The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam June 26, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning. It's seven
oh six on this Thursday. Thank you for tuning in
the bloom Daddy Experience. Salmon otis news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Oh guess what I did yesterday? Otis hard to tell you. Oh,
I'm so excited. I booked my vacation. No good for you,

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sign sealed, credit card is swiped and paid for cop blee.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Didn't do what I did?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Uh? Why what did you do?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Two times I booked something and I got the dtro
so I had to go back and change it and
ended up costing myself about four or five hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh No, I didn't do that. No, didn't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
One was an error, you know, like the where your
point and click, and so I was clicking on Wednesday
and the cursor kind of slid on me and it
like the Wednesday before and I didn't catch it.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'll give that one the human error. The other one
was I just didn't look at my dates and I
screwed up, so I had to When I booked my
train ride from Amsterdam to Dresden, I thought I was
leaving on the sixteenth, and I'm actually leaving on the seventeenth.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Whoopsie.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So that cost me about ninety bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, so it is signed, sealed and ready to go.
There's nothing better than that feeling. Oh listen. I don't
want to spend the money, of course, but you know that, like,
oh okay, there's something really exciting to look forward to,
and you know that that just feeling of excitement and planning.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I think I just handed you something here. Okay, go ahead,
you keep talking. I look for it.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
But no going to Jamaica. Oh, Jamaica, Jamaica, mon and
nuh what is it?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Don't wear camouflage in Jamaica, right, That's what the travel
agent told us last year.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't remember that.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it's illegal to wear camouflage in Jamaica. Really, I
think that was one. I think that's where it was.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, I was gonna say, I have a camo hat
that I take with me every year.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
You might want to take something else.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I guess, I guess. So, yeah, I don't remember that one,
but yeah, had that planned. But here's something for travelers
if you are planning your vacation. This is kind of gross.
So if you have a what is it? What is
it that, Howie Mandel, it's not OCD? Is it OCD?

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When you have a germ phobia?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well he's got that too, but he says he's a
CD too.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh okay, Well this is this is the whole germ
side of thing. So the germiest places when you travel
are hotel rooms. But what is it in the hotel rooms?
The three things that you think do you think hold
the worst amount of germs?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
What holds the most amount of germs in a hotel room?
Probably the remote control for the tv M.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah that's number two.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's number two. The phone, No, the fridge.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, that's number three, toilet handle well yeah, yeah. And
then in the airport it is the pin pad on kiosks,
so where you check in the countertops, and then the
baggage the baggage office countertops.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know what that would be where you check
in and give them your baggage and they put the
tag on it and then they send it on the
conveyor belt.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Right, but okay, it says check in countertops, baggage off
office countertop. I thought that was the same place anyways.
So yeah, I know people who when they travel and
they get into their hotel room, they do a scrub down.
They bring you know, wipes and they go through themselves
and wipe everything off, even if it's freshly cleaned by

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the service. They'll go in and anti.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
In fact, my ex had a big phobia about hotel floors,
like she like, didn't want to walk barefoot on the
hotel floor, didn't want the kids to walk barefoot. I
thought it was gross.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
We've slept on the floors. I mean back in our
college days. We give two crabs. Well yeah, yeah, but
it does say here that average Americans, the average American
needs a vacation every one hundred and ten days. Two
thousand Americans found that we start itching for a vacation
every one hundred and ten days.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
So roughly every four months, three and a half four months,
that's about right.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Only eighteen percent of workers with paid time off will
use their full allotment. The average responded with paid time
off has five point four days left over at the
end of the year that they didn't use or rollover.
I never leave any I never leave anyone.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
You're able to use them all.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, I mean I have something that I can carry over.
I'll seely I have a carryover. And the longer you
work for this date, the more you can carry over.
So like the I think when I first started, I
could carry over two hundred and twenty or two hundred
and forty hours, and then after five after five years,
I think it goes to two eighty and then anyway,

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right now I can carry over three hundred and twenty hours,
which is eight weeks vacation. Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Wow, Yeah, I can't do any carryover.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
So but I mean, if I have used it to
lose the time at the end of the year, it's gone.
I'll even take extra. I will even burn some of
the stuff that I have just to if you know,
like give you a couple of extra days here or there.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, we're kind of use it or lose at night.
I've never been able to use all my vacation time
throughout the year.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, they say personal time off or paid time off.
It's not always used for vacation. I guess sometimes they
use doctor's appointments and family emergencies also make up the
list of top five uses of PTO. It's easy to
let our PTO fill with errands and keep up with
heck lives, but it's vital to make time for ourselves
and ensure things that don't build up in the long run.

(06:16):
That's Danist Debaker from Apple Vacations.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, that's I've used Apple vacations. By the way. That's
easier said than done for a lot of folks.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, you know, you know it's it's vacation's cost.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, that's that's one side of it. And I know,
for me my mentality, if I'm going to take time
off and go and vacation time for some reason, in
my head, I have to be going somewhere, Like if
we're gonna call it vacation time, I'm going on a vacation.
I don't want to just sit at home, because in
my mind, if I'm just going to be at home,

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I might as well just work.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I don't know, it's just well, sometimes you just need
that day off.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, yeah, to kind of decompress and yeah, center center yourself,
or to get away from people.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, and I mean I know I've done this before,
so you know, sometimes you get that like for us,
and we get it here at the radio station too.
But you get Thanksgiving and then the day after Thanksgiving off,
so you get Black Friday off too. A lot of
people will take Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday because then you're only
burning three vacation days and you get five days off,

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so you know a lot and then sometimes you know,
you factor in like holidays that follow on a Monday
or a Friday, and you know, you take an extra
day either you take the Friday before the Tuesday, and
then you still you make it a four day weekend.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Like we should have done last Friday.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I had last Friday off for the state. I
didn't have last Thursday off. I had last Thursday off
here but not for the state. And then I had
last Friday off for the state but not for here.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, we should have taken We've got a nice.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, I mean, look, we're only here for a couple hours.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
No, it's not being here, it's the waking up. Just
just have one extra morning of you know, although don't
actually sleep in because Thursday when we were off, I
was so excited I'm gonna sleep in a little beginning. Actually, no,
I was still up at five am. That's a stupid
internal clock. Your body adust two crazy hours, which it's

(08:23):
done and still I'm awake. But no. Yeah, so the
vacation is planned, looking forward to it. Now it's time
to shop.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
But my husband didn't hear that, Like he doesn't know.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Gotta get a couple of new things for the trip.
But no, listen, we have got I want to remind
everybody today we're gonna have your chance to win. First
of all, it's Thursday, so it is time for ice cream,
even if it is seven o'clock in the morning, ice cream.

