The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam September 12, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. Rob Wallgate American Policy Roundtable. Jump it
on New with Me real quick?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
What do you make it?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
A social media posts by a council president in Fairview Park,
Michael Kilbain.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
A lot of good people died today. Charlie Kirk wasn't
one of them.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
The unfortunate thing over the past twenty four hours is
that we've realized there are a lot of people around
this country that probably shouldn't have social media accounts. I
think we've seen people fired all over the country for
the things they've said, for.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Their celebratory posts, for.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Their actions and their attitudes. And one thing social media
is done is taken away the personal. You know, people
say things online they would never say in public to
someone's face at a party. They feel like they're behind
a screen. The unfortunate part with all the posts that
have happened due to this situation. It doesn't seem to
be young people that we can dismiss it and say
these are young people.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
These are people that should know way, way better. And
obviously those comments that you read.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Michael Kilbain's an elected official.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I mean, if you live if you live in Fairview Park,
Rob and you're a conservative, you're a right winger. How
how comfortable do you feel right now with Michael Kilbain
being your council president.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Well, it's one of the things we talk about often
at the American Policy Around Table and the work that
we do on educating people with Eye Voters dot com
is the.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Fact of it.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
We kind of get distracted by what happens in the
White House or what happens in Congress. But the people
that are making decisions as counting commissioners, as city council
as township trustees. We need to know each and every
one of those people, and we need to know where
they stand on issues and when they say things like this,
I mean, let's face it, they're held accountable by people
that go to the voting booth. If I'm not mistaken,

(02:09):
if I'm not mistaken. There was another thing that was
put out on social media by him a few years
ago on the mayor basically said a team the police
he answered, he answered, yeah, he answers to the people
of Fairview, so that that's who's going to have a
say on whether he remains on that city council. And
that's why we encourage people stay engaged and be involved.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
And when when things like.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
This are brought up, should our neighbors should know what
our elected officials are saying.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
The FBI's released images of a person of interest in
connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. He looks
like a college age student white. They're working around the clock.
They found what they believed to be the weapon used,
apparently had some messages on it. They're not releasing that.
They were able to They were able to track the
movements of the shooter. They got good video footage of
the individual. You hear lawmakers, I mean Mike Johnson on

(03:00):
the House floor saying we need to tone down the rhetoric.
Nobody's gonna tone anything down. They might do it for
a day or two, it'll ratchet right back up. What
is your big takeaway from all this run.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Well, my big takeaway is We just don't know. We
don't know the facts. We know that Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
We know he was murdered, and we don't know really
why or what the shooter was thinking, or who it was,
or what his motive was. It's clear, based upon the movements,
like you described the exit plan, that the shooter had
the distance.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Able to make the shot.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
This isn't someone who woke up yesterday morning and said,
you know what, I think, I'm gonna go perch myself.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
On a roof and see if I can hit someone.
I mean, this was planned out. This was strategic.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
And we live in a fallen world that has evil
in it and that presented itself yesterday and the only
way to overcome evil is by doing good, and we
got to continue to do good.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
It's sad and it's tragic. Our hearts break for Charlie Kirk,
for his wife and his children. It's a sad day.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
You know. One of the things, you know, all the
statements I've seen, I believe in one of the New
England States may have been Connecticut, the Young Democrats and
the Young Republicans put out a statement together. They put
out a joint statement condemning stuff and like uniting, and
I thought, is this what it takes to get people
on the same page?

Speaker 4 (04:19):
And you talk about the rhetoric.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Listen, the founders warned us about political parties and what
could happen, and we've become so divisive based on what
letters people associate with next to their name and as
it relates to those parties.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'm talking to Rob all Gain American Policy round Table.
I think my big takeaway from all this is we
got to quit labeling everybody. I mean, we don't know
the background of this individual. Let's assume he's far left.
There's eighty six million people who identify themselves as far
left in America out of three hundred and forty million people.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
A lot of those people are far left and.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Their political thinking, Rob, but that doesn't mean they're bad people.
And I keep hearing people say it's the far left fault,
it's the Democrat's fault. No, it's this one individual out
of eighty six million, who is evil, who's mentally rotted
for whatever reasons, who went and did something heinous. I

(05:15):
can't stand Joy Beahort, I can't stand Adam Schiff. I
would never ever condone violence on either one of them
because their grandmothers, their fathers, their brothers.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
People love them.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I mean, I think we got to quit just throwing
everybody in one pot, and we got to start individualizing
these actions we do.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
We have to stop justifying it when people say things
that we agree with the person on things, even though
when they say something or send out that fundraising email,
you kind of look around and be like, are they
really saying those things? Are they really trying to raise
money by using that type of language and that type
of rhetoric. Let's tell the truth and most importantly in
this situation, let's wait till all the facts come out.
I mean, how many times over the past twenty four

(06:01):
hours have we jumped because Cash the Tell's tweeted and said,
oh we have a person of interest or we have
this subject and none of it's come out as of
yet to be true. So in this day of twenty
four to seven media access, unfortunately, we're going to have
to be patient and we know everyone involves going to
do their job and we will know the facts.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
It's just going to take it there too. All right.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Always appreciate talking to you, Rob, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Hey, thanks for having me in an update this morning
on the person of interest with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
There is video footage released from the FBI of the
individual crawling down and jumping from the building where the
deadly shot was taken from. That is out there. They're

(06:50):
asking people to, you know, call look at the pictures
if in any way, shape or form this person is
familiar to you. They of course are we asking you
to contact the FBI. Back to what bloom Daddy was
talking about, we have to stop. I said that in
my video Wednesday. The rhetoric, the vile labeling from folks

(07:18):
on social media, from people in the press on both sides,
has to stop. When I saw the video, when it
was when it came to light on the house floor
that he was dead and people were dropping the F
bomb people they had asked for a moment of silence

(07:39):
and prayer, and people in that house think about that.
This is in Washington, d C. These are the leaders
of our country, the leaders of their states, and they
are chanting, they are saying no, no, and they start
yelling about guns and everything else at that specific moment
in time. I understand stand the gun topic is a

(08:02):
heated topic, but at that specific moment in time, it
was about the loss of life. And that shows you
the level of division that we have gotten to in
this country that on the house floor there is outrage
in screaming because it is being asked for a moment
of silence about a young man who made a difference

(08:27):
in this country, a moment of silence, and that is
the knee jerk reaction. And for the people that are
losing their jobs, that are being fired fired, let go
whatever way you want to sugarcoat it.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Good.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
There has to be consequences at this point in time
for this vile way of thinking. I don't know otis I.
You know, yesterday I had many conversations about the evil
acts that happened on Wednesday, And still now I don't

(09:03):
know the answer to a lot of the questions that
I've been asked, don't know how to address a lot
of things because there are no answers when something like
this happens. There's never going to be the right answer
with this type of event. It's unfortunate, It's really unfortunate.
But I think that leads into what I want to

(09:25):
talk about next after the break. You know, today is
the twelfth of September, and I posted this on our
Facebook page, and I want you to get involved. Tell
us your most uplifting and patriotic memory post nine to eleven.
Let's kind of take this and let's go positive. Seven sixteen.

