The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam August 12, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now, Well, good Tuesday morning. The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam
and otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Of course I'm
not alone. Got the wonderful otis sitting next to me.
This is what day three four that we've been in
the same room. I like having you in here with me.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Glad you do.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Man, I can't even pull a compliment. Man, that was
that was geez all right, forget it. Trying to start
trying to start off nice this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, we just had a phone call, we did.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
From bloom Daddy did because he was on vacation. He's
back and he was going to record a couple of
segments and send.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Them to us.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Technically he is, I forgot, obviously, and and then he's like,
I can go live if you want to talk about something.
We said, well, what do you want to talk about?
He so I could talk about my vacation. We said, no, we're.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Good and technically he's probably still on vacation till nine
am this morning. So so yeah, yeah, so literally just
got off the phone call in his boom. Let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
We didn't really want to talk about his vacation. So
Merry Christmas to you. We saved you that boredom.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh that's nice, that's real nice.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeaw, just a rant.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, rip on us. Well, we do not we do
not have a born boring show this morning. We have
plenty of things, He's than for you to say. We
have plenty of stuff coming up, including what went on
overnight last night in DC. Woke up this morning and
we're going to get into that here after the break.

(02:13):
But plenty of things going on nationally want to touch on,
including and this came on the TV this morning, but
I just wanted to mention it real quick. President Trump
has approved six coal projects across the nation. One does
effect here in West Virginia, which is the Hurricane Creek area,

(02:35):
so there is coal expansion. One of the larger properties
that is being affected is in Wyoming. So President Trump
has approved this expansion of coal across the country, hitting
Hurricane Creek here in West Virginia. But also it's sort
of it's a reverse on the war on fossil fuels

(02:59):
that President Biden had during his administration. As I said,
all I saw was the quick headlines here a moment
ago on the television. So once I have more information
and see the full article, I will comment in on
a little bit more. But this is one thing again,
as I've mentioned many times, I am the proud wife
of a coal miner. I'm the proud daughter of a

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retired coal miner. So whenever something like this happens, it
hits close to home, and it hits close to home
for a lot of folks here in the Upper Ohio
Valley who, whether they are still involved in the industry
or grew up in the industry as I did. You know,
it catches your attention. So it's refreshing to see this

(03:42):
current administration trying to reverse turn the page on the
war on coal that we saw under the former administration.
One thing noticed that we didn't get to yesterday. I
wanted to get your opinion on this kind of taking
a hard left here. Away from that, the first over
the weekend MLB female umpire. Did you see that story?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
I did, and I saw, you know, obviously her first game,
she was at one of the bases. She wasn't behind
the plate, but I think your second game she ended
up behind the plate and the very first pitch was
high and inside, and she called it a strike, and
it was like, oh, not a good start.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well she averaged Let's see here, it says ninety two
points seventy two percent of balls and strikes accurately. Is
that a good average? I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I think.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
I think if you look at some of the better umpires,
they're up around the ninety six range. I mean, you're
gonna there'd be nerves in there. So there's no absolutely,
I mean, and I'm not. I mean, I'm glad she
did it. I mean, and they, you know, the catcher
caught the ball, threw it back to the pitcher and
there was a little delay and they were like, what
do we do? So they they threw the ball out

(04:54):
so that either she could keep it or could go
to the Hall of Fame or something of that nature,
so which I thought was pretty cool. But like nobody
called for the ball, Like the umpires didn't. The other
umpires didn't call time and say, hey, let's throw the ball.
It was the picture and the catcher that were like
kind of they were like, what do we do?

Speaker 2 (05:11):
It should be something, we.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Do something with it.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
And then finally the pitcher just kind of lobbed it
over into the dugout so that they could put the
authentication stamp on it and everything else, so.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Which was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
And hope, I mean hopefully either she gets to keep
the ball or it goes to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
So it says the average for all umpires this season
is ninety four percent, so she wasn't that far.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, No, I mean, and you know, like you said,
it's your first game in the major leagues, you're probably
get a little bit of nerves, and you know, there's
some of those those balls and.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Strikes that are that are right on the edge.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
So I mean, you know, you call the one a
strike and it's a ball, and you call the one
a ball and it's a strike.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
I mean you're going.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
To have a couple of those like a razor edge.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, you know, I mean they put that little box
on the screen, which is you know, that just makes
everybody a critic at that point in time.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's like the first down line on a football game. Yeah,
so it's not accurate.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
No, don't forget. We got your chance. We have your
chances to win.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Today.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
We have three chances.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
We have rafter am Rodeo a family four pack for
August twenty third, we have pirate tickets for the Colorado
Rockies on Sunday, August twenty fourth, and of course we
have Kansas to Kansas tickets for Saturday, August I'm sorry, Friday,
August twenty second, and that will also enter You'll get

(06:31):
the two tickets for sure, but that will enter you
and you enter you into easy for me to say,
enter you into the grand prize drawing, which would be
a meet and greet with the band, and you would
also win the autographed drumhead cover.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
So it's a busy morning, little grand prize, little grand prize.
Speaking of Kansas, Otis.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
We already have three qualifiers by the way, yes, we
have tomorrow then we'll have five total, so you'll have
a one in five chance to win that overall vi
P experience with Kansas and OTIS will be speaking with
Ronnie Platt.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
A little bit later in this show from Kansas.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
We played that interview a couple of weeks. Well, it
was probably back in May. You know, I think it
was back in May. Yeah, but since since the show
is coming up on the next Friday and we will
not be here next week, we thought we'd share that
with you again today.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Ronnie.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Ronnie was a super nice guy, cancer survivor, so you know,
I mean, it's you know, he talks about that as well.
So and just how uh Kansas is is not It's
not necessarily a band like like the Rolling Stones or
or you know, where the members are are are as much.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
A part of it.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
He says, Kansas is more of an experience because they've
had changes in the members and so on and so forth.
So it's about the music, he says, the song.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
The members, not necessarily the faces. So we're talking about
sports a little bit here. Did you see this huge
announcement UFC is moving its meteor rites from ESPN to
Paramount Plus. It's a seven year, seven point seven billion
dollar deal. Seven's your wild to watch people knock the

(08:26):
snot out of each other. This starts in twenty twenty six.
All of the UFC's thirteen numbered events in thirty fight
nights will stream exclusively on the Paramount Plus platform. According
to the President of UFC, Dana White. This is a
historic deal that will provide incredible access and affordability for

(08:46):
fans to view the greatest fights on a major platform.
Seven point seven billion dollars.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, the UFC fans will like it because they want
to pay for the pay per views anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that part of it's going away. Yeah, wow, huge,
huge numbers.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
A lot of people into it all they are. Yeah,
I'm not one of them.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty vicious. Seven fifteen. When
we get back what went on over night in DC.
It is busy nationally. We'll get into those topics. Coming
up next, The Blue Daddy Experience. Samon Otis, News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back to the Blue Daddy Experience.

