The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 1, 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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Experience on news Radio eleven SEVENTYVA starts now.

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

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Wednesday morning to.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
You, And obviously, if you're a Guardians fan, is not
a good Wednesday morning because the Guardians let one slip away.
For sure, facing the best picture on the planet. Two
errors lead to two hundred runs and they lose two
to one. But here's the thing that bothered me about
that game last night, and really it's what bothers me
with baseball in general. And I guess I've got to

(00:47):
come to grips with the fact that the game has
passed me by. The game is I shouldn't say passed
me by. It's changed. The game that I have loved
more than anything else. Is very hard for me to
watch anymore. It's very hard for me to like anymore
because the Guardians had at least two situations in that

(01:09):
game in which they should have bunted, but they didn't
even think about it, not even on the agenda.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Just don't believe in it. And it cost them the game.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Because I'll tell you what, the Detroit Tigers did it
twice and it helped them win the game. And the
Tigers have two guys in their lineup with thirty plus
home runs and they've got four or five other guys
in double digit home runs. They are the team that
can hit the ball out of the ballpark, yet they
still sacrifice bunted twice because they know that in the
postseason it's a different animal. Runs are hard to come by,

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so you do the little things to let you win.
They played guards ball basically, and the Guardians didn't and
they lost ninth inning. Jose Ramirez on third base, fundamental baseball.
You got a guy up with forty major league at bats,
safety squeeze. Steven Vote said after the game about the
Tigers having a safety squeeze on him that it's the

(02:05):
toughest play in baseball to defend when it's executed properly.
So why in the world would he not do the
same thing in the same situation, Yet he didn't strikeout.
Next guy comes up, Kyle Manzardo, do it for sure,
want out get that run in play for extra innings.

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Guardians are lights out in extratings. They've got a better
bullpen than the Tigers.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
What's he do? He lets Manzardo swing away, tap.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Her back to the pitcher at that point in time,
Jose Ramirez, who's one of the best base runners in
all of baseball, either made a big blunder or he
did what he was told.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
If he was told to run on contact, that's not
his fault.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
If he took off in that situation, that's a huge
base running blunder by a guy who simply knows better.
From the time you're in a little league, you are
taught third base, less than two outs, you go home.
If the balls hit to the right side, if it's
hit up the middle or to the left side, you
hold little league. You're taught that the little things come

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back to haunt you in postseason baseball, and that's exactly
what happened to the Cleveland Guardians. Hopefully different scenario today.
If it's not, then the team that just achieved the
greatest comeback in the history of Major League Baseball to
win a division title is going to get swept at
home in the best of three Wildcord series that would

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be as they call it in Cleveland, in OIC only
in Cleveland. By the way, I started broadcasting from Progressive
Field yesterday at ten am, and it was really cool
because the gates open at eleven thirty and people start
running in and people start coming by, and we broadcast
from the corner alley or I'm sorry, corner bar area
behind the right field foul pole, and all of a sudden,

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I see some valley guys coming up to me. First
of all, Frank Gregory, who's an usher up there, Jewett's
own Frankie Gregory. I mean, my man's in his seventies
and he still looks like a damn supermodel. He came
by and said hello, and then won Ryan Alexander Martin's
Ferry Boy, I believe, but I know he went to
Saint John's former head coach at Grove City. He came over,

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he stopped by, he said hello. I actually put him
on the broadcast, made him get on there, and I
asked him about different situations, what should be done, things
like that, and he had somebody with him who I
had never met before.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
And the guy came.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Over and he started talking to me, and he said,
you're from Lafferty, right, And I said yeah, and he goes,
did you know Friddy Bazari?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
And I said, you gotta be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
This guy's name John Jim Habermill Habermel maybe from the
Powhattan area.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I think he went to River High School.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
He was the head coach of Grove City for fifteen
years before Ryan Alexander took over. And he's lived in
that area for a long time. But he used to
play in the OVBL Ohio Valley Baseball League and he
was talking about stories when he came down to Lafferty
and he played in Friday Bazari legendary in sandlot baseball
in the Ohio Valley ran that Laffarty team and I

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just started laughing and I said, Jim, yeah, I knew
Friday Bazari. I said, Friday Bassouri was my neighbor growing up.
I was also Friday Bazori's bat boy for those Lafferty
teams in the OVBL from the time I was probably
eight until I was fourteen fifteen years old. Friday Bazari

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was a legend. I mean, this guy the stories, but
I looked at it was.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Just so.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Awesome to reminisce about some of the best memories that
I have as a kid growing up and being around
the ovbl and being around the Joe Dudex, the George
boon Borises, the John Ridgeways, the Johnny Odarezes, all the
individuals that played for Lafferty back in that day, and
of course Friday Bazari, who would pay me a quarter

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for every foul ball that I would bring back. And
if you ever went to that old Lafferty ball field
by Seaton Central High School which has now been torn down.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Up and right.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Field, it was multiple multi floor rose bush upon multifloor
rose bush upon multifloor rose bush, and it's summertime.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'm in shorts and a T shirt. I'm nine years old,
and I'm going.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Up there, digging through that stuff and losing flesh and
losing blood.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
But I got smart.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
See, for every three balls that went up there, only
two came back.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I would hide one.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
And over time you build up a bucket full of baseballs.
And I can remember being down at the field one
day and I'm hitting balls off the tee and here
come that big Cadillac down that dirt gravel road that
ran along right field and down behind the backstop, and
Friday gets out. He looks at me and he goes,
I knew it, And I go, what are you talking about?

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He goes, look at that bucket. All those balls are mine.
You've been hoarding Baseball's on me, haven't you. And I said, well,
if you paid me more than a quarter, you'd get
them all back. He just got back in the car
and drove off. I mean, you want to talk about
a character, you want to talk about a legendary figure
in Ohio Valley baseball.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
That was one Joe Friday Bazaari.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
But it was really cool seeing those individuals, seeing people
from the valley come up to Cleveland enjoying good baseball,
Guardians baseball. It was.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
It was a really really good time.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
If you want to listen to some pregame, get on
the iHeartRadio app punch in WTAM eleven hundred. I'll be
doing pregame ten am until twelve thirty from Progressive Field
before Game two of the Tigers and the Guardians, and
of course all the postgame on the Bloomdaddy Show WTAM
eleven hundred. Once again, all you need is that iHeartRadio

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app and you can tune in. Gonna take a break
here on the bloo Daddy Experience. Much more to come
here on eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Welcome back at seven nineteen on your Wednesday, The Blue
Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy w
w VA. Good morning, Otis.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Hey, good morning. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Might sound a little different? We what can we call this?
Otis on the road?