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Gonna have your chance to win from our friends at Kirks.
And what we're gonna do is we're gonna do that
on our text line, which of course seven zero four
seven zero seventy four to seventy start off with bloom
Daddy name and phone number, and that will be your
registration for your chance to win a half gallon of

(09:18):
the famous Kirks homemade ice cream. So that's today, and
then we also have otis you've got hidden in there,
You've got your little your little prize pouch.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I you know what I did with them. But we've
got a family four pack to the Washington Wild Things.
They're vouchers, so you can pick whatever game you want
to go to. We will mail those out and we'll
send a schedule along with it, so you can pick
the games, take the vouchers to the box office, trade
them for tickets, and you go to any game you want.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Perfect, So we have two chances for you to win
it all.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Aren't we going to do a couple gift certificates too?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh yes, and we've got gift certificates.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
For McCormick's auto care.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yep, So plenty of chances for you to win. This
morning we get back. It's summertime. What is part of
this summertime that everybody you know has memory of memories
of some are blockbusters, some of the best throughout uh,
throughout the summers. We're gonna hit on the eighties especially,
so we're going to get into that next. It is
seven sixteen on your Thursday, The Bloomdaddy Experience, salmon Otis

(10:16):
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, Welcome back, seven twenty one
The Blond Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Just a reminder, we have a couple of chances for

(10:37):
you to win this morning, all through our text line.
We have ice cream from Kirks and of course we
have your chance to win a family four pack to
see the Wild Things again. They're vouchers, so it works
perfectly around your schedule and we're doing that on our
text line seven zero four seven zero name phone number

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and whether you would like to do Wild Things or
if you want to be registered for the free half
gallon from Kirks and right now, listen, a good scoop
of ice cream in this heat can't beat it.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Listen. I went through Kirks the other day and I
went through the drive through. Let me guess, because I
had the dog with me. Key Lime, No, they didn't
have any I did Blueberry Swirl, so I did one scoop. Okay,
by the time she handed it to me, it was
already melting on my hands.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
It's been, uh, it's been amazingly hot. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I mean, I don't know. I don't even know how
to describe the heat. Like I said the other day,
I walked out here and I don't know. See, we
have to sit here with the air condistry blowing all
the time because of our equipment, and so in the

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vent is literally right above my head. So I have
cold air blasting on my face this entire times.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
To be colder in this room that it does in there, and.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's backwards, it is, it's flip flopped.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
All the equipment should be in that room and me
in that room, and then you should be in here.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yes, Well, like I said, I sit here and I
get that cold air blasted on my face. When I
walked out of here Monday or Tuesday. As soon as
I walked out the front doors of the Capitol, it
was like walking into a convection oven. And it was
so hot, Honest to god, it melted like the mascara
on my eyelashes and like they congealed to the bottom.

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I had to like pry my eyes open. It was
so like. I don't know if it was because the
cold and the heat just hit so quickly, I don't know,
but yeah, I'm standing on the sidewalk peeling my eyeballs
open because my eyelashes stuck together from the heat.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
What just the fact that we used congealed twice in
the last fifteen minutes really we were talking about the
blow up in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh yes, oh yes, what of our co workers? None
of us nowither of us? No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
We have a co worker. We have no idea what
he eats or because it's got to be a guy,
because it's in the men's restroom, but like ew, yeah,
we'll just leave it at theah. Yeah. But speaking of that,
there's actually a.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Story for that on Yeah Body Functions.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
There's nineteen percent of employees will not poop at work.
I know people like that, they get stage fright.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's good. It's not their home turf.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
So there's a QS supply survey out there. It's one
thousand UK employees found that nineteen percent refuse to poop
at work, eleven percent of gen z ers have never
done number two on the job, and forty eight percent
of women admit that they're afraid to use the office bathroom.
Sixty percent of all respondents have seen a coworker unflushed

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business in the ball that's always nice. Strategies for using
the bathroom at work include going during less busy times,
using the restroom on another floor. In office, workers take
seven hundred and eighty bathroom breaks each year, while remote
workers go an average of one thousand and forty times.
It's almost double or not double, but another twenty five percent.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I actually, I actually know two women that absolutely refuse
and it's not just to work, it's in public, like
will not do anything until they are at home, Like
I said, home turf. I don't know how you don't
get sick. I mean, think about a long day of work. Yeah, eight, ten,

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twelve hours, depending on what you do. I don't know
how you don't feel awful.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
And and I used to be that way. I used
to be that way likely. Yeah. In fact, when I
was a kid, we would go to my mom's college
roommate's house over in Maryland, and I got poops day
trade over there, and they actually had to take me
to the hospital for the emergency room and put a
repository because I wasn't going to the bathroom because I

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had stage fright. We were there for like five or
six days, so I went like four and five days
without Yeah, that's not good, No, but I had stage fright.
You know it all it's all psychological. Listen. When I
was working, I used to work for a delivery company
similar to Airborne Express. That's that's what I worked for.
But it's similar to FedEx ups. And my territory was
up in Cranberry Township, Xeeleanoples Slippy Rock up in that

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area before it all blew up development wise, and there
was an office building that I found that the first
and second floor was occupied, but the third floor wasn't.
So if I had to use the restroom, I would
go to the third floor knowing that there were no
offices up there. And then so that that lasted about

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six to eight months, and then offices went in and
then I had to find a new place because I
was like, oh, we can't.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
It was like your own hitten.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
It was. It was a little hidden gem. It was
a hidden gem, you know, because then you don't you
don't have to worry about it. There are no offices,
and you know, you didn't have to worry about who
saw you going in, saw you coming out? Yeah, just
uh And then I lost it. That was disappointing.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, I don't know, but as you get older, you
don't care.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well, you don't care because if you don't find the restroom,
you're there's a lot of things that could happen that
aren't good.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, there's that too. No, that can't be that can't
be good again. I know people two people that are
like that, and I just I don't understand how you
could even stop yourself physically. I don't know, I don't know.
But can't be healthy. How did we even get to well,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
We were talking because you're you used congealed twice. That's
how we got there.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
The word of the day, ladies and gentlemen, is congealed.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Because that's what how you described your eyelashes and something else.
So we'll talk eighties movies next. Since we bumped it
back a second, Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
We were going to get to. Its seven twenty eight.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. He's Otis, I'm Sam,
and we're congealed together here on news Radio eleven seventy
WWVA seven thirty six. After that short bathroom break the

