The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam August 29, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now seven o six. Happy Friday, Folks, Happy Friday. The
bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis, News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA Otis. We've put in a long week of work.
It's time for a long vacation.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm gonna say I hit the wall yesterday. I left here.
I left here yesterday, and I was like, man, am
I tired? And I just like I said, you know what,
I'm just gonna lay down for a second and flipped
the TV on and I just kept I caught myself
like phone asleep, phone and sleep, and I was like,
oh good God, like there's still no food in my house? Whatsoever?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, so who needs that? How long? How it wasn't
a few minutes?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Was it?

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
They were like they were like multiple cat naps because
I started to put a movie on and I was
trying to watch the movie and I can feel and
I'd wake up and it go how much of it
did I miss and I'd look at the clock.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Where'd that character go come from?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I hate that. I hate that. When you're so tired
sometimes you can't sleep. Have you ever been so tired
where it's like like your eyeballs hurt, they're so heavy,
and sometimes you just you just can't fight fight it.
You just have to say, throw your hands up and
I'm done.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Sometimes a power nap, though, is and it's perfect, Like.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
The last two nights, fall asleep before nine o'clock. Oh yeah,
it's kind of a good routine to get into. Well,
especially for this Yeah, so because normally, like I can
fall asleep anywhere between ten pm and three am on
a regular day.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Of gost No not me, not me. No, It's like
I said, sometimes a power nap is just exactly what
you want. But then I've done the thing where you
get too much sleep or too long of a nap
and then you feel worse. I hate that feeling. I
feel sluggish. It just it just doesn't work. It doesn't work.

(02:14):
But it is a Friday. So with that being said,
you know what we like to do on Fridays. We
like to lay back, have some fun and guess what folks,
football kicks off. College football According to me and my team,
college football kicks off tomorrow. So we're gonna talk of
high state Texas. Arch Manning thoughts on that. We're going

(02:37):
to get into that conversation. And then.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
We have kancs to win. We have some goodies, lots
of chances to win.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes, yes we do, Yes, we do so.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Race Banyon, No, that's Steve Canyon, Race Banyon, remember your
old Johnny Quest cartoon.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, but I thought Steve Banyon when you said that,
I don't know Steve, I don't know. Is that a person?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't know? For some reason that what's the name
of the group for Steve's.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Steep Canyon Ranger.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Steve Canyon Ranger. Yes, yeah, Race Banyon was Johnny Quest,
his dad's like he was the pilot, he was the
go to guy. Oh, okay, Johnny Quest.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
This cartoon right from this early Tim Matheson from Animal House.
He's the voice of Johnny Quest. Oh, I didn't know
that a lot of people don't.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Did he wear like the orange Johnny? Wasn't it like
an orange and yell?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Now he had like a black turtleneck, black black and
then his friend Hodgy and the Dog Bandit. Yeah, you
can tell him why. I'm a child of the sixties
and seventieses.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
You are, so we are. We're going to have chances
for you to win throughout the show. Tickets to stee
See Steep Canyon Rangers, which is September twelfth, right here
at the Capitol. So we're gonna have that throughout the show.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Along with McCormick's Auto Center Gift certimmicates and if you
would McCormick's Auto Center Gift certificate, it will not count
against your thirty days as a winner. So, in other words,
you can still win tickets, you can still win free lunch,
you can still win all the other good things that
we have to offer. Yes, yes, so we're not penalizing
you for winning mccormicks.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, which, by the way, it's not a penalty.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, it's not a penalty, but I mean the thirty
day rules, yes to most things. Yeah, we're just not
telling corporate or did we just tell them? Are they listening?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Nah, they're still sleeping.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Hopefully the one guy's on vacation. Jesus wise, Well, so
much for that microphone. Oh oh, that's because you were
playing with it.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, no, yeah, well it was loose and it.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
You might have to switch mics. Not now, but during
the break.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm gonna sit.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
That's good. You look good. Hold bad micro You know
what I need to do is I need to take
a pictures on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, well that was interesting.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
At least we're live.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I don't even know. Yeah, we are live. We're here
five days a week. Fyi, folks, I don't even know
where the screw went.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's what she said.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's not good. Well this is this is this is
special Happy Friday, folks. But yeah, we're gonna have plenty
of chance. I heard the camera. We're gonna have plenty
of chances for you to win this morning. Hopefully I
will get this microphone fixed.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm saying, I gotta get your mouth open while you're talking.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
All lovely lovely wow. Okay, So yes, we're gonna have
plenty of chances. Do you win, and then we also,
as I posted last night on our.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Okay, I can't tell. I don't know I know how
to turn it off on an iPhone. I don't know
how to turn it off.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
On all the noise, the clicking noise post the last
night on Facebook are fun questions for today. So the
first one is what excuse have you used that has
worked to get you out of a speeding ticket? So
just you know, something clever, something funny, or you know

(05:58):
you thought no way is the cop gonna fall for this,
and by all means it worked and got you out
of a speeding ticket. Now, Also, if you are a
cop or former cop.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I just say a police officer. Cop sounds so it
just sounds so slangy and really yeah, oh I didn't
mean to. Yeah, if you're a trooper or an officer
or deputy or something of that nature, how about that.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
Okay, if you are a former law enforcement official or
current or current and you have had some good excuses,
would love to hear what you have encountered on the
roads from people.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
So I know, let's see, I think Marcus listens. So
if Marcus is listening, he's a police officer. Okay, So Marcus,
if you're listening, give us a call or shoot me
a text.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
There's got to be some good ones.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Out there, and then talk to your other buddies.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, there's got to be some good ones out there,
because I mean, just some of the ones.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I mean I could make a couple of phone calls.
I just hate to call him at seven o'clock in
the morning if they're like if they just got off
a shift.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
This it's tricky to hold this gigantic microphone.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I mean, you don't need the adjectives in there.
Just up holding this microphone would have been fine.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's a big microphone. Anyways, what's wrong with using an adjective?
All right? It paints the picture. It tells the sad.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
More than paints the picture.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh good, good, Oh so again our question. Give us
your best excuse that got you out of a speeding ticket,
just like well Trudy didn't have an excuse because she's
fifty five and she's never had a speeding ticket. Well, Trudy,
good for you.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Live life on the edge. Listen. Speed limits are not
speed limits, they're suggestions.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh is that how it works?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yess? How I look at it. I always tell them, Look,
it's a suggestion, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
Well?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Is it true? I've always been told that you have
a five mile per hour window.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
It all depends. I mean, my buddy, who's a former trooper,
i'd call him, but he's moving his son to Oklahoma City.
This week.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
He's a little busy.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
So when he was a trooper here in Ohio County,
he would like a lot of times he would sit
at the top of four seventy up into Bethlehem area,
and he said, you could just see people going by.
You know, obviously you have it's your discretion on how
you want to do it. So for some it's five,
for some it's seven, for some it's two. You know,
I mean you go through you go through Benwood and

