it's a Republican, I'm voting. They don't care. And

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those are what I call the uneducated voters because they
they're not they're not willing to look and listen to
see what these people have to offer and what they're
bringing to the table. And and I'm not saying that
Jim Tressel wouldn't be a good governor. I don't. I
don't know him. I don't I don't know what his
policies are. I don't know anything about the guy really

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other than he was a highest stage football coach and
he was the Youngstown State athletic director or whatever or president.
I mean, so you know, I mean, with that being said,
you know, you can do whatever you want. I mean,
but I would I would consider doing your homework before
you voted. If Jim Treslow and the Baker in it.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Together, well that should be said for any.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Voting absolutely absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, it's uh, surprisingly the state of Ohio is become,
and has been for a while now, such a hotbed
when it comes to politics, whether on a state level,
a local level, or of course a national level. Who
knew the little old state of Ohio would be so important?
Just as important it is as it is in the

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hearts and minds of somebody like Otis oh He has
a particular T shirt that we tend to we bicker
about when he wears it, but.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
I don't bicker about it.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's offensive to somebody like me and a proud Ohio one.
It's seven sixteen on your Monday morning. Thank you for
kicking off your week with us. You're listening to the
Bloomdaddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(10:27):
We are back at seven twenty one on your Monday,
the bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. I want to talk about the weekend, Otis.
We have a special guest with us this morning. But
you had a great weekend if you want to introduce him.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Well, I don't know if I had a great weekend,
but on Friday I decided that the dog that I
have is a great dog. Rory is he's ten years old.
He's a one hundred and fifteen pound lab mix. But
he's getting old and his hips are bothering, and like
when you take him for a walk, I can take
him for maybe fifty yards and then he's out. He's

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just done. So it's hard to take him for a walk.
So I decided that I was going to maybe adopt
another dog. I'm gonna put a little time and effort
into it. I didn't rush into it. And I went
down into the Marshall County Animal Shelter and I adopted
the second longest tenured resident, and he is. We have

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no idea that like I looked on his form that
they gave me the kind of like because with Rory
it said, you know, black lab mix. I was waiting
for something mixed with this one, and it just says
brown and white mixed dog.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Oh okay.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
And so but he's got a little bit he's got
a face of a little bit of a pit pity.
He's got a little pity face. But he's like at
the body of a greyhound almost or a whippet.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
He's long and skinny.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, and he's actually his name's Pongo. I didn't name him,
but yeah, that's his name. And he's training this morning,
so that's why he's with us this morning and maybe
with us a couple of days this week. Plus I
don't trust him at the house. He's not one hundred
percent house brokencha, So we're working on that, and we're

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working on a few things, but overall, yet, overall, it's funny.
I took some stuff to my mom's for Mother's Day
yesterday and we were sitting there, had him with both
dogs with me, and I said to her, I said,
I've never I said, I've had him for forty eight
hours and I have yet to hear him bark. And
within thirty seconds he barked it people across the streets,

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dog out in the yard, and I said, well, we
both heard it for the first time, so and it
was like one bark and a couple of little yips
that was it. And he's still young. He's still yeah,
from what I understand, the Marshall County Animal Shoulder had
him as a puppy. He got adopted by somebody in
Wetzel County and the Humane Society get called and he

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was removed from that location and brought back to the
Marshall County Animal Sheld. So he now has a home
and he's my walking partner.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
He's your walking partner.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
We've done I think we did Saturday and Sunday. I
think we did about eight miles. Wow, so that doesn't
count what we did this morning.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Well, I will say this, he like I said, he's
very quiet, he's very timid, and he is very attentive.
Oh yeah, he looks he already looks to you for.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
He he what's that when he imprinted very fast?

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Yes, yeah, he looks to you for for everything. Well, congrats,
wonderful to hear that kind of stuff. And and you
know to the Marshall County and plenty of animal shelter.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
If you're looking for a dog, go ahead and adopt.
There are a couple down there that they're sponsored as
far as like they're like, there's no fees that you
had to do. They had they were actually running a special.
But I didn't, unbeatenst to me, somebody I guess last
week paid for his adoption. Oh so the only thing
I had to do was buy a caller, because that's

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the one thing I forgot to take with me was
a caller a leash, but I didn't take a caller.
I mean, how smart am I?

Speaker 5 (14:03):
I haven't been to a shelter in a while. I
don't I don't know how you don't look at all
those faces and not want to take them all you do?

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Yeah, I mean there's there's there's ones that you can
tell that they're just crazy so you don't want them.
But for the most part, the ones down at the Marsh,
the Marsh County Animal Shelter, dude is the longest resident
down there, and he's I met dude and spent some
time with him. He's pretty, he's pretty laid back.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah, he's a good dog. But he was under Yeah
he was under quarantine when I took my dog to meeting.
So but he's out of quarantine and everything else.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Now, So well, congrats, congrats. He is definitely a sweetheart
and absolute sweetheart. And what a great thing to do.
And again, as you said, otis adopting from the animal shelter,
any animal shelter in our area is definitely a wonderful
thing in direction to take things. Hopefully everybody had a
good Mother's Day. I would love to know how many

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hanging baskets were sold in the past seventy two hours.

