The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam June 18, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, the big.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
News this weekend was Israel striking Iran to try to
take out their nuclear capabilities. It's so far, so good.
They have been annihilating top members of that regime. Donald
Trump coming out today saying, hey, we know where the
big guys hiding. You might want to broker a deal.
So a lot going on with this. Let's go live
to Israel. Rob Mickley grew up in the Cleveland area.

(00:48):
Parents and family still here in Cleveland. Rob, thanks for
being on the show today.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Hey how you doing.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm doing good. I mean the question is how are
you doing? I mean, I know when I text texted
you earlier, you said you are, you know, enjoying a
little bit of quiet time with you know, your your kids.
I mean, how do you explain this situation with the kids.
How old are your kids? And how do you handle
this from a parent standpoint?

Speaker 4 (01:13):
So, yeah, so I've got kids raging from twenty two
all the way on to twelve. They've grown up in this,
so they kind of it's just life here. Unfortunately, unfortunately,
we have an incredible defense system here, so sirens going
off in air ad sirens is just a part of
life whenever hostilities strike up. We've had it from Gaza

(01:34):
for years and years and years. It ran as a
different animal for sure, because they're shooting ballistic missiles at us.
These the ones that will leave the atmosphere, come down
from outer space at superstonic speeds and you know, make contact,
and they're shooting indiscriminately across the country to trying to
hit large residential areas and just trying to maximize carnage
to pressure as well to stop attacking.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Their nuclear facilities.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
So thankfully it's overwhelming not been working, and we've been
shooting them down, so it's still a high degree. But
when some gets down, this is not small a munitions
from Gaza. These are massive rockets and they've killed over
twenty people and they've taken down buildings and it's it's
a big deal. But you know, the Israeli people are
united knowing that if we don't do this now, these

(02:19):
will be loaded with nuclear warheads in the future and
then it's just not a tenable situation, is it.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
And this might sound insane for me to ask you this,
but is it life as usual in Israel? I?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Mean, are the kids still going to school?

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Is everybody? So it's a bit surreal.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
So they've canceled all public gatherings, so schools are all closed.
You know, I'm a dentist, so my dental office is
open as needed for patients to keep going. But every
building has got a bomb shelter in it, which is
basically just a steel reinforced room so that if there's
shrapnel from an attack that.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
That room be safe.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
So every building is built with that, so we have
that in every facility. But still they want to minimize
as much travel on roads as possible because they're given
a couple of minutes warning you've got to get into
one of these shelters because if you're anywhere near one
of these, you know, missiles that could get through, they
could do some serious damage.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm talking right now to Rob Mickley grew up in
the Cleveland area, parents and family still in Cleveland. What
made you move to Israel and raise your family there?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Great question, So it's just we've got a short show here.
I'll break it down to, you know, a one minute
or less answer. So I grew up Jewish. This is
the Jewish homeland. It's the only Jewish homeland in the world.
We've I grew up feeling very much at home in
Cleveland in the United States, but realizing that you know,

(03:44):
we're we're an ancient people, you know, over going out,
go back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, this land that
God promised us, and to have the opportunity in my
lifetime to see that country being built seemed like an
opportunity couldn't pass by. So it was not running away
from lovely land, still a big browns calved in Indian sand,
but ran to this amazing thing that's in this world

(04:07):
called the state of Israel.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, it's a great answer, and it was right to
the point, Rob are you you know you said Israel
had to make this move.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
We knew.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Look, everybody knows that at some point in time this
had to happen. Now you've got people calling for a ceasefire,
You've got, you know, all kinds of opinions flying in
from all over the place. The Israeli people, the Jewish people.
Do you want to see this through? Do you hope
your government sees this through?

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, there's not there.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
We're one hundred percent of you know on this. This is
not left right, center of you know, Israel a very
eclectic group of political ideas, but we are fully united
and knowing we cannot allow in our holocaust to happen
to our people. It's not like they're the Iranians were
hiding this. This was They have a billboard in downtown
Tehran with a countdown to the end of Israel.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
They're building these nuclear weapons.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
With the express outwardly said the physician of we wanted
to destroy the state of Israel and remove this cancer
from the world.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
That's to describe the Jewish people.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
So this is you know, we've been told when when
people soone sends up and says they're going to kill you,
believe them they mean it. Don't wait for it to
be too late.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Do you believe that the Iranian people believe the same
thing as the regime or do you think.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
To go ahead?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Anyone knows the geopolitics of Iran knows that this was
a hostile takeover in the late seventies, you know, the
Iranian revolution against the perceived Western leaning government in the
sixties and seventies, which is an important geopolitical block for
the West. But I think when a little the too
secular for the sensibilities of the Iranian people, who are

(05:50):
still deeply traditional people, and like anything, the fanatics take over.
And that was the hostage crisis in late seventies where
they took you know, sixty plus Americans hostage for I
think it was four hundred and forty four days, and
that was the start. The Iranian people as a whole
did not want that revolution, but the extremists and you know,

(06:12):
were enough to push that forward. And since then, the
moderates in the country, which is a vast majority, have
been taken hijacked by this regime. And they are traditional people,
but they're not religious fanatics, meaning they want to be
traditionally Islamic that in mine, but not meaning that you know,
attack women for not covering their hair in the streets.
That's certainly not what they're looking to do. So the

(06:32):
people themselves, and you can see this on Twitter people
are cheering from rooftops every time there's a bomb dropped
in downtown Tehran because they know that the Israelis are
not going after civilians. They're feel safe on a rooftop
to take videos as opposed to Israel when they know
they're going right after the civilians tweak they get in
the bomb shelters. So no, I don't think it's a
fight with the Iranian people. You see the dissonance, then

(06:55):
Iran are ready to rise up, and that's what I think.
What the next thing we're hoping for is that they
got to take back their own come as well as
no interest in taking Iran. Obviously, this is we need
to take away as threat from us, and we'd like
a group of people to stand up and take back
their country that will have positive relationships with the rest
of the world.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
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Speaker 11 (10:30):
Good morning Nathan, good morning.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Thank you for taking the time to jump on with
us this morning. I'm sure over the past couple days
you have been incredibly busy with the weather, the results
of the flooding, everything that's been happening. So I reached
out because I wanted to talk to you about, first
of all, with what happened over the weekend that affected
of course Tridelphia in the in Ohio County. Could you

(10:55):
give us a meteorologist perspective on how that weather was
so centralized in that small part of the area.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah. Sure.

