The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 13, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. Now I want to get on to the
top political story today, and that is in the US
and China agreements that rarely suspend most.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Tariffs on each other's goods.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
So there's a major thawing now of trade tensions between
the world's two largest economies.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
This all means that.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Reciprocal reciprocal tariffs between both countries will be cut from
one hundred and twenty five percent to ten percent. Now,
this comes after US and China trade representatives held some
high stacks high tech I can't hear the loudspeaker here,
so sorry, high stakes talks in Switzerland over the weekend.
Now stocks have jumped on news of this deal. As

(01:02):
you know, business confidence has been seeking in recent weeks.
Scott Bushki is a business strategist CEO of Cornerstone Business Service.
He's joining me right now. Scott is a guy who
does read the tea leaves here. Will this trade truce
give business owners the confidence they need to hire and expand?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Hey, welcome, thanks you go let me on your show. Yeah,
the tea leaves I'm not sure, but you know, certainty
definitely helps business owners make a decision, especially long term
decisions like we work with and the M and a
side of things, of mergers and acquisitions, of buying companies.
So to reach a deal that you know, for most
folks is better for the United States and opens up

(01:43):
China like it hasn't before. It just lowering costs is
usually a good thing for most business owners.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Scott, you know this as well as anybody. Optimism is
the key word when it comes to business. If there's optimism,
you'll see business owners spending money, You'll see them hiring.
This this bring optimism to the table again.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I think it does. I think it brings some clarity,
some certainty. You know, the last month has just been
a roller coaster for business owners, both large and small,
so to obviously, the devil's in the details. This is
the verbal framework here, But if this gets done and
with other countries as well, it gives business owners the
optimism to you know, make that acquisition, to invest in

(02:24):
more equipment, to hire more people, and continue to grow
either organically or through acquisition.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'll use myself as an example. I've got some buddies.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
They deal in heavy machinery, and I said, hey, once
guys advertise and the first words out of their mouth,
we want to But the tear offs have us on
our heels right now. Have you heard right from a
lot of business owners?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, if anybody's dealing with,
you know, sourcing anything from China, it was you know,
everybody was in kind of a wait and see mode.
And some people were like, you know, what move do
I make? Do I try to buy a bunch of
stuff now and then now I got to hold it
and have the cost of holding it, or do I
wait and see and hopefully this gets done quickly? And uh,
it just put a pause on everybody's plan. So and

(03:12):
you got to feel bad for these business owners because
you know, you look at them that they had things
going pretty good and then the COVID you know, just
completely blew up the supply chain you know, worldwide, and
they just got things back and then and then this
hits again, but hopefully this is short lived and they
can get back to to do in business and understanding
what the rules of engagement are again.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Talking to Scott Bushki's a business strategist and the CEO
of Cornerstone Business Service that's a boutique investment bank representing
privately held, family owned businesses. Scott's also the author of
Finished Strong, Sell Your Business on Your Terms. Scott, what
advice with this announcement today would you give to small
business owners out there?

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I think these business owners really have to understand what
this means and understand that it even though this is
a good a good play, it could go back a
different way. You know, things with the admistration get hot
and cold really quick. So with business ours, they really
need to look at their supply chains and have you know,
look at what do they have one supplier that is

(04:17):
only one company or one country that they can get
some product from or supplies and find a redundancy, you know,
find not only other suppliers, but other suppliers in other
countries that if one one company or one country falls
out of failure, they can switch to another supplier and
not have any big heartburd because I think a lot
of people got caught uh with this and we're really

(04:40):
surprised and hopefully it did hurt them too bad. But yeah,
just diversification is key, right.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I was going to say, you know, I'm not
going to get into politics with you, but when Trump
first did this, I said, look, there's going to be
pain before there's pleasure, and it appears it's going that way.
But to your point, when you're in business, there's probably
nothing worse than hot cold, hot cold, hot.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Cold, right, one hundred percent. I mean, whether you know
terifts are ten percent or one hundred ten percent, just
tell me what they are, and now I can start
making decisions and how I'm gonna play the game. But
when they're ten, you know, then they're fifty, then theyre
one hundred and ten, now they're or one hundred and
forty five, then they're on hold. It just makes things
really difficult because the last thing a business don't want
to do is buy a bunch of product, you know,

(05:25):
with that one hundred and forty five percent tariff on it,
because now they're gonna be sitting on goods that are
much much more expensive for them than their competitors. Who
bought pre or posts, you know, one hundred and forty
five day or one hundred and forty five percent tariff.
So it's it's really a tough, tough game. And that's why,
you know, being in business and also trying to acquire
a company or think about selling your company, you got

(05:47):
to take an effect that the things you can't control
as well and make the best decision you can.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
All right, Scott, thanks for your time and advice.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Today, have a great day.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
So these tariffs have been a huge, obviously topic of conversation.
Maybe I'm naive, I personally have not seen a huge
jump in things that I have purchased recently. Otis, have
you noticed anything?

Speaker 7 (06:18):
Not really? I mean, do I see a few things
that have gone up a little bit. I mean, but
I don't.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
Think it's but nothing that's like, oh my god, you know, groundbreaking,
nothing that I can't live without. Okay, Okay. So I
just googled simply what goods have increased due to the tariffs.
The top three articles that came out one in March,

(06:44):
one in April, and one in May. Nine products that
may get more expensive examples of potential consumer price hikes
under Trump's tariffs. Companies are raising prices as t hairs hit.
Those are the three titles of each one of these articles.

(07:06):
Not necessarily what are the height the household goods that
have gotten more pricey for folks? Now, the one article
that I did have, which was published on Saturday, This Saturday,
this is on CNBC's website. They are talking about the

(07:28):
increase in goods and their examples are Barbie is number
one that the price of Barbie has gone up. Other
notable price hikes include girls, cat and Jack leggings at Target. Okay, well, the.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
First thing that comes to mind for me would be shoes.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
Yeah, but these are what they're focusing on, you know.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Because shoes, toys like.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Oh and here here's their other one, a medium Louis
Vauton never full tote bag.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:06):
I shot for two or three those a week.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yes, it will go from let's see, it will run
you two one and thirty dollars today, which is one
hundred dollars more than on April sixteenth.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
You know, if you're paying two thousand dollars for a bag,
I don't think the guy that's worried about one hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
They're not worried about tariffs. Yeah, yeah, so honestly, CNBC,
if that's the examples you're going to use as to
the the tariffs. Now when it comes to small businesses,
as bloom Dandy and his guest spoke about, listen, I
understand small businesses have to prepare, they have to consider

(08:48):
what this can do to their business. But again, am
I naive? I have not seen an otis. I'm glad
you are with me. There's there hasn't It's all potential.
It's all speculation. And with what was announced yesterday, how
will that then turn and change the speculation? But I

(09:11):
posed the face, I posed a question on Facebook yesterday
and want to hear from you one eight hundred sixty
two four eleven seventy As these talks about tariffs continue
and they continue to change based on the President's negotiations,
you are you willing to pay more for American made products?
Are you willing to deal with the fluctuation and the

(09:33):
change and a little bit of uneasiness and a little
bit of price increases to get to the point where
we bring manufacturing American made back here to the United States?
Are you willing to pay more? We want to hear
from you one eight hundred sixty two forty eleven seventy
or of course you can comment on the Facebook paste post.
I'm sorry, it's seven sixteen on your Tuesday morning. You're

(09:55):
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience Salmon, Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WVa. Welcome back to seven twenty one The Leundetti
Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA Otis.

