The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam July 25, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See 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 SEVENTYBVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Good Friday morning, Happy Friday morning.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Do we have a show on tap this morning? We really,
truly do we do? We have a jam packed fun
show on tap.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Let's get to what's going to happen. So we've got
Neil McCoy coming up at seven thirty five. Tickets for
Neil McCoy shows are going on sale today. So we've
got Neil that we're gonna talk to and just a
great human being. We've got Steeler Camp training tickets that
we're gonna be giving away via the text line. Yes,
so explain how we do that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Okay, So the text line you have to work for
these folks. Seven zero four seven zero is the number.
Start the message off with bloom Daddy and we need
your name and phone number. And this is a pair
of tickets to Steelers training Camp YEP.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
So there you go, name, phone number, enter all show
long YEP.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
One per person, one per person please. Do you have
until almost at the end of the show to register. Yep,
we'll give you a last call.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
So we're gonna start to show off today with some
more bad news for the week. I mean, if you
were an eighties icon, this is not the week to
be around.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, to stay home.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, And one of the memes I saw yesterday was
somebody better wrap Willie Nelson in bubble wrap because you
never know what could happen.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
But Keith Richards still pumping along though.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
The other meme I saw was the Grim Reaper at
a claw machine.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh stop and.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Said, I'm trying to get Keith Richards top. So anyway,
funny not funny. But you know, obviously yesterday we lost
Halcogan uh an eighties icon, and we're gonna really delve
into this, possibly at the eight thirty hour and it
and it actually had to deal with our pole question.
Our pole question is you know, the most iconic wrestling moments,

(02:11):
whether it be hul Cogan or whatever, because some people
may not be old enough to remember when Hulk was wrestling,
or some people may be older and like the Bruno
Sam Martino age. But you know, I think Hulk and
the way I look at it is Hulk change wrestling. Yeah,
and brought it, brought it to the forefront. And I'm
going to make some comparisons later on. But joining us

(02:34):
today from Morgantown is Jeremy Posey. Jeremy has you know,
he has a business where he gets all the big stars,
Jerry West, capt collectibles autographed, so on and so forth.
And he's had some dealings with the Halkster. And we're
gonna bring Jeremy in right now. Good morning, Jeremy, Good morning.

(02:54):
So you've had some dealings with the Halkster and you know,
you know on you know he obviously you know, when
you're a wrestling personality, you have a persona whether it's
you know, a good guy or a bad guy, or
you know whatever manager however it works out, and you
know that's that's a role you play. It's almost like

(03:14):
being an actor. And you know you've dealt with the
Hulkster professionally and personally correct.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I have.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
And you know it's funny that you said that about
whether they're a good guy or a bad guy. I
remember when Hulk first turned heel and I was with
him in Charleston, West Virginia, and he still didn't change.
He still knew that there were going to be kids
and adults alike come up to him because of the

(03:44):
Hulk wearing the red and yellow versus the black and
white for n WO.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, and he.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Treated them just the same, you know. So you know,
when you get a guy like Rick Flair, for instance,
who Hound the hell. Rick Flair ever outlived Hulk Show
and is truly amazing to me. But you know, Hulk
or Rick Blair is you know, he's Rick Blair from
the minute he waits up till the minute he goes
to bed, and he never changes. Hulk wasn't like that.

(04:11):
Hulk had a much softer side to him, and whether
he was walking through an airport or standing trying to
check out at a hotel, he he was a guy.
He was a friendly dude, and you know, I'm just
very blessed to have as many interactions with him as
I have just to see that side of it.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, there's a I think there was a there was something.
There's a there's a video on YouTube or Facebook or
social media, whatever you want, where a little kid comes
in and he's dressed this the Haulkster and he does
the Hulk whole the Hulk routine and and and and
haulk just loves it and gives it right back to him.
I mean it's you know that you could see that

(04:55):
he loved kids.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
He did, and he embraced that role again, like I said,
whenever he went keel, which in the wrestling world that
means he turned into a bad guy, right, he still
just embraced the fact that you know, he told millions
of kids to you know, wake up, train, say their prayers,

(05:19):
and eat their vitamins.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah. Yeah, And you know, he come off his his
theme song was a you know, a true American and
you know, there's I don't know if there's anybody that's
a truer American than Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
And then and then you know, in the last stage
of his life, he came out with a beer, you know,
all American beer, and he you know, for his age,
the energy that he had to go around and do
the promotions that he did and the autographs and the photos,
just never saying no. Now, he was supposed to be

(05:51):
in I believe it was Wes Mifflin at a at
a beer distributorship about three or four weeks ago, and
he canceled that, which kind of sent up a red
flag with me. But hmm, maybe he's not doing so well,
so they were trying to slow him down a little
bit because they were out eating the drum pretty hard
for this, the beer promotion. But it really is a shame.

(06:17):
I mean, the guy he transformed wrestling, but at the
same time he did it in you know, it wasn't baseball,
it wasn't basketball, it wasn't football, It was wrestling, and
he became a household day well.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
You know, and I think, you know, I think there's
you know, there were wrestlers before him. You had Bruno
San Martino, you had Andre the Giant, you had Bob Becklan.
But in the eighties Vincent you know, and and in
wrestling before Vince McMahon took over, was kind of regional
and Vince brought it to the national forefront. And the

(06:54):
Hulk was the face of wrestling.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
I mean, the guy was on the cover of TV Guy,
he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. He you know,
he pretty much did anything and everything. He was the
Elvis that we you know, I didn't get to see
because of my age, but the guy truly was a
household name I'll tell you another guy like that too.

(07:20):
Otis was Mean Gene Oakland. Mean Gene Oakland came to
morgantownt he opened up of Mean Jean's Burgers at the
Mountain Lair and I had the pleasure of hosting him
and walking from the sports page to bet Willies took
almost an hour and a half because everyone from the
Hot dog Man to the cops wanted their picture with

(07:43):
Mean Jean. It was like walking around with Elvis. Now
imagine that on steroids.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
That well, yeah, because Mean Gene was just the announcer,
you know, right, and here's the hogster who And if
you look at what the Hawk did and Vince McMahon
in the mid eighties, I mean they got with Cindy,
they went with rock and roll. Cindy Lauper had Captain
Leu al Banno in her video and then the next thing,

(08:09):
you know, Cindy Lauper's in the wrestling ring. You know,
she's not wrestling, but she's there. And so it was
the combination of rock and roll and wrestling and everything
that was good with the eighties.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
Alice Cooper, Yeah, mister Timma Wrestlmingia three, which was really
the one that put him on the map because of
Hogan and Andre you know, everyone from Trump to Bob
Uker to Alice Cooper just they incorporated everyone because everyone
saw where it was headed and I think they just

(08:40):
wanted to be a part of it.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, and wrestling just took off. It went from cable
TV and local local syndication to being on NBC on
Friday Night or Saturday whatever, I mean, whatever the big
night was it was, I'm it went prime time.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah, it actually they just brought back to Saturday nights
main event then. You know, despite his h personal issues,
Vince McMahon was a genior. You know, he was a
scumball in a lot of ways, but at the same
time he he you know, took the company that his
dad built and and made it into transformed phenomenon that

