The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam August 14, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience gets seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. Good Thursday morning, and I feel like
I'm back.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
From a long hiatus.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I don't know about you, but when you go on vacation,
do you have vacation fog? Brain fog when you get back,
Because that's where I'm at right now. It's really hard
to get back into any sort of routine. Went to
Holden Beach, North Carolina. That's where the family has been
going for a long long time. Just very family oriented.
This is about forty miles i'd say forty minutes before

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you get to Myrtle Beach. Not over commercialized, two crappy
putt putt courses, two halfway decent restaurants, nothing else, which
is exactly what I want. I want beach, I want
beach house, I want seafood.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
And that is it.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
One of the best vacations I've ever had. I mean
six days of absolute R and R. But you know,
there was something I noticed on vacation, and I think
you're going to be able to relate to this when
you think about where we are as far as humanity goes.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And I'm not going to get into some big.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Speech here, but I noticed something and you've encountered this
a thousand times on the roadways, but I think it's
a great indicator of why we are what we are
when it comes to humanity. And what I mean by
that is if we all just had the same goals
and we all just respected each other, life would be

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so much simpler. But we can't. And I'll tell you
exactly what I'm talking about. Three times on this trip
now you're talking about a ten hour trip from Saint
Clairsville to Holden Beach. Three times on this trip there
were lanes closed down. So you know what I'm talking about.
You're driving and you see the sign that says right

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lane closed five miles ahead, whatever it may be.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
If everybody saw that sign.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
And gave a dam about anybody else, they would simply
get in the left lane right after they see the
sign and proceed on down the road, and there would
be no issues when it came to just one lane.
But that's not what happens, is it? Every time you've
been in that situation? What happens when you see right

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lane closed ahead? Most people will get in the left lane.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
But what do you have.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You've got people zooming in the right lane all the
way up into where the lanes almost closed down, and
they try to cut in front of everybody. And I'm
watching this happen because three times traffic got backed up
so bad that it probably lost me ten to fifteen
minutes each and every time, and the whole time, I'm

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thinking every time, if everybody just gave a damn about
their fellow human beings, they would simply merge into the
left lane as soon as they could, and everything would
go would flow perfectly, and nobody would.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Lose any time. But that doesn't happen.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Why because people are selfish, because people think their time's
more valuable, because people don't give a.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Damn about you or me. So what did I see?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
All three times people get over in the left lane,
and then people just shooting down.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
That right lane over and over and over.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sometimes you get lucky and a truck driver will go
over and block the right lane, but isn't apathetic. We've
got to do that. And what goes through somebody's head
to make them think that they are more valuable than
you are in that situation. And I think it's a
microcosm of what we see in society today. If we
all just rea expected each other a little bit more,

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if we all thought, you know what, I'm no better
than that person is. If we all just did the
right thing, this world would be such a better place.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
But it's never going to happen.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
And that's because certain people are just selfish bastards and
they don't care. And I'll tell you what I would.
The first time, I was a little upset. The second time,
I was a little irate. The third time, I pulled
over and I blocked the lane. And when you do that,
you got to be ready for whatever's going to come,
whether it's somebody flashing a gun, somebody getting on your bumper,
somebody threatening to fight you.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
And that's a shame in and of itself too.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But you know when I see that, I just sit
there and I scratch my head and I think why why?
And to the people out there, and you may maybe
one of them who let those people in. You're part
of the problem too. I don't let anybody in once
they try to squeeze in. It's not happening. It's not happening.
Why would you be courteous or why would I be

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courteous to somebody who has disrespected countless people and feels
that the rules don't pertain to them, that they're just
simply better and they don't have to do what everybody
else is trying to do.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
There's not a chance.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
But yet, over and over and over you see people
coming over, letting them in the other part of this equation.
And you know, when you drive ten hours, you see
a lot of things and you have time to sit
there and think about them. Is the left lane driver?
The left lane supposed to be the fast lane. Now,
I'll admit there have been times where I've been in

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the left lane and I look and there's nobody behind me,
and I kind of start thinking about things, and the
next thing you know, boom, there goes somebody blowing by
me on the right and that tells me, oh crap,
what am I doing?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
And I merge over into the right lane. Once again.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
A lot of people don't I don't know how many
people I saw driving in the left lane, backing up
traffic and did not care.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
They knew what they were doing, did not care.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
One time, you had a woman in the left lane
on this trip driving sixty one miles an hour, the
speed limit was seventy and she had traffic backed up,
and I finally was able to get over to the right.
I pulled up next to her, hit the horn, flipped
her off, yelled a number of expletives out the window,

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cut in front of her. To really drive the point home, now,
is that proper of me? Absolutely not. Didn't care at
that moment in time. Wanted to send the message to
this a hole that what she's doing is ridiculous. And
then I took off and I looked in my rear
view mirror. Two minutes later, she's still in the left lane.

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She knew what she was doing. I know I scared
the hell out of her. I know I got her
attention because she looked right at me when she got
the bird. Did not care. And again, microcosm of society.
It's just amazing to me how many people do not
care about their fellow human beings.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
They're in their own little world.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
They do what they want to do, and that's the
big issue in society today other than that great vacation.
Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer here on a
Thursday morning with you, but I'm just pointing out a
couple of things that I observed that I think, once
again microcosms of the problems in society today, and that
is some people just think they're a lot more special.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Than you are, and that's really really sad.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Back with more here on the bloom Daddy Experience eleven
to seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Good Thursday morning. Thank you for tuning in the bloom
Daddy Experience. Sam all on our learns from this morning
and Otis. Usually it's so empty in here, but I'm
not the only Sam. We've got the other Sam behind
the board stepping in for the one and only Otis,
So I'm not all by myself, and I'm not going

(08:07):
to be by myself this morning because we have a
busy morning on tap for you. We have Belmont Savings
Bank coming in. We're going to talk finances, loans, mortgages,
all that happy fun stuff that everybody has to deal
with as an adult. So for another episode of Busting
the Banker's Brain, so that's coming up, and then coming

(08:29):
up shortly, we're gonna have Howard Carnell visiting us again
talking about everything happening here at the Capitol in the
next month or so, and then I'm going to try
I'm going to try and pull out maybe some secret
things that are happening as we push towards the fall
and the holiday season when things ramp up, so maybe
Howard will get into that with me. And then of

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course later in the show, we're gonna have Kathy Kevich
with us the Belmont County treasure We're going to talk
about this grassroots movement to a property taxes in the
state of Ohio. We're going to get into that, along
with touching base on things with East Ohio Regional Hospital,
the taxes and everything there, because, as you know, if

(09:14):
you've been following the show, we have been bringing you
the information on East Ohio dating back to June. June,
ladies and gentlemen, we have been covering East Ohio Regional
Hospital in regards to the new owner, questioning the new owner,
the curder law off is tie in the questionable three

(09:36):
sixty you know who is this. We've been doing this
since June June, folks, I just want to reiterate that
date June. We have been asking these asking these questions,
so that's what is called bringing it to you first.
One other thing I want to let you know about
is the fact that we are going to have a
couple chances for you to win this morning, which by

(09:58):
the way, today is Thursday, so of course it's your
chance to win Kirks half gallon of ice cream.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
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Speaker 4 (10:08):
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(10:30):
just go to our text line seven zero four seven zero,
start it off with bloom Daddy, name and phone number,
and that is your registration. One thing I wanted to
mention is that after today I will also be on vacation,
and with that though you don't have to be without us.