Speaker 6 (15:04):
This is the first year I think I didn't buy
a hanging basket. No, I bought like a planner, and
then I bought I don't know, I guess you could
call it a hanging basket, but it's kind of it's
kind of the ones that you would put against the house.
So it's got that flat back and oh yes, like
it's almost like a window sill type thing.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
So yeah, no, I would love to know. We were
going to go was it Saturday or Sunday? We were
going to run down to Marshall County co Op to
get flowers for our landscaping, and somebody told my husband
they had like cops directing traffic. They were so busy
down there, which I believe it doesn't surprise me, doesn't

(15:43):
surprise me. But no, my weekend was, uh, my weekend
was pretty calm, although I do say Friday night, I
did something that I've not done before, a potential new
business that some I was trying to help somebody out with.
We had a cake decorating party. You know how there's
paint and SIPs. This was the same concept, except it
was a decorate and sip.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Okay and learned how to Sorry I missed that.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
I know, I'm sorry I didn't invite you. I figured
you were busy that it wasn't really up your up
your line of excitement, I guess.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
I was at an estate sale yesterday and they had
the cake decorating thing that like the little gun that
you can make the little fancy things with. Yes, and
everything was half off, so I could have got I
could have I could have gotten the two main things
for cake decorating for four bucks. And I was like,
I know, there's somebody that could use this, but it's

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not really somebody that I deal with that much anymore.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, I don't know how much artistry was done that night.
I do know at one point in time, I look
across the table, because each one of us had our
own bowl of butter cream icing of course, to work with.
I look across the table. One of my guests has
the entire spatula in her mouth, licking off the butter cream. So,
if you want to forget the wine, it was the

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sugar buzz that we were all amped up on. Anyways. Anyways, congrats,
welcome Pongo to the show. He's gonna hang out with
us the rest of the day. He's absolutely adorable. I'll
post a picture on our Facebook page. But you think
we had a busy weekend, guess who else had a
busy weekend? President Trump. We're gonna go over a couple
of the things that kept him on his toes and man,

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I'm exhausted just reading about it. Seven twenty eight. You're
listening to the Bloom Doddy Experience Sam and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven thirty six on this Monday morning,

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The Brendaddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
So listen, I said, my weekend was pretty, uh, pretty
laid back. Otis was busy getting a new dog, Pongo.
You know how else was busy? Listen? He wears me
out just seeing the stories about this. But President Trump,

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so just going to do a brief overview of what
was accomplished in a forty eight plus hour weekend. We'll
say it starting on Friday basically. So first off, the
big news of this morning, of course, is the trade
deal with China. This has been the conversation with China

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that talks about tariffs with China has been, of course,
one of the biggest talking points of this administration so far,
and also by the critics of this administration. It his
the the tariffs with China has been the leading concern
I believe for the financial side of things when it

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comes to you know, you and I buying the products,
getting the goods that we get from China. The tar
tarriffs have people worried about what it is going to
do to their own personal household good costs. But over
the weekend, of course, a deal has been made and

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just again, as I said a brief overview, reciprocal tariffs
for both countries would be reduced by one hundred and
fifteen percent and the US would temporarily lower its tariffs
on Chinese goods from one hundred and forty five percent
to thirty percent, and China will reduce its levies on

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American products from one hundred and twenty five percent to
ten percent. And when this all started in these huge numbers,
these huge percentages were coming out, it was shocking to people.
I mean that those are huge percentages, and again that's
what made people stop and go, Okay, what is this
going to do to my own cost of things that

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I need from my own personal household, let alone the
entire country. Of course, you're gonna worry about your own
backyard first, But I believe the endgame was to get
both entities to the table to have an open on
this conversation about Okay, China, You've taken advantage of americannsumers

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long enough. We have an administration that's going to fight
for American goods, American services, and the American people no
longer being taken advantage of. And that's where we are.
Wednesday is going to be the endpoint that everybody needs

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to pay attention to, where the deal comes and is
signed and locked in. So Wednesday is something to really
pay attention to when it comes to this particular subject.
Along with this weekend, President Trump, along with the administration,
of course his advisors, helped reach a hostage deal to

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release the last living US hostage held by Hamas that
deal was broken. It's funny because the article that I
brought up researching this was done by NBC, President Trump
was not brought up hardly at all. I think once

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or twice President Trump was mentioned in the article. They
also the way they wrote it, it was almost as
if they were giving all of the kudos, if you will,
to Hamas as if they were doing everybody a favor
by releasing this US citizen back to his family here

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in the United States. Yeah, they were the givers. Yeah, okay,
but that happened. And then President Trump announced over the weekend,
and we'll be signing today a new set of executive
orders to slash prescription drug costs. Friday, he announced the

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establishment of a National Center for Homeless vets. The goal
was roughly six thousand vets will be housed in this establishment.
Here's the nice spin to this. How will this be funded?
It will be funded by previous dollars spend on illegal

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aliens to keep them here in our country illegally. Here's
an amazing thought. Take taxpayer dollars to help fund homeless
American vets. Isn't that a wonderful thing to say, we
are going to put our American veterans and their needs,

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their treatment ahead of with legal aliens that came into
this country illegally. Imagine that? What a refreshing view, What
a refreshing thought that we have an administration that wants

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to put the men and women who served our country.
You and I that defend our rights ahead of illegal aliens.
It's just refreshing that happened on Friday. Also over the

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weekend helped broker a face to face meeting with Putin
and Zelensky. Tensions between President Trump and President Zelensky have
seemed to diminish, if you will, since that very heated

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White House press conference where it was not pretty on
either side. It was not it was not a good
look for either leader, but that tension has seemed to
since ceased a bit, and to at least to accomplish

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the fact that there is going to be a face
to face meeting between Putin and Zelensky is a huge win.
It's a huge win. What will come out of it,
we will see. But the fact that getting these two
men in the same room to have a conversation to
end this pointless blood bath of a war is a

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huge accomplishment. And then, of course, if you've been following
the India Pakistan situation, where early or towards the end
of last week it was getting to the point where
it was very heated, very scary. Saturday morning, they announced
that a ceasefire has been reached between those two entities.