(09:26):
everybody could watch.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right, what's on Netflix now? Wrestling's on Netflix. Yeah, I
mean you never would have thought you'd seen it.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
And Sam got to see the Halkster. She was covering
the Republican National Convention for US. She was there and
the Halkster gave that a huge, amazing speech just you know,
ten months ago.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's exactly what I was going to bring up Otis
because if you would have felt that arena, it was palpable,
and I thought, who's coming, Who's coming? And then I
heard the music and I was like, oh, I know
exactly who this is. He didn't lose a step. He
did not lose a step.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah, I mean, he was an icon. He always will
be an icon, and it's for that reason. But to
see him outside of the workplace per se, you would
have seen, you would not have been disappointed. I've met
and you know kind of what I do. I've been
let down so many times I'm meeting, you know, people

(10:26):
that you see on TV and so forth. You know,
they always say, never meet your boy that hero. Well,
that wasn't a case for him. He was a good dude.
He had his you know, he had his myth haafs,
don't get me wrong. But at the end of the day,
he loved his family, he loved the attention, and you know,
he gave back and and that's to me, that's what

(10:47):
makes a cool celebrity. I could not have been disappointed.
I think you saw my Facebook posts a picture of
he and I from in Pittsburgh from the signing that
Total Sports Enterprises did and just him walking into the room.
He always just had that electricity. And when TSC had

(11:08):
their shop out of Robinson, there had never been more
people in that Robinson mall. Whenever we walked out to
just sing music for Jimmy, Jimmy the Mouth of the
South Park, you know, swinging his megaphone around, and he
comes out and he does the whole you know, like
put his hand to his ear saying, and it just
it turned, you know, fifty year old men into five

(11:31):
year old school kids.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yes again, absolutely, Hey Jeremy, we got to hit a break. So,
I mean, I truly appreciate you joining us on short notice.
And you know, obviously we're going to stay in touch
when when anything, I hate to say it, but when
bad happens. But you're more than welcome to join us
just to promote any something good for a chan, you
know what I'm saying. I mean, we had you on
after Pete Rose. I mean, now we got you on

(11:53):
after the Hawkster. We sure as would like to have
you on for something good. How about that.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
We don't want you to have a complex, yeah correct.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
I had someone comment on my Facebook post it said,
I'm never getting my picture with you.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
All right, my man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yes, you all have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
All right, thanks Jeremy, you too. So there you have it,
Jeremy Posey, the bluem Daddy experience. More after this.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Welcome Back Blue Daddy experience. I'm Sam, he's Otis. He's
laughing at me already. News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. You know,
talking to Jeremy was awesome. It leads perfectly into our
question of the day. You know, what is your most
memorable wrestling moment? Like Otis said earlier, it doesn't matter.
You know, it'd be great if the Halkster is included

(12:45):
in that moment, but doesn't have to be. So that's
our question up on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
And just to wrap up just a little something with Jeremy,
Jeremy Posey is a great guy. He's on Facebook. You
can find image Jeremy pos e Y and I said, hey,
at the end of the interview, let's, you know, talk
about what you do. And you know, just as a
thank you for joining to promote yourself and promote your
business well as you can tell Jeremy, you know, he

(13:11):
deals with athletes and celebrities and and everybody that you know,
he gets autographed signings and sometimes he books them at
certain events. So not this pass card show from a
couple of weeks ago, but the previous one about three
months ago at the High Valley Mall, Major Harris and
I can't remember who the other person was. We're signing
autographs and that was booked through Jeremy.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
So he's the guy that makes all that happen behind so.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
You know, and I have no idea how he got
into this business, and maybe we'll have him on to
talk about that.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, how do you get into that?

Speaker 3 (13:42):
But I mean he's I mean he's worked with some
big names. I mean obviously Haul Coogan, Pete Rose, Jerry West,
and because he's in Morgantown, he deals with a lot
of the Mountaineers. So he's got Don Neeland, Major Harris,
Jeff Hosteler, you know, Mountaineer legends, so to speak, and
Huggins you know, is in that group, any of the
any some basketball players so on and so forth. So

(14:03):
I mean he that that's what he does. And you know,
I know he was he was good friends with Arnold Palmer.
He was good friends with Sam Sneed, I believe, you know,
So I mean golfers that were from this area. And
you know, so if you want to check out what
he has for sale, just go to his Facebook page.
Jeremy Posey super nice guy and actually reached out to

(14:28):
me yesterday about coming on the show.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
He's got to have great stories.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
And he's a storyteller. I'm just going to tell you
this right now. I've known him for a couple of years.
He's a storyteller. But just there's nothing wrong with that.
If if you can, if you have great stories.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh we want to hear him.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh that's the best.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Imagine who he sat at the bar with.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Me for one, well, well me for one, but just
because we only got a few minutes. The Hulk, Hogan thing,
Hawk and Vin Man, like we said, you know, they
transformed wrestling from regional to national. Okay, there there are

(15:08):
there are people that have been in our lifetime that
have transformed. The NBA sucked until Magic and Bird came in.
Magic and Bird saved the NBA. Michael Jordan changed the NBA.
He changed the way people watched it, how they presented
it because of his high flying you know, there there

(15:30):
are so many things were done and centered around Michael
because he changed the game. And then you look at
you know, golf was you know Arnoor, Palmer, Jack Nicholas,
you know, Fuzzy Zeller. I mean a bunch of white guys,
middle aged white guys, or you know, early middle aged
white guys. And then Tiger comes along and changes it,

(15:54):
and you know, everybody's like, oh, Tiger, this Tiger. That
that's all they do. They wouldn't the PGA wouldn't have
the purses that they have today if it wasn't for
Tiger Woods.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, because other people was a larger amount of people,
the younger generation could look at Tiger Woods and see
themselves yes, so they could relate to it more.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
And he brought he changed, He changed the game because
the ratings from golf went from you know, like a
three to a twelve or a three to an eighteen
or whatever it was. Because now you had young people,
you had minorities, you had other I mean, Tiger changed
the game.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well, and that's a lot of the times. It's timing
and the timing of Hulk Hogan, in the mind of
Vince McMahon, was spot on it. It was perfect and McMahon
and Hogan both knew working together to reach out to
like the Cyndi Laupers of the world and go into
pop culture to bring it out from the underground. Like
you mentioned, it became a cultural phenomenon. It really did.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I mean they made their own videos and they were
but they made it.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh it was fun though, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, it's the soap oppy for I mean everything.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Cartoons, lunchboxes. If it was out there, Haul Cogan's face
was on it. Oh, talking about a h cultural icon. Up next,
we're talking to Neil McCoy. Yes, Neil McCoy seven twenty
eight and don't forget Stealers Training Camp tickets seven zero
four seven zero on our text line to register name
and phone number. The bloe Daddy Experience samon Otis News

(17:27):
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back The bloem Daddy Experience
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are not alone.
I am so excited to have this conversation. Please welcome
to the show. The one, the Only Jambery in the

(17:48):
Hill's Favorite Jammery in the Hill's Icon. Neil McCoy, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Y'all icon of love that well, let's put it this way.
I don't. I don't think there's other than the fans
that would go every year. I think you were jamboree
in the Hill's biggest fan at one time.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, you know what, and it took a lot of
work we started. Of course, we were there I think
the last twenty two years in a row that that
place was open, and but we came. Okay, Yeah, I
just remember coming there and not too many people know
who was. You know, we were the early slot, probably
the twelve or one o'clock, and so we just we

(18:24):
just gave the best show we could and that's how
we made our living just by doing that. And we
finally grabbed hold of them jokers, I think about six
or seven years in and then they kind of waited
on us, and it just it was a great audience.
And I hate that they're not doing anymore. But I
appreciate y'all still having us somewhere in that area because
a lot of people are always riding us and saying
when you gonna be back around this area, And now

