The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam September 25, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news Radio eleven seventy. Good
Thursday morning tea. And I got to start off on
a sad note. My friend played against him in the
obbl Steve Myers passing away, former head baseball coach at
Wheeling Park High School, just fifty years of age. Found
out about this just a couple of days ago. Buddy
Mine said, Hey, did you hear about Stevie Myers? And

(00:42):
I said, what are you talking about? And he said, yeah,
his organs are shutting down. Apparently he's got leukemia. They're
sending him back to spend time with his family and
he doesn't have long That was Monday when I found
out about this, and he passed away yesterday with his

(01:03):
family and according to his family, with the Atlanta Braves
on the radio or television, which was his favorite team.
I mean, fifty years old, kids, family, the whole deal unbelievable.
I mean, it's just unbelievable when you think about it.
And Steve was such a good guy. I mean, Steve's
one of those Steve was one of those guys that

(01:25):
you would be hard pressed. As a matter of fact,
you probably couldn't find somebody to say something negative about him.
Just a sweet, gentle guy. And I saw a couple
of posts. I can't remember who put it out there,
but somebody who obviously was very close with him and
said that Steve was the type of guy that you
would want making sure your daughter got home at the

(01:47):
end of the night. And he was very good baseball coach,
very good baseball player, and always had kind things to
say to me about my sons when we played against
Wheeling Arch High School. And you know, this one's a
kick in the gut. And here's the thing. Stevie Myers

(02:08):
not one of my best friends, not even I would
say one of my top twenty friends, but the kind
of guy that if I saw him somewhere, He's going
to go out of his way to say hi. I'm
going to go out of my way to say hi,
and right away we're going to talk baseball. That's just
who he was, and the story behind his passing is

(02:29):
just it's awful. I mean, he goes in, from what
I was told, felt a little tired, but other.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Than that, no signs.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, he was he was fine by all accounts,
felt a little tired, went in for a blood test,
all of a sudden, gets a call saying, hey, you
got to get in here right now. Finds out he
has leukemia. But the leukemia that he has ninety percent
I believe success.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Rate, slow moving, very curable.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Undergoes a treatment, body rejects the treeatment, and he's dead
that quick. From what I understand, I think the thought
is that he may have had this leukemia for quite
some time. It just never showed any signs, never reared
its head, and then all of a sudden, too little,

(03:19):
too late, and then the body rejects treatment and that's it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Prayers and thoughts going out to.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
The Myers family, obviously, and you know, I don't know
if it's the stage of life that I'm at right now,
but you know, at fifty five years of age, I
have probably had in the last three to four years,
a lot of people who I would consider good buddies
are people that I know, ages forty five to fifty
five just dropped dead, and it's very hard to deal with.

(03:51):
And I guess I was lucky growing up. I didn't
deal with death a lot. But now, and that's one
of the things about getting old, you know, it's just
uh in one of those things where it just seems
like every time you turn around, there's there's something happening
to to uh someone. But otis I know you know

(04:14):
you knew Steve Meyer as well. I believe your son
played for him. I mean your thoughts on Steve.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Myers, Well, I didn't know Stevie that well, my son
did play for him.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Steve became the head coach at Wieliing Park my son
senior year. And when when when Steve got the job,
I was when I could see the change in the team.
Mike McLeod was the previous coach when my son was
a sophomore and a junior, and Mike had taken him
to the state championship final my son's junior year, and

(04:50):
so they had a nice team and Mike Mike. I'm
not going to take anything away from Mike McLeod as
a coach, but I I liked me personally, I like
Steve V Meyer's approach to coaching a little better than
I liked Mike's. Just my personal preference, Okay, And again
I'm not Mike did a great job. I just liked
the style of coaching was a little different. And you know,

(05:16):
there was a time when I I called Steve in
December because they were doing you know, gym workouts and
stuff like that. They were going into the cage and
you know, it was kind of like open gym type things.
And it was right around Christmas and we we were
my friend, a friend of mine and myself and I

(05:36):
had bought my son a ticket to go to the
Bowl game down in Orlando where WVU was playing. So
my son didn't get something he wanted for Christmas, which
was like in ar fifteen and technically you have to
be eighteen to have one, and he was seventeen at
the time, and you know, we did a little research
and he that's what he asked, and so I said,

(05:57):
you know, look, we'll get it for you for your birthday. Kid,
going to get it for you for Christmas. Well, my
son got but hurt and so he said, I can't go.
I got baseball practice or I got I got baseball workouts.
So I called coach Myers and I said, hey, Steve,
I said, let me ask you a question. I said,
can it Would it be all right if Nolan goes

(06:18):
to this bowl game? Like is he really going to
miss anything if we're gone for three or four days?
He goes, Hell, no, he's not going to miss anything.
Time to go to the bowl game. I said, okay,
he's not going to go because I told him the story.
And he starts laughing. He says, I can't help you
with that one. And I said, I didn't think you could.
You know, so we had you know, I didn't know
him that well, but I know him well enough that,

(06:40):
like bloom Daddy said, I could talk to him. We
knew of each other. I mean, we were both athletes
at Wheeling Park High School at different times. He obviously
was younger than me, but he knew who I was.
And now you know, he knew he knew my family
being in education and stuff like that. You know, so
he and you know, I had a lot of respect

(07:02):
for Steve as a coach and as a person. You know. Uh,
And like bloom Daddy said, it's you know, in fact,
I found out about this, uh, you know, about about
coach Myers on Monday. In fact, my son had called
me and he said, hey, did you hear about coach Myers?
And I'm like, you know, I saw something posted on Facebook,
but there it was kind of, you know, vague, it

(07:24):
was very vague. And he said, no, he got diagnosed
with leukemia and there they said he probably won't make
it through the week. And you know, you're talking that
was two days, you know, three days ago.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
That's your world completely being flipped upside down for his family.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
And I'm you know, I'm you know, bloom daddy again.
I'm going on what my son told me. But I
guess how this kind of came about. Was I think
earlier in the summer, Coach Myers, according to my son,
had had contracted line disease, been bitten by a tick
or something of that nature, and you know, it was going,
you know that treated and whatnot, but was still feeling

