The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam August 28, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
D 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 the.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news radio
eleven seventy. I want to give you some pretty important
numbers pertaining to the Travis Mills Foundation in retreat in
Central Maine. They get programs tailored to veterans and their families.
But these numbers are pretty hard hitting because they support
Post nine to eleven combat veterans in their families. Nearly

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twenty four hundred families veterans families have been served across
forty eight states. We could also count DC, Puerto Rico,
and Canada over the past ten years. And the charge
the amount veterans in their families have paid for these
retreats and programs zero, not one cent. And that's because
of you out there and others. And Travis always uses

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the word recalibrated because that's to describe a change in
thinking when it comes to these injured vets and when
you talk about the programs. We're talking about culinary arts,
martial arts, ropes, course, cycling, horseback riding, bass fishing, fly fishing, canoeing, kayaking, archery, yoga, pottery, painting, snowshoeing, massage, therapy,
ice fishing.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
And I'm letting you know this because.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
That money goes to very important events and functions that
help these veterans get on with their lives after they
have been injured mentally and physically. And that's why right now,
when we're asking you to buy a Raffle ticket for
fifty dollars, it's so important because he's been able and

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his employees have been able to help these veterans for
ten years because of people like you. So when I
say get a ticket, it gaaned Travis dot com for
just fifty dollars. That's where that money's going, so that
these families over the past ten years continue to pay
absolutely nothing. Now we've got to sell two thousand tickets.

(02:10):
I believe we've got about a thousand left. And obviously
for that fifty dollars you can win a brand new
Chevy Equinox and also four cash prizes four thousand, three thousand,
two thousand, one thousand, dollars, So you've got great odds,
but even if you don't win, that fifty dollars goes
to everything that I just explained to you. And that's
why it's vitally vitally important. And a guy who knows
how important it is is Travis Mills himself quadruple amputee

(02:34):
after that ied explosion in Afghanistan back in twenty twelve.
Travis talk talk a little bit about what I just
hit on. All of these activities you offer and for
the last ten years, how you've been able in your place,
has been able to help veterans free of cost to.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Them first and foremost. Hey, you champion, I'm so excited
to talk to you and help you on a great
app You might be the only shows No, you've been
just absolutely crushing it. But listen, I'm excited to be
here things for the opportunity. And the truth is, you know,
with Dave Mortash and yourself and all the people there
in Ohio, they just help out so much. We're able

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to get back to these veterans and their families to
show them that life's possible at or injury. And the
truth is, you know, when I was at the hospital,
wondering why I lifted my injuries. The thing that kept
me going with my daughter Chloe, she was a six
months old little baby next to me and learn how
to walk with me and everything. And then I decided
that my new purpose and direction was to give back
to these families, to let them know life is, you know,
gonna still be fulfilling, still be something they can accomplish

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and achieve, and something they should they should do, they
should still want to do. Because I was at my
worst and I didn't know why I lived or what
I was gonna do. But luckily I had people that
are supporting me like we're doing here with the Travis
Mills Foundation, and in truth, you know, for the cities
out of raffle ticket to win this Equinox with those
four cash prizes, you know, it's great to win, but
it's also your giving back and giving hope and inspiration

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to people that have had their lives turned upside down.
And at the end of the day, the Travis Mills
Foundation has had so much success with the support we've
been given that we're actually expanding. We have a posttermax
stress program that we offer to not just veterans, but
also first responders and it's been going absolutely incredible. We're
actually going to be breaking ground in a new location

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across road from our main retreat. It's a six million
dollar bill and we're so fortunate we're gonna be able
to give back and help people understand that no matter
what they went through, we are here for them, whether
it was physical, whether it was mental, emotional, and that
we are here to take care of them because people
out there that are listening to this show right now.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Care and believe in the services they provided.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
So that's a long winded way to say thank you
so much for even doing this, and for Ganley, for
Travis dot Com, you know, for having the car auction,
the Equinox that's up for grabs.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
I mean, it's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
These veterans are families, Travis. They're coming out for a
week long stay correct and they pay for nothing, the flights,
the stay, the activities zero because of people like who
are listening to this show, who have contributed over the years.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know, the truth is we get the bringing families
out from all across this wonderful nation of ours if
they fit the correct here for what we're offering for
that week of programming. We do caregiver weeks. We use
you know, just spouse only weeks. We do a bunch
of things and they don't pay anything into it.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
We cover the flights.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
I have some most amazing staff that I could ever
ask for, that do it for the love of the
mission and the love of the veterans and the families.
And we have some of the most awesome volunteers and truthfully,
the donors and sponsors. We have hit it out of
the park to allow us to do the work that
we do. I mean, at the end of the day,
everybody listening is buying the Raffle ticket is allowing me
to continue my mission of giving back and serving my

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fellow veterans and their families and now first responders as well.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Talking to quadruple amputee Travis Mills. Only ten days left
in this Raffle. It ends the thirty first of this month,
and then you're actually gonna announce live on September second,
the winner of the Equinox twenty two twenty six Equinox
provided by ken Ganley Chevy and also the four cash prizes.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Absolutely, I'm fired up, got my tickets, I'm flying in.
We're gonna have a great time. Can't wait to get there.
I love coming to Cleveland and just getting to see everybody.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
I mean, you guys really make me feel.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Like I'm at home, you know. And how lucky am
I to have you guys on my side. So I'm
going to be there to announce the winners, check out
what's going on, hang out mister Dave mortalks himself one
of my close friends and personal mentors in life, and
just can't wait for the opportunity to be able to
fly in and see everyone.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Travis, before I let you go, We're just real quick
before I let you go, and again it's Ganleyftravis dot com.
Fifty dollars for a ticket. We need to sell about
a thousand of them. Before you go. Just pick a family,
any family out of the last ten years that came
to your retreat that walked away a hundred times better.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I just want you to give an example.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Absolutely, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I have a lot of examples of that. But what
happened recently was we had a family come in that
the father lost both legs, had me able to ride
a bike, had three young kids, and his wife and
we said, hey, have you ever tried a hand cycle.
He's like, oh no, I never really, you know, I
never looked into that. And he went out and did
a hand cycle and he rode around by one of
our hand cycles, and he had such an amazing experience

