The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 27, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The number one touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. Ohio lawmakers considering legalizing online casido games, poker,
lottery games. This will be a big time expansion of
gambling in the state. And yes, they're trying to come
up with that money for Brown Stadium and a Bengals stadium.
Rob Walgate, American Policy Roundtable, who follows state politics very

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very closely, joining me.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now, let's start with this. Is this even constitution on.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The state of Ohio, Rob, because state lottery, casino's charitable bingo,
that's all a part of the Ohio Constitution. But online
gambling on somebody's phone, I don't think so well.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
You read the constitution the same way I do, because
it says all lotteries are prohibited except and then it
gives those three exceptions, and all three of those exceptions
have been.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
Approved by Ohio voters.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
The problem becomes is the Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly,
when they want something done, they don't think the Constitution's
that big of a deal. They throw their nose up
at it and ignore it. And this is this blatantly
shows that to be true. And the fact they've done
it in the past when you look at them putting
VLTs a racetracks, when you look at sports wagering, none

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of that's true. They'll talk or none of that's constitutional,
and they will talk about the fact that the courts
haven't slapped their hands or held them accountable or said
nothing on it.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Here's the reality. The reality. There was a lawsuit Walgate v.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Kasik, myself for the American Policy round Table and a
handful of others sue John Kasick when he expanded and
put VLTs in racetracks.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
A memoranum of understanding.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
It dealt with Dan Gilbert and his friends when they
legally bought a.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Piece of the Ohio Constitution.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
In two thousand and nine, we were thrown out of
court on that lawsuit. Here's the reason, not on the
merits of the case, on the issue of standing. Went
all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court. They said
we didn't have standing. It was a Republican Supreme Court
doing a favor for Republican lawmakers. That's why we were
thrown out, not on the merits of the case.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
So where do you think this goes? Obviously Republican control
in the state. You're thinking this is going to be
passed through somehow someway.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, they're either going to put in the budget, they're
going to pass it by itself.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
That's their goal.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
But if there's Republicans that have a conscience in a
backbone and are willing to stand up for the Constitution,
they will say, no, we legally cannot do this. I mean,
it's simple, it's black and white. It's not difficult. When
I heard sponsored testimony last week, they talked about, well,
this is being done to capture the illegal gambling dollars. Well,
here's a little tidbit and a little secret. That was

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the argument that was used in nineteen seventy three to
pass the lottery. We want to capture the illegal lottery
people running numbers. That was the argument used in nine
for the casinos. That was the argument used for sports gambling.
You're not going to here, here's a memo. You're not
going to capture all the illegal gambling dollars, just like
passing weed laws won't allow you to capture all the

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illegal weed sales. That's just reality. They don't want to
face it and understand it. But and you know this
from your time in the Ohio Valley. West Virginia's had
video lottery terminals and they've had slot machines at racetracks
longer than anyone. And who becomes the addicts the lawmakers.
That's who becomes the addics, the gambling revenue and gambling money,

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and all it does is suck other money out of
the economy. It's less money that people can spend at
Cedar Point, downtown Cleveland, downtown Columbus, wherever you want to name.
It's less money that's recycled in the economy. And now
they want to allow people to lose all their money
from the comfort of their couch.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Title Rob Wallgate American Policy Roundtable. That's the criticisms that
are being levied against this. Rob Number one, the retail
impact because people aren't going to be going, you know,
in store or ticket sales are going to decrease. Then
you've got people worried about which we hit on the
constitutionality of this, And then what about addiction. I mean,

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now people can lose tons of money not even leaving
their home, just sitting on their back porch.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, and those that know me, they know my story.
I mean I filled out of three colleges, I ran numbers,
I did all those illegal things, those bad things. I
know it inside and out from twenty five years ago.
So yeah, it's going to create a lot of additional
costs for the state. And here's the thing about gambling addiction.
Drug and alcohol addiction is similar, but it's different.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Here's why.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
If someone spends you know, twenty thousand and thirty thousand
doing drugs, you're doing alcohol. You notice, other people notice
when it comes to gambling, tens of thousands of dollars,
if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can lose,
you can steal, you can claim to borrow from others,
and it doesn't come to light because no one sees
a change in your behavior.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Families are being destroyed across the state because of it.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I just don't think it's a good idea, nor is
it constitutional to allow people to do it from the
comfort of their couch. But here's the other thing. If
my neighbor wanted to do this and run numbers and
give better payouts in the state, they'd put them in
jail for it. I'm not sure this is the role
of government to be encouraging this. I would like to see.
Here's what I'd like to see the state do. Why
don't we issue a report. Why don't we have them

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do a report. Give us the lottery sales per each
zip code in this state of Ohio.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Then let's take a look at the.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Income per capita of each of those zip codes verse
lottery sales, and you tell me which zip codes, based
on income, have the highest lottery sales. Our state prays
on the least of these, We pray on the most vulnerable.
We pray on the poorest communities. With this false hope,
that's how you can get out by gambling your way out.
I think it's disgraceful in the fact that Republican lawmakers

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want to continue to do it is embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, on flip side of that, the counter argument, rob
is these are all adults, and adults make their own decisions.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Fine with that argument, Let's have that argument then about heroin,
prostitution and anything else you want to put on the table.
If we're going to have that argument, let's have the argument.
But you can't draw a line in the sand part
way and say well.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
We're only gonna do it with gambling.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
We're gonna have the libertarian argument. I want people to
take it to the fullest extent, and I also want
to take it to the point to where the state
isn't the one that's in charge of it. Why can't
my neighbor do it? Why do they pick the winners
and losers. That's what John Kasick did with the slot machines.
And you know, here's another interesting tidbit. When we sued
regarding the slot machines and racetracks, bars, bowling alleys, a

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lot of people wanted to get involved with us, but
they didn't because they were concerned, because they didn't want
to get on John ka Sick's bad side, because they
thought they would he would cut them into the next deal.
Because that's what government does. It continually picks the winners
and the losers. I had someone tell me they moved
here from New England and they said, you know what
I thought, I was moving to a conservative state. We

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have abortion on demand, weed everywhere gambling on every street corner.
With this eight budget, the state budget continues to blow
up and exceed inflation. They said, remind me again how
this is a conservative state.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Very very good point. Now listen before I before I
let you go, because you went on a roll there
for a second.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
You guys, do you think there will be where though
now you didn't.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Do you think there will be Republican lawmakers who step
up and say, whoa, woa, woe, this is not constitutional.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I think there may be a few. I think there
may be a few that are willing to do it.
But here's the thing. Here's how those backroom meetings go
in Columbus. They'll pull you into a room and they're
going to tell you if you vote against this, you're
probably going to have a primary opponent. The machine will
come after you. And the machine is powerful, so watch
your step. They do it all the time. They do
it all the time. I mean, that's why government's got

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so big in this state. Again, we say Republicans, or
some people will say Republicans are conservative. Look how much
state government's in charge.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Look at the.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Bills that they're passing that the entire state. When it
comes to education, I believe in local control.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
I think locals should have a say in it.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
These Republicans, they want to dominate every aspect of everyone's life.
If Democrats were doing this republic and in control, Republicans
would be turning over tables and screaming the differences. They're
in power, so they feel like they have a right
to do it. And they're smarter than the rest of us.
If you don't believe me, just ask them. They'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Rob appreciate the time as always, Thank.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
You, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, good morning. It is seven twenty and it's Tuesday already, WYLDB,
it's already Tuesday. Thank you for kicking off your morning
with us. Of course you're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience with Sam. That's me Otis. He's over there here
on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. We're gonna kick off
this short week. Oh man, do you have a good

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long weekend?

