The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam June 17, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news radio eleven seventy TOTA.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Talks of politics as we usually do at this time.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Jimmern Acy, former Congressman, bloo Daddy Show politic guy.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I wish to join me.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Jim, Let's start with this weekend protests around the nation.
I've heard differing numbers, but I didn't think the turnout
was really that spectacular. Look it looked like to me,
nothing more than a Trump tantrum. People who don't like
Donald Trump, let's go out and wave signs. What did
it look like to you?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well, again, thank you for having me on boom Daddy,
and I would agree there was very little evidence, very
little media on it. Remember we also had two things
that occurred over this weekend. It really took the oxygen
out of the air. So those protests, even if they
had any bite or juice, would have been really overwhelmed
by the shootings in Minnesota, and also you know, the

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Iran Israel conflict as well. So if you're going to
have a protest, this was the worst weekend you could
have done it because those really took all of the
media and took all of the headlines off the table.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
What did it accomplish though, other than to say, Jim,
we don't like Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Yeah, well, boom deer.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
We still live in a country that's fifty to fifty
whether we like it or not. I mean, fifty percent
approximately do not like Trump, do not like the direction
the country's going. Fifty percent do like the direction the
country's going. So we've got this divided country and we're
going to continue to have that, whether Donald Trump's in office,
whether it's not. So I think in the end, this

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is going to continue for the next three years. But
as long as Donald Trump continues to do some of
the things he's doing, especially when it comes to immigration,
I think that is really going to be that continue
to be the thing that propels him into staying at
that level of appreciation because people really do like what

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he's doing when it comes immigration.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what I was gonna say, Jim.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Every poll that I've seen and we know polls could
be all over the place, but the majority of Americans
do not want illegal immigrants in this country, illegal immigrants
who have committed crimes on top.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Of the fact that they're in here illegally. They don't
want them. So what are these people protesting.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, they're just and that's what you started with, and
that's true. They're protesting Donald Trump. But the issues that
people do not like what's going on today are the tariffs,
are the economy, are all those things that the deficits
and the debt. But see that that's still an underlying
shoe for Donald Trump. But right now, what people really

(03:03):
do like is the what he's doing and when it
comes to illegualiens and and moving them and getting them
out of here. And I think again he does that
great that he's going to continue to push that. That's
going to be the issue, and that is that is
going to be above and beyond all these other things
that are they are still going to affect us. Prices

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are going to go up, tariffs are still out there,
but people are going to like what he's doing when
it comes to immigration.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Talking to former Congressman Jim M and Acy, Jim, we've
been doing this long enough. We've we've talked long enough
to where I think you feel comfortable to tell me
if I'm wrong or whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
So I'm going to ask you a question. Here.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I see an article on Cleveland dot com by Chris Quinn,
the editor. He talked about the local protests, and he
asked the people protesting, what fears did you have to
overcome to show up? And he said some feared violence
from extremist counter protesters. Other worried about aggressive leasing or
retaliation from political leaders. For many the actors, showing up

(04:04):
required more than conviction, It required courage.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Why did it require courage? Jim? Educate me here? What
am I missing?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Because other than January sixth, Okay, you take a look
at violence that has permeated our society.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's come from the left.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Including this weekend in Minnesota, a guy shooting two people,
two state senators and their spouses, who, by all accounts
as a Democrat appointed by Tim Walls. But you take
a look at all the riots in twenty twenty in
our cities. You take a look at the congressional baseball
game where Steve Scalise was almost killed. All these liberals
are saying that they fear violence from the right, Yet

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if you take a look at the violence over the
last five years, ninety eight percent of it, Jim is coming.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
From the left. Or am I misreading this?

Speaker 4 (04:57):
No, you're right. And again, the worst thing that we're
starting to see is political upheople and political unrest, and
it is coming from the left in many cases. But
it's coming from the extremes, which is always the problem.
And there's a lot of mental health out there too.
I hate to pull that in, but if you look
at some of these people, they have to have mental
health issues. I mean the guy that in Minnesota, I

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guarantee you when they dig into his background, he's going
to have mental health issues as well. But it's politically motivated,
and in many cases, it's motivated from the anger and
really the anger and upset that these people have with
the Trump administration, which is ridiculous in many cases, because

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you know, if they look at if you just look
at what a lot of things he's doing is good
for our economy, good for our country. Yes, there are
issues that even I disagree with, but it's a heck
of a lot better than we had. The guy previous
to him, which really didn't even know he was in office.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Good point.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Let's segue over to Iran and Israel. Israel attacking Iran.
Does this make the world safer or will it lead
to further escalation in your mind?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, I think a nuclear free Iran is great for
our country, it's great for the world. I think the
one thing Israel did is pretty much decimate their ability
to continue their nuclear weapons. You know, they're building up
of their nuclear armament, So I think that is good. Now.
The bad side is, of course, in that region, it's

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anything could spark problems, you know, a missile firing in
an American warship. I mean, these are the kind of
things that I know everybody's on alert for in that region,
which could cause additional countries to get involved. But right now,
I do think the best thing that happened there is
Israel did disarm Iran when it came to their nuclear

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armament and nuclear weapons and their nuclear build up, and
I think that's good for the world, and that's good
for the countries in that region.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do you believe that country can turn it around? And
what I mean is get away from extremism with a
regime change or will it be whoever takes over next,
same old, same old.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, in that area, I think it's whoever takes over next,
and it'll be a lot of same old, same old.
I wish I could say it was different, but it
does appear as extremists always win. It's sad because there
are some good people in that country that just don't
get the information, don't get the ability to understand really

(07:38):
what's going on because the media is pretty much taken
over by the government. But ultimately that's a country that
will always be in turmoil. Now, the real key is
what's left of the military. What do they do with it?
And that's the other thing I fear. You know, they're
not just going to walk away and say, Okay, we're done.

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The big fear I have is what do they do next?
BEFO what's left?

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Jim? As always, thank you for the time.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Boom Day.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Seven nineteen, Good morning on this Tuesday, Thank you for
tuning in kicking off your morning with us the bloom
Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Want to jump right into an update on the devastation,
the devastating floods that of course affected Ohio County. This

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is from the release last night for the from the Wheeling,
Ohio County EMA. This update, we have now hit a
total of six lives lost in the flooding. There are
currently two still missing. And then wanted to let everybody
know about the updated road closures that are going on

(08:58):
Warden Run Road currently closed, Shilling Bridge, Lumber Avenue, US
forty Slash, National Road, GC and P Road, Middle Creek Road,
Peters Run Road, Dixon Run Road, Short Creek Road, McGraw's
Run Road, Atkinson Crossing, Battle Run Road, and Point Run Road.

