The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 20, 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 SEVENTYWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news radio eleven seventy Spring
on Jim Ernacy, former Congressman Blue Daddy showed political analyst
Jim I was just going through everything pertaining to the
prostate cancer with Joe Biden. I am going to deduce
that they've known about this for a long time, but
they lied about it because doctors everywhere saying, wait a minute,
He's got access to the best doctors in the world.

(00:44):
It's the easiest cancer to diagnose. Routine blood work can
detect it. And you go back to February of twenty
twenty four at Walter Reed Medical Center, his longtime physician
said he was fit to serve.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
So what's going on here, Jim.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, look, there is no doubt and I one hundred
percent agree with you that this is an easy Prostate
cancer is much easy to as long as you're getting
your PSAs and clearly, as the president of the United States,
they're doing blood work, they're doing physicals every year. This
had to show up unless there was unless the doctor
was just absolutely just not looking. Because you're exactly right,

(01:26):
this is a simple test. It's a blood test, and
it's amazing that it was covered up for all these years.
But in the end, you still have to feel bad
for President Biden because you know, it looks like it's
far enough along that he's going to have a tough
road moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Jim, I said this early. I want to get your
opinion on it.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I feel that his mental and now physical abilities or
problems are one of the.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Biggest cover ups in US political history. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Hundred percent agree? I think the last you know, his
last year, he took a very deep turn, maybe even
the last two years. It was a cover up, and
clearly he was not able to perform. And let's face it,
when he went head to head with President Trump, that
was just the epitome of all endings for him because

(02:21):
he didn't even know where it was at that evening.
In my opinion, and you know, his wife shouldn't have
put him through that, His family shouldn't have put him
through that, and there are a lot of people around
him that should have never put him through that. But
you know, it's history. I think we got to move forward.
But again, cover ups occur all the time, all the
way back to Nixon. This is clearly one that will

(02:45):
end up being a cover up as well.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Talking to former Congressman Jimmernaci, let's move on to Hillary Clinton,
the witch who will not go away, biggest political loser.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
In my opinion, in history.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
She lost to an unknown Barack Obama in the Democratic primary.
She lost to a reality show contestant in Donald Trump
in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
This woman just loses.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
She's bashing Republican women, Jim saying the GOP female president
would be handmaiden to the patriot.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now, she said, when I asked what advice she had.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
For the first female president of the United States, she
basically said, don't be a handmaiden, and that kind of
eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle
except for a few. Then she went on to suggest
that white women voted against her at the direction of
their husbands. Then if you listen to her, she'll say

(03:41):
that it's sexism. Why a female hasn't been in a
White House, and she said, so, you know, if a
woman runs, who I think would be a good president,
as I thought Kamala Harris would be, and as I
knew I would be, I will support that woman.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
My question to you is.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Have we not had a female president because of sexism?
Or have we not had a female president because the
two choices we've had, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have
been terrible?

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Well one hundred percent agree with the latter. I have
to agree with you. Look, Kamila Harris was horrible, and
so was she. I mean, you know, it's interesting even
when President Trump at the time, Candidate Trump was running
against her. I still remember his campaign manager who was
with me one day I forget her name now, the

(04:33):
woman who was a President Trump's campaign manager, saying that, look,
she is so bad that I keep telling President Trump
all he has to do is continue to talk about
what he's going to do and forget talking about her
because she is so bad that he's going to beat
her because of how bad she is. And that's exactly

(04:53):
was the case. Back then. There was no comparison. Many
people said President Trump Donald Trump, candidate Trump in twenty
sixteen was not a good choice. The difference was he
was so much better than her that he won overwhelmingly
because of that.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, and two females, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, Jim,
who were just unlikable. Kamala just doesn't have I think
the political savviness or the IQ to be president of
the United States, and Hillary was just unlikable period in
every facet.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well, I know one thing, I do believe Kamala, as
bad as she was, also had she was tainted with
Biden as well. And you know, it gets back to
even in the governor's race when Taylor ran against Mike Dwayne.
Mary Taylor was tainted with Casic at that time, and

(05:53):
because of that many times that hurts you as well.
But I think in the end, Kamala Harris just did
not a pill to men. She did not appeal to women. Uh.
And and she also had the Biden she was she
was she was Biden's uh the albatros yeah the same time, Yeah,

(06:14):
she was. She had that albatross around her neck.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
All right, Jim, thanks for the time today, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh there's a lot to uh tap into there in
that short conversation.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Well, I mean, I think the biggest thing is and
I think I agree with both bloom Daddy and Jim
or Nasi on the fact that the reason we haven't
voted in a female president is because we haven't had
one to choose from.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean, I mean, there has not been.

Speaker 6 (06:40):
You could. You can't vote for Crooked Hillary, and you
can't vote for I mean Kamala Harris because she's as
dumb as a fence post. I'm sorry, No, neither.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Candidate that they have put in the forefront for a
female president. And I said this personally back when Hillary
was on the ticket. Was that twenty sixteen, Gods forever ago.
I want to see a female president. I want to
see a female president as a female I want to
see that happen in my lifetime. But when she was

(07:11):
the one that everybody kind of tapped as the one,
I said, not her. I can remember not her.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
I can remember being in two thousand, well up until
I mean, in reality, from about two thousand on, you
know your choice is for presidential candidate. It's like you're
voting for the lesser of two evils. No, not so.
And that's that was my attitude in twenty sixteen, twenty

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twenty twenty twenty four, I was you know, I'm behind Trump,
you know, I mean, I like the policies. I like
what he wants to do. I like the fact that
he wants to drain the swamp. I don't agree with everything, right,
but that's okay because I'm not supposed to agree with everything.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
There's never going to be a candidate that somebody one
hundred percent on every single topic agrees with, sure, and
that's never going to happen. But when it comes to Harris,
she was an embarrassment. She was an absolute embarrassment. And
what that actually did, in my eyes, set back probably

(08:15):
twenty thirty years the growth that women made on the
political stage. She the way she carried herself, the way
she spoke, the entire situation with her on the top
of that ticket set us back, as females in politics,
back tremendously.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Well, I think President is embarrassment. I think he is
actually and I hate to use this word, but I
mean it's the only word that pops into my head,
but he is kind of grooming and setting up the
situation to maybe have that first female president be a
Republican by you know, appointing Christy Nomes to this disposition
or Pambondi this position, Elsey gaber Tulca Gabert. You know,

