The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam June 6, 2025

Our apologies for no podcasts the last couple of days, as we were fighting issues with our recording software.  Lots to get to today though, including Trump v. Musk.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one Tuck Show in the Ohio. Valey, this
is no bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now the.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven o six on news radio
eleven seventy. Ashley Smith Thomas is a political analyst who
joins us. Now, Ashley, what do you make of all this?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, I'm just gonna sit here with my popcorn
and just watch this all.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
That's what I said earlier.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Has been very intriguing. I'm very surprised to see Elon
be this aggressive. However, at the same time, what does
he have to lose?

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Right?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
And I think you know, there was an Axios report
that shared that basic He was upset that they removed
the ev mandate from the bill.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
UH.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
There was also supposedly the UH air traffic Control. They
need some new satellite systems. He offered to do starlink UH.
He was turned down due to the appearance of conflict
of interest. Then it was suggested and mentioned in this
article that he had originally pitched an individual to be

(01:27):
nominated for UH, the head of NASA, and which President
Trump made the nomination, and then as soon as Elon
stepped down from his government capacity with DOGE, then President
Trump immediately UH pulled the nominate the nominee UH from consideration.
And so it really according to this Access reporting some

(01:51):
other articles that I was doing some research on, basically
shared that Elon has gotten offended. It's not taking this
very personal. What I find to be very interesting boat
and I will say this is that he's been very adamant.
Even on the campaign trail, Elon was and that cutting
pork spending and we need to slash the size of
the government and we need to really get this spinning

(02:11):
under control. And so he's been signing the alarm on
that this would increase our deficit by two point six
trillion dollars over the course of ten years. And you
also look at Speaker Johnson and Senator Soon they're moving
forward with this, and you know, that's where I just

(02:33):
think it's really interesting to see what's going to happen
here in the coming days, especially since they're trying to
get this piece of legislation passed in the Senate by
July fourth. But to really start to air some of
the dirty laundry, so to speak. Is really surprising to
me that that Elon would would do that because this now,

(02:55):
we got midterms coming up next year, and this here,
I think is not going to look good for the
Republican Party at all. And my concern would be is
this is he unknowingly handing over the midterms to the Democrats. So,
you know, time will tell, but it's gonna be asking
to see what happens during the coming days and weeks.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Talking to political analysts Ashley Smith Smith Thomas. She is
the founder and CEO of Freedom Fund USA. It's a
nonprofit to protect freedom and nationalist security. So in listening
to you, number one, you know, we always sit there
and say a scorned woman is dangerous. Here a scorn
bro is dangerous. But number two, it almost seems like
Elon is kind of putting himself out there as kind

(03:40):
of like a gun for hire, Ashley. I mean, he
paired up with Trump, there's no doubt he helped him
in the election. Now he's throwing all kinds of bombs
at Trump. I mean, is this a a gun for
hire for the Democratic Party? As all of a sudden
he going to go over there, and you know, if
I don't get my way, I'll take my ball and
go to the other side.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't know that Hennil I go to the other side.
I mean, you look at Elon, I mean he was Democrat,
he leaned liberal, and then he shifted because he didn't
like this. He did not like seeing where America was
headed under the Biden administration and Biden's policy, so he
shifted to the Republican Party and help President Trump. I
think what we're going to see is that if there's

(04:19):
going to be any shifting taking place, he'll probably just
go independent and be more libertarian. I think we're starting
to see more Republicans and Democrats lean the more libertarian,
particularly when you look at this what's happening with this bill,
the fact that you have Senator Rampaul who is a
very staunch libertarian. I mean, he has stated from the

(04:41):
from the very geg go that he does not believe
in increase in our spending and that we need to
have fiscal responsibility. Look at Thomas Massey over in the House,
same thing. He's been very adamant that we need to
cut spending. And Republicans are going to keep talking about
fiscal responsibility and that we need to reduce the deficit
and that we need to actually have a balanced budget.
Then why all these years have we not seen that

(05:02):
come from the Republican Party. So when Republicans are standing
the alarm, then they get vilified, and that in itself
is sad to see. So you have President Trump, he's
now attacking Senator Ram Paul saying that he will work
to primary him. And then now you have Elon now
threatening to primary Republicans who voted for this piece of legislation.

(05:23):
And so really, I think what we're going to be
seeing here is going to be a divide within the
Republican Party. I think that there's going to be people
who can no longer resonate with the Republican Party. And
I think we're going to see a shift politically where
more people are going to lean towards libertarian and independent.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, is that the same shift we've seen within the
Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, we're starting to even to see some key figures
in the Democrat parties shift independent because they can't resonate
with the Democrat Party, they don't believe in the direction
of where it's headed. But also they would never align
with the Republican Party. So I think we're going to see,
especially in midterms and then the twenty twenty eight presentindential election,
I think we're actually going to see more people become
independents rather than actually affiliating with a party.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
So so basically with yeah, basically with this fight right
now between Trump and Musk, the way you read it
is Elon's ticked off. He's thinking, I did all this stuff,
I should get some preferential treatment. He didn't get it.
Now he's pissed and he's stole in a tantrum.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
At the moment. That's the way it appears. And but
I but I will say, you know, for a while,
Press Secretary Caroline Lovett, there's the White House that she
has said that you know, Elon has been aware of
this bill as well as President Trump. President Trump knew
his feelings about the bill, and that President Trump was
very adamant that he stands by this bill. And so

(06:47):
nothing's going to change. And so I think the way
it appears, and of course this is just according to reporting,
it appears that Elon is just upset. If I was
to put on my political strategy hat, yes, you know,
you look at Elon he has a huge following. I mean,
he's the richest man in the world. I mean here
he is with all of these you know, major corporations.

(07:08):
He has a lot of influence, not only with those
who are Republican, but also Democrat. I mean, if he
doesn't like what President Trump is doing, if he doesn't
like where the federal government is headed, if he believes
that there needs to be more cutbacks and that Doge
needs to last longer, and that there really needs to
be true reform, then why not run in twenty twenty
eight as an independent? Why not run in excuse me? Sorry, sorry,

(07:31):
I know he can't run as president. However, what I'm
curious is to see is why can he put his
support behind someone that can run for that position. And
I know that there's been a lot of speculation, and
again I don't know if this is going to happen,
but I remember that you had No Labels, which was
a group attack that was trying to find those independent voters.

