The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 16, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
And tick people off.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Folks at seven oh seven on this Thursday morning. Thank
you for jumping on with us. Of course, I'm sam
Otis manning the the main frame in there. Good morning,
the Bloomdaddy Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
We're kind of switching some things around today, yes, because
bloom Daddy had an interview with former Arizona sheriff and
you may remember him from Live PD and I think
for a while there he started it after Live PD
got canceled, he started one on his own like YouTube
channel or something, yeah, something like that. You had to
subscribe to it. The sheriff Mark Lamb from Panalas County,

(01:02):
Panola County. I'm sorry, and it's a rather lengthy interview.
So we've divided it into two segments and so to
for you to have it back to back. It was
too long to run in the first and second segments
and then be able to hit our news break at
the bottom of the hour. So we're going to do

(01:22):
the first segment in the next segment.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
So we did. We did some manipulating a little, you know,
So Bloom Dady's going to be on, but he's going
to be coming up in the next segment roughly around
seven eighteen or so.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
And then and then the second half of the interview
will be after the news break.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well in Sheriff Mark Lamb, we of course had the
opportunity to talk to on our trips.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
To d C.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Just a cool dude, cool dude and tall. Yeah, that's
because I'm like Mark Lamb and I'm going which one
is the which one?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's not what you said? You kept going?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Is that professional? Probably not as probably not put anybody
that knows me give me a good pair of cowboy
boots and a hat. Mm mm hmmm. Anyways, about about
but that is coming up. Sorry, what is also coming
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Speaker 4 (02:55):
And just if you were wondering, no, we did not
give away lunch yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh that's right, No, we did not.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
If you if you were registered for lunch this week,
you automatically carry over in the next week. The reason
being I am going to be out of town and
you have a personal commitment that you have to take
care of, so we will not be here tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Correct. Correct?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
So taking are we taking a page out of somebody
else's book? No, No, we're just we just need the
day off.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
No no, yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
They didn't give us Columbus Day, so we just took
our own day. We just said, do you know what,
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Speaker 3 (03:31):
We're going to sell indigenous People's Day or whatever tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
We're kidding. I heart any big wigs.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes, it's all in jest. It's all in all in
good fun, all in good fun. I want to get
to some stop let me turn around start that again.
I want to get to some top stories. Though a
lot happened yesterday. First of all, on our Facebook page,
I posted this last night. We want your thoughts on

(03:59):
the big announcement yesterday from Trinity Health System with the
merger with UPMC Healthcare of the High Valley has been
a conversation since I was born, I think, so the
announcement that came yesterday, as they go through this process,
we want your thoughts. As I said, it's on our
Facebook page, which please go and post in comment, or

(04:22):
you can call us one hundred and sixty two four
eleven seventy or of course go to our text line
because we're going to get into that conversation a little
bit later in the show. But also I want to
give you a heads up on that that that is coming.
But also a disturbing, disturbing story yesterday out of Saint Clairsville,
a homeless man from Belmont County was spotted after two

(04:45):
witnesses saw him loading a gun outside of Saint Clairsville Schools.
Authorities were called in the eighteen year old gentleman Elliott
Blunk has been arrested with charges of inducing panic, aggravated menacing,
and illegal conveyance of a deadly weapon. Here's here's the thing.

(05:05):
Spoke to multiple sources. This was, of course a very
scary situation. But according to our sources, this was not
a mass shooting situation, so want to alleviate concerns on that. Again,
according to multiple sources, this was not a mass shooting situation.

(05:28):
This had to do, again, according to sources, something to
do with a student in the school, a female student
in the school. So wanted to sort of give you
an update on what happened yesterday. And again the scary
part is this was right at dismissal time. This was
right at dismissal time where this eighteen year old Elliott

(05:48):
Blunk was witnessed with the firearm loading the magazine into
the weapon. But authorities were called. But again, wanted to
let everybody know that this was not a mass shooter
situation according to our sources, So a little calming there.
But listen, folks, we tend to think that we are

(06:09):
in a really safe, secure, our bubble that I like
to call it here in the Ohigh Valley. But things
like this do happen, and they do touch us every day.
So as that develops and we get additional information, we
will keep you abreast of what is happening there. It's
seven thirteen on your Thursday. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy
Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
This guy you're about to meet, rose to fame on
the TV show Live PD. You've seen him on Fox
News and Newsmax. You ran for the Senate in twenty
twenty four, losing in the Republican primary to carry Lake.
Former Sheriff Panall County, Arizona, and he was on The
Sean Ryan Show, which is the number one podcast in
the world with over a billion downloads. Four and a

(06:57):
half hour interview and I'm talking about four Arizona Sheriff
Mark Lamb, who's also a friend of mine, met him
in Washington, DC about seven years ago. He's been on
the show a number of times and my friend, thanks
for being all once again.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh thanks for having me on. Brother. It's good to
hear your voice.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
What did you think when Sean Ryan, again, host of
the number one podcast in the world, former Navy Seal
CIA operator, reached out to you?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
And what was that four and a half hour experience?

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Like, you know, Shawn and I had actually kind of
communicated a couple of times on social media, nothing big,
you know, comment on each other's posts. One day, my
assistant came in and said, Hey, these guys want you
to come to Tennessee and do a podcast, but you
got to pay your own way. I was like, I
don't know about that. And then I paused and I go,

(07:47):
hold on, is this Sean the Sean Ryan Show? And
she looks at her email and she goes yeah, And
I go, heck, yeah, book that. Like, I mean, I
was a big fan. I love the what he was doing.
I just I love the guests he brings on so
very different, you know, he and Joe Rogan bring on
a lot of different guests. Sean Ryan has done some

(08:07):
really great shows, and then you start to have this
imposter syndrome set in and be like, wait a second,
look at all these people he's had on. Nobody's going
to listen to my show. And then we filmed it
and it didn't come out for about forty five days
and so and then I kept watching show after show
after show come out, and I'm thinking, oh my gosh, man,

(08:30):
I don't belong on his show. Nobody's going to watch
my show. But it was great. It was such a
great experience. The guy is a phenomenal interviewer. His show
is so good. He's genuinely interested in the things that
he's asking about, and he's such a patriot and a
great American. It was an honor to do a show.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
I saw a clip on YouTube and that prompted me
to reach out to you where he asked you, what
was your most spiritual experience? And it occurred in Argentina?
And I want you to pick it up from there.
What were you doing in Argentina and what happened? And
I don't want you to skip a thing.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
So interesting thing about that story is I just never
really had told it. You know, this happened to me
in somewhere in the area of nineteen ninety two and
when Shawn asked me about it. And the thing about
Shawn is Shawn is genuinely curious about religion and just
about people's relationship with God and faith and you know,

(09:33):
and he's on that spiritual path as well. And you know,
I just felt compelled to tell the story that I'd
probably only told it it made less than three or
four times in my life. My kids didn't know the story,
my wife knew it barely.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
But you were you embarrassed by it, Mark, or did
you think people wouldn't believe you?

