The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam September 2, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed 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 SEVENTYVA starts now the.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. Good Tuesday morning to you. You had a
great Labor Day weekend. And it's really hard to fathom
that summer is over. But summer is over and now
it's on the fall. Gotta admit, though, this is my
favorite time of the year. This is probably why I
could never move to Florida or anywhere where I don't

(00:41):
have four seasons, because I'm a fall guy. Halloween entering
into Christmas, September, October, November probably my three favorite months
out of the year. And it didn't help matters that
this summer was god awful. I mean, let's face it,
June was a total washout, horrible. Half of July wash
out horrible. Then the other half of July was so

(01:03):
hot and humid you barely wanted to go outside. So
from a summer perspective, not that great. I'm ready to
turn the page on it, and I'm ready to roll
right in the fall. As I mentioned, favorite time of
the year. Got a phone call the other day, not
the kind of phone call you want to get, by
good buddy HRK Sparshane, and he said, hey, did you
hear about Alan Horniac? Being that I spend most of

(01:25):
my time in Cleveland, my answer, of course was no.
And then of course I followed it up with jeez,
did he pass away? Because usually when somebody says, hey,
do you remember so and so, or Hey did you
hear about so and so, well, it's just never good.
And Alan passing away and it just brought back a.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Flood of memories.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now I was too young to see Alan play, but
growing up in the valley, knowing who I know, hearing
the stories. I mean, you want to talk about somebody
who was revered, it's Alan Horniac.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I'll always go back to this story.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I used to live on McGee Road back when the
kids were young, young, young, and McGhee Road is right
off Country Club Road in Saint Clairzolle, kind of a
side road, very rural woods, and.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
A truck would stop all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Now, I worked mornings, you know, here on WWVA at
the time, and I would see I think it was
a township truck or maybe a county truck. I think
Alan worked for one or the other. But it would
stop in front of the house and kind of look.
And I'd be out there at ten eleven o'clock in
the morning because I was done at nine am, and
sometimes I would get home early and start doing stuff,
and I could tell that the dude in the truck

(02:37):
was looking trying to figure out is that David Bloomquist
or is that not David Bloomquist. And I had never
met Allan up until that point. So one day I'm
down by my mailbox and here comes this truck and
it stops and it's Alan Horniac and just sat there
and talked to me.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Nicest guy in the world.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And you know, I'm sitting there talking to him at
the time, and it's the first time I ever met him,
and just all the stories that I had heard about
Alan came flooding back, and to think that he took
the time out of his day because he listened to
me every morning. He said he loved the show, wanted
to stop and say hi. It was It was a
very personal moment. I mean, it was a very special

(03:19):
moment in him and I kind of struck up a
friendship from there, and whenever I would see him, which
wasn't often, but we would always chat. We would always talk,
and you would never know that this guy was a
captain of Ohio State. You would never know that this
guy pretty much.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I mean, I guess.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
The debate would be John Havlicek or Alan Horniac as
far as the greatest basketball players to come out of
the Ohio Valley, or you know, Alex Groza in there too,
But you know, you would never know that that's that
guy sitting in that truck, just so laid back, so
mild mannered, such a nice guy that when I heard

(03:59):
that news when called me the other day, just was
like a punch in the chest, kind of the same
way when I heard Phil Nekro passed away, the same
way I heard Joe Necro passed away. Same thing with
John Halichek. I mean, the stories of those guys. I
love running into an old timer that knew them well.
My father in law, Karen's dad, Ken Jenieshesski, graduated with them,

(04:21):
was best friends with Joe Nicro Obviously, if You're best
friends with Joe, your friends with Phil, was in high
school with all those guys, Bobby Douglas and the stories
that he tells back in the day.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Of those guys.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
But you know, getting back to Allen Horniac, just the
stories about him. The game against bel Air, of course
is legendary, going on to Ohio State doing what he
did in three years there because remember freshman couldn't play
back then, so he had three years in Ohio State,
gets drafted by the Cavaliers. Don't really know why he
never played in the NBA. I mean I heard some

(04:55):
stories from some people, quote unquote in the know that
said he was never really given a legit shot with
the Cavaliers. I also heard that some of the African
American players were not real kind to Alan back in
the day, being a white guy from the Ohio Valley.
I mean, I've heard all different types of rumors and
this and that. So I can't sit here and definitively

(05:16):
tell you why he didn't make it in the NBA,
because by all accounts he probably should have.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
And I've heard.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
People speak to this day who said if he played
in today's NBA, if Alan was drafted out of Ohio
State today. As good of a shooter as he was,
the guy would be unstoppable. So to his family, to
his kids, just know that when I heard your dad
passed away, it hit me hard and I thought immediately

(05:49):
back to that day in Saint Clairsville. I'm going to say,
probably nineteen ninety nine, somewhere in there, two thousand and one,
when he just stopped in that vehicle when we struck
up a conversation and you know there it was from there.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Hey, it's just so sad.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
There's so many great players from the Hohah Valley, so
many guys that are legends. I just named a bunch
of them who you know as we age. It's just
a reminder that nobody, nobody beats Father Time. At the
end of the day, Father Time is undefeated. And you
remember these guys back when they were young, strong, fast,
I mean, what they could.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Do, and they're not here anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
And it's a solemn reminder of you know what, Father
Time is going to come knocking for every one of
us at you know, some point in time. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy experience eleven seventy wwva more to come,
right after this.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Book in Morning seven eighteen on your Tuesday already the
bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva
Otis to Tuesday after a.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Nice long weekend? Ye huh yeeha. Did you enjoy your weekend?
Long weekend?