(09:49):
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back seven twenty two
on this Friday morning. You're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience Otis and Sam here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
What a week.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
It's been a long week. We finally made it to Friday, folks.
Yesterday was Yesterday was heavy. Yesterday was a hard subject,
hard things to talk about. Listen. So what we did
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(10:37):
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(10:59):
I just didn't feel like yesterday we could we could
do it. It just didn't make sense to try and
push that in there with with the conversations we were having.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
No, it wasn't it wasn't a chance to win day.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
No, just just was not. And and here's the thing,
after yesterday thinking about stuff, I had a really great
conversation last night in an event. I went to somebody
I've never met before. She was lovely and she recognized
my voice, and you know, we talked about the show

(11:34):
yesterday and talked about the events of the week and
the fact that yesterday was September eleventh. And you know,
after talking to this lady who who said, you know
a voice like Charlie Kirk, and this the honoring of
September eleventh. We need to take today in moving forward

(11:58):
and reflect upon what was different on September twelfth, two
thousand and one than how we are reacting to the
Charlie Kirk assassination and how some people are reacting. Let's
say that we need to continue or bring back unity

(12:18):
in this country. We need to bring back pride, patriotism,
carry the torch that Charlie Kirk stood for, which was
making this country better, which was being proud of being
an American, being proud of the red, white and blue,

(12:40):
standing up for our servicemen, having open free speech conversations.
And that's what I want to do today. But I
want to reflect on what are your greatest memories post
nine to eleven?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
For me?

Speaker 6 (12:55):
I've got I've got two, which Otis you mentioned yesterday
obviously was the Yankees' first pitch. If you go back
and watch that video, which I did this morning, it
still resonates, it still brings chills tears my eyes that

(13:19):
those are the types of things we need to see
right now. We need to experience. We need to talk
to our friends and neighbors, appreciate our friends and neighbors.
Fly your American flag. That was my other, my second memory,

(13:44):
which you couldn't go anywhere without seeing the flag, little
ones from your porch, from flagpoles. People put up flagpoles
in their front yards. You couldn't get flags at a
certain point. I remember, I remember going to stores and
they were sold out of the American flag. We need

(14:08):
moments like that again, Otis, what are some of your
memories post nine to eleven.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
I mean, I just remember, you know a lot of
the news coverage. I remember, you know, people in the
New York, New Jersey area coming together and then the
you know, I mean realistically in all over the country,
but I mean they specifically, you know, the news went
to those to the big city where the trade centers were,

(14:37):
because you know, people there had family that worked their friends,
you know, whether they were fireman, policeman, just employees inside
the World Trade Center. And the fact that the unity
was that they wanted to get the people that did this.
That's that's one of the bigger things that I remember,
like on September twelfth and thirteenth, and then as the

(15:00):
weeks progressed, and then you had President Bush throw out
the first pitch at the Yankee game to bring kind
of like like hey, let's it's time to you know,
move on and get back to normal. We don't we're
not going to forget, but we do have to move on.
So and that's hard, and that was like that was
like giving everybody the okay to say it's okay to

(15:21):
get it.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
And that's hard because most of you know, when is
it okay? That's when people have a lot of you know,
when when is it okay to.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
Well everything stopped football stop right the worst, we stopped hockey, Nascar,
I mean, everything stopped.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
Oh you knew. I remember. I remember sitting in my
college apartment and when MTV went to national news coverage,
and so did ESPN and like Sports Center, it was like, Okay,
this is not your everyday news story. I mean, you
knew it wasn't. But when it goes to that point
when every network, every channel on your cable was news,

(16:03):
it was like something we had never seen before. But
like I said, I want I want to take the
solemness of yesterday, flip it on head a little bit today,
and let's go back to and let's talk about what
unified us at that point in time. We need to
see that return, We need that to come back to us.
Seven twenty eight, you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience

(16:25):
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Former Congressman bloom Daddy Show political analyst Jim or Nacy
joining me.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Now.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Jim, I want to go over some numbers for you,
because obviously we're going to be talking about the Charlie
Kirk situation, but I want to hit you with some
numbers for us is that okay?

Speaker 8 (16:46):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (16:47):
All right?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Polling data from twenty ten, fifty percent of Republicans forty
percent of Democrats VOOT viewed each other very negatively.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
That was twenty ten, fifty percent of Republicans forty percent
of Democrats. Twenty twenty five, same poll, seventy percent of
Democrats seventy percent of Republicans had very negative views of
each other. So I mean, you're talking about twenty percent
increase for Republicans thirty percent increase for Democrats. Now, last year,

(17:20):
more than ninety four hundred direct threats concerning statements were
made against members of Congress, their families and staff, and
the Capitol complex. That's according to US Capitol Police. That's
more than double the number in twenty seventeen. By the
end of this calendar year, the US Capitol Police say
they're on track to work through fourteen thousand threat assessment
cases involving lawmakers. Social threats against federal judges doubled between

(17:45):
fiscal twenty twenty one and twenty three, climbing to four
hundred and fifty seven from two hundred and twenty four.
That's from the US Marshall Service. Those numbers indicate how
dangerous the political climate has become and continues to increase,
do they not?