Speaker 7 (08:57):
No?

Speaker 6 (08:58):
Was your quiet? Mine was quiet.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
I'm pretty much sucked.

Speaker 8 (09:03):
All right.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
The weather, Just listen the weather yesterday. It finally ended
up being pretty decent, but early on it just I
couldn't get I just couldn't get into the holiday spirit.
The it was cold, it was dark, it was just
I don't know. I binge watched a TV show on
Saturday covered in blankets because I was so cold. It

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just didn't feel like Memorial Weekend. I don't want to
sound like Debbie Downer, just it just wasn't I don't know,
just wasn't feeling it.

Speaker 7 (09:36):
Yeah, kind of with you. Yeah, I mean I got
a I got it's a couple things done, but I
mean not everything that I should have getten done.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah, it just like not motivated.

Speaker 7 (09:47):
Not Yeah, Saturday, I was very unmotivated. Yeah, I mean
I had I had things that and I was sitting
there going, okay, i'm gonna get up, I'm gonna get
up and I'm gonna do this yep, and something in
a way, and I was like, okay, not going to
do that.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
That's exactly what I was like, because I had tons
of stuff I.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Could have done well, and there was there was little
things that like that kind of caught me off guard. Yeah,
now that I have two dogs, I'm going through dog
food twice as fast.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
So that happens.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
So I didn't realize that I was as level on
dog food as I was. So I had to shoot
out and get dog food. And because of my because
of the first dog's allergies, you know, I can only
buy certain foods. So I had to run up the
pet cot before they closed, got the dog food there,
and then of course I tried to get him a
couple of treats just to be nice.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
I don't know why, Yeah, I just I was. I was.
My husband was out of town the first two days
of the weekend, and the same thing on Saturday. For me,
it was it was kind of like, I'm sitting there
and Okay, I could do this, this needs done. Well,
I could out the closet, you know, all this kind

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of stuff that you walk past day to day and
you think, you know what, when I finally have plenty
of time, I'll knock this off my to do list.
But then when the time came on Saturday, it was
I just know, I thought, no, this is supposed to
be a fun holiday weekend. I don't want to do chores.
I did Oh I did do that too. Yeah, I

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did do that. Everybody's got to have clean underwear. But
other than that, and I did not help myself because
I decided to, as I said, I binge watched a
TV show, and the show that I chose was probably
not exactly the most motivational show, if you will, The
Handmaid's Tale, which if you've seen that show, it's dark,

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it's depressing, it's disturbing. And what I mean disturbing is
whoever thought of the the the novels that these are
based upon, the writer Margaret Oh, I can't think of
her name right now. There it's it's a very strange,
disturbing mind that came up with the the the storyline

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of the of the novel then hence the TV show.
But again not exactly the right show to binge watch
to be motivated, because, like I said, it's dark and depressing.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
Well why don't you start binge watching something you can't
it's kind of hard to get away from it.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yeah, yeah, and I couldn't get away from it. And
there's one episode left in it for the for the
entire series, and it comes out today. So I'm sitting
here like, Okay, when can I go home and watch it?
When can I go home and watch it? Because then
it's done. It's on Hulu, and then it's done. Because
this show, as I said the premise, how dark it

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is I've always had to be in a certain mindset
to be able to watch the show because of everything
that's in it. And I'm like, Okay, one more episode
and I'm done with this, because I was two seasons
into it and I thought, I'm not going to continue this.
This is not a happy show, Like it doesn't put
me in a good headspace. But then I'm like, well,
on this far into it, I've got to finish it. Now,

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I'm like, okay, there's one left. I can be done
with it and move on. So I will say it's the.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Worst when you start binge watching a show and it's
really not what you expected, and then bet you still
get hooked on it.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Yes, And it's like I've committed already so much time
and so much mental capacity to this. I've got to
finish the job. Like you can't just walk away. You
have the job of watching a TV show, because that's tough.
The one highlight yesterday, and this may seem like a
simple thing, but to me, it's the marking of the

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kickoff to summer, and that is I had my first
ear of corn on the copy yesterday. It's a simple thing,
but it was the highlight of my weekend. So if
that in any way, shape or form tells you how
boring my weekend was, why are you shaking your head?

Speaker 7 (14:01):
What?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
You know?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
What?

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Okay? Anyways, so yes that was the highlight of my weekend.
Was the first corn on the cob of the season,
because I can sit and probably eat half a dozen
and that's it. I don't need anything else. I absolutely
love corn on the cobs. So thank you to our
friends at RESPECTS. They hooked me up. I got my
I got it there so and it was absolutely delicious.

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One thing yesterday it came out, which was sad, and
I don't know if it bothered anybody else. We lost
the Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. If anybody remembers that show,
The Beards made made Beards stylish once again. It came
on what two thousand and nine, twenty ten. Here's the thing.

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He was the patriarch of the family, and for some
reason this hit me yesterday. I really enjoyed that show
because they were so stupid, so stupid but so entertaining
at the same time, but the same regards incredibly smart,
especially Phil, who came up with a duck call that
they became famous for which then turned into the entire

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dynasty that they have when it comes to hunting and
fishing and everything. There's many different wings that at this
point of their their empire. I guess you could say,
but we did lose him yesterday at seventy nine years old.
A little bit of trivia if you didn't know, he
actually was the starting quarterback ahead of Hall of Famer

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Terry Bradshaw at Louisiana Tech. Yes, yes, I was gonna
say Louisiana State, and I knew that wasn't right. Louisiana
Tech and Terry Bradshaw has spoke about him a few
times that he was very quiet. He came out on
the field, did his thing and that was it. And
then I don't know if I'm correct in saying this,
but one day he just said, I'm he kind of

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just walked away. He walked away from football and went
back to the swamps, if you will, and started his
family just like the simple life. Didn't want all of
the fame and fortune that came with football.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Or maybe he wasn't that good.

Speaker 6 (16:17):
Well he started above Terry Bradshaw.

Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well that doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
Oh, he was pretty good.