(07:53):
So what I'm curious to see if we're going to
see him align more with No Labels in terms of
trying to find that more independent Literarrian candidate and Joe
Manchin at that time. Ser Joe Manchin was one that
got a lot of attention back in twenty twenty four
as a potential candidate. So we'll see what happened here
in twenty twenty eight. But I think this is not
gonna be the end of e long. I'm gonna keep

(08:13):
seeing him and I think we're gonna see him get
more politically involved.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
All right, Ashley, thanks for the insight.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
All right. That is Ashley Smith Thomas, Political Analyst.

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(12:12):
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(12:33):
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I'm gonna get your answer to that here a little
bit shortly, But I did want to comment a little
bit quickly on the Elon conversation that bloom Daddy had
at the top of the show listen. I was watching

(12:55):
it last night. I am not a big user of
the platform x. I really don't know much of it,
but I was following it with popcorn in hand watching this.
Did anybody else feel like this is like a bad breakup?
I mean, who puts all of this out there on

(13:17):
social media? But the one thing I'm want to let
everybody know that this morning, there are multiple media outlets
that are saying that the two men will have a
conversation today via the phone, that they are going to
have a conversation. But it seems like it went from
there was a bit of turmoil. Elon's time had come

(13:40):
to an end, which that always was part of the plan.
His time came to an end, and then all of
a sudden bam, and then yesterday sort of as a joke,
it shot off like a rocket. This this animosity, this disagreement.

(14:03):
Come on, gentlemen, let's grow up. This does not need
to be put out there in the world for everybody,
everybody's entertainment. I will say this, it is entertaining. Also,
one thing, let's keep in mind if you agree or
disagree with one or the other, whether it's President Trump,

(14:25):
whether it's Elon Musk, let's keep in mind that together
they made it happen pretty much. Elon though, that's Elon
stepped up with Starlink for the fire victims in California,
the flood victims in the Carolina is Let. Let's not
lose sight of what was accomplished between those two men

(14:50):
as the campaign trail was going on, and you know,
just the different things doge everything that has happened between
the two I just it's all, like I said, it's
like a bad breakup. It's actually very sad because between
the two of them and what they've been able to
accomplish together has been great. Just because you disagree on

(15:14):
this big beautiful bill, it doesn't have to be this
game changing, this this ending, you know, throwing out the
accusations with with the Epstein list, and I don't know,
it's just gotten ugly really quickly. It actually saddens me,
you know, last night, like I said, it was entertaining,

(15:35):
but it's actually kind of it's it's sad in the
same regards. But to see these two billionaires bicker, it's childish.
It's childish. Grow up, grow up. But I don't know,
have you been following it otis or did you just no, no.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
No, it doesn't really no, it is what it is.
I mean, I mean, I see, I mean, I see comments,
I see you know, social media posts and you know
people's reactions to what they are, and you know it
just you just take it and go.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
Well, hopefully today I don't look too deep into it.
Hopefully today the conversation does happen between the two of them,
and things can be squashed or slow, just just minimize.
Let's let's all take a step back and take a
breath and calm down, because this has gotten ridiculously out

(16:35):
of control, ridiculously out of control. But again, let's not
forget what has also been accomplished. Between the two of them.
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(18:31):
here finally and what is what is something from childhood
that you loved doing?

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Simple?

Speaker 6 (18:38):
No, I'm not talking you know going to Disney World.
Just a simple thing that reminds you of childhood, like
every day.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Thing, sure, or what you would like. It didn't have
to be every day, but it's something maybe you did
a lot in the summer, Yeah the day a kid.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, it didn't cost money and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
If you went to the pool every day, you know,
like like I got to know a lot of people
would wherever I went to Junior High. They would go
to Wheeling Parks Pool almost well, four or five days
a week.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
You're exactly along the lines as Robin on Facebook said,
swimming in the playground pool. Robin said that, and then
on our text line we had one. Let's see here.
My favorite summer activity was going to the bookmobile. I
remember that it came every other week in my little
hometown and we would go on board and pick books
to read. I can still remember the smell. Kids nowadays

(19:27):
couldn't even comprehend this concept. I loved the bookmobile. A
library on wheel. That's a great yep. I remember that
they would come to my school, but yes, that's a
great one.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
That's a lot of times where that would be the
central meeting place would be the school, and then they
would be there for say two hours, and then you'd
have that window and you had your libry because it
was it was an offshoot nine times out of ten
of your county your public library, and so you would
go and like for me, it was at Bethlehem Elementary
and then you would go up there and you could

(19:59):
be able to check out a book or two and
you had two weeks to read it. Then you had
to return it or you paid a fine.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Well, and then if you were lucky, your school had
the book at club through Pizza Hut. Was that your No,
that wasn't you little after meeting? Okay, so it was.
I think if you read it was either five or
six books and you filled up the button that you had,
then you took that button a Pizza Hut and you
got a free personal pizza. Nice I had. I had
a lot of free personal So thanks to that little

(20:26):
little club. So great comment on our text line again,
if you have one three zero three eight two call
us one for eleven seventy. Were having some fun with
this one this morning, so I wanted to hit on this. Today,
of course, is the eighty first anniversary of D Day,

(20:47):
which of course is.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
The liberation of Europe from World War Two. Yeah, Normandy Beaches,
and you know, you sit there and you think eighty
one years ago that the people that participated, you know,
if they served, are probably gone the majority of it
because let's just say you took an average age of
twenty years old per person, which actually the average age

(21:10):
of the soldiers in World War Two was older than that,
because I think it was twenty six was the average age,
but you probably had some, you know, people that enlisted
that were eighteen, nineteen twenty. If that's the case, you know,
they're pushing one hundred right now and there's not that
many left. And if you think about it, like it