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Vice President Jade Vance was highly involved in that negotiation
where he got on the phone with the President of
India and had an open, honest conversation that this needed
to be quashed, needed to be brought down. My whole
point to all of these points, these different things, look

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at what can be accomplished in a weekend. Look at
what can be accomplished in a weekend by a president
in an administration that puts forth the effort to get
things done. You know, when Algen has been here for
politics on leash, we joke all the time about how

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following all this, keeping on top of all of this
is It's exhausting. Sometimes it's overwhelming. Sometimes let alone to
be the people that are that are doing it and
take into account. You see people like Rubio pretty much
every Sunday is on one of the Sunday morning talk programs.

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You see White House Press Secretary Caroline Levette, she was
on Fox News this morning. Just now, she's on a
Sunday morning show. President Trump sitting in the Oval office
taking rapid fire questions from the press pretty much every
other day. What these people are accomplishing in the time

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that they're accomplishing it and having all of this information
ready to go in a situation like a like a
press conference, rapid fire question, you know, question after a question.
It's amazing to see what they're doing. It's refreshing to see.
And honestly, after the past four years, we're in shock
by it because we're not used to it. But it's

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happening in real time people, and it is a lot.
But think about all of those things in the past
forty eight seventy two hours that has been accomplished. We
are seeing things in action very quickly. Makes me feel
like an absolute underachiever. Seven forty six On your Monday,
The bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy

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WWVA Set sixty one. Welcome back to blim Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA Otis. The Pirates

(27:59):
are still the news were now well, they fired another coach.
Let's see here, let me pull it up. Let's see
they parted ways with game planning and strategy coach Bradley
haded Hadid probably butchering that, of course this comes right

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on the heels, that's the problem. Yeah, this comes right
on the heels of of course, the firing of manager
Derek Shelton. Here's one thing, and you sent me this article.
You sent bloom Dad Anti this article over the weekend,
and this is now the pirate situation is now going
beyond the local regional media. There are other major league

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insiders that are starting to comment on this. There are
a lot of national level talking heads, if you will,
starting to kind of key in on this. Now. We
talked about this last week, which of course was the
dismissal of the manager Shelton. His record overall was three

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oh six and forty four wins losses. But as we've said,
it's not just about the wins and the losses on
on the field. It's it's the it's the long term
planning of the team. It's spending money on the team.
And now these this and out major league insider is
calling Nunning out.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Well, it's Ken Rosenthal, and Ken Rosenthal is on ESPN
and MLB networker. I can't remember which one he's on.
He was, he's been on both of them. And you
know the fact that the national media sees what the
problem is. You know, I don't know how you Bob

(29:52):
Nutting isn't doing anything illegal as far as like his
or an ethical as far as the Pirates in spending
money is concerned. But he's not good for baseball, and
I think maybe the you know, the Major League offices
need to step in and say, look, this is what
If you don't do these things, then you're gonna be

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We're going to force you to sell the team, which
isn't going to hurt him in the long run because
he's going to make a ton of money because whatever
they bought it for years ago, they've probably doubled theo
It's probably doubled in worth, even though they stink, but
because they know that the fan base is there, they
know everything's there. The Pirates have a long history. I

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mean they've been around. They've been around for over one
hundred years. They have World Series titles, I mean they don't.
I mean obviously the last one being in seventy nine.
Sixty before that, you know, they've won a couple back
in the early nineteen oh nine, I believe, if I'm
not mistaken, but you know, I think they have five
World Series. I mean, they're not setting any records by

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any means.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
But.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
This this is a this is a team that if successful,
even when they're not successful, the fan base sticks with them.
They have an identity, they're they're you know, they're kind
of like, you know, Cubs fans suffered forever. Cubs and
Red Sox fans suffered forever before they got back. You know,

(31:24):
in won World Series the Cubs in sixteen or seventeen,
and then you know, the Red Sox have won a handful,
you know, in the two thousands. I'm not saying that,
you know, they have obviously the Cubs in Red Sox
definitely have. It's a bigger market, they have more financial
stability as far as being able to spend money. But

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Cleveland and Pittsburgh are about the same size. Cleveland and
Kansas City, I mean, I'm sorry, Pittsburgh and Kansas City
are about the same size. Baltimore, Baltimore. Baltimore's probably a
little bit bigger. But yeah, you know, so they're not
New York, they're not La They're not Chicago, they're not Boston.
We know that they're not Houston. They're never going to

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spend that kind of money, but there's no reason that
they couldn't spend more than what they are.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Well, i mean, think about it. In this article that
points out that Pittsburgh hasn't signed a multi year free
agency contract and nearly a decade. The signings they made
this offseason, I think the youngest player was thirty six.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Yeah, probably. I mean they go up, they go after
the guys that have been in the league forever. They
will sign them to a one year contract to whatever,
because you obviously the longer you're in the league, the
higher your salary, your minimum salary. So they'll give them
the minimum salary, maybe a little bit more or whatever,
because nobody else wants them. Nobody else wants them. You know,

(32:52):
maybe somebody, you know, they if they kick in and
and somewhere down the road, you know, like hey, they
start to have a good year, then you know what's
gonna happen. They're gonna get t to a contender where
they can actually help you know, that contending team maybe
win a World Series. It is it's disgraceful. It's disgusting that,
you know, the ownership Bob Nutting has is absolutely terrible

(33:16):
and I'm not look, Derek Shelton would have never been
a major league manager for any other team. He just
wouldn't have been. Nobody. They can't get quality managers because
they know that they're never going to get the players
to compete.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yeah, why would you go coach somewhere when you know
that you are not going to be supported by ownership
and in management, You're not going to be given the
tools that you need to be successful, and that you
are always going to be the sacrificial lamb when the
team fails.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
And there are players that love Pittsburgh. Albert Poolholz said
PNC Park was his favorite visiting park in the National League.
He loves playing PNC Park, but he would have never
done it on a regular basis because they would have
never paid for him. You know, he would he have
loved to have played a PNC Park on a regular basis.