Speaker 11 (11:06):
So the big issue with what we had for this
weekend was very slow storm progression. So once we saw
these showers and center storms developed over this weekend, they
essentially remained where they developed. And when you have that
slow progression on top of some torrential downpours, it's a
scary recipe for flooding. And that is what we saw

(11:28):
in Ohio County on Saturday evening, was that we had
that storm developed, producing rainfall rates which were upwards of
three to four inches and a matter of a roughly half
an hour, So if you extend that to an hour,
about sixty eight inches of rain would have fallen over
the Ohio County if that would have continued for an
entire hour. But that is rainfall rates that on average,

(11:52):
according to National WEATHERSOFICE.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Pittsburgh, they said it on.

Speaker 11 (11:57):
Average was roughly about one and one hundred year occurrence.
So there's the rainfall rates that you know are thankfully
not typical, but very rare and very scary to deal
with that much of water falling in a very short
amount of time.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well, and I have spoke to a couple folks who
live in the Elm Grove area, which you know is
a stone throw away from Tridelphia and Valley Grove, and
they said that when this was going on right there
in their neighborhood, it was sunshiny and not a lick
of rain anywhere.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
Which is shocking. Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, and it can
be that way into you know, our summer months in general,
when we're dealing with that much more scattered precipitation that
over a short distance, we're seeing very drastic change in conditions.
And yeah, that would have been a good example right there.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
Well, we received rain last night, so over the next
seven to ten ten days, you know, these victims need relief,
We need sunshine to dry this up. What are we
what is in the forecast for.

Speaker 11 (13:12):
Us, so we will be watching as we go through tomorrow.
We're still watching for some lingering showers and thunderstorms. The
good news is today the precipitation is likely much more
hit or myth and we saw this even in the yesterday.
These showers, that thunderstorms, they are developing, they're progressing much faster.

(13:34):
So the showers that we do see in place today,
they're likely very hit or myths and they're likely fast
progressing or fast moving. So that does thankfully lower that
potential for flooding for today. We will have to watch
them tonight, not as much for flooding, but our attention
will turn to potential for severe weather. We're going to

(13:55):
be watching for a line of potentially stronger thunderstorms. It'll
develop well towards our west, likely back into western Ohio Indiana,
and it'll track east into our area tonight leading up
closer to midnight. And well, you know, the good news
with that is we can track that moving across Ohio.
We can track the progression of this and if it's

(14:17):
maintaining its strength moving across central east central Ohio by
the time it reaches us, and we'll be able to
track and watch that as we go through the night.
It certainly has anticipated a weekend some by the time
it reaches us, but unfortunately, as it stands now, there's
still that potential for it to still produce some strong winds.
That would be our primary concern would be some damage
to wind gusts tonight. Once that line passes, that severe

(14:41):
risk will fall down into Tomorrow morning, so into Thursday
morning likely going to be some fairly quiet conditions. We'll
still have some showers around, but we can see then
the intensity of that rain picked back up with some
thunderstorms of the mix into Thursday afternoon, and that would
be our last period here going into the weekend where
we have that potential for the potential for some strong

(15:02):
wind guts possibly if we're dealing with some severe thunderstorms
into Thursday afternoon, and then dealing with some localized flooding
concerns as well. So I think at this point on
looking into Thursday, would be that next round where we're
going to be keeping a close eye for that potential
for some flooding some localized flying concerns into Thursday. That

(15:23):
would be mainly into the afternoon. By the time we
get into Thursday evening, if we wrap up the day,
we'll see the lot of the rain taper offs at
the end of the day Thursday, the impacts would go
with us end. From there, we get into a quiet
stretch of weather, so Friday, this weekend, early next week,
likely only a slight chance of precipitation. Likely a very

(15:43):
dry stretch of weather, which is good news. The unfortunate
side is it's going to be turning very hot.

Speaker 12 (15:48):
We could have some excessive.

Speaker 11 (15:49):
Heat by the time we get into especially Sunday, Monday
into Tuesday of next week. I can be ninety plus.
It's very humid, the heated x can reach in to
the one hundreds.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
We go from substri condition.

Speaker 11 (16:02):
Thanks you, but excessive heat concerns early next week.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Wow, that is quite a quite an opposite two ends
of the spectrum right there. The heat is welcomed to
dry some things up. I didn't hear sunshine, but we
eventually got to heat. So we're getting there. We're coming
out of the coming out of this. But Nathan, thank
you so much for your time this morning.

Speaker 11 (16:22):
Absolutely, you're very welcome.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Otis I didn't hear I was still I kept waiting.
He's gonna say sun He's gonna say sunshine.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
You figure with the heat, you're probably gonna get some sunshine.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
We're gonna yeah, what did you say, upper nineties?

Speaker 10 (16:35):
Yeah, thanks for the middle of the road there, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Thanks for that, you know, eighty five little breeze.

Speaker 10 (16:43):
No humidity, Yeah, No, we're gonna We're gonna go from wet, gray, wet, drain,
wet to just your body's gonna feel like it's gray
and wet.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Wet, wet.

Speaker 8 (16:55):
Yeah. Man, what like I said, pull her end of
the spectrum. There, complete opposites.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
But I hate humidity.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
Yeah, yes, I know.

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make that connection. Seven twenty eight. When we were turning
after this break, part two of the interview with Rob Mickley,
a resident in Israel with bloom Daddy again seven twenty eight,
the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
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Speaker 2 (17:47):
Talking to Cleveland native Rob mcley. Grew up in Cleveland,
parents and family still in Cleveland, a dentist in Israel. Rob,
You've made a great point. The Israelis are targeting nuclear
facilities and high ranking officials of the regime Iran and
shooting rockets indiscriminately, just trying to kill you know, some
of the population of Israel. With that said, kind of

(18:10):
described to me the last four or five days. You said,
everything's been shuttered. So are you hanging with your family
and the house and all of a sudden you hear
sirens and everybody heads to a bomb shelter.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, it's exactly what it's like. So every house is
built with a bomb shelter, any house built in the
after the nineties, so there are still some older houses
that don't. Those ones will have a bomb shelter on
a street somewhere, so other one will come in to
you know, run to that shelter you have a couple
of minutes ago. But yeah, it's a bit surreal because, yeah,
you know, those there are missiles coming. If there's a
direct hit gout forbid.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
You had no chance.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
But if there's a hit on the block and everyone's
in their bomb shelter's not a direct hit, people will survive. Unfortunately,
the twenty plus people who have been killed in this
in this war, most of them have been outside of
bomb shelters, which is why the hundry distresses. We built
these for a reason. Get in, you could check up
deals later. I don't want to see that come again
because it feels like it's never going to hit me
until it does.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
So it's heavily stressed.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I want to get into bomb shelters and but then
when you're out, because we have an advanced warning system,
you could more or less go about your day, but
just be near a shelter, you know, not to be
on the roads, not to be far away from a shelter.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
You're older, you know what you're dealing with. But what
about young kids? What about your youngest? What's your youngest?