(10:17):
I think somebody was in my chair because I feel
like they've changed the hyped on it. I feel like
you had.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
Those putty you look shorter, you had those podcasters in
here yesterday.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
I thought it was just I don't even know where
the little latchy thing is.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
That didn't work.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
I even went shorter. Okay, we'll do that during the break. Anyways,
a little housekeeping coming up here a little bit later
in the show. We're gonna have your chance to win.
You want to tell everybody what we got.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Sure, we get a family four pack to the Washington
Wild Things. Those are vouchers, so they're good for any
any game. And we also have a twenty five dollars
gifts if you get to McCormick's Auto Service at Mountsville Nice,
so you can get your old change before you head.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Up to Washington Nice. So on a day like today
when it would probably be rained out, you could use
those for a different homesh Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
You just take them to the front gate and you
exchange them for tickets. If you've never been to the
Washington Wild Things, there's no such thing as a bad seat.
I mean, you're right on top of everything.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
You know.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
It's not like it's a huge, huge, fifty thousand seat stadium.
I mean it seats about probably twenty five hundred people. Yeah,
not counting the picnic areas and stuff like that. There's
probably seating for twenty five and then there's you know,
you can kind of mix and mingle into a picnic
area or something like that. So it's always a good time,

(11:34):
good baseball.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah, it's a beautiful facility.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
It's knocked that far, and prices are right. You're not
going to get you're not paying sixteen dollars for a
beer and eight dollars for a hot dog, you know,
so you might pay four dollars or five dollars for
a beer, but you know, that's relatively.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Reasonable and for a family of four, it's a great
parking might be five bucks instead of twenty.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
Yeah, you know, it might be free.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
You're not going to break the bank. You're not gonna
need a loan. Speaking of baseball, you'll love this. There
is a new study that finds that people who watch
baseball are smarter, funnier, happier, and better looking than people
who don't.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
That.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
I mean they must have been. They must have. They
must have just seen the picture of me or watched
me in action. I figured you which, which is why
I have a face for radio. I got to bring this.
You got me headphones for Christmas. Yes, I got to
bring them in because something's wrong with these these days.
They're not fitting rate anymore.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
Yeah hear. That got him a wonderful Christmas present and
has yet to us. You look cock guided on the US.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
I've used the headphones you got me, I just haven't
brought them here here.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Oh no, I know, I know they do look like
those aren't sitting there.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
Really it feels weird, look like.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Kind of like topsy turvy drunken headphones sitting a little
bit crooked. But yes, so I guess there you have it.
Otis is a step above me because he watches baseball
more than one. Smarter, funnier, happier, better looking.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
Well, I'm definitely funnier.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Well, it depends on your sense of humor. No, you're
holding something back. I can tell. I can tell. We've
got Pongo back with us.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
Longers back in. Today. He's going to training again after work.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
So, oh did he go yesterday? How to go?

Speaker 7 (13:41):
He needs work? Well, my buddy say, he's stubborn, and
you know that's just part of it, you know, when
you've been in a shelter for basically your entire life.
And yeah, and on the paperwork, I finally found out
that he's they listed him as one year and eleven months.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
So also he's still a poppy. Basically, he needs he
needs some he needs some training.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
But he's we're actually getting we're making progress.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
See that's what women say about their husband's tim when
we first marriam. Need some need some training, needs some work,
except it's up to us to do the training. It's
up to us to do the training.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
M hmm.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
Anyways, same thing with work husbands. There's training involved there too. Anyways,
So today proposing a question to you again. The big
conversation that has been for a while and it continues
to grow after the trade agreement made yesterday with China,

(14:44):
of course, is tariffs. So for you, are you willing
to pay more for American made products? What are your
thoughts on it? Are you willing to pay more? Some
people have different thoughts different I am not now, not
ridiculously more, but if it's a stronger, more substantial, better

(15:06):
made product, and it's a dollar or two more, even
up to five dollars more, I'm willing to pay more
because if it's going to help our economy and bring
jobs and everything else, I'm willing to do it well.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
And I'm going to say this in principle will people
will agree with you until it becomes until it hits
their pocketbook. And so if I'm going to let's just
say there's a let's just talk it. Since it's springtime,
let's talk about yard work. Okay, there you Okay, So

(15:42):
there's a lawnmower that is that is made here in America.
There's a lawnmower that's made in China. There's a two
hundred dollars difference between the two people. Are going to
go for the one that's cheaper. I'm sorry, they're going
to Ninety percent of the people will okay, there be
you'll you'll have this strongholds. It will say, hey, I
don't care, I'll pay that extra two hundred dollars. Let's

(16:05):
say you have a rake that rakes twenty five dollars.
If it's made in America, it's twenty dollars. If it's
made in China, people will will well, they'll think about
that one because it's a five dollars difference. And I
think if you go to something like smaller to the
effect of you know, like a garden spade or something

(16:26):
like that, so it's maybe five or six bucks if
it's if it's America made, it's four or five dollars
in China. You know, if you're talking a big difference,
they're gonna buy the America if they even look at it.
Ninety percent of the people won't even look to see
where anything's made. You don't read. Ninety percent of the
people don't read the label on their foods. So you
think they're gonna look and see where a tag if
it says made in Mexico, made in China, made in

(16:47):
the USA. They're not half the people aren't even looking
and it.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
Seems like it's so I don't know. I watched a
documentary a couple months ago, and you know, the the
service shopping online, like the t Moves of the World
and things like that. There are other countries that are
receiving all of these clothes and such that once people

(17:11):
have them, they wear them for a raw, they get
rid of them. They're overwhelmed by mountains of this this
what do they call it fast gratification shopping, and it's
becoming a huge problem. And a lot of these goods
are made in China and foreign countries. But yeah, I
don't know, it depends. For some reason, I feel like
quality over price is more important, and I feel like

(17:34):
quality is made in the US. I don't know. Want
to hear from you one one hundred and sixty two
for eleven seventy are we Are you willing to pay
more for American made products? You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience. It's seven twenty eight on your Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
All right, let's bring on Jim or Nacy, bloom Daddy
Show political analyst, former congressman, to talk some politics right now,
and Jim really the big story of the day. This
US a temporary tariff agreement. They've suspended most tariffs on
each other's goods. This is a move that shows a
major thawing of trade tensions between these two big economies.