(09:24):
So those are the current road closures as of this morning.
When it comes to power restoration, as of right now,
currently there are still fifteen hundred reported outages, but there
has been over one thousand accounts that have been restored
within the last twenty four hours. To some good news

(09:45):
coming out of what has happened here in Ohio County.
One thing Otis you and I talked about during our
special edition on Sunday was those that have gotten involved.
We talked to many local business owners pass along you
know where help can be found, where things can be
dropped off. There are two new businesses that have gotten

(10:07):
involved in relief efforts and help. First off, the local
McDonald's ownership happening today purchases they're having a digital fundraiser,
so twenty percent of purchases will be going to the
American Red Cross. So in a fundraiser effort of course,

(10:28):
to help out the victims are there. Here are the
local McDonald's locations that are involved with this. The Fallensby location,
Martin's Ferry bell Air, O High Valley Mall location in
Saint Clarasville, Tridelphia, the Krueger Street location in Wheeling, and

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then the Warwood Avenue location in Wheeling.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
The Tidelphia one is the Highlands just to let you.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
Know, yes, yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, Cabela Drive, Tridelphia. So
the ownership for McDonald locally have also gotten involved with
efforts to help where they can. And then a local
bank friend of show, Belmont Savings Bank, they are getting
involved with financial relief options for residents who have been
affected and or businesses who have been affected by this.

(11:17):
They're offering several support measures including temporary loan deferrals, payment deferrals,
interest only plans, emergency loans, and fast tracked loan modifications.
So Belmont Savings Bank also getting involved with helping out
folks that are dealing with everything that's going on.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
And I do know that the Hall of Fame, Cafe,
Angel and Rick have stepped up and they will be
providing meals, I believe today if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
Okay, yeah, they're listen. That's the one thing out of
this that has been amazing is as of yesterday mid midday,
I started seeing posts from people that I've been following
that have been really involved with the the cleanup effort
donation efforts, that have said, you know, we have enough

(12:10):
of this already, now we need this and that that
just screams to how quickly everybody stepped up and donated
and did what they could through this time, through this time.
And with that being said, we're going to have a
little bit later in the show, Governor Patrick Morrissey is
going to join us live to talk about clean up

(12:34):
efforts and at twenty yeah, at eight twenty, so we're going.

Speaker 8 (12:37):
To happproximately, Yeah, tune into fifteen. Yeah you're safe.

Speaker 7 (12:41):
Yes, We're going to have the Governor on to talk,
like I said, to talk about clean up efforts, what
the state is doing nationally, the support that may be coming,
and whatever questions you have. If you have a question
for the governor, please email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
Or of course you can go on our Facebook page
and leave a comment because we want to hear from you.

(13:04):
We want to make sure that we can get the
questions to the governor that you have. That's what we're
here for. So again, Governor Patrick Morrissey coming up at
eight twenty. Tune in about eight fifteen, or just don't.

Speaker 8 (13:16):
Turn the channel and your chance to win.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
Yes, we're gonna, yeah, we're gonna get back to some
a little bit of normalcy, a little bit of normalcy.

Speaker 8 (13:25):
Yeah, we have George Thurgood tickets. We're gonna give away
family four packs. Now if you don't want to take
your family, let's call.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Them double date four packs.

Speaker 8 (13:33):
Ooh, I like that. You like that, It's even better,
we'll double date you. You and the significant other in
another couple can go. Or if you're if you're in
a swinging lifestyle, maybe you can bring everybody that. Never mind,
sorry that that came out. I have no idea what
that puffed in my head. I just I think we've

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been serious for so long that one of those things.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
He did a laugh. We know where your mind's at.

Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well you started it off this morning.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well, yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
We can't say what we were talking about souy and
and products and things like that, and Sam said something
to the effect that there are certain juices that aren't
good for you. That involves like cashews and peanuts and
all milk.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yeah, just just just figure out what all those things
have in common and you'll you'll pick up what we're
laying down there.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh boy, and if the governor heard that, he would
not come on the show.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
Oh, let's not go there, let's not say that. But yeah,
we're gonna have your chance to win George Thurga ticket.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
Coming up very shortly, your first chance.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
Yes, and by the way, very shortly. Yeah, and don't
forget tomorrow we'll be doing our.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
Free lunch free lunch, so you can register.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
For that, Yeah, through River City. Of course, we'd be
delivered on Friday. So just email me Sam at iHeartMedia
dot com, name, phone number, and business And here's the thing.
If you have a business in the tri Alphia area
or you know somebody down there that maybe you want
to register them for a chance to win through these efforts.

(15:10):
You know, we could do that too, kind of throat
in a different direction if you want.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
If you want to register on behalf of somebody, Yeah,
let's do it that way. Yeah, yeah, because it is
lunch for ten, so I mean, obviously we're not going
to be able to feed an army of people, but right,
we were more than happy to pass it along to
somebody that could use it.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (15:30):
In other words, if you win it, you want to
donate it to somebody else, will take that as.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
An option, right, right, And a release from the City
of Wheeling wanted to update everybody, let everybody know that,
of course, in response of in response to everything that's
happening with the floods. To tap In Tuesday, which was
to feature the Ron retz Or Trio, which was supposed
to happen today at Garden Park in Warwood, is going

(15:56):
to be postponed until September nin So if anybody had
that on their calendar that they were going to attend,
that has been postponed. Listen, all the efforts people's time
has been directed to that area, and it's completely understandable.
It's it's completely understandable. So again to tap in Tuesday,

(16:19):
that's a mouthful to get out has been postponed until
September ninth, So we're gonna kick it off early. Let's
do our first chance to win this morning.

Speaker 8 (16:29):
Four George, third of good tickets. When is George? Oh
you know what, I he's coming up this month.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
I didn't write that down. I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (16:35):
It's sometime this month. It's coming up here shortly. It's
like ju June twenty eighth.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
Here you go.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
I knew it was somewhere here. I was gonna twenty eighth.

Speaker 7 (16:42):
So all right, let's do it. My phone one eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. That's the number one,
eight hundred six two four eleven seventy, caller number nine. Okay,
all right, caller number nine, one in hundred six to
two four eleven seventy. It's seven twenty eight. Coming up next,
bloom Daddy is going to spot talk to Major General

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Bob Reese about everything happening in the Middle East between
Israel and Iran. So seven twenty eight The Bloomdaddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Senior iranium regime officials, nuclear scientists, a uranium enrichment facility,
surface to air missile systems. In day Ran, they were
among the targets at Israel struck June thirteenth, part of
a wave of attacks on Iran. Now Iran as you know,
as launch retaliatory drone strikes on Israel. Israel had begin
an operation aimed at rolling back Iran's threat to Israel's

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very survival. As they put it, Benjamin Yaho said, Israel's
offensive will last as many days as it takes spring
on Major General Bob D's thirty one years in the
US Army wide variety of command and staff positions, including
commander of the US Israeli Combined Task Force for Missile Defense.
Major General, thanks for being on the show. What's going on? Yeah,

(18:07):
what's going on right now in the Middle East? Does
this make the world safer? Won't lead to further escalation?

