The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 7, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. Sucks of Politics says we always do
on a Monday. Jim or n Acy, former Congressman, bloo
Daddy Show political analyst. Did you em in all your
years in Congress you went through a number of government shutdowns?
First of all, what's going on behind the scenes? And
second of all, are these nothing more than political theater?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
You know? Boom Daddy. First off, thanks for having but
you're exactly right. I went through two shutdowns, one on
which I actually was alone on New Year's Eve while
we stayed there, Which is one thing. I'm kind of
shocked that the Speaker of the House has told the
Republicans in the House to just stay home. We were
actually told to be there, don't go home, don't be
seen in public, stick around here. We got to negotiate.

(01:06):
We've got to get this place open because the only
losers in the shutdown are the American people. And that's
what people have to understand. It's not like, well, you
shut down, you're not paying the bills. Now you're going
to pay them. You're just going to pay them later.
And what's really bad, and the reason I bring this
up is our military has to continue to serve to
protect our country and they don't get paid until this

(01:28):
shutdown is over. Now they will get paid, and they'll
get paid all the way back to the shutdown, just
like everybody else. But it's not fair, especially with these
ladies and gentlemen who live paycheck to paycheck for them
not to get that dollar. So it is political theater.
The party with the best message will win. I can

(01:49):
tell you we lost both times, and when I was
in Washington both of the shutdowns, the Republicans lost. And
I think today right now, I was looking at some
polling this morning for another show, and today the polling
shows that Republicans are losing right now. Now that could change,

(02:09):
but the majority anywhere from forty two to forty eight
percent believe that either President Trump or the Republican Party
is the fault of this shutdown, with only thirty one
to thirty six percent believing it's a Democrat. So that's
the real key to watch and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Well, this is kind of different, though, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
If you go back to Trump's first term, the shutdown
and it lasted over thirty days, was about the border wall,
so Trump was directly in the middle of that. This
is between Republicans and Democrats. I mean, this is this
is more of a congressional shutdown. I mean, Trump's not
the face of this, matter of fact, He's kind of

(02:51):
laying low a little bit, and it's alleviating a lot
of the pressure on the White House. It given him
time to sit back and think about where he's going.
This is more I mean, this is about healthcare provisions,
and this is Republicans against Democrats in Congress.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, this is about the big beautiful bill and the
Affordable Care Act subsidies that do go away at the
end of this year. So you know that's where Trump
gets pulled into it. And what the Democrats are saying
is we don't want them to go away. We want
to negotiate, we don't want to wait. And I heard
the Speaker today had a meeting and said well, if
you sign the cr and come back, we'll negotiate. The

(03:31):
problem with that is, to do this right, you got
to pass a budget. You've got to pass appropriation bills.
And if I was speaking to the Speaker at that
time publicly, I'd say that's a bad answer because the
House and Senate hasn't passed the appropriations or a budget
for forty years, so that's not going to happen. But
that's the only place that President Trump's pulled into this

(03:52):
is because the subsidies and the Affordable Care Act go
away at the end of this year. And I will
tell you there's a Washington Post poll. You can agree
or disagree with it, but seventy one percent of respondence
support extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Ninety five percent
of Democrat support it. But here's the interesting number that
you and I've talked about independence eighty percent support and

(04:15):
that's really the number that makes a difference in elections.
And it's not surprising the majority of Republicans sixty two
percent favor letting them expire. So that's really the argument
in the fight, and the only reason President Trump gets
pulled in is because of the big beautiful bill.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Talking to former Congressman Jim Ornaci. Let's jump over to
Ohio House Bill oney eighty six. This is property tax
reform in Ohio. Everybody wants relief. Nobody can determine how
they're going to get that. Though Democrats say the state
should pay more so homeowners aren't left footing the bill.
Republicans are saying that schools unfairly benefit from automatic tax

(04:55):
hikes and say the real fix is to restructure local collections,
while pressing district to consolidate share services.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Where do you see this.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Going, Well, look for somebody, and it's funny. I looked
at I've looked at my personal real estate tax. So
I've lived in my home for almost thirty years, but
in the last fifteen years, my real estate tax bill
has gone up three hundred percent. So I can look
at that and say, well, mine's gone up three hundred percent.
Probably a lot of other homes in the state have

(05:26):
gone up similar and that's what you hear three hundred
to four hundred percent. So how can you live in
a home, pay it off over thirty years, and have
a real estate tax bill that's two three four times
the price of your mortgage payment. And that's really the
argument now on the return side, that money's going somewhere,

(05:46):
and we know it's going to schools, we know it's
going to local counties and local cities. And when this
bill was going through, I remember somebody come up to
me and say, oh, you've got to be against this bill,
and I go, why is that? Well, you know this
city's going to lose two million, and this city's going
to lose three million. And the answer to that is,
you know what, I think we have to figure out

(06:07):
a new system. I do believe what the Republicans are
saying is correct. We need to bring this back to
the local level. If there are school districts or municipalities
that are using this money, they're going to have to
find their own sources. And there's no reason why, you know,
a grandparent who's lived in a house for fifty or
sixty years has to get rid of their home because

(06:29):
they can't afford the real estate taxes anymore. That's an
un that's a burden that's a way over excessive that
you've got to continue to pay real estate taxes and
they continue to go up two hundred and three hundred percent, Well, here's.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
A crazy stat jim Ohio has right around six hundred
and eleven school districts. Florida has sixty seven, yet they
have double the population. I mean, we all know there's
got to be consolidation. I mean, I know where I
came from. In one county, you've got eight superintendents making

(07:06):
over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year for
schools that the population has declined so much I can't
even believe the doors are open, yet they've built them
new schools. I mean, there's just so much waste out there,
and property owners are tired of it.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, boom daddy. When I was running for governor, I
had all these statistics. But I can also tell you
in twenty thirty four will have the least of the
least amount of eighteen year olds in a state of
Ohio ever in the history of Ohio, which means eighteen
year olds fuel high schools and colleges. And yet we
have the most colleges, second most colleges in the country.