Speaker 5 (09:51):
No? No, it was such a deep story for me.
It was my personal faith story and it was and
it was something that's it's hard to tell because it's
such an emotional experience as well, and so it's not
every day you get involved in these deep conversations about
religion either, and so I just had never really I had,

(10:12):
you know, in church experiences. I had told it a
couple times, but that was pretty much it. And the
story is as I was. I mean, this is as
real as and I had two other guys that were
missionary companions. You normally just have one mission companion. I
had two. I was in Buenosidas, Argentina, just outside of
the capital, in one of the little towns, just on

(10:33):
the outskirts of the capital is what we call it.
And it'd be like you know, Washington, DC versus Arlington, Virginia.
And so we were there and I had an Argentine
companion and an American companion. One was from Salta, Argentina
and the other was from Idaho, and we were we

(10:56):
had a very busy day scheduled, but the day was
going horrorle like. We just everything that we had scheduled
had gotten canceled, a lot of things going on. We
just thought, you know what, it was about six o'clock,
sun was getting ready to go down, and our dinner
got canceled. So we thought, let's just go back to
the apartment and we'll just call it a night. And

(11:17):
we normally didn't go back till about nine o'clock, and
we decided let's just go back. Well, as we were
standing there on the corner debating this, we had seen
this old bum, just dirty clothes, just shuffling slowly across
the street, big long beard. You couldn't really see we

(11:37):
couldn't see his face.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
He just was.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Just shuffling across the street. And so we're standing there
on the corner talking about what we're gonna do, but
we're kind of watching this guy and we're kind of
then we start to say, should we just go help
this guy? And we're like, we could just go home.
Finally we decided, let's just go help this guy. So
right as we get to him, he had just got
on the curb and he had tripped over the curb,

(12:02):
and right as we get there, we catch him and
we keep him from falling, and so he stainings. He's
just dirty. It's his clothes are filthy. We don't see
his face and he's mumbling and we can't really hear him,
and so we decide we're going to walk him because
the sun's going down. We walk them over to this

(12:22):
little corner store they call him Kiosko's Kiosks And it
takes us probably forty minutes to walk I don't know,
thirty yards. It was a slow, slow shuffle walk. And
finally we get there. Now the sun's kind of gone
down and it's a dimly lit in front of the store.

(12:45):
It's got one light above us, and we asked the storekeeper,
We're like, hey, who's do you know who this guy is?
And he's like, yeah, he lives right over there. And
we said what does he usually order? And they said
he open candles, And so we said, okay, give us
some milking candles, and the milk came in a bag
down there, and the candles we got the candles well

(13:08):
while we were standing there under there, and this is
the experiences. My two companions were standing on either side
of him, and I was directly in front of him,
and we were interacting with the guy, but we couldn't
really understand anything, and we hadn't seen his face. And
then all of a sudden, he just his he raises
his head and just looks me straight in the eye,

(13:30):
and his face that was the face of Jesus Christ.
His face was clean, his eyes pierced right through me
the two and he just looked at me for what
seemed like several minutes but it was probably five seconds
maybe at the most. And then he put his head

(13:51):
back down and I didn't say he didn't say anything,
just looked me right in the face. And I looked
at the two guys on the side, and we were
all just bewildered that. Oh yeah, we all had that
wide eyed look on our faces, like what in the
world did we just what just happened? And we still

(14:14):
were just kind of on this cloud of what did
we just go through and we took the guy. We
walked him and took another you know, thirty minutes to
get to where he was staying, and we go through
this gate and on there we finally kind of understood
what he was saying. He was asking us who we were,
and we just would say we were angels from heaven.

(14:36):
We're just or we're angels were sent to take you home.
And so we opened the door and we thought we
were going back to a house, but we just went
into this little closet like a shed, and in there
was a chair and a table with melted candles and
old bags of milk, and all there was was enough
space in the chair was just filled with you know,

(14:57):
junk and trash. And we sa at him down and
we lit his candles, we gave him his milk, and
we left. We were in complete. We just were still
on this you know, spiritual high. I guess you could
say we just couldn't believe what we had gone through.
We went back to day I think a day or
two later, and we went to check on him and

(15:20):
there was a bunch of kids outside plane we had
knock knock knocked. Finally we asked the kids, We said
what happened to the old man that was here? And
they said he died two nights ago, and so.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Wow, so crazy, so so so waitwa did he die
after you guys dropped him off or he was already gone?

Speaker 5 (15:42):
He died that night after we dried him dropped him off?

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (15:47):
And you know what we realized was you know, and
I said this on the Sean Ryan, I said, you
we judge a lot as humans. We judge by the
way people look or the way they act, or you know,
their their their economical status, whether they're poor, rich. And
what it reminded us was that Christ is in the

(16:08):
least the places you least expect. God is in the
places you least expect. It's how you treat the least
of us that really matters to God.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
What did that do? Go ahead, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
It's easy to treat somebody with class, you know, with status,
You you treat them a certain way. The question is
how do you treat those who would be determined to
be beneath you, or that would that have appeared to
have lost their way or or on the streets, or
a bum or whatever, or a janitor or whatever it be.

