The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam June 24, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one Tuck Show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal in form, entertain and tick people off. The bloom
Daddy Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good Tuesday morning. Thank you for tuning in kicking off
your morning with us. I'm Sam, He's Otis and of
course you're listening to news Radio eleven seventy WWVA Otis.
I don't know if you've heard it's hot, you think
it's a bit toasty?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
My air conditioners said on seventy two. When I got
home last night, it was seventy seven in my house.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I actually was outside in the backyard last night with
the dogs and that airn it just I actually felt
sorry for the air conditioner, even though it's an inanimate object.
It was just working and working and working.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I have a friend that text me and said that
her air conditioning went out, her central air went out,
And I'm like, not the time of the year to
have that. No, there's nothing worse than that happened to
me probably fifteen sixteen years ago, Like it was about
this time of year, and like it's boldly.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Hot, blistering.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, you know, and of course the air conditioner goes out. Yeah,
and it took like a week to get it fixed. Luckily,
I mean living on the hill at night, you could
at least open the windows and you had a little
breeze coming through you. Some ceiling fans helped make it tolerable,
made it tolerable, but yeah, it was still that's the
way it always works.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And then your your furnace in the goes off in
like middle of February, and there's I think blizard on
the way.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I think I could live with my furnace being off
because you can always get covers and blankets and dress warmer.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, but it still is not pleasant.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, it's it's uncomfortable, but you can it's easier to
get warm than it is to.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Get let's put it yesterday, walking from here to my
car around lunchtime, even like my eyelids were sweating.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I mean, it was just well for my other job,
we're not allowed to wear shorts, and so I tried
to find like the lightest weight pants that I had
and they were just literally sticking to my legs.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh yeah, I walked out of here because we had
we run air conditioning in this this building pretty much
all year long because of all the equipment that we have,
you know.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
In the one the one studio where they put all
the all the electronic stuff. That room is even on
a on a on a cool day, that room still
probably like ninety degrees. Yeah, and they got fans blowing
in there and everything, and the air is always on.
It just doesn't it never cools down. But it's like
you walk by that room now, it's like you're walking
by a sauna.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, as soon as I walked out of this building yesterday,
I'm sitting here now with with a shirt on my
legs because gets so cold in here. It was like
walking into a brick wall of heat. I mean I
think I felt the mass scaraw in my eyelash has
melt a little bit, like I couldn't blink their sticking together.
So yeah, but we're gonna have another one of those days,
so prepare for that. We have a busy show on

(03:18):
tap this morning. Wanted to let everybody know what is
coming up coming up after this break here at the
top of the hour, we're gonna have Harold Ramsey.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Now you know it's gonna be at the next break,
not at the top of the hour.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm sorry, I'm at the next Yes, it's so basically
seven fish. Yes, I said that incorrectly. But coming up,
we are going to have Harold Ramsey if you have
not heard that name. He is the new owner of
East Ohio Regional Hospital because he is president of three

(03:53):
sixty Healthcare, Inc. Who is the purchaser of the facility.
So we're gonna have him on the show. Prior to
him boarding, he's gonna be at the airport, So bear
with us when it comes to sound and technology.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Because he may be relatively quick.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, it may be quick. So I'm gonna try to
get in as many questions as I can because I
did post this last night on our Facebook page and
ask for comments and questions, and you did not let
me down. You gave me some good ones. So that
is coming up. And then later in the seven o'clock hour,
we're gonna be talking to Belmont County Commissioner JP Dutton
and what this announcemant how it's going to affect Belmont

(04:34):
County moving forward. So we've got a busy first hour
of the show on tap for you, and of course
we're gonna have chances for you to win later on
in the show. So we are. We've still got George
Thoroughgood ok for Saturday. So it is seven to ten
on your Tuesday. Coming up. Like I said, we're gonna
be talking to Harold Ramsey, the new owner of East

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Ohio Regional Hospital. You're listening to the Bloom Diddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. It
is seven sixteen. Thank you for joining us on this Tuesday,
The blim Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven

(05:17):
seventy WWVA. Little confusion on the little white Yes, so
we were scheduled.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
To have mister Harold Ramsey, the new owner of East
High Regional Hospital, and I just go to he goes, hey,
I'm sorry, I got my flight scheduled, he said, I am.
Actually we're on the tarmac getting ready to take.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Off, which means you have to.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Turn your vane off over the heels.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, so okay, Well that throws all these papers out
of the wind.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well it doesn't, it doesn't. I mean we can still
talk about it. Absolutely. These are some of the questions
and some of our listeners wanted us to ask. And
I think there's some legitimate questions because I saw him
last night, you know when you called me with this yesterday,
you know, and you you were like, hey, you know,
look at this, and I said, well, send me the

(06:09):
send me some of the stuff and when I get home,
I'll look at it. So I pulled some of the
stuff up, and everything that you said that you said
to me kind of was the way I looked at it,
and I tried to dig a little deeper, and you've
actually dug a little deeper. And you know there this

(06:33):
doesn't for somebody on the outside looking in. I'm not
completely sold. Let's put it that way.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Okay. I'll say this from going through the coverage that
we have done through the doctor Johnson, everybody knows the
scenario with East Ohio. I tend to look at things

(07:05):
through a window of skepticism, which I believe the majority
of people in this Ohio valley do well.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
And there's been multiple owners of East Higho Regional Hospital
in the last ten years.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I mean well, and just to back sorry didn't
interrupt you, but to backtrack, not even just the East
Ohio situation, we here in the Ohio Valley have gone
through multiple folks that have come into our area. They
make a big splash, and they make big promises and

(07:40):
have these grandiose.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Plans like the water park at Thehighlands.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
There you go, there's a good example, and we get
the we get that excitement. Well, I don't want to
say we fall for it, because that that.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's not the right to It's a glimmer of hope.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yes, yes, there you go. It gives us the hope.
But now it has happened so many times and after
the conversations and you know that I had got to
have with the former employees of East Ohio, like I said,
I now am looking at things with through a window

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of skepticism.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, and I think some of the things that have
thrown up red flags for us early on. One of
the things that you pointed out to me was the
Rising River Investments or was that what it is? Rising
River Investments?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Rising River Capital.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Sorry, Rising River Capital their website. So you go to
this website and you go to click on certain things
that nothing happens, and for a company that's been around
for almost three years, or allegedly been around for three years,
because if you look at the copyright date on the thing,