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yes, I mean, you know, I had to go out
of town for some training for my other job. So
I'm calling from my hotel room.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
So you're still in your pjs. Yes, of course you do.
I know you missed me this morning.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
No, I'm showered and ready to go.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Oh okay, just painting the picture for people. No, well,
I'm glad, I'm.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Glad of clearly dress, ready to go.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
So no nightmares. We're gonna put out there for people
this morning.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
No, no, I wouldn't do that to anybody, even through radio.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
The theater of the mind could really really scare some
people this morning. So a little bit of housekeeping, just
real quickly. Today is Wednesday, So of course later on
in the show, we will be drawing this week's winner
for free lunch. So if you haven't registered yet, get
that in sam at iHeartMedia dot Com. Just need your name,

(09:21):
phone number in business. That's sam at iHeartMedia dot com,
name phone number and business and that will be your entry.
And again we'll be drawing that at the end of
the show. And again that is thanks to our great
friends at River City who provide the absolutely delicious grub.
So get your entries in for that. And then also

(09:43):
we're gonna have another chance for you to win here
a little bit later this hour, and this will be
for another pair of tickets to the Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention,
happening October tenth through the twelfth at Wheeling Island Hotel
Casino Racetrack. That is a really cool weekend, really cool weekend.
You can get work done, tattoos done, you can go

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and see what the process is like. You can see
great artists from all across the country that come in
for this, so it is a really uh fascinating and
entertaining event that they put on over at Wheeling Eye.
Then we've got tickets for you. So how was notice
how was your your travels down south yesterday? When you

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left us?

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Oh, you know, it was. It was typical high drivers
in the left lane. The thing. Well, don't feel bad
because it was also Michigan and Maryland, so you aren't alone.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Okay. I figured there was going to be some sort
of little Ohio.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
We got here, We got here. We got here with
time to spare.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
So that's what matters.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's what matters. And safely and safely real quick.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well yeah, I've with you little bit of sports round up. Unfortunately,
if you are a Guardians fan, the first day of
the MLB postseason is in the books. Tariq Scoble tied
Detroit's playoff record with fourteen strikeouts while leading the Tigers
to a two to one road win over the Guardians

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in Game one of the AL wild Card Series. I know,
I personally know a lot of very disappointed people. Yesterday
evening elsewhere in the American League, Boston starter Gary Crochet
retired seventeen straight batters as the Red Sox down the
New York Yankees three to one. In the Bronx and

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the National League, the Cubs scored three unanswered runs to
beat the San Diego Padres in Chicago, and the day
was capped off with the Dodgers, belting five home runs
en route to a ten to five takedown of the
Reds in LA. The action continues, Oh, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
The first three games were all come from behind victories,
and so like Detroit was down one nothing and came
back and one. Boston was down one nothing, came back
and one. And the Cubs were down I believe one
nothing and came back on one. The Dodgers just they
started to show. Hey, Otani hit a home run in
the bottom of the first and then they never looked back.
So but I mean, in reality, three very good games.

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And I mean even though it was a blowout. You know,
you look at the score like ten to five, Well,
you know, Cincinnati was trying to make it interesting there
at the end. So you know, I would say out
of the four baseball games, three and a half, you know, entertaining.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, this is when baseball gets fun for me. Anyways,
it just seems that just I don't know, there's just
more to it.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
I guess, well.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
And you and you look yesterday. I mean, like I
mean with the with the Red Sox Yankees, like Garrett
Crochet pitched for the Yankees for how many years? And
then the next thing. You know, Aldris Chapman came in
and released. He pitched for the Yankees for like four
or five, maybe six years, so it was kind of
a you know, there was a little bit of that, hey,
maybe I can get some revenge against my old teammates.

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So but yeah, I mean it's I mean it was
I didn't get to see it for early games, but
I did get to see, uh, probably the majority of
the Yankees Red Sox. And then I fell asleep at
about the fourth inning of the Dodgers red game.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
So you didn't see a gas didn't see the close
out of that. Onto Sowell.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Actually when I woke up, I fell asleep with the
TV on, so the replay was on. So I got
to see the last two and a half innings on
replay like I had never seen it. So that was
at like four o'clock this morning.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Oh nice, nice, Onto some local news. Belmont County Hoof
and Paw is out of space. That's why the shelter
is looking for people that are interested in adopting a dog.
Nothing better than you can do for an animal. Twenty
eight dogs are up for adoption. All are different breeds.

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Be sure to reach out to the shelter if you
can help. Yeah, Belma County, Hoof and PAD do a
lot of work for a lot of different animals and
they need our help. So this is an opportunity to
go out there and adopt. If you're looking adopt. The
High Valley residents have just over two weeks to register
for holiday assistance through the Salvation Army. Folks can sign

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up online or in person. Families that register online should
keep an eye out for follow up emails follow up
updates via email. The deadline to register is October seventeenth. Again,
that is October seventeenth. And then what the state of
West Virginia. This is interesting. West Virginia Treasurer Larry Pack

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wants to eliminate state income taxes on tips and overtime pay.
Sounds very familiar, does it not. Pack is calling on
Governor Morrisey to convene a special legislative set to me
or the federal policy workers could exclude about twenty five
thousand dollars in tips and twelve five hundred dollars in

(15:09):
overtime from state taxes. Pack estimates the plan would cost
the state around twenty five million dollars, but says it
would help attract workers and support small businesses, so West
Virginia looking to replicate what has happened on a national level.
And then also for citizens in Belmont and Jefferson County

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this weekend, beginning this Friday and Saturday, the JB Green
Team is will host a two one day special collections event. Again,
this is for Belmont and Jefferson County residents only. On
this Friday, collections will take place at Belmont County Fairgrounds

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and Friday's collection will focus on electronics. So if you
have sitting around your house and you do not know
what to do with this kind of stuff, whether you
know old computers, old laptops, batteries, old cell phones, all
of that kind of stuff, this is your opportunity to
get rid of it. Now. That is the electronics, and

(16:15):
that's going to be done on Friday. Again, this is
happening at the Belmont County Fairgrounds, So the heavy electronics
are going to be drop off is on Friday, and
then on Saturday, it's going to focus on household hazardous wastes,
so old cleaners, lawn and garnet chemicals. We're getting to

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the end of the season, old pool chemicals, aerosols, those
kind of things. This is the opportunity to get rid
of that stuff again. That portion of it is happening
on Saturday from nine to one. That is also happening
at the Belmont County Fairgrounds from nine to one on
Saturday is the hazardous household waste. And on Friday from