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bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Maybe we stumbled upon something otis because on our text line,
we got a message that says love, bathroom and bodily
function chatter. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Just remember there's one rule that people should abide by,
the courtesy flush.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, yes, yes, so that that after the initial yes,
I'm going to add a second to that. Okay, if
you empty the role, put a new one on.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:10):
You go top? You did? Does it go over the
top or underneath? Oh? Lord, doesn't matter, like to me,
it doesn't matter as long as as long as there's somewhere, Yes, as.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Long as it is there. Don't get me even started
on that. On the toilet, I have a video. I've
played it before, I'll play it again with what my
husband does with the toilet paper. It is the most
infuriating thing in the world. It's either one or two
squares are left or a new one's there, and it's

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just precariously sat. Just put it on the just put
it on the little bar that it hangs on. What
was it? I don't even the little holder thing? I'm sorry.
One of the best lines in television history is can
you spare just a square? Spare square? Just one simple square?

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You know what I'm talking about? Right? Yes? Yeah, okay,
Well I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I knew that. I don't know that's been I've probably
seen them all, but it's not one. It's not one
of my go tos, and I if it's on, I'll
watch it, but like if if there's something else on,
they'll change the cham Forget.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
What the premise of that episode was, wasn't it The
person that she was asking was somebody that didn't like her.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Or somebody of Jerry, Yeah, something.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, there was some sort of conflict there.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
There's always some sort of conflict.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
She was just she was just very politely begging, please
just to square just one spare square, just one one square.
Speaking of of of television, the Simpsons, this is uh So,
they had their finale for the season. Their latest episode,

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It's left fans shocked. It portrays the aftermath of the
death of a major character, major character the matriarch Marge.
It's set in the future, where the episode is titled
Each Stranger Things shows, Bartley said, dealing with Marge's passing

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and receiving a letter from her instructing them to care
for Homer while the show. While the show has killed
off characters in the past, this departure from the norm
has stirred debate among fans who question whether future flash
forward episodes are really a Canaan. Despite uncertain viewers anticipate

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Marge's return in the upcoming seasons the season. The series
has been renewed until its fortieth season, which would be
the twenty eighth through twenty nine season. Forty years of
a cartoon show is amazing.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Any show its amazing, you know. I mean, you had
sixty minutes, as it's been around forever, But like Meet
the Press and some of those, that's a little different.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's not entertainment, I guess.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
I mean it depends on how you look at some
of us. Sixty minutes interviews are like entertaining, you know,
I mean like they.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Did it like script it, I guess is a better term.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, I mean like they did it like they've interviewed
Jimmy Buffett, you know. I mean that's not serious stuff,
you know, or they interview a rock star or you know,
an actor.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I can't tell you the last time I've seen The Simpsons.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's been a while, but it was must see TV
when they first came out.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh yeah, back in the day. I was probably in college.
The last time I saw this, I.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Think I was just out of college. But we would
go up to a couple of friends up at West
Liberty that were younger than us, and on Sundays we
would go up there and watch The Simpsons with those guys.
And I can still know why, but we did.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I can still hear the opening of The Simpsons, right.
That's that's right, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, and Bart always writing something on the chalkboard. I
will not hmm, it's always an I will not.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah. Anyways, speaking of entertainment, this is kind of let's
get to the movies, which we've said we are going
to get to. Anyways, it is summer season, and you know,
it's kind of not what it used to be. But
back in the day, especially for me growing up as
a kid in the eighties, the summer season there was
always going to be that one or two film that

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you like, the film to go see.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Had a summer blockbuster, Yeah, it was you might have
you might have a couple, but you had summer blockbusters.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, And it was always Recently it's been comic book
action something like that.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
I mean, you know, I want to say, like, you know,
I can remember in seventy seven, Star Wars came out
in the summer, and then I think they the other
two sequels came out in the summer, and Indiana Jones
came out in the summer. You know, there's certain release
days for movies that come out.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Fourth of July weekend as usually.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, I mean like Christmas, there's always there's always like
a Christmas because you know, people were home for the
holidays and what did they used to just you know,
to get away from your family after you got sick
of them, you would go to the movies. I think Thanksgiving,
you know, the Thanksgiving Christmas at that time frame in
that area, summer.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, they have the time and you know, I remember
when I was a kid, we would get money for
for Christmas and that was one of the things we
did was we would go see a movie with some
of the gift money that was for my grandparents.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
See when I was when I was in high school,
we had a lot more choices of places to see movies.
It wasn't just the mall. You had the mall, but
you had the Court Theater here in town. You had
the Victoria, you had the Coronet which is no longer there,
and then you had the War would twin up in Wardwood.

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There were two never heard that one. Yeah, there were
two movie theaters in Morewood there in the plaza, uh right,
where Goodwill and Subway and all that with that.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Little New area, Newer area.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, it's just that end. Yeah, that's where that that's
where in the plaza. That's where it was. Man.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And that was a movie theater.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
It was. There were two theaters there, Okay. Yeah, so
and of course you had drive ends, you know. But man,
you know, I can remember one of my basketball teammates
and I I think we went ten or twelve times
to see I think it was Beverly Hills Cop And

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it was at the same theater every week, you know,
and you would see the ads in the paper and
say they held over, which meant that, you know, it
was still it was still popular. And we would go
up there every Friday or Saturday, and we we didn't
we did by the end of the at the end
of the run, we basically knew the movie You Buy Heart,
you know, but there was there were certain movies that

(25:03):
that's what you did in the eighties. It didn't matter
how many times you saw it. Like you go up
to your dad and say, hey, I need five bucks
to go to the movies or ten bucks or whatever.
Oh what are you going to go see heause didn't
you just see that last week? Or I said, no,
I saw it the last three weeks.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
So what do you think of what when you think
of summer blockbusters, which ones pop into your head?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know, it's hard because I don't remember when they
were released actually, so I don't know. You know, I
don't want to call a movie a summer blockbuster if
it wasn't. Yeah, But I mean, like I said, I
remember seventy seven. My best friend at the time, what
am I ten? Okay? And he says, hey, we're going
to see Star Wars. Do you want to go with us?