(10:51):
I'm going to post throughout the week on our Facebook
page a link to our podcast to different episodes that
we've had over the past couple months, including our June
thirtieth episode with our coverage on East Ohio Regional Hospital,
and you can go there and you can listen to us,
so you don't have to start your day off without us.

(11:12):
You can still go to our podcast listen to our
different episodes, and as I said, I'll be posting those
on our Facebook page throughout the week. So I posted
this last night because if you haven't heard, former President
Biden has scored himself.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
A book deal.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Surprise, surprise, all right, so we're looking to you for
a title. We need a title, so let the jokes begin.
Is basically what I'm hitting at here, folks. What should
be the title for President former President Biden's book?

Speaker 6 (11:56):
Simple?

Speaker 5 (11:57):
What should it be? I came up with a couple.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
My first one the Diaper Diaries. Does we all know
he can't walk up steps, so more than likely there's
a diaper involved, and there was one at the White
House The Diaper Diaries or Michael on Facebook commented and said,
the Fall of the Biden car Tel, the Fall of

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the Biden car Tell.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
But we want your ideas too.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
So again, what should be the name of President Biden's book.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Have some fun with this, folks.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
You can of course call us one in one hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy one e one hundred sixty
two four eleven seventy or of course you can text
us seven zero four seven zero what should be the
name of President Biden's book.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Deal, have some.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Fun with it, please do, please, absolutely have some fun
with it. Now get into I have a second one,
but I'm gonna hold onto that one. I'm going to
get into some other things that are happening currently.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
If you have not.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Overnight, President, I'm sorry. Governor Patrick Morrissey has announced that
the West Virginia National Guard and the State Police, along
with the Division of Corrections, have received signed memorandums of
an agreement with the US Immigration and Customs of course
ICE to participate in the two eighty seven program. Now

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what this does, It will enable designated law enform and
for officers to perform certain immigration officer functions under the
ICE direction and oversight. So the State of West Virginia
is getting involved in this ICE movement to remove those
that have come into our country illegally, and that is

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by the millions, folks. This is not a hard decision.
I don't think by Governor Morrissey. I don't think it's
a hard decision from any state to get involved in
capturing those that have come into our country illegally.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
It's plain and simple.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
We open our arms to those who come in and
go through the right process, open our arms.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
To those who do not.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Then you're gone.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
It's not a hard conversation to have.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
That's what blows my mind when it comes to people
who want who want to argue this issue. If you
are not here properly, if you have not done the
proper steps to become an American citizen, you cannot stay.
I can't walk into a hotel room and just camp

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out for weeks on end. No, they're gonna kick me out.
They're gonna kick me out. If you don't do it properly,
then you can't stay.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
You can't stay.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Sot A just got a text about a title for
Biden's book, Joey B's coloring book.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Connect the Dots. That's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
That's pretty good again, asking what should be the title
of former President Joe Biden's book Deal let's see on
our Facebook page.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
We also got.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
I'm sorry, I said from Michael, The Fall of the
Biden Cartel from Wayne. He says, where was I from?

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Tim? See Dick fall.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
That's pretty good. So have some fun with this this morning, folks.
Of course, as I said, you can text us seven
zero seven zero four seven zero.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Started off with bloom Daddy.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Just got another one, how I slept through four years
of the Presidency? Yeah, I like that one too, how
I slept through four years of the presidency. My second
one before we go to a break, stumbling and bumbling
through the presidency. So kind of along the same lines
as our person on our text line stumbling and bumbling

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through the presidency. As I said, have fun with this
this morning, folks. We got some heavy stuff that we're
going to get into. But again, as I mentioned, we
got a lot of visitors joining us this morning. And
but like I said, after today taking a little bit
of a break, but still want to have some fun
and also hit on some very important topics that are
affecting us here in the Ohio Valley. So just a

(16:34):
reminder your chance to win this morning, kirks. Just go
to our text line.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Seven zero four seven zero.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Start the message off with bloom Daddy name and phone number,
name and phone number, and that will be your registration.
Seven twenty eight, we're gonna go to a quick break.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Well, I'm going to go to a quick break. I'm so.
It's just not the same.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
It's not the same without my Otis, It's just not
the same.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
But we'll get through, folks.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Seven twenty eight, you're listening to the bloom Ditty Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven SEVENTYVA.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Now, this is something I may have hit on before,
but I think it's very important for every mom and
dad out there who has a son or a daughter
who plays baseball or softball. One of the really cool
things about my job in Cleveland is that I do
my show a lot of times live from Progressive Field
before Guardians games, and I get over there at two o'clock.
That's when the press gates open, so I'm the only
one in that stadium other than players, coaches, and some

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members of the grounds crew, So I get to watch
before the teams come out. Individual players go out and
go through their own specific routines, probably stuff they've been
doing since they've been eight years old. I also get
to watch both teams take batting practice, and I'll be
honest with you, watching the pregame prep is honestly more

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interesting to me than the game itself. Love coaching baseball,
love trying to learn different things, and the things that
I see are pretty incredible. And I had this conversation
with my youngest son, who plays at Wright State University,
the other day because we came back from vacation. I said, hey,
we need to go hit before you go back to
school week off you regress. We went, We started hitting

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and he was kind of coming around the ball and
the swing just wasn't where it needed to be. And
I told him this story, and this is what I'm
going to tell you, and I think it's the best
advice any mom or dad could could get. And I
told him, I said, look, as soon as he got
in against the pitching machine, he started topping balls and
kind of swinging around him. He was kind of casting

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his hands a little bit, and I said, Braylan, your
first twenty swings.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
He's a left handed batter.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I said, you should be filing the ball off over
the third base, dugout in the stands along the third baseline.
You shouldn't even be thinking about pulling a ball. And
the reason I'm telling him this, and the reason I'm
telling you this is because I get to watch the
greatest hitters in the world do their vp do their rounds.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
None of them pull a baseball.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
As a matter of fact, if you watched some of
these guys their first one or two trips in the
batting cage against a pitching machine or a pitching coach,
you would think, how in the hell is this guy
a major league hitter? Because it's a foul ball up
into the top of the cage. It's a foul ball
over the third base dugout. It's a foul ball if
it's a right handed batter over the first base dugout.

