The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam July 1, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The number one tuck 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 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. Is it Big and Beautiful? That's being
debated right now, But you have the chair of the
White House Council of Economic Advisors pretty much warning about
the economic implications of not passing Trump's domestic policy bill
by the deadline given by the White House. He said
the US could face a recession if Congress fails to

(00:43):
pass the Big Beautiful bill by July fourth. Is that
the case? Let's bring on Steve Cotton, financial strategist. He's
had a multifaceted career in investments, business, government, public affairs
for more than forty eight years. He's also helped develop
public policy in the US Congress that worked directly with
the White House. Steve, I mean, let's just start with that.

(01:04):
He's saying we're going to see a recession if it
isn't passed. Do you feel that same way.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, thanks for having me on today. I love our
audience in Cleveland. The Big Bill is not out of
the woods by any means. There's no saying in politics
there are two things that one never watch being made
sausage and legislation, and that is certainly true in this case.

(01:29):
The Senate has amended the bill the Freedom Caucus, and
this is the bill that as of this afternoon, the
Freedom Caucus in the House, which is about thirty members,
has indicated they are not pleased with the Senate changes
in terms of deficit reduction, and this is a warning
flag to the administration and of the Senate. I still

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think the bill is fifty five percent likely to pass,
but there are some tough negotiations ahead when the bill
comes back from the Senate back to the House.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Steve, is the stock market already priced in passage of
the bill.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I think it has. I think there's a momentum to
big pieces of legislation like this, and I think the
markets have factored in a passage, an ultimate passage probably
before the fourth of July this Friday. But if it
doesn't pass by the fourth, it's not going to be

(02:26):
the end of the world. But if it doesn't pass.
If something doesn't pass to sustain the twenty seventeen Trump
text cuts, that could be very bad for the markets
and worse for the economy.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Steve, you've helped develop public policy in the US Congress.
You work directly with the White House executive brands, agencies.
You know how politics work. When I see something like this,
When I see the chair of the White House Council
of Economic Advisors throwing out threats like he suggested that
millions of people could lose their jobs, nine million can

(03:01):
lose their health insurance if the big beautiful bill fails
and the deadline is pushed back. That makes me step back.
I mean, I voted for Trump twice. You know, I'm
a conservative, but I don't like being whatever. Somebody uses
the end of the earth kind of angle, just like
we saw what people did during COVID. The overreaction of that,

(03:23):
people acting like fools out of fear. Whenever I see
somebody use fear is motivation. It makes me step back
and go, what's really going on here?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, I think that's a healthy response. Frankly, I think
the White House is putting in a full court press.
These kinds of statements are to be expected. I think
it's a little bit exaggerated, but I will say this,
if they don't sustain the twenty seventeen Trump text cuts
with this bill or a bill very like it, that

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would be highly negative for the economy. That would be
highly negative for businesses. It would mean an automatic sharp
price increase or taxi increase rather and that's just not
good for anybody.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Talking to financial strategist Steve Cotton right now, Steve, what
about the average American? How will the average American benefit
if the bill becomes law? Because you know, Nancy Pelosi
famously said, well, I haven't even read it yet, but
I think it's going to be good. I mean, these
bills are so big, there's so much to them that
I think the average American, Hell, I'll throw myself in there.

(04:28):
I can't digest all of it. So what does it
mean to the average American?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, it's comforting to know that these members of Congress
Senators and congressman. Members of the House usually get a
summary of the bill's key provisions, so they're not ignorant
about what's in the bill, and very few members ever
read a nine hundred page bill, but they know the

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broad the specific topic by topic outlines in the legislation,
voting on it blind and I think that and their
staff certainly know what's in it, even if they haven't
read the bill. The bill was read on the Senate floor,
but the members do know what's in most of this legislation.

(05:17):
It's you know, it's ironic that Republicans complained for years
that the Democrats were putting everything in an omnibus reconciliation
package and they had to vote on this, you know,
ginormous bill, and now the shoes on the other foot
and Republicans are using that same tactic to pass this.
But the emphases in the bill are on very different

(05:41):
things that the Democrats than that the Democrats typically put
in place.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
You mentioned extending his signature twenty seventeen tax cuts. He
also wants to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime pay,
billions for border security and some other things. Are you
surprised of Fox News National poll They questioned voters by
twenty one point margin. Most of these voters, according to

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this Fox News National poll, oppose this legislation.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Does that surprise you.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well, yes, because I don't think that polling is necessarily accurate.
There have been a lot of polls really over the
last twenty years that are are decreasing in their accuracy.
I don't put much stock in the public opinion polls
anymore because there are a lot of segments of the
population are just hard to reach through standard polling procedures.

(06:38):
But I will say this, the no tax on tips,
the no tax on overtime, and the tax break for
seniors on Social Security are hugely favorable, hugely positive for
people on fixed incomes, for people on you know, lower
lower income levels, this bill is going to be mutually

(07:00):
beneficial to them from my analysis. And to answer your
original question, yes, I think there are things in this
bill that are gonna that are going to significantly benefit
large portions of population that are not millionaires.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
All right, Steve, thank you for the insight and the expertise.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Very welcome, glad to be with you today.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Bet is Steve Cotton, financial strategist. He is a president
of Cotton Wealth Management Associates and, as I mentioned, multifaceted
career and investments, business, government, public affairs for more than forty.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Eight years seven nineteen. On this Tuesday, the Bloomdaddy Experience,
OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA Otis.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm gonna I'm gonna start.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
You off with a little, a little I guess a
joke if you will see.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I was just going to wish you a happy Bobby
Bonia Day.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Happy Bobby Bonia Day. Is that actually a thing?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It is?

Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Because every July first, Bobby Benia it receives one point
nine one point one nine three million dollars from the
New York Mets. And that's that's good for another ten years.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
So it's happen. It's Bobby Bonia Day.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Good for him. Happy.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
I mean, how dumb were the Mets to set that
contract up. I mean, Bobby Bania hasn't played, he hasn't
been relative for twenty years or better. And every they
got ten more years to pay.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Wow? How many years? So how long have they.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Been doing this since they signed him? Really? I mean
he deferred the they let him defer the payment. So
I don't know when he went to the Mets. That
would have been early two thousands, maybe late late nineties,
early two thousands. He was with the March. He was
at the Pirates in the late eighties early nineties, and

(08:53):
then went to the Marlins, and then he floated around.
He was with Baltimore and in the Mets, and well,
let's just look and see when Bobby Benia last played.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
You can talk while Okay, Well, I'm just I'm You've
got me.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
I just don't sit there and wait for me to
do it.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
I'm riveted. I'm riveted. No, well, I'll go to what
I was going to say. You know, one of my
favorite things is this is gonna sound weird.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Old people and.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
What do I mean by that? Older people who get
to a point in life where they don't care anymore,
they don't care about being politically correct. My grandmother got
to that point.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
And she was.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Absolutely hilarious, hilarious, and I would say to her, Graham,
you can't say that, Graham, you can't say that.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Well, I had this.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Sent to me by a listener of a young lady
sitting at the airport and she overheard an old man
say to his teenage son, my generation had wonder woman.
Your generation has to wonder if it's if it's a woman.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
I thought that was pretty funny.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
I thought that was pretty good.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
So Bobby. Bobby came in with the White Sox in
eighty six and then came to Pittsburgh. So eighty six
to ninety five, I'm sorry, eighty six to ninety one
he was with the Pirates. Ninety two to ninety five
he was with the Mets, then got traded to Baltimore

(10:32):
ninety five ninety six. That played Florida in ninety seven
and ninety eight, the Dodgers in ninety eight, back to
the Mets in ninety nine, Atlanta and Saint Louis in
two thousand and two thousand and one. So Bobby Benia
has not played since twenty for twenty four years, and
he still gets one point one million dollars every year.

(10:53):
That's nice. That's a nice gig. Oh yeah, you know,
you just sit at home and you know that check's
coming in on July first, for one point one mill
I'm in. That's that's that's how I set it up
with the iHeart.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Is that what you do?

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah? Okay, I mean so when they let me go,
I'm gonna get one point one nine million dollars for
forty years. I won't live forty years.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
What day are you going to choose on the aunt's
are good.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
I can't. I don't want to do July first because
that's Bobby Bennie it right, So I mean I got
to come up with one of my own, Like like,
there's no holidays in August, so I'll take some. I'll
take like August fifteenth or because it's just.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
A random month, nothing, nothing exciting, So I would take
like Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
You know that going into your direct deposit into your
account for Christmas shopping. Yea, that it wouldn't be bad.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
No, no, no, no no. And that's a way too.
You know, you wake up on Black Friday to get
all the deals, but that's a better deal.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
To even wake up too.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Bobby Benny ha played sixteen years in the major leagues.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
He was part of the Killer Bees. Correct with the Pirates.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, Bond Benia. Who else was there? Bream?

Speaker 6 (12:07):
I can't remember well.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
And then before the show you said Pirates are on
a winning streak.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
They are. They're they're five in a row and they're
I mean they're putting up runs. It's not like they're
scoring two runs or three runs a game. I mean, hell,
the game we went to Sunday, they had twelve, they
had seven. They shut out the Cardinals last night seven nothing.
They outscored They outscored the Mets thirty to four in
three games.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
So well, and that was one of the earlier in
the season. The bigger.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
Negatives on them was the fact that they had you know,
they have the stellar pitcher, one pitcher, but no bats
to back him up.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
Now they're kind of showing off the bats.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yeah, well, which until untils Paul Skins pitches d Yeah,
they they'll go. They'll have two hits in that game.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're getting
ready for the holiday.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
No, I don't even know what I'm doing later today.
Well I kind of do.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
But well, I invited you to my house for the holiday.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
You know you didn't, Yes, I did.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
I sent you a text?

Speaker 4 (13:17):
You did? Yes, ok, Sunday was I was at a
pirate game, so I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
Oh, okay, Well, now I'm going to say it publicly.
You're invited to my house for the holiday on Fridays.
Glad you paid attention. You were a little uh, I
guess preoccupied there.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
But because we have a neighborhood, we have a neighbor neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Three o'clock on Sunday that I sent the text, Oh,
fireworks and food.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, fireworks and food.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
And then you were kind enough to say, I know
the sun is an issue, but we have umbrellas. Yes, see,
my mad I'm not a lot out in the sun
for very long.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Right.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
See.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Listen, I am a I am a wonderful coworker.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
You're a nice host. And listen. I came to your
house on New Year's Eve, you did, and mister Sam
cooked up some pretty damn good food.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
Yeah, what did we do? I forget what we did.
It was a not a brisket.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
It was a primary.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
Yeah, primary, that's it. That's it.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
No, our whole neighborhood does a thing. And I was
talking to my neighbors this weekend.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
And when you think, what if I don't like any
of your neighbors, you'll.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Like my neighbors.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Okay, okay, well then well I don't know. Pretend that
you do. Pretend pretend with me. I was gonna say,
pretend you like my neighbors as much as you pretend
you like me.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
No, but we're I do have acting experience.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yes, that's right, you do have an IMDb page. But
we were we were planning out, you know what everybody's
gonna bring, because even though there's one particular family that's
joined the hosting, of course, I said, you know, what
can we bring? And she was going over the list
of what other folks had said. Now, tell me, when
you think of a Fourth of July barbecue, you think
hot dogs, hamburgers, macaroni.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Salad, potatoes that some cabasi.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yeah, okay, sausage.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
I think sausage is going to be their hot sausages.
Does the oh I love this woman?

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Stuffed shells? No, thank you no, because when.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
She told me, she was like, yeah, one person is
bringing stuffed shells, and I went I looked at her confused,
and she goes, yes, exactly what you're thinking, the Italian
heavy cheese stuffed shells.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
And I said, that's not a that's not a picnic slash,
no barbecue slash, no outdoor party food.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, okay, good, So I'm not I'm not the only
one where I go. That doesn't make any sound like
where's where's like corn on the cob? Where is I
don't know, a fruit salad that's what I think.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, that just don't get you don't get that you
didn't have kids.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Yum, the Wiggles, I've heard of the Wiggles.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
The Wiggles had a song called fruit salad. Oh and
then we get fruit salad. Yummy, yummy fruit salad.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Anyway, yummy yummy. No that no, that meant nothing to me.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
But yeah, so stuffshells are on the menu from my
Fourth of July picnic neighborhood Barbecue. If you have a
weird Fourth of July menu item texted to us seven
zero four seven zero started off with bloom daddy, This
will be fun if you've gone to a picnic and