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And I said to you myself, what the hell Star Awards?
I thought? I thought the movie was called Star Awards,
had no idea what it was, never saw the hype,
never saw anything for it anything. And of course he
was the third to four brothers, so all four brothers
and myself went to the movie to see Star Wars
and it was just like, holy crap, this was a

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hell of a movie. You know, at ten years old,
that's what you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, it was some of the stuff that they came
up with. We just got a text it says the
war would twin is where I saw Friday the thirteenth
for the first time, and that's where I came up
with the name for my first child, which is Jason.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Nice. Nothing like naming your kid after a murderer. Yeah
that's what Hey, I just named my kid Dahmer.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh shoot, yeah, sorry.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
John Wayne Gacy, God, I love him, one of my
favorite He's my favorite child.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh my face hurts from laughing. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh what's your kids name? Manson? Oh that's nice?

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Have you met my son Hitler?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
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calm down, my face was hurting from laughing. Thanks to Otis.
We're talking movies you know, it's summertime. We're talking summer blockbusters.

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It's the fiftieth anniversary of.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Jaws, that was a summer movie. Well yeah, yeah, I
mean Memorial Days a big weekend for releases, I think,
or it used to be, because it kind of kicked
the summer off. There were certain days. But yeah, Jaws
fifty years ago, never saw it in the theater. I'm

(28:18):
trying to think. You know, there were there were some
great movies. You know, we were talking before the show,
some of some eighties movies, you know, I mean, obviously
you had like The Breakfast Club. There there are so
many movies that that hold their what do I want
to say? What they hold their value? And you know,

(28:41):
as far as like it's still a great movie.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
To do just day, even if like the trendy stuff
is dated, like the hair and the clothes.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Or the fact that you say there's no cell phones
and things.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Like that, the story still holds, the.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Script still holds up, you know, you know, And I
mean I'm trying to think when it came out, but
like Dirty Dancing.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh yeah, that was.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
But the thing was that was a huge It was
I think part of it is what made it so
big was the soundtrack. Yeah, and if you watch the
documentary on that, they had zero music going into the
movie because you have to get permission to use the
music in a movie. And I guess Patrick Swayze said,

(29:24):
I have a song that you can use, which was
She's Like the Wind and so and he told he
gave him permission to use it in the movie. Well,
it became a hit, and then they had some of
the there was you know, obviously they had the theme song,
you know, Bill Medley and Jennifer Warrens, and then but
some of the older stuff that they had, they they

(29:47):
got they got like one person on board, I can't
remember who they got on board, and once other artists
found out that they were on board, then it was
the ball started rolling and it wasn't real hard.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Well and if you watched the documentary, did you watch
the theme on Netflix? Is that's the one you're refining?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Okacually, I mean, it's been so long since I've seen it.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
There's this I call oh man, I can't think of
what it's called right now. There's a show, a documentary
series on Netflix that goes over certain iconic films and
it gives you behind the scenes and this and that,
and one of them is Dirty Dancing, And yeah, you're right,
And there was conflict between Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
They hated each other because they had worked on Red Dawn.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, they couldn't stand each other. But the movie never
should have been made. It's the script sat on a
shelf for like ten years. Nobody wanted to touch it.
And then there was I believe this is I believe
I'm correct in saying this. There was a very small
start up film house and they took it there and

(30:46):
they kind of took a risk on it, and it
actually established that that movie company that.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Film well and what they did, but what happened was
they sold the rights for the video, you know because
at that point in movies went to video. Yes, yeah,
so you could rent. Yeah, Well, they sold the rights
and then that company went out of business that filmed it.
They didn't last more than five years. Okay, so they

(31:14):
and they didn't make any money. They didn't make the
money on Dirty Dancing.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
That they could have.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
They could have because they sold the rights for like
dirt cheap.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Well, I mean another one is I mean every kid
can relate to this one talk about holding time. Ferris
Bueller's Day Off. I don't know if that was a
summer movie, but it's an iconic eighties movie.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Man, that that's a movie that holds up. I mean,
but if you look at it like kids today wouldn't
understand it. No, because kids today with cell phones and
parents can track you and do everything else. If you
are a kid that grew up in the seventies, eighties, nineties,

(32:00):
you get I mean, like Ferris Mueller becomes your hero
because it's like you want to be him. Oh. Absolutely,
everybody wanted to be Ferris.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
And if not Ferris, I'd want to be the girlfriend
or the buddy. The oh I can see.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
His face with his Detroit red jersey and Cameron.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah that's it in the car and goes out the
back window.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
All yeah, there's I mean, you know, they get away
with everything. The principal coming to the house and trying
to get in and he gets attacked by the dog,
steps into mud, does all the.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
He was a girl.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Jennifer Gray was in that movie.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
She was the sister.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah she was.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
She hated Ferris.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Charie she but she ended up sticking up for him
at the end. She covered for.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Him before Charlie Sheen fell off. The kind of nuts
he was in that he was the bad boy boyfriend,
wasn't he.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
He was in jail when she got arrested, when Jennifer
Gray got arrested.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, but didn't they like they kind of hooked up. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
I don't know if it was boyfriend, but he it
was an interest.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, he was the bad boy, you know, make the
parents mad. Well, and the way that movie was filmed,
how he talked to the camera, especially in the opening scene,
you know, everybody, and he was so he was so cool,
but he wasn't your typical like jock cool, right, He

(33:21):
was like the clever sort of nerdy but not nerdy
but still cool.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Well, there was a you know how you drive by
like they had the film and on the water tower
it said Save Ferris.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Well, there was a band that actually took their name
and there's a band called Save Ferris and they actually
had a top forty hit. I think, yeah, look, well
I'll show you during the break. I didn't know that,
but yeah, and you know, going to the baseball game
and being on camera while and the principals looking just
looks away when you know when the camera pans this.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Ferris Well and the actor who played the principal, he
he was such an iconic character actor he was He's
been in so many things.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
So is the secretary.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah yeah, but he's been in so many films and
TV shows and you'll never remember his name. You just
know that you know that guy. At seven fifty eight.
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(34:26):
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Speaker 2 (34:55):
Eight o six. Welcome back to the Bloomdaddy Experience, samon
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we were talking about iconic eighties movies before the break Again,