(08:02):
kind of run down and went in for blood work
and that's what happened. I mean, I don't know how
true that is, but that's what my son told me.
And you know, either way, he went in for the
blood work and found this out and and like like
blim Daddy said, you know, they gave him. He went
in for I don't know if it was one or
two treatments, but the treatments got rejected or his body

(08:22):
didn't handle it well. And you know, the next thing,
you know, here we are, and you know it is sad.
I know he's got kids and and you know, obviously
a wife, and you know, at fifty years old. I mean,
and like blim Daddy said, I mean, I've had classmates
in the last two to three years that you know,
I played football with in junior high and high school,

(08:43):
and and you know they're not they're not here anymore.
Sometimes it's preventable. Sometimes it's not. You know, one of
my good friends had a massive heart attack. You don't
you don't necessarily see that coming. The other one kind
of had like a little bit of an injury and
never got it checked out and ended up passing away

(09:04):
because of the effects of it. And you know, when
when you know, as guys, and I've said this before,
you know, we've talked about it, we're not too we
think we're superman, yeah, and we're not. And you know,
the the worst thing you can do is ignore something

(09:24):
and or not follow directions or and I'm living proof
of that. And you know, the best thing to do
is do an annual check up, go to the doctor,
get tested, because if something is wrong, you want to
nip it in the button. But yeah, it's sad.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Yeah, but obviously coach affected touched was impactful on a
lot of people's lives, young men who played for him,
of course his family. I mean it's it's yeah, it's
hit a lot of people. It's hit a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
So and you know there's a lot of tributes out there.
I mean, it made Metro News and you know, like
like Central Baseball had said something and he's going to
be missed.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
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Speaker 5 (11:21):
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Speaker 5 (11:48):
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Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, Well, I've worked with Sergeant Justice once or twice.
I know some things about Sergeant Justice that he doesn't know.
How I know, which is which is always kind of fun.

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Speaker 5 (12:21):
Oh and that's when you go, I have my sources.
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Speaker 5 (12:37):
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Speaker 4 (12:42):
I am. I don't know about you, and I don't
know if I'm on the good list one hundred percent.
You know, I might have one get out of jail
free card, but it might be get out of get
out of a speeding ticket card, but it ain't going
to be get out of jail.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
So well, congratulations to them. Of course, we will be
delivering that on Friday. On Friday, So again, it's funny.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Sometimes we delivered these lunches and sometimes you know, you
know people, huh, but you don't necessarily know their names
or where they work or anything like that. So we've
delivered a couple and I'm like.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Oh, this is where you were.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh hey did you Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Know you, or they look at you and go, oh that's.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
What you look like. Yeah, you think, well we had that.
I told you I had that happen last night.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
I went to my cardio drumming class and in Blair
and we couldn't get in because the Blair High School
thesbians were practicing for.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
A play Thespians.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's what I said.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
You said, Thesbians like lesbians with the teeth.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
So anyway, we're sitting outside. It's there's there's another lady
that comes to the It's it's only like her second
time coming to cardio drumming and then there's like three seats,
so there's it's her the instructor of myself, and we're
sitting there and the instructor and I are talking about something,
and well, she was talking about the playlist or something

(14:07):
for the evening. So I said, oh, and this lady
looks over and she goes, are you Bice? And I
was like, and I kind of looked, and the instructor
looked at me like really, and I was like, yeah,
I am. And she goes, oh, no, I heard you
talking about, you know, coming to one of these drumming
classes and just and that and the other. And I said, well,
I did give her a promo when she had her

(14:28):
first one because I wanted her to have more than
three people at her class. So and then the instructor
looked at me like middle finger, you go, so anyway,
but yeah, it's it's funny how sometimes those things just
pop up. Oh yeah, it's even funnier, more funny. Funnier
is a word I'd have to ask my mom, But yeah, yeah, no,

(14:51):
I don't think it is anyway. So is when it's
somebody that you know and that you've known for a
long time and they come up to you and the
man I didn't know you were otis oh oh, yeah.
I mean it's like, dude, I've been doing this for
nine years, ten years now, and you're finally just putting
this together and how long have we known each other?

(15:13):
And they're like, I just didn't realize that was you.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well the well, it happened last Thursday when we when
we co hosted together the annual dinner for the Chamber event.
You know, before everything started, I'm out networking talking to
all kinds of different people and they said, I saw
that Otis is going to do this with you, And
I said, yeah, well is he here? Is he here?
And I said, yeah, well point him out. I want
to know what he looks like. I want to know

(15:37):
what he looks like. I'm like, that's him over there
in the blue blue jacket, blue suit jacket or whatever.
Oh that's Otis. And I'm like, yeah, that's him. Oh
he's really tall. Yeah, oh okay, that's what he looks like.
And it's funny because one of the places, and I
can't remember the name of it, that I delivered lunch
a while ago, it was all guys working because a huge,

(15:58):
you know, big chunk of our audience is male men.
And the one guy who actually won came out and
he goes, oh, oh, are you gonna come inside? All
the guys are waiting in the break room. They can't
wait to see you. They want to know what you
look like. And I'm like okay. So I walk in
and there's like fifteen guys sitting there and uh, I'm like, hi,
it's me.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
It was so odd.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, and I wanted to say disappointed, like do I
need to do a spin?

Speaker 6 (16:28):
You know?