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there's been something just.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
A little out of the ordinary.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
Yeah, little left hand.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Guess what we got spaghetti and me balls.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
We've we've got a nice order of Chinese food here. No,
but text to seven zero four seven zero. It's just
a little bit of fun here today. Yesterday was pretty yesterday,
it was pretty pretty, pretty busy.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, it was just busy and informative and lots of
it heavy. But it was informative.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Yeah, lots of information and more information continues to come in.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Fy. We're not kissing people's rear ends.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
No, no, no, no, no, we don't have that.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Particular conflict of interest.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
If you will, seven twenty eight, you're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back, seven thirty six on your Tuesday, The bloom
Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Well,

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we're not the only ones working this early, otis the
Senate still currently working on Triple B, Killer B what
I say earlier for pirates, the Big Beautiful Bill. They're
still working on it. They're there this morning, they work
throughout the night. Majority Leader John Thune told reporters before

(18:02):
a break for dinner that Republicans are trying to find
a way to quote unquote stick the landing. The legislation
is projected to add over three trillion dollars to the
national debt over.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
The next decade.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Well, those numbers are kind of at the heart of
the breakup between Elon Musk and President Trump. With that
being said, Elon Musk has now kind of poked his
head back out, sort of kind of flew under the
radar there for the past couple weeks since the original

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separation or time off from one another. He is now
saying that he'll form a new political party if Congress
passes President Trump's massive spending bill. The billionaire and of course,
former head of Doze wrote on x that if what
he calls an insane bill passed, says the America Party

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will be formed.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
The next day.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
He adds the US needs an alternative to what he
called the Democrat Republican uniparty so people actually have a voice.
It's an interesting concept, It's an interesting thought. Should there
be a third party? I don't know, But the direction

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that our politics.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
Are going in the.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Extreme separation, the divisive line drawn between the two parties,
not only the politicians themselves, but also we as.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Citizens, has become so heated.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
It has made both sides so ugly.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
That could a third party be beneficial?

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Possibly because there are those that are, I guess you
could say, caught in the middle where they agree with
some things on one side, they agree with some other
things on the other side, and they're basically in their independence.

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They don't want to claim one or the other. So
if there was a third party, would that then give
people another choice or would it hurt one party over
the other. That gets into the conversation of stealing votes

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from this person, stealing votes from that person, and that
whole thing. And I kind of understand musks frustration with
this bill. He was hired or put in that position
to cut government spending, all the while seeing the possible

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bill that's going to add trillions of dollars to the
national debt. So he, you know, spends this time cutting dollars.
All wow, they want to add more.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
To the debt.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
The big, big beautiful bill.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
That is a mouthful.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
The big beautiful bill is very complex and there's a
lot of things built in to the bill. Of course,
I have not read the nine hundred and twenty plus
page bill like they had to over the weekend in
the Senate page per page. The one thing that grabs

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my attention is though that if it is not past
the end of the Trump tax reform from his prior
administration would hurt the middle CLA. That's the one thing
that really catches my attention with that bill. Staying along
the lines, the Trump administration is taking legal aim at
Los Angeles, accusing the city of undermining federal immigration enforcement.

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A new lawsuit claims La sanctuary city policies discriminate against
federal or agents and block immigration law enforcement. The suit
filed in California Central District, names the city, its council
and mayor Karen Bass, and we see news reports the
administration blames the policies for contributing to violence and attacks
on law enforcement. It's awful there seems to be in

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these sanctuary cities, this this wild West mentality, or this
open season on.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Law enforcement.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Whether we're talking beat cops, whether we're talking ice agents,
it's like open season on attacking law enforcement. There's a
video circulating that a listener sent me, and I believe
it was in LA I don't have it in front
of me right now, but it's one of the most

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vile things I've seen in a long time. And what
it is is it was the quote unquote protesters, the
peaceful protesters. Don't forget peaceful protesters in Los Angeles outside
of a city building and the National Guard is standing
there and they're fatigues and they're protecting this particular building

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and young people probably twenties, early thirties, and they have
they have Mexican flags, then they have the Palestinian flags
and some are channing the from the over to the sea.
That whole mantra, and then some are going after ice.

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It was like a mixture of all of these different
cultural protests, all all mixed into one. I don't think
they all knew what they were there for. I think
they both got an invitation to one protest, and they
came with everything that they wanted to complain about. I
don't know, but they got up in the faces of

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these National Guard agents, men and women.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
They're just standing there.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
And I and I've got to say, I do not
know how they hold themselves back. The the uh the
officers that their their self control blows my mind because
these people were in their face just yelling.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
Horrible things.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
They were dropping, you know, four letter were and death
to America and just saying these awful things. But what
really got me the most they started chanting to these
law enforcement folks, kill yourself, right in their face, close enough.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
That they were spitting on them.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
You should kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself,
over and over and over and over again to law
enforcement National Guard. It's repulsive, repulsive. Somewhere over the past

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twenty years there has become for some reason, this separation
or this lack of respect in our society, which has

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then created this open season on particular positions like law enforcement,
where these self entitled young brats feel that they can
say and do whatever they want, including chanting kill yourself

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to our national guard.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Where is that separation come from? When did this happen?

Speaker 5 (26:38):
When did we lose respect for one another as human
beings but also for those that they don't volunteer, but
those who sacrifice and put themselves in harm's way to
protect us. I don't know when and where the separation occurred,

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but that's one thing that we need to take back,
because again, the fact that there are these self entitled
bratt who think that they can chant something like that
in somebody's face is a disgusting statement on a lot
of our youth here in the United States at this
point in time, seven forty six. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
Welcome back to.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Seven fifty one, The bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA Otis.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
Did you see this story? Just this just caught my attention.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
A Disney cruise is now docked in Florida after a
dramatic rescue at sea captures passengers' hearts. So this was
the Disney Dream, one of their major ships. It docked
after a young girl fell overboard during the trip. Her
father jumped in after her crew members rushed to save them.

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Both passengers call the father a hero, saying the emotional
moment left them in tears. I mean, if you I've
never been on a cruise ship, now I know you've
infamously been on a cruise.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Ship, one infamous one not so.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yes, that's not a fall. That's not a short fall
to jump off of a cruise shop. Sure, it depends
on what level you're on, but either.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Way, and it also depends on the ship. Some are
bigger than others. Yeah, so whereas I call it a
boat and get scolded for.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
That for calling it a boat?

