The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam September 4, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed number one touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
And tick people off.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
The bloom Daddy Experience on News Radio eleven seventy. WWVA
starts now the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news Radio eleven seventy. Welcome
to the bloom Daddy Experience on your Thursday morning. I
want to start with a little follow up.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Today two days ago, actually maybe three days ago. I
can't even keep track anymore.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I did a segment on West Liberty Athletics, the football program,
the baseball program, basically saying, how can Roger Wili, the
head football coach continue to have a job when this
guy has not had a winning season in over a decade,
blown out almost every game. He has not had a
winning season since twenty fourteen. Eric Berkele had baseball coach.

(00:57):
How can this guy continue to be employed when year
after year, losing record after losing record after losing record.
This is nothing personal against these two guys, but where
is the accountability when it comes to West Liberty Athletics,
the university and the people in charge and the athletic
director are either saying we don't care about football and baseball,

(01:20):
or they don't have the balls to make a change,
which either one of those is pathetic and sad. And
I know whyle I kept his job for a long
time because Gary West was a big donor and Gary West,
for whatever reason, loved Roger Wileye, So it didn't matter
if Roger Whiley went to and ten every year. As
long as Gary West was alive, he had a job. Well,

(01:40):
as I pointed out in the segment a couple of
days ago, Gary West has been dead for a couple
of years now. Anyway, the response to that segment overwhelming.
My phone blew up, text messages, phone calls for.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Pretty prominent people.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
And when I say the feedback was overwhelming, I mean overwhelming,
as in, Hey, I'm glad you had the you know
what to say it because nobody else will.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Why is that?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Why doesn't the local news media scrutinize West Liberty athletics.
Why doesn't anybody else speak out? Where are parents? Where
is anybody? What about administrators at West Liberty? I mean,
that football program and that baseball program represent your university
and they're losers. So is that how you want to

(02:30):
be looked at? West Liberty University is losers? Okay, great,
got a great basketball program. There's other programs out there.
If you don't care about football and baseball, cancel them,
save some money, move on, get bowling, get golf, get pickleball.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't care what it is. Get something.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
But how do you allow two coaches to continue to
collect a paycheck and not hold them accountable for what
they are producing? And what they are producing is losing
year after year after year. Now they're gonna make excuses.
They're gonna say, well, you just can't get the talent

(03:15):
up here. Well, you just can't do this basketball does?
I mean think about it? Who the hell in Division
two wants to go to West Liberty University in Wheeling,
West Virginia and play basketball? Well, a lot of good
guys do, because you know what, you've got good coaches there,
You've got a good program, and they win.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Everybody wants to be a part of a winner.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
So if you could recruit in basketball and get top
notch guys, you surely can recruit in football, and you
surely can recruit in baseball, especially when you've got Pittsburgh Canton, Cleveland, Columbus, Charleston,
all these cities around you within two two and a
half hours, and then you've got the pick of the
litter in the valley. There is no excuse not to

(03:59):
be successful at West Liberty University other than you're not
very good at what you do or you're lazy. So
you could take your pick. I had two kids who
played for Eric Berkele. I know Eric Berkele. Well, Eric
Berkele knows baseball. He knows baseball, but he's incredibly lazy.

(04:20):
Zero effort into that program. He'll tell you Bloomquist doesn't
know what he's talking about.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh, he's mad.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Because I've got nothing against Eric Berkele other than I
think it's incredibly unfair that that program could be very
good and he chooses chooses for it not to be
because he's lazy. And I could tell you stories that
would make your head spin that are one hundred percent
true as far as a lack of effort by Eric Berkele.

(04:48):
You get over to Roger Wiley, it's the same thing.
The guy is incredibly lazy. So let's get back to
where's the accountability. These guys are at a public university
getting paid maid taxpayer money to produce a product that's awful.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Think about this. In the corporate world, would you last No.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
If you're the CEO of a company and you're putting
out a bad product, you would be fired or your
company's going out of business. Yet, these guys obviously know
nobody's going to hold them accountable. The athletic director, the
bord of Regents, the president, the athletic board. Nobody is
holding these guys accountable. It's blatantly obvious. So what are

(05:29):
you gonna do. If you're a lazy person, you're gonna
take the easy way out. And that's what they do
every year. Go look at their records, just go look.
The numbers don't lie. The numbers do not lie. And
it's unfair to the kids. I'm telling you right now.
If you've got a football player, you're out of your
mind to send them to West Liberty University.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
They're gonna lose, they're gonna be in a terrible program.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
If you've got a son to plays baseball, you're out
of your mind to send them to West Liberty University
because you're gonna lose and you're going to be in
a terrible program. Why would you want to put your
kids in that situation? That's the question. And where's WTRF seven,
where's WTOV nine? Where's the other talking heads in this
Ohio valley? Well, most of them are buddies with the coaches,

(06:15):
so you know how that goes. And I think you
know me by now. I don't give a damn who
likes me. As long as my kids do, I don't care.
I'm just giving you the truth. And I can tell
you this. My phone blew up again with very prominent people,
people who have pool and you know what I said
to them? Where have you been? Why aren't you saying something?

(06:38):
Why aren't you calling West Liberty? If you're telling me
what I said was right on the money, and we
love you for saying it, And man, I wish more
people would say it.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Where the hell are you? Phone calls?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Last thing that university president wants is you calling them up, going, dude,
do something about your football program, do something about your
baseball program.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
The athletic director, the last.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Thing he wants is you calling him up saying, hey,
it's West Liberty, We're proud of this university as an.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Alumni or whatever. We want better.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
They don't like that, and unless you make it happen,
the athletic director at West Liberty will continue to take
the easy way out. The president of West Liberty will
continue to take the easy way out. The people on
the athletic board, the border regents, the people in control,
will continue to take the easy way out.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
And you know what, that's a damn shame.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Seven nineteen, Good Morning, The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, Well, Otis, we're both here.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
So I guess not supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well, neither of us won the power ball.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Well I didn't. I played it, but I didn't play it.
I'm in with a couple guys, so I just based
the give them twenty dollars every so often, okay, and
then they play the big ones. Yeah. I don't know
if we could have won one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Oh oh, okay, but the big one was not hits.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
I'm gonna have to play the big one this week.
I keep forgetting because I don't do it on the
regular basis.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
I never think. I don't here.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
I used to buy I used to buy my my
lottery tickets at one particular establishment, and I would buy
them there because if you ever win, then they get something.
So like so like let's say I buy it Joe's
Bar and Grill, And so what would happen is if

(08:42):
I would win the power Ball, Joe's Bar and Grill
wins one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh I didn't know the establishment?