(08:57):
you know there there are people in the administration that
could technically, you know, maybe not in twenty twenty eight,
but somewhere down the road they could be your your
your female presidential candidate.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
And I would take any of them along with below.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
Hesitant on Tulsi, I mean.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
She's kind of flip shock because she's.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
A flip flopper, you know that would be I mean,
I'm not saying I don't like her in some of
her policies. And if she's gonna if she's gonna lean
to the middle, I mean I think she's you know
that's I don't have a problem with that. I just
don't want her going too far left.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Sarah Huckaby Sanders.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yeah, there's another one.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
She's amazing. I got to see her speak. I would
be up behind her one hundred percent. So yeah, the picture,
the portrait that they paint of President Trump, you know
he's a sexist. Uh, he's a misogynist.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah. Look at the women that he has.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Look at his daughter in law too. Yeah, she's a
possible candidate.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
She's impressive. My goodness, seven sixteen. We got a busy
show ahead of us this morning. Coming up, we got
some local news, and then of course later on in
the show, we are going to have representatives from gold
Corey and Turek who are representing former employees of East
Ohio Regional Hospital. That conversation, I can't wait for it.

(10:23):
It is seven sixteen on this Tuesday morning. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. It is Kevin twenty one on this
Tuesday morning. Thank you for tuning in. Of course you're

(10:45):
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience, Sam and Otis and we're
right here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Before we
go back into before we go into some local news,
I wanted to go back a little bit into the
earlier segment bloom Daddy started off the conversation with Jim
Reneci about the prostate cancer diagnosis for former President Joe Biden.

(11:09):
I actually had somebody yesterday I was in a meeting
and they had listened to the show, and of course
we commented on that topic yesterday. And if you did
not hear my comments yesterday. I said that, you know,
it's horrible. You hate to hear a horrible diagnosis for
anybody with their health. With their health, whether it's cancer,

(11:32):
you know, no matter what it is, you don't want
to see somebody ill. That's awful. And I said that
multiple times. This person said to me that my tone
was callous, and that the fact that I brought up

(11:53):
my questioning the timing of the announcement just backed up
the cold, callous direction. I was taking that particular subject again.
If you tuned in yesterday, and I hope you did.

(12:14):
I always I said multiple times, it's awful. You don't
want to see anybody get ill. But my comment to
this particular person was, you can have sympathy for somebody.
You can you know, feel sorry, you can hope them

(12:38):
the best physically. You can have that skepticism, but at
the same time, based on the track record of President
Joe Biden in his surrounding minions, I can be skeptical,
and I can be skeptical for they're all politicians, not

(13:01):
just him. Listen, the media in marketing is a tool
in the toolbox of politicians, and the Democratic Party have
been the best at using the media and marketing for

(13:24):
both parties, but the Democrats are the best at weaponizing
it and using it. What if we talked about We've
talked about legacy media, how they're in the pockets of
the Democrats. So I'm sorry to this person that I
spoke to yesterday who felt that I was harsh, But

(13:46):
my response is I can be skeptical, but on the
human side of things, I can still have heart for
somebody who is ill. Sorry, that's my thoughts on it,
but we'll move on from that. We'll move on from that. Locally,

(14:07):
some things going on in Steubenville. There's a major road
project that's going to begin today. Crews are working to
resurface portions of Ohio Street and Kendall Avenue. Work is
expected to continue throughout the week. Drivers are urged to
be on the lookout for no parking signs and vehicles
will be towed if they are in violation. So heads up,

(14:28):
when you are parking in the Stuphenville area along Ohigh
Street and Kendall Avenue, pay attention to the signs. Do
not park there, Otherwise you are going to be You're
gonna be in trouble and your car is not gonna
be there when you return, So heads up on that.
The City of Wheeling is looking for people to get
paid for spending the summer where at the pool. Hey,

(14:51):
that doesn't sound like a bad gig. I could I
could handle that. There are openings for lifeguard, pool concession stand, attendance,
and pull manager. Applications can be completed online. The pools
open on June first, which we are what O it
is a week and a half away from.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Yeah, roughly it'll be uh, let's see, it'll be June
first is a Sunday.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Despite the chill in the air this morning.

Speaker 8 (15:15):
So.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
It'll be a week from this Sunday.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Speaking of, is Memorial Day weekend early this year? Does
it feel that way to you?

Speaker 6 (15:26):
Oh, it's not early. It's just the way the calendar falls.
I mean, it's just because the Memorial Day is always
the last Monday of the month, and so this is
probably I believe it's the second earliest it can be.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
It just feels like it creeped up on us like
real quick, and it just feels early in the month.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah, next year it'll be on the twenty fifth, so
instead of the twenty sixth.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
Gosh, okay, all right, so it's not just me. I
thought so well. Speaking of summer activities in warmer weather,
the City of Wheeling has launched another season of free
summer entertainment. It begins beginning with Waterfront Wednesday at Heritage
Port this week. The opening performance will be Horden Jones, which,

(16:11):
of course, Roger Horns is a very familiar name on
this station. Roger, That's what I said.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
No, you said Horns.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
Oh my apologies, Roger Horde. And they will be doing
classic rock. So and then toe Tap in Tuesdays will
be at Warwood's Garden Park. That will begin on May
twenty seventh. And let's see here, all concerts begin at
seven pm, so there's going to be And then well
when we had Howard here last Friday from West Bank Arena,

(16:43):
they're going to be doing first Fridays on their patio
outside patio, so there is tons going on. And then,
of course we can't forget let's see here the movies
at Heritage Port on the big screen. The first one
will be June thirteenth, all a classic Grease Sommer Loven
had me are blessed? All right, fine, I was gonna,

(17:09):
I was gonna treat everybody to a little treat. That's
the trick, all right, fine, seven twenty eight, you're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA seven thirty six. Welcome back the bloom

(17:34):
Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
So Otis, We've talked a couple of times about how
you know this administration When Trump was on the campaign
trail there he has presented unique ideas, one being the
no tax on tips, the overtime. The overtime thing I

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think is brilliant because that affects so how many Americans.
There may be a point now where the creativity has
gone too far. So all right, everybody tell me your
thoughts on this. The Department Department of Homeland Security is
reviewing a proposal for a reality TV show titled The
American Now, What will Happen? Immigrants compete to use when

(18:21):
US citizenship. The producer is Rob Worsof, known for Duck
Dynasty and The Millionaire Matchmaker. And since the idea is
not means spirited but a celebration of what it means
to be an American at a time when our morale
is at it's all time low. The Canadian immigrant adds
that he envisions the show as a competition involving American