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They let the ball get deep. They want to see
the ball. They don't care about pulling a baseball. And
what that does. When you let a ball get deep,
you stay true to your mechanics in your swing. You
don't cast your hands, you don't get out on your
front foot, and it's a good baseline and then you

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build from there. And I told on this the other day,
I said, you know, this year at Wright State, when
you go to a game or you've got whatever it
may be, and you go in there for BP before
a game, you got to check your ego at the door.
Nobody gives out trophies for the best VP home runs
or the hardest ball hitting BP.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Who cares.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Go in there as a left handed batter, and your
first ten to fifteen swings, you should be following that
ball off in the third base, stands over the third base, dugout,
and then work your way from there, and then your
third round, your fourth round. By the time you start
hitting the ball up the middle, you quit. You don't
even care about pulling a baseball, because if it's what

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these guys do at the highest level, why the hell
wouldn't you want your kid doing it in little league,
in colt ball, travel ball, jv ball, high school ball.
I see so many kids get in there and right
away they want to try to swing for the fences
or they're pulling the baseball. It's just not the healthy

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thing to do, and it's not the smart thing to do.
The greatest players in the world are getting up there
filing the ball off because they want to start from
a base line. They want to start with seeing the
ball deep, and they work from there. One of the
best stories I've ever heard carlos Berg a great hitter,
three hitter on those great Indians teams of the nineties
when they acquired Eddie Murray, the Hall of Famer, I

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believe in nineteen ninety five, his first practice with the Indians,
he said, we're all standing there watching this guy. He's
batting left handed because Eddie was a switch hitter. He's
batting left handed. That day in his first fifteen swings,
he was filing the ball over the third base dugout
and Carlos Biergus said, he looked at me and he said,
we're all looking at each other.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
He goes, I'm looking at Kenny Lofton. Kenny Lofton's looking
at Albert Bell.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Albert Bell was looking at Jim Tomy, and we're all thinking, Jesus,
why do we trade for this guy. He's over the hill.
He can't even hit a BP pitcher. But he said
by the third time Eddie went in all of a
sudden line drives right over third base. The fourth time
Edi went in six line drives right in between third
base and shortstop. The next time ed he went in

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six line drives right over shortstop's head. The last time
that he went in six line, drives right up the middle,
and Edie quit, he goes and that's when we realized, Okay,
this is why this guy's a Hall of Famer, because
he's dialing it in. He doesn't care what he looks like.
He doesn't care to impress anybody. What you do in

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a game is what matters. Nobody gives a damn what
you do in VP. So my advice to you out there,
if you've got a son or a daughter, I mean,
I've had a chance with Braylan playing at Wright State
to watch Oh Miss warm up, Auburn warm up, North
Carolina State warm up, some of the best teams in
the nation. All these guys do that pulling a ball

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is natural. Make them go the other way, especially early,
and get them dialed in. If the greatest player in
the world do it, I'm sure your son from bel
Air Martin's Ferry mcmeeckin Weirton should probably be doing the
same thing. And oh, by the way, it's kind of

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funny so many of my buddies from the valley. Hey
bloom Daddy, can you get me Morgan wall and tickets?
And oh, by the way, can I stay in your apartment. Yeah,
let me get right on that. I love these guys.
But seriously, more of the show coming up right after.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
This Welcome Back seven forty seven, The bloom Daddy Experience,
Sammon Howard News Radio eleven seventy WWVA stepping in furney
are missing? Otis so real quick. I want to go
before Howard before we jump into things. I'm going to
go back to our question of the day, which is,

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of course, former President Joe Biden has a book deal,
but it needs a title, folks, So I am asking
you what should that title be for former President Joe
Biden's upcoming release of his book. So on our text
line seven zero four seven zero, start the message off
with bloom Daddy, just like these folks did. Let's see

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here first one, how I slept through four years of
the presidency.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
That I give it.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I give that a clap, and then Rick says, title
four years of wrong Turns.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
I give that.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
I give that would go one too. So have some
fun with this, folks. Like I said, we're not going
to have a Friday show, which is usually our fun Friday.
So with that, let's have some fun with that this morning,
all right, So joining me now in studio we have
Howard Carnell from the Capitol Theatre, West Banco Arena, the
Entertainment Goobrie for really.

Speaker 7 (24:50):
Yeah, I don't know about that, but we try to
help anyways. Yeah, hey, I'm gonna cheat and make it
easy on my book title. I'm going to make a
playoff Joe Biden's name and just make it Biden. Okay, Yeah,
that's that's the easy, quick one.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's how many of us how most of us survived
that four years.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
Oh yeah, I don't know about that, but I just
made it easy for the title writers just use Biden
and then figure something else out with it. So Biden time. Yeah.
So yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (25:19):
Yeah. We've had a lot of stuff going on that's
been fun and interesting and exciting, and got more things
coming up that are that are pretty interesting as well.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
First of all, thank you for our Kansas VIP promotion.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
We got to do the past couple of days.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Of course, we had our great winners and then our
VIP winner yesterday, which, by the way, you brought in
the drum cover that's autographed by the band. I'm going
to post the picture on our Facebook page.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
Yeah, take a look at it when you get a
chance to look at the web page. It's really cool.
It's a I guess a drug skin, but it's a
part of the cover from Kansas's the prelude implicit out
them and it's made into a drum skin and it's
got autographs from all the band members. So are you're

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lucky VIP winner Joe Shaeffer, Yes, that's Joe. Yeah, one
that won the drum cover and a meet and greet
with the band before the show. And what I'll do
is let all your winners all communicate with them via
email and then text them the day of the show
about tickets and whatnot. So thanks, We're really excited about

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the show. Looks like it's going to be a great show.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Of course.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
Next it's the twenty second. Yeah, which is the other
nice thing about it is Friday night, right, if you're
working in downtown, stick around, hit one of the local
establishments and then come over to the show and see
Kansas and Jefferson starship and you know, make it an
evening and wheeling.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Well that's the thing that's that's really cool. So you know,
I hear the old stories of the way Wheeling used
to be. Everybody's heard those stories. I sort of remember
what was it Stones that was right across the street,
and downstairs was the tea. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have
glimmers of those memories as a kid with my grandmother

