The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam September 24, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Daddy Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Seventy Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience on eleven
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Something caught my eye the other day out.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Of the US Justice Department.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
They're considering a proposal that would strip transgender Americans of
their constitutional right to bare arms, and they're using his
examples the shooting at the Catholic school in Minneapolis that
left two children dead twenty one injured, carried out by
a transgender woman. I think there's been about three or
four recent school shootings, mass shootings carried out by transgender individuals,

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and the Justice Department is in talks right now to
basically take a look at this and say, hey, look,
you know we've got transgender shoot up schools obviously if
you're transgender. According to the Justice Department or some within it,
they feel that if you're transgender, you've got mental issues
and therefore you should not own a gun. Matter of fact,
Charlie Kirk argued that those who undergo gender transition are

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too crazy to own a firearm. Now, the Justice Department
proposal would expand existing mental health based prohibitions on firearm
ownership to include transgender identity is grounds for disqualification. So
they're saying, if you're transgender, you're mentally impaired and you
should not own a gun. I saw where White House

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Press Secretary Caroline Lovitt said, the discussions are very preliminary,
low level, and it's premature for the administration to comment
on this topic.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, so there's a couple different ways to look at this.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
My personal opinion when it comes to transgenders, Do I
think the majority of transgender individuals have something mentally wrong
or there's some issues there? I absolutely do. Do I
think some transgender individuals are born just different. I absolutely do,

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And that doesn't mean God made a mistake. God loves
all of us. But I don't think you can clump
every transgender into the mentally unstable category. Because if we're
going to do this to transgenders based on school shootings,
then you're gonna have to say that no white male
between the ages of eighteen and twenty three are allowed

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to own a firearm because they're crazy. Look at the statistics.
I mean, you want to break it down, more than
four hundred school shootings mass school shootings since Columbine in
nineteen ninety nine. Ninety eight percent of those shootings men
k through twelve school shootings, eighty one point three percent

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white males. So, if we're gonna go off shooting data,
if we're gonna say, well, not all transgenders go and
shoot up a school, but we've had a couple here recently,
and therefore transgenders should be banned from owning a gun,
you're gonna have to exclude eighty one percent of white
males between a certain age because they fit the profile.

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They are the profile when it comes to school shootings.
I just don't think it's fair. I never think it's
fair to lump everybody into the same category. I think
you've got to go on a case by case basis.
I mean, the stats don't lie. I don't know how
you could argue with me if you're saying, well, transgenders

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are shooting up schools, so therefore they shouldn't have guns
when not every transgender has done it, and at the
same time, you're okay with white males between the ages
of eighteen to twenty four owning a weapon.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
The numbers don't lie. You gotta do this on a
case by case base.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
And I do think in the transgender community, I don't
know what percentage but my own personal opinion because there
hasn't been enough scientific research and there's just assumptions. But
I'll use West Virginia as an example. I believe twenty seventeen,
twenty eighteen data in the state of West Virginia, per capita,
the state of West Virginia had the most individuals who

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said they were transgender.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
What's West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Comprised of poverty, low education, low IQ drugs, a lot
of mental health issues. Put two and two together again,
connect the dots. You've got the state that practically leads
the United States in every bad category. The state with
low IQs, low education, a lot of drug use, a

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lot of mental health issues, and they lead fifty states
per capita, and the amount of people that say they're transgender. Again,
you can't argue with those numbers. There's a direct correlation
between everything. I just said, and people saying, oh, yeah,
I'm transgender, Yeah, well you've got some mental issues. But
I also believe there is a percentage, and I have

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no idea what percentage, but I think it would be
very ignorant of me or you to assume that every
transgender has a mental issue, because I don't think that's
the case. I think some people are just born different
and there's nothing wrong with that, and that does not.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Mean they're crazy.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Just like I just said, take a look at the
white population. Got a lot of lunatics with us White
breads too, a lot, but that doesn't mean we're all crazy.
I've got a twenty year old son, doesn't mean he's
going to pick up a gun and go shoot up
a school like so many other twenty year old white
males have.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
We got to just tone things down.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
We got to start thinking through things, and we got
to approach things on a case by case basis. When
we start lumping certain segments in all together, condemning everybody
of a certain group that were the problem, I mean,
that's how I look at it. And in light of

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what happened to Charlie Kirk, and light of all the
angst and the anger out there. Let's just start applying
some common sense. Let's start looking at things objectively, Let's
stop rushing to judgment. I mean, I want to crack
down on violence too. I want school shootings to stop too.

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But there's been a lot of school shootings since Columbine,
and a very small percentage of them involve transgender individuals,
and a very large percentage of them are young white males.
So if you want to focus in on a problem,
I just gave you what the focus on. The Blue

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Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA back after this.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Welcome back.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
It's seven eighteen on this Wednesday. The Blue Daddy Experience.
Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva Otis you
ready for this? This morning, I'm pushing myself to wake
up people. I don't know what's going on. I think
I went to bed too early last night. Do you
ever have that feeling where you're like, oh, I'm gonna

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get a couple extra extra half an hour and extra
forty five minutes, and then you happens, Well, it happened
for me, but I actually feel worse this morning.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
It never happens for me. It's like it's like, okay,
I'm gonna take this little thirty minute power nap uh
and then what you know, you start that doze off
and you go in the phone rings Oh.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
I was with a dog start barking, or you do
the twitch that wake up.

Speaker 7 (07:46):
Or somebody drives by your house in a loud vehicle,
whether it be a motorcycle or truck or or.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
A hemmy he was talking about yesterday.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh god.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
Then just as soon as you do as soon as
you feel that doze off, and then then you're you're done.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, so mine is where I do that the like
I jerked myself awake. I twitched myself awake, and then
you kind of sit there and what happened? What happened?
What time is it? And then you freak out and everything.
But yeah, like I said, I just I feel I
don't know. I think I just got too much sleep
last night.

Speaker 7 (08:18):
I can't remember what day it was. I think it
was over the weekend. My son calls me and I
just dozed off and it was like, you know, you're
kind of like you're you're probably been asleep for like
thirty seconds to a minute. Oh yeah, and then the
phone rings and then he goes, hey, wait, year were
you born? And I'm like, like, you couldn't have texted

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that question and it still would have probably woke me up.
But he was filling out some sort of an application and.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
He needed say what did he is?