Speaker 5 (16:29):
It was like all eyes on you, but yeah, it's
I remember the first time my voice was recognized. I
was getting a pound of chipped Isley's chip chopped ham
at the Respects Deli. That was the first time. I'll
always remember. This guy looked at me and he's like, god,
I know you. God. I kept saying that and he's like,
what do you want to send chipped ham? And oh wait,

(16:50):
you're the radio girl Like yeah, that that's me. That's me.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, I've been around somewhere and you know you're just
talking to me. Oh yeah, store owner or something, and
they go, are you notice? Are you routed? And they
always have that look on their face like like they're
afraid to ask you.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, yeah, Isley's chip job pamp I always remember it.
Seven twenty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Welcome back to the Bloomdaddy Experience on your Thursday morning.
Saw an article the other day, can't remember where it
was from, but they were talking about what to do
with the homeless who were sleeping on park benches, putting
up tents in public park areas, how to handle the issue,
except they didn't call them the homeless.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
We got a new word.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
You know, Liberals love world a wordplay, you know, they
love just changing things around, you know, and this goes
back quite sometime. I mean, it's not teacher, it's not educator,
it's not janitor, it's custodial technician. It's not sales person,
it's account executive. I mean everything I guess to make

(17:58):
make it sound better, more important.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I mean, that's why.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
You've got all these individuals that go crazy over pronouns,
because it makes them feel self important, because well, quite honestly,
they can't feel important any other way.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
They don't achieve in sports.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Academia, life, business. So hey, let's make some pronouns up
to make us feel better about ourselves. Well, now the
new one is it's not homeless, it's the unhoused. Yes, yes,
that's what it said.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
The unhoused in the area.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Are taking up residents in the public park area the unhoused.
And I sit there and I look at this stuff
and it's just laughable. I mean, do you think a
homeless guy who literally is sleeping on a sidewalk going
through garbage cans looking for food, do you think he

(18:51):
cares whether or not you call him homeless or unhoused?
Is that affecting his life in any way, shape or form.
And I'll throw another one at you. Do you think
by calling the homeless unhoused that that's going to prompt
somebody to give them more money when they're walking by
them on the street or lend them a helping hand,
Because if you.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Do, you're out of your damn mind.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
It's just ridiculous how we try to just I don't know,
jazz up terms or titles or whatever it may be.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Call them what they are. They're homeless. They're homeless.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
If I thought for a second calling them unhoused would
improve their life in some way, shape or form, I'd
be all in but it won't. But yet here we
go with unhoused. And I said it before and I'm
going to say it again. They shouldn't be in public parks.
They should not be allowed to throw up a tent,
They should not be allowed to lay on a park
rent bench. First of all, you, as a taxpayer, pay

(19:48):
for a public park. You should have the right too
to go to a public park with your kids and
not have to deal with that, not have to deal
with being asked for money, not have to deal with
seeing that, not having to deal with possible drugs being
around the area or vagrants coming in.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
You have rights too. It's like people want to say, well,
homeless people have rights. No.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think when you get to that point in your life,
obviously you have not made very good decisions, not all
of them, but most of them, or you can't. You're
not capable of making decisions for yourself anymore. And that's
where somebody's got to make very hard decisions, and those
decisions should be pretty simple. You either go to a
homeless shelter and you take advantage of the services offered

(20:29):
for you there, or you go to jail. But you're
not going to be laying on a park bench. You're
not going to be laying or putting up a tent
on a sidewalk. You're not because, yeah, I guess you
have rights, but guess what, so do I? And it
should be my right to be able to walk into
a park with my kids and not have to see
or deal with that. And does that sound harsh? Probably?

(20:52):
And I don't care, because that's the reality of it.
And that's where we've got to get. I can tell
you from talking about and talking to individuals who deal
with the homeless issue in Cleveland, a city like Cleveland,
that most of these individuals will not go to a
shelter because they don't want to abide by the rules.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
They don't they don't want to be told.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
That they've got to get to their room at a
certain time, that they can't go back out on the
streets at a certain time, that they can't do drugs,
that they can't drink.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
They don't want to abide by rules.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Therefore they say I'm not going Well, that's your choice,
then go to jail, but you're not going to go
take up residents on a sidewalk outside of a business
or in a park. I mean, we've got to start
dealing with this issue the right way, and you can
do it with compassion. But there are services out there

(21:47):
for these individuals that will help them, that will enhance
their life, and they need to be forced to utilize them.
And if they don't want to, you can't give them
the option of just going and littering up a part.
We're littering up a street or littering up whatever it
may be. Sam, you've known me for a long time.

(22:08):
You know I'm a loving, compassionate person. Yeah, I'm saying
that with a straight face. But enough is enough already.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
He he actually is a compassionate person. That is, that is,
he is with me anyways, likes me better than you.
Maybe we've talked about this. This is a hard This
is a hard topic because we've got to remember these
this there has to be compassion in the conversation. There
has to be humanity. These are humans. I am not

(22:36):
somebody like others in this area that will refer to
these to homeless people as as vermin, because they're not.
They are humans. But in the same regards, and I've
said this before, contributing, functioning, tax payer paying members of
society should take priority. Sorry that may sound cold, that

(23:02):
may sound callous, But why do folks, And this is
an ever growing problem in Wheeling, This has been going
on for years now. Why is it that the property
owners not put first when if an encampment pops up?

(23:22):
And I know there's now the permanent encampment and everything,
but why are they not made the priority? Why is
the loss of their property value, for example, just supposed
to be acceptable. Why why when damage is done to
property homeowners it's acceptable. That's where there's the conflict. I mean,

(23:51):
if we're talking about Wheeling, well, property.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Damage not just to homeowners. What about the time when
the homeless were under the bridge there on Market Street
that crosses Big Creek and they had a fire underneath
and it damaged the bridge and that bridge was shed
down for how long?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yeah. And looking at numbers roughly here and Wheeling, there's
about a count about one hundred and twenty five. I've
seen conflicting numbers of the amount of homeless here in Wheeling.
Roughly about one hundred and twenty five is on average
what I found looking into this. But I'll give you
a story that I have. About a month and a

(24:28):
half ago, I went to the Ohio County Library right
here in downtown, right across the street from the Wheeling
Soup Kitchen, if you're familiar, there's this small little parking
lot that is attached to the library corner. You go out,
you walk around the front, and then you go around
there's a good set of hedges, and then you walk

