The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam May 29, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. 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.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now Happy Thursday, seven oh six. The bloom Daddy Experience
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So right off
the gate, want to remind everybody today is guess the
gallon picture is up on our Facebook page. So go

(00:41):
email me Sam at iHeartMedia dot com what your guess
is of this week's flavor, and if you are right,
you will be put into our randomizer at the end
of the show and you may have your chance to
win a free half gallon of Kirk's famous homemade ice cream.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
We only randomized if there's a tie.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
If if you're the only one, you're the winner.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
But if we get three or four, they have their
correct answer.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I just want to put that out there.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, so it is out there on our Facebook page. Hint, hint,
it makes me think of otis.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Mango.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
No. No, but if you've listened, you you pick up
what I'm laying down, So we have that today and
then as of yesterday, I picked up tickets to rafter
Am Rodeo. So coming up at a certain point in
the show, not gonna tell you yet, not gonna tell

(01:39):
you yet. The June seventh is the first one of
the season. Today, Yes, next Saturday, so first one of
the season. So not going to tell you exactly when.
But later in the show, we're going to have your
chance to win a family four pack.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
You should give away a couple of them.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You want to do a couple of them.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, you've got a nice little stack there, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
But they're not all for for.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, Well that's okay, we're going to get him in
the mail.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh yeah, you're right, you're right. Oh, so stay tuned
for that. That is going to be coming up. So
a little behind the scenes for you. This morning, we
had what we call it technical difficulties.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
No, here's what happens. So sometimes when blim Daddy has
something going on, he may pre record a segment for us,
and so he tried to pre record a segment for
us and he sent it to us. It is very short,
it was about two minutes long. But he was recording
it while he was at the ACDC concert. So there's
a couple of things that came into play. Number One,

(02:41):
with the acd C music playing in the background, we
could play it on the radio, but then we can't
put it on the podcast, so that kind of creates
an issue. And we have our regular podcast person on
vacation this week, so we have somebody filling in, so
we don't want to take any chances. The other thing
is that the sound quality was horrible. You could not
hear bloom Daddy over the music. Yes, the music was

(03:04):
over bloom Daddy, yes, and so it would have been
very hard it just the quality of it really wasn't
that good. So we made an executive or I should
say I made an executive decision not to play it
because it sounds like doo doo.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
So other than that, but he was at the ac
DC concert, so let's preface that with that. And he
basically what he said was he was pre recording it
so he could sleep in today to recover from the
ACDC concert.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yes, so basically he had got to have a really
fun time last night.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah. Yeah. And ac DC was recently in Pittsburgh, so
they must have been in Cleveland last night. So you know,
and I've heard it's a great show. I'll be honest
with you, I didn't even realize that they were one.
I saw ec DC. Actually I worked for him back
in the eighties late eighties when they were here at
West Banko Arena. I was a gopher, Okay, I mean

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that's what I worked for the production company.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
And so like it could be band members, it could
be anybody that that was involved with the tour. If
somebody needed something, you either you got it for him.
So you might have a truck driver that needed a
cart and of cigarettes, so you just went and got out.
You you ran to someplace and got body mccartner's cigarettes.
When Guns n' Roses was here, they sent me on

(04:17):
a scavenger hunt to try to find all the booze
that they wanted. I mean, that was that was just
that was that was a nightmare because some of the
things they wanted weren't available in West Virginia. And then
you're trying to find what they want and you're going
to back to the production saying, hey they don't have
we don't carry this, blah blah blah. So I mean
some of It was interesting with ac DC. They had

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a piece of equipment that like it powered the amps
and it craped a bed on them, either the night
before or during a soundcheck or something. And this was
like a Saturday.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
So this is not missing your Jack Daniels, This is
such a weak question.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
So all of a sudden I get this like sound engineer.
And at the time I was dry in nineteen eighty four.
This would have probably been eighty six, eighty seven, eighty
eight somewhere in there. I'm driving a nineteen eighty four
Chevy Cavalier. So this guy and I they find the
piece of equipment in Mansfield, Ohio. So I had I'll

(05:15):
keep in mind, I'm getting paid an hourly wage, plus
they're paying me like at the time, like twenty five
cents a mile or something, which was like, hey, yeah,
you know, so I get this. So going from Wheeling
the Mansfield and back and this is before ways or
oh yeah, so you're just you're winging it, like I
have no idea. I've never been to Mansfield. And we
got to find this this shop that sells this like

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amp thing, and they're staying open because they're selling it
to ac DC. They normally closed it like noon. So
we get up there like two o'clock in the afternoon
get this thing. It was probably the size of an
old computer monitor, maybe two computer monitors, you know, like
the box monitors. So that's it was that big. But

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that thing had to weigh three hundred pounds. It took
both of us to lift it into the back of
the car. And when you put it in the trunk,
the trunk went.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Were you dragging?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
So yeah, it felt like it And and so you know,
I got to know this guy. I don't know where
he was from Australia, England someplace, but he was their
sound tech. You spend three hours in a car with
a guy you don't know. Yeah, you know, it was interesting.
But yeah, I mean ac DC saw them down there,
and uh yeah, and it was good. I mean, obviously
it's a good show.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
But well, I posted with with this topic. I posted
on our facebook page, what was your first ever concert?
And what was your favorite concert? I'm sure do you
remember your first one?

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I remember over at Wheeling Downs. Okay, this is when
they still had the horses before the way, before the dogs.
I was probably four or five, and they my my
mom and dad went over. They had set up like
a trailer, a tractor trailer with the side cut out

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and on the track itself. They had they had the
musical guest, which was at the time Hank Williams Junior
before he made it big.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
But I remember my parents brought me to the Jambree
USA all the time. So I don't remember my first concert,
but I can remember being a kid at four, five, six,
seven years old. Lynn Anderson, Johnny cash, Merle Haggard. I
saw him all right here, but I didn't know any
better at the time.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, you got to see Johnny Cash Wow wow.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
But that that that that concert over on the island.
It was the first one I remember because I can
remember being like little and like falling asleep.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Because it was like you can remember that.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I just I just it's like it's it's not really
a true memory that I don't remember any songs or anything,
but it's almost like it's like you're flipping through a
scrapbook and you see pictures. That's what I remember. I
just remember it being dark and like the lights on
the trailer and they were like they weren't white lights,
they were like off color, like greenish so wow.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's impressively. You can remember all that way back now.
My first concert ever and the Screams Female of the
nineties A Lotus. That was the first concert I ever
went to a more set couldn't be.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
The first concert I went to by myself with two
of my friends was at the old Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh.
It was men at work and in excess open for him.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Favorite concert, I know what you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Say, Oh, my favorite concert was probably Springsteen in New Jersey.
I figured it was a four hour show. I mean,
anybody that can play for four hours. And you know,
I mean again, the music, not the politics, right, And.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
You know what, that's sad that we have the things
have to be prefaced with that now because politics has
wiggled its way into so many things that we enjoys entertainment.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
That best show music wise, I mean I've had other
shows where I've had more fun. Yeah, Jimmy Buffett, almost
any Jimmy, But there was one Jimmy Buffett concert where
well there was two of them to where they're kind
of got a little out of control.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
You have those memories too, well, you know, the guy
said something and ah, and I kind of didn't like
what he said and he shouldn't have said it, and
we can explain that maybe a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Okay, all right, hold that thought and then I'll tell
you my favorite concert of all time. And it's really
out of left field, but the music was amazing. Anyways,
it is seven to fifteen. Tell us on our Facebook page.
What was your first ever concert that you can remember?
If you can go back to four or five like
Otis did, all power to you. I couldn't even possibly
remember that far back. And what is your favorite concert