(07:43):
And as far as high schools, you're exactly right. We
got too many high schools. And by the way, we
have too many cities. We have too many villages. All
of these people are trying to keep their job. So
if I'm the mayor of a village, well I don't
want to consolidate with the city. I want to keep
my job. And if I'm the you know, the mayor
of the city, well I don't want. So We've got
cities which are also taking property taxes. We got school

(08:05):
districts we're also taking property taxes. I one hundred percent agree.
The biggest problem you have is people don't want to
lose their city identify identification. But also when it comes
to high school, they don't want to lose their high
school identification. They don't want to lose the ability to
say that I graduated from you know, I was a
you know, Wadsworth, Grizzly Well, okay, and I'm sitting in

(08:28):
Wadsworth saying that. But whatever town you're sitting in, yeah,
you know, I was you know, sol and whatever or what.
They want to maintain that, and they're willing, but they
don't look at the cost. And look, I am hoping
that at some point in time some governor looks at
this and says, we have to change the process. We

(08:49):
have to bring consolidation to high schools. We have to
consolidate some cities, and we've got to bring our property
tax numbers down.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Jim, as always, thanks for joining me.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
Seven twenty Good Tuesday morning, A little bit of a
little bit of a rainy morning out there, but it's
not too bad. We need it, let's be honest. We
need it so but yeah, good Tuesday morning. You're listening,
of course too. I'm Sam. He's Otis. This is the
Blue Daddy experience, and you're tuned into eleven seventy WWVA. No,

(09:25):
we do need the rain. I mowed the grass yesterday
evening and it was like a dust bowl in certain areas.
I got off the tractor and I looked like I
came out of the coal mine when I took my
sunglasses off. It was ridiculous, but it was a dusty,
dusty mess. Otis just taught me something first thing this morning.
Learned me something.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
I try every day every day. Most of the time
it doesn't catch.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
This time it did. I found out what BC means BCC.
BCC means in an email blind if I.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Don't know, that's what it means. But yeah, yeah, but
BCC means you can copy somebody, and that receive the
other intended receiver doesn't see that you copied somebody on it.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah, so I feel enlightened this morning.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
That may be one of the coming from coming from
one of the most computer literate people there are.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
That's probably something everybody listening knows. And I just didn't.
You know, what are you gonna do? I didn't know.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
There's a lot of things you don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, well, yeah, you know what I you know what
I do know. It's National Taco Day, folks. It is
National Taco Day. You know what's funny? Last Tuesday I
actually had Taco Bell. I was just a week early.
I won't be doing that for a while. Heads up,
I don't even know why I did that day. Sorry
Taco Bell, but mm I'll be holding off. But yes,

(10:51):
it is. Today is National Taco Day. Taco Bell will
offer national Taco deals, but only for members of its
Taco Bell Rewards loyalty program in the app. Of course,
that's how they get you every time. It has to
be in the app. So now you know what to
make for dinner today. Now you know what to make

(11:13):
for dinner today. Some top headlines want to get into
that it is October seventh, So it's been two years
since the attacks on Israel. Hamas conducted a number of
armed insurrections in southern Israel that led to the death

(11:34):
of over twelve hundred civilians. Over two hundred people were
taken as hostage, with nearly fifty still being held in
the Gaza Strip. It led to Israel launching a massive counterattack,
with the conflict still ongoing between two sides. Actually in
the national headlines this morning and yesterday evening, President Trump

(11:55):
talking about a possible peace deal. There's a lot of
speculation going on about who is you know, coming to
the table and all of that. So that is a
possible piece deal is being broken, but it has yet
to be finalized. One thing I wanted to talk about
yesterday after the show I had, I had a meeting

(12:17):
with a local person who hopefully we're going to have
him on the show. It ended up being one of
the most interesting conversations that I have had from somebody
with somebody in a long long time. This person is
an immigrant to our country from the Middle East, fought

(12:38):
for his country of origin, and I don't want to
give too much a way because like I said, I
am working on having him on the show, but really
good conversation about the history of a lot of the
conflicts in the Middle East, what he experienced firsthand. We

(12:58):
got into a conversation about the uh Islam religion. I'm
trying to think about everything. It was just a really,
really fascinating conversation. You know, we we we talk a
lot about the Middle East, we talk a lot about
the religion over there, a lot of those kinds of things,

(13:21):
but it's it's a surface conversation, if you will, to
to have a first hand account from somebody who lived there,
who experienced a lot of things, completely different feeling and
completely different point of view. So hopefully when we get
the when I get the opportunity to sit down and
talk to him, you we'll get to experience a lot

(13:44):
of of what I did yesterday in that conversation. There's
a lot you know, in school, we're taught a lot
of things, but it's it's just as I said, it's
it's it's the basic overview of certain things, not not
deep into the weeds of a lot of those subjects.
So it was a really good conversation. Hopefully, as I said,
when we have him on the show, we'll get into

(14:05):
it pretty deep, like we did in the conversation yesterday.
Also top stories, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over
conversion therapy today. It's a challenge to the Colorado law.
The band's therapy aimed at changing a miner's sexual orientation.
Backers of the law say it's harmful to gay and

(14:26):
transgender children, where a Christian therapist says the law is
an infringement on her free speech. So that we'll be
hitting the Supreme Court supposedly today. And then also, it
is Amazon Prime Day. It kicks off the two day event.

(14:48):
It's two days. It kicks off today, while July Prime,
July's Prime Day is the online retail's giant biggest sale.
October Prime Day was started in twenty twenty two to
sales closer to the holidays. I thought there was another one.
I thought, I felt like we had just had one.
So Prime Day kicks off today. I believe we're going

(15:09):
to have a visit from mister Amazon himself, possibly a
little bit later in the show, but we will see.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Okay, that's news to me.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Okay, yeah, remember he's coming back.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
Okay, if you say so that normally you have to
kind of tell me those things ahead of time.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
No.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Oh, shoot, my apologies.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
I thought we have to go back.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yes, I'm I'm sorry. I thought I thought I mentioned
that to you. That's my fault. That's okay, that's my fault.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
It's okay. Just you know, do what you want to
do without let me know anything.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Speaking of retail, not like I run the.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Board like I'm no guy pushing the buttons. If you
want buttons pushed, you probably should let me know.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
We see, speaking of retail, Right Aid has permanently closed
all its stores after they filed a second bankruptcy in May.
The chain, the pharmacy chain, was founded in nineteen sixty two. Now,
it did begin shutting down locations nationwide back in October
of twenty twenty three. At that time, the company carried

(16:19):
about four billion dollars in debt and face lawsuits over
its handling of opioid medications. So Right Aids are officially
closed everywhere across the country. We continued to see.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
That got bought out by Walgreens.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Is is that that's what was in elm Grove. Right
It was a Right Aid and now it's a Walgreen
BBS in Benwood.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Now it's no longer there at all.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
That always got hit by flooding, didn't it.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, because it's just right in the floodplain, just.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Right where it sits. Also, tomorrow we're going to have
politics on leash. Just a reminder, so if you have
any topics you want us to discuss, of course you
can email those two sam at iHeart Media dot com
or post them on our Facebook page. But yeah, any
topics you want us to hit on tomorrow, reach out
and we will get to those. And also tomorrow lunch,

(17:10):
it's lunch, so get in your registrations. All you have
to do sam at iHeartMedia dot com. Sam at iHeartMedia
dot com, name, phone number, and business. It's seven twenty
eight on this rainy Tuesday. You're listening to the Bloe
Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome

(17:35):
back to the Blue Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We are not alone. I am so
excited to have this conversation. Please welcome to the show.
The One, the Only Jambreyn, the Hill's Favorite Jambery in
the Hill's icon. Neil McCoy, Good morning, sir, y'all icon
of love.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
That Well, let's put it this way. I don't I
don't think there's other than the fans that would go
every year. I think you were jamber In the Hill's
biggest fan at one time.