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah okay, yeah, they get they get they get a
they get a little something for selling the winning ticket.
So I would always say, well, there's like there's like
three or four places that I will buy my lottery
tickets because if I ever win, I want them to
reap the benefits and if it and if it would
ever come down to it that, you know, I bought
my ticket at one, but you know the other I
would I would say, hey, out of my money, I

(09:09):
would give each of them a hundred thousand dollars because
that's where I would buy my tickets.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, well, nobody won the big one.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
I don't have to worry about it.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, nobody won won it last night. So what that
means it rolls over. Of course, it.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Was like one point three billion, so it's probably gonna
get about one point six.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Maybe seven one point seven billion is the estimate. It
would be the third largest powerball jackpot in history. Of course,
the drawing will be Saturday. The cash value is seven
hundred and seventy million. Here's where they get you, folks.
The IRS estimates it would be a thirty seven percent
federal tax rate.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
That's a by rate. Yikes. That mean that's that's why
you take it over the course of time. Yeah, that's
because eventually you'll get more money.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
In the long run. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Yeah, so because they do it for like over twenty
or thirty years.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
One point seven billion dollars, that's that's.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Just I could live on. Yeah me too, I could
live on a couple million a year.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, I would be the farewell.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Show here would be fantastic and I would just I
would leave iHeart a stack of money to pay the
FCC fines because I would call people out.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
You would go out with them, like.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
It wouldn't be pretty it would not be pretty well, and.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
When you only worked three days a week, I'm sure
somebody would be tuning in but oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Wow, there's a jab but it's today Thursday. Yeah, not
working today?

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, so so yeah, I would I run, I would
I would comfortably, very much comfortably live on a couple
millions a month. Is that what you said? A month?

Speaker 5 (10:54):
No year?

Speaker 4 (10:54):
A year?

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah, I mean if you did it over the course
of time, so you figure you'd have to I don't
know if it's twenty or thirty years, so you'd probably
get about you'd probably get about twenty to twenty five
million a year or somewhere, probably about twenty million a year,
because you're gonna get more money over like I said,
the long run, you're still gonna get zapped by taxes.

(11:16):
You're just not gonna get it. They're not gonna take
it all at once.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Would definitely have to reach out to our good friend
Steve waters it Rayment, Well, we'd.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Have to probably reach out to a few of them
because they're only insured to so much.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
He would even he would really really like us that
Oh yeah, commission, Yeah you think.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, So I'd have to take care of a couple
of people that way too.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
You would take care of me. That is a overwhelming
deafening silence.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
I'd pay your car off or something.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Okay, well, hey, I would take it. Pay my house
off would be better.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
I know that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Come on, I brought you back some Jamaican coffee.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
A big deal you owe me?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, you gave me an eleven pack. One was missing.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
That was not me.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
I felt like I was on Cheers and Norman Peterson
was giving me a five pack.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I told you I gave you a heads up.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
You did. I just found it funny.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
The hobby took one. Yeah, the hobby took one accident
because I noticed.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
I thought it for yourself, and you felt guilty because
I brought you something back from Dresden.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
No, that is not No, that was not it. But
when I went to bring it to you, remember I said,
I noticed the little plastic tab was pride open.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
And I'm trying it today.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
It's not bad, not bad. They're known for their their
Blue Mountain coffee. That's supposed to be a thing. I'm
not a coffee drinker, so I don't know.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Jamaica Blue Mountain Premiere.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Blend, se Premiere, nothing but it says.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
The legend of the Dancing Moon.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh I didn't read all that.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Oh it's Dancing Moon. Jamaica Blue Mountain Premiere Blend.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah, there you go. That's what they're known for.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
You can take a picture of it if you want.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Okay, I can do that.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
Five percent of benefit, five percent of profits benefit wounded
and injured used Armed Forces members and their families. Okay,
says the box.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
We'll see doing a good thing while giving a gift.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
I love how they give you directions on how to
use your carry. It's like if you haven't figured it
out by now. Oh it does say for best results,
brew on the eight on setting, so.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
You get more flavor, more oomph. Yeah, it's not watered down.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
I can't. I can't do super strong coffee.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
No, you just pushed five. You just do five? Cops
four do what was it Tuesday or something? You did
like five? You were bouncing off the walls. You couldn't
sit still. It was hilarious. You were in there rolling
back and forth. I thought, okay, he's on like up
four or five at this point.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
There must have been some good caffeine.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Oh gosh, I want to let everybody know. First, don't
forget it's Thursday. No, so it's your chance to your
chance to win half gallon of ice cream from our
friends at Kirks. Of course, all you have to do
is go to our text line seven zero four seven zero.

(14:18):
Start the message off with bloom Daddy.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
And you know, Kirks make it all kind of pumpkin
ice cream right now.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Oh yeah, they've got pumpkin ice cream, Pumpkin milkshakes, pumpkin
there was something else I saw. Pumpkin through the nose
is basically happening at Kirk's. But just go to our
text line seven zero four seven zero, start off with
bloom Daddy name and phone number, and that will be
your registration to win a free half gallon. Now you
don't have to get pumpkin.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
You can get what you want, whatever you want or
whatever's available.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
We'll say, yeah, yeah, Do you notice I did some
I did some decorating in here.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah. This isn't your house, I know, but.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
I want to do a little fault. I have a problem,
you know I do. I have a problem. I absolutely
love decorating for the fall.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Do we have anything else that we're doing today besides
Kirk's ice cream? Are we doing rafter M? We are
we doing mccormicks. Are we doing anything else? Oh?

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, yeah, we're doing rafter M and we're doing mccormicks
and that's going to be later in the show.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, we can always do one this hour that we
can do one this break if we want. You want
to do it, well, not at this very second, but
we can. You pick which one you want to give away,
and we'll do it here in about a minute.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, let's do mccormicks first.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Okay, Well, well.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well no, we did McCormick's first. Last time. You want
to switch it up.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
And do listen. You're the one with the tickets in
the in the certificates sitting over there, so well, here's the.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
One that brought it up. I thought you had some ground.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
I didn't have any I didn't I just made it.
I made a suggestion.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Oh okay, okay, made a suggestion, ladies. Now, basically, he
wanted me to stop talking about my addiction to.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Decorating because nobody cares.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
But at least I'm willing to acknowledge that I recognize
that I have an issue.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
I have a problem, and we're ways than what Well, yeah, oh,
we have to do is that's mister Sam. There's probably
a long list. He might be listening right now, you
know he probably, mister Sam, if you're listening, call.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
If he's not. If he's not listening, his his spies
are because me and I get rated out if he
doesn't hear people at work here. Do you know? Do
you hear what your wife said this morning on the
radio about you? Yeah? Yeah, I can't hide.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
All right?