(24:50):
to the entrance of the library. I make that turn
around the hedges to go to the lit walk into
the library. There are two females sitting there, strung out
on who knows what, with a needle hanging. One of
them had a needle hanging out of her arm. This
is walking into the public library.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
And this was at which is also right across the
street from the Sheriff's department.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yeah, you're right. I didn't even think about that. This
was roughly ten thirty eleven o'clock in the morning. Then
I went inside the library and it wasn't much better.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Now.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
There wasn't drugs or anything like that. But I was
sitting there waiting, looking around, like what is going on now?
I was told that because it's open to the public,
you know, you can't ask people to leave. I digress,
but I just I was shocked that here is this
and this is what I encountered walking into the library,

(25:45):
and if I looked across the street, I mean it
was it was a bit of an intimidating scenario, unfortunately.
But if you look at the numbers from September of
twenty twenty three through April of twenty twenty four, the
clean up that it took for the the camps that
were cleaned up and they moved it to the one

(26:06):
main encampment location now cost the city and the taxpayers
roughly ninety thousand dollars taxpayer dollars. It really didn't listen.
This just continues to grow and grow and grow. But
I was talking to somebody the other this is a
multi layered problem across the country. There's no one hundred

(26:28):
percent answer, and we're not going to get to that
this morning. But there's much more on this coming up.
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Speaker 4 (26:42):
So we're doing it now.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
We're doing it now. Okay, I'm sorry, One eight hundred
sixty two four eleven, seventy Coller number eleven. Caller number
eleven one, eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy four.
John Cleese right here at the.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Monty Python at the Holy Grail. You get to see
that movie beforehand.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, and then he takes questions. So caller number eleven one,
eight hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy it's seven
forty five. You're listening to The Bloomdaddy Experience. Otis and
Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back seven fifty
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(27:20):
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(27:41):
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(28:04):
of the show. So with that being said, So what
did I say about Jimmy Kimmel. I said when he
came back first night, there was going to be a
spike in his ratings. There was there was. So his
first new episode since his quote unquote suspension attracted six

(28:30):
point three million traditional television viewers, which was triple his
normal audience.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Triple.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
The late night host achieved his highest ratings in the
eighteen to forty nine demographic for a regular episode in
over ten years. Ten years his ratings have not been
that high. Let's see here major station groups next Star
in Sinclair continue when you're preempting the show affecting ABC's affiliates,

(29:03):
reaching roughly twenty three percent of households viewers and in
those markets turned two streaming platforms to watch his nearly
thirty minute monologue about free speech in America. By the way,
there was no apology in that two words did not

(29:24):
come out of his mouth. I'm sorry for his insensitive
timing and comments. Just so you know, the clip has
already been viewed over fifteen million times on YouTube and
it's still earning over one million YouTube views hourly and
has reached tens of millions across all platforms. But again,

(29:46):
he never actually has apologized for anything. And we've talked
about this, We've talked about free speech, and he went
down that rabbit hole and talk you know, trying to
silence and the whole thing and blaming the president, which
by the way, there's been no proof of the president
doing anything. Now, if there is proof, I will say
right now, if if the president in this administration was

(30:08):
forcing to silence somebody, yes, that is an attack on
free speech. There is no proof of that as of
right now. And he thanked his colleague Stephen Colbert and
how he's being silenced, and again, free speech in the
whole thing. Here's what's being missed in this conversation. Stephen Colbert,

(30:29):
for example, he was not silenced by anybody. His network
decided to not renew the contract. This is not new,
This is not new. His contract was not renewed because
the show is a money pit, losing roughly forty million

(30:52):
dollars annually. It's a money pit. It has nothing to
do with silencing somebody in freedom a speech. The show stinks,
and the audience has said that if they're not tuning
in and they're not watching the commercials, and the commercials
are not selling for top dollar, they're losing money. And

(31:14):
if Colbert's contract is ridiculously high and everything else that
goes into funding the production and what goes on behind
putting this show on the air, and they're losing money.
This is basic business, folks. And if you're losing money,
the contract's not going to be renewed. And that's what's
happened here, plain and simple, plan and simple. But going

(31:42):
back to Jimmy Kimmel, these numbers tell you that his
show has been on a downslide for years when it
comes to the ratings. So of course I'm sure it's
losing money. Also, this will be a blip. This will

(32:03):
be a blip, and they will capitalize as much as
they possibly can on the controversy and eventually people will
remember he's not funny.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, how many people tuned in to see if, like
people that don't even normally watch Jimmy Kimmel, just to
see what he would say, Well, just to see what
he would. I mean that you see that all the time.
I mean, so you're going to see that spike. And
so we're people tuning in to see if he apologized.
We're people tuning in to see what he had here.
It's just like the controversy created this, this this spike.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Sure so, and they'll squeeze.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
What will happen is within probably a week, the numbers
will be back to normal.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Oh yeah, yeah. They will milk this feud or squeeze
this turn up or whatever clever little line you want
to use as much as they possibly can and for
as long as they can. I will say this, he
did have a line last night for his second night
that was that was pretty funny. Of course, he immediately
went back to attacking the president, and that's the thing.

(33:10):
Nine times out of ten, it's not even funny jokes.
But this one was kind of funny. He did fire
back and say, you can't believe they gave me my
job back. That was in reference to I believe a
tweet that the President put out, you can't believe they
gave me my job back. I can't believe they gave
you your job back. We're even that's kind of funny.
That's kind of clever. I mean, it's not like belly

(33:30):
roll laugh, but you know it's kind of got some
mom got some humor behind it's all giving that. But yeah,
they will they will milk this for as long as
they possibly can. And as I said, it just comes
down to the fact that it's not funny. Late night
TV is not funny anymore. The one person that was
funny was on CBS after Colbert, James Gordon, the British guy.

