The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam September 15, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news radio eleven SEVENTYWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. Good Monday morning to you. Another beautiful
weekend out there. I mean, just enjoy this fall weather
because I think we're gonna have another couple weeks of it,
but you never know when it can turn ugly, and
I am enjoying every second of it. Obviously, a lot
going on over the weekend. You have a lot of
sports still fall out from the Charlie Kirk assassination, things

(00:43):
like that. Been watching a lot of people what they
have to say, been reading a lot what they have
to say. Everybody's trying to figure out how this can happen,
Why this can happen. Two takeaways. Number One, everybody better
get very vigilant when it comes to rooftops. You're gonna
have copycats. This is going to become a trend. Think

(01:04):
about school shootings. Think about Columbine after what happened at Columbine,
we all thought, well, this couldn't possibly happen again. It's
an atrocity, no way, no how. How many school shootings
have we had since Columbine back in the mid nineties,
probably well over a thousand. Everything is trendy. What Tyler
Robinson proved in killing Charlie Kirk is how easy it

(01:28):
is to get on a rooftop with a high powered
rifle and kill somebody. You don't need training, All you
need is a gun. The scopes that they use these
days are really really good. And a rooftop that is it.
Think of all the open air events you go to,
whether it's star concerts, ball games. Think about sitting in

(01:50):
PNC Park, all of those buildings around the baseball field.
Think about sitting at Progressive Field in Cleveland, all those
building rooftop looking right in on the baseball field. It's
not always going to be a political shooting. We're creating
monsters out there in society who want to kill people.
They're angry, they're nuts. Call it what you want. And

(02:12):
if teams, if concert officials, if police departments do not
start utilizing drones to just watch over rooftops, we're gonna
have some major problems. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm
telling you right now, I'm right. Tyler Robinson proved how
easy it is. You know there's other whack jobs out

(02:33):
there who watched what he did, and you know they're
thinking about it right here, right now. That's my first takeaway.
The second takeaway, why are we we creating these monsters,
these nineteen twenty two, twenty four year old white guys
that feel like they need to go kill people? Well,

(02:54):
I asked my kids twenty seven, twenty five, and twenty
what's going on here? They all said their generation is
extremely angry for a number of different reasons. But they
all pointed to social media, and, like one of my
sons told me, made a great point. He said, Dad,
the national media is cancerous. You know that, and I

(03:14):
know that. And I said, you're exactly ready. He goes,
but you could turn your TV off, you can walk
away social media. Kids my age, that phone is in
their face twenty four to seven. So if you're starting
to be radicalized and you start watching videos or hate
speech on your phone, whether it's on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,

(03:36):
they all have algorithms they will continue to feed you
that kind of material twenty four to seven. So somebody
like Tyler Robinson, who seemed to be okay at one
point in time, starts getting very political, very angry if
he starts looking at stuff on X or Instagram or
whatever it may be. They all have algorithms. It's like me,

(03:56):
I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but I like watching
chiropractic cracks. It just relaxes me. I watch chiropractors crack
people all the time. If I go to YouTube, my
phone is filled with videos of chiropractic cracks. Because of
the algorithm, it knows what I like. So if you
are mentally disturbed and you're looking at mentally disturbing stuff,

(04:16):
that algorithm will send you video and material over and
over and over. And if you're twenty two nineteen and
you got that phone in your face all the time,
what are you being inundated with nothing but hate? Social
media companies need to come under intense scrutiny for what
we are churning out in society today. The other part

(04:38):
of this is you hear people saying we need to
tone down the rhetoric, we need to come together. We
just celebrated the twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven.
If nine to eleven didn't bring us together, Charlie Kirk
being shot sure as hell, isn't you remember after nine
to eleven, when you're talking five thousand people dead, the
whole country just paralyzed. How much did the political niceness?

(05:05):
How long did it last? Two weeks? Two months? That
was about it. People will get right back to hurling insults.
What has got to happen for us to reverse course
right now is total condemnation from everyone, but mostly from
within the parties, and it needs to be loud. We
need to hold our own accountable. If you're a Democrat,

(05:27):
you need to hold your Democrats accountable. If you're a Republican,
you need to hold your Republicans accountable. And we might
as well start at the top. President Trump needs to
clean his act up. You can't point a finger about
insightful rhetoric regarding Charlie Kirk when he has been as
unpresidential as anybody to ever hold the office. And you,

(05:47):
I'm talking to you out there listening to conservative talk radio.
You need to quit enabling him and making excuses at
the same time. And at the same time, Democrats liberals
need to quit calling Trump Hitler a fascist, a racist.
It insights and none of it is true. Take a

(06:11):
look at the Democrats Ilhan Omar Rashida Talib. They need
to be condemned by the entire party and it needs
to be loud. That's what we need if we're going
to reverse course. But no, everybody picks their sides. They've
got their guy, and they will make excuses for their guy,
but they'll call out your guy. It doesn't work. Media

(06:34):
outlets need to clean up their act. I just don't
know how that's going to happen. I mean, cooler heads,
smarter heads need to step up and take control. The
hard left, the hard right need to be neutered. We
need to get to the middle and common sense needs

(06:56):
to be brought back into the equation because guess what,
what we're doing currently is not working. You know it,
and I know it. It's just like your kids. If
you're always making excuses for your kids, if you're always
taking up for your kids when you know they're wrong,
your kids are going to be derelk's, They're going to
be degenerates. It's the same with our politicians. Hold them accountable,

(07:19):
even your own. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience
eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Welcome back. It's seven nineteen Monday morning. Excuse me, you're
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. I wanted to piggyback a bit on
what bloom Daddy just did there in the first top
of the hour, talking about social media, how it affects
us everything. I will say this and I'm this weekend.