(18:44):
we know October eleventh, that's when.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, October the eleventh, right here at the Capitol Theater.
Our studio sits right here. In the theater and Neil,
it's almost like you're synonymous with country music and the
Ohio Valley and you're such a your tradition. I mean,
that's what you've become when it comes to country music.
And with you returning October eleventh, the excitement is through

(19:09):
the roof here. I mean it took off like crazy.
Tickets go on sale this morning online, so they are pumped.
People are pumped.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Well, I'm excited about that. And again, you're right. We've
played up there a lot and we've kind of earned
our way. And the thing I love about all the
folks around y'all's area are they love good music and
then they want somebody that's going to come out and
entertain them and not just stand there saying not that
there's not great singers and stand there and sing. More
power to them. But that's not our gig. And we're

(19:39):
kind of a little more of the party crowd, if
you will, a grown up party crowd, yet still a
party crowd.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, you definitely like you like to have fun, yes, sir,
And you know, I mean when you have fun at
what you do, because obviously this is a job for you,
but when you have fun doing it. That makes it
so much easier.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
You know, you hit the nail on the head. We
don't have a set list, so we do my band
and I just go out and wing it and we
I try to fill the audience. But you know, those
the folks y'all talk to every morning are just great anyway,
but they do want somebody's gonna give them effort and
they appreciate that. So they know we're gonna get this

(20:20):
is my opinion. Really, we're gonna give you everything we
have and then y'all get it back to us. And
then when it's over, everybody just go, wow, that was
a lot of fun. That's all we're trying to do.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, I mean, and I don't know how many times
I've seen you. I mean, like you said, you were
here twenty two. I price I've probably seen you twenty
times maybe, And it's I thank and you know, I mean,
there are certain acts that you don't mind seeing over
and over again.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well, thank you very much. And that's what we did there.
And you know, before jam Marie, we used to play
there at where we're at WWBA at the theater there
years ago. I think I even came maybe in the
eighties and when I was working.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
A little bit with Rollie Pride.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
So that shows you I've got a long track right.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
There, and you're giving your age out there.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
That's right, that's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
But you would never know what you would never know.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Oh you're sweets, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
So you know you said, you said, you said that
you've played here at the Capitol Theater on the Jamboree
us A stage. I mean this, this is a historical
theater when it comes to country music. Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn,
Charlie Pride, Merle Haggard, I mean, yourself, Dwight Yoakum you,
Travis Tripp was just here not too long ago. I mean,

(21:35):
it's a legendary theater when it comes to country music.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
It is, and you know it's it's the right size
for a lot of us, all the great names you
named there and then with Travis and me and in
some of us nineties, it's a great size for us
because we're gonna come in, We're gonna make a little money,
but we're gonna do a great job and have a
lot of songs that people have heard and uh, and
we'll do do cover things. Uh, you know, and we can't.

(22:00):
It's funny because I now and I don't even know
when I picked up being a legend, but I did,
and I thought, God, are y'all sure? I think I'm
still too young to be a legend, but they've been
calling me one for five or six years, so now
I have grown up into that description and the same
thing all the legends before us, the Charlie Prides, the
Whalings and Conways and George Jones and all those folks.

(22:23):
You know, when people talk to me or interviewing me,
they want to know what I think about the new
country music, probably in hopes that I'll say something, well,
you know, I just don't get it, and some of
it I don't get, but I can only imagine the
music that some of the younger people are they're making
to day. It's not quiet for me. But I often say,
you know, when George Jones and all those people were

(22:44):
in the Great Actions from the sixties and seventies, I'm
sure when they heard me on stage going slam bawn,
I'm feeling all right, they're further going, oh my god,
are you kidding me? Or shake it to the left
and shake it to the right, everybody going, you gotta
be kidding me, so I'm quick to not judge some
of the else.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Again, we're talking to the one and only Neil McCoy.
Going to be here, right here at the Capitol Theater
October eleventh. Tickets are on sale. Now. I want to
ask you one thing. One thing I have fit into
my morning every morning after I get off the show,
as you do, the Pledge of Allegiance, and I watch
it on social media.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I love that. Where did that start? How did that start?

Speaker 5 (23:23):
You know? It started right here?

Speaker 4 (23:24):
And I'm I'm home in Longview texts, which we're not
home very much, and we're gonna be leaving early tomorrow morning,
go back to work.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
But I'm I.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Wrote it down. I got a little poolhouse out here
I work out in, and I wrote down the Pledge
of Legions on my Facebook page, you know, a little
over ten years ago.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
And I just wrote it.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
And I told my mom, I said, I'm just gonna
put this up and see what goes on here. I said,
I bet you, we're gonna get all kind of comments.
And we did most of them going, oh my gosh,
are you okay? Are you sick? And I just going
I'd write them, No, I just I just wanted to
recite the Pledge of Leadings. So then when Facebook Live
came aboard, I said it for the first time January
the seventh, twenty sixteen, and it was just going to

(24:06):
be so anybody that still loves our country and respects
our flag and our country can say it with me
live if they want to. And it just it just
struck a corn from a lot of folks. And so
now I'm going to be doing it here before too long.
For the three thousand, four hundred and eighty third day
in a row. Look about five months short of ten

(24:27):
years without missing the day. So January seventh, two down,
twenty six if I make it till the end of
the five months, every day, it'll be my ten year
anniversary without missing the day. And now people that are
maybe don't get out much, or some that are homebound,
or you know, they write me all the time they say,
you know what, I can't thank enough we look for
I look forward to the pledge every day and it
starts my day and I don't have much going on.

(24:49):
So now almost ten years and it wasn't started for
any reason. I just want to show my love and
respect for the flag. And a lot of people have
gotten on board.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Just such a simple idea that has now touched so
many people in their morning routines and myself. So it's
it's wonderful. Thank you, It's wonderful.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's a good thing that you do. I mean, it's
impressive that the streak is alone. Is impressure. You're like
the cal Ripken of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right, I feel like Kal Ripken. I did love him
when he was for I think his was in the
three thousands, So now I know exactly when you get
in the three thousand, how many years it is?

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah, exactly. You know we were talking, you know, you
do the Pledge of Allegiance and everything else. You were
talking about today's country music musically, like your your show itself.
You know, you have your country, you have your country,
you you do it. You throw a little bit of
classic what you want to say, you know, the traditional country. Yeah,
but you also had other influences. Who do you think
your biggest influences.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Were, doll You know, I'm going to say this that
probably scares people that haven't heard me say before. I
was a big Michael Jackson Fan. I was born July
thirty and fifty eight. Michael was born August twenty nine
and fifty eight, so we were all a little less
than a month apart age. So every time I would
see the Jackson's on Ed Sullivan our American bands Fan or

(26:06):
the Jackson five, which I changed the name in there
a little bit, I just thought, yeah, I can do that.
I thought I can sing and dance. Uh, and how
can hard can that be? And the thing that attracts
me to it the most was, I bet you he
don't even do homeworners. Oh that would be so great.
So I was thinking, I can get out of this
homework if I can get this, get this singing and