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Okay, Yeah, some little recent college graduates tried to tell
me it's a ship, it's a ship, and I said,
they had these little model ships. I said, you tell
me it's a ship one more time. One of those
is going somewhere where you're never going to find it.
But yeah, I mean it can be. It could be
a heck of a I mean you're probably talking, you know,

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a couple of stories. You get into that height, you know,
it's it's it is, you know, and then you hit water.
It's like like hitting concrete if you don't go in
the right way.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
So you fell from the fourth deck.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
I'm sorry again, that doesn't tell me anything, because I
mean there could be three decks that you know are
a little lower. I mean, you know, obviously you know
how high up is the fourth deck. You know, those
those those cruise ships are built that if the if
the seas get rough, that the water is not supposed
to come up over top onto the decking. So you know,

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you figure you probably have at least seventy feet maybe
seventy five feet between that first deck and the and
the water. So if you know, if you're going, if
your shoes in the fourth deck, you probably figure that's
probably about one hundred hundred and fifteen feet fall. So yeah,
but you know, the dad that the dad did what

(30:03):
any other dad would have probably done. I mean, if
that would have been when we went on that cruise,
if that would have been one of my kids, I mean,
there's no doubt in my mind.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
No hesitation, no nothing, I.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Mean I don't know if it would have been good
for either of us. But what it's just your your
instinct kicks in.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yeah they had, they haven't released. I haven't seen where
what age the girl was? They just say young girl.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
No, yeah, just thought I think in one of the
stories yesterday that I read, I thought they mentioned her age.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
So I couldn't imagine.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
But yeah, you're right, it's that natural instinct of a.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Parent, at your parent instinct kicking in.

Speaker 6 (30:39):
Yeah, yeah, that would be so sad.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'm not.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
I'm not Michael Phelps, you know, or any of them. So,
I mean it's been a while since I swam, so yeah,
that would be. But you can tread water, and you
can float on your back. There's all kinds of things
you can do. It's just it's a matter of staying calm.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Would be so hard.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
That would number one. Taking the jump would be hard.
Staying calm would be.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Well, you're adrenaline, oh yeah, cod bang in there too.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
So yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't even imagine.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
I couldn't even Every endorphin in your body just fired.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's just pumping. Yeah, you would be pumping.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Well, because then you've got to think about the the undertoe.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
And in just the ship itself, right, Because I mean
a lot of times you jump off those ships, you
get sucked underneath and go right through the propeller.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
You know, the force of being pulled underneath the ship. Yeah,
that's just I mean, amazing dad there, that's uh, that
is definitely one amazing father. And they say daddy's little girl,
she will be Daddy's little girl forever.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
That'll be a bond between the two of them, that's
for sure.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
For starff Uh coffee drinkers out there would just pay attention.
Starbucks has introduced the limited time Firework Frappuccino, a colorful
and refreshing berry flavored drink with popping pearls, strawberry pure
and vanilla sweet cream cold foam. Additionally, Starbucks is releasing
three new Strato frappuccinos with cold foam toppings in July,

(32:12):
including salted caramel, Mocha, Strawberry Macha, and brown sugar flavors.
So if you're on your way to work this morning,
they've got some new flavors for you at Starbucks. It's
kind of like you otis and you're it's always it's
a game in here every morning of what coffee flavor
you're going to go with, because he's got his.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Just all depends.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
He's got his big old variety packs. Variety packs.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
And if you haven't heard, the man accused of killing
four University of Idaho students has agreed to a plea
deal to avoid, of course, the death penalty. Multiple sources
say Brian Coober will plead guilty in exchange for four
consecutive life sentences with no chance to appeal the twenty
two murders. The twenty twenty two murders shock the college

(33:00):
town of Moscow, Idaho.

Speaker 6 (33:02):
A formal court hearing is set for Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
That would almost be for the families of the victims.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
It's a catch twenty two. Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Like you feel like you don't get your day in court,
like it's.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
But but you also don't have to live through the.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Right, Yeah, what is the better.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
What's the lesser of two evils?

Speaker 7 (33:26):
Right?

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Yeah, what's the better choice? Is there a better choice?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Because when you get you know, he's not getting to
get out. Yeah, so you so you've you've got that,
But he's also getting three square meals.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
A day and we're paying for it.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, that's the you know, And it doesn't it doesn't
matter what happens. You're not bringing back your loved ones. No,
so no, you know, there's you know, but they also
don't have to live through the trial anymore.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
And I have.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yet to see a motive for this, like even even he's.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
A psych speculated motive.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
He No, he was taking all these like criminology classes,
and I think he just wanted to see if he
could get away with get away with it.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
People are sick. People are sick. Seven fifty eight.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
On your Tuesday, you're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Sam
and otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
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His goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom
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Speaker 2 (34:44):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Is it big and beautiful?

Speaker 2 (34:52):
That's being debated right now. But you have the chair
of the White House Council of Economic Advisors pretty much
warning about the economic implications of not passing Trump's domestic
policy bill by the deadline given by the White House.
He said the US could face a recession if Congress
fails to pass the big beautiful bill by July fourth.
Is that the case? Let's bring on Steve Cotton, financial strategist.

(35:15):
He's had a multifaceted career in investments, business, government, public
affairs for more than forty eight years. He's also helped
develop public policy in the US Congress and work directly
with the White House. Steve, I mean, let's just start
with that. He's saying we're going to see a recession
if it isn't passed. Do you feel that same way?

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Well, thanks for having me on today. I love our
audience in Cleveland. The Big Bill is not out of
the woods by any means. There's no saying in politics
there are two things that one never watch being made
sausage and legislation, and that is certainly true in this case.

