The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam July 22, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Jim or Nacy form of Congressman bloo Daddy Show Political
analyst Jim.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Let's start with President Trump wanting to Washington Commanders to
change their name back to the Redskins and the Cleveland
Guardians to change their name back to the Indians. With
all the things going on in the world right now,
is this something that he should be worried about?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, bloom Daddy again, thanks for having me on, and
I would agree with you. There are so many things
going on in the world right now, and I don't
think Although I love a lot of things President Trump's
trying to do, I love a lot of things he's
trying to get accomplished. The one thing I don't like
is for any government official to be getting involved in

(01:02):
a private business and what they name the business. Now,
I know there's a lot of listeners may say, well,
I like the Indians, so do I I wish the
Indians were still the Indians, and I support changing the
name of the Indians. But you know, if I want
to change it, I got to buy the Indians, because
that's really what that's really what capitalism is all about.

(01:23):
It's about making sure that government does not interfere with,
you know, with private business and private industry.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
The counter argument is, well, Trump campaigned on common sense
and getting rid of political correctness, so this is kind
of fulfilling a campaign promise.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
What do you say to that.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Argument, Well, I would say, look, it's his opinion, and
I agree with it. By the way, I agree with
his opinion, but I don't believe Americans. It's a very
slippery slope when you start down a path and start
allowing the government to change names because remember or even
request names as remember, Donald Trump won't be in office forever.

(02:03):
And I'm sure that if the story out today ten
years ago was Obama wants to change the name of
the Indians to the Guardians, people would have went nuts
because they would have said, the president needs to stay
out of it, and we're going to have a president
someday other than President Trump, who may be Democrat, who
may agree with some of the Democrat positions, but we

(02:26):
don't want that individual either getting involved in private industry
and private business Jim.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
According to a new CNN and Quinnipiac polls, the Democratic
Party has never had worse numbers.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Excuse me, Only twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Percent in the CNN poll view the Democratic Party favorably.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, Look, the Democrats have shifted far, far left, and
most people see Democrats as not the party of my
grandfather or my father and mother, who were Democrats, but
they see the Democrat Party as a far left, liberal,
progressive machine who believes in transgender rights and all the

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things that most center normal, middle of the road Republicans, individuals,
independents don't believe in. But boomdett I will also tell
you that that same poll has even though Democrats are
at the lowest level either, which is twenty eight percent
and fifty four percent unfavorable, Republicans are only at thirty

(03:33):
three percent or fifty one percent unfavorable. So I think
in the end, both parties are struggling with an identity
and independence. Really, who make up almost forty percent of
the voting in our country, in almost sixty percent in
Ohio are really what makes the difference today. So you
know what Democrats have to do and Republicans have to

(03:55):
do is really start figuring out how to get that
middle of the road base, the independent than who have
left both parties back to them. Republicans are a little
better off, but in the end, both Republicans and Democrats
have lost on ground when it comes to independence.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
So why do you think that is on the Republican side, Jim,
Because the Republican side, to me, is about common sense.
It's about policing, it's about rules, it's about standards, it's
about defending borders. Why aren't independence Why isn't that resonating
with independence?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Or is it the Trump factor?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Well, I think that's it. I think it's a little
bit of the Trump factor. Look, a lot of people
love what I was just reading this today. A lot
of people love what President Trump is doing when it
comes to immigration, but some feel he's going too far.
I mean a lot of people love what President Trump
is doing with a lot of things, but some believe
he's going too far. And I think that's that pulls

(04:52):
some of those independence away and you know, in the end,
Trump still commands ninety eight. I take that back. Eighty
nine percent of Republicans are very supportive what President Trump
is doing. I just saw a poll on him as
well today. Eighty nine percent of Republicans support what he's doing,
five percent of Democrats, but only thirty two percent of independence.

(05:15):
Sixty eight percent of independence do not approve of you know,
Donald Trump at the polling that was just done in July.
So that tells you where the real mix of voters are.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Right now, let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Let me ask you this question, Jim, if Trump were
more presidential, not as rough around the edges, because we
all like what he's doing. Okay, if he was more presidential,
and there's a lot of people saying I don't care
about presidential, and there are people who don't care, but
there are.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
People who do.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
If he was more presidential, do you think those independent
numbers in the favorability rating for Republicans would be much higher?

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I absolutely do. You know. I used to when I
spent time with President Trump in twenty seventeen, eighteen and nineteen,
he used to always ask me what Ohio ones were thinking,
and I used to say to him as president, I
like what you're doing, but I really think you should
quick call the names, and he would just get mad
at me for saying those things. I do believe I
could say that, yeah, those are the people, those are

(06:19):
the Republicans and the independence that's what leans them away
from him. If he was a little bit more presidential,
I think he would have overwhelming ratings. I mean right now,
Like I said, his approval rating also is only. There's
a CBS U government poll that just came out this
week that Trump's approval ratings only at forty two percent.

(06:43):
He's got a fifty eight percent disapproval rating. Again, it
comes down to that. And by the way, when we
talk about Republicans and Democrats and their favorability, especially Republican
favorability rating, I think some of that gets shaved away
because of the Trump factor as well.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
I would agree.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I would agree for all the people out there who
say it doesn't matter to me, that's fine. It might not,
but it matters to other people, and you should try
to get as much support as you possibly can.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
If it means being a little less rough around the edges,
why not. If you're going to benefit from it. Jim
is always thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Thank you, you have a great everybody.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
You too, Jim or an Acy, former Congressman.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Blue Daddy Show Political Analysts.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Welcome back sevent eighteen the Blue Daddy Experience. I'm Sam,
He's otis here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. But
kicking it off, we're not alone this morning. We are
not alone. We have a full house and we're going
to talk about something really exciting happening in Belmont County
at a local high school. So please welcome to the show.
Dirk Davis, village administrator of the beautiful town of Bethesda,

(07:52):
along with Pete Muzak, former Bethesda Chief of Police, and
YouTube gentlemen. First of all, thank you for coming in
this morning.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Your way, great to have me here.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
You're laughing already, Dirk, Oh, come on now, So what
we're talking about, if you have not heard, there is
going to be a literal jet at Union Local High School.
And you two guys spearheaded this mission. Correct, we did.
And so where do we start? My first question, where

(08:23):
do you start to look for a jet? How does
that happen?

Speaker 7 (08:27):
Well, it starts with Dirk Davis.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Okay, well, thank you. Are you the mastermind?