(09:36):
Samon Otis. Excuse me, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just
a reminder, we got a busy morning on tap coming up.
We've got chances for you to win, and that's going
to be coming up here a little bit shortly. So
want to get into I wake up this morning, and
if you're like me, I am one of those people
that the first thing I do is I get on

(09:56):
my phone and it's a terrible habit. But it's what
I do, so of course I see things that come
out overnight. It was busy yesterday nationally. So first off,
Cash Ptel of the FBI released a partially redacted memo

(10:19):
in regards to exposing Adam Schiff for allegedly leaking classified
info to hurt President Trump. This is the latest in
this conversation, but I wanted to read to you a
little bit from this memo now. It is dated May

(10:39):
third of twenty twenty three. It says, and this is
from a whistleblower who was exposing and it says when
working in this capacity, Blank was called to an all
staff meeting by Shiff. In this meeting, Schiff stated the
group would leak classified information which was derogatory to the

(11:00):
President of the United States Donald J. Trump. Shifts stated
the information would be used to indict President Trump. Blank
stated this would be illegal, and upon hearing his concerns,
unnamed members of the meeting reassured Blank that they would
not be caught leaking classified information. Interesting, is it not?

(11:27):
Are the roosters? Are the chickens coming home to roost?
Is that the saying I got that a little bit backwards.
More and more is coming out on a lot of
this different things. There's been a lot of questions about
transparency that was promised during the run for president last year.

(11:50):
Takes times, folks, takes time, and we're finally beginning to
see some of that. Also yesterday, this one is in
response to Nancy Pelosi. So, of course, if you've been
following the news, President Trump has promised to secure the

(12:16):
nation's capital. He has also promised that it can spread
to other major cities across the country that have found
themselves in dire straits with the criminal element. We consider
we continue to see crime rise in a lot of
major cities. But Nancy Pelosi put this out yesterday. Donald

(12:38):
Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January sixth, when
our capital was under violent attacks and lives were at stake.
Now he's activating the DC Guard to distract from his
incompetent mishandling of Tariff's healthcare, education, and immigration, just to
name a few blunders. Well, Pelosi, Nancy, I'm pretty sure

(13:03):
we're seeing the lowest rates in immigration in history. I'm sorry,
not immigration, illegal immigration in history. Well, Chief Stephen sund
of the Capitol Police, he's the former chief of the

(13:24):
Capitol police has broken his silence. He responded to her
post with this man in his long past time to
be honest with the American people. On January third, I
requested the National Guard assistance, but your sergeant at arms

(13:45):
denied it. Under federal law, I was prohibited from calling
them in without specific approval. That same day, Carol Corbin
at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was
forced to decline because I lacked legal authority. On January sixth,
while the Capital was under attack, and despite my repeated calls,

(14:09):
your sergeant in arms again denied my urgent requests for
over seventy agonizing minutes running it up the chain for
your approval. When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet
when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina
wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National
Guard troops. Once again, it is as if we are

(14:35):
finally seeing those who kept quiet or were forced to
keep quiet. They're not staying quiet anymore, folks, they aren't.
We are seeing a change in mentality. We are seeing
a change in the doors are opening, the curtains are falling,

(15:03):
and we continue to see more and more and more
come out. Now. People aren't perfect. I'm not saying that
this administration is not perfect. I'm not saying that, but
it seems as if the intimidation factor or the vow
of vow of silence is beginning to it's beginning to fall,

(15:28):
it's beginning to minimize, and it's refreshing. It's absolutely refreshing.
There's been so much speculation for years about Russia Gate
and all of the different tactics that were used to
stop Donald Trump or to paint him with a particular image.

(15:55):
And those who questions things that were going on like
Russia Gate, like the computer, you know, the Biden computer,
people who raised questions about COVID and the legitimacy of
what we were being told at that point in time.
People who raised questions on January sixth, we were labeled,

(16:19):
we were labeled as off the rocker, conspiracy theorists just
because you question. Now. Don't get me wrong, there are
some folks that are completely off and left field, completely
off and left field. But I think part of being

(16:40):
a diligent American citizen along with a voter, are to
raise and ask questions. You can't just follow like sheep
and that doesn't matter what side of the aisle you
were on seven twenty eight. Don't forget coming up, we're
gonna have chances for you to win. This morning, the
Bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Welcome back to the Blue Daddy Experience with Sam and
Otis on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Coming up on
August twenty second, right here at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling,
West Virginia. It is going to be Kansas and Jefferson Starship.
That's a Friday night. Tickets are on sale, you can
get them anytime, anyplace. And joining us right now is

(17:31):
Kansas lead singer Ronnie Platt.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Good morning, Ronnie, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
Notis you know, I know I've made the big time
when I'm on the Bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
There you have it there, you know, you know it,
you know it, and you are from the Chicago area.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Correct, that is correct.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
So we've got to throw this out there since it's
first and foremost. What's it like having the Pope from
the Chicago area.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
You know, it's funny. I say an extra prayer now
every time I eat a piece of Chicago pizza or
have a Chicago lock dog.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
That's beautiful. I love it. Hey, so let's get into
it right away. Kansas a band that's been around for
fifty plus years, touring with Jefferson Starship. What can fans
expect from this show?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
Oh? Are you kidding? Between Kansas and Jefferson Starship, a
night of some of the best music ever written. In
my opinion, just fantastic. I mean, high energy. And you
know what it really is not the band, it's the
music that speaks for itself. And you know, there's a
reason Kansas has been around for more than fifty years now.

(18:39):
And I've changed I've changed the title from classic rock
to timeless rock because that's really what it is.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, well that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
And you know Kansas when they first came out, they
were kind of labeled as a progressive rock band and
then kind of morphed into a little bit of prog
rock with some Southern rock. And is there is there
a deafine for Kansas to style of music or is
it just great music?