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taking his family.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
On a ride. He was crying, the kids were jacked up.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
For him, you know. His wife was just emotional and sobbing.
And we have a follow on thing that we do
called Recalibrate program where if someone had a great experience
but they couldn't maybe buy a hand cycle, we buy
it for them if they meet some criteria with giving
back and volunteering, but more importantly, we bought them a
hand cycle. So now he takes his family out riding
in truth the post Max Tress program, the Warrior Path

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that we have partner with, We've had so many emails
about how it fixed their family, their home life, and honestly,
they didn't commit suicide.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
That was the last thing they.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Were gonna do before they were going to take their
own life. So it's just But the thing is, at
the end of the day, I get to do this
because you support and you care, and you buy these
raffle tickets and you come in and you help us
out with doing this. So I can't thank you enough
for all the listeners, enough for being some of my
absolute biggest supporters.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, Travis, thanks for what you do and I'll see
you soon, buddy.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Okay, yes, sir, can't wait.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Thanks for your time, having a wonderful day, and appreciate
you taking the time talking with me.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right, you too.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's Travis Mills, quadruple quadruple amputee was a US Army
staff sergeant. He got blown up by an ied in
Afghanistan in twenty twelve. He's one of only I think
three or four surviving quadruple amputees in the world. And again,
you know these numbers are powerful. I mean the families
they've served nearly twenty four hundred, ten years of operation,

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twenty five plus awards and recognitions for foundation charitable efforts,
and the amount of money charged to veterans and their
families zero And that's because of you. So we're asking
you again if you can fifty dollars for a ticket
Ganley for Travis dot com.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
That is Ganley for Travis dot com. We only have
till the end of the month.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
You've got a one to four hundred chance of winning
this brand new Chevy Equinox four thousand dollars, three thousand dollars,
two thousand dollars, one thousand dollars. And even if you
don't win, you just heard where your money goes.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
See on this Thursday, the bloom Daddy Experience. Salmon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. So otis you
You asked me before we jumped on here? What are
we given away today? What are we giving away today?

Speaker 7 (09:25):
Not red hot chili peppers, to give it away? Give
it away, give it away?

Speaker 6 (09:30):
No, no, sorry, we're not doing that. We're going to
have do wop.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
You know, it's funny they still call it the do
Wop Show, but there's there's very little do wop music
in it anymore. Oh no, I have Herman's Hermits or No,
not do wop.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
That's not du walp.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
No, that's more British sixties.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Oh okay, well mister you're mister music man.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
Who else is coming? I'll tell you if they're due wop?

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Well okay, now you ask.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
Okay, on you talk, I'll look it up.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
Okay, So we have that coming up that's going to
be here in the in the seven o'clock hour, so
stay tuned for that. We're gonna have a pair of
tickets to that for you. We're gonna have gift certificates
to our friends at McCormick's Auto down in Glendale. That's
gonna be coming up. And then of course today being Thursday,
it is your chance to win a half gallon of

(10:24):
Kirk's famous homemade ice cream. And of course to sign
up for that. To register, you'd go to our text
line which is seven zero four seven zero. Start the
message off with bloem daddy, and all we need is
your name and your phone number, and that is your
registration for your chance to win Kirk's ice cream, and
that will be We'll be doing that at the end

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of the show, so you still have plenty of time
to register for that. Did you find it?

Speaker 7 (10:53):
I did, but it's it's just my tickets. Here, hold on,
I'm trying to okay, Oh, here we go, here we
get I'm sorry. October fourth right, Herman's, Herbert's and Peter Noon. Okay,
the Circle not do wop, The Marvelettes not do oop,
but that's okay. It says rock and roll, do wop.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
Rock and roll and do wop, So it's a.

Speaker 7 (11:15):
I guess the Marvelettes would be the Circle. I'm trying
to think what they sang.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Either way. Yeah, it's a valley staple. It's a valley favorite.
People absolutely love.

Speaker 7 (11:31):
Oh Big Red rubber Ball. Yeah, that's their big hit.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Love the Do Wop Show absolutely, I mean love the
Do Wop Show.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
Yeah, I get it. I like it too. I mean, listen,
I remember back in eighty five. They didn't call it
the do Wop Show back then, and I can't remember
what they called it. It was eighty I think it
was the fall of eighty five or the spring of
eighty six, and they had Gary Lewis and the Playboys,
they had the Grassroots, they had the Turtle and I

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can't remember the other one. And I ended up buying
a Grassroots album at the show because I was working it,
but I.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Just wanted that's right, you worked here.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
Well, this was This was at West banko Arena formerly
known as the Wheeling Civic Center. So but yeah, that
was and that was right when they started to bring
in like Foreigner was the big act that they brought
in in eighty five, and then they started to bring
in bigger like rock and roll acts, so that's in.
Then Aerosmith and then all those came in. But in

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the mix of all that was an odie show with
like I said, Gary Lewisen to Playboys and the Grassroots Turtles.
There was four I think there was four groups. I
can't remember who the fourth one was off the top
of my head.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Well, speaking of the events, and while we were on
vacation last week was the Big Kansas Kansas concert. Yeah,
and our winner, Joe of the VIP Experience sent us
a message and we got some pictures from the arena folks,
and what a great time they had, what a great
show it was that We've heard that from multiple people.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
I heard nothing but rave reviews about Kansas and Jefferson Starship.
Some people said Jefferson Starship was better than Kansas. Other
people said Kansas was better than Jefferson Starship. I guess
it all depends on your musical taste.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Either way, you got your money's work.

Speaker 7 (13:24):
I think you did, especially if you want tickets from us,
you definitely got your money's work.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
That's that's that's about the best deal.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Basically, you probably had to pay for parking in a
couple of beverages. I didn't say if they were adult
or not.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
No, you know, no, no.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
I'll say this.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
You know.