(08:31):
mc meccan, like, you go one mile over the speed limit,
they're pulling you over. Yeah, oh yeah, you go through
Bethlehem on four to seventy. It's a state trooper. You
speed limits say sixty five. I think it's fifty five.
But if let's say it's fifty sixty five and you're
going seventy two, they're probably not going to pull you
over as long as you're floiling with traffic. Now, if
you're if you're blowing by people, then that's where they're

(08:54):
going to get you.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, because people who go that don't go with the
speed of traffic and they're ridiculous slow. That's just as dangerous.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
As actually more day. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, So again that's our question for today, give us
your excuse that got you out of a speeding ticket,
or if you're a member of law enforcement, is that better? Yes, okay,
if you're a member of law enforcement, we would love
to hear some of the great stories that you have
encountered with excuses people have given you. It is seven

(09:26):
point fifteen. You want to do our first yeah, sure,
all right, let's do. Let's kick this show off, right,
let's do our first chance to win this morning one
in hundred sixty two four eleven seventy one, one hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy. We're going to kick it
off with mccormicks.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Yep, all right, pair of them, a.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Pair of them, one hundred and sixty for eleven seventy
and let's do caller number eight, caller number eight.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
You got it, get it?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, fix mic go to a break, all right.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
We're gonna go to a break and fix a microphone.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right. Welcome back. It's seventy twenty one The Blind
Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Congrats to Fred, our first winner of the morning. Listen, folks,
something's different today, and it's not the fact that my

(10:31):
microphone fell off the arm here and it's put back together. Fyi,
all is well, little misfix it. Yes, and I did
do it by myself. Fyi, it was all me because
he was busy. He was busy getting our winner. But
something is different here in the studio.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
And yeah, you didn't notice it until just now.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I didn't as I was running around trying to fix
this microphone. Johnny's in the house.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Johnny's in the house.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
What was the iconic? Oh, I know who's Where's Johnny?
Where's Here's Johnny?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
That's it?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, Ed McMahon, Yeah, yeah, So give me the backstory here.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
So I have a shirt on it's a bowling shirt.
This is from the from the Transport Games. Okay, my shirt.
It is nice shirt. It's got you know, Donate life
on this side, and it's got ten USA Bowling and
all that stuff on it. So what unbeknownst to me,
I ordered in a shirt and it had my name
on the back. It just said my last name. Okay,
no big deal. So as we go to the team

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bowling the next night, they had the other shirts for
us and they said, hey, we're wearing this one, this one.
You can just do whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Had one shirt for each night, like yes, more or less.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
So obviously my name, my real name is in notice
we know that. I mean it was a nickname that
was given to me thirty years ago. So when I
registered for the Games, I registered using I go in
real life, I go by my middle name thanks to
my grandmother fifty some years ago, which my everybody, if

(12:08):
they don't call me, oh, just they call me Tim. Okay,
no surprise, but my legal first name is John.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I never knew that about it.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Okay, So you know, I go by my middle name,
so it's John Timothy. And I'm a junior, so you know,
no big deal, not trying to hide anything. So when
I registered for the Games under John, you know, so
the guy that's in charge of the bully doesn't know me,

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just assumes that I go by John. And so I
get this shirt and in real big letters on the back,
which is it's a little obnoxious, to be honest with you,
I mean my personal opinion, it is. But it says
Johnny in my last name, so it says Johnny. Matter,
No big deal. Fifty eight years. I've been on this

(12:58):
planet almost fifty nine.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Nobody's ever called you Johnny.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Nobody has ever called me Johnny.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
And now I feel like I should.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Oh, there's listen. That was kind of a running joke.
The one guy that I was hanging out with, he's
from California, and he and I were we went to
Prague together and he's going, hey, Johnny, Hey, and his
name is Johnny. Like and I'm like, why are you
He goes, well, that's what it says on your shirt.
I'm like, dude, come on, well, And it was.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Weird because you know, when we get here in the morning,
you and I are both doing a whole bunch of
stuff separately in separate rooms, and like you said, I
didn't notice it until right before we were coming back
from a break, and I'm like, who's Johnny on your shirt?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Like that's me, Like I even have a cousin john
and that I don't think anybody's ever called him Johnny.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're not a Johnny. No, I'm not no, no, no,
You're not a Johnny.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
But you know notice, yeah, well, and you know, I mean,
here's the thing. So, like I said thirty years ago,
when I was working for a delivery company, that's no
longer in existence, they got bought out by DHL, the
guy that ran the thing, gave me the nickname Otis.
And then when when I started coming in with bloom
Daddy on Fridays before he started here, he just said hey, Otis, Hey,

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and he just it just kind of stuck. And then,
you know, I took a you know, my real job,
took some time away, and you know, kind of had
some other things going on. And when I got hired
back here nine years ago with iHeart and I started
on w o v K with Jimmy Elliott, we were
we were trying to figure out because it was before

(14:39):
I got hired, it was Jimmy and Steve. Well, okay,
that's that flows. Yeah, well Jimmy and Timmy don't go.
Jimmy and tim doesn't go, you know, so Jimmy and Timmy, Yeah,
that sounds horrible, you know. And so Jimmy made the
suggestion the why don't we just go with your nickname?

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And so it just kind of been that way. And
then when bloom Daddy, when I came over as bloom
Daddy's producer, I had always been Otis to bloom Daddy,
So it just kind of it's just it just it
just stayed just naturally. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's not.
You know, it's funny because I'll go places and people
that I've known for years will say, man, I didn't

(15:21):
realize you were Otis on the radio, and I'm like, Okay,
it's funny, but it's I'm not. I don't try to
hide it, but I also don't promote it, you know
what I mean. I'm not that ego drive driven that
I need. You know. You know, if you want to
know who I am, I'll tell you. I mean, if
I send you an email from here, it has my
name on it, I mean, it's not like it says Otis,
you know, So I mean, you know it's not now

(15:45):
it's going to say Johnny still from my other work
email was Karp Right, Yeah, my other work email does
start out with john because it's John thought my middle initial,
dot my last name.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
So what's funny you say that you bring that up?
Because last night I went to a wonderful event that
the Saint Clairsville Chamber put on and I got called
to the front, which, by the way, I beat Kirk
Porterfield in this little one on one game we had questioned.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
An answer, down, take him down, take him down.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah. But one of the things they.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
May next month ends in are that means we can
Kirk and I can do a chili cookoff starting in September, September, October, November.
It has to have an R in it for you
to cook chili.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Okay, all right, Well that came out of left field,
but okay, But anyways, one of the things they asked
you to do was was introduce yourself so real quickly.
I said, you know, I'm Andrea and this and that.
I said, but my alter ego as Sam, co host
of the morning show on WWVA, and people's eyeballs were
just like, oh, that's who you are. It's so funny
when people realize or recognize who you are. And like