(35:54):
The Senate has amended the bill the Freedom Caucus, and
this is the bill that has of the staff. The
Freedom Caucus in the House, which is about thirty members,
has indicated they are not pleased with the Senate changes
in terms of deficit reduction, and this is a warning
flag to the administration and of the Senate. I still

(36:16):
think the bill is fifty five percent likely to pass,
but there are some tough negotiations ahead when the bill
comes back from the Senate back to the House.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Steve, is the stock market already priced in passage of
the bill.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
I think it has. I think there's a momentum to
big pieces of legislation like this, and I think the
markets have factored in a passage, an ultimate passage, probably
before the fourth of July, this friety. But if it
doesn't pass by the fourth, it's not going to be

(36:51):
the end of the world. But if it doesn't pass,
if something doesn't pass to sustain the twenty seventeen Trump texts,
that could be very bad for the markets and worse
for the economy.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Steve, you've helped develop public policy in the US Congress.
You work directly with the White House executive brands, agencies.
You know how politics work. When I see something like this,
When I see the chair of the White House Council
of Economic Advisors throwing out threats like he suggested that
millions of people could lose their jobs. Nine million can

(37:26):
lose their health insurance if the big beautiful bill fails
and the deadline is pushed back. That makes me step back.
I mean, I voted for Trump twice. You know, I'm
a conservative, but I don't like being whatever. Somebody uses
the end of the earth kind of angle, just like
we saw what people did during COVID. The overreaction of that,

(37:48):
people acting like fools out of fear. Whenever I see
somebody use fear is motivation. It makes me step back
and go, what's really going on here?

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Well, I think that's a healthy response. Frank Lee, I
think the White House is putting in a full court press.
These kinds of statements are to be expected. I think
it's a little bit exaggerated, but I will say this,
if they don't sustain the twenty seventeen Trump text cuts
with this bill or a bill very like it, that

(38:19):
would be highly negative for the economy. That would be
highly negative for businesses. It would mean an automatic sharp
price increase or taxi increase rather and that's just not
good for anybody.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Talking to financial strategist Steve Cotton right now, Steve what
about the average American? How will the average American benefit
if the bill becomes law, because you know, Nancy Pelosi
famously said, well, I haven't even read it yet, but
I think it's going to be good. I mean, these
bills are so big, there's so much to them that
I think the average American, Hell, I'll throw myself in there.

(38:53):
I can't digest all of it. So what does it
mean to the average American.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Well, it's comforting to know that these members of Congress,
Senators and congressman. Members of the House usually get a
summary of the bill's key provisions, so they're not ignorant
about what's in the bill. And very few members ever
read a nine hundred page bill. But they know the

(39:20):
broad the specific topic by topic outlines in the legislation.
They're not voting on it blind uh, And I think
that and their staffs certainly know what's in it, even
if they haven't read the bill. The bill was read
on the Senate floor, but the members do know what's

(39:40):
in most of this legislation. It's you know, it's ironic
that Republicans complained for years that the Democrats were putting
everything in an omnibus reconciliation package, and they had to
vote on this, you know, ginormous bill, and now the
shoes on the other foot and Republicans are using that
same tactic to pass this. But the emphases in the

(40:05):
bill are on very different things that the Democrats than
that the Democrats typically put in place.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
You mentioned extending his signature twenty seventeen tax cuts. He
also wants to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime pay,
billions for border security and some other things. Are you
surprised of Fox News National poll? They questioned voters by
twenty one point margin. Most of these voters, according to

(40:33):
this Fox News National poll, oppose this legislation.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Does that surprise you, well, yes, because I don't think
that polling is necessarily accurate. There have been a lot
of polls really over the last twenty years that are
decreasing in their accuracy. I don't put much stock in
the public opinion polls anymore because there are a lot
of segments of the population are just hard to reach

(41:01):
through standard polling procedures. But I will say this, the
no tax on tips, the no tax on overtime, and
the tax break for seniors on Social Security are hugely favorable,
hugely positive for people on fixed incomes, for people on
you know, lower lower income levels, this bill is going

(41:25):
to be hugely beneficial to them. From my analysis, and
to answer your original question, yes, I think there are
things in this bill that are going to significantly benefit
large portions of population that are not millionaires.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
All Right, Steve, thank you for the insight and the expertise.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Very welcome, glad to be with you today.

Speaker 7 (41:48):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Bet is Steve Cotton, financial strategist. He is the president
of Cotton Wealth Management Associates and, as I mentioned, multifaceted
career and investments, business, government, public affairs for more than
eight years.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
Welcome back. It's eight eighteen on your Tuesday. The boy
Daddy Experienced Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy ww
va Otis.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
I have some.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
On fire breaking sports news that you're going to immediately
go and buy season tickets. Okay, the WNBA is expanding, No,
I saw that three teams. They're adding three teams to
the league beginning in twenty twenty eight. There's going to

(42:39):
be a team in Cleveland in.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
One one time, didn't they Cleveland? They were the Cleveland Rockers.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
Was that the WNBA oh I don't remember.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Detroit in twenty nine, will be adding a team in Philly.
We'll be adding a team in twenty thirty, So start
saving your pennies to get your season tickets for that one.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
No.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
But in real sports news, well I shouldn't say that.
In more popular sports news.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
There's actually four teams, because I think Toronto's getting an
expansion team. First.

Speaker 6 (43:14):
Oh, that wasn't in the information.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
That I saw that They just announced three new ones.
But Toronto, I think is coming in next year, I believe.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Okay, But in other sports news, there are a couple
defensive stars that are on the move. This of course
affects the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Dolphins are trading cornerback Jalen
Ramsey and tight end Joe new Smith to the Steelers
for safety Mega Fitzpatrick. Miami is also receiving a twenty

(43:44):
twenty seven to fifth round pick in exchange for a
twenty twenty seven seventh round pick. According to ESPN, Ramsey
will be getting a one point five million dollar raise
to bring up his salary to over twenty six million dollars.
Smith will also receive a one year extension worth twelve

(44:05):
million dollars. Be honest, though, I think the bigger story
out of Pittsburgh right.

Speaker 6 (44:11):
Now is TJ.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
Watt. Listen, there is still not ink on paper with him,
and now other teams they're starting to kind of knock
on the door. One of the league's best pass rushers,
of course, is TJ.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Watt, and he could be on the move.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
According to ESPN, there are multiple teams that have been
discussing if they can trade for the Steelers linebacker. The
Steelers have yet to show any willingness to deal Watt
so far. The thirty year old is entering the final
year of his contract. He's skipped voluntary OTAs this offseason
in an effort to negotiate a new deal. Listen, TJ.

(44:56):
Watt's the heart of that defense, he really is. And
if negotiations are not going on, which it sounds as
if it's pretty stagnant, there doesn't seem to or from
things that I've read, in the way that it sounds,
there doesn't seem.