(16:47):
How do you treat those people. And I think that
it just it gave me a lifelong lesson as to
God is in all of us. He's everywhere, and he's
where you least expect them, and so you better treat
everybody with that kindness and respect that you would treat
Christ or God with, because that's who you may be

(17:09):
dealing with.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I've got to take a break.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
More of the interview coming up here on eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy experience. Let's get back
to the interview. You lost your son, daughter in law,
and grand baby in a car crash about three years ago.
Did that experience back in Argentina and your faith help
you get through that and still deal with it?

Speaker 5 (17:35):
Look, you can say you have faith, and for one
that experience, I was already a faithful person. I feel blessed.
I feel like I was born with this deep faith
in God and Jesus Christ. And as I progressed and
as I read scriptures and you know, became more spiritually astute,
it just increased my faith and my testimony. And I

(17:57):
you could tell me whatever, and it doesn't that doesn't
rock that from me. I could go through some of
the worst things. And while I've had my down moments
and I've been a little angry sometimes, my faith in
God has never been, you know, questioned. Where you will
really be tested on your faith is when you go
through this experiences that are not of fun, they're not okay.

(18:21):
And when we lost my son, my granddaughter, my son
was twenty two years old, my granddaughter was eleven months old,
and my daughter in law was probably dead the night
of the accident, but they had her on life support
for a week and she ultimately died by the hands
of somebody driving under a young man driving under the
influence of drugs in marijuana, extremely drugs and alcohol, including marijuana.

(18:47):
And you know, you say you have faith, but those
are the moments that truly test whether you're faith. And
I was not going to be one of those people
that say why have faith? I have faith? But then
when something hard happened, as you abandon that faith or
you question it. And for me, I think that my
faith was only strengthened through that and that my faith

(19:09):
was what carried me through. And I you know, this
experience with this old guy in Argentina, amongst many other
experiences throughout my life has confirmed me that God exists.
That well, things don't always look great they are. It's
all for our for what is best for us, and
it makes us better people and it makes us stronger

(19:30):
if we take the right approach and have the right attitude.
And I don't wish it upon anybody. It was a
tough experience to get through, but the what carried us
through as faith and prayers of those around us.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
There is no doubt in your mind back in nineteen
ninety two of what you saw in that man's face.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
No doubt in my mind, and no doubt in the
minds of the two guys that were with me. Okay,
and I don't even know you know where their status
is anymore, and is whether they go to church. I
don't know any of that, but I will promise you
if I called them right now on this phone, they
would say absolutely that's what we saw that night.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Talking to former Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb. It's had a
storied career. It was also on The Sean Ryan Show,
the podcast which is the number one podcast in America.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I want to go back to, you know, nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
This guy looks up at you, and you say it
was one the face of Christ.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
You had to be stunned. I mean, I don't.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Know how you could have moved or said anything or well,
like you said, you know, it's probably five seconds that
he that he stared into your eyes, but it felt
like longer.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, and you you can't. I couldn't say anything. I
was just you're just kind of shocked. You just you
know what you're seeing, You're processing it, you're feeling it.
You're because it was so out of the norm. What
that's not what he looked like the other times we
you know, while you're walking with him, and next thing

(21:05):
you know, you see this clear, clean face looking right
at you, piercing your eyes. It was Yeah, it just
it was no doubt what I saw. And you know
what's what's liberating for so many people is when I
told that story on Sean Ryan all the we were

(21:26):
on the show for four hours. We talked about politics,
we talked about the border, we talked about all sorts
of stuff. We talked about leadership. The most common thing
that I get from people when they see me in
public is saying, I love that story you told from
when you were a missionary in Argentina. And there's so

(21:46):
many people that have reached out to me, either messages
or even on the post like when you when I
would when it posted originally the comments of people saying
I had a similar experience or I saw something, I
went through something very much like what you did, and
it gave people the ability to say, yes, I'm not

(22:07):
the only one. I saw it too, and so and
look I don't know. You know, people will say, oh, well,
that wasn't him, Like I don't know how all those
things work. That's God's ways. His waves are higher than
our ways. But I'm telling you what I saw and
what they saw and what we felt, and no doubt that.

(22:27):
And it was the experience that has impacted my life
in a deep way that I think has grounded me
and giving me purpose and principle in this life to
get through some tough times and to stand up for
what is right in some very tough times.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
You know, I met you in DC for the Fair
Convention Radio Row Federation for American Immigration Reform. You were
a sheriff of Panall County, Arizona, and you've since moved
on from that. What's next for Mark Lamb? I mean
you were on Live PD. You ran for politics. I mean,
you've done a lot of different things. What's your next journey?

Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, I was hoping to write off into the sunset
and do some I had an offer on a ranch
in Tennessee fifty three.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Not many people ride off to the sunset at age fifty.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
Three, Mark, Well, I wasn't right off in the sunset
and live off of anything that I've made. Gotcha, I'm
still at that. This was right off into the sunset
into a very lucrative consulting private sector. Okay, until last week,
and now I'm very seriously considering making a run for

(23:39):
the congressional district I live in. And I had all
but written that off a week ago, and some things
have come and just honestly, right now, with where the
country's at, you know, I tell stories of the founding fathers,
and I tell the stories of the sacrifices they made
to give us the freedoms that we have and to
protect them God given freedoms. And who am I to

(24:02):
turn and say, well, it's just not convenient for me
right now. And there's an old Danish saying that says
he who has the ability has the responsibility and then
with what we're seeing now with all these Antifa and
and all these people fighting with ice, and just the
amount of crime, and we have judges who are just
totally they're not holding people accountable and there's no consequences

(24:26):
for them. And we've got the border, and we've got immigration,
and all these things are still very much issues that
we're dealing with in this country. Once again, I looked
and said, much like when I ran for Senate, how
can I sit by and do nothing because it's not
convenient for me, or because it's going to be a
huge pay cut, And so I'm seriously considering that. So

(24:49):
we'll see that, you know, we'll see what happens in
the next few weeks.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
Well, so, in other words, you had an epiphany and
this is your direction. Maybe maybe somebody upstairs has guiding you,
somebody who dropped in on you back in nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
No doubt that that's the case. I've gone through my
grief in my anger stage, because I'll tell you first,
to tell you what our plans and what God's plans
are not always the same, and it's not easy for
us to surrender the outcome. But that's one of the
things that I tell youth and I tell people. I
think the majority of the people in this country or
in this world who are angry or upset, or frustrat

(25:27):
or feel anxiety is because you're trying to control an
outcome that you have no control over. And so what
I tell people is surrender the outcome. It's what carried
me through life. It's what carried me through losing my kids,
it's what's carried me through seeing the disasters that we
see in the profession that I've been in for the
last few decades. There is you have to surrender the outcome.

