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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good Morning, seven oh seven on this monumental Thursday Morning,
heavy Thursday morning. It is September eleventh, and also we
are twelve hours past little less than that horrible example
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of violence yesterday. This is this is tough, ladies and
gentlemen thinking about today's show. I you know, all all
night last night. Honestly, I'll be I'll be one hundred
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percent straight up with you. Last night was tough for me.
Yesterday was shocking for me, and I thought to myself,
you know, how do we address this tomorrow? When I
think of when I think of Charlie Kirk, he was
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different than what we have seen on a political landscape,
what we have seen in the media. What he has
done over the past ten years is unique. He he
gave a microphone, He created an open forum for conversation,
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he created an open debate of very very hard topics,
and he gave a microphone primarily to the youth of
this country that has never had one before. So when
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I said, when I started thinking about today's show, I thought,
that's what we're going to do because we have two
really hard subjects hitting us today. So what I want
to do is we are opening the phone lines. We
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are opening the text line in honor of Charlie Kirk, who,
as I said, gave a microphone to a lot of people.
That's what we're doing. We want to hear from you.
I want to hear I want to have an open
conversation discussing what happened yesterday, what happened on September eleventh,
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two thousand and one, your memories of that day. Where
were you? Because what happened yesterday is going to be
one of those days where you think, where were you
when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. He didn't hold a political office,
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but he was a voice on a political landscape that
we have not had before. So what I want again,
I want to hear from you. I want your reactions
to yesterday. We're gonna ask some hard questions today. We're
going to otis you and I We're gonna talk. That's
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what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk, We're gonna listen
to one another. And that's where you come in. How
did this hit you? Yesterday? Did you know who Charlie
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Kirk was? But how did this hit you? It hit
me I yesterday afternoon, it was a beautiful day. I
was in Barnesville, Ohio. Followed by that I was in
Woodsfield and I'm going to As I was driving, I thought,
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this is a perfect perfect day. I am out doing
the job that I love. I am speaking to wonderful people.
I had great conversations yesterday. The weather was gorgeous, and
I was in small town USA. Barnesville just got the
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the recognition that they received from the state of Ohio.
Woodsfield another beautiful town. It was just a quintessential beautiful
American day for me. I get in my car after
my last meeting of the day to the news that
Charlie Kirk was shot, and I posted a video of
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my initial reactions from there. I got in my car,
I was driving, and then I got the news. I
heard the news that he had he had passed. I
had to pull my car over. I was so struck
by this. I was in tears. I don't know this man.
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I'll never, I never would even have the opportunity to
speak to this person and face to face. But this
is a thirty one year old man, and here is
I think why it really struck me the way it did.
He was thirty one years old, a young father, a
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young husband, and I followed him on social media and
the last image I saw of him was walking down
the beach hand in hand with his young daughter. And
that's what hit me yesterday. Doesn't matter the political beliefs,
doesn't matter what side of the aisle, it was that
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image that hit me. Otis what was your what was
your initial reaction?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well not as emotional as yours. Sorry, I just to
be honest with you. I mean, you know, I mean
some of your comparisons aren't the comparisons that I have.
Obviously it's a tragedy. It's you have somebody that was
murdered for sharing his beliefs and answering questions. And you
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know what he would do on these college campuses is
I would call it like a spiritually debate the people,
or you know, just have a conversation with a lot
of college age students, professors, whatever. You know, you've seen
the clips on social media, I'm sure, you know. I
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mean obviously, you know, you look at somebody like this
that's thirty one, has a family. I mean, unfortunately, this
is you know the mentality of some people that they
feel the need to silence those that have a voice.
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And it's not it's not how it's you know, I mean,
it takes you back to you know, when when when
politicians or or is Martin Luther King. And I'm not
comparing Charlie Kirk and Martin Luther King by any means,
but people that speak out, people that have a voice,
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and they get eliminated because of what they're talking about.
So you know, I mean, obviously I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't get as upset as you did. I didn't
get as upset as some people that you see on
social media. I do not. That doesn't mean that it
didn't affect me. The bottom line is, you know, there
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are people out there that are celebrating this, and I
think that bothers me more than the actual murder itself.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get to that because some
of the things that that are that's going around on
social media is the example of what is wrong with
this country, but we're just scratching the surface with this again.
We want to hear from you onee hundred sixty two
four eleven seventy one one hundred six two four eleven
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seventy want to hear your thoughts how this hit you yesterday.
And then, of course we cannot ignore that today is
September eleventh, and we're going to talk about that also,
And of course there is our text line seven zero
four seven zero. Start your message out with bloom Daddy.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven twenty one, The bloom Daddy Experience,
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Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Of course,
we are talking about the assassination of a political commentator,
political activist, Charlie Kirk yesterday in at a college campus
in Utah. We are opening the phone lines, the microphones.
As Charlie did for many many when he visited college campuses,
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gave people a microphone. We're giving you a microphone. We
want to hear your thoughts today, your comments, your reactions
to what happened yesterday, along with your stories about September eleventh,
two thousand and one. We cannot let this day in
history go dark because of what happened yesterday. So we're
kind of tackling two pretty heavy, heavy subjects today. But
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we do have a call Otis rate.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
We do. We have logan from weirdon Good Morning, Logan.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Morning guys. Yeah. I just want to say, you know,
to everybody effected with nine to eleven, you know you're
still in our prayers. It's just such a heavy day
for everybody in this country. But for this to happen
yesterday in the way that it happened, a two hundred
yards shot right to the area where he was hit.
I just really feel that this was a professional thing.
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You've seen this time and time again in history. Like
Otis said, and it repeats itself. Anybody that has too
big of a mouth or wants to let the truth out,
they shut you up. And I just think that the
idea in this country of freedom is that's all it is,
is an idea anymore. Because the moment you hit the
nail on the head on something that's too big or
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you have too big of a mass following, they always
get taken away. But it's always on the right side
it's never like the left side, and I just don't
understand how that works. I mean, you have all these
people that make rules and make your life harder, that
walk the streets daily, but you have people that talk
about Christ and talk about the right things and they
always get shut up. I think it was a professional
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hit by the government.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Logan. I can't agree with you more. That's one thing
yesterday I was going to bring up here a little
bit later the location of the shot. From everything that
we've been told, I have made it a point to
try and not see the video. I don't want those
images in my head personally. But what I've read is
it was in the throat. And think about what the yep.
This man did for a living. He spoke for a living,
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and they shot him in the throat. You talk about
a message in silencing somebody, there's something behind that. Personally,
I think I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I was an influencer. No quarter given was my name
on TikTok. I had over a million followers and I
got banned. I got silenced. And if they can't silence
you through an app and you start to get too big,
this is what happens and it's a dark day in
our country when you can't have an opinion and somebody
tries to take your life. It's just things are bad
right now. That's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wonderful, thank you Logan for the call this morning.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You sorry, that was somebody. I wasn't ready for him
to say, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, and you can call us just like Logan did
one eight hundred and six to fort eleven seventy, or
you can reach us on our text line seven zero
four seven zero. Start the message off with bloom Daddy.
Like this message. This was a professional hit. Not only
does the hit man need to be caught brought to justice,
but so does whoever hired him. So agree with that
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otis you had a great thing that you read to
me during the break.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You still have it up, fortunately I do.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Okay, Sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The person that posted this, her name was Natalie Jean.
I'm guessing Bisner. Okay, Bisner. Maybe I'm not sure, but
she posted. Charlie Kirk wasn't making policy, He wasn't directly
impacting anyone's life. He was just a guy respectfully debating.
He wasn't aggressive or angry, or hateful or even all
that provocative. He didn't say outlandish things for clicks. He
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did everything right and they killed him.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And here's the thing yesterday, I have been struggling and
trying as hard as I can to not jump to conclusions,
and I want to put that out there for everybody listening.
We cannot jump to conclusions. That's hard to do when
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we see the track record that we have in this country.
But it also raises we've got to raise these questions.
How have we gotten to this point in this country
where when you disagree with somebody, violence has become the answer. Again,
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the shooter has not been captured, all right, so we
don't know the motivation. We we can't jump to conclusions,
but for who Charlie was, you can't help but think
that it was politically motivated, so that you know why,
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Why have we gotten to this point? What have we
lost in this country? How do we reverse the direction
that we're going? Where do we lay blame? Do we labelame?
This is hard, ladies and gentlemen, this is hard, But
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I think people in the media really need to take
a step back and reflect. We have got to stop
the rhetoric, the labeling. We have got to take a
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look in the mirror and say to ourselves me included,
what are we putting out into the universe, and who
are we reaching? Who are we touching with our words?
And how are those words being received. I'm gonna leave
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you with that thought. There's more to talk about this,
and of course, September eleventh, we are looking upon that today,
remembering that what a day. It is an incredibly hard day.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven thirty six, The
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bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
Of course, we are discussing the assassination yesterday of political
influencer Charlie Charlie Kirk. We want to hear from you.
We're giving you the mic, just like Charlie did one
eight hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy. So we're
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gonna kick it off with Westing.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
How y'all doing. It's the sad day for the Republic
in UH many many ways. Honestly, it's UH very sad
for his family, very sad for the conservative movement. But honestly,
I feel like it's very very sad for America's youth.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
You know, we we see across the board that a
lot of the youth live just absolute, faculous empty lives
and are conflicted on so many levels, with so many things.
And the one thing that Charlie did was he took
truth to the campuses and boldly and courageously spoke that truth.
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And it's it's it's just heart. I think, I think
what we need to do going forward, though, especially these
like spineless milk toast Republican leaders at all level, federal, state, local,
take the courage that Charlie showed on a daily basis
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and let it steal your mind to start doing the
right thing. Let remember Charlie to be our rally cluck cry,
just like the Texans. You just remember the Alamo at
the Battle of Sanjacento. Remember Charlie needs to be on
our lips every day going forward, and hang what the
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media says about you, forget about the DC cocktail circus,
and start passing legislation that takes this country back from
the godless communists that seeks to ogres throw it and
turn it into a health gab. You know that needs
to be our way forward.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
As far as I'm concerned, this is a moment for
people West to regain their voice. That that's where Charlie
differs from a lot of people out there. He used
his voice, in his intelligence and his skills of conversation,
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as you said, to speak to the youth of this country.