Speaker 7 (19:04):
No?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
You know that's something that really made me a Kansas
fan from the beginning, because there are songs that are very,
very progressive. You know, a song for America extremely progressive.
But then you've got your you know, your A and
R songs that are just radio friendly. There's everything in between,

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from hard rocking to blues to you know, even songs
that you know might have a jazzy feel. But then
you know, look at the spectrum between a song like
Wayward Son and then Dust in the Wind, you know,
two extremely different genres that you would put those songs in,

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and everything in between. And I think that's what has
given Kansas such an amazing following over the years.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
And with the band being around for fifty years, obviously
there's you know, you're gonna have turnover. You're gonna have
band members that retire, You're gonna have band members that
don't get along and just maybe leave the group, or
you know, just something may happen. Unfortunately, in some situations,
people pass away. You have only been in the bands
for what ten years now, ten to eleven years.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
I'm quickly approaching my eleventh anniversary. I can't believe it.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
And you were only like fourteen or fifteen years old
when Kansas first came out.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
Correct, yes, yes, Well, if you think when the band
really got started and you know, seventy two, seventy three
I was I was ten years.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Old, and now you're the lead singer.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh my god, what are the chances is that.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
A dream come true? I mean, let a lot of
people don't know this. I mean obviously I looked it up.
But you started out you were as as a career,
you were a truck driver.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
Driving my fifty three foot around the beautiful streets to Chicaga. Yeah.
You know, I just have this habit of you know,
I like food, like to eat, and just needed to
make a living. But I've really lived a double life
because I would drive a truck during the day and

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then you know, once I punched out at the end
of the day, I was a musician for the rest
of the day. And I really have lived a double life.
And probably from the age of oh my gosh, fourteen fifteen,
I've never gone without a band. I've always been in
a band, and I've always had, you know, most of

(21:43):
the time, at least until Kansas, I had a day gig.
So really a double life, My god, how did I
get anything done?

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Those of us that work multiple jobs will truly understand
what you're going through. So we're speaking with Ronnie Platt
ead singer of Kansas. Kansas is going to be here
with Jefferson Starship at the Capitol Theater Friday, August twenty second.
I got to ask you, you know, you've you've obviously
had some personal issues in your life.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
You are a cancer survivor. Could you tell us a
little bit about that.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Yes, back in January, I was diagnosed with malignant thyroid cancer.
And boy, when you have no knowledge of that whatsoever,
it really just it was shocking to me. I've I've
lived a insanely clean life, you know, I never drank,

(22:37):
never smoke, I've never done drugs, and just to have that,
you know, presented to me, what was kind of you know,
it was shocking, but learning about what I had and
that it was a very common cancer, and boy, thank god,

(22:58):
I just just by a strange, a strange swing of fate,
met with the right people, got the right surgeon. And
the most amazing thing about it is from my day
of surgery March fourth, April fourth, I was back on

(23:20):
stage with the band one month to my surgery, which
is just unbelievable. And right now it just seems it
really does seem like it was just a bump in
the road.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, and that's that's great to hear, because you know,
you hear so many horror stories about cancer and everything else,
but you also have those that if you if it
gets diagnosed early and taking care of you know, it's
it's beatable.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
I gotta tell you, it was very strange because my
e NT asked me if I ever had radiation therapy.
And when I was born, I had a birthmark on
my nose. All my baby pictures, I look like Rudolph
the Red Nosed reined here, and of course my mother,
my mother didn't want me going through life with a
birthmark on the tip of my nose. And I had

(24:05):
radiation treatments and this is you know, when I was
two years old and had that removed, and MYNT told
me that my cancer was a direct result of those treatments.
I'm sure radiation therapy was perfectly safe in nineteen sixty.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Four, exactly just like shot therapy.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Right right right, But you know, very very lucky that
it didn't turn out bigger than it was. And let
me tell you, I'm just I'm just happy to be
here now and even more happy to you know, still
be singing for the band.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Sure, and I'm sure you know that that is a
relief to you because now you're back at it again
and you are able to tell your story and share
that with people in our listeners as well.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
Yeah, you know, it's you know, when you come across
these hurdles and you know you have to take them
one by one. And that's what I did, and it just,
I mean, the stars aligned for me and for people
that are going through that. It's what you do. You
have to just you have to take each hurdle as

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they come and jump it and get over it, and
you know, try to keep yourself focused on, you know,
the light at the end of the tunnel.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Speaking of lights at the end of the tunnel, Kansas
fifty years, are there any plans for new music in
the future?

Speaker 6 (25:30):
You know, That's the amazing thing about Kansas is I
don't think you're ever going to hear Kansas has announces
their final tour, right. I think Kansas is going to
live on regardless of who's in the band, because again,
it's it's the music. It's it's not the players. The

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music is really the star here. And I always I
always equated it to you know, you think of a
band like Aerosmith and you instantly think of Steven Tyler,
Joe Perry, and with Kansas, you instantly think of the music.
You think of Dust and the Wind and Wayward Son
and you know, all the great songs are just in

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the library of Kansas's music. So you know, Kansas is
going to go on and I and I really think
that we're going to keep producing new studio music under
that Kansas moniker. It's just it's just the work ethic
of the people that are in Kansas and just keeping

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that that name going. And the boy uh, you know,
Kerry Libren uh, Steve Wallash, the original writers of the
band uh uh, they set the bar very high, you know.
Then the time when John Alapante was in the band,
the hits that the band had during John's time, uh.

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And then to come to the time when I joined
the band, the prelude implicit and the absence of presence
and who knows what is going to be beyond that.
So the door is always open for everything in Kansas,
new music, constant touring. It's just the work ethic of

(27:22):
the spand that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
And you guys will be here at the Capitol Theater
in Wheeling, West Virginia, Friday, August twenty second with Jefferson
Starship Terry.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Has been great talking to you.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
I can't or I'm sorry, Ronnie, you were talking about that, yeah, yeah,
and Ronnie, it's been great talking to you and I
want to wish you the best and we look forward
to seeing you on Friday the twenty second in August.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Thank you so much. Good looking forward to the Capitol
Theater August twenty second could be here before you know it.
And everybody, everyone, if you're not in the Wheeling area,
please visit Kansas Band dot com or we're playing. We
are playing everywhere all over the country for the rest
of the year. Come check us out.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Awesome, Thanks so much, Ronnie. All right, you have a
great day, right ah.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
We'll be back with the more of the bloom Daddy
Experience coming up right after this.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Welcome Back bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. So, if you remember a couple of
weeks ago, I brought you a story out of Belmont
County in regards to sludge. Isn't that a lovely term? Sludge?
The more technical term is biosolids. As I told you