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of all time? Again? Put it on our Facebook page.
Seven sixteen. You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w v A

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seven twenty one. Welcome back to the blom Daddy Experience
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy w w v A.
Just a reminder, your chance to win Kirk's ice Cream guests.
The gallon is today. The picture is up on our
Facebook page. All you have to do is email your
guests to Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Sam at

(10:36):
iHeartMedia dot com and we will have the winner at
the end of the show and then also coming up
here a little bit later, we're gonna have your chance
for a family four pack to rafter M Rodeo right
in Belmont, Ohio. So that's going to be coming up
here a bit later. And then also we have some
questions today, we're having some we're having some fun because

(10:59):
bloom Daddy went to see ac DC last night, had
a little bit too much fun. I bet he's probably
sound asleep. So with that, it kind of got Otis
and I thinking about, you know, what was the first
ever concert you've gone to? And then what is your
favorite concert of all time? All you have to do
is go on our Facebook page again comment like Stephen did.

(11:19):
He said his first concert was Doctor Hook with Shanana
shan Nana doctor Hulk.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Shana had a TV show back in the day.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Okay when mid.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Seven, mid to late seventies, early eighties.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, I don't remember that one.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
They were in Greece. They what they were in the
movie Grease when they do the hand drive. They were
the band that did the They were the band.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Said
saw them at the Wheeling Civic Center and then favorite
favorite show of all time? Kiss reunion.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Not a Kiss fan, but I can appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, so that was Stephen.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
But respect it. Let's put it that way. Yeah, just
like un listen if you whatever your musical taste is,
I respect them. Oh yeah, I just I may not
like it, like Kiss isn't for me like I would.
I would have liked to have seen him back in
the in the day, like in the late seventies or
when they were huge. I would have loved to have
seen him then. Like I don't want to see him

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on a reunion tour a bunch of old guys, No offense,
I just I mean, but because the music, that's not
really my style of right. I mean, I liked some
of their songs, but I'm not. It's like I don't
own any Kiss music.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, I never got the whole Kiss thing. Also, you
can go to our text line excuse me three zero
three eight two started off with bloom Daddy and tell
us your favorite concert and your first concert of all time.
So I told you my first concert was a lotus
more set Jagged Little Pill. Of course, if you were
a girl in the nineties, you had that album and

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you knew every word to every song and boy did
I ever in my little Honda chord. I was GMing
out to that album to the point where I drove
people nuts.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
But you have I mean, in my mind, I'm working
on something here.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I can see the steam. My favorite concert of all time,
and not because it was smoke and lights and it wasn't.
It was amazing the voice and everybody's probably gonna laugh
or roll their eyes at me. Otis I know you're
gonna roll your eyes at me. And I got the

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tickets from a friend for free. I was like, yeah,
I'll go. I had no interest whatsoever. Jessica Simpson, so
of course this was at the height of her the
Tuna thing when they when she had that reality show
with her former husband. It was at the height of that.

(13:56):
Didn't know her music at all, knew nothing about. All
I knew her for was that reality show. But I
was like, all right, let's go. I'll go free ticket,
Let's have some fun. She has an amazing voice. I
could not believe what I was hearing when I was there,

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and all she had it was her in A few
musicians on strings. There was a I'm trying to think
of what there was a violin, there was a bass,
there was a guitar. But other than that, it wasn't
a light show. It wasn't a smoke show. It wasn't

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a big jumbo tron with all this stuff going. It
was just her in these musicians. I was blown away,
blown away at her natural talent. She didn't need all
of that stuff to perform. All she needed was her vocals.
And again, I know, it's not the Jimmy Buffett's of

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the world, and it's not the Kiss in the ac DC,
but I had to appreciate natural talent that this girl had,
especially when all I knew were for at that point
in time was Chicken of the Sea. Isn't chicken, It's tuna,
that whole joke that went on back then. But yeah,
that's my favorite of all time. And you said yours

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was Springsteen?

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Of course, yeah, I mean as far as the show
and the music and everything else, it was definitely. It
was definitely a good one, you know what I mean?
Four Like I said, you played four hours and when
was it? Twenty sixteen? August the twenty sixteen. And one
of the best things about it was there was a

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guy that was proposing to his wife or his girlfriend,
right there in the front of the stage. Uh huh.
While Springsteen was doing Jersey Girl. Springsteen brought him up
on stage and made him propose on stage in front
of everybody, and then had him dance to the song
up on stage. It was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
So I wonder if they're still married.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I have no idea, don't know. One of my favorite
concerts though, was John Mellencamp back in nineteen ninety two
at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. My friends Rob and
Cherry they basically met that night and they're married now
because I had two extra tickets.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh well, look at you playing QB.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now, no, they Rob was already going, but Cherry and
one of her friends, who is a distant cousin of mine,
decided that they were going to go. Okay, so they
took the two extra tickets and the rest is history.
And at the time, my cousin, I think, was sixteen
years old and he was our designated driver. That was
not good. He got an education that night.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
To say the least, you became his favorite cousin.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
I bet well. He's the one that drove me home
when he was fourteen from a Jimmy Buffett concert.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
So again, if you want to share with us three
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start off with bloom Daddy and then send us your message.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Speaking of concerts, we're going to be talking to Ronnie Platt,
the lead singer of Kansas coming up next.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yep, you're listening to the bloo Daddy Experience, samon Otis,
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience with Sam and
Otis on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Coming up on
August twenty second, right here at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling,
West Virginia. It is going to be Kansas and Jefferson Starship.
That's a Friday night. Tickets are on sale, you can
get them anytime, any place. And joining us right now

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is Kansas lead singer Ronnie Platt. Good morning, Ronnie, Good morning, Otis.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
You know, I know I've made the big time when
I'm on the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
There you have it there, you know, you know it,
you know it, and you are from the Chicago area, correct.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
That is correct?