Speaker 7 (13:43):
So at the end of our at the end of
the Transplant Games, the World Games, they have a big
they called it Gala Gallop whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
The outfit that night.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
So I need a picture. I need that picture, okay, And.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
I'll give you the one with Johnny and Josh because
that's a good picture. But anyway, so it was funny
because like, if you wanted water or soft drink, she
had to buy them or a mixed drink. But if
you wanted beer, it was free.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
It's usually the opposite.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
I trust me. Okay, but I will say this. I
can't remember the name. If I saw the label, I
could tell you. But one of the big things over
there is they are very heavy in promoting zero point
zero percent alcohol, so, you know, alcohol free beer. And
I don't know, Like I said, I don't know what

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brand it was, but I was That's what I was drinking,
was the zero zero. Oh my gosh. It tasted just
like a line of Google Summer shndy, like the lemony taste.
And I was like this is good, Like I could
I could take a case of this, or I could
take a create of this home with me. I mean,
it was absolutely good. Really, Yeah for for being like

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most zero alcohol like I mean to me, and I
don't want to throw any brand under the bub Yeah,
but the previous stuff that was not an alcoholic tasted
like trash. It just wasn't good. And now they're putting
it out there, and.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
This this stuff is effort behind it.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:11):
I mean, and my buddy in Amsterdam, he in his
fridge he had zero zero Honeyken and I had one
of those. It was pretty good. They actually have zero
zero gin zero zero vodka. So there's it's got the
flavor but no no alcohol in it. So if you
wanted a gin and tonic without any alcohol, I mean

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that's what he was drinking. Oh god, yeah, I'm not
a gin person.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
The gin is like nail polish remover.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
It's like sucking on a pine tree.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh god.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
See, I'm not a drinker. I never have been, and
I can't stand beer. My apologies to all the beer
enthusiasts out there. I know you're all going, oh my god,
how can you know? I don't like beer. I've tried
the cheap stuff, I've tried the expensive stuff. I've tried
the imported stuff. I just don't like it. And I

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could never understand drinking a non alcoholic beer like.

Speaker 7 (16:05):
Why so the zero zero and that they had the
exact same beer with alcohol and without, and I tasted
that one with alcohol. There was no difference. They I mean,
I mean, I didn't like drink the whole I just
my buddy was drinking. So we poured it into glass
and I tasted it, didn't tell, couldn't tell the difference.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Well, there's a difference with me this morning. If you
all have jumped on our Facebook page, if I sound
a little funny, I woke up this morning with a
sinus migraine. So if I'm a little slow, just a
heads up.

Speaker 7 (16:38):
You're always a little slow.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
I'm dealing with some stuff this morning. But we get back.
We're going to talk about yesterday's tragic events in Minneapolis.
Seven twenty eight, The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy WWVA. We are back at seven thirty six,

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The Glyndaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
All right, yesterday, right towards the end of our show.
Of course, the awful, vile, tragic, evil events occurred in

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Minneapolis coverage all day yesterday. Of course by all of
the news outlets. Can't ignore this story, can't. I hate
talking about this kind of stuff, but unfortunately it is

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become a more, ever growing occurrence in our So with
that being said, I posed on our Facebook this morning
and you can go there to comment. You can call

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us one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. I
want your thoughts on this one eight hundred sixty two
four eleven seventy, or of course you can go to
our text line which is seven zero four seven zero
and started off with bloom Danny. So, after these evil
acts yesterday, here's a couple questions. Do you believe we
have a gun control problem, which was of course one

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of the first topics jumped on yesterday. Do we have
a mental health problem in this country or do we
have just a violence problem in general? Do we continue

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to become an ever increasingly violent society or is there
another issue in general that we're missing in this conversation
we want to hear from you one one hundred sixty
two four eleven seventy. So thinking back when it comes

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to school shootings, my the one that kicks off to
me is, of course Columbine, which happened in April of
nineteen ninety nine. Since then, there have been four hundred
and twenty eight school shootings. Think about that, four hundred

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and twenty eight school shootings according to the Washington Post
since Columbine. That's a staggering number. That's a staggering number.
It's a disgusting number. It's a horrible number. So why

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is this happening? Why do we consider why do we
continue to see this grow? When reading over the coverage
yesterday from multiple outlets, When seeing the comments by the

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mayor Jacob Frye yesterday, comments by Jensaki, comments by other
political leaders on the left and on the right, finger
pointing is immediately taken up. Finger pointing, whether it's pointing

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out the call for gun control, whether it is pointing
out that this particular person, Robert Weston, is part of
the trans community, whether it's pointing out that this was

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a Catholic school and that pulls in the religious side
of things. One thing that I really picked up on
a lot of this coverage, besides the finger pointing, is
the way that it has been covered, and we continue
to see the biases in our media on both sides. Again,

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neither side is innocent in that one thing I really
picked up on yesterday. An example is ABC's coverage. In
their coverage, it is very simple. There's not a lot

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of details. They leave out things like messages that were
in his journal, these deranged, evil messages where he fantasized
and I quote being that scary, horrible monster standing over
those powerless kids. That's not mentioned by ABC News, or

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this statement that was on another page of his journal.
I also love when kids get shot. I love to
see kids get torn apart. That kind of those types
of statements cannot be be ignored by the news coverage.

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It can't be. It has to be laid out there.
We can't sugarcoat the issue. We can't try and protect
or diffuse the level of violence within this individual's mental

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state because they fall within a particular community that falls
in line with the political agenda you, as a news
organization want to carry out. I don't care if the
person is black, white, purple, I don't care. I don't

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care if they call themselves a cat. I don't care
if they're gay. I don't care. If they're straight, I
don't care if they're trans, I don't care. This is
a sick individual that when they have this type of
thing in writing as a news organization, you have to
cover it again. You can't sugarcoat it just because it

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does not fall within the political agenda you are pushing.
So I go back to my original question. Is this
a gun issue? Is this a mental health issue? Or
are we just continuing to become more and more violent,

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more and more angry in our society And now it's
not the adults who are suffering from this. Think about this,
people think about this. These were children, an eight and
a ten year old were shot dead yesterday as they

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attended mass An eight and a ten year old, innocent children.
We're gunned down yesterday. We have an enormous problem in

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this country, an enormous problem. And this will be the
headline for the next cycle. We'll give it three or
four days. We'll give it three or four days, and
something else will happen and it'll drop out of the

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headlines until the next time this happens. Is there a
perfect answer? I don't know. I don't have it, and
I'm not claiming that I do. But there has to
be something done because as of yesterday, an eight and
a ten year old, an eight and a ten year

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old lost their lives at mass.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
At Mass, do.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
You have thoughts one eight hundred and sixty two for
eleven seventy we want to hear from you. Of course,
you can go to our text line seven zero four
seven zero or comment on our Facebook. I'll read you
some of those comments when we get back seven forty five.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Oh, welcome back seven to fifty

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the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
We're talking about the tragic incident yesterday in Minneapolis and
the two children that were murdered yesterday. I pose this
question on our Facebook page, which is, do we have,

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you know, after what we experienced yesterday, do we have
a gun control problem? There's the argument that was made
by this the mayor of Minneapolis yesterday and many other politicians.
Of course, on one particular side of the conversation. Saying
that we have a gun control problem. I argue, we
have a mental health problem that continues to grow across

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this country. Or do we have a just continuing to
grow violence problem in this country? Again, I want to
hear from you.