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nine am to two, also at the Belmont County Fairgrounds
is the bigger thing. The computers, the electronics. So if
you have this laying around your house and you don't
want to stare at this stuff all winter long, this
is the opportunity to get rid of it. I will
post the flyers on our Facebook page. All right, it
is seven twenty eight. Just reminder, get your lunch registrations

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in sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name, phone number and company.
Otis you hang tight, will be back. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience. Welcome back, seven thirty six. You're

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listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Salmon otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. I am here. Otis joining us via
road trip. He's still You don't realize how long those breaks.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
You don't realize how long those breaks are until you
have to sit through one.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Now, don't say that. We have advertisers that, you know.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
They I felt like we should have been back like
five minutes ago.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
It destroys.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
I'm just sitting here doing nothing. You know, normally I'm
not making a coffee or doing something. I'm just sitting
here waiting.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh oh yeah, how are you doing without your your
your coffee machine that you have one in my room?
Oh you got one? Okay? Oh that's right, Yeah, you're
in a hotel room. I'm thinking. I don't know what
I'm thinking. Okay, you're on You're on cup number three
or four by now now.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
They only have two that are caffeinated. So oh no,
to pey, it's what's gang cup coffee too? It's my bad.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Oh you're rolling big time.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah you're not.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
You're not at a holiday in express.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
I am not.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Oh okay. Anyways, So want to want to hit on
this last night, And it's weird the timing of this,
but last night I was actually giving a tour here
of the radio stations and I got this text and
it said something about you know, did you approve this
coin transfer? And it was in broken English and the

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number it came from was like two numbers, then three numbers,
then four numbers, then two, then three, very very obviously foreign.
And that seems to be happening more and more and more,
these scammers getting to us through texting. Well, a study
has just come out that says Americans face double the

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scam messages compared to other countries. This research was done
by a company called Talker Research, and the survey was
of ten thy five hundred adults worldwide, and it found
Americans receive an average of nine calls, nine emails, and
seven texts weekly from scammers, totally about one hundred monthly encounters.

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Britain follows with eighty four monthly scam attempts, while Singapore
residents experience only forty per month. And it seems like
maybe it's just me. During the summer months here, it
seems like it went down and now that the weather
is changing, it's picking back up again. I don't know why.
Maybe that's just something that I have noticed. I don't know, but.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Could be because it's closer to the holidays.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Too, and people are doing more online shopping and things
things like that. That might be true. Yeah, yeah, that
might be true. The study revealed Americans and Brits have
over three hundred and fifty spam emails in their inboxes currently.
I mean, it's insane. What always boggles my mind with

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this kind of stuff is the people that sit back
and find out the creative ways to do this to
scam you over. Imagine if they put that time and
effort and intelligence into actually doing something of substance with
their lives, for their community, for the country, for you know,
wherever they're at. Imagine if they took that intelligence and

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used it for good.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah, but that's not how they think.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Well, yeah, I know, I know. Have you ever actually about.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
What can I do? What can I do for me?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Right? Have you actually ever been scammed? Have you ever
fallen for anything?

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Have I ever fallen for one?

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (21:45):
I don't know. If I don't know if you would
call it a scam. I tried to buy something one
time off of an Aol ad or not, I mean
a Facebook ad and it was like forty nine ninety
nine or something like that, and so I was like, Okay,
well it was too good to be true. So I
was like, okay, yeah, I'll buy it. And then not

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long after that, the debit card that I used was
later used at two separate walmarts in I believe North
or South Carolina where they took out too. At each Walmart,
they took out two money orders for the exact amount
forty nine ninety nine, and my credits they got. I

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had four charges of forty nine ninety nine at the
walmarts for money orders.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, that that threw up the red flag. It got
me once. They actually it wasn't really a scam. Somehow
they hacked my visa card and I got a phone
call one day during lunch, and this was probably ten
years ago. Now, I had a phone call during lunch
and it's this woman and she tells me she's with
Chase Visa and she's explaining everything and she was legit.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
She was.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
She said, are you buying any chance currently in California?
And I said no. She said where are you and
I said I'm in I'm in Wheeling, West Virginia. And
she said, so you have not spent eight hundred and
it was eight hundred and like thirty two dollars on
adult toys. I said no, and she said okay. I

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said no, no, and she said, okay, then we will
put this down as fraudulent and you will not be
charged for I said, yeah, and then I started to
think that myself, Oh my god, how much did you buy?
Like what all could you buy for eight hundred and
some dollars at an adult toy shot. So that's the

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one time I was actually the one time I was
actually hacked. But I know somebody who got scammed with
the whole relationship situation where this person was telling them
that they talked, uh and texted and chatted for five

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six months five six months and when I this person
was telling me about it, and they're telling me the story,
and I said, no, that doesn't sound right. And then
I started reading some of the texts and I'm like,
that's not good English. There's there's bad English that people
just have bad grammar here in the States, and then

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there's broken English and this was this was broken English.
And then it had gotten to the point where the
next time I was talking, this person said that the
person was going to be flying into Pittsburgh and that
Saturday he was to go and meet her at the
airport and the whole thing. And I kept saying this,

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this is not real, this is not real. And it
turned out it was not. It was. It was honestly
like speaking firsthand to somebody you would watch on Doctor
Phil who fallen, you know, got tangled up in one
of those things, but never sent this person any money.
So that was that was the one good thing out
of it. But yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Well, you know, there are times you get those texts
that'll say, hey, come over to my house, or hey,
what are you doing tonight or blah blah blah, and
it's from a number you don't know, and you you know,
sometimes you get new numbers or you forget to put
somebody in and you go or who's this and then
they tell you and it's nobody, you know. And then
I said that, you know, you tell them you have
the wrong number, and then they say, oh, well, what
are you doing, you know, blah blah blah, and it's

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like I'm done talking.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, Well, And I've actually now that they can
spoof numbers and make them look like local numbers. I've
actually called myself my own number has rang into my
phone as if I'm calling myself like they spoofed me
with my own number. It's insane. And the sad part is,

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and we've we've said this multiple times. You know, unfortunately,
the older uh portion of our population are more susceptible
to this this stuff, and they're they're targeted more unfortunately.
So you've got to be you've got to be on
top of this like crazy. And I found out when

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you delete a text and it says delete and report junk,
that does nothing. That means nothing, nothing at all. But
it's better to be. It's better to be cautious because Americans,
we're the ones that get it the most. Don't forget.
Get in for free lunch. Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.