Speaker 8 (18:06):
Well, Boom Daddy again, thank you for having me. But
sure I lived that. I mean, you're talking about the numbers.
When I was in Congress, I started in twenty ten
and left in twenty twenty, so almost ten years. And
I saw that. And it's interesting because when I was there,
you know, at first, when you worked with a Democrat,
that was okay. As time went on, if you were

(18:26):
seen working with a Democrat, or a Democrat was seen
working with a Republican, it became problematic. And today I
don't think you see Republicans or Democrats working with each
other very much at all. So just in that fifteen
year span, we're seeing a political climate that, even in
the heart of trying to get things done, they're not

(18:48):
talking to each other. But then along that whole period
of time, we have a Gabby Giffert shooting back in
twenty eleven. You know, it came to a point, even
when I was making appearances around the state of Ohio,
there were times where we would have to have a
full police force around the building just to go to

(19:11):
these events. And that was five, six, seven years ago,
so times have even gotten worse now. It's interesting. My
wife said to me yesterday, aren't you glad you're not
in politics anymore? From that standpoint? And the truth of
it is yes, because it has become more violent, it
has become more threatening, and it has become a situation

(19:33):
that makes it very difficult for a lot of people
to say they want to serve in these positions because
you know that in many cases we are so polarized
now that you're putting yourself in a position of danger
depending on what side you take. And let's face it,
we are a nation that is seriously divided.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
At the same time. I think blanket statement by both
parties are tremendously hurtful. I mean, we don't know the
background of his shooter. The assumption is that he is
a left wing liberal, because Charlie Kirk obviously a conservative
on college campuses.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
So that's the assumption. Let's assume that is correct. All right.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
There's about eighty four million people out of three hundred
and forty million people in the United States who identify
as liberal, very liberal. Yet one guy who obviously has
gone insane or is just evil should not be the
face of eighty four other million who might have drastically

(20:41):
different political views, but yet would never go to that
length to.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I guess uphold him.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
You know, I got a call yesterday and that's the
first thing. Somebody told me there had to be some
left wing crazy person. I said, hold on a second,
we don't know that. And I go, and that's the problem.
We still we're judging right away. I said, let's find
out who this individual is. Let's find out a little
more about him. Now, I would have to believe my
first assumption is whoever is has mental illness. And that's

(21:13):
the real key. I don't care we're on the right
side or the left side. I guarantee you when we
figure out who this individual is, we are going to
find out there was some mental illness in the back,
in his background or her background. And that's really the
key to all of these shootings. We seem to see
the same trace of mental illness.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, Jim, to your point, you had a shooting yesterday
in Colorado, sixteen year old kid shot two people dead
at school.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
You had what was it a couple of.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Days ago, the the individual on the commuter train that
stabbed death the Ukrainian girl for no reason.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
You've got the assassin of Charlie Kirk. Whatever. The motivation, motivation, anybody, anything,
can motivate somebody who's sick in a head.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
You've got three different individuals here who probably had three
different motivations for what they did. But we're talking about
the same thing, people getting radicalized or losing their mind
for whatever reason.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
Well, you're one hundred percent right. And one of the
problems that we really have to address. And we talked
about this a lot when I was in Congress. You
have to go back. I mean Ronald Reagan's administration actually
said we're not going to pay any more for mental
illness facilities. And what's interesting about my career, I actually
was in the healthcare business in the early stages of

(22:37):
my career, and I operated a mental health facility that
was totally closed down during the years we were operating it.
And where do you think those patients went. I mean, honestly,
they went. They went out on the street, and today
they're either on the street or in jail. They're in prison,

(23:00):
but they're not being taken care of. And I think
before we ever I heard you earlier on your show
talking about guns. It's normally not the gun. It's the
person holding the gun. And until we understand that mental
illness is growing in our country and it's out there,
and until we decide how we're going to take care
of it, we're going to continue to have these type

(23:22):
of shootings going forward.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Well, and Jim back to the point of seventy percent
of Republicans view the Democrats very negatively. Seventy percent of
Democrats view Republicans negatively. You take a look at both
sides reacting to the Charlie Kirk murder. I mean, you've
got the right, you know, whether he warranted of this
or not, but they're holding him up like the second

(23:44):
coming of Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
You know, they've chosen their side. It's like you took
out one of our own.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
And you've got the left basically saying, yeah, that was terrible.
But when you go around provoking and running your mouth,
what do you think is going to happen. It's almost
like it's like to mafia families fighting over turf and
if you harm one of ours, we're coming for you.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yeah, and that's inexcuseable. Again, I appreciate you talking about
this because this is really important. I do think some
of these problems come from both sides, and the majority
of the issue is social media. If you look at
some of these social media posts that have occurred just
in the last twenty four hours, some of them are

(24:34):
so ridiculous, some of them are so unbelievable that somebody
would have the I mean, I don't know, I mean,
would even have the willingness to post some of this stuff.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Let me tell you, yeah, yeah, let me take you
to this. Okay, what's you're coming on? This social media
post by Fairview Park City Council President Michael Kilbain.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yesterday, a lot of good people died today. Charlie Kirk
wasn't one of them.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
How irresponsible is at from a city council president.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Well, that is irresponsible. I actually represented Fairview Park, very
Fairview Park was very democratic. I'm assuming he's a Democrat.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I'm assuming he's very far left according to what people said.
But still he's he How does he what's he based on?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Just because Charlie Kirk was a Christian and a conservative,
So all of a sudden, he's not a good person.
And that's the views that we're dealing with today.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Absolutely, and people think that they could say anything on
social media, which again we do have First Amendment rights,
but the First Amendment rights you're only go so far.
It's almost like saying, as we all know, you can't
stand in a crowd of building and say fire and
get away with the First Amendment right. I don't think
we should be taking away someone's First Amendment right, but

(25:52):
people need to have common sense when it comes to
First Amendment rights. And these are the issues that we're
really debating. But again it is even greater now because
of social media. I'll go back to Congress. The biggest
issue in Congress is today they started televising every hearing
and every time somebody came to the podium in Congress.