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taking me.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
But you hear the old stories about, you know.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
The people in the shopping and the Capitol and this
and that. What you guys are doing with the Capital
is bringing that back. You know, you're bringing people into
town with the different shows, with the variety of shows,
and from that, the the the reach is affecting other establishments.
And I just wanted to, you know, give you guys

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praise for that, because I.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Think it's great.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
But I mean, we saw it Friday. We saw it
Sunday with Teresa Capudo.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
Yeah, it's funny you bring that up. I actually was
a patron to that. My wife is a big Teresa
Compudo fan. So when we got back, believe it or not,
my wife's sister, sisters and friends sort of bailed out,
didn't really want to go, weren't interested. So I went
with her as a patron and I got to tell

(28:03):
you something. I don't know if this is what she's
going for, but I was entertained for two and a
half hours. Really, I thought it was so entertaining. She's
very good at it, and my wife was one of
the people that she did a reading. I guess, for
lack of a better term, she turned and looked right
at my wife and said thumbprint. And my wife was

(28:25):
wearing a necklace that had her to see sister's thumb
print on it. And after that, I was just laughing
the whole time. I mean, how do you do I know?
And that's that kind of I know. I just got goosebumps.
And it was really cool. Other things that she brought
up that were accurate to what my wife and family

(28:46):
with her to see sister and mother, etc. It was
great and it's just something different, right And it was
almost to sell out very close, probably had two thousand people.
But when you looked at downtown, some of our restaurants
were open for brunch, you know, you had the blues
fest down at the waterfront. Waterfront Hall was busy and

(29:08):
crowded and open. So it was the kind of Sunday
afternoon that we hope to continue to build and develop.
And it's just the more people we can get into
town for different shows. The more opportunity is to bring
in businesses, have them set anchor here.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Well, that in the variety. Oh, we've talked about it before,
the variety of what.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
You and the team have booked, whether it's here at
the Capitol Capital or down at West Banko Arena. Right,
you know, that variety is what pulls together more than
what you traditionally think. I mean, we tend to think
here in the High Valley, we think you know, country,
you know, we think older demographic.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
You know, we are an older demographic.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
There's no but we also have five colleges within a
fifty mile radius of downtown Wheeling, right, and let's be honest,
those kids have money to spend. Sure, so that's a
whole other segment of potential ticket buyers, which you guys
have done with the like guar that targets a younger audience.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
In this moment was a different there you go target,
you know. And then we have in September. It's interesting
we get a couple of different unique bands. We have
Steep Canyon Rangers coming in with Crandall Creek a little
bit more of a bluegrass.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
I would guess.

Speaker 7 (30:30):
He'll he'll Billy I don't know how to actually describe
it kind of music.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
I got to interview one of the band members and
that's going to be coming up that interview when we return.
They're real good friends with the actor Steve Martin.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yes, and he'll play with them sometimes, see unfortunately won't
be with this show. But yeah, it's it's a different
genre that we have. And then the end of the month,
the twenty six, we have Celtic Thunder, which is more
of an Irish Celtic kind of base dancers. Well they
sing too, oh yeah, more several singers, and then you

(31:02):
get into if you get a chance, take a look
at our websites.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
At the early part of October, we really ramp it
up again, and it's crazy how diverse it is. Just
starting out. We go from Killer Queen to do Wop
to Elvis Costello to Cocoa Melon for Kids, to Master
Chef if you're a cooking fanatic, to Vampire Circus, then
Neil McCoy, then John Cleees right row. So take a

(31:29):
look at our web page. There's got to be something
there for you that you want to come see and
check it out.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I know, I think that's going to be cool.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
I think that's gonna be cool.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
How many people out there still quote that movie.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
To this day?

Speaker 7 (31:44):
I know, I mean it's it's not the one that
I go to. I usually go to Caddy Shack or
something else. But yeah, no doubt. And yeah, our executive
director Kelly Tucker's doing a great job working not only
with diverse shows from some promoters that we routinely deal with,
but she's even diversifying out and expanding into some shows

(32:07):
with promoters we haven't worked with before. Thus that's where
Robert Plant and Saving Grace comes in in the end
of October. That's a promoter we hadn't really worked with before,
so we're excited to expand that out as well.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Well.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
And The Master Chef All Stars, which is live. It's
a live cooking competition. Do you know how that plays out?

Speaker 7 (32:27):
You know, I really have nothing like that, right, I
don't know. Now, obviously I've watched you know, Beat Bobby
Flay and stuff like that on TV. I don't know
the format. I'm really anxious to see it and excited
to see it because I think it's pretty cool. They
obviously know how to get customer or you know, attendee involvement,
and I'm anxious to see what it looks like.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Well, I'm going to volunteer otis and I that if
the if there's judges needed, yeah, we will happily be
the food judges.

Speaker 7 (32:59):
Well, what I'm trying to do for you guys, if
I can get the chefs in here early enough. Unfortunately
have a show in another town the night before, but
if we can get them in here early enough, maybe
they can come in for breakfast that morning and meet
with you guys.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
So yeah, hopefully, Hey, listen, neither of us are going
to turn down the opportunity for food.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm with you, and I'll be here
that morning for sure if they're bringing something in.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
And of course, the last most recent big announcement Neil
McCoy October eleventh, with now this one hits home Special
Guests eleven seventy.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
Isn't that cool?

Speaker 8 (33:34):
You know?

Speaker 7 (33:34):
We were talking about who were we going to bring
in as the leading group for them, and I had
just met with Steve Cheo out at c A House
and he mentioned Roger and I came back said something
to Kelly. I said, why don't we take a stab
at eleven seventy, and it's not all of the original

(33:55):
but I believe it's four of the original band members.
So yeah, Local, National, International, and on the capital back
on the character, right, Isn't that cool?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yeah, Well you guys are knocking it out.