Speaker 5 (16:28):
What are we giving away rafter him?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
We're gonna do rafter M. So we're gonna do rafter
M one in hundred sixty four eleven seventy by phone,
one hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. This is a
family four pack to rafter M, happening September. Of course
I don't have it in front of me. I think
sept twentieth. Yeah, September twentieth. It'll be next beautiful, It'll
be next Saturday, next Saturday, or two saturdays. My god, say,

(16:52):
it's only the first week. The caller number, Let's go
caller number eleven. Let's do caller number eleven, one hundred
six too. For eleven seventy. The Bloomdaddy Experience samon Otis
News Radio, eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Ryan Young, the Young Team, bloom Daddy Show, real estate
expert joining me right now, Ryan, what's it going to
take to jump start this housing market?

Speaker 6 (17:14):
It's so funny because it has been the last four
years of a roller coaster ride with no inventory and
now a ton of inventory and interest rates rising, and
now all of a sudden they're gonna start coming back
down again. And so everyone's pretty bullish on buyer activity
because of what Powell and you know, ultimately, I say,

(17:37):
Trump is kind of forcing with the rates starting to
come down, but we're not going to see that really
come into effect until I'd say, really, Q one of
next year is where we really feel the impact of
the rates starting to drop.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Ryan, we got a bad connection. We're going to call
you right back. Just hang up. We're gonna call you.
Just answer, Okay, I want to make sure that everything's
clear here. We'll call Ryan right back. House price growth
has slowed across a lot of the country, and one
expert said it's oversupply as well as financial struggles faced
by some buyers. If you talk to anybody in their

(18:11):
twenties right now. I was just talking to my son
about this, and he said, my generation is very frustrated
right now because trying to buy a home. Forget about it,
the interest rates, how much money you got to have down,
he said, for a lot of us, we feel like
we can't do it, and he said it's very discouraging
in a lot of different ways that his generation, and

(18:35):
again he just turned twenty eight, doesn't feel like home
ownership is reachable in the mid twenties to late twenties
like it was for our generation. Do we have Ryan,
Let's go back to Ryan Young, the Young Team, Blom
Daddy Show, real estate expert. Ryan.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Is that better?

Speaker 7 (18:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:53):
Can you guys hear me?

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Much much better.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
So again, I just want you to reiterate what you
think it will take the jumpstart salusing market.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
You know, it's funny. The rates over the past couple
years have been such a roller coaster ride, and you know,
they jumped up all the way to the seven low
seven percents, and you know, now Powell and Trump are
starting really Trump's kind of forcing it. They're starting to
drive them down and so you know we should see
low sixes. I'd say Q one of next year. That's

(19:23):
what's gonna be kind of that catalyst that stimulates everything
and really gets it moving. But it takes time. You know,
it's one of those things that it's like we're talking
still six months from now, so we're going to continue
to see a surplus of inventory getting a little stale
and stagnant before it really starts to move into that
kind of that high five low six interest rate environment,

(19:45):
which should start to really impact next spring.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Obviously, interest rates are a big part of this. I
saw where one in five Americans have a mortgage rate
below three percent, So obviously they don't want to sell
right now, even though, as you know, if you sell
right now going to get top dollar for your home.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
You just got to figure out what you're going to
do next.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yeah. Well, and here's what's interesting. I think you said
one in five have less than a three percent rate,
less than I believe. The stat is something around seventy
five percent of homeowners have less than a five percent
interest rate. So you have to think about it like this,
when they're in the sixes and sevens, homeowners with an

(20:27):
under five percent interest rate, the concept of them selling,
even if they have a ton of equity and seeing
a ton of appreciation, it still doesn't make financial sense
because they want to go put a mortgage on the
next house that they buy, and they're leaving their three
to four percent rate moving into a sixty seven percent rate.
Is we start dropping below the sixth threshold. That's where
you're going to start to see that most of the

(20:48):
people that have under a five percent rate, mostly refined, refinanced,
are purchased around that twenty twenty twenty twenty one timeline.
Now they've been in their home for four or five
years now, they've seen appreciation. Now the rates, the delta
between where they were to where they are is starting
to shorten, and you're going to start to see that
part of the market unlock. But what's interesting is we

(21:11):
are in We're in this unique market where you have
sellers that don't want to sell, you have buyers that
ultimately the affordability. I heard you were saying right before
I jumped on the affordability, it makes it really hard
to buy a home at six and a half seven
percent with all the appreciation, the appreciation that we've seen,
it's this really unique market where it's just a gridlock.

(21:31):
And that's why you're seeing some of this standing inventory.
You know, it's just kind of frozen.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
What do you make of the Trump administration right now?
They are thinking about declaring a national housing emergency to
address high housing pricing and limited inventory. I know the
price of Lumbard to build a new home. Right now,
it's up I think about five or six percent. But
they're considering ways to boost supply, reduced prices. They're going

(21:58):
to evaluate ways to standardize local building, maybe zoning codes
to decrease closing costs.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Do you think that will help?

Speaker 6 (22:07):
I don't think it's possible, And I'm very pro the administration,
and I love that they are trying to be as
creative as possible to stimulate on every side. But the
challenge is that the housing market is purely a byproduct
of the inflation, the economy, employment, unemployment, and so when

(22:30):
everything else is going really well, you need to ultimately
turn the dial up on the interest rates, which ultimately
slows down the inflation or the appreciation of homes. But
you can't. There's so many variables that come into play.
So you mentioned the lumber prices right, Well, lumber spiked
up during COVID, so now they're starting to come back down.

(22:51):
They're still really high. But think about it like this
with immigration, Think about how that's impacted the trades and
the lack of trades there are are in the construction
building community, right, and how that's impacted it. So now
there's not enough trades to build, right, So all these
little variables are kind of all over the place, and

(23:12):
so I just don't see right now, we can't win everywhere.
We can't win at the border, while we're also winning
the trades, while we're also trying to slow down some
of the inflation, but then we bring down rates, which
ultimately kind of dumps gasoline on the fire of inflation.
So it's a lot of competing variables and we can't

(23:35):
you can't do all of them simultaneously. It just doesn't
work like that. You know, what I am anticipating is
we're going to see this very kind of wavy market
for the next couple of years. You're going to see
in the spring, rates are going to come down. You're
going to see this major pop of inventory. And you know,
for the past two years we've seen thirty three percent
less home sales than in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.