(26:15):
If you go back, things changed because friends realized that
they could say things about other individuals and they get
TV ratings, they raise money, they get all these positive
issues which really aren't positive. And it's one of the
reasons why the best way to stop people from talking

(26:35):
about each other is get to know each other. And
we don't have that happening anymore in society as well.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Well. Put Jim, thanks for your time today.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
Welcome back to seven to fifty one. The Blue Daddy experience.
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder,
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(27:13):
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Speaker 7 (27:30):
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Speaker 6 (27:46):
I don't know if you can hear me.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Where's your head I left my coffee out there. I
was gonna run out and.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
Get this, okay, Well, because when I was talking, I
was I was talking about what you told me about
and I looked up and you didn't have your headphones on.
I thought, oh eye, but he didn't hear what I said.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
I heard you here. It's the walls, aren't that thick? Okay, well, hey,
they're not as thick as your head.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Oh all right, there we go, here we go.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
There he is, I didn't have any cheap shots yesterday
make up.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
Make up for lost time.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
And I'm not one to talk because my head's thicker
than thick.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
It's quite large too, and I mean in size, I
mean ego, I'm just digging my whole bigger. I'm just
gonna stop.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
That's that would be the best thing you could ever do.
Stop talking.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
Okay, nice, okay, so wow.

Speaker 7 (28:44):
And at this weekend, we will finalize our list for
Kirk for suggestions for ice cream, and so we will
post a list the next week of five flavors that
we want you to vote on, and then he will
Kirk make a batch of whatever we whatever you the
listeners choose or attempt to.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Yes, yeah, we're not putting what.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
Was the You're gonna put the pressure on Kurt, like
if it's something you can't it can't be done. If
it can't be well, Hags isn't gonna make them.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
It is.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
But yeah, you know, you know, like like like a
chili lime. I think that's going to be on the list.
We might have the Margarita. Wasn't that one, I believe,
So yeah, yeah, and then I think, you know, we'll
throw one of those ones out there, like the b
l T or the or the chicken bacon ranch. You know,
we hit a couple of those out there.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
That there was the what was the one? We had
bacon cinnamon caramel, Bacon caramel.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
So you had that was on your list.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
It was almost like a like a sound like a donut.
It would be a great donut flavor too. So yeah,
we're going to be putting that together.

Speaker 7 (29:53):
So we'll have five flavors. Us listeners will vote and
then we'll present that to Kirk and if he can't
do number one, then we'll go to number two. But
one of those five will be tried.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
Okay, hopefully hopefully hopefully. Well, then we have an announcement.
We do have an announcement. Okay, So we are doing
something new, folks, teachers. We are going to highlight teachers. Teachers.

(30:29):
We are asking you to nominate a deserving teacher. Once
a month, we're going to have a winner and it's
Teacher of the month, and that teacher of the month
will be chosen at the end of the month. So
you have the entire month to register your favorite teacher

(30:50):
on our website, which is NewsRadio eleven seventy dot com.
I will share that link on our social media. But
all you do is you can and you nominate your
favorite teacher, or you.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Can have The thing is talk to your children, yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, and say, you know, if your if
your child comes home and he says, oh, you know,
mister so and so or miss so and so or
Miss so and so, is you know my favorite teacher
blah blah blah, then maybe ask him why and then nominate.
Nominate that person.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Or if it's your husband or wife and they're a teacher,
well come on now. So yeah, that that is what
we're doing.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
And this is gonna go on all and remember I
know some teachers, so if I don't think they're qualified,
they're not winning. That's nice. I'm kidding.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
You're gonna act amount.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
Yes, yeah, I'm gonna grade them.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
So we're gonna do We're kicking it off this month,
so we're gonna have our first winner at the end
of this month, and then we're gonna do this through
the entire school year. So nominate your teacher. It's real simple.
All you do is you get our website NewsRadio eleven
seventy dot com. Like I said, I will put that
up on our Facebook page and then here's the thing
they win. It's not Listen, the recognition is great, don't

(32:01):
get me wrong. That's great. But they are also gonna
win a prize pack. And we have wonderful people that
have stepped up who are supporting this. We have got
the Dutton Cattle Company, we have got our friends at
Newbridge Academy. Of course Kirk's Homemade ice Cream NB Cafe,
which is right across the street from us, our neighbors.

(32:22):
They have quite the array over there of hot coffee,
drinks and some food. And then of course our friends
at River City. So it's gonna be a nice little one,
nice little price package. What's that smirk?

Speaker 7 (32:36):
I was scrolling because I have Facebook up right here.
Something popped up and we may have to present this
to Kirk. Okay, it is a perrogy bacon, egg and
cheese sandwich on a pretzel butt.

Speaker 6 (32:52):
Okay, say that again.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
A Perogi bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on a pretzel bun.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Oh, that sounds like a heart attack on a bun.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
I didn't say it would be healthy. Wow, I just
said that would that looks like it actually looks good.
I'm looking at the sandwich and I'm thinking, holy crap.
I don't know if I wan't on a pretzel button,
but I could do it on it like an English
muffin would be good.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
On our text line, we just got a note. Oh
we hope I hope Kirk participates for the Christmas show
this year.

Speaker 7 (33:30):
Oh game to sing Yeah, Kerk Gauntlet's been thrown.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
We got a new suggestion for ice cream too, apple pie,
apple pie ice cream. So register for your chance to
win a half gallon of ice cream on our text
line seven zero four seven zero seven fifty eight. On
this Friday, you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience samon
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Speaker 1 (33:56):
D number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is no 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 3 (34:16):
News Radio eleven seventy It's the Blue Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six let's get this hour rolling. Rob Allgate
American Polsy Roundtable, jumping.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
On here with me real quick, Twick, what do you
make of a.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Social media post by a council president in Fairview Park
Michael Kilbain. A lot of good people died today. Charlie
Kirk wasn't one of them.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
The unfortunate thing over the past twenty.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Four hours is that we've realized there are a lot
of people around this country that probably shouldn't have social
media accounts. I think we've seen people fired all over
the country for the things they've said, for their celebratory posts,
for their actions and their attitudes. And one thing social
media has done is taken away the personal You know,

(34:59):
people say things online they would never say in public
to someone's face at a party. They feel like they're
behind a screen. The unfortunate part with all the posts
that have happened due to this situation, it doesn't seem
to be young people that we can dismiss it and
say these are young people. These are people that should
know way way better. And obviously those comments that you read.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Michael Kilbain's an elected official.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
I mean, if you live in Fairview Park, Rob and
you're a conservative, you're a right winger. How comfortable do
you feel right now with Michael Kilbain being your council president.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Well, it's one of the things we talk about often
at the American Policy Around Table and the work that
we do on educating people with the eigh voters dot
com is the fact of it. We kind of get
distracted by what happens in the White House or what
happens in Congress. But the people that are making decisions
as count of commissioners, as city councils, township trustees, we
need to know each and every one of those people,