(08:59):
it says twenty twenty too, so you would think that
in three years that somebody would have updated. I think
there's a mission statement on there or some sort of
a something something like that, right, and you know, like
a company objective or whatever you want to call it,
that's on there. But then when you go to click

(09:19):
on the other things that where you should be able
to find certain things, there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, there is nothing. And I will say this. When
I did get to speak to mister Ramsey to arrange
the interview that was supposed to be happening now, he
was very gracious, very gracious. So I do not.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Want to no, no, you know, we're just We're just
I don't think we're not We're not throwing him under
the bus. Yes, but I think there are some things
that as as an outsider looking into somebody new coming
into the area and somebody that wants to invest in
this area. There you know, normally you would have like

(10:04):
an open book or you would have you know, all
these things, and there's there's a little bit of there's
questions shadows.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yep, we'll say yeah. As soon as as soon as
I saw the announcement. The first thing I did was
search three sixty Healthcare Inc. There's a lot of three
sixty health, three sixty Health Services, three sixty Health Senior Services.
I could not find three sixty Healthcare Inc. When that then,

(10:38):
that's when I went to the Rising River Capital. And
when there's not a lot of information be found, that's when,
of course you start asking questions. And that's why I
was excited to get the opportunity to speak to mister Ramsey.

(10:59):
But as we mentioned, and there there was an issue
with the flight timing and being able to be on
the phone if he's sitting on the tarmac to take off,
because he is coming to Martin's Ferry sometime today he
will be.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
He's actually flying into Pittsburgh. That's why. That's the other
thing that you.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, he's flying into Pittsburgh and he's going to come
to Martin's Ferry to the facility to speak with folks,
answer questions and all of that. Again, was hoping to
do that this morning with us, But again.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
And I will say this, he said he wants to reschedule.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
So wonderful. Wonderful because I do have questions, and I
have questions like you said from the listeners, I did
you know post it last night? But my first and
number one question is in the negotiation process for the
purchase of this facility, we all know there's a major
amount of debt along with the back pay for the employees.

(11:57):
The doctors, the nurses, down to the janitors, the cafeteria workers,
you name it. These people have not been paid. I
want to know if these people will be paid. Is
it written into the purchase that he purchased the debt
along with the facility, So I can.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
I can tell you this as a business as a
former business owner, So when you when you purchase a business,
you you purchase the debt normally. So in other words, uh,
if there's back property taxes that are owed, if there's
back utilities that are owed, those are the things that
you would have to pay first. I don't think that

(12:40):
you assume the wages of the previous employee, right.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
And that's where I wanted to clarify what is considered
the debt in a.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Purchase, So it would be it would be more like taxes,
it would be utilities. It would be the essentials, like who,
first off, the electric company is not going to turn
the power back on if you don't pay the bills.
The you know, the water department is not going to
turn your water back on until you pay the bills.
The gas natural gas, you got to pay the bills,

(13:13):
so he would have to catch up on those, and
then he could probably work something out with the city, county,
state on the taxes to where like, you may not
have to pay them all up front, but you would
maybe work out a payment plan depending on what the
toatal is. I mean, if the total is some exorbitant number.
And then they may also say, okay, well guess what

(13:34):
we're willing to take a percentage as opposed to one
hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, and I mean just from the outside looking in,
that entire situation over there is a cluster, you know what.
So I wanted to ask him what is appealing to
get involved with that, to purchase and take on all
of that as an investor? What makes that an appealing

(14:00):
venture to take on your shoulders? Because, as I said,
he's walking into a very skeptical, skeptical skeptic community not
only in Martin's Ferry, but the surrounding Ohio Valley. So
that's that's a big thing to take on and why

(14:20):
decide to do that. The other thing I wanted to
ask is there's a lot of rumors floating around, and
you know, but questions is this going to be a
for profit or a nonprofit hospital? Under Johnson? It was
a for profit. Also want to ask straight up, because
there's a lot of rumors floating around immediately, does he

(14:43):
or any of his companies have any connection with the
former owner or any family members of the former owner,
Because there's a lot of rumors also prior administration, the CEO,
the CEO, the are any prior administrators or upper management

(15:07):
under the prior ownership going to retain positions under him?
Because there's a lot of folks out there that feel
as if if this is going to happen, and it
looks as if it is. It needs to start off
fresh because one of the biggest problems talking to employees

(15:30):
or former employees was transparency from the top down. And
I'm not just talking from doctor Johnson, the owner, from
upper management down was transparency and the lack thereof. And
I think moving forward, anybody that takes on that facility

(15:51):
needs to start with fresh faces, with fresh visions and
open and honest lines of communication and trans parency, because
that's where the skepticism comes from the employees out into
the community. But the number one question for me, again

(16:12):
going back to all the conversations I've had, is what
is going to happen to the former employees and the
money that they are owed. Is that now on his shoulders?
And was that worked out in the deal? And notice,
I'm glad you passed along that he does want to reschedule,
because we will set that up. If you have questions

(16:33):
you want us to ask, you can go on our
Facebook page and leave a comment. My apologies that this
has happened.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
You know, out of it happens. There's nothing you can
do about it.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
No, it was out of my control.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Sometimes you get bad phone connections. Sometimes just the schedule
didn't work.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Let's just blame it on the airlines. Yeah, you know,
they could blame for everything. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
We actually left early.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Of course they did what that never happens. It's seven
twenty eight. We're gonna go to a break. You're listening
to The Bloomdaddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
It is seven point thirty six. The Bloomdaddy Experience salmon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva Ah, there's some other

(17:21):
local stories going on, though, what Yeah, there is.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Actually something else going on.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, there is, there is. First of all, we talked
about this a little bit earlier, the heat.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's all in your mind now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
It is shaping up to be another extremely hot day
here in the Ohio Valley. So the entire region is
under a heat advisory today and tomorrow. Daytime highs are
expected to soar into the upper nineties, which then makes
the heat index roughly could reach about one hundred and two.