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at that point in time, it was a stinky situation.
If you will, there is a lot more colorful world
to describe it, but I will not go down that route.
So basically what this is there are landowners in Belmont
County who have received this bio sludge from the great

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state of Pennsylvania and they use it as quote unquote fertilizer.
It created a horrible nuisance. People thought they had roadkill
in their front yards. It was unpleasant. Well after that
day that story, I was contacted by multiple folks out

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of Harrison County, particularly in the New Athens area. I
had the opportunity to go out and meet with these
sources about their concerns because, first of all, they were
very thankful that somebody was talking about this in Belmont

(30:00):
County because prior to Belmont County, Harrison County was the
first dumping spot for this lovely, lovely depositing. So these
folks that I met with were lovely. I had a
really pleasant time despite the particular subject matter. I've been

(30:23):
in contact with these folks since, and I wanted to
bring you up to date on this story because, first
of all, for the great State of Ohio. This is legal.
What is being done is legal, all right. My problem

(30:45):
with this is it is almost like the State of
Ohio's dirty little secret, smelly, dirty little secret, because if
you were like me, I was not aware of this.
I had not heard of this before until it was
brought to my attention and I experienced it firsthand, and

(31:07):
it is vile. It is vile. But I want to
read to you a couple portions of emails that were
sent to the Ohio EPA from these concerned citizens in
Harrison County. This is first hand description of what it
has been like dealing with this. We are living in

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an undesirable existence due to the horrific stench englfing our village.
After much research, we have found the cause and immortified
what was discovered. Why is it allowed to be human
waste from Allegheny County dumped into our little township in
Harrison County. I can taste this odor, smell this odor.

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Our eyes burn, and it is making us feel ill daily.
Think about that. How is this okay? Is it is
a health risk? Obviously? We cannot even sit inside our
homes without smelling this stench. This is from a concerned

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citizen in New Athens, Ohio Harrison County. Also this is
from the EPA in response. This is just a portion.
The Ohio EPA determined that all site requirements for land
application were met at the fields where these applied. Where

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the bio biosolids were applied. The nuisance orders were confirmed
in the New Athens order. We believe the rain last
week in recent extreme heat created excessive odors. Ohio EPA
will be issuing a notice of violation for the creation
of these nuisance orders. This violation will require actions to

(33:03):
be taken to prevent nuisance orders when the fields near
New Athens are used for biosolids in the future. And
I have more on this, but one thing to keep
in mind. There are two states already that has made
this illegal. Those are main in Connecticut along with Michigan,
New York, and Wisconsin who have implemented implemented stronger regulations

(33:26):
in regards to this dumping. There has been munch research
on this where the exposure can cause various health problems,
including immune system suppression and increase risk of cancer. This
is not a small thing. This is not just about
the smell, Folks. This is about potential illness spreading into

(33:51):
our waterways and into our food sources through the agriculture
and the land that this is being deposited on. And
now it's not only Belmont County, it is also Harrison County.
If you're dealing with this, we want to hear from
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(34:14):
Let's do your first chance to win this Morning Family
four pack to rafter m Rodeo August twenty third, one
eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy. Let's do caller
number ten. Caller number ten one eight hundred six two,
four eleven seventy. We'll be back. The bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Ze number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy, his
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news Radio eleven seventy. WUBVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Welcome back eight oh six The Bloomdaddy Experience samon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So yesterday, if you missed
the show, I told the story about our run in
with mister man Bun In regards to the Bernie Sanders
appearance on Friday, I forgot to open the text line

(35:20):
window yesterday. Otis, so I did this morning to a
couple texts and I wanted to I wanted to highlight
one that we received. Yeah, it says I wouldn't have
moved the posters. Anyone who acts like that spoiled man
child needs psychiatric help, and that help starts with rubbing

(35:44):
his nose in opposing views free speech, you know, yep,
Stan says, never cave to the woke mob. Let's see here. Yeah.
So those are just two, a couple of them that
I wanted to highlight because my apologies for yesterday, I
should have had that open and it just complete completely
excuse me, slipped my mind. So I wanted to highlight

(36:04):
those from our from our listeners. Speaking of politics, West
Virginia is considering returning to the paper ballot system. Secretary
Secretary of State Chris Warner says the state may return
to paper ballots for May's primary election. In presidential executive

(36:25):
order prohibits voting systems that use QR codes and bar codes.
All fifty five West Virginia counties currently use electronic scanners.
With these technology, Warner's office is preparing backup plans while
evaluating the executive orders impact.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
You missed the memo.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
I missed the memo? What memo?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
When I told you earlier this was for tomorrow, I said,
we can go over with Elgin.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Oh well, we can still go over it with Elgin.
But as paper ballance, the direction to go back.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
To, I mean, you're going to go to the hanging chad,
you know what, I'm where you punch the holes.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Oh god, God, I hope not.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Like the old standardized testing.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I hope not. You would think in this day and age,
where we have gotten with technology where we can literally
use AI to completely fake somebody where it looks about
as real as possible, their voices sound as real as possible,

(37:36):
that we still can't come to a nationwide secure voting process,
that that we're having this conversation of going back to
paper ballots. I mean, is it just me or does
this just seem ridiculous at this point?

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Well, you know the thing with the West Virginia ballots
are they do have the barcode at the bottom, which yeah,
the machines.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Read the barcode and process your votes.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
But according to this article that President Trump signed an
executive order to eliminate barcodes in QR codes from ballots.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
So you know, you know, I mean, how do you
track that?

Speaker 4 (38:26):
I mean, it's just you're regressing instead of progressing, right,
So it's it's it. I don't know if there's a
right or wrong answer, but I mean it just seems
like it's a step backwards as opposed to a step forward.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Well, how do how how do we not have a
nationwide style of voting process.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Because we live it up to the states. I mean,
that's part of the process. I mean, I you know,
two hundred and fifty years ago, they probably didn't think
about technology in the future, right, well, you know, I
mean they're not thinking, oh, well, hey, everything's going to
be on a computer and everything's going to be read
by QR codes or barcodes or whatever. They had no
idea what a barcode was, let alone a computer computer.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Right.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
It's just again, it just boggles my mind that at
this point in time that it is still under such
questionable security of how our voting criteria is implemented, How
it's handled.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Well, your votes are supposed to be, you know, anonymous.
But with the barcode, I mean, can they tell you
who that you know? Because obviously you have to have
your ballot, you know, you have to register, you have
to then you only vote once. I mean, if they
want to challenge the ballot, there has to be a
number that's next to my name or something of that nature.