Speaker 6 (45:17):
To be a very.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
Open line of communication between the two camps, and that
then brings teams to the table if they are sort
of seeing and hearing the same things. Where there doesn't
seem to be a lot of flexibility on either side,
then other teams are gonna start knocking on the door,

(45:42):
as it seems to be that they are. That would
be a huge, huge kicking the gut to the Steelers.
Defense of TJ.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
Watt walks.

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Not good, not good for Steeler fans, not good for
Steelers Nation. If he does, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
I think they should. They need to sign the deal.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
Listen, being a Browns fan, the last thing you want
during the off season is this chitter chatter around one
of your stars. You don't want you, you don't want
the the focus being pulled away unless.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
You're entertaining ideas. Yeah, I mean they trade They just
traded away a couple of draft picks. So I mean
you could turn around and you can maybe get a
decent player, uh and maybe a little younger player, and
then you turn around and in that deal you actually
get higher draft picks than what you gave away.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
How how long is what hasn't been in the league?

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Thing that's thirty been in there for five or six.

Speaker 6 (46:59):
Years, It hasn't been that long. Doesn't feel like that.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
I think he's going to be thirty, he might be
twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
It doesn't feel as if he's been in that league
very long. But yeah, you just don't want that uneasiness
in the locker room. Like I said, he's he's kind
of the leader of their defense and that's what they're
known for. So they need to come to some sort
of decision they I mean, they really do that that
that instability is not good for any team now. Losing

(47:29):
Minka Fitzpatrick when he first came to the Steelers that
was a big splash too.

Speaker 6 (47:33):
That was a huge splash. And I don't think he really.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
He may have wanted out. You know, you never know
what some of these things are. Yeah, they don't always
disclose everything.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
No, they don't.

Speaker 5 (47:45):
I just don't think he turned out to be in
the Steelers organization what they thought it was going to be,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't think it
was as impactful as they thought.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
To your original story, Yes, Cleveland did have a WNBA team.
They were the Cleveland Rockers. There are several teams that
no longer exist in the WNBA, the Charlotte Sting, Cleveland,
Houston Comets, Sacramento Monarchs. Also the Miami Soul in Detroit Shock,
so some of the Shock Detroit their stuff kind of

(48:23):
they later relocated him were rebranded as the Dallas Wings
currently in the WNBA. So there you have it.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
So they're putting two teams back in cities that had
failed teams.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Were what were the other cities?

Speaker 6 (48:38):
So Cleveland, so they.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
Had the Rockers Detroit you said were the Shock.

Speaker 6 (48:43):
So those are two of the cities that.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
They're bringing teams back to. And then the third one
is Philly. Was Philly in that list that you read.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Now, you know, here's the thing with the w NBA.
You have to go to cities where women's basketball in
college are big.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
It's big.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Like you would figure like where like Stanford they have
a history of of strong women's basketball connect which they
have they have one there, so they have you know, Iowa,
so you have the Indiana fever. So you know, the
Big ten does well in women's basketball, uh, in some

(49:29):
in some in some locations, not in all. But you know,
you just have to be careful because you have to
go to the you have to go to the areas
where the market can can fill can fill it. You
don't need to fill the seats per se, but you
need to. You got to make your revenue. You gotta,

(49:50):
you gotta. You want to get that point where you
don't want to lose money.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
Well and in.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Listen, I never thought I'd pay so much attention to
the w n b A. But if you have been
following Caitlin Clark and that whole saga in the WNBA,
I hate to say this, but are they are they
using her? It's almost there are certain things that have happened.
It's almost like the WWE, where you know, fights are

(50:19):
breaking out and the wrong people are being penalized and
it's just I don't know, it's just.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
I think it's unorganized. They don't know how to handle it.
So in other words, like you have somebody that's coming
in and changing the game. And let's be honest, the
league is geared toward you know, some of the better
players you're African American? Oh yeah. And you know they

(50:49):
don't like the fact that the number one player.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
Is white, Oh absolutely.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
And then they don't like that she's straight either that
she's heterosexual.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
Oh oh.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I didn't think about that, think about that that plays
a part of it.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
But there are certain things that are happening.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
That oh she's getting that she's getting hell beat out
of her. Yeah, I mean, but that's you know, that's
part of the game too, you know. I mean you
get to a certain point, listen.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
I mean, it's pretty there are certain things that are
pretty targeted. Like it's pretty obvious what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
They are, I mean, it is, and but the referees
are scared to death because they don't want retaliation, you know,
and so neither does the league.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
But it's almost like they're they're they're feeding the beast
with this because it's creating clicks, and it's creating conversation
and it's bringing spotlight. Yeah, so that's what I meant
by how are they using Caitlin Clark? The more she
gets beat up, the more spotlights on the last Well, yeah,

(51:49):
I know, a poke in the eye wasn't exactly a
flop and she's the one that got the penalty. Anyways,
it's eight twenty.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Eight foul You played basketball.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
w w V A welcome back. It's a thirty six
The Blue Daddy Experienced Salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
w w VA. President Trump is on the move once again.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
It's flying to Florida.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
Does anybody else think that Alligator Alcatraz sounds like the
title of like some B rated seventies movie. Yes, yes,
like there's some like there's two dudes that are that
are stuck in this like alligator costume, and.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Or they go to they go to escape, and like
every time somebody tries to escape, they'd et there and
then needs to make it out or something.

Speaker 6 (52:45):
Yes, every time I see that headline.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
Already get the plot line.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Every time I see the headline or I hear somebody
mention it, that's all I can imagine exactly that like
some seventies B rated movie.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
I find it one of those ones you'd see on
what is it that's called Mystery Mystery Theater three.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
Thousand where they sit and they critique it.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
And they but they just they're so bad. The movies
are so bad that they're funny.

Speaker 6 (53:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
What's not funny with high temperatures. We were talking about
Detroit earlier. There's a new uh, a new ring of thieves.
I guess you could say they are in Detroit stealing
the air conditioners from your house. People have resorted to
the fact where they are chaining them to the ground

(53:35):
and the concrete their they're air conditioning units that sit outside.
They're putting huge, heavy chains on them and then wrapping
them in barbed wire because thieves are stealing the air conditioners.
Did your friends you mentioned last week was having air
conditioner units issues? They get all fixed. You were having issues,

(53:57):
weren't you too?