That was a big question mark that hit me yesterday
was he took, as you said, a lot of information
to the campuses and opened the eyes for a lot
of young people. And my question that hit me yesterday
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was was he making too much headway with that particular
voting demographic of our nation. And somebody said, nope, We've
got to silence him. And that's what we saw yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Absolutely absolutely. Can you see it all through history when
the communists stopped getting their way, they resort to violence.
They always have. That's what the entire Stummer of Love
in twenty twenty was about. Was systemically paid more and
rooted on by the media, violence and briant lo looting,
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et cetera, in an effort to tamp down any any
conservative voice or any and intimidate people. We need to
not let this intimidate us. We need to be bold
or going forward, especially those that we've elected to actually
make a change and do something different. It's it's well
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passed time for past down.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
As Reagan would say, thank you Wes for the call
this morning. Thank you very much. You know you too,
you too. You know what otis. Here's the thing, Charlie
Kirk took a simple idea and a grassroots movement and
built up to where he was with Turning Point USA.
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Just a simple idea of having open air conversations.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, I mean, if you watch I mean, obviously
there's a lot of things that are just condensed into
reels right when it comes to you know, some of
his stuff because they've edited out the the you know,
the stuff that's irrelevant. And I was watching him debate
a a young lady from the University of Tennessee I'm
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assuming because she had a University of Tennessee play, yeah,
and you know, they were talking about abortion and.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
It.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Her her points were just absolutely off the wall, and
he was being logical, calm, never never insulted her. He
would question what she what she said, never got it
over excited. You know, there there are certain things, you know,
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like I don't know how he did it, but he
did it because like, there's some things that I would
just explode, you know, like if I'm trying to make
my point, I would lose my patience, you know. And
but I watched this one particularly and the fact that
her her she was trying to make a point, but
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she sounded like an idiot. He's trying to make a point,
and he sounds like a genius. Okay, you don't have
to agree with either one of them. You don't have
to disagree with either one of them. He's not going
to change her mind. She's there trying to change his,
which wasn't going to happen either. But she was just
so tunnel visioned. And then you know, when he would
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get to a point where she couldn't answer the question,
she would change the question. She would then ask question
to change it to get off the sidekick, so you know,
and then on and then if she did answer the question,
I mean, it wasn't Charlie. It was the crowd that
berated her, you know, you know, because she said, you know,
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the question was when does life start? And she said
when the baby's born. And he's like, so like heartbeat
in week twenty or the heartbeat and week whatever, it
is of gestation, is like he is, that's not a
living creature or living a human being, And she was like, no,
it's not. He would just kind of smile and go
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are you He would never say it, but he would.
He would. You could just see it on his face.
Are you this stupid?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yea?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You know, And here's a guy that dropped out a
community college but is far more intelligent than I am.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Somebody one of the things I was watching yesterday that
he was a didactic, I believe was the term used.
That he read two to three books a week and
could retain pretty much all of it. And that's for
somebody who has been doing this as short of a
time span as I have. I watched him all the time,
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and I was and still am, incredibly envious of his
ability to retain the facts, the numbers, the information. He
never had notes in front of him.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well, he said in one of like they said something about, well,
you know, there was somebody that in one of the
reels he was being debated because the guy called him
a college dropout, and he said, well, he said, just
because I'm a college dropout doesn't mean that I'm not.
He says, I read over one hundred books a year,
you know, So I mean it just you know, and
again the guy is trying. You know, you're not going
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to out debating because he's definitely he's one hundred times
smarter than you are.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well and again, like you said, his patience, his respect
with the people that he was discussing these hot button
topics with. He never used foul language, He never called names,
he never raised his voice, he never got aggressive with
his words. And what was amazing was when you would
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see the light bulb go off for people because I
can't think of I can't think of a specific video
or a subject matter. But you would see when he
would make a point, a logical, intelligent and they would
just and it was like, ah, there it is. The
curtains were raised, the light bulb went off, their eyes
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were open.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And there were times that he did raise his voice,
but not in an aggressive way. No, it was to
maybe just kind of overstep the person because they were
talking a too long or b they were just talking senseless.
So then he would get a little loud yeah, you know,
but that wasn't it wasn't an aggressive I'm getting louder as.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's almost a way to calm them down in a way.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get back. We're gonna talk.
We got we're gonna hit on September eleventh, We've got
to where were you on that day? Where has our
country gotten to since that day? A lot of things?
Seven forty six you're listening to the Bloom Daddy Experience
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back,
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seven fifty one The Bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It is September eleventh, twenty
twenty five. It is the twenty fourth anniversary of September eleventh,
two thousand and one, where Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four
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commercial airlines airplanes in a coordinate attack against the United States. Otis,
do you remember where you were? I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I was, you know, obviously it was two thousand and one.
My youngest son was, you know, four or five six months.
He's three months old. My oldest son was three. And
how it would work is I would normally, you know,
it's when I own my own business. I would go
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in at ten o'clock. I had an assistant that would
come in at nine and open, and I would stay
until I would stay at the house until my mother
in law would come and pick the boys up because
she worked an early morning job. So as I've had
the TV on and I'm watching everything unfold, and You're
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sitting there and you're going, oh, is this really happening?
Like you know, you first off, you think, okay, what's
an accident. Then when the second play and goes in,
then you're like, oh, we've got something going on here, and.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Then you am I seeing what I'm really seeing.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And then you know, you know at the time, you know,
when I was married, you know, my wife worked still
does work for the federal government, you know, so that
you know, you're like, okay, hey, what's going on? Because
you know, now are these buildings, are all federal buildings
is going to be under you know, our federal building's
going to be under attack. What's going to happen? And so,
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you know, phone calls are being made. I think they were.
I think they I don't know. I can't remember if
they got sent home or not, you know, for safety reasons.
So I mean, yeah, I mean, I I was sitting
in my living room. I called the person that worked
with me or for me at my business. And I said, hey,
do you have the TV because we have a little
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black and white TV in the back, and she said yeah,
and I'm like, hey, I said it. I said, I'll
be down, you know, but I'm going to watch this unfold.
And I said I'll be down a little bit because
this time of year is pressing time of the year
for quote unquote awards. So you know, it was like,
you're not really not going to miss me. You know,
if somebody walks in in order or something, then fine,
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But I mean, it's not like I had anything pressing.
And I just remember, you know, and they're going down
and then talking with her about it, you know, just
talking to so many people, and you know, and I've
seen it more. I think it pops up more and
more this time of year. But with everything that's going
on in the world, we need to get back to
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September twelfth, two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Thank you that that was my point.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
When that was a country mine together and united in
a cause.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yep, that's my note right here, right here on this
piece of paper. I have noted in myself, should we
actually be celebrating September twelfth, when we came together as
a nation, we saw the things happen on September twelfth.
That think about it, Folks, young people who did not
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experience and were you know, we're not born in two
thousand and one. They've never experienced what those of us
did on September twelfth. They've never inows in the day
that right, but they've never seen that unity. They've never
seen this country come together that way. That is a
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message that we need to be teaching our young people today.
We can't forget what happened on September eleventh, two thousand
and one, in the lives that were lost, but we
also need to highlight September twelfth and forward because again
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we saw this nation, it's leaders bring us together, and
we need that. We need that today, we need that tomorrow,
and we need that as we move forward. It is
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so missing in this country right now. And I'm so
glad you brought that up. Otis, Like I said, that
was where I was going to go with this conversation,
because if you think about teenagers today, college students today,
the young adults that Charlie Kirk went out and spoke
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to and had conversations with a lot of them haven't
experienced politicians working together. They haven't experienced Americans smiling at
one another, supporting one another other, having open, accepting, intelligent
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political conversations where you listen to one another. Imagine that.
Think about that when seeing the American flag raised by
the fire, you know, the the iconic image from September eleventh,
and the flag is raised. I've mentioned to you before
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where I've had people say to me the American flag
is a sign of Trumpsters. And you know they see
if they see people with the American flag, they assume
this and assume that about the person that flies it,
whether it's on their home or wherever. We have to
get back to the to the point where images, iconic images,
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or symbols of this country are symbols of this country.
They're not a symbol of a political movement. They're not
a symbol of a political party. They're a symbol of
this country. Do we need to start saying the Pledge
of Allegiance every morning like Neil McCoy does in our classrooms? Again,
should we do it here on this show every morning?
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We are missing things, folks. There's a lot missing in
this country. Let this be the opportunity for us to
talk about it again. Seven p. Fifty eight. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis news Radio
eleven seventy WWVA.
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Now the blim Daddy Welcome back eight oh six the
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Sam and otis, of course talking to you on this
heavy day, very heavy day. Of course. Political activists Conservative
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voice Charlie Kirk assassinated yesterday. Today is also the anniversary
of September eleventh, two thousand and one. It's a heavy day, Otis.
I mean, it's a heavy day. We've been doing this
together year and a half now a little more than that.
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I think this is probably our first heavy, heavy day
for us. Wouldn't you say, you know, having something like
this this happened, Yeah, I would say that we've had
to had to address.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I mean, we had to assassination attempt on President Trump.
But I mean, obviously, thank goodness, nothing happened there as
far as you know. He I mean with Trump, there
was still loss of life, and you know, not to
take anything away from.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
That, we had the flooding.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
We had the flood you know, you know, so I
mean that's local. But as far as like a national story,
this is probably the biggest one we've had.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah. Of course, posted on Facebook last night for how
this hit you, your response, your initial feelings on everything, Robin
posted this, commented this. Charlie talked for a living. All
he did was talk Why Robin, I'm so glad you
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made that comment because that, I think is one of
the things that really struck me in this because of
course it makes me stop and reflect. You know, we
otis we sit behind these microphones every morning, five days
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a week. We like to have fun, but we also
hit and talk about controversial things. We talked politics yesterday.
We had politics unleased with Elgin in the house. There
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are going to be people that agree, there are going
to be people disagree with points that we make, opinions
that we have and that's what Charlie Kirk did and
after seeing what happened yesterday, I, you know, made it
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made me stop and think to myself. You know, we
sit behind these microphones every morning and we just look
at one another. Otis which I know you love the view,
but we see each other. We tend to forget the
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amount of people that hear us every morning. Who are
those people? We don't know? We don't know, and we
come in here and we give our involuntarily. So our
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opinions on things, our personal thoughts, our beliefs, our own
experiences are our stances on things. We talk about our family,
we talk about our friends, we talk about our day
to day life, we talk about political issues, and we
don't know every day who are hearing those words. Is
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it somebody who has a warped mind? Is it somebody
who you know it? I don't want to be dramatic.