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (07:08):
I got six, So mine wasn't great on Sunday anyways,
but Saturday was great. Can I just throw a little
I told you so out there.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
It's not like you kicked ass. I mean you won
fourteen to seven.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
No no, no, no, no, no no. I don't mean
about winning. I'm talking about some of the predictions I
made on Friday. I said it was going to be
a low scoring game. I said that arch Manning was
uh not, he was all cracked up to be that
the pressure was going to get to him. You know
a little bit of I told you so. I'm going

(07:42):
to throw it out there because I made a lot
of those points. And it was a boring football game.
I hate to say that, but it was a boring
football game. I mean there was no offense by either team.
By either team, So a High State fan, and I'm
including myself, let's not all get you know, all excited

(08:05):
because you know, the defense looked okay, but.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
I mean the offense was.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Not much to be excited about. But yeah, I think
the pressure got to the kid, the young man. Something
just was not clicking. I mean, he ended up going
seventeen for thirty. Again, I'm talking about arch manning seventeen
for thirty for one hundred and seventy passing yards, and
basically the majority of that came in the fourth quarter.
It was only fourteen to seven. It was only fourteen

(08:35):
to seven. So it was, Uh, it did not live
up to the expectations, the hype, the talk, everything that
went into this football game. Honest to god, I looked
up at I was at a party, of course, I
looked up halfway through. I'm like, well, it's two minutes
to halftime. Nothing has happened, Nothing has happened. It was

(09:00):
it was a boring football game.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
So it was.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
It's just like I said, did not live up to expectations.
But I do have a little bit of a feather
in my cap, of a little bit of.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I told you so.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Unfortunately, It's just there were some other big games of
the weekend. WU of course, one handedly the upset man.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
When you talk about a game that was boring. The
first half was very boring, was it? Well, what happened
was I think they fumbled. They fumbled three times, like
in four plays. I mean, it was just rich Rod's return.
He was not happy in the first half. And you know,
I mean, obviously, you know, one of the big things

(09:45):
that they were talking about was how many new players
were on the team. I think there's like eighty some
new players. So you know, you can do everything you
want and practice when you're going game speed and everything else,
it's a totally different situation.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
And they were against Robert Moore.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yeah, Bobby mo.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
I've never heard that before.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
One of the announcers said that that's pretty good. But yeah,
I mean it's you know, I mean obviously not a
not a Division one school, they're FCS school, and uh,
you know, it's a good tune up. So we'll see
what happens in the next couple of weeks. But WU
definitely has some things to work on, and maintaining control

(10:29):
of the football is one of them.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah, that's the second half. I mean, they scored thirty
five points in the second half, which was you know,
I mean, that was what you expected in the first half.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Ended up being forty five to three.

Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah, so you know, I mean there were some there
were some good spots. I mean, the defense looks a
lot better than it used to. So you know, guys
going after the ball, and you know, they look like
they can stop the run for sure. Again, you're you're
it's it's you're playing to your opponent. So I mean
it's hard to tell. I mean, you're not playing We

(11:02):
weren't playing Texas or a high stage or somebody like that.
So I mean it's a little different situation. But it's
a good tune up game, especially for a program that
is rebounding and restarting. So you know, I think it's
when you look at it that way, I mean, it's
it's definitely a win. I mean, but I mean it's
not like forty five to three over Robert Morris, isn't

(11:25):
you know, I'm I'm not screaming.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
It's not something to beat your chest over. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, and that's that's kind of how I walked away
from a High States game on Saturday. Again, they won.
The defense looked okay, but when you look at the
offensive play by the buck Eyes, I mean, listen, the
quarterback saying I mean he he sayers, I'm sorry, he's
saying saying yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Every time they said his.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Name, I kept I kept thinking, just as saying, I
don't know anyways. He looked confident, I mean, he looked poised,
but there was nothing flashy, there was nothing exciting. Same
thing in the offense in general, and then of course
our wide receiver and of course I can't think of
his name right now. He was like stonehands in the

(12:14):
first half of the game. He's supposed to be a
leader on the offense, but it did not walk away
from that game with a lot of confidence in the Buckeyes.
But then I walked away as a football fan just
disappointed in general in both teams. Or was there just
too much hype behind it?

Speaker 6 (12:32):
You know, that's probably most of it.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
That's probably a majority of it.

Speaker 6 (12:36):
But I will say this, having watched a handful of
college football games over the weekend, none of them were
very I mean, I guess the Miami Notre Dame game
was the most exciting, probably of all of them. But man,
it just, I mean, the pace of the games anymore,

(12:57):
with the TV timeouts, the reviews, it's just it's almost
hard to watch. I just I mean, I get you
want to get the call right, but when you're reviewing
things that really shouldn't be reviewed, it's just it just
bothers the hell out of me. And then you're taking

(13:17):
two minutes to do it. And you know, there's no
flow anymore. There used to be a game flow, now
there's not. And it's just again in football, you know,
I mean, w U is a little different now because
they're back to spot the ball where boom, they're they're
spoting the ball and they're going right away. But ninety

(13:39):
percent of the time, you know, you get the guys
in the huddle where they're at the line and they're
waiting for this call to come in. I mean the
actual game play. The play time is seconds in the
you know, out of a minute, you know, because you
get the thirty five second clock and then you know
you're at the line. It just it's and then you
get all the things slow and everything down, and it's

(14:00):
starting to you know, they wun faster games, more scoring
and so on and so forth. The good god, I mean,
you're just you're killing people with the reviews and everything else.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Well, and now that you've got the money involved. I
can't help but sit there and think about the money
that's being thrown at these students. You know, that's taken
a bit of the I guess innocence isn't the isn't
the right term.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
It is.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
It's the desire to play. I mean, yeah, you know everybody,
And it's just like you're in an NFL now, I mean, okay,
if you're not going to pay me, then I'm going
to go someplace that is And and you know it's again,
you know, I've said this from the beginning. The rich
are going to get richer because they're the ones that
are going to have the money to pay the players.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
I even asked during the game Saturday, my neighbor that
was with us, I said, you know, why did arch
Mannon go to Texas?

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Why was he not?

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Why didn't he consider Tennessee like Payton and you know
you talk about bloodline and yeah, old miss and he
said it was money, absolutely the money that text us
through in him and I don't have it in front
of me. It's huge, huge numbers. But after week one,
I posed this on Facebook. After we see week one

(15:16):
in the books, who's winning the National Championship?

Speaker 5 (15:19):
I know it's early.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
I know it's early, But did you see anything over
the weekend that really knocked your socks off as here's
a clear cut favorite to.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Win it all?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
No, I mean Alabama lost. Like you said, there was
nothing that really stood out over the weekend. Maybe a
highest state repeats, who knows, maybe Penn State squeaks in there.
They're ranked number two in some of the polls. Of course,
the polls will come out today right after the week
The Coach's poll when all of that comes out.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Today, normally comes out on Monday, but I think.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
Because of the holiday.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Well, then, of course Belichick had his UH college coaching
debut that U did not go well.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
I forget what was the I don't know what the
final was. I saw forty eight fourteen was the last
score I saw in the fourth quarter?

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh, shoot, of course I don't have forty Yeah, forty
eight fourteen. The TCU dominated. What was the joke that
you told me this morning?