(17:56):
One hundred and two. Sweaty, sweaty, sweaty, sweaty. Yeah, I
got most m Yeah, I got my car yesterday and
I have leather seats, yikes and shorts. Ho ho. That

(18:17):
was a little tender. That was a little little tender.
So you think you could fry an egg on the
concrete yet?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
What's it?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, you could do it probably on the hood
of your car. I mean no, I mean in all honestly, yeah,
the metal. I mean I wouldn't do it because then
that the egg will ruin your pain job or the
ceilant or whatever. Yeah, you could probably put a frying
pan on the hood of your car and probably within
let it sit there for about ten minutes and then

(18:46):
we drop an egg in there and see what happens.
But that but you that mofo cooks.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Bubbly. It's gonna get bubbly along with that. Just so
you know, there are cooling centers that are open and
and available across the Ohio Valley. In Brooke County, residents
can stop at the Wellsburg Volunteer Fire Department Reception Center.
The Salvation Army of Ohio, Tyler, Marshall, and Wetzel Counties

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are also operating as cooling shelters. Everyone should limit their
time out doors during during the afternoon hours, not even afternoon.
My gosh, you hit eleven o'clock, you.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Hit about nine thirty. Yeah, it's steamy. Yeah, so the
drive home from here yesterday was like and that sun's brutal.
Make sure you put sunscreen on because you definitely don't
want to get burned. I mean, I don't care how
well you tan, you definitely need sunscreen screen because if not,
you know, speaking from somebody that had about with skin
cancer last year, that would be the thing. Make sure

(19:48):
you have your your make sure you keep your ears covered,
your you know, all your because it's not worth it.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
And those are the things you don't think about, like
the tops of your ears, the tops of your feet,
your head.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
If you don't have you I don't have a lot
of I mean, I have hair on my head and
don't get me wrong, but it's not and it's very thin.
But that's just you know, I have thin hair. Plus
it's very short cut.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Short your your lips. If you've ever had a sunburn
on your lips, so you know all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
I have had sunburn on top of my head and
then you get like the little blisters. That's that's horrible.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I've never had that issue.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I've got Well, you got thick hair, yeah, I've got I've.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Got plenty of thick head.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
I have plenty of coverage up top. Excuse me. Along
with that, a little bit of a follow up on
the flooding situation in Ohio County. The search is continuing
for eighty three year old Sandra K. Parsons of Triedelphia.
Drones have been deployed daily in the search for the

(20:54):
for Sandra h. The Sheriff Nelson Croft says that they
will not stop until they get closure for the family.
FEMA has arrived in Tridelphia and Valley Grove areas to
conduct the preliminary damage assessment. They did receive over nine
nearly nine hundred completed surveys, which got FEMA here. Now

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those surveys, of course got the attention of FEMA, got
them here, and then what they'll do is they'll go
through assess the damage and from there figure out in
the federal declaration request will be made to the President.
So action continues with the flood. This part of it

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disgusted me. So the sheriff also announced yesterday that his
office is working with the West Virginia Fusion Center to
address what is potential fraud through go fund me campaigns,
and these campaigns have been set up for, of course,

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the flood victims. He stated yesterday that so far we
have had as of last night, seventy six accounts that
have been flagged, with a total of two hundred and
six nine and ninety three dollars that has been collected.
If it is fraud, we will prosecute it. We will
prosecute it as fraud to the fullest extent of the law.

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But he did add that the majority of these go
fundme campaigns have good intentions, but possibly you know, don't
have a solid plan of action when doing this. So
not saying for sure what are fraudulent what aren't, just

(22:43):
more of a warning to you know, be diligent, make
sure you're paying attention that if you are making donations,
that it's going properly right.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Find find a local charity or find a local organization
that is, yeah, making money for the flood victims, instead
of trying to do it on your computer through Facebook
or GoFundMe or something of that nature. You know, get
off your rear end and just make the donation in person,
whether it be to the United Way, whether you take
your money to the Valley Grove or try to off

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your fire departments. You know, I'm sure there's you know,
the Salvation Army, there are the Red Cross. I mean
looking you can go and say, look, I want this
money to go to this and they should honor them.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well. And you know, when you see these things, it's
just there are vile people in this world. Well it
will take advantage.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's no different than the person that lives on a
road that was affected, okay by the flooding, but the
lower half of the road was affected, not the upper half,
because it was on the hill. So the guy that
lives on the hill goes down and gets twenty ten
bottles of bleach, gets cleaning supplies and everything else and
just takes them home because he doesn't want to have

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to pay for him He was not this person was
a male man or woman, was not affected by the
flooding at all.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, they're just taking advantage of the situation, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
And like you said last week, you know there's a
special place in hell for those people.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Well, and I've heard stories now, of course I can't
confirm any of this, but there are folks that are
driving around and they're going through the piles of stuff,
not necessarily the donations, but the the the metal, and
you know, they're just taking stuff.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Well, my cousin had a storage shed in that area,
and for the most part it was it was just
it wasn't anything of value as far as monetary value,
but there were sentimental values. So there were there were
you know, sealed containers like those you know, like storage tubs,
and you know, it had their daughter's accomplishments in it,

(24:59):
and and people just went through and they just grabbed them,
not knowing what was in them, just throwing them in
a truck and getting out because they're they're they were hoping,
you know, to be able to profit from whatever was
in those you know, they're looking for jewelry, they're looking
for money, they're looking for whatever. And that's just again,
there's a special place. My favorite, my favorite sign would

(25:20):
be looters will be shot.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's just disgusting. These this it's not a yard sale,
it's not a flea market. These are these this pile
of stuff when you drive past, it are the remains
of people's lives. It's the bits and pieces that they

(25:45):
have left. And that the fact that there are folks
here that are willing to drive through and just grab
what they can and the hopes that they're going to
hit pay dirt is repulsive. It is it's it's one
hundred percent repulsive and is otis. As you said, repeating

(26:06):
what I said, there's a special place for those types
of folks. But we can't let that overshadow the other
folks who since last Saturday, have been working their tails
off to help their friends and neighbors.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Well, for every one bad person there's one hundred good ones.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, yeah, so we can't can't let that overshadow.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
But unfortunately it's the bad ones they get the Yeah,
it's just like anything else.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yep, yeap. Well, on that note, let's take a break.
It's seven forty five. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It's