Speaker 7 (08:46):
He? Yeah, he just needs he's what you're he was?
I mean he knew it was one of two years.
He just couldn't remember the year. Yeah, And I was
like god, God, yeah. Oh and then and then it
was over done. Just might as well forget that little
cat nap.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yeah, a little bit on the struggle bus this morning, folks,
but I'll get there.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
I'll get there. And you and I were talking off air,
and I think it came out last Tuesday, but if
you haven't seen it, it's on the History Channel. It's
about two and a half hours, and you can probably
get it on the app without the commercials, so it'll
get a little quicker. But I watched Clemente last night. Wow,

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I mean they did a great job on that. It
was I mean, it goes. It comes from like when
he started in Puerto Rico and you know his early
life where where his sister died after her dress caught fire.
She was very young.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
What.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
Yeah, Oh, they had built a fire and a spark
came off. Oh and it hit the dress and you
know she severely burned.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
Yeah, I mean just and then it goes through how
he met his and I mean it's and then coming
to Pittsburgh. You know, he was drafted by the Dodgers,
and the Dodgers he was in the minor league system.
He was playing in Montreal, which was the dodgest trip
away farm team or what would be considered trip away,
and they wouldn't playing because they didn't want other They
didn't want other teams to seem because they knew what

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they had all.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
They wanted to keep him under wraps, right.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
But they didn't have a place for him on the
Dodgers' roster because they had they had one of the
best outfields going at the time. And so when branch
Ricky left the Dodgers and came to the Pirates, of
course he knew who Roberto was and then took him
with the first pick in the supplemental draft, and that's
how Roberto became a Pirate.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Hmm. You said this aired on the History Channel. Yeah, yeah,
you said off air, I'm gonna a little behind the
scenes teared up.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
I did. I mean there was parts of that that
that show that if if you don't get emotional, that
you're not human. I mean there was so there was
you know, obviously when you know, when he gets towards
the end and Roberto dies in the plane crash, and
the people that they've been interviewing throughout the show, some

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of them are just common Pittsburgh's you know, Steve Blast,
Dave Cash Manny saying Gie and Roberto's kids. You know,
it was like you they didn't ask the question, but
you knew what the question was because it was you know,
they had just talked about him dying in the plane crash,
and the question, more than likely was what was it

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like when you found out Roberto had passed away? And
they were all speechless and all in tears. And then
Dave Cash finally said to this day, he said, he says,
I cry every time I think about it.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Sure, so see, and I'm not that's a different generation
than myself. I'm not real familiar with Roberto Clemente. Of course,
I've seen the stories the wall in the state. You know,
you've heard the name. I've heard that name my entire life.
Growing up. But that's the thing sports documentaries, when they're
done well, that's how you should react.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
And it had the sports in it, but they universide
it was more about Roberto and who he was, you know,
they reference of course, the anniversary of it was earlier
this month. But in nineteen seventy one, September one, nineteen
seventy one, the Pirates fielded the first all black team
in Major League Baseball. So all nine starting players were

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black or Latino or you know, they were men of color.
And it's funny because, oh, Jeane Klein, who was the
center fielder at the time, he said, somebody had yelled
out all the Homestead grazer in town. And he's like,
he heard it, but he was like he wasn't putting

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two and two together. And he says he gets out
in the outfield and he's thinking about this comment, like
he goes, man, the Homestead Graves were like the Negro
league team. He said, what what the heck did that
mean that they're in town? He said, they haven't been
around for.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
How how long?

Speaker 7 (13:08):
And he said, he goes, I looked at my left
and there's Willie Willie Stargol. He goes, I looked at
my right. He goes, there's a Roberto. He says, I
look down and he goes, oh, he said, I start
looking around the infield and he goes and he just
went oh. And then Dave Cash was like, I was
playing third base, and he goes, I look over and

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I can't remember who the shortstop was. But and and
you know, Rennie Stanitt was at second and I don't
remember who the first basement was. And he goes, he goes,
I looked around the infield, he goes, he said, I
said to the shortstop, he said his name. He is, Hey,
you know there's all brothers out here. That's what he said.
And it's just Manny say again was the catcher, you know?
So and I but they were like it was history. Yeah.

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And you know, I think Danny Murtaw, who was the
manager when Bloem Daddy was on. Danny Murtau's grandson was
something to do with the Trumpet campaign, and we had
him on about the Trump campaign. But we also had
him on one time just to talk about Danny Murtaus
and he said, you know, my grandfather didn't put those

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nine guys out there to make history.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, he put him out there because that was the
best line up, and they are Oliver was the first baseman.
So but he said he just he put him out there, thinking, Okay,
well this is my lineup for the day. You don't even.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Didn't even cross his mind that he was making history.

Speaker 7 (14:34):
Yeah, but I mean, obviously the other players talked about it,
and even though Roberto was a part of that, it
wasn't a big part of the show. But I think
the producers and the director and the person that wrote
it felt that it was necessary to mention that because

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Roberto was a part of that. And well, and that's a.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
Bit of the history the Pirates or organization. I had
never heard that story before that they were the first
to have.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Well, if you file up, if you go up to
PNC Park in the outfield there by one of the stands,
it's in between the two bars, and then there's a
food stand in the middle, and it looks like the
nineteen seventy two Tops card Tops baseball card, but on
the card it says it's the Top Pirates like it

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would on on the baseball card, and then it has
like three pitchers going across, you know, kind of like
in a square seah three, three and three, and it's
it's the nine players that played that day, and then
at the bottom it says September one, nineteen seventy one.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
So it's memorialized at the stadium.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
So it's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Well, and here's a little bit of baseball information. You
know you mentioned Clemente is how we started this off
in Puerto Rico. One thing that we do, my husband
and I when we travel to the Dominican Republic is
you know what is it twenty five thirty percent of
baseball players in the US are of Latino descent.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
It's approximately thirty percent.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Okay. One thing that we do and somebody told us this,
this little tip when you travel to like the Dominican
Republic or Puerto Rico, things like that, take gloves and
balls and a lot of that kind of stuff and
we leave. We'd leave those in our room for people
to take. It is so appreciated because the first time

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we went to the Dominican and again we're there vacationing,
we saw them outside playing on makeshift fields and what
they use for gloves are old milk gallon jugs. So
we take trips to played against sports by used gloves,
and we take that down to the Dominican as not