Speaker 6 (16:24):
They showed the score forty one to seven, and they
said Bill Belichick was forty one, his girlfriend was seven.
And then of course it works out too for the
final score because when he was forty eight, she was fourteen.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Ew.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
That's just ew, that's just ew. Well, I hope everybody
had a good holiday weekend.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I'm sure I sure did, besides the you know, getting sick,
but getting through that.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Seven eight.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Throughout the show today, we're gonna have your chance to
win as we always do, as we always do in
this morning we have this morning, we have two two
family four packs two rafter m Rodeo September twentieth.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
We're gonna give any McCormick's a way today.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Do you want us to?

Speaker 6 (17:14):
Yeah, we get Okay, I wanna give one away now, Okay, sure,
all right, let's do it.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
One eight hundred.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Sixty two four eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty two,
four eleven seventy Will you drop this on me? Let's
do caller number seven?

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Caller number seven one eight hundred six two, four eleven
seventy is seven twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experienced samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Welcome back to the show. I'm gonna go off on
a little bit of a rant right now. And I
think I did this about two or three years ago
and obviously it doesn't matter, but it is beyond me
how at West Liberty University people are just not held
to a certain standard. And I'm gonna talk football and
I'm going to talk baseball. Football, of course, lost their

(18:04):
first game of the year, not a surprise. Roger Wiley
should have been fired years ago. The fact that he's
still coaching up at West Liberty is beyond me. But
obviously they have no standards there when it comes to football.
They can't have any standards when it comes to football. Look,
the numbers don't lie. Okay, here are the numbers on

(18:25):
Roger Wiley. Did you know he has not had a
winning season since two thousand and fourteen.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
That's over ten years ago. In that season was six
and five.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
You know what Roger Wiley has done since twenty fourteen,
five and six, four and seven, three and eight, three
and eight, five and six, two and two, four and seven,
four and seven, five and six and uh oh, let
me see here. I think you get the gist, but
I'm trying to Yeah, four and six and twenty twenty three,

(18:58):
two and nine last year. How does a guy keep
his job? It is obvious that at West Liberty University
they don't give a damn about their football program. And
that's a travesty for the kids because they deserve better.
A kid that goes to West Liberty to play football
deserves better than playing for Roger Wiley.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
In his staff.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
These are the same guys they've been there forever. How
would you like to go to work and you don't
have to produce? Just every day you walk in, you
punch that time card, whatever you may do for a living,
and you don't have to do a damn thing and
never have to worry about being fired. That's Roger Wiley
up at West Liberty eleven years straight of losing. My god,

(19:47):
what do you have to do to get fired up there?

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Kill somebody?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
I mean, the boosters at West Liberty should be ashamed
of themselves, The border regents, the athletic board should be
ashamed of themselves for allowing this guy to continue to
draw salary and put these kids through this. If I
had a kid, there isn't a chance I would send
him to West Liberty to play football. Not a chance.

(20:13):
And what's sad? Got beautiful facilities, beautiful school. Had two
kids who went to West Liberty And I'll get to
that in a second when I turned the page to baseball.
But that football program is a damn travesty. And if
you talk to coaches around here in the valley high
school coaches, they have no respect for the guy.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
He doesn't show any interest in them.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I had one guy who said he went to a
camp at West Liberty and while I, the head coach,
laid on a tackling dummies and basically slept. So, brad
foreshee the athletic director at West Liberty, where are you, buddy?
Because your name and your face is on every athletic
program up there. Brad foreshee? Are you not embarrassed by
your football program? Do you not have the balls to

(20:57):
make a change up there? Gary West is dead. Let
me say that again to everybody at West Liberty. Gary
West is dead. And the rumor was his money was
going to always keep on coming as long as Roger
while I was coached, because for whatever reason, he loved
the guy. Well, guess what, Let me say it again,
Gary West is dead. So Brad Forshey, do what you

(21:22):
were hired to do. Grow some balls and make a
change the people the powers to be at West Liberty.
Grow some balls and make a change because the kids
deserve better, and your school deserves better. Every West Libal
lum deserves better than having a loser as a coach.
That's what he is. He hasn't had a winning record

(21:45):
in over ten years. The guy's a loser. Let's switch
over to baseball. Eric Perkle, same scenario. What is this
guy won? Here's another guy getting a salary. What has
he done up there other than lose? Other than lose?
The lack of effort that is put into that program
is appalling, and I know it because I had two

(22:06):
kids go through it. I mean, once again, Brad Forshey,
where are you? Once again? The power is to be
at West Liberty. Where are you? You're okay with it?
You're okay with a stagnant baseball program year after year
after year. Well you know the excuse you're going to
get as well. He's got forty five guys on the team,
and that's tuition that makes us money. Let me tell

(22:27):
you something. You could have a corpse running that team,
and you damn near do, and you'd still have forty
five guys on that team. The kids deserve better, the
alumni deserve better. Once again, baseball great facilities. They need
a turf field up there, but they've got everything else.
Locker rooms, indoor facility, the whole deal.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
I have.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
There is nothing personal.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Against Roger wili or Eric Berkle that has nothing to
do with this. This has to do with me looking
at a college excepting not even mediocrity, just accepting losing.
Why would you do that? It's the number one thing
that pisses me off about this valley. People just accept being.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Average.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Not everybody, but a lot of people are okay with
just being average to below average. If you do that
as an individual, that is your choice. But when you're
representing a university, what is going on here? And the
people holding Eric Berkele in baseball accountable and Roger Wilei accountable,

(23:32):
where are you and all this? You're an enabler. You're
as pathetic as they are. Why wouldn't you want what
is best for your university. Tell me how a guy
who hasn't had a winning season in over a decade
is good for your university.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Tell me how a guy who is your.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Head baseball coach who's won basically nothing since he's been
there is good for your university.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
And if you don't think you could get.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
A high caliber guy to take over football or a
high caliber guy to take over baseball at West Liberty,
You're out of your damn mind, because I know people
who would jump at it in a heartbeat, people who
would put actual effort into representing that school and putting
something out there for the kids.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
A lot of people would line up for the job.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
West Liberty is a beautiful campus, got great facilities.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Location.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
You can get talent from a bunch of different places,
but you know what you gotta have. You got to
have a baseball coach and a football coach who actually
put effort in. Hey, here we go, effort, effort, effort.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
It's a travesty.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Brad Forshey, wake up the powers to be at West Liberty,
wake up because the kids deserve better.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
And that's on.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
You Gonna take a break more to come here. On
eleven seventy WWVA Welcome.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Back, seven forty nine on your Tuesday, the Blue Daddy
Experienced Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w
VA Otis.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
We've got a call. You said, we do.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
We've got one of our good buddies, Dave.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Oh, good morning, Dave.