(36:00):
you can call us one eight hundred six to fort
eleven seventy or of course on the text line, we
got a message that says the Goonies. How can you
leave out the Goonies? I mean we were getting to that,
We were getting to that one, and then another one
we received. Now this one does not ring familiar to me.
Otis so I'm hoping you recognize this one from nineteen

(36:23):
eighty six called Club Paradise. Doesn't ring a bell, Robin Williams,
Peter O'Toole, Jimmy Cliff, and Twiggy, and it was directed
by Howard Ramus. I don't know that one acts. Club
Paradise from nineteen eighty six doesn't.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Ring a bell at all. I mean, I remember going
to the movies and watching stupid movies, like so stupid
that you thought they were funny at the time, like
Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks one of the worst movies ever.
But you know, at the time it's sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
years old, it was the greatest movie you ever made.
And then I think there was another one called spring Break. Yeah,

(37:05):
that was absolutely As a teenager, you think it's the
greatest movie, and then like you watch it five or
six years later when you're in your early twenties and
you're going, good god, how did I even sit through
this thing?

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, so the cast, they said, Robin Williams, Rick moranis
is in it. What's the name of the movie, Club Paradise.
I don't recognize the picture at all. Rick moranis, Eugene
Levy is in it. I have to watch the trailer
after the show. This one does not ring a Bell
doesn't either. No, and then, like I said, the Goonies.

(37:36):
So again, seven zero four seven zero is our text
line if you want to get in on this conversation.
Everybody has seen a classic eighties movie, and we we
went over a couple of them. So we hit on
dirty Dancing, we hit on Ferris Buellers. We did not
hit on Okay, I'm sorry. When I hear eighties movies,

(38:01):
immediately it's the Breakfast Club. Immediately it's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
I mean it's one of the first ones that comes
to mind for me. You know, as a kid in
the eighties, is is somebody that went through high school
in the eighties, you can relate to it.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Even today, everybody can relate to one of those characters.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
I mean, what is it now that it says, now
that I'm older, I can relate more to the janitor
than I can anybody else in the movie. And again,
the principal, he's one of those character actors that was
in a lot of movies in the eighties but you
just never know his name.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
But they actually just did a big reunion of all
the the main so.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
You had Anthony Michael Hall, Emelio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ali
Sheety and oh no, I can't think of his name.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Oh the bad Boy. Yeah, shoot, I can see his face.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, he was in well he was just shoot or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, of course it was. John Hughes
was the director. I mean he was John Hughes basically.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Was was the Jed Nelson.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
That's it. Was the director of the eighties when it
came to like the teen genre. I mean, because he
has this sixteen Candles Pretty in Pink. I'm pretty sure
those two are both his. But yeah, it's just one
of those films.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
He was what he was like the King of Well,
he did Ferris Bueller, he did Breakfast Club, like you said,
sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, weird science, weird song, Uncle Buck,
Uncle Buck, planes, trains and automobiles, Home alone.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
His aged home alone.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Uh. You know. So he had his hands in, you
know a lot of them, National Lampoon's Vacation, so Christmas
Vacation had his hands in, you know. I'm not saying
he was in charge.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Of all of them, yeah, but he was. Yeah, he
basically created.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
He the eighties teen angst movie, you know, another one,
as as as the brat Pack got older than they
went into Saint Almost Fire.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Now, that one I have never seen. Sorry, no, I've
never seen that one.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Because they're now now they're not in high school anymore.
They're all in their college or just out of college,
and they're starting and you know, you get that little
bit of yuppiness to you them and things like that,
and you know that's that's Rob Low and and some
of the other ones that were in. But yeah, you know,
obviously Top Gun was an eighties movie.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
That was Tom Cruise.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
That was a big eighties movie, say anything, Yeah, but
I mean, you know, that was more of like a
chick flick. You know, when when you're a dude in
the eighties, it's sixteen to twenty two, you're not into
chick filike, right, No, I know, Yeah, you think you're bad. Yeah,

(41:08):
you watched them, you rented them, and then but nobody
knew that you watched them. That's what happened.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Here's one okay, heathers.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
No, I don't even never even heard of it, what.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
With Christian Slater and why own a Rider? Oh yeah,
they end up killing him. I think God, I's been
years since I watched it. It's like a click. It's
like this bad girl, cool girl click situation. And yeah, Heathers,
that's a that's an iconic eighties movie. Oh coming to America.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's a big with Eddie Murphy. Well, Eddie
Murphy was so hot at that time. You know, you
know Beverly Hills Cop all three, all three of them.
I mean, there was not a bad Beverly Hills cop.
I mean, Eddie Murphy was king at that time. And

(42:00):
you know, so you had that, and then you had
then you had Mel Gibson and Danny Glover with oh,
Lethal Weapons, Yeah, the Lethal Weapons series. That was big.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Indiana Jones well, of.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Course, yeah, and then you had you know, seventy seven
and eighty and eighty three, you had the two sequels.
You had The Empire.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Turn.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Of the Jedi. So you had those in the early
eighties and then then Indiana Jones came around in the
mid eighties.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Spaceballs they're redoing it.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
To me that as much as I love Mel Brooks movies,
that movie playing out sucks.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
There is a new Spaceball's coming. They have I have
read multiple sources, and Rick Moranas is coming out of retirement.
He kind of he he was and tons of eighties
movies and then he just disappeared from Hollywood. If you

(43:02):
think about all the different things he did. He was
in the Ghostbuster movie, he was in Honey, I Shrunk
the Kids, he was in what we were just talking about.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Weird Time. We not Weird Time in Ghostbusters.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Spaceballs, Ghostbusters. But anyways, Yeah, there's another Spaceballs coming out.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
There's another movie we didn't talk about, Ghostbusters eighty four.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, you know, yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
And I think a lot of these movies that were
so successful had great soundtracks too.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Back to the Future.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yeah, you know. Another John Hughes movie that I didn't
know was a John Hughes movie. Mister Mom Michael Keaton,
Terry Garr Oh yeah, yeah, and you know where he
loses his job and the wife goes to work and
he's in charge of the kids, and and remember that
Martin Maull comes in and he says, yeah, I'm getting