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Twelve?

Speaker 2 (19:29):
How terrifying twelve is it for them at this time?

Speaker 4 (19:33):
So I know this sounds so bizarre, but you know
this is just how they've grown up. We have had
flare ups when when Gaza had the capability to shoot
rockets at us. That was a normal thing.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
You know, we get a warning, you have a ARIID
sirens down the block, and you get into and nowadays
it comes in as a text message and alarms on
your phone where it just get into a bomb shelter,
Sit tight and it's going to be okay, scary at
times for sure. You hear the explosions going on over our
head like this is not no joke. I'm sure people
have seen the stuff online. That's you look out the

(20:08):
windows and you'll see rockets flying. And it's not even
so much the rockets as is when we intercept them.
The the travenel just fault and can hit and could
be dudley obviously, but we all you know, confidence in
our military, confidence and really in our God. The God
is good to us. To have a barrage like this
and not not have that many casualties is really just

(20:29):
absolute surreal. So we're people of deep faith and we
believe that, you know, we will make it out of this.
We will continue to survive. And my son, my twelve
year old son is waving to me right now.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
He should be in bed.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
He's saying he's he is. You know where we feel
privileged to be living in this country and to be
able to fight.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
For our existence.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Rob two congressional lawmakers today introduced a resolution that would
prohibit US involvement in the Israel Iran war. This is
Thomas Massey, a Republican out of He wrote on x
this is not our war. Even if it were, Congress
must decide such matters according to our constitution. And then
a Democrat out of California said, Americans don't want to

(21:10):
be dragged into another disastrous conflict in the Middle East.
How does that make you feel to hear that?

Speaker 4 (21:17):
So listen, I understand American's got to take out of America.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I mean, these are problems that the United States is
a global power, the global superpower. So obviously there's interests everywhere,
but it's going to take care of its own interests first.
And Israeli, as we completely understand and respect that, we're
not asking for American involvement per se. It may happen
because it's an American interest, but we'll all we're asking

(21:41):
for is the world to understand there's good and there's evil.
This is an evil regime that's been building up to
the stated position if we want to destroy Israel, but
they say first death to America and only secondly do
they say death to Israel.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
These are the.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Chants constantly coming from the pro Colmenian regime. So this
is an American interest, But unfortunately a lot of these
wallmakers when it's about another issue, you know, we could
be involved as Americans, but when it's about the Jews,
maybe less so.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
So when it's a you.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Know, the part of America first, I'm with that one
hundred percent. Is an American I believe American should put
America first, and as in ISRAELI I feel like Israel
should put Zola first one hundred percent. Usually our interests
are aligned pretty well because we're the same mole compass.
Sometimes they differ and as friends will have differences. So
whether or not the United States get involved, that's completely
up to the United States. But from Israel's point of view,

(22:31):
what we're asking is we're going to fight the evil
for ourselves.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
We're taking the.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Hits as the Israeli people, the missiles are coming to
us today, We'll take those hits. All we're asking is
just to have our back, meaning don't throw us to
the wolves and say you know, we'll give everyone else weapons.
We'll give Ukraine weapons, even though we're not necessarily their friends.
But Russia is our bigger enemy. We're all in the
same page that Iran as our mutual enemy here. They
just are attacking us first and they want to destroy

(22:56):
the West second. So we're just saying, just get our back.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
That's all very well, put Rob. Before I let you go,
I gotta ask you save the most important question for last.
Do you think the Browns win more than five games
this season?

Speaker 4 (23:12):
This is a harder question answer than the.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
The Israeli ara of conflict. Boy I hope, so, boy
I hope.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
But I'll tell you the military victory Israel seeing the
last you know, year and a half since the devastation
of October seventh, that's when we spoke last to look
now and to say how that was such a low moment,
but so look now, that was an important step in
terms of you know, being able to take down Camas
first and then has blow in the North second. Then

(23:41):
Syria fell after that, and now if we could take
on the head of the snake is Iran and have
a new future for the Middle East and for the world,
that's at large would be such a blessing. So to
take that analogy and say the Browns have been so much,
so many for shortcomings. One day, one day, I think
we will see a super Bowl in Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
I'd hope to be there for it.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah. Well, you know, back to the point, though, Rob,
I absolutely agree with everything that Israeli is doing, and
I think the United States should give one hundred percent
support because everything that I Ran exports as far as terror,
affects us directly just like it does you. And it's
time to be done with this. I'm tired of dealing
with it. I don't want my kids to deal with it,

(24:23):
and I don't want their kids to deal with it.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
And we just hit a point where we've been talking
about it for fifteen years or twenty years that they've
been talking about building this bomb. And it's been easier
to do earlier, but it was more diplomatic capital because
how big is the threat really? But it came to
the point where the threat is here and now if
we don't deal with it now, we're gonna have to
deal with this while I Ran has bombs, and that's
too late because the loss of life that would happen

(24:46):
then is way too much.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
This is an opportunity to take down.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
The equivalent of the Hitler modern day Hitler, before he
ends up attacking.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
We talked the appeasement.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Approach before the World War Two and that led to
the death of sixty million people worldwide. This, obviously, war
is terrible and we do not want any part of war.
But we want wars that will lead with lead to peace,
not otherwise. And that's what I think we're dealing with here.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Rob, thanks so much for your time. Stay safe and
go spend some time with your kids.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
All right, that is Rob Mickley, Cleveland native, right in
the middle of it all.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
We are back seven forty nine The bloom Ditty Experience
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA on this
Wednesday morning. Just I wanted to let everybody know tomorrow
with the holiday celebration.

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Juneteenth, Juneteenth, we get the.

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Day off, so we're gonna have some fill ins for us.

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We get it off here, but Governor Morrissey isn't giving
the state of West Virginia off.