(23:56):
In twenty two, all of a sudden, you're going to
start to see this pop and then they're going to
start to increase rates again to slow it down, and
you're going to see a taper off, and it's just
going to continue to kind of ride up and down,
which is I would say emotionally exhausting for buyers and
sellers on the market, but it's the only way that
they know how to wean us off of what happened

(24:17):
during COVID, where they were printing so much money, where
they were where rates were as low as they were
for as long as they are. It's really hard to
just immediately come off of that type of cycle. You
have to wean yourself off. And you know, you saw
it rates at three percent for several years and them
fly up to six to seven percent, And right now

(24:39):
we're feeling that of that immediate kind of knee jerk reaction.
They're trying to taper off of that as best they can,
and it's going to take some time.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Ride the wave and have a little bit of patience.
Ryan appreciate the insight.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Welcome back to seven forty nine the Blue Daddy's Sharing
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Speaker 5 (25:18):
Free half gallon of ice cream, that's what I said. No,
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Speaker 4 (25:24):
I was talking about Kirk's ice cream.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
I mean, I understand, Yeah, I'm just but Kirks sells
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Speaker 5 (26:01):
What would be like a goofy flavor? We could come
up with it. We could get Kirked to try, oh
like something just totally off the wall.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Well, I a couple of years ago had him make
pickle ice cream.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Oh and you hate pickles.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
I do.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I absolutely hate pickles. But at that point in time,
the big pickle craze had hit the market. And you
always hear pregnant women always want pickles and ice cream.
And I said to him one day, I was actually joking,
and I said, why not put the two together make
every pregnant woman's did he do it?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
He did?

Speaker 4 (26:36):
And people there were some people that absolutely loved it.
I know two people that went and bought a half
gallon of it.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Okay, I would try it.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Oh, I tried it, but I like pickles, but I
don't like pickles. But then they've got the sweet corn,
which I like the sweet corn ice cream. It's it's yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
But I'm just trying to think of something that he
hasn't done before, like something, Oh.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
That's tough. I mean he's tried a gaze.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Like if you could do a beef jerky, like a
bacon ice cream.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Bacon ice cream would be good. Bacon and caramel, like
kind of intertwined.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Or bacon and maple.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
There you got bacon and maple like a bacon, but
with a cheesecake. Has he done cheesecake. I think he's
got a raspberry cheesecake.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Just something goofy.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
But you pulled this out of nowhere. Now I'm thinking
like a.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Beef jerky ice cream, it would be weird.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
That would be weird.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
For some reason, pretzels is coming into my head.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
That would be cool because pretzel ice cream and you
could do pretzels and ice cream.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, salty, you got that whole salty sweet thing going.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
They're a little chocolate in there.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Maybe or a buffalo wing.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Oh, I like that buffalo wing ice that's kind of
like that mango hobb and arrow. Yes, take the mango out.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
It's football season.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
How about hobbin just how bannarrow ice cream? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Well, I guess not buffalo wing in regards to the chicken,
but buffalo the flavor. Yeah, yeah, well we might be
onto something here.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
You definitely like garlic parmesan. Probably wouldn't work in ice cream.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
No, but like the hot sauce, the mild medium hot.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
I wonder if he's ever done a peanut butter and
jelly ice cream at the same time.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
That one sounds good too.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Maybe get him on the horn and ask him if
he's done any of these.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
No, we need to get our folks out there on
the horn. If you have an idea six eleven seventy,
call us one hundred sixty four eleven seventy.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Or write him down and we'll share him with Kirk.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Or we can we could make it a question for
tomorrow too.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
There you go, save it for tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Okay, that was better than what we hadn't call us,
so don't call us now. You can save it for tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
But that'll be our secondary question. Yeah, the first question
about the you know what we were talking about, yes,
would be the best one. Yeah, because last year we
talked about lunchboxes. They just came out of nowhere. It
went crazy. Oh, go ahead and talk now.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Now you've got my mind is like flowing in here.
Now I'm trying to think of whoever just.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Tried to call call back? I didn't see the phone
ring him.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Oh yeah, call back.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Here.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
We were that your eyes can't be in two places
at once.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
So and you know how many times I've just asked
them just put a little light right here that when
the phone rings, it blinks. That's like that is so
old school that it's not hard to do.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Technology is hard, or light just here in the ceiling
that flashes.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
I mean, all it has to be is okay.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Okay, now it's ringing and he's going to answer your
phone call. So that'll be one of our questions for tomorrow.
Kind of off the cuff, a new idea or flavor
for Kirk at Kirk's ice Cream because it came out
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(30:10):
and phone number, and that will be your registration. Speaking
of some of our great friends of show, wanted to
mention tonight for the United Way. I am going to
be a celebrity dealer for Jackpot Jubilee happening at Wheeling
Island Casino. Doors open. I think it's five p thirty.

(30:36):
Starts at six, and there is tickets still available and
it's going to be a good time. And again this
is all in support of the Upper the United Way
of the Upper a High Valley. And as we have mentioned,
these ladies have been working their tails off since the
tragic flooding. So this is where we need to step

(30:59):
up as a community to not only support our fellow
community people, you know, folks that benefit from the United Way,
but also those who do the work day in and
day out. So that's happening tonight at Wheeling on in
a hotel casino racetrack at six. Everything starts at six.
There's gonna be food, there's gonna be drinks, there's gonna
be celebrity dealers. I will do my best and it's

(31:22):
all in support of the United Way. And tickets are
still available. Who was on the phone.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
We had Dave call in with two flavors okay, he said,
chicken bacon ranch okay and b LT bacon let us
tomatom okay.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
So so we've had we have a lot of savory
thinking where people are going.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
Notice there's bacon in both of those.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
So so far bacon is uh an overwhelming and overwhelming.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
And I've got them written down and we will share
these with Kurt.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Okay, here's the thing. He'll do it.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
I know you will.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
He'll, he's he will find a way.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
He's in a good way. He's nuts.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh yeah, yeah. We don't mean these office rocker or
anything like that. No, but he'll And if he doesn't
figure out a way, Mark will his son for the
you know nope, yeah, yeah, yeah, So that'll be a
question for to think about it. Yeah, think about it.
We've got plenty of time to think about it. The

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whole ice cream thing threw me off what we were
going to talk about. Oh, speaking of events, this is
right up your ally. Otis so farm Aid twenty twenty
five will be celebrating its fortieth anniversary. That will be
a live broadcast on CNN, and that will happen September twentieth.

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It's going to feature founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and
John Mellencamp, along with Dave Matthews Band, Kenny Chesney, Billy Strings,
Mark go Price, Why own a Judd, and many many more.
The event has raised over eighty five million dollars to
support US farmers since its inception in nineteen eighty five.

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Have you ever been to farming?

Speaker 5 (33:13):
Been to one?

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Really?