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seventy one on this Tuesday morning. You're listening to the
Bloomdaddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWABLE visiting
us in studio. Now we have Belmont County Commissioner JP
Dutton answered my call yesterday because Belmont County was a
big topic of conversation yesterday. So thank you for taking
the time this morning.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
Now, good morning, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Good? So, of course got a hit on this right
off the bat, the big announcement yesterday of the purchase
of East Ohio Regional Hospital. You know, since the closing
of the doors in March, it's really taken a toll
on Martin's Ferry. But Belmont County as a whole. Were
the commissioners involved in conversations with the new buyer. Have

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you met mister Ramsey as of yet.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
I've not met him in person. I've spoken to him
by phone.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think most communications really have gone through the Belmont
County Poort Authority. I mean, these kind of projects really
aren't something that our traditional projects the county would be
involved with in terms of, you know, trying to provide
incentives to project teams and those types of things. The
hospital is a different is sort of a different animal.
But I think, you know, the my kind of port
Authority has kind of been in conversation with the project

(28:08):
team since they showed interest and and try to answer
just local questions or even state questions that they thought
they had at certain points. But to say that there
was like an active role for the county to really
try to support the project, I mean it would be
fair to say that. But we've you know, tried to
be supportive like we would for anyone showing interest in
Belmont County. Those conversations, you know, are going to continue,

(28:29):
and again, you know, just it has been devastating having
the hospital closed on a variety of fronts. It has
been devastating for city Martins Ferry. It's been devastating. I
think in some ways for healthcare in the High Valley.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
This is the second or third time around we've seen
this now where you know, facility like this closes and
what that does to other facilities nearby, and just the
strain that it puts on them, and it just makes
it obvious that you know, we need more facilities, not less.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
And yeah, that was one of the biggest conversations when
this was going on that I kept trying to reiterate
to our listeners was you know, yes, this is going
to affect Martin's Ferry, but it's going to affect healthcare
as a whole because of their emergency facilities that you know,
we are a very rural area and the East Ohio

(29:19):
emergency room was kind of like the in between of
either North to Trinity to Wheeling or all the way
down to Marshall County. It was a nice in between
for those emergency services. So I think that's part of
this that if they do and when potentially reopen in
the fall under new ownership, hopefully will go off without

(29:41):
a hitch, because you know, it is causing issues and
overwhelming for the other facilities. They're taking on those extra
folks sure. You know a lot of the conversation with
with East Ohio has been the taxes, the debt that
is sitting on the facility, the school district that you know,
how it's affecting the the school district, then the taxes

(30:01):
in all of that. You may not be privy to
this when when the purchase is happening, will will the
new owner take on all of that debt? See he
was we were supposed to have him on and there
was an airplane incident in timing and booking and all
of that, and of course I was going to ask
him that question. But do you think that that is

(30:22):
part of the negotiations or part of the buying, is
he'll take on that debt?

Speaker 8 (30:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (30:27):
I don't know if that's my place to truly speak to.

Speaker 7 (30:29):
But what I can say is this, Uh, you know,
in the one conversation that that I've had with him,
like I've I've seen some you know, correspondence and our
port authorities been involved too. You know, that one conversation
was made very clear to him from myself that there
there is that issue and that that was going to
be uh you know, an important thing for them to address. Uh,

(30:51):
for the local community. I think that and also frankly
that the doctor Johnson is really not involved with the
hospital moving forward if as I just mentioned that, just
from a community buying standpoint, I think that there's you
know a lot of of you know, court feelings obviously
in the in this in the city of Mountains Martins
Vary and surrounding area in terms of how the hospital

(31:13):
concluded its operations, and uh, you know, if he was
gonna be part of the team moving forward, I thought
that that was not a good idea for them.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now that was that was another one of my questions
was is there any connection between doctor Johnson or any
family member that was involved with the prior ownership that
there should not be any connection and and because there's skepticism.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
That that's what I said earlier rightfully, So yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think I think rightfully. So I think listen, I said,
I said, I'm cautiously optimistic, you know, the hospital.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
If they can come in and they can.

Speaker 7 (31:49):
Address some of these immediate concerns, you know, how how
things were left with the employees, the tax issue. I mean,
there's some major issues that need to be addressed fairly early,
you know, So we're costually optimistic that those challenges will
be met.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
And I hate the fact and Otis and I talked
about this, the fact that we have seen outside folks
come into the Ohio Valley, whether it's on the Ohio
side the West Virginia side, and take advantage of the optimist,
optimism and hope of Ohia Valley residents, and we've we're
kind of left out to dry. And you know, I

(32:25):
hate the fact that when I saw this yesterday, I
look through through the lens of skepticism. But unfortunately, because
of folks like doctor Johnson, we have that mentality now.
And I want to you know, I when we get
to talk to him, and you said it too, you know,
you can't help but feel that way.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Yeah, I think listen again, I think it's not listen.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
I am.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
I am by nature very optimistic about the Ohio Valley
in general and issues and all those types of things.
But even I in this situation, like I guess it's
impossible not to be because of the last several years
of East our Regional Hospital, But that doesn't mean that
there shouldn't be some part. There should be some optimism, hopefully,
and that they will get off on the right foot

(33:06):
and h and be successful.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
I want a little bit of optimism, just to kind
of switch it real quick before we're done here. The
Governor's in town, going to be in Morristown, correct, And
the Underground Railroad Railroad Museum is breaking ground of the term.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
Yes, yes, yeah, it's a it's a project that's been
working on for several years. I'm not sure if you
ever had the opportunity to meet John Maddox from Flushing,
and you know this was the Underground Railroad Museum was
I hate to say it's his passion project was well
well beyond that, I mean what he what he created
and is really amazing. And before his death he was

(33:46):
looking to try to find a new location for it.
And and that's the purpose of this project. The Governor's
coming in is going to be a great thing for
Beamont County.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
And that's kicking off today. Is the public welcome? Yes, okay,
wonderful happening at ten o'clock today.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
Exactly a morse town and more.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Commissioner Dutton, thank you so much for your time this morning.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
All right, it is seven fifty eight. You're listening to
the Bloomdaddy experience. Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
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Speaker 5 (34:30):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 9 (34:34):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Let's get this hour.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Rolling Iranian nuclear facilities struck by US missiles.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
Three of them.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
I want to bring on Tyler Gray right now, former
Army Ranger Delta Force operator for combat deployments in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Tyler, first of all, thanks for your service.
Second of all, with what we did over the weekend,
you know, now you have different countries, different people saying
we should sit down and maybe negotiate with Iran? Can

(35:08):
they be trusted? Is there any Is it a wasted
time negotiating with individuals who are hell bent on destroying
not only Israel but the United States of America.