Speaker 7 (18:03):
Well, you know what, and it took a lot of
work we started. Of course, we were there I think
the last twenty two years in a row that that
place was open, and but we came okay, yeah, I
just remember coming there and not too many people know
who I was. You know, we were the early slot,
probably the twelve or one o'clock, and so we just

(18:24):
we just gave the best show we could. And that's
how we made our living, just by doing that. And
we finally grabbed hold of them jokers, I think about
six or seven years in and then they kind of
waited on us, and it just it was a great
audience and I hate that they're not doing any more
of it. I appreciate y'all still having uswhere in that
area because a lot of people are always riding us
and saying when you're gonna be back around this area,

(18:44):
And now we know October eleventh, that's when yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
October the eleventh, right here at the Capitol Theater. Our
studio sits right here in the theater. And Neil, it's
almost like you're synonymous with country music and the Ohio
Valley and and you're such a your a tradition. I mean,
that's what you've become when it comes to country music.
And with you returning October eleventh, the excitement is through

(19:09):
the roof here. I mean it took off like crazy.
Tickets go on sale this morning online, so they are pumped.
People are pumped.

Speaker 7 (19:16):
Well, I'm excited about that. And again, you're right. We've
played up there a lot and we've kind of earned
our way. And the thing I love about all the
folks around y'all's area are the love. They love good music,
and then they want somebody that's going to come out
and entertain them and not just stand there saying. Not
that there's not great singers to stand there and sing.
More power to them, But that's not our gig. And

(19:38):
we're kind of a little more of the party crowd,
if you will, a grown up party crowd, yet still
a party crowd.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
Well, you definitely like you like to have fun, yes, sir,
and you know. I mean, when you have fun at
what you do, because obviously this is a job for you,
but when you have fun doing it, that makes it
so much easier.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
You know, you hit the nail on the head. We
don't have a set list, so we do my band
and I just go out and wing it and we
I try to fill the audience. But you know, those
the folks y'all talk to every morning are just great anyway,
but they do want somebody that's gonna give them effort
and they appreciate that, so they know we're gonna get

(20:20):
this is my opinion. Really, we're gonna give you everything
we have and then y'all get it back to us.
And then when it's over, everybody just go, wow, that
was a lot of fun. That's all we're trying to do.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Yeah, I mean, and I don't know how many times
I've seen you. I mean, like you said, you were
here twenty two. I price I've priacely seen you twenty
times maybe, and it's I thank and you know, I mean,
there are certain acts that you don't mind seeing over
and over again.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Well, thank you very much. And that's what we did there.
And you know, before jam Marie, we used to play
there at where we're at WWBA at the theater there
years ago. I think I even came maybe in the
eighties and when I was working a little bit with Charlie.
So that tells you I've got a long track.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Right there, and you're giving your age out there.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
That's right, That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
But you would never know what you never know.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Oh you're sweet, dam thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
So you know you said, you said, you said that
you've played here at the Capitol Theater on the Jamboree
us A stage. I mean this, this is a historical
theater when it comes to country music. Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn,
Charlie Pride, Merle Haggard, I mean, yourself, Dwight Yoakum you,
Travis Tripp was just here not too long ago. I mean,

(21:34):
it's a legendary theater when it comes to country music.

Speaker 7 (21:38):
It is, and you know it's it's the right size
for a lot of us, all the great names you
named there, and then with Travis and me and some
of us nineties, it's a great size for us because
we're gonna come in, We're gonna make a little money,
but we're gonna do a great job and have a
lot of songs that people have heard, and uh, and
we'll do do cover things, uh, you know, and we can't.

(21:59):
It's funny because I now and I don't even know
when I picked up being a legend, but I did,
and I thought, God, are y'all sure? I think I'm
still too young to be a legend, but they've been
calling me one for five or six years, so now
I have grown up into that description and the same
thing all the legends before us, the Charlie Primes, the

(22:19):
Whalings and Conways and George Jones and all those folks.
You know, when people don't talk to me or interviewing me,
they want to know what I think about the new
country music, probably in hopes that I'll say some well,
you know, I just don't get it, and some of
it I don't get. But I can only imagine the
music that some of the younger people that they're making
to day. It's not quiet for me. But I often say,

(22:41):
you know, when George Jones and all those people were
in the Great Action from the sixties and seventies, I'm
sure when they heard me on stage going slam bam,
I'm feeling all right. They further going, oh my god,
are you kidding me? Or shake it to the layft
and shake it to the right, everybody going, you got
to be kidding me. So I'm quick to not judge
some of the else.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Again, we're talking to the one and know Neil McCoy
going to be here right here at the Capitol Theater
October eleventh. Tickets are on sale. Now. I want to
ask you one thing. One thing I have fit into
my morning every morning after I get off the show,
as you do, the Pledge of Allegiance, and I watch
it on social media.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
I love that. Where did that start? How did that start?

Speaker 6 (23:22):
You know?

Speaker 7 (23:23):
It started right here? And I'm I'm home in Longview Texts,
which we're not home very much and we're gonna be
leaving early tomorrow morning, go back to work. But I'm
I wrote it down. I got a little poolhouse out
here I work out in and I wrote down the
Pledge of Legions on my Facebook page, you know, a
little over ten years ago. And I just wrote it.
And I told my I said, I'm just gonna put

(23:44):
this up and see what goes on here. I said,
I bet you we're gonna get all kinds of comments,
and we did most of them going oh my gosh,
are you okay? Are you sick? And I'm just going
I'd write them no, I just I just wanted to
recite the Pledge of Leadings. So then when Facebook Live
came aboard, I said it the first time January the seventh,
twenty sixteen, and it was just going to be so

(24:06):
anybody that still loves our country and respects our flag
and our country can say it with me live if
they want to, and it just it just struck a
corn from a lot of folks. And so now I'm
going to be doing it here before too long for
the three thousand, four hundred and eighty third day in
a row. Look about five months short of ten years

(24:27):
without missing the day. So January seventh, two down, twenty
six if I make it to the end of the
five months every day, it'll be my ten year anniversar
without missing the day. And now people that are maybe
don't get out much, or some that are home bound,
or you know, they write me all the time they say,
you know what, I can't thank you enough. We look,
I look forward to the pledge every day and it
starts my day and I don't have much going on,

(24:48):
so now almost ten years and it wasn't started for
any reason. I just want to show my love and
respect for the flag. And a lot of people have
gotten on board.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
Just such a simple idea that has now touched so
many people in their morning teens and myself. So's it's wonderful.
Thank you, It's wonderful.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
It's a good thing that you do. I mean, it's
impressive that the streak is alone, is im pressure. You're
like the cal Ripken of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
Right, I feel like kal Rifkin. I did love him
when he was for I think his was in the
three thousand, So now I know exactly when you get
in the three thousand, how many years it is?