Speaker 5 (33:15):
When twenty sixteen or seventeen when it was in Burgerstown?

Speaker 4 (33:22):
It startache, Okay, okay, this is being held U Minneapolis. Yep, yep.
September twentieth, So farm Aid twenty twenty five returns, returns. Oh,
I want to do some do another?

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Get's up to you?

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Why is everything up to me? Let's do another?

Speaker 5 (33:44):
I left you in charge?

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Oh, ye're right, Let's do another chance to win?

Speaker 7 (33:50):
Let's do.

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for eleven seventy one, eight hundred sixty two for eleven
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number seven. You gotta get on the phones quick one
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in Glendale. It's seven point fifty eight. You're listening to

(34:15):
Sam otis the bloom Daddy Experience here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA, d.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
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 News Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey, it's a six.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Let's get this hour rolling. Welcome to the bloom Daddy Experience.
So on your Thursday morning, I want to start with
a little follow up today two days ago, actually maybe
three days ago. I can't even keep tracking any more.
I did a segment on West Liberty Athletics, the football program,
the baseball program, basically saying, how can Roger Wylie, the
head football coach, continue to have a job when this

(35:11):
guy has not had a winning season in over a decade,
blown out almost every game. He has not had a
winning season since twenty fourteen. Eric Berkele had baseball coach.
How can this guy continue to be employed when year
after year losing record after losing record after losing record.
This is nothing personal against these two guys, but where

(35:35):
is the accountability when it comes to West Liberty Athletics.
The university and the people in charge and the athletic
director are either saying we don't care about football and
baseball or they don't have the balls to make a change,
which either one of those is pathetic and sad. And
I know Wyley kept his job for a long time
because Gary West was a big donor and Gary West,

(35:57):
for whatever reason, loved Roger Wileye, So it didn't matter
if Roger while I went to and ten every year.
As long as Gary West was alive, he had a job. Well,
as I pointed out in the segment a couple days ago,
Gary West has been dead for a couple of years now. Anyway,
the response to that segment overwhelming. My phone blew up,
text messages, phone calls for pretty prominent people. And when

(36:20):
I say, the feedback was overwhelming. I mean overwhelming as in, hey,
I'm glad you had the you know what to say
it because nobody else will.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Why is that?

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Why doesn't the local news media scrutinize West Liberty athletics?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Why doesn't anybody else speak out? Where are parents? Where
is anybody? What about administrators at West Liberty?

Speaker 3 (36:48):
I mean that football program and that baseball program represent
your university and they're losers?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
So is that how you want to be looked at
West Liberty University? Is losers? Okay?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Great, got a great basketball program. There's other programs out there.
If you don't care about football and baseball, cancel them,
save some money, move on, get bowling, get golf, get pickleball.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I don't care what it is. Get something.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
But how do you allow two coaches to continue to
collect a paycheck and not hold them accountable for what
they are producing? And what they are producing is losing
year after year after year. Now they're gonna make excuses.
They're gonna say, well, you just can't get the talent

(37:41):
up here, Well you just can't.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Do this basketball does? I mean? Think about it?

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Who the hell in Division two wants to go to
West Liberty University in Wheeling, West Virginia and play basketball. Well,
a lot of good guys do, because you know what,
You've got good coaches there, you've got a good program,
and they win.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Everybody wants to be a part of a winner.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
So if you could recruit in basketball and get top
notch guys, you surely can recruit in football, and you
surely can recruit in baseball, especially when you've got Pittsburgh, Canton, Cleveland, Columbus, Charleston,
all these cities around you within two two and a
half hours, and then you've got the pick of the
litter in the valley. There is no excuse not to

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be successful at West Liberty University other than you're not
very good at what you do or you're lazy.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
So you could take your pick. I had two kids
who played for Eric Berkele.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
I know Eric Burkele. Well, Eric Berkele knows baseball. He
knows baseball, but he's incredibly lazy, zero effort into that program.
He'll tell you Bloomquist doesn't know what he's talking about.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Oh he's mad.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Because I've got nothing against Eric Berkele other than I
think it's incredibly unfair that that program could be very
good and he chooses chooses for it not to be
because he's lazy. And I could tell you stories that
would make your head spin that are one hundred percent
true as far as a lack of effort by Eric Berkle,

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you get over to Roger Wiley, it's the same thing.
The guy is incredibly lazy. So let's get back to
where's the accountability. These guys are at a public university
getting paid taxpayer money to produce a product that's awful.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Think about this. In the corporate world, would you last, No,
If you're the CEO of.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
A company and you're putting out a bad product, you
would be fired or your company's going out of business.
Yet these guys obviously know nobody's going to hold him accountable.
The athletic director, the bord of regents, the president, the
athletic board. Nobody is holding these guys accountable. It's blatantly obvious.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
So what are you going to do.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
If you're a lazy person, You're going to take the
easy way out. And that's what they do every year.
Go look at their records, just go look. The numbers
don't lie. The numbers do not lie. And it's unfair
to the kids. I'm telling you right now. If you've
got a football player, you're out of your mind to
send them to West Liberty University.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
They're gonna lose, They're gonna be in a terrible program.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
If you've got a son to plays baseball, you're out
of your mind to send them to West Liberty University
because you're gonna lose and you're gonna be in a
terrible program. Why would you want to put your kids
in that situation?

Speaker 2 (40:29):
That's the question.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
And where's WTRF seven, where's WTOV nine? Where's the other
talking heads in this Ohio valley? Well, most of them
are buddies with the coaches, so you know how that goes.
And I think you know me by now. I don't
give a damn who likes me. As long as my
kids do, I don't care. I'm just giving you the truth.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
And I can tell you this.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
My phone blew up again with very prominent people, people
who have pool and you know what I said to them?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Where have you been?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Why aren't you saying something? Why aren't you calling West Liberty?
If you're telling me what I said was right on
the money, and we love you for saying it.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
And man. I wish more people would say it, where
the hell are you? Phone calls?