Speaker 4 (53:58):
I had a low issue on Friday. Yeah, I mean
I got home and you know, I set my thermostad
normally at seventy two, but because it was so hot,
I actually bumped it up to about seventy four or
seventy five, just so that it would hopefully shut off.
And I came home and my house was eighty one
and I was like, holy crap, and went out and

(54:22):
did something. And by the time I got back, it
was eighty five and the sun had gone down, and
I'm like, oh, something's not right here. So I, you know,
did some little maintenance what I know how to do,
which is very little, and I just shut it down
for the night. It had kind of rained, so it

(54:43):
cooled off a little bit. Of humidity was gone. I
had the ceiling fans gone, kicked it back on the
next day. Well, I think what happened was that it
had been running for so long that it froze up.
So but one of my friends that had was having
air conditioning problems. There was a just needed to changed
the fields. And then the other one I haven't heard
back yet.

Speaker 6 (55:03):
So well, when.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
That kind of stuff, it seems like it's snowballs. So
I may be looking for a plumber. Heads up, anybody
out there that knows a good one, because last week
and you're gonna make fun of me, and I'm sure
everybody out there is gonna make fun of me our
garbage disposal, which, by the way, I think is a

(55:28):
disgusting concept garbage disposals. But anyways, it took a crap
husband had to replace the garbage disposal.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Right.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Well, it turns out, and I didn't know this, you
can't put the husks for corn down a garbage disposal.

Speaker 6 (55:54):
I guess it's so fibrous it twists up.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
And yeah, yeah, you're not supposed to put that like onions.
Certain things that I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
I burn up the garbage disposal.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Right, I bet you, mister Sam was happy.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Oh he was not happy in the least, not even close.

Speaker 6 (56:11):
All they're coming for is yeah, there you go. So
got that fixed. Well.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
Now, last night discovered that the dishwasher does not drain.
So usually it's like when one thing happens, then something
else happens, something else happens. Have no idea why the
dishwasher does not drain. It is gross, it is so gross.

(56:40):
So I told him, I said, it probably has to
do with with the garbage disposal, because they're connected somehow.
And he goes, well, if you wouldn't have put the
corner on the corb, and so it's all my fault.

Speaker 6 (56:50):
It's all my fault.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
So if anybody possibly knows somebody good for that kind
of stuff, very much open to recommendations, putting that just
putting that out there, just putting that out there, because
I have no interest whatsoever of unclogging a dishwasher and.

Speaker 6 (57:07):
All of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
And speaking of home cleaning, you know, different generations tend
to get sort of picked on.

Speaker 6 (57:19):
I've done it. I'm not afraid to say it. I've
done it.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Well.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
Now gen Z.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
And Millennials are back on the radar. Because they've done
a recent survey. But I'm going to agree with them
that one of their least favorite things that they can't
stand to do or they struggle with is house cleaning. Now,
I'm sorry, this is not groundbreaking. Nobody likes to clean

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the house, and forty five percent feel that they would
be embarrassed if someone saw the state of their home.
Thirty one percent admitted to having a room not cleaned
over six months. Now, okay, now that's gross. That's gross.
They spend more time procrastinating than actually cleaning. Thirty six

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percent only clean when expecting visitors, while forty five percent
clean daily. Nobody likes to clean, nobody. But if you
have not cleaned a room, I really really really hope
it's not the bathroom that they have not cleaned in
six months, then that's definitely an issue. Definitely an issue

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six months, not cleaning whole. Yeah, but I can't help
but agree with them that it's not the most fun
thing to do. But another thing has come out where
now when it comes to the younger generation, teachers in
classrooms are removing analog clocks. If you don't know what

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an animals clock is, that would be the clock with
the hands the old school clocks because the younger generation
cannot read them. They can't read a clock, so instead
of teaching them how to read them, they're just taking
them out of the classroom. I think you should know

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how to read a clock, although I will say I
had a math teacher back in the day that used
to say, you're not going to have a.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
Calculator everywhere you go.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
So I hated doing long division and all that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 6 (59:34):
Can't I use a calculator?

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Nope, Nope, you have to learn how to do it
because you'll never have a calculator with you everywhere you go.

Speaker 6 (59:40):
Well, now you do.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
It's in your pocket, it's on your phone with a clock.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Now you get a camera, a clock, a calculator, access
to the world, keeps.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
Your heart beat, can all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
So sometimes you can do that on your watch.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
So what else, like a clock has kind of become
dated or irrelevant that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:11):
We don't use anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
I'm trying to think of something off the top of
my head. I can't a ruler.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
No, yeah, it depends. I mean, you know, there's there's
certain things you get. There's apps out there that. I mean,
you can you can use your phone as a level.
You can use your phone really oh yeah, you can
use your phone as Ah. There's an app out there that, like,
you can pick a target and it'll tell you how
many feet away it is. Stuff like that, so you
don't need the measuring we all necessarily anymore. I mean,

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just you know, if you go to Google Maps and
do this satellite view. I mean sometimes like in.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
My job, road maps, that's a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
You know. Paper maps, yeah, paper maps, Yeah, the ones
that were all you'd never fold them back the way
they were when.

Speaker 6 (01:00:55):
You first bottom.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
If you knew what you were doing, you could.

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
They always ended up like a giant ball in our car,
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
It's because you just got to be patient.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
That was my mother. She was not patient because if
we were on a road trip and we were lost,
that's because my dad would not stop for directions. Like
every other man on the planet.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
I had no problem asking for directions.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Okay, well then you're the exception.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
And she'd get out that time.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
I would rather ask for directions than drive around for
four hours. Well yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Would think that would be common sense, but no, no,
some men will not do that. And I can still
on a trip to Myrtle Beach, we were lost, and
I can still see the moment where she was so
mad in that front seat. She took that map and
she was It's just all she was going to lose it.
She was going to lose her mind, lose her mind
with my dad.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
But hey, it's a holiday weekend. People are probably getting
ready for road trips. So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
Folks, have fun on those road trips. Moms, don't lose
your mind with the dads. It's a forty five.

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
We're gonna go to a break.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experienced samon Otis News
Ready eleven seventy There's Alligator Alcatraz News Radio eleven seventy
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News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We're going to take an adventure.

(01:02:18):
We're going to take an adventure up on the Hill
Straw Automotive. Kevin Cook, Good morning, Kevin.