Speaker 8 (35:19):
Well, on top of what you just said, for Saul,
thanks for having me. Second of all, I don't think
quite frankly that that regime wants to negotiate. I mean,
they've proven this time and time again that that they
you know, they'll talk about negotiations, but in my opinion,
it's always just been a tactic to either buy time

(35:39):
or you know, look like they're doing one thing when
in reality they're doing another. So I don't think they're
really a regime that that can be negotiated with, because
they've proven that time and time again.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
And I agree with you one hundred percent.

Speaker 9 (35:54):
And Tyler, from what you've dealt with with your four tours,
are religious zealous? Do they know anything other than death?
I mean, and I think that's as straightforward as I
can ask you. I mean, how do you deal with
people who think that death is the ultimate I don't
want to even say sacrifice, but the ultimate goal that

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the seventy two virgins and everything else and our Mageddon.
And I mean, we are literally dealing with religious lunatics.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Are we not?

Speaker 8 (36:24):
We are and we're not. And that may sound weird,
but I'll explain it. I saw this firsthand in Iraq specifically,
and that is, you know, they say they're that way,
but the reality in my experience, you know, we were
catching vbed makers, And what I learned is that the
people in charge they don't die, they don't kill themselves,

(36:45):
they don't do the suicide bombings. So really, what the
people in power of those different religious zelate regimes are
doing is that they're manipulating the you know, younger and
less fortunate one in their society to do the death
for them, if that makes sense. So it's even in
my opinion more insidious because essentially what they've done is

(37:09):
weaponized you know, the lonely despondent, you know, young men
and women in those countries and used them to do
their bidding, which is even worse than doing it themselves.
In my opinion.

Speaker 9 (37:20):
We hear all the time that the Iranian people want freedom,
that it's the regime that keeps them down.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
Did you see that in Afghanistan and Iraq? Also?

Speaker 8 (37:31):
Yes? I mean well, first of all, let me state
very clearly, in Iraq specifically, the Iraqi insurgency was by
and large not Iraqi. It was almost all foreign fighters.
There was Iraqi facilitators, but by and large it was
foreign fighters. I personally came into contact with multiple Iranians,

(37:52):
and I know firsthand that Iran was financing a large
part of the Iraqi insurgency. So you know, yes, the
majority of iraqis the majority of Afghani's just want to
live a simple life, you know, take care of their
friends and family and and you know, do somewhat the
best they can. I obviously don't agree with everything in

(38:14):
those cultures that I've seen, but by and large, the
regimes or the governments are not the people. And I
believe Roan it's probably the same way, although I don't
have personal experience there.

Speaker 9 (38:25):
Talking to Tyler Gray, former Army Ranger, Delta Force operator,
also author, which I'll get to it a little bit
when it comes to the Iranians, Tyler, do you think
if they acquired a nuclear bomb they would indeed use
it or do you think it's all a scare tactic
for them?

Speaker 8 (38:44):
I mean, that's a that's a great question. Uh, it's
a great question. I in my personal opinion, I think
maybe at one time I kind of thought they were
trying to I felt like they you know, they've been
trying to acquire a nuclear device for a long time.
There's really no no reasonable person could say they have it.
In my opinion, and at this point, based on their

(39:05):
recent behavior, I actually do think they are crazy enough
to use a device, just based on their rhetoric and
the way they've shown so Yes, at this point, I
do think they would utilize a device if they had one.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Teller.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
Based on your background in the Intel and everything else,
do you think that there are Iranian sympathizers on our
soil right now who are trying to figure out how
to retaliate.

Speaker 8 (39:35):
Absolutely, I mean I would say, you know, there's almost
you know, no doubt. You know, fifteen hundred came across
in the last administration, and again that there's no doubt
that there is sympathizers from you know, a lot of
you know, countries as well as terrorist organizations that are
in the US planning and plotting every day. And we

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have to be on guard. We have be vigilant, and
in my opinion, we need to start taking steps to
harden our infrastructure at home to prevent something from happening
before it happens, not being reactive after lives are lost.

Speaker 9 (40:13):
We used a couple of GBU fifty seven bunker busters.
I'm not going to go into everything here, but it
is amazing that we have a bomb that can penetrate
nearly three quarters of a football field worth a concrete
and detonate. I mean, when I take a look at
the weaponry that we have, I mean, you're a weapon
if you're a former Army ranger and Delta Force operator

(40:34):
when it comes to guys like you, when it comes
to the technology that we have. When you hear people
out there say that maybe we're biting off more than
we can chew with Iran or things like that, what
goes through your mind?

Speaker 8 (40:50):
What goes through my mind is people have no Most
people if you ask what makes the American military, you know, great,
or how it's able to do what it does, most
people would say, you know, technology, et cetera. What most
people don't realize is what makes America's military able to
do what it does is a history of complex coordination

(41:12):
from years and decades of various combat operations that we've done,
and the lessons learned and the tactics, teacher, techniques and
procedures put in place from all those lessons stacked over years,
gives us the ability.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Now to.

Speaker 8 (41:31):
Accomplish incredibly complex coordinated assaults on you know, a place
as big as an outhouse anywhere in the world. That's
incredible and we're, in my opinion, the only country in
the world that can do that currently.

Speaker 9 (41:45):
Okay, based on what you just said, you had to
be pretty impressed with what went down with Operation Midnight
hamm Er. First of all, in today's day where everybody
talks social media everything, nobody had a clue that this
was going to happen.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Other than a few people.

Speaker 9 (41:59):
There were, oh leaks, We use decoys to protect the
integrity of the mission. I mean, there was a lot
of thought, a lot of precision, a lot of secrecy.