In no way, shape or form. Are we on the
level of somebody like Charlie Kirk. But when you do
what we do for a living every day, and we
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put ourselves out there to people behind this microphone, you
can't stop and think about security and safety and who
is listening to you, Who's on the other side of
this microphone. Made me stop and think yesterday, but it
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brings me back. It calls into question how did we
get here? How did we get here where somebody who
talks for a living has to lose their life, their
children loses their father, a wife loses her husband because
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you may this person may have politically disagreed with his
opinions on something. Think about that, Think about that. How
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did we get here? Did this start with social media?
Did the downhill descent start with social media? Did it
start with the twenty four to seven news cycle? Do
we have people and we do, who sit behind a
screen eight, ten, twelve hours a day and their minds
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are just inundated with one political side of things. They
only get their information from one source, it's only skewed
in one direction, and they just absorb it day in
and day out. Think about that, What that would do,
What that does to people? We have that in this country.
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Minds are sponges. We absorb information. And if you were
if somebody is just sitting behind a screen, whether it's
social media, whether it's the twenty four to seven news cycle,
they're absorbing all of that information and it affects you.
It affects you. You know I was talking I I
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you know, I've said this before. I learned under, learned
from and still do. One of the best commentators this
valley has ever seen. Bloom Daddy. Don't tell him I
said this, but I've learned under him. I reach out
to him all the time for advice all the time.
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How do I handle this? How do I have this conversation?
How do I ask these questions? One thing he told
me a long time ago was you have to you
have to separate yourself. We talk about heavy stuff. It
brings you down mentally, and there are times where I
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have to take a step back and disconnect. And I've
talked about that many times. You have to disconnect. We
have people out in this country that do not disconnect.
They do not give themselves a break from the political jargon,
and then it develops into this obsession and anger and hate, evil, hostility,
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and lives are lost. Lives are lost. So the power
that people have nowadays, influencers, That's what Charlie was, somebody
that sits behind a microphone like I do, like Otis does,
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like bloom Daddy does, and others in this field. We
tend to forget the amount of people we reach day
to day, and then something like yesterday happens and it
brings things back into perspective. So, yes, Robin, your comment
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hit me yesterday. So I was right there with you.
All he did was talk and ask questions. It's all
he did, folks, and he lost his life. God, I'm sorry.
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Open dialogue, open conversations. We have to have more of them.
We don't silence them. We have more of them. This
is a chance, this is an opportunity to carry the
torch for somebody like a Charlie Kirk. Have the hard
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conversations and listen, don't just talk. Listen eight fifteen you're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience SAM and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Eight twenty one. Welcome back the
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bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
We're gonna go straight to the phone lines, which, by
the way, one eight hundred and sixty two four eleven
seventy call in with your thoughts as we discuss Charlie
kirk assassination this morning alone, along with the twenty fourth
anniversary of September eleventh on the line. Now we have
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Elgie McCarter. Of course, our political analyst. Good morning, Algin.
Speaker 7 (44:10):
Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Oh, it's been been better to be completely honest with you.
Give us your thoughts, would you please?
Speaker 7 (44:19):
Well, you know, it's a sorrowful day for the country.
It's ironic in a.
Speaker 5 (44:26):
Way, you know.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
Charlie Kirk, I believe, was such a godly man, and
while he had a quote unquote political message, it was
really just a message, a message for freedom, for inalienable rite,
for just faith, family, god, country, and I believe his
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message was one that should be carried with a torch
and continued. I believe that his death was tragic, but
not for not without reasons. That's really strange to say,
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but I think that just as his company messaged a
corporation that he created with turning points, the irony is
his death on the day before September eleventh, when it
was a turning point for the country back in two
thousand and one. So to I think his death is
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a turning point for the country to unite. The soal
of this country needs to be healed. I don't care
what race, what religion, what party. It needs to be healed.
And I think there is good that can come out
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of everything and I believe that his death should not
be wasted, and I think we should carry the torch
and continue on with his message. It kind of wraps
up both the nine to one one remembrance. It's a
day to remember. It's a day to remember those who
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have lost their lives for this country and to remember
that they shouldn't be lost in vain.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
It's amazing to think at eighteen years old he started
turning Point and the movement that it turned into. Wouldn't
you say that Charlie Kirk became one of the most
influential people in politics who was not a politician. It
was just out of the love of his country.
Speaker 7 (46:57):
The love of this country, and the face of his God.
I mean know, yes, yes, all of the above. At eighteen,
he started in his parents' goalage and just started making
calls and trying to raise money.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
He started with nothing. Uh.
Speaker 7 (47:15):
He started in college, realized that the belly of the
beast was in college and for whatever reason, got a
brilliant idea to carry a message in a acratic map
message with gen Z the college students. He's never confrontational,
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he was always myra. He always had a message, and
he did it all without notes without really a college
education because he dropped out. He just was a good, intelligent,
well read, mart god fearing, god loving man. And it's
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a tragedy that his life is lost.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yeah, or taken taken Yeah. In recent where he is
right and respectful. He was respectful to everybody that spoke
to him at his events and it was such a
and I used this term earlier in the show grassroots.
What he created was was on those college campuses was
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something that in the media in politics we had not
seen before. He reached people in a different way. It
was it was old school political hit the trail type
of rallies. When you think back to, you know, the
days before the media. It was almost like that, Oh sure,
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and it's.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
In it's grassroots space debate. It's not it is It
isn't social media, as he said, I mean, it's face
to say, hey, you know what, let's have a discussion
and let's let's talk about things. And I think that's
the message. We have got to get to the back
to the point where we can have a civilized discussion
and agreed to disagree, right.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
And that's why I said this morning, we can't jump
to conclusions. We can't assume the motivations behind yesterday's assassination,
who this person is, who they're affiliated with. We can't
assume anything. What we can pray for. What we can
pray for is his wife, his kids, and that this
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evil individual is apprehended.
Speaker 7 (49:43):
Right and he needs to be yes what he is.
It's not going to be pretty.
Speaker 5 (49:49):
It is not going to.
Speaker 7 (49:50):
Be pretty well.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
And I really hope that it is not suicide by cop.
It is not suicide in general. This person needs to fail.
What he did or she did.
Speaker 7 (50:03):
Oh absolutely. I mean the trauma that had to have
been brought upon the three thousand kids that were watching,
Oh yeah, I mean, and I don't I don't know
where his family was at that time, but I just
know that just from the posts and whatnot, how much
love and admiration there was, the bond between he and
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his daughter, Oh.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
My goodness, the videos, you know, and his son and
his wife.
Speaker 7 (50:30):
I mean, it's just it's just a tragedy. It's a
tragedy all the way around.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Eligian, thank you for calling in. Thank you so much
this morning.
Speaker 7 (50:37):
Problem have a good day.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
We say thank you too. Oh goodness, otis it is
a day. It is a day. Were ready for a break.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
We're getting there.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
We're getting there. We're getting there. You know what we
haven't done, we haven't promoted. We'll save it.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Well, how about this? Okay, just in case you were
affected by the June flooding here in a high Many
people haven't applied for FEMA yet. The deadline for applying
is near. It is September twenty second. That's the last
day for applications to be submitted to FEMA. They can
be submitted online, by phone, or in person at the
Disaster Recovery Center at the Triidelphia Community Center. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
There you go, Perfect eight twenty eight. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience. Coming up a happier story here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Good Thursday morning to you. And how about this weather? Huh,
absolutely spectacular?
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Love it. Favorite time of the year.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
I will take sixty six to seventy two degrees with
sunshine and crispness every day of the week. Summertime mixed bag,
usually rain. When you do get a nice sunny day,
it's so humid you don't want to go outside. But
fall in the Ohio Valley priceless every day, sunshine, every
day right around sixty eight seventy degrees.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
I'll take it every day of the week.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
You're looking for something to watch on Netflix, you gotta
check out this documentary on the nineteen nineties Cowboys. I
mean it's tremendous. Interviews with Jimmy Johnson, Jerry Jones, Aikman Smith,
Charles Haley, Michael Irvin. I mean, you go down the list,
it spells out to a t exactly how this dynasty
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was built, how they got to the top, and how
they crumbled.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
And I'll tell you what a lot of people find
it hard.
Speaker 6 (52:28):
To believe when I say this, But man newfound respect
for Jerry Jones, and I know he's a reason for
some of the issues in Dallas. But this guy bet everything,
bet everything on this Cowboys organization from the get go.
I mean he put everything he had up and it
paid off big time. And probably the most influential owner
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in the history of the NFL. But just listening to
these players talk about what they had, the love they
had for each other, the love they had for Barry
swith Bitzer. I never thought that Switzer was that well
liked when he took over for Jimmy Jones when Jones
or Jimmy Johnson, when Johnson and Jones clashed ego wise,
and they cover that extensively in this. Both these guys
admit they had issues with each other. The bottom line,
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it was their egos. I mean, it's must watch TV,
and I think over time maybe some people forget how
good those Cowboys teams were tremendous. Watch it's on Netflix.
I believe it's called America's Team, The Gambler and his Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
You gotta watch it.
Speaker 6 (53:32):
And speaking of football, big congratulations to Colton mckivitz and
his family. Mckivitzs from Union Local went to WVU a
tackle with the San Francisco forty nine ers. I don't
know the particulars. I think he just signed for forty
five million, twenty seven million guaranteed. Could have got more
money somewhere else, but you know what he likes where
he is. Just when you think about coming from a
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small town, going to Union Local High School, then going
to WVU and where he is now, it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 7 (54:08):
You know.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
I know Colton a little bit from when he was younger.
His dad just did a mount for me for a
deer that I got. By the way, if you're looking
for a great taxidermist, his dad is tremendous, beautiful mount
But I know them from back in the day, Little
League and stuff like that. But good people and the
work ethic that Colton has showed. I mean, from Union
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Local to WVU, worked his tail off, from WVU to
the NFL, worked his tail off, and he's turned himself
into one of the best tackles in the National Football League.
Remember watching him play basketball in high school. Just a
tremendous story the whole way around. I mean, we all
root for local kids here in the valley to make
it big, and very few do. And the ones that do,
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I mean, we're head over heels happy for them. I'm
head over heels happy for Colton mckibbitt in his family
because signing a deal like that, not only is he
and his family set up for life, but his kids
are set up. It's just a just a tremendous story.