Speaker 7 (16:22):
There were people that started ahead of Tom Brady at
Michigan too.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
No, he was pretty good. From everything that I've read,
he was.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
Well, I'm not saying he wasn't good. I mean, if
you're playing D one football, you gotta be good.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
So I mean it's just a matter of was he
next level talent because you could be a great college
quarterback and you're never going to make it in the NFL. Yeah,
Pat White from West Virginia and a lot of a
high state quarterbacks.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, You're right. So listen. Unfortunately we
lost Phil Robertson. Like I said, he was a joy
to watch and the kind of guy that you know
you always going to be there for you, like the
salt of the earth type of guy, work hard, love
your family, and that's what he did. So seven twenty eight,

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you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience here on news
Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
Good Tuesday morning to you.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Hope you had a wonderful three day weekend Memorial Day weekend,
and I'm assuming your three day weekend was probably better
than mine. Why is that dealing with a hamstring pulling
a sick dog. By the way, the hamstring does not
belong to me, belongs to my son Braylan, who plays
baseball at Wright State University championship game on Saturday. The
Horizon League trying to lay out a single pulled the hamstring,

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and his status for the NCAA Regional and National this
Friday is a little uncertain right now, which is just
a major bummer because he's had a great season and
to have the opportunity, I mean, if you didn't see
the selection over the weekend, Wright State University got Vanderbilt,
the number one team in the nation, right out of
the gate Nashville Regional Friday at six o'clock. So fingers

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are crossed, a lot of treatments, a lot of wrapping.
Hopefully he can play Friday. If not Friday, maybe Saturday.
But hamstrings are a tricky thing and he might be
out two to three weeks or he could be taking.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
The field on Friday.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
It's a big time bummer to make it throughout the
whole season and then you've got an opportunity to play
Friday night, six o'clock ESPN against the number one team
in the nation and you get a hamstring pool such
his life.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
But hopefully, hopefully he can get this thing going and somehow,
some way at least take the field even if he's
at eighty percent. But you want to talk about a
wonderful ride, I mean this has been unbelievable. I mean
just seeing baseball at the Division one level. Early in
the season, we played Auburn and Ole Miss. Both those
teams are in the top ten right now. North Carolina

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State was another incredible team. Playing teams throughout the year,
whether it was Cincinnati who's in this tournament, Xavier who's
in who made a regional, Miam of Ohio who won
the mac which we went to and zero against Miami
of Ohio during the regular season's just been a tremendous ride.
I've had the opportunity to see some unbelievable baseball. And

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I'm taking Friday off and I will be in Nashville
whether he plays or not for that regional against Vanderbilt
on Friday at six o'clock.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
And it's kind of a neat little story here.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
One of my close friends from back in high school
haven't seen him since I'm gonna say.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I get a text after the selection show where we
found out Wright State was playing Vanderbilt in Nashville, and.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
I get a text from Kenny Holloway.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now, if you don't know that name, Kenny Holloway was
one of the best athletes to ever come out of
Saint Clairsville three sports star, basketball, football, baseball. I played
baseball with Kenny back in the Cult League days. I
think it was in glen Coe, Ohio. We both grew
up Boston Red Sox fans. He was at my house

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watching Red Sox games all the time, and I haven't
really seen him since nineteen eighty eight. Moved overseas, raised
his kids, I believe in China because his wife had
a job over there. Spent a couple decades over there,
moved back. But every time that Kenny has come back
and has tried to hook up with me, whether it's
been back here in Saint See or in Cleveland, Ohio,

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because he was a standout athlete in baseball and football
at Case Western Reserve University, we just haven't been able
to link up for whatever reason. So I get this
text about twenty minutes after the selection committee made the
announcement that Wright State was playing in Nashville against Vanderbilt
on Monday. I get this text saying, hey, buddy, are

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you coming? And it's from Kenny. So be gonna be
just a cool weekend coming up, because not only am
I gonna be able to experience firsthand an NCAA regional,
but I'm gonna get to State with a good buddy
staying at his house. He's about twenty five minutes out
of Nashville that I haven't seen since nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
We've stayed in contact here and there.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
But nonetheless, it's gonna be a really, really good time.
So that's the whole hamstring Wright State baseball story. Now
let's get to the sick dog. Kobe year and a
half old pure bred English lab bought him for my
son well a year and a half ago, about a
little over a year ago. This dog is the best

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dog we have ever owned in our entire lives. The personality,
the energy, I mean, this dog is incredible. And about
a week ago he vomited, which dogs do that? Figured
he got into something. He has a propensity sometimes to
go over and kind of kind of sniff and shoe

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on to kitty letter, if you know what I mean.
And we just thought it was no big thing. Well
next thing, you know, the vomiting continues. Then all of
a sudden, diarrhea and just lethargic. So now all of
a sudden, the red flags start popping up. So takinghim
to the vet. They give us some medication, gets him,

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you know, give him some shots. Seems like everything's okay
for about a day and a half. Then all of
a sudden goes right back to throwing up, diarrhea, can't move,
not not can't move, but just not moving the way
he used to. Just not the dog that we have
come to love in a year and a half. Taking
back to the vet yesterday, had to make an emergency

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call on Sunday night, said hey.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
He's got to get in.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean, I lost about five or six pounds, a
horrible feeling because I mean I felt like I was
sitting there watching an animal that I love dearly die
right in.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
Front of my eyes.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
This dog was hungry, but every time he would eat,
throw it up. So what's going on? This isn't that
turns out he's got stomach ulcers. He either has he's
got stomach ulcers. Either caused by something he ate or
some sort of a bacteria. But like I told the vet,
I said, listen, this dog, you know, started out at
eighty six pounds. I can't we're trying to give give

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me medication orally not happening. Trying to hold down an
eighty six pound lab pry his mouth open and shoot
liquid down his throat.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yet, good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I might as well be fighting a silver backed gorilla
by myself and.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
Not ninety nine other guys. Then this damn dog.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Every pill, try to hide it in a piece of
hot dog, or hide it in a piece of ham,
grind it up and just kind of sprinkle it over
some turkey wouldn't eat it, would smell it. Or I
watched this animal, and I'm not kidding you when I
say this. I broke up a pill into eight tiny pieces,
strategically placed them in a nice big piece of turkey.

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I watched this dog woof down that turkey, look me
in the eyes, eat that turkey, and all eight pieces
he spit out out of each corner of his mouth
as he's chewing it, looking me in the eyes.