(26:26):
dancing going and uh. And needless to say, I never
never caught up with him, but about fifteen years ago
I started being better than him. I have been so
about the last year.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, well you know there's a reason for that.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
But I beg Michael Jackson Fan. I just loved the
singing and dancing and and all that kind of stepping
in into high school. I was in the disco thing,
and this is the easy listening to the Carters and
Barry Mallow and Boss Daggs. I just let's do it all,
try to do it all.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, well okay, well that's impressive. I mean I'm a
Boss Gags fan myself, so.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Oh yeah, good Silk Degrees. I had a great album.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, I got an awesome album. So yeah, So you're
going to be here October eleventh, intil frons L. Now,
any final message for the High Valley.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
No, just if you hopefully you've heard about our show
or hopefully we've got a great reputation around there, and
if you haven't seen us, then you need to come
see us because we all we try to do is
have fun with you and make sure you enjoy the
show to where when we come back, you'll come back too.
And that's the way I learned years and years ago.
Just put on a great show overnight and be nice

(27:30):
to people. Be nice to the caterer. Isn't it in
the state hands and everybody come in contact with and
it can be more simple than it is for some
of these folks, but they just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
And I can vouch he is nice to everybody because
I backstage, Jimmery and Hell's been doing this for years.
I would bring you sir, barbecue, and you loved it.
And you remember me. You remembered me every time I
brought you that barbecue every time. So he is speaking
the truth.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Here comes that girl with a barbecause he thinks it
as good as tech, but it's not.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
But I like, hey, well, we're going to give you
an open invitation when you're here on the eleventh if
you want to join us, you're more than welcome. If
you want to come in live.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Okay, all right, I'll put what time you'll go.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
On seven am Eastern.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
We can do the pledge.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
We can do the pledge live from here.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
I may take you up on that, Okay, it's very kind.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
All right, well, and we'll do it with you.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
All right.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
I'll hold you to that. You better start studying.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I got it. I got it down path like a bicycle,
all right, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
So much for joining us, Thank you God.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Okay, I'll see you off there.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
See okay, October eleventh, one and only Neil McCoy right here.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
He's a great person.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yes, yes, yes, stick with us. The bloom Daddy Experience
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA Welcome Back,
seven fifty two, The Bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA, I can't wait till the eight

(29:03):
o'clock hour. First of all, Neil McCoy, we got to
go back. Is he not a blast?

Speaker 3 (29:08):
I mean, he's just down to earth, talks to you
like he's known you forever, has a memory like an elephant.
I mean, I don't think he ever forgets anything.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
No.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
And I was telling him before we went on air.
On my Facebook page seven years ago today, there was
a picture of myself, Neil and Jimmy Elliott from when
we were hosting when we were the MC's at jamboree
in the Hills, How weird is this? And it was
just like I was like the fact that that was
the when I opened up my Facebook that that was

(29:41):
the first thing and we were interviewing him, and it.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Was like, huh, you even said this is weird.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, it was kind of just like, you know, like
is somebody out there trying to tell us something and
that you know, And then I told him, you know,
with the cardio drumming, one of the one of the
instructors they used the Neil McCoys the song in the shake,
and and the other night we were just doing it.
We had we had that routine to the shake, and

(30:08):
it just was like, I know, we're interviewing Neil McCoy
and here we go again, like my Neil McCoy stars
have alive.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes, everything just timed up. You always knew, I mean,
I Jimmer and Hill's twenty plus years through the radio stations,
I was backstage, had the ability to be a part
of that amazing event. You were a huge part of
the event. You always knew Neil McCoy was going to
be there and put on a knockout show.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
And you know, even if it was the shows were similar,
they were different. I mean there was a little bit
of different. I mean some of the song obviously, something
you know he's going to play always hits. He's gonna
you know, he does the Beverly Hillbillies rap or whatever
it is, and which is I mean great. And I
know for some people that gets old because they don't
if you don't like it, it gets old. Yeah, okay,

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but you knew kind of what to expect. But people
didn't care because he's an entertainer's and it's not so
much about being an artist. You know you could, and
he mentioned it, you know, he says, you know, you
have performers that just go out there and sing. He said,
we go out to entertain. He doesn't have it's a difference.
He doesn't have a set lit list, which is amazing
because but they I'm sure they don't stray too far

(31:22):
in their professional musicians, so they can they can pretty
much pick up you know. I mean, I've seen it.
You know, professional musicians that are on tour all the time.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh, they get from one song to the other, and.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
They've probably played it a certain song at one point
in time or another, Like like when Springsteen was doing
the signs at his show and it maybe not it
wasn't his song. So like people would hold up signs
of songs they wanted him to do, and they might
hold up like a Bob Dylan song and they did,
like in Pittsburgh they held up like a rolling stone,
and he turned around. He goes, Okay, everybody got it.
You know, they talk about what key they're going to

(31:56):
do it in. They might like you might hear him
like just trying to get through the thing, and then
next thing, you know, the boom they're playing.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Well, you know, what that's like if you go to
events around here dueling piano. Yes, right, it's the same thing.
And it is amazing how they can just go from
one genre to one song.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
And it's like, hey, we're not sure, but hey give
us a second, and then they work it out.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
It's a special talent to be able to do.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
That, and neither one of us have that.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
We were not blessed with that talent. No way, no way.
Hey real quick, you know we haven't totally anybody about today,
so sorry to tell well a week from today. Oh yeah,
are celebrity scoopers.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
We're Scoop and ice cream for the United Way. We
are We're going up against the Wheeling Nailors. Maybe there
might be a hockey fight. It kirks, you know, maybe
maybe you can. We'll see what happens, you know. So
they start mouthing off, maybe I'll check one of them
into the cooler or something.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I'll take the fuzzy mask.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
There's no way that's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
No, but we are celebrity Scoopers. This is all in
support of the United Way. Next Friday, we are from
one to two.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I might check one of the lightning birds i'd have
a better shot with them.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
All of the tips, of course, go to the United Way.
And as we've told you many times before, the money
raised by the United Way stays here in our community.
And right now, if you've listened to us, you know
how much work the United Way is doing for the
flood victims in Tridelphia area. So we are honored to
do this. But this time it's a little bit different

(33:20):
because there is a Golden Scoop up for grabs, and
I want that Golden Scoop trophy sitting right here in
this studio.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Well, and since you and if you may not be
able to make it to Kirks because of your work
schedule or you're out of town for something, we are
posting a QR code that you can make a donation
in our name to the United Way to help us
win that Golden Scoop.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's our virtual tip jar, we'll call it. Yes, it's
our virtual tip jar. So all you have to do
is scan the QR code and there you go. You
can leave us a tip and again.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
And we don't get it.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
No, no, no, no no, this all goes to the
United Way.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
We're having easy for you to say all right, wrong
pipe did get you?