Speaker 3 (18:04):
So we've got to throw this out there since it's
first and foremost, what's it like having the pope from
the Chicago area.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
You know it's funny. I say an extra prayer now
every time I eat a piece of Chicago pizza or
have a Chicago hot dog.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
That's beautiful. I love it. Hey, so let's get into
it right away. Kansas a band that's been around for
fifty plus years, touring with Jefferson Starship. What can fans
expect from this show?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Oh? Are you kidding? Between Kansas and Jefferson Starship, a
night of some of the best music ever written. In
my opinion, just fantastic. I mean, high energy. And you
know what it really is not the band, it's the
music that speaks for itself. And you know, there's a
reason Kansas has been around for more than fifty years now.

(18:54):
And I've changed I've changed the title from classic rock
to timeless rock because that's really what it is.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Okay, well that makes sense. And you know Kansas when
they first came out, they were kind of labeled as
a progressive rock band and then kind of morphed into
a little bit of prog rock with some Southern rock.
And is there is there a definition for Kansas to
style of music or is it just great music?

Speaker 4 (19:19):
No. You know, that's something that really made me a
Kansas fan from the beginning, because there are songs that
are very, very progressive, you know, a song for America,
extremely progressive. Uh, but then you've got your you know,
your A and R songs that are just radio friendly.

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There's everything in between, from hard rocking to blues to
you know, even songs that you know might have a
jazzy feel. But then you know, look at the spectrum
between a song like Wayward Son and then Dustin the
Win yeaholightly two extremely different genres that you would put

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those songs in and everything in between. And I think
that's what has given Kansas such an amazing following over
the years.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
And with the band being around for fifty years, obviously
there's you know, you're gonna have turnover. You're gonna have
band members that retire, You're gonna have band members that
don't get along and just maybe leave the group, or
you know, just something may happen. Unfortunately in some situations,
people pass away. You have only been in the bands
for what ten years now, ten to eleven years.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
I'm quickly approaching my eleventh anniversary. I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
And you were only like fourteen or fifteen years old
when Kansas first came out, correct.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Yes, yes, Well, if you think when the band really
got started, and you know, seventy two, seventy three, I was,
I was ten years.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Old, and now you're the lead singer.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Oh my god, what are the chances?

Speaker 3 (21:02):
And is that a dream come true? I mean, let
a lot of people don't know this. I mean obviously
I looked it up. But you started out you were
as as a career, you were a truck driver.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Driving my fifty three foot around the beautiful street say Chicaga. Yeah,
you know, just to have this habit of you know,
I like food, like to eat, and just needed to
make a living. But I've really lived a double life
because I would drive a truck during the day and

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then you know, once I punched out at the end
of the day, I was a musician for the rest
of the day. And I really have lived a double life.
And probably from the age of oh my gosh, fourteen fifteen,
I've never gone without a band. I've always been in
a band, and I've always had you know, most of

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the time, at least until Kansas, I had a day gig.
So really a double life. My god, how did I
get anything done?

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Those of us that work multiple jobs truly understand what
you're going through. So we're speaking with Ronnie Platt, the
lead singer of Kansas. Kansas is going to be here
with Jefferson Starship at the Capitol Theater Friday, August twenty second.
I got to ask you, you know, you've you've obviously
had some personal issues in your life. You are a
cancer survivor. Could you tell us a little bit about that.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Yes, back in January, I was diagnosed with malignant thyroid cancer.
And boy, when you have no knowledge of that whatsoever,
it really just it was shocking to me. I've I've
lived a insanely clean life. You know, I never drank,

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never smoke, I've never done drugs. In just to have that,
you know, presented to me, what was kind of you know,
it was shocking. But learning about what I had and
that it was a very common cancer, and boy, thank god,

(23:14):
I just uh, just by a strange h a strange
swing of fate. H met with the right people, got
the right surgeon, And the most amazing thing about it
is from my day of surgery March fourth, April fourth,

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I was back on stage with the band one month
to my surgery, which is just unbelievable. And right now
it just seems it really does seem like it was
just a bump in the road.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well and that and that's that's great to hear, because
you know, you hear so many horror stories about cancer
and everything else, but you also have those that if
you if it gets diagnosed early and taking care of
you know, it's it's beatable.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I gotta tell you, it was very strange because my
NT asked me if I ever had radiation therapy. And
when I was born, I had a birthmark on my nose.
All my baby pictures, I look like Rudolph the Red
Nose reined here. And of course my mother, my grandmother
didn't want me going through life with a birthmark on
the tip of my nose. And I had radiation treatments

(24:22):
and this is you know, when I was two years
old and had that removed, and my NT told me
that my cancer was a direct result of those treatments.
I'm sure radiation therapy was perfectly safe in nineteen sixty.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Four, exactly like shot therapy.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Right right right, But you know, very lucky that it
didn't turn out bigger than it was. And let me
tell you, I'm just I'm just happy to be here
now and even more happy to you know, still be
singing for the band.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Sure, sure, you know that that is a relief to
you because now you're back at it again and you
are able to tell your story and share that with
people in our listeners as well.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, you know, it's uh, you know, when you come
across these hurdles and you know you have to take
them one by one, and that's what I did, and
it just I mean, the stars aligned for me and
for people that are going through that. It's what you do.
You have to just you have to take each hurdle
as they come and jump it and get over it,

(25:33):
and you know, try to keep yourself focused on you know,
the light at the end of the tunnel.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Speaking of lights at the end of the tunnel, Kansas
fifty years, are there any plans for new music in
the future?

Speaker 4 (25:47):
You know, That's the amazing thing about Kansas is I
don't think you're ever going to hear kansases announces their
final tour, right. I think Kansas is going to live
on regardless of who's in the band, because again, it's
it's the music. Uh, it's it's not the players. The

(26:10):
music is really the star here and I always I
always equated it to you know, you think of a
band like Aerosmith and you instantly think of Steven Tyler,
Joe Perry, and with Kansas, you instantly think of the music.
You think of Dust and the Wind and Wayward Son
and you know, all the great songs are just in

(26:31):
the library of Kansas's music. So you know, Kansas is
going to go on and I and I really think
that we're going to keep producing new studio music under
that Kansas moniker. It's just uh, it's just the work
ethic of the people that are in Kansas and just

(26:53):
keeping that that name going. And boy, uh, you know
Kerry live in Steve Wallash, the original writers of the band,
they set the bar very high, you know, then the
time when John Alafonte was in the band, the hits
that the band had during John's time, and then to