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That's Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. And coming up, we're
going to have your chance to win a pair of
tickets to Resurrection Island Tattoo happening Tattoo Convention happening October
tenth through the twelfth. That is coming up here very
very shortly, hint, hint, very very shortly. Seven forty five.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. I'm Sam, He's

(26:59):
otis on the phone on his travels here on news
Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven point fifty one on this Wednesday.

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You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA SAM two point zero and
they're Mann manning the boards while Otis's is on the road.
Just a few things want to remind you. Coming up
in the eight o'clock hour, we have Politics Unleashed with
Elgin and Tony, So we are going to of course

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talk about the things that happened overnight with the government
shut down, and a couple other of course political topics
that we're going to get into. So I just want
to let you know we are not ignoring, of course,
the top story of the day. We are saving that
for our political segment coming up in the eight o'clock hour.
We're going to get into that and a couple other things.
So that is coming up, and then also coming up

(28:01):
here very very shortly, we're gonna have your chance to
win a pair of tickets to Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention,
happening October tenth through the twelfth at Wheeling Island Hotel
Casino Racetrack. That is coming up also so Otis. There
are some this is interesting. There's some new besides the

(28:22):
government shutdown that went down overnight, there are some new
laws that are taking place in different states across this
grand nation today. All right, So okay, so and they
begin today. So in Florida, there's a new law called
Trooper's Law, which now makes it a felony to tie

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up and abandon a dog outdoors during a declared national
disaster or evacuation order. I am sure it does not
say this, but I am sure this connects back to
the last hurricane. Remember that the dog that was tied
to the post and everybody went to go and save it.

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It was like a white wasn't it a white, black
and white dog? For some reason, that's my memory of it.
But I'm sure this ties right back to that. So
that's in Florida. In Connecticut, if you ride an e
bike you will now be required to wear a helmet.
But also in Connecticut, towns and cities will have the
power to take more action against street takeovers. What is

(29:29):
a street takeover? Do you know what that is?

Speaker 5 (29:34):
I'm going to guess it's probably like maybe a protest.
Maybe instead of calling it a protest, they're calling it
a street takeover.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Oh okay, I was I was going. I was going
more of the fastest, the furious route with with street racing.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Maybe that could be. I mean it could be like
I mean, do you have like a street takeover for
like a party, like you know, say, for like sing
Patrick's Day or something of that nature.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Maybe maybe. And then in Ohio it's illegal for police
to use quotas for arrests and tickets. I have always
heard that. I have always heard when it gets towards
the end of the month, you're going to see more
troopers out there issuing tickets because they have a quota
they have to hit by the end of the month. Well,
now that is now illegal in Ohio, folks. And then

(30:21):
in California, companies cannot use AI systems to impersonate licensed
healthcare professionals in video calls or online chats. If they
have been doing that, that's scary. I mean, so what
people in California have been sitting there on a zoom
call thinking they're talking to a nurse practitioner or a

(30:43):
doctor and here it's an AI person thing. What do
you call those? Do you call them an AI person? No?
I don't know. So that's a little bit scary. And
I think New Jersey is going to take the cake
on this one when it comes to new laws. New
Jersey has now become the fourteenth state in the nation

(31:03):
to legalize human composting as an alternative to the traditional burial.
The practice was signed into law and funeral homes in
the Garden State will be allowed to offer this new practice,
known as natural organic reduction. The state will oversee the

(31:28):
licensing of facilities that want to offer the service. Well,
first of all, if you slap slap the term organic
on anything, you can charge more, so that'll probably be
part of it.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
But I well, you're not buying it necessarily. So what
they're just going to do is they're just going to
grind you up and put you in the oil. You're
going to be fertilizer for something.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Oh well, I gees. Okay. So if somebody is, oh,
what's the.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Term, I mean, I really don't have a problem with
this at all.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
It's just the word composting that that's just a I
don't know, there's just a bad term. I don't think
that's the right term to use. When I think of composting,
I think of hippies who are saving their eggshells and
like they're rotten tomatoes and lettuce and they throw it
in a box or in something or a bin outside

(32:29):
and it sits there and it rots, and then that's
what I think of when I think of composting. I
just think it's the wrong terminology to use.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
That's probably what they're doing. They're probably, you know, just
gonna let you sit there.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
No, no, no, no, no, that's awful.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
You're dead. How do you know? You're never gonna know?

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Oh, but who does Who has to man that? Who
has to take care.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Of somebody with a rake?

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Oh, I'm just having visuals, Okay, you sound like Hannibal
Lecters something.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Just just I mean, I mean, you're not eating them
or you're not doing anything. You're just letting them be composed.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Oh but I'm just picturing like igor like I just I.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Mean, I'm sure the smell was probably not the greatest
in the world. O.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
God, God, well that's nusue.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
I mean, you drive by a dead deer on the
side of the road, just imagine what the rest of
that's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
We just got a text, great conversation for morning ride
to work. Yeah, you're welcome our apologies, however you want
to take it again.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
We're not talking about eating them again.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Just the word composting not the best terminology to use.
That being said, we're going to we're going to move
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
See number one Touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is no bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy his
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy. Douva starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the Blue Daddy experience. Hey
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Good Wednesday morning to you.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
And obviously, if you're a Guardians fan, is not a
good Wednesday morning because the Guardians let one slip away.
For sure, facing the best picture on the planet. Two
errors lead to two hundred runs and they lose two
to one. But here's the thing that bothered me about
that game last night, and really it's what bothers me
with baseball in general. And I guess I've got to

(35:40):
come to grips with the fact that the game has
passed me by. The game is I shouldn't say passed
me by. It's changed. The game that I have loved
more than anything else. Is very hard for me to
watch anymore. It's very hard for me to like anymore.
Because the Guardians had at least two situations in that

(36:02):
game in which they should have bunted, but they didn't
even think about it, not even on the agenda. Just
don't believe in it, and it cost them the game.
Because I'll tell you what, the Detroit Tigers did it
twice and it helped them win the game. And the
Tigers have two guys in their lineup with thirty plus
home runs, and they've got four or five other guys
in double digit home runs. They are the team that

(36:23):
can hit the ball out of the ballpark, yet they
still sacrifice bunted twice because they know that in the
postseason it's a different animal. Runs are hard to come by,
so you do the little things to let you win.
They played guards ball basically, and the Guardians didn't and
they lost ninth inning. Jose Ramirez on third base, fundamental baseball.

(36:47):
You got a guy up with forty Major league at bats,
safety squeeze. Steven Vote said after the game about the
Tigers having a safety squeeze on him that it's the
toughest play in baseball to defend when it's executed properly.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
So why in the world would.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
He not do the same thing in the same situation,
Yet he didn't strike out. Next guy comes up, Kyle Manzardo,
do it for sure? Want out, get that run in
play for extratings. Guardians are lights out in extratings. They've
got a better bullpen than the Tigers.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
What's he do?