Speaker 7 (27:38):
Had somebody text me and say, do we have a
parenting problem?

Speaker 6 (27:43):
I love that we do. We do?

Speaker 7 (27:46):
So, yeah, you know, I mean, obviously this person's a
younger person and you.

Speaker 6 (27:52):
Know, twenty three, I believe.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah, I mean, but I mean, so how are they
brought up?

Speaker 5 (27:58):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (27:59):
You know, what's in the background there? Yeah, you know,
obviously there's some there's some issues, and maybe this person
wasn't happy with themselves and themselves and you know, just
they don't know how to handle it. And you know,
there's a lot of times when you see things like this.

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Obviously there's there's obviously something mental. There are three guns
in my house, none of none of them have ever
fired by themselves. So to blame it on the gun
is not the problem. To blame it on the accessibility

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of guns probably not ninety five percent of the problem.
You know, you you have people that maybe this person
couldn't get a gun, but because mom or dad have
access to maybe that's how they get them. You see,
you see what I'm saying, there's there's there's way, there's

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ways around the system. So if you put you can
have all the gun control laws you want in the
criminals and the people that want guns will get guns.
So I mean, it's not it's not a gun issue,
you know. I mean walking through the streets Amsterdam last week,
both my friend and he said, you know, we don't
have guns here, Like he said, the only people that

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carry guns are the police, but there are other security
people that work the streets of Amsterdam for certain businesses
and so on and so forth. They are not allowed
to carry. Neither are citizens. Okay, so you know, does
that eliminate all your problems? Probably not, but I'm sure

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it lessens some of the problems. It lessens the opportunities.
But again, the criminal in the criminal mind will get
what they need.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
You're right. I agree with you, and I think there
is we say a mental health issue. I one hundred
percent agree with that, and I also believe it is
a layered conversation when we talk about mental health, especially
when we talk about somebody who's twenty three years old,

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and on top of that, I think we have a
common sense problem in this country. And when I talk
about the younger demographic, so I referenced Columbine happened in
nineteen ninety nine. Okay, think about the amount of changes

(30:42):
that have happened culturally here in the United States since
then that has affected the younger generation. The amount of
violence we have seen increase in our entertainment, whether we're
talking video games, whether we're talking movies, whether we're talking
television shows. Here's a headline in some of our prep

(31:03):
this morning new Action series is a much watched TV
show is loaded with violence and darkness. That's a headline
promoting how good this show is loaded with violence and darkness.
Young people see that. We talk about social media, we
talk about the Internet. All of that is a factor

(31:26):
that when you are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years old, into
your twenties, like this person was, it warps your mind.
It really truly does. And there are those that are
gonna argue and say, you know, well, just because you
watch it on TV doesn't mean you're going to emulate it. No,
not everybody is going to emulate it. But it does

(31:49):
affect you. It does affect you. And when I talk.
When I mentioned common sense, we have a common sense issue.
Think about it DC cleaning up crime in DC, there
are people protesting against it, minimizing violence and what and

(32:13):
our in the capital of our country, there are people
protesting against it. As I said, posted it on our
Facebook page. Definitely, Michael says, definitely a mental health problem.
Danny says, mental health is the only problem. These idiots
called Trump hitler. They hate the Jews. But he wrote

(32:35):
on his gun kill Trump. If you want to kill
the Jews, the Jews in Trump is hitler, you would
think they would love him. I didn't read that clearly.
My fault. Susan said, too harsh. Here's your cult and
it's a meme about the Democrats. Again, I don't want
to make this a political issue. That's the problem. We

(32:58):
all come into this conversation with a political angle. We
come into every conversation with a political angle at this
point in time, and that's why we're so angry all
the time. I do it too, I absolutely do do

(33:21):
it too. But when it comes to this, we've got
to take that out of the conversation. And maybe I
sound too kumbai Ya, Maybe I sound too soft, Maybe
I sound too liberal. But our children are dying. Our

(33:44):
children were murdered in the pews of a church yesterday.
We have to do something. And as I said, I
don't have the answer, but we need to have these conversations,
and we have to make statements as leaders, whether you're
the mayor or the president, and take politics out of it,

(34:11):
because we have to find some sort of answer. Again,
if you want to chime in, we'd love to hear
from you. Seven zero four seven zeros our text line
or you can call us one eight hundred sixty four.
Eleven seventy. The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
D 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 now.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. I want
to give you some pretty important numbers pertaining to the
Travis Mills Foundation in Retreat in Central Maine. They have
programs tailored to veterans and their families. But these numbers
are pretty hard hitting because they support Post nine to

(35:15):
eleven combat veterans in their families. Nearly twenty four hundred
families veterans families have been served across forty eight states.
We could also count DC, Puerto Rico and Canada over
the past ten years. And the charge the amount veterans
in their families have paid for these retreats and programs
zero not one cent. And that's because of you out

(35:36):
there and others. And Travis always uses the word recalibrated
because that's to describe a change in thinking when it
comes to these injured vets. And when you talk about
the programs, we're talking about culinary arts, martial arts, ropes, course, cycling,
horseback riding, bass fishing, fly fishing, canoeing, kayaking, archery, yoga, pottery, painting, snowshoeing, massage, therapy,

(35:58):
ice fishing.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
And I'm letting you know this because.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
That money goes to very important events and functions that
help these veterans get on with their lives after they
have been injured mentally and physically. And that's why right now,
when we're asking you to buy a Raffle ticket for
fifty dollars. It's so important because he's been able to

(36:22):
and his employees have been able to help these veterans
for ten years because of people like you. So when
I say get a ticket at Ganley for Travis dot
Com for just fifty dollars, that's where that money's going,
so that these families over the past ten years continue
to pay absolutely nothing. Now we've got to sell two

(36:43):
thousand tickets. I believe we've got about a thousand left.
And obviously for that fifty dollars, you can win a
brand new Chevy Equinox and also four cash prizes four thousand,
three thousand, two thousand, and one thousand dollars, So you've
got great odds. But even if you don't win at
fifty dollars goes to everything that I just playing to you.
And that's why it's vitally, vitally important. And a guy
who knows how important it is is Travis Mills himself