Speaker 8 (42:08):
It's got to make you proud, it does, and it
goes to show you what can happen when all the
various entities work together. You know, all the different parts
of the armed forces that work together, the command and
control elements at the Pentagon, you know, the higher levels
of the government that knew in the planning process and
the authorization process. It took not to mention to include

(42:32):
I'm sure the coordination with you know, Israel. So it
took an incredible amount of participation, thought, planning, and leadership
to accomplish this. And yes, it is pretty spectacular when
you really look at it and understand the logistics involved.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Coming up, we're going to have part two of that
interview with former Army ranger Tyler Gray that's coming up
after the break. But also don't forget we're going to
have your chance to win this morning tickets to see
George Thuragod happening this Saturday here at the Capitol. That's
coming up. Also, it's eight fourteen on this Tuesday, the
Blue Daddy experienced samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
I'm telling right now of Tyler Gray, former Army ranger
in Delta Force operator for combat deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tyler,
based on what you saw in Iraq in Afghanistan, if
there is a regime change in Iran, do you think
things will improve?

Speaker 5 (43:37):
Do you think the people of Iran will rise up?

Speaker 8 (43:42):
I mean, it's I would say it's it's to me,
it's impossible to say. I mean, at the end of
the day, we just don't know. And when when a regime,
you know, when a regime is gone, it obviously creates
a vacuum of power and you'd never know who's gonna
fill it. And how many times have we inserted someone,

(44:04):
you know, in a vacuum that we created and then
it got worse versus the times it's got better. So
once you create that vacuum, you really have no control
over how it gets filled, and it's very difficult to
predict how the Iranian people would react.

Speaker 9 (44:21):
So with that in mind, were these missile strikes a mistake?
Is our involvement a mistake? Or is it something we
had to do and you got to roll the dice.

Speaker 8 (44:33):
I'm again this is my opinion, but I personally feel
that I'm sure that there was intel that the president
had that was very specific for him to take the
actions that he did, So I feel like the strikes
were a good idea. Israel was already you know, taking
out a lot of different things.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
We were the only.

Speaker 8 (44:54):
People that could take out the sites that they couldn't
take out. So in my opinion, it was definitely something
that needed to be done. Far as you know, a
regime change, that's a very difficult, dangerous thing, and there's
I feel like there's a lot more that needs to
play out before anyone could make a decision on that currently.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
I want to ask you this as a former Army
ranger and Delta Force operator, the level of skill not
only with you and others like you, but the Israeli forces.
Can you put it in the words for the audience
out there, what the Iranians are dealing with?

Speaker 8 (45:34):
The Iranians are dealing with something that they don't have
a comparison for is the easiest way to say it.
I can tell you from my experience the Israeli intel
that that they've been using to target I don't know
exactly what it is, but it is impressive and it
is shockingly accurate intel that they've been using to target

(45:57):
specific individuals. So when they say had information about a
credible current nuclear threat, as well as they said they
know where the Ayatola is, I have absolutely every reason
to leave them based on what we've seen with their targeting.
On top of that, the skill level of the Masad

(46:17):
operational personnel on the ground and what they've been doing,
you know, building intel and the ability with infrastructure to
strike when they did. It's logistically incredibly complex. They've done
a pretty amazing job of it so far from what
I've seen.

Speaker 9 (46:34):
Tyler, you got a book out Forged and Chaos, a
warrior's origin story.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
What do you hope and somebody gets out of reading it?

Speaker 8 (46:42):
Fortune Chaos? It details my journey from the top of
Special Operations to rock bottom and back. So it explores
the loss of identity and purpose many veterans and first
responders space face, and it covers how I rebuilt myself
from the inside out. I hope is that it helps
others find their way forward to with all the different

(47:05):
issues that are currently facing. We've been told, you know,
it was PTSD, it was this and that, but the
reality is, in my experience, it's more complex, and it
takes a new paradigm and a new way of looking
at the problem in order to assess what the actual
cause and diseases rather than simply treating the symptom symptoms,

(47:26):
and we're seeing that failing. Now.

Speaker 9 (47:28):
Everybody knows what PTSD is, But in this book you
introduced the concept of LTSD lack of traumatic stress disorder.
What's the difference between the two and why was it
crucial for you to point this out?

Speaker 8 (47:42):
So PTSD, as we all know, stands for post traumatic
stress disorder, the fundamental that's what I was told I had,
and it just didn't fit me. And what I realized
over time was that PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, assumes
a pre traumatic stress baseline, and the name of the

(48:02):
book Forged in Chaos. What it's about is I realized
my case, my childhood was so chaotic and I never
had a pre traumatic stress baseline. So what happened was
my brain wired itself to be comfortable in chaos. What
that leads to is I don't have PTSD. I have

(48:23):
LTSD lack of traumatic stress disorder. I am so used
to chaos being in the environment, and that's where my
brain is calm. And what that means is when the
environment becomes calm, the chaos is in my mind. And
the only way I can calm myself is by creating
chaos in the environment.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
And go ahead, I'm sorry, sorry, no, no good.

Speaker 9 (48:45):
Well, I was going to say, I know the book
talks about how somebody can be, you know, on certain
traits that make you exceptional in combat can also become
destructive in civilian life. And I was going to ask
you which trait was the most challenging for you personally.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
Going back to what I just said, which was creating chaos.
So I would when everything was fine and great, I
would create chaos through various ways, probably the most destructive
for me personally. I would say was addiction, but there
was many other ways that I created chaos in the
environment to then get back to my homeostasis in my head,

(49:24):
what my nervous system was used to. And there's many
destructive things that we're seeing with veterans, and it's really, again,
it's an addiction to chaos because that is their normal.

Speaker 9 (49:37):
You know, I know somebody very well who's worked with
a lot of individuals like yourself, Army rangers, Delta Force,
Navy seals, and this individual told me, they said, you know,
we train these guys to be killers, to be machines,
to be impervious to danger, pain and everything, and they

(49:58):
are unbelievable fighting machines.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
And then we bring them home and just drop them off.

Speaker 9 (50:05):
There's no deprogramming, there's no nothing to bring them down
from what they've been built into.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 8 (50:13):
No, I mean, that is exactly what I say. And
one of the things I'm advocating for now is there
needs to be at the end of service a process
that tries to lead you back to some level of
being able to be calm and calm. And the other
part with what you said is think of it this way.