(33:55):
He was funny, He had carpool karaoke, he was light hearted,
he was enjoyed able to watch. I went online to
watch his carpool karaokes. They were funny. These guys aren't
funny anymore. They're just not They're just not. Our president
is funny. He's pretty funny. We'll tell you what he

(34:17):
did or his staff did a little bit later in
the show, because uh, it's it's kind of a drop
the mic sort of moment, or drop the pen if
you will. Seven p. Fifty eight. You're listening to the
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Experience on news radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the Blue Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eighth six.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Good Thursday morning to you.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
And I got to start off on a sad note.
My friend played against him in the ovbl Steve Myers
passing away, former head baseball coach at Wheeling Park High School,
just fifty years of age. Found out about this just
a couple of days ago. Buddy Mine said, Hey, did
you hear about Stevie Myers? And I said, what are
you talking about? And he said, yeah, his organs are

(35:28):
shutting down. Apparently he's got leukemia. They're sending him back
to spend time with his family and he doesn't have long.
That was Monday when I found out about this, and
he passed away yesterday with his family and according to
his family, with the Atlanta Braves on the radio or television,

(35:49):
which was his favorite team. I mean, fifty years old, kids, family,
the whole deal unbelievable. I mean It's just unbelievable when
you think about it. And Steve was such a good guy.
I mean, Steve's one of those Steve's. Steve was one
of those guys that you would be hard pressed. As
a matter of fact, you probably couldn't find somebody to

(36:11):
say something negative about him. Just a sweet, gentle guy.
And I saw a couple of posts. I can't remember
who put it out there, but somebody who obviously was
very close with him and said that Steve was the
type of guy that you would want making sure your
daughter got home at the end of the night. And
and he was very good baseball coach, very good baseball player,

(36:34):
and always had kind things to say to me about
my sons when we played against Wheeling Park High School.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
And you know, this one's a kick in the gut.
And here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Stevie Myers not one of my best friends, not even
I would say one of my top twenty friends, but
the kind of guy that if I saw him somewhere,
He's going to go out of his way to say hi.
I'm gonna go out of my way to say hi,
and right away we're going to talk baseball.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
That's just who he was.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
And the story behind his passing is just it's awful.
I mean, he goes in, from what I was told,
felt a little tired, but other than that, no signs.
I mean, he was he was fine by all accounts,
felt a little tired, went in for a blood test,
all of a sudden, gets a call saying, hey, you
got to get in here right now. Finds out he

(37:28):
has leukemia. But the leukemia that he has ninety percent
I believe success rate, slow moving, very curable, undergoes a treatment,
body rejects the treatment, and he's dead that quick. From
what I understand, I think the thought is that he

(37:51):
may have had this leukemia for quite some time. It
just never showed any signs, never reared its head, and
then all of a sudden, too little, too late, the
body rejects treatment and that's it. Prayers and thoughts going
out to the Myers family, obviously, and you know, I
don't know if it's the stage of life that I'm

(38:12):
at right now, but you know, at fifty five years
of age, I have probably had in the last.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Three to four years.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
A lot of people who I would consider good buddies
are people that I know, ages forty five to fifty
five just drop dead, and it's very hard to deal with.
And I guess I was lucky growing up. I didn't
deal with death a lot. But now, and that's one
of the things about getting older, you know, It's just

(38:43):
one of those things where it just seems like every
time you turn around, there's something happening to.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Someone.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
But otis I know, you know you knew Steve Meyer
as well. I believe your son played for him, I
mean your thoughts on Steve My.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
My son did play for him Steve's first year back
as a head coach at William Park in twenty nineteen.
I didn't really know Stevie that well. I mean I
knew him to talk to him, kind of almost like
blue Daddy doing, you know. I mean if we saw
each other in passing or when my son was playing.
You know, I was the parent that, look, you're the coach.

(39:22):
I may or may not agree with what you're doing,
but I'm not going to question.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
What you're doing, and which is a unique stance for
parents nowadays.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
I mean that's you know, having been a high school coach,
I knew what it was like. I mean, you know,
I didn't want, you know, I didn't have kids at
the time, or if I did, my oldest was super young,
like undred two years old. So you know, I was
like and coaching my kids in youth baseball. I always
looked at them as just another player. I didn't look

(39:53):
at him as my son son, you know, when I
evaluated their talent. You know, my oldest son was okay
baseball wise. If we had twelve kids on the team,
he was probably somewhere in the middle. He wasn't one
or two. My younger one was a little bit better.
He was probably in the top one, two or three,
depending on what time of the year. You know what

(40:14):
year it was, you know. So but I mean, I
was never afraid to say that he wasn't number one,
because I think that also makes them strive a little more.
And you know, coach Myers, you know, I told the
story that my son wanted an AR fifteen for Christmas

(40:35):
when he was seventeen, while it's illegal for somebody under
the eighteen to have an AR fifteen, and we said,
we'll just get it for your birthday, which was six
months down the road. Well, he had a little he
got a little butt hurt over that, and so he
backed out of a trip to the w Bowl Game
that that Christmas season, which cost me an airline ticket.

(40:56):
But anyway, because he said, oh I got baseball, I
get you know, workouts, And so I called coach Myers
and I said, hey, I said, is it okay if
he misses a couple of days of these workouts because
this is where we're going to be gone, And he
goes he's going to miss like one workout, it's not
that big of a deal. I said, okay. I just
wanted to make sure because he told me that they

(41:16):
were required. So when I questioned him on that, he
got kind of po that I called because his coach
Myers actually went to him and said, look, you need
to go to the bowl game. Don't worry about baseball.
Well then he knew that I called, which made him
even more but hurt, you know, so well, I think
if looking back, it might still take a couple of years.