(21:31):
was nine or ten years ago that the last survivor
of World War One passed away, So we're getting to
that point where those people that fought in the Second
World War are not going to be with us much
longer well.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
And when it comes to those stories, it's one thing
to read them in a book or see a reenactment
or a movie or a movie. It's another thing to
sit and listen to a first hand account of somebody

(22:12):
that survived it, went through it. It has so much
more impact. And those stories, as as we continue to
lose them with with age and time, it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate,
and I think we lose, we lose.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
And it's not just the d Days people. It's it's
the Holocaust survivors, it's the you know, it's it's the
people that were that were impacted. And whether you like
Tom Broker or not when he was on NBC News
or whatever, him calling them the greatest generation is probably
an understatement.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, well that's one thing about the Boulder, Colorado attack. Unfortunately,
a Holocaust survivor was involved in that. I think she
was eighty eight years old. She was injured in that attack,
which is despicable. But one thing I wanted to bring
this up about D Day. You know, we talk about

(23:13):
it and we tend to think of American troops that
were involved, but there were over two million troops from
twelve different countries that were involved. Britain of course was involved,
Canadian troops. There was also Australian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek,

(23:33):
New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
What did Rhodesia was a country? Okay, I think it's
something else now.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
And then the Polish navy was also involved.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
And you gotta figured that these a lot of those
like the Dutch and the French and the Polish, they
were under German rule at the time, so it was
probably people that escaped and then and then you know,
joined a military or rebanded together to form the military
for France or Poland or who you know, Dutch.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
Even though their country was controlled right well, and I
hate to say this and I've always wanted to watch
the opening scene of saving Private Ryan. Correct that was
the okay, And I've never watched it. Unfortunately, I haven't
been able to bring myself to watch it. I've always
heard that it is the most realistic portrayal of D Day.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Just so you know, Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe, okay, okay,
And I just have not been able to bring myself
to watch that it.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
You know, that movie's probably pushing twenty years old now,
I think, if not maybe a little bit older. And
when it came out, the the D Day survivors said
it was the most realistic that they they've seen. Yeah,
and you know that doesn't mean that that was good. No.

(25:14):
You had eighteen nineteen year old kids, twenty year old
kids coming off of the amphibious boats and they were
just machine gun fodder. Some of them didn't even make
it off the boat. Some of them didn't make it
to the beach. You know, there was just the carnage,

(25:37):
just the assault itself, you know, the sheer numbers alone. Obviously,
you know, we have the technology today to do things
differently and you know, with maybe a lot less loss
of life. But unfortunately we didn't have that at the time,
and you know, there were hundreds of thousands of young

(25:58):
men of all nationalities that did not make it through
that day.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
So well, and that's the thing being from my generation
and younger, you know, we had I remember Desert storm
and then of course September eleventh, and those are horrible
historical events. Nothing like you said, the carnage and the

(26:26):
loss of life, that's something like D Day. You know,
I am lucky enough to have not lived through that time.
But when you hear those stories, just you explaining that
right there, the young men the beaches, not even getting
off the boat. You know, it puts a pit in
your stomach, in your throat. You can't even begin to
imagine what that was like. And for those survivors to

(26:49):
watch that film.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Oh and you know the young people today that maybe
don't understand and appreciate that because you know, we tend
to you know, our teachers today, not all, but there
are teachers today that think that, you know, there's things
that you want to push an agenda as opposed to history.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah, yeah, and that make us lucky enough to have
this kind of Most.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
People aren't in school on the anniversary of D Day
or you're getting out. Yeah, you know, so, I mean
it's it would be it would be great if this
happened during the school year, because then it could be
taught and I want to say celebrated, but discussed.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
Yeah, on a on a more in depth yeah. Yeah.
And just a bit of good news real quick before
we go to break, kind of along the same lines.
The Army has to us surpasses recruiting goal four months
ahead of schedule, which is good news, kind of you know,
American pride, all of that coming back a bit so
good news there on this special day of course, D Day.

(27:54):
It is seven forty six. You're listening to the Bloomdedy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven sev WWVA. Welcome back,
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eleven seventy WWVA. On your Friday morning, your Friday morning.
All right, Steeler fans, you got your man?

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Or did you?

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Or did you? Yeah, that's that's kind of what I
was gonna get at. Yeah, So who's happy? Who's happy?
Aaron Rodgers is signing a whopping one year contract with
the Steelers, according to multiple reports. I don't know. I
don't know. Everybody knows. I'm not a Steelers fan, that's

(28:48):
not a big secret, but as a football fan in general,
I don't know if this is the route to go
for the Steelers. Everything that I'm seeing out there. Will Howard,
the rookie from a high estate, seems to be uh

(29:09):
impressing early on. But Aaron Rodgers one year contract. I
put this up on Facebook last night for the Steeler fans.
Are you happy? Steve said? Tomlin and Rooney replaced one
diva speaking of Pickens wide receiver Pickens with another. This
organization is a total joke. Fronie says, Boo got a

(29:32):
couple thumbs down, Jason said drama, drama, drama, and then
Steven says, I won't watch a single game, even if
I am a lifelong Steeler fan. Very disappointed in the
Rooney's so not.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Bowl.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Oh they'll flip.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Everybody's a bandwagon fan.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, they'll flip quickly, very.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
Very I'm sorry, a bandwagon hater.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
They'll fill. They'll flip very very quickly.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Or will he come in and play forty five seconds
and blow knee out like he did with the Jets
in his first game.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah, that was in his second season with the Jets, right, No,
was that the first one?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Because he was with them two seasons, two or three.
Doesn't it feel like Rogers sat behind Farv at Green
Bay for three or four seas It was a wi Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Yeah, they did it old school m HM, where you
bring up a quarterback, let him learn from the veteran.
You know, he's gonna get some reps, but he's not
gonna get a ton of them. But you know, in practice,
you're learning from one of the best instead of just
being thrown into the into the fire.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
Or maybe as a rookie, maybe that's what the Steelers
are using him for a good year. Will Howard rookie
QB O High State, sits behind Rogers, watches him, learns
from him, learns how to.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
A year.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
But I mean a year, you're really not going to Hey,
you're going to pick up some You're gonna pick up
a lot of things, don't get me wrong, but you know,
as far as a as you know, you're not going
to get you know, you don't get a college degree
in one year. It's a four year degree for a reason. Yeah,