(50:33):
Not only that but while you're in, you are constantly
taught to give to the team and never take from
the team, give and never take, and you live that.
And so what happens is one day you're out and
they go, oh, that guy committed suicide at all. He
never asked for help. Well, of course he didn't ask
for help because you instilled to always give and never take.

(50:56):
And there has to be the lack of a better term,
a decompression process for getting out that basically retrains us
now to ask for help and to be learn how
to be calm in calm rather than being calm in chaos.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
Tal a great interview. I'd love to have you on again.
Incredible insight and again thank you for everything you did
for this country and still do.

Speaker 8 (51:18):
My pleasure, sir, my pleasure, sir, Thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (51:21):
That is Tyler Gray, former Army Ranger Delta Force operator.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Heay A thirty six Welcome back, Ah Stop the bloom
Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
I thought I'd do a little little get into the
the music with everybody. Yeah, no, all right, fine whatever

(51:58):
whatever coming up here shortly. We're gonna have your chance
to win this morning a four pack to see George
Thurgood this Saturday right here at the Capitol Theater. Wanted
to remind everybody as you step outside this morning, it's
gonna be another hot one hot. If you're in the

(52:19):
swimming pool and you're still sweating, you know it's hot.
That's a pretty good sign, so prepare for that. Again,
just a reminder that the entire region is under a
heat advisory today and tomorrow. The highs are expected to
sort into the nineties with the heat index reaching one
hundred and two, so be prepared for that. Dress appropriately,

(52:43):
plenty of fluids. All of that, and then also for
those who need cooling centers, they are available throughout the
Ohio Valley. In Brooke County, residents can stop by the
Wellsburg Volunteer Fire Department Reception Center to cool off, and
then also the Salvation An Army of Ohio. Tyler, Marshall
and Wetzel Counties are also operating as cooling shelters. Everyone

(53:07):
should limit their time outdoors during the afternoon hours. So, yeah,
it's hot. There's no other way to say it. There's
no other way to say that. So otis I'm gonna
read you a headline so we all want We have
all these different sources of material, I guess you could say.

(53:31):
And sometimes you sit and you scroll through and you
just read the headlines. You go, okay, okay, and that
doesn't sound interesting. And there was the NBA Finals and
Oklahoma one. Yeah, by the way, Oklahoma one the NBA Finals.
Don't pay attention to basketball myself, but this one caught
my attention. And I just want your reaction to this

(53:52):
otis I did not prep you for this. This is
a headline posted forty minutes ago. Planned Parenthood Clinic marks
Men's Health Month by encouraging men to get screened for
cervical cancer. Okay, then I really you know, I am

(54:17):
not a doctor.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
And you didn't stay at holiday in Express last night.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
No, I will not be applying for a job at
East to High Regional Hospital. I am not qualified. I
am pretty sure that men cannot get cervical cancer last
time I checked, because they do not have a cervix.
Thank you. Okay, yeah, yes, this is a medical organization,

(54:47):
Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Well, they're catering to them.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I know, I know, but that's the stupidity that we
are dealing with.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
So you know it is Pride month, sure, and I
guess ten days ago or roughly ten days ago, the
New York Mets when they played the national anthem, instead
of displaying the American flag, they displayed the Pride flag.

(55:25):
They haven't won a game since.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Hmmm, that's an interesting little stat. So wait a second.
When they played the national anthem, the stars and stripes
were not there. It was the rainbow flag.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Yes, yes, yes again, ugh.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Really again, this goes back to where and when did
we lose sight of respect and patriotism for the country
that we live in. It doesn't have to be all
the time.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Okay, So maybe that was just a little trying to
think when they when they did the flag, because it
appears that they have won one game since June fourteenth,
so ten days, yeah, they wont They beat to Phillies

(56:33):
eleven to four on Saturday, but that other than that,
they've lost every game since June fourteenth, so one, two, three, four, five,
six in one seven seven eighth, one in eight in
their last nine.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Games, so basically you're blowing up in there. So basically
nothing to have a lot of pride when it comes
to their their their current current record current celebration. We're
talking a little bit about patriotism in politics. I don't

(57:13):
want to get too deep into politics. Yesterday was crazy.
We've got politics on leash tomorrow. Of course, there's plenty
of talk about to talk about with Algie McCardell. But
one of the most impressive things so far for me
has been Vice President JD. Vans for being so young

(57:35):
in that world. Between he and Catherine Levett, the the
White House spokes person, they are so well spoken and

(57:56):
do not back down, do not cater to anybody. You know,
those those two are so impressive, But we could have
had a shark is a vice president? Think about this
Mark Cuban, So if you're not familiar with that name,
Mark Cuban originally from Pittsburgh, actually is one of the

(58:20):
sharks on the reality show Shark Tank, where they invest
in entrepreneurs who either have a they've they've created something
an item, say like a specialty barbecue sauce or whatever,
or they've invented something, they've started a business. Either way,
people go to Shark Tank to get investments by a

(58:42):
quote unquote shark. Mark Cuban is one of those sharks.
He also owns what NBT NBA team. That's it. I
knew it was an NBA team. I knew it was
in Texas, Mark Cuban. He did endorse and supported Kamala
Harris in twenty twenty four. He was actually quite vocal

(59:04):
about his support, but he is now confirmed. He was
invited to submit himself as a potential vice president candidate.
He did state, though I'm not very good as a
number two person, and expressed concerns about potentially clashing with Harris.

(59:24):
He said, the last thing we need is me telling
Kamala the president. No, that's a dumb idea. Well, if
he would have become vice president and she would have
become president, oh god, that's what nightmares are made of.
He would have been saying that statement till he was

(59:44):
blue in the face. No, that's a dumb idea. That's
the statement I'm referencing, and of course we all know. Instead,
Harris selected mister truck repairer to cater to the white guys,
Governor Tim Wahugher, which, by the way, if you want
a better skit than SNL has put out in the

(01:00:06):
last decade, go watch some of the clips of Tim
Walls in his appearance in front of the committee talking
about being a sanctuary city in the you know, as
a sitting governor and going over numbers and facts, and
I forget which one confronted him. All I can see

(01:00:26):
her face and she's said, simple question, what is a woman?
He had the most I didn't understand the question. He
had the most blank, dumbfounded look on his face. But yeah,
if you're sitting in a waiting room, or you're sitting
waiting on something and you need something to just waste
a few minutes on go on social media and watch
some of those testimonies. Because he just looks not bright.