(25:52):
And I have to surrender the outcome. And it's not
always what I want to do. It's I think what's
best for us personally and what's best for the country
and for our progression, and maybe I'll just have to
put making money on the back burner. But you're right,
it's you feel that calling and you try to run
from it. But if you're truly open to it and

(26:14):
you're a servant, it'll find you and you can't run
from it.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Well, Mark, thanks for being a friend and thanks for
sharing your story on here.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
I appreciate it. Thank you, and it's good talking to you,
and you know anytime I'm ready for you.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I got you, buddy.

Speaker 5 (26:28):
Thank you, all right, thanks brother.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
All right, everybody has a story and you just heard
former Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Welcome back, seven fifty one the Blendatdi Experience Sam and
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder, free
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I want to go back to our top story of

(27:44):
the morning mentioned this earlier, but for those who are
just tuning in, there was a scary situation yesterday in
Saint Clairsville. A homeless man from Belmont County is actually
now sitting in jail. Eighteen year old Elliott Blanc was
outside of the school when witnesses saw him loading a

(28:10):
gun with the magazine. The very scary part of this
story is the time of day. It was right before
classes were dismissed, so eagle eyed witnesses, God blessed them
noticed it. They saw it, and they did something about it.
They called the authorities. Authorities were on scene very quickly,

(28:33):
including the Saint clair'swol Police, Richland Township police in Belmont
County Sheriff's department were all there. He is now again,
Eighteen year old Elliott Blank is now sitting in jail.
His charges include inducing panic, aggravated menacing, in the illegal
conveyance of a deadly weapon in a school safety zone.
Reached out to and spoke to multiple sources about this.

(28:56):
One thing we want to reassure people about is, according
to our sources, this was not a mass killer scenario.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
This was not your.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Typical I hate to use that word, but the school
shooter situation, from what our sources are telling us, this
had to do with one particular other student and was
not focused upon the student body in general. So some
additional information about that situation. Again, that happened yesterday outside

(29:29):
of Saint Clairsville Schools at dismissal time. Now, one thing
they did do, of course, is students remained within the
building until authority showed up and the gentleman was taken
into custody. So scary, you know, really really scary situation
for Saint Clairsville School District. And again to those who

(29:49):
saw and made the phone call, God bless you. Along
with that, yesterday, big news came out yesterday right after
our show was done for the day. That is the
merger of UPMC with Trinity Health System. Have a statement
here from Trinity Health It says comment Spirit Health, which

(30:11):
is the ownership group I guess you would say of
Trinity Health System Common Spirit Health has signed a letter
of intent with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC to
integrate Trinity Health System into the UPM system UPMC system
and preserve and enhance high quality healthcare services for communities

(30:33):
served by Trinity Health System. As Trinity Health System and
UPMC move forward with the process, including a customary due
diligence period and regulatory review, we will keep our stakeholders
in community updated of key developments. I also reached out
to Trinity yesterday sources and contacts that I have there,
invited them on the show to discuss It is not

(30:56):
to that point yet, but that door is always open.
That invitation is is there. You know, people are asking
about you know, their their physicians, the providers that you
that Trinity has. Is that going to continue with what
they have currently? From what I am being told, nothing
is changing right now if you are a patient of

(31:19):
Trinity Health System, everything remains the same as this process
moves on. So I posted it on our Facebook page.
What is your thoughts on this? You know, what are
your opinions? What are your thoughts? Is this is this good?
This announcement? Is this good for the people of the
Ahigh Valley? You know, otis We've talked multiple times about
health care here in the High Valley. I've always heard

(31:43):
about there's always been complaining about health care here in
the valley. Unfortunately. Do you think this is a good announcement.
Do you think this is good for our area?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Well, I mean I don't. I didn't see any issues
with Trinity being you know, where they were. I mean,
does this maybe give them a little more access to
maybe a little bit bigger and better things, maybe bigger network. Yeah, yeah,
you know, I mean it probably is going to I
mean obviously UPMC has been around. It's a you know,

(32:18):
quality hospital, so I mean, it's it's not going to hurt, right,
So why not?

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well, and choices are a good thing. Choices are a
good thing, you know, the UPMC. And I've heard this
for a while now, with everything going on with East
Ohio and that that terrible situation in Martin's Ferry. I
have been told that UPMC has has has wanted a
footprint in this area for a while. So it makes sense,

(32:50):
you know, hearing those things. And then if you look
at it financially from UPMC's point of view, the new
Trinity Neighborhood Hospital just opened it believe in the end
of July in Saint Clairsville. So there is that new structure,
the new facility, which is appealing of course to bringing
them under the UPMC umbrella. Listen, choices of healthcare is good.

(33:15):
You don't want anybody to ever have a monopoly. You
don't in anything, you know, so but according you know again,
I put this out on our Facebook page. Becky says
it's great for the High Valley. People need quality care
and choice. There's the word choice. That's the word that's important. Important.
In this conversation, Dawn says, I'm excited. I'll be switching

(33:39):
all of the doctors up at to all of the
doctors up at Trinity. Exciting news, especially since Saint ce
has the new hospital. So the feedback that we received
on our Facebook post is pretty much positive. And this
is not a knock. This is not a knock on
other medical providers WVU Medicine here in the valley, not

(34:01):
a knock whatsoever. Friendly competition, always good, always good. Seven
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
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Speaker 3 (34:43):
Now Welcome Back eight oh six The bloom Daddy Experience
OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So I
want to get into something locally out of Jefferson County.
So I mentioned yesterday about you guys, our listeners, that

(35:06):
thanks to you, we get a lot of information provided
to us. We can't be everywhere all the time knowing everything,
so we have you our sources. With that being said,
A couple nights ago, I was sent along a post
from X A tweet. What do they call them? Now?