(35:55):
and we need to know where they stand on issues,
and when they say things like this, I mean, let's
face it, they're held accountable by people that go to
the voting booth. If I'm not mistaken, If I'm not mistaken.
There was another thing that was put out on social
media by him a few years ago on the mayor
basically said.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Listen about team the police.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
He answered, he answered, yeah, he answers to the people
of Fairview, so that that's who's going to have a
say on whether he remains on that city council.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
And that's why we encourage people stay.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Engaged and be involved, and when when things like this
are brought up, our neighbors should know what our elected
officials are saying.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
The FBI's released images of a person of interest in
connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. He looks
like a college age student white. They're working around the clock.
They found what they believed to be the weapon used,
apparently had some messages on it. They're not releasing that.
They were able to They were able to track the
movements of the shooter. They got good video footage of
the individual. You hear lawmakers, I mean Mike Johnson on

(36:56):
the House floor saying we need to tone down the rhetoric.
Nobody's going to Tony in the down. They might do
it for a day or two, it'll ratchet right back up.
What is your big takeaway from all.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
This run, Well, my big takeaway is we just don't know.
We don't know the facts. We know that Charlie Kirk
was murdered.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
We know he was murdered, and we don't know really
why or what the shooter was thinking, or who it was,
or what his motive was. It's clear based upon the
movements like you described, the exit plan, that the shooter
had the distance able to make the shot. This isn't
someone who woke up yesterday morning and said, you know what,
I think, I'm gonna go perch myself on a roof
and see if I can hit someone.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
I mean, this was planned out. This was strategic.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
And we live in a fallen world that has evil
in it and that presented itself yesterday and the only
way to overcome evil is by doing good, and we
got to continue to do good.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
It's sad and it's tragic. Our hearts break for Charlie Kirk,
for his wife and his children. It's a sad day.
You know.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
One of the things, you know, all the statements I've seen,
I believe in one of the New England states may
have been Connecticut, the Young Democrats and the Young Republicans
put out a statement together. They put out a joint
statement condemning stuff and like uniting. And I thought, is
this what it takes to get people on the same page.
And you talk about the rhetoric, Listen, the founders warned

(38:19):
us about political parties and what could happen, and we've
become so divisive based on what letters people associate with
next to their name and as it relates to those parties.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
I'm talking to Rob all Gain American Policy round Table.
I think my big takeaway from all this is we
got to quit labeling everybody.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
I mean, we don't know the background.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Of this individual. Let's assume he's far left. There's eighty
six million people who identify themselves as far left in
America out of three hundred and forty million people.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
A lot of those people are far left.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
And their political thinking, Rob, but that doesn't mean they're
bad people. And I keep hearing people say it's the
far left's fault, it's the democrats fault. No, it's this
one individual out of eighty six million, who is evil,
who's mentally rotted for whatever reasons, who went and did
something heinous. I can't stand Joy Bahort, I can't stand

(39:13):
Adam Schiff. I would never ever condone violence on either
one of them, because their grandmothers, their fathers, their brothers.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
People love them.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I mean, I think we got to quit just throwing
everybody in one pot, and we got to start individualizing
these actions we do.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
And we have to stop justifying it when people say
things that we agree with the person on things even
though when they say something or send out that fundraising email,
you kind of look around and be like, are they
really saying those things?

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Are they really.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Trying to raise money by using that type of language
and that type of rhetoric. Let's tell the truth, and
most importantly in this situation, let's wait till all the
facts come out. I mean, how many times over the
past twenty four hours have we jumped because Cash the
Tells tweeted and said, oh, we have a person of
interest or we have this subject and none of it's
come out as.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Of yet to be true.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
So in this day of twenty four to seven media access, unfortunately,
we're going to have to be patient and we know
everyone involves going to do their job and we will
know the facts.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
It's just going to take it there or too.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
All right, Always appreciate talking to you, Rob, Thank.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
You, Hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (40:26):
This story is going to the murder of Charlie Kirk.
It's going to be dissected in so many ways because
there are so many ways, there are so many topics
to hit when it comes to this, and of course,
which is you know, the rhetoric, the name calling, the labeling,
and one of the things with this particular suspect, and

(40:48):
it's breaking news currently right now according to President Trump,
who is sitting on the couch on Fox News right
now in front of me. The headline reads, we have
the Kirk suspect in custody. Don't have any other details
than that, but according to President Trump sitting on the couch,
currently have the Kirk suspect in custody. As we hear more,

(41:13):
of course, we will bring that to you. The other
thing with this, along with the name calling, the rhetoric,
it's people want answers, And I truly, truly hope this
person who whatever this person's name, does not do suicide

(41:35):
by copp suicide himself, needs to face the consequences of
his actions, needs to look into the eyes of Charlie
Kirk's children, of his spouse, of his wife. Too many
take the easy way out and we never get conversations, answers, anything.

(41:56):
I hope that does not happen. And again, one of
the biggest questions is, you know, why is this affecting?
He was thirty one years old. He was an amazing talent,
amazing talent for his gift of speech in debating. Don't
care what side. He had a gift, and I think
a lot of people are left asking, you know, where

(42:16):
would he have gone? What would he have accomplished? And
I think that's one of the biggest questions that people
are left with and people are struggling with. So it's tough.
It's tough. But this, of course, this conversation is going
to continue for weeks on.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
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Speaker 7 (42:46):
They're they're playing in like San Jose before they Las Vegas,
so they will be the Las Vegas A's before it's
all said and done.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
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WWVA Welcome back eight twenty one, the one Daddy experienced

(43:23):
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy ww VA. I wanted
to go to our text line, you know, mentioned it
the in the first hour of the show yesterday was rough.
Of course, we have the Charlie Kirk, we have nine
to eleven celebration, not celebration memorial, remember remembrance. There you go,

(43:46):
and in the opposite of that happening, you know, moving
on today, I just brought up, you know, just in general,
there was you know, we are the United States of America.
Pose nine to eleven. You saw unity return, We saw

(44:07):
you know, the first pitch we saw at the Yankees
with at the time President Bush. You know, there were
many Bruce Springsteen put out a song. There was a
lot of culture things that happened that was about patriotism,
that was about you know, all of that. We need
that to return, We need that back. The flag is

(44:30):
a symbol of our nation. It's not a symbol of
one particular political party that for some reason some people
see it that way. We need to return to being
a united country. And I put that out and I
wanted one of some responses. Got this from Nick from Bellsville, says,

(44:50):
I was in fifth grade when the towers were attacked.
I remember how patriotic enclosed the country felt. In the weeks, months,
and even years after the attacks. Flags were everywhere, everyone
on the same page, in just a general sense of
pride in our nation. The country felt strong and secure.