(31:28):
you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
It's some I haven't picked up I'll put it this way.
I have not picked up on a lot of enthusiasm
even when this conversation started, when the speculation started.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
It's hard to get excited about a forty three year
old quarterback.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
There you go, Yeah, who's beat up. And I'm not.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Going to say I'm not going to say he's past
his prime, but I mean his better days are behind him.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
Sure, sure, Well he's he's different too, I mean, he's Listen,
that's the nice way of putting it.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Listen, they're like, he's like a kicker or a pitcher
in baseball. They're they're whack jobs. I mean, because well,
how can you not be. I mean, if you're a
pitcher in baseball, if it's like a starting pitcher, you're
pitching once every five days, so you got four days
where you're twiddling your thumbs. I mean, you have workouts

(32:23):
and you do different things, you know what I'm saying.
But once you're once, you're once you're done doing your things.
That's why pitchers are goofy, and they you know, like
they play practical jokes on people, and you know they'll
they'll do dumb things. And say dumb things. It's because
they're and kickers are the same way. I mean, what
do they play. They play like ten twelve plays a

(32:44):
game if if they're lucky.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
We we just got a meme from listener Richard. It
says it has Rogers and that has the Steelers emblem,
and it says breaking news. Steeler fans have notified the
league that they are entering the transfer portal. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good and real quick. Also in sports, a
mural celebrating Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson, which is located in Florida,

(33:10):
was defaced. This is a terrible story. The mural, which
also included former Negro League and Major League Baseball star
Mini Minoso, is in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami. It's
one of several art pieces celebrating baseball players near Dorsey Park.
UH that has been defaced. So to Hoover did this,

(33:32):
You're disgusting. Shame on you, Shame on you. Listen, everybody
knows the story of Jackie Robinson. He was an impactful,
impactful figure in Major League baseball. So hopefully whoever did
this will be caught quickly. Let's do it six eleven seventy.
This is your first chance to win this morning, a
four pack for tomorrow's game for the Ohio Valley.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Iron miss for some people. Here you go one.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Let's call it.
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(34:22):
Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
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Speaker 2 (34:50):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. Ashley Smith
Thomas is a political unlest you joined now, Ashley, what
do you make of all this?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
You know, I'm just gonna sit here with my popcorn
and just watch this all. It has been very intriguing.
I'm I'm very surprised to see Elon be this aggressive. However,
at the same time, what does he have to lose?

Speaker 7 (35:25):
Right?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
And I think you know, there was an Axios report
that shared that basically he was upset that they removed
the EV mandate from the bill UH. There was also
supposedly the UH air traffic control they need some new
satellite systems. He offered to do starlink UH. He was

(35:48):
turned down due to the appearance of conflict of interest.
Then it was suggested and mentioned in this article that
he had originally pitched an individual to be nominated for
the head of NASA, and which President Trump made the nomination,
and then as soon as Elon stepped down from his

(36:08):
government capacity with DOGE, then President Trump immediately pulled the
nominee UH from consideration. And so it really according to
this Access reporting some other articles that I was doing
some research on basically shared that Elon has gotten offended
and it's not taking this very personal. What I find

(36:29):
to be very interesting though, and I will say this,
is that he's been very adamant even on the campaign
trail Elon was, and that cutting pork spending, and we
need to slash the size of the government, and we
need to really get this spinning under control. And so
he's been signing the alarm on that this would increase
our deficit by two point six trillion dollars over the

(36:50):
course of ten years. And you also look at Speaker
Johnson and Senator Souon. They're moving forward with this and
and you know, that's where I just think it's really
interesting to see what's going to happen here in the
coming days, especially since they're trying to get this piece

(37:11):
of legislation passed in the Senate by July fourth. But
to really start to air some of the dirty laundry,
so to speak, is really surprising to me that that
Elon would would do that because this now we've got
midterms coming up next year, and this here, I think
is not going to look good for the Republican Party

(37:32):
at all. And my concern would be is this is
he unknowingly handing over the mid terms to the Democrats.
So you know, time will tell, but it's gonna be
interesting to see what happens during the coming days and weeks.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Talking to political analysts Ashley Smith Smith Thomas. She is
the founder and CEO of Freedom Fund USA. It's a
nonprofit to protect freedom and nationalist security. So in listening
to you, number one, you know, we always sit there
and say a scorned woman is dangerous.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
Here, a scorn bro is dangerous.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
But number two, it almost seems like Elon is kind
of putting himself out there as.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Kind of like a gun for hire. Ashley.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
I mean, he paired up with Trump. There's no doubt
he helped him in the election. Now he's throwing all
kinds of bombs at Trump. I mean, is this a
a gun for hire for the Democratic Party? As all
of a sudden he going to go over there, and
you know, if I don't get my way, I'll take
my ball and go to the other side.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I don't know that he'll necessarily go to the other side.
I mean, you look at Elon. I mean he was Democrat,
he leaned liberal, and then he shifted because he didn't
like this. He did not like seeing where America was
headed under the Biden administration and Biden's policy, so he
shifted to the Republican Party and help President Trump. I
think what we're going to see is that if there's

(38:50):
going to be any shifting taking place, he'll probably just
go independent and be more libertarian. I think we're starting
to see more Republicans and Democrats lean the more libertarian,
particularly when you look at this what's happening with this bill,
the fact that you have Senator Rampaul, who is a
very staunch libertarian. I mean, he has stated from the

(39:12):
very get go that he does not believe in increasing
or spending and that we need to have fiscal responsibility.
Look at Thomas Massey over in the House, same thing.
He's been very adamant that we need to cut spending.
And Republicans are going to keep talking about fiscal responsibility
and that we need to reduce the deficit and that
we need to actually have a balanced budget. Then why
all these years have we not seen that come from