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Last thing that university president wants is you calling them up, going, dude,
do something about your football program, Do something about your
baseball program. The athletic director, the last thing he wants
is you calling him up saying hey, it's West Liberty,
We're proud of this university as an alumni or whatever.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
We want better. They don't like that.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
And unless you make it happen, the athletic director at
West Liberty will continue to take the easy way out.
The president at West Liberty will continue to take the
easy way out. The people on the athletic board, the
board of regents, the people in control, will continue to
take the easy way out.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
And you know what, that's a damn shame.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Welcome Back is eight nineteen The bloom Daddy Experienced Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA kind of get
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Just go to our text line seven zero four seven zero,
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(42:28):
and that will be your registration. Okay, so otis. We
have a lot of material in the mornings that we
work with, right, we have different yeah most of the time,
but we have a lot of sources or entities or
things like that where we get a lot of information

(42:49):
when we talk politics, when we talk you know, things
happening across the world, funny stuff, birthdays, all that kind
of stuff. Prep work basically. So I was going through
some stuff this morning and I wanted to on this
because you know, we talk about the media. The media
is judged from from all angles, whether we're talking you know,

(43:12):
left right, What source can you trust? Are things blown
out of proportion? Now Fox is being sued by by
Newsmax for having a monopoly on the conservative news angle
of things, which I don't know how how that all
can work, but I didn't read into that. But anyways,

(43:35):
headlines and media is just not trusted currently. So I
want to read you two headlines from the same source
where we get information. Now, this is coming from the
same entity, and this is something I work with every day.
So these are two headlines. Unemployed Americans endure longer job

(44:04):
searches in a cooling market. Okay, So basically what they're
saying is the latest numbers show job growth. Looking for
a job is stagnant, it's sluggish. People are having a
harder time finding a job. Okay, that's how I read it,
That's how I understand it. Same source. Second headline, US

(44:32):
workers say Trump's immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages. So
what this is saying is they don't have enough people
to work. Now, are their jobs out there that some
people don't want to do? Yes, But this is where

(44:56):
people get confused when it comes to the media. Can't
have it both ways. You can't have it where they're
saying that people can't find a job because there are
no jobs, the market is sluggish, job searches, you know,
it's it's a cool down. People can't find jobs, and
then in the next breath say that basically businesses are

(45:17):
having a hard time filling job positions, and they're tying
it back to immigration. So it just it cracks me
up that there's this there's this spin. There's always a spin.
This spin is tying it into the controversial conversation about immigration.

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There are jobs that certain you know, Americans don't want
to do that only the illegal immigrants will do.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Well.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
Sorry, folks, sorry. There are jobs that people don't want
to do. There are jobs that I don't want to do.
I'm probably honest, But this is an example of where
and why people are skeptical, people question, and people don't
trust the media. And I think that's one of the

(46:15):
major problems that is affecting this country. And we've talked
about it time and time again. You know, when I
went to school and I went to I mean I
had radio and TV production, I had media law, I
had you know, production work, how to write scripts, how
to all this kind of stuff. One of the biggest

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names that was always thrown around was Walter Cronkite. He
was the the he was television news. He is rolling
over in his grave right now with what we see
coming out of the media. And this is what I

(47:00):
always tell I always tell people where we went wrong.
And you can agree or disagree with me. And notice,
you know, I think it's the twenty four hour news cycle.
I think that's where we got Things got skewed, things
got warped because to fill that twenty four hour news cycle, CNN,

(47:27):
Fox News must send all of them. We went from
the evening news five, six, seven, whatever it was at
that point in time because CNN came out when early eighties,
I believe it came with the cable network. You know,
when cable really hit its jump.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
Could have been late seventies, but I think it was.
I think it was early eighties.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah, what they realized they had to fill the time.
Twenty four hours is a huge window of time to fill.
So what happened was they went from the half an hour,
one hour news break, the Walter Cronkites of the world
at six seven o'clock at night, where you just reported

(48:13):
the news, that's all you did. They went from that
to where to fill twelve hours twenty four hours? To
commentators the Andy Rooney's of the world, who was at
the end of sixty minutes. If you remember that name,
you knew Andy Rooney was doing commentary. It was opinion based.

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You knew that's what you were receiving. Where the confusion
has developed with the twenty four hour news cycle. A
lot of the times it is commentary. It is opinion based,
but it's delivered in a way that it comes off
as reporting news. We're delivering you the facts, and the

(49:01):
majority of the networks now are opinion based, and I
think that It has created a warped perception of what
we call news, of what we call journalism. And then
you pile on top of that social media and the

(49:24):
twitters and who gets it to you first. I got
to post it first. If I post it first, then
I'm breaking the story. And I've been there. If you
want the truth, I have been there. It's like, oh
my god, I just found this out source reached out
to me with this, and I have to stop myself
and say, that's just one person telling you something. That's

(49:47):
just one person. You have to backcheck, you have to research,
you have to confirm what you're being told from sources.
But with the invention of social media, there is that
panic feeling of you've got to get it out there first,
and that's what happens. That's what a lot of quote

(50:10):
unquote journalists now do because they want to be first
to the you know, beat everybody first out of the gate.
And that on top of the twenty four hour news cycle. Again,
those two things have piled one on top of each
other to create this misconception with our media and distrust.

(50:31):
I'm sorry, that's what I meant to say. Are the
distrust that we have with our media, and then back
to where I originally began with this. When you have
headlines that contradict one another from the same source and
say you're an avid reader of this particular source, and
you go, wait a second here, that's not what you
told me two days ago. Now you're telling me this.

(50:56):
How do you trust? How do you trust? And we've
seen this division created where we all know if you
get the majority of your news from one particular entity,
that it's going to be skewed a certain way. And
we're talking politically, but now politically is culturally and it's

(51:19):
all you know, it's all a waterfall effect. We know
that it's going to be skewed one way or the other.
And that's where a big change needs to happen in
our in our cultural landscape. Is a change needs to
happen with our media or some sort of warning depending
on the show. This is an opinion based show, This

(51:42):
is not news. Something needs to happen. It's eight twenty eight.
But what's gonna happen now is we're gonna go to
a break. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Ryan Young, the Young Team, Bloom Daddy Show, Really State
expert joining me right now, Ryan, what's it going to
take the jump start this housing market.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
It's so funny because it has been the last four
years of a roller coaster ride with no inventory and
now a ton of inventory and interest rates rising, and
now all of a sudden they're gonna start coming back
down again, and so everyone's pretty bullish on buyer activity
because of what Powell and you know, ultimately, I say

(52:29):
Trump is kind of forcing with the rates starting to
come down, but we're not going to see that really
come into a fact until I'd say, really, Q one
of next year is where we really feel the impact
of the rates starting to drop.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
All right, Ryan, we got a bad connection. We're gonna
call you right back.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Just hanging up.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
We're gonna call you. Just answer, Okay, I want to
make sure that everything's clear here. We'll call Ryan right back.
House price growth has slowed across a lot of the country,
and one expert set it's over supply well as financial
struggles faced by some buyers. If you talk to anybody
in their twenties right now. I was just talking to
my son about this and He said, my generation is

(53:07):
very frustrated right now because trying to buy a home,
forget about it, the interest rates, how much money you
got to have down, he said, for a lot of us,
we feel like we can't do it. And he said
it's very discouraging in a lot of different ways that
his generation, and again he's he just turned twenty eight,

(53:29):
doesn't feel like home ownership is reachable in the mid
twenties to late twenties like it was for our generation.
Do we have Ryan, Let's go back to Ryan Young,
the Young Team, Bloom Daddy Show, real estate expert.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Ryan.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Is that better?

