The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 9, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one Tuck Show in the Ohio Vlley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, Happy Thursday, folks. It's seven oh six. Ooh. It
was thirty seven in my car this morning driving to work.
I think last week was the last hurrah, our last burst. Possibly,

(00:44):
now you don't think so, shaking your head in there buttons, No,
there we go, buttons.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
A hard Yeah, somebody turned it off. It was me
because when I recorded the news, I had to turn
that button. Couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Yeah,
there's always a burst of summer left, the Indian summer.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, you don't think that was last week? No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I remember back in eighty four WVU was playing Penn State.
That was the first time we beat Penn State in
thirty five years or something like that, and I went
I was a senior in high school and I went
down to Morgantown to stay with my buddy who eventually
was one of my roommates. And I had on my
high school letterman jacket, and it was like eighty five

(01:35):
degrees and I'm thinking of and I'm on the PRT lugging,
lugging my clothes and like a sleeping bag and everything
else with my left and I sweats just pouring off
of me. I mean it's it was like I was
actually playing a basketball game.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh yeah. Those Letterman coats in the eighties were thick and.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Just you know, because you think it's going to be cold.
The night before, I walked into a fire hydrant.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Wait what say that again?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I walked into a fire hydrant. My buddy and his
cousin were walking in front of me, so they're walking
side by side. I'm carrying a case of beer. They
part and I walked right into the fire hydrant. I
didn't see it coming they because they were blocking me.
That was not pretty.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh I just as you're describing that, I am actually
seeing squares of an old school Sunday comic book strip
and was I mean, I'm seeing the backs of your
two friends. The next square is you with a big
old smile on your face and your letterman coat.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, I didn't have the letterman coat on it, not
at that time.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Okay, and carrying your case of beer. Next square, they part,
next square, you're going feet over, teacup into the running
into the Both of.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Those two more ons were of legal age. They let
the seventeen year old carry the beer.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Shot.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh that's funny. Oh god, you just made my morning.
Oh anyways, anyways, speaking of our morning, what do we
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your entry in and we just need one. We just
need one. We don't need five or six from each person,
just one. Now, what are you laughing? Are you still
on that page? That pun page.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay, No, there's some pictures here the WVU swimming and
diving team. They must have gone to the volleyball game recently,
probably last night, and they are basically all sitting in
the stands in their swimsuits, which are they just those
little banana hammocks, and they they're sitting in this sex

(04:28):
they're all this section and they just they look like
they're having a blast, like they're they're pat like they're
the one guy's doing this. You have to see it.
That appreciated. But if you're on Facebook, good of WVU
Swimming and Diving, okay, and it says we're our best
for wv WVU.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Volleyball, right all right? A couple of them have hats on,
hats and a banana hammock.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yep. Oh, well they got socks and shoes on too,
so some of them took their shoes off.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's not socks and sandals, is it?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Maybe? Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Terrible, look, terrible, look, you're deep in thought in there.
One of the reasons. I also brought up the weather,
just to give everybody a excited little story here. This
is from the Daily Mail. Meteorologists are warning of a
volatile snow packed winner for large portions of the US. Hey, hey, folks,

(05:26):
they say this every year. I know, possibly with blizzards,
deep freezes, and even a risk of fire danger. I
don't know. The first signs of trouble could arrive as
early as December. First, good luck, folks. It's supposed to
expect it to sweep across the Great Lakes and the Midwest,
triggering early snowstorms and lake effect snow squall.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Let me just let me. I'm gonna go out on
a limb like December, January, February, March.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's gonna be cold.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's gonna be cold, and there's gonna be snow. Now,
you know how much is all up to Mother Nature?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't the Daily Mail
a British newspaper, not that they don't have meteorologs, I'm.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, I'm just there's probably other Daily Mails, but the
most famous Daily Mails is British.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay, that's what I thought. That's what I thought, because.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm sure there's some small town or you know, some
US with the same name.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, okay, okay, Well, I just thought, you know, I
saw these pictures first thing this morning, and I'm like,
oh god, it was cold and everything else. So no, fine, whatever, whatever, Hey.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
We have to be better on Thursdays and Fridays.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
We have to be better.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, what do you mean. We're competing against reruns, so
we have to be better on Thursdays and Fridays.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, Okay, I got you, I got you. It was
a job. It was a job. That's all right, though.
That's all right. Now here's a job. Here. Plan your vacation, folks.
So there's a new uh ratings out the best country

(07:15):
of best Country, I'm sorry, the best city in the country,
named by the Travelers Reader's Choice of World Awards. This
is the ninth year in a row this particular city
has won the top spot.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Just just just.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Venture to guess who you think this is? Number one? Chicago, Chicago.
They've been named the friendliest city in the US, the
best city to travel to. There were thirty people shot

(08:06):
there last weekend. Folks shot thirty. The rest of the
top five include San Francisco, Milwaukee, which I went to
Milwaukee last year. I would agree Milwaukee is a It
was beautiful. It was beautiful, although it was also completely

(08:27):
closed down for the RNC. So felt pretty darn safe.
Portland is in the top five along with New Orleans.
So Chicago's number one, San Francisco number two, Milwaukee three,
Portland is fourth, in New Orleans is fifth. As the

(08:51):
best big cities in the US, get your tickets to Chicago.
Sounds like a hoot nanny, Let's go to Chicago for vacation.
I said, hoot nanny, Yes, I did? What did? What
was the word that Elgin used yet? Quagmire? Quagmire?