(39:33):
the Republican party. So when Republicans are stounding the alarm,
then they get vilified, and that in itself is sad
to see. So you have President Trump, he's now attacking
Senator ram Paul saying that he will work to primary him.
And then now you have Elon now threatening to primary
Republicans who voted for this piece of legislation. And so really,

(39:55):
I think what we're going to be seeing here is
going to be a divide within the Republican Party. I
think that they're people who can no longer resonate with
the Republican Party, and I think we're going to see
a shift politically where more people are going to lean
towards libertarian and independent.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, is that the same shift we've seen within the
Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yes, we're starting to even to see some key figures
in the Democrat Party's shift independent because they can't resonate
with the Democrat Party right, they don't believe in the
direction of where it's headed. But also they would never
align with the Republican Party. So I think we're going
to see, especially in midterms and then the twenty twenty
eight presidential election, I think we're actually going to see
more people become independent rather than actually affiliating with a party.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
So basically with basically with this fight right now between
Trump and Musk, the way you read it is Elon's
ticked off. He's thinking, I did all this stuff, I
should get some preferential treatment. He didn't get it. Now
he's pissed, and he's still in a tantrum.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
At the moment. That's the way it appears. But I
will say, you know, for a while, Press Secretary Caroline Lovett,
there's the White House that she has said that you know,
Elon has been aware of this bill as well as
President Trump. President Trump knew his feelings about the bill,
and that President Trump was very adamant that he stands

(41:16):
by this bill. And so nothing's going to change. And
so I think the way it appears, and of course
this is just according to reporting, it appears that Elon
is just upset. If I was to put on my
political strategy cat, yes, you know, you look at Elon.
He has a huge following. I mean, he's the richest
man in the world. I mean here he is with
all of these, you know, major corporations. He has a

(41:39):
lot of influence, not only with those who are Republican
but also Democrat. I mean, if he doesn't like what
President Trump is doing, if he doesn't like where the
federal government is headed, if he believes that there needs
to be more cutbacks and that DOGE needs to last longer,
and that there really needs to be true reform, then
why not run in twenty twenty eight as an independent,
why not run in excuse sorry, sorry, I know he

(42:02):
can't run as president. However, what I'm curious is to
see is why can he put his support behind someone
that can run for that position. And I know that
there's been a lot of speculation, and again I don't
know if this is going to happen, but I remember
that you had No Labels, which was a groove pack
that was trying to find those independent voters. So what

(42:23):
I'm curious to see if we're going to see him
align more with No Labels in terms of trying to
find that more independent libertarian candidate. And Joe Manchin at
that time, Joe Manchin was one that got a lot
of attention back in twenty twenty four as a potential candidate.
So we'll see what happens here in twenty twenty eight.
But I think this is not gonna be the end
of Elon. I'm going to keep seeing him and I

(42:44):
think we're going to see him get more politically involved.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
All right, Ashley, thanks for the insight.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
All right. That is Ashley Smith Thomas political Anist.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
Welcome back on this Friday eight nineteen, when Daddy experienced
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(43:16):
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Speaker 5 (43:27):
We do have we are we will be giving away
a High Valley Ironman tickets in the very near.

Speaker 6 (43:31):
Future, very near future, hint, hint. All right, so let's
get into this. I would I'm very happy to welcome
into the studio joining us Betsy McFarlane, marketing director for
the Easter Seals, along with You're gonna recognize this voice,
but Chris Thoburn. He is also a committee member for

(43:52):
this great event that is happening Sunday, all in support of,
of course, the Easter Seals. So good morning, every body,
Good morning. So first of all, before we get into event,
the event, I grew up with the Easter Seals. I
mean I remember the telethons on TV. They've been a
part of the High Valley community for decades, So Betsy,

(44:14):
please remind us everything that the Easter Seal does do
for the High Valley.

Speaker 8 (44:18):
Absolutely, thanks for having me. Easter Seals was founded in
nineteen thirty seven in Wheeling, and so you're right, for
decades and decades it's been around, and we provide outpatient
pediatric rehabilitation therapy, so physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy
for kids who need help doing their you know, daily lives.

(44:40):
They need a little extra support, a little extra help.
They need to strengthen their muscles, they need to have
the speech therapy so they can communicate better. So it's
all geared to children who have disabilities of some sort,
and that can be anything from a slight speech delay
to the most severe cerebral all the muscular dystrophy things

(45:02):
like that. So some of our clients are only with
us for ninety days or six months, and then some
we have their entire childhood up until eighteen seventeen through
seventeen So yeah, okay, eighteen, okay.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
Autism is that? Oh yeah, okay, we do.

Speaker 8 (45:18):
We're one of the few local clinics that actually do
diagnosis of autism.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
And this is all supported by the community, which brings
us to what is happening Sunday down at Wheeling Heritage
Port and Chris, you were part of the planning committee
for this event, correct.

Speaker 9 (45:34):
Yeah, absolutely. Betsy and I we met at a coffee
and Connections and I let her know that I was
in Easter Seals from first grade all the way up
to fifth grade and pretty much everything that she mentioned,
occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy because one of the
things I wanted to do was be a PA Announcer's.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
Going to say speech therapy worked.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Yeah, I had to go through it because I could
not do that. So I would not be where I
am if it wasn't for Easter Seals. But Betsy, I
actually visited her for another reason for my daughter, because
my daughter is high risk for cerebral palsy and we
have birth or not birth to three early intervention now.
But I wanted to meet with Betsy and say, hey,
you know, we're gonna need Easter Seals here in the

(46:16):
New Yark future.

Speaker 8 (46:17):
So it's just helped so many, like thousands, thousands of children.
You can't go anywhere in the Ohio Valley and say
the word Easter Seals without somebody saying, oh, I went
to Easter Seals, or my kid went to Easter Seals,
or my brother went to Easter Seals or you know.
It's just it's a very important part of this community.

(46:38):
And like Chris said, there's a lot of chris Is
out there who wouldn't be where they are today without it.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Do you have any idea how many families or children
has been helped in erasiers.

