The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam July 21, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. 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.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now the bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on
News Radio eleven seventy. Good Monday morning to you. Hope
you had a fantastic weekend. The seventy ninth OBAC All
Star Football Game has come and gone. It's hard to
believe seventy nine years and I was thinking back to
the first one that I covered back in nineteen ninety
two when I was fresh out at Kent State University

(00:41):
weekend sportscaster WTOV nine in doing that game, and just
how big it was, how special it was, how excited
people got for it. And I can remember walking onto
that field at Wheeling Island Stadium that very first time
that event and seeing the thousands of people in the

(01:02):
stands and how excited the kids and the coaches were
that I just knew it was something special when I
was so happy to be a part of it as
a member of the media. Now you fast forward all
these years later, and I talked to a couple of
coaches who were coaching in it. They were pumped up, said,
what a wonderful experience. I know the kids, the families

(01:23):
get excited for it. And I think about all the
great football players that have played in that contest. I
think of the Chad Brinkers, I think of the Quincy Wilsons.
I mean, you could just go down the list of
individuals who have played in that game, and it's just
incredible to think about how quickly, I mean, we're you know,

(01:46):
seventy nine's in the books, as I just mentioned, nineteen
ninety two covering that first game.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And I had a discussion with somebody the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was somebody that I met in Cleveland, and they
were talking about what did you do?

Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know how long you've been doing radio? And I said,
I've been doing radio.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm pretty sure it's about twenty one years now. And
they said, what did you do before that? And I said,
while I was in television. I started at WTOV nine
in nineteen ninety two, worked there until about ninety five,
went down to Charleston, West Virginia, worked for the ABC
affiliate there for a year. Came back worked at WTRF
Channel seven for I believe ten years, and then I

(02:22):
segued into radio and I said, which one do you
like the most? I said, well, I like radio because
it allows your personality to come out. Plus I don't
have to shave, I don't have to get in a suit,
I don't have to look good. I don't have to
wear a tie. I mean, I hated that about television.
I said, radio just gonna let you be yourself a
little bit more. It allows your personality to come out.

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But as I was talking to this individual, I said,
I will tell you this, though, I miss the days
of covering high school football, the excitement of it, going
to different games with a photographer, running back, getting back
late to the station, trying to throw the highlights together,
running up on the set, trying to tie my tie,

(03:06):
with the director saying we're a minute and a half away.
Sitting down there on the Friday night, whether it was
back in the day with Bill Phillips or Scott Nolty
and doing a show. I mean, the electricity of it,
the vibe of it, the magic of it. And I
can remember getting done with those shows and just being

(03:27):
so mentally exhausted, but yet feeling great about what we did.
That's what I miss the most about television. I don't
miss the morning news. I don't miss so much doing
the features. I don't miss a lot of that stuff.
But I do miss covering high school football. So when
I saw the seventy ninth game had completed this weekend,

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just brought back a Russia memories. Brought back such a
number of just great memories. Working with the people who
I got to work with, talking to the different coaches.
Always love talking Arena. I still talk to Reno to
this day. Loved Bruni at Martin's Ferry, loved Ja Sarcosta.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Over at Monroe Central.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, you can, you know, just go down the
list of coaches that I love to to talk to.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
And then the fans, you.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Know, a Friday night before the game, hanging out. I
had some of my best times at Purple Riders Stadium,
getting over there early, throwing the football, punting the football
with the ball boys from Martin's Ferry. Just love that
old stadium. I mean, to this day, I just love
that old stadium. But if I could go back in
time in my career, I would go back to those

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Friday nights. The electricity of it, the energy of it,
and just everything about it. And I think back, I
don't know how we got most of these highlights on
the air. I mean, we would get back so late
and the photographers would just I'd say, you know, run back,
just put together a minute half of highlights. I got
to run upstairs and get ready, run up lights, camera action, boom,

(05:00):
you go, Hey, it's David bloom quizz.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Here was Scott Noldty. We've got some games for you.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And the whole time in my earpiece the director is saying, hey,
we don't have you know, the show was put together
before the newscast, but if those highlights in the beginning
of the show weren't ready, you had to just kind
of wing it and go to whatever highlight was ready.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
So all of a sudden, you're.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Expecting to go to Steubenville and somebody and the director
in the earpiece would go, don't go to Steubenville.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
We got to do.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
We got to do wheeling, Central and Shady Side or whoever.
And Scott no Oldie would be holding a program I'd
be holding, or a roster. I'd be holding a roster
in my hand and as we're watching the highlights, we're
seeing them for the first time, just like you were
at home, and we got to sit there and describe. Okay,
Martin's ferret the football, it's a toss around the corner.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
And the whole time I'm looking at that TV.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Screen, I'm reading that number on the back of the
jersey and I'm trying to hurry up and find it
on the roster so i could tell you who's running
the ball. It was absolute chaos and at the same time,
it was absolute magic when it all came together. Nothing better,
nothing better than back in the day Woodsfield Bellsville later

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Monroe Central Bellsville with those two the rivalries, I mean
just incredible, Union Local Barnesville, you know, go to Faery
bel Air. I mean, just go down the list of
the great rivalries. I was just I'm so happy that
I had a chance to be a part of all that,
and I miss it. You know, even now, at the
age of fifty five, I really miss Friday nights. And

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I'll be honest with you, I've not been to a
high school football game on a Friday night in I'm
gonna say five or six years. I'm gonna have to
change that. This year, I'm gonna need to go back.
I need to just feel that that energy, that vibe
and everything with it. So congratulations all the kids have
played in the seventy ninth OVAC All Star Football Game.

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The coaching staff, the fans, the cheerleaders, the band. I mean,
what a big production. I mean, it's definitely one thing
that the OVAC has done very very well with over
a long long period of time. I hope you're enjoying
your Monday morning. I got to talk about some fast
food when I get back. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, folks, it's Monday morning, seven eighteen, kicking off a
new week this summertime in July. I'm Sam, He's otis.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience here on news
radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Of course, just one thing on my bloom Daddy was
talking about. He was talking about the OVAC Football Game
and how it's been around for seventy plus years and whatever.
And I have not ever had the experience other than
going to the OVACL Star Football Game. I did have
the experience the O v a C All Star Basketball

(08:02):
game as not as a player, but as a coach,
and I was I was fortunate enough to uh be
selected the coach in that game three times, not as
a head coach, but as an assistant. And I was
perfectly fine with that because I always looked at other
people that they knew more about basketball than I did.