So once again, congratulations to them. And staying on the
line of football high school football season, I miss being
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in the valley. I miss the vibe of that high
school football on Fridays and Saturday nights. But I can
tell you this from an NFL perspective being in Cleveland.
My god, I mean, the dysfunction within this organization and
I got to cover it every day. I mean, I'm
right in the middle of it. I'm hosting the Browns
pregame show on WTAM eleven hundred. When you truly start
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following this team, I've never I always rooted for the Browns,
but I was never per se a Browns fan.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
I'm a Vikings fan.
Speaker 6 (55:47):
But over the last three and a half years of
covering this team, going to Beria, interviewing them in the
locker room, and then watching them, the misery associated with
the Cleveland Browns is very, very real. If you're a
Browns fan, you've been a lifelong Browns fan, you know
exactly what I'm talking about. Whether it's missed extra points,
miss kicks. They got a phrase here in Cleveland. Oh,
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I see only in Cleveland, and we just see it
time and time again.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
Hell, we saw it last week. I mean, Sam, I'm
preaching to the choir.
Speaker 6 (56:17):
You're a lifelong Browns fan, you know exactly what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Oh, welcome to the family. That's all I have to
say on that welcome to the family. It just goes
gets worse and worse than worse. Yeah, I know what
it feels like. I know what it feels like. I've
talked about it many times. But it just makes you tougher.
So hopefully maybe it'll it'll tough and bloom daddy up
a little bit. I know it's a little commentary on sports,
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a little you know, on this day, but thought we
could lighten up the heaviness that we've been talking about
for the past hour and a half. So that's that's
kind of why we hit on that a little bit,
because it is it is an amazing, huge acomplishment to
you know, local football stud Colt mckivitt's what he's accomplished
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in San Francisco, Uh many only dream of. And I'm
not talking about the contract. I'm not talking about the money.
It's making it to where he's made it. Hard work, dedication, skills,
practice hours, everything that was put into to get him
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to this level in his career. You know, we have
to acknowledge that. And like and and like I said,
it's it's not about the dollars. It's not about the contract.
It's about the the accomplishments and and you know it's
a he's a he's a great example for others, not
only in football, but in day to day life because
when you work hard, you accomplish what he has accomplished.
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Staying on the lines of positivity, want to give a
congratulations to Ohio County School educator Tiffany Barnes. She was
named West Virginia Teacher of the Year again. Her name
is Tiffany Barnes. She's a special education teacher at Wheeling
Middle Middle School. Barnes beat out four others for the award.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Again.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
Tiffany Barnes named West Virginia Teacher of the Year and
she is a special ed teacher at Wheeling Middle You
otis you know education way better than I do. Special
education is a very specialized field. It has to be hard.
It takes a special type of person. I'm sure to
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do that type of teaching.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
It does. I mean, obviously you're dealing with students that
are challenged, whether it be physically mentally, combination of the two,
you know, possibly autistic, you know, possibly dyslexic. You know,
so it takes you have to have you have to
have patience. If there's nothing else. And it's and and
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I and I'm you know obviously, you know, with my
family being in education, you know, I've known special AD
teachers and it's there. They are, you know, I don't
want to say they're a different breed, but they are.
You know, they're not your because they truly have to
work hard every day. I mean it's not you can't.
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You can't slack. If you're a special AD.
Speaker 2 (59:25):
Teacher, they face challenges absolutely that the traditional educator.
Speaker 4 (59:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yeah, and we don't know.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
You can't just you know, you can't just go into
your classroom and say, okay, hey, I need to run
down the hall to make a phone call. You guys,
you know this is what you need to do, and
you leave them and you leave the room. You can't
do that with you know, you are there in the room.
Or you have to have an aid in the room
at all time. I mean, somebody has to be there
with those with those students.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
And a couple of quick other notes. Wanted to mention
again Today is nine to eleven, the twenty fourth anniversary
the City of Wheeling. Today at noon at Wheelings Heritage Port,
we'll be having a service of a remembrance again that's
happening today at noon, and then also of course Shanksville
hijackers took control of the four commercial airplanes and then
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the one landed in the field in Shanksville. Thousands were killed,
including the forty passengers and crew aboard United Flight ninety
three that went down in Somerset County. Memorial services will
take place this morning in New York at the Pentagon
and at the Flight ninety three National Memorial in Shanksville.
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So there are two things here locally, Wheeling Heritage Port
at noon a service of remembrance for nine eleven. We
are less than a minute away from the exact moment
at eight forty six, twenty four years ago, the first
plane hit the World Trade Center. With that being said,
(01:01:01):
we're going to go out a little bit early, a
little bit of just take a moment to stop, think
and remember those that lost their lives starting at eight
forty six on September eleventh, two thousand and one. Welcome back.
(01:01:26):
It's eight point fifty the bloom Daddy Experience OTIS and
SAM News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Before you go into yes, please, I have a question
for you. Okay, and not really to change everything up
about what we're doing today, but in not the light
in any moods, but just to kind of maybe get
a little different direction. If I said, kiss my grits,
what does it remind you of?
Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Oh, somebody used to say that on a TV show. Yes,
I want to say Beverly Hillberlies, but I know that's
not right.
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
The show was Alice the Diner Show yep, okay, with.
Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Victory Back and Linda Lavin Polly Holiday. Was she played
Flow on Alice?
Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Was she the one with the big hair.
Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Big red hair?
Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Yeah? Anyway. She passed away yesterday at the age of
eighty eight. So she started in the first four seasons
of Alice. She earned three Emmy nominations and two Golden Globes.
They launched her in a spin off called Flow, which
ran for two seasons.
Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
So yeah, you said you when you said, I have
a question for you. One thing I want to say
to people, you know, talking about what we've had to
talk about today. It's hard and it's hard to balance
because you don't want to be heavy and doom and
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gloom the entire show, but you want to lighten things
up respectfully and like otis just did. That's exactly what
I want to want people to understand. Sometimes it's hard.
It's hard to to make that respectful again and and balanced,
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but yet not be overwhelmingly dark and and and.
Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Well we didn't. We didn't go down the read today
where you know, we're gonna go hot, hard and heavy
for you know, for three quarters of the show and
then come back and try to be funny.
Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
You know, we'll say that for tomorrow because we probably
just need you know, It's it's kind of like that
after seventh I mean nine to eleven. I mean, you
you you can only talk about it for so much.
You can only you can only because it's you know,
it's it's just horrific. You have to talk about it
because it's what's going on. But eventually you have to
(01:03:50):
move on. It's just like, you know, sports were suspended
for a week to two weeks after nine to eleven,
and you know when we baseball made its return to
Yankee Stadium and George Bush came out and through the pit,
it was time. You knew it was time to say, Okay,
we're not gonna forget, but we've got to move on.
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Yeah, look at what the Yankees organization did last night,
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Yeah, and that's why in highly liberal New York.
Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
And one thing I was going to do today was
I was going to mention and read some of the
vile social media commentary that's out there posts, and halfway
I decided not to because that is not what is
needed right now. It is not needed on social media,
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and we here do not need to give it a
second platform.
Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Yeah, there's no reason. There's no reason to share negativity.
And you know you're gonna be if you go on
social media, you're gonna be able to find it yourself.
And then if it's your friends, you do what you want.
I mean, there are I've seen hundreds of posts that said,
you know, if you've if you've liked, if you've laughed at,
you know, if you support this murder, then just unfriend me,
(01:05:17):
you know, because I do not want to be your friend.
And and and that's true, I mean you can. I mean, look,
I don't agree with everybody. You know, I've never wished
death on anybody. I've made a few comments where I've said,
you know, they could die tomorrow and it would be
a day too late, but I've never wished that upon anybody.
(01:05:41):
So you know, it's it's you know, there's there's there's
a different breed of mentality out there right now, and
it's and it's and it's very disappointing.
Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
We got to keep in mind, you know, back to
to what Charlie did for a living. He had conversations.
And I said this earlier. We have to have the conversations.
We have let politics divide us. I know families that
won't have Thanksgiving together anymore, they won't break bread together
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because of political differences. We have to get back to
having conversations. And those conversations are not on social media,
they are not through texts. They are face to face.
And one thing I do want to say to those
that are celebrating what was what happened yesterday, look into
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the eyes of his one year old son who turned
one in may. Look into those eyes and smile, because
reflecting back at you in the innocence of those eyes
of a one year old, the son of the man
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who lost his life yesterday. Look into those eyes, and
if you're smiling and you're celebrating what happened, you will
see the reflection of evil looking back at you, because
it will be yourself. It will be yourself. That's what
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we've got to keep in mind. Folks. Two small children
lost their dad. There's a clip out there from two
or three weeks ago. He made an appearance on Fox
and his little daughter is running to him saying, daddy,
and she'll never get to do that again ever, so Otice.
Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Please, Well, you know, you know, do you look at
these people and you know, the celebrating they're the ones
that have the co exist stickers on their bumpers, you know,
and they're all fine, you know, and all we need
to get along and you know, every you know, kumbai ya,
and that's all fine and dandy until you disagree with them.
(01:08:20):
Then they don't want to co exist with or you know,
if you don't, if you don't see the world as
they see it, then you don't belong in their world.
And unfortunately that's you know, it's it's I sit there
and I and I anytime I see a co exist
sticker on a car, I just start laughing because I'm
thinking to myself, you have no intention to coexist with anybody.
(01:08:43):
So you know, it's just they're the hypocrisy is is
just totally amazing. And you know, you know. Look, I mean,
let's be honest. There are people that die every day. Okay,
somebody loses a somebody loses a dad, somebody loses a child,
(01:09:03):
somebody loses a relative, best friend, you know, but it's
not as public as this was. And this, you know,
most of the time when somebody passes away, it's you know,
some sort of a natural cause or maybe a you know,
cancer or something of that nature. This was an assassination.
Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
This was hate.
Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
This was It hits a little different. It does.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
It does. On that note, we are gonna sign off.
We'll be back tomorrow. We'll try and laugh tomorrow. Everybody
stay safe, have a great Thursday. Hug a family member.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
See number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good Morning, seven oh seven on this monumental Thursday Morning,
heavy Thursday morning. It is September eleventh, and also we
are twelve hours past little less than that horrible example
(00:53):
of violence yesterday. This is this is tough, ladies and
gentlemen thinking about today's show. I you know, all all
night last night. Honestly, I'll be I'll be one hundred
(01:15):
percent straight up with you. Last night was tough for me.