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when we had him on the show. I'm glad we
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(26:34):
there's a business we're going to talk to next. Please
welcome Mike Taylor, COO and senior lending at our friends
with Belmont Savings Bank.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
Good morning, Mike, Good morning, How are you good?

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Good So, I saw what you guys posted yesterday, And
one thing Otis and I have been doing is, you know,
since the events over the weekend, we've been speaking to
local businesses that have stepped up and have held whether
we're talking food donations, manpower that are helping those that

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have been affected by the devastating floods over the weekend,
and bell Won Savings Bank is getting involved also, So
I wanted to talk to you guys about what you
are offering to those that have been affected.

Speaker 12 (27:20):
Okay, yeah, it's like you said, we've we've been all
a part of being involved in the devastating flooding that's
in our in our area. So we wanted over the
weekend to come together the best we can, and so
many organizations are volunteering their time and efforts on cleanup.
We wanted to be able to try to do something financial,

(27:42):
so we were quick to act on Monday and we
rolled out a couple of programs that we thought we
could really really help the community. So we got two things,
two key things for anyone affected by the flooding that
we're offering. The first is temporary payment relief for any
of our current customers, so we're being very flexible there.
And the second one is we're doing quick turnaround emergency loans,

(28:05):
no fees, in flexible terms. So anybody affected, we know
they need help now, so we're trying to step up
and do that the best we can.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
And for folks who you know immediately when there is
a tragedy like this, the immediate, you know, is the cleanup.
But when people are able to stop and take a
breath and realize the financial aspects of how this is
going to affect them, what advice would you give somebody

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or you know, how should they begin those first steps
for the financial cleanup if you will?

Speaker 12 (28:47):
Well, I think again, it can. The storm and the
floods can affect people so differently. Some people have obviously
their homes impacted, some their sub their vehicles, some of
their jobs obvious. Some people obviously aren't able to work.
So there's several several areas where they're they're financially impacted,

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and I think they just have to It depends on
which scenario they're in. We can we can help with all.
I think we're looking at everything case by case. So
if people are concerned whether or not they would we
could help them or not, were encourage them to call
because we're trying to do the best we can to
help as many people as we can at this time.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
So if people don't even know where to start, and
they're not a current customer of Belmont Savings Bank, you
are more than willing to take the phone call, take
the conversation and help these folks out.

Speaker 12 (29:43):
Yeah, any anyone in our branch can and definitely take
take the information and get it to one of our lenders.
You can visit our website. It's BSB dot bank. It's
very simple, so our acronym for Belmont Savings Bank, so
again that's BSB dot Bank. Or you can call us
at our main number is seven four to oh six

(30:03):
seven six eleven sixty five and we'll definitely get you
to a lender who can walk through your scenarios and
see if we can help.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Wonderful.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
Well, Mike, thank you so much for your time this morning,
and again I will share this on our Facebook page.
I think I did share it yesterday, so I will
reshare it because you know, as we said, there's the
cleanup and then there's this aspect of dealing with these things.
So thank you to Belmont Savings Bank for what you're doing.

Speaker 12 (30:27):
For these folks, all right, thank you for having them.

Speaker 8 (30:30):
Yes, absolutely, thank you this morning. Yeah, Otis.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
You know we've talked for days now about the cleanup,
you know, the squeegees, the boots, the chlorox, all of
the stuff that's needed physically to get out of this
but there's this side of the conversation that folks will
be dealing with.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
I well, of course, you know.

Speaker 10 (30:49):
I mean, when you've lost everything, yeah, and possibly including
your house, you're gonna need something to get somewhere. Insurance
only goes so far, you know, so you're gonna be
You're gonna need some help, and them to offer what
they are offering, and you know, attempting to help these people,

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not banging them with high interest rates or you know,
you know, just outrageous loan payments. This is what a
community bank is supposed to do.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
Yeah, that's well said, well said, And if you know,
for me, I know sometimes I react. Now listen, I've
not been through something like this. I'll be up front.
I'm the type of person when I have so much
stuff coming at me at once, I tend to freeze
and you kind of stop and bury your head in

(31:45):
the sand because you don't know where to even begin.
And that feeling is so overwhelming. That's why I think,
you know, things like this, that what they're offering. Like
I said, and I asked him, even if they're not
a customer, are you willing to have the conversation Because people.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Don't know because they will be a customer.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
Well, they could potentially be. But the fact that they're
even willing to give the time.

Speaker 10 (32:07):
Well, and I've known Mike for some years. It's not
like we hang out or anything, and I probably haven't
seen him in years. But when when he called and
he gave me his name, and I said, hey, is
this We used to call him tails, And.

Speaker 8 (32:22):
So I've got some inside scoop.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Now, well, we were at WVU together, so they were there.
There were a few beverages.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
Consumed at some point in time. But no, I mean,
Mike's a great guy. Uh, you know, I just you know,
as is Todd Kover, as is you know everybody at
Belmont at Belmont' savings. You know they're going to do
but they can't help.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Well, they're celebrating one hundred and forty years. Yeah, so
there's a reason why they've lasted a.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Hundred They've been around just for a little bit. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (32:52):
Yeah, you know, I don't know if one hundred and
forty years is good enough to give you a good
reputation or not, but you know it's not I'm gonna
I'm gonna guess that they probably is that they have
a little bit of stability.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
So just kidding guys.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Yes, yes, just having some fun with you. But yeah,
thank you to Mike Taylor for the time this morning.

Speaker 10 (33:13):
Yeah, and just again, if there's no such thing as
pride when it comes to something like this, you know,
you can suck it up and say, you know, I
don't I don't need this, I don't need that. Take
advantage of it, is all I'm going to say. Because
if they're willing to help, take the help we are
all there are a lot of us that are too
proud that sometimes take that help and you know, we
said we're going to do it on our own, and

(33:34):
it just becomes overwhelming, like you said, So you know,
I don't think that it's charity, don't think.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
That it's a hand out, right, Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
You know it always is. Is they're trying to help you out.

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Yeah.

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a lot of local story stories of course, I mean,
how can we not, but nationally internationally.

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on leash. So with us, of course, is the one
and only Elgie mccardeal. Good Morningning, are you good morning?
Before we get into you know, everything nationally and internationally
that's happening, have any thoughts on what has happened here

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in Ohio County, Any stories you've heard anything like that?