(43:57):
ready to rewire the house. And he goes, oh, you
putting in two twenty two, twenty two, twenty one, whatever
it takes, But he has no idea what he's talking about.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Summer Blockbuster, Karate kid from the eighties. Yeah, I mean
that was a good one.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
It was a different time.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
It was a different time, and movies were made differently.
And what I mean by that is the visual side.
Special effects were limited. They were limited.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Computer generated was very nothing. It was. It was very new, yeah,
if it was used at all.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yeah, that's what made the first set of the Star
Wars movies so groundbreaking and say so iconic. It was
their special effects. But it wasn't computer special effects, you know.
But there was just a different feel in the eighties
that we don't have today. But we'll talk about that
more in some other things. It's eight sixteen The Blue

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Doddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA
A twenty two Welcome back to the Blue Daddy Experience,
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. We've
kind of stumbled upon iconic eighties movies.

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No. We got a message on Facebook from Susie she
said fire started with Drew Barrymore from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Remember it. I don't think I've ever seen it.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I've seen bits and pieces of it.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
I've got one do the chance to win, and then
I got one that changed the movie industry.

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Speaker 3 (46:57):
The industry nineteen eighty nine. Okay, the world changed forever
because it was the first modern superhero movie, Batman with
Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. But it changed it changed
how Hollywood treated superhero movies. Like you go back to

(47:21):
the seventies when Superman came out, they were still kind
of corny and campy.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
With Christopher Reeve.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, I didn't think.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
They were campy.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
Yeah, they were kind of.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
I think when I think of the first Batman I
think of it more as campy.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Oh no, because what they but they took the comic
book aspect and made it into a movie. That's I mean,
that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
It was more of like the Joker was joker ish,
like he was like a comic book character as opposed
to like the Heath Ledger version where it's more serious.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Right. But yeah, but again, but that movie the way
Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger. Did the
movie changed how superhero movies were made? I mean, like
you wouldn't have the Avengers if it wasn't for that
Batman movie. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Yeah, maybe maybe.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
And I remember the hype when Batman came out in
eighty nine. Oh my god, it was the summer of
eighty nine, you know. I mean like they had you know,
how they would do the spotlights outside the theaters where
they would actually put the bat signal in the spot
Remember that. I mean it was everywhere lining up. I

(48:32):
mean they had everything and anything that tied into it.
Merchandise wise, oh, like they made They made tons and
tons and tons of money on merchandise after that Batman movie.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Well, and then it gets you into the conversation of
who was the best joker? Was it Jack Nicholson, was
it Heath Ledger?

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Well, I think they're two different styles, right.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
And that's that's why when people get into those conversations,
it's it's comparable, but it's not comparable, right.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
You know.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
I mean, Well, the next Batman movie that came out
a couple of years later, when Danny DeVito was the Penguin.
I mean, Danny DeVito knocked the Penguin character out of
the ballpark. But I think Jack Nicholson took the role
of the Joker and was good. I mean, Heath Ledger
put himself in the role of the Joker, and that's

(49:30):
what ended up killing him because I think that dark
side just stayed in his mind.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Well, Jack Nicholson took the Joker, who is your quintessential
bad guy, and made you like him in a way.
He was so entertaining and you liked the character.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
You didn't like what he stood for. You like the character. Yeah,
I see what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yeah, Usually nine times out of ten, a bad guy's
a bad guy. There's no aspect about him that you
And if you're back.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
To the sixties Batman series and Caesar Romero played the
Joker and Burgess Meredith played the Penguin. I mean they
were campy, but that was supposed to be campy. And
you know even I mean there were earth of kid
and I mean I think there was five or six

(50:21):
of them, Lee Merriweather, I think they all played the Catwoman.
And then you had Frank Gorshen as the Riddler, and
you had Vincent Price's Egghead. I mean there were they
had big name stars come in and play villains and
some of it. Then you know, they would have the
big name stars as Batman and Robin were clemb in
the building and they would open the window and like

(50:42):
Sammy Davis Junior and all them. I mean, it was
very hokey but entertaining, and I think that the eighty
nine Batman took a little bit of the hookness but
made it more entertaining. They didn't they didn't, he didn't
dwell on. But as Batman Batman movies progressed, they also
got darker.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
They got darker, and they got more of a of
a spin of realism to them that if these people
were real, if these characters were weird real, the world
that they lived in would be dark as opposed to
the jovial kind of cartoonish world.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Yeah, but I think the early Batman's also like you
had Arnold Schwarzenegger is a.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Bad guy, doctor Freeze, mister Freeze, yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
And then Uma Thurman is poison ivy, you know. But
I mean they have big name people come in and
play the bad people.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
And I'm sorry, Robin has always gotten the shaft. When
are we going to get a good Robin and a Batman.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
A side character?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
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It's weird. Right before the break, we're talking about Batman,
and I said, you know, Robin never gets the credit.
He kind of gets the shaft of the movies. He's
never in there. But celebrating a birthday today is Chris O'Donnell,
the actor who played Robin to George Clooney's Batman. I believe,

(52:25):
I believe Eve.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Yeah, so that that was the first introduction of Robin
into the Batman series.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yeah, and that was like the one and only time
right in the films. I don't remember that character in
any of the other ones. I don't believe, so, so
I just thought that was weird timing that we're talking
about it, and boom, it's his birthday. And speaking of
superhero films, during the break, there was a commercial for

(52:54):
mint Mobile and that's the cell phone company that Ryan
Reynolds is. Yeah, so he played Deadpool, right, have you
seen him recently? I didn't know that was him. He
is so tiny and skinny looking in this television commercial.
Now I understand he's not in like Deadpool form, because

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he's not filming a superhero.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
That might not be him in that costume anyway.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Well no, but when you do see his face, it's
filled out. But he looks I mean he honestly, he's
got a weird color to him, and he looks like
he looks like a male emoji from a phone with
glasses on. I don't know, just I didn't believe. I
couldn't believe that was him. But that's another summer blockbusters,