(27:16):
come to the time when I joined the band, the
prelude implicit and the absence of presence, and who knows
what is going to be beyond that. So the door
is always open for everything in Kansas. New music constant touring.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's just the work ethic of this band that's awesome.
And you guys will be here at the Capitol Theater
in Wheeling, West Virginia, Friday, August twenty second with Jefferson Starship. Terry.
Has been great talking to you. I can't or I'm sorry, Ronnie,
you were talking about that, yeah, yeah, And Ronnie, it
has been great talking to you and I want to

(27:58):
wish you the best and we look forward to seeing
you on Friday the twenty second in August.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Thank you so much. Good looking forward to the Capital
Theater August twenty second, could be here before you know it.
And everybody, everyone, if you're not in the Wheeling area,
please visit Kansas band dot com and see where we're playing.
We are playing everywhere all over the country for the rest.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Of the year.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Come check us out.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Awesome, Thanks so much, Ronnie.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Otis all right, you have a great day, all right now. Ah,
we'll be back with the more of the bloom Daddy
Experience coming up right after this.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Welcome back seven fifty to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I'll tell you what
the conversation about concerts rolling into Ronnie Platt. That worked
out perfectly. You know, you would think we planned it.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
I'm not complaining, but when you when you're talking to
somebody like that and you're looking at your clock and
you're thinking, Okay, I'm going to get out, you know,
because you know, we obviously have time, things we have
to meet, and so you're looking at the clock and
you're like, okay, I'm going to wrap this up. And
then they just keep talking and you're like, well, I
can't you know, they're nice enough to join us, you

(29:18):
can't interrupt to end it, and you're going, holy crap,
come on, okay, get me out of this, get me
out of this, and then they just keep going on
and all that on.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's one of the hardest parts of this job is
being able to stop somebody politely.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
And it was going perfect, it was going perfect, and
then all of a sudden he just kept going, which
I mean, I'm grateful to he joined this, don't get
me wrong, but it was one of those things like,
grap I think I need to get you out.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Well, it's like you know, talking to William Shattner talk
I want to hear everything he has to say, and
it's hard to you get try to keep it in politely,
get out well.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
And the other thing is they're on a schedule, so like, yeah,
I'm sure as soon as we finished our interview that
he had to be with somebody else within the next
five or ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, he's got somebody with him tapping him on the
shoulder like yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Or he's he's looking at his schedule and saying, okay, well,
I've got WWVA on Thursday, the twenty ninth at at
eight at seven thirty five or whatever it was. And
then and then he's got okay, well, then I've got
so and so and lost or probably not Los Angeles,
but let's say Cincinnati, you're right at this time. And

(30:34):
then I've got somebody in Detroit at this time, and
you know, so it's probably a day full of interviews.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I bet that was his first question about the Pope
from Chicago. That was that was a good open.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Well, I mean the post's been there for a while,
so I mean, you know, he's been in there for
a couple of weeks. So I don't know if I
was the first question or not about the Pope, but
I had to get it in there.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh yeah, he says. The extra he says, an extra
pairer when he gets his sh cargo style pizza pizza
or Chicago dog.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Wonder, I wonder if the Pope has his own pizza
guy now and the Vatican making.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
You're basically in Italy. You think you want that's the
home of pizza.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
It is, but is that it's not the home of
Chicago style pizza.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Maybe he's adapted.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Maybe he brought over his own Chicago pizza to tease
he was the.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Pope from Wheeling, it would he be having to Carlo's
or anything like that style of pizza coming in?

Speaker 2 (31:33):
So yeah, no, I don't know. Anyways, we're talking. We're
talking music today. We've kind of gond of got on
a on a loop about this, but we're having fun
with it. So we're talking about concerts. Your first concert ever,
your favorite concert ever? Randy sent me an email. Not
sure if this counts, he said, but his first concert
was Sesame Street Live. I guess it counts at the

(31:57):
Civic Center. And then if that doesn't count, he said
Alan Jackson and his favorite ever was Green Day and
Aerosmith at Starlake Aerosmith. Yes, green Day, you can have
Green Day. That's I figured figured.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
And again I don't like him. I mean some of
their music I did like until they got political. Until
they got political. Yeah, you know, it's just like you know,
I've backed off on my Springsteen since his political statements.
You know, there's a time that you have to go
back to it just because of the music so much
the politics. But going back to that one concert where

(32:37):
there's the two concerts one of John Mellencamp the night
that we saw him in Pittsburgh where my friends Robin
Cherry met the very he was in Pittsburgh, it was Saturday,
January twelfth, and I don't remember that off the top
of my head. I looked it up.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Okay, good, I was gonna say, your memory is amazing.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
The very next night he was playing at the Richfield
Coliseum and outside of Cleveland, which is where the first
time I saw John Mellencamp in nineteen eighty five, and
Rob and I. Rob was working in Cleveland, and so
I drove up and Rob and I got tickets. Last minute.
We were like ten rows back in the center stage

(33:16):
and you were last minute Yeah, there were two tickets
available in the middle, and so we saw him back
to back nights and that's what that's before he had
his heart attack and he was playing three hour shows
and that was that was that was a good time.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Was it exactly the same?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
It was pretty close, pretty close. Yeah. You know, with
the one thing about Springsteen is he has let's say
he plays twenty eight songs in the course of a night,
he will have his fifteen to eight, fifteen or sixteen
songs that are that are played in the same spot
every night, and then he mixes it up and he

(33:52):
actually keeps a record of songs he's played in that city.
So like he'll he'll go back and look and say, Okay,
I've never played this song here, or I've i haven't
played this song in you know, Saint Louis fifteen years
or whatever. But no, like he's got he's got the
log for every stale yep.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Well on our text line again three zero three eight two,
how can we forget this one? Neil McCoy, Oh yeah, Neil,
he's a great Yeah, he's great, Yeah, great performer. So
again three zero three eight two is our text line.
All you have to do is start off with the
bloom Daddy and then leave us your message and well
you will read it on air because we've got a
good one here. Also that I'm going to hit on,

(34:33):
but we got to go to a quick break. Seven
fifty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVAD.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
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Speaker 2 (35:05):
Welcome back. It's eight oh six. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA fix some things there, kind of continuing on. I
teased before we went to the break, a great comment
we got or a message on our text line three
zero three eight to two. Started off with bloom Daddy
and then send us your message, says I saw Billy

(35:29):
Joel in the mid seventies at the Capitol Music Hall
in the prime of his piano man era. Great memories.
Also saw ACDC at the Capitol around nineteen seventy seven.
This was before the Civic Center actually opened. Seeing Angus
strutting up and down the main aisle playing his guitar
was fabulous. Later saw them at the Civic Center. Heart,