Yesterday was shocking for me, and I thought to myself,
you know, how do we address this tomorrow? When I
think of when I think of Charlie Kirk, he was
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different than what we have seen on a political landscape,
what we have seen in the media. What he has
done over the past ten years is unique. He he
gave a microphone, He created an open forum for conversation,
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he created an open debate of very very hard topics,
and he gave a microphone primarily to the youth of
this country that has never had one before. So when
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I said, when I started thinking about today's show, I thought,
that's what we're going to do because we have two
really hard subjects hitting us today. So what I want
to do is we are opening the phone lines. We
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are opening the text line in honor of Charlie Kirk, who,
as I said, gave a microphone to a lot of people.
That's what we're doing. We want to hear from you.
I want to hear I want to have an open
conversation discussing what happened yesterday, what happened on September eleventh,
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two thousand and one, your memories of that day. Where
were you? Because what happened yesterday is going to be
one of those days where you think, where were you
when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. He didn't hold a political office,
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but he was a voice on a political landscape that
we have not had before. So what I want again,
I want to hear from you. I want your reactions
to yesterday. We're gonna ask some hard questions today. We're
going to otis you and I We're gonna talk. That's
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what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk, We're gonna listen
to one another. And that's where you come in. How
did this hit you? Yesterday? Did you know who Charlie
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Kirk was? But how did this hit you? It hit
me I yesterday afternoon, it was a beautiful day. I
was in Barnesville, Ohio. Followed by that I was in
Woodsfield and I'm going to As I was driving, I thought,
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this is a perfect perfect day. I am out doing
the job that I love. I am speaking to wonderful people.
I had great conversations yesterday. The weather was gorgeous, and
I was in small town USA. Barnesville just got the
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the recognition that they received from the state of Ohio.
Woodsfield another beautiful town. It was just a quintessential beautiful
American day for me. I get in my car after
my last meeting of the day to the news that
Charlie Kirk was shot, and I posted a video of
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my initial reactions from there. I got in my car,
I was driving, and then I got the news. I
heard the news that he had he had passed. I
had to pull my car over. I was so struck
by this. I was in tears. I don't know this man.
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I'll never, I never would even have the opportunity to
speak to this person and face to face. But this
is a thirty one year old man, and here is
I think why it really struck me the way it did.
He was thirty one years old, a young father, a
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young husband, and I followed him on social media and
the last image I saw of him was walking down
the beach hand in hand with his young daughter. And
that's what hit me yesterday. Doesn't matter the political beliefs,
doesn't matter what side of the aisle, it was that
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image that hit me. Otis what was your what was
your initial reaction?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well not as emotional as yours. Sorry, I just to
be honest with you. I mean, you know, I mean
some of your comparisons aren't the comparisons that I have.
Obviously it's a tragedy. It's you have somebody that was
murdered for sharing his beliefs and answering questions. And you
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know what he would do on these college campuses is
I would call it like a spiritually debate the people,
or you know, just have a conversation with a lot
of college age students, professors, whatever. You know, you've seen
the clips on social media, I'm sure, you know. I
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mean obviously, you know, you look at somebody like this
that's thirty one, has a family. I mean, unfortunately, this
is you know the mentality of some people that they
feel the need to silence those that have a voice.
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And it's not it's not how it's you know, I mean,
it takes you back to you know, when when when
politicians or or is Martin Luther King. And I'm not
comparing Charlie Kirk and Martin Luther King by any means,
but people that speak out, people that have a voice,
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and they get eliminated because of what they're talking about.
So you know, I mean, obviously I'm not gonna lie.
I didn't get as upset as you did. I didn't
get as upset as some people that you see on
social media. I do not. That doesn't mean that it
didn't affect me. The bottom line is, you know, there
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are people out there that are celebrating this, and I
think that bothers me more than the actual murder itself.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get to that because some
of the things that that are that's going around on
social media is the example of what is wrong with
this country, but we're just scratching the surface with this again.
We want to hear from you onee hundred sixty two
four eleven seventy one one hundred six two four eleven
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seventy want to hear your thoughts how this hit you yesterday.
And then, of course we cannot ignore that today is
September eleventh, and we're going to talk about that also,
And of course there is our text line seven zero
four seven zero. Start your message out with bloom Daddy.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven twenty one, The bloom Daddy Experience,
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Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Of course,
we are talking about the assassination of a political commentator,
political activist, Charlie Kirk yesterday in at a college campus
in Utah. We are opening the phone lines, the microphones.
As Charlie did for many many when he visited college campuses,
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gave people a microphone. We're giving you a microphone. We
want to hear your thoughts today, your comments, your reactions
to what happened yesterday, along with your stories about September eleventh,
two thousand and one. We cannot let this day in
history go dark because of what happened yesterday. So we're
kind of tackling two pretty heavy, heavy subjects today. But
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we do have a call Otis rate.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
We do. We have logan from weirdon Good Morning, Logan.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Morning guys. Yeah. I just want to say, you know,
to everybody effected with nine to eleven, you know you're
still in our prayers. It's just such a heavy day
for everybody in this country. But for this to happen
yesterday in the way that it happened, a two hundred
yards shot right to the area where he was hit.
I just really feel that this was a professional thing.
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You've seen this time and time again in history. Like
Otis said, and it repeats itself. Anybody that has too
big of a mouth or wants to let the truth out,
they shut you up. And I just think that the
idea in this country of freedom is that's all it is,
is an idea anymore. Because the moment you hit the
nail on the head on something that's too big or
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you have too big of a mass following, they always
get taken away. But it's always on the right side
it's never like the left side, and I just don't
understand how that works. I mean, you have all these
people that make rules and make your life harder, that
walk the streets daily, but you have people that talk
about Christ and talk about the right things and they
always get shut up. I think it was a professional
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hit by the government.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Logan. I can't agree with you more. That's one thing
yesterday I was going to bring up here a little
bit later the location of the shot. From everything that
we've been told, I have made it a point to
try and not see the video. I don't want those
images in my head personally. But what I've read is
it was in the throat. And think about what the yep.
This man did for a living. He spoke for a living,
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and they shot him in the throat. You talk about
a message in silencing somebody, there's something behind that. Personally,
I think I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I was an influencer. No quarter given was my name
on TikTok. I had over a million followers and I
got banned. I got silenced. And if they can't silence
you through an app and you start to get too big,
this is what happens and it's a dark day in
our country when you can't have an opinion and somebody
tries to take your life. It's just things are bad
right now. That's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wonderful, thank you Logan for the call this morning.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You sorry, that was somebody. I wasn't ready for him
to say, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, and you can call us just like Logan did
one eight hundred and six to fort eleven seventy, or
you can reach us on our text line seven zero
four seven zero. Start the message off with bloom Daddy.
Like this message. This was a professional hit. Not only
does the hit man need to be caught brought to justice,
but so does whoever hired him. So agree with that
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otis you had a great thing that you read to
me during the break.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You still have it up, fortunately I do.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Okay, Sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The person that posted this, her name was Natalie Jean.
I'm guessing Bisner. Okay, Bisner. Maybe I'm not sure, but
she posted. Charlie Kirk wasn't making policy, He wasn't directly
impacting anyone's life. He was just a guy respectfully debating.
He wasn't aggressive or angry, or hateful or even all
that provocative. He didn't say outlandish things for clicks. He
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did everything right and they killed him.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And here's the thing yesterday, I have been struggling and
trying as hard as I can to not jump to conclusions,
and I want to put that out there for everybody listening.
We cannot jump to conclusions. That's hard to do when
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we see the track record that we have in this country.
But it also raises we've got to raise these questions.
How have we gotten to this point in this country
where when you disagree with somebody, violence has become the answer. Again,
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the shooter has not been captured, all right, so we
don't know the motivation. We we can't jump to conclusions,
but for who Charlie was, you can't help but think
that it was politically motivated, so that you know why,
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Why have we gotten to this point? What have we
lost in this country? How do we reverse the direction
that we're going? Where do we lay blame? Do we labelame?
This is hard, ladies and gentlemen, this is hard, But
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I think people in the media really need to take
a step back and reflect. We have got to stop
the rhetoric, the labeling. We have got to take a
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look in the mirror and say to ourselves me included,
what are we putting out into the universe, and who
are we reaching? Who are we touching with our words?
And how are those words being received. I'm gonna leave
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you with that thought. There's more to talk about this,
and of course, September eleventh, we are looking upon that today,
remembering that what a day. It is an incredibly hard day.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven thirty six, The
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bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
Of course, we are discussing the assassination yesterday of political
influencer Charlie Charlie Kirk. We want to hear from you.
We're giving you the mic, just like Charlie did one
eight hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy. So we're
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gonna kick it off with Westing.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
How y'all doing. It's the sad day for the Republic
in UH many many ways. Honestly, it's UH very sad
for his family, very sad for the conservative movement. But honestly,
I feel like it's very very sad for America's youth.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
You know, we we see across the board that a
lot of the youth live just absolute, faculous empty lives
and are conflicted on so many levels, with so many things.
And the one thing that Charlie did was he took
truth to the campuses and boldly and courageously spoke that truth.
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And it's it's it's just heart. I think, I think
what we need to do going forward, though, especially these
like spineless milk toast Republican leaders at all level, federal, state, local,
take the courage that Charlie showed on a daily basis
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and let it steal your mind to start doing the
right thing. Let remember Charlie to be our rally cluck cry,
just like the Texans. You just remember the Alamo at
the Battle of Sanjacento. Remember Charlie needs to be on
our lips every day going forward, and hang what the
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media says about you, forget about the DC cocktail circus,
and start passing legislation that takes this country back from
the godless communists that seeks to ogres throw it and
turn it into a health gab. You know that needs
to be our way forward.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
As far as I'm concerned, this is a moment for
people West to regain their voice. That that's where Charlie
differs from a lot of people out there. He used
his voice, in his intelligence and his skills of conversation,
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as you said, to speak to the youth of this country.
That was a big question mark that hit me yesterday
was he took, as you said, a lot of information
to the campuses and opened the eyes for a lot
of young people. And my question that hit me yesterday
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was was he making too much headway with that particular
voting demographic of our nation. And somebody said, nope, We've
got to silence him. And that's what we saw yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Absolutely absolutely. Can you see it all through history when
the communists stopped getting their way, they resort to violence.