Speaker 8 (24:33):
I couldn't believe it. So he took him back got
some more shots. Vet Bill.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I always had a rule said, I'm never going to
go over two thousand dollars on an animal. Well that
was before we got Kobe, and now I understand. I
used to have this stance of, hey, you know what
if the dog goes south your morning and then you
go to the you go to the h animal shelter

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and you pick out another one, next dog up.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
Not anymore. Totally changed my mind. But it looks like
he's doing better.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
He's got some more shots, and we're trying to put
some yogurt into him, some you know, boiled chickens, some
sweet potatoes, just trying to make sure that that stomach
can get through those ulcers. So that was my weekend.
And to top the weekend off, to top it off,
by the way, Sam sends me a picture saying, hey,

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the first corn of the year. Boiling some corn on
the cob, and I thought, damn, she's a farmer, she
knows how to grow stuff. And then I find out
she bought it in a store.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
Lion, Lion, Lion.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
The bloom Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
Welcome back, excuse me, welcome back, seven forty nine the
bloom Daddy Experience Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. First
of all, I want to address something I, in no way,
shape or form ever claimed to be like farmer Jane
over here with the whole corn situation. I don't know
where he even got the impression that that's what I

(26:18):
was saying in the text. I was just saying, look
he looky, I'm having corn on the cob for the
first time. That's all. It was not that, you know,
I planted it, dug the holes did the no. No,
so to that, I say when second of all, otis

(26:40):
bloom Daddy has a heart. No he doesn't, Yes he does,
Yes he does, because if you remember, he used to
always rag on me for when my dog that I
used to have he passed away recently, but we took
him to a specialty hospital and its burgh and dropped

(27:01):
a pretty penny on keeping him alive. Now this was
when he was like five, not when he was you know, ten,
And bloom Dad he always used to say, you know,
just let nature take its course and then there's gonna
be another one. And it's just a dog and it's
just this and it's just that I would never I

(27:23):
would never Boy, is he eating his own words?

Speaker 7 (27:27):
A little change of tune there that happens. And listen,
I mean there are some dogs that, yes, you can say, hey,
you know what, we'll just move on. I've had to do.
I had to do that one time quick, because first off,
the dog was a lot sicker than originally thought. We

(27:48):
just didn't catch it in time and it ended up
having basically liver failure and the organs were shutting down
and stuff. So there's nothing you can do about that.
But I mean, I understand, like, my one dog's ten
years old and if they said, you know, he was
full of cancer or something like that, what am I
I'm not going to spend five thousand dollars for him

(28:09):
to live another two years. You see what I'm saying.
I think there's there you have to use your common sense.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yeah, well, and there's also the the the attachment. There's
the attachment. But then when you have to make that decision,
there is the the what is the word I'm looking for,
not emotional decision. There is the right decision to make
for the animal, whether they're they're in pain, whether they're

(28:37):
in suffering. You know, you don't want to to extend
that if you have to make that hard decision, and
it's an awful decision to make. I've had to do
it twice now within the past couple of years. It's
a horrible it's a hard decision to make. But when
you're in the circumstance, like Blue Daddy said, you know
their dog is young, is basically still a puppy, you

(28:57):
want to fix the problem because they're not ten, they're
not twelve, fourteen years old. They're still young. So but
I think it's I think it's quite revealing that we
we see and we hear that blim Daddy.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
He doesn't change his opinion very often.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
No, and he doesn't admit to it very often. There's
a there's a bigger point to it. So but good
Hopefully the uh furry buddy is on the men because
he does adore that dog. He talks about that dog
all the time. So yeah, but I just had to
point out the the you know, he's admitting he has

(29:34):
been wrong, and you can't have a heart and spend
the dime. I wonder how many moths popped out of
that wallet? Did it?

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Creak?

Speaker 6 (29:46):
Did it?

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Well? I mean, he's had to cut he's had to
spend some money this year because he's traveled to some
places for baseball. Yeah, and of course he's getting out
of a hotel expense because he's staying with his buddy
down in Nashville. So he always finds a way to
to we'll say save a buck.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
Well and congrats to yeah for what an accomplishment freshman.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
Well, here's the other thing. I believe he was first
team All Horizon and he was part of the All
Freshman team in the Horizon League. So I mean two
great accomplishments for a freshman freshman eighteen nineteen year old kid,
you know, just outstanding.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
Well and hopefully the hamstring situation is in.

Speaker 7 (30:30):
Hamstringers are tricky. Yeah, hamstrings are tricky because, like Bloiom
Daddy said, you know you can you can, you can
recover quickly or you could it could be lingering, just
depending on how bad the the pool, the pool, the
stretch to whatever it is is. Yeah, I mean it's
you know, we just wish him the best because that
would that would that would be terrible to to work

(30:54):
that hard for all season and then all of a
sudden you're going into the College World Series in your
in your yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
And ESPN and the whole thing. Yeah, that's that's that's
a hard pill to swatis right there.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
That's what happens with otis all the time.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Yeah, I'd hate to see that happen. But Congrats just
could get to this point. So another Congrats want to
throw out so otis do you remember the name Denver
Moore from a couple months ago?

Speaker 7 (31:24):
Nope?

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Okay, Well, Denver Moore is the World War Two veteran
that posted the pic the video on TikTok about his
birthday where he was turning one hundred and four years
old and he was inviting President Trump to his birthday party.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
Oh, okay, I can remember from.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
The local area, Canal Fulton area, which is not necessarily local,
but south of Cleveland. Correct, it's in between here and
in Cleveland sort of, so semi local, will say. But
of course that video got almost nine hundred thousand views. Well,
it made its way to the White House thanks to

(32:05):
Congressman Michael Rooley. He saw the video. Denver, the gentleman
in the video is in his district, so he reached
out to the Trump administration and President Trump, and he responded.
He responded and sent a message. He wasn't able to

(32:25):
go to the birthday party, but he did respond and said, Hi, Denver,
this was a video message. I want to wish you
a very happy one hundred and fourth birthday from your
all time favorite president. That's me Donald Trump, And I'm
sorry we weren't able to get to your party. I
would love to get to your party, but I'm working
on Russia, Ukraine, China and all sorts of other places. Yeah,

(32:48):
and I know you want us to do well, but
I just want to thank you for your incredible service
to our nation and for your support from making America
great again. A very very special man you are. And
happy birthday. So he got a response. That's fantastic.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
Did he get a gift.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
It doesn't say anything about a gift. No, but they
did ask him. A station out of Cleveland did ask
him his uh, his secrets to such a long longevity.
It's not bad. Okay, it's not bad.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
Sometimes you watch.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
These Oh yeah, they're yeah, funny, funny old man jokes.
If you would, No, he said, I was always active
doing something. I carried mail for twenty years and did
that walking and that was good. I grew up on
a farm. We did everything, and if we didn't have
anything to do, we created something. So it's just so
it's just this stay active. And then he added, marry

(33:44):
the right woman and live with her all of her life.
He was married to Thelma Lee for seventy five years.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Wow, good for him.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Seventy five years. She passed at the age of ninety five.

Speaker 7 (34:00):
So this two people had good runs right there.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
Yeah, World War two veteran postal worker, and.

Speaker 7 (34:07):
He got I always say, if you make it to
seventy five, it's a good run, because that's that's three
quarters of a century.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
One hundred and fours is that's impressive, that's impressive. But
one hundred and, like I said, one hundred and four
years old, World War two veteran. He got an answer
from his TikTok videos. So congratulations, Denver. What a great
story to follow seventy five years. I don't know if
I can make it seventy five years.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
I know, you what shows about killing him all the time?

Speaker 5 (34:35):
I do, m she do?

Speaker 6 (34:38):
I just see what other folks do?

Speaker 7 (34:40):
You're looking for hints?