(08:23):
But you know, it was it was definitely, you know,
getting to meet the players, getting to work with other coaches,
the the what they did for the kids with with
the media days and the practices and and some of
the other things. Uh, you know, it's it's it's it's

(08:45):
a good it's it's a good honor. I mean they
all star games. My son played in the All Star
Game for baseball, but you know, the the so we
had little experience there. But it's just, you know, it's
it's it's good for the kids. I mean, if the
o VA C does something right, it's the All Star games.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, and here's the other here's the other side of
it too. It may not be as prevalent nowadays because
of social media, but it opens it opens up what's
the word I'm looking for, the perspective or or other
schools to students. So you know, when I was in school,
there wasn't social media, of course, and there were the
kids that went to Martins Ferry and Bella Air and

(09:24):
Chase's that, but you didn't know them.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Like when I coached, there was there's very little social media,
I don't think, you know, like the Internet was just
freaking in.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
But what with the o VA C because of the
mixture of the schools and you know there Ohio versus
West Virginia, it opened up the door to Okay, here's
all these other schools, other people that you don't necessarily
know firsthand well.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
And the other thing is like the bigger schools don't
know the smaller schools, but the smaller schools a lot
of times we'll know the players on the bigger schools,
you know, just because their names are. You know, that's
that's who the media covered back in the day. And
you know, I was coaching at the smaller school in
the OVAC. So when one of my players got to
play with somebody from Wheeling Park or John Marshall or

(10:12):
one of the bigger schools, it was you know, they
then the next thing, you know, they get to you know,
know somebody they go through six or seven practices and
you know, friendships.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Developing those things, well, it's kind of their first taste
of adulthood when it comes to meeting new faces, new
people from other parts of not only the Higher Valley,
and some.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Kids are better at it than others.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, take them out of that microcosm that
they're used to. It's a shock to the system, but
it also opens the doors to a lot of things
that and it's their first taste before it hits them
in college.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
And then you're you're normally you're probably one of the
best players on your team, and then you get to
that All Star game and you realize maybe you're not
that good.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Big fish, small pond comes into play. Yeah, yes, yeah,
speaking of football, put a question up on our Facebook
page this morning. Would love to hear your thoughts because
we're going to talk about this a little bit later
in the show. But one of the big talking points
this morning is, of course President Trump and his calling
for the Guardians and the Commanders to consider changing their

(11:21):
names back to the Indians and the Redskins. Now, there's
a financial aspect to this about the stadium in Washington
and investment and Trump is getting involved in the money
side of it too. So what your thoughts do you
agree with President Trump? Should they go back to the
Indians and the Redskins. You can post on our Facebook

(11:44):
page where I have it posted, or of course you
can go to our text line seven zero four seven zero,
start the message off with bloom Dandy and then tell
us your thoughts again. That text number is seven zero
four seven zero. We're going to get into that a
little bit later in the show. But again, calling on
your thoughts this morning, I wanted to give you a
bit of time to get on there and comment. Wanted

(12:08):
to talk about Friday. Now, otis I did the lunch
on Friday, I did the delivery.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
And I we had we were going different directions for yes,
I was going for my work, so yes, so.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Of course the response, But no, I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
No.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
I want to give a shout out to Rich and
his guys in Raylan, where I went to deliver. I
had a hut. They were so funny, they were so nice.
We talked sports, We talked Steelers, Browns, we talked politics.
They asked about Eljin and I going to the convention

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last year at this time going to the inauguration. So
to those guys, thank you for making me feel so welcomed.
I hope you enjoyed your lunch. You guys were absolutely hilarious.
They were hilarious even though it was pouring down and
everything else. We had a great I had a great time.
Friday was packed. I had the opportunity to go to

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the prior to delivering lunch, the ribbon cutting for the
new community hospital in Saint Clairsville by Trinity Health System.
Went to that ribbon cutting. There were tons of people there.
To say that the community is excited in Belmont County,
let alone in Saint Clairsville for the opening of this

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hospital is an understatement. It's a beautiful facility. Congrats to them.
This has been a six year process bringing this hospital
to Saint Clairsville, so I just wanted to give them
a shout out and a congratulations. So it was a
it was a big deal on Friday. It was a
big It was a busy day on Friday, So Rich

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and the team, thank you for making me feel so welcome.
Hope you enjoyed lunch. And then of course to those
folks at Trinity, congratulations to getting to the ribbon cutting.
It was a beautiful event. It was a great event.
So did you have a good weekend?

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Otis, Yeah, it wasn't bad.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
We just discovered that you and I made the same
dinner yesterday.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah, one are the chances, Well, mine was I had
to make mine or else. The used by date was today,
so I said, well, I'll just throw out the crock
pot yesterday.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
No.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
My high school reunion was this weekend, and although I
didn't go to the actual reunion, I went to the
get together on Friday night.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
We went to the pregame pre party.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Whatever they call it, and I got to see a
friend that I hadn't seen in probably thirty years or more.
And then you know, kind of just hung around and
talked shop and told stories and and that was a
good time. And then Saturday, I don't think I did
much of anything. Saturday, to be honest with you. I

(14:45):
ran some aarons and there were some things going on
with some out some family members, and so we were
trying to kind of had to kind of stay close
to home, gotcha. And then yesterday I went. I threw
that in the crock pot, but I rode down to
Morgantown and visited with my dad, Hey you my son
for a little bit, and then just shot him.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Well, my Saturday was jam packed. I got all kinds
of stuff done, and I thought, you know what, I'm
gonna get all this stuff done, so on Sunday I
can just relax. Well did I relax? I did nothing yesterday? Wait,
I take that back. I folded a load of laundry.
Other than that, I did nothing because on Saturday, I've
told you folks before, I loved to mow the grass.

(15:26):
It's this new thing. It's my canceled the world out time.
I'm just completely disconnected and I'm in my own I'm
in my groove right, husbands at work mowing the grass.
All of a sudden, when I stop. Now, this is
nothing new. I have broke three lawnmowers. I believe in

(15:47):
my past warning over a tree, running over a rock.
When I say I zone out, I zone out. So Saturday,
I'm going along doing my thing. The blades stop working.
I turn off the little thing to read to kick
it back into gear. They're not working. They're not working.
So I go forward a little bit. Nothing happens. I

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put in a reverse and I hear clunk, and I
pull forward in this giant round thing completely fell out
from underneath the lawnmower.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
Round thing.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I don't know what it is. It probably weighed about
forty pounds fifty pounds.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yes, and that's not good new now.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
So I called the husband. He's driving to work, and
he's like, what does it look like? And I said,
I don't know. It looks like a giant metal seashell.
Not good, I don't think, and he goes, yeah, that's
not good. So I sent him a picture. He goes, oh,
that's really not good. So I think I can. I
think I can clock it up to lawnmower number four

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that I've messed up. But it's not my fault this time. No,
that's what he said. But he looked at it yesterday
and I said, what did I do this time? How did?
He goes, I don't think you did this. A bolt
broke or something, And there's no way I broke a bolt.
But if you would have seen this thing that fell
out from underneath the lawnmower, it was like the lawnmurwer
gave gave birth to this thing. Yeah, So my track