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Is that what she used yesterday?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Okay, yeah, because you referenced, we referenced family guy.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I couldn't remember that. Yeah, if that was the right word, quagmire.
So so far in two days, we've had quagmire and
hooton nanny. What's another one? We could come up with
a good one? Do you don't use very often? Facetious?
That's a good one.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Just move on.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm gonna rare mood this morning. It's seven point fifteen.
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(10:16):
the end of the show. And then also we've got
another pair of tickets to Vampire Circus get ready for
Halloween a little bit early, so that's going to be
coming up here a little bit later in the show.
And then also wanted to let Dave know and I
we'll be calling you a little bit later Dave after

(10:38):
the show yesterday ran out of time. Our free lunch
got all discombobulated in here, and Dave is our winner.
And as I said, Dave, I'll be giving you a
call after the show about free lunch coming your direction tomorrow.
So my apologies for that. We got pretty heavy into

(11:01):
the conversation with politics, unleash and time and you know
how that darn clock bites you in the end, so
that's kind of what happened there. But Dave, we will
I will be calling you after the show, so hopefully
you hear me. Right now. I want to get into
some top headlines. Of course, if you are just waking

(11:22):
up to the news. President Trump says Israel and Hamas
have signed on to the first phase of his proposed
peace plan. This broke about nine o'clock last night. Thirty
nine o'clock last night, Trump posted on truth Social that
all of the hostages will be released very soon and
Israel will withdraw their troops to and agreed uponline as

(11:44):
the first steps towards a strong, durable, and everlasting peace.
The last two words right there, everlasting peace, God willing,
that's going to happen. You know, watching different clips this morning,
Israel's is celebrating. I mean they're singing in the streets.

(12:08):
Families are crying because their loved ones are going to
be coming home according to this statement and according to
the deal. Here's one thing to celebrate. This has crossed
party lines. Folks here in the US. Everybody is well

(12:28):
not everybody, but it is getting bipartisan support. It is
getting bipartisan acknowledgment, celebration. We have not seen that in
how long? How long? So not only is this great

(12:49):
for Israel, the world in general, but there's a little
bit of a common thread between the two parties here
in the United States. Dates shocking. I thought for sure
I would wake up this morning after seeing the announcement
last night. I thought for sure i'd wake up this
morning with just criticism left and right. Maybe I'm missing it.

(13:11):
I don't know. I haven't seen it, but I thought,
for sure wake up to criticism from the Democrats attacking Trump.
But I haven't seen it anywhere, so fingers crossed it
remains that way. So some good news there. Also, White
House officials are confirming President Trump accidentally shared a private
post criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondy the Truth social message

(13:34):
last month, and I remember this, complained that nothing is
being done against his opponents, and he demanded justice. After
Bondi was reportedly upset, Trump followed up with a second
post praising her for doing a great job. So I
guess we've all kind of been in President Trump's shoes
where you hit post or share or just a little

(13:59):
slip of the thumb, slip of the finger. Unfortunately, once
it's out there, it's out there, so it happens to
all of us. Also, the Senate failed again to pass
legislation to end the partial government shutdown, marking the sixth
time both Republican Democrat measures have been blocked. About seven
hundred and fifty thousand federal workers remain furloughed, and some

(14:21):
may not be guaranteed back pay. The FAA warns that
flight delays could continue nationwide due to ongoing air traffic
control staffing shortages. And then also out of Chicago, I
already talked about Chicago. Protesters were out in Chicago yesterday
after the arrival of National Guard troops. Demonstrators gathered downtown

(14:45):
to protest the Trump administration immigration crackdown in the deployment
of the National Guard. So far, there are no reports
of any arrests. Guardsmen arrived in an army reserve center
in the Chicago area earlier this week after three hundred
members were federalized by the President over the weekend. So

(15:06):
people are still protesting, demonstrating. But yeah, there are some
top headlines for you. So and then also just real quick,
this will make my husband's day. Something a little silly

(15:27):
for you, but it will it will absolutely make my
husband's day. Little food bit for you, little tidbit lightened
up from the heavy top stories. Cheese It has teamed
up with or Taga to release the first ever cheese
It flavored taco shells. Ortega, who is known for producing
the top selling taco sauce in the US, says each

(15:49):
box contains ten crunchy shells with the same cheesy taste
as cheese It crackers. The new product is now available
at Target and other retailers across the country, with wider
distribution expected to come earlier this later this month in
the coming months. This makes me think of Taco Bell
when they teamed up with Dorito's for the doritos. How

(16:12):
do you say, Dorita's those tacos whatever?

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, I think you can buy those shells in the
stores as well.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh can you?