(34:09):
He probably would have a j Burnett, the pitcher who
kind of journeyman pitcher around the league, came to Pittsburgh,
loved it. They traded him. He signed with him as
a free agent again, took less money. Andrew McCutcheon loves
Pittsburgh named these kids steal because of it, you know,
I mean, it's just players that love Pittsburgh. They love

(34:31):
PNC Park. They love the fact that you know it's
it's it's big city, but small town Yeah, it's not
New York, it's not San Francisco, it's not.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
La It's just sad that there is so much potential
there if it was run properly, and it's just the
minimum given, you get the minimum in return, and that's
what we're seeing. And it's a shame that the big
picture isn't even considered by ownership. Seven fifty eight. You're

(35:04):
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Indeed number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
News Radio eleven seventy It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. You got
a lot happening within the state of Ohio. First of all,
Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussell announcing that he's leaving the door
open to run for governor. Not is not what he
told me on this show about two months ago. But
I knew this was coming at the same time. The
vike Ramaswami just got the state party endorsement as of

(35:56):
this afternoon. That means he has access to the states
voter data, campaign services, field staff support, bulk mill permit.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
That means he is off and running.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Jim or Acy, former Congressman bloom Daddy Show political analyst,
Let's start with Viveke. Jim, I got a buddy in
Columbus and this is what he told me about Viveke
getting that endorsement today from the state Republican State Party.
He said, it's hard to get a supermajority of the
Republican State Committee to agree that today is Friday. Yet, Alan,
what Viveke did, He's truly done something remarkable here. He

(36:30):
was able to win the overwhelming majority of a fairly
diverse committee and this endorsement is both impressive and historic.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Do you agree or disagree?

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Well, here's what I do agree and look, I've spoken
of Avik multiple times. This endorsement is needed for not
only for the data and everything else, it's for the money.
Make sure your listener, this is all about the money
the Theate can now fundraise instead of just been able
to get sixteen thousand dollars per person. He can now

(37:01):
get millions of dollars because people can put any amount
of money they want into the Higher Republican Party and say,
I hear marked that for a vake Rahamaswami. So that
was really the key for a fake today, a lot
of people don't understand that. That's why he wanted it.
That's why he actually pushed and pushed and pushed for
he made phone calls. It's because now he knows he

(37:24):
can start raising money into the party. But I'll also
tell you he had the entire Trump team behind him.
Laura Trump called in this morning and asked them to
vote for the endorsement. Don Junior put out a tweet
yesterday asking the party for the endorsement and talking to
many of these individuals, they said, look, if this is

(37:46):
who Trump wants, this is who we're going to give.
This is who we're going to endorse. Even though when
Daddy think about this, there's still nine months for people
to get in this race and the primary is still
a year out. So it's amazing that the party actually
did this. But you know, it is done, and it
will be very helpful for a eight and very harmful

(38:09):
for anybody that tries to get in.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Well, I was going to say, you say, this is
amazing they did this this early. So is that a
clear sign the party is united and not interested in
dragging this on?

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Well, it depends on who's saying that. So you've got
a lot of people that don't believe the party should
be making the decision for them. So yes, I could
say the party wants to appear there united, But what
they've really done is they've taken away the voter's choice. Look,
I went through this in eighteen and in twenty twenty
two when the party endorsed the wine over me instead

(38:43):
of standing down. What it really means is whoever gets
that it's all the resources. But on the reverse side,
if somebody really good wants to step in, they now
have a very high killed to climb. So what many
voters are going to say, here goes the heavy hand
of the Republican Party making a decision for me.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
All right, that was a great segue, Jim, that you
did for me. And again I'm talking to Jim or Nacy,
former congressman, because Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussell just announcing he's
leaving the door open to run as well. He was
on this show about two months ago. I asked him
point blank, because I think we all knew Jim, we
talked about it. Dwine tabbed him as lieutenant governor because
he does not want one of Trump's proteges to be

(39:26):
the next governor. At least that's how I feel about it.
And Jim said, no, no, no, I'm not interested. I'm
not interested. Now all of a sudden, he's interested. I
knew this time was coming. But this state party endorsement,
Republican state party endorsement for the VEIK.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
How much of a blow to Trustle is that? Now?

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Well? I think I think that's exactly what happened over
the last forty eight hours. People were telling Trust well,
look they're going to get in. You better start telling
people because they're going to be voting for an endorsement
for the vake on Friday. And I think that does
show or that UH coach Jim Trussell has an interest,
because he would not have sent that signal out last night. Now,

(40:07):
in the end is if he decides to get in,
you have to remember, he's gonna have the full He
might not have the l RP, but he's gonna have
the full faith and trust of Mike Dwine and his
donors and his support, which probably is a match for
the l r P as well. And that's what's going
to be really interesting if Trussell gets in. It's not

(40:28):
an automatic. Oh Trussell can't do this. He'll have Mike DeWine,
Mike Dwine's donors, Mike Dwine's support. Uh, that's going to
be the real key, you know, who will be able
to outmatch who. If Jim Trussell does get in, it'll.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Be interesting because honestly that they got out there first.
I mean he's been out there pounding the pavement, boots
on the street, whatever, whatever terminology you want to use,
kissing babies, shaking hands, and he's going all over the state.
He is not ignoring one small town over another. I

(41:08):
got the opportunity to listen to him speak in Stubinville.
He most recently, Oh, I hope I don't was. He
was also here in the High Valley last weekend, and honestly,
I can't remember where it was, but it was smaller
than where I was in Stupinville. Shoot anyways, but what
he is doing is he is going everywhere across the

(41:30):
entire state. Now again, Tressel hasn't officially announced, and one
of the things that Reneesi mentioned there was having the
backing of Governor de Wine. Depends on who you ask.
If that's a good thing or a bad thing. Not
necessarily good, not necessarily bad. It'll be interesting, but again