(18:11):
You think this trade truce will give business owners to
confidence they need to hire and expand.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
And does this mean Trump wins.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
Well, thanks for having bloom Daddy for having me. Here's
what I think it does mean. It does mean that
especially business owners realize that Trump is not going to
hold to these high tariffs, which is good. He's willing
to negotiate. He actually made the first move. He brought
him down first to get the meetings going. Chinda brought

(18:40):
theirs down. The only difference is it's only for ninety days.
But I think what the business owners and the business
communities realize now is originally Trump cousident Trump, it looked
like he was going to hold these tariffs until he
got everything he wanted. Now it looks like he's willing
to negotiate and we'll see where we end up, which
is good news for businesses moving forward. And I actually

(19:02):
think it's good news for Americans. I think Trump. I
can't say one, but I will say he got China
back to the table. Let's see what we get in
ninety days.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Jim Stocks jumped on news of the deal. It's kind
of funny. All I heard from liberals was you look
at stock market, you look at NASDEK, you look at
the stock market, you look at NASDK.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
I don't hear them saying that anymore.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Well, you can't say that. You're right, And the good
thing is the stock market really does look positive towards
these tariffs being reduced and lifted because it's profitability. I mean,
these tariffs were going to be paid by somebody, probably
the consumer. Businesses were going to suffer, and that's why
the market was somewhat concerned. But right now the market

(19:47):
sees this easing and it's very positive. And that's the
good news. That's what President Trump has brought to the table.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Jim, should three House Democrats from New Jersey be arrested
for their scuffle with federal agents when they tried to
storm an ice tention center on Friday.

Speaker 8 (20:03):
Well, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I do.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
Believe they should be investigated. They should see what all
they did. I mean, they should not have interfered. If
they did, that's a problem, and I think there should
be a full investigation, and hopefully Congress takes the time
to do that investigation.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Jim, if it was me who did that, I'm assuming
I'd be still sitting in jail probably.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I mean, when we've got.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Lawmakers do stuff like this, they're doing it for show,
they're doing it for attention. But shouldn't they be charged
because when they're not, does it not give off the
impression or the very real truth that these lawmakers expect
to be treated differently under the rule of law.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
Well, I do think the mayor got arrested, and that's
a positive sign because he definitely was interfering. I don't
know if the three members of Congress were interfering as much,
and I think that's where the investigation has to be
looked at. But I was told that they were in
there doing an evaluation. Congress does have that ability to
get in the middle of things and look and evaluate.

(21:06):
That's their that's their response. Uh, that's why I think
we need a full investigation. But if they were interfering,
they should Uh, they should be handled just like any
other citizen, with the full force of the law.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Talking to former Congressman Jim or Nacy, Jimmy talk about
a party who can't read the room no matter what
they're trying to do. Do they really think the vast
majority of Americans are going to back them storming an
ice detention facility housing murderers and and just deplorable human beings?

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Do they? How?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
How can they possibly think that that is a win
doing something like that and that that will resonate with
the majority of Americans.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
Well, I don't think they do. I say, look, we
in Washington right now, we have two fringes. We have
the right fringe and the left fringe. That Act yesterday
was really all about exciting the left fringe base. You know,
it's needed to move forward. That's they're just trying to
pull that part of the base. Otherwise, You're right, the

(22:08):
moderate side, the middle ground are not going to be
happy seeing that at all. But the left fringe absolutely,
they probably have fought it and they're happy that it happened.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
All right, tax hikes for the rich.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I think the breaking news is that there's no tax
hike on millionaires in Trump's new bill. I know that
was being discussed by Republicans what do you know about
what's been going on with this?

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Well, actually President Trump was floating that he was floating
a millionaire's tax, okay, and was, and he was trying
to get Congress to put it in the reconciliation bill.
There was a lot of pressure for that to be done.
Congress came out today actually this afternoon and said no,
we are not putting that in the bill. So that's

(22:53):
going to be interesting because they're actually taking on President
Trump on this. He wanted to raise the high tech
the highest tax rate from thirty seven to forty I
think on people making over one point two million dollars,
and Republicans of course do not support raising taxes, and
that was a reason for saying no. But it is

(23:15):
something Boom daddy. Here's the key. They got this reconciliation bill.
They're going to cut some taxes they got up under reconciliation.
It has to be neutral. They're going to have to
find either cuts or revenues to balance things. And I
think that's what President Trump was trying to basically.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Push through night Jim, thanks for your time today.

Speaker 8 (23:38):
Thank you. We have a great day.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
All the Democrats, All the Democrats, listen the moderate Democrats,
who at this point in time are swimming upstream against
the extremists on their side of the aisle. It would
be interesting if a core group would start considering creating

(24:03):
a third party, because, let's be honest, they've lost their party.
It's gone, and the sad thing is and I've brought
this up before the older generation of Democrats, and when
I say that, i'm talking sixty sixty five and older. Roughly,
they're holding on to an idyllic memory of the Democratic

(24:29):
Party that doesn't exist anymore, and they can't understand that
despite the fact that the loudest squeaky wheels of the
Democratic Party, they've made it blatantly clear that their platform

(24:52):
is for anti police, anti white Americans. They support gang bangers.
They're using taxpayer dollars to fly to El Salvador in
support of these gang members. They're all for mass migration,

(25:13):
we saw it for the past four years. They're for
high taxes therefore men and women's sports, and they are
not even trying to hide it any more. What we
saw with the attack of the ice facility, there's this

(25:35):
mentality that they're in above the law, that they don't
have to answer to anybody. And we see that on
a state level too, when we see states that are
not holding true to the executive orders that President Trump

(25:57):
has passed, most blatantly the men and women's sports. We
see colleges that are overwhelmed by hate speech against Jewish students.
We see destruction in our cities because these people who

(26:19):
are following in the footsteps of the leaders of their
party think they are above the law. They think their
ideals and what they think is right and what they
think they are fighting for the little man makes them
above the law. They can cause whatever destruction they want.