Speaker 8 (08:32):
Well, I started in twenty eighteen and to get this
ball rolled. But this isn't the first attempt we've had
since nineteen fifty eight, fifty nine. This is the fourth
committee that has tried to get a jet, and it
always comes down to cost. Okay, okay, And the cost
back in them days is probably twenty thirty forty thousand.

(08:55):
Today's cost is around eighty to ninety thousand.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Inflation gets us all inflation.

Speaker 8 (09:02):
But thank god that Pete directed us to this wonderful
jet that we're getting. And I'm sure he'll elaborate.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
More on that.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
So explain the jet.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
It is a what the jet is?

Speaker 7 (09:16):
An F sixteen fighting Falcon. Okay, this particular warplane was
transferred to the United States Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Team,
and now it has outlived its life as an airplane,
so it's timed out on airframe hours. And so what

(09:37):
happens is the planes are either given to places that
want to put them on display or they're destroyed. Okay,
they're crushed up, recycled, made the new airplanes again. So
they have a program to where you can take a
plane and if you know you have to prove to

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the Air Force that you're worthy of of displaying this aircraft,
and you have to show them a plan, and they
have a packet and cutting out all the I'm trying
to limit cutting out all the stuff to get to it.

(10:18):
We got to write Patterson Air Force Base. We got
connected with the liaison to the museum. They send us
the information. My wife and I filled out the packet
very long, very detailed, and we give a plan. And
this was years ago. Literally we filled out the application

(10:40):
in twenty twenty and in August of twenty twenty one
we were issued a retired Air Force fighter, specifically the
F sixteen. And so from there, the Union Local Jets,
after Burner Committee kept on everything.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
We devised a plan.

Speaker 7 (10:59):
Dirk came up with a lot of you know, things
that we needed to do to raise money.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Well to move it, because it's not like you're a
museum asking for this. It's a different type of it's
a unique request. I'm sure for those that you had
to work with on this plane, right.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
It's a it's a unique request. We were in i
should say, competition with a museum in Denver, Colorado that
wanted this same jet. Okay, and two of them, well, yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
There were two other people. I don't know who.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
The other person wants to be honest with you, probably
another museum, because yeah, because these this particular jet, being
a Thunderbird demonstration jet, they typically don't leave an air
base or a museum. But when Dirk and I went
to ray Patterson Air Force Base and a Thanksgiving time
of twenty twenty four, we had had the pedestal erected

(11:54):
and we had pretty much all our balls in place,
and we went there and we gave itsentation to the
Air Force Museum curator himself, and five days later I
received a call that we were in position number fifty
three for a jet. We moved from position fifty three

(12:14):
to number one in five days.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
So you basically knocked the presentation out of the park.

Speaker 7 (12:18):
We did, Dirk and I did they, and basically it
came down to the way we had presented it as
far as our fundraising goes the perpetual care of the jet.
They have really changed the criteria for you receiving an
Air Force plane today because there are so many derelks
around the country. People get them and then they let

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them go, and you need to have a care plan.
That's what they want to see.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
They don't want to end it up in some junkyard
and erect.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
So if this is going to be on display at
Union Local High School, what is the what's the purpose,
what's the message? What's you know, what's going on with
all that?

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Dirk? Well, the message is.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
To bring more spirit, be more proud of your school.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
Because Union Local excuse me, but Union Locals nickname is
the Jets for those exactly.

Speaker 8 (13:10):
Good point there to bring up because of the high
schools in Belmont, Bethesda, Centerville and that area. Back in
nineteen fifty eight, the juniors voted on the class name
of the Jets, okay, and they came up with the Jets.
And they also voted on the collars of the school,

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which was red and white with black being in Aldernent.
So that's where it really started. And then, like I said,
the Union Local boosters back then really wanted to get
a Jet there before as the school was being built.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
But you know, its time.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
So where is it going to be located on the property?
And can anybody once it's up and I'm sure you're
doing a big ceremony and ribbon cutting and everything for anybody.
Can anybody come and look at it, toward it, all
of you know, all of those type of thing.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yes, it's going to be in front of the common
section of the school. Once the jet is placed on
top of the pedestal, a plaza will be built around
the bottom, and the plaza will have a list of donations.
All the donators will have their name in the plaza

(14:27):
on some granite walls, and it'll be just you know,
because it's such a we I always knew that I
could get them a jet. After I started this, I
was like, Oh, we can do this. Just a lot
of work and grind, it's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
But when my.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Contact at Shepherd Air Force Base says, hey, you need
to hold off till April of this year, he goes
there's something coming, and he goes, your project is so cool,
we want you to apply for it. That's basically what
it said to me. And I was like, okay, well
mind me being an airplane geek, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
I knew what was coming.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
I kind of did my head and I just kind
of ignored it. And then I applied for it and
April and in June the third, they called me and said, hey,
we're going to give you guys retired Air Force Thunderbird jet.
And I just couldn't believe that they were going to
do that for us, but they really. There were some
people at the Pentagon that saw where it was going,

(15:28):
why it was happening, meaning the union local jets, the
colors matched and everything, and they were like hey, and
then then they said, why don't we give these guys
a shot at this?

Speaker 6 (15:37):
This has never happened before.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
The timing was right, The right people were in the
right place at the right time.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Timing was everything. We had five or six different jets
we could choose.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
From, well, there was five.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
We was promised one of the five. In January of
twenty four, we was promised one of the five that
was retiring five twenty five excuse me, yea. And in April,
like Pete said, we knew he was getting enough sixteen,
a newer one and being retired. But right in April
it came up that this special plane came up. And

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that's when Pete and them said, well, what was it?
And then Pete got hold of mister Shuttler and Bernie Thompson,
the football coach and money man at UL and they
started to coordinate and applied for it, and by god,
we hit the lottery.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
And we just real quick because we at about thirty seconds.
This is all privately funded, correct.