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Eh? Yeah? Anyways, anyways, it is seven fifty eight on
this Oh it's Tuesday, that's right, the bloom Diddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy, w w VA.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Se number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is no bloom Daddy. 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 (35:14):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy experience.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Hey, it's eight oh six. Let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Ohio lawmakers considering legalizing online casino games, poker, lottery games.
This will be a big time expansion of gambling in
the state. And yes, they're trying to come up with
that money for Brown Stadium and a Bengals stadium. Rob Walgate,
American Policy Roundtable who follows state politics very very closely,
joining me. Now, let's start with this. Is this even

(35:42):
constitution on the state of Ohio? Rob, because state lottery,
casino's charitable bingo, that's all a part of the Ohio Constitution.
But online gambling on somebody's phone, I don't think so well.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
You read the constitution the same way I do, because
it says all a lot of are prohibited except and
then it gives those three exceptions, and all three of
those exceptions have been approved.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
By Ohio voters.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
The problem becomes is the Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly,
when they want something done, they don't think the Constitution's
that big of a deal. They throw their nose up
at it and ignore it. And this is this blatantly
shows that to be true. And the fact they've done
it in the past when you look at them putting
VLTs in racetracks, when you look at sports wagering, none

(36:27):
of that's true. They'll talk or none of that's constitutional,
and they will talk about the fact that the courts
haven't slapped their hands or held them accountable or said
nothing on it.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
Here's the reality. The reality. There was a lawsuit Walgate v. Kasik,
myself for the.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
American Policy round Table on a handful of others sue
John Kasick when he expanded and put VLTs in.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Racetracks a memorandum of understanding.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
It dealt with Dan Gilbert and his friends when they
legally bought a piece of the Ohio Constitution in two
thousand and nine.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
We were thrown out of court on that lawsuit.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Here's the reason, not on the merits of the case
on the issue of standing went all the way to
the Ohio Supreme Court.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
They said we didn't have standing.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
It was a Republican Supreme Court doing a favor for
Republican lawmakers. That's why we were thrown out, not on
the merits of the case.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
So where do you think this goes? Obviously Republican controlling
the state. You're thinking this is going to be passed
through somehow someway.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Well, they're either going to put in the budget, they're
going to pass it by itself.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
That's their goal.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
But if there's Republicans that have a conscience in a
backbone and are willing to stand up for the Constitution,
they will say, no, we legally cannot do this. I mean,
it's simple, it's black and white. It's not difficult. When
I heard sponsored testimony last week, they talked about, well,
this is being done to capture the illegal gambling dollars. Well,
here's a little tidbit and a little secret. That was

(37:46):
the argument that was used in nineteen seventy three to
pass the lottery. We want to capture the illegal lottery
people running numbers. That was the argument used in nine
for the casinos. That was the argument used for sports gambling.
You're not going to here's a memo. You're not going
to capture all the illegal gambling dollars, just like passing
weed laws won't allow you to capture all the illegal

(38:07):
weed sales. That's just reality. They don't want to face
it and understand it. But and you know this from
your time in the Ohio Valley. West Virginia's had video
lottery terminals and they've had slot machines at racetracks longer
than anyone. And who becomes the addicts the lawmakers, that's
who becomes the addicts, the.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Gambling revenue and gambling money.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
And all it does is suck other money out of
the economy.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
It's less money that people can spend at.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Cedar Point, downtown Cleveland, downtown Columbus, wherever you want to name.
It's less money that's recycled in the economy. And now
they want to allow people to lose all their money
from the comfort of their couch.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Title Rob Wallgate American Policy Roundtable. That's the criticisms that
are being levied against this. Rob Number one, the retail impact,
because people aren't going to be going you know, in
store ticket sales are going to decrease. Then you've got
people worried about which we hit on the constitutionality of this,
And then what about addiction. I mean, now people can

(39:06):
lose tons of money not even leaving their home, just
sitting on their back porch.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, and those that know me, they know my story.
I mean I filled out of three colleges, I ran numbers,
I did all those illegal things, those bad things. I
know it inside and out from twenty five years ago.
So yeah, it's going to create a lot of additional
costs for the state. And here's the thing about gambling addiction,
drug and alcohol addiction is similar, but it's different. Here's
why if someone spends you know, twenty thousand and thirty

(39:34):
thousand doing drugs, you're doing alcohol. You notice other people
notice when it comes to gambling, tens of thousands of dollars,
if not hundreds of thousands of dollars you can lose,
you can steal, you can claim to borrow from others,
and it doesn't come to light because no one sees
a change in your behavior.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Families are being.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Destroyed across the state because of it. I just don't
think it's a good idea, Nor is it constitutional to
allow people to do it from the comfort of the couch.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
But here's the other thing.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
If my neighbor wanted to do this and run numbers
and give better payouts in the state, they'd put them
in jail for it. I'm not sure this is the
role of government to be encouraging this. I would like
to see. Here's what I'd like to see the state do.
Why don't we issue a report. Why don't we have
them do a report. Give us the lottery sales per
each zip code in this state of Ohio.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
Then let's take a look at the.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Income per capita of each of those zip codes verse
lottery sales, and you tell me which zip codes, based
on income have the highest lottery sales. Our state prays
on the least of these, we pray on the most vulnerable,
We pray on the poorest communities. With this false hope,
that's how you can get out by gambling your way out.
I think it's disgraceful in the fact that Republican lawmakers

(40:46):
want to continue to do it as embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Well, on flip side of that, the counter argument, rob
is these are all adults, and adults make their own decisions.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
I'm fine with that argument.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Let's have that argument then about heroin, prostitution and anything
else you want to put on the table. If we're
going to have that argument, let's have the argument. But
you can't draw a line in the sand part way
and say, well.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
We're only going to do it with gambling. We're going
to have the libertarian argument.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
I want people to take it to the fullest extent,
and I also want to take it to the point
to where the state isn't the one that's in charge
of it. Why can't my neighbor do it? Why do
they pick the winners and losers. That's what John Kasick
did with the slot machines. And you know, here's another
interesting tidbit. When we sued regarding the slot machines and racetracks, bars,
bowling alleys, a lot of people wanted to get involved

(41:32):
with us, but they didn't because they were concerned, because
they didn't want to get on John ka Sick's bad side,
because they thought they would he would cut them into
the next deal. Because that's what government does. It continually
picks the winners and the losers. I had someone tell
me they moved here from New England And they said,
you know what, I thought I was moving to a
conservative state.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
We have abortion on demand, weed.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
Everywhere, gambling on every street, court state, the state budget,
the state budget continues to blow up and exceed him inflation.
They said, remind me again how this is a conservative state.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Very very good point. Now listen before before I let
you go, because you went on a roll there for
a second.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
You guys, do you think there will be though now
you didn't.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Do you think there will be Republican lawmakers who step
up and say, whoa, woa woe, this is not constitutional.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
I think there may be a few. I think there
may be a few that are willing to do it.
But here's the thing. Here's how those backroom meetings go
in Columbus. They'll pull you into a room and they're
going to tell you if you vote against this, you're
probably going to have a primary opponent. The machine will
come after you. And the machine is powerful, so watch
your step. They do it all the time. They do
it all the time. I mean, that's why government's got

(42:46):
so big in this state. Again, we say Republicans, or
some people will say Republicans are conservative. Look how much
state government's in charge. Look at the bills that they're
passing that involve the entire state. When it comes to education,
I believe in a low control. I think locals should
have a saying that these Republicans they want to dominate
every aspect of everyone's life. If Democrats were doing this,

(43:09):
republic and in control, Republicans would be turning over tables
and screaming the differences. They're in power, so they feel
like they have a right to do it, and they're
smarter than the rest of us.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
If you don't believe me, just ask them. They'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
ROB appreciate the time as always, thank you, thanks for
having me.