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record continues, Man seven twenty eight. You're listening to the
bloom died experience. Salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Welcome back to the show. On your Monday morning, I
mentioned I was going to talk about fast food. I
just saw a survey where they ranked the best fast
food restaurants as far as in and out. You make
your order, you get your food, you're back on the road.
It's not going to shock you who came in first.
It is going to shock you at least and shocked
me who came in second.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm going to start with first, Chick fil A. I
think that's a no brainer.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Out of all the fast food that I have frequented
fast food restaurant, and I shouldn't say over the last
ten years, by far and away, Chick fil A is
the most efficient. And I think I know why they
treat their people well. I think they pay their people
better than other places. So when you have employees who
feel somewhat energetic about their job, who care about their job,

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who are making a decent wage for what they're doing,
you're going to have high efficiency.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
And I think that's a big part of it.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
And then when you get to the order, I think
in all the times that I've eaten Chick fil A
maybe once the order was messed up. You go to
a lot of these other places, it seems like that
order's messed up every time. As a matter of fact,
I just made a trip the other day over the
weekend to Cleveland too a Guardian's game, and I had
my son in the vehicle with me, a couple of

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other people.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
We ordered.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I didn't move. We ordered through a McDonald's. I didn't
move until he checked every order in that bag. And
I was shocked that it was all right, because usually
it's not. And that's what I do. I don't move
Chick fil A. I don't even second guess it. I
get the food and I'm gone. Coming in second was McDonald's,
which surprises me because I don't eat McDonald's a lot

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ever since COVID. They don't offer any healthy options on
the menu, which is mind boggling to me. We've got
a major obesity epidemic in the United States. Everybody wants
to have some sort of healthy food option. Yet everything
with McDonald's is fried. There's no grilled options, there's no
solid options. But I will go through McDonald's for breakfast.

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I will do that from time to time. And most
of the time it's not very efficient, I'll be honest
with you. And most of the time the order is
not what I ask for, or there's something that's forgotten
or mixed up, and that's the case with a lot
of these Wendy's Burger King. I mean, you can go
on down the list, but Chick fil A did not

(19:58):
shock me at all that they were at the top
of the list, because again, I just think they care,
and I'm not sure it's their pleasure, I mean, my pleasure,
my plate, is it really?

Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean, are you that excited? I'm glad. I'm glad
you're into the job.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
But every time I hear that phrase, I sit there
and I go, oh, okay, you know they must say
that thing in their sleep. But Sam, otis, I mean,
what do you think? I mean, do you agree Chick
fil A should be at the top of that list?
But McDonald's at number two, and then some of these
other ones that were filling out like three four five.
Like I said, Sam, when I go through fast food,
I'm gonna say, if I don't go Chick fil A,

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here's a fifty to fifty chance, if not sixty forty,
that there's gonna there's gonna be something wrong in my order.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
What have you experienced?

Speaker 4 (20:45):
All the list goes on and on and on for experiences. Now,
my go to fast food is Wendy's. It really is.
I I love Wendy's cheeseburgers. I do. They are kind
of my my guilty pleasure when it comes to fast food.
I hate what they've done to the French fries. When
it's come to French fries, every once in a while,

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it's like, I've got to have some McDonald's French fries.
They're just again, I don't know, I don't know what
it is. But when it comes to screw ups with
drive throughs, it's gonna happen. It always happens. Now, there
has been times where I have drove all the way
home and looked at my food and I've completely got
the wrong order, and I have been just absolutely livid.

(21:30):
But I don't know. There's just I've tried to stay
away from fast food recently. The slowest drive through window
around here is Steak and Jake. Absolutely Steak and Jake takes.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
Four every pretty bad tea.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yeah yeah, Arby's isn't so great. But the survey he's
talking about now the slowest drive throughs that came through. Now,
none of these are around here. I don't think wing Stop,
Culvers and Churches chicken. I am not familiar with Calver's
or Church's chicken. I thought Cllvers is ice cream. Maybe

(22:09):
I'm thinking of something else. I'm not sure, but no,
I've tried to stay away from fast food recently. But
it's just, uh, I don't know. You just expect of
it to never be right. That's the way I look
at it. There's always gonna be something wrong, so it's
up to you to check it and make sure that

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you've got everything you want. Speaking of food, today is uh,
it's kind of a even though it is a Monday,
let's have some fun with it. It's National Junk Food Day.
So you know what's your favorite junk food? Today's the
day to splurge your guilty pleasure. It is National Junk
Food Day. So if you consider a burger from McDonald's,

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a Big Mac, or French fries, or my newest thing
is the soft pretzel sticks at Dairy Coyn. Yeah they're
pretty good, then today's day because it is National Junk
Food Day. You said you just had an experience at
a drive through worked out in your favor, though.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
So I went to the McDonald's and no'm grove for
breakfast the other day. I was not in the mood
to cook anything, so I just went down and got
the big breakfast or whatever it is with the sausage
and eggs and pancakes. And so there's two drive through
went like lanes, two lanes for the drive through, and

(23:36):
so this lady pulls up and she's in like a
Mercedes or an Audi or something, and you can tell
she's just she doesn't want to wait in line. So
they tell me the total. There was something on my
order that I didn't order because it came up on
the screen and I said, hey, I didn't order a bagel,
and she said, oh, I'm sorry, I hit that by mistake.
So she took it off. While she took it off,

(23:57):
she tells me my total, but I could hear the
other speed her and mine was actually first, and then
this lady just speeds to make sure she gets in
front of me. So I see her. She pays with
a card and she goes up and I pull up
to the window and they go it's two forty nine
a's to them. I am was like fifteen dollars because

(24:18):
I got a coffee or something to go with it,
and I got something for the dogs, of course, and
so I was like, she's like no, I said, mine
was like. She goes, oh my gosh. She goes. The
lady in front of you just paid for your order
by mistake. She goes, I got you guys backwards, and
I said, well, she's still up there, you can catch her.
The girl never leaves the register. She just yells for

(24:38):
her manager. The manager comes. I said, she's still up there,
you can catch her. And the manager's just looking at me,
and she's fiddle farting around with the cash register and stuff.
And then the lady pulls away, and I'm like, I mean,
how hard it would it have been just to go
up and say, hey, we made a mistake. We need
to credit your card, do this, do that, and to

(24:59):
say the Finally the manager looks at me and goes,
you're good, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
And pongo and worry thank her for And.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
There was nothing there. I didn't pay for anything. And
I'm like, okay, I mean what am I supposed to do?
I mean, there's nothing I could do like, I mean,
at least let me pay. At least let me pay
the two dollars and fifty cents that the the lady
didn't pay for her coffee, you know, or whatever it
was that she got. Well, I kind of felt guilty,