Speaker 2 (37:24):
He lets Manzardo swing away, tap her back to the
pitcher at that point in time, Jose Ramirez, who's one
of the best base runners in all of baseball, either
made a big blunder or he did what he was told.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
If he was told to run on contact, that's not
his fault.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
If he took off in that situation, that's a huge
base running blunder by a guy who simply knows better.
From the time you're in a little league, you are
taught third base, less than two outs, you go home.
If the balls hit to the right side, if it's
hit up the middle or to the left side, you
hold little league. You're taught that the little things come

(38:04):
back to haunt you in postseason baseball, and that's exactly
what happened to the Cleveland Guardians. Hopefully different scenario today.
If it's not, then the team that just achieved the
greatest comeback in the history of Major League Baseball to
win a division title is going to get swept at
home in the best of three Wildcord series. That would

(38:25):
be as they call it in Cleveland, in OIC only
in Cleveland. By the way, I started broadcasting from Progressive
Field yesterday at ten am, and it was really cool
because the gates open at eleven thirty and people start
running in and people start coming by, and we broadcast
from the corner alley or I'm sorry, corner bar area
behind the right field foul pole. And all of a sudden,

(38:48):
I see some valley guys coming up to me. First
of all, Frank Gregory, who's an usher up there, Jewett's
own Frankie Gregory. I mean, my man's in his seventies
and he still looks like a damn supermodel.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
He came and said hello.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
And then one Ryan Alexander Martin's ferry boy. I believe,
but I know he went to Saint John's former head
coach at Grove City.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
He came over, he stopped by, he said hello.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I actually put him on the broadcast, made him get
on there, and I asked him about different situations, what
should be done, things like that, And he had somebody
with him who I had never met before. And the
guy came over and he started talking to me, and
he said, you're from Lafferty, right, And I said yeah,

(39:32):
And he goes, did you know Fridday Bazari? And I said,
you gotta be kidding me. This guy's name John Jim Habermill,
Habermel maybe from the Powhattan area. I think he went
to River High School. He was the head coach of
Grove City for fifteen years before Ryan Alexander took over.
And he's lived in that area for a long time.

(39:55):
But he used to play in the OVBL, the High
Valley Baseball League, and he was talking.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
About stories when he came down to Lafferty and.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
He played in Friday Bazari, legendary in Sandlot Baseball in
the Ohio Valley. Ran that Lafferty team and I just
started laughing and I said, Jim, yeah, I knew Friday Bazari.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
I said, Friday Bassouri was my neighbor growing up.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
I was also Friday Bazari's bat boy for those Lafferty
teams in the OVBL from the time I was probably
eight until I was fourteen fifteen years old. Friday Bazori
was a legend. I mean, this guy, the stories, but
I looked at it was just so awesome to reminisce

(40:41):
about some of the best memories that I have as
a kid growing up and being around the OVBL and
being around the Joe Dudex, the George Boon Borises, the
John Ridgeways, the Johnny Odarezes, all the individuals who played
for Lafferty back in that day, and of course Friday Bazari,
who would pay me a quarter for every foul ball
that I would bring back. And if you ever went

(41:03):
to that old Lafferty ball field by Seaton Central High
School which has now been torn down.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Up and right.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Field, it was multiple multi floor rose bush upon multi
floor rose bush upon multifloor rose bush.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
And it's summertime. I'm in shorts and a T shirt.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
I'm nine years old, and I'm going up there, digging
through that stuff and losing flesh and losing blood.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
But I got smart. See, for every three balls that
went up there, only two came back. I would hide one.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
And over time you build up a bucket full of baseballs.
And I can remember being down at the field one
day and I'm hitting balls off the tee and here
come that big Cadillac down that dirt gravel road that
ran along right field and down behind the backstop, and
Friday gets out. He looks at me and he goes,
I knew it, And I go, what are you talking about?

(41:55):
He goes, look at that bucket. All those balls are mine.
You've been hoarding baseball on me, haven't you? And I said, well,
if you paid me more than a quarter, you'd get
them all back. He just got back in the car
and drove off. I mean, you want to talk about
a character, you want to talk about a legendary figure
in Ohio Valley baseball.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
That was one Joe Friday Bazaari.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
But it was really cool seeing those individuals, seeing people
from the valley come up to Cleveland enjoying good baseball,
Guardians baseball. It was, it was, It was a really
really good time. If you want to listen to some pregame,
get on the iHeartRadio app. Punch in WTAM eleven hundred.

(42:35):
I'll be doing pregame ten am until twelve thirty from
Progressive Field before Game two of the Tigers and the Guardians,
and of course all the postgame on the bloom Daddy
Show WTAM eleven hundred. Once again, all you need is
that iHeartRadio app and you can tune in. Coulda take
a break here on the Bloomdaddy Experience. Much more to
come here on eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Well, first we made it. It's eight twenty on your
Wednesday morning, so that means let's get political. You're listening
to politics unleashed Al Jim mccardal in the House along
with Tony Edmund. Something happened overnight, folks.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
What hapened?

Speaker 4 (43:20):
I don't know. Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I guess basically no,
of course, the government is officially shut down. Now. There's
a lot of questions that are circulating. So I just
wanted to put this out there before the two of
you get into it. There are a lot of concerns
about the benefits, so security, uh, Medicare, Medicaid. One thing

(43:41):
I want to make clear. There's there's the essential services,
and there's the non essential. Those three things, social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid fall under essential services, along with the postal service,
so those will not stop. The checks will still be
cut as of right now, that will be happening. So

(44:04):
just wanted to kind of calm some concerns that folks.
You know, people have out there all right, the shutdown.
From your point of view, what do you think is
the biggest thing holding one side back compared to the other.
So I'll pose this, Tony, I'll go I went with
you first last week, so I'm going to go to

(44:25):
you first.

Speaker 8 (44:25):
Tony, Well, I mean, I think what it comes down
to from my perspective is we have a lot of
big babies who are running the government. Because this is
not the first time the federal government is shut down,
and these continuing resolutions to keep over a country when
the most powerful nations in the history of the world
running is embarrassing. And this just adds to that embarrassment.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
This is the thirty first time I believe the government
has been shut down. I read that.

Speaker 8 (44:50):
I'm not sure we should be so proud.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
Yes, the last time the budget was balanced was when
Clinton was president, So let's put that in perspective. That's
nineteen ninety three, I think where they'reabouts, and that was
My son was born in ninety four, so that was
thirty one years ago.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Is it effective? I mean, because it has happened so
many times, does the American person like, do we even
care anymore?