(26:41):
Look at what happened to Seattle and in the state
of Oregon during COVID the destruction that went on. Nobody
is above the law. But the self entitlement the Democrats
have is repulsive and it's gotten one hundred percent out

(27:05):
of control, and they are now doing it themselves, which
is what we saw at the Ice facility. I don't
I don't understand it. It's insanity. It's absolute insanity, and
you can see it in their eyes. There's this crazed look.
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong. Seven forty five on

(27:28):
your Tuesday, you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. We are back seven
fifty one, the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy WWVA. I want to turn the page a

(27:51):
little bit to some sports, kind of hit on the
tariffs and of course politics pretty heavy, so let's let's
let's turn the page. Let's turn to sport, some sports.
So last week we talked Otis. You got me fired
up on a particular subject that gets me all the time,
which is the men in women's sports. And I'm not
going to talk about this much. Don't want to go
down that black hole again. But I did receive an

(28:14):
email and I deleted it, which I should not have,
and it was in regards to and it's kind of
goes along the same comment that I got on Facebook
a while back, back in like February, so saying that
this has been turned into a political issue. It's not
that big of deal. There's not that many of these

(28:35):
circumstances happenings happening, YadA, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 7 (28:38):
It does a matter if it happens once you, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
So what I've decided to do every time there is
a headline, whether it's local, as we talked about last week,
in that situation that's happening here in the state of
West Virginia, or if it's on a national level or
even international, I'm just going to bring it up to you.
So here is my update for this past weekend. This

(29:02):
past weekend in the state of Pennsylvania, Sean Allen, a boy,
stole first place in the women's two hundred meters at
a track and field event, So that happened right next
door in the state of West Virginia. And then also, oh,
don't tell me, I lost the post. There is a

(29:25):
high school boy who is dominating as a pitcher in
softball and I will find that again because I think
I accidentally closed out of the story on that. My apologies.
But there are just two examples of how this is
not a small matter. This is not only happening to

(29:49):
a small amount of young women. This is a bigger issue.
This is a huge issue. And again I'm not going
to go into all the details, but wanted to update
you for those who think that this is not huge
numbers in affecting multiple young women and women, it is

(30:10):
all right, I'm done with that. Done with that, then
let's hit on some NFL for our Steeler fans out there.
So there's help wanted Steelers quarterback. Listen. Right now, currently
on their roster, we have rookie Will Howard from a
high state Mason Rudolph, which Steeler fans know that name.

(30:35):
He's turned into a journeyman backup quarterback in the NFL.
And then another name, Skuyler Thompson. I am not familiar
with this person, this young man. So those are the
three names currently on the roster for the Steelers. But
football fans are speculating why the Pittsburgh Steelers have yet
to sign free agent Aaron Rodgers to be their starting QB.

(30:58):
It seems that the Steelers simply do not want him,
as you'll hear in this help wanted ad for their
starting QB.

Speaker 9 (31:05):
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job opportunities. Here is today's help wanted ad.

Speaker 10 (31:14):
Are you a top level quarterback looking to start on
a perennial playoff contender and you're also not Aaron Rodgers,
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you are Aaron Rodgers qualified candidates must not take mind
altering substances, must not advance conspiracy theories on fringe podcasts,

(31:36):
and above all else not have spent the last two
seasons sucking on the New York Jets.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
If you have what.

Speaker 10 (31:43):
It takes to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to Super Bowl glory,
and again you're not Aaron Rodgers, apply today.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Aaron Rodgers need not apply.

Speaker 9 (31:53):
This has been help wanted a public service of this station.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
You have it? Would you? I mean, I know you're
not a big NFL person, but Aaron Rodgers is forty
one since he left the Packers. It doesn't seem as
if football is his main priority. There doesn't seem to

(32:24):
be that much concern or caring about it. About the
sport is the love lost? I mean, would you want
Aaron Rodgers at this point? I know, no, no, And
that's one thing unfortunately with a lot of older athletes.

(32:46):
Same thing with television shows. Things like sometimes go out
on a high kind of stringing it along, dragging it out.
It's actually kind of sad to watch in a way,
do you know what I mean? Lake?

Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yeah, I mean there are shows that can stand the
test of time. I mean, obviously The Simpsons have been
on for thirty years my entirely. What is it Law
and Order SVU? I think they just got renewed for
their twenty seventh season. Law and Order itself I think
get renewed for its twenty fourth What is it CSI

(33:24):
or not CSI? What's n CIS has been on for
twenty years. You know, there are shows that stay in
the test of time. You know, you look back at
Mash that lasted three times longer than the Korean War did.
So after eleven seasons, they were like, look, we've done
all we can do. Let's they were number one when

(33:46):
they went out. Cheers was number one, or was at
least in the top three, top five when they went out,
and Ted Danson didn't want to do it again, and
they wanted to cut. They wanted to keep Cheers running
and put Woody in charge. And Woody Harrelson wouldn't do
it without Ted Danson, he said, he goes Cheers is

(34:07):
Ted Danson?

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Well, And in the case of an athlete, especially an
NFL quarterback.

Speaker 7 (34:14):
You got to know when it's time.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Yeah, you're you're hurting your legacy, You're hurting the history
of the accomplishments that you're doing. Because when you leave
and you're at I don't want to say the worst,
but you're not what You're not in the same form
that you once were when you became Aaron Rodgers or

(34:35):
you became Tom Brady.

Speaker 7 (34:37):
Frank O Harris. Franco Harris was a Steeler except the
last year he was with Seattle. Nobody remembers that because
he just was hanging on for an extra year.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
I didn't know he played for Seatle no idea. But
I'm also not as Steelers.

Speaker 7 (34:51):
But I mean, but you have you have those athletes
that do that.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
Yeah. Yeah, and Tom Brady was kind of pushing it there,
but yeah, Aaron Rodgers, will he be Steeler?