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themed tasks. He clarified any setbacks within the competition would
not impact real life citizenship applications. A DHS rep says
each proposal undergoes a thorough vetting process prior to denial
or approval. I think the more fun angle to this

(19:07):
is have naturally born Americans see if they could pass
what it takes to become an American citizen.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
No, what would be great is have them go head
to head and then the winner swaps places. Well, if
it's if it's the illegal, If it's the immigrant, then
they get a citizenship. If it's the American, he gets deported.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
I mean I switch.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
That would be funny. I mean, it's a it's never
gonna happen. But no, well, I.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Mean have you ever heard what they go through, like
the testing.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
And stuff The average American probably couldn't pass.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
No, No, it's hard. I don't know if I could.
Probably not. I'm terrible taking tests anyways. But yeah, but
I there's so much more fun to we have had
with this. It's an interesting concept. We'll leave it at that,
But the federal government is exploring the idea and to get,

(20:09):
of course, to get the American citizenship. What does it
take to be a real citizen of the United States?
Foreigners compete in this game show parody promo.

Speaker 9 (20:20):
Tune in to the worldwide competition where foreigners compete for citizenship.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Whoo Us to Be American?

Speaker 9 (20:30):
Contestants answer questions to see who's got what it takes
to live in our country?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
What should you do if you get sick in the
United States?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh, this is so easy? Go see ed Duck there.
Oh I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
The correct answer is call your insurance company and get
pre approval to find an in network physician.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Thanks for playing.

Speaker 9 (20:52):
Watch as immigrant hopefuls gorge themselves to the average American
weight in the casino buffet child.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I cannot eat anymore.

Speaker 9 (21:02):
I will explode, And can these migrants survive the waiter
tipping challenge?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Congratulations, Pedro, you left a gratuity of eighteen percent and
can become an American citizen.

Speaker 9 (21:17):
Ellis Island has nothing on this governmental game show Who
Las to Be American?

Speaker 6 (21:28):
There you have it?

Speaker 5 (21:29):
What accents were those support.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
The first one was supposed to be French.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
I think, oh, it sounded like Dracula, it's French.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
And then I don't know, I don't know who the
buffet one was. It didn't it was sounding like a
little kid.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yeah, No, I think I think flip flop, the U
flip flop. The concept would be possibly morted. Do you
think this gets off the ground. No, I don't either.
I don't either. It just seems a little. I understand
the guys saying that it is not mean spirited, but
I don't think it would be.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
What you received.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
No. No, Speaking of game shows, is there any game
show you've ever wanted to be on?

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Oh, I'd love to be on Jeopardy.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
Really the college version or the real?

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Kay?

Speaker 6 (22:21):
There are there are categories that would totally stump me,
like Broadway musicals. What are some of the other ones
that I've seen? Anything to do with the Bible for
the most part, science science, I'd be okay, Yeah, I
mean I could hold my own. I mean I might
not know at all, but I could. I mean I
definitely wouldn't know it all. But just depending on what the

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science is, you know, there are categories that I can
fly through and there are categories that just I have
no idea.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Okay, well, I was not thinking Jeopardy, I know my limitations.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
I was thinking more of There was a wheeling woman
that was on Jeopardy last week. She works down a
good mansion, mines, how'd you do? She finished thirty Well,
she made it well, and what she did was whatever.
She was in third place going into final Jeopardy and
again it was Broadway Musicals, and she bet all but

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a dollar, and then so showed. So she finished with
a dollar. And the guy that was in second place,
he bet probably just enough to get into first place
if he got it right, which he didn't. And then
the guy that was the reigning champion, he got it
right and doubled his money.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
So what was the question?

Speaker 9 (23:39):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Something about It was something about what Broadway musical did
Disney something or other had something to do with the song.
And I don't remember the question off the top of
my head.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Disney musical.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
No, it wasn't a Disney musical. Disney took a song
because of copyrighted and they change whatever, and they took
the song and they named the song or something. I
can't remember what play did they what Broadway musical did
they take it from? And it was the answer. The
question was who's who? Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Oh yeah, no, known that one. I know a little
bit about musicals, not that far deep.

Speaker 9 (24:19):
No.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
I was thinking when.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
I think game shows, it's pre nineteen seventy, so you wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (24:22):
Have known it.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
No, I wouldn't have known it because I was not alive.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
So a lot of things that happened before I was
born that I understand.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Not musicals. Not musicals. No, I was thinking more see
Jeopardy to me, yes, technically it is a game show,
but more it's like work. I was thinking more along
the lines of like pressure, luck or concentration.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
You want something that you don't have to think it's
all luck.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
No, do you have to think of game shows?

Speaker 6 (24:51):
And the other one I would love is match game,
but not the current version, the old version.

Speaker 7 (24:54):
Match game.

Speaker 9 (24:55):
Match game.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
That is that. That's not the dating show, is it?

Speaker 8 (24:57):
No?

Speaker 6 (24:58):
Match game is what you have to match the celebrit
There's six celebrities on the panel and then they read
like a little statement and you've got to come up
with a word or something.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
That was the guy with a long, skinny mic. Yeah,
Jean Rayburn Yeah, oh yeah, that wone be fun the old.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
The old, I mean, like I don't like the new one.
It's not as funny.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
I didn't know there is there's a new version.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, like, well there's another one coming out, but Alec
Baldwin hosted one like for three or four years and
now there's a new one coming out. But like the
celebrities aren't as funny. I mean, like it was a
little more riskue. Back in the seventies they had fun. Yeah,
you know, and they're smoking on this sad and you know,
I mean it's it's so typical nineteen seventies. Oh wasn't

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Like the regulars were Brett Nelson, Charles Nelson, Rally, and Carrol.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Not Carol Burnett, Phyllis Diller. Wasn't she on that all
the time?

Speaker 6 (25:45):
No?

Speaker 5 (25:45):
No, I thought she was on that all the time.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
Brett Summers, Charles Nelson, Raley and Richard Dawson were the
three mainstays until Richard Dawson got family Feud.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
I've always wanted to do and I'm a kid of
the nineties, workless, knowledge full in my head, supermarket sweep,
Oh god, just to run crazy through a store and
just grab whatever you want.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
Just go to Walmart. They'll think you're normal. You can
do that in Walmart. Nobody will blink an eye if.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
I fill up a cart full of hams and turkeys.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
And nobody's gonna question it. Just and do it, like
do it on the high speed, like you're on a
like you're you're record player. That's a thirty three record
but going on at seventy eight rpm.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
This will be a good Friday question. What game show
would you want to be on? This's gouda be fun.
Why do we get to this?