(41:55):
it depends on who you ask. When I had the
opportunity to listen to vi vague speak, there were a
couple terms that he used that we were enlightening. They
were not your typical political mantra that we hear from

(42:20):
lifelong politicians. No new taxes, you know, we'll cut taxes,
We'll do this, we'll do that. It was different. He
was coming at a lot of the points he made
from a different perspective. And one thing that was really
interesting was earn while you learn a concept he wants
to initiate here in the not here, but in the

(42:41):
state of Ohio. One other thing was the outlook or
the perception that some people have on the difference between
jobs and professions. He made it a point that all
jobs are professions. There's not a difference in class just

(43:04):
based upon the type of job that you have. A
doctor is just as valuable as a plumber, a dentist,
a lawyer, just as important as your electrician or your
mechanic for your car. That there's no difference between a

(43:24):
job and a profession, that they're all professions and they're
just as valuable from one to the other. I thought
that was a great perspective. And he had a mantra
that he had his statement that he kept saying over
and over from victor, from victim to victor, whining is
not winning. If those two terms, those two statements make

(43:45):
you think of a particular group, I think that's the
point he was trying to get across across to us
in that speech. But for the state of Ohio, when
you go to the polling booth and otis you said
this early or you have to dig into what each
candidate wants to achieve. You've got to dig into the

(44:09):
direction they want to take the office that they're running for.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
Well, you have to, you have to do your homework.
You have to you know, does this candidate meet what
the you know, what I'm looking for in a candidate.
They're probably not. There's no candidate that's going to meet everything, right, So,
but I'm going to take the one that's going to
meet the majority of the things that I'm looking for
or that I'd like to see happen.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
Or has the same beliefs in certain hot topic issues
that I have.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
Sure, but I'm not I'm not just going to go
in and vote because Oh, Jim Tressel was a highest
stage football coach, Boom, I'm voting for him. Or Jim
Treshler was the president of Youngstown State University, I'm voting
for him, or whatever. You know, I'm not, Or I'm
voting for Jim Tressell because Governor Dwines back in him. Boom.
I'm like, those aren't the reasons that that's not a

(44:59):
reason to vote for.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
Yeah, what is their platform exactly? What do they want
to accomplish. The one thing that that the GOP is
doing differently than the Democrats, and I think President Trump
leads in this is coming up with new concepts and
new ideas that we have not seen before. No tax
on tips, the no tax on overtime. I know, as

(45:24):
soon as that came out during the campaign, it was like, WHOA,
that's a new, fresh idea fresh take that would affect
millions of Americans. So the new thoughts and the new
fresh ideas. I think are going to put a lot
of candidates ahead of others, and it's good to see.
But we're gonna wrap this up. We're gonna jump to
a quick break. It is eight sixteen. You're listening to

(45:46):
the bloom Daddy Experience on your Monday. I'm Sam, He's
Otis will be back in a sec. Eight twenty two,

(46:07):
The Lyndaddy Experienced Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy
w w VA. It's been a few days since we've
heard this voice, but it's welcome back to Kevin Cook's
draw Automotive.

Speaker 7 (46:18):
Good morning, morning guys. How y'all doing this morning? Good?

Speaker 5 (46:21):
How about you doing great?

Speaker 7 (46:23):
Yeah? A little time off?

Speaker 2 (46:25):
You run a world tour?

Speaker 6 (46:26):
You learn? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (46:27):
I did.

Speaker 7 (46:28):
Did the ac DC World Tour.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Man nice, it was.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
It was pretty good. I was surprised. I was I
was absolutely shocked. I was expecting maybe, you know, a
wheelchair and a walker, but not at all. Those guys
got up there and just they had a good time,
toured up and really entertaining.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Knowing your musical taste, I'm really surprised you did ec DC.

Speaker 7 (46:48):
You know what I have probably some I have very
eclectic musical.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
Taste what you do, and that's fine. I mean I
think I do as well, so you do.

Speaker 7 (46:58):
I try to listen to a lot of stuff that
you know, new artists and you know people that no
one have heard of, and really, you know, really try
to push the envelope sometimes. But ac DC is just
old school man, that's classic.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
It's always nice when you can find that artist or
that band that like Lights of Fire under You, but
it was something new.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
Yeah, listening to Red Clay Strays right now. Okay, I
don't know, I don't know if you've heard of them.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
I'm writing it down there.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
Red Clay Strays. We're going to go listen to them
at Red Rocks and Denver, I think in September. But
they're awesome. Check them out.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
You just put a big old smile on his face.
He's always into a write it down.

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Speaker 6 (48:35):
Wow, we got a lot in that, didn't we.

Speaker 7 (48:37):
Well I had to because I knew we'd talked about
music and stuff too all.

Speaker 6 (48:41):
So will you never talk about music too long? This
is true, but just but since you're paying for it, yeah,
we probably did.

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Speaker 6 (48:57):
All right, we'll do buddy. All right, guys, y'all have
fun talk to mar.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
Red Clay slaves strays. I'm sorry I misunderstood you know.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
Hey, it's one of those things, you know, Listen, I
have I have a friend of mine who finds bands.
I don't know how he finds them, but he finds them,
and nine times out of ten they're good. Really yeah,
and it's just like they never really get like like

(49:27):
like he there was like he might find a band
before they make it big. That's the that's the one
thing they're.

Speaker 5 (49:33):
Right at that like that precipice.

Speaker 6 (49:36):
Yeah, you know, like they're just are they gonna make
it or not? And you know, and I have a
few friends like that. I remember actually when I first
got hired here not long after that, somebody was talking
about the record company and the next thing, you know,
they were the biggest thing going and a little three
man band kind of bluesy, I mean rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Oh wait, that was the name of the band.