(35:53):
also at the Civic Center, was one of the best
standing room only. John Denver was also wonderful by him
himself on a rotating stage. John Denver on a rotating stage.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
That concert, did you okay? I actually fell asleep during
your concert. I took a knee you fell I did.
I fell asleep, So I mean, I like John Denver,
but oh my god, it was so boring.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Rotating stage and all.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, it was in the center. It was in the
center of the Civic Center, just like it would be
like center ice, yeah, or center you at the midfield
for football. And it wasn't a very big stage, but
it just wrote. It rotated so that no matter where
you were, he was facing you at some point in
time during the show. Like it wasn't like spinning spinning,

(36:34):
but it was. It was a slow rotating.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
It wasn't like a like the not the ferris wheel,
the thing at the park as.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
An usher okay, And I was on the floor and
I took a knee that's what you did back in
the day, and I literally fell asleep. You didn't tip
over what No, I was kind of leaning against the railing.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Oh well, it continues. Lots of great memories mid seventies
to early eighties. This is a good idea though, that
this person sent in. You need to go back in
the archives and get a list of all the bands
that have played in Wheeling. Today's youth have no idea.
That's a good idea of everybody who played here.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Well, if you go through West Banko Arena, as you
go up some of the stairs, in some of the cases,
the displays well, you know, it's kind of like the
poster displays where you would like here at the Capital
outside we have what's coming up? So there's proster for
the Indigo Girls and Travis Tritt and Buddy Guy, and
what they would do. They take those posters and they
put them in the stairways in like the in the

(37:36):
display case, and it's got like the circus, it's got
Sesame Street it's got you know, some of the concerts,
the Duobie Brothers.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Randy's first concert, Sesame Street.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Life, the Doobie Brothers was the very first concert at
Civic Center, so you know it's got it's got the
posters or like if there might be a newspaper article.
So you can go. You can go in there. And
as you're going up the steps, especially in the front half,
the front section of the not the not the steps
from the ground level, but when you get up to

(38:08):
the concourse and then there's the stairs to the second level,
you'll see stuff there. I mean it's it's not the
OVA C stuff, but it's the it's it's like Willing
Civic Center history.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Well it's a good I mean, I like that idea
from this. That's the only thing about the text line.
I don't get a name of who the person is
who texted it. So whoever out there sent us this message.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Just when you text, just put your name at the bottom. Yeah,
and just your first name.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's kind of like sending us say Jim or.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Phil or dab yeah, Bob or there could be.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
A woman in there, Sarah.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah, I'm just.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Going to But again that's what we're talking. We're talking
music today. So all you have to do is email,
text three zero three eight two, call one hundred and
six two four eleven seventy, make Otis do some work
in there answering the phone.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
I will say this again. Late eighties Lenyard Skinnyard was
looked for the Civic Center. The show got postponed from
like a Wednesday to a Friday, or a Tuesday to
a Thursday or something like that because one of the
band members was sick or something happened. I can't remember exactly.

(39:14):
So the show got postponed. Their opening act couldn't make
the second date, so the reschedule. They found this band
out of I believe Baltimore, Maryland. Okay, you know, I
don't think they I don't think they ever had a
recording contract or anything like that. But they were called

(39:37):
the Great Train Robbery, and they opened for Leonard Skinner.
Leonard Skinner back in the late eighties eighty eight. Maybe
they were awesome. I mean, like Leonard Skinner came out
and said they brought him on stage because that's how
good they were. They were. I mean, it was an
awesome band. And like you figured this, now that they've

(39:58):
got this connection, they're going to step They're never heard
from them again.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
What were they called the Great Great Train Robbery? The
Great Train robbery. That's a mouthful for a band name.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
But but they played like southern rock, and I mean
it was they were in like they it wasn't a
cover band. They were playing their own music and the
crowd loved them. The crowd went crazy, and they just disappeared.
Never heard from him again.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, you would think that would be a moment of
this is it? This is going to be.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
They came in like they came in like in two
commercial bands, you know, like like you would see maybe
like Panhandle, Vans or you know, they came in like
the band was in one and their equipment was in
the other. I mean they were and they I mean,
I don't want to say they stole the show, but
oh my god, they were good. Huh, Because that's the

(40:48):
show that I'm sitting across from the lead singer. I
can't remember what vand's and it is, and there are
so many of them, and this other guy who looks
like a truck driver, and I'm having a conversation with
him while we're eating lunch and I didn't realize it
was the lead singer and his dad, and they're asking
me about wheeling and what I do. And I told him,
I'm in school with WVU and stuff like that. I

(41:10):
get up and I'm looking up at the stage and
I'm like, holy cow, that's the lead singer that I
had lunch with.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
That's funny. That's funny. Have you ever thought if you
were in a band, what a band? What name? You
would come up with?

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
No, No, that would be tough. That would be tough
because you know everybody's gonna ridicule it. Come up with.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Oh yeah, I mean you know, I mean there's so
many band names. Like again, and I've said this multiple times,
how many good bands that I've missed because I thought
the names were terrible? Yeah, I mean, like I had,
I had CDs of ten thousand Maniacs. Didn't. I'm like,
this band's gotta suck. And all of a sudden you

(41:50):
hear Natalie Merchant's voice and you're like, oh my god, yeah,
this girl can sing.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah yeah. But if you have any concert stories again,
threes there were three eight two is Our text number
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(42:15):
that online from us?

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Yeah, that's a song title.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yes. Anyways, to a little bit of sports talk. So
Steelers in the news, Kenny Pickett, former Steelers quarterback, didn't
have kind of had a little bit of in a
press conference yesterday, little inn window, if you will, about
his time at Pittsburgh. He said this, I think you know,

(42:45):
they were showing how it's supposed to be done, really
from the top, referring to when he was with the
Eagles where he won a Super Bowl. So when you
get a chance to see what it's supposed to look
like and how it should look on a day to
day basis, not just on Sundays, I think it will
pay dividends for me in the future. So people are

(43:05):
kind of looking into this saying that he's he is
saying that his time with Philadelphia was more valuable, things
were run better from the top down as opposed to
when he was with his time at the Steelers. And
also Terry Bradshaw, of course, the super Bowl legend, Terry Bradshaw,

(43:30):
and I got admit funny as I'll get out, I
love to watch him on the Sunday Show even if
he was a Steelers quarterback, being a Browns fan. But
he also has kind of gotten involved in the conversation
about the Steelers and Aaron Rodgers. People are still waiting
Aaron Rodgers, what are you gonna do? Well, Bradshaw didn't