Speaker 6 (26:37):
I don't know because of the game show all the reality?

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yes, okay, yeah, we went down that you're paying attention.
I just gonna remember where we started, went down that
rabbit hole seven forty five. When we get back, Diddy
somebody else did he p Diddy puff Daddy whatever he
goes by? Now, there's a certain person involved in this

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trial that I just want to comment on. Seven forty five.
You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Salmon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back seven fifty one on this
Tuesday morning. Thanks for tuning in. Of course you're listening

(27:22):
to the Bloom Diaddy experience. Samon otis here on news
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder coming up in
the eight o'clock hour, we will be talking to attorneys
from gold Corey and Turek along with the attorney Bob
Derouz from Columbus Are who are involved in the case

(27:43):
against East o Higher Regional Hospital representing former employees. So
that conversation coming up in the eight o'clock hour before
we get to that, kind of wanted to touch on this.
We haven't spoken about this. The Sean Combs aka p
Diddy Puff Daddy depends on what generation you listen to
his music, what his name was at the time. I

(28:04):
don't want to go too deep in the woods with
this because a lot of the things that are coming
out if you are following this trial at all, and
I have been from a distance, a lot of the
allegations from his former girlfriend of ten years, they're pretty disturbing.
They are in vile. Is how I responded to a

(28:28):
couple of things that were spoken about in the in
the current testimony testimony that has happened again. He is
accused of running a sex trafficking operation. He faces multiple
charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.

(28:49):
He could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
So this is this is no joke. Is what is
going on in the state of New York. And again,
as I said, the allegations from the testimony that is
coming out are very disturbing. Another side of this, in
that particular relationship, when he met Cassie Ventura, she was

(29:12):
nineteen years old, he was roughly thirty eight to thirty nine.
From what I have listened to. They did not start
a relationship ship supposedly until she was twenty twenty one.
But again, that gap in age is that's twenty year difference.
Let's just say that's a huge gap in age. One thing, though,

(29:37):
there is no cameras nor audio recordings in the courtroom,
so we are dependent upon the few journalists that are
allowed in the courtroom for the proceedings. But we're also
dependent upon to visually imagine what this courtroom looks like

(29:59):
and the folks there by the sketch artist. Now, I'm
not trying to make light of the circumstance. The charges
what the victims have gone through. I'm not doing that.
I don't know who this sketch artist is, but they

(30:19):
are bad. They are bad. I mean the sketches of
Sean Comes, I mean, he looks like a deranged one
hundred year old Bill Cosby. I mean, they're just they
are so unflattering. And it's not just him, everybody involved

(30:43):
in this court proceedings. The sketch artist just is tearing
them up. Cassie Ventura the girlfriend, former girlfriend, ten year
long relationship. She's a beautiful woman, beautiful, and what this
sketch artist has done in portraying her is it's shameful.

(31:11):
I don't know. I, like I said, I've been following
this case from a distance, not you know, not getting
into the weeds with it, because again, a lot of
the testimony, a lot of the actions, the the accusations,
they're no, yeah, they just make you cringe. They're just
who even thinks of some of this stuff. I'll just
leave it at that. But again, we are dependent upon

(31:35):
the the images that the sketch artist is providing. And
I hate to say it, but you can't help but
laugh at them because they're just they're just so they're
just bad. You would think could have gotten somebody a
little bit, a little bit better. Maybe that's just me.

(31:58):
Have you seen any of them motives?

Speaker 2 (31:59):
I have not.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
You're not a celebrity. None of that stuff.

Speaker 6 (32:04):
Really doesn't interest me at all.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Happens Okay, well, then how about I turn it to
something that does interest you. Let's go back to some baseball.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
Okay, maybe it might, maybe it might not.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
Well, the Pirates are back in the news. So in
warm ups yesterday, they are taking on the Reds at
PNC Park. So during batting practice, one of the Cincinnati players,
with a line drive, took out a pigeon. Okay, so

(32:36):
this turned into social media. Uh, well, you can't say
tweeting anymore. Well you shouldn't say tweeting with a pigeon
story anyways. But so it turned into you know, the
pigeon's dead line drive passed away immediately. Oh wait, no,
there's an update. The pigeon is alive, but he's essentially

(32:58):
on life support. So I turned into as a big thing.
I mean, listen, panc Park. They just can't win. This
month has been.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
Ah, it's an omen it's been rough.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
It's been rough, and now it's affecting the wildlife surrounding.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
Yeah, I mean that's just part of it. I mean
the odds of that happening are probably slim to none.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Wasn't there a picture back in Randy Johnson?

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Okay, yeah, a dove flew right in front of the dove.
I think it was a dove. I don't remember what
it was, but it was. It was definitely a white
bird and it just flew right in front of Randy
Johnson's pitch. And that bird just disintegrated after it got hit.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Was it warm ups or actually was in that game?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
It was a spring training game. Actually, I posted it
on the anniversary of it was earlier this year, and
I posted that on my personal Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
Did it explode?

Speaker 6 (33:46):
Oh the bird?

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, there's not the left of it. I mean, you
get hit with one hundred mounted hour fastball, there's not
a whole lot to a bird.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Well yeah, okay, oh yeah, Randy Johnson, he had the best.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
But there there's another one. Somebody dressed up as Randy
Johnson for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
No, no, and his.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
Girlfriend or wife dressed up as a bird. It was beautiful.
I say for Christmas, I meant for Halloween. Oh god,
it was funny. I said that if I would have
been the judge at a costume come, oh, hands down,
would have never been closed?