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Oh yeah. There's all kinds of companies out there that
have different flavored shells or they have like there's a
spicy one the head like it's a Jilipino shell.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That seems to be like this new food trend of
these different brands teaming up and mixing their iconic flavors
or iconic brands together to come up with like a
Frankenstein version of something, you know what I mean, Like
it's this I don't know, it's this new food trend. Anyways. Anyways,

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(17:17):
Welcome back seven thirty six on your Thursday, The Bloomdaddy
Experience Otison SAM News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So remember
this name.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
A couple of weeks ago, Jimmy Kimmel, remember his big, big,
braggadocious got all this, you know, all these viewers after
the big his his sabbatical if you will, because of
his comments about Charlie Kirk and all of that, and
he came back to just crazy ratings. Everybody loved Jimmy

(17:51):
Kimmel again.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, well not so much. I didn't last I don't
even think it last two days. Well more. Ratings are
in so a little, a little behind the scenes when
it comes to ratings, whether we're talking television or radio.
The prime demographic that the majority of advertisers want to

(18:17):
hit are adults twenty five to fifty four. There's a
reason behind that. They're they've had, they're the working adults,
they're the families, they have the money to spend. That's
primarily where advertisers want to hit. So when it comes
to looking at viewership or ratings, that's the key demographic

(18:41):
that people follow. Well, his latest ratings are in in
that particular key demographic. Now, keep in mind during his
return when he returned, he averaged about one point nine
million viewers after the big hubbub and sabbatical Thursday last Thursday,

(19:05):
two hundred and sixty five thousand. Think about that, one
point nine to two hundred and sixty five thousand in
that particular demographic. That's like over an eighty percent drop
in viewership. That's insane. That's insane. There's falling off a

(19:25):
cliff and then there's taken an absolute nose dive nose dive.
So this goes back to the original point. Not only
was he callous in his remarks and heartless at the
time and incorrect in his remarks at the time, he

(19:48):
didn't have any viewers and he got the bomb because
of all the controversy, and now people realize once again
his show stinks and nobody wants to watch it. If
you have an eighty percent drop in viewership, Like I said,

(20:10):
that's a nose dive. That's not a stumble. That is
an absolute sinking ship. Sinking ship. But speaking of entertainment, otis,
this is absolutely yours. This is absolutely up your neck
of the woods. Rolling Stone is in the news, the

(20:31):
iconic music magazine. They actually still print it. If they
still print it, don't they It's not just online. Okay.
So Rolling Stone is out with its list of the
two hundred and fifty greatest songs of the twenty first
century so far. Number one surprised me, but I but

(20:56):
once I went back and listened to it again, I thought, Okay,
I kind of, I kind of get it. But let's
see here. So the first number one is Missy Elliott's
get Your Freak On. That tops the list. It's followed
by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Have No Idea Who They are,
their song called Maps, Beyonce and jay Z's Crazy in Love,

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followed by the White Stripes, seven Nation Army Great Song,
and then the magazine list says the list sets out
to capture the full chaotic glory of the twenty first
century music, one song at a time. Would you agree
with the number one? Otis?

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Absolutely God.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
I thought it was completely out of left field. I
was expecting to see Beyonce at number one, just because
of who she is.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah. I haven't really seen like the list that Rolling
Stone put out. You know, it starts at two point
fifty and then works its way tonumber one and then
it like, I don't know, there's twenty five at a clip,
and then you have to click on click here for
more and stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know I've been trying to find. Just give me
the list.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, well that's not going to happen now because they
want you to go.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, it's all kinds of crap that you have to
scroll through.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So I would say that out of the first list
that I saw, from two fifty to whatever to twenty
five or two hundred, whatever it was, I had heard
of maybe three of the artists.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Okay, good, all right. So I'm not alone because I
was doing the same thing this morning looking through and
I'm like, I like Kendrick Lamar, I've heard the name,
don't know the song. Britney spears of course, she was
in there for toxic in two thousand and three. That's
kind of when she started to fall off of well

(22:53):
mental stability. Basically, she's still a little kind of what
I could do. But I'm looking at some of the
other names. Chappelle, Ron, we're showing our age. Lady Gaga's
in there, whiz Kid.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
How about Park Courts? You ever heard of them? What
is it? Park Courts? No?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I hear park. I think of the old butter commercial parquae.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
You remember park is like, that's the way that the
Boston Gardens floor is. It's the it's the layout of
the park. P A R Q U E t O butter.
So there's Ed Sheer and I've heard of here Phoenix.
Never heard of Ray Shrimerd. Never heard of that. Grimes, No,

(23:38):
I've heard of her.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
She's a female, isn't isn't it doesn't?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Okay? Maybe Wizen in Yandall?

Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, Wizen in Yandall mg m.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
T No, there's Beyonce m g MT.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
That's machine Gun Kelly. I think from Cleveland outcast.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I've heard of Billy Ailey, have heard of Carlisle, Rihanna,
Kings of Leon, heard of them? Wands wands now like
j U A n E s no A, Mary Amari,
maybe Lady Gaga, car Seed, Headrest, what yeah, Systein of

(24:24):
a Down. I've heard of, Where's wax A Hatchie? Okay,
Sierra t I Girls Generation Jimmy, I've heard of the Chicks,
Sabrina Carpenter, jay Z.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Aren't the Chicks the Dixie Chicks?