(37:07):
quadruple amputee after that ied explosion in Afghanistan back in
twenty twelve.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Travis talk talk a little bit about what I just
hit on.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
All of these activities you offer, and for the last
ten years, how you've been able in your place has
been able to help veterans free of cost to them first.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
And foremost, Hey, you champion, I'm so excited to talk
to you and help you have a great apua.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
You might be the only show.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
But no, you've been just absolutely crushing it. But listen,
I'm excited to be here things for the opportunity. And
the truth is, you know, with Dave Mortash and yourself
and all the people there in Ohio, they just help
out so much. We're able to get back to these
veterans and their families to show them a life's possible
at or injury. And the truth is, you know, when
I was at the hospital wondering why I lifted my injuries,

(37:55):
the thing that kept me going with my daughter Chloe,
she was a sickon with old little baby next to
me and learn how to walk with me and everything.
And then I decided that my new purpose and direction
was to give back to these families to let them
know life is, you know, gonna still be fulfilling, still
be something they can accomplish and achieve and something they
should they should do, they should still want to do
because I was at my worst and I didn't know

(38:15):
why I lived or what I was gonna do. But
luckily I had people that are supporting me like we're
doing here with the Travis Mills Foundation. And in truth,
you know, for the Hity doted Raffle ticket to win
this Equinox with those four cash prizes, you know, it's
great to win, but it's also your giving back and
giving hope and inspiration to people that have had their
lives turned upside down. And at the end of the day,

(38:36):
the Travis Mills Foundation has had so much success with
the support we've been given that we're actually expanding. We
have a poster Max Stress program that we offer are
not just veterans but also first responders, and it's been
going absolutely incredible. We're actually going to be uh breaking
ground in a new location across the road from our
our main retreat. It's a six million dollar bill and

(38:57):
we're so fortunate we're gonna be able to give back
and help people understand that no matter what they went through,
we are here for them, whether it was physical, whether
it was mental, emotional, and that we are here to
take care of them. Because people out there that are
listening to this show right now, care.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
And believe in the services they provided.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
So that's a long winded way to say thank you
so much for even doing this, and for Ganley, for
Travis dot Com, you know, for having the car auction,
the Equinox that's up for grabs.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
I mean, it's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
These veterans are families, Travis. They're coming out for a
week long stay, correct, and they pay for nothing, the flights,
the stay, the activities zero because of people like who
are listening to this show, who have contributed over the years.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
Absolutely, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
The truth is, we get to bring these families out
from across this wonderful nation of ours and if they
fit the correct here for what we're offering for that
week of programming. We do caregiver weeks, we use you know,
just spouse only weeks. We do a bunch of things
and they don't pay anything into it.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
We cover the flights.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
I have some most amazing staff that I could I
ever asked for that do it for the love of
the mission and the love of the veterans and the families.
And we have some of the most awesome volunteers and truthfully,
the donors and sponsors we have.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Hit it out of the park to allow us to
do the work that we do.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
I mean, at the end of the day, everybody listening
is buying the Raffle ticket is allowing me to continue
my mission of giving back and serving my fellow veterans.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
And their families and now first responders as well.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Talking to quadruple amputee Travis Mills. Only ten days left
in this Raffle. It ends the thirty first of this month,
and then you're actually gonna announce live on September second,
the winner of the Equinox twenty twenty six Equinox provided
by ken Ganley Chevy and also the four cash prizes.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Absolutely, I'm fired up, got my tickets, I'm flying in.
We're gonna have a great time. Can't wait to get there.
I love coming to Cleveland and just getting to see everybody.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
I mean, you guys really make.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Me feel like I'm at home, you know, And how
lucky am I to have you guys on my side.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
So I'm going to be there to announce the winners.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Check out what's going on. Hang out mister Dave Mortosh
himself one of my close friends and personal mentors in life,
and just can't wait for the opportunity to be able
to fly in and see everyone.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Travis before I let you go, just real quick, before
I let you go. And again it's Ganley for Travis
dot Com. Fifty dollars for a ticket. We need to
sell about a thousand of them before you go. Just
pick a family, any family out of the last ten
years that came to your retreat that walked away a
hundred times better. I just I just want you to

(41:27):
give an example.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
Absolutely, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
I have a lot of examples of that. But what
happened recently was we had a family come in that
the father lost both legs, had me able to ride
a bike, had three young kids and his wife and
we said, hey, have you ever tried a hand cycle?
He's like, oh, no, I never really, you know, I
never looked into that. And he went out and did
a hand cycle and he rode around on one of
our hand cycles and he had such an amazing experience

(41:51):
taking his family on a ride.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
He was crying, the kids were jacked up for him,
you know.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
His wife was just emotional and sobbing. And we have
a follow on thing that we do called Recalibrate program
where if someone had a great experience but they couldn't
maybe buy a hand cycle, we buy it for them
if they meet some criteria with giving back and volunteering.
But more importantly, we bought them a hand cycle. So
now he takes his family out riding in truth, the
post Mattress program, the Warrior Path that we have partner with,

(42:17):
We've had so many emails about how it fixed their family,
their home life, and honestly, they didn't commit suicide. That
was the last thing they were gonna do before they
were gonna take their own life. So it's just But
the thing is, at the end of the day, I
get to do this because you support and you care,
and you buy these raffle tickets and you come in
and you help us out with doing this. So I
can't thank you enough for all the listeners enough for

(42:39):
being some of my absolute biggest supporters.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Well, Travis, thanks for what you do and I'll see
you soon, buddy.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
Okay, yes, sir, can't wait.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Thanks for your time, having a wonderful day and appreciate
you taking the time talk with me.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
You too. That's Travis Mills.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Quadruple Quadruple Ampute was a US Army staff sergeant. He
got blown up by an ied in Afghanistan in twenty twelve.
He's one of only I think three or four viving
quadruple amputees in the world. And again, you know these
numbers are powerful. I mean the families they've served nearly
twenty four hundred, ten years of operation, twenty five plus

(43:11):
awards and recognitions for foundation charitable efforts, and the amount
of money charged to veterans and their families zero.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
And that's because of you. So we're asking you.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Again if you can fifty dollars for a ticket Ganley
for Travis dot com.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
That is Ganley for Travis dot com. We only have
till the end of the month.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
You've got a one to four hundred chance of winning
this brand new Chevy Equinox four thousand dollars, three thousand dollars,
two thousand dollars, one thousand dollars. And even if you
don't win, you just heard where your money goes.