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you said, when I started doing this stuff with bloom
Daddy on the fun Fridays with him, I was brought
in as sort of like the female point of view
on things.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, you were also brought in for when when Karen
can no longer come in because of her job. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
And I picked Sam as my name because number one,
I don't like the way I say my name Andrea.
I just don't like it. I don't think it rolls
off my tongue.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well, I just I and you're not used to three
syllable words.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well that too, that's a struggle for me also. But
and I picked Sam. I think it's simple, and it's
it's I always like girls who have boy names. I
just I've always liked it. I've always thought it was
cute Sam, and that's what I went with. So yeah,
but it's funny where people recognize and and you know
they put two and two together because like last night,
I said, you could see it on the faces. So

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Johnny all this all this conversation from a shirt.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
It's a blue Daddy experience with Andrea and Johnny.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
See that does not flow.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Does not flow?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wow, seven thirty six. It is a humdinger of a
Friday my microphone.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'm glad we have a three day weekend.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
And yes, I just used the term hum dinger. A
lesson learned. Do not eat a dry granola bar when
what you are doing is talking for a living.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, I mean, if you're gonna do it, dude, at
the beginning of the break, not at the end of
the break.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I yes, I have, yes, learned my lesson on that one. Yeah,
excuse me, excuse me, So it is a Friday. We're
having some fun.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
In other words, doesn't take anything dry in your mouth
a minute before you go on there.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Basically, yes, we will leave that right there. No follow
up needed on that particular comment. No, thank you ladies
and gentlemen. So we are having fun. Our question of
the day, oh Lord, give us your best excuse that
got you out of a speeding ticket, or if you
are an officer, some of the best excuses you have received.

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Of course, you can call us six two for eleven
seventy otis is sitting there waiting for something to do.
Or you can text us, which is seven zero four
seven zero, start the message off with bloom Daddy and
then give us your story. Or you can do what
Aaron did on our Facebook and said I wasn't the

(19:20):
one driving, but we were speeding coming from Cincinnati to
Columbus and we had just had popeyes. We get to
Grove City and Ohio, and an Ohio trooper stopped us.
I yell at the trooper, Hey, I need to go.
Can we please hurry up? The trooper laughs and goes,
all right, have a nice day. Aaron, I concur I

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have used that excuse myself. I even said, look, I've
got goosebumps, I gotta go, I gotta go, And it worked.
It worked for me.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Have you ever used the bathroom excuse?

Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, just an like, do you have an excuse you've used?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Okay, I got I left here one time I had.
I had to be in Charleston at eleven am and
I left here bloom Daddy was still in the air.
I left here at quarter to nine, so I had
he had to close out the show, which he was
terrified that he had to play one song on the
way out, like he didn't know what he was doing.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
He had to push the buttons.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, and it really it's not that hard. I mean,
he knows what he's doing, but he just he was
terrified that he had to do it for like thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh. I had to do it once and then it
weirded me out.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah. So as I'm driving, I'm listening, I'm replaying things
from the show in my head. I've got Dan Patrick
on the radio from you know, our sister station, and
I'm thinking about the meeting I've got coming up, and
I have I'm I'm in a West Virginia state vehicle
with a state played on it, and I'm on I

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seventy and I'm just moving. I have no idea. I'm
just in my mind. I have no idea what I'm
just I get, you know, everything's just spinning. I look
at in the rearview mirror and there's the lights. So
a high Estate patrol officer pulls you over, and your
stomach just drops anymore. No, it doesn't. Oh no, I
don't even get nervous anymore. So he comes up to

(21:08):
the window and he says, hey, He says, where are
you headed? I said, I got a meeting in Charleston
at eleven o'clock. He goes, oh, He says, uh, you
know how fast you were going? I said, honestly, I
said I don't. I said I was thinking about and
I just, you know, told him everything. I just said.
He goes, well, I clocked you at ninety two, and
I'm like and I was like, this car can do
ninety two because, like I said, normally about eighty five

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and starts shaking. Well, he starts laughing. Okay, he says,
well what do you do? And so when I handy
my license, of course my badge is right there. So
because I do that strategically, So I handed my license.
He sees the badge, he says, hold on, he goes back,
he checks it, he goes, look, just slow it down,
will you? And I'm like absolutely, So, you know, instead
of going ninety two, I just I maintained it at

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about seventy seven for the next you know, ten or
fifteen miles.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
But see, you have an advantage there. You have a
little bit of a leg up. And the rest of
us regular folk that aren't carrying.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
It does it. It has got me too speeding. I mean,
it hasn't gotten me out of two tickets. Oh okay,
So I mean it doesn't hurt that we were in
North Carolina. And this goes back to bloom Daddy and
he should have paid this ticket. So buddy of mine
and I went down when his two boys were playing
for West Liberty. They were playing in a they were

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playing somewhere outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. So my friend
has his brother lives down in that area. So we
decided we were going to go on a road trip
and watch West Liberty play some of these teams. So
we bloom Daddy's son at one of the rest stops
left his cell phone at the rest stop, so he says, hey,

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can you stop at the restop and pick up whichever
one's phone it is, And I said sure. So we
takes us like twenty minutes to find an employee. First off,
so we get the cell phone, We get so like
we're kind of behind schedule, and then we're in traffic.
It's like it's three lane where there's no like, you're
just you're caught. You can't do anything. You can't pass
anybody because the people in the left lane aren't going

(23:06):
fast enough. So finally it opens up into five lanes
and I get out that fifth lane and I'm booking it.
And I said to my buddy, who's this riding shot gun?
And I said, man, this whoever this is coming up
behind me is flying like a mofo. Next thing, you know,
here come the lights. So he's so he pulls this over,

(23:28):
and you know, of course the badge is there, and
I handing the license. No effect, still got the ticket.
And where we got that ticket was it's a racket
because when as soon as I got home, there were
letters in my Because you have to hire an attorney,
they'll get you out of the speeding ticket, but you
have to hire an attorney for one hundred dollars to
represent you to get you out of the ticket.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
And oh, come on, that's a racket.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Absolutely. And so that's what I said to the trooper.
I said, look, I said, I said, can I just
mail my check in? I said, yeah, I don't have
a problem paying my speeding ticket. Just you know, can
I just mail it in or pay it online or
do something? He goes, no, you have to be represented
in court. And I said, so, in other words, you're
telling me this is a racket you have going on
in this county with the attorneys. And he just looked

(24:14):
at me like, and I said, you can admit it.
I mean, I don't care, just just tell me it's
a racket.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, scratch my back, I'll scratch situation.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
No, this was like Burlington, North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Load of But that way you don't get the points
on your license. They said that what they represent you,
they don't. You probably go to court and they just
say there was you had faulty equipment in your car.
So in other words, like this speedometer, was it working
property or something of that nature. But it's it's definitely.
I should have just taken the days off work and
just gone down and represented myself and said this is

(24:50):
a racket, and then pail and then paid twice three
or four times of the fine. It probably would probably
was no nobody would have shown up, probably because they
wouldn't expect me to be there.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, we got on this subject because that's our question
of the day. What excuse have you used successfully?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
How many tickets have you gotten in your life?