Speaker 9 (18:14):
Well, I think it'll make the world safer. But we're
in a ballistic Pingkong match right now, so we got
to get this over. Israel has so many advantages at
this point, air sup superiority, intel superiority, years of condition setting,
so this is going to be decisive on Israel's part,
but we need to get it resolved quickly and without

(18:37):
complications from other nations in the region or in the globally.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Frankly, the Iranian Prime Minister just came out and said
one phone call from President Donald Trump could pave the
way for a return to the diplomacy. Major General. This
is what he said, and I'm quoting. If President Trump
is genuine about the diplomacy and interested in stopping this war,
the next steps are consequential. Israel must hope it's aggress
and absent a total cessation of military aggression against US,

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our responses will continue. It takes one phone call from
Washington to muzzle someone like net and Yahoo that may
pave the way.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
For a return to diplomacy. Is that something we should
even consider.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
Well, I think our president wants to consider negotiation, but
it's clear that Iran is on their heels, and it's
real easy for them to make a demand like this
when they don't have when they're about out of options.
So I don't think our US government right now will
seriously consider any of the demands that Iran would make

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because they will be unreasonable, as they have been in
the past. I just simply don't think that their demands
will be, Hey, we want to totally stand down our
nuclear capability and we recognize we've lost this one and
we want to be become a member of friendly and
peaceful nations.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
They're not going to do that.

Speaker 9 (19:53):
So yeah, I think practically President Trump will not respond
and can find.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I don't know what would you say to somebody who
asked you why would Israel do this? What would you
say to somebody who would actually make the statement that
Israel didn't need to do this?

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Well, Israel didn't need to do it.

Speaker 9 (20:13):
Israel's strategic warning time is measured in seconds, not to
days or weeks or months like it is in the US.
Israels strategic depth is likewise the very thin, and so
Israel with great intelligence. It's been developed over not just days,
but decades. Are they're tracking it very closely as our
other Western nations and an Israel assessment it was clearly.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Danger close. Something had to be done.

Speaker 9 (20:40):
It was an existential threat to Israel, and this is
frankly not totally unexpected. It was going to have to
be done sometime if Iran kept marching towards a weaponizing
nuclear weapons.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
All right, and listen, I am totally one in agreement
with what Israel has done.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I am in agreement with what you have done.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Just so you know where I stand or what you're
talking about as far as where I stand on this.
But again, there are people out there who still feel
that Iran has a right to defend itself, that if
Israel can have nukes, then Iran should have nukes. Or
if Pakistan or the United States or Russia can have nukes,
then Iran should be able to have nukes.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
What do you say to that idiot.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
Iran has shown themselves to be the major exporter of
terra across the entire globe. They have demonstrated it. I'm
and again, Iran was behind the October seventh massacre within Israel.
Iran has been behind many many atrocities across the world
of promoting terrorism, and so to trust that type of

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player with nuclear weapons is simply unacceptable. Iran has also
said death to Israel, death to America, the Big Satan,
the little Satan. So you know there's a capability and
there's intent. The Israelis have nuclear capability, but.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
Their intent is not.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
Maleban Malleva it's not trying to disrupt the rest of
the world. The Iranians, on the other hand, they're trying to.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Develop capability, but they already have.

Speaker 9 (22:10):
The intent to destroy America, destroy Israel. It's just not acceptable.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Talking to Major General Bob Dees right now, former commander
of the US Israeli Combined Task Force for Missile Defense,
obviously I want to ask you about that. We are
seeing some superior missile defense by Israel, obviously the United
States helping shoot down some of these drones, some of
these missiles. Can you just kind of explain what Israel

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has protecting itself and why it is so efficient?

Speaker 9 (22:40):
You bet well, it's a multi tier integrated air defense.
And so you've heard of Rondome well, that covers certain
types of threats, David Sling certain types of threats, patriots,
aero weapons systems, really long range ballistic missile threats, and
of recent just illustrating how agile the Israelis are, they've
developed Barack Magan, which means lightning shield to address the

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drone issue. So it's really interesting that the Israelis continue
to integrate all of these assets to provide a comprehensive coverage.
Now my concern related to it based on my service
there and so forth. The weapons systems and the technical
aspects of it are wonderful, but the ammunition is often

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a weak link, and so the US has to help
the Israelis with ammunition, and the Israelis have to guard
their ammunition supplies carefully. You can't shoot ten missiles at
one threat because you simply don't have the ammunition to
do that.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
So that's a critical issue.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Obviously we are helping the Israelis, but is this thing escalates?
What do you see our role being in the future.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Right Well, it depends on Iran. I'm not sure Iran
is going to have for many more days true capability
to attack US assets. But if they do, the United
States will respond in kind and then some So Iran
is well advised not to do anything against the US
that would cause US to be proactively involved in an

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offensive way.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
If we get proactively involved in an offensive way, does
that pull in China? Does that pull in Russia? I mean,
Russia's got their hands for Ukraine right.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Now, Yeah, they do. I don't think it would.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
I think if the Iranian surrogates and the strength of
Iran in the Middle East was the way it was
three or four years ago, then it would be a
different story. But now Israel has shut down Hazbolah, Israel
has shut down Hamas. The US and Israel have counteracted
the Huthis to a large measure, and also things in

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Syria and other places. So I don't think that Iran.
I don't think Russia or China would take that risk
and would frankly fight a losing battle because it's clear
that Iran is on their heels. They're going to be
down in days, and that's you know, very difficult for
Iran or China to become involved in that period of time.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Talking to Major General Bob De's he served for thirty
one years in the US Army Command Staff positions Commander
of the US Israeli Commined Task Force for Missile Defense,
Major General, what's the endgame here? And we all knew
it had to come to this point. But if there's
regime change, you know as well as anybody, we've seen
that before, and we get behind regimes and they end
up turning on us, or can Iran possibly be stabilized?

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I mean, what's the endgame here?

Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah? Well, I think they can.

Speaker 9 (25:40):
You know, we were great allies with Iran back in
nineteen eighty until the new regime took over. They captured
our diplomats and they became hostages for over a year.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
So you know that it.

Speaker 9 (25:54):
Has happened before that we've had a more democratic albeit
author if they're authoritarian, but more democratic and less portion
of the people. So I think there's you know, you've
heard of green revolution in other places, Poland and other
places under the Soviet Union. I think there could potentially

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be a green revolution. The regime and all the people
that have been killed, they're losing their leadership, all the
elements of national power are on their heels in Iran,
and so it's perfect time for people to revolt, if
you will. The populace arise and President Trump has said
many times that we support the Iranian people, and personally

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that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
We've seen many times too, Hesbaalah, other terrorist groups out
there say okay, we want to cease fire, we want
to talk, and all it does is allow them time
to rebuild their strengths, reorganize, and then you know something's
coming down the road. Do you think that is a
very real possibility with Iran? Like I'm seeing right now

(26:59):
on Fox News, Trump may offer i Ran a last
chance proposal. Should we offer them anything? At this point
you said they're on their heels. Should we just go
help Israel decimate them and see where it goes from there?

Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (27:12):
Well, I think the reality is that the train has
left the station, and I think it's really going to
be hard to offer Iran anything that is short of
the total destruction of their nuclear and blistic capability and
the dismantling of their leadership. So President Trump, you know,
can be statesmen on the world stage. He can say,

(27:33):
he can make you some nice statements related to Iran
as a nation in the future. But the train has
left the station, and so the destruction is occurring. It
will occur before any substantie negotiations can occur.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I think, Major General, I always appreciate talking to you
before I let you go.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Though.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
You run the National Center for Healthy Veterans in rural Virginia.
What exactly does that entail and how could somebody out
there listening right now help you?

Speaker 9 (28:01):
Bloom Daddy, thanks for asking. There's at risk veterans all
across our nation that need what we have. We're a
nine month residential program we return healthy veterans to America.
There's spent a lot of effort on that, and so
they can go to Healthy Veterans dot org if they
know of a veteran that needs help in their parents' basement,
playing video games under a bridge and incarcerated even or

(28:23):
haven't been able to hold down a job and transition.
We can help all of those people, So refer them
at Healthy Veterans dot org. And I appreciate the shout out.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, Bob, I know the last time I talked to you,
you had a terrible fire which took out your main
barn facility that helps veterans. Have you fully recovered from that.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
Well, we're not fully recovered on the barn side, but
since the barn went down, we've been able to build
another village, twenty five homes, another community center, so we've
increased our capacity and I'm really proud of our team
the way they have.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
You know, our whole brand is resilience.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
So they've bounced back well and we're even stronger than
before and helping a lot of people. We're seeing a
lot of fun graduations. One of our guys graduated he
was fifteen years homeless. So he now has a job
as a high end chef in a car and a house,
and he's singing for people and rest homes and things.
So that's a win from our perspective.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Absolutely, Major General, thanks for everything you do and thanks
for your service.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
You bet boom Daddy, thanks for what you do too.
We're on it together.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
That is Major General Bob D's thirty one years in
the US Army.

Speaker 7 (29:38):
Seven fifty three on this Tuesday, welcome back the bloom
Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Just a reminder coming up here very shortly, we're gonna
have your next chance to win tickets to see rock
legend George Thoroughgood coming up June twenty eighteen. No no, no, no
at the Capitol Theater, so stay tuned for that. And

(29:59):
then also coming up in the eight o'clock hour, roughly
eight twenty, we're going to be speaking to West Virginia
Governor Patrick Morrissey, so that is also coming up. But
during the break, Otis, we got a phone call, yes
we did.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
One of our listeners has generously offered and this is
for anybody listening that's been affected by the flooding. If
you do not have power, he has two generators that
he is willing to loan out. He will deliver to you,
along with electrical cords and anywhere between twenty and twenty

(30:36):
five gallons of fuel to run the generator, which will
last you a while. He's willing to take those generators
and bring them to you. He offered to basically put
his phone number out over the.

Speaker 7 (30:50):
Air over there.

Speaker 8 (30:51):
We're not going to do now. Well now, So if
you are in need of a generator, have been affected
by the flooding, and you are in need of a generator,
call us here at one eight hundred sixty four eleven seventy.
I'll take your information. I'll will pass it along to
Dale and Dale will get a hold of you. So
if you are in need of a generator, uh, just

(31:12):
give us a call here one eight hundred sixty four
eleven seventy and we'll take your name in number and
we'll forward that to Dale, who will bring you a
generator later today. Awesome, yeah, awesome, awesome, awesome, Just you know,
And he said the other thing he wanted to remind
you is if you've lost power don't know, but if
you've got food in your freezer, just don't open it.
It'll stay It'll stay frozen for up to thirty six

(31:34):
hours as long as you keep the door on the
freezer shut.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
So okay, well Dale, thank you so much for your generosity. Yeah,
that's that's amazing, amazing. So I don't know where to
go after that little uh unexpected awfu.

Speaker 8 (31:52):
I mean it just it just goes to show that
people in this valley will step up and and you know,
assist any way they can. Yeah, I mean, you know,
people have been at you. We had people Stacy Stephen
and her crew were out shoveling mud out of a basement.
We had you know, you had people. I've seen pictures

(32:12):
of people out in front of van, sprinting, outside of
the bike shop, out there on National Road, power washing
and cleaning and lending a hand. So I mean the
community has stepped out and stepped out to help these people.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
And this is hard work.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, it's not easy.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
It is hard work what these folks have stepped up
and are doing for friends and neighbors. And it's it's dirty, nasty,
smelly work. On top of that, and yesterday was muggy,
you know. So it's not it's not an enjoyable thing,
but what folks are doing is is, like I said earlier,

(32:56):
one of the best things to come out of this entire,
entire tragedy. So thank you to everybody who has has
has stepped up as we've been.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Saying, volunteers, our restaurants. I mean I saw where Generations
was doing some cooking.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
DeFelice Pizza's doing stuff, popping.

Speaker 8 (33:15):
John's, yeah, I mean, they're you know, obviously there's way
too many businesses out there for us to remember them all.
But you know, hey, if you want to throw a
shout out to somebody, you can give us a call.
One eight hundred and sixty four eleven seventy more than
happy to to share your business if you're if you're
volunteering and helping.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
And well and as simple as we talked about earlier
in the hour local McDonald's, twenty percent of your purchase
goes to the American Red Cross today.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
So and we talked earlier Ruttin Bucks, Yeah, Quaker Steak
and Lube Greco's, all these people that are the Wheeling
Post won the Osirish Shrine, the Dog's Den they've all
everybody's been, you know, doing what they can.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
So if you can't do the back breaking work, just
go buy a big Mac today and you will help
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Speaker 8 (34:15):
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I know George thirty Good's okay, but like after about
thirty eight seconds of George thirgod, I've had enough.

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Good June twenty eighth, right here at the Capitol Theeler Theater,
OH seven fifty eight. The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis

(34:47):
News Radio eleven seventy w w va.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Z number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. You host bloom Daddy. His
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experience on news Radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. So it
talks to politics as we usually do at this time.
Jim orn Acy, former Congressman's Blue Daddy Show politically and
was joining me. Jim, let's start with this weekend protests
around the nation. I've heard differing numbers, but I didn't
think the turnout was really that spectacular. Look it looked

(35:36):
like to me, nothing more than a Trump tantrum. People
who don't like Donald Trump, let's go out and wave signs.
What did it look like to you?