Speaker 8 (16:37):
Privately funded. It is all the alumni. Alumni we've had
sixty five years and you average about one hundred grads
a year. That's six five hundred grads, okay, And if
everybody would give a fifty dollars, we'd have over four
hundred thousand dollars, okay. But our goal is one hundred

(16:57):
and twenty five thousand, and right now we're at ninety
three and we're gonna try to hit it again because
we like to build a nice uh presentation around the
jet and uh yeah, that's where we're going.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Well an alumni and local businesses. This has been a
community effort.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
Hughes no money, no money from the school, no money.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
This is all private.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
Night, private alumni donation in businesses.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Guys, thank you so much this morning, good luck. Can't
wait to see it in place.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
Will come out and take a picture.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
We will absolutely the Bloomdaddy experience. Salmon OTAs News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA oh six the bloom Daddy experienced salmon Otis.
What a way to kick off the morning. Those two

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were an absolute hoot.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Well, sometimes the off air is conversations are a hundred
times better than the on air. But one of the
things that we did not get to ask them was
if you are a resident of Belmont County, if you
are not an alumni, if you're a business, if you are,
if you're just anybody that wants to make a contribution
to this. We ran out of time to ask them

(18:14):
on the air. But you have the information that if
you want to make a donation.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, it's it's on a Facebook It's on their Facebook page, which,
by the way, I'm going to share on our page.
It's the direct link. It's a longer name, so that'll
be simply I'm just gonna.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
We're just going to put the link on our Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah, it'll go straight to their page.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Because listen, listen, if you can donate ten bucks.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is a this is a really cool undertaking that
this committee has has put together. And again they're called
the after Burners Committee. There were two things that I
wanted to ask. First of all, does it still turn on?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
They said it does as of right now, but it
will be Yeah, they will take it. They will take
the guts out of it if you will. And then
I guess I'll ask you this, what would your call
sign be like?

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Like like top guns?

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah, wow, I'd have to think about it.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Think about it, Okay, Okay, because I think everybody on
the after burner, those on the committee that have worked
tirelessly to make this happen, I think they need to
come up with their own unique call signs.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Okay, I don't disagree.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
I think they could have a lot of fun with that, because,
like I said, this is this is, this is a
big undertaking.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Well and yeah, I don't know the last time you've
been to Wirton, but when you get off there at
the main entrance into downtown Weirton, right on the right
hand side, they have several retired airplanes and I believe
there's a tank there as well, And it's kind of
impressive when you just pull down the off ramp and

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you get to that light and you look to the
right and there's all this military equipment there's it's pretty impressive.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
I can't reme that doesn't ring a bell, but I
couldn't tell you how many times I've been in downtown Wirton.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Yeah, well, it's just right. It started where two starts
back up and we're right on the main drag are.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
I mean you you looked at the red I forget
what it. There's there's a name for that little area
right there, and I can't It's been a while since
I worked up there, so I can't remember the name.
But you just kind of pull off and you know,
as you make the raid into that area. There's a
bunch of gaming partlors back there, and I think Basil's
restaurants back there, And like I said, I think there's

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at least two planes, and I think there's a tank.
There might be a helicopter.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
I can't read it again. Yeah, it's been two months
since I've been up there, so I don't. I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
It's some sort of big piece of a question.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Well there's there's more than one. Yeah, you know, and
and I mean obviously you know they had to do
the same thing to get those things there that these
guys are doing to get at Union Local. So you
know it is it, you know, that's for you think
it's pretty impressive.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
Think about the hoops, the red tape everything.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Well he was talking about, well, we had to fill
out this packet something. Getting to myself, Oh good god,
it's the government. That thing had to be two hundred
pages long. I mean that's the only thing I could
think of, was you working for state government. I look
at some of the things that you have to fill
out for just you know, certain things, and I'm going,
you're trying to get in F sixteen, what's the paperwork

(21:20):
for that? I mean I could just I pictured like
this envelope, Like it's not even an envelope.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
That's why I asked at the beginning. You know, you
have this idea, it's a great idea. Then you stop
and go, now where do we start? Like you don't
walk up.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
To Yeah, it's not like you just it's not every
day that you go, man, let's get an airplane.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
There's a lot of things you can buy on Amazon.
Well I get that you can't get that on Amazon,
you know. So no, but congratulations to those guys and
all of those involved.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
And congratulations of Union Local High School because that's that's
pretty flipping amazing.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So as they
plan the the induction, the ribbon cutting, of course, will
bring you all of that information. And I am going
to share.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
I have a friend that's a teacher union Facebook. I'm
going to ask if they even know this is going on.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Oh, I'm sure they do. I would hope, you.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Would hope, but yeah, but I mean, you know, it's
just you would think, because it's been taken so long
to do it, that they finally got it after what
fifty years or more?

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, Dirk said they started started fifty four fifty eight.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
I thought he said that. Yeah, so you know, I
mean that's about sixty five years.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well, and they did say as they were leaving that
this particular jet is historical because it was the first
one flown by a female pilot. Yeah, pretty cool, which
is really cool also so so.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
A little piece of history as well.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Yeah, tied into it. So again, congrats to this.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
It'd be cool like it would be I'm sure they're
going to have something of this to happen. But like
you get one of those bronze plaques that gives the
history of the the plane, where it was flown, who
flew it, like the first, you know, make make a
note that the first female. Because as as young as

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young people in Belmont County and young young students that
at Union Local see that you know, maybe there maybe
you get that that that girl that says me and
I don't know what I want to do, and then
she sees that there's a hey, I could be a pilot.
Oh yeah, you know, and maybe that influences somebody. So
I mean, when you when you think about it. And

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and again they talked about this is all private money.
There's nothing coming from the school system, dollars, nothing, you know,
so you know that's that's pretty impressive as well. Well.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
And there's a lot that goes into Okay, you've got
the plane, now what now it's pouring the cement slab
that it's going to the mount that it's going to
sit in for you know, decades to calm all of
that that goes into it too well.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
And just like they said, the maintenance of it, because
you know around here you get snow, rain, sun, that's
all going to have an effect on that, you know,
the metal and so on. So you've got to have
somebody that's out there that you know, a couple of
times a year either cleans it or does something you know,
puts a protective coating on it, whether that be like
a wax or a ceilant or something of that nature,

(24:28):
just so that it protects it. So, I mean, the
maintenance isn't going to be cheap either. I mean you're
maybe talking a couple hundred bucks a year, maybe one
thousand dollars a year on them to maintain it.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
All I can hear in my head right now is
danger zone.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
The way you said cement. The other thing I could
think of was jeth throw bodine because you said cement
and I was thinking cement pond.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Did I say it like that?

Speaker 6 (24:54):
Cement?

Speaker 5 (24:55):
It goes with my syrup?