Speaker 7 (25:10):
Me?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, WHOA.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
I've gotten one in person, and that's when I was
in high school, which, by the way, I'll tell you
that story. And then the second one I received via
a camera. It was mailed to me like three months
after the trip, and that was outside of Pittsburgh somewhere
they got me. But the first time I ever got
pulled over, and the only time I got a ticket
in person, I was leaving high school. I went to

(25:37):
Black Eye Locals. Everybody knows. I was driving my little
eighty four Honda Accord death Trap car and I was
going along that straight stretch in front of Fairway, the
golf course right there. I got pulled over for going
twenty six in a twenty five.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
There you go, and he gave me a tike it
I have thought that one.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I was so shook up number one forgetting I'd only
had my license for maybe a month, and I remember
saying to the guy, I wasn't hardly what did I do?
Because you were going twenty six? It's only twenty five here,
I remember going really like I remember.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
My first one. Oh but there's there's probably been twenty
since then.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Oh yeah, see I haven't. I'm pretty good at not
getting caught.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, the one time we were coming back from a
WU basketball game and we were in Pennsylvania, coming up
seventy nine north and I passed the West Virginia State trooper.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah that'll do it.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well, they were so and this is a long time ago,
so I mean it's it wasn't recently. But like the
guy driving, the guy that was with me, one of
the guys. There was four of us in the car,
two of my neighbors, and then this this guy and
he says, as we're driving, as we passed the trooper,
he says, you've got kahunas, only didn't say kahunas. And

(27:00):
he cracks a beer and hands it to me as
we passed the trooper. Oh my, because the West Virginia
trooper didn't have any jurisdiction in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
So yeah, well yeah, so Michael has a good one
on our Facebook page. When a cop walked up to
my window, I held up a sign saying I have
COVID nineteen. The cop waved his hand for me to
go on my way. That was in April of twenty twenty.
He had me at eighty miles and a fifty five
mile an hour zone. So that's pretty good, Michael, that's

(27:31):
pretty good.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
If you want to jump in on this conversation, you
can call us. You can text us seven zero four
seven zero, or of course, just like Michael did, go
to our Facebook page. Where were you going to say,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Go ahead. I wasn't say you want to do what?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, we can do it.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Let's do another chance to win for mccormicks. Slip my mind,
McCormick's auto down in Glendale.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Let's do this. Okay, let's do two winners. Ooh, so
callers number nine.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay and ten, we're going to double down. We're in
double down, all right, Callers number nine and ten for
your chance to win both mccormicks, right, yep, okay.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
And it doesn't count. So if you want to win
tickets to a concert or something down the road in
the next thirty days, this does not count against you or.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
For later in the show. For Steep Canyon, Rivers, Rangers, Rangers,
neither of the.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Right callers nine or ten for mcormicks one, eight hundred
and sixty four eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
We'll be back seven fifty one on this Friday before
Labor Day weekend, the bloom Daddy experienced Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So on our text line,

(28:43):
we got some answers with our question, which is best
excuse to get out of a speeding ticket or any
ticket that you've used? But this is in regards to
otis your story about the hiring a lawyer? No choice?
This and that said this, uh said, say racket is
in Scotland County, North Carolina, so they have the same

(29:06):
same rules as you experienced down there. And then also
another excuse is the one that I said, but I
didn't put it this way. Gotta when you gotta go,
you gotta go basically is what we're saying here. So
if you want to get in on the conversation. Like
I said, we're having some fun with that this morning. Again,
it's Labor Day weekend. We're off Monday. Can't wait for it.

(29:31):
Here's a bit of good news that goes along with
Labor Day. If you are planning any travels a quick
long weekend somewhere, gas prices are staying low. They're staying low.
Trip Away has said that the natural national average for
a gallon of regular should stay below last year's average

(29:53):
of three dollars and thirty three cents and should remain
relatively low for the remaining part of the summer. Now,
of course that all depends on the Gulf Coast refineries
and the hurricane season and all this and that. But
right now, for this weekend for Labor Day, travel should

(30:14):
stay down. But it's not just the gas prices. Airfare
they're saying is going to stay low again. TRIPAA says
domestic round trip flights are six percent less this year
than last year at this time. Hotel rooms are down too,
so take advantage the prices are low. And then also
this weekend, if you're feeling lucky, which I wish I

(30:36):
was feeling lucky, Powerball nine hundred and fifty million dollars.
That's after there was no winner on Wednesday for Wednesday
night drawing Wednesday Night's drawing, So now it is up
to nine hundred and fifty million dollars. Good lord.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Okay, so you know baseball's been around for one hundred
and fifty plus years.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, I'll take your word for it. It's been around
a long time.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah. Well, we're twenty five years into this century, so
we know that. You know, it's been at least one
hundred and twenty five years. So how many times do
you think a player has hit four home.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Runs in a game in one single game.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
One single game, four home runs one game? How many
times do you think that would have happened in the
history of baseball? Because it happened last night, Kyle has
to be a rarity. Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs
for the Phillies last night, had nine RBIs.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Do you want just give me a guest of how
many times a single person has done this? We'll say eighteen.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
You're close. It was the twenty first time.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Oh I was I saw by two.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
That's not three. You were left by three. Matt Major,
there you said I said eighteen twenty one.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh you said twenty one. I'm sorry. I thought you
said twenty.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Okay, I'm sorry. Twenty first time in Major League Baseball history,
it's happened.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's that's pretty I mean, that's you know, and I
saw the one home run last night. I mean, like
he didn't even swing. It's just like it was like
he was looking at it like it's going to be
a pop up and it just carried out of the
stadium about six whereas about the right field opposite field,
even on this on the slow mo, like it's like
he got underneath of it like it was going to
be a pop up.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Was it all off the same picture?