Speaker 9 (35:57):
Heartbreaking? Yeah, heartbreaking, heart wrench stories. And you know, God
blessed to all those people community coming together and and
just getting it done. It came on so quickly there.
I guess that's why they're called flash floods. But it's
almost eerie. There's a lot of guilt for people who

(36:21):
haven't been affected, because, you know, Father's Day if you
have it, if you didn't know what was going on
and you're just enjoying your family and then all of
a sudden you start seeing the news and like what,
like what, and then you just you feel just as helpless,
but obviously blessed because you didn't have to endure that.
And I can't even imagine these you know, I don't

(36:45):
know any of the firsthand stories. I've heard a lot
of them, but but they're the posts on social media
that they're grueling. Yeah, they're absolutely grueling. And you can't
you can't, Like you were saying earlier, you've never I've
never been through anything like that. So there's no way
that I could possibly comment or opine on what they're
going through.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
The pace.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
It's got to be.

Speaker 8 (37:06):
Horrendous, and there's there's just not the right words.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
No, there's no words that even come close to describing
the impact this has.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
Had on folks.

Speaker 10 (37:15):
You know, I heard somebody that was that is a
Wheeling Island resident or was a Wheeling Island resident, and
they we're talking about how you know, the island has
dealt with flooding for you know, years.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
But.

Speaker 10 (37:28):
Ninety nine times out of one hundred, you have time
to prepare for the flood on the island. Yes, this
was just.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Yeah, there's your traditional slow flooding and then there's the
flash flooding.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
You don't you don't even see it coming.

Speaker 9 (37:41):
No, No, I mean in the places that were flooding
in the water that was coming through even up at Ogleby.
I heard Crispin, the first hole in Crispin where the
golf golf carts were you tee off, there was a
river going down through there, and that's in Ogleby, and
it's just the run off run off. There was such saturation. Yeah,

(38:02):
I mean four inches.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
In less than an hour or thirty minutes.

Speaker 9 (38:07):
It's got to go somewhere. And and you're right, I
mean on the island, the river you have time. It's coming,
it's rising, and that's because all the creek sure and
you know, smaller into it, right, they filter into it,
so you have time to prepare. But flash fly. I
mean I actually saw one post. It was like I
think eight forty three, eight forty four, eight forty nine,

(38:27):
and I could be wrong on the hour, but it
was it was literally forty three, forty four, forty nine
and forty three you could see the road forty nine.
It was a river. So in six minutes, in six minutes,
it was done, gone, gone, And it's there's not a
whole lot of time to get prepared for that kind

(38:48):
of thing. And you know, you can't even tell people
go to the top four because in this situation, situation,
the houses were sad, the foundation.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Was taken out.

Speaker 9 (38:55):
Yeah, so yeah, it's just yeah, it's.

Speaker 8 (38:59):
Just bad, something that we all will never forget.

Speaker 9 (39:01):
That's for sure.

Speaker 8 (39:02):
No, that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
Well, speaking of the weekend.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
It was a weekend, Wow my goodness.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
Yeah, and that's one reason I felt, you know, guilty
a little bit. On Sunday morning, Otis and I, you know,
we were talking back and forth. I was getting pictures
and videos from listeners about what was happening, and I
was just, like you said, I was prior to that,
just sending my father his Father's Day gift, and then
this starts coming in and I'm like, wait, what did

(39:30):
I miss? And then on top of that, we have
everything that's happening internationally. I get what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
About the whole guilt and because just like, how did.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
I not know? But that's, you know, why we felt
we had to come in here and on a Sunday
and be the voice and get as much information now
as we can for people, at.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
Least the central communication the central command center. Yeah, it's
difficult when people don't have cell phones and they don't
have you know, electricity, and they don't have no way
of communicating. They can at least listen to the radio
and communicate that way, or find out where do we go,
how do we get help? That kind of thing. But
but you know there there was a very good response.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
Yeah oh quick, too quick, Yes, yeah, yes, right, So
all right, let's let's turn the page a little bit
and let's go into some national things because wow, okay,
so off the bat. Let's let's get into the the
Israel Iran situation.

Speaker 8 (40:29):
The attacks.

Speaker 9 (40:31):
Unconditional surrender, that's those are the two words.

Speaker 10 (40:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:36):
If they don't unconditionally surrender, it's over. I mean they
when when Trump says clear out, leave Tehran, and he's
two words, unconditional surrender, it's it's done. We're bracing And
if then he's not. And the leaders, I think four
days ago there was a leader of Iran who was

(40:58):
a military leader who was taken out and before him hit,
the leader was taken out. So they know where you are.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
They're going to find you well.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
And I have read and I have spoke to people,
and I felt the same way when this, when this
first broke, I thought, where did where did this come from?
And I don't want to sound as if you know,
I buried my head in the sand, but that was
my first initial thought was did anybody know this was happening?
Somebody did because they made it happen, but it seemed

(41:31):
for a lot of people out of left field.

Speaker 9 (41:33):
Well, ay, and was because there's so much going on,
you know, you can only cover so much, but it did.
I mean, Israel and Iran have been certainly going at it,
but there is no question that Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon, and they do, and they've lied, and they've
you know, played us four years and years and years.

(41:54):
It's not going to happen anymore. It's it ends here.
The question is how how is it going to end?
I think the Israeli Iran war or air power has
clearly shown that Israel has dominance. Their dome is working well.
They have been hit a couple of times, but the

(42:15):
military equipment that has been taken out by Israel, the
leaders that have been taken out, and I just don't
think that they have as much firepower. The difficulty is
what do they have in nukes?

Speaker 10 (42:32):
Well, let's back up a little bit, because from twenty
sixteen to twenty twenty Trump cut all the funding and
everything else from Iran, and twenty twenty one somebody they
released a bunch of money back to Iran to let
them get back on their feet, which was the dumbest

(42:54):
thing you could have done.

Speaker 9 (42:55):
It was leading up to this there were they have
been slowly taking out their allies and so now their
allies are gone and they don't have any allies. They
don't have the allies to shoot on Israel, so you know, slowly,
but it was definitely methodical and thought well thought out.

Speaker 10 (43:13):
Even the Iranian quote unquote allies right don't want them
to have nuclear capability. Saudi Arabia doesn't want it, Iraq
doesn't want nobody wants it, no, none of that. Syria
doesn't want them to have it. I mean, it is
their Their so called allies are not lining up with
them because they know that they're radical, they are, and

(43:36):
that that it's not it's not good and it's not
going to be good for the region. No, because then
they're all going to suffer, is what's going to happen
right right?