(35:30):
Are they tweets? They're not tweets anymore because it's not Twitter,
they still call them tweets. I don't know whatever.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
I have never tweeted. I don't think I've ever tweeted
in my life.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
I don't use X that often, so I don't know
all the vernacular exactly properly. Okay, So what I was
sent was a post by an account called libs of TikTok.
It is about a doctor out of Jefferson, can who

(36:00):
is running for school board at Indian Creek. Now, the election,
of course is in November. This doctor, her name is
doctor Rachel Gilman, again running for school board Indian Creek
Local School District. There are five board members. There actually

(36:22):
is a meeting tonight at six pm of the current board.
But she is running for one of two seats that
will be determined in this election. She along with two
other candidates. All right, so there's there's the there's the
background of of of the race, real simple. Three candidates running.

(36:45):
Doctor Rachel Gilman is one of them. There are two
others running. The two others running are Daniel Beavet Junior
and Brian Schoolcraft. All Right, so back to the original
point was sent this post. In this post, they are this,
this organization is accusing doctor Rachel Gilman of being an

(37:08):
extreme LGB two t Q plus propaganda on her social media.
All of you know all of this stuff. So let
me let me explain the posts or the photos that
are included in this post that they are using as
an example of her quote unquote extreme extremism. Okay, one

(37:32):
is just a picture of her. The other one is
from October of twenty twenty three National Coming Out day.
The other is a still shot of a video post
of the rainbow flag. And then the third one, which
is the one that I personally find disturbing that I

(37:55):
completely disagree with as a picture of the our flag
where the stars would break would be our metal hangers.
Now this post is from June of twenty twenty two. Okay,
the American flag post where the stars are there hangars,
the red stripes are I guess I would explain it

(38:20):
as almost streaks of blood is what they're trying to
get across. And then the end of each red stripe
touches into the female anatomy, if you it's the best
way to put it. What this is is in regards
to is abortion dating back to twenty twenty two. I said,

(38:42):
that is where that post comes from, women's rights with abortion,
that whole conversation. So I took the time and I
went to her Facebook page. I will say this, I'm
not taking sides here. I want to make that abundantly clear.

(39:03):
I'm sure if you listen to us, you know I am.
I'm a strug supporter of indoctrination in our schools should
not be there in any way, shape or form. Math, science, reading,
writing that school that is school. I will say this,

(39:27):
these posts are from a long time ago. For those
who disagree with me, will say they did it to us.
When cancel culture started the woke movement everything else, they
went back to twenty eighteen, twenty fifteen and canceled everybody
they possibly could. I hear you. I completely understand. That

(39:50):
doesn't make them right, and that doesn't make doing this right.
Here's where the concern is, and I understand the concern
of the parents. I agree with the concern. This type
of people are scared of this type of ideology coming
near our kids and having somebody on the school board

(40:15):
with these thoughts. Now, the two posts with the two flags,
I personally don't find that concerning. This is a private
Facebook page where these were found. If that is her
lifestyle again, I'm talking about candidate Rachel Gilman for Indian

(40:40):
Creek school Board. That's her personal page and that is
her lifestyle. That does not mean she will bring that
to the school board. That doesn't mean that I scrolled
through her Facebook page. I went all the way back
to twenty twenty two. I did not see extreme focused

(41:08):
LGT peak. I can never say that right. Plus alphabet
soup posts. I did not see them. I saw these
pictures in the photo gallery, not in the feed. Now
there are posts that say no longer available, like they've outdated.

(41:28):
Maybe those were extreme. I don't know what I'm saying,
is I understand the concern. I am glad this was
brought to our attention because it needs to be spoken about. Absolutely.
This is somebody running for school district board. They make
a lot of important decisions.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
So what is the.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Purpose of a school board member? What does a school board?
What are their primary roles? They set policy, provide oversight
for the school district, They set the vision, they create policies.
There's where people are concerned, the policies that they have
the power to implement. That's the concern. I understand the concern.

(42:17):
Keep in mind, this is a five person board. Somebody
look at voting one person for other people who knows,
But when you vote, you need to know about every candidate.
That's why I'm bringing this to people's attention. Plus, there's

(42:38):
a lot of outrage on social media. People are you know,
people are immediately jumping to conclusions on this woman because
of this particular post on X When I went and
looked at her at her Facebook page, those posts are
buried very very deep. Again, the American flag post about abortion,

(43:00):
I find it vile. I find it vile personally. I
think it's disgusting. I think it's disgusting, and I think
it's very extreme and it paints the wrong picture I personally,
from what I looked at, I don't think she comes
off as extreme. I don't live in that school district,

(43:22):
so I don't have a vote. I don't have a vote.
I think the moral of this story is just because
you see one post with certain imagery, don't overreact. Do
the research for yourself, look into it. But in the
same regards as a voter, educate yourself, and that's part

(43:44):
of this. Educate yourself before you go to vote. Don't
just take one post and label somebody because of that
one post. Educate yourself. She's a doctor, she's a huge
advocate for animals Jefferson County Humane Society, and I put
the invitation out there to her. Doctor Gilman, please would

(44:07):
love to have you on the show to discuss this
and your views and any of the other candidates running
for the school for the Board of Education for Indian
Creek school district. But I wanted to address this because
our listeners took the time to bring it to us
and have this conversation. Want your thoughts one hundred sixty
two for eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty two four

(44:29):
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(44:51):
Hey twenty one, Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder,
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all we need. Yep Oho, you're gonna say usually when
you turn your microphone on, there's gonna be a flurry.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
Of well no, I was just gonna say that there's
a fierce rivalry that's being renewed starting tonight, Week seven.
The Bengals and the Steelers for Thursday Night football. Cincinnati
is hoping to put an into its four game losing streak.
Joe Flacco is set to make his second start for
the Bengals, who are second in THEAFC North at two
and four. The Steelers lead that division at four and

(45:40):
one entering Week seven. Aaron Rodgers has strown for over
one thousand yards and ten tds already this season.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
So I'm gonna be completely honest. I did not see
Aaron Rodgers doing this. Well, yeah, I just I didn't.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
There's another report out of Pittsburgh. I don't know if
you saw this or not. What the Steelers have a
quote an embarrassing playing surface.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Like the field.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
That's according to ESPN, which reports several players from both
the home team and the visiting Browns expressed outrage to
the NFLPA when the sides clashed last weekend. The turf
is terrible up there.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
How does that make it embarrassing?