Speaker 6 (43:32):
It's eight nineteen. Welcome back to the Blendetti experience. Samon
Otis News Radio. E loved seventy WWVA. You know what otis.
One thing I noticed yesterday was a lot of the posts,
the visuals that individuals came up with, Organizations came up
with an honoring Memorial Day. I did share one that

(43:55):
was created by the White House. It's on our Facebook page.
Is it is quite moving, quite moving. And again, some
of the things people come up with on social media,
the videos. Sometimes it's the simplest visual. It's the simplest
music that really strikes a chord. And the one that

(44:18):
the White House did was, Like I said, it's up
on our Facebook page and I'm sure many people have
seen it already. It is quite quite moving for Memorial Day.
But so otis, did you do you remember who was
your commencement speaker in high school or college? Do you
remember who? Oh?

Speaker 7 (44:37):
I didn't give my college commencement?

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Oh you didn't. No Oh, I didn't have a choice.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
I didn't walk.

Speaker 8 (44:43):
No.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Oh, I couldn't want to. I didn't want to. I'm
not trying to be smart, but I just didn't want
to high school. You're talking forty years ago. No, I
don't remember.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
Okay, so let me okay, let me, let me let
me switch it up a bit then. Okay, So when
you hear commencement speaker, what do you what do you
expect from this person in the speech?

Speaker 7 (45:09):
You know, just to kind of give some good would
you would? You would hope it would be good advice
on moving.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
On, knowledge, future.

Speaker 7 (45:17):
The rest of your life.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
Inspirational.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
Yeah, okay, okay, I'll get with that.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
Yeah, okay, that's what I think of when I hear
commencement speech. I'm thinking, here is somebody who has been successful, sure,
who is going to share a bit of their wisdom,
have optimism, inspiration, those types of things in your speech. Well, unfortunately,
for the graduating class at Wake Forest University, this was

(45:46):
not their experience. And we're right in the midst of
high school college all the graduation season. We're right in
the middle of graduation season. So I wanted to call
out Scott Pelley on this. Now, if you're not familiar
with the name Scott Pelly, he is an anchor on
sixty minutes, which before we even get into this, sixty Minutes,

(46:10):
of course, and CBS News are involved in the lawsuit
for editing the interview during the election cycle with Kamala
Harris trying in all their editing glory to make her
look intelligent. Even with the editing, it did not work.

(46:32):
But that then has led to the lawsuit with President
Trump where he is calling out how this is unacceptable,
and of course nobody has really answered anything on that,
and they are in the midst of a conversation about
bringing this lawsuit to a head. But we're nowhere with that.
But I digress. I go back to Okay, So Scott Pelly,

(46:55):
the anchor for sixty minutes, was the commencement speaker at
Forests graduation. Again, you think this is gonna be positive,
this is gonna be inspirational. No, no, no, no. This
gentleman took the opportunity to stand in front of these

(47:16):
young adults who are crossing into adulthood, who are facing,
you know, an unknown future. When you're that age, you're young,
you're optimistic. You think, Okay, I've got the world at
my feet, gonna conquer. Right, you know, you're you're just

(47:36):
at that point in your life. He decides to take
this opportunity to deliver a fear mongering, attacking commencement speech
against President Trump. He takes this opportunity to tarn what

(48:01):
is one of the most important moments in a young
person's life and accomplishments. You know, to graduate college is
a huge accomplishment, and this gentleman decided to rip that
away from these young people. He stood there and said
things like this, Your country needs you. The country that

(48:23):
has given you so much is calling you, the class
of twenty twenty five. Your country needs you, and it
needs you today this morning, our sacred rule of law
is under attack. Journalism is under attack. No, I'm sorry,
mister Pelley. Journalism is being called onto the carpet as

(48:43):
rightfully so. Universities are under attack, freedom of speech is
under attack, and insidious fear is reaching throughout our schools,
our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts. Is
this what these young people need to hear on that
special day? No? No, And if you go back and

(49:04):
you watch some of the video, of course you know
the arms are flailing, all of these dramatic gestures going on.
People are not happy. People who there are not happy.
They're calling him out on social media. Scott Pelly raged
at Trump in angry, unhinged commencement address as he speaks

(49:24):
openly and freely in America. Remember, but according to him,
free speech is under attack, and others of course ripped
him as being a hypocrite, pointing out that the network
is currently facing a twenty billion dollar lawsuit. As I
mentioned earlier, over House sixty Minutes sixty Minutes edited a
sit down with then vice president Kamala Harris, which, by

(49:48):
the way, don't forget they're up for an award for
Best in Editing. Well, I forget what it was in
an Emmy and oscar I can't remember. Oh yeah, best editing,
which is just, I'm sorry, hilarious, absolutely hilarious that a
hard hitting interview of a presidential candidate is now being
sued the news organization for the editing of that interview

(50:14):
to make her look semi intelligent again, which was a
failure for an award. But again back to the commencement speech.
The sense of entitlement that certain folks seem to have,
that they feel they can take any opportunity to go

(50:38):
on a long winded diatribe about how their thoughts, their feelings,
their beliefs needs to be spewed to people. For this journalist,
I say that in quotes, feels that he has the

(51:00):
right to stand up at a podium in front of
all of these young people and go on this anger filled,
hate filled tirade to make accusations and to say that
freedom of speech is under attack. I'm sorry, it's wrong.

(51:26):
It's selfish, is what it comes down to. Simply, it
is a selfish act. And again, this is just another
example of entitlement that those that think they're smarter, they're
more educated, and that they have a more important voice

(51:47):
than anybody else can steal away the time, the joy,
and the celebration that this event was for these young
people graduating Wake Forest is simply selfish, selfish, and this

(52:07):
is the kind of stuff that needs to stop. It's
eight twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
I'm Sam, He's otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 8 (52:36):
Good Tuesday morning to you.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Hope you had a wonderful three day weekend, Memorial Day weekend,
and I'm assuming your three day weekend was probably better
than mine. Why is that dealing with a hamstring pulling
a sick dog. By the way, the hamstring does not
belong to me, belongs to my son Braylan, who plays
baseball at Wright State University Championship game on Saturday, the
Horizon League, trying to lay out a single pulled the handstring,

(53:01):
and his status for the NCAA Regional and national this
Friday is a little uncertain right now, which is just
a major bummer because he's had a great season and
to have the opportunity, I mean, if you didn't see
the selection over the weekend. Wright State University got Vanderbilt,
the number one team in the nation, right out of
the gate Nashville Regional Friday at six o'clock. So fingers

(53:23):
are crossed, a lot of treatments, a lot of wrapping.
Hopefully he can play Friday. If not Friday, maybe Saturday.
But hamstrings are a tricky thing and he might be
out two to three weeks or he could be taking the.