(41:38):
But my sudden realized that he was wrong on that,
and hopefully we'll laugh about it. But you know, I
have nothing but good things to say about coach Myers
and the way he coached. Like I said, my son
played for two good coaches at William Park High school
with Mike McLeod and Steve Myers, and I liked Steve's

(41:58):
approach to coaching just a little bit better. It was
more like my kind of philosophy is the pitch, not
that Mike mcgod's was wrong, but I just liked Stevie's
a little bit more. And you know, and like I said,
I've never bothered them as a coach, and you know,
if they ever needed something, it was always like, hey,
we're here if you need it, but if you don't

(42:20):
need us, we're gonna be in the background. And that's
pretty much what it was.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
So well and to see and hear the outpouring about
out about the loss of coach Myers, I think it
highlights and one thing to remember, you know, a lot
of coaches it's it's voluntary. Some of it's pain, and
I understand that, but we tend to forget the impact
that coaches have on young people. And and you know,

(42:48):
it sounds like he had an amazing impact on a
lot of people. And you know, I think back to
coaches that I have, I remember them yelling and but
then also turn it around, like there's so much impact
that they have on young people's you know, formative years.
They really do. And it sounds like, you know, coach

(43:10):
Myers had a huge impact affected a lot of young
people in a positive way.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
So well, you know, and you know, coaching, you are
also a parent in a way. You know, sometimes you're
a surrogate parent, and you know, kids come to you
for advice, kids come to you with problems that they
can't go to their parents. And it's not necessarily coaching.
It's teachers are the same way. And you know, I

(43:38):
did see a post from a high county schools. You
know that they are going to have additional counseling available
for maybe students that are going to struggle with this,
you know. So that's that's a good thing. And you know,
if you have a student or you know anybody that
you know is affected by this, you know, I'm sure

(43:58):
there's people that you can reach out to.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
So but just an all and out good guy, loved
the game of baseball. And you know, like bloom Daddy said,
I don't know of anybody that could ever say anything
that had anything bad to say about Steve Myers.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
Yeah, unfortunately, it's part of part of life. It's part
of life. Yeah, And as Bloom Daddy said, as we
get older, it becomes a bigger part of our lives. Unfortunately,
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(44:59):
What We've made a twenty one The Brundetti Experience Otis
and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So talked earlier
in the show about Jimmy Kimmel and that whole mess joke.
It's not a joke. He's not funny, hasn't been funny
for a while, and his ratiing show. But you know

(45:19):
who is funny. I'm sorry I thought this. I saw
this last night and I thought it was a joke
on social media. Honest to god, I thought it was
a joke. Otis brings me the story this morning and he's,
you know, going over it, and I went, wait, I
saw that this is real. No, it's real, all right.
So the White House unveiled what is a new feature

(45:42):
that they've created called the Presidential Walk of Fame. It's
a collection that is right outside the Oval Office that
features portraits of US presidents. There was one particular president
though that it was very obviously a missing sort of

(46:04):
the exception if you will, that, of course, is former
President Joe Biden. So number forty six was m a
instead of in the place where mister president, mister Biden's
mug should be. It's the auto pen. It's a framed

(46:31):
portrait of an auto pen writing his signature. So it's
not like it's just this random pen. Nope, Nope, the
pen is in action as if it's writing the Biden signature.
This has been a big talking point since he left office,

(46:52):
and there's a lot of questions about the document's legitimacy
and who was actually manning the pen at the time
that the quote unquote signature was placed on the document.
There is more and more that continues to come out

(47:13):
and now Hunter Biden's being tied to things different port
different parts of the administration, the Biden administration, the more
that they're being, you know, called to the carpet to
discuss what was actually going on at the time of
the Biden White House, there are more names and more
coming out about the outside influences and control of the

(47:42):
pen Personally, I think it's funny. I think, and and
and notice maybe I'm wrong. I think our president has
a warped sense of humor in a way I do.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
I think if it's warped, I just think it's a
sense of humor.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
I think it's a sense of humor. And I think
he does it to get a rise out of out
of the Democrats every year. Abs everything is so serious now,
everything is so serious, and they'll take this and they'll
run with it, and they'll say, you know, they'll go

(48:22):
back to all the labels and everything they give him.
But I think we've lost We've lost a lot of
lighten up, I guess is the better term. You know,
we need to lighten up a little bit. Not everything
is a personal attack. Not everything has some sort of

(48:43):
dark motivation behind it. It seems like since the shutdown
in twenty twenty, we've lost a bit of our our lightheartedness.
I mean, you can ask comedians. Comedians just started to
fit Jimmy Kimmel, by the way. But comedians within the
last year year and a half have actually started getting

(49:09):
back to humor and dark humor and hitting on subjects
that they wouldn't touch upon because immediately they would be labeled,
or they would be canceled or you know. And they
were finally starting getting back to the point where they

(49:29):
can do their entire routines and people will laugh, not
sit there and go, oh, he's a racist, Oh he's
a misogynist, or she and the gloves came off. But
back to the auto pen picture and everything. I think

(49:52):
it's kind of funnier than anything. Jimmy Kimmel had to say, Mmm,
I don't know. Again, I just think our present it
has a kind of a little bit of a I
don't know, out of left field, not warped, but has
a sense of humor. And people take everything so what's

(50:17):
the word I'm looking for? They take everything seriously. Everything
is taken so incredibly seriously. So I thought it was funny.
We'll see how long it stays on. The wall, though
we will see all right, Notice it's eight twenty seven.
You want to do uh, mister Elvis, Elvis Costello. We

(50:39):
have a pair of tickets to see Elvis Costello right
here at the Capitol. That show is happening October seventh,
October Tuesday night. It's a Tuesday. Oh can you stay
out past your bedtime on a Tuesday? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (50:54):
Not good for Elvis.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
He's one of your You're going and that's gonna.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
It's a bucket it's a bucket list thing.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
Get it off your list.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Yeah, I mean I just like I said, there are
certain acts that I would like to see that are
on my bucket list, and Elvis Costello was one of them.
So with him coming here to the Capitol Theater, that
made life a little easier.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Ah.

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Speaker 3 (52:11):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience on your Thursday morning.
Saw an article the other day, can't remember where it
was from, but they were talking about what to do
with the homeless who were sleeping on park benches, putting
up tents in public park areas, how to handle the issue,
except they didn't call them the homeless.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
We got a new word.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
You know, liberals love world a wordplay, you know, they
love just changing things around, you know, And this goes
back quite sometime. I mean, it's not teacher, it's not educator,
it's not janitor, it's custodial technician, it's not sales person.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
It's account executive.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I mean everything I guess to make make it sound
better or more important. I mean, that's why you've got
all these individuals that go crazy over pronouns, because it
makes them feel self important, because well, quite honestly, they
can't feel important any other way. They don't achieve in sports, academia, life, business.