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Did she have like a broken wing and a black eye?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Feathers everywhere? She had like wings, but then then and
then she had like a little beak or whatever, and
then it was feathers, just like, Oh no, I don't
know if I still have that, I might have posted it.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
I am so envious of people that come up with
things like that. Yeah, oh that's a good one. Yeah,
So pigeons be on high alert at pans Park. Be
careful out there. Seven fifty eighth. Let's go to a
quick break. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy w w VA, indeed.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
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 SEVENTYWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. Let's bring
on Jim or Nacy, former Congressman Blue Daddy Show political
analyst Jim, I was just going through everything pertaining to
the prostate cancer with Joe Biden. I am going to
deduce that they've known about this for a long time,
but they lied about it because doctors everywhere saying, wait

(35:42):
a minute, He's got access to the best doctors in
the world. It's the easiest cancer to diagnose. Routine blood
work can detect it. And you go back to February
of twenty twenty four at Walter Reed Medical Center, his
longtime physician said he was fit to serve.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
So what's going on here, Jim.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Well, look, there is no doubt and I WoT one
hundred percent agree with you that this is an easy
Prostate cancer is much easy to as long as you're
getting your PSAs, and clearly, as the President of United States,
they're doing blood work, they're doing physicals every year. This
had to show up unless there was unless the doctor
was just absolutely just not looking. Because you're exactly right,

(36:27):
this is a simple test. It's a blood test, and
it's amazing that it was covered up for all these years.
But in the end, you still have to feel bad.
For President Biden, because you know, it looks like it's
far enough along that he's going to have a tough
road moving forward.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Jim, I said this early. I want to get your
opinion on it.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
I feel that his mental and now physical abilities or
problems are one of the biggest cover ups in US
political history.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (37:00):
One hundred percent agree? I think the last you know,
his last year, he took a very deep turn, maybe
even the last two years. It was a cover up,
and clearly he was not able to perform. And let's
face it, when he went head to head with President Trump,
that was just the epitome of all endings for him

(37:22):
because he didn't even know where it was at that evening.
In my opinion, and you know, his wife shouldn't have
put him through that, his family shouldn't have put him
through that, and there are a lot of people around
him that should have never put him through that. But
you know, it's history. I think we got to move forward.
But again, cover ups occur all the time, all the
way back to Nixon. This is clearly one that will

(37:45):
end up being a cover up as well.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Talking to former Congressman Jimmernaci, let's move on to Hillary Clinton,
the witch who will not go away, biggest political loser,
in my opinion, in history. She lost to an unknown
Barack Obama in the Democratic primary. She lost to a
reality show contestant in Donald Trump in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
This woman just loses.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
She's bashing Republican women, Jim saying the GOP female president
would be handmaiden to the patriot. Now, she said, when
I asked what advice she had for the first female
president of the United States, she basically said, don't be
a handmaiden, and that kind of eliminates every.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Woman on the other side of the aisle except for
a few.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Then she went on to suggest that white women voted
against her at the direction of their husbands. Then if
you listen to her, she'll say that it's sexism. Why
a female hasn't been in a White House? And she said, so,
you know, if a woman runs, who I think would
be a good president, as I thought Kamala Harris would be,

(38:51):
and as I knew I would be, I will support
that woman. My question to you is, have we not
had a female resident because of sexism? Or have we
not had a female president because the two choices we've
had Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have been terrible.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Well one hundred percent agree with the latter. I have
to agree with you. Look, Kamila Harris was horrible, and
so was she. I mean, you know, it's interesting even
when President Trump, at the time, Candidate Trump was running
against her. I still remember his campaign manager who was
with me one day and I forget her name now,

(39:34):
the woman who was a President Trump's campaign manager, saying that, look,
she is so bad that I keep telling President Trump
all he has to do is continue to talk about
what he's going to do and forget talking about her
because she is so bad that he's going to beat
her because of how bad she is. And that's exactly

(39:54):
was the case back then. There was no comparison. Many
people say President Trump, Donald Trump, candidate Trump in twenty
sixteen was not a good choice. The difference was he
was so much better than her that he won overwhelmingly
because of that.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yeah, and two females Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton Jim
who were just unlikable. Kamala just doesn't have I think
the political savviness or the IQ to be president of
the United States, and Hillary was just unlikable period in
every facet.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Well, and the one thing I do believe Kamala, as
bad as she was, also had she was tainted with
Biden as well. And you know, it gets back to
even in the governor's race when Taylor ran against Mike Dwine.
Mary Taylor was tainted with Casic at that time, and

(40:53):
because of that many times that hurts you as well.
But I think in the end, Kamala Harris did not
appeal to men, She did not appeal to women. Uh.
And and she also had the Biden she was she
was she was Biden's uh the albatrosh the same time. Yeah,

(41:14):
she was. She had that albatross around her neck.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
All right, Jim, thanks for the time today.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Thank you a lot.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Of things in that conversation there, Otis. Are you familiar
with The Handmaid's Tale? First of all, going back to
the reference that Hillary Clinton made in that whole portion.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
Vaguely, I mean, I know what it is. I mean,
I understand it the TV show. Okay, Yeah, I mean
I've never seen it, but I know it's about like
it's basically like the Scarlet Letter, which is I mean,
well kind of, I mean, like you that's the that's
the puritan type of thinking.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Okay, yes, it's it's hardcore religion. Yeah, okay. So it
started off as a book, and I believe it turned
into a book series from there because it came out
my mother referred to reading it when she was in
high school. They then developed into a TV show Listen,
I can watch a lot of things. When I started

(42:14):
the first season of that show, I realized I have
to be in a certain state of mind to watch
that show because there are a lot of political concepts.
There are a lot of concepts involving women that are

(42:39):
disturbing to think that somebody was able to invent those
in their mind. So I don't want to give anything
away for anybody that hasn't watched the show. My point
to all of that is for Hillary Clinton to reference

(42:59):
that show, which encompasses these incredibly disturbing concepts, to think
that conservative females are not intelligent enough to stand up

(43:21):
to the patriarchy that she referenced. It's offensive to women.
It's offensive to paint the picture that because you're conservative
and you're a female, the area completely in a roundabout
way owned by the men in your life. You only

(43:43):
do or decide based upon the direction the man in
your life tells you to think or decide. Sorry, Hillary,
not true if you take a step back and you
actually pay attention to conservative women. We are the women
who are defending women, case in point, Riley Gaines and

(44:08):
defending the children. So if Hillary Clinton could ride off
into the sunset with Joe Biden, boy, the world would
be a better place. Just go wake it out from
front of front of the cameras. We don't care what
you have to say anymore.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
We just don't.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
Do your party a favor. It's eight fifteen. It's time
coming up. Joining us in the studio. We're gonna have
gold Cory and Tuak, Michelle mare Nacy with us, along
with over the phone Bob de Rose from Columbus, both
attorneys involved in the lawsuit with East Higher Regional Hospital
defending standing up for the former employees. We're gonna get

(44:56):
into that next. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience
here on your Tuesday on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.
A twenty one Welcome back to the Wombatty Experienced salmon
Otis news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. For those out there

(45:20):
you know, we have been following and covering the story
at East Higher Regional Hospital for oh my goodness, mons yeah, months,
almost a year now basically, and we have had the ability,
of course to wonderful sources that we've had that has
been able to deliver this information about what has been

(45:41):
happening there. Unfortunately, as everybody knows, on March twenty fourth,
the hospital officially closed their doors. But now there is
what is continuing within this story. There is now lawsuits involved.
So joining me now here in studio is Michelle Mayrenise
from gold Corey and Turrek.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
Good morning, Michelle, Good morning Sam. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Oh I'm really so glad you took the time to
come in and speak with us this morning. So let's
back up a little bit. Let's go from the beginning
of when GKT got involved. So did you, did employees
reach out to you? How did this start for you
and your involvement?