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the Deadpool, the Deadpool movies. But here are the highest
grossing summer blockbusters in history. Now here's the thing. This
is what I don't like about these these poles or
these these stats, because you've got to take into account
the ticketing price. So if we go back to like

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we were talking about the eighties, So if you would
go to a daytime show or mattinee, what was it
in the eighties? Five bucks? Six bucks a ticket? Yeah,
three bucks.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
I don't remember three, maybe five somewhere in there.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
So I say, like when we would go to the movies,
I think it was like seven point fifty on a
Friday night maybe if that sounds great.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Yeah, okay, So if you take those prices then and
you compare them to prices now, it shouldn't be highest
grossing financially it. It should be based on ticket sales,
not the financial side of it, individual ticket sales. Because
when it comes to the highest grossing films of summer blockbusters,
twenty twenty two's Top Gun, Maverick is number one at

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seven hundred million. Second place is Inside Out Too with
six hundred and fifty million, followed by Jurassic World from
twenty fifteen, followed by Barbie Incredibles Too, and The Lion King,
which they all did over five hundred million.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Keep in mind, like the Wizard of Oz when you
went to see that, it was probably a quarter right.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
So again, like I said, it shouldn't be based on
dollar sales, it should be on.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Tak It should be adjusted yeah for inflation.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yeah, did you like Maverick?

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Never saw it?

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Have you seen Top.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Gun back in the day?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
I mean I couldn't tell you the last time I
saw it probably, I mean I remember going to see it.
I think I went and saw it for a bucket
the Mountain Laire because the Mountain when you were at
school WV, you could go to the theater and they
would have like movies that maybe were six months behind. Yeah,

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and so like that. They would call that like a
first run movie and it would cost you adult if
it was. If it was a second run movie or
like it had been out for a while or years
or whatever didn't cost you could go for free your student.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Ida that's still around and like Columbus and stuff.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
You know, we were talking about Ferris Bueller. Yeah, there's
a there's a part of Ferris Bueller the film that
that changed the movies, and all the Marvel movies kind
of took advantage of it. So as the credits are
rolling and at the end, like it kind of goes

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to black when the credits are done, and then all
of a sudden you see Matthew Broderick. He goes, you're
still here. He's talking to the camera the post he's
gott he's got his haird and the tow and everything,
and he's like, you just got out of the shower
and he goes, you're still here. The movie's over, go home,
you know. And but that little thing where you stuck
around to the end, you got to see that. If

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you left it during the credits, which most people do,
you missed it. But the Avengers and the Marvel movies
took advantage of that to either promote the next movie
or to have something funny at the end, you know, like, yeah,
to give you a little chuckle at the end. You know,

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like at the at the end of the first Avengers movies,
they're like, after the city has been destroyed and everything else,
they're all just sitting in this diner eating and nobody
really says anything, and it just shows them eating and
you're kind of like, okay, like you're just waiting for
something to happen, and it doesn't. But that's what's funny
about it.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Yeah. Well, and then I also love when films during
the credits will drop in.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Yes, yeah, yes, Smoking the Bandit was great for that.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Oh sometimes there sometimes the bloopers are better than the movie,
especially if it's if it's a comedy. I really really
like when they do that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
When you had Smoking the Bandit you had Burt Reynolds
and Don Deloiz and they would those two together. It
was like Tim Conway and Harvey Corman and the Carroll
Barnette Show. Yep, Burt Reynolds could get Don Delawize laughing
to where he couldn't stop, and then Burt Reynolds would
just slapping you try to getting back into it, and

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Don Deloise would just start laughing more. But I mean,
you know, you sit there and you look at some
of those oh my gosh, they you know when they
show the bloopers or you know, the outtakes, whatever you
want to call them.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Priceless you know, Oh there are there are still times
when I will see clips on social media of the
Carol Burnett Show. Now listen, this was before my time.
It wasn't on TV when I was growing up. Reruns reruns, right,
it is one of the funniest things that has ever
been on TV.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
I don't know, I mean, Harvey Korman, Harvey Corman, Yeah,
I don't know how Tim Conway he could crack everybody
up and still keep a straight face and don't keep
going like like he didn't like, he didn't he didn't
think it was funny. No, you know, but like Harvey
Korman would be losing it. Oh my gosh. If yeah,

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go online and just google Tim Conway or search Tim
Conway on Facebook, or Harvey Corman if you want to, like,
if you have two or three minutes and you just
want to sit there and pee your pants laughing, that's
what it is.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Yep, yep. There are certain things when I'm in a
bad mood or just need kind of pulled out of
a of a of a funk, if you will that
that I pop up and it just just just a good,
deep belly laugh and Carol Burnett shows one of them.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
One of my favorite movies of the eighties is History
of the World Part one. It's a mel Brooks movie
and it's got Harvey Korman and it's got Gregory Hinds,
and of course mel Brooks is in it, and I
can't remember, but they're going through history and there are
some things that are just absolutely like Count de Monet

(59:56):
instead of count you know, that's what count the money
and he's he has to hold a pea bucket for
the guy. I mean that consists in the Inquisition and
how they make it like kind of a There are
certain parts that they make him. I mean, History of
the World Part one is a mel Brooks movie is
probably my favorite, and then Blazing Saddles, But Blazing Saddles
was in the seventies. But I just can't understand Spaceballs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Mel Brooks was not Monty Python.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Monty Python's all English.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, okay, I didn't want to ask John Cleason.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
In fact, John Cleese I think is coming to the
Capitol Theater. Yes, for I think it's Monty Python and
The Holy Grail. I believe so, and so they're going
to play that and then John Cleese is going to
be here after the fact, after, you know, to answer
the questions, kind of like the The Ralphie and John
Cleese is great. I mean his his guest appearing. He

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won an Emmy for his guest appearance on Cheers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Really. Oh yeah, my uncle still still quotes Holy Grail yep, yep.
And when he does it, of course I don't know
the quotes. And I'm like, is that from the movie?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Is? Yeah, you have to see The Holy Grail. You
have to you have to really see it, Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
It's I've seen bits and like I've.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Seen you sit down and watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Isn't that where they take the coconuts and it's the
horses riding.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's that's part. That's one of the scenes.
And then like the night fights and he cuts both
arms off and there's still he's arguing and talking like
he's talking doo doo and he's got no arms and
their legs some of it. Like there's British humor that
a lot of people don't get.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Yes, it's different.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
This is like it's British humor, but everybody gets it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Yeah, yeah, British humor is dry.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
It's different.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Yeah, it's yeah, Well who knows what they say about
our humor too? Stupid humor, bathroom humor vudos.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Speaking of bathrooms, we're going back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
No, let's not go back there A forty six. If
you need to go visit it, go for it, because
we're going to that's right. You're listening to The Bloomdaddy Experience.
Sam and Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back,
eight fifty one The bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam

(01:02:18):
here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We're talking movies,
so we're gonna put him on the spot joining us,
of course, our auto guru Straw Automotive. Kevin Cook. Good morning, Kevin.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
As how y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Good? Good? Good?