(45:10):
We've lost that feeling since then, but I'll never forget
that period of time. I just hope we can get
back to some semblance of that in our country very soon,
very well, said Nick from Bellsville. This one no name,
but I don't know if this is considered a post
nine to eleven patriarch event. I think it is, though.

(45:33):
That would be the opening of the new World Trade
Center building near the site of the old ones. It
proved that America will not be beaten down by cowardice terrorists.
I agree, And of course there's things like the bud
Light commercial, which they only played once during the Super Bowl.
The whole point to this is we need to we

(45:53):
need to get back to that feeling. We can't be
throwing things out, we can't be throwing labels, all of that.
We need to get back to that. And that was
one thing I wanted to focus on today, just wanted
to open up that conversation, just wanted to to make
that point. It's a hard time. It's been a hard
time for a while, and we need to start having

(46:14):
conversations like this too. No more finger point, you know,
we can't point the finger, we can't jump to conclusions.
We need to start having these positive, angled conversations. Just
an update, as we brought to you earlier, President Trump
is sitting down with Fox News this morning. Currently the
headline rings across the bottom of the screen. We have

(46:35):
Kirk suspect in custody. No more has really been released
on that, but just an update there for you. Some
local things I wanted to hit on. Going back to
the High a High County flooding that happened in June,
President Trump has approved federal disaster relief funds for residents

(46:59):
of Marian and a Hio counties. The Governor Morrissey announced
yesterday that all the grants will help local nonprofits as
well as local and state governments, with funds for emergency
responds and the trash removal. The governor called the aid
critical to rebuilding the region. Rightfully, so, there's a lot
of people that have been working very, very hard tire

(47:20):
tirelessly in the cleanup. You know, once it's it's a
shame that once something leaves the headlines, it's not top
of mind. It's not fixed. It's not fixed. You know,
we have a wonderful relationship with the United Way of
the Upper High Valley and I have had many conversations
with the executive director, and they are to the point

(47:42):
where they are in need of donations when it comes
to very large items, whether it's dry wall, flooring for rebuilding,
repairing a lot of these flood stricken homes. They are
to that point. You know, we initially kick in when
it's the bottled water and clothing and that because that's

(48:03):
the easier in the immediate needs. Now to the point
where they need things like that. So one thing to
keep in mind, if you have anything, if you work
in that, if you work in that world of construction,
heating and coaling, plumbing, any of that kind of stuff.
The United Way, in the other nonprofits that are working

(48:23):
with the victims of the flood, they need your help
with that kind of stuff, So please reach out to them.
Kind of went off there, but you know, it made
me think of that.

Speaker 8 (48:32):
Then.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
Also authorities in Belmont County are warning of severe consequences
for any threats made to local schools. There were two
threats that were made on Tuesday at one local school
law enforcement that was in Saint Clairsville. Law enforcement who
responded later determined the threats were a hoax, but school
had to be dismissed for the day. Belmont County Prosecutor

(48:54):
Kevin Flanagan says anyone caught making such threats can be
convicted of a and a high level felony at that. Yeah,
that was that was a scary switch situation on Tuesday
out in Saint Clair's. Well, there's the no, don't no
need for anything like that. It's not a joke, folks,

(49:15):
it's it's not a joke. In this day and age,
any type of threat is not a joke. And we
can't take it as a joke anymore. You can't. I mean,
it's immediate, immediate action. So not funny, not funny. And
in regards to the flood September twenty second.

Speaker 7 (49:35):
Yeah, obviously the floods. You know, if you haven't filled
out anything for FEMA yet, the deadline for applying is near,
so September twenty second is the last day that applications
can be submitted to FEMA. They can be submitted online,
by phone, or in person at the Disaster Recovery Center
at the Philadelphia Community Center. So if you haven't, if

(49:56):
you've been affected by the flooding and you haven't registered
for FEMA, I suggest doing it because if nothing else,
I mean, it.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
May not be.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
Enough to cover what you lost, but every little bit helps.

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Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Former Congressman bloom Daddy Show political analyst Jim or Nacy
joining me. Now, Jim, I want to go over some
numbers for you, because obviously we're going to be talking
about the Charlie Kirk situation.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
But I want to hit you with some numbers for us.
Is that okay?

Speaker 8 (51:23):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (51:24):
All right?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Polling data from twenty ten, fifty percent of Republicans, forty
percent of Democrats VOOT viewed each other very negatively.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (51:32):
That was twenty ten, fifty percent of Republicans, forty percent
of Democrats. Twenty twenty five, same poll, seventy percent of Democrats,
seventy percent of Republicans had very negative views of each other.
So I mean you're talking about twenty percent increase for Republicans,
thirty percent increase for Democrats. Now, last year, more than

(51:57):
ninety four hundred direct threats concerning statements were made against
members of Congress, their families and staff, and the Capitol complex.
That's according to the US Capitol Police. That's more than
double the number in twenty seventeen. By the end of
this calendar year, the US Capitol Police say they're on
track to work through fourteen thousand threat assessment cases involving lawmakers.

(52:19):
Social threats against federal judges doubled between fiscal twenty twenty
one and twenty three, climbing to four hundred and fifty
seven from two hundred and twenty four. That's from the
US Marshall Service.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Those numbers indicate how dangerous the political climate has become
and continues to increase, do they.