Speaker 6 (43:44):
Well, And I think one thing for a lot of
people to really pay attention to is where the targets
are compare the two countries and their their tactics and
what they're targeting. You know, israel Is is targeting of course, bases,
new Klar sites and theitary equipment, the leadership. Right, they're

(44:05):
targeting Iran.

Speaker 10 (44:07):
Right, They're just they're just shooting them up in the air. Right,
They're they're they're blind they're playing pin the tail on
the donkey because they're just blindfolded.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
And shooting them in.

Speaker 9 (44:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
Yeah, it's uh, it's also scary. Let's we we can't,
you know, act as if it's not.

Speaker 7 (44:21):
It is scary.

Speaker 6 (44:22):
We haven't seen anything like this in a in a
pretty long time.

Speaker 8 (44:25):
So we got more to talk about.

Speaker 7 (44:26):
Of course.

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Sorry I wasn't paying attention to music.

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Speaker 7 (44:54):
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Speaker 6 (45:07):
The Bloombaddy experienced Sam and Otis and Elgin because we
are right in the middle of politics unleashed. Of course,
on this Wednesday, I want to go back just real
quick to wrap up our conversation about the Israeli Iran
conflict that of course launched over the weekend. Do you
believe or do you think that? You know, you mentioned

(45:30):
President Trump and his two words, and you know he
has been clear on his message with this. You know,
Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. He's been clear on this
since his first term. Is this possibly the first step
and I'm probably reaching for the gods here towards peace
in the Middle East? That's a big I know that's

(45:53):
a big ask, but.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
I think, you know, peace or at least, I don't
know what we call it peace, but at least a
mutual understanding. All right. I like that a truth that
that everybody just settles down. You know, you can't, you
cannot exist in terror.

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Or give the Iranian people their country back, right? Is
this not an opportunity or Iranian? Yea, give them their
their country back? Is this not an opportunity for them
now that the quote unquote leadership has taken a huge hit,
that they can step up and help overthrow the dictators.

Speaker 9 (46:38):
Yeah, I mean that that it's so hard when you
talk about religious life in a way of life. We
cannot expect Iran to be westernized. It's just not going
to happen. Whether it be the difference in religion, the
difference in culture, it's just not going to happen. But

(47:03):
can there be a mutual respect of you know, you
live the people of Iran would like to live in peace?
I think is what you know, you have a dictatorship,
a real dictatorship where where the leaders get everything that
people get nothing, and they live in fear, and they

(47:25):
have basically kept them oppressed because of that fear. And
I think to your point, that's what we would like
to give them, give them their freedom back or the
ability to govern self govern as opposed to having a dictator.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
Well, and I think one thing that we do as
Americans and as Western civilization, we expect and we look
at what we want others to do through the perspective
that we live in, right, and we tend to forget
that their world, their day to day life is completely different,

(48:04):
completely than what we would ever remotely understand.

Speaker 9 (48:08):
And you know, and and it is and That's where
I think the term ugly American comes comes because a
lot of people have not been able to have not traveled.
And if you have not traveled, then you don't see
the way third world countries live and the the you
don't realize the luxuries that you have, the freedom that

(48:29):
you have, the ability to riot in the streets. You know,
it's it's just excuse me, it's just different.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
We we take a lot of things for granted, a
lot of things for granted. It's just breaking news on
the TV right now. The leader of Iran has now
threatened the United States. Any US strikes will have serious, irreparable.

Speaker 8 (48:49):
Consequences, is what has just come out.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Big mistake, big mistake.

Speaker 9 (48:55):
Mistake. Yeah, it's that scene in The Pretty Women she
comes back with a back, big mistake, big, big, big.

Speaker 10 (49:05):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (49:05):
Yeah, this is this is not going to end well
for them.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
No, No, But to to kind of turn away from
this topic, you mentioned the.

Speaker 8 (49:18):
Quote unquote peaceful protesting.

Speaker 9 (49:20):
Yes, peaceful, mm hmmm, I mean that everything. I mean
we had the peaceful protesting quote unquote, we had Iran
in Israel. We had I mean the parade, the parade
which I think comes on the heels of Okay, you
just saw what what are yes firepower is and that's

(49:42):
not even half of it. That was one branch of
the military. I mean that was that was the army.
We have the air Force, we have the Navy, we
have the I mean that. And I know Pete Hegsat's
over the weekend said that they were already moving, you know,
moving defense or whatever military def over to that area.
So it's it's good luck. Yeah, this is not uh,

(50:06):
we will never surrender. Ooh there it gets commanding to America.
We will never surrender. Well, okay, all right, good luck
with that.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
You may not have to you just made gone.

Speaker 6 (50:15):
Yeah yeah, Actually ask your buddies how they how they're
feeling about it, because they're not feeling anything anymore. Mentioning
the the parade, one thing that I brought up on
it was Monday or yesterday, was the the portrait that
a lot of media outlets, folks on social media tried

(50:36):
to paint of what this parade was.

Speaker 8 (50:40):
And what sickened me was.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
The loss of perspective of what this parade was actually about.
And I find it offensive. But we have to go
to a quick break, so I want to get your
thoughts on that when we returned, because the way folks
were treated, the way this parade was treated, the lack
of perspective, it was maybe mad. I want to get

(51:07):
your opinion on one.

Speaker 9 (51:08):
Right, the lack of celebration, the complete was ripped away.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
I don't know.

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(51:34):
course we're talking politics because it's politics unleased with Elgend mccartal.
Before the break, we were talking about over the weekend,
of course, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
US Army.

Speaker 8 (51:45):
What we got to see.

Speaker 6 (51:46):
I saw, you know, clips of it.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
It was quite impressive, it was I watched a lot
of it.

Speaker 9 (51:52):
Probably the most impressive part of it was the ending
with the fireworks and just the music that they were
playing and the the the videos that they interspersed with
the fireworks playing on huge, big screens where you could
see it was a great recruiting video. Their numbers are
going to go way up.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
And they already have. Yes, they've surpassed expectations so far.

Speaker 9 (52:15):
This year have I mean, I thought it was wonderful.
I thought it was a great historical lesson. So for
kids who are watching to see from the Revolutionary War
and all the different uniforms and the narrative, it was.
It was great to watch and learn because I think
there was a lot of teaching to be done and

(52:37):
appreciation because I think there's a lot of adults who
don't necessarily know the history of the army and when
it came and that it actually existed. It's but for
the Army's existence, we wouldn't have the freedom that we
have today. So it was very impressive. It was I

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liked the as the various different troops or battalions.