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah? Now the Flaming Lips. I've heard of TV on
the radio, Drake. There's Taylor at one sixty one, Chief Keith.
He sounds like modest mouse. I've heard of, sounds like old.
I've heard of Johnny Cash is on there, Blink.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Johnny Cash is on there.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
For his cover of nine inches nine Inch Nails Hurt.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I love that cover. God, I love that.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Song from two thousand and two. Uh less Keys, j Cole,
never heard of him, Beck, Pink, Vampire, Weekend Roadmore, Okay,
I mean, uh.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Not impressed. I take it.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, I mean I'm at one forty seven right now,
and I'm thinking some of these songs should be higher
and a lot of them should be lower.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, it depends on what their criteria was for this.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean there's Coldplay, Ridload, Kelly no mm hmm. There's
Maren Morris. I mean, so that's yeah, the one thing
I I at least give him credit for. There's there's
all genres of music in there. Yeah, I will say that.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
So there is a variety. There is a variety, just
the whole Missy Elliott. When I scrolled down and got
to number one and I thought, oh, okay, this is
not what I was expecting whatsoever. Didn't even remotely cross
my mind that it would be that it would be her.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, I just.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'm not a huge and I didn't expect to hear
Johnny Cash either.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Though I'm not a huge fan of music after two thousand,
let's put it down. I mean, there's some good songs
out there, don't get me wrong, But my definition of
music and Brillian stones definition of music are two different things.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, I mean, I think we talked about this before,
but rock bands aren't rock bands anymore.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Some are, some aren't, But you know what I mean, Like,
there's just a it's a totally different world with the
Internet and streaming and things like that. It's a totally
different world. Like you know, radio stations don't play they
play what they Yeah, it's almost back to the old
Paola days without Paola, you're just I mean, you're.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Not going to see the days of the Skinnerds the.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Stones, but you're not going to see the band come up,
come up from nowhere. Yeah, Like like how many years ago,
like HOODI and the Blue Bluefish came out of nowhere,
Alanis Morissett came out of nowhere, you know, and two
iconic albums, and you know it took the world by storm.
But because of the way the music is distributed and

(27:35):
how things are done these days, you're never going to
see that again. It's or it's going to be very
rare if you do.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's rapid fire of information that's thrown at us. Well,
now that we sounded and put out there, how old
and behind the times we are. I guess when it
comes to music, if you know some of those artists
that we didn't know, call us and please educate us.
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the bloom Daddy Experience. Otisin say, I'm here on news
radio eleven seventy WWVA. Otis Okay, Well, first of all,
we're gonna have your chance to win before I ask
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win those. A little bit later in the show, just
listen for the Q two call. All right, otis back
to you. Was it Monday or Tuesday that we talked
about the big big post that Lebron James did about
the next big decision and it was supposed to happen

(29:08):
the following day or that day something like that.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
It was one of those my dear Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Has anything happened? I I haven't seen anything anywhere. The
only reason, no, it was him, It was his page.
The only reason I'm asking is I was looking at
the Major League baseball results came up on the TV
in front of me, so I pulled up the scoreboard
from yesterday and and for baseball, and then I got

(29:35):
my mind went to sports. I'm like, we talked about
Lebron and there was supposed to be some big announcement.
Nothing okay, So nothing happened. Okay, I thought maybe I
just missed something somewhere. But speaking of sports, the Blue
Jays have eliminated the Yankees. Correct, right, They're moving on.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yes, Guardians and Mayor are in Game five in Seattle.
I believe that'll be tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
The Tigers.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
I'm sorry, the Tigers.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I was actually picturing Detroit and I said Guardians, but yeah,
that's I think Game five is tomorrow and then Game
four and the nationally for both the Cubs and the
Brewers and the Dodgers and the Phillies are tonight.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay, but the Yankees are.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Lebron's big second decision was just an ad.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
It was just an ad for what MMM depends retirement.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
I'm just looking at it real quick. The decision references
not how I was supposed to come out at noon.
It's an ad for Hennessy, the Cognac brand. He said
this fall, I'll be I'll be taking my talents to
Hennessy vs OP.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
What is VSOP?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
It's what's on the label.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh okay, like the type or something. Oh okay.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Then alrighty, So that's why you didn't hear anything.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, right, I thought I completely missed the big I
thought he was going to retire. That's I thought that
was going to be the big the big announcement.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
I'm going to retire because he wants people to think
that he's the greatest of all time and he's never
going to be.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Well, hasn't. He's been fighting that losing battle for since
he got in the league.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Basically, he's a great player. He would not make my
own NBA first team, not at all. No, probably wouldn't
make me a second team either.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Oh come on, oh come on.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
No, there's better players now.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Now he's on the first team at on my first team.
I beg to differ on that one, but I will
say that he has become one of the most annoying
quote unquote athlete slash celebrities out there, and this whole
tease of whatever that.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
My first team is Magic Johnson at the point, Michael
at the two, Larry Bird at the three, Will Chamberlain
at the four. I mean at the five, I'm sorry.
And then the force, the force tough.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
That's where I would put Lebron.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
I wouldn't put him there. I'm either going to take yeah,
I probably have to put you. Either have to go
with Malone or Barkley there.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Barkley was too slow.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Barkley was not slow.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I always thought he was slow.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
He wasn't as slow as he looked slow because he
was big.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
He was what I always thought he was. I always
thought he was Okay, fine, okay fine. Speaking of sports,
in Ohio police Department is actually defending officers for their
use of pepper spray on a high school football players
after a recent game. This happened in Maslyn, where Maslin

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had just defeated the team from Cardinal Ridder College Prep
last Friday.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Well, the team's out of Saint Louis too.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Oh yes, I'm sorry, out of Saint Louis. This happened
last Friday when physical altercations began occurring during postgame handshakes.
So the game was over. This was the you know
the line, you go, oh yeah, good game, good game.
That whole thing the Massive Police Department says they used
pepper spray only after members of Cardinal Ritter team refused

(33:44):
orders to leave the field. Is that too young?

Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's never too young to First off, they could take
off a helmet there wielding weapon.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Oh yeah, Miles Garrett found that out the hard way. Yeah,
so I don't know, seems a little a little drastic
to me, but I wasn't there, didn't see the entire situation.
So anyways, all right, we're gonna go to a break
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Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Welcome back here to the Bloomdaddy Experience here on news
radio eleven seventy WWVA. All right, we're gonna have a
unique conversation. I'm quite excited about this, of course, because
we're going to talk tattoos. We are going to talk tattoos,
and we're going to talk about a huge event that
is celebrating five years. Please welcome to the show. Dennis Gilbert,

(35:06):
owner of Breaking Skin Tattoo. 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 4 (35:27):
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 (35:46):
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.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Casino, Yes, correct, And one of the guys from the casino,
Mike Mudrick, 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

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way to promote the tattoo industry itself, and I have,
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
these guys and.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
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 4 (36:54):
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 hardcore thing. You had
to pick a tattoo off the wall. Things have changed
so much, and that just the art with the new
AI generation and people using iPads and now tattooings. I mean,

(37:18):
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 (37:25):
Even the terminology terminology has changed. It's gone from your
a tattooer 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 (37:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
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

(38:01):
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 (38:16):
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

(38:38):
somebody with a tattoo, along with like you said, women
getting more that has changed drastically. Also again it's an
art firm.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, form absolutely, even like workplace. I remember years ago
if you had tattoos that had to be covered up,
and 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 because we tattooed
so many different forms. I mean we've even tattooed bucket
lists six year old women that want their first tattoo

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because it's okay and acceptable.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Now I got to ask, 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 people have wanted things.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
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 shook 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

(39:47):
how far the industry has come to what it used
to be. Like my studio, now you won't find flash
hanging on the wall.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
It's a beautiful studio.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
We decorated, you know, it looks like a high end
tattoo shop. There's no or just the you know, the
there's a couple around, but there's no more of the
dirty tattoo shops.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Oh. The cleanliness is amazing, honest honestly, it's cleaner than
some hospitals.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Right 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 (40:18):
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

(40:40):
get work done? How does that work with the artists?

Speaker 4 (40:43):
The artists 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,

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and you're gonna 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 boots and a

(41:25):
big convention center and that's it. Well, we put in
freak shows, swords, wallers, burlesque, we have rock bands every night.
We have I was.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Also going to ask you on the on some of
the entertainment, a suspension team.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
You know, we have suspension team.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Plaine is that the hanging hook right.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Hanging 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 for the end.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Wait, you do it yourself.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yes, I do it as well.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
And it's a blast, it really is. And just to
see it, it's so weird because you won't even hear
people classing or yelling because they're yeah, they're like in awe.
It's like watching a car wreck, you know. I mean,
you just have to stare at it, you know what
I mean, And you can't even look away from it.
Some people say I can't watch it. They can't take
their eyes.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Off of What does it feel like?

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Sort of like what you'd think it would feel like.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Do you feel like a fish on a hook?

Speaker 4 (42:19):
No, it's a it's a it's very like euphoric. It
is probably the best description, but it's because it's something
you don't gonn fail 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.

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It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
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 4 (42:49):
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,
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

(43:09):
dress up wild and 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 (43:19):
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 4 (43:30):
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

(43:52):
I did that crass.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
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 could. I remember hearing people saying,
I think she's sleeping, she's getting the top of her
foot tattooed.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
I think that's a rough spot if you kind.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Of felt like a little bit of an animal in
the zoo.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
But you know, and it's you'll see.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
There's literally some people were 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 the casino,
so the food's good, there's bars, there's a buffet, there's

(44:34):
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 (44:40):
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 4 (44:52):
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 do it every year. It's
the second weekend in October.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
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 4 (45:10):
Well, 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 autonous today. Even on a casino that's the

(45:31):
West Virginia Lottery, they had a couple kids run out
on a gaming floor and there's a couple bad eggs
ruins it for everything that.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
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 4 (45:47):
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,
main 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 have been there every year. They fly in and

(46:10):
drive 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 3 (46:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
And that's the hats off to you, because that's a
huge statement on everything that you've accomplished. And tickets you
can get tickets online ahead of time.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Correct, correct, they're on sale now where you can also
purchase them at the door. But on our website, which
is tatcomwe dot com. We have tickets a ticket link
on there that you can get tickets ahead of time.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Again that's tat coom con one dot com, t A
t co n the number one dot com correct Okay.
And then if you last minute you decide to go
at the door, yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
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 (47:02):
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 4 (47:15):
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, Amelio Gonzalez, and he does a
suspension and he's got body modification implants literally all over him,