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a tip. I don't want to use that word, but
we know they will be appreciated and used to for
for good use. So if you're a baseball fan and
you travel to countries like that, there's a little tip
on how to put a smile on a lot of
youth's faces. So just a little something there. Seven twenty
eight coming up, we're gonna have your chance to win
this morning. We're gonna have Elvis Costello tickets. And then

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of course it's Wednesday. We've got politics on leash on
tap and free lunch. We'll get to that also seven
twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Good Wednesday morning to you. And what a baseball game
last night? I was at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Tiger's
in the Guardian's first game of three six games left
in the season. Tiger's up by one game in the
Al Central, on the verge of possibly the biggest collapse
in the history of Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I mean, the Guardians were so.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Far behind not that long ago, nobody foresaw this moment coming.
Yet last night you had a pitching matchup of epic proportions.
Derek Scooble for the Tigers last five starts against the Guardians.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
This guy had an area of zero.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Point seven to seven, the best picture on the planet,
going against Gavin Williams, who in his last five starts
against the Tigers had an ERA of zero point nine
to nine.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Neither guy disappointed.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I mean, both these guys went out there and let
it all hang out. Entering the sixth inning, the Tigers
and Derek Scoobel had a two to nothing lead on
the Guardians.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Scooble had only given up one hit.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
We weren't even squaring up balls, and then all of
a sudden, baseball happened. It's amazing in a day and
age where all people want to talk about is exit
V low and home runs, three consecutive hits by the
Guardians that never traveled a combined ninety feet totally changed

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the game. This is where when people ask me, man,
I mean, how does that happen or why does that happen?
And I simply answer, it's baseball. Stephen Kwan bunt for
a hit on Hell Martinez bunt for a hit. Jose
Ramirez swinging bunt for a hit. I'm telling you, you
measure all three together, they don't add up to the

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distance from home plate to first base. Yet those three
hits changed everything. It threw Trek's scouble off. He tried
to throw a ball to first base between his legs
looking the opposite way. That caused a little bit of chaos,
and then David Fryes squared to bunt. The ball ricocheted

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off Fry's bat and hit him directly in the face
at ninety nine miles per hour, And at that moment
in time, thirty plus thousand people in Progressive Field went dead.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Silent.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Fryes laying on the ground. You knew there was a
lot of blood, and Tarrek's scooble. The greatest picture on
the planet, visibly shaken on the mound is anybody would
be in that instant. I mean ninety nine miles an
hour to the face. I saw what ninety three miles
an hour to the face of my son did to
him at Wright State University again, Kentucky, about this time

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last year.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
It's ugly.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
No parent wants to go through it, No player wants
to go through it. Certainly no pitcher wants to do it,
and it wrecked the guy. Those three tiny hits in
a day and age where everybody's swinging for the Fencers
or they don't care. I'll take the strikeout, those three
tiny hits and that hit to the face.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Unfortunately, Derek Scooble unraveled.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
The Guardians go on to win and heading into tonight's
game at Progressive Field, and I'll be there again. You
can listen to me if you want WTAM eleven hundred,
just go to the iHeartRadio app starting at three zero
six from the ballpark. That game tonight, You've got the
Tigers in the Guardians, tied for first place in the
American League Central. Five games left, and this is where

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it gets crazy. This is where even if you don't
love baseball, you gotta love this. Five games left to go,
these two teams are tied for the American League Central
Division crown. And in those five games, one of these
teams gonna win the division.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
One of these teams could.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Be a wild card, and both of these or I
mean one of these teams could miss the playoffs entirely.
And if the Detroit Tigers missed the playoffs entirely, it'll
be the greatest collapse in the history of Major League Baseball.
The Guardians will have come back from fifteen and a
half games back. You gotta go to nineteen seventy eight

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Yankees Red Sox. Red Sox had a fourteen and a
half game lead on the Yankees. They came back, forced
the one game playoff. Buckie dept with the home run.
The rest is history. Just unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. And last
night I'm leaving the ballpark and all of a sudden,
I see a guy who looks very, very familiar, and

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it's won Frank Gregory from Jewett, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
I've known Frank since I have been seven years old.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
He played baseball for Lafferty in the OVBL I was
a batboy at seven years of age. Used to idolize
Frank Gregory, George Boon, Boris, Joe Dudek, Johnny Ridgeway, Johnny Oderezi.
I mean, you could go down the list of names
that played for Lafferty, and Frank Gregory played second base
and the guy hasn't aged a bit.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, it's just amazing.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
And I knew Frank was an usher at Progressive Field,
and I had seen him at the ballpark last year,
talked to him a little bit when I saw him
last year at the ballpark. It's the first time I've
seen Frank Gregory since I think I was fifteen years old,
and it's just amazing to reconnect like that. He's an
usher up there, goes to the games, drives all the

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way back to Jewett Scio every night and just has
a great time. But just a wonderful time at the ballpark.
If you're a Guardians fan, you gotta love what's going on.
You gotta love this team. I mean, you want grit,
you want hustle, and.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'll tell you what. This team doesn't hit well.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
I mean one of the worst hitting teams in Major
League Baseball, but they're pitching is unconscious right now and
they're getting key hits. And if you haven't been to
a game of Progressive Field, I know there's some tickets
still available for tonight and tomorrow, you gotta go. The
atmosphere is unbelievable and you can witness a team doing
something if they finish it out truly historic. And Sam,

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I know you're not a big baseball fan, but you're
a Cleveland sports fan. Please tell me, please tell me
you have been following these Guardians.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Oh God, I hate to disappoint.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
I know the answer you please, Daddy, I know the answer.
The answers.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
No, I hate to disappoint, I really do. I have
struggled since they've changed the name. I'll be one hundred
percent up front. I have struggled since they've gone to
the Guardians. I just I don't know what it is.
Now that we're in the fall. I will in its
playoff season, I will pay attention more. But I did

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just watch the video of the the hit to the face.
If you have a weak stomach, I suggest you do
not you do not turn it on. Now here's the thing.
It is a ricochet off of the bat, So it's
not like directly the picture you know, hit him in
the face. He angles his body of course to do

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the bunt and everything like that. But it's vicious. It is.
It's vicious and yet and he's right, the picture immediately
just looks.