Speaker 6 (49:59):
Yeah, record company. Yeah, And like I was like totally
shocked at how good they were. So you know, and
that's one of those ones that you know and then
the next thing, you know, you find it like I
found Matchbox twenty before a lot of people did, and
that first album that they had, and it was it
was like wow, yeah they were good and that first

(50:21):
album just kicked it.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
They played here at the Capitol.

Speaker 6 (50:25):
I don't think if they did. I don't know, or
maybe that.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
Was Matchbox twenty.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
So I just said Matchbox twenty. I don't remember Matchbox
twenty being at the Capitol. I saw Matchbox twenty at
the Metropole in Pittsburgh for ten bucks back in the day.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Maybe I've got them confused.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
Matchbox twenty was the I think it was August twentieth
of nineteen ninety seven they played at the Metropole, because
that's that's the day we found out that we were
gonna have a baby. They found out what we were
gonna have a baby.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
Oh well, okay, yeah, no it wasn't that. I'm sorry,
I have been confused with somebody else.

Speaker 6 (51:02):
Yeah, and I've seen Matchbox twenty. I've seen him at
Metropoli a couple of times. I've seen him at Start
like a few times.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
So yeah, that's I love the names that some people
come up with for bands.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
Well, you know, the funny thing is like sometimes like
there are there are bands. I remember being like in
college and you'd see a band name and you'd be like, there,
that can't be they can't be any good, and then
they're like and then you then then you find out
or you hear something after they've like at the time,
like I was, I was listening to like I Saw
ten thousand Maniacs, and I'm like, this can't be any good.

(51:38):
And then all of a sudden, then they have a hit,
and then you go back and start listening to some
of their music and you're like, wow, Natalie Merchant can sing.
These guys are good. And then you're like, I could
have found this out twenty years ago or ten years
ago or whatever it was. And I was like, and
I sat on it because of the name of the band.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
Who was it? Was it Herbage that had the Irish
the Irish singer female voice.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
Probably, I mean Zombie was the song that's Garbage, that's
the Cranberries, Okay. Her voice was just oh, Dolores are reardon?

Speaker 5 (52:14):
Yes, yeah, yes, Well, speaking of music, on this day,
in nineteen seventy seven, Hotel California earned its first gold
record for the Eagles. Nice goes on to become the
best selling album of all time, one of the best
selling albums of all time. Of course, everybody knows Hotel California.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
So absolutely great song. Yeah it get It can get
a little old after a while, though, if you just
secar it all the time.

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Well, yeah, yeah, there are certain classic rock songs that
are beat togethes esfortunately and it actually hurts their footing,
as you know, because people are sick of it. Hopefully
you're not sick of us. Eight twenty eight, we're gonna
jump to a quick break the bloom Daddy Experience here
on news Radio eleven seventy w w VA, flying by

(53:05):
on this Monday morning. It's eight thirty six already here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Of course I'm Sam,
He's Otis. We were talking about music a little bit
earlier before we went to break, but now we're learning
more about the Jeff bezos upcoming nuptials, the big old
wedding that everybody's talking about. It's been revealed that the

(53:26):
musical entertainment will be provided by none other than Sir
Elton John and Lady Gaga. Jeff Bezos himself is here
with more details in his latest message to the great Unwashed.

Speaker 9 (53:41):
I am Jeff Bezos with the very last of my
star stunted, extravagant wedding that you are not invited to.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
I praised your nuts.

Speaker 9 (53:49):
The music will be provided by Royalty that's right.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
A sir and a lady sir. Elton John and.

Speaker 9 (53:58):
Lady Gaga close personal friends of mine, as we have
muctioned common. Like Lady Gaga, I'm constantly hounded by the
Pa Pa pa Razzi ab and I am on daunting
because like Elton, I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah. Plus
me and Elton are both rocket men. I offered Lady

(54:20):
Gaga a chance to be a rocket woman, but she
couldn't make it, so I had to go with tamo.
Lady Gaga otherwise known as Katy perry Her busting her
chops never gets old.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Poor Katy Perry Man, she will never live this down.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
That was the best running her ever.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
Well, and on social media, people are now excuse me,
sharing videos of her dancing at her tour. Listen. I
don't know if she was ever really a dancer or
if it's the way they're editing the cli, but it
is not flattering whatsoever none all because she called herself

(55:07):
an astronaut. I don't know, but she has just been
royally attacked on some stuff and it's just, you know,
you can't help it feel bad for the girl. Woman.
I'm sorry, you just can't feel bad for you know,
it's not If you take a snippet of anybody dancing
for ten to fifteen seconds and you don't get the
whole from a bad angle, we're all gonna look stupid.

(55:31):
I would hate it. I don't dance, so I can't
can't be done to me. But I wouldn't even want
anybody to attempt recording me dancing. Speaking of celebrities, the
p Diddy stuff started last week. I don't know, have
you seen any of the pictures of him otis that
have come out.

Speaker 6 (55:49):
I saw one and he's sitting like in the courtroom
at a table in an orange jumpsuit. Oh yeah, I
think the captain said, did he aged fifteen years in
six months in jail?

Speaker 5 (55:59):
That's what? Yeah, dude looks like he has not good
not good. He Yeah, he looks like he looks like
a knockoff of Bill Cosby, a little bit from the
Cosby Show. He just looks aged like twenty thirty years.

Speaker 6 (56:16):
Well, when you're in jail and you maybe you color
your hair to keep it from looking gray. So you
know that's not an option when you're in the in
the pokey, in the.

Speaker 10 (56:25):
Pokey, Yeah, in the pokey Okay, I haven't heard that
term used in a while, but yeah, he's Uh, they
call it hard time for a reason.