They always have. That's what the entire Stummer of Love
in twenty twenty was about. Was systemically paid more and
rooted on by the media, violence and briant lo looting,
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et cetera, in an effort to tamp down any any
conservative voice or any and intimidate people. We need to
not let this intimidate us. We need to be bold
or going forward, especially those that we've elected to actually
make a change and do something different. It's it's well
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passed time for past down.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
As Reagan would say, thank you Wes for the call
this morning. Thank you very much. You know you too,
you too. You know what otis. Here's the thing, Charlie
Kirk took a simple idea and a grassroots movement and
built up to where he was with Turning Point USA.
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Just a simple idea of having open air conversations.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, I mean, if you watch I mean, obviously
there's a lot of things that are just condensed into
reels right when it comes to you know, some of
his stuff because they've edited out the the you know,
the stuff that's irrelevant. And I was watching him debate
a a young lady from the University of Tennessee I'm
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assuming because she had a University of Tennessee play, yeah,
and you know, they were talking about abortion and.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
It.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Her her points were just absolutely off the wall, and
he was being logical, calm, never never insulted her. He
would question what she what she said, never got it
over excited. You know, there there are certain things, you know,
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like I don't know how he did it, but he
did it because like, there's some things that I would
just explode, you know, like if I'm trying to make
my point, I would lose my patience, you know. And
but I watched this one particularly and the fact that
her her she was trying to make a point, but
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she sounded like an idiot. He's trying to make a point,
and he sounds like a genius. Okay, you don't have
to agree with either one of them. You don't have
to disagree with either one of them. He's not going
to change her mind. She's there trying to change his,
which wasn't going to happen either. But she was just
so tunnel visioned. And then you know, when he would
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get to a point where she couldn't answer the question,
she would change the question. She would then ask question
to change it to get off the sidekick, so you know,
and then on and then if she did answer the question,
I mean, it wasn't Charlie. It was the crowd that
berated her, you know, you know, because she said, you know,
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the question was when does life start? And she said
when the baby's born. And he's like, so like heartbeat
in week twenty or the heartbeat and week whatever, it
is of gestation, is like he is, that's not a
living creature or living a human being, And she was like, no,
it's not. He would just kind of smile and go
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are you He would never say it, but he would.
He would. You could just see it on his face.
Are you this stupid?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yea?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You know, And here's a guy that dropped out a
community college but is far more intelligent than I am.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Somebody one of the things I was watching yesterday that
he was a didactic, I believe was the term used.
That he read two to three books a week and
could retain pretty much all of it. And that's for
somebody who has been doing this as short of a
time span as I have. I watched him all the time,
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and I was and still am, incredibly envious of his
ability to retain the facts, the numbers, the information. He
never had notes in front of him.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well, he said in one of like they said something about, well,
you know, there was somebody that in one of the
reels he was being debated because the guy called him
a college dropout, and he said, well, he said, just
because I'm a college dropout doesn't mean that I'm not.
He says, I read over one hundred books a year,
you know, So I mean it just you know, and
again the guy is trying. You know, you're not going
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to out debating because he's definitely he's one hundred times
smarter than you are.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well and again, like you said, his patience, his respect
with the people that he was discussing these hot button
topics with. He never used foul language, He never called names,
he never raised his voice, he never got aggressive with
his words. And what was amazing was when you would
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see the light bulb go off for people because I
can't think of I can't think of a specific video
or a subject matter. But you would see when he
would make a point, a logical, intelligent and they would
just and it was like, ah, there it is. The
curtains were raised, the light bulb went off, their eyes
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were open.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And there were times that he did raise his voice,
but not in an aggressive way. No, it was to
maybe just kind of overstep the person because they were
talking a too long or b they were just talking senseless.
So then he would get a little loud yeah, you know,
but that wasn't it wasn't an aggressive I'm getting louder as.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's almost a way to calm them down in a way.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get back. We're gonna talk.
We got we're gonna hit on September eleventh, We've got
to where were you on that day? Where has our
country gotten to since that day? A lot of things?
Seven forty six you're listening to the Bloom Daddy Experience
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back,
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seven fifty one The Bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It is September eleventh, twenty
twenty five. It is the twenty fourth anniversary of September eleventh,
two thousand and one, where Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four
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commercial airlines airplanes in a coordinate attack against the United States. Otis,
do you remember where you were? I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I was, you know, obviously it was two thousand and one.
My youngest son was, you know, four or five six months.
He's three months old. My oldest son was three. And
how it would work is I would normally, you know,
it's when I own my own business. I would go
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in at ten o'clock. I had an assistant that would
come in at nine and open, and I would stay
until I would stay at the house until my mother
in law would come and pick the boys up because
she worked an early morning job. So as I've had
the TV on and I'm watching everything unfold, and You're
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sitting there and you're going, oh, is this really happening?
Like you know, you first off, you think, okay, what's
an accident. Then when the second play and goes in,
then you're like, oh, we've got something going on here, and.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Then you am I seeing what I'm really seeing.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And then you know, you know at the time, you know,
when I was married, you know, my wife worked still
does work for the federal government, you know, so that
you know, you're like, okay, hey, what's going on? Because
you know, now are these buildings, are all federal buildings
is going to be under you know, our federal building's
going to be under attack. What's going to happen? And so,
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you know, phone calls are being made. I think they were.
I think they I don't know. I can't remember if
they got sent home or not, you know, for safety reasons.
So I mean, yeah, I mean, I I was sitting
in my living room. I called the person that worked
with me or for me at my business. And I said, hey,
do you have the TV because we have a little
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black and white TV in the back, and she said yeah,
and I'm like, hey, I said it. I said, I'll
be down, you know, but I'm going to watch this unfold.
And I said I'll be down a little bit because
this time of year is pressing time of the year
for quote unquote awards. So you know, it was like,
you're not really not going to miss me. You know,
if somebody walks in in order or something, then fine,
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But I mean, it's not like I had anything pressing.
And I just remember, you know, and they're going down
and then talking with her about it, you know, just
talking to so many people, and you know, and I've
seen it more. I think it pops up more and
more this time of year. But with everything that's going
on in the world, we need to get back to
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September twelfth, two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Thank you that that was my point.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
When that was a country mine together and united in
a cause.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yep, that's my note right here, right here on this
piece of paper. I have noted in myself, should we
actually be celebrating September twelfth, when we came together as
a nation, we saw the things happen on September twelfth.
That think about it, Folks, young people who did not
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experience and were you know, we're not born in two
thousand and one. They've never experienced what those of us
did on September twelfth. They've never inows in the day
that right, but they've never seen that unity. They've never
seen this country come together that way. That is a
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message that we need to be teaching our young people today.
We can't forget what happened on September eleventh, two thousand
and one, in the lives that were lost, but we
also need to highlight September twelfth and forward because again
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we saw this nation, it's leaders bring us together, and
we need that. We need that today, we need that tomorrow,
and we need that as we move forward. It is
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so missing in this country right now. And I'm so
glad you brought that up. Otis, Like I said, that
was where I was going to go with this conversation,
because if you think about teenagers today, college students today,
the young adults that Charlie Kirk went out and spoke
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to and had conversations with a lot of them haven't
experienced politicians working together. They haven't experienced Americans smiling at
one another, supporting one another other, having open, accepting, intelligent
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political conversations where you listen to one another. Imagine that.
Think about that when seeing the American flag raised by
the fire, you know, the the iconic image from September eleventh,
and the flag is raised. I've mentioned to you before
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where I've had people say to me the American flag
is a sign of Trumpsters. And you know they see
if they see people with the American flag, they assume
this and assume that about the person that flies it,
whether it's on their home or wherever. We have to
get back to the to the point where images, iconic images,
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or symbols of this country are symbols of this country.
They're not a symbol of a political movement. They're not
a symbol of a political party. They're a symbol of
this country. Do we need to start saying the Pledge
of Allegiance every morning like Neil McCoy does in our classrooms? Again,
should we do it here on this show every morning?
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We are missing things, folks. There's a lot missing in
this country. Let this be the opportunity for us to
talk about it again. Seven p. Fifty eight. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis news Radio
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Sam and otis, of course talking to you on this
heavy day, very heavy day. Of course. Political activists Conservative
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voice Charlie Kirk assassinated yesterday. Today is also the anniversary
of September eleventh, two thousand and one. It's a heavy day, Otis.
I mean, it's a heavy day. We've been doing this
together year and a half now a little more than that.
(34:39):
I think this is probably our first heavy, heavy day
for us. Wouldn't you say, you know, having something like
this this happened, Yeah, I would say that we've had
to had to address.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I mean, we had to assassination attempt on President Trump.
But I mean, obviously, thank goodness, nothing happened there as
far as you know. He I mean with Trump, there
was still loss of life, and you know, not to
take anything away from.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
That, we had the flooding.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
We had the flood you know, you know, so I
mean that's local. But as far as like a national story,
this is probably the biggest one we've had.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah. Of course, posted on Facebook last night for how
this hit you, your response, your initial feelings on everything, Robin
posted this, commented this. Charlie talked for a living. All
he did was talk Why Robin, I'm so glad you
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made that comment because that, I think is one of
the things that really struck me in this because of
course it makes me stop and reflect. You know, we
otis we sit behind these microphones every morning, five days
(36:09):
a week. We like to have fun, but we also
hit and talk about controversial things. We talked politics yesterday.
We had politics unleased with Elgin in the house. There
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are going to be people that agree, there are going
to be people disagree with points that we make, opinions
that we have and that's what Charlie Kirk did and
after seeing what happened yesterday, I, you know, made it
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made me stop and think to myself. You know, we
sit behind these microphones every morning and we just look
at one another. Otis which I know you love the view,
but we see each other. We tend to forget the
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amount of people that hear us every morning. Who are
those people? We don't know? We don't know, and we
come in here and we give our involuntarily. So our
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opinions on things, our personal thoughts, our beliefs, our own
experiences are our stances on things. We talk about our family,
we talk about our friends, we talk about our day
to day life, we talk about political issues, and we
don't know every day who are hearing those words. Is
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it somebody who has a warped mind? Is it somebody
who you know it? I don't want to be dramatic.