Speaker 7 (25:16):
How are you good morning. In fact, this morning, it's
Dave's oh, oh what were you? Thank you for filling
that in. I knew Otis what he would say, maybe
not for you, but not anything.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
No, I would say, FI, what were your what were
your thoughts Saturday?

Speaker 7 (25:37):
Well? I hear you loud and clear, Sam about it
being a boring game on TV. But if you're fortunate
enough like me, oh, you're absolutely electric the whole game. Okay,
just the atmosphere, I'll give the fans. And I heard
this on broadcast later, but I was saying that while

(26:01):
we were there that I've never heard these fans so loud,
so continuous through the whole game. But to Otis's point,
these TV timeouts are horrible. I mean they killed the
momentum for the teams, for the players, for the fans,
and god, that was horrible.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
But well, not just the TV timeouts, but I mean,
I mean you factor in injuries. I mean, that's gonna
happen during the game. I mean, I'm sorry, that's just
it's gonna happen. And but then then you have okay,
we're gonna replay, and then you know, was his knee
down or was it not down? And then it's like,
good God, can't you figure this out in thirty to
sixty seconds. No, they take right, They take three days

(26:41):
to figure it out. And the people in the booth
are like, oh, there it is, there, it is right there.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Oh, there it is.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
And the next thing, you know, the referees and everybody's
still looking at it. It's like, oh my god, it's
so obvious. What are you waiting for?

Speaker 7 (26:54):
Oh yeah, you know, all one hundred and seven thousand
would see these plays on the big screen and go that, yeah, okay,
we see the call. And yet two minutes later and
here he comes. You know, but the game itself and
to your point, Sam two, I mean you you know,
no offense, et cetera. And you were right about the
low scoring game. I don't know why I didn't bet

(27:16):
the under, you know, in the draft game, because I
was thinking about it. You know, first game of the team.
It's like the Super Bowl, right, you know, right out
of the game, it's like having the Dayton or five hundred.
It's just Super Bowl racing. But it's the first thing
of the season. And we knew this would be nothing
but entertainment because it's so easy to go, you know, twelve,
thirteen weeks from now. Well, and neither one of those

(27:39):
teams are the teams they were thirteen weeks ago. Right now.
We'd like to see him play and all that stuff.
But yes, but the crowd was just I'm sure what
the whole time?

Speaker 5 (27:50):
Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
How was that defensive go ahead?

Speaker 5 (27:53):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
I was just gonna ask real quick, how was it
with the Holy Corso thing? Because they did that very
well on Tell television. I wondered what it was like
in the stadium.

Speaker 7 (28:03):
Absolutely terrific that it went nuts, pulling him out there
to midfield like that, and we could watch it on
the jumbo tron there and he puts the he starts
to rattle off just text his points, yes, and then
he turns around. That's giving my first brut is on
and it just went ballistic. And then right after that

(28:24):
they did sloopy or sloopy stile.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, that tradition is going to be missed on Saturday mornings,
that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (28:32):
You knew as soon as he did that, that's it.
It doesn't matter what they do, they're going to lose.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
To Well, that's only week one.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
We've got many weeks ahead.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Of us.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
Dave O, thank you so much this morning.

Speaker 7 (28:46):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
What a perspective, you know, like like you said, watching
on TV, it's different, but I can't imagine what the
shoe was like.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
And you know, I mean there were many tributes, not
just to a High State, but Florida State did this
the Corso with their band, Yeah, because he coached there
as well. And and and I will say this, I
mean it was very the crowd at a high State was
awesome when it came to that. So you know, I

(29:16):
mean there were there were certain things that were that
were good for the day, you know. I mean it's
just uh just I mean I just really had a
hard time getting into it.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'll say this.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
I read a stat Saturday night. I think it was
every team that he played for or coached one one.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
That's wild.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
Yeah that's good. I saw that as well. So I mean,
you know, Louisville, Florida State, Navy, I can't remember who all.
I mean, there's a bunch of them. Yeah, and uh yeah,
just uh pretty uh pretty impressive. And and and if
of course you know your Facebook feeds, they start blowing
up when you when you watch one little clip about

(30:00):
Carso Corso. That's all and that's all you saw. And
when he when he dropped the F bomb on they
showed they keep showing that clip and just to see
everybody else's reaction, like Herbie goes, oh my God, like
I can't believe he just did.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
That because I didn't realize Herbstreet has been there that long.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, listen, I will say this.
I think I think Kirk's one of the best out there.
You know, he's good on game day, he's good in
the booth, he's good. He's good at everything he does.
I just in you know, and he's coming. I mean,
he's been good from the start.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
And he's very neutral as a caller and as a commentation.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Absolutely, which is a rarity you have to be, Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Not as it's it's more rare today than it was
twenty five thirty years ago. You can you can pick
up on on biases now just in the the level
of the volume of the voice and and things like that.
The excitement it was, it was there in the High
State game Saturday, the whole first three quarters. They didn't

(31:08):
get excited about anything. Now, in their defense, there was
nothing to get excited about. But when arch Manning threw
that touchdown pass or no, it wasn't the pass, it
was his first long throw the game in the fourth quarter,
one guy actually squealed. One of the commentators actually squealed
like a woman. Nice and I thought, well, okay, well

(31:30):
we know who they want to win. I mean that's
what I mean by that.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
I did have to laugh when McAfee and Herbie were
doing the kick for the money, yeah, and Peter Herbie's
dog pooped, and then the celebration McAfee keeps going. I
think used deep dam Peters poop. I know you step
dam Peters poop. You won two. You can buy a
new Para shoes. It was I mean, that was good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
And you know the tributes, well, you can tell McAfee
is going to kind of slip into the the comic
role that Corso has had all these years.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Well, he's gonna he's the unfiltered Yeah, the X factor.
And you know, at first, when you know, I kind
of I kind of forgot about Corso having a stroke
years ago, but you can see that he is progressively
going down there fast.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, and that.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
And you know they wanted to bring him out and
he tried, you know, he wanted to make comments and
he just felt like he was talking in circles. And
I don't want to say it was embarrassing, but I
mean I understand what they were trying to do, and
but it was part of that was hard to watch.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
It was I thought the same thing.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
But I mean I thought Desmond Howard, you know, in
his tribute to Corso, what he said was very important.
I think what McAfee said, what Herbie said, I mean,
it was all you know, you can tell he's had
an impact.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Oh yeah, I mean at the gathering that I was at,
there were people like choked up after watching the Herbstreet
segment that was done where they were drawing his picture
of that one. Yeah, people were choked up over it.
I mean, listen our voices faces. You know, people that
you spend your mornings with, your your pregames with. I mean,

(33:18):
you welcome us into your lives, and you know, somebody
like a League Horse, you know, he came up with
this random thing of putting that mascot head on and
it turned into this tradition, you know, and people hate
to see those traditions. And did you see the backstory
on all the questions and the banging that had.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
To be done to get well.