Speaker 8 (52:41):
Not, Well, Boom Daddy again, thank you for having me.
But sure I lived that. I mean, you're talking about
the numbers. When I was in Congress. I started in
twenty ten and left in twenty twenty, so almost ten years.
And I saw that. And it's interesting because when I
was there, you know, at first, when you worked with
a Democrat, that was okay. As time went on, if

(53:03):
you were seen working with a Democrat, or a Democrat
was seen working with a Republican, it became problematic. And
today I don't think you see Republicans or Democrats working
with each other very much at all. So just in
that fifteen year span, we're seeing a political climate that
even in the heart of trying to get things done,

(53:25):
they're not talking to each other. But then along that
whole period of time, we have a Gabby Giffert shooting
back in twenty eleven. You know, it came to a
point even when I was making appearances around the state
of Ohio, there were times where we would have to
have a full police force around the building just to

(53:49):
go to these events. And that was five, six, seven
years ago. So times have even gotten worse now. It's
interesting my wife said to me yesterday, aren't you glad
you're not in politics anymore? From that standpoint? And the
truth of it is, yes, because it has become more violent,
it has become more threatening, and it has become a

(54:10):
situation that makes it very difficult for a lot of
people to say they want to serve in these positions
because you know that in many cases it is we
are so polarized now that you're putting yourself in a
position of danger depending on what side you take. And
let's face it, we are a nation that is seriously divided.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
At the same time, I think blanket statements by both
parties are tremendously hurtful.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
I mean we don't know the background of his shooter.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
The assumption is that he is a left wing liberal,
because Charlie Kirk obviously a conservative on college campuses.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
So that's the assumption. Let's assume that is correct. All right.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
There's about eighty four million people out of three hundred
twenty million people in the United States who identify as liberal,
very liberal. Yet one guy who obviously has gone insane
or is just evil should not be the face of
eighty four other million who might have drastically different political

(55:19):
views but yet would never go to that length to.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I guess uphold them.

Speaker 8 (55:26):
You know, I got a call yesterday and that's the
first thing. Somebody told me there had to be some
left wing crazy person. I said, hold on a second,
we don't know that. And I go, and that's the problem.
We start judging right away. I said, let's find out
who this individual is. Let's find out a little more
about him. Now, I would have to believe my first
assumption is whoever is has mental illness. And that's the

(55:51):
real key. I don't care we're on the right side
or the left side. I guarantee you, when we figure
out who this individual is, we are going to find
out there were some mental illness in the back, in
his background or her background, and that's really the key
to all of these shootings. We seem to see the
same trace of mental illness.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Well, Jim, to your point, you had a shooting yesterday
in Colorado, sixteen year old kid shot two people dead
at school.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
You had what was it a couple of days ago.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
The the individual on the commuter train that stabbed death
the Ukrainian girl for no reason.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
You've got the assassin of Charlie Kirk. Whatever.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
The motivation, motivation, anybody, anything can motivate somebody who's sick
in the head.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
You've got three different individuals here who probably had three
different motivations for what they did. But we're talking about
the same thing, people getting radicalized or losing their mind
for whatever reason.

Speaker 8 (56:51):
Well, you're one hundred percent right, and one of the
problems that we really have to address. And we talked
about this a lot when I was in Congress. You
have to go back, I mean, Ronald and administration actually
said we're not going to pay anymore for mental illness facilities.
And what's interesting about my career, I actually was in
the healthcare business and in the early stages of my career,

(57:15):
and I operated a mental health facility that was totally
closed down during the years we were operating it. And
where do you think those patients went. I mean, honestly
they went. They went out on the street. And today
they're either on the street, they're in jail, they're in prison,

(57:37):
but they're not being taken care of. And I think
before we ever start, I heard you earlier on your
show talking about guns. It's normally not the gun, it's
the person holding the gun. And until we understand that
mental illness is growing in our country and it's out there,
and until we decide how we're going to take care
of it, we're going to continue to have these type

(57:58):
of shootings going forward.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Well, and Jim back to the point of seventy percent
of Republicans view the Democrats very negatively. Seventy percent of
Democrats view Republicans negatively. You take a look at both
sides reacting to the Charlie Kirk murder. I mean, you've
got you've got the right, you know, whether he warranted
of this or not, but they're holding him up like

(58:20):
the second coming of Ronald Reagan. You know, they've chosen
their side. It's like you took out one of our own,
and you've got the Left basically saying, yeah, that was terrible.
But when you go around provoking and running your mouth,
what do you think is gonna happen?

Speaker 2 (58:36):
It's it's almost like it's like to.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Mafia families fighting over turf and if you harm one
of ours, we're coming for you.

Speaker 8 (58:48):
Yeah, and that's inexcuseable. Again, I appreciate you talking about
this because this is really important. I do think some
of these problems come from both sides, and the majority
of the issue is social media. If you look at
some of these social media posts that have occurred just
in the last twenty four hours, some of them are

(59:11):
so ridiculous. Some of them are so unbelievable that somebody
would have the uh I mean, I don't know, I mean,
would even have the willingness to post some of this
stuff on.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
All the time. Yeah, yeah, let me take you to this.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Okay, what's your comment on this social media post by
Fairview Park City Council President Michael Kilbain.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yesterday, a lot of.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Good people died today. Charlie Kirk wasn't one of them.
How irresponsible is that? From a City Council president.

Speaker 8 (59:40):
Well, that is irresponsible. I actually represented Fairview Park. Very
Fairview Park was very democratic. I'm assuming he's a democrat.
I'm assuming.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
He's very far left according to what people said. But
still he's he How does he what's he based on?
Just because Charlie Kirk was a Christian and a conservative,
so all of a sudden, he's not a good person.
And that's the views that we're dealing with today.

Speaker 8 (01:00:08):
Absolutely, and people think that they could say anything on
social media, which again, we do have First Amendment rights,
but the First Amendment rights you're to only go so far.
It's almost like saying, as we all know, you can't
stand in a crowd of building and save fire and
get away with the First Amendment right. I don't think
we should be taking away someone's First Amendment right, but

(01:00:29):
people need to have common sense when it comes to
First Amendment rights. And these are the issues that we're
really debating. But again, it is even greater now because
of social media. I'll go back to Congress. The biggest
issue in Congress is the day they started televising every
hearing and every time somebody came to the podium in Congress.