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Yeah, exactly. You know we were talking, you know, you
do the Pledge of Allegiance and everything else. You were
talking about today's country music musically, like your your show itself.
You know, you have your country, you have your country,
you you do it. You throw a little bit of
classic what you want to say, you know, the traditional country. Yeah,
but you also had other influences. Who do you think
your biggest influences were.

Speaker 7 (25:46):
Doll you know, I'm going to say this. It probably
scares people that haven't heard me say before. I was
a big Michael Jackson fan. I was born July thirty
and fifty eight. Michael was born August twenty nine and
fifty eight, so we were all a little less than
a month apart in age. So every time I would
see the Jackson's on Ed Sullivan our American bands Fan
or the Jackson five which I changed the name in

(26:07):
there a little bit, I just thought, yeah, I can
do that. I thought I can sing and dance. Uh,
and how can hard can that be? And the thing
that attracts me to it the most was, I bet
you he don't even do homeowners Oh that would be
so great. So I was thinking, I can get out
of this homework if I didn't get this, get this
singing and dancing going and uh. And needless to say,

(26:28):
I never never caught up with him, but about fifteen
years ago I started being better than him. I have
been for about the last year.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, well you know there's a reason for that.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
But I bet Michael Jackson fan. I just loved the
singing and dancing and and all that kind of stepping
in into high school, I was in the disco thing
and this easy listening to the Carters and Barry Mallow
and Boss Daggs. I just let's do it all, try
to do it all.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, well okay, well that's impressive. I mean I'm a
Boss Gags fan myself, so.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
Oh yeah, good Silk Degrees. I had a great album.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Yeah, I got an awesome album. So yeah, so you're
going to be here October eleventh, introns L Now, any
final message for the High Valley No.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
Just if you hopefully you've heard about our show or
hopefully we've got a great reputation around there, and if
you haven't seen us, then you need to come see
us because we all we try to do is have
fun with you and make sure enjoy the show to
where well we come back, you'll come back to. And
that's the way I learned years and years ago. Just
put on a great show overnight and be nice to people.

(27:30):
Be nice to the caterer. Isn't it in the state
hands and everybody can come in contact with and it
can be more simple than it is for some of
these folks, but they just don't get it.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
And I can vouch he is nice to everybody because
I backstage, jimmery and hell's been doing this for years.
I would bring you, sir, barbecue, and you loved it.
And you remember me. You remembered me every time I
brought you that barbecue, every time. So he is speaking
the truth.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Here comes that girl with a barbecue. He thinks it
as good as textas is.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
But not.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
But I like, hey, well, we're going to give you
an open invitation when you're here on the eleventh. If
you want to join us, you're more than welcome. If
you want to come in.

Speaker 7 (28:10):
Live, okay, all right, I'll put what time you'll go.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
On seven am Eastern.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
We can do the pledge.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
We can do the pledge live from here.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
You know what.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
I may take you up on that, Okay, it's very kind.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
All right, well, and we'll.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Do it with you, all right. I'll hold you too
that you better start studying.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
I got it down path like a bicycle.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
All right, Thanks so much for joining us, Thank you God.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
Okay, I'll see you off there.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
See okay.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
October eleventh, one and only Neil McCoy right here.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
He's a great person.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Yes, yes, yes, stick with us. The Blue Daddy Experience,
Sam I notice news Radio eleven seventy w w VA.
Welcome back seven fifty three on this Tuesday. Thank you
for tuning in, of course, the Bloimdaddy Experience. Samon Otis

(29:03):
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I love Neil McCoy. He's
just a nice dude. I'm sorry. I've seen him I
can't tell you how many times in concert and and
he's just he loves what he does and he's just
a nice dude. I mean that's all all around. Just

(29:24):
nice guy.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
I mean he's you would like if you sat there
and talked to him, you would forget that he is
an entertainer, that he has millions of fans or yep, whatever.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
So yep, I think it was last weekend. I saw
he posted it was last weekend. He uh performed at
the Grand Old Opry. I believe, I believe.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
I'm sure he's done it more than once.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's just the kind of guy like
you want to sit down and have a beer with. Well,
maybe not me and I'll drink beer, but you know what.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
I mean, you could have a cocktail.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
He might drink the beer and you could have a
bloody Mary or whatever you drink, Yeah, beer gog yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean, well I'm sure.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
He's the beer goggle guy, right, Yeah, I'm sure somebody
else wrote the song, I know, but that's one of his.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, it's Billy had his.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Beer goggles on him.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yeah, that's good one. Yeah. I mean, you know, having
met him once maybe twice in Jamboree. Like and obviously
I wasn't around as long as some of the other people,
but like he knew people by their names, I mean,
and not just like the radio people that were working

(30:34):
the show, like Jimmy and Kent and those guys.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
He knew, like the security guards.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
He knew, Yeah, he knew security, he knew the stage
hands he knew, and he just talked to any he
didn't care, just hey, how you dolon.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Every time I saw him out there, he was just bebopping.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Around like yeah, he just I mean just a down
to earth you know, you like, okay, hey, let's go
you know. And I'm sure if you if you had
a set of golf clubs in the car, he'd say, Okay,
let's go play, because that's what he does. He likes
the golf. I mean, there's you know, He's just the
average person that gets paid to entertainment. I mean that's

(31:12):
his job, as opposed to coming in here and pushing
buttons or running your jib you know the whole time,
your jibber jab.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Your jip. I haven't heard that.

Speaker 9 (31:23):
Word in a while.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
I could have said something else, I'd have been fired.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Yeah, just a couple of local stories want to put
out there to you. Members of the Wheelings City Council
will be meeting this evening. Items up for discussion include
water and sewer rates, as well as sanitary sewer system improvements.
Today's meeting is scheduled to begin at five thirty and
again that's the Wheeling City Council will be meeting this evening,

(31:52):
beginning at five thirty. Pickleball Wheelings Patterson Wheelings Patterson pickleball
courts are under construction. Members of the public are being
asked to stay away from the courts at this time.
City officials plan to update everyone when the work is completed.
That is one thing you do not want to do.