Speaker 3 (32:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
No, no, because that would I.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Tell you that, because I mean, hell no. They were
winning fifteen to three or something like that, so that
I'm guaranteeing that the starting pitcher was out. Oh so oh,
But that's I mean, it's kind of like a perfect game,
you know, you don't there's not that many of them,
and you know, if you really think about it, there's
not that many people that have three thousand hits. It's
it's gone up. But you're not going to see that
very often. Anymore.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Oh no, No, I'm just proud of the fact that
I was remotely close to guess that's that uh takes me.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
I mean, I know we're talking. I know it's tomorrow
starts football season, but I just there was some then
it popped up and I was just like, man, that's
pretty impressive that it's only happened twenty one times.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Well, that's something positive in sports.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't know if this would be considered sports or not.
Do you remember your first day at work, whether it
was here another job, Like if you ever had a
like a really bad first day of work.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
I mean you go in, you're a little nervous, especially
if it's a new job, and.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
You don't you know, people are looking at you.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, I mean you're like with here, you know, it
had been so long since I've been on the radio.
I mean it was I was like, you know, you
don't want to screw it up, you don't want to
do this. And then my other job, I had no
idea what I was doing.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Oh yeah, my first I first started, my first day
of doing this full time, was it was quite intimidating. Well,
this guy, twenty two year old Portuguese bullfighter had a
terrible first sale of work. He died tragically from his
injuries at his debut performance in Lisbon.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Name not a good first day, No, no.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Manuel Manuel Maria Trinadi, Trinidad. I don't know what's participating
In the traditional Portuguese style of bull fighting. The animal
charged and violently collided with him. Footage shows the bull
using its horns to lift and carry him a distance
before he suffered traumatic hand injuries and cardio respiratory arrest.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yikes, no second day on the job for him.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
No, I bet his insurance didn't even kick in yet.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Do you even get insurance when you're a bull fighter?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Probably not. I very much doubt you find anybody to.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I mean, if you do, I mean it's going
to be expensive. Oh yeah, all right, yikes, you know what?
Yikes steep canyon rangers call them steel canyon rivers or
something like that. Yeah, I'm so glad, you know, I mean.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
You messed it up the first the beginning of the show. No, no, no,
don't target. All right, all right, all right, let's get
let's get step canyon Rangers one six, two, four, eleven seventy.
Now this I listened to their music. I got to
interview one of the band members. Really good music. It's
it's blues, but it's current. It's it's really good. If
you like music. It's just a really good mix. Yeah.

(35:12):
One eight hundred and sixty two for eleven seventy caller number.
Let's do Lucky number thirteen. Lucky number thirteen one eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy seven point fifty eight.
When we get back, let's talk some football. Let's talk
some football. The Blue Daddy.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Experience see number one talk show in the Ohio Valley.
This is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy

(35:49):
his goal in form, entertain and tick people off. The
bloom Daddy Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Welcome back eighth six The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and
otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We have winners, winners,
winners this morning. Fred Eric Chris Darren is our latest winner.
So we're not done yet. We're gonna have more chances
for you to win throughout the show. But congratulations to

(36:24):
all those guys. Come on, ladies, Come on, ladies, we
need some lady winners too, so but we're gonna have
more chances for you to win. So before the break,
I mentioned football. It's so weird. It's so weird. I
leave for a week. The week I leave, high eighties, sunshine, pool, weather,
the whole thing. Week later, come back here. The leaves

(36:44):
are falling, falling, falling.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Kids are back in school.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
High school football started college. How quickly it changes, How
quickly it changes before we get into a high state
Texas conversation. Wanted to let everybody know. Of course, here
at iHeart, we have two radio stations that carry high
school football, two different games every week. So on tap
for this Friday, well tonight, seven o'clock kickoff on our

(37:12):
Fox Sports station, which is AM fourteen hundred or FM
one O three point nine that's got two dial positions.
It is going to be Malvern versus Martin's Ferry in
Martins Ferry. You can check that out again on Fox
Sports AM fourteen hundred or one O three point nine FM.
Our second game of the week, which is on KISS

(37:35):
FM ninety five point seven Union Local versus Wheeling Central
again kickoff at seven pm. That is on KISS ninety
five point seven Union Local versus Wheeling Central. Along with
the broadcast on the traditional radio stations, you can also
listen to either of these games on the iHeart app. So,

(37:56):
for example, if if Bobby is playing for Union Local,
just pulling a name out, and grandma and grandpa are
Snowbirds already down in Florida, they still want to hear
the game, they can go on the iHeart app and
listen live to the coverage on Kiss FM through the
iHeart app. And that same goes for our Fox station also,

(38:18):
So there's actually four ways to listen to high school
football here at iHeart. So those are the games of
the week. Now, the game of the week for me,
as far as I'm concerned. Number one ranked Texas, number
two ranked Ohio State. Now it depends on what Paul
you're looking at. Some people have number two for a

(38:39):
high state, number three high state just depends. So I
post on Facebook last night, you know, give me your
gimme your predictions. What do you think the scores are
going to be? Jay says thirty four to twenty one
a high State. Aaron Boo. Aaron says twenty one seventeen Texas.
This is going to be a good game. Folks, It's

(39:00):
going to be a good game.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Remember Ohio State beat Texas last year on their way
to the National Championship win last season. I High State
is two and two all time against the Longhorns. The
kickoff is at noon, so again, this is gonna be
a good game. There's a lot of questions circulating this game,

(39:26):
and my biggest question.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
This is the best game money can buy.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah, okay, I know, I know.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Now both teams.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
No, you're right, you're right. My biggest question surrounding this
game is arch Manning. Though he is the name we
have heard for two years now, this is now his
junior season. This kid, and he's a kid, has a
crap ton of pressure on him. There's no other way
to say it. He's already by some of the national

(39:59):
talk heads. They've anointed him the Heisman Trophy winner. They
have said he's going to be number one in the draft.
He has so much pressure on him right now, so
much pressure because of his last name. That's what it
comes down to. It's his last name. Now, he's had

(40:23):
two career starts. Here's one thing to keep in mind.
Those two career starts where he came in for the injured. Shoot,
I can yours? Is that how you say it? I
always mess it up. We're against weaker teams, Mississippi State
and Louisiana Monroe. Okay, so those are his two starts.

(40:45):
His most challenging appearance, not a start, but just a
team that he went up against, Georgia, and that was
last season, and Georgia had a heck of a defense.
One thing in that appearance, he looked I don't want
to say awkward, that's not the that's he looked. He

(41:07):
looked like a young quarterback. He stumbled, he bumbled, he
he didn't look commanding in that position. So the test
that we're going to see on Saturday is gonna be
his first big test as a starting college quarterback. Now,
his his stats so far in college He's completed sixty

(41:29):
six point three percent of his passes. Not bad for
our total of nine hundred and sixty nine yards, nine
touchdowns and two interceptions across the ten games that he's
performed in. But again, you got to remember who did
he go up against. And I know I'm saying that
he as a high State fan. I know we you know,
we play teams where it's like why well, we all

(41:50):
know why it comes down to dollars and zens, and
that's for the majority pretty much of college So what
do you think we're going to see tomorrow out of
arch Manning? He's basically been anointed the prince of college
football without any substance. Yet again, his numbers are good,

(42:20):
but you have to put into perspective who they were
against now O High State. They're coming off a lot
of changes, a new defensive coordinator in a name that
if you're an NFL fan, you're familiar with, Matt Patricia.
Of course, he was the coordinator with the New England
Patriots during the very dominant what decade and a half

(42:43):
with Belichick, So I mean, he's got a pedigree behind him.
But you also got to take into account what Texas
is coming in with, which is a pretty good defense
and Steve Sarcazian as a coach. I mean, this is

(43:04):
not this is not going to be an easy game
for either team. I personally think it's going to be
a low scoring game because we, when I say we,
I estate, we have a young quarterback who it's a
debut for him in this position, so he's going to