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Oh my gosh, wrong pipe. Excuse me, I don't even
know what I was saying now at this point I'm
choking another here. I'm so overwhelmed by the concern. Oh
but yes, we're gonna be there next Friday from one
till two. And like Otis said, I am going to
be posting the QR.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Code, She'll be the one.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Talking bringing a ringer.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
You are.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
I'm not gonna tell you.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
You're not gonna tell me.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I'm just gonna say it's going to add to the
cuteness factor of yourself and me.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Well, like that, go up.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
That doesn't take a lot, but it is our ringer.
Seven fifty eight. When we get back. You heard him
say it. Snakes are in the house. The Good Zoo,
Doctor Joe.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Joining us number one talk show in the Ohio Valley.
This is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy.
His goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom
Daddy Experience on news radio eleven seventy Doubva starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Welcome back eight oh six on your Friday. So we
like to have fun on Fridays. Of course, you're listening
to the Bloo Daddy experience. You know who we are
at this point. Anyways, had a brilliant idea a couple
months ago. I have those once in a blue moon
lightning strikes. One of my favorite things about late night
TV back in the day was the animal segments. Of course,

(35:39):
everybody remembers doctor Jack Hannah coming on. Whether it was
Letterman Carson, I don't even know who started it. It
was Carson started Carson.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
It could have been even before that, but I mean
everybody remembers Carson when the guy from the San Diego
Zoo and the girl from the San Diego Zoo would
come and bring all the animals and Johnny would just
flip out yeah, And I.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Thought, you know what, we can do that on radio
today because thanks to social media. So if you jump
on our Facebook page right now, we are live on
Facebook because joining us in studio, because we have a
zoo right here in our own backyard. We have doctor Joe,
great House from oakle Bee, Good Zoo, Good morning, good morning.
You brought some special friends with you. I did, yes,

(36:19):
So I'm gonna call you doctor Joe. Is that all right?

Speaker 3 (36:21):
That's all right?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
We're gonna go with doctor Joe. So, Doctor Joe, Before
we get into the animals, I want to ask you
a little bit of background. How did you get into this?
What made you say, I'm I'm gonna be a zoo keeper?

Speaker 6 (36:33):
Right?

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Zoo keeper? Is that the right title?

Speaker 7 (36:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (36:36):
So the zoo director now. But I was a zoo
keeper for many years. So I grew up in New Cumberland,
and you know, initially wanted to be a professional baseball.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Player, but didn't everybody but size.

Speaker 7 (36:50):
And ability kind of change.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Yeah, gotcha that.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
So went to school to do wildlife and fisheries management.
And during that back in those days, most of what
I worked with was dead types of animals. I was like,
I really want to work with live animals. So I
did an internship at Ogleby and that turned me on
and I've been really most of my career since then.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
So your time at Ogleby was it when you were young?
Was it volunteering? Was it like summer work? So I
experience and.

Speaker 8 (37:20):
I started out as an intern and then to make
money because the internships were unpaid. On the side, I
was the janitor as well, which gave me a lot
of experience on the keeping things clean and keeping guests
happy side of things. But and then came up from
an intern to a keeper to eventually a curator and
then moved on to be a director.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
So you know the zoo inside and out hopefully because
you've worked all levels. That's that's I love to hear
those kind of stories because, like you said, you start
off as an intern and look what it inspired you
to and where you've gotten to from there.

Speaker 8 (37:57):
Yeah, and the internships are great because they are still
going on. They are We've been operating the internships for
about thirty years now, and it gives us the opportunity
to you know, as a student and developing professional, you
get that opportunity to see what aspects you like or
you don't like and help guide you in your career.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, because when you're young, you say, you know, I
want to be a veninarian, I want to be a
marine biologist, and all this kind of stuff. To actually
accomplish it, you know, a lot of times it's not
what you think it's going to be correct, and starting
from where you started as an internship, you got to
experience and say, okay, this is what I want to do.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
Yeah, And a lot of folks think it's just playing
with the animals, and it's there's actually a lot of
hard work that goes into the cleaning and making diets,
and essentially we're just fancy farmers.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
I like that. I like that, and the good zoo
every year comes up with a new encounter, a new experience.
How do you when are you already planning for next year?
I'm assuming yeah, So what goes into all of those
that thought and the direction you want to take the zoo?

Speaker 8 (39:07):
So typically what we do is when we're looking at
some type of new program. We have an incredible team.
We're the smallest community in the United States that has
an accredited zoo, but we're fortunate to have an exceptional
team from this area. We have probably half of our
teams been trained in the zoo science major at West Liberty, Okay.
So there are academic partners and we have four of

(39:29):
those schools in the United States. West Liberty is the
only one that's a public school, so it's incredibly affordable
and those students stick with us and we've hired them
and had really well trained individuals working on the team.
But they give their input as to you know, if
I wasn't working here, what would be a great experience
for the guests to get to do and a lot

(39:52):
of times we look at like the European zoos because
the European zoos do things that maybe are just a
little bit ahead of what the American zoos have done
so far. To get ideas for the.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Future, what's your your top animal that you want to
bring in, like you're you're like the mount rushmore of
of the animals that you want to have it at Ogilby.

Speaker 8 (40:14):
So what I definitely have to say now is the lions.
Since we're bringing in lions next year when we complete
the villas associated.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
With explain that explain what's going on.

Speaker 8 (40:25):
So we've received funding to do a lion habitat and
it will be one of the three largest lion habitats
in the country, which is important because we have to
be able to breed them and have space for the
offspring for three years. And so you have to have
separation space because at some point it's kind of just
like our kids, you decide it's time for you.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
To move on, and maybe we don't get along as well.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
You push the nest basically exactly.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
So we have to have space for that.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
But the other component of that is that we'll have
three villas built into the backside of the habitat to
where guests can stay and spend the night. And you're
gonna have a lion on the other side of the
glass with you. And this is inch and a half
thick glass, so it's very strong glass. And the whole
front is going to be concrete.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
But you can hear them.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
You would be able to hear them.

Speaker 8 (41:17):
You can hear a line from five miles away when
they roar, so you'll be able to potentially even hear
them downtown when there's no foliage on the tree.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
So that's awesome. Otis we want?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Did you figure the traffic and something's gonna also drown
out out as well.

Speaker 8 (41:33):
Yeah, it'll kind of be like a like hearing the
train when you're there. Are days when you can hear
the trains, right, there'll be days when you can potentially
hear the lions when they start roaring.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
But I'm glad you gave me a heads up because
I can see myself next year pitch black outside walking
in here and hearing a lion work going, Am I
losing my mind? Or did I just hear a lion?
I mean, come on. Now, you don't expect that.

Speaker 8 (41:53):
And guests kind of hear that stuff like that. Now,
like when you come up and walk around the park
at night or early in the morning, are red wolves
start howling like crazy? You hear wolves howling pretty much
just about anywhere in the park at any time.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Right now, that's so cool. Do you name the animals?

Speaker 7 (42:11):
We do so the keeper team names the animals.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
And usually what they'll do is they create a survey
and it's you know, the most popular choice wins. Occasionally,
with some highly charismatic species, we may have a situation
where we have the keepers come up with a list
of names and then the community helps name the animals.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
And have fun with it. What is what's your favorite exhibit?

Speaker 8 (42:37):
I would probably say the red wolf exhibit I really
like because it's built well to mimic what their natural
habitat would look like. Because those guys have the potential
to go back to the wild. They're the only species
in the zoo we don't train because they're only about
a dozen that are in the wild in North Carolina.
The rest live in zoos, So we have to man

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them like wild animals because any one of them could
go back to the wild if the Fish and Wildlife
Service determines that, But then the snow leopard exhibits a
favorite as well, just because they're so interactive with some
of the guests and the team.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
And that's one thing I think about the good Zoo
that makes the stand apart is how things are interactive,
like right now the red panda where kids can go
in and touch and do they hold.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
Them or just so you can't hold them, but you
can feed them. And what we do with the red
panda encounters, the guests come in, they learn how to
how the keepers train the pantas and how we work
with them. And essentially, when you do an animal encounter,
you're experiencing the same thing that a first day keeper,
a first day in turn, would experience, because it's a
really cool experience and it's one of those things that

(43:50):
why shouldn't people get the chance to experience that and
see if it's something that they like and at least
get them turned on to conservation.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Oh, I thought you were gonna say, I look at
your thought You're gonna ask a question.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
No, just about time to go. We can continue this
conversation and we can meet our other guests what are
their names?