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Well, again, thank you for having me on bloom Daddy.
And I would agree there was very little evidence, very
little media on it. But remember we also had two
things that occurred over this weekend. It really took the
oxygen out of the air. So those protests, even if
they had any bite or juice, would have been really
overwhelmed by the shootings in Minnesota. And also, you know

(36:08):
the Iran Israel conflict as well. So if you're going
to have a protest. This was the worst weekend you
could have done it because those really took all of
the media and took all of the headlines off the table.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
What did it accomplish though, other than to say, Jim,
we don't like Donald Trump?

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah, well, boomde. We still live in a country and
it's fifty to fifty whether we like it or not.
I mean, fifty percent approximately do not like Trump, do
not like the direction the country's going. Fifty percent do
like the direction the country's going. So we've got this
divided country and we're going to continue to have that,
whether Donald Trump's in office or whether it's not. So
I think in the end, this is going to continue

(36:52):
for the next three years. But as long as Donald
Trump continues to do some of the things he's doing,
especially when it comes immigration, I think that is really
going to be that continue to be the thing that
propels him into staying at that level of appreciation because
people really do like what he's doing when it comes immigration.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
That's what I was gonna say, Jim.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Every poll that I've seen, and we know polls could
be all over the place, but the majority of Americans
do not want illegal immigrants in this country, illegal immigrants
who have committed crimes on.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Top of the fact that they're in here illegally. They
don't want them. So what are these people protesting?

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Well, and that's what you started with, and that's true,
they're protesting Donald Trump. But the issues that people do
not like what's going on today are the tariffs, are
the economy? Are all those things that the deficits and
the debt. But see that that's still an underlying issue
for Donald Trump. But right now, what people really do

(37:58):
like is the what he's doing and when it comes
to illegualiens and moving them and getting them out of here,
and I think again he does that great that he's
going to continue to push that. That's going to be
the issue, and that is that is going to be
above and beyond all these other things that are They
are still going to affect us. Prices are going to

(38:19):
go up, tariffs are still out there, but people are
going to like what he's doing when it comes to immigration.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Talking to former Congressman Jim or Acy, Jim, we've been
doing this long enough. We've we've talked long enough to
where I think you feel comfortable to tell me if
I'm wrong or whatever.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
So I'm going to ask you a question.

Speaker 6 (38:37):
Here.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
I see an article on Cleveland dot com by Chris Quinn,
the editor. He talked about the local protests and he
asked the people protesting, what fears did you have to
overcome to show up? And he said some feared violence
from extremist counterprotesters. Other worried about aggressive policing or retaliation
for political leaders. For many of the actors, showing up

(38:59):
required more than convict It required courage.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Why did it require courage? Jim, educate me here? What
am I missing?

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Because other than January sixth, Okay, you take a look
at violence that has permeated our society.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
It's come from the left.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Including this weekend in Minnesota, a guy shooting two people,
two state senators in their spouses, who, by all accounts
as a Democrat appointed by Tim Walls. But you take
a look at all the riots in twenty twenty in
our cities, You take a look at the congressional baseball
game where Steve Scalise was almost killed. All these liberals
are saying that they fear violence from the right. Yet

(39:41):
if you take a look at the violence over the
last five years, ninety eight percent of it Jim is coming.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
From the left or am I misreading this?

Speaker 4 (39:52):
No, you're right, And again, the worst thing that we're
starting to see is political upheople and political on rightw
than it is coming from the left in many cases,
but it's coming from the extremes, which is always the problem.
And there's a lot of mental health out there too.
I hate to pull that in, but if you look
at some of these people, they have to have mental
health issues. I mean the guy that in Minnesota, I

(40:16):
guarantee you when they dig into his background, he's going
to have mental health issues as well. But it's politically motivated,
and in many cases it's motivated from the anger and
really the anger and upset that these people have with
the Trump administration, which is ridiculous in many cases, because

(40:38):
you know, if they look at if you just look
at what a lot of things he's doing is good
for our economy, good for our country. Yes, there are
issues that even I disagree with, but it's a heck
of a lot better than we had the guy previous
to him, which really didn't even know he was in office.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Good point.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Let's segue over to Iran and Israel. Israel attacking Iran.
Does this make the world safer or will it lead
to further escalation in your mind?

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Well, I think a nuclear free Iran is great for
our country, it's great for the world. I think the
one thing Israel did is pretty much decimate their ability
to continue their nuclear weapons. You know, they're building up
of their nuclear armament, So I think that is good. Now.
The bad side is, of course, in that region, it's

(41:28):
anything could spark problems, you know, a missile firing at
an American warship. I mean, these are the kind of
things that I know everybody's on alert for in that region,
which could cause additional countries to get involved. But right now,
I do think the best thing that happened there is
Israel did disarm Iran when it came to their nuclear

(41:51):
armament and nuclear weapons and their nuclear build up, and
I think that's good for the world, and that's good
for the countries in that region.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Do you believe that kind of tree can turn it around?
And what I mean is get away from extremism with
a regime change or will it be whoever takes over next,
same old, same old.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, in that area, I think it's whoever takes over
next and it'll be a lot of same old, same old.
I wish I could say it was different, but it
does appear as extremists always win. It's sad because there
are some good people in that country that just don't
get the information, don't get the ability to understand really

(42:33):
what's going on because the media is pretty much taken
over by the government. But ultimately that's a country that
will always be in turmoil. Now, the real key is
what's left of the military. What do they do with it?
And that's the other thing I fear. You know, they're
not just going to walk away and say, Okay, we're done.

(42:54):
The big fear I have is what do they do
next with what's left?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Hi, Jim as always, thank you for the time time.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Thank you. Boom Denn.

Speaker 7 (43:06):
Eight nineteen. Welcome back to Blue Dotty Experienced Sam and
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA joining us. Now we
have Governor West Virginia, Governor Patrick Morrissey on the phone
with us. Good morning, Governor, Hey, good morning, good to
be with you today. Yes, thank you so much for
taking the time. I know currently and all the time,

(43:27):
but especially right now, you are very incredibly busy with
the destruction not only here in the northern Panhandle in
Ohio County where we sit, but also with our friends
and neighbors down south in West Virginia. So tell us,
tell us what you're seeing out there as you're talking
to West Virginians across the state.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
You know, it's been a very challenging seventy two hour period,
especially in Ohio County and Marion County. We'll start with
the terribly unfortunate lots of life. We have a minimum
of six people who are dead, and there are still
several individuals unaccounted for. There also was another body that

(44:10):
was found in westl Countal County last night. It was
is believe to be related to the flood, and we're
confirming that. But it's been a very challenging time. Here's
the good news. West Virginians are really coming together. They're
helping out their fellow brothers and sisters for in need,

(44:31):
and I'm encouraged by the response that we're seeing from
local communities from the Emergency Management Directory. Locally, our office
has been working our Highway department setting out clearing the
road and the debris and trying to not only finalize
and identify any potential remaining people and hopefully find missing individuals,

(44:55):
but to then really begin the recovery effort here, And of.