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Oh good god? Oh But talking about sometimes those things
that just send this off on the left turn, I.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Know, I know. And here's the thing. I I know
when I've said something or made an odd reference because
you just get this look on your face or you
do what you're doing right now where you put your
head down and you want my eye contact.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
No, because I'm thinking the message. Well, a lot of
times it's your verb tense, like oh so.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Hey, all that's how I talk.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
I get it. So you like when the other day,
but I think you said half spoke and I went, oh.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Good god, I did have spoken.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
There you go bingo. Sometimes I just didn't I understand.
I'm sort of you know, think, think before you talk.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Well, you know that's easier said than that at this early.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
Oh, by the way, I hit the reset h five minutes.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
It was all yay, yay, we're moving, moving right along
on that. What was I going to do? What was
I going to say? Oh, if you want to reach
out seven zero four seven zero is. Our text line
started off with bloom.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Daddy, if you want to register for lunch, we're going
to draw tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yes, yes, tomorrow is our lunch. Hey. I had an
absolute blast with rich in the guys last Friday.

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Coming up next. Hmm, there's a smelly situation in Belmont County.
I'm gonna bring that to you. Next, got a lot
of phone call and got a lot of listeners reaching
out to me about this so smelly situation. I'm gonna

(27:13):
tell you about it. News Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven
fifty one on your Tuesday. Welcome back to the Blundatti Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So last week

(27:35):
I started receiving information by a couple folks from the
Morristown area in Belmont County. Now, if you're not familiar,
it's a small area, but a beautiful, small little area
in Belmont County. And I was being told stories about

(27:55):
a situation, a stinky situation, a crappy situation, if you will,
And I said, let me, let me look into this.
So let me paint you a picture. Okay, You're sitting
in Morristown, it's the evening time, six seven o'clock, your
workday is done, and you decide I just want to

(28:16):
go sit down on my back porch and enjoy the
beautiful sunset. I've earned it. You're sitting there and all
of a sudden you kind of go what is that?
What is that? And you start to think, Okay, huh
is there something under my porch and the smell intensifies,

(28:39):
and it intensifies, and you can't figure out what's going on. Well,
it is an interesting situation of what is going on,
and I started doing some digging into it. So have
you ever heard otis of the terminology land application of

(29:03):
treated sewage. Okay, it's also referred to as the lovely
terminology sludge. That's a nice word too, Okay. So here's
what this is. There are companies who bring human waste
slash sewage from other states into the state of Ohio

(29:30):
and they spread this liquid human excrement on land in Ohio.
This is currently happening according to multiple sources in Belmont
County near Morristown. So for the folks who have reached out,

(29:50):
it is not a dead animal under the porch. That's
what this is. This lovely sludge cocktail is coming in
again according to my sources from the state of Pennsylvania,
and is being deposited spread on land around the Morristown area. Now,

(30:12):
when I first heard this, I thought, this can't this,
this crappy idea couldnot be real. This coundnot be real,
This cannot be legal. How is this legal? How how
is it legal in fact that you like that, Yeah, yeah,
that was intentional. But I kept thinking to myself, this

(30:35):
cannot be real. How is this legal? How is this
allowed to be so close to homes that people have
to smell it? Think about that, Think about that situation.
So I made phone calls and according to who I
spoke to at the Belmont County Health Department, this is

(30:58):
a state policy. The Belmont County Health Department has no
control over this. This is a state approved issue. And
I validated that because this is happening in and around Columbus.
Last year, in May of twenty twenty four, there was
one hundred and twenty two acre farm that received where's

(31:22):
the number here? They received an enormous amount of this sewage,
one hundred tanker truckloads worth at this one hundred and
twenty two acre farm. Okay, so it's not just here, folks,

(31:42):
this is something that the state of Ohio has allowed. Now,
I do have a phone call into the State of
Ohio EPA with questions that I'm waiting to hear answers
on to find out. First of all, why why would
they all allow this to happen in the state of Ohio.

(32:04):
In our beautiful countryside. Are there no rules and regulations
about how close this is to communities? What type of
land is this being spread upon? Do landowners have to
approve for this to be done on their land? And

(32:26):
if they do approve and they agree to it, is
there some sort of financial compensation as the landowner. But
one of the things, according to one of my sources,
when talking about this, is the oversight. Is there any
type of oversight about where, when, how this what's the

(32:50):
terminology land application of treated sewage is dispersed? Is there
any rules to this? Because, for example, think about our
valley here. How much of our land is former strip
pit coal mine land that a lot of things don't

(33:10):
grow on, does not have good retention when it comes
to top soil. So when you think about if there's
not good topsoil that can absorb liquid human waste, for example,
where does it roll to if it all doesn't get
absorbed into the ground, where does it go? Think about it.

(33:36):
We have a lot of hills around here. What is
the old saying the four letter word rolls down hill?
Is that literally? Possibly that something that is happening here.
Turns out this has been acceptable in the state of
Ohio for many years. I was not aware of this,

(33:58):
was not aware. I think it's disgusting. I think it's disgusting.
How is this stuff treated? Why did the state of
Ohio agreed to do this? What else does it attract
bugs vermin and why should people within a certain mile

(34:21):
radius or vicinity of these properties, let alone in Belmont
County have to deal with the ramifications of this application
of human sewage on properties. Just scratching the surface with
this as soon as I hear back from the Ohio EPA,

(34:41):
of course, will bring you more. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Se number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
this 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 (35:11):
News Radio eleven seventy It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling. Jim or Nacy,
former Connissant Blue Daddy, showed political analyst Jim let's start
with President Trump wanting the Washington Commanders to change their
name back to the Redskins and the Cleveland Guardians to
change their name back to the Indians. With all the
things going on in the world right now, is this
something that he should be worried about.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Well, bloom Daddy again, thanks for having me on, and
I would agree with you. There are so many things
going on in the world right now, and I don't
think Although I love a lot of things President Trump's
trying to do, I love a lot of things he's
trying to get accomplished. The one thing I don't like
is for any government official to be getting involved in

(35:54):
a private business and what they name the business. Now,
there's a lot of listeners may say, well, I like
the Indians, so do I. I wish the Indians were
still the Indians, and I support changing the name of
the Indians. But you know, if I want to change it,
I got to buy the Indians, because that's really what
that's really what capitalism is all about. It's about making

(36:16):
sure that government does not interfere with, you know, with
private business and private industry. You know.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
The counter argument is, well, Trump campaigned on common sense
and getting rid of political correctness. So this is kind
of fulfilling a campaign promise.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
What do you say to that argument, Well, I would say, look,
it's his opinion, and I agree with it. By the way,
I agree with his opinion, But I don't believe Americans.
It's a very slippery slope when you start down a
path and start allowing the government to change names because
remember or even request name changes. Remember, Donald Trump won't