In no way, shape or form. Are we on the
level of somebody like Charlie Kirk. But when you do
what we do for a living every day, and we
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put ourselves out there to people behind this microphone, you
can't stop and think about security and safety and who
is listening to you, Who's on the other side of
this microphone. Made me stop and think yesterday, but it
(38:46):
brings me back. It calls into question how did we
get here? How did we get here where somebody who
talks for a living has to lose their life, their
children loses their father, a wife loses her husband because
(39:09):
you may this person may have politically disagreed with his
opinions on something. Think about that, Think about that. How
(39:31):
did we get here? Did this start with social media?
Did the downhill descent start with social media? Did it
start with the twenty four to seven news cycle? Do
we have people and we do, who sit behind a
screen eight, ten, twelve hours a day and their minds
(39:56):
are just inundated with one political side of things. They
only get their information from one source, it's only skewed
in one direction, and they just absorb it day in
and day out. Think about that, What that would do,
What that does to people? We have that in this country.
(40:21):
Minds are sponges. We absorb information. And if you were
if somebody is just sitting behind a screen, whether it's
social media, whether it's the twenty four to seven news cycle,
they're absorbing all of that information and it affects you.
It affects you. You know I was talking I I
(40:43):
you know, I've said this before. I learned under, learned
from and still do. One of the best commentators this
valley has ever seen. Bloom Daddy. Don't tell him I
said this, but I've learned under him. I reach out
to him all the time for advice all the time.
(41:05):
How do I handle this? How do I have this conversation?
How do I ask these questions? One thing he told
me a long time ago was you have to you
have to separate yourself. We talk about heavy stuff. It
brings you down mentally, and there are times where I
(41:26):
have to take a step back and disconnect. And I've
talked about that many times. You have to disconnect. We
have people out in this country that do not disconnect.
They do not give themselves a break from the political jargon,
and then it develops into this obsession and anger and hate, evil, hostility,
(41:53):
and lives are lost. Lives are lost. So the power
that people have nowadays, influencers, That's what Charlie was, somebody
that sits behind a microphone like I do, like Otis does,
(42:14):
like bloom Daddy does, and others in this field. We
tend to forget the amount of people we reach day
to day, and then something like yesterday happens and it
brings things back into perspective. So, yes, Robin, your comment
(42:35):
hit me yesterday. So I was right there with you.
All he did was talk and ask questions. It's all
he did, folks, and he lost his life. God, I'm sorry.
(42:58):
Open dialogue, open conversations. We have to have more of them.
We don't silence them. We have more of them. This
is a chance, this is an opportunity to carry the
torch for somebody like a Charlie Kirk. Have the hard
(43:21):
conversations and listen, don't just talk. Listen eight fifteen you're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience SAM and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Eight twenty one. Welcome back the
(43:44):
bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
We're gonna go straight to the phone lines, which, by
the way, one eight hundred and sixty two four eleven
seventy call in with your thoughts as we discuss Charlie
kirk assassination this morning alone, along with the twenty fourth
anniversary of September eleventh on the line. Now we have
(44:05):
Elgie McCarter. Of course, our political analyst. Good morning, Algin.
Speaker 7 (44:10):
Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Oh, it's been been better to be completely honest with you.
Give us your thoughts, would you please?
Speaker 7 (44:19):
Well, you know, it's a sorrowful day for the country.
It's ironic in a.
Speaker 5 (44:26):
Way, you know.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
Charlie Kirk, I believe, was such a godly man, and
while he had a quote unquote political message, it was
really just a message, a message for freedom, for inalienable rite,
for just faith, family, god, country, and I believe his
(44:56):
message was one that should be carried with a torch
and continued. I believe that his death was tragic, but
not for not without reasons. That's really strange to say,
(45:21):
but I think that just as his company messaged a
corporation that he created with turning points, the irony is
his death on the day before September eleventh, when it
was a turning point for the country back in two
thousand and one. So to I think his death is
(45:43):
a turning point for the country to unite. The soal
of this country needs to be healed. I don't care
what race, what religion, what party. It needs to be healed.
And I think there is good that can come out
(46:04):
of everything and I believe that his death should not
be wasted, and I think we should carry the torch
and continue on with his message. It kind of wraps
up both the nine to one one remembrance. It's a
day to remember. It's a day to remember those who
(46:24):
have lost their lives for this country and to remember
that they shouldn't be lost in vain.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
It's amazing to think at eighteen years old he started
turning Point and the movement that it turned into. Wouldn't
you say that Charlie Kirk became one of the most
influential people in politics who was not a politician. It
was just out of the love of his country.
Speaker 7 (46:57):
The love of this country, and the face of his God.
I mean know, yes, yes, all of the above. At eighteen,
he started in his parents' goalage and just started making
calls and trying to raise money.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
He started with nothing. Uh.
Speaker 7 (47:15):
He started in college, realized that the belly of the
beast was in college and for whatever reason, got a
brilliant idea to carry a message in a acratic map
message with gen Z the college students. He's never confrontational,
(47:41):
he was always myra. He always had a message, and
he did it all without notes without really a college
education because he dropped out. He just was a good, intelligent,
well read, mart god fearing, god loving man. And it's
(48:04):
a tragedy that his life is lost.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yeah, or taken taken Yeah. In recent where he is
right and respectful. He was respectful to everybody that spoke
to him at his events and it was such a
and I used this term earlier in the show grassroots.
What he created was was on those college campuses was
(48:29):
something that in the media in politics we had not
seen before. He reached people in a different way. It
was it was old school political hit the trail type
of rallies. When you think back to, you know, the
days before the media. It was almost like that, Oh sure,
(48:52):
and it's.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
In it's grassroots space debate. It's not it is It
isn't social media, as he said, I mean, it's face
to say, hey, you know what, let's have a discussion
and let's let's talk about things. And I think that's
the message. We have got to get to the back
to the point where we can have a civilized discussion
and agreed to disagree, right.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
And that's why I said this morning, we can't jump
to conclusions. We can't assume the motivations behind yesterday's assassination,
who this person is, who they're affiliated with. We can't
assume anything. What we can pray for. What we can
pray for is his wife, his kids, and that this
(49:38):
evil individual is apprehended.
Speaker 7 (49:43):
Right and he needs to be yes what he is.
It's not going to be pretty.
Speaker 5 (49:49):
It is not going to.
Speaker 7 (49:50):
Be pretty well.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
And I really hope that it is not suicide by cop.
It is not suicide in general. This person needs to fail.
What he did or she did.
Speaker 7 (50:03):
Oh absolutely. I mean the trauma that had to have
been brought upon the three thousand kids that were watching,
Oh yeah, I mean, and I don't I don't know
where his family was at that time, but I just
know that just from the posts and whatnot, how much
love and admiration there was, the bond between he and
(50:26):
his daughter, Oh.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
My goodness, the videos, you know, and his son and
his wife.
Speaker 7 (50:30):
I mean, it's just it's just a tragedy. It's a
tragedy all the way around.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Eligian, thank you for calling in. Thank you so much
this morning.
Speaker 7 (50:37):
Problem have a good day.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
We say thank you too. Oh goodness, otis it is
a day. It is a day. Were ready for a break.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
We're getting there.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
We're getting there. We're getting there. You know what we
haven't done, we haven't promoted. We'll save it.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Well, how about this? Okay, just in case you were
affected by the June flooding here in a high Many
people haven't applied for FEMA yet. The deadline for applying
is near. It is September twenty second. That's the last
day for applications to be submitted to FEMA. They can
be submitted online, by phone, or in person at the
Disaster Recovery Center at the Triidelphia Community Center. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
There you go, Perfect eight twenty eight. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience. Coming up a happier story here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Good Thursday morning to you. And how about this weather? Huh,
absolutely spectacular?
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Love it. Favorite time of the year.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
I will take sixty six to seventy two degrees with
sunshine and crispness every day of the week. Summertime mixed bag,
usually rain. When you do get a nice sunny day,
it's so humid you don't want to go outside. But
fall in the Ohio Valley priceless every day, sunshine, every
day right around sixty eight seventy degrees.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
I'll take it every day of the week.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
You're looking for something to watch on Netflix, you gotta
check out this documentary on the nineteen nineties Cowboys. I
mean it's tremendous. Interviews with Jimmy Johnson, Jerry Jones, Aikman Smith,
Charles Haley, Michael Irvin. I mean, you go down the list,
it spells out to a t exactly how this dynasty
(52:20):
was built, how they got to the top, and how
they crumbled.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
And I'll tell you what a lot of people find
it hard.
Speaker 6 (52:28):
To believe when I say this, But man newfound respect
for Jerry Jones, and I know he's a reason for
some of the issues in Dallas. But this guy bet everything,
bet everything on this Cowboys organization from the get go.
I mean he put everything he had up and it
paid off big time. And probably the most influential owner
(52:52):
in the history of the NFL. But just listening to
these players talk about what they had, the love they
had for each other, the love they had for Barry
swith Bitzer. I never thought that Switzer was that well
liked when he took over for Jimmy Jones when Jones
or Jimmy Johnson, when Johnson and Jones clashed ego wise,
and they cover that extensively in this. Both these guys
admit they had issues with each other. The bottom line,
(53:15):
it was their egos. I mean, it's must watch TV,
and I think over time maybe some people forget how
good those Cowboys teams were tremendous. Watch it's on Netflix.
I believe it's called America's Team, The Gambler and his Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
You gotta watch it.
Speaker 6 (53:32):
And speaking of football, big congratulations to Colton mckivitz and
his family. Mckivitzs from Union Local went to WVU a
tackle with the San Francisco forty nine ers. I don't
know the particulars. I think he just signed for forty
five million, twenty seven million guaranteed. Could have got more
money somewhere else, but you know what he likes where
he is. Just when you think about coming from a
(53:56):
small town, going to Union Local High School, then going
to WVU and where he is now, it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 7 (54:08):
You know.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
I know Colton a little bit from when he was younger.
His dad just did a mount for me for a
deer that I got. By the way, if you're looking
for a great taxidermist, his dad is tremendous, beautiful mount
But I know them from back in the day, Little
League and stuff like that. But good people and the
work ethic that Colton has showed. I mean, from Union
(54:29):
Local to WVU, worked his tail off, from WVU to
the NFL, worked his tail off, and he's turned himself
into one of the best tackles in the National Football League.
Remember watching him play basketball in high school. Just a
tremendous story the whole way around. I mean, we all
root for local kids here in the valley to make
it big, and very few do. And the ones that do,
(54:55):
I mean, we're head over heels happy for them. I'm
head over heels happy for Colton mckibbitt in his family
because signing a deal like that, not only is he
and his family set up for life, but his kids
are set up. It's just a just a tremendous story.