Speaker 7 (34:09):
Of the poll. Well, thanks for the help, thanks for
finding us five Kansas winners. I know they're going to
come in and have a great time, so they're going to.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Have an absolute blast, all right.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
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Speaker 1 (34:48):
Number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This is
no bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy, his goal
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news radio eleven SEVENTYBVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy experience. Hey,
it's eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling good Thursday morning,
and I feel like I'm back from a long hiatus.
I don't know about you, but when you go on vacation,
do you have vacation fog? Brain fog when you get back,
because that's where I'm at right now. It's really hard
to get back into any sort of routine. Went to

(35:28):
Holden Beach, North Carolina. That's where the family has been
going for a long long time. Just very family oriented.
This is about forty miles i'd say forty minutes before
you get to Myrtle Beach. Not over commercialized, two crappy
putt putt courses, two halfway decent restaurants, nothing else, which

(35:49):
is exactly what I want. I want beach, I want
beach house, I want seafood. And that is it. One
of the best vacations I've ever had. I mean, six
days of absolute are and are. But you know, there
was something I noticed on vacation, and I think you're
gonna be able to relate to this when you think
about where we are as far as humanity goes.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
And I'm not going to get into some big.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Speech here, but I noticed something, and you've encountered this
a thousand times on the roadways, but I think it's
a great indicator of why we are what we are
when it comes to humanity. And what I mean by
that is if we all just had the same goals
and we all just respected each other, life would be

(36:36):
so much simpler. But we can't. And I'll tell you
exactly what I'm talking about. Three times on this trip
now you're talking about a ten hour trip from Saint
Clairsville to Holden Beach. Three times on this trip there
were lanes closed down. So you know what I'm talking about.
You're driving and you see the sign that says right

(36:56):
lane closed five miles ahead, whatever it may be.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
If everybody saw that sign.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
And gave a dam about anybody else, they would simply
get in the left lane right after they see the
sign and proceed on down the road and there would
be no issues when it came to just one lane.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
But that's not what happens, is it.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Every time you've been in that situation, what happens when
you see right lane closed ahead?

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Most people will get in the left lane. But what
do you have.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
You've got people zooming in the right lane all the
way up into where the lanes almost closed down, and
they try to cut in front of everybody. And I'm
watching this happen because three times traffic got backed up
so bad that it probably cost me ten to fifteen
minutes each and every time, and the whole time, I'm

(37:54):
thinking every time, if everybody just gave a damn about
their human beings, they would simply merge into the left
lane as soon as they could, and everything would go
would flow perfectly, and nobody would lose any time.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
But that doesn't happen.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Why because people are selfish, because people think their time's
more valuable, because people don't give a.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Damn about you or me. So what did I see?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
All three times people get over in the left lane,
and then people just shooting down that right lane over
and over and over. Sometimes you get lucky and a
truck driver will go over and block the right lane,
But isn't apathetic.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
We've got to do that.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
And what goes through somebody's head to make them think
that they are more valuable than you are in that situation.
And I think it's a microcosm of what we see
in society today. If we all just respected each other
a little bit more, if we all thought, you know what,
I'm know better than that person is, if we all
just did the right thing, this world would be such

(38:59):
a better place. But it's never going to happen. And
that's because certain people are just selfish bastards and they
don't care. And I'll tell you what I would. The
first time, I was a little upset. The second time,
I was a little irate. The third time, I pulled
over and I blocked the lane. And when you do that,
you got to be ready for whatever's going to come,
whether it's somebody flashing a gun, somebody getting on your bumper,

(39:22):
somebody threatening to fight you.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
And that's a shame in and of itself too.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
But you know when I see that, I just sit
there and I scratch my head and I think why why?
And to the people out there, and you may maybe
one of them who let those people in, you're part
of the problem too. I don't let anybody in once
they try to squeeze in. It's not happening. It's not happening.
Why would you be courteous or why would I be

(39:49):
courteous to somebody who has disrespected countless people and feels
that the rules don't pertain to them, that they're just
simply better, and they I don't have to do what
everybody else is trying to do.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
There's not a chance.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
But yet, over and over and over you see people
coming over, letting them in the other part of this equation.
And you know, when you drive ten hours, you see
a lot of things and you have time to sit
there and think about them. Is the left lane driver?
The left lane supposed to be the fast lane? Now,
I'll admit there have been times where I've been in

(40:24):
the left lane and I look and there's nobody behind me,
and I kind of start thinking about things, and the
next thing you know, boom, there goes somebody blowing by
me on the right and that tells me, oh crap,
what am I doing?

Speaker 3 (40:36):
And I merge over into the right lane. Once again.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
A lot of people don't I don't know how many
people I saw driving in the left lane, backing up
traffic and did not care. They knew what they were doing,
did not care. One time, you had a woman in
the left lane on this trip, driving sixty one miles

(41:00):
an hour. The speed limit was seventy and she had
traffic backed up, and I finally was able to get
over to the right.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I pulled up next to her.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Hit the horn, flipped her off, yelled a number of
expletives out the window, cut in front of her. To
really drive the point home. Now, is that proper of me?
Absolutely not. Didn't care at that moment in time. Wanted
to send the message to this a hole that what
she's doing is ridiculous. And then I took off and

(41:33):
I looked in my.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Rear view mirror.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Two minutes later, she's still in the left lane. She
knew what she was doing. I know I scared the
hell out of her. I know I got her attention
because she looked right at me when she got the bird.
Did not care. And again microcosm of society. It's just
amazing to me how many people do not care about
their fellow human beings. They're in their own little world.

(41:59):
They do what they want to do. And that's the
big issue in society today, other than that great vacation.
Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer here on a
Thursday morning with you. But I'm just pointing out a
couple of things that I observed that I think, once
again microcosms of the problems in society today, and that
is some people just think they're a lot more special

(42:22):
than you are, and that's really really sad. Back with
more here on the bloom Daddy Experience eleven to seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
Welcome back to blom Daddy Perrian's sam and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Coming up, we're gonna have your
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(42:55):
joining me now in studio Kathy kellch Belmont County Treasure or.

Speaker 9 (43:00):
A good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Okay, so you haven't been busy lately, right, No, not
at all.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
Nothing's going on in Belmont County.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
Okay, all right, So do we start with property taxes
or do we.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Want to hit on East Ohio? All they kind of
merge together.

Speaker 9 (43:16):
They kind of do. They're all involved in the same thing.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Okay, So first off, let's go, let's hit the property tax.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Okay, conversation.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
So, if you have picked up out there, there is
sort of a I guess i'll call it a grassroots
movement across the state of Ohio to eliminate the property
taxes right for homeowners. So I wanted to bring you
in because people are talking about this as a black

(43:43):
and white conversation. I don't believe it is, so would you.
I don't look at it that way. Do you look
at it that way?

Speaker 6 (43:51):
No, Because what they're looking at it is if we
eliminate property taxes, our problems go away. And in a
sense from property tax wise, yeah, you you don't owe
anything on your home anymore. However, all that money's got
to come from someplace, so the reallocation of that is still.