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Because that's how I mean, Well, you have, First off,
they pit plays there on Saturdays, Steelers play there, and
it's not It's never been like this great surface anyway.
They've tried to improve it and everything else, and they
put new sawed down at times and everything else. It's
just it's it is kind of an embarrassing thing. But

(46:43):
just to let you know, you can catch tonight Steelers game.
If you're not able to watch it, you can catch
that on our sister station, Equal one O seven to five.
That being said, the Pens are also in action tonight.
They continue their road trip. They face off against the
La Kings. They opened up the West Coast Swing with
a lost loss to the Ducks and fell to two
and two on the young season. Normally, the Pens are

(47:07):
on Eagle one O seven five, but because of the
Steeler game, they're they're gonna flip flop over to Fox
Sports fourteen hundred or on your FM DOW one oh
three point nine. So just a little programming note that
if you do tune in to catch the Penguins on Eagle,
it's gonna be it'll be the Steeler game, so you
have to switch over to Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
So basically what you're saying, if you're a Pittsburgh sports
fan currently, we've got you covered.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
You need two radiosh no.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
But back to the Steelers game tonight, watch Joe Flacco.
As I'm saying, this is a Browns fan, watch Joe
Flacco go out there and just light it up. I mean,
that would be I don't think that's gonna happen. I
don't think it's gonna happen either, But I'm just saying,
watch that happen. But no, But back what I was
saying about was.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Flacco the quarterback when the Browns played the Steelers. That
was oh that was last week.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah, never mind, that was the first week it was
gone because remember Tomlin said, right, why do you know?
And I never thought i'd agree with Mike Tomlin, but
I do agree with him on that sentiment, which is
he said, you know, why would you get rid of
your starting quarterback or the to an inner division?

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Why trading to a division rival?

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Yeah? Yeah, and that makes complete sense.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
You don't normally, you don't see that happen very often.
I mean, Mike Tomlin, you don't see it. You don't
see it in the NBA, you don't see it in
the NHL, you don't see it the Major League Baseball.
You very rarely see it in the NFL. I mean,
I'm not going to say that it doesn't happen.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
But there's a reason why you don't see it.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
That's just sometimes like if a player has a no
trade clause in their contract, so what they would say is, Okay,
well these are the teams that I will not go to.
But you want to unload this person at the end
of the season or whatever because of the salary and
so on and so forth. At that point in time,
you probably don't care. Yeah, so you're going to trade
him to whoever's going to take him. So like if

(48:55):
he says, hey, I'm not going let's say it's let's
say it's a Pittsburgh pirate and he said, I'm not
going to Cincinnati, I'm not going to Detroit, I'm not
going to Cleveland. I'm not going here. But he will
go to Chicago. So you trade him to the Cubs
and now they're in your division. But you just dump
dumped his salary too.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
So right, No, But what I was gonna say about
the whole Aaron Rodgers thing, like I thought, okay' is
Aaron Rodgers. He's got a name. He might have a
little bit more gas in the tank. When when the
when the pickup of him was done over the summertime, and.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
I have I was, you know, Steeler fans weren't.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
They didn't know, and and and that opinion of mine
was based on his performance in New York.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Which was it was the Jets, the j E T
s Jet Jet Jets spot.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
I know, I know, but when you watched him, he
was slow and then he got hurt and the whole thing.
I didn't see him working afrithing fast. Well, now, no,
that's that's hilarious watching quarterbacks that just have no wheels whatsoever.
And it's like, come on, guy, go you I did
it go And it's so awkward and bumbling and fumbling

(50:03):
and it's just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
But Aaron Rodgers, like when you look at him, like
his facial expressions when he's just like sitting on the
sidelines or he's just like if you're being interviewed or whatever,
he looks like a dork.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
He's an odd cat.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Yeah, you know, I mean he looks like that guy
like like if you didn't know who he was and
you were picking your team to play like flag football,
you would he'd be one of the last people picked.
If Peyton Manning's.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
The same way, yeah, yeah, no, my mom when he
was at Green Bay, my mom used to say how attractive.
He is not Peyton Manning Aaron Rodgers. And I'm like,
you're seeing something completely different than what I'm seeing because
I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Not he is in the eye of the game.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Oh I guess. I guess not that that matters, that's
not part of the game. I get all that, But
you know, I had to disagree with her on that one.
I'll probably watch the game just out of pure curiosity.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
I won't.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
I can actually, because I can stay up to watch it.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
I'll be on an airplane.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
So oh that's right.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
Well, at least at least till nine o'clockish.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
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Speaker 4 (51:17):
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Well, if you're gonna do three of them, we only
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Speaker 4 (51:55):
Now, you you said to me about picking thirteen all
the time, like you've picked it like six out of
the last eight times.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
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We get Now you already told them.

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(52:24):
Welcome back on this Thursday morning, The bloom Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. So Otis, you
mentioned earlier we're off tomorrow, right because we you made
the announcement that we didn't do our free lunch yesterday
because you and I are both off tomorrow. Hence there
was no winner yesterday. You gave an explanation. I wanted

(52:46):
to say, I thought about that. Yesterday I thought about
mentioning it. I thought, now because I eight, you know,
I thought, I don't want to drive listeners to the
competitors or you know, elsewhere. But then I thought, they're
not on anyways, so on a Friday, so it doesn't matter. Yeah,
so it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
But the other thing is those people that registered for
free lunch would like to know that we didn't give
one away yesterday. Yes, So that's why I kind of
put it out there. We're gonna more for them, right,
I don't. I don't care about what happens anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
I know, I thought I was being funny. I was
trying to be fun you.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
Know, keep trying because you got a long way to go.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
But we are going to roll over our entries from
yesterday to next week.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
So if you registered for this week, you do not
have to register again for next week.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Yes yes I did notify River City, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Yes? Okay, yes, so that they're not waiting on me
to pick.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Up it lunch waiting yeah yeah, and that goes to waste.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Yeah. No, we're all good. There, we're all good. There.
Have you started Christmas shopping. Well, you were just talking
about your Christmas club. Yes, your mommy takes care of
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
I've never asked for it.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Mommy, mommy, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
But she, you know, she's tired and she's got extra money.
So she puts one hundred dollars a month into a
Christmas club and she just gives it to me at
the end of the year. So, but we were just laughing.
I was laughing about the interest that it earned. So like,
in the course of a year, it's earned a dollar
fifty six in interest.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
I think I would probably find more in my couch cushions.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
I mean, if that's the case, why not just put
one hundred dollars a month aside and just hand it
to me. Hand it to me at the end of
the year. You know, there's probably.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
More money in the jug that I have that I
collect spare change in.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
Well.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
The other thing she does because we all myself, my
two sons, we have an account all at this same
credit union. Okay, so what she'll do is every pay
I think it's every pay, maybe it's once a month.
She of course she's retired and she gets from her
pension check. She puts twenty dollars in my sons, both