(32:13):
Do not anger an avid pickleball person. If you know
anybody that plays pickleball, they love it, love it. I
don't get it, but okay, my father's obsessed with it,
absolutely obsessed with pickleball. Also on a state level, Congresswoman

(32:38):
Carol Miller is not accepting her salary during the federal
government shutdown. The representative for West Virginia's first district says
she's making a point by refusing pay while unable to
do her job. Miller is calling on Senate Democrats to
pass a clean funding bill. She notes Republicans approved thirteen

(32:58):
thirteen continuing resolutions during the Biden administration and then Also,
West Virginia's Medicaid program is preparing for major changes under
the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The new law requires
able bodied adults without dependence to work, study, or volunteer
at least eighty hours per month. Commissioner Cindy Bean expects

(33:21):
some people will lose coverage because they won't comply with
the new requirements. About five hundred and four thousand people
are currently enrolled in West Virginia Medicaid. The state is
working on technology solutions to make reporting work hours easier
for recipients. So some changes happening in West Virginia, and

(33:42):
then we'll real quickly a little bit on sports. The
Penguins are part of the NHL opening season slate to
begin tonight. The team faces off against the Rangers from
New York. Pittsburgh went five and one and one in
the preseason check out. Of course, all depends action and
all season long. On our sister station, Eagle one O

(34:03):
seven five seven fifty eight, we got the first hour
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Coming up later in the show. We got your chance
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Speaker 1 (34:28):
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Speaker 2 (34:46):
Now news Radio eleven seventy It's the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Hey, it's eight six.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Let's get this hour rolling the sex of politics as
we always do on a Monday.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Jim or n Acy, former Congressman, bloom Daddy Show political analyst.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
In all your years in Congress, you went through a
number of government shutdowns. First of all, what's going on
behind the scenes? And second of all, are these nothing
more than political theater?

Speaker 3 (35:12):
You know, boom Daddy. First off, thanks for having a bitch.
You're exactly right. I went through two shutdowns, one in
which I actually was alone on New Year's Eve while
we stayed there, which is one thing. I'm kind of
shocked that the Speaker of the House has told the
Republicans in the House to just stay home. We were
actually told to be there, don't go home, don't be
seen in public, stick around here. We got to negotiate.

(35:34):
We've got to get this place open, because the only
losers in the shutdown are the American people. And that's
what people have to understand. It's not like, well, you
shut down, you're not paying the bills. Now, you're going
to pay them. You're just going to pay them later.
And what's really bad, and the reason I bring this
up is our military has to continue to serve to
protect our country and they don't get paid until this

(35:56):
shutdown is over. Now they will get paid, and they'll
get paid all the way back to the shutdown, just
like everybody else. But it's not fair, especially with these
ladies and gentlemen who live paycheck to paycheck for them
not to get that dollar. So it is political theater.
The party with the best message will win. I can

(36:17):
tell you we lost both times when I was in Washington.
Both of the shutdowns, the Republicans lost. And I think
today right now, I was looking at some polling this
morning for another show, and today the polling shows that
Republicans are losing right now. Now, that could change, but

(36:38):
the majority anywhere from forty two to forty eight percent
believe that either President Trump or the Republican Party is
the fault of this shutdown, with only thirty one to
thirty six percent believe in it's a Democrat. So that's
the real key to watch and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Well, this is kind of different, though, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
If you go back to Trump's first term, the shutdown
and it lasted over thirty days, was about the border wall.
So Trump was directly in the middle of that. This
is between Republicans and Democrats. I mean, this is this
is more of a congressional shutdown. I mean, Trump's not
the face of this, matter of fact, He's kind of

(37:18):
laying low a little bit, and it's alleviating a lot
of the pressure on the White House and given him
time to sit back and think about where he's going.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
This is more I mean, this is about.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Healthcare provisions, and this is Republicans against Democrats in Congress.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Well, this is about the big beautiful bill and the
Affordable Care Act subsidies that do go away at the
end of this year. So you know, that's where Trump
gets pulled into it. And what the Democrats are saying
is we don't want them to go away. We want
to negotiate. We don't want to wait. And I heard
the Speaker today at a meeting and said, well, if
you sign the CR and come back, we'll negotiate. The

(37:59):
problem with that is, to do this right, you got
to pass a budget. You've got to pass appropriation bills.
And if I was speaking to the Speaker at that
time publicly, I'd say that's a bad answer because the
House and Senate hasn't passed the appropriations or a budget
for forty years, so that's not going to happen. But
that's the only place that President Trump's pulled into this

(38:20):
is because the subsidies and the Affordable Care Act go
away at the end of this year. And I will
tell you there's a Washington Post poll and you can
agree or disagree with it, but seventy one percent of
respondence support extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Ninety five
percent of Democrat support it. But here's the interesting number
that you and I've talked about independence eighty percent support,

(38:43):
and that's really the number that makes a difference in elections.
And it's not surprising the majority of Republicans sixty two
percent favor letting them expire. So that's really the argument
in the fight. And the only reason President Trump gets
pulled in is because of the big, beautiful bill.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
To former Congressman Jim Ornaci, let's jump over to Ohio
House Bill one eighty six. This is property tax reform
in Ohio. Everybody wants relief. Nobody can determine how they're
going to get that, though Democrats say the state should
pay more so homeowners aren't left footing the bill. Republicans
are saying that schools unfairly benefit from automatic tax shikes

(39:23):
and say the real fix is to restructure local collections,
while pressing districts to consolidate share services.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Where do you see this going.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Well, look for somebody, and it's funny. I looked at
I've looked at my personal real estate tax. So I've
lived in my home for almost thirty years, but in
the last fifteen years, my real estate tax bill has
gone up three hundred percent. So I can look at
that and say, well, mine's gone up three hundred percent.
Probably a lot of other homes in the state have
gone up similar and that's what you hear, three hundred

(39:56):
to four hundred percent. So how can you live in
a home head off over thirty years and have a
real estate tax bill that's two, three four times the
price of your mortgage payment? And that's really the argument.
Now on the return side, that money's going somewhere, and
we know it's going to schools, we know it's going

(40:16):
to local counties and local cities. And when this bill
was going through, I remember somebody come up to me
and say, oh, you've got to be against this bill,
and I go, why is that? Well, you know this
city's going to lose two million, and this city's going
to lose three million. And the answer to that is,
you know what, I think we have to figure out
a new system. I do believe what the Republicans are

(40:38):
saying is correct. We need to bring this back to
the local level. If there are school districts or municipalities
that are using this money, they're going to have to
find their own sources. And there's no reason why, you know,
a grandparent who's lived in the house for fifty or
sixty years has to get rid of their home because
they can't afford the real estate taxes anymore. That's an

(41:00):
un that's a burden, that's a way over excessive that
you've got to continue to pay real estate taxes and
they continue to go up two hundred and three hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well, here's a crazy stat. Jim Ohio has right around
six hundred and eleven school districts. Florida has sixty seven,
yet they have double the population. I mean, we all
know there's got to be consolidation. I mean, I know
where I came from. In one county, you've got eight

(41:33):
superintendents making over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a
year for schools that the population has declined so much,
I can't even believe the doors are open. Yet they've
built them new schools. I mean, there's just so much
waste out there and property owners are tired of it.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Well, boom dady. When I was running for governor, I
had all these statistics. But I can also tell you
in twenty thirty four will have the least of mount
the least amount of eighteen year olds in a state
of Ohio ever in the history of Ohio, which means
eighteen year olds fuel high schools and colleges. And yet
we have the most colleges, second most colleges in the country.