(36:53):
be in office forever. And I'm sure that if the
story out today ten years ago was a Bamba wants
to change the name of the Indians to the Guardians,
people would have went nuts because they would have said,
the president needs to stay out of it. And we're
going to have a president someday other than President Trump,
who may be Democrat, who may agree with some of

(37:16):
the Democrat positions, but we don't want that individual either
getting involved in private industry and private business.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Jim.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
According to a new CNN and Quinnipiac polls, the Democratic
Party has never had worse numbers.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Excuse me, Only twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Percent in the CNN poll view the Democratic Party favorably.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Well, Look, the Democrats have shifted far far left, and
most people see Democrats as not the party of my
grandfather or my father and mother who were Democrats, but
they see the Democrat Party as a far left liberal
progressive machine who believe in transgender rights and all the

(38:02):
things that most center normal, middle of the road Republicans, individuals,
independents don't believe in the boom deett. I will also
tell you that that same poll has even though Democrats
are at the lowest level either, which is twenty eight
percent and fifty four percent unfavorable, Republicans are only at

(38:24):
thirty three percent or fifty percent unfavorable. So I think
in the end, both parties are struggling with an identity
and independents really, who make up almost forty percent of
the voting in our country in almost sixty percent in Ohio,
are really what makes the difference today. So you know,
what Democrats have to do and what Republicans have to

(38:47):
do is really start figuring out how to get that
middle of the road base the independents who have left
both parties back to them. Republicans are a little better off,
but in the end, both Republicans Democrats have lost and
ground when it comes to independence.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
So why do you think that is on the Republican side, Jim,
because the Republican side, to me, is about common sense.
It's about policing, it's about rules, it's about standards, it's
about defending borders. Why aren't independence, Why isn't that resonating
with independence?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Or is it the Trump factor?

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Well, I think that's it. I think it's a little
bit of the Trump factor. Look, a lot of people
love what I was just reading this today. A lot
of people love what President Trump is doing when it
comes to immigration, but some feel he's going too far.
I mean a lot of people love what President Trump
is doing with a lot of things, but some believe
he's going too far. And I think that's that pulls

(39:44):
some of those independence away. And you know, in the end,
Trump still commands ninety eight I take that back. Eighty
nine percent of Republicans are very supportive what President Trump
is doing. I just saw a poll on him as
well today. Eighty nine percent of Republicans support what he's doing,
five percent of Democrats, but only thirty two percent of Independence.

(40:07):
Sixty eight percent of Independence do not approve of you know,
Donald Trump at the polling that was just done in July.
So that tells you where the real mix of voters are.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Right now, let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Let me ask you this question, Jim, if Trump were
more presidential, not as rough around the edges, because we
all like what he's doing. Okay, if he was more
presidential and there's a lot of people saying, oh, I
don't care about presidential and there are people who don't care,
but there are people who do. If he was more presidential,
do you think those independent numbers in the favorability rating

(40:45):
for Republicans would be much higher?

Speaker 4 (40:49):
I absolutely do you know. I used to when I
spend time with President Trump in twenty seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen.
He used to always ask me what we'll hire ones
we're thinking and I used to say to him, a present,
they like what you're doing, but they really think you
should quit calling names. And he would just get mad
at me for saying those things.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
I do believe I could say that.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, those are the people, those are the Republicans, and
the independence that's what leans them away from him. If
he was a little bit more presidential, I think he
would have overwhelming ratings. I mean, right now, like I said,
his approval rating also is only there's a CBS U
government poll that just came out this week that Trump's

(41:33):
approval ratings only at forty two percent. He's got a
fifty eight percent disapproval rating. Again, it comes down to that.
And by the way, when we talk about Republicans and
Democrats and their favorability, especially Republican favorability rating, I think
some of that gets shaved away because of the Trump
factor as well.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I would agree.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I would agree for all the people out there who
say it doesn't matter to me, that's fine. It might not,
but it matters to other people. And you should try
to get as much support as you possibly can. If
it means being a little less rough around the edges,
why not if you're going to benefit from it. Jim
is always thank you so much. Thank you a grebody,
you too, Jim or an Acy, former Congressman, bloom Daddy

(42:16):
Show political analysts, Oh, welcome back.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
It's eighteen on your Tuesday morning. The bloom Daddy experience.
I couldn't figure out. I'm like, I can't hear anything.
I can't hear anything. My headphones aren't working. What's going on? Well,
they came unplugged.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
That that that'll do.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
That'll do.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
It.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
That'll do it. So crisis averted. Christ is averted. I
can hear again, I can hear not what what'd you say?

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Say?

Speaker 9 (42:49):
What?

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Hum?

Speaker 5 (42:51):
I wanted to go back real quick to my story
earlier about the stinky situation out in Morristown. One thing
I forgot too much. Yes, there are so many puns,
there are so many other words for Oh, I thought
you were laughing at my stinky comment. I did want

(43:11):
to go back, and I didn't get a chance to
say this that for folks in the area, I have
been told for any questions or complaints you want to make,
they should be directed to the Ohio EPA. Again, I
am waiting to hear back from those folks on what
is happening in Belmont County. I did have the opportunity

(43:32):
to speak to a very lovely woman yesterday who is
pulling out some information for me answering questions that I
have so hoping to hear back from her today or tomorrow.
One other thing I did want to point out, though
you know this entire situation, it's unfortunate for the folks
that are dealing with the ramifications for what they're doing

(43:58):
on this piece of property in Belmont County. For those
that in the state government of Ohio that said, Okay,
you can do this in Ohio. We don't mind, Please
do this in our state, no problems. Again, as I mentioned,
this is not only happening here. This is happening across
the state. There was a story last year from May
of twenty four happening in the Columbus area. So we're

(44:22):
not alone. But the one thing I want to say
to these government officials who okayed this, said okay, yeah, fine,
want this in your backyard? Really, do you want to
be hosting a I don't know, summertime fourth of July
pool party and you're barbecuing and you're celebrating the country,

(44:44):
and you got friends and family over and then the
wind blows in a different direction and it smells like
it smells you want that in your neighborhood. That's the
question I have to the folks that said okay, yeah, yeah,
and in the summertime months, think about that that stuff

(45:09):
percolating if you will, Yeah, that's what you want in
your neighborhood. Yeah. To So to those officials that that
think this is a great idea, come on down and
enjoy it. You know, take a take a nice little
summer road trip and see how that feels. But I've
I've run out of of funny jokes or oh, you

(45:31):
had some synonyms for ones for pooh pooh.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
I was waiting.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
I was waiting for the funny ones.