(54:53):
of my sons savings accounts, and then she puts twenty
in mind. You know, just she just what she wants.
Mom wants to do. You don't argue, and it just
it just sits there. I never really touch it, you know,
unless there's an emergency of some sort.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
But yeah, I mean it just just let mom do
her thing.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Let her do it. I mean, like she says, you're
going to get it eventually, is what she always says.
And I said, yeah, she goes. I said, well then
quick giving it to the boys. Just put it all
on mine.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
And then they have to wait, and.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Then they have to wait for me. Right, tell them
to wait their turn. They got a lot, hopefully they
got a long way to go.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Oh shoot, shoot, shoot shoot. Well I ask you about
Christmas because and by the way, last call, get your
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Speaker 4 (55:46):
So some of the things that I purchased in Europe
are Christmas gifts.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Oh that's right, you to.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
So I mean, like like my one son, who is
kind of artsy, I guess, crafty, I don't know what
you want to call it. He does pottery and now
he's taken he took a woodworking class.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Oh he's an artisan. How's that?

Speaker 4 (56:05):
You sure we'll go with that?

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (56:09):
But like there were there were some things that I
saw that I knew I'm pretty sure that he would like.
And I mean they were very in my eyes, they
were very inexpensive, and I was like, well, I think
he would like these, so I'm just going to go
ahead and get them, and this is going to be
part of the Christmas gift. So I start. I guess

(56:29):
you could say I started my Christmas shopping in August.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
I did that for my niece over the summer. I
found a couple of little things. I don't know what
I did with them. I hit him somewhere in the
house because she came to visit and I didn't want
to find them.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
I don't know where they're at, honest to, my mom
is famous for that. She will buy stuff for people
and then she'll put it someplace. So like if it's
your birthday, you might let's say your birthday's tomorrow, Okay,
you'll get a gift or you'll get a and you'll
get whatever. And then like in January or February, she'll say, oh,

(57:05):
I found this, I found this, this was your birthday gift.
And then you'll go like, oh, okay, so it's Christmas
in February. I mean Birthday in February.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Too, Yay, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
So I kept telling her, you know, the one good
thing about Alzheimer's is all the new people she meets.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
That's not nice. That's not nice. Speaking of birthdays. My
birthdays next week, next Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
Like anybody cares.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
He doesn't care. Okay, Now I bring that up because
for moms and dads, grandma and grandpa, grandpa is out there.
Good Housekeepings annual toy awards are out I think Santa
and Missus clausny to pay attention to this too, because
I'm sure for our letters to Santa, we're gonna get
tons of these asks. What they're recommending again, these are

(57:54):
the top holiday toys according to Good Housekeeping. The Crayola
market airbrush, which is washable, which is great for the
parents out there. Then the new thing for the older
kids are tech deck shred and blast motorized skateboard. And

(58:14):
then for the little ones, I would like this. They
have a new version of Whack a Mole, which you
know Main Street of Wheeling was like for the past
three or four years was almost like whack a mole.
Head would pop up one of the workers like, oh, look,
whack them ole. Don't hit them with your car. If
those are some of the important toys this holiday season.

(58:35):
So if you go out and just go toy shopping,
that's what you want to look for. Here's the thing.
Remember where you put them. Do not do what I do.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
See, I don't lose mine because I throw them all
in my spare bedroom. Actually when I get them, normally
I start wrapping them and then I put the names
on them, and then I just stack them up in
the hallway.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Well, but you don't have anybody come in, like in
and out of your house that much. Really the you
have to hide things from do you know?

Speaker 4 (59:03):
But I just what I'll do is so like each
person gets their own wrapping paper. So like if so
let's say, like, oh, you know who those things are,
so I'll put a I'll put a name tag on
the first one, and then I just I got to
find that one eventually, and then I know that, Okay,
this one is for my mom, this one's for my dad,
this one's for my one son, this is for my
other son. And then I just it's a They all

(59:24):
get the same wrapping paper and that way when I
hand them out, I know who's this, Who's I'm.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Just trying to get in the not the spirit, but
just even wrap my mind around the fact that it's
knocking on the door, like we're how many days away
from Thanksgiving? Think about it?

Speaker 4 (59:43):
Thirty ish? What I there's there's a the washing up
at the Washington County Fairgrounds and I don't know what
it's called. It's Christmas in Washington County. I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
I went to it last year. It is awesome. It's huge.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Yeah, it's at the fair grounds. It's like in five
or six buildings, and I've been going up their last
five or six years.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Well you told me about it, That's how I found.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
And there's one there's this. I mean, there's multiple vendors
up there, but there's one candle company. I don't know
if it's company, but they sell the candles and I
have bought at least one box which is I think
a dozen, and they have and people have said that
I've given them to They're like, oh my gosh, these