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
You on the road.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
I am on the road, yeah, man, I'm headed to
the number one Hondre Dealership in West Virginia Mountain near
Honda over Bridgeport. So yeah, I just headed that way.
Who's going to check on those guys? Who? What's going
on over there?

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
All right? So we've been talking eighties movies. Before you
get into your spiel, we've been talking eighties movies. Do
you have a favorite eighties movie?

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
I would probably have to cite the Star Wars trilogy. Okay,
you know it started a little earlier than that, I think,
but yeah, I mean that's kind of really the first
time you know, that level of I don't know what
you would even call.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
It sci fi and adventure whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
I five. Yeah, Yeah, that you know, went to that
level with that kind of script was something very very different.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Yeah, that's what we definitely said that earlier. So Star
Wars actually came out in seventy seven. About how old
were you?

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
Roughly seventy seven, Let's say I more than sixty two, So.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
I was fifteen Okay, yeah, I was ten, So I mean,
you know, like you just the perspective when, like I said,
when when I went and saw it, I had no
idea what it was, and then you left there going,
holy crap, that was a great movie.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was definitely changed the way
movies were made.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
So what's going on at the Honda joints this week?

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Okay, man, I can't what these kinds are. They're keeping
it rolling here. They're battling mat there, Honda and straw
On at the Highlands right there, battling for number one
and number two in the state. Okay, strava On at
the Highlands is ahead of the game right now. I mean,
nick Iki and the guys are there, are you really

(01:04:14):
got their foot on the gas, really trying to put
every car deal they can together, help everybody out doing
whatever it takes. On trade INDs, we definitely need your
trade for a used car department. I don't know if
most people know it, but uh, our used part apartment
is mainly ninety five percent of the used cars that

(01:04:35):
you see in our inventory are direct trade ins. Uh,
most of which were so new in our organization. So
you know, red you know, we go to the auction
every now and then to buy something to fill a hole.
You know that we don't have somebody's looking for something
that's specific. You know, we'll go try to find them something.
But you know, these are cars that have been so

(01:04:58):
new in our dealerships. They've been so list in our dealerships.
We've got the history on them, We've got the car
faxes on them, we've got all the service history. We
know how they've pig cared report and something that you know,
we were very very confident to provide a really good
pre owned product for our customer base, and most of
which have your favorite ever driving Yeah, they're less than

(01:05:21):
seven years old, they have less than seventy five thousand
miles on them. Then they come with lifetime power trade
protection with the Holy Dealership in the Valley that provides
that on pre owned automobiles as well as on every
new vehicle sold. Okay, so you can you can check
all that information out online. You can drive you know,
log onto drivestrip dot com. Everything is clearly sell priced.

(01:05:45):
You can see what cayments will be on on those
vehicles as well. Just by you can get your trade
and praised online, rather than having to get out and
you know, what's the heat factory yesterday like one hundred
and seven.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
It was miserable.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
That was unbelievable, you know. So rather than get out
and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Uhhh, delivered the.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
Vehicle to It's the easiest by experience you're gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
All right, buddy. Well you're cutting in and out now,
so you're probably going through the hills there. So all right,
enjoy your day. We'll talk tomorrow. All right. There you
have it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Star Wars, Eh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Yeah, I mean it's how do you? I mean, I
understand like Star Wars itself came out in seventy seven,
Empire Strikes Back came out in eighty. We Returned to
the Jedi came out in eighty three. They were they
were all three years apart. And the same thing with
the Indiana Jones movies, so when they came out, they
were all three years apart. That kind of like a
George Lucas Steven Spielberg. Listen, I just something just popped

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into my head. And I don't think I've ever seen it,
but eighties movie ET.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Oh, I've never seen ET. That was a Christmas movie. Okay,
Christmas Time movie, because I remembering with all of my
cousins from Kentucky and I remember my grandmother taking us
out to the mall and going to see it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
But I mean you talk about a blockbus. Yeah, I mean,
you know, just it didn't pop into our heads. But
you know you mentioned Steven Spielberg. You know, we said
back to the Future, and you know those were.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Et kind of stumbled upon, really highlighted where the money
was with kids. That was kind of the first week
Drew Barrymore No, the kid dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, but I'm saying you had kids
in the movies that were that were star quality.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Because then Goonies came after that, I believe. Yeah, so
that's a good one. Different. I forgot about it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
I mean, how do you forget it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
It's the one alien we like to visit the United.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
States, came, learned our language and went home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Yeah, yeah, speaking spell wasn't that what he used speaking?

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Anyway, we got we got winners, we get a name out.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
We do have winners.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
So how many do we have for the Washington thing?
Twelve twelve? Yes, number five.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Okay, that is okay, that one is Charlie So Charlie.
I will be getting a hold of you after the show.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
We'll be mailing the tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Yes, and then for the ice cream one through eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Actually eighteen number two.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Okay, that is that is let me scroll here. That
is Lisa. So Lisa, I will get in contact with
you after the show.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
Well, we also promised McCormick's audo certificates, so we should
probably give those away now since we really didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Oh, okay, we didn't. All right, I want to do
a phone call for that one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
That's all we got.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Okay, one hundred sixty four eleven seventy, caller number number
seven one eight hundred and sixty four eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
You give certificates twenty five dollars each the McCormick's Audo Center.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Yep, you got travel plans going in a car. This
is what you need an eight hundred and sixty four
eleven seventy. Enjoy the rest of your day, folks. We'll
be back tomorrow.