Speaker 7 (24:33):
If you're human, yeah, I mean, unless you're actually throwing it,
unless you're Bob Gibson. Because Bob Gibson didn't care, he'd
throw chin music at you. And he wouldn't care if
he hit you in the head or not. And that
was before everybody wore batting helmets. So but yeah, I mean, yeah,
I haven't seen it yet. I'll probably watch it during

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the break, but because I was looking at some other things.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
It's a moment where you stop and you.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
Go the collapse of the Tigers. You know, you can
say it's the worst if they missed the playoffs, it
could be the worst because in today's day and age,
it seems like everybody makes the playoffs in baseball now,
and you know, but if you go back to nineteen
fifty one, the Brooklyn Dodgers took sole possession of the

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National League. There was no National League East West, Central,
and you if you came in first, there were no playoffs.
You had to come in first to go to the
World Series. They were in first place as of May fifteenth,
had sole possession of first place for the remainder of
the season until they fell apart in August. And in
August they they had twenty seven games left or something

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like that. The Giants had twenty five. The Giants went
twenty and five in that time, and the Dodgers went
like fourteen and thirteen ended up being at the time
a three game playoff. In Game one, the Giants win
at EBITs Field at Dodger Stadium, Ralph Brancat, the pitcher
from the Dodgers, gives up a home run to Bobby

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Thompson to win the game. Dodgers come back and win
Game two, and then, in one of the worst decisions
of all time, in Game three at the Polo Grounds,
Dodgers manager decides to bring in Ralph Branket again to
face Bobby Thompson. It's called the shot heard around the
world for a reason, because the Giants win the pennant
when they really shouldn't have. So that was probably the

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biggest collapse, even though it was only a thirteen game lead,
probably the biggest collapse in baseball.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
So, okay, I'm looking at the playoff bracket right now,
Cleveland Detroit, whoever wins that then takes on Seattle.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
That's what it ended today.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
I think, Oh, okay, okay, that changed around.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Well, you only got a week left, so I mean
you have people that have clinched home field, you have
teams that have clinched Yeah, like the Milwaukee Brewers have
the best record in the National League. So it all
depends who they're going to face, Like the Dodgers don't
have a they're in the playoffs, but they don't know
where they're playing.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
And then real quick, speaking of baseball, big change, electronic
calls for balls and strikes are coming to the major leagues.
The league announced on Tuesday that the automatic balls and
Strikes system will be introduced for the twenty twenty six season.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
So only on question. It's like a replay.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
You get two challenges per game, and if you win
your challenge, you get to keep it, so you still
have two challenges left.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
So technology everywhere everywhere. Starting the Miners seven forty six,
you're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News
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a little bit. And then of course we've got politics
unleashed and there's plenty of things to hit on there.
Otis on Facebook, we got a comment about baseball. One
of the biggest comebacks from last place to winning the
World Series the nineteen sixty nine Mets. That's from Ronald Y.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Yeah, but I mean the team in front of them
didn't really collapse. I mean the Mets were decent in
sixty nine, So I mean they were they were, They
were the worst team in baseball in sixty one, and
then they turned around eight years later and win a
World Series. So I'd have to look at the sixty
nine Pennant race. But I don't think I don't think

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the Mets like I think they were in the back.
They were in contention all all season. Okay, so but
I'd have to double check that.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Well, I just wanted I wanted to pass it along
since we were hitting on of course, all the baseball conversation,
I'm kind of saying along the same same vein of
things talking sports, I want to talk about football. I
don't know if you have seen this story. It's it's
it's quite disturbing. I watched the video this morning. There's

(29:47):
a JV football game that happened last Thursday because of
one player's actions. A fifteen year old boy. One of
the players in the hospital because he had because of
the actions of this other player, he had broken his
spine in two places. So basically looks like a ligneman

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blocks this boy. He blocks him, takes him to the ground,
and instead of just standing over him to make sure
he stays down, for lack of a better term, he
he body slams him, or like belly slams him. Like
it almost looks like a WBE move.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
He does a belly flop off.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
That's it. Belly flop. That's the term I was looking for.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
This.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
You know, the kid who does this is getting a
lot of a lot of judgment and it is a
horrible decision on this young man's conscious conscience. It should
never have been done. One thing I wanted to point out,
this is a fifty old kid may not have realized

(31:03):
that that particular action would cause so much damage. Again,
the young man who was on his back now has
his spine broken into places. What is surprising about this
is he has been released from the hospital already and

(31:25):
now is recovering at home, and they are saying that
he should make he should make a full recovery. Now,
both schools involved have not come to a decision on
the disciplinary action that is going to be taken against
this young man who did the belly flop. But a
lot of people are are criticizing, and I don't want

(31:49):
to say attacking, not necessarily attacking, But there's a lot
of criticism out there, you know, because the video is
it is shocking. It is kind of you go ooh,
because he's a big boy, he's a big sized boy.
But again, this is a JV team, a JV fifteen
year old kid. I honestly, I don't know these kids

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at all. I can't think that there was malicious intent
behind this fifteen year old. I think it's it's young
stupidity not realizing how impactful his weight would be on
this young man. Or maybe I'm being naive. You do
you think there was malicious intent behind this?

Speaker 7 (32:31):
There's not enough information? Yeah? Does this kid you know?
Does he have a learning disability? Is he you see
as a stupid fifteen year old? Does you know? Does
he not realize the action?

Speaker 4 (32:44):
You know?

Speaker 7 (32:45):
Is it just stupidity on his part? Is he maybe
not smart enough to realize? Is he? There are just
too many factors making the judgment on it.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
But I don't think. But as you said, the judgment,
a lot of adults are getting involved, a lot of
aults are judging, And that's point taking notice that there's
not enough information out there to.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
If I'm just gonna judge it by the video, Yet
it looks like it looks malicious really yeh.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
See I didn't think it looked malicious really.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
See, I just didn't who who sent us the email
or text about the Mets?

Speaker 6 (33:17):
That wash?

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Now you asked me to go back to it, I'll
shoot I lost it now?

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Anyway, Well the Mets did? They were they were trailing
by Ronald, They were trailing by ten. They were trailing
the Cubs by ten games in August, so that's that
is good comeback for the month of August, because you know,
it was also the first year that they had a
championship series, so the Mets played the Braves in the
first ever championship series before they went on to beat
the Orioles in the sixty nine World Series. Okay, but yeah,

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a ten game comeback is pretty impressive.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
That's a pretty I.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Still think that the Giants in fifty one are the
best one because it just the Dodgers were so dominant
over the season and just fell apart. I mean, and
the Dodgers were the you know, they were the best
team in the National League at the time. And then
it went back and forth between the Giants and the
Dodgers in the fifties there, like from fifty fifty to

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about fifty eight somewhere fifty six maybe.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Oh, coming up, we have politics unleashed. We're gonna have
Tony Edmund. Of course here in house. We're gonna have
Elgin via the phone. Busy, busy lady, bunch.