(47:37):
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.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
To well, 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 and racetrack.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Right and the tickets get you in for everything that
includes the band, oh okay, the entertainment, the whole nine yards.
That's just a one ticket you get in go see everything.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Wonderful, you're getting anything done.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
I'll be busy the whole week setting up for it
and the weekend. So just the suspension, that's the only
thing I call that's worry too.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
That's just that.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Okay, we'll have a great success. Congrats on five years
and I will probably see you there.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
Good Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
We got to jump to a quick break. You're listening
to the Bloomdaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
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You have you have a good time with it. We
did get a text on the line asking if we're
going to see Neil McCoy this weekend. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Well we did it. We did, inviting in to do
the pledge of allegiance with us, but it's a Saturday
and we're not gonna be here. Shoot, that's right, weren't
we weren't thinking when we invited him, or we didn't
look at a calendar.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
No, No, it's a jam packed weekend here in Wheeling.
Speaking of that, we've got Neil McCoy on Saturday, Tomorrow's
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I believe today.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
I think you have John Cleese and Monty Python.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Yeah, so it is an absolutely jam packed weekend. I
wanted to Donna send us an emails about the Lebron
thing that I mentioned there was She says, there was
an announcement Lebron promoted a liquor Like you said, otis fans.
I didn't know this part. Fans anticipated retirement and paid
seven hundred dollars for tickets for the last game of

(50:29):
the light Lakers season. So I bet some fans are
not real happy about that. So a little bit update
on the Lebron had.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Seven hundred dollars for an NBA game no matter who
was playing. Jordan could be playing and I wouldn't I
wouldn't pay it. No, I mean to see Jerry West
play John Havlachik again. Maybe that's that's the Yeah, I mean,
go old school. Maybe see will you get to see
like go back to seventy two seventy three that you know,

(51:01):
seventy one seventy two in that era, like those guys
that they're prime, not at their prime, but you know,
right pretty close in their prime.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, So well, thank you Donna for the email. There
was something else I was going to read, and now
I don't have it in front of me, so my apologies.
Oh it's from Aaron. Aaron says it thinks he said it.
He thinks it's easier to be an artist now talking
about the music situation and how everything's at your fingertips.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Well, I was looking over this list. This list sucks.
I mean like I mean listen like they have Eminem,
Like they have one song by Eminem on the list.
Yeah that's and it's stand it's not even any you know,
I mean it stands a great song. Oh yeah, but.

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Way are back at date thirty six on this Thursday,
The bloom Daddy Experience otis and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy wwvs. Excuse me, goodness. I want to go back
to Aaron's comment on Facebook. Didn't finish it in regards
to our conversation about the two hundred and fiftieth two
hundred and fifty list rolling stones that whole conversation. He said,

(52:37):
I think it's easier to be an artist now. You
can build a fan base quicker through the apps like
the iHeart app, Amazon, YouTube and things like that. The
problem is you barely make money to live and tour
on You almost have to pray. A big band or
an established act gives you a chance to do shows

(52:58):
without doing pay to play. Prime example is My Brothers
in Altered States, a great metal band from here, but
out put out a few extended plays in an album.
Can't get a following and wheeling, but once they go
out of town, they get a bigger crowd. That's why
we need to support the lower bands because you never know,
in five years they could be the next big thing.

(53:20):
And he's right. I mean, there's so many outlets for
people to put their music out there. It's changed the
landscape of music.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
It has being a musician or being an artist is
you know, it's like being an athlete. Okay. And you know,
I listened to not as much as I used to,
but on one of the subscription services there's a Bruce
Springsteen channel and no play clips of him, like from

(53:51):
interviews and things like that at certain times. And he said,
sometimes you're if you're good enough to be in a band, Okay,
that's great. You know, there's how many bands out there,
he said, maybe you or that band is good enough
to get noticed. Okay, so they invite you in for
a record, you know, to maybe record a record. Then

(54:13):
if you're lucky that record takes you know that it'll
have a little bit of a following that you can
do this. Then if you're lucky enough, like there's so
many like so many things have to fall into place,
and you know, the day of the days of like
a record producer going out and discovering somebody or are

(54:38):
few and far between. What they're doing is they're coming
the Internet and they're listening to these you know, you
know the tracks like you know this, this Altered States,
puts Out or whatever, and they're saying, Wow, this band's good,
or god they suck or you know you know that.
And I'm not talking about I'm just using them as
an example. But with the Rolling Stone thing, and I

(54:59):
want to I would put this out here that says
we had plenty of arguments while putting this list together,
and we enjoyed every minute. It's a list of songs,
not artists, so we mostly avoided repeating multiple tunes by
the same performer. So that's maybe why there's only one
Eminem song in there. But like Outcast is in there
three or four times, Billie Eilish is in there a