(39:47):
So I mean, they're eventually going to find out who
you voted for or didn't vote for, you know. So
I mean, I don't the days of the anonymous ballot
I think are gone as well. But I don't think
they I think they only use it if it comes
into into if they have to contest about it.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
When I when I register for the general election and
my ballot is number one eight five four one, Well,
if that's the ballot that comes into question because maybe
I'm voting out of my district or something of that nature,
that's how they find it because that barcode has one,
eight five or one in it.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
So well, and isn't there still the conversation where people
are fighting. I think it's in California that you don't
have to show identification, to prove who you are somewhere.
That to me is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. You should not
be able to just walk in and vote. Willy nilly,

(40:49):
I'm here, I'm here to vote, and I have to
prove to you who I am. I don't have to
prove that I'm an American citizen. I don't have to
prove that I have the right to vote. Nope, you
can just you can just walk right in and do
as you will. So again, West Virginia Secretary of State
Chris Warner says the state may return to paper ballots

(41:10):
for May's primary election. And that's sooner than what you think,
sooner than what you think. And speaking, you mentioned computers
in you know, two hundred and fifty years ago. People
don't remember. Do you remember this? Sound?

Speaker 6 (41:25):
Should I?

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Should?

Speaker 2 (41:25):
I try and do it?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Terrible?

Speaker 2 (41:31):
After thirty years, AOL is discontinuing the iconic dial up
internet service.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
We need the guy from Police Academy to do it.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
He could do it. Oh yeah, what.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Was his name? Oh he's still alive accent. So this
is going to happen on September thirtieth.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
What do you jumped?

Speaker 4 (41:54):
I'm just looking at what Tyson was saying.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Oh, Mike Tyson. It put a notice on its website.
The company announced it we'll be shuttering the dial up
service and associated software, including the AOI, AOL dialer, and
AOL shield browser we just talked about. I didn't even
realize AOL was still around the way it is. This
change will not affect any other benefits in existing AOL plans.

(42:20):
Formerly known as America Online, it popular. It became popular
in the nineteen nineties as a home internet usage and
it continued to grow. But of course it had the
iconic You've Got Mail alerts.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
So that guy just passed away here about a year or.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
So ago, the voice of you Got Mail.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
So it was a taxi driver?

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Really, how do you know that because.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
There was a story about it. Oh, we probably we
had a story on it, like a year ago.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Oh, let's say, talk about useless information. And you remembered
that it was a taxi drive. Well, there was an
higher movie made about it, wasn't there.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
I don't think it was about AOL, but it was
called You've Got Mail.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Well, yeah, I know, but it was all centered around
that whole thing. Is there any piece of technology like
that's antiquated that you use every day still that you
can think of.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Probably there probably is.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
I'm trying to think if I do. I don't think
I do. I still use pens and paper. Some people
don't even use that anymore. Everything's on your phone. I
had somebody called me. I had somebody earlier this week
call me grandma because I do not put any of
my financial stuff on my phone. I don't have anything

(43:43):
in my banking on my phone. I don't use any
of the cash apps and none of that kind of stuff.
I don't use any of it, Apple Pay, none of it,
none of it. And this person said to me, oh, okay, Grandma, Yeah,
they're gonna bust it and take your stuff. I'm like, no,
I don't want to lose my phone, and all my
stuff is out there for everybody to see. I don't know.

(44:06):
Maybe I'm just old school. God, I'm old school. Oh God.
Eight fifteen. You're listening to the bloom Daddy experience.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Coming up, your chance to win Kansas tickets and to
be qualified for the.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Kansas tickets, right, but we also have Pirates tickets later.
That's later. We'll just say.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Let's just say coming up very.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Shortly is going to be Kansas, Yes, and then we'll
also have pirate tickets A fifteen. You're listening to the
Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome
back the boom Daddy Experience. Samon Odas News Radio eleven
seventy WWV. We're back there you go. That's a hard

(44:49):
uh welcome back. So okay, that threw me off a
little bit. Sorry. So we were talking about AOL and
things going away. Who Love's going away to? So they
have teamed up or they're combining so Disney owned Hulu.
So they have announced that the individual Hulu app itself

(45:10):
is going away next year and it's gonna be all
combined into one and all be found inside Disney Plus,
which that is the bundle. They've already got a Hulu
Hub built into the platform and that's set to become
the only way to stream the Hulu app moving forward.
So you can still get the only Hulu plan if

(45:33):
that's all that you want. But clearly Disney is betting
big that you're gonna want all in one. You're gonna
want the giant bundles. So there are changes happening to
the Hulu app as well. It's getting to the point
where all these different things that are available is getting

(45:54):
it's getting confusing for folks. I mean, I mentioned the
other day planning for football viewing the NFL. They've got
so many different deals in so many different contracts, with
so many different networks in platforms. It's like you're taking
the SATs to figure out what team is playing on

(46:18):
one night on what station or what platform? Do you
have access to that platform? If you don't have access,
what do you have to do to get access? Or
is it all housed under say, Amazon Prime where you
can get different platforms through Prime. It's ridiculous. It's gotten
absolutely ridiculous and confusing. And now Disney who owns Hulu

(46:46):
and on Hulu is ABC because ABC is owned by
Disney and also ESPN is owned by Disney. Am I
saying that right, ESPN is owned by Disney. Yeah, Disney
owns all of this stuff. But if you only have
the Hulu app, can you watch ABC? If you only
have this, can you watch that? That's where it's gotten again.

(47:09):
As I said, it's like you have to take it's
like taking an SAT to find out where and what
and how you can watch things. It shouldn't be that hard.
Folks shouldn't be that hard. You shouldn't have to stress
out to sit down and watch something on TV. But
that's kind of a it's kind of where we've gotten.