Speaker 6 (33:42):
The funny thing was, like Chris Fowler was on both
Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen and there's clips on Facebook
of that and how they describe it, and Chris Fawler
just starts laughing about somebody, you know, because they talk
about how how raw it was early on.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Yeah, so yeah, so seven p. Fifty eight.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
You want to do rafter M. Yep, all right, Family
four pack to rafter M September twentieth, one hundred sixty
two for eleven seventy. Let's do caller number ten, a
nice round number. September twentieth, rafter M Family four Pack
one hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience. I'm Sam and that guy over
there is Otis.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
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 now.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling. Good Tuesday
morning to you. I hope you have a great Labor
Day weekend. And it's really hard to found them that
summer is over. But summer is over and now it's
on the fall. Got to admit, though, this is my
favorite time of the year. This is probably why I
could never move to Florida or anywhere where I don't

(35:07):
have four seasons, because I'm a fall guy. Halloween entering
into Christmas, September, October, November probably my three favorite months
out of the year. And it didn't help matters that
this summer was god awful. I mean, let's face it,
June was a total wash.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Out, horrible. Half of July wash out horrible.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Then the other half of July was so hot and
humid you barely wanted to go outside. So from a
summer perspective, not that great. I'm ready to turn the
page on it and I'm ready to roll right in
the fall.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
As I mentioned, favorite time of the year.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Got a phone call the other day, not the kind
of phone call you want to get, my good buddy
HRK Sparshane, and he said, hey, did you hear about
Alan Horniac being that I spend most of my time
in Cleveland. My answer, of course was no. And then
of course I followed it up with jeez, did he
pass away? Because usually when somebody says, hey, do you
remember so and so, or Hey did you hear about

(36:02):
so and so, well, it's just never good. And Alan
passing away and it just brought back a flood of memories.
Now I was too young to see Alan play, but
growing up in the valley, knowing who I.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Know, hearing the stories.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
I mean, you want to talk about somebody who was revered,
it's Alan Horniac And I'll always go back to this story.
I used to live on McGee Road back when the
kids were young, young, young, and McGee Road is right
off Country Club Road in Saint Clairsville, kind of a
side road, very rural woods, and.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
A truck would stop all the time.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Now I worked mornings, you know here on WWVA at
the time, and I would see I think it was
a township truck or maybe a county truck. I think
Alan worked for one or the other. But it would
stop in front of the house and kind of look,
and I'd be out there at ten eleven o'clock in
the morning because I was done at nine am, and
sometimes I would get home early and start doing stuff,
and I could tell that the dude in the truck

(37:03):
was looking trying to figure out is that David Bloomquist
or is that not David Bloomquist.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
And I had never met Alan up until that point.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
So one day I'm down by my mailbox and here
comes his truck and it stops and it's Alan Horniac
and just sat there and talked to me.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Nicest guy in the world.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
And you know, I'm sitting there talking to him at
the time, and it's the first time I ever met him,
and just all the stories that I had heard about
Alan came flooding back, and to think that he took
the time out of his day because he listened to
me every morning. He said he loved the show, wanted
to stop and say hi. It was it was a

(37:43):
very personal moment. I mean, it was a very special
moment in him and I kind of struck up a
friendship from there, and whenever I would see him, which
wasn't often, but we would always chat. We would always talk,
and you would never know that this guy was a
captain of Ohio State. You would never know that this
guy pretty much. I mean, I guess the debate would

(38:04):
be John Halichek or Alan Horniak as far as the
greatest basketball players to come out of the Hio Valley,
or you know, Alex Groza in there too.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
But you know, you would never know that that's.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
That guy sitting in that truck, just so laid back,
so mild mannered, such a nice guy that when I
heard that news when her called me the other day,
it just just was like a punch in the chest
kind of the same way when I heard Phil Nekro
passed away, the same way I heard Joe Necro passed away.
Same thing with John Havlichik. I mean, the stories of

(38:37):
those guys. I love running into an old timer that
knew them well. My father in law, Karen's dad, Ken Jennieshski,
graduated with them, was best friends with Joe Nicro Obviously,
if you're best friends with Joe, your friends with Phil.
Was in high school with all those guys, Bobby Douglas
and the stories that he tells back in the day

(38:59):
of those guys. But you know, getting back to Alan Horniac,
just the stories about him. The game against bel Air,
of course, is legendary going on to Ohio State doing
what he did in three years there, because remember freshman
couldn't play back then, so he had three years in
Ohio State, gets drafted by the Cavaliers.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Don't really know why he never played in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
I mean I heard some stories from some people quote
unquote in the know that said he was never really
given a legit shot with the Cavaliers. I also heard
that some of the African American players were not real
kind to Alan back in the day, being a white
guy from the Ohio Valley. I mean, I've heard all
different types of rumors and this and that. So I

(39:42):
can't sit here and definitively tell you why he didn't
make it in the NBA, because by all accounts, he
probably should have. And I've heard people speak to this
day who said, if he played in today's NBA, if
Alan was drafted out of Ohio State today, is good
of a shooter as he was, the guy would be unstoppable.

(40:03):
So to his family, to his kids, just know that
when I heard your dad passed away, it it it
hit me hard and I thought immediately back to that
day in Saint Clairsville. I'm gonna say, probably nineteen ninety nine,
somewhere in there, two thousand and one, when he just

(40:27):
stopped in that vehicle when we struck up a conversation
and you know there it was from there.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Hey, it's just so sad.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
There's so many great players from the Hohah Valley, so
many guys that are legends. I just named a bunch
of them who you know as we age. It's just
a reminder that nobody beats Father Time.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
At the end of the day, Father Time is undefeated.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
And you remember these guys back when they were young, strong, fast,
I mean, what they could do, and they're not here anymore.
And it's a solemn reminder of you know what, Father
times gonna come knocking for every one of us at
you know, some point in time. You're listening to The
bloom Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA more to come right

(41:10):
after this.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
We are back.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
It's eighteen on your Tuesday morning, The Bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva Otis.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
We were talking.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
You and I were talking during the break about group texting.
You were telling a story about your friends.