Speaker 6 (53:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Can you guys hear me? Yeah, much much better.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
So again, I just want you to reiterate what you
think it will take the jumpstart this housing market.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
You know, it's funny the rates over the past couple
years have been such a roller coaster ride, and you know,
the jumped up all the way to the seven low
seven percents, and you know, now Powell and Trump are
starting really Trump's kind of forcing it. They're starting to
drive them down, and so you know, we should see
low sixes. I'd say Q one of next year, that's

(54:15):
what's gonna be kind of that catalyst that stimulates everything
and really gets it moving, but it takes time.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
You know.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
It's one of those things that it's like we're talking
still six months from now, so we're going to continue
to see a surplus of inventory getting a little stale
and stagnant before it really starts to move into that
kind of that high five low six interest rate environment,
which should start to really impact next spring.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Obviously, interest rates are a big part of this. I
saw where one in five Americans have a mortgage rate
below three percent, So obviously they don't want to sell
right now, even though, as you know, if you sell
right now, you're gonna get top dollar for your home.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
You just got to figure out what you're gonna do next.

Speaker 6 (54:57):
Yeah, well, and here's here's what's interesting. I think you
said one in five have less than a three percent rate,
less than I believe. The stat is something around seventy
five percent of homeowners have less than a five percent
interest rate. So you have to think about it like this,
when they're in the sixes and sevens, homeowners with a

(55:19):
under five percent interest rate, the concept of them selling
even if they have a ton of equity and seeing
a ton of appreciation, it still doesn't make financial sense
because they want to go put a mortgage on the
next house that they buy, and they're leaving their three
to four percent rate moving into a six to seven
percent rate. Is we start dropping below the sixth threshold,
that's where you're going to start to see that most

(55:39):
of the people that have under a five percent rate,
mostly refined, refinanced, are purchased around that twenty twenty twenty
twenty one timeline. Now they've been in their home for
four or five years now, they've seen some appreciation. Now
the rates, the delta between where they were to where
they are is starting to shorten, and you're going to
start to see that the market unlock. But what's interesting

(56:02):
is we are in we're in this unique market where
you have sellers that don't want to sell, you have
buyers that ultimately the affordability. I heard you were saying
right before I jumped on the affordability, it makes it
really hard to buy a home at six and a
half seven percent with all the appreciation appreciation that we've seen.
It's this really unique market where it's just a gridlock.

(56:23):
And that's why you're seeing some of this standing inventory,
you know, it's just kind of frozen.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
What do you make of the Trump administration right now?
They are thinking about declaring a National Housing emergency to
address high housing pricing and limited inventory. I know the
price of lumberd to build a new home right now,
it's up I think about five or six percent. But
they're considering ways to boost supply reduced prices. They're going

(56:50):
to evaluate ways to standardize local building, maybe zoning codes
to decrease closing costs.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Do you think that'll help?

Speaker 6 (56:59):
I don't think it's possible. And I'm very pro the administration,
and I love that they are trying to be as
creative as possible to stimulate on every side. But the
challenge is that the housing market is purely a byproduct
of the inflation, the economy, employment, unemployment, and so when

(57:22):
everything else is going really well, you need to ultimately
turn the dial up on the interest rates, which ultimately
slows down the inflation or the appreciation of homes. But
you can't there's so many variables that come into play.
So you mentioned the lumber prices right well, lumber spiked
up during COVID, so now they're starting to come back down.

(57:43):
They're still really high. But think about it like this
with immigration, think about how that's impacted the trades and
the lack of trades there are in the construction building community, right,
and how that's impacted it. So now there's not enough
trades to build, right. All these little variables are kind
of all over the place, and so I just don't

(58:05):
see right now, we can't win everywhere. We can't win
at the border while we're also winning the trades, while
we're also trying to slow down some of the inflation,
but then we bring down rates, which ultimately kind of
dumps gasoline on the fire of inflation. So it's a
lot of competing variables and we can't you can't do

(58:27):
all of them simultaneously. It just doesn't work like that.
You Know, what I am anticipating is we're going to
see this very kind of wavy market for the next
couple of years. You're going to see in the spring,
rates are going to come down. You're going to see
this major pop of inventory. And you know, for the
past two years, we've seen thirty three percent less home
salf than in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. In

(58:48):
twenty two, all of a sudden, you're going to start
to see this pop and then they're going to start
to increase rates again to slow it down, and you're
going to see a taper off, and it's just going
to continue to kind of ride up and down, which
is I would say emotionally exhausting for buyers and sellers
on the market, but it's the only way that they
know how to wean us off of what happened during COVID,

(59:10):
where they were printing so much money, where they were
where rates were as low as they were.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
For as long as they are.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
It's really hard to just immediately come off of that
type of cycle. You have to wean yourself off. And
you know, you saw it rates at three percent for
several years, giving them fly up to six to seven percent,
and right now we're feeling that of that immediate kind
of knee jerk reaction. They're trying to taper off of

(59:37):
that as best they can, and it's going to take
some time.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Ride the wave and have a little bit of patience.
Ryan appreciate the insight.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
Welcome back eight forty nine have lived that experienced salmon
otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. He's on the road,
but he always makes time for us. Kevin Straw on
a mote of good morning.

Speaker 7 (01:00:02):
Sir, guys. How y'all doing it? More good?

Speaker 5 (01:00:05):
We're wonderful.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
A little rainy out there.

Speaker 7 (01:00:08):
It is just a little bit, just a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
That's okay. We need it, and we need it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 7 (01:00:15):
My yard definitely.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Oh gosh, my yard is like a hayfield.

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
I love it. But you don't have to cut the grass.

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
Oh you that guy?

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Yeah. I don't cut my grass anyway, so I don't
have to pay the kid to cut my grass. I
get it. I get it. So what's going on in
Straw Automotive and what's going on out here? Honda that
you're on your way there?

Speaker 7 (01:00:36):
We are number one in the state Bugain actually number
one and number two in the state down there. Honda
Register is the number one Honda dealer in the entire
space of West Virginia. Scarp Honda is number two. Do
they all technicality there? And really they're probably tied for cars.

(01:00:57):
But we've got to send it to Toronto the uh
you know, whether the funt gotten the net or not.
You know a little bit more later on to get
these guys absolutely rock that.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
Both teams do.