Speaker 7 (45:01):
Course, you know, right off the bat, when an event
like this happens, there's an immediate call to action from
the state, from the federal government, from local folks. Moving forward, though,
is there a plan in place for the state that
will assist those who have faced the destruction moving forward?

(45:24):
Is the state stepping in with a plan of action
long term for these victims?

Speaker 5 (45:32):
But we're going to stand by these communities and we're
going to work to help them recover. So obviously I
have to have discussions with the legislature and others about that,
but I think it's really important right now that we
continue to focus on the search and rescue. We also
have to make sure that we're helping these roads get cleared.

(45:54):
But in every event like this, you want to do
a retrospective review so that you and take steps to
minimize the chances of easterns happening. Of course, in this situation,
it was such a torrential downpour in a concentrated area.
It's hard to imagine that anything would have stopped the
water from flowing. If you were to ask some of

(46:17):
the local residents they had never seen anything like this
in areas that were not really touched by the floods
because of the volume of water four inches in a
forty minute period. But yet, absolutely we want to make
sure we're working with all affected parties now. Obviously, when
we can, we try to make sure we're doing resilience

(46:40):
and prevention matters. But at the same time, we have
to continually educate people. Given the topography in our state.
This is one of the challenges we have.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
Have you had any Have you had any conversations federally
with any federal assistance.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
We have, so we've been talking with FEMA and our
federal representatives as well, and so we're now going through
the process with the initial phases going to a close.
It can damage assessment mode, So we want people to
be able to identify the damage so that they can

(47:20):
submit it ultimately to the locals and to our office
so that we can put a package together and send
it into FEMA. But yet those conversations have begun. We've
been in communications with the Trump administration and obviously we're working.
FEMA has been on the ground and there have been

(47:41):
many discussions with them, and of course worth this is
the time when we all have to gather the data
to make our best case as to why we need assistance.

Speaker 8 (47:51):
Governor you obviously you've been in office for six months.
Is this your biggest challenge so far?

Speaker 5 (48:00):
West Virginians come together and during these difficult times, So
I want to make sure that we're bringing the full
resources of the state behind the efforts to assist our
citizens and clean things up. A lot of challenges faced
West Virginia. But I'll be honest with you, I'm reassured
with the resilience of the spirit of West Virginia. It's

(48:22):
indomitable and during times like this you really see the
best attributes of West Virginians shine forward. So right now
the focus is just on helping West Virginia and I'm
eager to do that every minute of the day.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
And just one final question, Governor, real quick. You know
now that you have spoke directly to people boots on
the ground, but for all of our listeners in here
in the Northern Panhandle listening right now, you know, do
you have a message? Do you have something you want
to put out there by those who have been affected
and those that have stepped up to the plate to talk,

(48:57):
you know, help their friends and neighbors.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
Absolutely, Probably the most important thing is that our prayers
go out to the family and friends who lost loved ones.
This has been very, very difficult with these con firm
sets and several individuals still on account it for a
lot of people are going through some very difficult times
right now, and then many many other hundreds of other

(49:23):
people have been displaced and are in such a challenging situation.
I walked through parts of the town Triadelphia, and it
was just really so hard hit. It was devastating. What
I want to tell people is that West Virginians are
going to come together during these times. We're going to

(49:43):
remain strong, We're going to rebuild, and we're going to
be standing there by them every step of the way.
So I want to tell folks that West Virginians are
going to be rallying around these communities and we have
to These are brothers and sisters we have to look out.

Speaker 7 (50:01):
Wonderful Governor, thank you so much for your time this morning.
I know you're very busy.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (50:08):
Yes, safe travels out there. Governor Patrick Morrissey with us
this morning, and I.

Speaker 8 (50:13):
Just hung up on the governor, did you well yeah.

Speaker 7 (50:18):
Okay, well, you know, but again, you know, really appreciate
his time this morning. And the one thing I took,
you know, listening to him about West Virginia's coming together.
I did want her to point out, you know, there's
we have shared. I have shared on our Facebook page
multiple videos, pictures of the devastation, a lot of that
kind of stuff. And there are people that are going
on there and I'm not really blocking them per se,

(50:42):
but they aren't taking what has happened and making this political.

Speaker 8 (50:46):
Yeah, you can't do that. It just has nothing to
do with it.

Speaker 7 (50:49):
It has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 8 (50:50):
And you know, the thing is, you know we're talking
about in the Governor mentioned West Virginians, Let's not forget
there are people from western Pennsylvania that are coming down
to help there. I've seen businesses from Washington, PA. We've
seen West Alexander people there and locations there setting up
to offer assistance. We just we have Dale from Ohio

(51:15):
that is offering again, if you need a generator, he
will bring it to you. He has two to loan you.
He will bring that, the fuel, the extension cords, whatever
you need. All you have to do. Call us here
one E one hundred and sixty four eleven seventy email
Sam at Samandiheartmedia dot com. We will get you and
Dale in contact with one another so that you can

(51:35):
get your stuff together and have power for temporary power
into yours's restore.

Speaker 7 (51:40):
Yeah. Yeah, And as we've mentioned throughout the show, there's
plenty of people stepping off businesses, local businesses, volunteers, restaurants, restaurants.
All of that we have put on our Facebook page,
the phone numbers, the contacts, and again just a quick update.
Six lives now currently lost. Two folks are still currently missing,
and according to just speaking with Governor Morrissey, a seventh

(52:03):
body has been recovered in Wetzel County and may be
connected to the flooding that has us as yet has
not been confirmed. That we just got from the Governor
himself as we spoke to him a minute ago. It's
eight twenty eight on your Tuesday. The bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Senior Iranium regime officials, nuclear scientists, a uranium enrichment facility,
surface to air missile systems in day Ran they were
among the targets at Israel struck June thirteenth, part of
a wave of attacks on Iran. Now Iran as you
know as launch retaliatory drone strikes on Israel. Israel had
begun an operation aimed at rolling back Iran's threat to

(52:49):
Israel's very survival. As they put it, Benjamin Yahoo said,
Israel's defensive will last as many days as it takes
spring on Major General Bob D's thirty one years in
the US Army wide variety of command and staff positions,
including Commander of the US Israeli Combined Task Force for
Missile Defense. Major General, thanks for being on the show.

(53:10):
What's going on? Yeah, what's going on right now in
the Middle East? Does this make the world safer?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Won't lead to further escalation?

Speaker 9 (53:19):
Well, I think it'll make the world safer, But we're
in a ballistic Ping Kong match right now, so we
got to get this over.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
Israel has so many advantages.