Speaker 2 (44:09):
I want to be able to introduce them properly when
we come back.

Speaker 7 (44:12):
So our Kenyon Sandbo is Benti.

Speaker 8 (44:14):
Benti, okay, and then our three banded armadillo is Roco Rocco.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
All right, who do you want? Banti or Rocco, It.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
Doesn't matter, Okay, both of them. We get them both
in there.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Oh, stick with us, because we're gonna meet Benti and
Rocco when we get back. Eight fifteen. The Blue Daddy Experience,
samon OTAs News Radio, eleven seventy w w VA. Welcome
back to Blue Daddy Experience, samon OTAs News Radio, eleven
seventy w w VA. I don't know if you can

(44:47):
see us right now on our Facebook live, but I
am sitting here holding Benty benty Okay. Now tell me
what Benti is.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
So Benti's a Kenyon Sandboa and she's a girl.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
So she's very pretty. HER's color, her colors.

Speaker 8 (45:03):
They're beautiful, and the camouflage helps them blend into like
sand and loose soil Okay and Kenya, Ethiopia, those types
of areas. She'll get about three feet long, so she's
only about half grown right now. Males only get about
two feet long, and she you can notice on her
face it almost looks like a shovel. So they use

(45:25):
that to burrow down into.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Its flatter it's flat, it's flatter than most snanks.

Speaker 8 (45:30):
Okay, it's flat, and the eyes are up here instead
of up down on the sides, so that lets them
burrow down into the sand, and that way they can
avoid the heat of the day. They'll come out at
night time and a lot of times still just lay
there for like a week and wait for somebody like
a little mouse or a little bird to come by.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
And then she's trying to burrow under my fingers, like
she's trying to go in a darker spot. Is that
what she's trying to do.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
And that's what they prefer.

Speaker 8 (45:55):
They like to get down underneath and have something touching
the top of their body. So like if you hold
her for a longer period of time and you have
a long sleeve shirt or shirt with buttons like this,
sometimes they'll find their.

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Way over there.

Speaker 8 (46:06):
Try to find try to find somewhere that'll wake you
up nice and warm to hang out.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
And her tongue is constantly going. Now that is a
sense of smell. It is so she's using that.

Speaker 7 (46:21):
That fork tongue.

Speaker 8 (46:21):
They flip it out. They're picking up scent molecules in
the air and they bring it back in and on
the roof of their mouth. There's something called the vombero
nasal organ so they rub those molecules across the top
of their mouth and that tells them that's something good
to eat or no, I don't want to eat that.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
What do they eat and how often?

Speaker 8 (46:41):
I mean primarily small rodents and they can eat small birds,
small lizards, things like that. Usually with them probably about
once a week, once every two weeks, so slower metabolism,
so it takes them a little bit of time to
digest things.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
So what do you feed them.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
With us frozen panky mice. So they're actually company. I
had those on Tuesday. There are actually companies out there
that produce rodents and rabbits for zoos, for reptile and
amphibian keepers. So we purchase usually a pretty big order.

(47:20):
Every few months, we'll get an order in of chicks, rabbits, mice,
rats panky mice to feed everybody.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
So like some snakes and some animals, they want the
live version. This one's okay with them being.

Speaker 8 (47:35):
This one's okay with the frozen in thought, and we
do that with everybody except for the raptors that we
rehabilitate with the Division of Wildlife and with local law enforcement.
If they bring in an injured hawk out that has
to go back to the wild and we can get
it fixed and put it back there. They have to
show us that they're able to catch a live prey item.

(47:57):
But everybody else they're used to eating the frozen. And
the reason for that is a mouse's.

Speaker 7 (48:03):
Teeth are actually pretty sharp.

Speaker 8 (48:06):
And strong, so we don't want the snake not to
be hungry and then the mouse to decide to bite
the snake.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I remember last time I was at the Good Zoo
with my knee, it was two summers ago. There was
a bird of prey. I want to say it was
an eagle, but I and it was injured, and you
guys were rehabilitating it.

Speaker 7 (48:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (48:23):
So we have a bald eagle that's down on exhibit
in our wetlands area.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Yes, that's it. It was down there.

Speaker 8 (48:29):
And she came from Washington State and had the end
of her weighing injured where she can't.

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Go back to the wild ever again.

Speaker 8 (48:36):
But what's pretty cool is the wild bald eagles around here,
especially November through February. They'll fly up and they sit
in the trees at the edge of the country club and.

Speaker 7 (48:45):
Talk back and forth with her.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
So it's pretty cool she gets that social interaction with
the with the wild eagle her kind.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Oh okay, all right, so I'm gonna pass BENTI off
to you and let me see. This is rocco, right.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
I said, just you just want to hold the backside.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Well, okay, it.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
Looks like it looks like it looks like a ball,
And you're trying to say, okay, hold the backside, like, yeah,
how do you know? I mean, you showed us, but
I mean, like, how would people know that it's the backside?

Speaker 8 (49:15):
So where you see these three bands across the back,
that's where he bends. That that's how he bends, and
that that's the backside of him.

Speaker 7 (49:23):
His head and his tail.

Speaker 8 (49:24):
Are right here. And they're the only armadillo that can
fully roll into a ball, okay, and and that fully
protects themselves. But that that little headplate is like their fingerprints.
Everybody has a different scale.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Pattern, So this is different than what we hear about,
Like in Texas, they're armadillos. These are different type.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
Correct, These are three banded.

Speaker 8 (49:48):
In Texas and the southern United States, we have nine
banded dormidillos. And you know you'll hear about nine banded
dormadillos can carry the bacteria that causes leprosy.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
That's always good.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Okay, this one does not correct.

Speaker 7 (50:01):
I think they do not.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
You'll know if you if your hand falls off tomorrow,
I will not be.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
In celebrity scoopers if I lose an arm. So when
I'm holding him right now and touching the shell, is
it a shell?

Speaker 7 (50:16):
It is?

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Okay? Does he feel that?

Speaker 7 (50:18):
He can't?

Speaker 2 (50:18):
So I can feel the heat, his heat through.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
It, those outer little like scots, those are made of carrat,
and so it's like our fingernails and our hair. And
then underneath all of that there will be some bone.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Okay. And his whole body is up twist around in
here it is.

Speaker 8 (50:34):
And if I'm put him down and see if he'll
open up.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Oh, you said he's really fast.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
So if he's just super fast, there he goes.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
And he's got little scales on his on his legs too.

Speaker 8 (50:47):
All over his legs, super long claws that he uses
to dig into termite mounds or he can dig down.
They don't really dig burrows. They kind of take other
animals burrows or crawl underneath rocks. Go Rocco, so you
can see all of his hair. Yeah, he's a mammal
just like us. And then if it's a female, they

(51:09):
have mammary glands. So Rocco is actually a pretty exceptional breeder.
So they're part of the breeding programs good. He's a snut,
but there's a breeding program for this species in zoos
throughout the United States, and Rocco has had I think
three puffs with us. So what happens is, you know,

(51:31):
he'll breed with the female mom we separate and we
move her too a quieter space, so he gets to
hang out usually with like the sloth and the Tamarin
monkeys at the zoo.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
We do.

Speaker 7 (51:42):
We have two.