(43:53):
really cut the mustard on this one. He said on
a local radio appearance appearance recently. I liked Kenny Pickett.
I liked him at pitt I know him, I know
what he's like. When they got him in Pittsburgh, they
didn't protect him, they didn't give him an offense. But
then he didn't have much uh much nice to say
about the whole Rogers situation. So listen, what are you

(44:17):
gonna do? Bring him back for one year? Or are you
kidding me? That guy needs to stay in California, go somewhere,
chew on bark and whisper to the gods out they
chew on bark. Not exactly sure what that means, but
Terry Bradshaw not really in favor of the whole Aaron
Rodgers situation in Pittsburgh. What is he forty one Rogers?
I think he's forty one somewhere now once he got

(44:37):
left anybody a year.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Tom Brady did it for what forty three?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, Tom Brady's a little different than Aaron Rodgers. I
don't know. Tom Brady takes care of his body differently.
I don't know. Steeler fans, I don't know what you're
gonna have heading into the season. It's eight sixteen. You're
listening to the Bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA A twenty one Welcome back to

(45:06):
the Glen Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Just a reminder coming up here very shortly.
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June seventh, Next Saturday is the first rodeo of the
season out in Belmont, So we're gonna have that coming

(45:26):
up very very shortly. Yesterday Otis, we touched on this
a little bit and there were a couple things that
happened across the nation yesterday about this topic. So, first
of all, going back to the West Virginia State Track
and Field meat, the picture of the young lady who

(45:47):
wore the t shirt about protecting women's sports. That picture
has now gone viral across the country. There are many
folks that are commenting on the picture and the post
by local news WTRF. Along with that, the President got

(46:09):
involved a bit yesterday on this topic in California where
he in his administration. Basically, money talks. When you threaten
or you say funding and money from the government is
going to be pulled if you do not follow the

(46:31):
executive orders, it makes people stop and reconsider. And that
is what he did. He continued the fight against the
war on women in sports and has scored a victory.
California sports officials changed the eligibility rules of a high
school track and field state championship last minute after the

(46:54):
President called out the state for allowing a trans identifying
mail to snagg a victory and disenfranchise female athletes. So listen,
it's starting to make waves and those there are a
lot of folks out there that say, you know, this

(47:14):
is not a political topic. This gets maga people all enraged.
Why does it matter if there's like with the West
Virginia situation, Why does it matter if there's only one
It matters immensely. Whether there's one, ten, twenty, it matters
immensely because that one person is taking away an opportunity

(47:41):
for a female. Now, along with that, the whole California conversation,
along with that now or again is on the roster
of states being investigated by the Department of Justice for
allowing males and go girls sports. Oregon now joins California, Illinois, Maine,

(48:06):
Massachusetts as states being investigated. Along with that, the University
of Pennsylvania and San Jose State is also being investigated.
What is sad is the fact that it has gotten
to this point, that this insanity has gotten to this level.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Well, in the case of the West Virginia athlete, there
is an appeal to the ban of males participating in
female sports that has gone to the Supreme Court. So obviously,
while that is in limbo, they are giving this person

(48:48):
the opportunity to participate because they're saying there's an injunction
that says, hey, I can do this until there's a ruling.
And again, in the shot put really didn't affect anybody
because that the boy finished in eighth place, but he
got third place in the discus, which bumped to grow
out of the medal of the medal count, you know,

(49:10):
and you're saying, okay, well it's only third place. You know,
it doesn't matter that you just you just robbed a
female athlete of her maybe maybe her day in the sun.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Well and one of the posts, uh, one of the
comments on the posts on w t RF was you know,
let me see here, that's actually sickening to use this
platform to spread hatred.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Nobody's spreading.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
It's not hatred.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
This person can do whatever they want. You want to.
You want to pretend to be a woman, and you
think you're a woman, that's that's all on you. That's fine,
we don't I don't care. But to compete against female athletes,
you have an advantage. I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
You're big.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
You should be bigger and stronger. You know you your
body will develop more. I don't care what what medications
you're on. What you know, if you're on estrogen or
or whatever you're taking to make yourself a woman, you're
still a dude.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
It's it's called science, folks, it's called biology.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
You can cut off whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
You're still a dude because you're add on whatever you because.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Your chromosomes are still x Y, they're not xx.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I'm just so tired of when it comes to this topic,
people go to the whole you know, bigotry, this is hatred,
this is this. No, it's not what it is. It's
common sense and its fairness is what it is. So
stop trying to label people.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Well, and it's normally the people that want, you know,
oh well, we want equal rights for women, and we
want equal pay, and we want this and that and
the other. But yet oh no, we can let a
guy compete in swimming, or we can let a guy
compete in the track and field against the women.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
That's where the hypocrisy drives me. In Santence, make up
your mind, well, because these are the folks that will
fight for women's rights when it comes to abortion, and
they want fair you know, women are equal this and that, YadA, YadA, YadA.
You can run the Gama on that. But the first
opportunity where they can actually make a difference and say
this is trampling on women's rights, this is not fair,

(51:10):
they're the ones that will sit back and say, oh
my god, I'm so afraid now that President Trump is
in office, I'm gonna lose all my rights as a woman.
I'm gonna leave the country Rosy O'Donnell because I'm afraid
to be a woman in the United States. Please somebody
tell me. Since President Trump has become president, what we
have lost as women, what we have actually lost as

(51:31):
women is what we're seeing in sports and the party
that's afraid they're going to lose something because of Trump
are the ones that are actually making young women and
women lose something. It's just it's it's insanity. It's insanity. Oh,
it's so frustrating, so frustrating. It's eight twenty eight. You're

(51:52):
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(52:12):
WWVA Hey thirty six, Welcome back to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Salmon
Odas News Radio eleven seventy wwva have you started thinking
about vacation summer vacation yet?

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Well, I've had to because oh, that's right, you've got
I've already got my airfair, I got my one of
my two flights.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Booked one of your two flights.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
And well, because I'm flying to see a friend to
start my vacation, and then I will fly to my destination.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
From his all from his place, yea, from me.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
So I'll be flying in I'll be flying to Amsterdam,
spending a couple of days with my buddy, and then
from Amsterdam going on to Dresden, Germany. So are you?