Speaker 9 (53:28):
At this point, air superior superiority, intel superiority, years of
condition setting, so this is going to be decisive on
Israel's part, but we need to get it resolved quickly
and without complications from other nations. In the region or
in the globally.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Frankly, the Iranian Prime Minister just came out and said
one phone call from President Donald Trump could pave the
way for a return to the diplomacy. Major General. This
is what he said, and I'm quoting. If President Trump
is genuine about diplomacine interested in stopping this war, the
next steps are consequential. Israel must hope it's aggression, and
absent a total cessation of military aggression against US, our

(54:09):
responses will continue. It takes one phone call from Washington
to muzzle someone like net and Yahoo that may pave
the way for a return to diplomacy. Is that something
we should even consider.

Speaker 9 (54:22):
Well, I think our president wants to consider negotiation, but
it's clear that Iran is on their heels, and it's
real easy for them to make a demand like this
when they don't have when they're about out of options.

Speaker 6 (54:36):
So I don't think.

Speaker 9 (54:36):
Our US government right now will seriously consider any of
the demands that Iran would make, because they will be unreasonable,
as they have been in the past. I just simply
don't think that their demands will be Hey, we want
to totally stand down our nuclear capability and we recognize
we've lost this one and we want to be become
a member of you know, friendly and peaceful nations. They're

(54:57):
not going to do that. So yeah, I think practically
President Trump.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
Will not respond in kind.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Major General, what would you say to somebody who asked you,
why would Israel do this? What would you say to
somebody who would actually make the statement that Israel didn't
need to do this?

Speaker 6 (55:16):
Well, Israel didn't need to do it.

Speaker 9 (55:18):
Israel's strategic warning time is measured in seconds, not to
days or weeks or months like it.

Speaker 6 (55:23):
Is in the US.

Speaker 9 (55:24):
Israel's strategic depth is likewise the very thin, and so
Israel with great intelligence has been developed over not just
days but decades. Are they're tracking it very closely as
our other Western nations and an Israel assessment, it was
clearly danger close. Something had to be done. It was

(55:45):
an existential threat to Israel. And this is frankly not
totally unexpected. It was going to have to be done
sometime if Iran kept marching towards a weaponizing nuclear weapons.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
All right, and listen, I am totally in agreement with
what Israel has done. I am in agreement with what
you have done. Just so you know where I stand
or what you're talking about as far as where I
stand on this. But again, there are people out there
who still feel that Iran has a right to defend itself,
that if Israel can have nukes, then Iran should have nukes.

(56:20):
Or if Pakistan or the United States or Russia can
have nukes, then Iran should be able to have nukes.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
What do you say to that idiot.

Speaker 9 (56:27):
Iran has shown themselves to be the major exporter of
terror across the entire globe.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
They have demonstrated it.

Speaker 9 (56:34):
I'm and again, Iran was behind the October seventh massacre
within Israel. Iran has been behind many many atrocities across
the world of promoting terrorism, and so to trust that
type of player with nuclear weapons is simply unacceptable. Iran
has also said death to Israel, death to America, the

(56:57):
Big Satan, the little Satan. So you know the capability
and there's intent. The Israelis have nuclear capability, but their
intent is not Malevan Malleva. It's not trying to disrupt
the rest of the world. The Iranians, on the other hand,
they're trying to develop capability, but they already have the
intent to destroy America, destroy Israel.

Speaker 6 (57:19):
It's just not acceptable.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Talking to Major General Bob Dees right now, former commander
of the US Israeli Combined Task Force for Missile Defense, obviously,
I want to ask you about that. We are seeing
some superior missile defense by Israel, obviously the United States
helping shoot down some of these drones, some of these missiles.
Can you just kind of explain what Israel has protecting

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itself and why it is so efficient?

Speaker 9 (57:45):
You bet well, it's a multi tier integrated air defense
and so you've heard of arnedome well, that covers certain
types of threats, David sling, certain types of threats, patriots,
aero weapons systems, really long range ballistic missile threats, and
of recent just illustrating how agile the Israelis are, they've
developed Barack Magan which means lightning shield to address the

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drone issue. So it's really interesting that the Israelis continue
to integrate all of these assets to provide a comprehensive coverage. Now,
my concern related to it, based on my service there
and so forth. The weapons systems and the technical aspects
of it are wonderful, but the ammunition is often a

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weak link, and so the US has to help the
Israelis with ammunition, and the Israelis have to guard their
ammunition supplies carefully. You can't shoot ten missiles at one
threat because you simply don't have the ammunition to do that.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
So that's a critical issue.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Obviously, we are helping the Israelis, But is this thing escalates?

Speaker 2 (58:55):
What do you see our role being in the future.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
Right, Well, it depends on Iran. I'm not sure Iran.

Speaker 9 (59:03):
Is going to have for many more days true capability
to attack US assets. But if they do, the United
States will respond in kind and then some So Iran
is well advised not to do anything against the US
that would cause US to be proactively involved in an
offensive way.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
If we get proactively involved in an offensive way, does
that pull in China? Does that pull in Russia? I mean,
Russia's got their hands for Ukraine right now.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
Yeah, they do. I don't think it would.

Speaker 9 (59:34):
I think if the Iranian surrogates and the strength of
Iran in the Middle East was the way it was
three or four years ago, then it would be a
different story. But now Israel has shut down has Bila,
Israel has shut down Hamas, the US and Israel have
counteracted the Huthis to a large measure, and also things

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in Syria and other places. So I don't think that Iran.
I don't think Russia or would take that risk and
would frankly fight a losing battle because it's clear that
Iran is on their heels. They're going to be down
in days, and that's you know, very difficult for Iran
or China to become involved in that period of time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
Talking to Major General Bob De's he served for thirty
one years in the US Army Command Staff Positions Commander
of the US Israeli Commined Task Force for Missile Defense,
Benja General, what's the end game here? And we all
knew it had to come to this point. But if
there's regime change, you know as well as anybody, we've
seen that before, and we get behind regimes and they
end up turning on us or can Iran possibly be stabilized?

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
I mean, what's the endgame here?

Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
Yeah? Well I think they can.

Speaker 9 (01:00:45):
You know, we were great allies with Iran back in
nineteen eighty until a new regime took over. They captured
our diplomats and they became hostages for over a year,
so you know that it has happened before, or that
we've had a more democratic albeit off their authoritarian, but

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more democratic and less portion of the people. So I
think there's you know, you've heard of green revolution in
other places, Poland and other places under the Soviet Union.
I think there could potentially be a green revolution. The
regime and all the people that have been killed, they're
losing their leadership, All the elements of national power are

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on their heels in Iran, and so it's perfect time
for people to revolt, if you will. The populace arise
and President Trump has said many times that we support
the Iranian people, and personally that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
We've seen many times too, Hesbalah other terrorist groups out
there say Okay, we want to cease fire, we want
to talk, and all it does is allow them time
to rebuild their strengths, reorganize, and then you know something's
coming down the road.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Do you think that is a very real possibility with Iran?