Speaker 5 (45:15):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (45:16):
I'm sure we do. We absolutely do. I think until
the same rules apply to Congress. So you become non
essential and you don't get paid, and you know, you
want to get health insurance for the illegals, but you
have health insurance that is different than everybody else, and
it's completely paid for and under no circumstances will it

(45:37):
be terminated, and your salary is not terminated. So as
long as they hold the pocketbook and as long as
the rules don't apply to them, it's very easy to
vote yes or vote no in accordance to your party
lines or whatever it is that you want to do.
Your question was, what's hanging it up? I think the
big thing is, well, it's such a loaded question. But

(46:03):
I think the main thing is that it's a party
line issue that Schumer is concerned about his I think
we talked about this before. He's concerned about himself as
opposed to the constituents, and he's concerned about re election,
and his base is going more socialism and AOC, and

(46:24):
AOC's got the opposite viewpoint than Schumer. So I mean,
but if you listen to the tapes of Schumer in
the past, he says that government shutdown is absolutely the
wrong thing to do. So, you know, what's good for
the goose is good for the gander, and people need
to start realizing that and then take the opportunity to

(46:46):
work out your differences. But you know, I don't know
that the majority of the American public wants to pay
for an illegals health insurance when it's difficult to pay
for your own, well.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
It certainly is difficult to pay for your own And
I don't know about the statistics or the information coming
out about whether illegal immigrants get health care, but it's
really beside the point. One the people who shouldn't get
paid during government shutdowns with the individuals who are in Congress,
who are the decision makers. They're the ones that have
the ability to actually do something. All we can do
is try to put pressure on them. And if they're
not going to do anything about it, they ought to

(47:20):
not get paid. I tell you what, if I don't
do my job, I'm not getting paid.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
Right exactly exactly if you're you're absolutely right, and until
until the rules apply to them, and in all aspects,
whether it be healthcare, whether it be shut down, whether
it be oh there was there was the stocks being
able to, you know, ridiculous, take advantage of insider trading

(47:45):
that is not applicable to Congress. So those are when
the rules don't apply to the rule makers, it becomes
a very difficult situation.

Speaker 8 (47:53):
Exactly rules for thee not for me. And that's results
in more and more ineffectiveness and corruption at every level
of government.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Well and in the big healthcare pullback, it goes back
to the Affordable Care Act slash Obamacare, whatever you however
you want to title it, which has not from from
people who I know who have gone the route of Obamacare.
They are not happy with it. It's it's expensive, there's
not a lot of coverage and network doctors, you know,

(48:25):
all of that stuff. It has not been the savior
of the healthcare that that it was sort of promised
to be. And that's one of the biggest hold ups
with this. But one thing in regards to the illegal
uh alien conversation according to AI that I'm looking at
right now, uh it says it's a Republican framing and

(48:46):
exaggeration because illegals cannot get government healthcare.

Speaker 6 (48:55):
It's according to this, if illegals go to the hospital
because they've got an issue, they're going to be treated
depending on that's.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
The different and that's I think that's where there's the
gray situation is they can't sign up, but they can
be treated under an emergency scenario.

Speaker 6 (49:13):
And I think it all depends on where you are.
I saw a news cut clip coverage where in New York.
New York was issuing IDs to people with no names,
like unknown name, but they were in New York and
they gave them a valid I d to go vote

(49:34):
and do whatever it is that I don't know it was.
It was a very it was a passing clip that
I saw. But you know, I think we need to
know the facts and exactly the the this nature of it.
But there are several other things that obviously the DEI
all that stuff. So I mean, what what that creates

(49:55):
for the Dems is the abilability for the White House
administration to get rid of a lot of non essential
jobs permanently, because if they're not funded going forward, they
don't exist.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
So the real estate market in DC may be flexible
currently if a lot of these jobs are lost, it
might become more affordable.

Speaker 8 (50:19):
Yeah, And I think that's the kind of thing that
people should consider, is that it affects normal people's everyday lives, right,
which is why I emphasized about the members of Congress
are the ones who shouldn't get paid, not the people
who have just signed up to work a government job
who are actually passionate about it. And most of the
people who do those jobs pretty selfless people generally speaking,
because those jobs can be really thankless and it can

(50:39):
be a lot of work for people who just don't
appreciate you. And at every turn, anytime someone gets mad
at the DMV, they're going to turn on all government workers.
Well that's not really every government worker's prerogative about that.
They just do the best job that they can and
the fact that this negatively affects them really isn't fair
to them at all.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Poor DMV workers, they get a bad rap. I've always said, well.

Speaker 6 (50:58):
They give a bad rap, at least the ones down
in Moundsville.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Sorry Moundsville. But I've always said try working with the
public though too so in their defense, try working with
the public. How long can say we have about a
minute left before we have to go to a break,
but just real quickly, how long do you think this
will possibly last?

Speaker 6 (51:18):
It depends on the pressure, it really does. I think
for a day or two people don't feel it, Like
people are not going to feel it today, but two
three days, because they're still going I don't know when
the last pay for the government was, but if it
was last Friday, then you're still going on a two
week the cycle cycle when.

Speaker 8 (51:38):
It starts affecting family budgets. That's when the pressure will
turn up and then some things will turn around.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
Right because it is the first of the month, so
you know by the fifteenth there's gonna be bills do absolutely.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Yeah, all right, we're going to follow that. Of course,
when we get back, we have an email from a
listener about something that we got into.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
Last week that I want to tackle.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
We're going to address some of the the points that
he had to make, So we're going to get into
that coming up. Now, we're right in the middle of
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Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. Okay, so last week we
got into a conversation that eventually took us into talking
about social media, and Otis and I have talked about
it a couple times, and we got a response from

(53:05):
listener Randy and kind of disagreed with a lot of
the points we made about social media and how it
is the algorithms affect us and were served certain information.
I'm not going to read the entire email, but some
points in what he had to say starts with thank
god for social media. Everybody cries about social media. Social

(53:27):
media gave us Charlie Kirk. The mainstream mainstream media never
would have allowed him on the air. The mainstream media
gave us three years of the Russian hoax, while social
media created an avenue for the truth to get out.
The mainstream media gave us COVID hysteria and helped establishment
on politicians push mass mandates, travel restrictions, social distancing, and

(53:51):
forced vaccinations. Social media helped common sense to return to
our social norms. There's a lot more here, but I'm
going to kind of go to the end here. The
right to speak freely on social media brings terrible consequences.
Social deviants and assassinations. That's the truth, the ugly reality,
and the acceptable consequences for having freedoms. Freedoms like these

(54:16):
gave us Charlie Kirk, who became a cultural icon because
of the power of his words and his freedom to
express them on a medium that wouldn't restrict him thoughts.