Speaker 6 (41:33):
My so called friend yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
I can't stand group texts. Now, it's if it's two
or three people, okay, fine, when it's ten, twelve, fifteen,
I can't stand them. I cannot stand them, and I,
for some reason, I cannot figure out how to get

(41:56):
myself out of a couple of group texts. Now, you
said that you've done it and you're able to You've
been able to remove yourself.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
No, I said, I said, I I've seen where people
have left the group.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
See, that's what I can't figure out how to do
unless I ask the person who created the group, which
sometimes you don't want to do that, you know, like,
please take me out of this group test, because then
then you look like the ahle you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
But oh my god, they.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
Are so annoying, so annoying. The majority of the reason
I keep my phone on silent a good part of
the day is because of group texts that I do
not want to be involved in. I just I don't care.
I don't care what you had for breakfast. I don't
care where you went for lunch. I just don't care.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
I don't care being in Europe in six hours ahead
of everybody.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (42:57):
So there's a group of us were all high school
friends and everything, and so the one girl is back
in town from Minnesota, so she's like, Hey, what are
we doing? Who's doing this on Friday night? Blah blah blah.
And it's like three in the morning for me or
two in the morning, whatever it was, and my phone
just start going.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Because you were what twelve hours six.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
So I'm like, oh, good God, like you said, the
first text message goes off, it wakes me up. I'm like, okay,
next one. Then after like the fourth text message, because
they're coming pretty rapid, and I'm thinking maybe something happened,
so I should look. You know, both my parents are
in their eighties, so you never know. No, it's these goofballs.

(43:43):
Hey what are you doing later? You want to meet here?
There's a concert in Wheeling tonight, blah blah blah, This
and that and the other. I'm like, people, take me
out of this group text or start a new group
with me not in it. Because what was happening was
because I was on an international plane, everything was coming
through individually and when I would have to download it.
So when I downloaded it, then it went to the

(44:03):
group text.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Oh, so it was like multiple steps on top of yea.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
So then so my one buddy, he's like, I saw
your text. He goes, I want to let you know
I did not text anymore. I said, I saw that.
I said the rest of these goofs well.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
And the other thing is when you get you get
lumped into one of these group texts and then there's
a number you don't know, and you sit there and you're.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Going, okay, who could this possibly be?

Speaker 4 (44:29):
And it's almost like a puzzle, and then they respond
you going okay, so who would say something like that?
And you try to figure out how this person is
connected to that person and if this person said this,
then then it's got to be this person because then
you don't want to go who is phone number? Blah
blah blah blah blah, because then again it's like, am
I being rude? Do I not know that?

Speaker 5 (44:50):
Peron? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
I just I can't stand them. I cannot stand down.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
Well, you know, like I said. The one girl lives
in Minnesota, so whenever WVU plays, she she thinks that
she needs to comment on everything. Ah, So like she'll say,
oh my god, I can't believe that call, or when
they score, let's go and then you know, and then
we have the guy that's the know it all in
the group the things. He knows everything about every sport.

(45:18):
And then so they just keep going back and forth
where everybody else is maybe like one comment, maybe two Yeah,
and it's the other two that keep it going.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
And you want to say, go and have your own
text conversation.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
I mean, I love all of them dearly. I love
them all dearly, but I don't need I don't need
to be in your conversation that says we got robbed
on that call, we got that that was horrible, or
you know, whatever it is. I'm just like, oh my god,
please stop.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
And then there's the people who basically write a novel,
and I'm gonna call my brother out on that one.
He must he must be voice texting, which I'm sure
that's what he's doing, but he refuses to talk on
the phone.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Everything has to be via text. It drives me insane.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
If I wanted to sit down and read a novel,
I would go to the library and get a book. No, no, no,
His entire conversations all have.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
To be through text. I just I get it.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
I understand the convenience. I text all the time. Don't
get me wrong, but some times I just want to
throw my phone out the window and say stop. Like
you said, I don't need a meme for everything. I
don't need to get giff or jiff or however you
pronounce it for everything.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Sometimes it's just we're too accessible twenty four to seven sometimes.
But yeah, if anybody knows a way out there to
get out of a group text that you did not start,
you were included in it and you want out of it,
but you don't want to let people know, and you
have some sort of inside information of how to get

(47:05):
out of that group text, I would love to know.
I use it an iPhone if that matters. Please any
advice I will happily take, because I can't do these
group texts that midnight won in the morning. I just
I just can't.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
I just I just can't. Anyways, did you.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
See Powerball was not hit? I did, Holy Cown, Holy
count was not hit yesterday.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
So it is.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Now going up to one point three billion dollars. That's
with a b, folks, one point three billion. Every time
I said, I want to say it like doctor Evil
billion dollars. Oh, It's the fifth largest power ball game
in history, is the ninth largest among US lottery jackpot games.

(47:59):
The ticket, uh, the drawing will be Wednesday night. Now,
if you hit it, it's an estimated cash value of
five hundred and eighty nine million. That's if you take
that's the one time lump, right, the cash, and then there's.

Speaker 6 (48:16):
The you can take it over time. Yeah, which I
would do. Oh yeah, because you get more money in
the long run. Yeah. Plus you're guaranteed income every year
and you're not gonna blow through five hundred million dollars.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
No, No, I would find I would make my best
attempt at it.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
Though, well I would split it. You know, there would
be a conglomeration for for my people. So it would
be me like if I even if I just bought
the winning ticket, it would the three my two boys
and me would be the beneficiary.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
So I was gonna say, let me know when you
need my checking account number for deposits. No, I'm not
one what did you say, my people?

Speaker 6 (48:53):
Not people?

Speaker 4 (48:54):
I guess I'm not one of those people. I mean
that's not very nice.

Speaker 6 (49:01):
No, you have that, Okay, well bye, Yeah, I'll buy
a you know, a nice little going to rape prison
because I will be gone.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
The odds of winning it's astronomical, one in two hundred
and ninety two million people, one in two hundred and
ninety two. So we'll put that into perspective. You have
a one in ten million chance of becoming the president.
You have a one in one point five million chance
at becoming a movie star. So you have a better

(49:38):
chance at winning an oscar, winning an Olympic gold medal,
becoming the president, or becoming an astronaut than you do
in winning this lottery. I don't have a chance in
any of those, to be completely upfront, not even a

(49:59):
remote chance in any of those. Oh gosh, what would
you do with that amount of money? God, I would
find I would find a way. But it's not just
the lottery that picks a winner on Wednesday, the power ball.
We'll have a winner tomorrow because it's Wednesday, and that

(50:20):
will be for our free lunch delivered on Friday. And
of course the food is courtesy of our friends at
River City. So with that being said, there is still
plenty of time to register for your free lunch. It
feeds about ten and we bring it to you on
Friday afternoons and all you have to do to register

(50:41):
Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name and business and phone number,
or you can text us on our text line seven
zero four seven zero. Started off with the bloom Daddy
same information, name, company and phone number. What are you
laughing at? You probably can't tell me.