(07:54):
Friday night, I watched, of course, Charlie Kirk's Widow Speak
on Fox. Everywhere. It was everywhere. I was reading a
lot on social media. I was watching a lot on
social media. It got to a point though where I
had to stop myself and what I was reading and

(08:17):
watching were positive things. If I saw anything that hinted
at name calling, labeling, I got away from it. I
could not let it infest my brain. What I made
it a point to watch were the candlelight visuals, the
outpouring of love for his widow and his children, the

(08:43):
beautiful renditions of amazing grace. There are artists out there
who are writing their own songs for Charlie Kirk. But
I had to stop. I had to stop because it
got to be too much. Listen, what happened last week
was hard. It was a long, hard week. It is

(09:09):
affecting us locally, it is affecting us nationally. I mean,
later on in the show, we're going to have Wellsburg Mary, Mary,
I'm sorry, Wellsburg Mayor mister Dudley with us on the
show in the eight o'clock hour to discuss a post
that he made last week in regards to the loss

(09:32):
of Charlie Kirk, where he threw a label on mister Kirk.
We're going to talk about that because there has been
an outpouring of people who are not happy, who are
calling for his resignation. And I will say this, we
of course brought this to you first thing Friday morning,

(09:54):
with our pants on fire. If you would have seen
it in here. It was phone calls. It was you know,
we were getting on Delegate Willis to talk about it.
I mean, it was like rapid fire. And as soon
as the show was over, I called the mayor. He
took my call, no questions asked, and he's like, what

(10:15):
questions do you have for me? And immediately I said,
do you stand behind your posts. And he said yes.
And I said, would you be willing to come on
our show Monday morning to discuss He said absolutely. There
was no hesitation whatsoever, no hesitation whatsoever, So that will
be coming to you in the eight o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
So I.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Got a handed to him. I got a handed to him,
as I said, no questions, asked, no hesitation, willing to
come on and stand behind what he had to say
or behind this particular post. So we are going to
I've got plenty of questions for the mayor. But I
also posted last night on our Facebook page. If you

(10:59):
have a question for the mayor, especially if you are
a citizen or a constituent out of Wellsburg and you
have a question for your mayor, please go on our
Facebook page and post the question because I'm going to try,
depending on the amount of time we have with the mayor,
to get questions that you have to him, because your

(11:24):
questions are the most important. Obviously you're a constituent, so
this is your opportunity. So again you can go to
our Facebook page and put those out there, and as
I said, we will do as much as we can
to to get those questions to him. Otis. Do you
have a good weekend?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
I certainly did. Sorry had the button off.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
For I figured Saturday was a good day for WUD.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'm beyond the point.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Where you live and breathe bite yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean, I just I can't do that any more.
You know. There were certain things that happened. Again, the
game was slowed down by penalties, injuries, reviews, like it
was almost like back to back reviews a couple of times,
and it's just it's like, geez, at least, can we
just play the game, and you know, it is what

(12:18):
it is. WU got to win. I'm glad backyard Brawl
bragging rates until twenty twenty nine because that's the next
time they play.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
So, oh, that's not annual.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
No, No, they had the they tried to get it in.
They just they couldn't work things out.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I thought it was an annual game.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
No, they hadn't played for a long time. And then
it was like they had a four year contract.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
I think, oh, oh boy, I've been wrong about that
for years.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Well, when Pitt went to the ACC and we went
to the Big twelve, it just didn't. It didn't Mesh.
Pitt went to the ACC first obviously, but then when
we went to the Big twelve, there was maybe ten
years we didn't play somewhere in there, I think. Anyway, Yeah,
it was okay, yeah, I mean it was not a
bad weekend.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Good good. I want to keep something hit on a
positive note. We announced this Friday. We kind of rushed
through it a little bit because of everything that was
going on, but we are doing a teacher appreciation promotion
and it's going to go on during the entire school year.
So every month we are going to have a winner

(13:27):
of a teacher. Listen, those folks work hard. And what
we're going to do is you can go to our
website NewsRadio eleven seventy dot com. I'll share it, and
there you can register your teacher for a chance to win.
And we're going to have a gift a gift prize package,

(13:49):
not a gift package, a prize package of all kinds
of stuff from our wonderful sponsors, gift certificates, all kinds
of stuff, just a treat, just a thank you and appreciation.
And again you just go to a NewsRadio eleven seventy
dot com and you can register. I guess you could
register for yourself if you're a teacher out there, or
if you're a student, register for your favorite teacher. Say

(14:11):
your husband and your wife is a teacher. Listen. It's
all about just giving back to the teachers here in
the Ohio Valley. So again, all you do is you
go to NewsRadio eleven seventy dot com and you can
see it under the contest page. Just go on there
and go through the steps and it's simple. It's pretty simple.
So we're gonna be doing that all school year long.

(14:33):
As I said, it was, uh, it was kind of
the end of the summer for us. This weekend at
my house, we closed the pool. No more pool parties.
It is done. What was interesting though, was the what
is the carcasses laying on the streets and the sidewalks
the red spotted lantern flies? Is that what they're called spottered?

(14:57):
Oh my lord, walking in this morning the sidewalk here
on Main Street looks like I don't. I mean, they're everywhere,
They're absolutely everywhere. But as we were closing our pool yesterday,
it was like dive bombs. I mean, they kept they
were in my hair, they were falling on my oh who,
they were creepy. They were absolutely awful. But I just

(15:20):
felt like I was bobbing and weaving trying to get
away from these things. Where did they come from? I mean,
they're huge, they're invasive.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Oh Lord, you're supposed to kill them as many, as
many as you can.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
If you can get them. They're quick little buggers, they
are quick. So yeah, end of the summer for us
at our house closed the pool, sad, sad day. And
my husband stood there just looking at it like he
was at a funeral, like somebody kicked his puppy. He
was so sad. But it's that time of year. It

(15:56):
is that time of year. As I said, coming up
later in the show, we're gonna be speaking to Wellsburg
Mayor Dudley about his controversial post in regards to the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. So that's going to be coming
up here shortly. And of course, don't forget your chance
to win free lunch delivered lunch on Friday. Had an

(16:17):
absolute wonderful conversation to our winner with our winner, Glory,
I think I heck. I hung out with her for
about forty five minutes. It was a great conversation. So, Gloria,
I hope you enjoyed lunch. But if you want to
enjoy lunch just like Glory did and her crew, all
you have to do is email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name,
phone number and company. That's Sam at iHeartMedia dot com