(42:12):
And as far as high schools, you're exactly right. We
got too many high schools. And by the way, we
have too many cities, we have too many villages. All
of these people are trying to keep their job. So
if I'm the mayor of a village, well I don't
want to consolidate with the city. I want to keep
my job. And if I'm the you know, the mayor
of the city, well I don't want to. So we've
got cities which are also taking property taxes. We got

(42:34):
school districts where also taken property taxes. One hundred percent agree.
The biggest problem you have is people don't want to
lose their city identify identification. But also when it comes
to high school. They don't want to lose their high
school identification. They don't want to lose the ability to
say that I graduated from you know, I was a
you know, Wadsworth Grizzly Well, okay, and I'm sitting in

(42:56):
Wadsworth saying that. But whatever town you're sitting in, yeah,
you know, I was you know, sol and whatever or what.
They want to maintain that, and they're willing, but they
don't look at the cost. And look, I am hoping
that at some point in time, some governor looks at
this and says, we have to change the process. We

(43:18):
have to bring consolidation to high schools, we have to
consolidate some cities, and we've got to bring our property
tax numbers down.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Jim is always thanks for joining me.

Speaker 5 (43:31):
Twit have returned. It's a twenty the Blue Daddy Experienced
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just a couple
of quick more notes on a little update on baseball.
A pair of National League teams are on the verge
of making the next round of the playoffs. The defending

(43:51):
World Series champion Dodgers are ahead two to zero after
taking down the Phillies, four to three. The Brewers followed
up with a seventy three win over the Hubs from Milwaukee.
Both teams will try to advance on Wednesday. Advance Forward
happening on Wednesday. The Alds continues on Tuesday as the
Tigers and the Mariners square off in a one to

(44:12):
one series from Detroit, while the Blue Jays look to
eliminate the Yankees in Game three, which will be from
the Bronx Lebron James haven't heard that name in a while,
is ready to give his second decision? What does that mean?

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Retirement?

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (44:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (44:32):
James posited a video to Instagram yesterday teasing this major announcement,
billed as the decision of all decisions. The video shows
him taking a seat on a basketball court. He's forty
years old, and he's of course an NBA legend. He
will make his decision at noon Eastern time. Of course,
the first decision for anybody who remembers in twenty ten

(44:56):
as a Cavs fan was that he was decided to
take his talents to South Beach. Is that was at
the line? Yeah, which of course was to the Miami Heat.
And then last night Kansas City lost to Jacksonville twenty
eight to thirty one in Monday Night football. Mister Swift, Oh,

(45:20):
can I not say that Travis Kelcey scored a touchdown
in the loss to the Jaguars. That takes me to
Taylor Swift of course. Friday, her new album dropped. Sales
were through the roof home. I say it was like
thirty three million in forty eight hours or some ridiculous number. Well,

(45:43):
if you haven't seen, there's been a lot of criticism
that she's receiving in regards to her one particular song
called Wood. She's singing about mister Elsey and his manhood.

(46:05):
She's getting a lot of criticism from fans from non fans.

Speaker 7 (46:11):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
Some of the lyrics they're not I mean it's they're
not bad, but for her, I guess you would say
they're risk a But she's drawing all this criticism for
exploiting his physicality, exploiting you know, little Kelsey. If you will,

(46:35):
come on people, this is not the first time that
body parts are mentioned in songs. Now does it occur
that often talking about male body parts? New let me
remind you of Baby Got Back, sir, mix a lot.

(46:59):
I mean, you still hear that song to the I
gotta say that song comes on. I'm doing Little Shaken
if you will, Fat Bottom Girls, Big Old but Baby
Got Back, Booty Delicious, the thong song, Girls, Girls, Girls,
I can go on. Women's bodies and body parts have

(47:20):
been used in songs since forever, and it's all genres
of music. It's in country, it's in rap, it's in
R and B, it's in rock, it's in motown. This
is not something new. And I am not a Swiftie.

(47:42):
I am not a Taylor Swift fan. I can appreciate
her writing abilities. I do, but the fact that she's
getting all this criticism over this one particular song that
references or people are speculating the but that's what it references.
I don't think she's actually come out and said that

(48:03):
that's what she's actually singing about. But she's drawing all
this criticism, and it's like, really, folks, where have you
been for the last I don't know one hundred years
in music, women and our figures, in our body parts
have been used to put millions and millions and millions

(48:25):
of dollars in the pockets of male musicians. I'm just
talking about our backsides. I mean, there's songs out there
talking about the chest too. Come on, this isn't something new.

(48:46):
And again, I'm not one to defend Taylor Swift. I'm
not one to you know, I'm not paying fifteen hundred
dollars for a ticket to go see her sing or
whatever those outrageous prices were this past summer. But I
will defend her when it comes to this. This is ridiculous.
This is nothing new, This is nothing new. What is new.

(49:11):
She's talking about a man and a man's body part.
When it's a woman, it's okay, it's all right, it's acceptable.
But because it's singing about his manhood, people are all
up in arms and they're criticizing her. And let's not forget.
She's not the teenager anymore. She's a grown woman who's engaged.

(49:35):
You know, she's a grown woman. She's not the curly
haired teeny bopper that you know hit the scene fifteen
twenty years ago. She's a woman who's engaged to be married.
So yeah, she knows about this stuff at this point
in time. But let's stop criticizing her for this. When
we've got the Thong song and baby got back and

(49:57):
you know, talking about everything else on a woman's body
that you can or referencing with some sort of clever,
clever terminology. Been going on for years. Women have been
exploited for years in songs. If he doesn't have a
problem with it, why should any of the rest of us. Honestly,

(50:18):
why should any of the rest of us? Does it
make me want to go and listen to it?

Speaker 8 (50:22):
No?

Speaker 5 (50:22):
Do I want to hear about Travis Kelcey and you
know who. No, it's flattering. The words are flattering, so
it's not like she's insulting him. But I don't know,
I don't know. That's just me, that's just me. I
think it's ridiculous and the way people are breaking they
are analyzing these these songs and the lyrics as if

(50:45):
it's like an episode of CSI. I don't know, I
don't get it. Not my thing. But anyways, I just
wanted to mention that because it's so stupid. I've seen
it come up multiple times on a couple of different posts,
and you know, in news time topics, and it's like, really,
this is what we're doing, this is what we're doing.
But scored a touchdown last night, still lost the football game. Anyways,

(51:10):
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(52:14):
Radio eleven seventy WWVA well in honor of kicking off
Prime Day. I told you you'd come to visit. Jeff
Bezos denies any wrongdoing as Amazon settles the lawsuit that
accused Amazon of Prime trickery. I, Jeff Beziers, did you
hear the terrible news?