(25:29):
like I should have paid for the people behind me.
And then I was like, screw them.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Hey, you tried.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
I did try. I had, I had a twenty dollars
bill ready to roll.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Well were you supposed to? You couldn't get out of
your car and chase after I could have.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
I didn't have any doors.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Well you you brought up the arm.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
But the funny thing was, I'm what. I look in
my mirror and there's like eight cars ready to come
through to pay, and it's me. Hold well, it's not me,
but it's the people inside. Hold them up, And I'm thinking,
these people want to kill me.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
I hate those duel drive through lanes. I hate them
because every time I swear to God, it always works out.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Wouldn't you ask? Like, first off, if I just ordered
a cup of coffee and the girl says to me,
that's sixteen fifty nine, hold on, that's not me? Or
did you? She just handed the car and didn't even
tell her that I.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Wasn't paying attention. She was probably reading something on her phone,
she was probably thinking about everything else.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
She was like, like, you know how you can just
look at somebody and get that first impression.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Yeah, yeah, but those dual drive through lines, Honest to god,
it never fails. I can pull up, I can sit
there for two minutes, nobody speaks to me. A random
car comes up in the other lane, and immediately they
get service, and then the next car, the next car,
the next car, and I'm still sitting there every time,
every time, guaranteed where I want to jump through that speaker,

(26:48):
that microphone and strangle somebody like I've been sitting here
the whole I've actually screamed through the speaker before drives
me insane. You're listening to the bloom Daddy experience. Salmon
otis coming up, Redskins, Commanders, Guardians, Indians. What should it be?
You can comment on our Facebook page, or of course

(27:10):
you can text us seven zero four seven zero. I
just I just completely went blank. Seven zero four seventy
four seventy seven zero four seven zero. Start the message
off with bloom Daddy. You're listening to us I'm zam.
He's Otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome Back,

(27:36):
seven fifty one The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis, News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It's funny Otis. Yesterday I told
my husband, I said, I don't know why, but for
some reason, I keep thinking about football today. And I
don't know if it was something about the weather. I
don't know. If listen, I'm not wishing summer away. I
am not in any way, shape or form, but for

(27:58):
some reason, football was on my mind. And then, of
course this morning wake up to the continuing news of
football and President Trump getting involved with the Washington Commander's
conversation and wanting the name returned to Redskins. Now baseball's involved,

(28:20):
He's going speaking in regards to the Guardians, wanting the
Indians Moniker renamed. So I posted this on our Facebook page,
basically just asking do you agree with what the president
is asking for? Dave says absolutely. We've gotten a couple

(28:42):
images of Chief Wahoo from Cleveland saying Chief wa who
forever Chelsea said, never should have changed. I wanted to
talk about this a little bit, and I don't want
to get too fired in the weeds because I do
not want to go back five years ago when the
woke mafia mob took over the world, and these are

(29:05):
two organizations that bent the knee to that mob unfortunately
during that time. And depending on who you speak to
or where you look, the origins of the nicknames or
the symbols, the logo, the mascot for these two franchises

(29:28):
is debatable. There's different stories surrounding both of them. Now
for what President Trump said he tweeted over the weekend
or I'm sorry he posted on truth social over the weekend,
Our great Indian peace people in massive numbers want this

(29:49):
to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being being
taken away from them. Where a country of passion and
common sense owners get it done, that means return to
the name. Now, keep in mind these names the Redskins
were in existence for eighty years. Not a lot of

(30:13):
problems Indians. For one hundred plus years those names existed,
then all of a sudden, people get angry. People were
sitting at home in twenty twenty. Board is basically what
it comes down to, and finding things to complain about

(30:34):
they wanted to be a part of change. They wanted
to be they wanted to fight for the underdog. They
were going to change things for the better. They were
gonna rip down statues and rip names off of things
because of change. I always looked at it this way,
whether we're talking about Civil War monuments in the South,

(30:56):
whether we're talking about names of baseball teams, which, by
the way, the Braves still exist. Let's not forget that.
Chiefs the Chiefs. Yeah, exactly, I have always said, and
I thought during this I think it reflects more on
you and your way of thinking when you see hatred

(31:21):
when I don't believe hatred is intended. I have also said,
especially when it comes to the tearing down of Southern monuments,
and that whole sided the conversation. If you rip away
our history and you try to eradicate our history, the
names in history, what they have done, for better or

(31:41):
for worse. If you try to eliminate our history, we
are bound to repeat it. You can't just wipe people
out of existence. You can't just wipe things out of
the history book and act as if it never happened.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Well, you have to look at the history of the
Indians and the Redskins names and their logos, because the
logo from the Washington Redskins was actually a tribute to
a Native American person. It was not any in any

(32:16):
way derogatory from the gig Go. And the Indians were
named the Indians after a player that played for the
Cleveland Spiders, I believe, and then they changed the name
to the Indians in his honor. I don't have the
names in front of me, but I do. Okay, Well,
there you go.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's what I was getting to, yes, but that was
my point was you see things a certain way, and
I think that reflects more on your mentality way of thinking.
So the Indians mascot was based off of Lewis sok alexis,
the first Native American professional baseball player. Okay, think about that,

(32:56):
the first Native American baseball player. He reportedly could throw
a baseball from Indian Island across the pentom Scott River,
routinely threw the ball from one shore to the other.
He would catch a ferry, go over, get his ball,
throw it to the other side, and go back and forth.

(33:17):
That's a little bit of trivia on this gentleman. Now again,
this was in eighteen ninety seven the Spiders. You were right,
the Cleveland Spiders changed. They signed Lewis Soclexis then hence,
in nineteen fifteen his name The Indians became the Indians
in nineteen seventy one the team's logo for the Redskins.

(33:40):
It was a composite of Native American photographs, including one
of the twentieth century Blackfeet Chief two Guns White Calf Now.
The creator of the logo, Walter Blackie Wetzel, was Native
American himself. According to his grandson, my grandfather was very
proud of being Indigenous. He accomplished a great many things.