(16:42):
and that will be your registration for your chance to
win free lunch thanks to our friends at River City.
And then we will bring it to you on Friday
and we will be the winner will be chosen on Wednesday,
so you have plenty of time to get registered. It's
seven twenty eight. You're listening to the Blue Daddy Exs Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Welcome back to the show on your Monday morning. Another
topic I want to address is the violence that we're
seeing in our society. The Carlos Brown Junior, the guy
that killed the stabbed the young Ukrainian commuter to death
on a Charlotte light rail train. You take a look
at his household. Everybody in his house has been arrested
numerous times. This guy comes from complete human garbage. But

(17:31):
on top of that, he had been arrested fourteen times.
He schizophrenic. We need to quit handling the crazy people
out there, and we need to start calling him that
with kid gloves. Somebody like this guy should have been
locked up a long time ago in a mental institution
and there for the rest of his life, but instead
he's out on the streets and he's committing a heinous act. Now,

(17:54):
my family went to visit my oldest son in Washington,
DC over the weekend. He actually lives in North Bethesda,
and they wanted to go to the zoo. We talked
about this beforehand because Tyler and his girlfriend, Audrey, travel
but with the Metro. When I went to visit him
a couple months ago, we traveled all over the place

(18:14):
on the Metro, the lightrail system. When I am in
a situation like that, my head's on a swivel. I'm
literally ready to go at any second. I never let
my guard down. I talked to them about it before
we went, because they were concerned about what happened to
this young girl, obviously the Charlie Kirk thing, and Karen said, look,
I'm gonna take some bear spray with me. I told

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the boys beyond high alert. Sure enough, there was an incident.
They're sitting on the train and all of a sudden,
this guy who's dressed pretty good holding a book, starts
staring at my oldest son's girlfriend and comes flying over.
She hadn't said a word, gets right in her face.
She's sitting, so he's standing over, starts screaming about her,

(18:59):
talking about and why she looking at him. And he's
running for president. He's got people trying to kill him.
The guy's out of his mind. And as my son's
told me, Dad, if he would have had something sharp,
it would have been the same kind of scenario. Because
it happened so quick. Tyler jumped up told him to
back off. Karen had the bear spray ready to go,

(19:22):
which would have emptied the empty the entire rail car,
but he backed down after about forty seconds. But it
went on for assault in forty seconds, and that's a
long time when you're in a situation like this. My
middle son said, Dad, it was terrifying. He said, I
was ready to tackle the guy and take him down
on the floor and just hope for the best. What

(19:45):
Karen told me was she noticed while it was going on.
She looked around at the people who were sitting in
the background. I think it was a couple of women
and maybe a guy and she said, you know, it
was kind of nice because they were ready to jump
on the guy. These people were not going to let
this happen, and they were ready to go. She said,

(20:06):
you could tell they were. They were on the edge
of their seats, they were watching everything. They were ready
to spring into action if this thing went south. What
is going on in society where you can't even get
on a damn light rail and enjoy your day, And
we got to worry about nut bags out there left
and right coming up to you, pushing you on the rails,

(20:28):
stabbing you, whatever it may be. We have got to
quit pandering to the week, to the nuts, to the
lower element of our society, and start handling the situation
and making it better for you and me. I'm in
Cleveland almost every day of the week. Every day I
walk down the street, I have at least during a

(20:51):
given day, ten people ask me for money. I pass
at least three or four people talking to themselves. I've
already made up my mind. Anybody goes off all me,
I'm just swinging until I can't swing anymore. I don't care,
and sometimes I've got to gun on me, and I
don't think I'll hesitate to use it if I fear
for my safety. But you'll hear leaders, mayors and council

(21:12):
members say, well, you know they have a right to
be out there too. No they don't. No, they don't,
not when they could harm people, not when they're talking
to themselves. Know they don't. What about my rights? Don't
I have a right to walk down the street in peace?
Don't you have a right to get on a metro
and not fear some nut job jumping up in your

(21:34):
face and screaming at you. Our cities are going to
become like something out of the movie Mad Max, where
it's going to be nobody living in them but degenerates criminals,
and nobody's going to go in them anymore unless something
is done here very very quickly, sam Otis, I know
you guys are in the city a lot, but you

(21:54):
see the stories, you hear me talking about it, I'm
gonna imagine Sam, you probably don't even want to go anymore.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Absolutely not, absolutely not. I've said this over and over again.
I love my happy little bubble. I feel safe in
my little bubble. But you also can't bury your head
in the sand. And this goes back to two points.
Number one, it's a compounded problem. It's layer upon layer.

(22:22):
It goes back to the home, the amount of fatherless
homes we have in this country now, the drug epidemic,
the mental illness, the removal of mental hospitals and keeping
people in mental institutions. They're gone, that's part of the problem.
They have to go somewhere. There are so many layers

(22:45):
to where we have gotten in this country. And I
think it begins with excuses. And what do I mean
by that? There's an excuse for everything. Actually brought this
up last week. There's an excuse for everything. I can't
get a job because I have this many kids. Because

(23:12):
so from those excuses and situations that people find themselves in,
we then have become a country of handouts. We do
not expect our citizens to have pride anymore in a good,
hard day's work, bringing home a paycheck, sitting down with

(23:35):
your family and having a meal, sitting and down and
having a conversation. Discipline. We don't discipline anymore. Parents can't
discipline their children anymore. There are so many outside factors
affecting our youth, whether we're talking social media, what they're

(23:55):
being inundated with by the woke movement, it woke movement
in schools and in colleges. There are so many layers
to what is going on in this country? Is there
a right answer? I don't think so. The other thing
in bloom Daddy mentioned leaders. We need leaders in government

(24:20):
who make hard decisions. The bleeding hearts need to stop.
It has gotten us to where we are again. There
are so many layers to this issue. But we can't

(24:41):
keep making excuses for vile acts, for horrible ways of living,
for being an absolute dredge on society. If all you
day do, day in and day out, is wake up
at noon, sit around all day and then you collect