Speaker 9 (52:35):
Amazon is settling a federal lawsuit for two point five
billion dollars saying we tricked people into signing up for Prime.
It seems donating a million bucks to an inauguration slush
fund doesn't go quite as far as it used to.
But the friends alleged we doped customers and then made

(52:57):
it hard to cancel.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
No police, have you.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
Ever tried to cancel a gym membership? You might as
well find the Holy Grail?

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Why're at it an impossible quest?

Speaker 9 (53:07):
Like once I tried to switch phone plans when I
couldn't get service on my service yacht, and I was
transferred from an AI agent to a call center in India.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
To a main menu.

Speaker 9 (53:18):
So many times I thought I was on Amazon customers,
I mean, don't worry, I have a plan to raise
the two point five billion dollars by raising prices.

Speaker 5 (53:38):
Oh gosh, you know what, though, I'm I'm going to
agree with him because this weekend, I was trying to
cancel a credit card, a credit card that I've probably
had for ten years and never use, never use, And
I thought, why, why am I? Why do I have this?

(53:59):
Why do I pay the annual fee and everything else?
I'm gonna cancel this? Oh my god. It was a nightmare.
It was an absolute night mayor. It took over an hour.
It took over an hour because you can't chat because
it's a computer. And then you go and you end

(54:20):
up in the the I call it the circle of
oh god, awful, just absolutely awful. So then I call
the and then I call same thing, Press one, press this,
press that press, and I finally get to a person
and they don't speak a look of English. And if

(54:40):
they do, his name is Bob. And it's not even close.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
It was.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
It was an absolute, absolute nightmare. But with that being said,
Amazon Prime starts today, so time to save. I don't
think I've ever bought anything during Prime days or anything
like that. I think I have. I've never found a
good deal, honestly, I really haven't. I've looked and nothing

(55:07):
has really been like, yeah, that's what I need. Although,
if you're getting ready for Halloween, maybe you want to
get some deals on candy or whatever. Just read a
stat that the average American household will spend about five
hundred dollars on Halloween between candy and costumes. About five hundred,
five hundred dollars. That's nuts. That's nuts. My neighbor down

(55:28):
the street, though, I think they got it at Sam's Club,
this giant skeleton that is pretty much as tall as
their house, if not taller. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Every time I drive past that, I think, what in
the world did you spend on that? What in the

(55:50):
world did you spend on that? It had to have
been four or five hundred dollars, it had to have
been I don't know. But if there's a storm, and
if I was their neighbor and that thing got blown
over and it came crashing through my bedroom window in
the middle of the night, I would lose it. It

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would scare the Bejesus out of me. I would lose it.
Could you imagine it's storming, it's two o'clock in the morning,
you're sound asleep, and this giant skeleton comes crashing through
the window from your neighbors or yourself vis your yard.
I don't know. Speaking of Amazon, they have. The video

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section of Amazon has silently withdrawn James Bond artwork, so
like the promotional images they put up there. Following online
criticism over their removing of guns, so the streaming service
had posted modified posters on the UK version where Bond's

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iconic I'm gonna mess this up for gun people. Is
it Walter? Is that how you say it? Walter peakey
PPK gun?

Speaker 6 (57:07):
Im I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
I think it's Walter, It's just it's spelled weird. PPK
gun was airbrushed from from his hands in films like
Doctor No and GoldenEye, or they were cropped out entirely
in a view to kill Roger Moore's arms appeared lengthened
to eliminate his weapon from the frame. Social media users

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criticized this criticized this censorship, with actor Rufus Jones joking
that the gunless Bond looked like he was making a
rude gesture. After James Bond Day on October fifth, and
mounting backlash, Prime Video UK replaced the controversial posters with
film stills, though none show Bond carrying his gun. The

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company declined to comment. Fans express concern about the future
of the franchise under Amazon owner ship. You can't just
eliminate stuff from culture. It doesn't go away just because
you crop something out of a picture and then somebody

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goes and watches that movie. It's not James Bond walking
around empty handed, taken on bad guys. He's gonna be
carrying a gun. That's what he is. He's an agent. Man.
I've never watched a James Bond movie in my life,
so I am not familiar with the franchise at all.
But I know he carries a weapon. I mean, his

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car does crazy stuff. Doesn't he have the little guy
that makes all the crazy things for him, the guy
and the factory guy, laboratory guy. So you can't just
I mean, just because you crop it out of the
picture doesn't mean that it's not gonna be in the
film anymore. I mean, it's just it's I don't know,
it's just silly. It's just silly. And then here's another

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bit of entertainment news. CBS is going to air a
thirtieth anniversary reunion special happening in November for the iconic
show Everybody Loves Raymond. I did not watch that show.
It will air November twenty fourth at eight pm and
then with streaming available of course, on Paramount Plus. Ray

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Romano and series creator Phil Rosenthal will host the ninety
minute reunion on a recreated Barone family living room set.
Cast members Patricia Heaton the wife, Brad Garrett the brother,
Monica Horan, and Madeline Sweeten and Sullivan Sweeten will join
Romano for candid conversations and never before seen outtakes that

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will be the best part. Outtakes of anything a movie,
sitcoms are hilarious. The special will include a moving tribute
to Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle, whose unforgettable portrayals of
Marie and Frank Barone made them fan favorites. His the
parents of the show between nineteen ninety six and two
thousand and five, one fifteen Emmys out of sixty nine nominations.

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So did you watch Everybody Loves Raymond?

Speaker 6 (01:00:12):
I watched it in reruns.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
Oh okay, I never never watched it. I don't know
why never. I guess pretty good never appealed to me.
Have they ever done a thirtieth? Not thirtieth? But have
they ever done a reunion special for some of the
ones that like the Cheers that you love and.

Speaker 6 (01:00:28):
They've never really done a reunion. They had a they
had a special with all the cast members like on
a stage and there was a moderator. It was for
the two hundredth episode, and they went back and they
looked at some of the highlights, you know, kind of
gave you the you know so, like Shelley Long was
there and so that like the only one that wasn't

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there time would have been Nicholas Calissante because he had
passed away coach and but yeah, I mean they did
that where it was kind of it was a I
think it was a one hour maybe two hour special.
I can't remember. I think it was maybe one hour.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
I'd love to watch outtakes of that show.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
There's just times when you you if you're watching Cheers,
you can see like some of the ad libs, because
you'll see some of the actors and actresses their reaction
is like they'll just start laughing, like or they get
this smile on their face like I can't believe you
just did that, you know so, But there's.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
A few of those oh yeah, oh, let's do it.
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do a pair of
tickets Resurrection Island Tattoo Convention one in one hundred sixty
two four eleven seventy one in hundred sixty two, four
eleven seventy. Let's do caller number ten. Caller number ten
for a pair of tickets. One hundred six two four
eleven seventy. It's eight forty five. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.