Speaker 9 (44:08):
Going to hurt. It may be income tax, it might
be a use tax, it might.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
Be sales tax. Regardless, it's going to come from somewhere.
I mean quite frankly, if you look at how much
is actually generated from the property taxes, it's twenty point
three billion in the state of Ohio twenty point three billion,
take income tax before they did the flat tax, because
that's going into effect in twenty six okay, nine point

(44:36):
five billion. So and you're saying billion with a bee
with a bee? Okay, so where are we getting that?
Do you really want to pay that in a way
in different way? Do you want that taken out of
your wages? Do you want that taking from sales tax
when you go to the grocery store and when you're
in a county that is a border county, just like Belmont,
Well there's no incentive for you to buy in Belmont

(44:58):
County anymore because well then I'll just come to West
Virginia or Pennsylvania, you know, within twenty minutes from it.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
So so their tax dollars go to another state, in
another county, that's what you're saying, And.

Speaker 6 (45:08):
That doesn't help out in the whole overall scheme, and
then they'll have to look at it again. So no,
it's I mean, and these are these are tax dollars
that go for vital services. I understand that you know,
fifty to sixty percent goes to schools, and that's a
whole other conversation. However, it also goes for your fire departments,
your police departments, seniors, children, you name it. It comes

(45:32):
from that. So all of that money has to come
from someplace. I mean, the idea of not paying property
tax and somehow we're never going to pay it. That
turns like you leave your driveway, Well then that turns
into a toll road.

Speaker 9 (45:46):
So every time you leave your driveway, you're.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
Gonna have to pay you call nine to one one, Okay,
give me your credit card number before we come to
get you. That's not what somebody, you know, nobody's looking
to do that. But somehow, some way, these services have
to be paid for, and ultimately that's where the problem is.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Well, and I just listening to you speak. The taxman's
going to get his dollars. Yes, let's let's I mean,
let's be blatant here. The money cannot, just like you said,
be wiped off the books. There are so many reasons
and uses of these tax dollars that we as a
regular citizen are not even aware of. You mentioned the fire, police, schools,

(46:27):
but there's school I mean, there's road maintenance, there's water,
you know, all of the infrastructure within your county or
your state. It will just say, Ohio as a whole,
those infrastructures have to be maintained because on a daily basis,
we as a citizen use.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
Them, right, and we expect them to be working properly. Yes,
we don't want we obviously don't want to be Flint,
Michigan and have bad water coming through and letting our lines.

Speaker 9 (46:53):
So yeah, we have to figure out somewhere to get it.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
So okay, So counterpoint for those who are part of
the grassroots effort, because as a taxpayer in the state
of Ohio, I completely understand, you know, because a lot
of people could say, you know, I buy my house,
I pay off the loan, but then it's almost I
am then turned into a renter to the.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
State of Ohio or to the government.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
Right, people, don't you know if I want to own
my home, I want to own my home, why do
I have to pay sales tax on the purchase of
that house? Then why do I have to pay property
tax year after year? It just all compounds, and I
think that's where the frustration is for people.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Absolutely, and we and just to be clear, there is
no one saying that this is absolutely it is a
great system, And no one's telling me that we all believe.
And when I say we all believe it, like I
can tell you like County Treasures as a whole, we
in County Auditors as a whole.

Speaker 9 (47:49):
We believe in tax reform. We believe that.

Speaker 6 (47:52):
It has gone too far. We need to somehow rein
it back in. But the legislators are the only ones
that have the power to do that. Each count can't
even touch and we can't do anything. I mean, the
property values are inflated, they are, but we can't change
that because the State of Ohio is kind of overseeing
it to say, listen, you've got to make it right,

(48:13):
and you have to be within ninety five percent of
what you can sell that home for. So in a hole,
we don't have any place to give that relief. So
we do look for the legislators to make that change
for us. Unfortunately it's not happening fast enough and we're
all sitting and of course then the constitutional amendment is
you know, they're seeking signatures for that petition.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
So reevaluating is not a bad thing.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
And so this effort has opened the conversation, yes, which
I think in the grand scheme of things, opening this conversation,
having the reevaluation has been needed for a long time.
So if for example, this doesn't pass and this movement

(48:59):
doesn't come to fruition, at least the door has been
opened to have this conversation, is what I'm getting at. Yes,
Because in the grand scheme of things, as you said,
when it comes to the dollars, it's just going to be,
for lack of a better explanation, a shell game, right
where the tax man the state is going to say, Okay,

(49:22):
you don't want to pay these taxes, Okay, we're just
going to rename it. We're going to shuffle it around,
and the taxes are going to come from here. Whether
that's a retail sales tax.

Speaker 6 (49:32):
I'm not the tax person, and I understand whether it's
and I mean I'm not even saying that there might
not be a new tax that they that they create.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
I mean, at this point in time, if the rug
is pulled out from.

Speaker 6 (49:45):
Underneath the state of Ohio and the counties and the
local governments, there's going to have to be something put
in place immediately. So to see where that will go,
it's hard to tell because it's not our decision either.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
Right Well, and that's the thing that's one thing I
think everybody needs to know that this is not something
that is done on a county level.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
This is a state level conversation.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
This is a state level conversation. I know that everyone
looks at it as a county conversation because the auditor
is the assessor, they put the value on your home.
County treasure is the is the glorified debt collector, and
we have to collect that debt. So they look at
it as more personal, but it's really not. It's not

(50:26):
our choice to say, well, you know, we don't really
think that it should be this high, So we don't
get the choice in that it's there is an oversight
from that.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Has this ever happened in another state that you're aware of,
or anything amendment yes, or or just eliminating at tax
of this level. So I think I'm not sure, I'm
kind of dropping that on you. No, it's fine.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
I think Texas or Florida was looking at this, okay,
and that there's talk on that.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
However, I will say throughout.

Speaker 6 (50:58):
All states there are it differs, and then is how
it's made up. But there is a real estate tax
on your property in every single state.

Speaker 9 (51:07):
So this if this were to go through. It would
probably be the first one.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
So if people have additional questions, they can they reach
out to your office.

Speaker 9 (51:14):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
Okay, okay, great, Can you hang around with me a
little bit longer?

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (51:18):
We got another nices Speaking of taxes that we're going
to get into.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
Sounds good and how they affect our community because ask
the Martins Ferry School District, Yes, and other entities in
Belmont County. We're going to get into the conversation about
East Ohio Regional Hospital. Coming up next, Kathy is going
to hang around with us here in the studio. Just
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Speaker 5 (52:49):
Give us a title.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Warren on Facebook said, Asleep at the Wheel. Asleep at
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Speaker 5 (52:56):
I think is pretty good. Thank you Warren on that one.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
All right, continue our conversation with Belmont County Treasurer Kathy
kellych in studio.