(25:05):
a check, that has to stop. We need functioning members
of society who are willing to go out, work hard
and earn a living and not be supported by you
and I and everybody else. Because I hate to tell everybody,

(25:26):
we are becoming the minority. The taxpayers, the people that
work hard every day, the people that take pride in
what they build out of their lives, We are becoming
the minority. But then we have those that make excuses
for everybody. The problem is when it all started, there

(25:52):
were a few that yes, there are reasons, but then
there are those that are smart enough to figure out, well, okay,
then we'll do this. I'll get a free check this way,
I'll get a check that way. And it just it
just compounds and it goes over and over, and what
we're seeing recently, it is repulsive. It is disgusting. What

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we are seeing in our country today, absolutely disgusting. And
we were talking about social media earlier and I wanted
to read you something if I can get it to
open here that absolutely turned my stomach when we talk
about this country and where we are today. Listen to
this post. Can Erica Kirk be next? Then the two

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children can be placed with foster parents who will have
them properly educated in growing up hating their parents. That's
on social media and people are seeing this. This is
where we are, ladies and gentlemen in this country. This
is where we are, which then turns the violence because

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that makes people angry. Statements like that make people angry,
and then again it rolls in, it rolls in, it rolls.
What is the answer. I don't know. Seven forty six.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA Welcome back seven to fifty one

(27:32):
the Bloomdaddy Experience. Salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA
just got this news alert. The White House has requested
fifty eight million dollars to increase security for executive and
judicial branches after the Charlie Kirk shooting. So preparing for
hopefully nothing like this happening again, but bracing ford being

(27:57):
more diligent about everybody's safety and security. This is uh,
this is a very very scary time. Want to hit
on something a little bit more positive for everybody out there.
US drivers are expected to spend the smallest share of
their disposable income on gasoline this year. This is the

(28:20):
smallest share than for the past two decades. What this
means the good news for consumers that we are generally
seeing lower prices at the pump and expect gasoline prices
to keep trending lower through next year. So that's some
positive news. Let's see here. The average retail price for

(28:42):
regular grade gasoline is expected to sit about three dollars
and ten cents per gallon this year and two dollars
and ninety cents per gallon in twenty twenty six. So
there's something positive for you this morning, on this this Monday,
this Monday. So it's been it's a little tough. It's

(29:05):
a little tough. I have noticed my gas prices are down.
Doesn't take as much to fill it the pump. I
hate stopping it get gas. I absolutely hate stopping and
getting gas. I don't know why it annoys me as
much as it does. But just one of those things that.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
It's just one of those little things that drives me nuts,
those little pet peeves, if you will. Some national headlines,
let's see here, President Trump on Saturday, or urge NATO
nations to adopt new sanctions against Russia to help the
end the war war in Ukraine. I am ready to
do major sanctions on Russia when all NATO nations have

(29:43):
agreed and started to do the same thing, and when
all NATO nations stop buying oil from Russia, Trump wrote
on truth Social Also nationally, North Korea executes citizens. That's
not the right word. No, North Korea excuse okay citizens
for watching foreign films and TV shows. A United Nations

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Human Rights Office report released Friday reveals. The report documents
increased government control over all aspects of citizens' lives and
widespread forced labor. No other population is under such restriction
in today's world. Think about that. Think about if you
did not have the choice of what you wanted to

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watch from a foreign nation.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, they're not even letting them watch any Now they're
executing him for it.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah. Yeah, that's listen, folks. We yeah, that's why people
fight for things like free speech in the constitution. Also nationally,
Utah Governor Spencer Cox says the man accused of killing
conservative activist Charlie Kirk is refusing to cooperate with investigators.

(30:57):
Tyler Robinson, twenty two, was arrested Friday after a relative
recognized him in photos and alerted police. That relative is
his father, according to multiple reports, Cox told ABC News
that Robinson has not confessed, though his family and friends
have been assisting authorities. Could you imagine you see that

(31:19):
picture and that is a family member, an immediate family member,
and as I said, multiple reports say that it is
his father that turned him in. That would have had
to have been the most excruciating decision to have to make.

(31:42):
Oh it is you're a father. Could you could you
even contemplate what would have been going through his head well.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
In all honesty, when he was still on the run,
and I didn't bring it up on the air, but
I was just thinking, what if that was your son
and you had to identify him and then the next thing,
you know, his dad did, and I was it was
going through my head. Would I be able to turn
my kids in? And I think you'd almost have to.

(32:13):
I mean, there's still your kids, you still love them,
I mean, even though they made a huge mistake and
you know that they're probably going to get the death penalty.
It would be very hard, but I think, I mean
if i'm if as a person of morality, and I
think you almost have to do it well.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
And then also there's the there's the the direction of
as the parent say, you sit on it. You don't
turn them in the government or law officials figure out
who he is and he's tracked down. You don't want
to see anything violent happen to your child at that
point in time either if they are captured, you don't

(32:56):
want to see them.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Protect the rest of your family too, because you know,
if if you if you ate an event, you know,
I mean, if you're if you harbor him, I mean,
now you're going to jail too, so you know, it's
good looking as I am. I'm not going to be
doo well in prison.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
I just said.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
But you know, it's just it's one of those things that, yeah,
you know, you it would be extremely hard to do,
but I think I'd have to do it.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Well. It seems as if, you know, a lot of
people surrounding him are working with law enforcement. His his
roommate is what they're saying as of right now, slash.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Ex boyfriend that's transitioning to girl.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, whatever that whole situation is. But that person is
currently working with officials. So it seems as if people
are working.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
The only person not cooperating is the shooter.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah. Yeah. And did you see the person at a
visual last night that trampled all over oh ye, young
person basically wearing the same shirt people grabbed him. He was,
you know, over the flowers and stuff people late. That's
that's just despicable. We're seeing a really ugly side of
our nation right now. Seven p. Fifty eight. You're listening

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to the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVAD.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
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Speaker 3 (34:45):
Welcome back. It's eight oh six. The bloom Daddy Experience.
Salmon otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Joining us now
is Mayor Dudley of Wellsburg, West Virginia. First off, Maryordldley,
I want to thank you for taking the time this
morning to speak with us.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Could you hold on just a minute of our times
are going off and that's why you can't hear me.
Not well but okay now it's.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Fine, okay, But again I want to thank you for
taking the time this morning. It's you know, this is
it's a hard time in our country. It's a hard
time to have these tough conversations and and you're willing
to discuss and stand behind what you had to say,
which you know is something that Charlie Kirk fought for
freedom of speech and an open form and open conversation.