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Are you flying Southwest?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
I don't think Southwest does international flags, Okay, at least
not to Europe. Okay.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Well, one thing for anybody who's flying Southwest or planning
onto one thing they've always been able to kind of
hang their hat on for oh gosh, over fifty years.
They had a bags fly free policy, and I know
a lot of people that use them because of that,
because if you pack like I do, that saves you
a lot of money. I don't care no matter what

(53:27):
I do, I always overpack. Always. I'm that person waiting
in line when I put my suitcase on the scale.
I'm the person that then has to take it off
and dig through in front of everybody, like, please don't
look at my underwear as I try to lower the weight.
I'm that person. Well, Southwest is changing that policy, which

(53:50):
is the no bags fly free policy. They've announced that
from now on, the first checked bag will cost thirty
five dollars, the second will cost forty five dollars, and
there will now be weight and size limits, so listen.
Unfortunately they are doing away with that. My question is

(54:13):
are they ever going to refund when they destroy your luggage?
Not necessarily Southwest, just airlines in general. I have had
two sets of luggage, not sets, but the biggest suitcase
in that set destroyed because of just damage of throwing
them around and the whole thing. It's like there's like

(54:34):
they're willy nilly. It doesn't matter to whoever's handling it.
They just destroy them. So yeah, give me my forty
five to fifty dollars back for checked bags and the
cost and all of that. So if you are planning
a vacation there, you get a little bit of information.
Also when it comes to travel this year, a little
heads up authorities in North Carolina are investigating a possible

(54:56):
shark attack off the coast. The Sunset Beach fired apartment
and says it received an emergency call late Wednesday warning
about a swimmer who was bitten on the leg. The
fire chief says the injured swimmer was treated by rescue
personnel and taken to a local hospital, and the full
extent of their injuries at this point are unknown. No

(55:17):
further shark sightings have been reported in North Carolina since then,
but officials are urging beach goers to stay vigilant. We
need the Jaws theme song.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Well.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
The one thing about Sunset Beach, North Carolina, there's a
lot of people from this area that go there. It's
a very It's kind of like a little island. They
still have a drawbridge that you have to cross.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
I've never heard of it, never been.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
We used to go every year. My friend's mom had
a house. She actually bought it off of Philispenike, who
at one point in time was the principal Wheeling Park
Hig Schoolkay and Phyllis had had three more houses built
down there. Their house because they all have little names
to them, and the house was called Almost Heaven and
it was a four bedroom, two bath and the two
outdoor showers screened in porch, open back porch. I mean

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it was about two blocks away from the beach and
in thet walk. But and just to I mean, I
know people that go to Sunset Beach now every year,
you know that's their family vacation because it's it's it's
about half an hour north of Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
That's what I was going to ask.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
And so you know, you're you're close to Schalote uh Calabash,
so in that area, and so there's a lot, there's
enough to do, but it's it's very it's much more
relaxed compared to Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
It's not as touristy, true, yeah, the overwhelming of screaming
kids and.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Yeah, so like it's it's a little south of Ocean
Asle Beach if you're familiar with Ocean Isle, and then
then you have Sunset Beach and then there's a couple
to go and then then you get into Myrtle Beach.
But we used to go there every Easter because what
we would do is we would go down and clean
the place up, dust, sweet do whatever, and then we
would spend the weekend, A long weekend there cleaning up

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my buddy's mom's beach house.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
I'll tell you what I was. I was thinking about
vacation yesterday. I don't know if I'm the only one.
I put this on our Facebook page yesterday. I guess
I just needed devent this weather. I mean, Memorial weekend
till now. Listen, I get it. I know we live
in the High Valley. I know that we can have
all four seasons in one day. Listen, I get it.

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I've lived here my entire life. But right now, I
feel as if I fell asleep, took a nap, and
slept through summer and where it fall again.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Yeah, in about two weeks, you'll be you'll be complaining
because it's so hot and humid.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
I mean, I don't mean to complain. I don't want
to sound like, you know, negative nancy or anything, but
I mean this has gone on for days now. At
this point, I mean we I have on a sweatshirt.
I had on a sweatshirt yesterday.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Is what it is.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Heat in my house. It's just depressing. At this point.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
You just you learn to live with it. I mean,
I'm not saying that the weather can't depress you. But
I mean, like I look at it as it's spring.
This is what happens.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
I don't know. I can remember. I can remember a
Memorial Day weekend back in the early nineties we were
doing We had a steak fry on the Sunday of
Memorial Day weekend, and it was at Bethlehem Community Park
and it was so cold and windy. We were hanging
tarps to stop the wind because it was so cold
at the you know, at the little shelter there, and

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people were in winter coats and gloves and you're trying
out there to cook steaks. I mean, it was just no,
it was a disaster.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
I get it. I get it. It's where we live.
Like I said, I understand. I've lived it, lived here
my entire life. Just sometimes it's like, man, I feel like,
like I said, I fell asleep, woke up, summer's been
here and gone. I didn't even I didn't even realize it.
Oh but oh, did you see my pictures? You probably didn't.
I got to see the inside of a Tesla truck yesterday.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
Nice lucky you.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I walked listen. I've wanted to see one of those things.
I'll close. I've passed them on the highway. I walk
out to hear and right across the street from the
Capitol is a Yeah gold Well. The guy was in it.
So as I'm going to my car, I walk right
past it and I see him sitting in there, and
I knock on the window and he got out and
he was very nice. I didn't ask his name. I
should have. I said, this is gonna be really weird.

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Can I see the inside? And he goes, oh, yes,
he goes, And you're not it's not weird. You know
how many people have asked to look inside of this,
so I did. It's completely different than what I imagined. It's
it's it's plain. There's there's like nothing, there's a wheel,
there's a monitor for the radio stations and all the

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controls and everything. A monitor probably the size of your
laptop screen. It's not small, and then there's some back seats.
But other than that, it was solid black. I put
some pictures up on our Facebook page. But then after
and like I said, this guy was he was very nice.
He actually opened the bed of it for me, and
the tona covers out. How you say it, it's scrolls

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back like a conveyor belt. It kind of goes back
like that, and he showed me how that all worked
and everything. But it was cool. Would not be my
choice of a vehicle, but it was more stout than
I thought it was going to be. But afterwards, I
get in my car and I'm driving and everything, and
I thought, you know what, right now, Tesla owners are

(01:00:22):
probably a little on guard with everything. So thank god
that guy was nice because he could have been like,
who is this crazy woman? We have a call?

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
We do. We have Scott from the Boonies as he
could put in the Booni of Richie County, and he
wants to talk about concerts. Oh, good, hey, Scott, Good morning, Scott.

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
Had good morning to you. You're curious about the best
concerts people in that Yes, I will give you one. Okay,
as far as I'm concerned, probably was one of the
best ever held anywhere in the world. Garth looks and
this was back and I forgive me on the years,
I'm thinking between ninety nine and two thousand and one.

(01:01:00):
But we received three tickets at our radio station and
so myself, my sidekick on air, and the owner we
went to that concert in Sacramento was held at the
Arco Center, home of the Kings. That place was rocking.
I don't know if you're familiar with the Arco Center,
but it's built on teflon rollers for Iroquay.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:01:23):
The people were stopping so much that the stadium was
going side to side on those rails.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:01:30):
And Garth Brooks put on probably the best show I've
ever seen, along with the spiddler at the drummer coming
up from the bottom. It was huge and it was
such a good job that we all rushed back and
went on the air and told people, this is great,
go to it. They sold out everyone, and I think
that was the year that he broke Michael Jackson's record

(01:01:50):
on attendance that pretty big.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Was that the one where he flew across the audience
on onlines hanging from the ceiling?