(34:02):
At his core, he was a good and honest man
and was This was all in honor of Native American
culture and history, done by a Native American artist. So
do you agree with President Trump should the original logos

(34:23):
and names be returned? We want to hear your thoughts.
You can text us seven zero four seven zero seven
fifty eight. The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy wwva.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Z number one Tuck Show in the Ohio Vlley. 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 (34:57):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. Good Monday
morning to you. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. The
seventy ninth OBAC All Star Football Game has come and gone.
It's hard to believe seventy nine years and I was
thinking back to the first one that I covered back
in nineteen ninety two when I was fresh out at

(35:17):
Kent State University weekend sportscaster at WTOV nine in doing
that game, and just how big it was, how special
it was, how excited people got for it. And I
can remember walking onto that field at Wheeling Island Stadium
that very first time covering that event and seeing the

(35:39):
thousands of people in the stands and how excited the
kids and the coaches were that I just knew it
was something special when I was so happy to be
a part of it as a member of the media.
Now you fast forward all these years later and I
talked to a couple of coaches who were coaching in it.
They were pumped up, said, what a wonderful experience. I
know the kids, families get excited for it. And I

(36:01):
think about all the great football players that have played
in that contest. I think of the Chad Brinkers, I
think of the Quincy Wilsons. I mean, you could just
go down the list of individuals who have played in
that game, and it's just incredible to think about how quickly,

(36:22):
I mean, we're you know, seventy nine's in the books,
as I just mentioned, nineteen ninety two covering that first game.
And I had a discussion with somebody the other day.
It was somebody that I met in Cleveland, and they
were talking about what did you do? You know how
long you've been doing radio? And I said, I've been
doing radio. I think I'm pretty sure it's about twenty
one years now. And they said, what did you do

(36:42):
before that? And I said, when I was in television.
I started at WTOV nine in nineteen ninety two, worked
there until about ninety five, went down to Charleston, West Virginia,
worked at the ABC affiliate there for a year, came
back worked at WTRF Channel seven for I believe ten years,
and then I segued in the radio, and I said,

(37:02):
which one do you like the most? I said, well,
I like radio because it allows your personality to come out.
Plus I don't have to shave, I don't have to
get in a suit, I don't have to look good,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Have to wear a tie.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
I mean, I hated that about television. I said, radio
just gonna let you be yourself a little bit more.
It allows your personality to come out. But as I
was talking to this individual, I said, I will tell
you this, though, I miss the days of covering high
school football, the excitement of it, going to different games

(37:33):
with a photographer, running back, getting back late to the station,
trying to throw the highlights together, running up on the set,
trying to tie my tie, with the director saying we're
a minute and a half away. Sitting down there on
the Friday night, whether it was back in the day
with Bill Phillips or Scott Noldty and doing a show.

(37:55):
I mean, the electricity of it, the vibe of it,
the magic of it. And I can remember getting done
with those shows and just being so mentally exhausted, but
yet feeling great about what we did. That's what I
miss the most about television. I don't miss the morning news.
I don't miss so much doing the features. I don't

(38:16):
miss a lot of that stuff. But I do miss
covering high school football. So when I saw the seventy
ninth game had completed this weekend, just brought back a
Russia memories, just brought back such a number of just
great memories. Working with the people who I got to
work with, talking to the different coaches.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Always love talking to Arena. I still talk to Reno
to this day.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Loved Bruni at Martin's Ferry, Loved Ja Sarcosta.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Over at Monroe Central.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
I mean you can just go down the list of
coaches that I love to talk to. And then the fans,
you know, a Friday night before the game, hanging out.
I had some of my best times Purple Riders Stadium,
getting over there early, throwing the football, punting the football
with the ball boys from Martin's Ferry. Just love that

(39:08):
old stadium. I mean, to this day, I just love
that old stadium. But if I could go back in
time in my career, I would go back to those
Friday nights. The electricity of it, the energy of it,
and just everything about it. And I think back. I
don't know how we got most of these highlights on
the air. I mean we would get back so late
and the photographers would just I'd say, you know, run back,

(39:29):
just put together a minute half of highlights. I got
to run upstairs and get ready, run up lights, camera action, boom,
you go, Hey, it's David bloom Quizz here with Scott Nolty.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
We've got some games for you.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
And the whole time in my earpiece, the directors saying, hey,
we don't have you know, the show was put together
before the newscast, but if those highlights in the beginning
of the show weren't ready, you had to just kind
of wing it and go to whatever highlight was ready.
So all of a sudden, you're expecting to go to
Steubenville and somebody and the director in the earpiece would go,

(40:03):
don't go to Stuvenville. We got to do We got
to do wheeling, Central and Shady Side or whoever. And
Scott and Oldie would be holding a program I'd be holding,
or a roster. I'd be holding a roster in my hand,
and as we're watching the highlights, we're seeing them for
the first time, just like you were at home, and
we got to sit there and describe. Okay, Martin's fare

(40:25):
at the football, It's a toss around the corner. And
the whole time I'm looking at that TV screen, I'm
reading that number on the back of the jersey and
I'm trying to hurry up and find it on the
roster so I could tell you who's running the ball.
It was absolute chaos, and at the same time, it
was absolute magic when it all came together. Nothing better,

(40:47):
nothing better than back in the day, Woodsfield Bellsville later
Monroe Central Bellsville with those two the rivalries, I mean
just incredible, Union Local Barnesville, you know, Good to Fairy
bel Air. I mean, just go down the list of
the great rivalries. I was just I'm so happy that

(41:08):
I had a chance to be a part.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Of all that. And I miss it.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
You know, even now, at the age of fifty five,
I really miss Friday nights. And I'll be honest with you,
I've not been to a high school football game on
a Friday night in I'm gonna say five or six years.
I'm gonna have to change that this year. I'm gonna
I need to go back. I need to just feel
that that energy, that vibe and everything with it. So

(41:33):
congratulations all the kids have played in the seventy ninth
o VAC All Star Football Game. The coaching staff, the fans,
the cheerleaders, the band. I mean, what a big production.
I mean, it's definitely one thing that the OVAC has
done very very well with over a long, long period
of time. I hope you're enjoying your Monday morning. I
got to talk about some fast food when I get back.

(41:55):
You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience. So I've been
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Well it is eighteen on this Monday. The Glen Daddy
Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We've been
talking this morning about the logo, the mascot for Cleveland
and Washington. Big topic topic of conversation once again nationally

(42:26):
thanks to President Trump. Wanted to give you an update
on some of the responses we've gotten on our Facebook page.
Buddy says, leave it to the fans to decide. I
like that idea never should have changed.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
Though, no, should have never changed.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Franklin says, can we also get can he get Antelima's
picture back on the syrup bottle. Also syrup syrup bottle.
There I stop myself. I say syrup, you say syrup.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
So here's the thing. You know, college sports way back
when fifteen twenty years ago started ticking out Native American names,
with the exception of the South Dakota Fighting Sioux, the
Florida State Seminoles, a handful of others because they actually

(43:13):
so Florida State actually had written permission from the Seminole
tribe to keep the name, as did the South Dakota
Fighting Sioux. But Saint John's, Redmond, Syracuse Orangeman, how many
you know, Braves Tribe, whatever other nickname was out there

(43:33):
that was that had any connotation that it could have
been associated with something Native American had to be changed
just for what, for what reason? Because they they thought
that they were derogatory terms. They're not necessarily derogatory. I mean,

(43:55):
it's just I mean, you know, you know, do your research. Well,
there's nothing more there's nothing more derogatory than fighting Irish.
I mean, let's face it.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Yeah. Yeah, well and again, like you said, do your research,
but also take into consideration that as these woke fighters,
because that's how they see themselves, they are slowly as
they wipe out a lot of these names that are