Speaker 7 (34:27):
Of tops now busy on vacation.

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Speaker 2 (35:40):
Something caught my eye the other day out of the
US Justice.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Department they're considering a proposal that would strip transgender Americans
of their constitutional right to bare arms. And they're using
his examples the shooting at the Catholic school in Minneapolis
that left two children dad twenty one injured, carried out
by a transgender woman. I think there's been about three
or four recent school shootings, mass shootings carried out by

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transgender individuals, and the Justice Department is in talks right
now to basically take a look at this and say, hey, look,
you know, we've got transgender shooting up schools. Obviously if
you're transgender. According to the Justice Department or some within it,
they feel that if you're transgender, you've got mental issues
and therefore you should not own a gun. Matter of fact,
Charlie Kirk argued that those who undergo gender transition are

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too crazy to own a firearm.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Now, the Justice Department proposal would.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Expand existing mental health based prohibitions on firearm ownership to
include transgender identity is grounds for disqualification. So they're saying,
if you're transgender, you're mentally impaired and you should not
own a gun. I saw where White House Press Secretary
Caroline Levitt said the discussions are very preliminary, low level,

(36:53):
and it's premature for the administration to comment on this topic. Okay,
so there's a couple of different ways to look at this.
My personal opinion when it comes to transgenders. Do I
think the majority of transgender individuals have something mentally wrong

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or there's some issues there, I absolutely do.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Do.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
I think some transgender individuals are born just different. I
absolutely do. And that doesn't mean God made a mistake.
God loves all of us. But I don't think you
can clump every transgender into the mentally unstable category. Because
if we're going to do this to transgenders based on

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school shootings, then you're going to have to say that
no white male between the ages of eighteen and twenty
three are allowed to own a.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Firearm because they're crazy. Look at the statistics.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
I mean, you want to break it down, more than
four hundred school shootings, mass school shootings since Columbine in
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Ninety eight percent of those shootings men.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
K through twelve school shootings, eighty one point three percent
white males. So if we're gonna go off shooting data,
if we're gonna say, well, not all transgenders go and
shoot up a school, but we've had a couple here recently,
and therefore transgenders should be banned from owning a gun.

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You're gonna have to exclude eighty one percent of white
males between a certain age because they fit the profile.
They are the profile when it comes to school shootings.
I just don't think it's fair. I never think it's
fair to lump everybody into the same category. I think
you've got to go on a case by case basis.

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I mean, the stats don't lie. I don't know how
you could argue with me if you're saying, well, transgenders
are shooting up schools, so therefore they shouldn't have guns,
when not every transgender has done it, and at the
same time, you're okay with white males between the ages
of eighteen to twenty four owning a weapon.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
The numbers don't lie.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
You got to do this on a case by case basis,
And I do think in the transgender community, I don't
know what percentage but my own personal opinion, because there
hasn't been enough scientific research and there's just assumptions.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
But I'll use West Virginia as an example.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I believe twenty seventeen twenty eighteen data in the state
of West Virginia. Per capita, the state of West Virginia
had the most individuals who said they were transgender.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
What's West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Comprised of poverty, low education, low IQ, drugs, a lot
of mental health issues.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Put two and two together again, connect the dots.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
You've got the state that practically leads the United States
in every bad category, the state with low IQ's, low edge,
a lot of drug use, a lot of mental health issues,
and they lead fifty states per capita. And the amount
of people that say they're transgender. Again, you can't argue

(40:13):
with those numbers. There's a direct correlation between everything I
just said and people saying, oh, yeah, I'm transgender.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, well, you've got some mental issues.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
But I also believe there is a percentage, and I
have no idea what percentage, But I think it would
be very ignorant of me or you to assume that
every transgender has a mental issue, because I don't think
that's the case. I think some people are just born
different and there's nothing wrong with that, and that does
not mean they're crazy. Just like I just said, take

(40:43):
a look at the white population got a lot of
lunatics with us white breads too, a lot, But that
doesn't mean we're all crazy. I've got a twenty year
old son, doesn't mean he's going to pick up a
gun and go shoot up a school like so many
other twenty year old white male.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
We got to just tone things down.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
We got to start thinking through things, and we got
to approach things on a case by case basis. When
we start lumping certain segments in all together, condemning everybody
of a certain group, then we're the problem. I mean,
that's how I look at it. And in light of

(41:23):
what happened to Charlie Kirk, and light of all the
angst and the anger out there, let's just start applying
some common sense. Let's start looking at things objectively, let's
stop rushing to judgment. I mean, I want to crack
down on violence too. I want school shootings to stop too.

(41:44):
But there's been a lot of school shootings since Columbine,
and a very small percentage of them involved transgender individuals,
and a very large percentage of them are young white males.
So if you want to focus in on a problem,
I just gave you what the focus on the bloom

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Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA Back after this.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
Welcome back. It's eight eighteen The bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA. Coming up,
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to see that show. All right, you heard that voice.
That's of course Tony ed Edmund from Edmund and Baum
Attorneys at Law. And of course on the phone, we
have the one and only Elgin mccardal do we have
you there, miss Elgin? You do?

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (42:54):
Well, this is the.

Speaker 6 (42:57):
Enthusiasm is just overwhelming.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
We woke her up.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Oh oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
Bo oh my god. Okay, well you got me beat.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
Been a busy week for you. Okay, So let's jump
into this. So since she's on her book tour, I'm
going to throw this at you first, Tony, are you
going to read Kamala Harris's new book One hundred and
seven Days.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
I won't, but I never read politician books. Oh okay,
So Joe Manchin has a book out. I'm not going
to read it. You know. John Bayner went on a
book tour a few years ago. I'm not going to
read it. No, I'm I mean, politicians have a platform.
They can say whatever they want pretty much whenever they want.
They will get coverage and you hear about it. I'm
not interested in reading their books. Sorry, just not.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
Elgin, Will you read it out of curiosity?