Speaker 5 (53:04):
With me this morning.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
Once again, thank you for your time coming in, Thanks
for having me. I know it was the long drive
from Belmont County to downtown Wheeling.

Speaker 9 (53:11):
Not at all.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
So we've talked about the property tax conversation happening in Ohio.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
Now, of course, the big story.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
That we have been talking about for months now is
the purchase of East Ohio Regional Hospital, but also prior
to that, and this is where you come in the
back taxes on East.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
O Hiho Regional Hospital.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
So, first of all, I'm not sure if you saw
the update happened late yesterday. Belmont Savings Bank has now
been granted a temporary restraining order against the new ownership
three sixty Healthcare, which is the new ownership of East Ohio.
This restraining order prevents the hospital from collecting outstanding accounts
receivables and using that for themselves to payments or whatever

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they do with that money, which is one of the
big questions people are asking, you're collecting this.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
Money, what are you doing with it?

Speaker 4 (54:04):
But this keeps them from doing anything with that money
until the hearing, which is happening in September. So an
update on that, which, of course we brought you the
Belmont County story last Thursday, I believe it was, so
an update on that, but that's where we're going to
come in with the taxes and Belmont County. So right now,

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the taxes.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Owned are what at what level?

Speaker 9 (54:30):
One point over one point six million? Correct? Okay, that's
what I thought, so.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Looking over this, you know, there's been a conversation recently
about the ownership, and I've questioned who owns it. I've
questioned the fact that you know, documents were not filed
in Belmont County. You know that has now sort of
been explained, I'll say, I'll say that. But thinking about
this even more, when it comes to a foreclosure, which

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the dates is where I find questionable. I have a
lot of I'm hung up on things. So the foreclosure
documents were filed May fourteenth, correct, Okay, so the property
was in foreclosure. The process had begun on May fourteenth.
The hospital was purchased the end of June. So, if

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you're purchasing a property, you're purchasing an entity we'll call it,
would you not know that that entity is in the
foreclosure process?

Speaker 6 (55:32):
I will say that when you're purchasing something this large,
you would have title work done.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Correct, And that was not at home.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
You have that absolutely, so that would have been identified. However,
there was conversations to with Harold Ramsey prior to that
foreclosure being filed. Okay, so he was aware that that
was coming.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Okay, Okay, that makes sense. Now, Okay, that makes more
sense to me. So with the state of where that
is at in your office, can somebody physically be in
a property under this foreclosure process? Now, since you say
they've had this conversation, I'm assuming that.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Is a yes.

Speaker 6 (56:12):
It is a yes, okay, okay, And so up until
the time that the sale is actually certified to the court,
there is nothing stopping anyone from going in and operating.
So they and because they could technically redeem it up
until that time, so it is assumed to be theirs
until it's just not okay okay.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
So has there been communication that you're aware of between
the Ohio Secretary of State's office or the Department of
Development regarding the hospital's current situation and the taxes and
everything that's going on. I have multiple phone calls out
to state offices asking you know the situation. There's a

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ten million dollar loan from the state of all Hio
that's in question. What are these conversations having happening that
you're aware of.

Speaker 6 (57:06):
So that as far as the Department of Development is
the is the entity that loaned out the ten million.
I have been in contact with them when they are
aware of the foreclosure filing because they get served as
they have that debt. However, it was agreed that Harold
Ramsey would could and could come in and be the

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debtor for that debt pay that debt to the Department
of Development if they he reached an agreement as far
as the taxes because that.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
With the county.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
With the county, that agreement has never been reached. I
have not heard back from the Department of Development as
to what their status is other than they've they've been
served and they've filed their answer to of course stake
their claim.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
Has any taxes been paid as of yet to the county?

Speaker 6 (57:54):
Now after that initial payment that was made prior to
this act position and the conversations, there has not been
another payment.

Speaker 9 (58:06):
Not a dime. Not a dime.

Speaker 5 (58:08):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
Can the property be reopened without any taxes being paid?
There's the opening date. I'll put that in quotations. Mark
has fluctuated a lot if the taxes are not paid
in full?

Speaker 5 (58:25):
Can that property.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
Open technically yes, until the time that we have the
foreclosure sale that property. They can operate in that property.

Speaker 5 (58:36):
Interesting, okay.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
I would think that you couldn't open a business if
the business has that large of a lean against it.

Speaker 6 (58:44):
I would think that you wouldn't open a business if
with this going on. However, this has been a different
dynamic the whole way through.

Speaker 5 (58:54):
I have referred to it as a colossal cluster.

Speaker 9 (58:57):
Oh okay, that's perfect. Yes, that's an even better description.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
So okay, what if, for example, can the hospital reopen?
Just this is just I'm just shooting here. Say another
entity or a new group came in and purchased from Ramsey,
And I'm not this is an example, folks, I am
not saying that that is what is happening.

Speaker 5 (59:22):
But if this new entity.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
Or new group, in this new group, would that liability
remain under Ramsey or Johnson or would it have to
be transferred to a new entity.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
So we're talking property taxes. The taxes follow the property.
So as long as prior to my foreclosure sale prior
to that, they could sell the property again and that
next person would still be under the tax foreclosure unless
they satisfy this taxes.

Speaker 9 (59:58):
So it could be solid again right now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Of course we're talking about the Belmont County taxes.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Then we've also talked about the two million dollars Belmont
Savings Bank. That's not all that's owed. No, there we're
talking big numbers here, folks. Yes, there's there's big numbers
floating around there. I guess you sort of answered this already,
But how did the how did the new owner get
around the taxes? But you you said that that was

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built into the purchase.

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
Absolutely, So, there's no law in the state of Ohio
that says that you have to pay property taxes prior
to the transfer. There's nothing that states that that law
is trying to be amended now so that at any
point in time you have to pay property taxes.

Speaker 9 (01:00:45):
However, if you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
You knowingly go in knowing that the property taxes are
owed and you don't pay them, there's there's nothing that's
stopping the transfer from the property.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
And with the property have have has your self for
anybody fit has been in the property to assess the
current condition of the building since it closed, the building
itself and the equipment everything.

Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
Yeah, no, no, nobody, and no one's allowed to enter
that property on art at least not on the county end,
because it's still owned and operated by Access Martins Ferry.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
How has this.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
This financial hinderance I guess or missing finances? How has
it affected the county, the City of Martin's Ferry, just
real quick.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
I mean City of Martin's Ferry relies on them on
income tax, and of course they want people that live
in the City of Martins Ferry to be paid, so
they're not getting paid, They're not getting what they need.
So individuals are being affected. The Martin's Ferry and the
City of Martins Ferry is affected. Obviously, the tax pace
isn't being paid, so that means Martin's Ferry as a
whole is being affected, as well as the school and

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all the other entities, which includes the county in a
small portion. But I mean it just trickles it straight down.
The straight down effect is comes to a person that
lives in Martin's Ferry. I mean, it always affects an
individual more than anything.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
The big question remains, will it open? Will it open?

Speaker 9 (01:02:15):
Great question?

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
Oh well, wait to find out, of course, and of
course you'll hear it here first, Kathy, thank you so
much this morning.

Speaker 9 (01:02:22):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
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Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
We'll be back.

Speaker 9 (01:02:53):
Welcome back.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
It's fifty one The Broom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Like I said, it's a
busy morning in this studio, so I'm not alone even
though my man is.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
Not here Otis.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
Oh that didn't sound right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
Not my man, but my buddy. He's not here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Start vacation early, so you're stuck with just me. But
I'm not by myself. Now it is time for busting
the banker's brain. We're gonna talk finances and we're gonna
talk loans. We just talked talked property taxes in Belmont
County with of course the treasurer. So why not let's
get into some loans. So please welcome to the studio,
Rich Silverio and Troy Johnson from our friends at Belmont

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Savings Bank.

Speaker 5 (01:03:36):
Good morning, guys, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
So we're kind of right in the middle of home
buying season, right, So, what are the first steps if
you need a home loan, if you've never done it before,
your first time home buyer, what is numero uno that
you need to do? Find a real letter or find
out about your finances.

Speaker 10 (01:04:01):
I'd say find out about your finances. You know, you
need to come in and get your ducks in a row,
answer any questions that you might have, and then you
know we're professional, so you might not even think of
questions and we can inform you as to what your
needs are and what's going to be an easy path
for you to accomplish what you're looking for?

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
And how do I ask this? Right? So, the first
time I went to get a big loan personally by myself,
I was so proud of the fact that I had
no credit card, no credit card debt, I had no debt,
I paid my bills on time, and I thought, I'm great.
I'm going to have a great credit score, no problem.

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Financial guy said to me, you don't look great on paper.
I said, well, I don't know anything and I have
a debt. Why is it the doing a credit report
or a financial research on somebody? If you don't have
a line of credit or a bit of debt, it
lowers your credit score. To me, that doesn't make any sense, right, Like.

Speaker 8 (01:05:03):
You could have people that pay cash for everything, huh
and in the long run that the short term they
think they're doing the best thing by paying cash and
having no credit, but they're really hurting their self. So
it's important to have revolving credit a car loan. It

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doesn't matter how quick you pay something off, just so
that you're establishing and you're continually establishing some type of credit.
Nobody says how quick you can pay it down or
pay it off, but you've got to keep that line
of credit rolling to keep your credit square up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Just to show that you can manage that.

Speaker 10 (01:05:45):
You know you may be able to pay it off sooner,
but you also want to see that the bank wants
to see that that tracking that you're able to do
and consistently on a monthly basis to help us with
our decision to decide if we're able to extend in
additional funding to you, to be fairly certain that you
can continue on that track.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
So what if somebody knows that they don't look great
on paper, say that you know their credit score isn't great.
They've had some struggles. Who knows why, but they've had
some struggles, so that's impacted their credit score at Belmont
Savings Bank, can somebody come in, sit down with one
of you, two gentlemen, and have that conversation and and
you know it's a that's not a comfortable conversation to have,

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and then could you give them some pointers or advise
them on how to raise that credit score so that
within three to five years they need a car loan
they can come to you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
Is that advice available?

Speaker 10 (01:06:42):
It is? We have to look at what their situation is,
what caused them to be in the situation is you know,
is it something out of their control, medical, marital point
of view and that, and if it was something that
was beyond their control, then we know we have an
understanding and then kind of set them on a path.
You're going to have to start small, you know, maybe
get a small line of credit, maybe have a co
signer that's qualified to help you out, to partner with

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and that so we can see that tracking down the
road and then hopefully you're in a position to do
it if you follow our lead and kind of behave
yourself and manage yourself because a lot of.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
People don't know where to even begin, like.

Speaker 8 (01:07:18):
Even starting out with just a savings account, a checking account.
If you have all that, with us being a small
community bank, how it works. We could look to see
how you're managing your checking account, if you're saving money,
if things like how.

Speaker 10 (01:07:33):
Your relationship is right, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:07:35):
All those things go into play. Then with us having
everything in house, right in front of us, your best
bet is to open up a savings a checking If
we can see a pattern that you're able to save,
that you're keeping money in your account, then yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
Create that background for yourself.

Speaker 8 (01:07:52):
You're going to be able to to be able to
afford this car payment. It's not necessar early that you
got to start out with credit to be able to
get credit. A relationship gets built and once that relationship's built,
that's where what the whole base your base platform is okay.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
And when we talk about the lending process, what are
the options that that BSB or Melmont Savings Bank offers.
I mean, after one hundred and forty years we're celebrating
this year, I'm sure you have quite the playbook of
lending options.

Speaker 8 (01:08:32):
You're taking that rich.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
I can see the gears working over there.

Speaker 10 (01:08:38):
Well. Traditionally, Troy and are mortgage lenders. Okay, so you
know we've got our mortgage products. You've got your fixed rates,
your adjustable rates, and then when you drop down to
your car rates and your consumer loans. So there's an
array of products. So you know, when you come into us,
you know we try to fulfill your need. You know,
what are you looking for and place you in the

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product that works best for you. Okay, what was the
rest of the question.

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
I'm sorry, No, you covered it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
You got to all of the lending options that are
available by Mont Savings Bank, which simply visit one of
the locations and have the conversations.

Speaker 8 (01:09:16):
And we have like unique programs too, like we have
the First Responders program with a zero percent down no PMI,
one hundred percent financing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Well, guys, thank you so much for poppin in this morning.
We are wrapping it up. I am wrapping it up
for a few days, but like I said, you can
check out our podcast. I'm going to be posting episodes
throughout the week while I am gone and now one
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Jared is our winner of the ice cream. Everybody, have
a great Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
I will talk to you in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
See you then take care.

Speaker 8 (01:09:58):
Bye bye