Speaker 8 (46:50):
I would say tons of thousands since nineteen thirty seven obviously,
and you know we served two thousand a year on
our right now, okay, and so twenty to twenty five hundred.
In addition to our center on National Road, we also
our therapists also do West Virginia Birth the three, so

(47:12):
they'll go into homes and do for kids under age three.
They'll do those therapies in the home so that the
families don't have to come to the center. And that's
a free service through West Virginia. And that was a
pilot program at Easter Seals back thirty years ago, twenty
five years ago, and now it's all over West Virginia.
So that actually started Muzing at Easter Seals and then

(47:35):
they also contract with schools, so they'll go into like
Belair schools or Toronto schools, or it's usually Ohio because
West Virginia's school districts have the money to pay their
own therapists, whereas the Ohio school districts, you know how
small they are and they usually they'll contract out instead

(47:55):
of hiring, So we do a lot of Ohio schools.

Speaker 6 (47:58):
Well, not going into homes has to alleviate a lot
of pressure off of parents that are dealing with a
lot of stuff that some of us can't even imagine
what they're they're dealing with exactly.

Speaker 8 (48:07):
And those therapists they become like family to those families.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
Well, and part of everything that is able to be
accomplished by Easter Steals is supported by fundraising correct which
goes back to what is happening Sunday. So that is
the twenty twenty five splash Tacular. Yes, happening down at
Heritage Port.

Speaker 8 (48:25):
Ohio River splash Tacular. We are focusing on the river.
The entertainment will be on the river provided by the
Chippewa Lake water Ski Show team, So we're bringing a
water ski show just like you used to see at
Giaga Lake or down. I was going to say SeaWorld, Okay, yeah, yeah,
we're bringing them to the Ohio River at Heritage Port.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
I always wanted to be the girl at the top
of the trying yep, yepes.

Speaker 8 (48:49):
Yes, Chris is going to do that.

Speaker 9 (48:50):
Oh oh oh man. No, I'm looking forward to it.
But you know, it's a free event. There's going to
be food trucks. I'm really excited. Department will be bringing
their safety house to so not only is it going
to be entertainment, but educational for families that may not
know what to do in a fire. But yeah, yeah,
one of the biggest things the ski team, So we're

(49:12):
really excited.

Speaker 8 (49:13):
Yeah, and there'll be We're bringing in the Good Zoo.
They'll have animals there, the Smart Science Center, Robert and Libby,
they'll be there doing a science demonstration about what floats
and what sinks. They'll be conservation like Ohio River conservation
folks will be there talking about, you know, how to
how to recycle and keep our water clean and stuff

(49:34):
like that. So it's it's going to be educational and entertaining.
The nailers are going to be there. They're going to
come and Spike's going to be there and they're going
to have the prize wheel at the nailer's tent and
we'll have lots of raffles. I'm going to say, how
we're gonna make money.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
This one caught my eye. So there is the jet
blaster which is jet ski jet ski. Oh, completely slip.
I'm staring at it like it looks like shamu. What
is that thing called? But yes, the jet blaster jet Ski,
which is a raffle along with this is what caught
my eye. One thousand dollars in grocery store.

Speaker 8 (50:08):
Yes, two thousand dollars in grocery store, two of them, Okay,
from the grocery store of your choice. So wherever you
grocery shop you can get your that will be where
your prize is from.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
And all of this again goes back to the Easter Seals. Yes,
for you to be able to accomplish everything, we.

Speaker 8 (50:26):
Have had amazing support from the community to make this
event happen and make it free for the public. So
Panhandle Cleaning is our presenting sponsor, huge supporter of Easter
Seals along with the City of Wheeling and West Banco
and Merco Marine up in Wellsburg and just so many
different organizations have come together.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
We got one of those Wheeling.

Speaker 8 (50:48):
Heritage grants which was a fantastic help. So because of
all of that sponsorship, every dollar that's raised through the
raffles go to help our mission.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Wonderful, wonderful, everybody. Good luck this Sunday again. The Splash
tackularre happening this Sunday at Wheeling Heritage Port. But we
now have your chance to win another four pack to
see the Ohio Valley Ironman down at John Marshall Stadium.
Let's do it. Caller number fifteen one, eight hundred and
sixty two four eleven seventy Caller number fifteen Thanks you guys,

(51:24):
have a great weekend and good luck with everything.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Twelve to four at Heritage Port.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Twelve to four. It is eight twenty eight here on
the bloom Daddy Experience with Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back at eight thirty six on
this Friday morning. Thank you for tuning in the bloom

(51:50):
Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Once again, thank you to the Easter Seals team for
coming in this morning. Betsy and to talk about their
big event, splashed Tacular happening this Sunday down at Wheeling
Heritage Port.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
You know, the funny thing is not to change the subject,
but we gave away as family four pack of tickets
to the High Valley Ironman and our winner, James from Wheeling,
was very excited to win the tickets.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
Good. I hope everybody's excited when they when they're the
big Wieners. Yeah, that's the point, supposed to be excited.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
You're not excited to I mean probably excited to win,
but excited to be able to go to the game. Yeah,
and just you know take it all in and courtesy
of us in the in the iron Man.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Well, and here's the thing for for those that are
like huge football fans like I am, this is like
the the the desert for football season, like nothing's going on.
Of course there's OTAs and all of that kind of stuff,
but Aaron Rodgers, oh yeah, Aaron Rodgers, but it's kind
of like, oh there's no there's no games to watch.
So having the iron Men kind of fit right in

(52:56):
this timeframe is great for football fans. But that that's
too I wanted to mention everything that is happening happening
this weekend. I think I have it all covered, but
remind me if I don't, please let me know before
I get to that. Though, this is the last call
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Yes. So this is the last call again three zero
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Speaker 5 (53:32):
As soon as we go to the commercial break, we're
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Speaker 6 (53:38):
Minutes, yes, so get it in, get your name, phone
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this yesterday, going to hit on it again today. That's
what we're here for.