(44:30):
used in honor, they're wiping out the history. Imagine if
they got rid of seminoles.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Imagine, I mean a seminole nation would be up in
arms because they're the ones that they're the ones that
want it.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
For a lot of people who are not exposed or
are not in an area where there is a large
Native American population, what they know are through things like
that that's on a national platform.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
And you can take it. You can take a name,
whether it's professional college, whatever, and you can say, oh,
that's Native American, like look at warriors, Well, that could
be anybody, you know, I mean that could you could
be talking about Native Americans, you could be talking about
you know, Revolutionary War.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yeah, exactly right, Yeah, Yeah, it's unfortunate. Again, if you
if you eliminate our history, we're bound to repeat it.
If you eliminate our history, you forget about it. And
those of Native American heritage should not be forgotten about,

(45:48):
should not be forgotten about. And it's unfortunate. There are
a bunch of people who don't know their history who
have taken it upon themselves to fight for a group
that they know not thing about It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate.
But if you have thoughts, please go to our Facebook
page or text us seven zero four seven zero.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
I'll bring them all back. Yeaing Syracuse Orange stupid? Serious?
That a Saint John red storm stupid? Whoever heard of
the Red Storm?

Speaker 4 (46:17):
I never thought of the Syracuse orangemen Is Is well.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
Because it's it's close.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Really, I've never heard that. And see that's the problem
people see. People see negative connotation or racism when it's not.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
There, and I think I think it's racism, well, but
I think find it derogatory, right.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
But that reflects more on the way their mind works
than the people that don't see it that way.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
I mean, if you had, like if they were the
Saint John Nazis, I can understand why you're going to
change the name. Yeah, you have to change it. Yeah,
you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
That doesn't fly.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
No it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
That doesn't work. No, no, no, no, that doesn't work.
Let's let's move on. Since you pulled out Nazi, there's
nowhere else to go.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
Yeah, well there's nowhere else. Why don'd you bring out Nazis?

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Chows over Nope, there's nowhere else to go from there.
We haven't heard from this gentleman in a while. He
might be back from his honeymoon. Jeff Bezos has poured
billions into an Earth Fund and tapped a former Amazon
head to run it.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
I have Jeff Beziers.

Speaker 6 (47:32):
So the bredacious Lauren Sanchez and I were enjoying our
newly wedded bliss. But while honeymooning on one of my
many many yachts, enjoying the view of my beautiful bride, oh,
I spied something not so nice, garbage in the water,
ruining the perfect view of my sixty spouse. And I

(47:55):
thought to myselfself, what if you spent some of your
ungodly amount of wealth on saving the planet instead of
destroying it, so that other billionaires will have the visage
of their life partner ruined by a floating pile of
floxamus trash.

Speaker 7 (48:11):
So, with ten billion dollars if my own money, I've
started the Earth Fund, I will personally see to it
that Lauren has the cleanest there to breathe, water to drink,
and that my picturesque view of her is never once
again destroyed by garbage. Oh, and you poores can enjoy
it too.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Oh, I'm gonna bring it in.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
That was the best part of the whole base.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
It was it was Did you see the images that
came out this weekend of Coney Island in New York
City of their beachfront. It looks like a third world country.
It looks like a third world country, just trash everywhere.
It's terrible, absolutely terrible. I'm glad he found some usage

(49:03):
for all of his money. He got a good chunk
out of my money out of Amazon Prime days last week.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
So I didn't buy anything on Amazon Prime, but I
bought like a bunch of stuff in the last four days,
like the How stupid am I?

Speaker 4 (49:16):
But it adds to your overall collection.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Well, there was just some things that I I didn't
need until I realized I needed them, and I really
didn't need this what I ordered.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Yes need, and then there's one.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Yeah, these were more ones desired about that.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
But yeah, Well we also talked about last week on Friday,
we talked about collectibles from movies, and the Alamo Center
and Museum has acquired the original bicycle used in the
nineteen eighty five film Peewee's Big Adventure in an Instagram post,

(49:53):
the Alamo announced the iconic red Bike will permanently be
displayed when the museum opens in the fall of twenty
twenty seven, coinciding with the film's fortieth Anna.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
Verser forty years since pee.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
Wee things creaking and cracking in there makes you feel older.
He's deceased, isn't he last year?

Speaker 5 (50:13):
From cancer?

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Last year?

Speaker 5 (50:14):
I remember when, but it's been a while.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Last year the bike sold at auction for a one
hundred and twenty five thousand.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Dollars large Marge choosing pee Wee's big adventure. She was
the truck driver.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Yep. Okay, I'm trying to use the phone. So that's
an iconic piece of film history. Like we were talking
about on Friday, the thing that's funny. You know, we
post those questions up and a lot of times we
get a lot of answers after the show. I don't
know why, but we do. I've got to highlight Mike

(50:50):
because he had a great answer to what the question
of if there was a movie.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
Prop movie propa?

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of going along line the Red
Bike pee Wee, the whole thing. Yeah, Mike's said the
third from Bube you can say Bube Okay Tata, I
wasn't trouble. We could say from Total Recall, he would
like to have the the third Boobe from Total Recall.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
Right, sometimes you get to set goals.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
I got it. I got to give him for for
for creativity. Nobody else came up with that one, so
I got to give him props.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
There's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Props for that one. Mike.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
And then on our social media or on our text line,
we talked about this right after the show. It came in.
Rodney Dangerfield's golf bag from Cats didn't even come up
last year or on last year on Friday. So I
wanted to go back.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
From back to school in the Triple Lindy, the Triple.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Oh, it's eight twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience in the Triple Ndy here on news Radio
eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Welcome back to the show. On your Monday morning, I
mentioned I was going to talk about fast food. I
just saw a survey where they ranked the best fast
food restaurants as far as in and out. You make
your order, you get your food, you're back on the road.
It's not going to shock you who came in first.
It is going to shock you. At least it shocked
me who came in second. I'm going to start with first,

(52:31):
Chick fil A. I think that's a no brainer. Out
of all the fast food that I have frequented fast
food restaurants, I should say over the last ten years,
by far and away, Chick fil A is the most efficient.
And I think I know why they treat their people well.
I think they pay their people better than other places.