(35:30):
So thank you so much this morning.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
So, first of all, the biggest question people have, do
you do you stand behind your post?

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Yes? And could I say something before we get started?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Okay, all right. First of all, I did not say
I wanted to see Charlie Kirk die. I agree for
anyone that loses a loved one, and and I feel
for his wife, the widow, and for two kids to
grow up without a father. And that part on why
I want to get clear and straightened up that because
I've been getting all kinds of stuff that I was

(36:05):
happy when he died. Now I'm not about that. I'm
not that type of person.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Okay, wonderful, I'm I'm glad you got the opportunity to
say that. What in the post that, of course, that
has sparked this conversation is referencing mister Kirk as a racist.
Can you can you give an example of of of
racism that he has put out there?

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Well, for one, one thing, he he he talked about
black women and he was basically saying that all of
them that had BA and master's degrees and even doctor's
degree like though it was more or less like it
was like given to him, he didn't trust it, didn't
he didn't trust what they did. And I thought, that's

(36:50):
a racist comment because I have a wife that's well educated,
and I also have a My late sister had a
doctorate degree. My brother was a school teacher in the
system for about thirty or forty years. And I don't
like these remarks because they're knocking us back, and it's
starting the whole thing. And plus some of the other
things that he said about Martin Luther King in the

(37:16):
civil rights movement.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Okay, all right, and one of the other things I
saw a video that you posted also that you brought
up the airline comment. Do you consider the comment about
the black pilot to be racist?

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Yes? I do.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Okay, did you listen to the entire conversation about that subject.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
I understood the conversation, and I tried. I saw how
he tried to back off of But to me, it's
not funny when black people have struggled forever to get
a lot of these positions and everything, and to make
a joke about it, it's not funny. Did he make
a joke about a white pilot.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I didn't consider what he was saying a joke. When
I listened to it. I took it as he was
making the point the right person should fill a position. No,
matter the color of their skin. That's how I took
the comment.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
Well, I took the comment still as a as a
racist comment because due to the fact that why did
you have to pick on a black pilot. I mean,
he's just as qualified as anybody else, and I'm sure
going through the school and training, they just didn't hand
him a license or a degree.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay. So there's a lot of people in Wellsburg, your
constituents that are that are not happy, that are very concerned,
and if they consider themselves Christian conservatives, that it seems
there seems to be a lot of issues there. They
don't feel safe as you as mayor.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Should they Well, like I said, i am not resigning
and I'm not going any place, and i feel myself
as a good mayor and I've tried to do everything
to help the city participate and try to get the
city back on track. And so that's that's their that's
their belief. If they if they want to believe in
in racism, that's that's on them. But I don't.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
I'm not that way with the office that you hold,
and and not just you, I'm just I'm leaders in general.
Using this type of labeling and hasn't that gotten us
to where we are? Shouldn't our leaders be held to
a higher standard.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Well, when you when you, when you promote things and everything,
sooner or later, it's gonna have to be addressed in
them and talked about. And I thought this was the
time it should have been addressed. And I thought it
was poor due to all the other other heroes that
we've had in this country that have never had their
never had flags flown at half staff or anything. And

(39:54):
then you choose this man who, in my opinion, is
is helping to divide the country. Because I'm tired of
this you're better and and the way he's looking in thing,
he's treating me as though I'm a second class citizen,
which I am not, and I don't like that.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Okay, So we have a listener question from Rick Charlie
and Turning Point have follow followers and participants of every call,
of every color. Why do you call him a racist?

Speaker 5 (40:25):
Why do I call him a racist? Because of some
of the statements he's made and some of the things
he's did did and like I said, I specifically I
spoke on about what he what he did with women.
He said Martin Luther King was a bad person, and
he did not believe. He thought the Civil Rights Act
was a mistake.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Do you believe?

Speaker 5 (40:46):
And these are things that my parents and everybody strive
for to make it better so that I could have
what I can do. And with a lot of his
rhetoric that he's talking, he's turning the tables back and
he wants to bring it back to the sixties or fifth, Do.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
You believe racism can go both ways?

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Oh? I know racism can go both ways.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Okay, I'm going to read a quote for you. The
color of your skin doesn't determine your success in America.
It's all about how hard you work and the choices
that you make. That's the real privilege.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Okay, Well, what part of America did you grow up in?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Right here?

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Okay, well you grew up I grew up right here.
And I think I'm a few years older to know
and remember when it wasn't that way, And it hasn't
been that way. It hasn't even been a good sixty
or seventy years since all of this has changed. My
brothers and sisters lived in Wellsburg, West Virginia, and I
was the only one that went to an all integrated school.

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I'm starting from first grade all the way up to
twelfth grade. My other sisters and brothers, they had a
schools right around the corner and they had to bust
clear to Wheeling just to go to school and get
an education.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
But continuing to look backwards, does that not take us forward?

Speaker 5 (42:11):
Well, looking backwards is what is what we were being,
what we're being taken back to under this administration that
we have now they want to take us back. You
look at the major cities where they're talking about the crimes.
Most of the major cities where they're at, they just
happen to be where he's going in filtrating. These are
all these happen to be all black mayors.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
We think we all Democrat mayors as well. Well, let's
put it this way. Chicago, Chicago, Washington, d C. New
York City. The crime rates are out through the roof.
The local government is not doing anything.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
And the crime crime rates are going down.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Once they once the once the National Guard was put
into DC, they went down.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Well, the National Guards all all they're doing coming in
DC is planting flowers and cleaning up trash. I have
people that live in the Washington, DC area I know
what they're doing, then there's a lot of places they
can be doing that. We have all these disaster areas,
with all these floodings and everything and stuff like that.