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Like I'm seeing right now on Fox News, Trump may
offer Iran a last chance proposal.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Should we offer them anything?

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
At this point you said they're on their heels, Should
we just go help Israel, decimate them and see where
it goes from there.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:02:17):
Well, I think the reality is that the train has
left the station, and I think it's really going to
be hard to offer Iran anything that is short of
the total destruction of their nuclear and blistic capability and
the dismantling of their leadership. So President Trump, you know,
can be statesmen on the world stage. He can say

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he can make you some nice statements related to Iran
as a nation in the future. But the train has
left the station, and so the destruction is occurring. It
will occur before any substantie negotiations can occur.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
I think, Major General, I always appreciate talking to you
before I let you go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
You run the National Center for Healthy Veterans in rural Virginia.
What exactly does that entail and how could somebody out
there listening right now help you?

Speaker 9 (01:03:06):
Bloom Daddy, thanks for asking. There's at risk veterans all
across our nation that need what we have. We're a
nine month residential program. We return healthy veterans to America.
There's spent a lot of effort on that, and so
they can go to Healthy Veterans dot Org if they
know of a veteran that needs help in their parents' basement,
playing video games under a bridge and incarcerated even or

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haven't been able.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
To hold down a job and transition.

Speaker 9 (01:03:31):
We can help all of those people, so refer them
at Healthy Veterans dot org.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
And I appreciate the shout out.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Yeah, Bob, I know the last time I talked to you,
you had a terrible fire which took out your main
barn facility that helps veterans. Have you fully recovered from that?

Speaker 9 (01:03:47):
Well, we're not fully recovered on the barn side, but
since the barn went down, we've been able to build
another village, twenty five homes, another community center, so we've
increased our capacity and I'm really proud of our team
the way they have. You know, our whole brand is resilience,
so they bounce back well and we're even stronger than
before and helping a lot of people. We're seeing a

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lot of fun graduations. One of our guys graduated. He
was fifteen years homeless, so he now has a job
as a high end chef in a car and a house,
and he's singing for people and rest homes and things.
So that's a win from our perspective.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Absolutely, Major General, thanks for everything you do and thanks
for your service.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
You bet Boomdaddy, thanks for what you do too. We're
on it together.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
That is Major General Bob D's thirty one years in
the US Army.

Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
Hey fifty three, Welcome back to the Bloomdaddy experience with
Sam and otis Tuesday morning in the home stretch here
of a nice Tuesday. Just a couple of quick reminders.
We're going to go over a couple of road pleasures.
Due to the flooding. Warden Run Road in Wheeling, Shilling
Bridge in wheel Lumber Avenue and Wheeling. US forty on

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National Road from Tridelphia to Valley Grove is closed. GCMP
Road in the city of willingand Ohio County is closed.
Middle Creek Road is closed, Peters Run Road is closed,
Dixon Run Road, Short Creek Road, McGraw's Run Road, Atkinson Crossing,
Battle Run Road, Point Run Road. Those are all closed.

(01:05:22):
If you need help with any cleanup, you can call
three three zero four seven, three five six nine nine.
Again that's three three zero four seven, three five six
ninety nine. That is the rapid response teams of Pennsylvania.
They will help you with your in home or yard
cleanup and it is a free service. So uh. There's

(01:05:45):
also some emergency hotlines out there if you would like
to volunteer donations, any supply questions. Three zero four two
three four seven one zero nine. Again that's three zero
four two three four seven one zero nine. If you
need supplies, Supply pick up location number one is twenty
five armor Redrive and Wheeling. That is out by Figuretti's

(01:06:08):
If you're not sure where Armor Redrive is and supply
pick up location number two is gun Tree at the Highlands.
That is forty five caliber drive. Again that's gun Tree
at the Highlands. Keep in mind respects parking lot is
not a distribution center, so but I believe you can
still drop some things off there. TETNA shots, folks, flood mud, flood, water, flood,

(01:06:31):
anything can be dangerous to your health. You may want
to get a techno shot. They can be distributed to
two locations from nine to four today. No registration is required,
but a proof of a West Virginia IDA is needed
the Health Department. These are all can be done through
the Health Department at three zero four two three four

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three six eight two. The locations for tetno shots the
willing High County Health Department at fifteen hundred Chaplain Street
or the Respects Parking Lot in Elm Grove, So anything there,
you know, those are the things that may be out there.
And just a reminder that as a result of the
flooding and everything going on, Toe Tapping Tuesdays at Warwood's

(01:07:15):
Garden Park has been postponed. The show for tonight, the
Ron Recher Trio has been postponed until Tuesday, September ninth.
So just some things going on there. I want to
to keep you updated. Another reminder, we will have another
chance for you to win a four pack of George
Thirdgood tickets. You'll have your chance to win before the

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end of the show coming up shortly. Just a couple
other things we wanted to run by you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
There are.

Speaker 8 (01:07:43):
The City of Wheeling is collecting flood debris, so if
you are a resident, you can put the debris out
on the curb for pickup. Free assistance is also being
offered to folks needing help to clean up their yards.
The city's Emergency Management Agency is available to answer any
questions about flooding, so you can call the city's emergency

(01:08:04):
management agency and they'll be able to answer your questions.
And again, the city of willing is collecting flood debris.
You can put out your debris on the curb for pickup,
So that's all good there. Also, the local firehouse in
Troidelphia has been destroyed due to the flash flooding. Water
came crashing through the wall of the Tridelphia Volunteer Fire

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Department on Saturday night. The back wall was taken out
in an ambulance and two trucks were destroyed. Obviously, several
local agencies have pitched in and helped the department as
they deal with the aftermath of the storm. And I
know that they are asking They've put out there on
Facebook that if there are any fire departments out there
that have a secondary or possibly a third fire truck

(01:08:48):
ems vehicle that maybe they could borrow temporarily until they
can replace. Just reach out to somebody at the Tridelphia
Volunteer Fire Department. You can probably call this the Town
of Tiladelphia their offices and they will get you in
touch with the people that you'll have to get in
touch with, you know. So there's a lot of things

(01:09:09):
going on. Just you know, stay safe. Help Thanks to
every all the restaurants out there, I mean we've mentioned
them many times. Greco's, Quaker Steak, Rutting Bucks, you know,
plenty of Generations, Papa John's, and if we're leaving some
Hall of Fame cafe, if we've left somebody out, apologize

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for that, but you know, it is what it is. Hey,
that's it for the show. We are going to have
your last chance to win. Right here, four pack to
George Thirdgood And if you are caller number fourteen, caller
number fourteen, get you a four pack to see George
third Good on Saturday, June twenty eighth, right here to

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Capitol Theater. Folks, we'll be back and we'll see you
tomorrow