(52:52):
So when you have employees who feel somewhat energetic about
their job, who care about their job, who are making
a decent way for what they're doing, you're gonna have
high efficiency.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
And I think that's a big part of it.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
And then when you get to the order, I think
in all the times that I've eaten Chick fil A,
maybe once the order.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Was messed up.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
You go to a lot of these other places, it
seems like that order's messed up every time. As a
matter of fact, I just made a trip the other
day over the weekend to Cleveland to a Guardian's game,
and I had my son in the vehicle with me,
a couple of other people.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
We ordered. I didn't move we ordered through a McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
I didn't move until he checked every order in that bag,
and I was shocked that it was all right, because
usually it's not. And that's what I do. I don't
move Chick fil A, I don't even second guess it.
I get the food and I'm gone. Coming in second
was McDonald's, which surprises me because I don't eat McDonald's

(53:52):
a lot ever since COVID. They don't offer any healthy
options on the menu, which is mind boggling to me.
We've got a major obesity epidemic in the United States.
Everybody wants to have some sort of healthy food option.
Yet everything with McDonald's is fried. There's no grilled options,
there's no solid options. But I will go through McDonald's

(54:15):
for breakfast. I will do that from time to time,
and most of the time it's not very efficient. I'll
be honest with you, And most of the time the
order is not what I ask for, or there's something
that's forgotten or mixed up. And that's the case with
a lot of these Wendy's Burger king I mean, you

(54:35):
can go on down the list. But Chick fil A
did not shock me at all that they were at
the top of the list, because again, I just think
they care, and I'm not sure it's their pleasure, my pleasure,
my plate, is it really?

Speaker 3 (54:49):
I mean, are you that excited? I'm I'm glad you're
into the job.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
But every time I hear that phrase, I sit there
and I go, oh, okay, you know they must say
that thing in their sleep.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
But Sam, otis I what do you think? I mean?

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Do you agree Chick fil A should be at the
top of that list, but McDonald's at number two, and
then some of these other ones that were filling out
like three four five. Like I said, Sam, when I
go through fast food, I'm gonna say, if I don't
go Chick fil A, here's a fifty to fifty chance,
if not sixty forty, that's gonna there's gonna be something

(55:21):
wrong in my order.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
What have you experienced?

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Oh, the the experiences can go on and on. But
I want to go back to the little bit he
said about healthy options. First of all, it used to
be when you did fast food Otis, you would go through,
you would go for the value meals, right, That's what
they used to be called. They're not even called that anymore.

(55:46):
I don't believe I can't.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
Used to be able to supersize them.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
Yeah, the combos and this and that, but you're supposed
to be getting a deal. Supposed to be, Yeah, supposed
to be. That's not the case anymore. So you take
two people, right, it's usually over twenty dollars for just
my husband and I if we each get a combo somewhere,
and that's not the extra large size or anything like that.

(56:12):
Nothing upgraded. So one thing I have started doing is
I'm doing a lot of the if I want something
like that, I'm doing a lot of the curb side
pickups at a lot of the sit down restaurants, whether
it's the Outback, whether it's Longhorns, whether it's West Texas locally,

(56:33):
whether it's a cracker barrel. Number one, there's more choices,
there's more choices, there's more healthy options. And then number two,
it's just better quality than fast food. And it's about
the same amount of money as you would be paying
for a combo meal through a drive through. If not,

(56:54):
it's less. So I've kind of made that change little
bit because, as bloom Daddy said, nine times out of ten,
if not, let's say seven out of ten times, there's
usually something wrong with your order through the drive through. Now,
some are more notorious than others for screwing things up,

(57:14):
but usually six to seven out of ten times there's
something messed up with your order. I will say this though.
A couple weekends ago, I was in a hurry. It
was having a really bad Sunday morning. It was crazy,
it was insane. I was volunteering for something. Didn't realize
I had to do it on a Sunday. Other people

(57:36):
didn't show up. I said I would show up, so
I was rushing around, but I had to get something
to eat, and I went to McDonald's went for a
breakfast sandwich, and the woman ahead of me paid for everything,
which wasn't a lot, but she paid for it. And
I'll tell you what that is. The timing on that
particular day was absolutely perfect for me. It put a

(57:58):
smile on me my face. It reminded me why I
was going to volunteer. Instead of looking at it as
I've got to go do this, No, it reminded me
I'm doing this for a good thing. And this is
just kind of the karma. I've had that happen to
me multiple times. I don't know why. But I've had people,
you know, and when you drive up and they say,

(58:20):
don't worry about it. The person in front of you
paid for it. It's just that's such a great feeling.
And that only happens at the drive throughs, So you know,
there's I mean, listen, Karma's a great thing. That's just
such a good feeling and the people that do that,
because I always pay it forward after that happens to me.

(58:40):
You know, it's a great it's a great thing that
you do. And I don't know why or where that
comes from and what strikes people at that moment to
do it, But I don't know. It's just always a
good feeling. But yeah, I have I have resorted to
changing a little bit and doing curbside pickup at different restaurants. Again,
if I'm going to pay twenty five dollars for a

(59:03):
cheeseburger and French fries and a coke or a pepsi
or whatever, I'd rather pay twenty seven dollars for a steak,
a baked potato chicken and a baked potato that's grilled
might be a better option. I don't know. I don't know,
but I mean, listen, I wouldn't want to work a

(59:23):
drive through window, especially when there's two or three lanes
at a time. I wouldn't want to do it. Now,
the fact that McDonald's got second place boggles my mind
because they mess up my order more than anybody else.
Is McDonald's more than anybody else? Chick fil A? I
don't go to Chick fil A that often, so I
can't really comment on their service. Every time I've gone there,

(59:45):
it's been fine, But I'm just not a big Chick
fil A goer visitor. It's not my thing. You have it, okay, okay, nothing.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
To add to that, No, I mean every time. I mean,
I'm not a I've I've seriously cut back on any
fast food, and if I do, like I said, I
sometimes breakfast I'll do McDonald's very not very often, but
sometimes for you know, in my other job, you're traveling

(01:00:20):
doing this, You're you're you're in the car, in and
out of the car all day. You know. I'll sometimes
go through Chick fil A and get a grilled chicken sandwich. Yeah,
or I'll get the grilled nuggets and then you know,
sometimes I'll do like Arby's, you know, not that it's
the greatest in the world, but for.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Some reason, it seems like it's better.

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Yeah, last time we went to Arby's, it was like
twenty eight dollars for the two of us.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Well, normally get like I'll get like the two for
seven deal. So like a lot of times, what I'll
do is so like they have the two gyros or
two roast beefs or two ham and cheese, And I just, I.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Just I can't in my own brain twenty eight two
people for fast food.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
I just it's it's it's it's tough.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Yeah, I can't. I can't validate that in my in
my brain, it just doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
And every once in a while go through and get
a baked potato Wendy's.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
Oh yeah, just because Arby's used to have the best
baked potatoes and they got rid of them. I don't
know why they had the best baked potatoes. I don't know.
But yeah, I've done the same thing where I've tried
to get away from the whole fast food thing here recently, though,
I've had a huge hankering for Taco Bell and I'm
I do not know why I am not a Taco

(01:01:36):
bellt fan, but for some reason. It's been on my
list the past couple of weeks. But I think I'm
gonna I'm gonna back off the Taco Bell because hmm,
that's questionable too.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
All I can say about Taco Bell is it's better
than Colonosco.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Be prep.