Speaker 7 (01:02:24):
An adventure. That's that's a new one.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Okay, So hold on before we go anywhere. July First,
what happened with the Hondas. Who's number one. Who's number two?

Speaker 7 (01:02:36):
Aoh, how about straw Automotive here at the Highlands number
one in the state of West Virginia in Honda sales
and Mountaineer Honda in Bridgeport, West Virginia number two. These
guys battled it out to the very last day. All right.
Strawb Automotive Group sells more Hondas than anyone else in

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the entire state of West Virginia. And believe it or not,
there's some you know, much bigger dealers that used to
be used to be much bigger dealers in like the Washington,
PA area. I won't mention anybody and a couple of
dealers over to the west of US. You know, these
guys are killing They're just absolutely crushing it. They're putting

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every deal possible together. I mean they're putting you know,
all the money in your trade in you know, to
get you that low low payment. They're getting you great
interest rates, they're getting everybody financed. That's another huge thing.
If the strab Automotive Group is awesome that you know,
we just don't say no to anybody. We try to
do everything we can to make apps.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
You know, I was out, I was out with my
other job, and I was at the stop Lake there
out by Perkins and Kroger in the Woodsdale area, and
I think there were three Honda c r vs right
in a row. Just I mean, that's how many of
them are out there. They're just everywhere.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
One selling vehicle in this market is the Honda c RVY.
And there's a reason why. Hey, for years and years
and years. You can go back and you can do
all the comparisons, whether it's road and track or motor
trend or whoever it is, and they get, you know,
all of those mid size SUVs together, and they put
them through their paces and they try to decide who's

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number one, and the Honna seav over and over and
over and over again pulls ahead of the rest of
the class. And there's some great vehicles out there. I mean,
you know, all the manufacturers put their best foot forward
every day, but Honda is just that much better than
everyone else.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
Yeah, I mean, my mom's been driving a CRV now,
I think for thirty two years. I don't know if
that's true or not, but her last three or four
cars have all been Crvs. I just made up the
number thirty two.

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
Just pull that number right, Yeah, it's thirty two. It's
like he's got to count clucking off today.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
Well, I know it hasn't been that long because I
can remember her other cars, like in the early nineties.
So you know, probably for the last twenty years every
been to the CRB.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
Well, I think everybody needs to join your mom today
and for the next thirty years drive home to CRB.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
You go, right, his mom is a smart woman.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Yep, she is.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
She is smarter than me.

Speaker 7 (01:05:26):
I'll give you that real real quick. Before I get off.
We want to thank everyone who united us with their
business in the in the entire month of June. We're
grateful whether it was a new CRV or any of
the new Crosser bids, Deep, ram Ford, Hyundai, Nissan, Honda products,
pre owned your service business. We are grateful for parts business,

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body shop business. Uh. And we should be announcing something
hopefully in the next couple of days. We're trying to
put together something for the flood victims. As you know,
last month, you know, we've if you bought a vehicle
from us and you lost the vehicle, you know, due
to the flood, or had any kind of damage due
to the flood. You know, we're making your first payment
for you, and we're also getting that payment put out

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for at least ninety days, so you don't have to
worry about that for the next three months. You got
enough to worry about. Everybody knows that. But we're also
going to do something really really big, and we'll be
announcing it in a couple of days.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Okay, you're going to do that here, You're going to
announce it on here.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
I'm going to have to This is a place where
everybody listen. This is where a place where everybody's paying attention.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
I like how you think, buddy.

Speaker 7 (01:06:32):
That's it, man, that's it? All right, all right, guys,
it'd be good.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Talk to you Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
There he goes, No, goodbye, no nothing, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:06:42):
That's all right. Oh so he left us with the teese.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
He's got to do it Thursday because we're our Friday,
that's right, yep. Or he's got to do it next Monday.

Speaker 6 (01:06:51):
Then yeah, no, wants to do it on a Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
It depends on how long you want to let it sit. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
Yeah, this is a cute story that we'd end it
with this, so mugshots.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
I hope it's a long one. If you're gonna end
it with it, No.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
But it's it's it's cute. So mug shots are usually
not the best time in people's lives, or sometimes it's
actually pretty entertaining on social media. I mean yeah, there's
magazines around here created.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
For mugshots, website, Facebook pages or whatever you want to say.
And some of them, like when people put comments in,
they're they're priceless.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
They are there, they're more entertaining than the pictures themselves. Well,
in Michigan, the police department in a small town named
Wyandott posted a mug shot of a co worker. The
co worker basically stole another coworker's lunch. Now that's a

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touchy subject of a lot of offices. I mean, people
have bought Well, it turns out coworker who did the
stealing and got the mugshot his name is Ice.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
Ice is a canine.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
They took his picture, they posted it. Now there's all
kinds of people coming to ICE's defense on social media, saying,
you know, don't leave your food laying around. You can't expect,
you know, you tempt them with human food. He's gonna
take it. One guy says, I'll be his lawyer. The
officer who left his lunch unattended should be arrested for
leaving human food unattended. This could have caused severe issues.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
To my client.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
My client should actually sue for damages in case he
had an allergy. No jury would convict that face innocent
until proven guilty. It was entrapment. If the food wasn't
introduced to Ice, he would never have asked for the
offending officer to score him human food. Also, the offending
officer was grooming Ice and used his power of authority

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to make Ice think he was safe when he was not.
I mean, people really got into this, but yeah, absolutely
adorable picture.

Speaker 6 (01:09:08):
Ice.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
I'm so sorry that you were put out there on
social media for everybody to see that you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
I'm sure he's not complaining.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
No, no, no, And then staying in the legal realm.
This happened last week where a guy shows up to court. Now,
if you're going to court appearance, you're gonna put on slacks,
a nice shirt, you know, the whole thing.

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
No, he walks right.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
Up in front of the judge and kudos to her.
She made him look like a fool, and she called
him out on the disrespect that he showed the court
because his T shirt said World's Best Farmer.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
Yeah, I don't think I'm wearing that the court. Yeah
I might wear it under my shirt, but I'm not
wearing at the court.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
And this wasn't like it was driving court. It was
felony court. And she scolded him up and down. So
just to just to hint out there, if you have
a court appearance.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
Sure it wasn't just misspelled and it was supposed to
be father.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
No, no, no no, And he stood there smiling. Anyways,
everybody have a great Tuesday.

Speaker 6 (01:10:17):
We'll be back tomorrow.