Speaker 6 (56:36):
I guess he's not even there yet.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Yeah, it hasn't even really so he would be. So
he's not in prison.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
He's kind of like in a jail.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
In a jail, which is not much better, but it's
a little lighter.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
Yeah, I mean, but you're not. It's not necessarily permanent.
He's in jail until they until his hearing.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
Yeah, it's the in between step.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
I mean, he'll get so if he if he gets
found guilty and they sentenced him, then this will be
this will count toward his sentence whatever he's already.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Served the amount of time.

Speaker 6 (57:05):
Yeah, so if he's been in jail for six months,
then that's six months that'll come off. If if he
gets sentenced to ten years, yeah, so technically it'll be
nine years six months because he's already done six months.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
I saw it popped up this weekend. I was like, dang, dang,
he uh not not handling it well at all. Mother's Day?
Did you you said you got your mom flowers?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
I got her.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
I guess I guess you would say yeah. I got
her planter with some flowers in it, and then I
got another planner that had like I don't know what
any of that stuff's called. It was more of a
leafy green like like they had the flowing vines I
guess you would call it. So it was yeah, I

(57:54):
mean I kind of liked it. And the Loew's worker,
the person and that was working at loads that I knew,
you know, obviously. I said to her, I said, if
you were, if you were a mom, would you appreciate this?
And if she said yeah, and she said okay. I said, well,
which one do you like? There was about ten of them,

(58:15):
and then like we kind of she goes, which one
were you thinking? And I said, this one looks like
it's the foolest. Then she said, okay, well she is.
That's the one I was going to tell you to pick.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
So yeah. Somebody I was talking to somebody yesterday. They
were complaining, like we tried to go to Cracker Barrel
for breakfast earlier today, and I went, are you stupid?
You try to go to Cracker Barrel on Mother's Day
for breakfast? No? No, no, no, use your common sense.
People anywhere would have been packed yesterday. But there are
those that you know, we have somebody here to apologize

(58:47):
for your mother.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
And I thought I thought we were doing that next segment.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
Oh yeah, let's do that. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 6 (58:54):
You don't want to do two in one.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
No, no, no, you're right, you're right.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
You're right.

Speaker 5 (58:57):
Speaking of mothers though, one of the hardest things. And
you didn't have to name Pongo. Pongo came with a name.
But according to SO Security, here are the top two
baby names for the sixth year in a row. So
to all of the kids for the past six years
who have been named these two names, be ready to

(59:20):
be number one number two in your classroom, because obviously
there's gonna be multitudes of you. So the top two
names so far this year are Olivia and Liam. Other
popular names for girls include Emma, Amelia, Charlotte, and Mia. Noah, Oliver, Theodore,
and James are trending for boys. These are old school names,

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traditional names, you know.

Speaker 6 (59:48):
I mean, I mean we've kind of.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
Gotten away from the Apples of the World and the.

Speaker 6 (59:54):
Sierra's Jack and well, I don't know if we've gotten
away from them. There's still some there.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
Yeah, but not kind of over the top.

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, part of obviously
I have two boys. We knew going in, we didn't
we didn't know if if my oldest one was going
to be.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
A boy or a girl, So you didn't find out.

Speaker 6 (01:00:18):
We didn't find out, and we didn't want to know.
So we had a boy's name picked out, we had
a girl's name picked out, And part of it was
we decided that I'm a junior. Actually technically I'm a third,
but on my license it says I'm a junior because
my grandfather had passed away so long ago that that
I am not a third. I'm a junior, and I

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and I didn't want to attack my kids with that
because you know, there's a lot of people that, you know,
get my dad and I his names mixed up and
even though we're the same, but my dad is Ted okay,
and there's no Ted or Theater or anything in his name,
but that's just what everybody calls him. And then, you know,
so I didn't want to I didn't want my kids

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to have to go through that. So we picked a
name that I liked for the first name, and then
the middle name that she liked for both of them,
or we agreed upon. Now, the second one we knew
was a boy, and we could not agree on a
name to save our lives. And we were throwing out

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names and it was like, Nope, I don't like that.
I'd throw out a name, she'd say Nope, I don't
like that. And then about two weeks before he was born,
we were like, okay, let's go with Nolan. She said,
she suggests that, how about Nolan? And I was like
hell yeah. And so we were going to use the
middle name Charles because that's her dad's name, So that

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was there was so we already knew what the middle
name was, but we just didn't know what the first
name was. And I said, well, let's just go with
Nolan Ryan. And that got shut down real fast.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
And that's so weird because my niece, her name is Nolan,
and I had never heard that name used before for
a girl, but it fits her perfectly.

Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
What's funny now, because like now you'll see there's a
lot of there's like there's more Nolan's in baseball now,
and you know they're all picked up. Sure, you know
what I mean? It all stems from Nolan Ryan.

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
Sure? Oh yeah, yeah? And you knew. You didn't know
the first one, you did know the second one.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
No, we did know the first one. The second one
we knew, right, but you didn't know the gender. Second
we didn't know the gender.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
I always said I wouldn't want to know. I wanted
to be a surprise.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Well, the only reason she wanted to find out for
the second one was do we throw the old clothes
away or not?

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
Okay, I gotta give her to her, give her to
her for that. That's actually a good point.

Speaker 6 (01:02:47):
I mean it made sense.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
Yeah, yeah, that does make sense.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
I always said I wouldn't want to know. I would
want I would want the surprise, But I never had that.
Blessing forty six. You're listening to the Bloom Daddy Experience
Otis and Sam Knew Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It's eight
fifty one already on this Monday. You're listening to Boomdett

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Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Okay,
so maybe Mother's Day didn't go quite as planned and
your mom made a bit of a fuss. She's sorry.
I'm like Morgan Freeman to apologize on her behalf.

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
Hello, I am your mother. I'd like to sincerely apologize
for what a fuss I made about Mother's Day, But
I sure did want that brunch. You forgot to make
reservations for him. I mean, after carrying you for nine
months and changing your diapers and putting up with all

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your crap. Your entire life is some eggs, Benedict and
the mimosa. Too much to ask. You never had to
make reservations to breast speed? Did you wear anyway? I'm
so sorry for being such a burden. Apologetically yours your mother.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
You didn't have to make an appointment to breastfeed.

Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Yeah you didn't. Kind of like, you know, you just
it's kind of like a drive through window.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Oh is it just what it's like?

Speaker 6 (01:04:28):
Just when you get hungry, you go through.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
Just roll right up there. It is for you.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Did I say that out loud?

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
I guess yeah you did. You did. Remember Chewy the raccoon,
that's the the meth smoking meth pipe.

Speaker 6 (01:04:42):
Chewi made a He had a big coming out party
this weekend. He was on Patrol Live.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Yeah choo.

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
One of the stories wasn't Yeah, it was what they
call it the Triple Play or something like that. That
was the first Triple Play of the weekend on Friday night.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
Well, Chow is becoming a bit.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Of a celebrity, yeah, meth head celebrities.

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
Yeah, well, it turns out he's really playful. He's he's
not wild if you will so.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
Now, although he did take a couple of snaps at
the people that were trying to put him in a
create a carrier.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
Yeah yeah. Well, now they're making arrangements to have the
family have the proper permit. But he's currently with the
Ohio Department of Natural Resources and then may possibly, if
things are done properly, returned to the family of the
or a family member of the woman involved in this
entire thing. But yeah, every time you turn around, Chewy.

Speaker 6 (01:05:38):
Is choosing rehab.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
Right now, he has to go through a thirty day
program before he can be rehomed. Yeah, oh my goodness.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
Yeah Chew he put the crack pipe down. Yeah, that's
always fun.

Speaker 10 (01:05:57):
There's a lot of people that have pets like that,
or have racoons for pets.

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
I don't I don't get that. So this Saturday is
the Preakness, second leg of the Triple Crown Sovereignty's Jockey.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
It was the winner, right.

Speaker 6 (01:06:11):
Sovereignty was the winner. Yes, Sovereignty's jockey has been suspended.
Oh for what well, Junior Alvarado. He was suspended for
two days and find sixty two thousand dollars by the
Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Authority over the weekend. They
say that he struck the horse too many times. During

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the May third race, he hit Sovereignty ten times, which
could have resulted in a disqualification. According to the authority,
I didn't realize you could only hit your horse in
the number of times because you watched some of them films.
They're just beating the tar out of that horse.

Speaker 5 (01:06:48):
So through the entire race, that entire loop of the derby,
they say they can only hit the horse under ten times.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
I have no idea what the number is.

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
Yeah, I never knew there was a.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
But obviously, you know, it's kind of like a they've
probably put that in because.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Of over abuse. Yeah you know, but yeah, you're right.
When you watch it seems like they're constantly but they're
I guess they're not, so that won't affect that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:16):
I don't know. It says he's suspended for two days.
You know, there's jockeys ride every day so I don't
know if he's being suspended for the Preakness. It doesn't
say that, So the two days could have been.

Speaker 5 (01:07:29):
Sixty two thousand dollars is a chunk.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
Yeah, but he probably got some decent money for being
the winning jockey. Oh sure, you know, he probably gets
ten percent or something like that. So he probably got
one hundred thousand dollars or better for riding the Kentucky
Derby winner.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
Yeah. Should have you know what, we should have asked
Kevin Cook if he has one of these. So there's
a limited number of full size, drivable replicas of the
Batman tumblr. This of course comes from the The Dark
Knight trilogy of the Batman series. They are for sale.
There are ten replicas of the Tumbler, a tank like

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off road vehicle, available for purchase, and this is all
sanctioned by Warner Brothers, who of course is the distributor
of the films. The Tumblers cost nearly three million dollars
and are sold exclusively online through Here we Go, the
Wayne Enterprises Experience luxury brand. It's the first time the
Tumbler has been made available to buy. The NFL posted

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on x that Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow purchased one
last year.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
Crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Of course he did because he has what is it,
three million dollars? Is that what I said? Yeah, he
has three million dollars laying around. You know I do too.

Speaker 6 (01:08:47):
You finance it? Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
Yeah? How does how does the loan paperwork work work
on that?

Speaker 6 (01:08:53):
Yeah? I mean I'd like a twelve month or I'd
like a sixty month loan on this? And what's the
interest rate?

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
Is it? Is it electric? Is it diesel?

Speaker 6 (01:09:03):
Is it? You know what you call your insurance company?
How does that thinn get inspected? Well, you don't have
any inspections in Ohio? So ha ha, I mean you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:16):
Don't know, we don't, we don't. It's also just so
you know National National Limerick Day.

Speaker 6 (01:09:24):
There once was a man from Nantucket.

Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
Well I have one, Oh boy. There was a young
lady who's chin resembled the point of a pin. So
she had it made sharp and purchased a harp and
played several tunes with her chin. And you know what
that is discribed? That rhythm is described as what it's
called in a pessimistic meter. And I probably just hatch

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a heck out of that thing. So it's National Limerick Day.
So if you have a good one, stump some of
your coworkers.

Speaker 6 (01:09:56):
You don't stump them.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
Well, just make them think you're a little loopy for
the day.

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
I get that every day.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Oh come on, you love it and you know it.
You love it, and you know that for man one day,
one day. But maybe I shouldn't go to Switzerland because.

Speaker 6 (01:10:20):
That's a bandit. Kevin recommended.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
Oh, okay, are we going to be listening that once
we go off the air.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
Maybe not right away, okay, but we'll look it up
when we get home and see if then go while
I'm getting some paperwork ready for the rest of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
Alrighty, all right, it's a fifty eight. We're done on
this Monday. Well, patch you tomorrow.