Speaker 10 (46:24):
But it started out you know, for more than almost
fifty years now, GKT has devoted itself to protecting the
rates of Ohio Valley residence. And while we generally do
personal injury, oil and gas insurance disputes, we saw this
happening in East Ohio and became very concerned. It's like,
what can we do for the employees? Then we had

(46:45):
some employees start reaching out. We know some of these
people personally, some of them just knew us by reputation.
So we were trying to figure out what to do.
And there's a gentleman in Columbus who I think we'll
be joining us here in a little bit named Bob Deroz.
He specializes in wage an hour unemployment dispute. So we
reached out to Bob, explained what was going on and said,

(47:08):
is there anything we can do? And he's like, yeah,
let's start looking. So we started talking to the various
employees who had reached out to us, investigating the matter,
and realized there'd been a lot going on at East
Ohio that the law provides a remedy for. We had
nearly four hundred employees who were suddenly without work without notice.

(47:29):
It devastated their lives. We had to do something, and.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
It seems as if there's this mentality from ownership that
we just shut the doors and wiped our hands clean
of it. It doesn't work that way.

Speaker 10 (47:45):
No, it doesn't. You know, under the law, they are
required if they believe there's going to be what's called
a plant closure or a mass layoff of one hundred
more employees, they have to give sixty days notice. And
that is not only to give the employees the ability
to find other employment and make preparations, but also to

(48:05):
give the community the ability. This is a small town.
Suddenly we have four hundred unemployed people. Where are those jobs?
How are those families getting fed? How are they paying
their bills? Not only that, you have the medical providers
who have to go through credentialing processes. They can't just

(48:30):
jump to another facility.

Speaker 8 (48:31):
Right.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
There's so much that goes on behind the scenes. So
when it comes to the lawsuit, now, is this technically
called a class action suit? Is that the right terminology?
It is?

Speaker 10 (48:42):
We have not been certified as a class yet, but
that is how we are proceeding.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Okay, how many are involved so far? When it comes
to the plaintiffs that you're representing, Okay, out of.

Speaker 10 (48:51):
The almost four hundred employees we represent over two hundred
at this point, we have approximately two hundred and ten.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Can more jump in?

Speaker 10 (49:01):
Absolutely? If you were employed at East Ohio, your W
two employee, and you have not received pay or you
were there when they shut their doors. Reach out to
my firm or Bob's firm. It's probably easier to reach
out to our firm because we're here in the Ohio Valley.
We'll get some basic information from you, explain what's going on,
and bring you into the suit. The issue is most

(49:24):
class actions that you think of are you're a member
of the class unless you opt out.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 10 (49:32):
So you probably have received notices in the mail that
you have Amazon or something like that class action. They
said your member, just file your claim and we'll.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
Get your unless you went out.

Speaker 10 (49:45):
For a number of the claims that we have asserted here,
you're not a member unless you opt in. So for
some of the claims you we have to give the
court notice that you want to be a part of this.
So it's well, you can opt in at any time.
The earlier we have you in and can start gathering
your information, the easier it's going to be to get

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you what you deserve.

Speaker 5 (50:08):
And you brought up gathering the information. This, of course,
has been a topic of conversation all across the valley,
whether it's with the media, whether it's on the street
at the water cooler. Everybody has been talking about this.
There's there's multiple rumors that are floating around out there
and has been since this all started. How do you

(50:28):
from a legal perspective, sort through or get to the
truth of a lot of this that has been floating
around for a.

Speaker 10 (50:39):
Lot of what we're doing for the wage the wage part,
we are looking at the employees documents, their W two's,
their four oh one K statements, their health insurance statements,
figure out what they were paid, what they weren't paid,
their hours for some of the others, what was going
on internally in East Ohio. You know, I get calls

(51:00):
every day with people wanting to give me information, so
we have to sort through that. We don't deal in rumors.
But when you start getting certain pieces of information over
and over from what you would deem a credible source,
someone who would have knowledge of this, then you can
start putting the pieces together a lot easier.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
And since this has began in the legal proceedings, have
you heard from anybody from East Ohio, whether it's doctor Johnson,
whether it is Julie Ross, any representation.

Speaker 10 (51:34):
We yes and no. We received doctor Johnson and East
Ohio filed their answer to the complaint. That was the
first contact we'd had from anyone. On May ninth, yesterday morning,
doctor Johnson's attorney reached out to Bob derou'se my co
counsul because we were We had sent an email to

(51:56):
them letting them know that we intended to amenda complaint
again to add some more alecyations and add some parties
and ask them to consent, because once an answer is filed,
we can't just file a new complaint. They refused. The
purpose of the call was to tell us they're not
going to allow the amendment or consent to what's called
consent to the amendment, and make us go through the

(52:18):
motion process. Just kind of absurd at this early juncture.
A cord is going to allow the amendments.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
Okay, we're gonna get into that a bit more, and
we're going to get mister Deroz on the phone to
join us. Next. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Excuse me here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome

(52:49):
back to eight thirty six The bloom Daddy Experience. Samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA continuing the conversation with
Michelle May, with gold Corey and Turak and joining us
now mister Bob Deroze partner with Barkin Measleish Deroz and
Cocks from Columbus, Ohio. Good morning, mister Deroze.

Speaker 8 (53:12):
Good morning. How are you today?

Speaker 5 (53:14):
Good again? You are representing former employees of East Ohio
Regional Hospital. Getting into this, mister Deroz, I'm gonna throw
this to you first. How hmmm? How do I want
to say this? What type of justice can these former

(53:35):
employees receive through the charges that you're bringing with your lawsuit.

Speaker 8 (53:42):
Well, the one they're entitled to the wages that they
weren't paid, plus the UH there's a penalty within the
FLSA under the Warn Act, they're entitled to two months
of salary UH as a penalty for the for the
employer failing to give proper notice or in this case

(54:03):
really any notice. And then they have some ancillary other
issues with their medical bills and some of the other
adoptions that we will endeavor to get back for them.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
And and you talk about the the charges and the
amounts combined through and I don't want an exact number,
but for all of those who have not received their wages.
Do you have an estimate between those two hundred plus
that have filed roughly how much of their income they
are owed? Michelle?