Speaker 5 (35:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
We will see seven p. Fifty eight. You're listening to
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Speaker 2 (35:31):
Now News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy experience.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Hey, it's eight six, let's get this.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Hour rolling now.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
I want to get on to the top political story today,
and that is the US of China agreeing to temporarily
suspend most tariffs on each other's goods. So there's a
major thawing now of trade tensions between the world's two
largest economies. This all means that reciprocal reciprocal tariffs between
both countries will be cut from one hundred twenty five

(35:59):
percent to.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Now.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
This comes after US and China trade representatives held some
high stext tech I can't hear the loud speaker here,
so sorry, high stakes talks in Switzerland over the weekend. Now,
stocks have jumped on news of this deal. As you know,
business confidence has been seeking in recent weeks. Scott Bushki
is a business strategist CEO of Cornerstone Business Service. He's

(36:23):
joining me right now. Scott is a guy who does
read the tea leaves here. Will this trade truce give
business owners the confidence they need to hire and expand.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Hey, welcome, Thanks you let me on your show.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Yeah, the tea leaves.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
I'm not sure, but you know, certainty definitely helps business
owners make a decision, especially long term decisions like we
work with in the M and a side of things,
of mergers and acquisitions.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Of buying companies.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
So to to reach a deal that you know, for
most folks is better for the United States and opens
up China like it hasn't before, and just lowering costs
is usually a good thing for most business owners.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Scott, you know this as well as anybody. Optimism is
the key word when it comes to business. If there's optimism,
you'll see business owners spending money. You'll see them hiring.
Does this bring optimism to the table again.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I think it does. I think it brings some clarity,
some certainty. You know, the last month has just been
a roller coaster for business owners, both large and small,
so to Obviously, the devil's in the details. This is
the verbal framework here. But if this kid's done, and
with other countries as well, it gives business owners the
optimism to you know, make that acquisition, to invest in

(37:37):
more equipment, to hire more people, and continue to grow
either organically or through acquisition.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
I'll use myself as an example. I've got some buddies.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
They deal in heavy machinery, and I say, once, guys,
advertise and the first words out of their mouth we
want to but the tariffs have us on our heels
right now, you heard right from a lot of business owners.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, if anybody's dealing with,
you know, sourcing anything from China, it was you know,
everybody was in kind of a wait and see mode.
And some people were like, you know, what move do
I make? Do I try to buy a bunch of
stuff now and then now I got to hold it
and have the cost of holding it, or do I
wait and see and hopefully this gets done quickly. And
it just put a pause on everybody's plan. So and

(38:26):
you got to feel bad for these business owners because
you know, you look at them that they they had
things going pretty good and then the COVID you know,
just completely blew up the supply chain you know, worldwide,
and they just got things back and then and then
this hits again. But hopefully this is short lived and
they can get back to do in business and understanding
what the rules of engagement are again.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Talking to Scott Buski's a business strategist and the CEO
of Cornerstone Business Service that's a boutique investment bank, representing
privately held, family owned businesses. Scott's also the author of
Finished Strong, Sell Your Business on Your Term. Scott, what
advice with this announcement today would you give to small
business owners out there?

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (39:09):
I think these business owners really have to understand what
this means and understand uh that it even though this
is a good a good play, it could go back
a different way. You know, things with the administration get
hot and cold really quick. So with business owners, they
really need to look at their supply chains and have
you know, look at what's do they have one supplier

(39:30):
that is only one company or one country that they
can get some product from or supplies and find the redundancy,
you know, find not only other suppliers, but other suppliers
in other countries that if one one company or one
country falls out of failure, they could switch to another
supplier and not have in any big heartburn because I
think a lot of people got caught uh with this

(39:53):
and we're really surprised and hopefully it didn't hurt them
too bad. But yet just diversification is key, right.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
And I was gonna say, you know, I'm not going
to get into politics with you, but when Trump first
did this. I said, look, there's gonna be pain before
there's pleasure, and it appears it's going that way.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
But to your point, when you're in.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Business, there's probably nothing worse than hot cold, hot cold,
hot cold.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Right one hundred percent. I mean, whether you know terrorists
are ten percent or one hundred ten percent, just tell
me what they are and now I can start making
decisions and how I'm gonna play the game. But when
they're ten, you know, then they're fifty, then there one
hundred and ten, now they're or one hundred and forty five,
then they're on hold. It just makes things really difficult
because the last thing a business down't what to do
is buy a bunch of product, you know, with that

(40:39):
one hundred and forty five percent tariff on it, because
now they're gonna be sitting on goods that are much
much more expensive for them than their competitors who bought
pre or posts, you know, one hundred and forty five
day or one hundred and forty five percent tariff. So
it's it's really a tough, tough game. And that's why,
you know, being in business and also trying to acquire
a company or think about selling your company. You gotta

(41:00):
take an effect that the things you can't control as
well and make the best decision you can.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
All right, Scott, thanks for your time and advice today,
have a great day.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
And this is something that you know small businesses are
worried about their thinking about, and rightfully so. I mean,
this is going to it's going to affect a lot
of people, but it's always changing. What gets me is
the panic inducing coverage. This tends to have the the

(41:34):
the what ifs, the over the top panic. Now edis
you and I have talked about this a couple of
times when it comes to the tariffs and the conversations.
But as I mentioned earlier, right now, it's a lot
of speculations, it's a lot of you know, potential. That

(41:57):
word's being thrown around a lot. But you have a
good example of the tariff increases for a small business
because you were you owned a small business for how
many years?

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Oh? Fifteen? Maybe? Okay, see definitely, I mean I don't
remember off the top of my head.

Speaker 6 (42:15):
Did you see when you had it? Did you did
anything like that this occurred during your ownership of a
small business like that?

Speaker 7 (42:23):
No? I mean you would see the actual you would
see price increases, you know, right, you would you know,
you would see delivery charges go up when gas prices
went up and they remained constantly up or whatever. You
would see stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
Things never go back down.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
That is very rarely, very rarely. And I just dropped
my paper. I've no idea where it went. Hold on, okay,
I want to put my glasses on.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
It filled my hand.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
So you know, basically my my my business at the
time was awards. Okay, So I did trophies, I did blacks,
I did metal still and so forth. But every once
in a while we did T shirts, okay, or I
did T shirts because that was part of it. When
I purchased it. Tried to stay away from it unless
it was a huge order or something of that nature.
And I didn't print in house. So in other words,

(43:09):
I would order the T shirts in and I would
contract the printing out, okay, which I would get a
better deal than the average person because I was sometimes
it was bigger orders and things like that. But just
just to compare, you know, so I owe a lot
of times I used Guilden was the branded T shirt
that I use. So I'm going to compare Guilden fifty
to fifty five point four ounce T shirt to the

(43:30):
exact same thing American made.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
So just the simple purchase of one.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
T shirt, and keep in mind Guilden the T shirts
at the guild it's USA cotton, but they just send
it outside the country to have the T shirts put together.
So a five point four ounce fifty to fifty T
shirt full cut for Guilden my cost two dollars and
seventy seven cents. Same shirt American made my cost seven

(43:57):
dollars and sixty seven cents. Basically a five dollars difference
four dollars and ninety cents. So you know, then by
the time you add your printing in, by the time
you do everything else, I can do the guild and
T shirt for say eight dollars and make a buck
bucket and a half a shirt. I'd have to charge
almost fifteen to sixteen for the American made shirt. You're

(44:20):
you're somebody that comes in and they want to do
a family reunion. They need one hundred T shirts. Well
there's a five they say, oh, well we want American maid.
Well there's a five dollars difference. Well I'm not paying
five hundred dollars more for the shirts. Well, I don't
know what else to tell you. If you want an American maid,
that's what you're going to have to pay.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
And that's just an example of what small business owners
are are dealing with shortly or they're and.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
That doesn't that doesn't that doesn't factory in the shipping,
that doesn't factory in labor, labor or you know what
the cost you know, depending on what the print is,
I'm factory in like just a one color, full front
print or full back or something of that nature. You know,
basically like a three dollar print. So but you multiply
that times one hundred, it adds up, it adds up.