Speaker 5 (45:37):
Shut up. I didn't realize there's so many other words
for that, but there's there's plenty. Moving on to some
other local news, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles fees
are going up. Yippy yippie. Sorry, Ohio, you're taking the
blunt of it this morning, but that will start. These

(46:01):
fees will start going up at the start of next year.
High drivers will see an increase in transactions that include
state ID cards, vehicle registrations, and driver's license services will
go from five dollars to eight dollars. Those are the
BMV service fees will go from five to eight dollars.

(46:22):
More information is available at the BMV web site. So
nickel and dime, Nickel and dime, that's how they get you.
Saint Clairsville, there are some residents who are under a
boil order. It's the result of a water main break
that happened yesterday at Welinda Drive in Chriswell Road. Anyone

(46:44):
that lost water Monday should boil their water before using
it over the next couple of days. So, if you're
in that vicinity you had water go out yesterday, they
are working on it, but as the water returns, boil
it for the next couple of days. Otis are you
with me?

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (47:07):
Okay? Okay, just making sure, just making sure. Does it
feel like does it feel like things are moving quicker
today by any chance? Like?

Speaker 6 (47:20):
Is time moving faster?

Speaker 4 (47:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Or is it dragging on?

Speaker 6 (47:24):
I think it's moving faster, faster, faster. There's a reason
why I figured there would be, yes.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
Because the Earth today, the Earth, the entire planet that
we are sitting on currently, that's normally the Earth, and
it's not just currently every day.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Normally normally unless you're abducted.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
By alien Well, let's not go down that route. Think
that there's the expert I should have called yesterday.

Speaker 6 (47:55):
No, he's not an expert on anything.

Speaker 5 (47:59):
Well, he's an X on doo doo.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
Well that's true.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
Yeah, man, I dropped the ball on that one. Man
I had an expert in my pocket that I could
have reached out. Just man. I Anyways, the Earth is
spinning faster today, it actually is spinning faster, faster, and
estimated one point thirty four milliseconds quicker.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
Again, I notice it, deal, Yeah, I notice it.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Then the typical twenty four hours, it'll create the second
fastest day in recorded history. But to be fair, records
have only been kept since nineteen seventy three, so let's
be honest, that's not a very large time span of records.
The shortest day was July fifth of last year. The
Earth's rotation experiences fluctuations due to a number of factors,

(48:49):
including the Moon's gravity, atmospheric changes in the behavior of
the planet's liquid core. Just call me missus wizard.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
That's never gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
So if you're out walking today, say at lunchtime, and
you feel like, whoa, something's a little faster, it's because
we're all we're moving fast.

Speaker 6 (49:16):
I think you're going to notice a millisecond?

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Is that what it is? Yeah? One point three four
milliseconds quicker.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
I still don't think you're going to notice it. No, no, Hey,
we got to touch this story on San Antonio.

Speaker 5 (49:29):
Yes, please do this is yes.

Speaker 6 (49:32):
So there's a there's a husband that allegedly admitted to
killing his wife and hiding her body for a month.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
This is not a joke.

Speaker 6 (49:40):
Okay. So this husband confessed to killing his wife and
then he also confessed to hiding her decomposing body for
a month in their Texas home. It's around to San
Antonio there. Charles Bird, he's forty nine years old, was
arrested on Sunday after a day long man hunt was
triggered by an unidentified relative. We later found out it

(50:01):
was his son, who told police that he admitted to
killing his wife. His forty four year old's white body
was found wrapped in plastic in the house where he
had lived alongside it as it decomposed for a month.
Now you talk about an odor in your neighborhood. Yeah,
watch out. He detailed to the investigator that he had
never been arrested before, that he had never committed a

(50:23):
crime before, and then blurted out the comment to our investigator,
you know, go big or go home. No, it's not funny,
but it's funny. I mean. The sheriff says, that was
pretty shocking to me that he said this. I mean,
it's he said, I'm sorry, I love my wife. Blame

(50:44):
it on a metal break. He was cooperative with cops.
It did detailed how he violently attacked his wife on
June sixteenth. He also told investigators that he knew Angelo's
body would be found eventually. He was charged with tampering
with evidence with the intent to impair a human corpse.
Murder charges are pending as his wife's cause of death

(51:05):
is not yet determined. It's currently awaiting a mental health
evaluation and remains in custody at the Bexar County Jail.
Go Bigger, Go go bigger, Go home. I guess if
you're going to commit a crime and you've never done
one before, there you have it.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
Like they can put that.

Speaker 6 (51:22):
That's that. That takes That statement takes some grapes. I'm
just gonna say that they.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
Can put that on his tombstone too.

Speaker 6 (51:29):
Absolutely, did you see The Hunter by an interview? Parts
of it?

Speaker 5 (51:33):
I have seen parts. I cannot wait to talk to
Elgin about it.

Speaker 6 (51:36):
To our friend Jimmy Fayla, It's been on the show
multiple times. Posted on Facebook Earth to Hunter, nobody wants
a lecture on loyalty from the guy who banged his
brother's widow. Wow, that's great when you have a comedian
that has a radio show.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
So well, that's about the.

Speaker 6 (51:57):
Truth that you can't that doesn't Yeah earth the Hunter. Yeah, yeah,
I don't need a lecture on loyalty.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
Please don't try to give us ambient as an excuse.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
First we'll talk about that tomorrow with Elgin.

Speaker 6 (52:09):
Of course.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
A twenty eight we're gonna go to a quick break.
Oh I can't even go big or go home The
bluem Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA
A thirty six. Welcome back to b wom Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Real quick Otis

(52:35):
you mentioned before the break the the Hunter Biden interview.
I just saw it because, of course, like I mentioned,
we'll probably we'll talk about it tomorrow on Politics Unleashed,
And I was, you know, where can I go to
see the full interview? I just found out that it
is three hours long.

Speaker 6 (52:56):
Yeah, I'm not watching the full interview.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
So I have decided it's.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
You know, cocaine will do that, you just start rambling.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
I've decided for show prop for tomorrow, I am not
going to watch three hours worth of Hunter Biden spewing profanity,
ridiculousness on a who knows what fueled tirade, not three
hours that I am willing of my life, even though

(53:23):
time is sped.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
Up before the person look a squirrel.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
I refuse to give up three hours of my life.
But I will watch the highlights if there are highlights.
Cliff notes, there you go. Three hours?

Speaker 6 (53:38):
Oh my gosh, And who was it?