Speaker 10 (54:35):
We know most are owed at least two weeks okay
of paid of wages, some more than that. Others have
deductions that were taken and not funded.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
So we're talking large figures.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
We're talking very large.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Okay, Okay, that's what I wanted, That's what I wanted
to get.

Speaker 10 (54:55):
Don't I don't want to give a specific Bob probably
has a better handle on the actual Okay, but I
would say, Bob, please correct me if I'm wrong. We're
talking over a million dollars? Is that to these employees
at this point?

Speaker 8 (55:12):
Sure? If you can the easiest way to think about this,
because you don't wrent down the stage where we know
exact numbers yet, think of a hospital and and then
nearly four hundred people and the various job titles in there.
I think of what two weeks of payproll would be
for for a hospitals and that's the spaceline.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Okay, And there there is lots of numbers floating around
this this lawsuit loans. Going through the documentation, this caught
my eye. Now I don't read legal ease. I'll be
I'll be one hundred percent honest with you, but maybe
you can explain this portion to me. It says during

(55:55):
the times relevant to this complaint, defendant doctor john Us
defended Nithan Johnson. Is that his son?

Speaker 10 (56:03):
Yes, this is an amended complaint that we have asked
the court for permission to file. Okay, Now, this is
what I was talking to you or doctor Johnson's is. No,
they are not going to grant us permission or agree
to the filing, but we are seeking to amend the
complaint to bring in doctor Johnson's son, Okay, as a
decision maker in this case.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
Okay. What caught my attention with this section was that
there was money exchanged UH exchange investments ranging from five
hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand from approximately twenty eight
non citizens the United States in exchange for sponsoring their
visas or other immigration documentation. Does that to me that

(56:45):
rings of like things on a federal questionable level? Is
that possible, mister Deroze, Well.

Speaker 8 (56:52):
I mean there's the potential that other entities may take
a look at what was going on with respect to
this straw man uh sort of ownership that that we
alleged that mister Johnson engaged doctorcuse me, doctor Johnson and
Niphan Johnson engaged in But like I said, we're early

(57:14):
in the process. We're going off with the information based
on comtless interviews and and and rigorous review of documents
that we've been made available. But you know, the concept
for our case is the fact that the straw man
and how they were trying to raise funds. Whether it
implicates other things that are outside of this complaint, you

(57:34):
know that time will tell. Yeah, yeah, well that's that's
a part of this complaint or anything that Michelle and
I can kid.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
Okay, sure, absolutely is. I have not heard anything surrounding
something like this. That's why I wanted to bring it
up for for our listeners. You mentioned the stories and Michelle,
you and I were talking a little bit the stories
of the former employees. Mister duo is with with the
form employees that you've had the opportunity to speak with,

(58:07):
of course no names or anything, but what what has
been the what tugs at your heart strings the most
when it comes to what these informed former employees have
had to deal with because of everything that's happened at
East Ohio.

Speaker 8 (58:25):
Well, you know, it's the whole reason that Warnach was
was was was enacted, is the fact that these people
were going about their lives, really good jobs in the valley.
You know, they had mortgages and tuition payments and you know, kids,
sports bills and just what you have in normal everyday life.

(58:46):
And then one day, I mean literally one day they're employed,
very well employed, and the next day there they have
no job. And he's with no warning, no preparation, no
you know, no planning, no decisions on what they're going
to do next. They hadn't been paid, and their bills
are do I mean, it's and it's so pervasive. That's

(59:09):
what really gets me. And and and I've made this
comment before. You know, I practicing, I'm from that area originated,
but I practice in Columbus, which is a really large city.
And to lose almost four hundred really well paid jobs
in this in a city besides the Columbus is pretty
you know, pretty bad, hard for the area to absorb.

(59:31):
But in the valley, it's just unprecedented. You know. Uh,
it's back to the old days when the steel mills
closed and just wiped out communities. And that's what you know,
we're trying to do on our clients, not just just
for our clients, but to sort of say the communities
and that all of a sudden, all these income, the
things that they buy and and and the and the
activities and things that they they serve don't go away

(59:55):
as well well.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
And you know, one of the things, Michelle, maybe you
can answer this is and I don't want to get
into the rumor mill. I don't want to hit that part.
I was sent a picture last night from a listener
about cosmetic work that has been done on site at
the property, so somebody has to be there. I would

(01:00:17):
think the doors are closed. How can that be happening?
How can money be invested into this property when people
aren't paid.

Speaker 10 (01:00:30):
That's a good question, and I don't have a good
answer for that. Okay, it's my understanding that we have.
There may be some people there trying to keep skeletal
operations doing billing. In fact, we do know they're doing
billing because some of the employees who had their health
insurance taken away from them or not funded are now

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receiving bills from East Ohio for the full value of
their services that should have been paid by their East
Ohio Health Insurance. Okay, it's a little bit crazy what
doctor Johnson is doing. How they are funding renovations, if
there's renovations. We don't have information on.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
That, right, okay, okay. And one other thing, and I
wanted to hit on that I saw in the documentation
one name that circles this story very much is Julie
Ross CNL. According to the documentation is she is continuing
to be paid her increased salary without interruption, and this

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has been going on since the closure of March twenty first.
According to your documentation, how is is? How does this continue?

Speaker 8 (01:01:48):
Yeah, it's answer to that. Okay, But we're going to
try and find out.

Speaker 10 (01:01:55):
Okay, okay, we learned all of this and we don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
That's the point of this this suit, yeah, okay.

Speaker 10 (01:02:03):
The suit will there'll be a discovery process where a
lot of the facts will.

Speaker 5 (01:02:07):
Be uncovered and to wrap this up. If those want
to become involved, if they are former employees and they
have information, how do they get a hold of either
of you.

Speaker 10 (01:02:18):
They can call our office at GKT three oh four
eight four five nine seven five zero or go to
our website GKT dot com. They can also call mister
Droz's office or go to his website. We each have
links there where you can connect with us. And Bob,
I apologize, I don't know your phone number off by heart,
I use yourself phone. You are programmed in my phone,

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so I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
I'll I'll put this out there. You can email me
Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. I've got all their contact
information and I can get you to them also if
you are a former employee, uh Michelle, mister Droz, thank
you so much for your time this morning and anytime
you want to come on and update us on what
is happening. The doors open for you.