Speaker 6 (43:41):
Welcome back. It's eight twenty The bloom Daddy Experience salmon
otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So the first hour
got away from us a little bit. I talked too much.
I'll be honest, I rambled. So with that being said,
we're gonna have your chance to win coming up very
shortly for a pair of tickets to the do Wop show. Hinted, hint, Yes,

(44:05):
so that is coming up. Meant to get to that
at the end of the seven o'clock hour went a
little long, so that is coming up here shortly. But
then also there is still time for you to register
on our text line seven zero four seven zero for
your chance to win a half gallon of Kirk's ice cream.
So it'll be a phone call to win do Wop

(44:27):
coming up here in about six minutes. Phone call to
win Doop, text line to win Kirks That will be
at the end of the show. So those two things
happening right now, so get into that again. Text Line
seven zero four seven zero started off with bloom Daddy
name and phone number, so otis. Earlier in the show,

(44:52):
I mentioned waking up with the migraine and everything. Yes,
and I don't know if you've looked at our Facebook
page this morning, but I posted a picture of my
myself because it was a it's a hat and sunglasses
type of day when you wake up with a migraine
anybody who's had one. I am all ears for suggestions

(45:12):
on how to get get away with it, get rid
of it, which I put on on our Facebook page.
So I wanted to read some of the comments. I
love you people, God, you make me smile, you make
me laugh. Michael on Facebook said put your feet in
a hot tub? Is that an invitation? Michael, do you

(45:32):
have a hot tub? I do not, so if you have.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
A hot tub, do you have a bathtub?

Speaker 6 (45:38):
I do have a bathtub. I guess I could do
a bathtub. I was thinking spa when I read hot tub,
I think the spa. But that was from Michael. Then Wes,
who was our guest yesterday, said, whiskey cures everything. Not
sure if that would work for the migraine.

Speaker 7 (45:56):
But you know, chop your head off. Wow, okay, I
just saying you won't have a migraine anymore.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
No, I would not. Let's see. But this is the
one that made me last experience withoutice. Oh no, some
people might like that better. But Daniel said, I got
tested for herpes earlier this year. Maybe go get tested

(46:28):
for that. Thank you, Daniel. I don't really get no.

Speaker 7 (46:40):
I'm not sure I would have read that one.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
I'm pretty sure I don't have herpies. Oh so, anyways,
thank you for your comments on suggestions to make the
migraine go away. But again, if anybody else has suggestions,
I am all ears. And if anybody has one of
the ear piercings that people suggest for migraines and it

(47:05):
has worked for you, would love to know if it,
what your response has been for it, if it has
worked out drastically, because I am tired of migraines, absolutely
sick of these migraines because it just knocks you on
your keyster and when you have to come in every

(47:27):
morning and be entertaining and you feel like that, it's
a it's a struggle bus. We'll put it that way.
It is a struggle bus. Speaking of mentioned the half
gallon of ice cream from Kirks. You can register to
win it on our text line. Just came out. They've

(47:47):
got there Da da da da. It is pumpkin spice time.
It is pumpkin spice time. So they have their pumpkin
ice cream out there, They've got their pumpkin milkshakes, the
pumpkin everything, and the craze continues. I stopped yesterday to
pick up a few things at the store. I saw

(48:07):
a pumpkin spice pretzels. That's a new one. Have you
seen those ones? Have you seen that? Does that not
sound horrid?

Speaker 7 (48:18):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (48:19):
Oh godah well, there is data that reveals just how
popular this flavor has actually become. I like to smell
it like a candle, to eat it. It is not
my not my thing. At least seventy two percent of
the people who filled out this data sheet said that

(48:42):
they used the pumpkin spice at least once a week,
with twenty five percent saying they use the spice the
taste some sort of flavoring. Twenty five percent do it
daily now. It also found that, notably, ninety percent of
pumpkin spice sales occur between August and December. Obviously it's

(49:05):
that time of year because of the seasonal side of it. However,
the survey found sixty six percent of respondents also use
pumpkin spice in savory dishes now, pizza, pasta, pumpkin spice
meat loaf. No, thank you, any any interest in that?

Speaker 7 (49:31):
Absolutely not, I do hear. I did get a suggestion
for you in your migraine. Oh okay, one time and
all one. Ibuprofen always works for them.

Speaker 6 (49:42):
Okay, is it good to mix it like that?

Speaker 7 (49:46):
What's gonna hurt?

Speaker 6 (49:46):
I don't know. Okay, well maybe.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
I'll get better than having a migraine.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
Well, yeah, maybe I'll give it a try.

Speaker 7 (49:52):
Dropping two pills that's it.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
Yeah, that's better than six or seven, I guess. Yeah.
I'm not into the whole pumpkin spice thing, although I
will say it does put me in that. You know,
it does get you into the whole fall move. My
neighbor has their entire house decorated for fall already, the moms,
the scarecrows, the bales of hay, everything, everything ready for fall.

(50:19):
I'm still playing like two or three weeks a pool weather,
I mean, and they're ready for snow fall, the leaves falling.
I drove past their house yesterday coming home from work,
and I thought, really, really, everything everything is set for fall.

(50:42):
Although football kicks off, well it kind of kicked off
last weekend, but this weekend, Man, Saturday is going to be.
I cannot wait for Saturday at noon. I cannot wait
for the first to high state game of the season.
I usually don't get excited about college football. This game, man,
now Noumber one, number two, Texas, Ohio State. Oh, what's

(51:06):
going to be a game? Hopefully, hopefully. I want to
see what arch Manning has. Boy, that boy's got a
lot of pressure on him, lots and lots of pressure.
We'll see how it turns out. But yeah, I can't
wait for that football game. Seven. I'm seven twenty eight. Oh,
I'm going backwards in time. It's eight twenty eight. The
Bloom Daddy Experience. Let's do it do Wop one eight

(51:29):
hundred six two four eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty
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seventy Welcome back. It's eight point thirty six. The Bloom

(51:52):
Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA,
congrats to Mike are winner of this morning's do walk tickets.
Congrats Mike, I hope you enjoy that show. So I'm
back from vacation. Otis is back from vacation, and we
haven't heard from this guy yet. All right, So, according

(52:15):
to several reports, Mark Zuckerberg spends much, much, much more
on his personal security than any other tech giant. Right
the bill is twenty seven million dollars per year. That's
more than seven seventeen times the amount that Jeff Beso

(52:35):
spends to stay secure. And here's he's here to share
his opinion.