(53:11):
So hey, let's make some pronouns up to make us
feel better about ourselves.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Well, now the new one is it's not homeless, it's
the unhoused. Yes, yes, that's what it said.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
The unhoused in the area are taking up residence in
the public park area, the unhoused. And I sit there
and I look at this stuff and it's just laughable.
I mean, do you think a homeless guy who literally
is sleeping on a sidewalk going through garbage cans looking

(53:43):
for food, do you think he cares whether or not
you call him homeless or unhoused? Is that affecting his
life in any way, shape or form. And I'll throw
another one at you. Do you think by calling the
homeless unhoused that that's going to prompt somebody to give
them more money when they're walking can buy them on
the street or lend them a helping hand, because if

(54:03):
you do.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
You're out of your damn mind. It's just ridiculous how
we try to just.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
I don't know, jazz up terms or titles or whatever
it may be.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Call them what they are. They're homeless. They're homeless.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
If I thought for a second calling them unhoused would
improve their life in some way, shape or.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Form, I'd be all in. But it won't.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
But yet here we go with unhoused. And I said
it before and I'm going to say it again. They
shouldn't be in public parks. They should not be allowed
to throw up a tent, they should not be allowed
to lay on a park rent bench. First of all, you,
as a taxpayer, pay for a public park. You should
have the right too to go to a public park
with your kids and not have to deal with that,

(54:48):
not have to deal with being asked for money, not
have to deal with seeing that, not having to deal
with possibly drugs being around the area or vagrants coming in.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
You have rights too. It's like people want to say, well,
homeless people have rights. No.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
I think when you get to that point in your life,
obviously you have not made very good decisions.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Not all of them but most of them, or you can't.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
You're not capable of making decisions for yourself anymore. And
that's where somebody's got to make very hard decisions. And
those decisions should be pretty simple. You either go to
a homeless shelter and you take advantage of the services
offered for you there, or you go to jail. But
you're not going to be laying on a park bench.
You're not going to be laying or putting up a
tent on a sidewalk. You're not because, yeah, I guess

(55:34):
you have rights, but guess what, so do I? And
it should be my right to be able to walk
into a park with my kids and not have to
see or deal with that.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
And does that sound harsh? Probably?

Speaker 3 (55:47):
And I don't care, because that's the reality of it.
And that's where we've got to get. I can tell
you from talking about and talking to individuals who deal
with the homeless issue in Cleveland, a city like Cleveland,
that most of the these individuals will not go to
a shelter because they don't want to abide by the rules.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
They don't they don't want to be.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Told that they've got to get to their room at
a certain time, that they can't go back out on
the streets at a certain time, that they can't do drugs,
that they can't drink. They don't want to abide by rules.
Therefore they say I'm not going. Well, that's your choice,
then go to jail. But you're not going to go
take up residents on a sidewalk outside of a business.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Or in a park.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
I mean, we've got to start dealing with this issue
the right way, and.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
You can do it with compassion.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
But there are services out there for these individuals that
will help them, that will enhance their life, and they
need to be forced to utilize them. And if they
don't want to, you can't give them the option of
just going and littering up a park or littering up
a street, or littering up whatever it may be. Sam,

(57:00):
You've known me for a long time. You know I'm
a loving, compassionate person. Yeah, I'm saying that with a
straight face.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
But enough is enough already?

Speaker 5 (57:10):
Well, yes, you are compassionate, that is true. I think
people are starting to question, and I think people are
starting to be willing to voice their frustration with the
feeling of not being put first. And what do I

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mean by that, the people who pay the taxes, the
people that take care of their properties, that own their homes,
that have struggled here and wheeling and surrounding areas with
the homeless population. Whether it's the fact that you know
they're building structures, are tense around their home in their

(58:01):
areas where it is hurting their property value, whether there
is damage being done that is costing homeowners repair bills,
what however you want to lay it out, but I
think for a long time, the people that pay the
taxes have not felt hurt, have not felt as if

(58:22):
they've been put first. I was talking to people the
other day and we were talking about down by the
Arena in the splash pad, in the amount of money
that was spent on that splash pad, and when it
first came out a couple of years ago, I remember saying,
and I'll say it again, the amount of money spent
on that was ridiculous. Where it's located, who sees it,

(58:48):
and what it was actually going to turn into a
human shower in urnal for the homeless. And I got
a lot of flack back about that that's not what
it's that's not what it's going to turn into. That's
a negative way of looking at it. This is the
beautify the city and this and that, and it's for
kids to play in and YadA, YadA, YadA and YadA. Okay, fine,

(59:09):
I get the intention, But my point was it's going
to be used in a way of how it's not intended.
And I spoke to somebody the other day, a business
owner down in that vicinity that stood there and watched
a homeless man bathe in that splash pad in the

(59:31):
middle of the day, in the middle of the day.
So I understand the compassion. I understand the humanity. Uh,
you know, the the human side of this. I'm not
gonna call them names or anything like that. The problem
is it's a compounded, layer issue, layered issue that is
across the country, and people don't know. There's not a

(59:56):
perfect answer to the problem. There's just not there's just not.
But in the same regards, there's a way of supporting
people without hindering them. Support but encourage getting a job,

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Encourage bettering themselves, Encourage getting them off drugs, force them
that if you want to stay in this shelter, you
in turn have to apply for a certain amount of jobs.
You in turn have to get drug treatment. If everything's

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a handout, after a handout of it out of a
you know, after a handout, where is the the encouragement
to do better? And there are folks who just want
to live that way. To you and me, that's not
it's hard to comprehend. But there are those that just
want to live that way. But other people's choices should

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not affect or deteriorate or lower those who are paying
the taxes that support the public parks, paying the taxes
that pay for splash pads. It should not affect their value,
their income, and their way of life because of how

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others choose to live, or they impede on others' day
to day lives. It's a complex, complex issue, but it
has to be humane and it has to be compassionate.
And you can't call them names like vermin or insects
or or things that I have heard other people refer

(01:01:58):
to them as. That doesn't solve the problem either. Is
there a perfect answer? I know I don't have it,
but the effort has to be made. The effort has
to be made. It's eight forty six. You're listening to
the Bloomdaddy experience. Salmon OTAs News Radio, eleven seventy wwva

(01:02:28):
Hey fifty one. Welcome back to bluem Daddy Experience, salmon
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy wwva Otis. I forgot to
say this to you. Happy if you're hungry, it's National
case Adia Day or lobster Day. So a little bit
of a little bit of Mexican or some.