Speaker 5 (43:55):
Absolutely not. I'm sort of Tony on that. He's absolutely right.
They're they're very self serving those books. They're intended to
promote an anticipated run for something, and you know it's
it's self serving and the data is very I'm going

(44:21):
to say, although I have not read it, I'm going
to say that it probably is nothing that we have
nothing new.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
Well, that's what I was going to ask both of you.
Both of you. Is this the first leg in her
comeback tour to put herself out there as a presidential
nominee for twenty twenty eight? Do you think.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
I mean? Oh?

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Sorry, Alga, Yeah, you're gonna have to say Tony or.

Speaker 6 (44:47):
Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, Okay, Algine, you take that first.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
You know she said she isn't gonna run. I think she's.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
I don't think she you will run.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I hope she.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
Does run, but I think it's more of a redo.
I'd like to redo what I did in the one
hundred and seven days and explain why I didn't do
what I should have done about that.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Okay, it makes sense, Yeah, Tony.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yeah, I don't know whether she's going to run or not.
But these are always revision's history, rewriting of Yeah, and
it's true of any the campaign that is unsuccessful for
the office. It's running, and in this day and age,
with as much media attention as there is and twenty
five news cycles on TV and social media, there's not

(45:36):
anything we don't already know about. It's not going to
be anything new.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Maybe if this was thirty years ago, it might be
worth getting new information or getting the insight scoop on
what's going on, but the one's type lipped anymore. It's
all out there already.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
One thing that has been interesting watching clips and reading
some of the interviews of statements that she has made
during this media blitz that she's on for the past
three or four days. At this point, you know, they
are asking her hard questions and that's actually refreshing, but

(46:09):
they you know, they have posed to her, you know,
any accountability for addressing Biden's mental failure, and she is
starting to, in a way sort of take some accountability
for that. Is this a little insight into some Democrats

(46:30):
kind of fessing up and saying there was a problem.
Are we seeing that, Tony?

Speaker 4 (46:36):
I think that there's some of that. Jake Tapper's book
really went into that too, which I'm not reading that
book either. He did do immediate to Aarnt blitz. But yeah,
I think that there's some of that, But it's it
almost seems disingenuous, and like I said, this is about
every losing battle that a politician fights. There's always revision
as histories. I should have done this differently if person

(46:57):
A didn't do this, and we wouldn't be in a situation.
I'm sorry, I'm not interested in hearing that now. I
don't care.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
Can't go back and change things.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
No, you can't go back. You had an opportunity to
do something when you had the chance to do it,
do it or not, and you can say, well, made
a mistake, all right, no problem, move on, learn from it,
try to make things better, but don't just try to
make money off of it.

Speaker 6 (47:17):
Yeah, elgend any thoughts.

Speaker 5 (47:19):
Yeah, I think it'd be better she would just own
up to the mistake. You know. I think there was
a side by side comparison on three of the media
appearances she made to promote her book, and she's the
same Kamala Harris. I mean, she has a script. She
doesn't go off the script. You can't answer questions off
the cuff, and that's never going to change. She just

(47:40):
never has been able to do that, and writing a
book isn't going to change that. I thought it was funny.
I did see some coverage where part one of the
one of the chapters or something in the book she
talks about a day in the life of the campaign
and she talks about getting her nails done and the
appointment to get her hair done. But who cares? Literally,

(48:02):
who cares? How about you just answer the subjective questions
which it's tony in because she didn't answer her force,
she can't correct them. Now you can't it's not. It's
not as though you can lose, write a book on
why you lost, blame everybody else, so it's for the loss,
and then try to run for another office and think

(48:24):
that it's all going to be better. You just you cannot.
You can't change the horse. The horse is the same.

Speaker 6 (48:31):
Well, and one thing that really caught my attention one
of her quotes. I forget who she was talking to,
but last week, of course, the three of us talked
heavily about what happened with with Charlie Kirk, the topic
of free speech, how far can things go? She's out
there on this media tour, and she goes back to

(48:52):
the old playbook. She calls Trump a tyrant, basically refers
to him as a communist dictator. Jimmy Kimmel's back on
air last night, doesn't really apologize for the things that
he said. Have we already blinked at this point and
we did not learn anything from what happened to Charlie Kirk.

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If we're back to labeling and using these terms already, Elgin,
I'll throw this to you first.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
I think I don't know that there's a collective weed
in that statement. I think there's lots of people who
are not on that bandwagon. I think that those that
are going to change have changed. Those who are not
going to change will never change. And that's unfortunately where
we are in society and politics today, is there are

(49:45):
diehards that just the huge under any circumstance to listen
to the other side and take a step back evaluate.
And I think we talked about this a little bit
last week because we need to do that, because you
do not have a discourse or discussion that's civil and

(50:05):
open to ideas that are not necessarily yours. And you
can certainly agree to disagree at the end of the day,
but that doesn't mean that you avoid the discourse and
bigger heals in and that's it. And so I disagree
with the statement that we've LinkedIn. We've moved on. I
think there's there's a lot that has been learned. I
think there is certainly a movement tape that word, but

(50:31):
you know, a movement to reverse the course of where
the country was going. So that's what I that's what
I looked said Tony.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Yeah, I don't disagree with most of what she said,
and I think instead of putting labels and people especially
people in positions of power influence. You focus more on
actual behaviors and things that are said and done, rather
than putting labels on stuff and saying here's why I
don't think this is a good move. Why I don't
like it. It's boring. Really, it's boring to do that.
You're not going to get a lot of attention doing it,
but it's much more effective. And I am a big

(51:07):
push let's make politics boring again, because when things are boring,
it's actually means that those who are doing the work
are rolling their sleeves of getting their hands dirty and
trying to make things better for people. And I think
that's what we should focus on, trying to make things better.
That's what their job is, and we as a society
should demand more of that, less attention seeking and more
do the work make our lives better.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
For why you're putting office. Yeah, I love how you
said that. I'm going to ask you both when we
get back from a break because we have about a
minute left in this so I'll kind of tease this
a little bit. The way you said that made something
poppingto my head, Tony, have we same thing as when
we talk about the topic of true crime, Tony, You

(51:50):
and I have talked about.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
It a lot.

Speaker 6 (51:52):
Sure have We are both obsessed with true crime podcasts,
big fans. But have we as a society made politics
it's a form of entertainment? Have we lost sight of
what politics actually is in the purpose of it? And
it has been turned into a form of entertainment for
the masses? Almost like a sporting event. On this side,

(52:12):
you're that side who wins, who loses? Have we gone
that direction?