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Welcome back at eight fifty The bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Whether rain or shine,
they're doing deals. It's job on a mode of Good morning, Kevin, Oh,
say that again, because you were a little gargled.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
I said, good morning. Are you all doing this morning?

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
There we go, there we go. Good, how are you doing?

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
We didn't have the best connection, probably because of some
of this weather that we're having up here. It has
an effect on these phones from time to time.

Speaker 4 (01:02:28):
Okay, really, okay, have you need.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
You have your phones through direct TV or whatever?

Speaker 8 (01:02:36):
Wow? Oh may I just slurred somebody right there?

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
No? I mean normally when it rains on a satellite dish,
you lose the signal.

Speaker 8 (01:02:46):
So okay, I've never had satellite.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
Oh when it snows, if I grew up with a
satellite dish with yep, sweep it off. Well it's left
of broom next to it, so you could, you could
sweep the snow off of it. Otherwise you had nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:02:59):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:03:00):
I always always been a cable, always cable. But anyway,
let's talk about c dj R today. Man, when we
didn't give them any love.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
In a little while, and it's been a few days, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
It's been a few days. The Hemmy, I mean the
Hemmy is back. I mean they, you know, it's ram
trucks stepped away from the Hemmy and the halftime trucks
for a little while, and and they brought out a
phenomenal engine to the Austraight six, you know, Turbchari's Hurricane.
It's great power, great fuel economy, great torch. But you know,
for there a traditionalist like myself, okay, there's nothing beats

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that fe a growl when you crank it up.

Speaker 6 (01:03:38):
True or not true, that's true.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
It's a man, I know, you know you.

Speaker 8 (01:03:45):
Hit you know, hit that starter and you get that
little rubble, you get that feel, it's it's uh, you know,
it's a there's nothing quite like it. And we've got
them in stock, right. I mean I put a bunch
of orders in a couple of months ago, hoping that
we would get one or two. I think right now
we just had six or eight dropped off. U. These
will not last long. They've been very very sought after.

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They're really good price points. Uh, there's already incentives on
them because you know, Ram Truck is trying to do
everything that they can have to put as many trucks
in the market as possible. They know they've got a
winner in that hemy V eight. So you know, if
you're in the market for truck and you've held off
just because you wasn't sure, you know, if you wanted,

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you know, to make that change to the Hurricane motor
and you're like me, you know, you prefer that V
eight engine a inf bat check it out. You get
two great places. You can do that right there in Glendale,
or you can check it out in elm Grove at
Elmgrove Dodge. Anybody there will be more than happy to
help you and you can start your you know, shopping

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process today in the rain right there at home and
your pj's. If you ought to log on to drivestrib
dot com and you can check out a great selection
of cars and trucks and everything's clearly sell like it's
a It's the easiest buying experience you're going to have anywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
It doesn't get any easier than that.

Speaker 8 (01:05:05):
It does not, it does not.

Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
Well, you have a wonderful day today.

Speaker 8 (01:05:10):
That's the plan.

Speaker 7 (01:05:11):
Man, y'all have fun.

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
Don't forget your umbrella. I okay, bye, all back.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Oh we got We got a message on Facebook from Barb.
She says, I respectfully disagree on Sam's take on Taylor
Swift's song would as a mom and grandma, I look
at it from the standpoint of Swift's swifties being younger
girls like my granddaughter with her friendship bracelets, singing as
loud as she can the songs. Even though Taylor Swift

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is an adult, her targeted fan base isn't. Her targeted
fan base isn't and children do not need to be
singing about what she's singing about. I'm not gonna put
that out there exactly like that, but I understands your
take I do. I understand your take, but also in

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the same regards, you know, hopefully those young girls don't
know what they're what it's about.

Speaker 8 (01:06:10):
Two.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
My take was, I understand the age difference, and I
understand barbar what you're pointing out. My take was more
the hip you know, hypocrisy on a national stage where
she's being judged as a female artist for talking about
a male's body part when that's been going on for
decades when men sing and talk about women's physical parts.

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That that's what I was intending, not in regards to
necessarily who the songs are targeted towards and the demographics
and her you know, the swifties, and that My point
was more towards, you know, the judgment that she's getting.
You know, how dare she, as a female artist talk about,
you know, a guy's manhood. Well, you know what's the difference.

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Men have been doing it for years. That was that
was more of That was more of where I wanted
I was going with that. So I hope, I hope
I made that clear real quick. Arby's if you're not
going to take advantage of advantage of Taco Tuesday, because
today is officially national Taco Day, Arby's is introducing steak nuggets.

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I cannot believe nobody else has ever thought of this before.
It's the first ever steak served in nugget form available nationwide.
It began yesterday actually, and it will be for a
limited time. The handcut steak pieces are seasoned with garlic
and pepper, seared and smoked for a bold flavor. Customers
can order them three ways, as bite sized with hickory

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barbecue sauce, in a sandwich and crispy on your rings,
or a top white cheddar mac and cheese so you
can have steak on top of your mac in cheese.
I cannot believe nobody has ever thought of steak noruggets before.
That actually sounds no offense more appealing than tacos today,
doesn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:05):
I drove by this the Arby's in elm Grove last
night and I saw steak nuggets on the sign and
I'm like, did you do it?

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
Double take?

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
But they were closed when I drove by, and I'm like,
what the hell's a steak nugget?

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Well, there you have it. So that doesn't sound. That
doesn't sound.

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
It interests me. I don't know if I'm gonna necessarily
like it, but it intrigues my taste buds. So yeah,
I just want to see what they are.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
You're willing to spend the ten five.

Speaker 6 (01:08:34):
Bucks whatever, whatever, Yeah, just get them as.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
A doesn't say the price.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
Well, I like them. I like the sandwich idea though.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Yeah, get them on top of the mac and cheese
and then that way you can try it one or two.
I feel like you still got the macroe as a backup.

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
You just get him plaining. If not, then I just
give him to the dog.

Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
Well, there's always that option, I guess, always give it
to the dog and then real quick, I'm glad I
am not one of these people. Hikers, hundreds of them
are stranded on the eastern slopes of Mount Everest, but
they have been rescued. It's underway. At least one hiker
has died, more than two hundred remain trapped, and dozens

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more are being treated for hypothermia as the search continues.
In Ti Bet, they are continuing to look for these
hikers who are sixteen thousand feet I mean, ah, not
a great day, not a great day, and there's a
blizzard rolling in, so not great for those hikers. I

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guess they won't be trying any RBS steak nuggets. Steady,
it's a we are out. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.
Stay dry out there. We'll talk to you tomorrow