(43:17):
The National Guard, this is where they should be and
this is where the basically their health could be that
they need all the help they can do. Right in
Ohio County, in Wheeling, the way that it looks like
a warm zone there and the National Guards and these
are the type people that this is where they should
be at. They should be helping out in the disaster areas.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
And when you're talking about the war zone, you're talking
about in Wheeling. Yes, no, but I mean where are
you talking about specifically?

Speaker 5 (43:46):
I'm talking about about Vallet growth, oh.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Where the flooding was, right, Okay, Okay, we just know
you just said you just.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Wait a minute. In ninety six when it was a flood,
the National Guard came to Wellsburg and they the people
out in Wellsburg and that was that was one of
the greatest things. And we said him and took care
of him.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Okay, I just I just I was looking for a
more specific You just said it looks like a war
zone and Wheeling, I didn't know what you.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
Meant, now, that's what it was. I mean, if you go,
if you go through there, I mean, it's just it's
just terrible and it's devastating for the people there. And
I think they I think they need more help. I
know femas come in, but I think the National Guards
could play a good part in that area.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Well may Or, do you have any final thoughts you
want to put out there for our listeners.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
No, just just I'm not going anywhere and I'm not resigning.
But one thing I will say which I didn't appreciate,
and you can get him on the air, was Representative
Willis where he put out that he said that he
thinks that I resigned helped out will get this petition
together and everything, and he is supposed to be a representative.

(44:59):
And he also said that if I didn't resign that
he would personally see to it that Wellsburg would not
get any aid from the state. Now, I can't understand
how one man can do all this when we have
three other representatives and I like to hear from them
to see what they have to say.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Well, I appreciate your time. We did have Delegate Willis
on early Friday morning, but he is more than welcome
to come back anytime, as are you, sir.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
All right, thank you very much, right, and you have
a great day.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
You too, You too all. Once again, the quote that
I read, the color of your skin doesn't determine your
success in America. It's all about how hard you work
and the choices that you make. That's the real privilege
that was said by Charlie Kirk. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(45:58):
Welcome back, eight twenty three, the bloom that experienced Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We're not done
with this conversation about Wellsburg. Once again, thank you to
Mayor Dudley for coming on this morning. Coming up at
eight thirty five, we're gonna have Delegate Willis. Of course,
who is who Mayor Dudley mentioned during our interview. He

(46:20):
has responses to what was just spoken about, So that
is coming up at eight thirty five, continuing the conversation
about Wellsburg. Already getting feedback about the interview. I've already
been told I was too nice. Listen, folks, this is tough.
This is not an easy thing to talk about. You

(46:40):
have to be respectful, You have to let the other
people speak. That is where we are missing a lot
of stuff. I didn't want to be in attack Bade.
Sometimes you have to let people talk because what comes
out of their mouth paints the picture of how they
actually think and feel. And that's what I was doing.

(47:06):
But some of the feedback we've already received, Sam, you're
being too nice, yep. Ask about how he felt about
George Floyd, which I was going to get to. When
I was referencing, he kept talking about the past, and
that's when I said, you know, we keep going back
to the past. We have to look towards the future.
We have to make things better. But what I was
going to say was and didn't get a chance to.

(47:27):
You know, during the whole riding of twenty twenty, we
were tearing down monuments. We were trying to eliminate the
history of this country when it comes to race. And
I was going to say to him, you keep referencing
the history, but yet it was okay to destroy and
rip down our history during that time period. And during

(47:49):
that time period, I said over and over again with
people I had conversations with, and probably on the air here,
if we erase our history, we are at down to
repeat it. And that's what they were doing at that time.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
And it's it's you know, people have to realize we
gave him the benefit of the doubt to speak his mind.
And while we have questions, sometimes time is our enemy.
So we could have asked him to hold on and
rejoin us for this segment. We decided that that probably

(48:26):
wasn't the best in our best interest. You know, obviously
we're going to hear from Delliet. Jimmy willis here shortly,
and if the mayor is listening and he wants to
counter that, he's more than welcome to come back. And
we do have I mean, there are other questions. Part
of the while he was talking, I want, I was

(48:47):
trying to research some of his references to see if
there was any holes in what he was saying. My
typing and my wasn't quick enough. I'm just going to
say that, I mean, I'm a pretty good typer, but
I just I wasn't able to keep up with some
of the things that he was talking about, and some
of the things I could not find in the timeframe.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Well, and that's one thing, and we kind of hit
on this real briefly, and I asked him, you know,
have you listened to an entire debate that Charlie Kirk
has had. Is he aware of the fact that Charlie Kirk,
through the Turning Point organization of his, has sent hundreds

(49:28):
and hundreds of young black youth to Washington, d C.
To meet African Americans in leadership in d C. It's
called the Black Leadership Summit. You know, is the mayor
aware of that we have? Again, this goes back to
something I've said over and over and over again. We

(49:53):
are a society of headlines and sound bites and clips.
So people take like Charlie Kirk made on race and
on the Civil Act of nineteen Civil Rights Act I'm sorry,
Civil Rights Act, and they just see the clip or

(50:13):
hear the clip or read the clip. They don't actually
go into the context of the point he was making
with that statement, or in regards to the black pilot
that I brought up. It wasn't the fact that it
was a black pilot. It was the fact that he
was talking about DEI hiring and the fact that people
want people want people in positions who are the best

(50:37):
for that position.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Doesn't matter what color.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
I don't care right.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Religious preference, you know, sexual preference. If you're the best
person for the job, I have no problem with that.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
And that was the point of the converse. Listen, we
have stopped. We have got to stop just paying attention
to headlines and snippets. You've got to read. You have
to listen to the entire conversation. You've got to a
twenty eight. When we get back, we're gonna be talking
to Delegate Willis in regards to the Wellsburg mayor and

(51:11):
the comments that he just had. It's a twenty eight.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA eight thirty six. Welcome back

(51:32):
to the bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We're gonna go straight to the phone
lines to get Delegate Jimmy Willis. Good morning, Delegate, how
are you sir?

Speaker 6 (51:43):
Good morning, I'm very good. How are you all good?