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Was it that?

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
Okay, this is back when he didn't have as much
weight and hey, and as fiddlers were always moving across
the stage. It was a very expensive stage show that
they put together. I remember reading the numbers on it
a long time ago in the trades and I'm just
gonna throw you out another one, which because it was
probably for me personally one of the best. It was

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Diamond Rio and they went to It was a county fair,
and the county in California paid a lot of money
for this. So I knew this gal who was a
huge man, and she was a waitress, and she couldn't
afford it. She wanted to go a whole routine. You know,
I had the backstage passes. My life crap. So I

(01:02:44):
went back, talked to him and I brought her in there,
didn't charge her anything. She got her first seat, and
then they took her on the tor bus and all
this gual or her eyes just lap. She couldn't believe
she was meeting her favorite band. I understand, probably the
most satisfying to a lot of cont Good.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
For you, Good for you. She I'm sure it's a
great memory for her too.

Speaker 7 (01:03:08):
Sorry, and again something to talk about with the audience,
and they love it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Yeah, thank you so much, Thanks so much. Great taking
you're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy w w V A welcome back
to the Blue Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy w w VA. Just a reminder We're gonna

(01:03:32):
have one more chance for you to win before the
end of the show, which obviously as soon, so stay
tuned for that. But of course we can't do that yet.
We got to talk to our friend Kevin Cook's job automotive. While, yes,
it has been a while, it has.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
Been a little while, man, money arey. I mean we
were just slammed. Okay, I mean absolutely in saying plus,
let's see I cooked.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Well, we were off. We were off Friday and Monday.
So that that's why you probably that we didn't have
you then, are you? I didn't Yeah, okay, you didn't
miss us, now thanks. Wow, But we know you listened
because you sent me a link to the Great Train Robbery.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
Great, isn't that cold? Yeah? Yeah, you're talking about that
this morning? I said, I going, but got it. What
if they're still out there and they're still touring all
over Maryland and PA and you know that area where
there's kind of cool Delaware.

Speaker 7 (01:04:23):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I can't believe you found I can't believe you found them.
I'd never heard of him before. That was Otis's thing.

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
That was and there's a video on their Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
They're not bad, So what was it what was your
first concert Willie Nelson? Oh, that's a good one, and.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
Just it was a great one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Oh I can't hold you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
Let's see it would have been about nineteen seventy nine,
so that would have put me what sixteen seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Well, I was going to say thirty What I was
going to say, you were thirty out? Wow? That's all right, right,
That's that's my jab for the day. I'm done.

Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
Here I go, you know, taking my time to look
up something that's important to him. The great training.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
Made it sound like it was important game changer that
you know, influenced your life or something.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Well, I just said they were good. So anyway, okay,
so what what's good? What's good at Straw Automotives?

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
How about Straw Bottom strab Honda right here and Willing
and Mountaineer Honda over in Bridgeport are once again battling
it out for number one in the state. I mean
the Honda store here is sell four five and then
Mountaineer will sell four five. And I mean they're just
right now wanted to and just pushing, you know, everything

(01:05:47):
that they can to put every car deal together, as
is every stribe automotive dealership this month, Hyundai, Nissan, Chrysler, Dodge,
Deep Ram Forward. It's our red, white and Wow event.
We do it every year. A lot of people wait
for this event because they know how aggressive we are,
and we are trying again putting every car deal together,

(01:06:08):
trying to sell every new every pre o. Don't miss
your opportunity to save some money. That everything is a
pre tariff pricing, pre COVID pricing. These are deals that
you haven't seen in cent Er twelve years. So come
on out see for yourself how much.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
You can say.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
So, I have a quick question. Shoot, since Mountaineer and
Strawb Automotive and straw Honda up at the Highlands are
battling neck and neck one and two, is there any
smack talk between the two dealerships?

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Well, every day like it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
I mean, is it like classic like Larry Birds, Michael
Jackson smack talk Michael.

Speaker 5 (01:06:43):
They don't get quite that aggressive. Okay, yeah they do.
They there's some good, healthy competition there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
Well that's what we'd like to hear.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
Yep. So, and big rewards for everyone this month. They
hit their numbers, So these guys are really trying hard.
We put a lot of big this is out there
this month. We put some really lofty goals out there
and everybody's trying to hit them. So come on out
and help.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
And if you want straw at the Highlands to win
the month, get out there and buy it so they
can smack talk.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
That's right, they have the bragging rights for the month.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
There you have that. Hey, thanks for your help. So anyway, yeah,
he sent me the LinkedIn great. I mean obviously that
came up out of the blues. So, I mean it
wasn't like I was looking that much, right, And so
he while we were on the air, he looked it
up and sent it to me in a text, and
I was like, there was a link and I'm like,
holy cow.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
I can't believe you remember the name.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Also they I mean, like like he said, I mean,
they were so good that it just like I was like,
holy cow. But he, like he said, we were talking
off air, he said, there's only one original member from
GTR that's it's still there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Nah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
On our Facebook page, Dave said his first concert was
zz Top in ninety one at the Civic Center. I
worked on his favorite just like Scott the caller Garth
Brooks in twenty fifteen in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Never saw Garth. Really, I'd love to be Garth Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
That's one I would go to. And then Ellen said
Ario Speedwagon. She didn't say if it was our favorite
or first. That's not your cup.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
I saw him here. I saw him here at the
Capitol last year or whenever they were here, not too
long ago. Okay, I'm not an r EU speedwaggon guy.
Just something about Kevin Crann's voice. I'm not a fan of.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Oh, I'd have to hear him to remember. I'm terrible
at music, Yeah you are. I am. I'm terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Jesus man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
I can't win. And the funny thing is people always
say to me you work in radio. I don't care.
That doesn't mean I know everything about music. I know
the song when I when I recognize it when I
hear it. But I'm not one to rattle off albums
and years and like you do. Anyways, All right, before
we're out of here, one in hundred and sixty two,

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four eleven seventy, your last chance to Wedness Morning, one
hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy. Family four packed raft
around Rodeo next Saturday, right, in Belmont, Ohio, been many times,
absolutely love it myself. One of my favorite things in the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
Summer to the chase caller number.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Twelve one in hundred sixty two four eleven seventy caller
number twelve. That does it for us. We'll be back
for some fun on your Friday. We'll talk to you
then