Speaker 7 (52:41):
On the amount of n Jeff Bezers.

Speaker 8 (52:44):
It just comes to my attention that one of my
nemesyses is society ed Joe. Mark Zuckerberg spends seventeen times
the amount of money on his personal security than I do.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Every year.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
That geek spends twenty seven million dollars. Uh A big
much nerd?

Speaker 8 (53:05):
Is he hiring avatar bodyguards to follow him around the metaverse?
I mean, why was he so paranoid he could get
kidnapped and held for a million dollars ransom twenty six times.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Per year and still have a million left over?

Speaker 8 (53:19):
Hey, zuck, why don't you save some cash and hire
your bodyguards on Facebook marketplace?

Speaker 3 (53:27):
I mean, I don't get it.

Speaker 8 (53:29):
Zuckerberg spends twenty seven million on security, but for some
reason still spends four bucks on.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
A haircut Chchia or a billionaire ch ch chitchia.

Speaker 6 (53:43):
Oh, nerd nerd oh, that's funny, nerd oh. You can
always depend on You can always depend on mister Basis
to make you laugh. So yesterday, of course, we talked
briefly about the big engagement. Love is back in the air,

(54:08):
makes us all feel better again. Did you see the
video circulating I think I saw it on Instagram where
a college professor when the announcement came out Monday. Was
it Monday or Tuesday? I think it was Tuesday, the
big announcement. It was in the middle of the afternoon.
He announced to his college class the the engagement and

(54:33):
then dismissed him class had just started and said, just
take the rest of the day. Class is dismissed.

Speaker 7 (54:40):
Did he do a David Lee Roth class dismissed?

Speaker 6 (54:45):
I don't think so. Now he's catching a lot of
backlash on this, basically saying, you know, people are saying
this is why college is a waste of money and
this and that. Listen if you the the roar from
those students when they found this out. I think he realized,

(55:05):
it doesn't matter what I talk about. They're gonna sit
on their phones and they're gonna look at the pictures
and all they're gonna care about is the engagement announcement.
Kind of got to agree with him on that. You know,
one thing I thought I said yesterday was the pre nup.
So that's who's gonna win out in the end. But

(55:29):
here's what Taylor Swift is reportedly worth, just her, just
her one point six billion dollars Kelsey ninety million dollars. Yikes,

(55:49):
that is going to be better be, especially with Taylor's
track record of burning through relationships like a wildfire, that
is going to be one heck of a prenup, or
at least it better be. It better be. Those are

(56:13):
not small figures.

Speaker 7 (56:14):
And then this morning you think they're registered at Target.

Speaker 6 (56:18):
Well I was gonna say they should be regidor Kmart,
but they can't. Martha Stewart has offered to be their
wedding planner. I would take Martha Stewart up on that offer.

Speaker 7 (56:31):
It would be perfection with Snoop Dogg in charge of
the party.

Speaker 6 (56:35):
Favors yeah and snacks, Yeah, yeah, he would have. Could
you imagine that, Martha Stewart being your wedding planner?

Speaker 7 (56:46):
Why why would you need that?

Speaker 6 (56:49):
Why would you need a wedding planner. Yeah, yeah, of
course that comes out the out of the the mouth
of a man.

Speaker 7 (56:56):
Listen, did it in short term? Did we did everything
on our own? Bang?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
It was done?

Speaker 6 (57:03):
You're also not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.

Speaker 7 (57:06):
Guess what who says, I'm not.

Speaker 6 (57:09):
Your paycheck?

Speaker 7 (57:12):
Very good point, Sam, thank you.

Speaker 6 (57:18):
I'll take that one. But yeah, I mean I couldn't
even imagine what planning from that prenup would be, what
planning this wedding is going to be like. And then
this morning I wake up to I didn't see the
announcement yesterday. Have you seen the video? Travis Kelcey is
now collaborating with American Eagle. I haven't thought about American

(57:41):
Eagle in probably twenty years now. Within the last six weeks,
American Eagle has been one of the top brands mentioned
across the planet. So he's teamed up with American Eagle
with his own line.

Speaker 7 (57:59):
Maybe you have done members only?

Speaker 6 (58:03):
Is that still alive?

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Great?

Speaker 7 (58:05):
I mean I would say no, oh, I mean the
people that probably still wear members only are probably like
eighty year old losers.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But he's teamed up and I watched
the video of the big announcement. If you're a kid
of the nineties like I am, American Eagle was like
one of these stores to go to. When we got
one at the High Valley Mall, it was like explosive, right,
everybody wanted American Eagle jeans, the flip flops, everything, the
hoodies and the sweaters. Take a look if you haven't

(58:41):
the video for this big announcement, because Travis Kelcey looks
like the sweater that he's wearing, the haircut that he has,
he walked right out of nineteen ninety five, Ladies and gentlemen,
Honest to God, Honest to God, it looks like straight
out of nineteen ninety I can see the guys in

(59:03):
the halls of Black Eye Local High School rocking this
look back in the day. It's exactly the same, the
hair and everything, the floppy parted down the middle, long,
grown out, floppy male hair with the V neck, sweater,
preppy kind. Honestly, God, is straight out in nineteen ninety five.

(59:25):
It's hilarious, absolutely hilarious. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't
believe it. There wasn't much design effort, but anyways, so
there just add those sales into the ninety not billion.
Ninety million Kelsey is estimated to be worth. But let's

(59:47):
ask these questions. Are these soulmates so signs that you
are somebody's soulmate or they're your soulmate? See if we're
each other soulmates?

Speaker 7 (01:00:00):
Here?

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
No, they teach you life lessons.

Speaker 7 (01:00:10):
Oh whatever, you're buying into something here.

Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
The connection you form with them feels different. They can
almost read your mind. Can you read my mind?

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:00:25):
Well can you read mine?