Speaker 7 (53:04):
I guess it is a proper word.

Speaker 9 (53:06):
We're marching in front of where Trump was. He stood
up for every one of them, saluted them, and it
it it wasn't you know.

Speaker 11 (53:15):
I know, the.

Speaker 9 (53:15):
Comparison was made to like China, where they were like
you know, but I was actually specifically watching for that
because the way they were marching, they were marching in step,
but not with rigidity. So if you look at some
of the China parades, and whatnot. They almost look like
toy soldiers. And then they all look at all look

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at the same time, you know, and it's it's too
it's two staged where this was more. It was still sync,
but it was it was. It was good. It had
a good They were there were some of them were
a lot of them were smiling, especially the in the
waving to the crowds, and and so it wasn't it

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wasn't a I don't think you could smile and wave
to the crowd in one of the two China parades.
I think you or Russia or whatever. And it was
just a great feeling and it will as you watched
it the ending, especially like I said, it just gave
you goose bumps.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Can we not.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
Stop politicizing everything?

Speaker 7 (54:18):
No?

Speaker 9 (54:18):
Not with Trump arrangements and the I mean, long as
TDS is around, as long as Trump is present. That's
the sad part. It doesn't matter what it is, what
the issue is, what the event is. If Trump is involved,
it is not good Trump good, Trump bad.

Speaker 6 (54:34):
I mean, this is two hundred and fifty years of
American people volunteering to possibly make the ultimate sacrifice to
give people the rights that we have and defend them.
To give these people the right to quote unquote peacefully protest,

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to have the freedom.

Speaker 8 (54:57):
Of speech, to have what we have.

Speaker 7 (55:00):
How dare they and.

Speaker 6 (55:03):
The government officials that have not called people out, how
dare they take that away from the soldiers, from the
families who also sacrifice to live that way of life.

Speaker 9 (55:18):
Well not only who lost family members.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
Yes, how dare these people take that from these people?

Speaker 9 (55:25):
These folks. It's sad.

Speaker 6 (55:27):
It is, It's incredibly sad. And that takes it takes
me to you know, one of the things last week
with the protesting and what has gotten out of control
with Ice and the attack on Ice and the things
that we're seeing in LA and now across the country pride,
why the burning of the American flag, what we saw

(55:50):
with the preyed, all of this kind of stuff. It's
as if and I actually had somebody yesterday yesterday say
to me they wanted my thoughts. They had conversation with
somebody who asked to have an American flag removed because
to them they found it offensive because that symbolized Trump.

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If you have an American flag, you're a Republican and
you're a Trump supporter.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Dds And it's finest.

Speaker 8 (56:23):
Oh my, oh yeah, I mean that's that's disturbing.

Speaker 9 (56:30):
It is disturbing. Well, it's you're right, TDS at its finest,
it's it's not it's not even reasonable. Now, there's nothing reasonable,
there's nothing normal. Uh, normal is a hard term to mean.
What's normal?

Speaker 12 (56:46):
Right?

Speaker 9 (56:46):
Right? But seriously, the American flag. Every country has a flag.
Every country's flag doesn't represent their leader.

Speaker 7 (56:58):
Right, it's just somewhere.

Speaker 9 (57:00):
The Olympics coming up, we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 7 (57:02):
Yeah, somewhere.

Speaker 6 (57:03):
We have lost perspective of the separation of the current
administration and being a prideful American there what listen, Biden
was in the office. I didn't care for him and
his leadership. I still had pride, still had the American
flag up. Was not a shame to have that flag up.
Didn't associate that with the president. But there seems to

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be this this separation for the left when it comes
to the symbolism, the patriotism, all of that kind of
stuff that it's gotten ridiculous.

Speaker 9 (57:35):
Well that's where they're gonna fail.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Well, they're looking for excuses.

Speaker 10 (57:38):
They can't they can't they can't give you a reason,
or they can't give you something solid.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
So what do they do. They picked things that it's
easy for them to pick, and they look ridiculous. They
look exactly. I was going to say something.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
Else, but well, and now the I don't know if
you saw this yesterday or yesterday, but Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy has made it abundantly clear that the destruction that
has happened in La no repair work will come out
of the funds of the Transportation Office, will not foot

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the bill for the destruction that's.

Speaker 8 (58:14):
Happening in Get any federal or any any of.

Speaker 6 (58:17):
These sanctuary cities that have had this peaceful protesting.

Speaker 9 (58:20):
Yeah, I mean you can't it. It leaves peaceful when
you start destroying. Yeah, how how can you equate destruction
with peace?

Speaker 6 (58:32):
And right now it's estimated it's going to cost LA
alone roughly twenty million dollars.

Speaker 9 (58:37):
That it doesn't have didn't even fix the fire situation,
you know. The mayor completely flubbed that, right, you know,
and and Gavin Newsen flubbed that. And now we're gonna
just I don't know.

Speaker 10 (58:49):
Well, and then you have Maxine Waters. Oh God, that
says that says don't don't believe what you're seeing on TV.
I was out there. These pro tests aren't happening like
they're saying. She said, there's no violence whatsoever. Be careful,
She goes, trust your eyes, not what they're telling you
on TV.

Speaker 9 (59:08):
Exactly. And then I think the mayor also said, I
flew over them and I saw that they were all peaceful. Now, yes,
at the end there might be a little bit of controversy. Really,
why were you not on the ground then, if they
were so peaceful.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
Right exactly?

Speaker 6 (59:24):
Hey, Maxine, why don't you just go for a stroll
down the streets of LA without all of your security
and everything else?

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Right? Do they think people are stupid?

Speaker 9 (59:31):
Yes, they do. They do.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Their constituents are because they vote them.

Speaker 8 (59:35):
There's a lot of them that are.

Speaker 9 (59:37):
That's what I can't understand. How do they keep getting
voted in?

Speaker 3 (59:40):
No idea because their constituents don't.

Speaker 10 (59:43):
They're never going to vote anybody else in because they
don't want any They're getting the free government handouts you mean.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
There, that's what it is.

Speaker 10 (59:52):
If somebody, if somebody is going to come in and
change my way of life because I'm getting something for free,
I'm not I'm sure, so I'm not going to vote
for them.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
Well, and one other thing happening in La. This this
came across this morning. There's an LA Veterans hospital that
is forced to close and they have to cancel up
to eighteen hundred appointments because of the violence and destruction
that they are dealing with with these protesters.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Not good.