Speaker 6 (50:58):
Yeah, I can't mind. My buddies just texted me and
said I need Sam' spending number seconds. Just start texting
your gifts, okay, so I'll give it to you.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Well, that depends on what they are.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
They'll be clean, no making dirty is possible.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
But we're not done. Let's have a winner now.

Speaker 6 (51:16):
Better hurry Winner one eight hundred.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
Sixty two four eleven seventy for mccormicks Auto one eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Let's do Caller number nine,
Caller number nine, It's a twenty eight The bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Welcome back to the show. I'm gonna go off on
a little bit of a rant right now. And I
think I did this about two or three years ago,
and obviously it doesn't matter, but it is beyond me.
How at West Liberty University. People are just not held
to a certain standard. And I'm gonna talk football and
I'm gonna talk baseball. Football, of course, lost their first

(51:58):
game of the year, not a surprise. Roger Wiley should
have been fired years ago. The fact that he's still
coaching up at West Liberty is beyond me. But obviously
they have no standards there when it comes to football.
They can't have any standards when it comes to football. Look,
the numbers don't lie. Okay, here are the numbers on

(52:19):
Roger Wiley. Did you know he has not had a
winning season since two thousand and fourteen.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
That's over ten years ago. In that season was six
and five.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
You know what Roger Wiley has done since twenty fourteen,
five and six, four and seven, three and eight, three
and eight, five and six, two and two, four and seven,
four and seven, five and six and uh.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Oh, let me see here. I think you get the gist,
but I'm trying to.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Yeah, four and six and twenty twenty three, two and
nine last year.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
How does a guy keep his job?

Speaker 2 (52:59):
It is that at West Liberty University they don't give
a damn about their football program. And that's a travesty
for the kids, because they deserve better. A kid that
goes to West Liberty to play football deserves better than
playing for Roger Wiley in his staff. These are the
same guys they've been there forever. How would you like

(53:20):
to go to work and you don't have to produce
just every day you walk in, you punch that time card,
whatever you may do for a living, and you don't
have to do a damn thing and never have to
worry about being fired. That's Roger Wiley up at West Liberty,
eleven years straight of losing. My god, what do you

(53:41):
have to do to get fired up there?

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Kill somebody?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
I mean, the boosters at West Liberty should be ashamed
of themselves, The Border Regions, the Athletic board should be
ashamed of themselves for allowing this guy to continue to
draw salary and put these kids through this. If I
had a kid, there isn't a chance I would send
him to West Liberty to play football. Not a chance.

(54:08):
And what's sad? Got beautiful facilities, beautiful school. Had two
kids who went to West Liberty And I'll get to
that in a second. When I turned the page to baseball,
but that football program is a damn travesty. And if
you talk to coaches around here in the valley high
school coaches, they have no respect for the guy. He

(54:28):
doesn't show any interest in them. I had one guy
who said he went to a camp at West Liberty
and while I, the head coach, laid on a tackling
dummies and basically slept. So, brad foreshee the athletic director
at West Liberty, where are you, buddy? Because your name
and your face is on every athletic program up there,
Brad foreshee? Are you not embarrassed by your football program?

(54:50):
Do you not have the balls to make a change
up there? Gary West is dead. Let me say that
again to everybody at West Liberty. Gary West is dead.
And the rumor was his money was going to always
keep on coming as long as Roger while I was coaching,
because for whatever reason he loved the guy. Well, guess what,
Let me say it again. Gary West is dead. So

(55:15):
Brad Forshey, do what you are hired to do. Grow
some balls and make a change the people the powers
to be at West Liberty. Grow some balls and make
a change, because the kids deserve better and your school
deserves better. Every westlibal Lum deserves better than having a
loser as a coach. That's what he is. He hasn't

(55:38):
had a winning record in over ten years. The guy's
a loser. Let's switch over to baseball. Eric Perkle, same scenario.
What does this guy wan? Here's another guy getting a salary.
What has he done up there other than lose? Other
than lose? The lack of effort that is put into
that program is appalling. And I know it because I

(56:00):
had two kids go through it. I mean, once again,
Brad Forshey, where are you once again? The powers to
be at West Liberty? Where are you? You're okay with it?
You're okay with a stagnant baseball program year after year
after year. Well you know the excuse you're going to
get as well. He's got forty five guys on the team,
and that's tuition that makes his money. Let me tell

(56:21):
you something. You could have a corpse running that team,
and you damn near do, and you'd still have forty
five guys on that team. The kids deserve better, the
alumni deserve better. Once again, baseball great facilities, they need
a turf field up there, but they've got everything else.
Locker rooms, indoor facility, the whole deal.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
I have.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
There is nothing personal against Roger wili or Eric Burkle
that has nothing to do with this. This has to
do with me looking at a college accepting not even mediocrity,
just accepting losing. Why would you do that? It's the
number one thing that pisses me off about this valley.
People just accept being.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Average.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Not everybody, but a lot of people are okay with
just being average to below average. If you do that
as an individual, that is your choice. But when you're
representing a university, what is going on here? And the
people holding Eric Berkele in baseball accountable and Roger Wilei accountable,

(57:27):
where are you and all this? You're an enabler. You're
as pathetic as they are. Why wouldn't you want what
is best for your university. Tell me how a guy
who hasn't had a winning season in over a decade
is good for your university.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Tell me how a guy who is your head.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Baseball coach who's won basically nothing since he's been there
is good for your university.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
And if you.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Don't think you could get a high caliber guy to
take over football or a high caliber guy to take
over baseball at West Liberty. You're out of your damn mind,
because I know people who would jump at it in
a heartbeat, people who would put actual effort into representing
that school and putting something out there for the kids.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
A lot of people would line up for the job.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
West Liberty is a beautiful campus, got great facilities.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Location.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
You can get talent from a bunch of different places,
but you know what you gotta have. You got to
have a baseball coach and a football coach who actually
put effort in. Hey, here we go, effort, effort, effort.
It's a travesty, Brad Forshey, wake up the powers to

(58:39):
be at West Liberty, wake up because the kids deserve better.
And that's on you Gonna take a break more to
come here on eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Welcome Back eight forty eight The blim Daddy Experience samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy ww So a couple celebrity birthdays.
Chance to win, Oh that's right, your chance to win.
We're gonna have another family four pack to rafter m Rodeo,
which is happening September twentieth, which, by the way, come
that time of year, it'll be beautiful out there upon