Speaker 7 (01:01:08):
We have record service months uh in both stores as well.
So not only are these guys and the BFI customer satisfaction,
so now only are we selling the most business and
servicing the most difflence, we also have to happeness customers.
It's absolutely off.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
That's wonderful.

Speaker 7 (01:01:27):
Yeah, it really is, man h And it's a it's
a tribute to the people of work at STRIB organization.
We're so grateful for the employees that we have and
the job that they do every day. Uh, and the
way they represent Again then they just could not be
happier with the team, that's for sure. They just really
not cover off the wall.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Well, you know it is and I will say this.
You know, I get I have a work vehicle and
a personal vehicle and I use STROB service all the
time and it is top notch.

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
And that's any of the stores, Okay, I mean all
the stores that we have. These guys you know are
normally at the very top one two or three every
month in customer scis faction and index and uh it
shows uh every day, Uh, not only in service but
in sale because it's reflected that you something you buy
vehicles somewhere and you get the best futs Okay, best

(01:02:21):
price is not always the best deal, and sometimes you
that service act for the sale is literally priceless, guys.
And in our organization that's the one thing that we
strive for is just outstanding customer service.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
Well, and like I said, I use it. It's wonderful.
So so we have we have a question for you, OKAYU.
On Thursdays, we give away a half a gallon of
Kirk's ice cream and we were talking about like what
crazy flavor could we propose to Kirk to get him
to maybe try a new flavor. We've we've had chicken, bacon,

(01:02:57):
ranch VLT, We've had uh, we've had pickle. What else
do we have something?

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
I said, Buffalo wing?

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
Buffalo wing, you know, like the sauce, not the chicken. Yeah,
the so, so, do you have something in mind or hold.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
On to it for tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (01:03:15):
Oh, well, because we're gonna so we're.

Speaker 7 (01:03:18):
Gonna keep it in the spit all right, ione think
about this, Well, I've got I got one of the
king to mind.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
It's really weird good.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
That's what we want. We had somebody we also had
somebody mentioned marijuana flavored so.

Speaker 7 (01:03:32):
Okay, that's bad. How about hagging?

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
How about what I guess? I think I would pass
on that one.

Speaker 7 (01:03:42):
I definitely have to said weird.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
Well that's weird. I'm writing it down. That's weird.

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
I real quick. Before we go, let me give a
shout out to my grands quake cooked like the junior
nights last night. What his first football game? This quarterback
got stuck his first touchdown and first up point after
the job him.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
All right, well that's a big achievement. Well he's probably
in school. Okay, Well he's in school. He's in school.
He's a big man on campus today.

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:04:18):
Job, all right, that's great. Yes, hey, you have a
safe trip, all right, buddy, see you. How fun is that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Did you say? Game winning quarterback, first touchdown and point after?
So he's the kicker too?

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
No, no, they probably go for two?

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, sorry, that's middle school.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
They very rarely have to in middle school. At most
fields they don't even have goal posts.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Oh they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
No, Like there's there's middle school fields that doesn't have
goal posts. Like I can tell you Willie. Middle school
doesn't have them. Try to middle school doesn't have them.

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
I was going to ask Kevin. I don't think I
was going to ask Kevin this, but you guys were
kind of knee deep in Have you ever heard of
the Edsel?

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Oh okay. It was a Ford Motor Company vehicle that
came out on this date in nineteen fifty seven. It
was so unpopular it only lasted till nineteen fifty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't a I've never heard of it.
Hold on, well, it's because it's it wasn't. It wasn't
a very popular car.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
I know, but I'll see if I've even seen it. Oh, oh,
I've seen those. Oh it's kind of ugly. Yeah, okay,
so that on this day in history, that was a
little little carfax.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
You could have squeezed it in there if you wanted
to let me to call you back.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
No, no, no, no, I didn't want to interrupt. Also,
Happy Birthday goes out to the one and only Beyonce.
She turns forty four. I don't get it. I don't
get the Beyonce thing, but people are obsessed with her.
I don't not. My cup of teep, here's a little
bit of music trivia for you in nineteen sixty five,

(01:05:58):
what song became number one? I have we argued about them.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
Oh, it's got to be the Beatles, the Beatles, Yeah,
but what's song in sixty five? It's pre Sergeant Pepper.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
Help.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
Yes, you are right, you are right.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
I just had to I was trying trying to get
my Beatles in line there. So that was a that
and I pulled that from I knew sixty seven was
Sergeant Pepper, and then after before that, I knew, like
I want to hold your hand with Early sixty two
sixty three, so it had to be somewhere in there.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
Nice, nice little entertainment. A couple of little entertainment news.
Ed Harris is joining the cast of The Dutton Ranch,
which of course is the newest Yellowstone spin off that
centers around Rip and Beth. He will be joining, of course,
those two actors, Kelly Riley and Cole Houser. So that

(01:07:01):
is still being That is still happening, folks. There's a
lot of speculation that that show is not going to happen. Well,
if they're adding ad Harris to the team, then yes,
it is happening. And then NBC Universal has already sold
out of all of the advertising spots for the upcoming
Super Bowl. The season hasn't even started yet, and they

(01:07:23):
have already sold out of all the ads a thirty
second ad at least seven million dollars. That's what they've
been asking, seven million dollars for thirty seconds. I am
in the wrong business good and the.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
Wrong advertising company.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Yeah, I want you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
Saw you sell one or two those? Your commission's good
for I can't evenine.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
I mean, it's probably a house account. There probably is
not one particular person that that gets it. On this day.
In nineteen ninety eight, Google was incorporated. Nice Google, which
is now just a term on its own, not even
a company name.

Speaker 5 (01:08:10):
And then it's still a company name. Well, I know,
but yeah, it's also a verb.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
It's a vacula. It's in our vernacular.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Now go ahead and google it, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
It's an adjective. And then groundbreaking television premiere to nineteen
ninety five zena Warrior Princess.

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
Well not you said nineteen ninety five. I'm thinking, oh,
that's NYPD blue, But that's not I think not MIPD
blue is ninety six. I would have made ninety four.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
I would have thought like er, but I think er
was even earlier than ninety five. And it's eat an
extra dessert day, folks. I do that every day, so
treat yourself. Have two slices of pie, have two scoops
of ice cream Carks ice cream by the way, so yeah,
extra ice cream. Speaking of that, on this extra dessert Day,

(01:08:58):
we have numbers one through twenty two for ice cream,
one through twenty two.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
For our winter I totally forget about this and my
fans going super slow.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Okay, so then just pick a number off the top
of your head.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
How about number seventeen.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Number seventeen. That is Brian. Brian, you are our winner
for Kirks. I will give you a call after the show.