(43:27):
have all the pressure on his shoulders. Where he's going
to have an advantage is it's at the shoe, so
he's not going into enemy territory in this new role
versus Manning. Who is.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
I just.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I'm very anxious to see how Manning performs. I am
I've heard about him, Like I said, they've been talking
about him for two or three, you know, multiple seasons.
Now at this point, there are a lot of national
voices that are finally getting their wish I mean, as

(44:09):
are They're already saying he's gonna be get He's gonna
go number one in the draft now. And I have
my entire prediction of that scenario, which goes to the
NFL and the Browns, because I think that Haslam, the
owner of the Browns, is gonna tank this season. He's
gonna fire Stefanski, he's gonna fire Andrew Berry, the GM,

(44:29):
He's gonna clean house, tank the season to get the
number one draft pick so that he can then go
to Nick Saban, who's floating around out there. You know,
he wants back with a clipboard, you know, he wants back.
And I think Haslam is gonna go to Sabin and say,
here on a silver platter, we're giving you a Manning

(44:52):
number one draft pick, you do what you want with
this team. That's my prediction in that to situation. But
the question is, and that's the question what we're going
into the game with tomorrow. Is he the prince? He's
the prince of the Manning dynasty at this point, but

(45:15):
will he become the king of college football. It's a
lot of pressure for this young man, a lot of
pressure for this young man. And not to leave out
WVU fans, of course, they kick off their season tomorrow
with Robert Morris. Game predictions out there forty nine to ten,
WVU fifty nine to ten, So should be a pretty

(45:37):
easy game for the Mountaineers. If you have thoughts on
the High State game, give us a call one eight
hundred sixty two for eleven seventy. Of course, you can
text us seven zero four seven zero, or give us
your prediction of the score on our Facebook page. Oh,
does you want to do another? Chance to win? And
we want to wait?

Speaker 3 (45:55):
No, we can do another mccormicks.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Want to do another mccormicks, Okay, one eight hundred sixty
two eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty two four eleven
seventy let's do caller number seven. Caller number seven one,
eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy eight sixteen. We'll
be back the bloom Daddy Experience. I'm Sam Johnny no
otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Hey twenty one,

(46:28):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So on our text line,
our question of the day is you know an excuse
you've used to get out of a speeding ticket that
has been successful, or if you're in law enforcement, some
of the best excuses you've received stand On our text line,

(46:49):
which is seven zero four seven zero, you can start
the message off with bloom Daddy said, got out of
a ticket by simply being nice. Well, good for you, Stan,
I'm glad you were nice. Yes, being nice is the
best policy, I'm sure, just like otis.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Kindness. Kill them with kindness.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I love doing that to people, especially really really angry people.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Or that.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Yeah, let's see here. Brittany on our Facebook said, I'm sorry,
I couldn't distinguish who said what. Brittany said, Well, I'm
up to seven this month. Let me. Let me start
my list of excuses. Well, Brittany, seven in a month
is not that's not great. You might want to slow

(47:39):
that down a little bit. All right, slow your role.
You don't have the dollars that this guy has to
pay for tickets. So, now that Amazon owns the Jame
James Bond movie franchise, I didn't know that rumors are
swirling the Jeff Bezos wants a particular woman to play
the next Bond. If you haven't guessed who that might be,

(48:03):
allowed the Amazon evil genius to fill you in.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
I am Jeff basis.

Speaker 9 (48:08):
You may be aware that the James Bond movie franchise is.

Speaker 7 (48:12):
Under the creative control of Amazon and therefore by extension me.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
But worry not, Bond fans.

Speaker 7 (48:20):
I shall keep my distance and not exert any influence
over the next film, except for one tiny, itty bitty suggestion.

Speaker 9 (48:31):
The next Bond Girl must be my wife, Laurence Sanchez.
Might I suggest the name, Oh, I don't know, Booby Galore.
She shall be the smokingest, hottest Bond girl ever, and
her love scene with Double O seven will be rapturous.

(48:52):
In speaking of the love scene with Double O seven,
might I make one Sea weeen Sea suggestion as to
who shall play him.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
The names Basios, Jeff Besios, some of those.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Are better than others.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
That was pretty good, though.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Listen, there was never anything better than the original Joey
Be's that came out.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Oh well, there was so much to work with.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Well, the guy that was the voice was perfect, yep.
I mean they were absolutely hysterical. And then they changed
the character actor and he didn't sound like Joey b.
And then they weren't as funny because it was like,
you know, who knows, the guy could have died or
maybe they fired him or whatever. You know, you don't
know what happened. But then it was like, so then

(49:47):
they realized that the second guy wasn't working, then they
tried to find somebody else, and you know, and then
after a while they just was like, we can't make
fun of him anymore because this is actually real life.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Yeah, well, it probably felt like they're beating.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Up on a We have some of those old Joey Be's. There,
I saved him, did you really?

Speaker 7 (50:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Could you imagine that room of creative people coming up
with what they came up with.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
They didn't have to work real hard.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
That's what I mean, that's going, well, what do we
do today? I mean, we've got ten things to choose
from which do we go with? There was so much
to work with. But going back to uh Bond girls,
who is your favorite Bond girl of all time?

Speaker 3 (50:28):
You know, I'm not really a big Bond guy. I'm
not like James Bond. Like my next door neighbor growing
up as a kid, he'd loved James Bond. He thought
that was like it. Yeah, you know, Jane Seymour was
pretty good.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Oh yeah, halle Berry was not bad.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Yeah, I'm thinking more older there. Like the James Bonds
that I like are the ones with Sean Connery because like,
to me, he was James Bond. Oh yeah, you know
not Roger Moore was okay, and then after that it
just like was like, hmm, you like Pierce Brosden. Okay,
you're not you're not moving the needle.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Well, and they're still looking for the next Bond. There's
all kinds of actors speaking out saying they don't want it.
I mean they're saying respectfully, but they're you know, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Well, there was a rumory that what was uh ire Elbow,
Yeah he was They were looking at him.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
He said he has no interesting Well, and then the
young actor that's kind of come on the scene. Oh,
I can see his face. He he just recently started
as helmet.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
I can come out of retirement.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Oh that's right, you already do have an IMDb page. Well,
then I was gonna say I could be your Bond girl.
Now that would not work in the least. No, bite
your tongue. I can see. I can see the clog.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
That. I don't want to say anything.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I don't know. I don't know if i'd that'd be
tough taking up the the banner of being James Bond.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
I'm looking at some of the other Grace Jones was
a Bond girl. I didn't know that fun.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
She was a Bond girl. She was in a Bond movie.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
She's listed in the list. Jansen is pretty kill Jansen. Yeah,
she's pretty. She was.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
She's from X Men. Yes, no, she's she's easy on
the eyes.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah, I still like dudes. By the way, I sounded
a little you know, questionable there you always do? Oh god,
all right.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
What you want to do? Steve Canyon Rangers, what's the
what is it Steep Canyon.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yes, you're right, you're right, You're right. I was just
messing with you. Shut up, shut up, stop.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Come on, let's give you to y Yes, one.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
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pair of tickets to see see Steep Canyon Rangers, September twelfth,
right here at the Capitol one eight hundred sixty two
four eleven seventy. Let's do Caller number nine. Caller number nine,
one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. It's a

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twenty eight on your Friday before Labor Day weekend. The
bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy wwva
ay thirty six. Welcome back, bloom Daddy Experienced, salmon Otis

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News Radio, eleven seventy wwva. Oh goodness, goodness, goodness. Who's
ready for the Labor Day weekend. We're getting there. It's
getting closer and closer. If you don't have plans yet,
I've got some things for you to do Ogilby, of course,
big weekend, Labor Day weekend up at Ogleby. That's tons
of stuff for the family, for you, for the adults, everybody.