(59:16):
the hilltop because leaves will start to change about that
time of year, it'll be gorgeous up there.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
So we're gonna have your.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Chance to win a family four pack to rafter m
coming up here very shortly. So some celebrity birthdays. Eric
Dickerson is sixty five years old. Of course, the Hall
of Fame running back holds the NFL season single season
rushing record at twenty one and five yards. So Eric

(59:44):
Dickerson is turning sixty five years old.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Actor Keanu Reeves, who I cannot stand.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
I think he's one of the worst actors in Hollywood.
Sixty one years old. And I understand he's got the
John Wick franchise and all this and that that's because
he doesn't have to talk, that's why.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
And then here's one.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
I believe this is one of your favorites. I believe,
or maybe it's bloom Daddy's I'm not sure. Salma Hayek
bloom Daddy's fifty nine years old.

Speaker 6 (01:00:15):
Terry Bradshaw's birthday is today, too, is it?

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
Oh he didn't show up in my list.

Speaker 6 (01:00:20):
Because you don't have the right list.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Oh, okay, I kind of sore Salmo was yours.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
I mean, I'm not going to kick her out of
the bed for.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
You'd be okay with that?

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Yeah, I mean Bloe Daddy's the one that's infatuated with there.
Oh okay, he's very infatuated with He likes brunettes and chesticles.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Chesticles.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Yeah. Yeah, there's something there's something in the psychosis there
about why men are obsessed with that particular portion of
the body.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
But we won't get into that. Here's a weird stat.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
I one thing I talk to my single friends, and
you know, for as frustrated sometimes as you get with
your spouse. Boy, am I glad I'm not single? I
am so glad I am not single. But this is
an incredibly weird stat. Fifty percent of young men say
they would rather date an AI girlfriend.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Than a human girl. That's weird.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
That's weird.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
That's really weird.

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
Let's see here, eighty three percent of gen Z believe
they can form a deep emotional bond with AI companions.
You're not forming a physical one with an AI girlfriend.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
See used to be blow up dolls, Now.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
It's AI girlfriends.

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
That's it's just weird.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
That's just weird.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
That's because you can design them to probably say exactly
what you want them to say. They're never going to
disagree with you. They're going to look exactly the way
you physically want them to.

Speaker 7 (01:02:16):
Look.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
What's that say about us nowadays? Though, that you'd rather
have a emotionally intimate relationship with a computer, that's that's
what AI is, then you would an actual human being.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
That's just that's just weird, that's just weird. Fifty of
young men. There's not any information on women. If women
would rather have that, just the men. But yeah, yess
you cannot.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
Design her to your absolute perfect specifications.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
It's kind of like going to going to straw and
ordering your your your dream car. Now you can go
to AI and order your your dream girlfriend and she
can look as blonde or brunette or have the best
what did you call them chesticles you wanted?

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
I guess you can.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
You can do all of that through AI now.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Yikes, I don't know, I don't know. Just just weird,
just weird.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
And once again, West Virginia, I apologize bottom of the
list again for another national statistic so recently released was
the hardest working states here in the United States. Coming

(01:03:53):
out on top is North Dakota. They are considered the
hardest work state. The top ten include North Dakota, Alaska,
South Dakota, Texas, Hawaii, Hawaii, Really Virginia, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Maryland, Nebraska,

(01:04:14):
West Virginia, and Ohio.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
Not so good, not so good.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
At all the least hard working states Number one, West Virginia. Yikes,
So West Virginia gets number one on a list, but
not the list that you want to hold At number one.
Ohio came in at number nine and Pennsylvania came in.

(01:04:43):
Let's see, Ohio came in number nine for the least
working state. Pennsylvania came in thirty sixth for the hardest
working state.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Well tri State area, AH not exactly the most stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
Screaming endorsement for our area. The factors that were taken
into account included average number of work week hours, employment rates,
and the number of those who work multiple jobs and more.
And of course, as I said, North Dako, North Dkota
came in number one. Michigan came in last. Hmmm, Michigan

(01:05:25):
came in last.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
I don't know, I would I would.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
Beg beg to differ on on that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
I think West Virginia and.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Ohio are full of really hard working people. The people
I deal with every day are hardworking people. But when
you take into account employment rates and that, I'm sure
that is what makes a difference. That is what makes
a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Odors, are you still with me there?

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (01:05:50):
Oh, okay, you seemed you seemed a little.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
You got quiet on me, You got quiet on me.

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Ah And then.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
Finally to round this out, you know, some days you
wake up and you think I'm not going to see
something weird today. But I swear to God, day after day,
year after year, this country gets weirder and weirder and weirder.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
I got this posted on my social media. It's a
video of a liberal young man, probably late twenties, early thirties, piercings,
purple hair, calls himself a woman, and he's very very
excited because later this week, no, I'm sorry, in early November.

(01:06:37):
In early November, he's getting his hysterectomy. If you do
not know what a hysterectomy is, a man cannot get one,
just a heads up, same thing as as a woman
cannot get a prostate exam. A man cannot get a hysterectomy, right,

(01:07:02):
why do you give me that face?

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
So to this young.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Man who is very, very excited to have his hysterectomy,
you need to go back to science class, biology class, whatever.
But I hate to inform you that you cannot have
one of those, and I'm pretty sure your insurance will
deny the surgery. Honest to God, every day it's something

(01:07:32):
stranger and stranger. And to say that this country does
not have a mental health problem, you are digging and
sticking your head in the sand, because we absolutely truly
do have.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
A mental health issue.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
If this person is on social media bragging about things
like that because or they just need attention, I don't
know either way. All you can do is shake your
head and hug your loved ones and hopefully they are
not infiltrated by this disease that is plaguing our country currently,

(01:08:11):
because it's absolute insanity, absolute insanity.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Oh, does you want to wrap this up with our
last chance to win?

Speaker 6 (01:08:18):
Sure?

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
One eight hundred sixty two for eleven seventy for a
family four pack to rafter M, which again is happening
September twentieth rafter M rodeo need to throw that in
there again. Happening September twentieth, where this is going to
be a family four pack. Also happening tomorrow is our
free lunch. You can still register Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name,

(01:08:41):
phone number and company, or of course you can text
us at seven zero four seven zero all right one
eight hundred sixty two for eleven seventy. For rafter M,
let's do caller number eleven. Caller number eleven one, eight
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Have a great rest
of your day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.