Speaker 3 (51:46):
I am assuming that you heard our interview with the mayor.
Do you have any thoughts?

Speaker 6 (51:55):
Yeah, hearing that interview was interesting. You know, I was
particularly interested in the comments on the National Guard, the
same National Guard that was then wheeling within about twenty
eight hours of the disasters in Ohio County a couple
months ago, and stayed there for a couple of weeks
right up until the time that FEMA really got to

(52:16):
hit the ground and they hit the ground running. So
questioning that response in the conversation about his post was
interesting because Governor Patrick Morsey received bipartisan praise for his
response to the Ohio County floods. The National Guard and
the brave men and women of it and General Seward
did a tremendous job helping the people of Ohio County,

(52:37):
And I just don't understand how that was relevant to
the conversation.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah, well, yeah, you and me both. We're now about
seventy two hours past when this originally started on Friday
morning with us here on the show. What has been
the response that you've received over the weekend from people
in Wellsburg.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
A lot of people just simply said thank you for
standing up to them, thank you for standing up for
what most of Wellsborg beliefs, and they want to know
how they can help. Since we last talked, the petition
has received over a thousand signatures. I haven't checked it
this morning that someone started. I did not start the petition.
Just to clear that up. It was sent to me

(53:19):
and I was happy to share it, but I did
not start it. Another constituent of Wellsburg has put together
a peaceful protest for next Saturday at nine am in
Wellsburg to call for his resignation on eight on Commerce
Street in the between the eighth and ninth Street blocks.
So it's been a lot and a lot of people

(53:41):
really feel strongly about this. You know, a lot of
people want to be a part of the solution, not
the divide, and don't think that someone who wants to
be a part of the divide is the representative as
mayor that they they want.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
I'm glad you said part of the solution, because there
was I read an article over the weekend where I
believe the mayor himself joked about the fact that more
people have signed this petition than actually voted for him.
So when we talk about part of the solution, is
part of the solution not people voting, we're absolutely failing

(54:18):
in that way.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
Absolutely, And I think having a legitimate conversation is a
big part of the solution. Too, not calling a recently
assassinated man a racist, not sharing some of the I mean,
there's many more posts and examples from the mayor of
just devices and hateful rhetoric that I have known about
for a while, and I didn't say anything until he

(54:41):
used the title of mayor. And unfortunately, this incident hasn't
stopped him. He shared another post that called and I'm
paraphrasing here because I still can't believe that it was said,
called the Charlie Kirk assassination a hoax, called the assassination
attempt on former President Trump, and many more vile and

(55:02):
ignorant things. So this isn't stopping. I mean, if you know,
if he'd like to apologize publicly for it or resign.
I know he said he wasn't going to. I think
it would be welcomed by Wellsburg, the majority of Wellsburg.
But he's still, I mean, he's still saying the same things,
sometimes worse things.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Well, and don't you and I asked him this question,
don't you think are our leaders and this goes all
the way up to the person sitting in the White House?
Do they not? And you, yourself need to be held
to a higher standard. In regards to the way people
refer to one another, the way that you speak about
one another, the labeling, you know, calling people Nazis, fash

(55:43):
this has to end.

Speaker 6 (55:47):
I agree one hundred percent, and I think you've seen
that over the weekend. I mean, I saw a report
yesterday that said that since Erica, since missus Kirk made
her brave and elegant remarks back when they got back
to Arizona, that there has been over thirty two thousand
inquiries about starting Turning Point chapters in high schools and colleges.

(56:08):
People want to continue the conversation. They don't want Charlie
Kirk's legacy to be forgotten. They want to continue it,
expand it, continue to have conversation. I mean, this whole
thing spurred over over Charlie Kirk, Over a man who
said at almost every event, if you disagree with me,
come to the front of the line. He wanted to
talk to the people he disagreed with politically the most.

(56:30):
He wanted to have those conversations and to put him down,
to continue the hateful rhetorics. That's not that's not the
way to move forward. Our country is so divided that
until till leaders start bridging the divide, we're gonna keep
going down a dangerous path.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
And there's a lot of people and a lot of
organizations that hold a little bit of responsibility in all
of this, whether we're talking the media, whether we're talking
social media. I think the one thing that resonates with
especially the youth of this country, with Charlie Kirk is
if you watch and I'm not talking snippets, I'm talking

(57:08):
you watch his entire debates where he would have with you.
He welcomed you to the front, he wel as you said,
he welcomed you, and if you ever noticed, he sat
his microphone down because he was listening. We've lost that
in this country.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
Yeah, it's just you can't find that in many people.
And I mean you're talking about a man who lived
thirty one years. That lived, I mean, more more lives
than most people can say they have in eighty years.
I mean, this is just this is someone who, frankly,
you know, I'll say it, he deserves the flags to
be flowing a half mass because he's done more for
democracy than most of our elected leaders have in the

(57:46):
last few years. So to continue the hateful divide is
just it's dangerous, and I hope we can do better
as a community. And you know, I heard you guys
talk about the big cities and some of the issues there,
But I mean, I'm here to tell you the big
cities aren't going to be the cities that fix the divide.
They're not going to be the ones that do the healing.

(58:07):
But maybe maybe small communities can be Maybe small communities
can come together and the bigger communities can learn from us.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Well. Delegate Willis, thank you so much for your time
this morning. Thank you for reaching out. Hopefully we do
you have anything else you want to add before we
and this, you know, I.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
Mean, it's just it's concerning to me that you know,
that's like I said, that's not the worst post that's
been made. There are many, many more. And I hope
that the that the American finally at some point come
back to the middle at least apologize and try to
move forward, not keep doubling down on hate.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Right again, thank you so much for your time this morning.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
We got a we got a text on the text
line that in regards to the sound bites like otis
you and I talked about it says so far, it's
obvious the mayor has never listened to Charlie Kirk and
is picking sound bites to further his own hatred towards conservatives.
That's one thing I picked up in his tone of

(59:11):
voice was the anger and and just a lot of
just anger in the voice. Maybe it's just me, I.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Don't know, you know, it's you know, I've been around
a lot of people in my line of work and
what I do in this job and everything else, and
you can see people in what they believe in. I
know people that are racists. I do.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
They there's a lot of things that they don't like
and some of the things they say. Now that doesn't
mean I hang around with them all the time. You know,
I run into him at Postle in a social situation.
I hear some of their comments. I don't necessarily agree
with them. I don't agree with them. Okay. The bottom

(01:00:10):
line is, you know, you can you can hear in
people's voices, and you can hear in their comments. You
know that they can try to cover it up, but
you can tell what they're thinking. I'm just going to
put it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Yeah, And I think this weekend was a great example
of the difference in reactions to tragedies. I mean you
could you visually saw it across the country, actually across
the world. You saw the difference. There were no riots,

(01:00:49):
there was no looting. People didn't lose their their their
businesses they built for fifty years. We didn't see any
of that. Police officers and we're not being attacked. There
were not stones being thrown at officers. You know what happened.