Speaker 8 (53:36):
Field on Friday.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
It's a big time bummer to make it throughout the
whole season, and then you've got an opportunity to play
Friday night, six o'clock ESPN against the number one team
in the nation, and you get a hamstring pool. Such
is life, I get it. But hopefully, hopefully he can
get this thing going and somehow, some way at least

(53:59):
take the field even if he's at eighty percent. But
you want to talk about a wonderful ride, I mean
this has been unbelievable. I mean just seeing baseball at
the Division one level. Early in the season, we played
Auburn and Ole Miss. Both those teams are in the
top ten right now. North Carolina State was another incredible team,

(54:19):
playing teams throughout the year. Whether it was Cincinnati, who's
in this tournament, Xavier who's in who made a regional?
Miami of Ohio who won the mac which we went
to and zero against Miami of Ohio during the regular
Season's just been a tremendous ride. I've had the opportunity
to see some unbelievable baseball. And I'm taking Friday off

(54:41):
and I will be in Nashville, whether he plays or not,
for that regional against Vanderbilt on Friday at six o'clock.

Speaker 8 (54:49):
And it's kind of a neat little story here.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
One of my close friends from back in high school
haven't seen him since I'm gonna say nineteen eighty eight.
I get a text after the selection show where we
found out Wright State was playing Vanderbilt in Nashville, and
I get a text from Kenny Holloway. Now, if you

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don't know that name, Kenny Holloway was one of the
best athletes to ever come out of Saint Clairsville three
sports star, basketball, football, baseball. I played baseball with Kenny
back in the Colt League days. I think it was
in glen Coe, Ohio. We both grew up Boston Red
Sox fans. He was at my house watching Red Sox

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games all the time, and I haven't really seen him
since nineteen eighty eight, moved overseas, raised his kids, I
believe in China because his wife had a job over there,
spent a couple decades over there, moved back. But every
time that Kenny has come back and has tried to
hook up with me, whether it's been back here in
Saint See or in Cleveland, Ohio, because he was a

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standout athlete in baseball and football at Case Western Reserve,
we just haven't been able to link up for whatever reason.
So I get this text about twenty minutes after the
selection committee made their announcement that Wright State was playing
in Nashville against Vanderbilt on Monday, I get this text saying, Hey, buddy,

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are you coming?

Speaker 8 (56:18):
And it's from Kenny.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
So gonna be a gonna be just a cool weekend
coming up, because not only am I going to be
able to experience firsthand an NCAA regional, but I'm gonna
get to State with a good buddy staying at his house.
He's about twenty five minutes out of Nashville that I
haven't seen since nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 8 (56:40):
We've stayed in contact.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Here and there, but nonetheless it's going to be a
really really good time. So that's the whole hamstring Wright
State Baseball story. Now let's get to the sick dog.
Kobe year and a half old pure bred English lab
bought him for my son, well a year and a
half ago, about you, a little over a year ago.
This dog is the best dog we have ever owned

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in our entire lives. The personality, the energy, I mean,
this dog is incredible. And about a week ago he vomited,
which dogs do that? Figured he got into something. He
has a propensity sometimes to go over and kind of
sniff and shoe on to kitty letter, if you know

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what I mean. And we just thought it was no
big thing. Well, next thing, you know, the vomiting continues.
Then all of a sudden, diarrhea and just lethargic. So
now all of a sudden the red flags start popping up.
So taking him to the vet. They give us some medication,

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gets him, you know, give him some shots. Seems like
everything's okay for about a day and a half. Then
all of a sudden goes right back to throwing up, diarrhea,
can't move, not not can't move, but just not moving
the way he used to, just not the dog that
we have come to love in a year and a half.
Taking back to the vet yesterday, had to make an

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emergency call on Sunday night, said hey.

Speaker 8 (58:11):
He's got to get in.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
I mean, I lost about five or six pounds. A
horrible feeling because I mean I felt like I was
sitting there watching an animal that I love dearly die
right in front of my eyes. This dog was hungry,
but every time he would eat, throw it up. So
what's going on?

Speaker 8 (58:29):
This isnt that?

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Turns out he's got stomach ulcers. He either has he's
got stomach ulcers, either caused by something he ate or
some sort of a bacteria. But like I told the vet,
I said, listen, this dog, you know, started out at
eighty six pounds. I can't We're trying to give give
him medication orally not happening. Trying to hold down an

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eighty six pound lab Priya his mouth open and shoot
liquid down his throat.

Speaker 8 (58:57):
Yet good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
I might as well be fighting a silver gorilla by myself.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
And not ninety nine other guys.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Then this damn dog every pill try to hide it
in a piece of hot dog or hide it in
a piece of ham, or grind it up and just
kind of sprinkle it over. Some turkey wouldn't eat it,
would smell it. Or I watched this animal, and I'm
not kidding you when I say this. I broke up
a pill into eight tiny pieces, strategically placed them in

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a nice big piece of turkey. I watched this dog
woof down that turkey, look me in the eyes, eat
that turkey, and all eight pieces he spit out out
of each corner of his mouth as he's chewing it,
looking me in the eyes. I couldn't believe it. So
he took him back, got some more shots. Vet Bill

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always had a rule said, I'm never going to go
over two thousand dollars on an animal. Well that was
before we got Kobe, and now I understand. I used
to have this stance of, hey, you know what if
the dog goes south your morning, and then you go
to the you go to the animal shelter, and you

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pick out another one, next dog up, not anymore. Totally
changed my mind. But it looks like he's doing better.
He's got some more shots, and we're trying to put
some yogurt into him. Some you know, boiled chickens, some
sweet potatoes, just trying to make sure that that stomach
can can get through those ulcers. So that was my weekend.

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And to top the weekend off. To top it off,
by the way, Sam sends me a picture saying, hey,
the first corn of the year. Boiling some corn on
the cob, and I thought, damn, she's a farmer, she
knows how to grow stuff. And then I find out
she bought it in a store. Lion, Lion, Lion, The

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Blue Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (01:01:08):
Eight forty nine. Welcome Back the Bluebetty Experienced. Salmon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Want to let you know
the Script's National Spelling Bee is marking a big anniversary
this year. Nine spellers competed in the first National Spelling
Bee in nineteen twenty five. More than two hundred and

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forty students will compete for the title of best Speller
in the United States when the contest kicks off today
in Maryland. Preliminary and quarterfinal rounds will be live streamed
on the Bounce XL platform. I've not heard of that one.
The rest of the competition will be broadcast on the
Ion Network ion Ion on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Now,

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just a reminder, we have our very own Brett Kapruch
from Bridgeport. He's an eighth grader going into his freshman
year next year. He is there in Maryland representing Bridgeport.
Good so good for you. Have you ever watched it
on TV?