Speaker 8 (51:42):
Slaws, but the female we separate off and she goes
into a quiet split space. She'll have the pup, and
the pup just looks like a little golf ball and
they're super soft for about two weeks and she'll make
a nest and if we go into check on the
pup after we've waited and made sure that it's okay.
She'll reach out and she'll scoop the puff up inside

(52:04):
of the shell like this roll in so it can nurse.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
She was really cool but fascinating.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Fascinating, Rocco. Why'd you go away? Rocco?

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Because he picked him up? He doesn't like to be
picked up.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
I guess, oh he doesn't, okay, and he just immediately
un what did they What does he eat?

Speaker 8 (52:21):
Real quick termite and ants? But at the zoo we
have a special insectiv or diet, so it's it's like
a tiny almost like Captain Crunch.

Speaker 7 (52:30):
That he likes to eat.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
I bet it tastes different than Captain Crunch.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
It's a little buggier, Yeah, a little bugier.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Talk to Joe. This was awesome. Want to have you back.
That sounds great, wonderful, Thank you so much. I hope
everybody enjoyed this. I had an absolute glass. Roco. You're
welcome back any time. Same thing with Binti. Eight twenty eight,
The Blue Daddy Experience. You've got to check out the
Oagle be good Zoo. We have a gem people right
here in our own backyard.

Speaker 9 (52:58):
Hey, good Friday morning and speaking of Fridays, we always
like to kind of lighten things up, have a little
fun here. Nothing fun about hul Cogan passing away. But
my point is, has there ever been a bigger name
in the world of professional wrestling than Hulk Cogan. I
would say, no, You're gonna throw out maybe Rick Flair,
maybe Stone Cold Steve Austin, maybe The Rock, and I'm

(53:22):
gonna say you're out of your fricking mind. Hull Cogan
was the number one wrestler of the eighties. As a
matter of fact, WrestleMania, the super Bowl of wrestling, he
was featured eight of the first nine years he was
the headliner. He maintained it through the nineties. He maintained
it through the early two thousands. You go to you

(53:42):
go to the North Pole, you go to where the
Eskimos are, Antarctica, North Pole, wherever the hell they are,
and you pull an Eskimo away from clubbing a baby
seal and you say, hey, have you heard of hul Cogan.
I'm telling you right now, he's saying yes. You bring
up Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Undertaker, Bruno, Sam Martino,

(54:05):
Andre the Giant. He's not gonna know him, He's gonna
know hul Cogan. Three movies, cameos and other movies, reality shows,
video games. I mean Hulk Hogan and icon And if
you're like me, a child of the eighties, you want
to talk about a kick to the Kalakis in the
last week, theo from the Huxtables, Ozzy Osbourne, hul Cogan,

(54:29):
three iconic individuals from the decade of the eighties gone
within a week of each other. Hard to comprehend. But
when I think of hul Cogan two things coming to mind.
Number One, I think he's the most iconic wrestler of
all time. And number two, just like with Ozzy Osbourne,

(54:49):
I'm surprised this guy saw seventy one years on this earth.
When you think of what these guys put their bodies through,
you think of the pills, the alcohol, the traveling, the steroids.
This guy more steroids than probably half the thoroughbreds on
this planet. To be able to live to be seventy one, Hell,
that's a great achievement. But otis Sam. It's a Friday.

(55:10):
Let's debate it. The biggest name in the history of wrestling,
I say, undoubtedly is whole Cogan. What do you two say, otis,
let's start with you.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
It's kind of hard to disagree. The only other one
that could probably compete would be Andre the Giant. If
it wasn't for Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair,
you wouldn't have the stone called Steve Austin, the Heartbreak Kid,
you wouldn't have trip Weight, you would rock the rock

(55:46):
these guys, you know, and I said this earlier. Hogan
is comparable to Hogan change wrestling. He invented what was him?
He invents McMahon. So without Vince McMahon, there's no Hulk Cogan,
and without Hulk Cogan, there's probably.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
You know who's no WWF.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
No, No, you know, I mean the WWE is it different,
is a different entity. I believe you had good versus Evil.
You had you know, Andre the Giant was the champion,
and he agreed to let hul Cogan take over because
Andrea was getting up there in years. You know, his
body was starting to fail him because of his enormous size. Yeah, yeah,

(56:30):
And so I think it was WrestleMania three where Hulk
body slammed Andre, which in a way is an amazing
feat in itself.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Well, real quick not to interrupt you, well, I'm going
to interrupt you. If you want to get any idea
of the size of Andrea the Giant, go out to
Dickinson Cattle Company outside of Barnesville. He knew Andre the
Giant and he's got one of his shoes out there.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Last year, it gives you an idea. Last year at
the National the card Show was in Cleveland and one
of the one of the vendors had a cardboard, life
sized cardboard cutout of Andre the Giant. And you walked
by that thing and you realize how small you are. Okay,
I'm six too.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah, you're not a small dude.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
And I was like, Wow, that's a big dude.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
And Halkster picked him.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
And body slammed h Yeah. And that was and then
that that was Andre passing the torch Hawk and Vincent
Man took ww F and wrestling to a whole another level.
Haulk Cogan, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan all changed their sports.

(57:43):
And again, like I said, if it wasn't for bird Magic,
we wouldn't have Michael Jordan because bird Magic saved the NBA.
It was it was, it was terrible. They saved it.
Jordan came in a couple of years later and took
it over.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Well, McMahon and Hogan combined came up with the storylines like,
took it in that entertainment direction away from the quote
unquote sports angle and took it into the entertainment direction.
Now my one moment when I think of Hulk Hogan
and I grew up watching wrestling, Junkyard Dog, Macho Man,

(58:19):
the Ultimate Warrior, uh Crow, what was his name? Not
the Crow? He looked like the Crow the movie. Oh
shoot yeah, Sting, Brutus, the Barber, Beefcake. Oh yeah, yeah,
the Ultimate Warrior, I said him, the uh Man. Yeah,

(58:40):
slim Gems He'll always be the slim gym Yeah yeah,
but no, we posed this on our our our Facebook
about you know, memorable wrestling uh moments. And let's see here.
Tom Hart says, not part of I don't know if
he's one of the Hart brothers or not tough one.
I'm going now, I'm going with when he haulked up

(59:03):
at WrestleMania versus The Rock the pop was amazing. Let's
see here. Chelsea says, when Hall Cogan picked up Andre
the Giant and body slammed him. So there's so many
iconic moments and and like I said, it's not it's sports.
It's not sports. You can have that debate.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Oh, my grandmother thought that was real. I mean I
remember being a little kid and my grandmother like when
Bruno San Martino or Bob Beckland got beat, she'd be like, oh,
like she like she'd be literally yelling at the TV.
She would be crying and that like my dad's look
at her and he goes. My dad would say to me, hey,