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So it kicks off today and of course goes through
the thirty first, and so here here's some highlights to
check out. Let's see here on the Fort Henry Living
History of course will be going on. It is uh,
oh my god, I completely just lost my train of thought.

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I am so sorry. Ten am to five pm on Saturday,
and same times on Sunday, the thirty first, there will
be a battle re enactment of the Betty Zane legendary
run that is at three pm on both days. So
if history is a big thing for you, got to
check this out. There is also a skydiving performance no

(54:56):
thank you, no thank you at all, not my cup
of tea. I'll watch somebody to do it like this
is would never do it myself. That is happening Saturday
at seven o'clock over Shanklank And again this is all
happening at Ogilby this Labor Day weekend. And then for
the kids, there's going to be a film party which
is happening Saturday from five to seven that also is

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at Shank Lake. And then of course the pinnacle of
the weekend the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra seven thirty on Sunday,
music under the stars. This year's performance is going to
pay tribute to the Silver Screen, so they're going to
be doing a tons of movie scores. So if you're

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a movie buff, you will definitely recognize the music that
they will be playing. Again. That's happening Sunday at seven thirty,
and then the Fireworks Extravaganza will wrap up the evening
with the fireworks over Shanklink on Sunday after the Symphony's performance.
So if you don't have plans for the Labor Day weekend,

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Ogleby will definitely take care of you. There are plenty
of things happening up at Ogleby. And let me see here,
where is I gonna go with this? Okay, So speaking
of movies and movie scores and music and all of that,
if you haven't heard, The Breakfast Club, iconic movie. Iconic

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movie is celebrating forty years. Feel old, folks, forty years
the fortieth anniversary of The Breakfast Club, one of the
best high school films ever. I'm sorry people want to
argue with me. John Hughes one of the best directors
when it came, you know, to teen angst, teen dramas,

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teen love stories, all of that. John Hughes was iconic
when it came to his teen classic films, he was
also though home Alone, he used it a lot. But
with that being said, for the in celebration of the
fortieth anniversary, they will be re releasing The Breakfast Club
in theater. So if you're like me, I never got

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to see it in the theater because it came out
in nineteen eighty five and I was seven. So it's
going to be released on September seventh and September tenth,
so you can go check out that iconic film. Everybody
can relate to one of those characters in that film.
There's the there's the nerd, the popular girl, the weird girl,

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there's the bad boy, and of course there's the jock.
So everybody knows somebody.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Well.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
The thing about that is, you know, when I saw
that movie, it was like that was the time, you
know what I mean? Like, if you go back, if
you watch that film today, that's very you want to
get an idea what the midi eighties was like, Oh, yeah,

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that was it. You know, I've seen the meme where
as I get older, I relate more to the janitor
than I do any of the characters in Yeah, you know, so,
but I mean, it's it's an iconic movie, you know.
I mean, is it one of the greatest movies ever made? No,

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it's not, but it just it's it's a synopsis of
the mid eighties in that genre.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Though it is one of the best made, you know,
not in the grand scheme of filmmaking, but in that
particular genre. But here's the thing. Even if it's dated
when it comes to the trends and the attire and
this and that, you can still kids today in their
teens can still relate to one of these characters because

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there's always going to be the popular girl.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Yes, yes, there's always going to.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Be the jaw.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
But like there's no cell phones there, there's you see that,
there's no no I know, but I'm saying. What I'm
saying is I don't know if they can relate to
it because they're they're their perception of reality is different.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
No, but they can relate to the character, you know
what I mean, maybe because there's always going to be
the cool jock. There's always going to be the bad
boy that the good girl has a crush on like that,
that's always going to be there, you know. I don't know,
but yeah, it's coming back to theaters if you want
to go experience in the theater. And so remember the uh.

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There are two current restaurants that have had the absolute
best free marketing this past month that anybody could have.
Number one, obviously is Cracker Barrel. Any marketing is good
marketing when it's free. Let's be honest them in Subway

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because remember the guy who assaulted a police officer in
DC or was it a police officer or an ice agent?
But he swung as his subway sub at him, So
now I was a federal agent. I'm sorry. He's now
being charged with misdemeanor assault. The office of the US

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Attorney of course, Jeanine Pyro announced Pierrot announced the charge Thursday,
a day after it failed to get a grand jury
felony indictment. Video of Sean Dunn throwing a sub sandwich
at the Border Patrol office has of course gone viral.
It happened on August tenth, days after the President had
the National Guard troops sent to the city to help

(01:00:37):
fight crime. At the time of the incident, Done was
a Justice Department employee, so he is charged with mister
minor assault with I guess it doesn't say a deadly weapon,
So I guess we can't consider a sub a deadly weapon.
Back to our question of the day, which best excuse

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you've used to get out of a speeding ticket? Warren
had a good one. He told the officer, just got
new tires in a front and alignment. He didn't realize
he was going as fast as they said he was.
Rebecca said, I like this one in Rebecca, I had
a bad case of the giggles. The officer walked up

(01:01:22):
and she just started laughing and couldn't issue a ticket. Instead,
she said, slow down and have a nice day.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
So that's kind of a Do you remember your first
beating ticket?

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yeah, this when I said, they charged me for going
twenty six over twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
So mine was I was on We were on a
lunch break from a nighttime job that I had. It
was a part time job, okay, And so we got in.
I was driving. I was a sophomore in high school,
and we came up. We dropped the one girl off.
Her boyfriend worked at Stone and Thomas downtown here. No,
the guy's girlfriend worked at Stone and Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
The guy's girlfriend, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
So we do a lap around. So in other words,
I drop him off at Stone and Thomas on the
market street side. We came around, was doing the loop
and down by seven to eleven. The light was red
and somebody was parallel parking in the left lane. So
I'm as, I'm I hit my brake. So I'm just
drifting up to the light, you know, you know, not

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doing anything other than drifting. Where the light turned green
and I hit the gas and I started to go
with a guy in the right lane pulled up next
to me like he wanted to race, and then he
took off.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Okay, this isn't the guy that was parallel parking.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
No, no, okay, So right in front of where the
Vagaball Kitchen is it used to be Tom mc cannshoe stores,
a wheeling police officer who was walking the beat jumped
out in the street in front of me, so I
had to stop and accused me of drag racing. Really yeah,
And so I got a ticket for speeding.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
What about the other guy?