(47:30):
I did try to watch something this weekend. I believe
it was on Prime. Yeah, it was on Prime. There's
a remake of the classic War of the World. And Saturday,
I couldn't find anything to watch. It was like nine
o'clock at night. I just wanted to sort of wind down,

(47:53):
so I threw it on ice Cube stars in it.
Oh my, is it bad? It is? It is bad?
Oh is it terrible? There's no other way to describe it.
There is nothing of any what's the word I'm looking for,
any value. I should have watched Happy Gilmour too, which

(48:17):
I have not watched that yet, and I don't know
why it didn't even pop into my head. I forgot
about it, honestly, and I thought, ah, ice Cube. He's
not bad in some things. I loved Friday. He was
good in that, you know, War the Worlds, it's a
classic ties into of course radio and the whole thing.
I'll give this a whirl. I would say it's probably

(48:40):
the worst film I've seen in ten years. Ten years.
So my whole point to this, everybody, I am saving
you two hours of your life. I only made it
forty five minutes, FYI. I'm saving you two hours of
your life. Do not bother. Do not bother, because you

(49:04):
cannot get it back. You cannot get those two hours back.
You just can't. You just can't. I think I might
have preferred to have this happen. There's a family in
Kansas whose worst nightmare became a reality when a child's
report of a monster under the bed led to this

(49:27):
discovery of a man actually hiding there. So how many
times you know there's something under the bed, there's something
in the closet. If you're like me, if I hear
something and I'm home alone and I'm laying in bed,
I pull the covers all the way up to my eyes.

(49:48):
I'm not ashamed to say it. I'm not embarrassed to
say it. I've done it. This is a night ye
oh yeah, they're vicious. They'd lick you to death, that's
all they would do. But this happened in Barton County,
where a babysitter was preparing the children for bed. This
wasn't even the parents, this is the babysitter when one

(50:08):
complained about the presence of an intruder. When the babysitter investigated,
she found a twenty seven year old male who had
previously lived at the residence, despite being under a protective
order to stay away under the bed. The suspect fled
the scene, but was later apprehended after a brief pursuit

(50:31):
pursuit I'm sorry. He now faced his charges including aggravated kidnapping,
aggravated burglary, battery, child engagement, endangerment, and violation of the
protective order. The man is being held on a five
hundred thousand dollars bond as the investigation continues. I would
you know what in my pants?

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Cindy das a monster under my bed and then there's
a deed under there.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Because you know you have that, and you think, okay,
I'm going to play along with the little kid and go,
oh look, there's nothing. Always just a fuzzy cute little creature.
There's nothing there, you know, And then you have eyes
looking you.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Don't tell them there's something under there, a fuzzy cute
little creature. You don't tell them anything, but.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Like you pull out the Teddy Bear or something and say, look,
this is what you saw, or this is what's under there.
But if you saw eyeballs looking back at you.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Hand, oh, I would jump.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
I would absolutely, Oh.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Yes, because you're so jumpy as it is.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Oh, I'm ridiculous. I'm ridiculous, But yeah, I would. There
would be a few choice words, probably screamed at the
top of my lungs. Also absolutely.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
So.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
Well, we've got your chance to win. We do what
we're doing, Para Kansas tickets, and if you win the
Para Kansas tickets, you will be eligible for tomorrow's drawing
for the grand prize of the meet and greet with
the band Kansas and the autographed drum head cover.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
GI have a one in five chance.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Yep one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy one,
eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy, caller number nineteen.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Caller number nineteen one, eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy.
It's eight twenty eight. When we get back, we have
a happy Birthday celebration to get into of a great
local business, The Bloomdaddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio, eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back, Get thirty six The bloom Daddy Experience,

(52:33):
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. So we're celebrating
a birthday today, so joining us in studio. Now we
have the one and only the man, the myth a legend,
Kirk Porterfield in the house, gonna say hi, good morning.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
They can't hear your head rattle and you shake it
just let.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
You know, and along with him, as I lovingly refer
to in the endorsement, his mis me mark joining us also.
So I mentioned, of course we're celebrating a birthday of
Kirk's ice Cream. So what have we hit gentlemen?

Speaker 8 (53:10):
Thirty three years we opened the doors off or August
the twelfth of ninety two. Okay, so today's a thirty
third year.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
So first of all, with it being a birthday celebration,
who's actually going to get the gifts today?

Speaker 8 (53:27):
The customers are? You know? The plan is we're going
to sell single cones and single dishes for a dollar
piece at the Saint Clairsville location and the Shady Side location.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
And speaking of the Shady Side location, mark you are
now what a month and a half in? Two months in?

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah, just about two months in.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
So how is it being a following in old Dad's
footsteps as an entrepreneur not old Adam? Sorry I didn't
mean it that way. Yeah you did, that sounded But
how is it?

Speaker 7 (53:56):
Oh, it's been.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
It's been great.

Speaker 7 (53:58):
I see the headaches that he's gone through his whole
life and what woul I wouldn't change it for anything.
It's been great. Just seeing all the people, the customers
and the happy faces. It's it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
How's Shady Side been the reception? I'm sure it's been.

Speaker 7 (54:13):
The town itself has been phenomenal. It's the support from
the community has been wonderful and everybody just seems to
love and really support whether it's Kirk's ice Creams or
any other small new business, they really.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Know what to do and situations like that, well.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
And hitting thirty three years Kirk, give us all. I mean,
I've grown up with Kirk's ice Cream It's been around
since I was a kid. Give us the story of
Kirks and how you decided to go from what you
were doing to you know, be becoming.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
The ice cream King.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Yeah, the King of ice cream in the High Valley.

Speaker 8 (54:51):
Well, my granddad, Herb Walker, sort to make an ice
cream in nineteen twenty six, you got home from the
war and his parents, my great grandparents had a like
a boarding house and fixed meals because they were there
in Coal Rain on US two fifty, pretty busy road.
And then he decided to you know, dad, ice cream

(55:11):
to the chicken dinner lineup, and you know, they cranked
it by hand.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
My mom talked.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
About her and her sister and brothers, little kids. They
got so tired of cranking that ice cream machine for
about ten years. And then in the mid thirties they
got an electric when I don't know if they put
a motor on it or bought one. And then in
the forties they bought a machine basically the same as
what I have now. It really hasn't changed too much.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
And for anybody in the surrounding area, whether you're in
Ohio or not, Walker's ice Cream was that was the
place to go. I mean, that name was synonymous with
ice cream in Ohio. So the connection that you have,
I mean, that's it makes complete sense because every time
I taste yours, it reminds me of that as a kid.