Speaker 4 (52:18):
It sure feels that way.

Speaker 6 (52:19):
Yeah, we'll talk about that when we get back. It's
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(52:53):
Daddy experienced samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA before
the break kind of threw out there based on something
that Tony said, here, has politics become a form of
entertainment for citizens here in the US? Elgin, I'm gonna
throw that to you. Have we become have we lost
sight of the point of politics and in government?

Speaker 5 (53:17):
I don't think it's a form of entertainment. I think
it's I think it's a turnoff. Quite frankly, as Tony indicated,
it's boring. But the dialogue has ceased polarized. I think
the coming up on the STA fiscal year for the
budget being passed, and rumor is that there's not going

(53:37):
to be a budget passed and it's not going to
be passed because simply because we don't want the Republicans
to have any kind of progress. In the meantime, you're
hurting everybody. So to your point that it's not entertainment,
I don't think it's entertainment at all. I think it's frustrating.
I think people have tuned out. And when people tune
out and don't take interest in what the government's doing,

(53:59):
that's when things start to fall apart. I think that
there are certain people that believe in their own minds
that it might be entertainment like AOC and squad. And
I don't even remember the New the New Gal because
NA starts with to see Tony help me out here.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
I'm not.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
I'll shoot. I know who you're frel. I can't think
of it right now.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I think it's I think it's
Petrel No Crockett, Crockett, the Jasmine Crockett. Yes, you know,
so you know it's people things for the sake of
their own I don't know. Glorification self, I don't know.

(54:45):
I don't know what what it's called. But we have
lost sight of the fact. I do agree with you
on that fact that we we we put people in
Congress for purpose of passing laws to help the country
make things better. But we can't do that if we're
so polarized in our quote unquote positions or sides that

(55:09):
I'm not going to do it simply because that means
you succeed or you look good. If everybody works together
for the betterment of the country and the betterment of
the citizens, that I think everybody looks good and the
country then prevails. But no, I don't think it's entertainment,
but I think we've lost sight of or not we
have lost sight of what they're supposed to do. I
think people who are elected have lost sight of that.

(55:34):
Not everybody, but the vocal few that certainly highlight that.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Fact.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
And I mean I do think that that has become
more entertainment and rather than you know, paying the broadbush,
as I mentioned the specific thing I saw renderings for
a UFC fight at the White House. I mean, that's
that's literally a form of entertainment, right, And that's that again,
that's something that I'm not for. That makes me uncomfortable.
But like I said, I want to make politics boring again,

(56:04):
because even it goes back to the nineteen nineties with
the show Crossfire. I mean that was a form of
point counterpoint, point counterpoint. That's the beginning of the hot
take that has permeated even in sports and other forms
of entertainment. I mean, you know, governing is not supposed
to be WWE. WWE has its purpose, it serves its
purpose for entertainment. You have places to go for entertainment.

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Politics isn't the place where you should do that. And
there's especially in an attention seeking society where the more
eyeballs you get, the more money you're gonna make. It's
encouraged that and the algorithms help encourage that, and I
think that's the root of a lot of our problems
and one that needs to be constrained somehow someway. And
two we have to start teaching kids how to deal
with that, how to handle that. It's not going anywhere.

(56:49):
We can only restrain it so much. We're going to
have to teach people how to take care of themselves
so they don't get down these rabbit holes and reinforce
and civics education. Look, this is supposed to be a
methodical process to help make lives better. We want everybody's input,
but we also have to make sure that we're not
just doing this to seek all the attention we can.
We can go through and lists a number of names

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throughout the course of the last thirty years or people
who do with it just for the attention, but down
to the individual who's voting, voters need to make sure
that they're focusing on putting people in office who are
just going to do the grunt work. And I know
it's a lot easier for people who love the attention
and seek the attention to get elected because they're usually
good at running, but they tend not to be so

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good at doing the job. So we have to try
really hard to make sure we get people in there
who are good at doing the job. That's what I
hope happens going forward.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
So speaking of attention sinking, this kind of takes us
in a different direction than we planned on. But so
oh elgin.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
Yeah, I do have a little comment, just a short one.
I do agree with the majority of what Tony said. However,
the reference to the w w E at the White House,
I think that oh UFC, I'm sorry, you know, at
the White White House. The the the White House has

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been used by the former administration, by the Obama administration
for many, many different entertainment venues with rock stars and whatnot.
And I think Kamala Harris and her campaign spent millions
and millions of dollars just basically having rock concerts for

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entertainment to get people there. So I think there's there's
I don't know that it's necessarily for politics, but it's
it's for the I don't know why, but it has
been used by both administrations, both parties for entertainment purposes
on that end. But but I would agree that civics
needs to be taught, did need to be The concentration

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needs to be reverted back from the entertainment industry to
what do you have to offer as opposed to what
do these rock stars popularity have to offer you in
the campaigns?

Speaker 4 (59:09):
And I will and I will say to Piggyback and
what El just said, I'm not sure what reference, what
specific references you're making, but chances are I don't like
that either.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
I think I think we've lost sight of the White
House is a symbol. It's the it's the house for
every citizen here in the country, and it should be
treated that way, no matter who is currently living in
that White House.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Yeah, I mean, and it should be a serious place
where serious things happen, right yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
Yeah, yeah, So okay, you agree on that. I like this.
This is this is good. This is good. But going
back to the topic on social media, what I was
going to pose was should sitting government officials at certain levels,
say its senators, representatives, the president, the vice president, Supreme

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where justices, you know, should they not have access to
social media because a lot of them stick their own
foot in their mouths when they get on social media
at one o'clock in the morning or whatever. And I'm
talking about our current president and presidents in the past.
You know, should they be limited or should they not

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even have it period while they're holding those positions toning
off to you first.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Well, I don't think there should be any laws keeping
them off of it, but I think as a matter
of course, they should stop. I mean again, the kind
of stuff that they should put out should be boring.
I mean, it should be things that are related to
the office that they're holding. If they want to put
out statements that way, I'm okay with that, or the
kind of thing that they would say on television. Some

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people aren't going to see it on television. You know,
you've got to put it out there to reach more
people because it's that form of communication. But as far
as you know, sending out sweets at one thirty in
the morning, two o'clock in the morning and just sort
of going off the cuff, I think it's about idea
for everybody, but I think it's particularly bad for people
who hold positions of power. And once you put something
out there, you can't just claw back. It's out there.