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Long gone?

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Oh so you lost two times?

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
And then we were late getting back to work because
he was gonna have me arrested for drag racing. I
know who this, you know this police officer and I have.
You know, we've become acquaintances over the years, and he
has since apologized for it, which I respect so, but

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that was my first speeding ticket. Trying to explain that
as a sixteen year old to your parents that you
got accused of drag racing. He was. They found out
who the person was, I guess, and I was like,
I don't even know who that is, Like, you know,
I wasn't trying to drag race, It was just, you know,
I just happened to be on the move while he
was at a dead stop, and he pulled up next

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to me and then took off like I never hit
my gas to go any faster. So I don't know
how I got a speeding ticket, but I did.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I had a I had a truck or flashed me
yesterday morning. Oh no, not that kind of flash. No, No,
I don't know if you maybe he was asking me
to flash him. I don't know. But I passed him
and I got a pretty good distance in front of me,
and he started flashing his headlights at me, and I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Maybe he was letting you know that you could get
over if you wanted to. Out of the left lane.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
I was way pasty. I had already had. I don't
know it was weird, but I thought, oh no, I
was looking for a cop. Basically, I thought maybe he
heard something on his scanner or whatnot. I don't know.
It is eight forty six on this Friday. You're listening
to The Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

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We're back at date fifty two, The Bloomdaddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. I'm excited about Labor Day,
but I bet this guy's excited about Labor Day, and
I bet he's got some cooking this weekend, whether it's
at Strawb Automotive or for a picnic. Kevin Cook, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:04:56):
Good morning, how y'all doing? And yes, we are cooking
at the dealership on Monday. Pork belly bacon burgers. Oh yeah,
if you never had that? Okay, Jacobs and Sons Meat Market, yep, Okay,
they make a pork belly bacon burger grind the scottlike.

(01:05:19):
I think it's like breasket and pork belly and bacon
ends grant. It is, without a doubt, the best burger you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Will ever eat. Okay, Well, Jacob and Sons is a
sponsor of the show, so you know we definitely support them.

Speaker 8 (01:05:34):
Yep. Well, I'll be going over there today picking up
great big boxes of pork belly bacon burgers.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Hopefully you don't buy them all, because now I'm like,
that sounds perfect to grill while watching a football game tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (01:05:47):
I called ahead, fall ahead, and got mine.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
Oh okay, all right, So our pole question today or
our question for our listeners, best excuse for getting out
of a speeding ticket?

Speaker 8 (01:05:58):
I are an attorney.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Okay, there you go, thank you very much.

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
Yep, yep, that would be mine, because you know, I've
never had any success. You know, there's no excuse. They
just smile, keep writing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Never been able to talk your way out of it,
huh no.

Speaker 8 (01:06:17):
Never never tried, Always guilty, Always felt like if I
got a ticket, I got a ticket for getting caught
at one time. But I have been been speeding for
you know, many more times before that, so I deserve it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Do the crime, do the time, basically, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
So three day weekend, big holiday weekend, it's draw automotive.
What's the big specials of the month.

Speaker 8 (01:06:39):
Eleven and fifty eight units in stop, each and every
one of them drastically reduced and on sale. Okay, we
talked about a little bit the other day. There's there's
two or three really big weekends of the year, okay,
Memorial Day weekend, the week after Christmas, and Labor Day weekend.
These are sales that the manufacturer really goes all out

(01:07:00):
and there are some incredible deals out there. I mean,
you can log on to drivestrip dot com. You can
pick any of the stores, CDJR, Forward, Nissan, Hyundai, you
know the two Houndred stores used cars. It does not matter,
all right, we are going all out, blowing them all
out this weekend. We don't want to go into the

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follow winter months with heavy inventories. You've also got new
model years coming out, so you've got closeouts on a
lot of stuff already. As far as the twenty fives go,
they're already putting some big money on on on the
hood on some of these cars. Interest rates we've got
them as little as zero percent. We've got ever drive

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on every vehicle to qualifies. That would be all the
new units and any pre own vehicle that's seven years
or seventy five thousand miles and only dealing in a
valley doing that, okay, only one, only honted dealing in
the state. Okay. You can't get lifetime fire train on
a Honda anywhere, but right here at Straw Automotive Group.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
That's great. That's how you do it.

Speaker 8 (01:08:07):
It is so it is, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
So I know what we're doing Monday. Otis drop on ian.

Speaker 8 (01:08:14):
We'll have plenty.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:08:16):
I've got a nice little pineapple, have an arrow relish
to go on, pepper jack cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Oh, now you're getting it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
So I told you. I told you I was hungry.
Now I'm really hungry.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:08:27):
It's gonna be good, right, it's by request. I've done
it before, and this is what the team requested.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
Okay. And that's going to be which which which which storefront.

Speaker 8 (01:08:37):
Uh, it'll be at all of them. The Honda at
the Highlands will be the grill's going at the Honda store.
But we'll take though to Elmgrove to Glenn down down
to Ford store as well.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
So, and that's all for working on Labor Day.

Speaker 8 (01:08:50):
That's all for working on lab day. Do it for
the team and any customer that wants so wants.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
A barker just helps you show any free lad like
us or any yes hate enjoy your weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
All right, we'll see you. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Oh that sounded really good.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
That sound really good. I mean like now I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Now I'm hungry. I know I was hungry a while ago.
Now that made me even more hungry. Yeah, I might
swing back, Jacob and sons, I might swing on. By
speaking of food, Pringles, which, by the way, I topped
off a can of those last night. I love Pringles.
It's expanding its lineup with six new flavors that were
set to hit stores in September. They include smoky Bacon,

(01:09:35):
smoky mesquite barbecue, smoky Cheddar, and sharp white Cheddar A
lot of smoky. Yes, there's two other flavors, Jalapino and
queso nice and cinnamon and sugar.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
So uh yeah, Pringles new flavors, the smoke the sharp
white Cheddar sounds good.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
They also introduced a beer flavor partnership with Mi Light
and a hot blazon fried chicken flavor That sounds pretty good.
That was in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah, I uh, I topped off a can of sour
cream and onion last night. I love Pringles. Yeah they're
my I keep them out of my house just for
that reason. All right, one last chance to win this
morning one six two four eleven seventy. Let's do caller number.
Oh I'm sorry, step Uh. We're gonna steep Cannon Rangers

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and other pair of tickets to those, But for the
end of the show and to celebrate Labor Day, I'm
gonna throw in a twenty five dollars gift certificate to
our friends at River City for dinner. So dinner and
a show all wrapped up in one one hundred and
six two four eleven seventy Collar number seven. Everybody have
a great long holiday weekend. See Tuesday Tuesday Go box