(45:04):
So you know, the bottom line is, you know, there
are things that are American made that you could probably
purchase that are affordable. There are some that you know,
the average if I'm a business and I'm paying for this,
nobody cares. Right A lot of times that you know,
businesses say right to check it, we don't care. If
it's five hundred dollars difference. You coming in off the street,
paying out of your pocket and maybe collecting money from

(45:26):
your friends and family, They're going to say, why are
we paying sixteen dollars for a T shirt when we
could have paid eight. Yeah, I'm just you know, that's
how that's how the mind works. Yeah, I'm not I'm
not defending either one.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
I'm just giving you an example. That's an example. When
you put the pennies in the quarters and you got
them all up, it makes a difference. It's eight sixteen.
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Speaker 7 (46:14):
Family four pack to the Washington Wild Things, which is
a voucher so it is good for any home game,
and a twenty five dollars gift certificate to McCormick's Auto
down in Glendale. Nice.

Speaker 6 (46:26):
But it's Glendale, Glendale. It's right. It's actually kind of
right there on you.

Speaker 7 (46:29):
It's right before you get the Mountville.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Yeah, yeah, right there on the on the border if
you will so, yeah, if you're planning a road trip
coming up Memorial Day weekend, you got to get your
car serviced, serviced, Yeah, this is your chance. Along with that,
today is World Cocktail Day. Otis so maybe maybe this evening,
treat yourself to a little to celebrate.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
No, oh that's right, No, it won't happen for you.
And then it's also National apple Pie Day. I could
do that, yeah with one scoop.

Speaker 7 (47:02):
Of no just apple pie, a pie. Yeah, I mean
you can give it to me. You can give it
to me out of mode, with an ice scoop of
ice cream. But listen, nothing better than a piece of
apple pie right out of the oven. We used to
have apple trees in our backyard and we would I would.
My mom would make me collect the apples and then
we would. They were never the big, you know, right

(47:25):
big apples, but we you know, you'd get one, maybe
the size a little bigger than a golf ball, smaller
than a baseball, but you'd get a few of them,
and you know, she would cut those up and she'd
make apple pies all summer.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
And it was like the smell, just just just the.

Speaker 7 (47:44):
Just just the taste of an apple pie.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
That's so American of you, that story. You need a
little flag a flag. Oh So, I have been debating
all morning to touch on this, and I'm going to
make this brief. And the only reason I am bringing

(48:07):
it up is because I had a handful of people
reach out to me yesterday or yesterday evening about some
things that are happening on social media, and I said,
I'm just going to touch on this. I'm not going
to go into a lot of details what it is.
It's surrounding some pictures that were posted by another media

(48:29):
outlet at an event that actually otis you and I
talked about multiple times that happened at River City this
past weekend, all in support of men's health and pre
screening for prostate cancer and to build awareness. These pictures
are questionables, are not the right term, They're not flattering.

(48:53):
And what has happened is the person who posted the
pictures has been asked by multiple women within the pictures
that to take them down. I have a few posts
here from Facebook saying, you know this, One woman said
I want my picture taken down, and they're not being
taken down. And it's turned into this this huge social

(49:18):
media back and forth. I have been to many events.
I have posted pictures at events I asked permission and
then also their group shots they they if and if
if the shots are not flattering, you don't post them.
Here's my question. This was an event supporting men and

(49:41):
men's health, to raise awareness to battle against prostate cancer.
Where are the pictures of the men? Where are the
pictures of the men? Why are these women only pictures
the majority of them? Why are these women being I'll

(50:02):
say it objectified. Why are these being put out there?
If these were only pictures of groups of women who
are attending in support and it's a big collage or
a big group photograph, Okay, fine, these are cropped. The
thumbnails on the Facebook page are basically cleavage. They are

(50:22):
not attractive, They are not flattering. That is not what
these women were there for. And for those that are saying,
you know, well, they chose to wear these dresses and
they were dressed up. Okay, I understand that it was
a public event, but when you're posting things like this,
you need to be responsible and post the flattering pictures.

(50:45):
Where that comes into the question, and this is where
it's wrong. There is no no need whatsoever. No excuse
is acceptable for putting pictures of women's backsides up in
this photo gallery. There is no reason whatsoever, none, And

(51:10):
it's blatantly obvious that that's the point of that picture.
Is this woman's rear end? Why? How is that promoting
this event? And this person lost her husband and is

(51:33):
talking about fighting prostate cancer? Why is that acceptable? It's
just wrong on so many levels. Responsibility needs to be taken.
And when you were asked to take the picture down,
just take it down. None of this had to get

(51:53):
to where it is. Just take the pictures down, plain
and simple and simple. But it's grown to this, got
our attention, clicks, clicks, clicks, That's what it's about. That's
what it comes down to. Because when it here's what

(52:13):
it is. Self serving, that's what it's all about. It
doesn't matter whose pictures it is. It doesn't matter how
many times you've been asked to take them down out
of respect. Nope, self serving, plain and simple, that's it.
Otis any thoughts.

Speaker 7 (52:31):
Yeah I do, but we're out of time.

Speaker 6 (52:34):
Oh aren't you lucky? Aren't you lucky? Just take the
pictures down. The women have asked nicely, nicely.

Speaker 7 (52:44):
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Speaker 2 (53:11):
All right, let's bring on Jim or Nacy Bloomdaddy Show,
political analyst, former congressman, to talk some politics right now.
And Jim, really, the big story of the day this
US China temporary tariff agreement. They've suspended most tariffs on
each other's goods. This is a move that shows a
major thawing of trade tensions between these two big economies.

(53:32):
You think this trade truce will give business owners the
confidence they need to hire and expand.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
And does this mean Trump wins?

Speaker 8 (53:39):
Well, thanks for having bloom Daddy, for having me. Here's
what I think it does mean. It does mean that
especially business owners realize that Trump is not going to
hold to these high tariffs, which is good. He's willing
to negotiate. He actually made the first move. He brought
him down first to get the meetings going brought theirs down.