(55:21):
couple times, Lady Gaga's in there more than once.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Sorry, Eminem is more impactful than Outcast.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
In Outcast that one album that they had with Miss
Jackson and their big hits, and that that was good
and there were some great songs off that, and I
mean all their songs are gonna come from that album.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Pretty much right where eminem his songs come off of
multiple album.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Yes, yeah, so you know, I mean, uh so so,
it says here, but some musical masterminds just had too
many classics to deny. So it says, if the universe
wants to give Lord both Ribs and green Light in
the same career, you can't tell it not to you,
like I mean Lord, Yeah, oh god. It says every

(56:05):
fan would compile a different list, which is true, and
that's the point. But this list sums up in era
when there are no rules to follow, no playbooks to obey.
Nobody made this list by playing it safe, read on,
turn up the music, explore, and get your freak on.
But like Missy Elliott's on there multiple like they they contradict.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Themselves, Yeah they do, you know, Like.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Beyonce is on there multiple times. Taylor Swiss only on
there like once or twice, and she's completely I mean,
I just well, if you're gonna, if you're gonna say
that you're not gonna put multiple songs by by the
same artist on, then why are you putting multiple artists
of the same song.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Yeah? Well, and kudos to Aaron forgetting your brother's band
plugged on the radio.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
It's just like I've never been a fan of Rolling
Stone mm hmm. Like I remember in college, like people
were like, oh, yeah, you got to get a prescription
a subscription to Rolling Stone, and I'm like, I don't
think so. I just didn't like.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
I just didn't like it, like the writing, the direction, the.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Well I remember. I mean I would go to friends
apartments that would have it and I would look at it.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
You already paid too much for your playboy.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
I didn't have it.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Yeah, never I said prescription.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Yeah, I know. So, like I can remember the one
time and this would have been in the late eighties
where they asked various artists to rank their top ten
albums of the year or something like that. And so
keep in mind in the late eighties, like rap was

(57:45):
just hitting its stride, so like they were interviewing people
like Will Smith and I'm just trying to think, like
like Houdini and run DMC and and those those early
rap artists. Yeah, and then they were interviewed then like

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on the other side, they were asking like Bruce Springsteen
and they were asked you know, you know, David Bowie
and and so some of the bigger names at the time,
you know, Prince. I don't know if they got princes
or not. But I mean I remember Springsteen being in there.
I remember Will Smith being in there. I can't remember
everybody else, but and I'm not trying, but it was
funny because like Springsteen and some of the white artists, okay,

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their their their top ten musical albums covered like all
the genres at the time. So like like Springsteen had
like Prints at like number four because you couldn't Rade
Troe or maybe he had Prints at one or something
like that. But then and then he had like Beastie
Boys on there, and he had somebody else like like
three like rap artists were on and you know whatever,

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we're on that list, the black artists. It was just
all all rap and R and B and everything else.
Like nobody picked like guns n' Roses and nobody picked
born in the USA or what you know what I
mean and whatever the year it was. I mean, again
I'm not I can't remember because again in college, and

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there's been a few brain cells burned since then, so
but yeah, I mean it's just I found it like
interesting and I think Will Smith may have been the
only one that had like had Pepper, maybe one or
two other albums in that weren't R and B, but
all the rest of them, like I think, I think

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I'm trying to think, like, what was the cat from
skid Row that Bloomer said he interviewed. Bloom Daddy said
he interviewed, Yeah, Sebastian Bachan, Yes, yeah, yeah, I think he.
I think he had a list, you know, so they
tried to cover all the genres of the artists that picked.
You know that we're hot at the time.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
You know, he became an actor. Random, random, I don't
know where they came from, but he was in Gilmour Girls, okay,
a chick show, Sebastian bach Oh and then also just
real quick on Facebook. Franklin agrees with you. Everybody's like
agreeing with Otis today, he says, I agree with Otis
and his first all time NBA team Lebron is very good.

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But he's not in the same category as the true great.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
I don't think so. And I had somebody text me
and I gave him my second team.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Oh, okay, round up for the second team.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Yeah, and my second team is let me see here
where that is because we just had a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Well you're doing that, I'll remind her this year last call, Oh,
I was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Looking at the wrong one. My second team would be
Kobe at the point, Steph Curry at the two, Jerry
West at the three, John havlichek at the four, and
Kareem at the five. Okay, and i'd have I'd have
shocked as my sub I mean it's hard to not.
I mean, nobody mentioned Bill Russell. The guy's got eleven
rings or something like that. Nobody missing Jim. But like,

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you know, as far as dominant players, I'm taking Wilt,
you know, because I think I think Russell had the
better team around him, even though Wilt had Jerry, Rhett West,
and I mean they had great I mean they were
great teams, but I think they were just I don't
know what it was like the chemistry was better with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Boston at the natural flow. Yeah, it'sate forty five. If
you agree with otis like everybody seems to be doing today.
Oh he's he's he's dancing in there now. Okay, mister
big man, call him.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
I should start playing. We are the champions.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Oh Lord, call him. One sixty four eleven seventy. This
is but speaking. This is the last call for your
chance to win free half gallon of Kirk's ice cream.
Go to our text line. You text seven zero four
seven zero, start the message off with bloom Daddy and
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is the last call for registrations. All right, it's a

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forty five coming up. It's not a joke. An alligator
walks into a bar. Gotta love Florida. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Oda's News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA A fifty one. Welcome back to the blim Daddy Experienced,