(59:42):
you know that s is fake, right, And I'm like, what,
I still it's fake.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
I still know grown men in their forties that think
it's real. So, but my most iconic they are athletes.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
I will say that because you can't do some of
the stuff that they do without being an athlete. No,
and I'm never going to say that it's fake. I'm
going to say that it's scripted.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Okay, that's a better way of putting it. Because they
didn't hate each other, I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Most of the time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Most of the time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
I mean you always have you'll have that conflict of
interest where you don't get along with somebody and well
they're coworkers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Yeah, but I mean we fake it pretty good. But
you know, my most iconic moment for Hulk, and it's
got to be him. He's got to be somehow tied
into it. It's when he went dark. It's when he went
he went to the nWo. I still remember sitting there
watching it. I don't remember if it was Russell Maney
or what event it was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
It was w CW.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Okay, he went yeah, that's right, he went to the
other end.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
It was. It was a Monday Night whatever they called it, No,
it was. It was different because w c W owned
Monday Night there for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
That's okay, because.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
They had Diamond Dallas Page, they had you know, Stacey Keebler.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
You know, they took they they took a bunch of
that of wrestlers from WWE.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Yeah, well they had Scott Hall and Kevin Nash and
they came in and then the next thing, you know,
Halkster came in and then they because he had.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
A falling out with McMahon. Yeah yeah, but when he
I remember all I was in tears. It's like, no,
he can't be a bad guy. He can't be a
bad guy. But yeah, and they just keep they keep
upping the ante. If you see some of the stuff
they do. It's crazy what they put their bodies through.
And now the women's wrestling is just as popular, if

(01:01:29):
not more popular. I mean, it just continues to grow
and grow and grow. But yeah, they say bad things
happen in threes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
I think it's fives this week. Yeah, I mean, like
he's the week's not over.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Oh God, where's wood? Knock on wood?

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
We don't well, it's simulated.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Yeah, it's the closest I've got right now. Yeah, between
theo Huxtable Aussie and and.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Now this, Well, then you had Chuck Mangione that was
acomplished jazz musician, had the big hit in the seventies
Feels So Good. And then Connie Francis, an icon from
the fifties and sixties. You know, that's five people this week.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Well, I don't know if you've seen any of the
stories that have been coming out about Ozzie and Sharon, Oh,
some of the stories about her and their relationship. She
didn't leave his side for days at the hospital. I
mean they were married for decades and to get through
what they got through, and you know, the world of Hollywood,
and I don't know, it's just it's a I don't

(01:02:33):
know it's a touching story. I guess maybe I'm getting sappy.
I don't know. Armadillos, snakes love wrestling. What have we
not touched on yet today? Otis nothing? No, just leave
it alone, okay, just a reminder.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
I'm gonna get your chance to win.

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(01:03:40):
Hey fifty one, Welcome back to bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We cannot finish out
our week without one more chat with this gentleman. Kevin
Cooks Draw Automotive, Good.

Speaker 6 (01:03:53):
Morning, morning, guys how y'all doing this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
We're good, We're uh, we've been busy this morning morning. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
We had Hulk Hogan. We're talking, uh animals, we had
Neil mccolloy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
I mean an armadillo, a snake.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
What do you got for?

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Yeah, well, you know, here's our pole question was favorite
professional wrestling moment? If it includes Hulcgan, that's great. If
it doesn't, So do you have.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
One Ogan moment?

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Okay? Okay, and h I actually do, but it's pretty recent, okay.
And that was him with the Republican Convention with Trump
ripping off the shirt with the Trump shirt underneath.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I mean, I mean he brought the he brought
the Hawkster to the r n C. And uh, you know,
Sam was there, so, I mean and she said we
were talking about it a little bit ago and she
said that, you know, just electrified, electrified the arena.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
Everything he did was that white man just he just
you know, he entered a room and everyone knew he
was there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Yeah. And one of those guys he had, we had
a guy on, we had a gentleman on earlier that
you know, worked with him as far as like some
some public signings and things like that, and you know,
got to know him personally and said that was it.
He said, didn't matter if it was the airport whatever.
When he walked in, it was magic.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
So anyway, let's see some cars.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
Go. Hey, listen, uh, listen to this. Okay, you know
who JD Powers is, Okay, Now. JD Powers is a
research company for those who don't know that handles all
surveys and all kinds of product rankings and process rankings,
customer experience quality, just overall performance. Okay. This year, all right,

(01:05:36):
Strab Hundai and Strab Nissan are two of only eight
dealers in the entire state of West Virginia to win
the twenty twenty five JD Power Dealer of Excellence Award.
All right, top two percent of the dealers in the nation.
It's over twenty thousand franchise dealers in the United States
and there's four hundred of them that received this award.

(01:05:59):
And we are so very fortunate to have two of
the rootstops in our organization, Tribal hun Day and Strobnissan,
that have exceeded expectations just across the board when it
comes to the the experience. The other guys were close Okay,
these guys pushed it right over the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Top amazing as you I mean, you always see I
mean that's a big thing with whether it's autos or
cell phones or you know, like you see them on
what's that consumer cellular how JD Power. You know, they
get those those words and everybody wants to promote that
they got the JD Power Award.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
Yeah. I mean, this is just absolutely positively incredible, okay,
because I mean it's a very competitive market out there.
There's a lot of outstanding dealers. I mean, we've got
you know, all seven of our stores are always at
the top when it comes to, you know, the customer experience,
whether it's in sales or service. But being in that
that next step that top two percent of the entire

(01:06:57):
United States, I mean that is just it's shocked, Okay.
I mean, I know, you know, we try hard every
day and every now and then you look up and go, wow,
we're getting you know, we're really getting recognized for this.
And so a huge shout out to because it takes
everyone in the tribal organization.

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
To make this work.

Speaker 6 (01:07:13):
New use Parts, service body. Okay, and but for the
Hyundai store and for the Nissan store to take it
that one more step up, grab that next rung on
the ladder. I mean, it's just absolutely incredible. So big
shout out to them. Thanks for all the customers you
know who answered the surveys and gave us the feedback

(01:07:33):
you know, to make it possible, because sometimes your feedback
is not always perfect and you use that information to
get better. So thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
There you have it. There it is so I gave
all tens when I did my survey.

Speaker 6 (01:07:47):
I would certainly hope so, because I mean, when you
get out of the jeep, you know, the red carpet
comes out, They escort you, they get you a bottle
of water. You know, that makes sure you know where
the bathroom is. Okay, I mean they really go above
and beyond, you know, to make sure that your experience
is second to that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Okay, we'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
With that tens across the board.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
I'm not going to throw you under the bus.

Speaker 7 (01:08:12):
It's Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
It's a Friday. I'm feeling I'm feeling generous today.

Speaker 6 (01:08:17):
All right, all right, buddy, then.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
You do your saying. There you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
The red carpet.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Ay, I wouldn't go red carpet, but the rest of
it was pretty much spot on. They do give a
couple of the you know, they offer your water, and
I do know where the restroom is, so yeah, and
they actually call me mister.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Oh they do. I will not if that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
No, I don't want to be called mister.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Mister something, but mister. Oh today, you know what today is?

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
Today is Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
It is Friday. But it's National wine and Cheese. Not
a person me neither had one terrible night on wine.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Binge farm No, mad dog, No, no.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
A little bit higher taste than that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Really, yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
At this age. I dia yeah, back in the day.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
And then it's also National hot Fudge Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
You could do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Now that's one that I could definitely celebrate and get
a little bit serious.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
May people try that later?

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Oh that's right, we do have. Yeah. And then also
a little bit on a more serious note, it is
National Hire a Veteran Day, So if you have open
positions out there, please consider hiring a veteran. It's also now,
this is a stretch, This is an absolute stretch to
call a you know, celebration day, national talk in an

(01:09:50):
elevator day. Really, really, folks, all right, let's do it.
Number one through fifty four.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Wow. One through eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Four Steelers' training camp tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
I have thirty six.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Okay, we have, we have Jason. Jason, I will be
calling you after the show. You are a winner. Everybody,
have a wonderful weekend. Wonderful weekend. We'll be back Monday.