Speaker 6 (54:28):
I'm going to Eligi, I'll go.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
To you first. There's a lot in here, but I
kind of the first.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
Thing I would say is that all of those things
that he indicated would have been speaking as a conservative
voice in the room would have been all permitted on
Fox News. So to say that without social media wouldn't
have gotten out, I disagree with that. Just like anything else,

(54:54):
everything is good until it's not. Everything is great until
it's abused, just as freedom of speech is great until
it's abused and you can burn the flag.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
So there are.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Lines to be drawn in every aspect of life, including
your freedoms, because it's not an unbridled freedom to do
whatever it is that you want, because you have the
freedom of will, certainly, but you can't go kill somebody
without consequence. So you have freedoms, but there are consequences
to the level of or the line over which you

(55:31):
choose to step. So I don't think that social media. Yes,
social media has also gone down the rabbit hole, and
I think the algorithms for Randy probably are such that
Charlie Kirk and conservative principles and whatnot or not. You know,
I was joking the other evening with my husband, as

(55:52):
I'm flying through my Facebook. My algorithms are dog videos,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
I try to get back to those.

Speaker 6 (56:00):
Yeah, that's I mean, just because that's what I look
at on social media. I choose to ignore all the
crap and the drama, and I just I like to
watch dogs doing silly things. So that's what my algorithm
on my Facebook shows.

Speaker 8 (56:14):
Yeah, intelligence point that there. You know, there's a lot
of good and a lot of bad to everything, but
a couple of things about social media, particular one the
algorithm does reinforce things pretty hardcore and depending on what
avenues you go down, no matter what your political persuasions,
can get really dark, really fast. And everybody's social media
experience can be different, and it's hard to see that
unless you see someone else's, Like what Elgind said about dogs,

(56:37):
if you go to any of the I limited in
social media that I do, but most of it's going
to be sports related, and it's going to look like
that's all I do, Like I don't do anything else.
And you know, so if you try to, if you
try to go down your avenue and say this is
my social media experience, it's the same as everybody else's,
that's incorrect. And we have to do more about equipping

(57:01):
people on how to deal with the algorithms and what
they're doing. How do identify when something's going awry and
you needed to talk to someone who's not in your
internet space, Go out in your neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Human content.

Speaker 8 (57:13):
People have phone down. Yeah, put your phone down. So
what Governor Spencer said that from Utah about how you
need to go out and interact with people, touch grass,
be part of your community, your real life community, not
just the social media community. Yes, there's a lot of good,
there's also a whole lot of bad, and we as
a people are ill equipped to handle it.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
It is and if you just watch, just just go out,
Just go out to any public event anywhere you find
people's noses in their phones. This past weekend, we had
a wedding to go to and we got in the
car and I realized my car my phone was in
the house. I was like, oh, well yeah, and it
was the most liberating thing to not have my phone.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Most people can't do that. Most people can't do that.

Speaker 6 (57:59):
So you know, I was with so I thought, Okay,
there's no emergency. I'm with the people that I care about,
so I'm not worried about it.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Well, right, and just real quickly going back to the
media side of things, when we're talking about this, we've
got to understand the younger generation thirty five and younger.
They get the majority of their information from social media
and what is delivered to them on their phones. Now,
speaking from my perspective, I can't come on here due

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to FCC regulations and say whatever I want to say
and present it as fact and present it as newsworthy.
Where when we're talking the world of social media in
the Internet, it's the wild wild West. There are no restrictions.
So I think that's where we need to as a
society come to some sort of conclusion that we can't

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just provide to people on social media, forced through these
algorithms and present it as fact when it's not fact.
That's where I think the message is being misconstrued a
little bit.

Speaker 8 (59:02):
And I also think that there's a long history of
technology changing communication people freaking out about it, going back
to the printing press and saying, oh, now anybody can print,
disseminate whatever they want a mess. I'm my god, it's
going to be crazy. You've got to calibrate. You have
to react to it accordingly. And when you talk about
having voices out there and maybe been stifled or not stifle,
social media opens it up. Well, the radio opened that

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up to people. I mean father Coughlan. If you don't
know who he is, you can google him. He had
whether you agree with what he said or not, he
said a lot of pretty wild things on purpose and
had a huge following because of the radio. We're not
even talking about the era of television yet. So there
has to be a calibration about the information excuse me,

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and how you take it in. And right now we're
at a reckoning point. Because old technology it was a
little bit slower for these things to happen and people
could play catchup. We're not in that realm. Now it's
all happening so.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
Quickly it is. And I think it all comes about
back to ethics. It has to come back. There's ethics
in journalism, there's ethics in medicine, there's ethics in law.
And the problem is if you do not follow those
ethics in journalism and make sure that you know who
is going to fact check, because I think the Facebook
took away the fact checked mechanism because when the fact

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check was there, and it would eliminate your posts, Well,
who is deciding that it's true or it's not true?
And what what? Who is who's the you know, person
behind the mass, who's you know, who's who's the evil word? Yes?
Who decides that?

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
And you know?

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
And that's where I think it becomes difficult because if
people don't have an ethical moral compass on the truth
and what is the truth, then then you're right, it
becomes an algorithm and go down the deep dark rabbit hole.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
But the truth from whose perspective?

Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
I mean local? We just found out this week or
was it Daniel last week about the limitations and what
was pulled down during the mind Biden administration by Google
and YouTube and all of that. So, no, how do
you trust? Who do you trust? That's the big question.

Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
And I think sun Light's the best disinfectant. You've got
to get out of your rabbit hole to see the
some way and see it. Counterpoints, opposing views. That's what
gets you to the truth.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
That was very deep.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
This sun the rabbit hole.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Oh, eight forty five. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience.
When we get back Senator John Fetterman. Is he the
voice of reason in DC? Eight forty five, News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA, Welcome back. It's eight fifty on this Wednesday.

(01:01:50):
The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and otis. But we've got
elgend Antoni in the House of course, politics unleashed. So
before the break, I said this Senator John Fetterman. Okay,
Carhart sweatshirt shorts got raped over the calls for what
he wore, but he now seems to be the most diplomatic,

(01:02:12):
common sense speaking person in DC. I have two recent
quotes from him, so on switching parties. If you want
a Democrat that's going to call people Nazis or fascists
or all these kinds of things, I'm not going to
be that guy. Independent thinking in views art is where
he goes. I'm sorry that wasn't part of the quote.