(54:01):
The only difference is it's only for ninety days. But
I think what the business owners and the business communities
realize now is originally Trump President Trump, it looked like
he was going to hold these tarrafs until he got
everything he wanted. Now it looks like he's willing to
negotiate and we'll see where we end up, which is
good news for businesses moving forward. And I actually think

(54:22):
it's good news for Americans. I think Trump I can't
say one, but I will say he got China back
to the table. Let's see what we get in ninety days.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Jim Stocks jumped on news of the deal. It's kind
of funny. All I heard from liberals was you look
at stock market, you look at NASDEK, you look at
the stock market, you look at NASDEK.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
I don't hear them saying that anymore.

Speaker 8 (54:44):
Well, you can't say that, you're right. And the good
thing is the stock market really does look positive towards
these tariffs being reduced and lifted because it's profitability. I mean,
these terraffs are going to be paid by somebody, probably
the consumer businesses were going to suffer and that's why
the market was somewhat concerned. But right now the market

(55:07):
sees this easing and it's very positive and that's the
good news. That's what President Trump has block to the table.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Jim, should three House Democrats from New Jersey be arrested
for their scuffle with federal agents when they tried to
storm an ice detention center on Friday?

Speaker 8 (55:23):
Well, I'll tell you what. I do believe they should
be investigated. They should see what all they did. I mean,
they should not have interfered. If they did, that's a problem,
and I think there should be a full investigation, and
hopefully Congress takes the time to do that investigation.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Jim, if it was me who did that, I'm assuming
I'd be still sitting in jail probably.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
I mean, when we've got.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Lawmakers do stuff like this, they're doing it for show,
they're doing it for attention. But shouldn't they be charged
because when they're not, does it not give off the
impression or the very real truth that these laws akers
expect to be treated differently under.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
The rule of law.

Speaker 8 (56:04):
Well, I do think the Meri got arrested, and that's
a positive sign because he definitely was interfering. I don't
know if the three members of Congress were interfering as much,
and I think that's where the investigation has to be
looked at. But I was told that they were in
there doing an evaluation. Congress does have that ability to
get in the middle of things and look and evaluate.

(56:26):
That's their that's their response. Uh, that's why I think
we need a full investigation. But if they were interfering,
they should, Uh, they should be handled just like any
other citizen with the full force of the law.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Talking to former Congressman jim or Nacy, Jimmy talk about
a party who can't read the room no matter what
they're trying to do. Do they really think the vast
majority of Americans are going to back them storming an
ice detention facility housing murderers and and just deplorable human beings?

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Do they? How?

Speaker 2 (56:57):
How can they possibly think but that is a win
doing something like that, and that that will resonate with
the majority of Americans.

Speaker 8 (57:07):
Well, I don't think they do. I think look in
Washington right now, we have two fringes. We have the
right fringe and the left fringe. That Act yesterday was
really all about exciting the left fringe base, you know,
it's needed to move forward that they're just trying to
pull that part of the base otherwise. You're right, the

(57:28):
moderate side, the middle ground are not going to be
happy seeing that at all. But the left fringe, absolutely,
they probably have fought it and they're happy that it happened.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
All right, tax hikes for the rich.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
I think the breaking news is that there's no tax
hike on millionaires in Trump's new bill. I know that
was being discussed by Republicans. What do you know about
what's been going on with this?

Speaker 8 (57:53):
Well, actually President Trump was floating that he was floating
a millionaire's tax okay, and and he was trying to
get Congress to put it in the reconciliation bill. There
was a lot of pressure for that to be done.
Congress came out today actually this afternoon and said no,
we are not putting that in the bill. So that's

(58:13):
going to be interesting because they're actually taking on President
Trump on this. He wanted to raise the highest tax
rate from thirty seven to forty I think, on people
making over one point two million dollars, and Republicans of
course do not support raising taxes and that was a
reason for saying no, but it is something. Boom, Dad.

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Here's the key. They got this reconciliation bill. They're going
to cut some taxes. They got it under reconciliation. It
has to be neutral. How they're going to have to
find either cuts or revenues to balance things. And I
think that's what President Trump was trying to basically push through.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Nike, Jim, thanks for your time today.

Speaker 8 (58:58):
Thank you. We have a great day. Oh.

Speaker 6 (59:01):
Speaking about the Democrats, I made this point earlier. Honest
to god, I think they think. I think that they
think they are above the law. We got an email
from Ron that says Democrats know they are above the law,
which is why they do what they do. They don't
see You don't see any of them going to prison.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
Do you.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
If the law applied to them, then both bidens would
already have charges against them for bribery, corruption, selling American
influence for personal game and so on and so on.
You know, I can't really disagree with you much there, Ron,
not even clothes. But what we are seeing nationally, it
doesn't matter what this administration would do. Let's just take

(59:46):
Trump out of the conversation. Let's just say the administration
it doesn't matter what he would do, whether it's coming
to an agreement with China on the tariff conversation, whether
it's bringing home the last living American held hostage by Hamas,
whether it's brokering a peace deal or at least getting
them to the table. When it comes to Putin and Zelenski,

(01:00:12):
this administration could find a cure for cancer and the
Democrats would file an injunction. The Democrats would call him
a liar and and and try to stop it in court.
It it doesn't matter. And that's what I think everybody
has to wrap their minds around. Is the the superior Uh,

(01:00:37):
what's the how's the word? I'm looking for? Superiority complex
that the liberal liberals have puts them in this unrealistic mindset.
They have been told for decades that they are the

(01:01:01):
more loving party, they are the more caring about humans party.
They fight for the little man, and they have that
drilled into their heads, where now they're the complete opposite

(01:01:21):
of that. They don't care about America, they don't care
about you and I. They care about their culture wars.
They care about getting across their left wing ideology that
goes so far against the values of this country. They've

(01:01:44):
completely lost sight of Americans. We've seen that now, and
as I said before, they don't even try to hide it.
They don't even attempt to hide it. They are flying
to alsade on our taxpayer dime. The it's just infuriating.

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It's infuriating that these people think that they are smarter,
they are more entitled, and that their message is the
only message that matters, and they are willing to do
whatever it takes, break the law to win. That's what

(01:02:30):
it comes down to. It comes down to winning, and
they are willing to do anything to make that happen,
including surgically maiming our children, breaking the law. They're willing

(01:02:55):
to do anything. And I could go on and on,
but I'm not going to. It's a forty five. You're
listening to the Blue Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Well, before we wrap up this Tuesday morning show,

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we cannot end it without talking to our good buddy,
good good pal, Kevin Cookstraw Automotive.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Good morning, Kevin, morning, guys, how y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Good?

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
Hey, you know you recently just got back from Rome.
We did, and you said that you went to the coliseum.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
We did.