So once again, congratulations to them. And staying on the
line of football high school football season, I miss being
(55:17):
in the valley. I miss the vibe of that high
school football on Fridays and Saturday nights. But I can
tell you this from an NFL perspective being in Cleveland.
My god, I mean, the dysfunction within this organization and
I got to cover it every day. I mean, I'm
right in the middle of it. I'm hosting the Browns
pregame show on WTAM eleven hundred. When you truly start
(55:41):
following this team, I've never I always rooted for the Browns,
but I was never per se a Browns fan.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
I'm a Vikings fan.
Speaker 6 (55:47):
But over the last three and a half years of
covering this team, going to Beria, interviewing them in the
locker room, and then watching them, the misery associated with
the Cleveland Browns is very, very real. If you're a
Browns fan, you've been a lifelong Browns fan, you know
exactly what I'm talking about. Whether it's missed extra points,
miss kicks. They got a phrase here in Cleveland. Oh,
(56:09):
I see only in Cleveland, and we just see it
time and time again.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
Hell, we saw it last week. I mean, Sam, I'm
preaching to the choir.
Speaker 6 (56:17):
You're a lifelong Browns fan, you know exactly what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Oh, welcome to the family. That's all I have to
say on that welcome to the family. It just goes
gets worse and worse than worse. Yeah, I know what
it feels like. I know what it feels like. I've
talked about it many times. But it just makes you tougher.
So hopefully maybe it'll it'll tough and bloom daddy up
a little bit. I know it's a little commentary on sports,
(56:45):
a little you know, on this day, but thought we
could lighten up the heaviness that we've been talking about
for the past hour and a half. So that's that's
kind of why we hit on that a little bit,
because it is it is an amazing, huge acomplishment to
you know, local football stud Colt mckivitt's what he's accomplished
(57:06):
in San Francisco, Uh many only dream of. And I'm
not talking about the contract. I'm not talking about the money.
It's making it to where he's made it. Hard work, dedication, skills,
practice hours, everything that was put into to get him
(57:29):
to this level in his career. You know, we have
to acknowledge that. And like and and like I said,
it's it's not about the dollars. It's not about the contract.
It's about the the accomplishments and and you know it's
a he's a he's a great example for others, not
only in football, but in day to day life because
when you work hard, you accomplish what he has accomplished.
(57:52):
Staying on the lines of positivity, want to give a
congratulations to Ohio County School educator Tiffany Barnes. She was
named West Virginia Teacher of the Year again. Her name
is Tiffany Barnes. She's a special education teacher at Wheeling
Middle Middle School. Barnes beat out four others for the award.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Again.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
Tiffany Barnes named West Virginia Teacher of the Year and
she is a special ed teacher at Wheeling Middle You
otis you know education way better than I do. Special
education is a very specialized field. It has to be hard.
It takes a special type of person. I'm sure to
(58:39):
do that type of teaching.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
It does. I mean, obviously you're dealing with students that
are challenged, whether it be physically mentally, combination of the two,
you know, possibly autistic, you know, possibly dyslexic. You know,
so it takes you have to have you have to
have patience. If there's nothing else. And it's and and
(59:02):
I and I'm you know obviously, you know, with my
family being in education, you know, I've known special AD
teachers and it's there. They are, you know, I don't
want to say they're a different breed, but they are.
You know, they're not your because they truly have to
work hard every day. I mean it's not you can't.
(59:23):
You can't slack. If you're a special AD.
Speaker 2 (59:25):
Teacher, they face challenges absolutely that the traditional educator.
Speaker 4 (59:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yeah, and we don't know.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
You can't just you know, you can't just go into
your classroom and say, okay, hey, I need to run
down the hall to make a phone call. You guys,
you know this is what you need to do, and
you leave them and you leave the room. You can't
do that with you know, you are there in the room.
Or you have to have an aid in the room
at all time. I mean, somebody has to be there
with those with those students.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
And a couple of quick other notes. Wanted to mention
again Today is nine to eleven, the twenty fourth anniversary
the City of Wheeling. Today at noon at Wheelings Heritage Port,
we'll be having a service of a remembrance again that's
happening today at noon, and then also of course Shanksville
hijackers took control of the four commercial airplanes and then
(01:00:14):
the one landed in the field in Shanksville. Thousands were killed,
including the forty passengers and crew aboard United Flight ninety
three that went down in Somerset County. Memorial services will
take place this morning in New York at the Pentagon
and at the Flight ninety three National Memorial in Shanksville.
(01:00:35):
So there are two things here locally, Wheeling Heritage Port
at noon a service of remembrance for nine eleven. We
are less than a minute away from the exact moment
at eight forty six, twenty four years ago, the first
plane hit the World Trade Center. With that being said,
(01:01:01):
we're going to go out a little bit early, a
little bit of just take a moment to stop, think
and remember those that lost their lives starting at eight
forty six on September eleventh, two thousand and one. Welcome back.
(01:01:26):
It's eight point fifty the bloom Daddy Experience OTIS and
SAM News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Before you go into yes, please, I have a question
for you. Okay, and not really to change everything up
about what we're doing today, but in not the light
in any moods, but just to kind of maybe get
a little different direction. If I said, kiss my grits,
what does it remind you of?
Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Oh, somebody used to say that on a TV show. Yes,
I want to say Beverly Hillberlies, but I know that's
not right.
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
The show was Alice the Diner Show yep, okay, with.
Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Victory Back and Linda Lavin Polly Holiday. Was she played
Flow on Alice?
Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Was she the one with the big hair.
Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Big red hair?
Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Yeah? Anyway. She passed away yesterday at the age of
eighty eight. So she started in the first four seasons
of Alice. She earned three Emmy nominations and two Golden Globes.
They launched her in a spin off called Flow, which
ran for two seasons.
Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
So yeah, you said you when you said, I have
a question for you. One thing I want to say
to people, you know, talking about what we've had to
talk about today. It's hard and it's hard to balance
because you don't want to be heavy and doom and
(01:02:49):
gloom the entire show, but you want to lighten things
up respectfully and like otis just did. That's exactly what
I want to want people to understand. Sometimes it's hard.
It's hard to to make that respectful again and and balanced,
(01:03:09):
but yet not be overwhelmingly dark and and and.
Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Well we didn't. We didn't go down the read today
where you know, we're gonna go hot, hard and heavy
for you know, for three quarters of the show and
then come back and try to be funny.
Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
You know, we'll say that for tomorrow because we probably
just need you know, It's it's kind of like that
after seventh I mean nine to eleven. I mean, you
you you can only talk about it for so much.
You can only you can only because it's you know,
it's it's just horrific. You have to talk about it
because it's what's going on. But eventually you have to
(01:03:50):
move on. It's just like, you know, sports were suspended
for a week to two weeks after nine to eleven,
and you know when we baseball made its return to
Yankee Stadium and George Bush came out and through the pit,
it was time. You knew it was time to say, Okay,
we're not gonna forget, but we've got to move on.
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Yeah, look at what the Yankees organization did last night,
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Yeah, and that's why in highly liberal New York.
Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
And one thing I was going to do today was
I was going to mention and read some of the
vile social media commentary that's out there posts, and halfway
I decided not to because that is not what is
needed right now. It is not needed on social media,
(01:04:46):
and we here do not need to give it a
second platform.
Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Yeah, there's no reason. There's no reason to share negativity.
And you know you're gonna be if you go on
social media, you're gonna be able to find it yourself.
And then if it's your friends, you do what you want.
I mean, there are I've seen hundreds of posts that said,
you know, if you've if you've liked, if you've laughed at,
you know, if you support this murder, then just unfriend me,
(01:05:17):
you know, because I do not want to be your friend.
And and and that's true, I mean you can. I mean, look,
I don't agree with everybody. You know, I've never wished
death on anybody. I've made a few comments where I've said,
you know, they could die tomorrow and it would be
a day too late, but I've never wished that upon anybody.
(01:05:41):
So you know, it's it's you know, there's there's there's
a different breed of mentality out there right now, and
it's and it's and it's very disappointing.
Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
We got to keep in mind, you know, back to
to what Charlie did for a living. He had conversations.
And I said this earlier. We have to have the conversations.
We have let politics divide us. I know families that
won't have Thanksgiving together anymore, they won't break bread together
(01:06:16):
because of political differences. We have to get back to
having conversations. And those conversations are not on social media,
they are not through texts. They are face to face.
And one thing I do want to say to those
that are celebrating what was what happened yesterday, look into
(01:06:44):
the eyes of his one year old son who turned
one in may. Look into those eyes and smile, because
reflecting back at you in the innocence of those eyes
of a one year old, the son of the man
(01:07:06):
who lost his life yesterday. Look into those eyes, and
if you're smiling and you're celebrating what happened, you will
see the reflection of evil looking back at you, because
it will be yourself. It will be yourself. That's what
(01:07:31):
we've got to keep in mind. Folks. Two small children
lost their dad. There's a clip out there from two
or three weeks ago. He made an appearance on Fox
and his little daughter is running to him saying, daddy,
and she'll never get to do that again ever, so Otice.
Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Please, Well, you know, you know, do you look at
these people and you know, the celebrating they're the ones
that have the co exist stickers on their bumpers, you know,
and they're all fine, you know, and all we need
to get along and you know, every you know, kumbai ya,
and that's all fine and dandy until you disagree with them.
(01:08:20):
Then they don't want to co exist with or you know,
if you don't, if you don't see the world as
they see it, then you don't belong in their world.
And unfortunately that's you know, it's it's I sit there
and I and I anytime I see a co exist
sticker on a car, I just start laughing because I'm
thinking to myself, you have no intention to coexist with anybody.
(01:08:43):
So you know, it's just they're the hypocrisy is is
just totally amazing. And you know, you know. Look, I mean,
let's be honest. There are people that die every day. Okay,
somebody loses a somebody loses a dad, somebody loses a child,
(01:09:03):
somebody loses a relative, best friend, you know, but it's
not as public as this was. And this, you know,
most of the time when somebody passes away, it's you know,
some sort of a natural cause or maybe a you know,
cancer or something of that nature. This was an assassination.
Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
This was hate.
Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
This was It hits a little different. It does.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
It does. On that note, we are gonna sign off.
We'll be back tomorrow. We'll try and laugh tomorrow. Everybody
stay safe, have a great Thursday. Hug a family member.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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