Speaker 8 (01:00:20):
Now, think about that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
Our veterans their services now, they can even go to
a doctor's appointment because of these people.

Speaker 8 (01:00:28):
Lock them up, yep, lock them up.

Speaker 9 (01:00:31):
There's a lot of people that need to be locked
them up.

Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
Yeah, I'm sure there's that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Send them all out. Just don't lock them up, Just
put them on an airplance.

Speaker 8 (01:00:38):
I'll say. I'm sure there's pretty a there's a bunch of.

Speaker 9 (01:00:41):
The whole lawsuit and Supreme Court case about it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:45):
I mean, let him figure out how to get back
agree ship them off to Antarctica.

Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
Well, there's a couple of walls being built currently too,
so that makes a little harder this time around. Oh,
it's eight forty five. You're listening to the bloomded Experienced
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Speaker 7 (01:01:10):
Welcome back. It's eight point fifty.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
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Before we get back into the politics political talk, we
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Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I think that's right Saturday.

Speaker 6 (01:02:04):
Yeah, so that is your chance to win, all right.
I don't know if you saw this this morning. Elgin
got to get your thoughts, So let's go this route.
Representative Representative Oman, one of our favorite ladies, says who

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she is now claiming in a recent statement, I believe
was made yesterday that the US is being turned into
one of the worst countries in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:02:37):
How is it being turned into one of the worst countries.

Speaker 8 (01:02:41):
Why do you think?

Speaker 9 (01:02:42):
Well, because what does we have.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Freedom and we're citing with Israel? Good golly, well, just
think who it's coming from, right Well?

Speaker 9 (01:02:49):
Yeah, yeah, but this also after she was welcomed with
open arms to become a citizen.

Speaker 8 (01:02:55):
Hello, and look at where she's gotten to.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Yeah, and they changed.

Speaker 10 (01:02:58):
The rules of the of the House in the Senate
so she could wear her hajib or whatever they call it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
Well, and then on top of that, I mean, you've
got to think back to the comments she made about
nine to eleven at that care function. I believe it
was called that thing happened, some people did something, and
that all of us were starting to lose and we
were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
Really, she's on crack, She's more than that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
So there has been a lot. There has been just
these these these minimal comments that she has made. I'm
not making any accusations. If you hate this country so much, leave,
But my question is, do we have a hidden enemy? Oh,

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no doubt sitting in that role.

Speaker 9 (01:03:58):
No doubt they have inful traded.

Speaker 6 (01:04:00):
And now she's not trying to hide it anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:04:02):
There's lots of cells, lots of cells, and they just
need to be flushed out, and that's what Homan and
Trump are trying to do, and that's why there's so
much pushback.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
Yeah, we just got a text on our text line
back to our conversation about the parade and everything. It says,
I'm a Vietnam era vet. So you think these people
don't have respect or knowledge of military history, look back
to Vietnam because and how they were treated when they
were when they came home, we were spit on instead

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of being welcomed home. It looks like history is trying
to repeat itself. But because people would kill them before
they killed us, we were murders in American people's eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:04:46):
Yeah, that feeling has to be awful.

Speaker 9 (01:04:48):
It doesn't I think who's the Fox contributor to Fox
News guy that it was military and had lost his limbs. Okay,
you know I'm talking about anyway. He basically said the
same thing. That war ended so abruptly with all the
troops being pulled out of Afghanistan, and it was just

(01:05:12):
it was sort of anti climacta all the work they
had done to build that up and the withdrawal was
a cluster, and he felt the same way. He compared
it to Vietnam. He compared it to basically, there was
some pride. There was there was some gratitude of the

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military who finally thought that they were being recognized for
what they what they had sacrificed.

Speaker 6 (01:05:39):
I think it goes back to a little bit what
we were saying at the top of this conversation about
how we tend to look at things through the lens
of Western culture when we were talking about Iran in Israel.
I think we also do that with subjects like this,
where again, if you are not directly connected, whether it's

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a family member, you serve, you saw action, you can't
understand what those folks have been through. No, and to
not have gratitude, do not have respect, to not have pride,
to imagine what they've been through. If you can't take

(01:06:23):
a step back from your political thoughts on things to
just from a human perspective appreciate what those folks have
been through, shame on you.

Speaker 9 (01:06:38):
As Otis said earlier, it's teds in its highest form,
because you know kind of the shooting we didn't touch
on it.

Speaker 8 (01:06:47):
Minnesota well, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:06:48):
You know when these two the delegate and the senator
from Minnesota who were murdered, well one was murdered, one
was critically injured. When they stand up for the United
States and vote against providing health care for illegal immigrants
and then they're shot because of it, you know, is

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that violence? I mean, that's violence, sure, But you know,
I just don't understand why there's no not hype. There's
not hype about the protests. There's not hype about murders.

Speaker 8 (01:07:23):
It's just so much Well and the others.

Speaker 6 (01:07:25):
And to your point with that, what the message is
going to be or what the storyline is going to be.

Speaker 7 (01:07:31):
This is one.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
Disturbed individual, but it's not one disturbed individual. He's just
the individual that took it to that level. We see
disturbed individuals walking the streets right now, throwing chunks of
concrete that they have broke off of curves at our law.

Speaker 9 (01:07:49):
Enforcement, frozen water bottles, all of it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Right, So to when we see that narrative, same thing
with the attempt and assassination in Pennsylvania. Yes, you know,
that's always the spin they.

Speaker 8 (01:08:01):
Put on it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:02):
This is this is an individual, This is just one person. No,
this is a problem because these people do, they have problems. Absolutely,
are certain individuals, certain groups feeding these narratives to these folks,
and has it gotten out of control?

Speaker 8 (01:08:18):
Yes it has, Yes it has.

Speaker 6 (01:08:20):
So all right, we're gonna pick our not gonna pick,
We're gonna get our winners and we will call. We're
out of time, so don't want to go through all
that right now, but we're gonna get a hold of
our window winners for the George Thoroughgood tickets. So watch
out for a phone call and lunch we do have, yes,
we do have those also. So it's a busy morning.

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I'll have plenty of phone calls to make after the show. Everybody,
have a wonderful Wednesday, Elgin, thank you once again.

Speaker 9 (01:08:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
All right, everybody, we'll talk to you too.

Speaker 8 (01:08:53):
No, we won't talk to you tomorrow. We're off tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
We'll be back on Friday, the Bloem Daddy Experience. Talk
to you then,