Speaker 7 (01:02:11):
Some of it?

Speaker 6 (01:02:12):
I have two? I have two.

Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
I realized that I'm very I'm not a very good speller.

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
There are words where I'm like, is that even a word?
Never heard of that before? And then what's amazing is
when the kids can stand there and they get okay,
it comes from the Latin word this, and they're they're
talking to themselves, but it comes through the microphone. And
then they'll say, okay, a definition, and then they get
a definition and they can break down all this. It's amazing.

Speaker 7 (01:02:40):
Sometimes that's that's a stall tactic. You think, oh yeah,
sometimes that they're asking for legitimate yeah, and then other
times it's a stall tactic. So could you repeat the definition? Please?
Could you repeat the entomology? Could you do this? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:02:57):
So is there a no? Isn't one of the alternative
definition pronunciation? Don't they say that too.

Speaker 7 (01:03:04):
That's a tactic. Man.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
Either way, it's impressive. It's impressive. So good luck, Brett.
Bring bring it home, Bring it home to Bridgeport, m
And then also, what do you think is the hottest
flavor of the summer? Because today, okay, I know today
is it was? It was a small window of national

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whatever day. Right, there's usually like five or six different ones.
Today is it is National Grape Popsicle Day.

Speaker 7 (01:03:37):
You know, as a kid, I used to love grape
stuff and now I can't stand it. I mean I
like grapes, don't get me wrong, but like anything flavored.

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
It's just like I loved great bubble gum. I loved
greape bubble gum. Yeah, so it's it's National Great Popsicle Day,
so go celebrate how you will. But the hottest flavor
this summer cream sickle, So that kind of stays along
the same line. The nostalgic flavor, also known as orange
cream or Dreamsickle, usually contains orange, vanilla and cream. Coca

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Cola has launched a new orange cream flavor, and Vita
Cocoa has also introduced an orange and cream variety. I'm
not a cream sickle fan. I'm not used to be dreamsickle,
whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
I just there was nothing better than that. That orange
around the ice cream popsicle. No, I always thought that
was one of my favorites. Really, yep, that one. Push
ups remember the old push ups? Oh no, toilet roll,
that's basically what it was, toilet paper roll.

Speaker 6 (01:04:47):
You're right, but those didn't have ice cream in the middle.

Speaker 7 (01:04:52):
It was orange Sherbert basically, yeah, it was.

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
Just Surbert, it wasn't.

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
I mean, that reminds me of summer. Yeah, and maybe
not the flame, but just the just the aspect of it.
So but yeah, cream sickles. Oh, I used to love them.
I still do in a way, but I just don't
eat them because they're just I never worthless galleries.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
No, it just doesn't mix ice cream with a pole.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
Ice cream and orange. Oh yeah, no, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
No, no, absolutely no no no. And an update, not
an update, but a new proof if you will, of
ufls UFOs. So now in Columbia, there was an object
that was spotted in the skies that baffled onlookers. It

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crashed or it landed, and they went and they got it.
It's an orb. There's a picture of it here. What
I'm looking at it. Weighs reportedly four point five pounds,
was cold to the touch when it was found. It
has etching on it that looks like it looks like

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hieroglyphic hieroglyphics in a way, and it looks about from
the picture, it looks about the size of a bowling ball.
And it's silver and it's shiny with all of these
decorative markings on it. I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:06:22):
Yeah, it could be a setup.

Speaker 6 (01:06:25):
I don't know. It's pretty, it looks pretty, although it
does kind of look like a bowling ball. If somebody
took and made a silver bowling ball. That's kind of what.

Speaker 7 (01:06:38):
So let's talk about the big news and wheeling.

Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
Okay, what's the big news and wheeling on.

Speaker 7 (01:06:43):
Patrol Live is going to be riding with the police department. Okay,
you know they go to these they go to these places.
So like because I watch it, I watch on Patrol Live.

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
Now that's not cops, right, those are two different things.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
It's two different things. It's the same premise, okay, okay,
Ull Patrol Live is technically live. I mean it's probably
on a delay, but not by much. So, I mean
they've been to Toledo. They go to Knox County, which
is Knoxville, Tennessee. Uh that they do to they do
a county in South Carolina, which is basically like Columbia,

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South Carolina, and they and they do Hayz in Arkansas
and some of these places.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
So they don't necessarily go to the big cities.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
They go to a lot of rural Well they're no,
I mean these are these are I would say they're
like mid major cities. So Knoxville where the University of
Tennessee is Columbia, where the University of South Carolina is Toledo. Uh,
where where there's action. You know, they're bigger cities, they're
bigger areas. So Wheeling, Daytona Beach, they do another county

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in Florida, they do uh, sometimes they'll do Vegas. They'll
do one out in California.

Speaker 6 (01:07:55):
I just don't Wheeling doesn't fit into that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:57):
I mean, like, oh, okay, it's a traffic stop. This
guy didn't have And sometimes that's all it is, is
a traffic stop. But it's like, you know, is there
really enough that's going on? And Wheeling too.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
Okay, good, I'm generat that good I'm glad you thought
that too, because that was my first thought too when
I saw that inner.

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
Look, it's great for the city of Wheeling, and I think,
you know, just for the national exposure. But it's like,
is there enough entertaining. I mean, I'm sure there's like
the domestics, and you know, you have other things that
go on. They serve warrants and do different things. But
i mean, just I just like on Friday and Saturday nights,
is that's I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
There is stuff that goes on at night time when
you and I are sleeping that we don't know goes
on that the cops are dealing with.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Well, I mean, I mean I have a good idea
because I mean sometimes I'm out there at that time myself.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
Well that's true, that's true. Yeah, But I I thought
exactly the same thing as you know, what is going
to be.

Speaker 7 (01:09:01):
I just I don't see any the action exactly like
I don't see any I mean you go to Toledo
and there's fights and there's shootings, and you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:10):
Know, well it's not even like there's a night life
where it's like drunken disorderlies or you know, here and Wheeling,
any of that kind of stuff either.

Speaker 7 (01:09:21):
I mean there is, but not to the level of.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
A college town like Knoxville that there's that kind of
crazy excitement.

Speaker 7 (01:09:30):
And then you look at some of the places they go. Now,
I don't know about Hayes in Arkansas, but the population
in some of these areas that they go to are
definitely a lot higher than Wheeling. They do Ohio County.
That would be a little different because then you get
Liberty and right about the Ham and you know other
places that involved. It's a little larger area, but it'll

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be interesting to see.

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
Hopefully it makes Wheeling look good or bad.

Speaker 7 (01:09:58):
I mean, when you have all this stuff going on,
it doesn't help your but it makes me. Let's make
that's how it makes the police depart really good.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Oh no, I know, right along would be interesting either way.
We are out of here. We'll be back with you
tomorrow