Speaker 9 (53:51):
We're local.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
We are local folks.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
So.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
Do not tell me there's nothing to do. Right for Sunday.
We just had the team from the Easter Seals splash
tackular in. That's happening Sunday down at Heritage Port. Let's
start off with tonight. So Tonight is Dutton Ranch Night
Barbecue and music happening out at the Dutton Ranch. Headliner
Tracy Burd. There you go. So we've got country music

(54:19):
happening tonight. Tickets are still available. Fingers crossed. We're so far.
I see the sunshine out there right now. So that's
happening tonight, Dutton Ranch Night Barbecue and concert. Tomorrow, we
have raft around Rodeo happening in Belmont. I have been
multiple times. It's absolutely fantastic, fantastic. Also happening tomorrow, as

(54:42):
we mentioned a High Valley Ironman, We've been giving away
your chances to win this morning for tickets to that.
So if you're a football fan, that that's where you
want to be. Happening tomorrow during the day down at
Heritage Port. I will be there volunteering. I think I'm
working the drink tent. The Chili Cookoff supporting the United Way.

(55:04):
That's happening tomorrow. So if you're a fan of chili,
you want to be at the Chili Cookoff, and of course,
as I said, it's supporting the United Way, you want
to be there. Also happening tomorrow Strawberry Fest in Martin's
Ferry along with Strawberry Fest in Bethlehe and I get that.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
I said it was formerly designed on Lutheran Church. It
is now the Grace Lutheran Church.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Okay, just so we have the name right there.

Speaker 6 (55:28):
Okay, So that's happening I think three to seven. Okay,
So there's a bunch of stuff I've already rattled off
also happening tomorrow. If you are a fan of cars,
this is your thing. You do not want to miss.
Cruise for the community car show that is happening tomorrow
from one to four. All vehicles are welcome. There's going

(55:50):
to be food and drinks, a Chinese auction, a fifty
to fifty raffle vendors, door prizes, stuff for the kids.
That's all happening tomorrow. So listen, there is tons, tons happening,
and this is all happening. The car show, I'm sorry,
is happening at the New Cumberland Fire Department, and that
is in support of the Brook Hancock Family Resource Network. Listen, folks,

(56:17):
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to
hear There's nothing to do. I just rattled off plans
for you for the entire weekend. The entire weekend and
a majority of this isn't going to cost a lot
or not cost you anything, Like the team from the
splash Tacular said, it's free to the community. It's free.
And who doesn't remember going to Jiaga Lake or SeaWorld

(56:39):
and seeing the ski acrobatics, the ski entertainment that they're
having on the Ohio River. Like I said, I always
wanted to be on top of the pyramid. I always
looked fun. I have the balance of, like you know,
a rock, I would never be able to do it.
But that's happening on Sunday. So there's plenty to do, plenty, plenty,
plenty to do. Speaking of today, we mentioned earlier it

(57:02):
is D Day, so you know, take a minute stop
think about everything and everybody that sacrificed on D Day.
Also today it's National Donut Day, folks, National donut Was
that your stomach? It was absolutely perfect timing. Well, you

(57:27):
had perfect timing yesterday and when we were talking to
Eric about cybersecurity, you had a Yeah, it's like you
do this on purpose, but I know you don't. No,
you couldn't have timed your stomach there. But again, it
is National donut Day, so if you're on your way
to the office and you want to make friends in
the office, Stop off now and get yourself some donuts

(57:50):
and your entire office. I'm still waiting on ours. I
haven't heard anybody knock on the door. Well it's not
National breakfast Day.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
Well when you lose two bets and you haven't paid
off in a year and a half, welch, I'll stop it.

Speaker 6 (58:08):
Stop it. We also today talking about childhood summer activities.
We have been, we have been here and there, and
the question was, you know, what was your favorite summer
activity as a kid? Simple things like going to the
local pool, simple things, And we had Ellen on Facebook

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says playing tag and riding riding bikes in the neighborhood.
Randy says, playing war is a kid in paintball as
a teen? What was yours mine?

Speaker 5 (58:42):
Growing up from about the second grade till high school.
My best friend, if you went from my house up
the street, down the main road, down the road to
his house, it was exactly one mile and we were
basically inseparable for a long time time. And I would
either walk over, ride my bike, get dropped off, whatever,

(59:06):
and it didn't matter what it was. I always had
my baseball glove. We always had a baseball but we
would play wiffle ball in his front yard. We would
shoot hoops at the neighbors driveway. We would just get
out on the street because it was nice and flat,
and we'd throw baseball. We'd play rundown, you know, and
then as the other neighborhood kids came around, you either

(59:27):
played kick the can or capture the flag or something
of that nature. We were all you'd go up We
used to call it Waco Field because Waco was the
Wheeling antenna company and they had their big antenna at
the top of the hill in Bethlehem, and said, there
was this big flat field right next to it, and
we would go up there and play football and do

(59:47):
different things. I mean, we were always on the go
playing little league. You know. If if you didn't have
a game that night, you were playing wiffleball or or
throwing the ball out or whatever. It was just a
totally different way of life.

Speaker 6 (01:00:02):
Oh, it's kind of snady because you don't see a
lot of that stuff anymore. You drive past a lot
of neighborhood playgrounds and you don't see kids on the
basketball court anymore. Now. My childhood was a little bit
different than yours. You were a towny, You were a
town kid. I was a country kid. Wed I mean,
I didn't have sidewalks, so I wasn't able to ride bikes.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
We didn't have sidewalks.

Speaker 6 (01:00:23):
No, oh well, I am oh, okay, well, we didn't
even remotely have anything close to where we could ride
a bike. So my fun, I remember this clear as day,
playing in the creek or creek or creek. To me,
it was a creek. That's where I grew up. And
that's what I'm gonna say. We played in the creek

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and we would build dams, and we would catch crawdads,
and you know, we would pretend we were fishing even
though there were no fish. Then also in our backyard,
we had a pasture field and we would play in
the watering trough that the cows had, play with the moss,
and you know, all kinds of crazy stuff, and you know,
it's just those are the kind of memories that they

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just stick with you. You don't need the most expensive toy,
you don't need, you know, the newest gadget. You just
used your imagination and you played and you had fun.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
We would hike in the woods. We'd go BlackBerry picking,
snipe hunting. Didn't do that a whole lot, but we did.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
Those are the kinds of things we did. So yeah,
it was fun simpler times, man, I remember those times.
It was simple. All right, This is it. Last call
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(01:01:45):
It's eight forty six. We're gonna wrap it up after this.
You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Sam and Otis News
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So listen, melody, congrats, congrats, and to everybody else, thank you.
We're not we're not done. Listen. We're gonna have more