(01:01:09):
The Internet is forever, as they say, and even if
you pull it back, somebody's going to find it and
they're going to throw it back at you. And I
really think it's not a good idea for people in
positions of power to do that in the way that
they have, and they're going to have to get much
better at managing that. Again, it's about eyeballs and attention
and manipulating algorithms so that it's look at me, look

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at me, look at me enough already.

Speaker 6 (01:01:33):
Yeah, deleting is not deleting anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
Elgin No, Well, I think I don't think that you
can limit it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
Here's what I think has to happen. I think social
media is a bad thing. At least it's evolved into
something bad. It's not being used productively for the most part,
and it's hard to even with AI and chat, PTT
and all sorts of things, it's hard to even verify

(01:02:02):
that what is being put out there is actually being
put out there by the individual who has the phone
or the electronic device in their hand. I think that
it would be a better idea, and I'm sure they
do have people that are social media, uh individuals that
that and that should probably be left to those. I mean,

(01:02:24):
there's communications directors, there's managing the but but you know,
how do you manage the the leader of the see world.
He wants to do it no matter what party. He
wants to tweet because he wants to put out something.
He wants to put out something. But it's just like anything.
You know, former partner in a firm that I work

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for always said, never send an email that you would
not want to be blown up.

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
In a you know, for publishing The New York Times.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Publishing the New York Times, or blown up in a
poster and displayed before a jury. So there, there's there's
in anything that you write, whether it's sending an email
or sending a letter or putting out on social media,
there should always be a filter. And there should always
be a second and third person that looks at the

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press release or the comment in analyze for boringness, we'll
call it tony.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
Just the facts, ma'am, Just the fact eight forty six.
We will be back, of course, where you're continue this conversation.
You're listening to we're right in the middle of politics
on lease. You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. It's eight

(01:03:45):
fifty two The Bloomdaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA for you too. We're right in the middle
of politics on leash. Of course, we've got Elgin and
we've got Tony here talking hitting on the politics things.
One big thing that happened this week the UK, Australia,
Canada and now France are recognizing Palestine. When I first

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saw this, my first reaction was, are we rewarding Hamas
and the terroristic attacks that happened in October and we're
coming upon the two year anniversary we're approaching that. Are
we rewarding this horrible act of terrorism? Algie, I'll throw
this to you first.

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
Well, I think joining in Palestine. I don't know if
it's rewarding it's it's it's it's aligning and redistributing the
alliances amongst the UN, which you know obviously the critical
speech that Trump had given yesterday to the UN it
was basically a warning. It is that's fine, make your

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choices carefully because there are collateral consequences. To all of them,
and I don't think we when when you use the
word we, I don't think we in the United States
are are rewarding anything. I think that the countries that
are aligning with them must do so at cautions because
there will be a loteral consequences to that.

Speaker 6 (01:05:16):
Tony.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Yeah, it's tough because I think this is one of
the more complicated issues facing the world today. Because you know,
what happened October seventh was awful. It was just awful.
But that doesn't mean that they're you know, it doesn't
mean that the military response hasn't had its issues and

(01:05:38):
that they should try to learn from it and do better.
But it also doesn't mean that every criticism of what
the Israeli military is doing means you're anti Semitic or
that you don't care about what's happened. You know that
you're you think that they shouldn't be there and that
they're everything they're doing is wrong, and if you're in
support of them, it doesn't mean that you're okay that
people are suffering. The war is really really tough. I

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would like it if there was more acknowledgment of mistakes
that are being made and the people who are being
hurt by it. I think that would make things better again.
I don't have any problem with the Israeli military going
in and saying we've got to respond because we were attacked.
Of course they have to respond. And I think I
would love to hear more in depth rationale for why

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the countries have recognized state of palse On and what
that means and what their goal is with that. And
I'm hoping that the international community that was in town
in New York for the UN is actually having those
conversations behind closed door so that they're productive. I don't
want it to just be something that's so we're just
projecting what we have to say, but it doesn't really
actually mean anything. You try to have those conversations be

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productive so that that if you know, you don't support
what Hamas is doing, you don't support the fact that
they do some really underhanded things, and they're hanging, you know,
by all accounts, hanging out in tunnels while they're people
are suffering because they don't care about their people either
the right. I think it's actually a good thing that
they're dying. But you also have knowing that you have

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to respond accordingly to and I think it's one of
the more difficult situations that the world's facing now, and
so I hope that the countries that recognize Palestine for
as a state are saying behind the scenes, Hey, here's
how we need to make this work. No we don't
support Hamas, and no we're not okay with what they're
doing and that they're hurting people, but they're hurting people
in the region in general, and they're hurting their own people,

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and they need to be able to account for that
as well well.

Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
In Elgin, I think one of the questions, or I
guess maybe a better way of posing this is what
message is this sending to other terroristic organizations, possibly for
any future acts that could could be facilitated against other countries.

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That's what kind of worries me, is the message that
it is sending.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Oh, I think it's it's it's aware, as I said,
there's collateral consequences. You to make sure you understand what
you're saying. And if, as Tony was saying, the difficulty
is the commentary or the positions that are being taken.
The general positions taken is no one knows exactly all

(01:08:23):
of the top secret data that is being discussed. There
is just so much that we as the electorate and
public don't know. And to make a generalized statement that
you are for or against, I think is an ignorant
statement to make, because, as Tony indicates, there's there's right

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and wrong and levels of right and wrong. But at
some point, unfortunately in war, there is this is the
this is the this is the red line, and it's
a cross that red line. We are going to react
or we have to react. Because nothing is ever applicable
to everybody. It is applicable to a select group, a

(01:09:11):
select you. The elite power in politics and government is
just so overly complex that you cannot generalize. But I
think to your question, what message does it send, I
think it sends a strong message that you, at least
in the United States, beware where you know, be careful

(01:09:34):
who you align with, because it is you know, you
certainly wouldn't want that to happen. In France, you wouldn't
want to happen. You know that that type of terroristic attack,
terrorist is terrorists. You can't negotiate with terrorists, curious, and
so you've got a job a line somewhere.

Speaker 6 (01:09:50):
Well, Elgin, I'm so glad you and Tony have aligned
with us. I'm trying to tie together there, folks, I'm trying. Listen.
We've made it to the end of the show once again,
you two. Thank you so much for your time. This morning,
we are out of here. It's kind of a rainy day,
but try and enjoy it. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow.