The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Happy Happy Friday, folks, seven o six. As I said
Friday morning, thank you for tuning in the bloom Daddy Experience.
I'm Sam back with me. We've got Otis here on
news radio eleven seventy ww WWVA. Why did I say
your name like a Canadian? Otis?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
That just that came out in the chair there.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
That came out very odd, very odd. So yes, happy Friday,
Thank you so much for tuning in. And things are
back to normal with Otis in the house. Happy to
be back, He's thrilled.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm happy to be anywhere but where I was.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, training is always fun.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, the the state requires us to have like sixteen
hours of in service every year, so they do it
all at once, and you know, some of it's interesting,
but it doesn't apply to us. And it's just like
you sit there and you're going why and I'm not
the only one.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
So and some and some of them are just you know,
some of the presenters, even though their topic doesn't apply,
some of them can be interesting. Oh yeah, some of
them can be extremely boring. And so you know, it
was a it was a fine mixture. Had had some
some of my compatriots from your side of the river.

(01:50):
So we had some of the Ohio Alcohol Beverage Control
guys and they actually, like during their they were talking
about places and then they mentioned in two bar names
and I was like, oh, I know those two naves. Yeah,
like one was in Belair, one was in Shady Side.
And I'm like and then the guy that they were

(02:10):
talking to, who was from the southern part of the state,
I'm like, how the hell does he know about those
two parts? Like that's my that's my neck of the woods.
And I'm not going to mention the name just because
i just don't want to throw it star.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So maybe they're notorious in the Ohio.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I mean, they're very well known places so around here, but.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
You just didn't expect to hear those names.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was like I had to do a double take.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'm like, huh, well that you know what you what
you were doing sort of and Alcohol Beverage Control and
all of that ties in perfectly to one of our
questions today. Oh uh, tell us your first story or
the first the story of the first time of you

(02:55):
being drunk.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Glad you spit that out so well, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That came out. Listen. It's been a long week for
some reason. But yeah, tell us the story of your
first time getting drunk. What was it like, where were you?
What were the after effects?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, well, the reason we're saying this is because I.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Remember mine well very clearly.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
But there was a thirteen year old driver with an
eleven year old passenger. Well, they survived the high speed
crash early on Tuesday. This is in Flagstaff, Arizona. They
stole a Chevy Silverado from the Flagstaff Police Department around
one in the morning. They traveled on Interstate forty, crossed
into oncoming traffic. They exceeded one hundred miles an hour

(03:39):
before this kid lost control, struck a guardrail, rolled multiple times,
hit a tree with such force that the steering wheels
separated and landed fifty feet away. Both kids sustained non
life threatening injuries and were hospitalized. The thirteen year old's
blood alcohol lever measured point one eight, three, more than double.
Arizona's at the legal limit like to be legally drunk

(04:03):
is point eight so this kid, you know, double would
be point one six.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
And I wonder what his size was physically.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah. Well, anyway, he faces DUI charges and obviously they're
thankful that the kids are okay, but this could have
ended a lot worse. Oh, juvenile joy writing and underage
drinking are extremely dangerous, so they say, talk to your
kids about the dangers of drinking and unlicensed driving. So
that's where this story comes from. But you know, I
mean thirteen years old, I wasn't. I mean, I know,

(04:33):
I remember being in junior high and some of my
classmates coming to their school dances after having consumed some
adult beverages. Now I never had that opportunity because I
wrote to the school dances with my dad, who was
the principal. So the odds of me actually getting out
in about before a school dance never happened.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, you kind of.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I remember when he caught a bunch of my classmates,
probably about ten of them. They were all they you know,
they were they they had had a few beers before
they came to the dance, and all of them admitted
it except for one. And to this day that kids
still has that sticks in my dad's side that he

(05:18):
didn't admit well, because the mom also stuck up for him.
You know, they made this big Oh my son wouldn't
do that, blah blah blah. Yes he would, yes, he
and he did, you know, but he just he would
not admit to it. The other the other ten kids
they got, you know, they got some stupid little suspension

(05:38):
or you know, little little you know, they had to
do detention or something after school. But the other kid, Oh,
my dad was that like that that happened forty five
years ago. That's still a thornton. Oh, it's still a
thorn any side, still authorn any side. I won't mention
that kid's name either.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, that's funny, but yeah, that's funny. Yeah, thirteen years old.
Well and his eleven year old passenger. Like you said,
they're very very lucky.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
You know, you hit that guardrail, you roll three or
four times, hit a tree where it separates the steering wheel. Yeah,
that's no small I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's not a fender bender.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
It might be you know, here's the thing, and you
don't but by being drunk, may have helped them not
sustain any more serious injuries because their body was probably
so relaxed so they didn't tense up or anything like that,
because a lot of times when you tense up is when,
like you know, you lock your legs or something, and

(06:39):
instead of your legs letting your legs just go with
the flow or your body go with the flow, when
you tense up tends to cause more damage. And maybe that,
if there's a plus to it, maybe that was the plus.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, that's kind of where our question for today comes from.
We're not trying to make light of that story. Fy no,
but no, but uh yeah, tell us the story of
your first time getting drunk? Do you remember yours? Do
you remember?

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Well?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
There, I'm going to say that there's two because I
don't know if I was drunk, I know I had
a buzz, and then I can remember the first time
I got drunk where it was like not pretty, So
I can there's two times that So I mean, I
don't know, like first time drinking and catching a buzz

(07:29):
or first time drinking and getting you throw up.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah yeah, where you're huggling hugging a porcelain gulf. Oh yeah, yeah,
See I never did anything in high school. I was
I was. I was a jock. I was an athlete
in high school, so we had so many curfews and everything.
And I wasn't a goodie two shoes. I wouldn't say that,
but I was not part of the kids that went
to the strip pits and and you know, drank beer.

(07:55):
I was never part of any of that kind of stuff.
But I made it a point my freshman year of
college to make up for that. I have a friend
like that and my first time mm hmmm. Let's put
it this way. It involved tequila.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Everybody has a tequila story at some point in time.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
And I have never touched it again. No, I take
that back. I have had some frozen margarita's, but not.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Not just you haven't done shots.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Or we didn't even bother with shots. We just sat
there and drank it out of the bottle straight. We
didn't know what we were doing. We're like, oh, this
is alcohol, we'll drink it.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Tequila's probably not one that you wanted to do that. No,
there's a handful of them. Yeah, like I had that
with Captain Morgan spice Rum. Oh my freshman year in college.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I can't I can't.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
After a handful of icy lights that you know, that
tells you how quality I was back in the day.
We are freshman and you have zero money.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
See, I've ever been a beer drinker ever, I've I've
had the expensive I've had, the fourn I've had. The
cheap beer just does not appeal to me. And I've
got great beer stories. And because of that, I went
straight to the liquor. We'll tell you those stories when
we get back. It's seven fifteen. Coming up, we're gonna

(09:20):
have your last chance to win. We have another pair
of tickets to the Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention happening at
Wheeling Island Hotel Casino Racetrack that begins on October tenth.
So coming up here a little bit later in the show,
we're gonna have your chance to win our last pair
of those. It's seven fifteen on this Friday. Of course,

(09:42):
you can call us one eight hundred and sixty two four
eleven seventy tell us your story, or you can text
us seven zero four seven zero. We're gonna be right back.
The Blue Daddy Experienced samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA Welcome back seven twenty one, the Blendaddie Experience, Sam

(10:08):
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Unfortunately, I'm gonna
hit on some sports things here. The great comeback of
the Guardians hit the wall yesterday. Huh. Unfortunately, the Detroit
Tigers used a four run seventh inning to take down

(10:29):
the Guardians sixth to three to advance. The Tigers will
now face the Seattle Mariners in the ALDS. Also from
around Major League Baseball, the American League National League Division
Series is finally set. Yankees rookie pitcher Cam I don't

(10:50):
want to say that wrong, Scher Okay, I was going
to say it wrong, struck out a dozen batters through
eight scoreless frames to lead New York to a four
to zero Ford to zero victory over the Red Sox
in Game three. That game was in the Bronx and
the Yankees will now face the Toronto Blue Jays in

(11:10):
the next round.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
The Yankees three teams from the American League East made
it so, the Yankees and Red Sox and the Blue Jays,
so the Yankees had to beat an American League East opponent.
They if they're going to go on, then they've got
to beat another American League East opponent, so it should
be I mean, American League East was the strong yeah side, Yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Was a bummer. The Guardian situation is, man, that's a
bummer because they had they had quite a story going on.
In the National League, Michael Bush and Pete crow Armstrong
combined for six hits and two RBIs while leading the
Chicago Cubs to a three to one win over the
Padres in the Windy City. Chicago will play the Brewers
in the NLDS. The Division Series begins on Saturday, So

(11:54):
little Baseball roundup for you there.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's gonna be interesting to see because in the past
the teams that have had to buy mm hmm seemed
to come out a little slower. They got they got
a little bit because you know, you've got you've got
the four teams that are moving on. So you have
the Tigers, the Dodgers, the the Yankees, and the Cubs.

(12:22):
They were they've just got done playing, so they're still
they're in they're still in baseball mode, whereas the other
teams have been off basically for a week.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
It's like when gone gone on vacation for a week
from work and you kind of get back and you're just.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Sort of like, yeah, it just I mean, in the past,
the teams that have had to buy have struggled to
get to the next round. So we'll see what happens
just after this series. So it should be should be
some good games, you know you're gonna and if you
if like if you haven't seen Seattle play this year,
I mean, Cayl Rally's worth the price of it, I mean,

(12:57):
just worth watching potential. M v P H has over
six had to finish. I don't know what he finished
the season with, but he I know he had. He
had at least sixty home runs and was only the
fourth Major or American League player to do so. So
you know, it's it'll be interesting to see what happens.

(13:18):
I mean, but I mean you're gonna see some You're
gonna see some decent baseball. You're gonna I mean, it
should be a good time.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
He thinks the.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Favorite, you know, I mean, you gotta take. You gotta
go with like Milwaukee because I mean they've been hot
all year. They're just I think they're the total package.
You can't count the Dodgers out with their payroll in
o Tawny and Freddie Freeman. And you know if Clayton

(13:46):
Kershaw wasn't on the wasn't on the roster for the
last series, but that's because he had just pitched, so
he'll probably be on the roster for this series. But
I mean, you got you know, how many potential Hall
of Famers future Hall of Famers do you have on
the Dodgers he bets, Uh, you know there, it's kind
of hard to count them out. But I would say

(14:09):
that the two favorites are probably Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
And what I said, Detroit. They were on a roll,
but then they just they were.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
They could be the sneaker. I mean, they could be
the sneak team that comes in. They could be the spoiler.
But I think I think the two I think Seattle
and Milwaukee would be a good, good series. It won't
be good for TV because nobody would care. I mean,
right other than your baseball guys, baseball people, the hardcore,

(14:42):
but I mean major League Baseball. They want the Yankees
and the Dodgers, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
That's the names.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Or or they'll they'll take the Cubs well, because the
Cubs draw too, So I mean, what what major League
Baseball wants is and then Philly would be in to
you because you got Bryce Harper and you know, so
you get some names.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
But the Yankees are always going to be a want.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, so you the top four teams that they want
are the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Cubs, and the Phillies.
That's who they want in. They want one of those.
They don't want Milwaukee or Seattle or Detroit because they're
mid level, mid market teams.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
We shall see, we shall see.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Speaking of sports, we're Toronto. They don't want Toronto either.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I didn't even know the Toronto Blue Jays still existed,
to be honest with you, who who was the other?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
All the expos they're they're now Washington.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Okay. They are the ones that are drawn. There's the
ones that are grown. Also this weekend, it's Week five
of the NFL season. However, the Steelers they're on a
bye week, so everybody Steeler fans can go to the
og will be fest on Sunday and not worry about
missing missing the football game. They will return next week
against Dylan Gabriel and the Browns, who on Tuesday, I

(15:58):
believe it was, they announced Dylan rookie Dylan Gabriel. The
Browns did as the starting QB. Pittsburgh is three and
one on the season. This week, the Browns traveled to
London and they will face them Sunday morning, while the
Bengals host the Lions later in the afternoon. Cleveland is

(16:18):
one in three and Cincinnati is two and two. And
when the announcement came out. For any Browns fans out there,
I don't know if you've seen the clip of Shador Sanders,
of course, the name that we got in the draft.
He's the third ranked quarterback. He decided to play a
mime with reporters. It is the most bizarre video. I

(16:42):
think it's in response to the criticism that Rex Ryan
gave him on ESPN like a week or so ago,
where he said, you know, he needs to learn how
to keep his mouth shut and and you know it's
not all about you and that whole conversation with him.
But it's a really, really weird clip. Weird clip. The
carnival continues in Cleveland seven twenty eight. Don't forget coming up.

(17:06):
We're gonna have your chance to win. We got one
pair left, so those will be coming up here a
little bit later in the show. To Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention,
happening October tenth through the twelfth. It's seven twenty eight.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back here to the

(17:37):
bloom Daddy Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
All right, we're gonna have a unique conversation. I am
quite excited about this, of course, because we're gonna talk tattoos.
We are going to talk tattoos, and we're gonna talk
about a huge event that is celebrating five years. Please
welcome to the show. Dennis Gilbert, owner of Breaking Skin Tattoo,

(17:58):
but I also say mastermind behind Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention.
Good morning, Good morning. So all right, Dennis, we're going
to get into this first, let's just talk about the
industry in general. When did you get into tattooing, because
you're an artist also correct.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
I got into tattooing probably fifteen sixteen years ago, and
I've always had a passion for it. So when I
finally went through an apprenticeship, I decided that was the
right fit for me. So I opened up Breaking Skin
Tattoo and we now have eight artists there, two piercers,
full time receptionists and things are going great.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Okay, So that's a huge, I mean huge jump in
fifteen years. And then you created Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention,
which is going which is coming up October the weekend
of October tenth at the Wheeling Island Hotel Casino Racetrack.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yes, correct, And one of the guys from the casino,
Mike Mudgick, reached out and wanted to put on a
big event, and I just like took off. Thought it
was a great idea. At that time five years ago,
there was no other conventions around Wheeling. You had to
go to Pittsburgh or Columbus or to a big city.
So I thought it'd be great, and it's a great
way to promote the tattoo industry itself, and I have,

(19:13):
you know, a passion for that, so I thought it'd
be great to bring these amazing artists from all over
the country into Wheeling because the High Valley just doesn't
have that opportunity without driving two plus hours to see.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
These guys and talking about the industry. So you said
you began roughly fifteen years ago. How have you seen
the industry evolved in that short amount of time. You know,
there used to be a stigma. There used to be
a lot of judgment. How have you seen it changed?

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Oh, it's changed so much. Fifteen years ago, pretty much
it was bikers, you know, party guys. You didn't even
see that many women get tattooed back then. So it
was a pretty you know, a hardcourt thing. You had
to pick a tattoo off the wall. Things have changed
so so much, and that just the art with the
new AI generation and people using iPads and now tattooings.

(20:07):
I mean, we actually tattoo more women than we do
men at this point, which is so much different than
the stigma that it held for so long.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Even the terminology terminology has changed. It's gone from your
a tattoo or to your an artist. I mean that
label I think is well deserved for a lot of
the folks out there doing this, this this artwork, because
that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Absolutely, because the way tattooing used to be, Like I said,
you picked a tattoo off the wall. So if somebody
could use a tattoo machine, they could put a tattoo
on you doesn't necessarily mean it was good. Now there's
more artistry involved. Like some of the artists out there
are just mind blowing what they can create and put
on someone's body. And the artists that come to this

(20:51):
convention every year, this is like the premiere tattoo convention
even with the other ones around, because our artists at
this convention are just unbelievable. We have three ink masters
coming this year, so the level of artwork is crazy.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Again. We're talking to Dennis Gilbert, owner of Breaking Skin
Tattoo in Bridgeport, along with the creator of Resurrection Island
Tattoo Convention, which is coming up the weekend of October tenth.
All right, so I've got to ask you this. You
have done work on me. Yes, I have had work
done at your shop. You mentioned women, the perception of

(21:27):
somebody with a tattoo, along with like you said, women
getting more that has changed drastically. Also again it's an
art firm.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, form absolutely, even like workplace. I remember years ago,
if you had tattoos, they had to be covered up.
Even the military was different and jobs just didn't want
to see that stuff. And now I mean, if you
see people without tattoos. It's almost odd because we tattooed
so many different forms. I mean, we've even tattooed bucket
lists six year old women that want their first tattoo,

(21:57):
because it's okay and acceptable.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Now I got to add, what is you know, for
as long as you've been doing this, what is one
of the wackiest requests that you've had Keep it clean?
Because I can even imagine where where people have wanted things.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
We've definitely pretty much done it all. If you can
imagine it, we've done it. And there's definitely something we
probably shouldn't talk about here. But now it's so much
more accepted. Even when people come in with the crazy idea,
we don't really get shuck up by it because we've
already done it. You know, somebody else has already done it.
So and with the level of artwork now, it's amazing

(22:36):
how far the industry's come to what it used to be.
Like my studio now you won't find flash hanging on
the wall.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's a beautiful studio.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
We decorated, you know, it looks like a high end
tattoo shop. There's no more just the you know, the
there's a couple around but there's no more of the
dirty tattoo shop.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Oh the cleanliness is amazing, honest, honestly, it's cleaner than
some hospitals.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
It has to be, you know what I mean. And
the people that still get tattooed at home, we just cringe.
We're like, oh my god, don't do that.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, that's uh, that's questionable. Now with with the way
that I'm trying to think of where I want to
where I'm going with this, we have seen a change,
we have seen a growth, and that then brings us
into the convention. How does all of that work? If
you are okay, say you're me and I want to

(23:30):
get work done, how does that work with the artists?

Speaker 5 (23:33):
The artist at the convention. Our artists that at our
convention is so good you almost have to reach out
to them ahead of time so you can set something
up for that weekend because they're so highly sought after.
And when you come if you don't have something set up,
even if you don't have tattoos, just coming to the
convention to see the wild side of things, you know,

(23:53):
and you're going to fit in regardless of what you
look like, because it's literally every spectrum from you know,
young guys and girls through older people and it doesn't matter.
It's just it's super fun to see all the stuff
that goes on. And with the convention itself. Most tattoo
conventions are like a straightforward a bunch of boosts and

(24:14):
a big convention center and that's it. Well, we put
in freak shows, swords, wallers, burlesque, we have rock bands
every night.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
We have I was also.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Going to ask you on the on some of the entertainment.
A suspension team.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
You know, we have a suspension team.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Plaine is that the hanging hook right, hanging.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Hanging from the hooks. So they perform every day. They're
absolutely amazing. They let me do it every Sunday at noon.
That's kind of like my release.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
For the end.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Wait you do it yourself.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Yes, I do it as well.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
And it's a blast, it really is.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
And just to see it, it's so weird because you
won't even hear people clapping or yelling because they're yeah,
they're like in awe. It's like watching a car wreck.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I mean, you just have to stare at.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
It, you know, I mean, and you can't even look
away from it. Some say I can't watch it. They
can't take their eyes off of.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
What does it feel like?

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Sort of like what you'd think it would feel like.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Do you feel like a fish on a hook?

Speaker 5 (25:08):
No, it's it's very like euphoric is probably the best description.
But it's because it's something you don't gonna feel anywhere
else or just compares to it. But I actually look
forward to it every year. So but they hanged the
guy last year, actually put four hooks in his face
and pulled himself up by his face. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Oh my apologies listeners if you're currently having your breakfast.
But it's something that you're not going to see anywhere else.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Right, And that's the thing that I've changed this into,
not just a tattoo convention. It's like an experience when
you come. You know, there's like I said, there's bands
that the girl that's coming from New York City, Sam,
I am to do the Burlash. She's absolutely amazing. She's gorgeous.
She puts on shows every day. The crowd favorites the
monster Dolls. It's like a group of eight girls. They

(25:59):
dress up crazy, they interact with the crowds. They put
on big shows up on the stage in a showroom
at the casino, and everybody loves them to death, so
we bring them back every single year.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well and then of course back to the artwork. You said,
they're set up in booth areas you can see when
people are getting work done, of course, if it's inappropriate areas.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Right, yeah, well even I mean you'll see a lot.
We'll just say that. But the booths, you can literally
walk by every single one and there, every one of
them is literally tattooing. At my show, you won't see
guys sitting there not tattooing. There will be a couple
guys that actually like to do walk up tattoos because
it's always so busy. So you could actually walk up
to a booth and say, hey, I want you know

(26:41):
I did that crass.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah year one. I did that the first year and
I got it on the top of my foot and
I dozed off, and I remember I could I remember
hearing people saying, I think she's sleeping, she's getting the
top of her foot tattooed.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
I think that's a rough spot if you kind of.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Felt like a little bit of an animal in the zoo.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
But you know, and it's you'll see there's literally some
people are getting a three day tattoo, like an entire
outer leg, and they're literally getting thirty hours worth of
work done during our convention, and then they're entering it
in a contest for awards. At the end of every
night we have awards. So the whole experience is an
absolute blast. And it's at to casino, so the food's good.

(27:21):
There's bars, there's a buffet, there's a high end steakhouse,
you can play slot machines. I mean you literally could
stay there the whole weekend and have a blast.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, it's a unique event that you've brought to our area,
which you know, that's fantastic. You know, we hear a
lot of the times around there's nothing to do. Well now, sorry,
there's plenty to do happening October tenth, right.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
And then afterwards we always put up videos and stuff
and we always have people say, oh my god, I
wish i'd come see that, And you know, now's your chance.
This is our fifth year. We do it every year.
It's the second weekend in October.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
So okay, real quick. Because it's at the casino, what
are the age restrictions, and also because of what the
event actually is.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
This year, the Lottery Commission actually said twenty one and
older only, we can't have kids in there. This year,
they let it. They let them do it in the
past four years, but there was always a problem because
the casino is twenty one and older. So that really,
you know, kind of sucks for us because we love
that the kids could come in the other years. But
it's an autonousity even on a casino that's the West

(28:21):
Virginia Lottery. They had a couple kids run out on
a gaming floor and there's a couple bad eggs, ruins
and foreverything that.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, unfortunately, I hear, we hear that a lot and
real quick. Artists are coming from all across the country.
How far away is like the furthest artists coming from.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh literally, we have them from We only have a
couple local artists that are actually there. The rest are
literally from We have them coming from Oregon, California, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, Maine.
I mean, oh wow, literally everywhere in the country. We
have one hundred and fifty artists this year and they
are literally from all over and some of these guys

(28:57):
have been there every year. They fly in and from
Pittsburgh just because they said this is the best convention
they've ever been to and they've been to conventions all
over the country.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
And that's the hats off to you because that's a
huge statement on on everything that you've accomplished. And tickets.
You can get tickets online ahead of time. Correct.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Correct, they're on sale now where you can also purchase
them at the door, but on our website which is
tatcomone dot com, we have tickets a ticket link on
there that you can get tickets ahead of time.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Again, that's tat coom con one dot com t A
T C O N the number one dot com. Correct, Okay,
And then if you last minute you decide to go
at the.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Door, Yeah, you can get them at the door. And
if you get on our Facebook page or our Instagram
page you can see stuff from last year. There's links
on there for the tickets and the hours which it's
it's the whole weekend. It's literally noon to midnight Friday,
Saturday and noon to eight on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, go check it out. Look at the artists that
are that are going to be at this show because
it is beautiful, amazing work. And again, if you want
to schedule with an artist, reach out to them directly
to set up hopefully a time of availability.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
Right, and some of these artists you could even set
up something for next year. I have a couple of
the artists that actually are booked out for my next
two conventions for artwork because they're that good. And then
the same on the entertainment. We just have a guy
coming from Miami, Florida, a Melio Gonzalez, and he does
a suspension and he's got body modification implants literally all

(30:26):
over him, and he's like blacked out with tattoos. Like
the dude is the nicest guy you ever meet, and
you'll be scared to death of him if you see
him in person. Okay with Yeah, it's like a whole
wild thing. But we just found out he's coming this
year too, so and he's looking forward to well.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Dennis, thank you so much for your time this morning Again.
Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention happening October tenth through the twelfth
right here in Wheeling at Wheeling Island Hotel, Casino.

Speaker 5 (30:54):
And race Track, right and the tickets get you in
for everything that includes the band oh okay, entertainment at
the whole nine Yards that's just a one ticket. You
get in and go see everything wonderful.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
You're getting anything done.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
I'll be busy the whole week setting up for it
and the weekend just the suspension. That's the only thing
I'll to That's just that.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, we'll have a great success. Congrats on five years
and I will probably see you there.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Good.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
We got to jump to a quick break. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back seven to five on your Friday,

(31:41):
the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Something just popped in my headphone.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Did you hear that? Or is that just me in
my must?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I think something. My headphone just popped drastically. Thank you
for Dennis from Resurrection Island Tattoo for coming in and
talking about the big event happening October tenth. We have
one more pair of tickets for that where that's going
to be coming up in the eight o'clock hour. We'll
be doing that, so listen art for the number. The

(32:12):
Queu de Call will have that. Also, it's Friday, so
we're having some fun, and we kicked this off earlier
in the show. So our question of the day is, basically,
it's real simple. Tell us the story of the first
time you got drunk. What did you experience? What was
it like? So from Drew sent us an email. It says, Hi,

(32:35):
I was thirteen playing basketball in at the community center
while a wedding reception was happening inside. A couple of
the big kids invited me in and I got drunk.
I was hanging on the bride trying to kiss her.
Twenty minutes later, my two friends literally plopped me in

(32:56):
the front door of my house. Got grounded for a week.
He tried to get the bride. We got a call.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
We do.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
We have Susie from Wheeling. Good morning, Susie, good morning.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
You got a story for us.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
Yeah, it's a serious it's a pretty serious story. It's
my daughter when she's fifty now, but when she was fourteen,
I took her to vacation Bible school and dropped her off.
I went down to my mother's and Dylan Vale from Wheeling,
and by the time I got down there, the preacher

(33:31):
called and said that he had some girls at the
church walked in the bathroom because they were drunk and
that I needed to come and get my daughter. So
when I went back to the church to get her,
a lot of the girl's parents were believing the girls
that they didn't They thought it was orange juice. They
didn't know that it had alcohol in it. The boys
told him it was orange juice. Well, I knew that,

(33:54):
my daughter knew. So anyhow, we take her home and
she first thing she does is getting a refrigerator to
get a glass of milk, and her dad's like what,
And I said, let her drink it, and so she
drank it and she got very, very sick, Like I
wanted her too, And I thought that, you know, she
would that would kind of curve it. But she told

(34:15):
me later on, my daughter is an addict. So later on,
after she got clean, she told me that when that happened,
she never once thought that she would not drink again.
What she thought is, how can I do this and
not get this sick? And so she figured it out
through drugs. Now, my daughter did get clean and spent

(34:37):
nine years clean, but that was the beginning of her addiction.
That's where her mind went, Oh.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Well, I'm sorry to hear that story. We're not trying
to take light of anything. I hope you know.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Oh, I know, I know. I told him that this
isn't a funny story. It's a serious story. But if
he wanted me to tell it, I would tell it.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
But yeah, yeah, to cut you off, we got to
jump to a break. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experienced.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This is
the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His goal inform,
entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy Experience on
news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Well we made it. It's eight oh six. Second hour
the show on this Friday, The bloom Daddy Experience samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We're having some fun
this morning. Of course it is a Friday, and our
fun question of the day is tell us the story
of the first time you got drunk and and and

(35:47):
you know, our last call was was serious and we're
not and now I just want to you know, we're
not making light of things, but we are trying to
have some fun with this this morning. Also, so we
have a phone call. Right, we have special guest, special
good morning. Do you have a story for us?

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah, I just want to know what the previous call was.
How do you make this topic serious? Did somebody say
the first time they got drunk was driving and they
got a dui and with the jail for two months.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
No, she was talking about her daughter, who was it
opened a door to addiction to her daughter.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Oh boy, yeah, Okay, well we're not going to go
that route. I'm just going to preface this story by saying,
otis watch what you say after I'm done.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
All right, So I'm.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
I believe I was fourteen years old and had a
wonderful priest by the name of Father Borosh who was
in Lafferty for years. He got transferred to Dylonvale. It
was crushing to the parish. So anyway, I was very
close with him because I was an older boy. I
was a reader and so were a couple of other
older boys. And long story short, he wanted us to

(36:56):
visit him at the rectory in Dylonville, and at the
same time, they needed to pave the parking lot at
the around the rectory in the church in Dylanville, So
that was kind of a job for the weekend. So
I go along with another altar boy. I'm not gonna
name him because he probably does not want name. But
I went to high school with him at Union Local
High School. He was two grades ahead of me. And

(37:18):
when father Borosch went to bed, father had a liquor cabinet,
and so this other altar boy says to me, Hey,
why don't we dry some liquor. I had never drink
in my entire life. He grabs the peppermint shops and
long story shops.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Not a good, not a good, not a good start.
When you say peppermint stops, that's not a good drunk.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Oh God, listen to this day. If you break out
a peppermint patty, I'll vomit it. I can't smell it.
I can't, I can't. So he breaks it out. I
think I take two shots. I'm hammered, and I can
remember vomiting in a waste paper basket that at the
time I didn't really lies. Had holes in it like vents,

(38:03):
so when we picked it up, it was coming out
of every hole like a sprinkler system. And I was
hung over the next day. I was sick for probably
two days. I don't know if father ever realized it
or not, because we cleaned up pretty good. But that
was my first time getting drunk in a priests rectory. Now, Otis,

(38:26):
I'm not saying.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
A word, but you might be enjoyed the candy bar.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Oh, anything peppermint. To this day, I can't do it
if I even get a whiff of it. Oh, it
takes me right back to that moment in Dylan Belle
and I do want to see this. He was the
greatest priest I've ever been around in my life. There
was there. You know, we all know that the stories
of the Catholic Church, none of that happens, trust me.
But that was my first And to this day, and Otis,

(38:55):
you've called me a lightweight for thirty years. I mean
I could drink a couple of beers. But if you've noticed,
you've I don't think you've probably ever seen me drink liquor.
It's because of that.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah, been down that road a few times myself.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
How old were you first time?

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Moti? First time? Again, there's probably there's two stories that
I have. So the first time I was a freshman
in high school. It might have been the summer between
my freshman and sophomore year. I don't remember the exact
time of year, but then the next one would have
been in the when it would have been in December
of nineteen eighty two.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
So did you keep a journal?

Speaker 7 (39:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
I just know. I knew it was December because my
parents went to the Gator Bowl.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
Oh okay, I thought maybe you were a man.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
No, I was.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
I was a sophomore in high school.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
For me.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
For me, I was a freshman in college because I
was a good girl in high school. I didn't I
wasn't at the strip pit parties and all that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
But I was gonna say, you grew up in the
stick drinking moonshine. I thought you were sick.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, no, no, My my first my first drunk was uh? Was?
Was tequila as a freshman in college. Oh yep, I.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Didn't drink that to this day.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Nope, I will not.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Buddy's destroyed on it.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Nope. I remember the next day waking up with my
roommate and was she and I who decided to do this?
And I remember begging her for death, like put me
out of my misery. I've never never.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Oh yeah, I have a friend that I will not
mention his name, but on his twenty first birthday, he
decided that he wanted to drink twenty one shots at tequila. Oh,
and he did it in about a three hour period.
It wasn't good.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Yeah, yeah, same thing. Had a buddy come back to
the Marines, you know how that is. He's tougher and
bigger and badder and everybody. And we went over to
Abbey's when it was at the Ohio Valley Mall, and
he said he had the record at the barracks I
think campe La June for seventeen shots at tequila and
he was gonna show us, and I believe he put
down number six. And about ten minutes after that, we

(41:05):
were carrying him to the car, and I'm pretty sure
he defecated himself and we ended up having to pull
his clothes off.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
I mean it was ugly.

Speaker 7 (41:12):
It was ugly.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
So I've seen too much stuff with tequila to where
I want. I've never to this day, I'm fifty five
years old, I've never tried it.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh, you're not missing anything. You might as well drink.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
If you get quality tequila, it's not bad.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Oh yeah, you might as well drink.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
No, it's equality. Yeah, like if you do a patron
or something of that nature, it's better than like Clervo
or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Well, not to get off topic, but the Ohio Valley
was very well represented at Progressive Field for that three
game series against the Tigers. I mean a lot of
people coming up to me from the Ohio Valley. Troy Balgo,
Will Balgo of course, Troy the former corner of Belmont County.
You had Frank Gregory, who played baseball for Lafferty in
the OVBL for years. I believe Frank was a teamature

(42:00):
out Jewett Scio. He still lives in Juety's and usher
up there. But a lot of people, you know, walking
by Ryan Alexander, former head coach at Grove City, and
he was with the previous head coach at Grove City
who was from Hannibal. Can't remember the name offhand, but
there was a lot of Ohio Valley residents who came up.
Unfortunately to not see the Guardians advance.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Oh but they were good games though, to be honest with.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
You, they were. I mean, listen to this team overachieved,
let's be honest. I mean, not a lot of talent
in the lineup, A lot of young guys. They really
overachieved to get there in the first place. But it
was a beautiful three days. I feel like I got
run over by a cement truck today because for the
last three days, I've been at that ballpark from nine

(42:45):
to fifteen in the morning till almost eight o'clock at night,
and it's just a long, long day doing pregame and
then postgame and everything else. But it's you know, I
sit there and I pinched myself because I'm thinking, I
can't believe they pay me for this. Honestly, I'm we
can't even don get a pay check. I'm stealing. I know,
I couldn't be stealing more if I went and robbed

(43:06):
a bank.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
But Wednesday, Wednesday had to be electric when when they
got into the eighth inning and scored the five runs there,
I mean the two home runs. I mean it had
to be an electric gat.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Yeah, because the yeah, the first seven innings is like
watching paint drive. I mean, they had they were one
for fifteen with runners in scoring position. We never even
had a runner in scoring position until the eighth inning.
I mean, think about that, and then all of a sudden,
you know, all heck break you know, breaks loose, and
it was it was it was a it was a
great vibe in there was a great scene and even yesterday,

(43:36):
I mean there was this spot that at some point
they were going to break it open, but got sloppy
at the wrong time of the year and ended up
coming back to haunt them. But it's a young team,
it's a good team. It's a successful team. I mean,
other than the Yankees and the Dodgers, nobody's won more
games than the Cleveland Guardians over the last thirteen years.
And when you think about their payroll, you think about

(43:57):
how they do it as opposed to how bad the
Pirates are. Both in the same situations, same market team,
you know, basically the same payrolls, but just a different
philosophy that the Guardians homegrown talent. I mean, I think
other than two guys, everybody has been drafted by that
team and come up through their system and they just
developed guys well. And they have a formula to win,

(44:21):
and the Pirates have a formula to steal your money.
Put a crap team on.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
The My comment was going to be and if Pittsburgh
fans want to feel that electricity, drive the hundred or
so miles to Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have to because as long as
spend Nutting win, Nutting owns that team, they're never gonna
win there. They're never gonna have a winning record. No, Yeah,
because that guy at the top does not care. He's
pocketing money and that's all that matters to him. And
it's such a shame because Pittsburgh's, you know, cornerstone of
the National League.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
And has the greatest ballpark in the in the league.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
Yeah, you know, yeah, absolutely, And the sad part is
you can't force the guy to sell. No, that's the
sad part unless every fan just refuses to go. But
that doesn't happen. You know, the guy gives away some
blankets and shoots off some fireworks and he puts thirty
thousand in there, and he's only got to do that
about fifteen times, and the rest of the time if
he puts eleven or twelve thousand in there. With that

(45:16):
payroll as low as it is, he's pocketing twenty to
thirty million a year, so he couldn't care less.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
It's bloom Daddy bubblehead day at PNC Park. With that,
it's bloom Daddy bubblehead day at PNC Park.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
That would be beautiful, isn't it all right?

Speaker 2 (45:32):
I'm going back to bed, Yes, please, thank good bye.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
But I just oh, I'd never thought i'd hear bloom
Daddy and uh alter boy in the same sentence that
he learns.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
That there were so many jokes. Yeah, and I just
let him all go.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
You learn something new every day. It's eight sixteen. We
got to jump to a quick break. You're listening to
the Bloomdaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back a twenty one The bluem Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We're having fun. We're

(46:10):
talking drunk. Tell us your the first time, the story
of your first time getting drunk, like Aaron did on
our Facebook page, says my first time was two thousand
and five. It was my brother's bachelor party. Down a
whole bottle of jack, started making out with the adult dancers.
I'll clean that up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
They left their clothes, got torn up, ended up, passing
out on my lawn in Elmgrove naked when my mom
woke up. Boy she was not happy. That's a pretty
good one, Aerin, Thank you all right, tell us yours otis.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
So I have my first one, like I said, I
think I think it was my freshman year. I was
either going into my freshman year of junior high or
I was between my freshman year and my sophomore year
high school. I can't remember exactly which. But my uncle
was in town from North Carolina, and we went to
my aunt's sister's house, so in other words, you know,

(47:07):
not my relation and I and her husband was the
brother to a classmate of mine. So we're over there,
and I had my cousin that came in from North Carolina.
Was I have one that was seven months younger than me,
and I have one that's a couple years younger than me.
So the daughter my cousin that's at the time would

(47:28):
have probably been about maybe twelve. She would go out
to the keg and pour the beer for her dad.
So I got the bright idea that I'd have or
go out and pour another beer and bring it inside.
We were sitting inside, they were all outside on the
porch or whatever. So as she brings me about I
don't know, six beers, maybe seven. I don't know how

(47:51):
many there were, but I'm sitting there drinking them. Well,
my mom doesn't drink, and my mom was doing some
investigative work, and she finally followed my cousin in to
see where she was taking these beers, and of course
in sitting right next to me, and I'm trying to
say it's not mine and I'm buzzed up.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
They always figure it out, yekay.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Yeah, So I got caught, got into a little bit
of trouble. I don't know if I was particularly drunk,
but I was feeling pretty good. Okay. The first time
that I got drunk. Drunk was my sophomore year in
high school. I just got my driver's license, and probably
two weeks earlier, and I was staying at my friend's

(48:34):
house in Warwood because his parents and my parents went
to the Gator Bowl and I had to drive those
guys from Warwood to basketball practice because now I was
the only one that had a driver's license, so practice
had been canceled. I don't know. It might have been
the night of the Gator Bowl. We got somebody, the

(48:54):
guy that was the team manager at the time, went
and got us two cases of BLAT's Light, which is
an absolutely horrible beer. Of course you're sixteen, you don't
know any better, just the name. We're sitting there watching
these games, and it just you. You don't know when

(49:16):
to stop. You just keep drinking, drinking, drinking. So the
master bathroom in my buddy's house was just covered. I
decorated it, and then I spent the next day, probably
the next two days, cleaning that up. Yeah, it was
not pretty, and I laid off for a long time.

(49:41):
It was a while before I had another beer, just
to say that. But then, you know, I kind of
was like, hey, guess what, here we go again.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Well, and like I said, parents somehow they always figure
it out. And I remember, actually the first time I
got my little brother drunk, not myself, was home from college,
had a couple friends over. I didn't. It wasn't on purpose.
Unbeknownst to me, he found a bottle of It wasn't fireball.

(50:12):
It was Oh God, the liquor is pink and wild
rose or something like that, is that it? And it's
like red and color pink in color.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
He got tore up, absolutely tore up, And I remember
my parents came home the next day and like, you
guys have fun. Oh yeah, they had no suspicions whatsoever.
I'm like, all right, we got away with this.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I'm looking at him and I'm like, we're good, We're good,
We're not gonna get in trouble. Then they go out
in the backyard. Well here, I had no idea that
what was the terminology he was decorated. He decorated the
side of the yard next to the porch neon pink
thanks to what he was drinking. Came inside and my

(50:59):
dad's like, what happened to the yard? Why is it pink?
It looks like you spray painted the yard pink? Like
what are you talking about? That was my brother and
they figured it out from there. But I thought, I thought,
we're clean, We're good, We're golden. We're not gonna get caught. Now.
My brother had no memory of doing that, none, whatsoever. None.

(51:22):
I looked like pepto bismol.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
This isn't a drunk story. But I remember my parents.
My senior year, my parents went on a cruise and
they said do you want to go? And I was
like no, because the basketball coach was going and I
had had enough basketball. So we decided that we would
just party at my house while my parents were gone
for a week, which is what we did, And somebody

(51:44):
took a plastic cup and had beer and they set
it on top of the china cabinet. We had that
house spotless to where nobody like would never get caught.
About a month and a half later, my mom says,
you got you had a party while we were gone,
din chin. I'm like, I don't even know what you're
gone when, like it was so long, and she goes, well,
somebody left a beer on top of the cabinet. I

(52:06):
was like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (52:08):
I thought you're gonna say it fell on her head.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
No, Like, it sat up there for probably a month
before anybody saw it. I'm like, who in the hell
left this there?

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (52:17):
They messed it all up, didn't they.

Speaker 6 (52:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:18):
And I'm like it was we were gold until that time.
And I'm like even then, like I don't know how
my neighbors didn't rat me out because there was like
cars in the driveway, people in the yard. I mean,
it wasn't. It was never pretty.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
You think you think you're getting away with it, and
you don't. You don't.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
But my neighbors never ratted us out.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Oh well, let's do it. Chance to win. We have
one pair left. Resurrection Island had two convention happening October
tenth through the twelfth. Our last set of tickets one
eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy one eight hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy. Let's do caller number. Let's

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just seven caller number seventeen one, eight hundred and sixty
two four eleven seventy. It's a twenty eight on this Friday.
The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA eight thirty six. Welcome back The bloom Daddy Experience,

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salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Just some celebrity
birthdays Otis. You're going to recognize some of these names.
Lindsey Buckingham Fleetwood mac Co lead singer, born nineteen forty nine.
He's celebrating a birthday today. Stevie ray Vaughan, of course,

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one of the most influential musicians in history blues music,
especially born nineteen fifty two fifty four. I'm sorry died
in nineteen ninety, but would be his birthday today. Tommy
Lee infamous four driving not just drumming of course, drummer

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of the rock band Motley Crewe. Gwen Stefani her birthday today.
And then this name. You might not recognize his real name,
but Sean William Scott born in nineteen seventy six, better
known as Stiffler from the American Pie movies. It's his
birthday today too, So celebrating some excuse me, celebrity birthdays,

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couldn't think of the word Lindsey bucking I mean, Fleetwood
Mac some of some of the best music ever created,
ever created.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Well his They don't get along with him because he's
such a perfectionist.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yeah, I mean just and you know he's he's got
that when it comes to the music, it's like it's
it's almost like he is godlike and you have to
do it his way. You know, if it wasn't for
Lindsey Buckingham, Rumors wouldn't be the album that it is.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
He's an over the top control freak.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Yes, yes, and you know there's a love hate relationship
there with he and Stevie Nicks being I mean I
read a thing that that I read a little piece
and I'm going to call it an article, but I
read a piece on how like he and Stevie Nicks
have this love hate relationship and that even though they

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can't get along, they respect each other so much. But
you know, like they were they were together for a while,
and they may have been married. They were linked, you know,
they were a couple for a long time and then
they split up, and didn't they.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
All sort of date each other at some point, some way, somehow.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Well, Christine McBee and John mcbe were married. Yeah, the
basis in Christin McVie and then Mick Fleetwood I think
had a little something with Stevie Nicks, you.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Know, so.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Hey, out of all of it came some really good music.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Yeah, I mean, and they wanted to kill each other
during the recording of Rumors. I mean they just and
of course, you know, then the drugs came in, and
I mean, like the one album where Stevie doesn't sing
a whole lot for Fleetwood, mac is because she was
so coked out that Lindsey Buckingham just basically put her
on the shelf and said, look, you can't do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
And they're all still alive.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Correct, Christine McVie passed away, so okay about it about
a year a year and a half ago. So and
Stevie Nick said Fleetwood Mack will never get back together
because without her, it's not Fleetwood Mac. Even though when
I saw him on tour, they didn't have Lindsay Buckingham.
So they had the guy from Crowded House and the

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guitarist from Tom Petty or from the Heartbreakers. So it
took two people to replace Lindsay Buckingham. Wow, well one
was a better guitar, the other one was a better singer.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
So well, speaking of music, and I know this you
are you have got your watch set to this? Otis
Today's the day Taylor Swift fans you have been waiting
for the new album. Her twelfth album, called The Life
of a Showgirl, is out officially today. She says, according

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to a post that she made on social media, she
can't tell you how proud she is of to share
this album. And people are going absolutely nuts. They are
trying to break it down, find every Easter egg possible,
and every song of what she's singing about, who she's
singing about, what's an innuendo towards this person? And towards

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that person. The majority of the album, according to what
people are saying, is about Travis Kelcey of course. And
there are some lines that I have read in it
where surprising that it comes from It comes from Taylor Swift.
They're a little risky for her. So yeah, I know

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that people are losing their minds about this. So it
is out today, folks, otis get in line because I know,
deep down, deep down, you're a swiftye.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I don't think so, no, I figured you were.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
And then also in the in the music world, today,
Sean Diddy Combs faces sentencing in a New York City courtroom.
Prosecutors are asking for an eleven year prison sentence after
he was found guilty on two prostitution related charges. So
that sentencing is to pee happening today in New York City,

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so we will see what happens with that. He wrote
a really long letter to the judge, you know, asking
for leniency in the whole thing, So we'll see if
that happens. He writes, I lost my way. The old
me died in jail and a new version of me
was reborn. So he is hoping to get a lighter

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than the possible eleven year sentence that he faces, and
then this is crazy. We just talked about her the
other day where Trump mentioned he was going to open
up some some files or was looking to Amelia Earhart
back in the news again. Perdue University researchers will be

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traveling to the South Pacific in search of the record
the wreckage of Earnhardt's lost plane air Hearts. I'm sorry,
not Earnhart. That's the race car driver Earhart's lost plane.
Next month, the research team will inspect an underwater object
that has been visible in photos from a lagoon that
is located on a island in Kiribati since the nineteen thirties.

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And what they do is they of course hoped to
identify this particular object. Earhart was attempting to become the
first female pilot to circle the world when she and
navigator Fred Nonan disappeared over the Pacific island in nineteen
thirty seven. Now the object that they are going to
investigate is about four hundred miles southeast of Howland Island,

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which was Earhart and Noonan's planned destination. So it may
or may not be the plane, but they are going
to go and investigate it. It's one of those stories,
like there's certain stories out there where it's just like
what happened? What happened, and you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Just kind of well, there's so many theories. Yeah, and
then you know where they abducted by aliens? And did
the plane crash? Where they spies? Are they living in Russia?

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
You know, I mean the History Channel has made a
little bit load of money off of all that kind
of mofay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
When Leonard Nimoy was doing in Search of I mean
they did an in search of Amelia Earhart back in
the seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
So yeah, yeah, but it's one of those stories it's like,
well we ever know the truth? Will we ever find out?
Same thing about like the the Bermuda Triangle? You know
what is that? Everybody has theories on that. And then
I mean you take the show Ancient Aliens. That show
has been on for how long now at this point
pushing twenty years, and it's all theories and questions and

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you know, how did this come to be? Well the
aliens did it? How did this come while the Aliens
did it? So you know, that kind of stuff fascinates people.
So maybe maybe we will get some answers on that one.
Maybe we will. I don't know. But if you're hungry
this weekend, just a couple of little quick foody stories
for you. UKFC is bringing back its original honey barbecue

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sauce after years of customer petition. Your voice has been heard, people,
Your voice has been heard. The sauce first launched in
the late nineties and quickly became a favorite on the
KFC's Crispy Wings before being discontinued in the early two thousands.
Starting October sixth customers can order the sweet and Smoky

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sauce on any menu item, including chicken sandwiches, tenders, fried chicken,
and wings. So everybody can go to bed tonight knowing
that their voices were will were heard, and KFC is
answering the call. They are bringing back the original honey
Barbecue sauce. Thank goodness, Thank goodness. It's eight forty five.

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You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. I'm Sam, that guy
in there's otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back. It's eight fifty The blim Daddy Experience. Sam
and otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA well, we got

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a beautiful weekend ahead of us, and there's going to
be beautiful deals at Straw Automotive. We got to go
to Kevin Cook.

Speaker 7 (01:03:15):
Good morning, Kevin morning, guys. How y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Good?

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
So you gotta tell us your first drunk story.

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
Oh wow, uh freshman year high school bonfire, very cheap vodka,
my so called friends, let me get almost blackout drunk. Oh.
I had a strict curfew. You had a very strict parents. Okay,

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they knew I had to be home by midnight. They
brought me home, propped me up against the door and
rained the doorbell and left.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Nice friends.

Speaker 8 (01:03:53):
Nice friends.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
My father put me to bed, never said a word,
never raised his voice, got me up bright and early
at six o'clock the next morning, and we had a
full day physical labor in the Louisiana hot sun.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Learned your lesson, didn't you?

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:04:16):
But it made an impact, And I too have used
that tactic on one of my children. You got to
get up very early one morning and do a full
day of very physical labor in the hot food So but.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Nice, nice, Okay, So what's going on is Strawbatter Motive
This morning.

Speaker 7 (01:04:41):
They were still celebrating. Okay, okay, all right, Strib Honda
here at the Highlands and Mountaineer Honda over a Bridgeport
tied once again. That's too much in a row of
these guys are tide, all right, which made them both
mad because there's really no way to have a tiebreaker. Okay,
So they are at it again, all right. They are

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just going all out with every deal that they can
put together for our Honda customers to make sure that
they're getting behind the wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Of the vehicle.

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
They want that they're getting the payment price trading value
that they're looking for, and they are striving to be
once again, one of them is going to be number one,
or they could I guess tie three months in a row.
It's very possible.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Okay, Okay, we're hoping for a tie.

Speaker 7 (01:05:28):
Well, you don't sound very excited.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
We're hoping for a tie.

Speaker 7 (01:05:31):
We're not hoping for a time.

Speaker 8 (01:05:32):
Man.

Speaker 7 (01:05:33):
You don't want to tie.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
We want we want Mountaineer and Strove to be number one.

Speaker 7 (01:05:37):
Well yeah, but I want these guys just to absolutely
go at it. Ok Okay, all right. I mean they literally,
when I say they're putting cardials together like never before.
You need to check it out. I mean, you need
to just come up here, get your trade to praise,
look at your payments. You know, see what we can
do because we're putting people behind the wheel of brand
new vehicles for payments that are equal to what's what

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we had in advertising ten years ago. Right, And not
only at Honda, it's at Hyundai, Nissan, Krisher, Dodge, Jeep,
ram Ford, ore prem We got over twelve hundred new
and used vehicles in stock. We've got interest rates as
low as zero percent. You got discounts up sixteen thousand dollars.
I mean, guys, this is going to be a phenomenal

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final quarter October November December again Straw Automotive Group going
all out selling more cars and trucks than anybody in
the valley.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
There, you have it.

Speaker 8 (01:06:30):
There it is.

Speaker 7 (01:06:31):
Let's have fun.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
That's it. It's all about fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Enjoy your week get back. I think, no cheap bucket
this weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
No no, But anyway, glad for the member, Glad for
you jogging that memory.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
I'm sure, I'm sure you really appreciate it. A good weekend,
and we might as well go to another drunk story.
We got Davo. Good morning, Dave. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:06:59):
Good morning? Well, what a fun topic for a guy
who grew up with animal houses?

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Is meme? Movie?

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Nice?

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
One?

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
Into College?

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Was it over?

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Won?

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
The Germans?

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
Bomb?

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
Pearl Harbor, Harbor?

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
Let him go?

Speaker 8 (01:07:14):
He's on a roll. Well mine, Well, it's the way
things come back full circle sometimes. So I'm a sophomore.
It must be something about being a sophomore in sixteen
when you first light it up with alcohol. But my
brother had a big Christmas party for all his friends

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there shout out the Buckeye South Rebels. Yeah, back in
the day. And I was just you know, two years
younger and all them, and I was just having a
good time. I had no idea, you know, about drinking
or anything. Make long story short. I end up passing.
Now they dragged me upstairs. Now my parents are there.

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They're upstairs like supervising. That's back in the day for
you know, all that became taboo. But they Dad threw
me into bed. I ended up, you know, vomiting, and
he's like, oh my goodness, he had to clean me
all up and everything else. And next day though, he

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tells his story when he was sixteen back in nineteen
forty nine, and how he was all laid out on
the living room floor and my grandmother, who only spoke Italian,
ever learned to speak English. It's just yelling what's wrong
with Joe?

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
What's wrong with Joe?

Speaker 8 (01:08:32):
And she yells for her husband, he says, he pokes
his head in, looks at him. He's drunk, walked right
back out, left her to clean him up. And I'm like, well,
looks how things come karma in the family thirty years later.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Oh yeah, from nineteen history tends to repeat itself.

Speaker 8 (01:08:51):
Yes, it just like you know, things that you know
my kids I made sure when they were growing up
and especially in your older teens and twenties. Don't you
ever associate alcohols anything but having fun. Don't use it
when you're angry, don't use it when you're depressed. That's,
you know, bottom line. And they all got through their

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years and now they you know, one of them still drinks,
but only for you know, special occasions football games, and
the other two barely do, if any.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:09:22):
So, sometimes having a good parental advice, even if they
don't sound like they're listening to you or seem like
they're listening to you. It's getting it thinking later.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's getting to them later. Oh, David,
thank you for the call this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Yea, I appreciate it. Have a good weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:09:38):
Okay, you too.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
I guess that's where the old saying, like when your
parents say to you when you're a teenager, I can't
wait till you have kids.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
That probably falls in there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Yeah, these stories kind of fall back, fall back to that. Yeah.
One more on our Facebook page, we got this from Ronald.
He said I was fort I was seventeen at Fort
California at the base bowling alley with one of my
barracks friends, bowling, having fun, drinking on a Friday night

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and did not remember anything until Sunday. I was to
go on a date with a Woman's Army Corps young
lady from my military class. Didn't make it. My barrack
mates tell me that I was passed out and they
took me back to the barracks. When I came to
I was trying to go on my date and my
friend said I was not in any condition to stay

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in my bunk. So he basically lost an entire weekend
and lost out on a date. Oh, Ronald, sorry about that.
We all have one of those stories. Hmmm, maybe you'll
make one this weekend. I don't know. Anyways, we're out
here on this Friday. Have a good weekend, enjoy it.
Don't forget Oglebyfest going on all weekend long, so get

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out there, support the beautiful, and enjoy this fall weekend.
We'll talk to you on Monday six