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samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. As I said
before before the break, an alligator walks into a bar.
Well focus, not joke. This happened in Stuart, Florida. God,
I love, I love stories out of Florida. I've got
another one actually out of Florida, but first this one.
So police were called on Monday to a local watering

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hole called Harlowe's Hideout. They're not there to bust up
a bar brawl, noop. They had an alligator mosey right
on into the bar scales and all don't know if
he ordered a bourbon and coke, not sure, if you
jack and coke not sure, wandered right into the bar

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the bar. Police were called and the alligator was removed
with no incident. He did not resist arrest, There was
no injuries were reported, and everything went simply out the door.
So could you imagine you're sitting there and you're having

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your bud light after work and that comes walking in?
That would uh, that would make you clench a little bit,
wouldn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
It would make me question what, what? What? Why I'm
sitting in this bar?

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Yikes?

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
But I would also I would also be the person
who's tried to think of the joke, like a horse
walks into a bar and the bar thender says why
the long face, Yes, yes, let's Or two guys walk
into a bar that third one ducks stop?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
What was the one? You had?

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
A duck walks into a bar and orders are round
the beers and says put it on my bill. Here
we go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
You had one this morning off of Facebook that was
really good.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
I forget what it was about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
The toast, yes, do you remember it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Oh? And I just screwed it. I just gave it away. Yea.
So it says two slices of bread get married. Yeah,
and then I can't remember the rest of it, but
it's something about the.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Bride and groom became Yeah, the bride and groom were
toasted something like that. Yeah, that's sunk.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Anyways.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Keeping along the lines of animals, this is out of Butler, Pennsylvania.
I've actually had this happen. A cow is on the
loose and it caused traffic backups in Butler, PA. The police,
the state police say the bow vine somehow gone onto
I seventy nine, causing big delays in both directions. This

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happened yesterday. No details on where the cow came from.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Wow, probably a farm, a pasture.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Field possibly, and how it escaped and have has and
wait or how it it escaped have been released. Oh,
they have not released any details on any of this,
on any of how any of this happened. I actually
almost hit a cow once, No, lie, I almost hit
a cow. I was coming up just you know how

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there's just just enough of a little bit of a
of a hill, not even a hill, but like a
when you're coming down the road, just enough that you
can't see what's on the other side. Came up just
over this little berm boom, there's a full sized cow
right there. I squealed and the back end of my

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car flipped around like a crazy you know, like a fish.
I'm screaming, and I'm like, I thought I lost my mind.
I'm like, was that's a cow? Like that's a cow
in the middle of the road. And if I would
have hit that cow, I'm sorry, you hit a cow.
You're done, not you, but your car is done. It
is smashed. Didn't move that cow, didn't flinch, didn't even

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remotely blink. I can actually now, sitting here telling that
the story, I can see that cow's face just staring
right out at me like ha ha, I dare you? Basically,
I dare you?

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
So two slices of bread get married. Okay, the wedding
was amazing until someone decided to toast the bride and crew.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
There we go. Okay, but I'm b you know what
goes on? Good on toast in celebration today's National moldy
Cheese Day. Doesn't that sound yummy? I'm sorry, that's blue
like blue cheese. I can't stand blue cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Oh, scientists got bored after watching me Earth turned for
twenty four hours, so they called her today.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Shut you're so stupid. Oh oh we miss Kevin. Oh,
now tell you how this happens. No, Bernadette del Monte,
she's fringe. I have to do it like this. She's

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a French woman, sixty year old. She's sixty years old.
Oh this actually really isn't funny. But she died after
being trapped by her car's automatic window. She was cleaning
her Fiat five hundred when she realized the handbrake wasn't

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applied and the car began rolling backward. She leaned through
the open window to reach the handbreak and accidentally pressed
the auto window button, which closed on her throat. Oh
my god, this is awful. This is the new version
of the French guillotine.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
No, this is this is like if you could picture
the way you're gonna die. This is one that you
never would think of.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Oh god, her friend Beatrice told Franz three. The car
then began to roll backward. To stop it, Bernadette threw
herself through the open window to stomp it from going
any further, but her hand moved over the window control
and by the time she straightened up, the windows stopped
on her neck. Friends found her body after she missed

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dinner God, and autopsy confirmed she'd died of asphyxiation. Her
death was ruled accidental with no foul play except for
the window God.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Yeah, like I said, if you picture the way like,
that's not a way that you like. Car accident, sure,
plane crash, yeah, maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Automatic window guillotine.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
No, that's not how that's no. I've never even thought
about that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
So okay, So wait a second, go back. If her
friend Beatrice knew all of these details.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
Well, they could have told her what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
You think, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
I mean they probably did the investigation and figured it out,
and then that's she just shared it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
With the news as opposed to say that well Bernadette,
oh mm hmmm. And finally out of Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
What a way to go?

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Yeah, finally out of Florida. Middle aged man hanging out
in a bathroom gets arrested, Cops find thermas in the tailpipe,
goes to the hospital, gets it removed. Don't end it
on that, ladies and gentlemen, No.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
We're gonna end it on this. What don't throw sodium
chloride at people? That's assault,