Speaker 7 (01:03:34):
So there's a story that came out last week and
we saved it for you, and but we forgot we
forgot it yesterday. So Uh, there's an American tourist that's
recovering after some serious injuries at the that he had
that he obtained it the Colisseum. He was forty seven
years old. He tried to climb the fence that's surrounding
the nearly two thousand year old Amphitheater. He fell and

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was impaled by the fence's sharp metal bars. They said
he was losing blood until he passed out. Took him
about twenty minutes to remove the man from the fence
before he underwent surgery. Took about eighty stitches to seal
the wound. Wow, Like, since you were there, is there
obviously there's a fence around the entire coliseum.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
I mean there's a there's a fence around just Yeah,
any of those ruins and stuff like that. Many they
take great care and keeping those protected, all right. I
Mean it's a you know, they're very organized about letting
people in and out because I would think that you know,
during all hours of the night, people would try to

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you know, just chip off a piece of stone or
ship off you know, something that they could take for
a souven Their people are not, you know, very smart
sometimes when it comes to respecting you know, other people's
things and ruins like that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:51):
That was a nice way to put it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
Yeah, I mean because everything they do. There was even
in a McDonald's there that they were building, okay years ago,
and they came across the original road to the Appian Way,
they had to stop construction. They ended up building the
McDonald's over the site with a with a plexiglass floor
where you could see the road below it, and you
can also go under uh and visit that area. But there, man,

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they are so respectful of everything over there. It was
an incredible, incredible trip.

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
Just off the top of your head. Do you like
if you remember the fence around the Colisseum, do you
remember about how high it was, like it was like
six feet eight feet?

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
Man, I probably said probably ten feet okay, eight ten
feet something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:05:34):
Yeah, it's not something that you wouldn't have happened to
you when you want to fall yourself. No, well, we're
just glad you you paid for the tour instead of
going the cheap way.

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
Okay, oh yeah, we definitely did, and we did. We
toured the uh we took the Gladiator tour. It takes
you underneath and and you really get down below where
you can see how they used elevators and lifts and
things to get the animals in and out the colisseum,
and how they got the fighters in and out.

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
But well, speak gladiators.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
Oh ho, there we go. Gladiators. Great selection gladiators at
either one of the CDJR source, whether it's right there
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it's plus additional lotycuponds where there's plus additional rebates, don't

(01:06:29):
miss your opportunity to save on jeep gladiators today.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
How's that that works out? Perfect?

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:06:37):
Is that all you're sharing with us today?

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
That said, man, my time is up four minutes?

Speaker 7 (01:06:42):
Well, well, we we actually were interviewing you about a
story and something that you'd experienced, so that doesn't count
towards your time.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
Well that did segue right quite nicely into the Gladiator.

Speaker 7 (01:06:53):
And you didn't even know you were doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
I did not. I'm very impressed with yourself, the professional
of them that you display.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:07:02):
Gee, thanks, buddy. I appreciate that. It doesn't happen often.
All right, we'll talk to you Thursday. All right. That's true.
Their professionalism is out the window normally with me, because
I'd like to have fun with.

Speaker 6 (01:07:18):
He's got a couple of good a couple of good digs,
and that's fine.

Speaker 7 (01:07:23):
I don't listen. I'm all for it. You know, if
you can get a good dig in on me, I
I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Usually everyone every you're the one throwing him out, but
he's kind of uh well, if.

Speaker 7 (01:07:32):
You condition him out, you have to be willing to
take it too. And I'm perfectly fine with taking a
good jab.

Speaker 6 (01:07:37):
There's a lot of people that aren't.

Speaker 7 (01:07:39):
Yeah, I mean, if it's I mean, if it's worthwhile
and it's funny, I don't have a problem with it.
If you get if you want to, like a personal attack,
it's a little different.

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
Yeah, you don't.

Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
But Kevin and I aren't doing that. No, no, no, no, no,
it's all in good fun.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
Well, we're in good fun too most of the time.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
Yeah. Sometimes I slipped someone in and I'm being one
hundred percent series. No, the look on your face was priceless.
It's a good thing around radio. Yes, besides that, you
flipped me the bird.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
Yes, the silent comeback if you will. Oh goodness, did
you see this? I'm sure this will get you fascinated.
Michael Jordan is back.

Speaker 7 (01:08:24):
Okay, Michael Jordan just kind of like never leaves.

Speaker 6 (01:08:28):
Well, but he ever since he retired besides the whole
baseball situation that was kind.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Of well, that was in the middle of his career too,
so anyway, I mean, but since he's retired from the NBA,
he's been an owner, but he's really stayed out of
the spotlight commercials.

Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
Yeah, he's he's pretty under the under the radar in the.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
In the in the mini series, what was it, the
Last Dances?

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
Oh yeah, yeah. But he's back. He's said to become
a special contributor to NBC Sports for the twenty twenty
five twenty six NBA season. Will that make a difference?
Will that make you want to watch it?

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:09:07):
Me neither.

Speaker 7 (01:09:07):
No, I mean, I respect Michael Jordan. M h And
if you're if you're gonna ask me who the greatest
basketball player of all time was? I'm gonna have to
say it's Michael Jordan. I mean, if I if I'm
drafting an all time team, he's my number one pick,
and no doubt, every once in a while you think
about these things. I don't think I would take one

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modern player right now, not in my probably not in
my top seven picks, because I'm thinking by positions. Yeah,
you know, I'm not necessarily thinking.

Speaker 6 (01:09:38):
Oh no, Steph Curry is one heck of a shot.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
Yeah, he might be my seventh or eighth pick. Yeah,
But I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
Other than that, I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:09:48):
Yeah, I mean, I'm going my first picks Michael. My
second pick's Kobe, and then I'm going I'm going big man,
I'm gonna take Wilt, and then I'm going uh one three,
and I'm taking Magic in the three, even though he
was a point guard. And then I'm gonna take Larry.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Birden afore well, you're going You're going.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
You know, and then Jerry West is probably my sixth pick,
and then my seventh pick is probably Kareem You're going back. Yeah,
before I'm old.

Speaker 6 (01:10:19):
Before I watched it, you're you brought up Wilt Chamberlain,
a rookie card of his has hit the auction block
nineteen sixty one fleer Wilt Chamberlain, Rookie. They are estimating
let me see here, it doesn't say estimate forty thousand
and up.

Speaker 7 (01:10:39):
I saw a sixty one fleer sixty or sixty one
fleer Jerry West for seven thousand at the High Valley Mall.

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
See, the one that had all the kids.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
He had all the women.

Speaker 6 (01:10:50):
Okay, all right, hey we're done. This woman's done. So
it's this man