Speaker 5 (01:01:55):
That's what they should just prescribe for you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
I uh, I must agree with you on that. A
forty six. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis,
News Radio eleven seventy Hopefully we're not like Colin Oscoby prep.

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
You're on news.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Radio eleven seventy WWV. Hold back on your Monday The
bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
All right, Otis, we got to talk about it. Kept
me entertained all weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
The Coldplay camp.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Means listen, I'm telling you, if the dude would have
just if they wouldn't have reacted, they would have never
Nobody outside of the stadium would have even known anything.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
But it's amazing the creativity, the humor, how quickly the
AI generated videos that people come up with as fast
as they do, as fast as they do, I mean,
the Phillies mascot is the video that I shared. That

(01:03:10):
was one of the first that I saw. But that
was a real video. I mean they I think it
was the very next day that that game was played,
that the Philly mascot.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Yeah it was the very next day.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Yeah, yeah, it was the next day. But now there's
people out there that have like the rock around his arms,
with his arms around Vin Diesel. There's oh god, I
can't even think of all the ones that I've seen.
There's some funny one the T shirts that people have
come up with and anything.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
It might not even be the couple, you know, where
they've they've superimposed other people's faces on. But it's like
I showed you that one this morning. It looked like
World War two picture and he and the guy writes
Penelope something about cold Play. You know what I mean.
It's just it's just it's been three days and the

(01:03:59):
mean will not stop. Yeah, just I'm safe three days. No.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
We'll tell you what. If Coldplay does not get in
the studio and come up with some song, some sort
of song to capitalize on this, they'll lose. Because no,
people haven't talked about cold Play in probably five years.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
Well, I guess the next the next day or the
next the next show that Coldplay did they like? I
guess Chris Martin said, just be careful to the kiss
cams on its way out or something. He said he
gave a warning that it was coming, gave.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
A heads up.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Yeah, well did.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
You see the lego one? No where it's you know,
it looks like the box and says my first affair. No,
that's a good one. I don't know. It's just again,
it's amazing how quickly and what people come up with,
even country music artists, they got involved in it. Oh,
who was it? This weekend? He announced his concert, something

(01:04:57):
about I hope nobody's having an affair. Nobody's here with
their other something. I don't know. I can't remember now
at this point. But again it goes back to the
people are amazing. The guy left his job, didn't he
step down?

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
Yeah, you left a five hundred thousand dollars a year job.
I guess his wife. His wife on social media took
his last name off of hers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Did she change her status? That's always a pretty.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
Big I think she took the marriage status off of
She didn't change it, she just deleted it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
I just okay, didn't put heading to divorce court or
anything like that that I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
Yikes.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
I'm sure she knew about it before he even walked
through the door that night.

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
Oh you think.

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
That's how quick that stuff flies. But yeah, I mean
it was definitely entertaining for the weekend. It was better
than some of the stuff that was on TV.

Speaker 5 (01:05:53):
Well you know, well there's not a whole lot of
good stuff on TV anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Now, the guy wasn't from Florida? Was he? I don't
think so, Okay, because there was a man in Florida
facing charges for excessive speeding, I thought he might have been.
It might have been him running for his wife. Octavius
Hunt is the name.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
That's that's nice, That's yeah, that's powerful.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
That's sounds like something from the movie five hundred. What
was that? The three hundred? Was that the Roman movie?
With no it was the Spartans Spartan Okay. Octavius Hunt
was arrested yesterday morning, with officials saying he was driving
at this is insane, one hundred and fifty five miles
an hour. Now, he was in a sixty mile an

(01:06:40):
hour zone. That's almost one hundred miles over the speed limit.
He was charged with a misdemeanor. Really geez, while his
Dodge Challenger was towed and impounded for thirty days. Why
I can honestly say this, that's more than a misdemeanor.
I would think.

Speaker 5 (01:06:59):
I can honestly say this. I have driven. I've maybe
hit one hundred and ten and it scared the Bejesus
out of it. There's no way I'm going one hundred
and fifty five, not in just a regular car. Of course,
he's in a Dodge Charger, so that's it's built a

(01:07:21):
little different. It's built for speed.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Well yeah, I mean it's got some cajones behind it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
And it's also a little lower to the ground. So
like you know, yesterday I was coming back from Morgantown
in my jeep and I was hitting ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
And hopefully there are no cops listening.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
Well, they can't do it. I mean, they don't know
where I was, what had happened.

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
There's cameras everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
But you know, I can honestly say, like on the straightaways,
you know, doing nineties, okay, and in Florida, you know
there's a lot of straightaways, But when you know, when
you're driving around here, there's turns and hills, and it's
hard to do. It's hard to do one hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
You're on two wheels on a certain time.

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
Yeah, there's no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Hikes, what if what if he came up? Well, what
would you come upon in Florida crossing the road?

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
An alligator?

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
An alligator? That's where I was going. I mean, your turtles,
No turtleby turtle soup at one hundred and fifty five
miles an hour by itself.

Speaker 5 (01:08:18):
You don't have to add any ingredients. It would be
turtle soup by itself.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Hikes, that's just and the fact that again it's only
a misdemeanor. That's insane. So if you if you hit
one hundred years old, otis one hundred, what would you do.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
I'm gonna be lucky if I hit sixty. So, I mean,
let's I'm not even looking forward, like I just look
one one day at a time, because this this body
right here could go at any time.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Okay, but this body is getting better. You've been working. Yeah, okay,
all right, I'm trying to be like positive here. Yeah,
but okay, So there's a Springfield, Missouri woman she celebrated
her one hundredth birthday. Good for her, I mean that is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
That's yes, that's no small moment.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
No small feet. She's celebrated by it by doing skydiving.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Nice. No, it was President Bush jumped out of an
airplane like eighty something. No, No, I don't know about
it at one hundred. No, she probably it was a
tandem jump. She didn't do it by herself.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
She was joined by forty friends and family.

Speaker 5 (01:09:29):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
I would not if she was my family or friend,
I would not have joined her. Her name is Peggy
Wolf and it was her fourth jump. It was also
her first time her entire family gathered in one place.
The Ozark's Skydive Center says Wolf is the oldest person
they've ever taken up.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
Good for her.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
I would never I could.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
I would do it in a heartbeat. Really, Oh no,
you gotta try, you gotta try it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
I am terrified of heights.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
Did Bloue Daddy do it? He was supposed to do it?
I think? Or did he do it?

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
I think he did do it. My husband did it.
He's a bungee jumped, he skydived. He said he was
worried when he walked out, because they make you walk
out on the thing like the the no, the wing
of the airplane.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
What he was on.

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
It wasn't like a shoot. There was duct tape.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
And he started, you're definitely jumping, definitely jumping if the
planes got duct taped.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
He was starting to really second guest things. Everybody, enjoy
your Monday. We'll be back tomorrow. Talk to you then,