Speaker 8 (55:59):
Yeah, you know, we both you know, my granddad and
you know, well back in the day, you know, they
milk cows and they made your own mix, but then
things change and you couldn't do that anymore. So we
both got it from United Dary and Morton's Ferry.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
They didn't do a great job.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Yeah. Well, and again hitting thirty three years Kirk's ice cream.
So Mark, Dad's made it to thirty three years. What
are you thinking.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
I'm thinking it's going to go that end some at least,
I hope. So I want it to be on and
on from generation to come.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
So well, you're only seven years away from forty. Yeah,
you know, you're only seventeen away from fifty. So I
mean those are attainable goals.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Yeah, what were the first couple flavors, Kirk that you
came up with thirty three years ago? Of course you've
got your chocolates and your vanillas and your strawberries, but
you're known for your creative combination.

Speaker 8 (56:50):
Well, in the beginning, we just did the basic flavors.
And the first cone I sold was to Steve Clark,
and he bought butterby Collan for a dollar back then.
So that's why we're at a dollar today.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
How many cones would you estimate you've done in thirty
three years.

Speaker 8 (57:09):
I have no idea there'd be a lot of them,
at millions probably.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
And here's what's the most amazing part, A little behind
the scenes. I've had the opportunity. Otis, you've had the
opportunity to go and see how they make the ice cream.
One machine does all of that work? One machine in
hands correct, right? And how long? And it's been the
same machine since the beginning.

Speaker 8 (57:31):
Yeah, it's very dependable. I mean it's r good. I
tell people it wasn't built by the cheap bidder, the
lowest eater, so it is quality and we never think
about it breaking down because in thirty three years it hasn't.
You every morning you go in, yeah, knack on one.
Yet you hit the switch and away it goes.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
And then you now of course, are in grocery stores,
you're in different markets across the area, you're at parks,
you're at the casino. I mean you've gone from serving
individual ice cream cones to where you are today. I
mean that's a huge accomplishment. Most people don't see that.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Thanks.

Speaker 8 (58:08):
Well, when I bought the machine that was the biggest
one you could make. It's still the biggest one you
can you can get today. And you know, I thought about, hey,
I got to run some more products through there to
help cover the cost. So that's when we started the
wholesale side.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
And Mark, did Dad ever let you when you were
a little like create your own flavors or kind of
push for some ideas.

Speaker 7 (58:31):
I put my name on a couple of different flavors.
We're throwing something in the machine and seeing if it'd
come out good, and sometimes it was, but it'd be
too expensive because I'd throw everything I could in it.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Well, and you've come up with new things now, not
only at your location in Shady Side, but also in
Saint Clairsville. D I'm going to get it wrong, but
the cereal.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Yeah, this cereal f repe uh huh.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
And then you've got those, and then you've also gotten
this is brilliant, absolutely brilliant. You have the flight, Yeah,
tell everybody what the flight.

Speaker 7 (59:06):
Is, so you know, you go in there. You've got
over forty forty different flavors to choose from, and hardly
anybody can ever make up their minds. So you get
a flight, you get four scoops for nine dollars or sorry,
ten dollars. Four scoops of whatever flavor you'd like, and
it's kind of like a Samplers or four full sized
scoops and you really get your your bang for your.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Buck on that one.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
And it is it is quite mobile. I will say
there has been times where I'm like, I don't know
what I want, so you can easily take it home
and you know, pick at it for the next couple
of days and treat yourself.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
Well, we've celebrity scooped so much that if Kirk just
teaches us how to run the register, we'll probably be
employed there.

Speaker 8 (59:49):
Not me.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
I would be the social director.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Well, there's no doubt about that, because you don't scoop
very much.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Well, you know, okay, I do the selling. I do
the education in the selling. So in thirty three years, Kirk,
one thing that I think has has established you guys
is like you like otis just brought up the celebrity
scooper and I think this is one thing to really
highlight with a lot of businesses that make it to
the level that you've made it to is being a

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part of the community. And I think that's one thing
that makes you stand out from a lot of people.

Speaker 8 (01:00:20):
Yeah, we've always been involved with the community wheeling health
right the Chef's auction. I think we've been there for
as long as they've been doing you know, I think
close to thirty years. And we do a lot with
rotary that tastes of the Valley, and we always have
ice cream for their spaghetti dinners, and you know, all

(01:00:41):
that just adds up and it's enjoyable.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Well, then and again supporting the United Way with the
celebrity Scoopers, and again just being involved in general is
part of being a small business owner, and you've you've
definitely stepped up to the plate there.

Speaker 8 (01:00:55):
Well, I sure do enjoy those events. I'll tell you.
They're a lot of fun. Me a lot of people
and you really, oh it's kind of crazy. It's kind
of crazy, but it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Celebrity Scooper, he's always back in the back. Everyone's a
ryhal Sticky's head out just to see who's out there,
but he kind of he stays away from it.

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
Well, you guys go through so much ice cream. We
got to keep making it or it won't have enough
for the night shift.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Yeah, we did keep you busy that day, which, by
the way, speaking of that, did we ever get a
final tally on what we raised that day?

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
We just got do you mean just in general idea,
I think we're the one tight with you people from
the United right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
I think we did really well.

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
Yeah, yeah, I think it was big this year. It
seemed a lot bigger, even though it was only two days.
I think they said they raised more money in two
days than they did three.

Speaker 7 (01:01:41):
Lashed it was the same a little bit more than
it was last year.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
For well, we know Belmont Savings did over eight hundred
and the Jarvis Jarvis did over eight hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
We did around three. So I mean, right off the bat,
there's nineteen hundred dollars. Yeah, so that doesn't count everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Else, right, So it was a success. And again part
of that success is, of course Kirk's stepping up to
play thirty three years in celebration today. Tell everybody again
what you're doing.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
Uh, we're selling single cones and single dishes for a
dollar apiece, going.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Back to inflation back down thirty three years ago, and
you brought us they're out, folks. This is my first
pumpkin season. What do we have pumpkin pie and.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Regular pumpkin, regular pump regular pie. Huh, So they're out.
They're out.

Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
At the Saint Clairsville store, you can get dips or
half gallons, and the Shady Side store right now just
has the half gallons because they don't have any place
to put it. So they've got to sell a couple
flavors out so they got a room to put it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
That's kind of trouble.

Speaker 8 (01:02:39):
Every time you bring a new flavor out, you have
to get rid of something and everybody complains.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Like, oh, you don't have one, Yeah that was their favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Yeah, well, congratulations on thirty three years today, guys, Well
thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:53):
And next year will be our one hundredth anniversary. And
my granddad make an ice cream. So we haven't decided
what we're gonna do, but we're gonna do something.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Oh, I'm sure you got to be a party, got
to be.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
I'll bet you there'll be ice cream.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Man, they're better be eight forty six. Thanks guys, you're
listening to The Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven
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Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Well we go from ice cream to cars to cars.
What's going on? My man? Kevin Cook and Straw automotives.

Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
My goys, how y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Oh we got ice cream. We're happy, man.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
I can you not be happy with ice cream?

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Especially Kirk's ice cream?

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Oh, the best, the best.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
We have pumpkin, we have pumpkin and pumpkin pie.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Pumpkin pumpkin pie. Okay, yeah, I guess that's what you know,
all the pumpkin stuff coming, it's coming.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Yeah, get ready?

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
Yeah yeah, that means and lattees and you know all
that other stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Well doesn't October. Doesn't October mean like the twenty twenty
sixes should be coming out in vehicles? What in vehicles?

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
There already some of them already coming out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
So it used to be back in the day they
would come out. It was like like TV. You know,
when TV would premiere on certain weekends, there's certain weeks
and then the next thing, you know, the cars would
come out.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Well, there there was a time that we covered them.
You know, you bring all the new ones in under
the you know, in the middle of the night, you'd
cover them all up. There'd be you know, there'd be
a launch day for for the new models. Yeah, so
on and so forth. Yeah, it was a huge deal,
huge deal, but not so much anymore. No, not with the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Internet and cameras and videos and phones and everything else.
You can't keep anything a secret.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
Everybody really stays on top of what's coming out. You
know though, you know, it's a good time to be
in the car business, especially a good time to be
a customer for Strawb Automotive because you are dealing with,
as we always talk about, the number one and number
two Honda dealer in the entire state, the number one
Hyundai Customer Satisfaction Index dealer in the nation, and the

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number one Frontier truck dealer on the east on east
of the Mississippi. In Nissan.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
It's a lot of number ones.

Speaker 6 (01:05:28):
That is a lot of number ones.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
JD Power.

Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
JD Power does not forget that. Okay, these guys are
doing an absolutely incredible job and our customer base, I
mean that it reflects that, okay, because they're the ones
that fill out these surveys. Okay, they talk about the
experience that they get here. You know, we're not number
one in sales because we have the highest prices. We're

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number one because we give you the absolute best experience,
the absolute best prices, the absolute best trade and values
service after the sale keeps everybody coming back. I mean,
you know, everybody here is doing a great job and
we appreciate teaching every customer. You can log on today
to drivestrib dot com and you can check out all
the savings for yourself, whether it's Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Chrisso, Dodge,

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deep Ram or Forward. You know, every unit's clearly sale priced.
Every pre owned vehicle that's clearly sale priced. We've got
ever Drive, which is lifetime powertrained. No one else in
the markets has that on on their vehicles, so.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Check it out.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
All right, Well, you'll be talking to Sam on Thursday
by herself. Oh I'm gone until the twenty Well I
won't talk to you until the twenty eighth.

Speaker 6 (01:06:46):
I will be out Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday Tuesday next week,
so I'll be gone six days as well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:53):
So guess what, You're not losing each other, so we're
all on the same page.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Maybe we'll run into each other someplace.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Yeah, I doubt it, but you have I mean no,
I mean no, I mean, I mean doubt we'll run
into each other.

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
Yeah. Not less be on a motorcycle because we're taking
a motorcycle trip.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Mine's gonna be a little tough to get to where
I'm going on a motorcycle.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
I drowned.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
I drowned probably about five hundred feet out into the Atlantic. Well,
enjoy yourself, all right, buddy, you have a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
So there you have it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
He's going on vacation too, how about that? Well, but
I think this is like a this is a in
he went to room.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I mean that's that's that's a
big one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
That's a big one.

Speaker 6 (01:07:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
I mean the coliseum and saw all those cool things
in there. I mean Italian.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Food, the food alone would be amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
There's a girl, one of my former supervisors. She she
was actually in Dresden, Germany, where I'm going, and she said,
there's actually a very good Italian restaurant there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
It's like in Germany.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Yeah. I'm thinking, okay, like that's whatever. That's where you
want to go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
You're Italian?

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Yeah, I want to go to Germany for Italian food?
So what is German food like? Brought worse?

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
You know, there the there's brats, and there's worsts.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
And you know what, it betters nothing. I made a
really bad joke, right, there wasn't even really a joke.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Glad I missed it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Oh talking about like iconic places to visit? What about
a legendary icon, the one and only Dolly Parton. She
is being named.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
As do we want to visit Dolly Parton? Is that
what you're saying?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Some men back in the day probably did what.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
You mean back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Well, okay, she is being named a Guinness World Records Icon.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
A spokes spokeswoman for Guinness presented the country singer with
a golden Guinness World Records certificate at her studio in Nashville.
Dolly said she was humbled and she takes a lot
of pride in the honor. The superstar currently has eleven
record titles to her name, including most consecutive decades with
top ten album entries on the Billboard Country Chart.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
That's pretty impressive, Dolly partners eleven records.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
She's incredibly humble.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
She really is humble, and she gives back, and you know,
she she's you know, she understands where she came from
and people that maybe need help.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
And you know she does that thing with the libraries
and the books.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
And that's a huge, huge movement in Ohio. Governor Dwine
is very very supportive of Dolly's Student Book. I can't
think of the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
The name of the program.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Yes, of course I can actually see the stupid logo
and can't think of it. So yeah, she's she's very
very humble, very humble. And then today celebrate National Vinyl
Record Day.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
There you have it, and Mark Knopfler, let's say that again.
Mark Knopfler.

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
Knopflerler, the lead singer and guitarist for Dire Streets, has
a birthday today. So even though it's the Vinyl Day,
that was one of the first CDs that I bought
back in nineteen eighty five. Really yeah, Dire Straits, Brothers
and Arms.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
So say that name again, Mark knopflerp flur k n O.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
P f l e R.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
That's just a fun word to say.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
So we got your last chance to win. Today we
have a family four pack of pirate tickets. One two, three,
four five or one two three four?

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Actually do we have four? Yeah, we have four, but
we may have an extra for to Mark.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
We have family four pack Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates. Sunday,
August twenty fourth. I picked the number you give me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
One one eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy. Let's
do caller number eighteen eighteen. One eight hundred sixty two,
four eleven seventy, caller number eighteen. Everybody, have a good Tuesday.
We'll talk to you tomorrow, all right, tomorrow, Yeah,