Speaker 5 (53:40):
Even during the interview, do you know it's it's yeah,
I don't know. I know he had like a odd
looking Anyways, Anyways, yesterday this shocked me, and want to
kind of hint on it. This morning, the the unexpected
death of actor Malcolm Jamal Warner. Now, I grew up

(54:05):
watching The Cosby Show.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
Well, I think you know anybody that it was in
the eighties even you know, I mean it was, it
became popular. I was either in high school or just college.
I can't remember exactly what.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
You're probably late high school going into college.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
Yeah, but I mean it was the kickoff for the
must see TV on Thursday nights. They Cosby came on
at eight, Family Ties came on at eight thirty, Cheers
came on at nine, and Night Court was on at
nine thirty. And then Seinfeld after that, So.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Seinfeld was at the same time as the Cosby Show.

Speaker 6 (54:38):
Well, I don't. I mean, but it came on at
nine thirty. Yeah, I think it may have been. I
don't know because no, because Cheers ran a lot longer
than the Cosby Show. So but it like when Night
Court ended, Seinfeld took the spot at nine.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
Thirty, Okay, later on, but I mean.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
It was they were all part of that must see TV.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
They kind of started that trend of.

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Family Family Ties did start off on Thursday night. Then
they put it in and that's when it took off.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
Good Dog, right, that was at the end of Family Time.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
But I mean Malcolm Jamal Warner, you're watched him grow up.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Yeah, he played THEO this is the one.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
The only, the only son.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
Yeah, and uh, the actor Malcolm Jamal Warner. He went
on to have a good career. I would say, out
of all of the kids kid actors from that.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
Show, with the exception maybe Raven Simone.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
Yeah, she had a Disney show.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
And then Lisa Bennet had a quick movie career but
not much.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
But he had a more long lasting career. You know,
a lot of times kid actors they well.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
He started with I was gonna say George Constanza. He
starred with Jason Alexander. It was a it was short lived,
but you know the show on ESPN PTI with Michael
Wilbond and Tony Kornheiser. So they took that show and
Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon were consultants and Malcolm Jamal

(56:05):
Warner played the Michael Wilbon and Jason Alexander played the
Tony Kornheiser. Now, it was loosely based on time and
it was funny, but you know, in today's day and age,
and when it came out fifteen years ago, the ratings
weren't the best, so it got axked. I don't I can't.

(56:27):
I don't know what the name of the show was.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
But read between the lines maybe Okay. Now I started
seeing him again in a show called The Resident, a
medical drama that was on Fox. He was great in
that show, great in that show. And it took me
a while because I'm like, when he first came on
with who was that actor? I know that actor.

Speaker 6 (56:44):
I know that he had the long dreads at the
time because his hair got real long time.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
It was no, he didn't but he just looked. I
couldn't for summer, I couldn't place him. And then he
said one word, for the life of me, connect and
I went, that's THEO. It just like it snapped. But
he was fifty four years old. And what happened was
it was an accidental drowning on a family vacation in
Costa Rica. Fifty four years old. Just awful. When I

(57:12):
saw the alert yesterday, I was shocked, absolutely shocked. It's unfortunate.
Let's see here. His career went on to starring in
shows such as Malcolm and Eddie, Read Between the Lines,
and The Resident, the one I mentioned. He also directed
episodes of various TV series and produced educational content, including
a Grammy winning song. He has survived by his wife

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and daughter.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
God yeah, I kind of said, oh, you know, when
somebody like that dies unexpectedly, I mean, and anybody like
I said, anybody that grew up with The Cosby Show,
you know, you know, like I said, THEO. The character
he played was probably when he got on when the
show started, maybe twelve is thirteen ishues.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
Just becoming a teenager.

Speaker 6 (57:57):
Yeah, and then you know, went through college by the
end of the show, and they watch.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Stuff throw up yeah, yeah, yeah, and to be the
only boy. Yeah, with all those sisters on that show.
Like talking about it right now, I can envision the
couch in the living room and on the left hand
side of the TV screen as you watched it, there
was that one particular picture and then the stairs that
went up.

Speaker 6 (58:22):
And he would always get in trouble with these buddy
cockriage Dad.

Speaker 5 (58:26):
Yes, I forgot about the buddy.

Speaker 7 (58:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
They were always doing stuff together cockriage yep.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Well, and there was always the older sister, like the
oldest oldest.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
Sister, Sabrina or Sabrina Labuff was her name.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
Yeah, but you never saw her. And then she would
pop in randomly every now and then. But other than that,
she wasn't there full time. She was always like the mystery.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
Older sister until until later on. Then her and her husband,
yes became and he was kids grew up, then they
had kids, and that's how they introduced fresh young, fresh
young ns for Bill.

Speaker 5 (59:01):
And her husband was kind of like a goof, wasn't
he kind.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Of like no, he was like he was he was intimidated.
Is that what it was? Yeah, And then I don't
know if you saw where like he was he was
struggling too. Oh yeah, and then somebody, somebody, somebody came
in and got him a job on a show or something.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
He was working at not Whole Foods, Trader Joe's. His
back in groceries at Trader Joe's, and somebody recognized him
and then got him rolls again and stuff.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
I don't know if it was. Was it Tyler Perry,
maybe his name was Jeffrey something the actor the actor.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
Yeah, yeah, And I don't know, I don't know. Just tragic,
tragic story. Unfore, it's just awful, just awful seeing in
the realm of entertainment. Let's talk some superheroes again. Marvel Studios.
The president announced that the studio will be recasting numerous

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of the classic characters, including the Iron Man character and
Captain Captain America, following the release of Avengers Okay, Avenger's
Secret Again, which is coming out in twenty twenty seven.
The move comes after the Marvel Cinematic Universe or MCU,

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also prepares to introduce a new generation of X Men.
Many of the actors, which if you've seen those movies,
who have portrayed the different characters over the past two
decades include Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romain and many more.
But they will be there, returning for their roles, but

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eventually they will be recast.

Speaker 6 (01:00:54):
Now, I mean Patrick Stewart, Ny McKellen there in their eighties,
so it's probably best that you.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Ian McKellen is eighty six, Patrick Stewart is eighty five,
so you know, father time, little long in the tooth. Yes,
I mean imagine being eighty six pushing eighty seven playing
a superhero.

Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
Well, but Patrick Stewart's character was easy because the wheelchair.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
Yeah, but yes, it's going to happen with all of
these characters. I mean, they're going to be recast. Rebecca
remains fifty two.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
Now she played, She's not gonna look as good in
that little skin tight body suit that was paint. I
know there was also little stuff over top of the
important parts, but.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
Other than that, it was all all paint. So yeah,
eighty six, eighty five years old. Yeah, eventually those are Rebecca.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
It's gravity.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
Wow, it's gravity for y'all too.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
But they're not in a painted suit.