(01:00:52):
If you go back. Things changed because friends realized that
they could say things about other individuals and they get
TV ratings, they raise money, they get all these positive
issues which really aren't positive. And it's one of the
reasons why the best way to stop people from talking
about each other is get to know each other. And

(01:01:14):
we don't have that happening anymore in society as well. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Put Jim, thanks for your time today.

Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
Thank you, welcome back. It's eight fifty one on this
busy Friday morning. During the break, got a text on
our text line about a lead asked us to look
into it, and we moved quickly on that. In regards
to a post about Charlie Kirk, we dug into it

(01:01:46):
and it was posted by, according to sources, the mayor
of Wellsburg, Danny Dudley. Danny Dudley, should I read the post?

Speaker 7 (01:01:57):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
Here's what the post says, sad day and America flying
an American flag half mass for a racist priceless for
a racist pause, priceless. Wellsburg Mayor Daniel Dudley. Joining us
via the phone is Delegate Jimmy Willis, West Virginia Delegate
of District three. Thank you for your time this morning, sir,

(01:02:21):
thank you for having me reach.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Out to you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
I see that you have you have reposted there's a
little commentary on on We know how social media works,
but wanted to speak to you about confirming and what
you are being told about this matter happening here locally.

Speaker 9 (01:02:39):
Yes, this is a unfortunate, unfortunate matter that is happening
in my community of Wallsburg, at town I proudly represent
in the West Virginia State House. This was sent to
me yesterday along with some other posts of sometimes worse,
worst things that have been said. And I've known about

(01:03:02):
his political beliefs and ideologies for a while and never
really said anything until this one, because just with where
we are as a country, I feel this is just
too far. This is going too far, doesn't represent with
the people of Wellsburg are feeling right now, and especially
when using your title of mayor to you to spread

(01:03:22):
that message, I find it deeply concerning one of the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
Things, and not necessarily I ask you about this, not
necessarily about this particular situation in the mayor of Wellsburg,
but just in general talking to legislators that you work
with day to day. Since the tragic events that happened Wednesday.
Is the conversation about the rhetoric and the the labeling
is that being had between you and your peers.

Speaker 9 (01:03:50):
Yes, I mean absolutely, It's something that we all acknowledge
needs needs to change. We need to come back together
as a country. We need to unify. We need to
knowledge that political violence in any sense against anybody, Republican
or Democrat, liberal or conservative, is never the answer in
our country. And I think we need to do better

(01:04:12):
at making sure that the people who are leading us
are going to represent that peaceful debate is acceptable, but
making political violence the norm and accepting.

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
That is vile.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
In regards to the social media post by Mayor Daniel
Dudley in regards to Charlie Kirk, what are you hearing
from your constituents are how can they reach out to
you to voice their concerns about this affecting you know Wellsburg.

Speaker 9 (01:04:41):
Yeah, I you know, Like I said, I didn't originally
see the posts. I'm not friends with him on Facebook
to see it myself. It was sent to me so
many times in a row quickly that I thought I
was getting a phone call from concern consolence. Yeah, so
it got to me quick and people have reached out
on Facebook through the comments, through private message, just thanking

(01:05:04):
me for for standing up for what's right in this situation,
and I just I hope we can quickly move past this.
I hope we can quickly move forward because I believe
that we can start in the small community of Wellsburg
to come back together and get away from the political
phrase and accept that we're we're not doing things right.

(01:05:25):
We need to get away from political violence and just
do better as a small community so we can do
better as a country. And that starts with the leadership
of the community.

Speaker 7 (01:05:35):
You know, I think the community itself is going to
it's gonna their their voice is going to be heard
on this. But are are there any repercussions that could
fall back on the mayor because of a post like this?

Speaker 9 (01:05:47):
You know absolutely?

Speaker 8 (01:05:48):
You know, I have.

Speaker 9 (01:05:52):
Really never had a good working relationship with him to
begin with. He has made his you know, his being
very democratic clear thing since I got elected. But I've
tried to work through it. But you know, when when
you're making viral remarks like that about someone who you know,
I kind of looked up to and Charlie Kirk, you know,

(01:06:12):
being someone as I am who was twenty one when
I got elected, started getting involved with politics when I
was on a college campus. Like Charlie Kirk is someone
I looked up to. You know, how how can I
work with someone who who thinks that it's okay to
kill a man on a college campus, whose most common
line was when he sat down to start a debate,

(01:06:33):
if you disagree with me, come to the front of
the line. How do we accept that it is okay, right,
so it's gonna it would deeply hinder the working relationship
with myself and him, And I know people across the
delegates across the state and the state House have reached
out to me as well and are horrified to see
that a mayor of one of our beloved communities in

(01:06:54):
the state of West Virginia is saying stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
Delegate, well, thank you so much. I know this was
a sort of an impromptu phone call out of the dark,
but really, for your time this morning, we really appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:07:06):
It's my pleasure. I wish we could have could have
talked under better circumstances, and I'd like to come back
soon and talk to a lot of the good things
that are happening in West Virginia right now.

Speaker 7 (01:07:14):
Absolutely, please please contact yes, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
This morning, just real quick, Wow, this last ten minutes
has been just a rapid fire. Just an update real
quick from nationally, from Fox News. The President is still
sitting on the couch on Fox News. The father of
the suspected assassin was involved in turning him in along
with a pastor. So this is rapidly developing in regards

(01:07:43):
to the suspect in custody for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In regard back to the Wellsburg story, we are going
to fall up with this. I of course, I am going
to make a phone call to the mayor's office to
offer him to come in and speak about the post
and the repercussions we are seeing also develop currently this morning. Yeah, okay,

(01:08:04):
you gotta gotta try. I understand, gotta try.

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
Good luck.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
Oh okay, So are we wrapping it up?

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
We're rapping Okay, called the end of the show.

Speaker 6 (01:08:11):
Give me a number one through twelve, just say it
off the top of your head.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
You don't want me to do the generator?

Speaker 6 (01:08:15):
Oh you have it? Yeah, I figured you didn't have it. Okay,
one through twelve, nine, that is Melissa. Congratulations Melissa. I
will call you after the show. Have a great Friday, folks.
We will be back on Monday. Enjoy the weekend backyard
backyard brawl football. Let's try and put some smiles on
our face this weekend. Talk to you Monday,