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stuff next week, but we're not done this morning either.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
We got our last four pack of High Valley Ironman
tickets to give away before the end of the show.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Yep, yep, So who's.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Going to be our last Thame and melody. We either
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to mail the vouchers out, or you can call us
at one eight hundred sixty four eleven seventy before the
end of the show.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Yes, yeah, that's that's very important. That is very important.
We were mentioning. Let's see here we mentioned it is
also National drive in Movie Theater Day. A little bit
of stats for you. There's three hundred and thirty six
left in the country of drive in.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
There's one up Wintersville. No between New oh Cramedy six.
Now I can't think of what it is between New
Cumberland and.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Chester.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
I think they call it New Manchester up in that area.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
Is Wintersville still around?

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
But there used to be one in Glendale too, right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
Oh, there used to be there used to be off
with place there where a cardinal drug is out in
them Grove. We covered lunch out there. There used to
be a movie theater. There was one on the island
at one time. I remember going to the one on
the Island as a kid a lot. I think I
saw the Bad News Bears there, saw Herbie, the Lovebug movies.

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Wintersville is closed.

Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
I remember, I remember when we went to see the
Bad News Bears that because it was always a double
feature when you went to the drive in, so the
Bad News Bears and then after it was Paper Moon.
So he had Tatum O'Neil. Tatum O'Neil. That's she was
the youngest to win an oscar for paper muon and
or be nominated. I can't remember anyway she but it

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was I remember that because I never made it through
the Paper Moon movie. I fell asleep.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
But I do.

Speaker 5 (01:04:21):
Remember the Bad News Bears at the drive in.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
I'm trying to think what I saw the d.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
I saw so many. I remember seeing some of the
Billy Jack movies.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
What Billy Billy.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
Jack was like a he was kind of a Native
American and was out in the you know, the Plain States,
I don't know where exactly was, yeah, and stood up
for the little guy, you know, the people that were
being discriminated against the under the hippie culture, you know,
the Native Americans. And he was kind of like a child.

(01:05:00):
Norris before Chuck Norris, and the guy that played Billy
Jack and I can't think of his name off the
top of my head went on to become a US
senator or representative or something. Yeah, I don't remember you. Oh,
you gotta get they're first off, they're not good movies.
You don't say no, I mean if you like, the

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quality is very low.

Speaker 6 (01:05:21):
Billy Jack. Yeah, okay, I'm looking at it here.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
His name's Tom something.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
I think Tom Laughlin.

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
And but yeah, I remember seeing the Billy Jack movies
that they drive in and I just as a kid,
you mean, You're like, oh, yeah, this is great. He's cool.
And then like I saw Billy Jack movie within the
last year and I'm thinking, oh my god, this is
so terrible, Like the acting's bad, everything just about it.
That the whole premise is just kind of like, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Well, entertainment wise, you know, you won't see back on
the big screen. Playing his iconic role of Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill. He's ruled out returning for any of the
anything in the Star Wars franchise. Now he's seventy three
years old. Oh my god, Luke Skywalker is seventy three
years old. Let that sink in man, that makes you

(01:06:17):
feel old. Of course he was in the original nineteen
seventy seven Star Wars movie that kicked the entire franchise off.
And he last appeared, of course, in the last in
this Skywalker saga, the last film of that. He won't
be back people, Luke Skywalker is he is couldput he

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is done? Now speaking of childhood, my childhood in movies,
This will make everybody out there happy. I'm sure a
new care Mayor movie is in development. I know otis
you're putting on your calendar. You cannot wait for this one.

(01:07:01):
As I sit here and drink out of my care
bet care Bear travel mug just puts a smile on
your face. If you're a kid of the eighties, you
remember the.

Speaker 5 (01:07:10):
Care Bears one of the worst ones ever.

Speaker 6 (01:07:15):
No, yes, no, no.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Eighties cartoons were terrible.

Speaker 6 (01:07:20):
No, they were not. No, they were not the care Bear,
Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright she Row, he Man terrible. He
Man was not terrible. The Thundercat's Vulte Undercata Okay, thank
you Thundercat was I knew I was gonna hit on Okay,
g I Joe was a cartoon of the eighties. Oh
my god, Okay, what was better?

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
Anything but anything from the sixties, and like any Bugs
Bunny road Runners they were, they were, They're the best
our generation gap is just super Friends. That was a
great one, really.

Speaker 6 (01:07:56):
Oh yeah, super Friends was better than he Man.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Yes, Clue Club Clue.

Speaker 6 (01:08:02):
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
What was the Dune Buggy one? I can't remember all
of them. Oh, they were so much better than the
eighties cartoons.

Speaker 6 (01:08:11):
Well, the eighties cartoons are better than now Scooby Doo.
All right, I'll give you Scooby Doo. What about the Smurfs?

Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
Smurfs were terrible, absolutely terrible.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
Come on, he Me and Sira Voltron Gi Joe.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Oh bad, they were just I mean they were so phony. No,
the bad thing about the seventies they were phony.

Speaker 6 (01:08:34):
But Bugs Bunny was was absolutely legit.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
Yes, the Flintstones, but yeah, well yeah, that's it. That's
that's a classic. Those are classics.

Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
They are classics.

Speaker 5 (01:08:46):
But you got to remember that, you know, it was
eighties had computer technology. It was it was budding, but
it was computer technology. All the other ones were animated,
handmade animated, but the.

Speaker 6 (01:08:56):
Majority of them in the eighties were handmade and made
it all, but the plot lines.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
Were all the same. They were stupid. Give the tickets away, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
Who listens to cartoons for the plot lines? Like, seriously,
they're not up for an AUSCAR nomination.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Yeah, oh, come on, Clue Club, Whoofer and Whimper You
don't remember the Woffer and Whimper dog, No, look it
up watching It'll be good, all right,