(01:01:14):
People flew their flags, there were candlelight visuals. More people
went to church yesterday. I know for I know, I
talked to some people yesterday. There was a particular church
here in Wheeling that was pretty much standing room only.

(01:01:36):
That's a prime example of the difference in reaction to
how people have taken the tragedy that happened last week
compared to other things we have seen here recently. It's
a huge, huge difference. We are not the same. It's
eight forty six. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon

(01:01:57):
Otis News Radio eleven seventy W eight sixty one. Welcome
back the Blue Daddy Experienced. Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Oh, does do you have anything you
want to add all of the men.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
Let's just be honest. Racism is alive and well, I mean,
and it doesn't matter if it's in all four Absolutely
it's alive and well, what you can't do is you
can't feed it. Okay. You know, people that actually know
who I am know that probably either my best friend
or one of my best friends is black. I call

(01:02:38):
him my twin brother because he's one day older than me. Okay,
And when I say, oh, that's my twin brother, They're like,
what you know? And people laugh. He and I have
a rapport, so we can say pretty much anything to
each other. Okay, I'm not going to tell you some
of the things. And his brother is the same way.
His brother's four years younger than I am. His sister

(01:02:58):
not so much. You know, doesn't play the game, is
like we have fun. But you know the person I'm
talking about. You know, there was a time when I
was at a very low point ten years ago, after
I broke my hip and was waiting for my surgery
and things like that, and I was stuck in the

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hospital and if I would have been able to walk,
I would have been able to jump. I would have
jumped out of a window, literally and he came and
sat with me. So in a way, he kind of
saved my life. And you know, I don't forget those things.
And in fact, if you've seen me on social media,
there was a time we went to a pirate game
and there was there was him and another person, and
I said, these two people saved my life, and that's

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the truth. You know, they kept me from being too
depressed at different times in my life. So you know
that doesn't mean Look it's funny. I've had somebody say, well,
you don't like black people. I said, there are some
that I don't like. I said, but I'm going to
guarantee you this I don't like. I don't like more

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white people that I don't like black people, because the
bottom line is I know more white people than I
do Black people are listen, I'm not going to get
along with everybody. You're not going to get along with everybody.
The reason I don't like him isn't the color of
their skin, or their political beliefs, or their religion or
anything else. It's because they're probably in a whole okay,
I mean, and it doesn't matter if they're black or one.

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I mean, are there are you know, and I've said
it before, I don't ever want to see anybody die.
But there are people that if they die tomorrow, it
would be a day too late. Okay, they can live
forever as far as I'm concerned, but when they do,
it was a day too late. And that may be
a callous thing to say, but and I feel that

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about more white people that I do Black. I don't
even know any black people that I feel that way about.
You know, there are white people that I feel that
way about because I don't like. One, I know they're racists.
Two I just don't like. I mean, they we've done
something that I cannot stand. You know, I'm a person
that you know I will have the most fun with anybody.

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And if you dish it out, I'm gonna take it,
but be prepared because I'm going to dish it back
to you. Well.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
And here's the thing. The topic of race is one
of the most controversial, difficult topics to to to cover.
I mean, just sitting here right now, you I tend
you know, second, guess what I say, how is it
going to be interpreted?

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Are my intentions with what I am saying going to
come out wrong. Is somebody going to interpret it completely
left of what I mean? But we have to have
those conversations. If we don't have those conversations, and we
don't stop and listen to the other people and their

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side of things and their point of views, then we
get to where we are today. I could not believe
this weekend. As I said earlier in the show, I
had to take myself off of social media because there
were family members that I saw things that shocked me.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
I was.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I can't even explain the words, but I had to
pull myself off because I can't let this eat it me.
And I had to think to myself, what happened that
we got to the point where people are willing to
openly on a national, international platform like social media, whatever

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one you want to say. They have no shame, they
have no humanity in celebrating the death of somebody. When
did we get to that point in this country. I
don't care who the person is, I don't care what

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their political views are. When did we get to that
point in this country that people have no shame? They
are proud to post horrific things on social media for
anybody to read and share about somebody being assassinated in

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front of his two small children and wife and thousands
of young college students. We're not even talking about those
college students that were in attendance. How do you think
that's going to affect them for the rest of their
lives for seeing that, How do you think that's going
to affect them? As I said, when did we get

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to that point in this country? And I'm sorry to
Mary Dudley, listen freeom I'm a speech. That is the
biggest thing that Charlie Kirk fought for. And Mayor Dudley,
along with everybody else listening, has freedom of speech to
say what they want to say. It is one of
the pillars of this nation. Gives me a notice, the

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ability to do what we're doing right now. But at
a certain point in time, people need to be held
accountable for saying horrific, horrific things. Again, Mayor Dudley and
everybody else has freedom of speech to say what they want.

(01:08:37):
But don't be surprised when you're called out either. We
got to remember that. We got to remember that. And
I'll leave you with this, how did we get here?
The question that I contemplated all over the weekend. How
did we get here celebrating the assassination.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
Not we.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
There are those that are celebrating the assassination of a
thirty one year old father of two who all he
did was pick up a microphone and talk and laid
down a microphone and listened to others. Enjoy your Monday.

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We'll be back tomorrow.