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
Seafood good for a lobster boil. I know who can
make one.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Oh, we do have a friend that's probably darn good at.

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
Those or a lobster casey do you?

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Well, there you go. I like that idea. You just
kind of combine them together.

Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
That's it?

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
You can make it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
I guess yeah, okay, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
I actually have added lobster to our crawfish boils before
m hm, and and it was. It was quite awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
Nobody complained, No, there were no complaints, none whatsoever. So
you didn't serve any depeta obviously, Well no, I could not.
You didn't invite them to the lobster or the crawfish boil.

Speaker 6 (01:03:30):
No, everybody's welcome, man, everybody's welcome. You'd be surprised people
that have never tried crawfish before. I haven't you know,
absolutely fall in love with it is a little labor
intensive to eat, and but once you get used to it,
I mean, it's just the process of eating itself. It's
it's kind of like a rock Trint had rock Trint before.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
It's kind of like that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
But you know, fantastic flavors.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Sweet.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
You know, it's worth the effort.

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
Definitely worth the effort.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
Okay, what else is worth the effort? Today? It's strawb Automotive?

Speaker 6 (01:04:09):
You calling me three times to make sure you got through.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
The first time it said my call couldnot be completed
is dial, The second time was a busy signal, and
then the third time it was the charm he a quitter.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Okay, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I tell you what.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
Let's talk about Chrysto, Dodge Deep and Ram. Okay, Jeep Gladiator,
how about two sixty nine a month? How about interest
rates on those as low as four point nine percent
for up to seventy two months? What else is after? Oh,
Jeep Grand Cherokee three sixty nine a month for a
brand new twenty twenty five Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Hey, the gladiators less than the Cherokee. Yeah wow, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:04:55):
How about twenty twenty five Ram. Now this is a
Laramie crew cap all right, sixteen thousand, five hundred dollars
up to the total savings. All right, there interprates available
after on those trucks for as little as one point
nine percent for up to seventy two months. And just arrived.
The Hemmy is back. Okay, we've got a selection of

(01:05:19):
the ba hemy Ram trucks. You need to go online,
you need to check them out. They're not gonna last long.
I think we sold I want to say, two or
three of them yesterday. So you know, don't wait. If
you've been waiting on the VH to come back, is here,
come on out check it out for yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Is that the one that Tim Allen just goes.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
Truck?

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
So?

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
Hey, so you are you are? You are? Kevin the
tool man, Kevin the Hemi engine man.

Speaker 6 (01:05:53):
All right, we'll take that. Come get through here me today, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
All right, man, we'll talk tomorrow. That fuck all right? Yeah,
so there you have.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
I just see it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
I just find that hard to believe that the gladiator
is less than the Cherokee. Just in my mind. It
just should be the opposite way. Really, that's just me,
So don't rely on me. Let's put it that way.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
Every time he talks about the ram and the hemy
and this, I see that. If you've seen the trucks
with the particular how do I say this hangs off
the oh the I can't think of the okay, never mind,
I can't think of the word where you attach things
on a truck the trailer hitch. Yes, it holds the

(01:06:42):
hitch place. And it looks like a particular male organ.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Well, it looks like a said of testicles.

Speaker 5 (01:06:48):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
You can say that on the air. Oh, okay, because
it's the terminal.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Okay, okay, yes, every time he brings up that truck,
I just see that swinging on the trape.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
I don't know you could say that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Okay. Anyways, all right, I went there. Happy Birthday goes
out to Will Smith, the actor rapper fifty seven years old.
The fresh Prince bel Air is not fresh anymore. Mark Hamill,
Luke Skywalker himself turns seventy four years old. And Scottie Pippen,

(01:07:28):
the man who made Michael Jordan look good. Wow, No,
but he was a key component. He was a key component.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
In that he turns you need you can't win a
championship by yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
No, he turns sixty years old today. God Scottie Pippen
also today.

Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
And I found this funny. Michael Douglas. Yeah, okay, it
said actor wife. He said it said actor husband of
Catherine Zada Jones. Okay, I'm thinking. Okay, So the next
birthday was Catherine, say to Jones, and it said actor
husband or wife of Michael Douglas. I'm like that your

(01:08:08):
claim to fame. You guys are married and you share
the same birthday and you're like fifty years apart.

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
Why not just do one story and say Hollywood couple
because they just listed them. Oh okay, I got youa,
I gotcha. So and then do you know this name
mister college basketball sister Jean Dolores Schmidt.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Oh, sister Jean, Yeah, okay, she's from Loyola Marymount, Chicago.
She is she was there like mascot.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
She is retiring.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Oh I heard that. Yes, how she's like one hundred
and six yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
Holy wow. Okay, yeah, she's one hundred and six years old.
She's stepping down due to health reasons.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
Yeah, I think it was two thousand and eighteen. Loyola
made it to the final four, and she was the them.
Making the final four wasn't the big story. It was
Sister Jean being the number one cheerleader at ninety some
years old.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
At one hundred and six years old, God bless you,
sister Jean.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
You have And I heard she stepped down for health reasons,
so hopefully she's, you know, okay, but at one hundred
and six, she's one hundred and six. Yeah, yeah, that's
a that's a great run.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Yes it is, Yes, it is. Well, we had a
good run this morning. We will uh, we'll talk to
you tomorrow.