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:00:27):
And I'm so glad that I can't, because there's a
lot of there's there's a lot of words in there
that we can't say on the radio at the moment,
like this is blanking stupid.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
They help you grow as a person. Have I helped?
I help you grow every day? And they help quiet
your inner critic. Those are signs of soulmates. So hopefully
Travis and Taylor you can get at least three out
of those five and then your soulmates. I think, otis,

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you are quite happy that we're soulmates. You won't even
look at me, man, you won't even look at me.
Eight forty five. Don't forget this is your last chance.
Seven zero four seven zero register for your chance to
win Kirk's famous homemade ice cream on our text line
seven zero four seven zero. Started off with bloom Daddy

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name and phone number, and that is your registration. You
look so thrilled. The Bloomdaddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy The Soulmates here News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA,

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Welcome back. It's eight fifty The bloom Daddy Experience, salmon
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder coming up,
we're gonna have our winner for Kirk's ice cream. And
then also by phone call, we're going to do give
certificates to McCormick's Auto down in Glendale, So that's coming
up very shortly. But speaking of autos, we have got

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the King of Cars on the line, Kevin cook Straw Automotive.
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
Car.

Speaker 9 (01:02:18):
Okay, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Better than something else.

Speaker 9 (01:02:24):
Oh you're.

Speaker 7 (01:02:28):
Whether you like it or not, you guys, I did.
I had fun. Yeah it was a good time. Yeah
I did.

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
I did.

Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
I got a third I got a third place and
I got a bronze medal in darts.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
Thanks, so we can we can now say the award
winning otis.

Speaker 9 (01:03:00):
Build suggest the award winning I got the speaking of
award winning. Okay, here there you striving to be number
one and number two again in the state in Hontail, right,
but not only Honda. We'll also working very hard to
do it with our Fundays.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
We just decided a man a hon could do it.
Some day came to it and said, hey, what get
you guys a little more effort towards getting Hunday to
the top of the state fate.

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
So uh huh that's normally not good.

Speaker 6 (01:03:37):
No, I'm sorry, there there you are.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
You cut out on us.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
I cut out? Okay, w back Monday, Monday by a
hun day to day. Okay, great fields on Hondays right now,
if you have not checked the bail probably the best
technology that's out there period. Okay, these guys are way
ahead because of the technology that they're putting in the vehicles.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Uh just.

Speaker 9 (01:04:06):
The camera, the information systems, you know their one two system.
Uh there's scent, there's any days with that. I mean,
these guys are getting say logg on today. Check out
the new hondacally got the Audien twenty six out A
and p redesigned free style. It's on the showing floor.

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Come check it out today.

Speaker 7 (01:04:29):
Sounds good, buddy, all right, dian Fall, all right, we'll
talk tomorrow. There you go, There you go. I just
hit the button.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
Oh you hit the button. You know what happened on
this day in twenty twenty two? This is up your
This is up your rally. So it could be a
lot of things.

Speaker 7 (01:04:53):
Twenty twenty two. What year is it now? Twenty twenty five?
Three years ago? I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (01:04:57):
The a nineteen fifty two Mickey Mantle baseball card sold
for twelve point six million dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:05:06):
Yep, wouldn't be a bad one to have, Yeah, for
a baseball card, for a piece of cardboard.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
Yes. Oh, also on this day in nineteen sixty three.
This is a little bit more historically significant. The I
Have a Dream speech was given by doctor Martin Luther
King in nineteen sixty three on today's date. So we're

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talking about top spots, awards, all of that kind of stuff.
Since you're a metal winner, maybe we could, maybe you
and I should come up with something for this. So
the Guinness Book of World Records is marking at seventieth
anniversary here soon.

Speaker 7 (01:05:48):
All right, I'm already a part of her record.

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:05:52):
Okay, at least I think I still am. I'd have
to look it up.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
So what they're doing to celebrate is they're inviting the
public to attempt seventy unclaimed record titles. So these range
from the four hundred the fastest four hundred meters sack
race to the farthest distance to bounce a coin into

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a cup.

Speaker 7 (01:06:16):
Well, if it's never been done, the record could be
bright two feet yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
Yeah, So so those are two of them. Let's see.
The very first Guinness Book of World Record was compiled, compiled,
and published in nineteen fifty five. In August of nineteen
fifty five, to commemorate the milestone, Guinness is launching a
new record selector Quiz to match aspiring record breakers with

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appropriate challenges based on their skills and interests. Now, were
what was your record?

Speaker 7 (01:06:53):
The part of most I can't remember how it's worded,
but it's something about so we were all This was
in Salt Lake City in twenty eighteen. We all got
into an area, but there it closed us in and
so it was the largest gathering of living transplant recipients
in a group.

Speaker 6 (01:07:13):
Oh, okay, and I.

Speaker 7 (01:07:14):
Think it was over seven hundred or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:16):
Oh, I'm trying to see.

Speaker 7 (01:07:18):
I wouldn't know where. I mean, I could have got
a I could have got a certificate it said what
it was. Huh, but it was like seventy five bucks,
and I was like, that's not that important.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
Okay, let's say I'm trying to see what the okay,
examples of the open records, most whoopee cushions sat on
in one minute.

Speaker 7 (01:07:41):
Oh, we gotta go for that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
We have to go for that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:45):
Well with uh, I was gonna say it. I'm not
gonna say what I was gonna say.

Speaker 7 (01:07:49):
Just put them all on a bench.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
And I've got a lot of coverage personally back there.

Speaker 7 (01:07:54):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:55):
Let's see, most high fives in thirty seconds, fastest time
to build a five story playing card period. Now I
couldn't do that. Most kisses in thirty seconds by a pair, No,
most T shirts put on in thirty seconds. Yeah, so
it's just some crazy ridiculous Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:08:17):
Part of it is you can't, like a lot of
the records, they won't put in if it's something where
you can actually get hurt doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
Oh really Yeah, so there you have it. If you
want to try and break a world record, now is
your time. But now it's time. Let's do the ice
cream first. Okay, okay, one through eighteen, Okay, one through eighteen.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
This radio, since I was super prepared.

Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
I'm sorry I did it to you again. I always
do that, do do do?

Speaker 7 (01:08:53):
And the number is three.

Speaker 6 (01:08:56):
Well that's easy, Tom, Tom l is our winner. So
I will contact you Tom after the show about the Kirks.
So congratulations to Tom. And then McCormick's Auto one eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty two,
four eleven seventy for mccormicks.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
I'll let you do the number number nine.

Speaker 6 (01:09:21):
Number nine, caller number nine for mccormicks. Everybody, have a
great Thursday. We'll talk to you tomorrow.