Speaker 10 (01:03:03):
We appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
All right, all right, yes, thank you. Enjoy your Tuesday
morning in Columbus.

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy ww V A. Welcome back to
eight fifty two. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy w.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
W V A.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
Wow, what a what a morning. We're not done yet.
We gotta talk to this guy, of course. Kevin Cookstrawb Automotive,
Good morning, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (01:03:42):
Mar I try y'all doing this?

Speaker 11 (01:03:44):
Mor Oh, we're just peachy, pachi, are you Pachi?

Speaker 8 (01:03:49):
Good for you?

Speaker 5 (01:03:51):
I think my grandma used to say that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
I'm probably about as old as your grandma. Anyway, it
depends on where you live. I guess I think they're
probably in season now.

Speaker 11 (01:04:02):
If you're in the South, Yeah, probably probably in Georgia,
they're probably coming. Pro won't be long.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Yeah, Yeah, what's in season?

Speaker 11 (01:04:11):
We're not.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
I had a good one, Kevin. You was trying to
I was gonna say, I have a good one, Kevin.
What's in season at straw Ab Automotive?

Speaker 9 (01:04:22):
Guy?

Speaker 12 (01:04:22):
How about employee pricing? Okay, you won't be treated just
like you work for the manufacturer, just like you got
hired with Ford or just like you got hired with
Cross or Dodge keeper Ram. It qualifies you for employee pricing. Plus,
there are additional incentives beyond the employee pricing, like financing

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rate some of them as well as zero percent. There's
additional law.

Speaker 8 (01:04:48):
Few rebates at q fonds.

Speaker 11 (01:04:50):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:04:50):
I mean it is an absolute great.

Speaker 12 (01:04:52):
Time if you are in the market for a forward
or a Crosser Dodge.

Speaker 8 (01:04:57):
G for RAM those domestics.

Speaker 11 (01:04:59):
Uh, are are you going all out right now trying.

Speaker 8 (01:05:03):
To beat the tariffs? Don't let don't miss.

Speaker 11 (01:05:06):
The opportunity to you know, to do that, because like
we talked about what a couple of times though, this
employee pricing hasn't been around since two thousand.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
And eight somewhere in there.

Speaker 11 (01:05:17):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a little while ago, and
there was a great program then, and you know it's
a great program take.

Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
Advantage of now.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
It doesn't feel like that long ago, though, does say?

Speaker 6 (01:05:28):
Well, I'll be honest, I think Kevin, if you're if
I'm not mistaken, when when I was on w o
v K, I think there was an employee pricing segment there,
So that would have been twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen somewhere
in there.

Speaker 12 (01:05:41):
You sure that wasn't supplier pricing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
Mmm?

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
Maybe maybe my memory is not that good.

Speaker 7 (01:05:48):
Well, like you're a shupid. You know, they have supplier
programs as well, like UPS or Pansy or anybody that
the manufacturers do business with, they extend a special pricing
program for them called supplier pricing. But employee pricing is
the true price that those that work for the manufacturers,

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which says in a lot of cases an additional twenty
five hundred and three thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
So it's I mean, it's this is awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
Take advantage of it absolutely, plus the additional incentives. I mean,
that's that's the selling point right there.

Speaker 8 (01:06:26):
Yeah, I mean we're looking at you know, we're looking
at payments that we haven't seen for over ten years.

Speaker 11 (01:06:31):
People are actually coming in right now, I trade their
vehicle there, lower end switch is unheard of?

Speaker 6 (01:06:39):
Right, well, don't sleep on that, yeah, don't sleep don't
sleep on it. Is there is there an end date
for employee pricing? Or is it just until they tell you?

Speaker 11 (01:06:48):
I'm thinking it's GM first. Okay, so we've got one
twelve thirteen days left.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
I like that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
That's about it.

Speaker 12 (01:06:56):
Yeah, So take advantage of it.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
Don't miss your opportunity.

Speaker 11 (01:06:58):
Only twelve days left.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
Come on out there, you have it. I have a
wonderful day, I do, all right?

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
There he goes see you later, speaking of a wonderful day.
This ties into you perfectly. Otis So we always talk
about it's National such and such day, right, not this one.
It's it's National Millionaire Day. Be a Millionaire Day.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Okay, I'm out.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
Yeah, that wasn't for you. But it's also National Rescue
Dog Day.

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
I just did it a couple of weeks earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
You did thanks to our new studio buddy Pongo. That's
with us again this morning. Some facts around this, The
ASPCA says over three million dogs find themselves in shelters
in the US each year. If you can't take in
a dog, of course, there are other ways of helping,
supporting and doing something on this day. Consider volunteering at

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your local shelter, or even just stop and make a donation.
And last, and of course, listen your time and when
it says donation, folks out there, it doesn't mean funds,
It doesn't mean cash. Donations can be newspapers, toys, food, rugs, towels, sure,

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any of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:08:14):
Beds.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
I know somebody that just recently lost her dog and
she was struggling and she didn't want to look at
her dog's bed. She donated the bed. Listen. They they
will be happy and think cleaning products. They will be
happy with anything that you could help. And there's Belmont County,
there's Ohia County, there's Marshall County where you got Pongo. Listen.

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It doesn't take much to make a huge impact.

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
I have.

Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
I have adopted three dogs from the Belmont County Animal Shelter,
and I have adopted one from Marshall County. So and
then the current dog I had.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
Was in a foster home, so he was out of
shelter then was foster.

Speaker 6 (01:08:53):
Yeah, I think they. I think the foster people took
him in before he went to the shelter, and so
you know, he was on a pet adoption page when
I got him.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
So yeah, So you know, make an impact. Like I said,
it doesn't have to be huge. It can be a little.
It can be a squeaky toy. Yeah, I mean just
that simple little speak squeak.

Speaker 6 (01:09:12):
Go to your local grocery store, Walmart, Target, pet feed store, whatever,
pick up a bag of dog food for ten bucks,
or make a ten dollars donation, do whatever you can.
It all helps.

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
Yeah, don't go to Starbucks today. Don't get that eight
dollar coffee. Go get that eight dollars bag of dog food.
I don't know if you can survive without it, I guess,
but I'm not a coffee drinker, so I don't know.
I don't understand the pool that it has all anyways, again,
thank you to our guest this morning, mister Deroz from
Columbus and Michelle Mayor Nacy from gold Corey and Torek.

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Thank you for your time this morning. Of course, we're done,
we are out of here. We will talk to you tomorrow.
We'll talk to you then