Speaker 5 (01:01:55):
You, Well, that's true. Yeah, a forty five we're gonna
we're gonna stop that imagery, right, now for y'all, nobody
wants to imagine that the bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy w w v A, Welcome Back

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eight fifty one, The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So we are going and going
and going. So we're waiting on we got him?

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
Oh yeah, yeah. Hit it up to Straw Automotive Kevin Cook.
What's going on? My man?

Speaker 9 (01:02:38):
Man, I'm under a lot of pressures before you are.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
We're rushing because this could end at any second.

Speaker 9 (01:02:45):
All right, listen, let me get this, get this news
to you real quick. Okay. We've been talking about the
fifty thousand dollars phone that the Straw Automotive group is
donating to the flood victims. Okay, here is how they
find it. Right. Uh. You can either contact the Value
Grow Fire Department, all right, Uh, or you can it's

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Applation Outreach. Okay. Uh, it's Heather Ray at Applation Outreach.
You can log onto their website and get all their
contact information. Uh. You just tell them your needs, okay,
and the ones that you know that we really want
to make sure that we get the help out there
too are the ones who are uninsured or underinsured. Okay,

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so that's where we're really trying to concentrate on that.
So again Applation Outreach, it's Heather Ray or the Value
Grow Fire Department, both of them. Just tell them your needs.
You can do it in the email. You need to
obviously show proof of loss and there a few other things,
and then we'll do everything we can to get the
help to you as quickly as possible.

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Outstanding, give us something that's outstanding in it, yep. Give
us something that's on sale.

Speaker 9 (01:03:54):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
Everything's on sale.

Speaker 9 (01:03:56):
Everything's on sale. That's the most important thing that we
have to talk about today. But as always, you can
log on to a drivestrib dot com UH. You can
check out all the savings for yourself. Those of you
who were affected by the flood and you're replacing a vehicle.
We will make your first payment for you UH and
will also provide you up to ninety days for you

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to make that first payment. There have been just countless
people who have taken advantage of that. I mean, we
were just have been just shocked at the number of
people that lost their automobiles. Yeah, I mean it's just
a terrible, terrible tragedy.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
And it's not just that they got swept away. I
mean it's just water damage and everything else.

Speaker 9 (01:04:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean you know, once that happens,
I mean they're just they're total, they're total loss.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
Well, hats off the strab Automotive for stepping up and
doing what's right.

Speaker 9 (01:04:43):
Dad is really cool, man, A Fato family really you know,
done everything because Ginger Tom you know, they grew up
in that area. That's where Ginger grew up was in
the Valley Grove area. That was her i think her
first home with her you know, with her mom and
dad where it was out there in Valley Grove, and
and so it just kind of really really really hit
close to home.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
Yeah, I hit close to home for a lot of people,
that's for sure.

Speaker 9 (01:05:06):
Yeah. So but anyway, other than that, guys, you know,
let's say reach out, you know, to ahead of right
applation and outrage or right there. It's the Value Grove
Fire Department, and we'll try to help you as quickly
as possible.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
And if you're not sure, you can always contact Strawbottomotive
to get the information. Absolutely all right, my man, Hey,
appreciate it appreciate what you're doing. You're saying, got it.
We've been fighting the phone lines for a week. Yeah,
and there's obviously a piece of equipment because there's so

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many phone lines that it goes through, and it's just
it's shutting down.

Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
It's aged out, like yeah, Patrick ste and Ian mckellenson.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
We're lucky if we have the phone lines for five minutes, yes,
and then we have to reset them again. So I'm
just kind of curious that I'm just watching to see
when they go out.

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Technology is your friend, point until it isn't, until it isn't.
And the notes. I took notes on what Kevin had
to say about Valley Grow Fire Department and Appalachian outreach.
I will share that on our Facebook page where they
can where folks can get in contact, you know, directly

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persis and things like that. So we'll put that out
there along with the Union local Jet organization. The Afterburner
is going to share that on our Facebook page after
the show. So we've kind of hit on. We've hit
on a lot today. Reminding everybody tomorrow we will be
doing our weekly lunch winner Sam at iHeartMedia dot Com

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a text earlier in the showdow.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
Lines just went out, did it?

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
So perfect? Good job, Kevin, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
About six and a half seven minutes elasted. We did
get a message earlier about the jet at Union locals
said it would be nice if the school could get
the female Thunderbird's pilot to speak at the dedication of
the F sixteen. So yeah, I agree with that. I
agree with that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:26):
So hey, I want to stay out of the water today,
Stay on your couch instead.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
I'm usually pretty good at that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:34):
Shark Week is back, baby, thirty seventh year that they've
been doing. This Discovery Channel's annual week of programming all
about sharks and anything about sharks. We'll run each night
through Saturday, watched on Discovery Channel or streaming on Discovery
Plus and Hbox. Coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
Jaws after thirty seven been years.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
It's like it's like the one of the most popular weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
I know talk about when it comes to sharks.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
Not just like anything else. You're always finding something new
out about him.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
Okay, anybody swimming against him? I remember the whole Michael Phelps.

Speaker 6 (01:08:15):
I set myself a video. There was a guy that
was on a unicorn float and he was fishing and
he caught a shark a sandbar shark, and it drugged
him about two miles out into the water, and there
was a fishing boat that pulled him on his Yes,
they were like, dude, what were you gonna do? Like,

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were you just hoping somebody came. The guy wouldn't let like,
he wouldn't cut the line or anything. He was holding
on to that shark for everything. It's a it's a
four or five minute video i'd send. I don't know
if we can put it on because there's some language
in it. So but man, oh god, was it funny.
I mean, like that du it's like, what were you
gonna do? You're up your two miles out on a float.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
And then fishing on a unicorn float.

Speaker 6 (01:09:00):
Well, then the unicorn float. It got a hole in
his tail or something, and the guy took fishing line
and tied it off so that it wouldn't see flight.
I mean, it's it's absolutely I'll send it to you
if I can again, because I send myself a bunch
of stuff, so I gotta find it. But I will
send it to you. You'll be like, what hell was this?

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
There are some interesting folks in this world, interesting folks well,
whether you're floating on a unicorn or your days sped
up because it's a fast day to day. We'll be
back tomorrow. We'll talk to you then.