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And then on the government shut down, my vote was
our country over my party. Together, we must find a
better way forward. And I don't consider myself a politician.
I just think I'm an advocate for certain issues on
or perspectives or things, and that just happens to be
the job that you're in. Is he the one politician

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that sees that he's there to work for the people
and not for a side to win?

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Elgin.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
I think he's old school, you know, back to the
Newt Gingrich days of reach across the aisle, common sense,
let's get this done. You know, they're they're you know,
I mean in law, there's always you. You have your
strong points. You know you're gonna win or you know
you're going to lose, or you've got you know, you've
got strong points and weak points. You've got to recognize

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your weak points and be willing to give them away,
you know. And yeah, I think he's common sense. I
want to call him old school. Before the party lines became.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
The staunch, well, so THEA became the standard.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
Yeah, I think it's the standard now.

Speaker 8 (01:03:47):
Yeah, I mean one. I think it's important to judge
politicians not just on sound bites, but on their overall
record and how they're handling things. I do think it's
important for politicians to meet the moment. I think that
there are all a lot more who are in office
who were interested in getting things done. The thing is
we don't hear from them very much because they're there

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to actually do a job and get it done. I'm
fine with that. I don't agree with everything that John
Fetterman says, but I'm fine with the fact that he's
out there upfront, putting his opinions out there and leaving
it open to scrutiny. That's an example I think people
should follow God. Say what you have to say, say
what your feelings are. If you make a vote, defend it,
don't vote yes or knowing something and then go in

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front of the cameras and saying, you know, I early
didn't like this, and you know I think that this
should have been a lot better. Well, you just voted
for it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
What are you talking about.

Speaker 8 (01:04:37):
So that's what I want more of, and I want
less people with all the bluster. I've said this before,
go to Washington or your state capital, wherever you may be,
do the job for the people who elected you, and
try to make their lives in the lives of everybody
else better. That's the example that I think people should
follow and should be trying to accomplish it, especially now

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when the government is shut down, and I think.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
That's not going to happen to our initial discussion until
such time as the same rules apply to everybody, because
it's not they're not going there. How how does AOC
go from a bartender to a millionaire you know, into
two what not terms? You know, how do they do that?

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It's the stock, it's the insider trading, it's the lobbyist,
it's the it's everything.

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
You can't even if you make one hundred grand a
year in d C, it's not going to go very
far because of the expenses related to living there, not
to mention all the things that you have to go
to and in YadA, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
All the appearance is all the upright, So.

Speaker 6 (01:05:41):
I don't know how it gets from there from no
job to being a representative and then all of a sudden,
two terms later having a net worth of over a
million dollars. How does that work? I mean, you know,
other than obvious, that's why they do it for me
as opposed to the.

Speaker 8 (01:06:01):
Yeah, and I think there means to be more. I
don't know about AOC's background or her current net worth is,
but it's sort of beside the point so that there's
a large spectrum of people who go there and see
if this is my career, I'm going to build this life.
You're a public servant. You're there to serve the public.
You ought to take that job to do it as
a public servant, and you should. It should not be

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a job that people want to keep forever.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
Well, term limits would be good to Yes.

Speaker 8 (01:06:25):
That's where that's where I'm headed. I think that would
help a lot too.

Speaker 6 (01:06:29):
And you must agree on that absolutely. You know, there
is a sweet spot because I agree that just because
one two terms is probably not enough. Yeah, and it
depends two terms of the senator maybe, but two terms
in the House, know and maybe the House things. Every
two years is just a lot because you serve a
year you're running, you're servery year you're running, you're servery

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year you're running, and so it's.

Speaker 4 (01:06:52):
Can you actually get anything accomplished in that amount of time.

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
That's I think that's that's where the difficulty comes in.

Speaker 8 (01:06:59):
Yeah, I mean, so many representatives especially new ones. They
get an office, they ready to make change, and they
say that their campaign managers or whatever are telling you
got to be on the phone raising money, Like I
just got here, I'm ready to do the job. You
got to be on the phone raising money because you've
got to win the next election. That cannot be the
focus anymore. That's got to stop.

Speaker 6 (01:07:18):
Well, money is just ridiculous. The campaign, all the campaign,
the funds that are required, campaign funds required to run
a federal or a national You know, well, look agression.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Look what Harris raised and spent. I mean that was
I mean Trump too, But her number was I forget
what it is, off the top of my head, it was,
and she was in the rest.

Speaker 6 (01:07:40):
She was in the red spent.

Speaker 8 (01:07:43):
The amount of money that has to be raised for
anybody to run, even at at smaller levels is ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Should there be minimums? I mean if if if maximums? Yeah, maximums,
I'm sorry. If there are in professional sports, like a
cap on what somebody can spend on team, Should there
be a cap on what somebody should spend on a
political campaign?

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
Not a bad idea, I haven't really thought about that,
but well, my suggestion for this at a high level,
is that we take private money out of it completely
and have pots of money that people can use if
they want to run.

Speaker 8 (01:08:18):
And you've got to use the money from this pot.
You have X amount of dollars to spend on your race,
and it can be bigger depending upon what race you're running.
And then that's it because then you can have more
people who are able to actually run. You can still
vet them and weave people out through the system who
are there for themselves. But that, yeah, can there be
adjustments in that short But I want to take the
private money just out of this because.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
It's really packed money very much.

Speaker 8 (01:08:41):
Yeah, well super pack money. Yeah, and having to raise
money instead of governing, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Yeah, And I wanted to bring this up. This is
a local story real quick, I thought, Elgi and you'd
have a real good perspective on this. This is out
of Ohio in regards to State Representative Ron Ferguson, who
is the in the spotlight thanks to a recent news
released from a state House lobbyist, Robert Ena. Ena is

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offering a ten thousand dollars variable verifiable information that would
be damaging on Ferguson. So basically if you provide verifiable
I can't say that word damaging information on state Representative
Ron Ferguson. You get that ten thousand dollars, Like what
are we the wild West? And we're putting out like

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warrants on poles?

Speaker 6 (01:09:34):
I mean, come on. And then it's the negative campaign too. Yeah,
that's the bounties and it's the negative campaign. And I've
never been a proponent of negative campaign. And you mean
distinguishing you from yourself from another person and where you differ, fine,
but not you know, when you start hitting below the belt.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
Yeah, it's gone too far. It's gone too far.

Speaker 8 (01:09:53):
I don't like it either.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
Well, we've hit our the end of our ropes. So
that's quick. Right, when you're having fun, we're to hear everybody.
Have a great Wednesday. We'll talk to you tomorrow.