(01:00:51):
I'll just say that, not bright at all. It is uh, again,
better than some SNL skits that we've seen in the
past ten to fifteen years. It's eight forty five on
your Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
You forget your tickets caught up?

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(01:01:28):
Jack in the box. Otis over there four cups of
coffee in thank you for changing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
He's making fun of me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
I'm not making fun of you. But you went from
being like it's a regular morning too.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
I went from I was dragging this morning four cups
of coffee later, you are no good?

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
And because the guy that could understand that is the
guy that drinks like twelve cups of coffee a day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Oh, be prepared, Kevin, because he is uh, he is
wide awake now, Kevin.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
Cookst morning, guys, Good morning, how y'all do it? Yeah?
I heard him off the air when we spoke just
for a minute.

Speaker 8 (01:01:58):
Put it this way.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
He spoke for more than a minute.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
Well you'll have that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
You didn't get what brand of coffee or you drinking this?

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
I don't know. I don't know. That's some off brand.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
It's one of them ones you get off Amazon and
they give you like forty two different flavors or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
Okay, we'll try New Orleans Bland Community Coffee with chickory.
Oh that's a dark roast.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
You're gonna get some coffee. You have to text that
Tommy because I'm not going to remember. Okay, all right,
did they sell it? On Amazon and CA cups.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
You can get it online, yes, and K cups you
sure can't, right, Yeah, that's all I need to do.
I'll try to sight some for you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Just maybe I'll just swing up and grab a couple.

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
Well you can always do that always.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
Well, because you you do like to share.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
I do. I do. Man, was it hot yesterday? Oh
gosh no?

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
So like what was the average temperature of the cars
at Straw Automotive and a lot yesterday?

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
I got it my truck yesterday afternoon to go down
to the Ford store and the you know, the reading
set one hundred and eighty. Now, I know it wasn't
a hundred eight outside, okay, but just sitting there that
that sensor picked up and it was unbelievable. I mean
it was saying this out It was stick out there yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Yeah, no doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
And now what I also know is a lot of
you out there are some of your AC's. This is
when you find out whether the AC and your automobile
is working. That's true, and a lot of frustration when
you jump in there and you know you hit that
star switch and reach over to that fan modor one
that AC doesn't work. Let me tell you we have
got several outstanding service facilities that can take care of

(01:03:45):
that for you today. All right, So if you've got
you're having air conditioning problems with your automobile, you don't
have to worry about making an appointment and wait until
next week. I mean, that's an emergency right right now,
in this kind of weather, that's an emergency. You get
it up here. You tell them, hey, you know, Kevin said,
just bring it up here today, that y'all will work
it in and get it taken care of as quickly

(01:04:07):
as possible.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Well, here's the other thing. You know, people think about
their remote start in the winter time because you want
to warm your car up. You can use your remote
start in the summertime to cool it off.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
Look at you do all that thinking all by yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
I'll give you that one. I'm not even going to
come back at you now. You deserve one every once
in a while. I'll give you that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
You know, I wait, I'm patient, that's wait for a moment.
That's fine away from a moment. But the best way
to get that air conditioner fix is to do.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
What take you the straw Automotives Service Department or.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
Just trade it and get a new Well there, you
don't have to worry about it, there, you you know,
just you know, we got every vehicle out here is
equipped with air conditioning, so no matter where it's newer used,
we've got you covered right here. Come on out, see
how much you can save. Everything's on sales. It's a
great time to buy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Come on out where every car has air conditioning because
you can put the windows down.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Oh it's not the same.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
That's not air conditioning, because if.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
You're driving eighty miles an hour, it's not bad.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
You just keep making my point for me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
All right, Hey, guys, stay out of trouble today. Maybe
I'll see you for some coffee.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
All right, sounds good?

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Oh here in my eyes watering with that one. That
was good. That was good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Yeah, that's fine. You know, I don't have a problem
with that. Listen, if you can get a good jab in,
I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
That's what I've heard.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
You know. I've got a there's I've got a new
friend that takes jazz shots at me all the time.
I love it. I mean, listen, if I if I'm
going to dish it out, I got to be able
to take it right. Yeah, so I don't have a
problem taking it, especially if it's good. If it's good,
I'll compliment it. I'll compliment you on it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
You do do that. Yeah, you appreciate a good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
Yeah, you do. You know. And I don't get upset.
I mean, it's all with fun as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
You are not somebody that get your feathers ruffled very easily.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Life's too short.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
No, no, you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
You know. They say you have cats have nine lives.
I think I'm on number seven. So I guess gotta
be careful what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Well, you don't get worked up either, m It all depends.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I've never well, there's there's times I get worked up.
But it takes a lot. Yeah, it takes a lot
to say.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
You're pretty pretty mellow at least with me in here.
Everything in the morning, you tell me to calm down more.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
You know, sometimes when you stress deal with when you
deal with the handicapped, you have to kind of We
do get government money for hiring handicapped here. She's all right,
you know, Oh boy, this is.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
The day is completely gone different than what I expected it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Every once in a while, we just have to put
paper on the window so she doesn't lick them. Oh okay, man, Yeah,
I should have gone after Kevin and I went after
you instead.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Yeah you did. Well, these are some of those people
that you're referring to. There's a new TikTok trend. Oh boy,
I don't do TikTok. Do you do? You don't do tick?

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
I have it, but I don't ever get on it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Yeah, me neither. Well, you know how there's the tide
pod eating folks and all these stupid challenges. Well, now
the new one is women are using as a new
makeup tool for lip liners. Imagine this a sharpie Now
that's what that's a Look, that's what you want, a
sharpie lined lip.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Come on, people, let's give away some tickets, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
One eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy one eight
hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy What do we want
to do? What number?

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
George stgod a four pack to George thurgoods Saturday. Here's
Saturday at the Capitol. Let's do number you know what
we always do, odd numbers we do. Let's do number ten.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Okay, a nice even round number ten? One eight hundred
and sixty four eleven seventy. We are out of here.
Enjoy this beautiful weather, but stay safe. Drink plenty of fluids.
Plenty of fluids.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Politics unleash tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Yes, you have any questions for us to hit on,
of course, you can email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. Hey,
we'll talk to you tomorrow