(01:00:23):
are the best candles I've ever gotten. The you know,
they they last long, the sense are are great, you know.
So and I always buy a dozen and it's you know,
that goes to my sisters in law. You know, my mom.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Gets one, you get one, you get one, you play
the candles.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
It goes to the ladies that I buy Christmas gifts for.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
So you're you're the the you're the kidd's wife candle, Oprah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
I mean, I've had and well I know that I'm not.
There's four of them that won't be going out this year.
But so but actually one of those four commented that
they're gonna miss getting those candles.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Oh really yeah, So we won't go into what all
that is.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
That's actually actually kind of funny if you really think
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Could well I could find you some other people to
give them.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
I'm good, okay, I'm good. I don't need I don't listen.
I'm probably gonna save about eight eight hundred to one
thousand bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
That's what there.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
You get that awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
There's another trip to Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
February A. Couple trips of Fla February.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Oh eight forty five. Last call Kirk's Ice Cream seven
zero four seven zero. Now we have our second chance
this morning, Wells Township Haunted House. We got another pair.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
Two out of three chances yep.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
One in one hundred six two four eleven seventy, one
in one hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. You pick
the number sixteen, okay, number sixteen one in one hundred
six two four eleven seventy. You're listening to the Daddy Experience,
Sam and Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. All right,

(01:02:13):
it's eight fifty on your Thursday. We've got two of
our three winners for Wells Township Haunted House. That means
we have one more pair, So congrats to Gene, congrats
to Lisa. So far, we've got one more pair that's
going to be coming up here very very shortly. All right,
tell me Otis, do you think this sounds disgusting?

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Wasn't even done yet.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
I just thought you made your voice.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Wow, it's Friday for us.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Maybe, yeah, I guess all right, that was a zinger.
Thank you very very much. Velveta cheese, which is a
last Yeah, that's just say velveta.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
It's not cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Yeah, loosely, they've come up with something new. This is interesting.
They've come up with a condiment. All right, it's Velveta
on the go or Velle two go is what they're
calling it. V E L the number two go. This
is a single serve packet of cheese sauce. So think

(01:03:29):
about your your your ketchup packet.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
We know, yeah, we know what a packet is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Okay, Now it's with cheese sauce, so you can take
it anywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
It's a difference between that and the little cheese cup.
I don't know nothing. So what makes the difference.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Well, the cheese cup you get directly from the restaurant.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
Not necessarily they make them. They prepacked those cheese cups.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Maybe twenty four hours earlier.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
I'm not saying the ones that they fill up and
put a little I'm saying the ones like you can
buy them that have the will you peel the lid
back and and the like. You can buy them like
they're to go cups.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Oh okay, So what's.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
The difference if it's a cup or a pack. I mean,
it really doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Okay, Anyways, Velvida has this new thing happening. You can
get it at Walmart. I just thought it sounded kind
of gross, but that's I guess just me.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Well, it's really not cheese. But I mean if you'd
like So let's say, if you're a person that likes
cheese on your hot dog or your hamburger and you're
taking it to go or a sandwich or something like
that that doesn't have cheese on it, I mean, I
don't see why it wouldn't be I wouldn't want to
use it all the time. Yeah, but I mean like
for a for a quick fix or like like if
you're on the run.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
To me, it's just another thing to throw in the
drawer or the in the refrigerator with the taco bell,
mild mediums, hot sauces and everything else that gets in
the way. So I just never heard of heard of that.
Lasers getting in on the game too. So what was
their old slogan, can eat just one? Was that lace?
Or was that ruffles? Its lazy? Yeah, they are rebranding,

(01:05:06):
so they're they're making some changes. Here's the thing they're
going with a new logo, a new design of the bags.
Here's an idea. Fill them up, chip company, Layze especially
you pay for half the money is it goes towards
the air they fill it with anyways, But here's a
grand idea. They're going to now make the main ingredient

(01:05:29):
real potatoes. Now I always knew pringles are not made
out of like real potatoes.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
I think Lays has always used real potatoes. I just
think they're gonna emphasize the fact that they're made with
real potato.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Yeah, they're removing artificial flavors and colors, and their baked
version will be made with olive oil and have fifty
percent less fat. They say forty two percent of people
who eat laz potato chips don't realize they're made from real,
farm grown potatoes. So the bags will show pictures of
potato and say made with real potatoes. Let's hope. Uh

(01:06:04):
this gets smoother than the cracker barrel rebrand. Yeah that
went down like the Titanic. So yeah, new lais potato
chips again. Like I said, fill the bags up. There's
a there's a good idea. There's a good idea, and
we're getting close to Halloween. Do you have your costume ready, Otis?

(01:06:28):
I saw a really good one online. I might steal,
but if that's only if I can get my husband
to go.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
It might be the same one I wore last.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Weekar your smiling face.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Yeah, I had a I have a it's a pool over. Yeah,
and it looks like you're like you're you're the bread.
It's a bread like your bread. And then then on
one of them has peanut butter, the other one has jelly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
I love what people come up with. I do.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
I don't to find somebody to wear the jelly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Oh Otis needs a jel who wants to be Otis's jelly?

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Don't go there? Do you not go there?

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
I'm not taking applications.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
I could do the interview process.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
That's a definite negative.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
No, I have to get through me first. No, all right, fine,
I think we could have some fun with that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
No, we probably could not.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Gonna let me just a reminder, since we're not gonna
be here tomorrow'm gonna throw this out one more time.
Happening Saturday is the Canine Fall Festival at the David M.
Lucas Dog Park, which is out Belmont. Belmont College Exit
out in Belmont County. It's basically behind the Health Department building.

(01:07:46):
It's from eleven to four. This is all in support
of the upkeep and what it takes to keep the
dog park functional for everybody. If you haven't been there,
it's a great, great location. Bring your dog. Of course,
there's gonna be food, trucks, craft vendors, all kinds of stuff.
So this Fall Festival is happening Saturday out at the

(01:08:07):
David M. Lucas Dog Park. So go support, especially if
you use the park, Go support the park because it's
not you know, there's work to keep up with that stuff.
So that's happening Saturday. Also happening Saturday, which I am
going to be at. I cannot wait to go. I
wasn't able to go last year. But Lipsync Challenge happening

(01:08:31):
right here at the Capitol. The contestants put a lot
of hard work in. It's all for a great cause.
Go and support. It's an absolute blast. It's right here
at the Capitol, like I said, and it's all in
support of a great, great cause. The lip Sync Challenge
happening this Saturday here at the Capital Theater. I've got

(01:08:53):
my tickets I hope to see you there, all right,
so want to do our winter. Wait, how much time
we've got?

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
We've got more?

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
We got more than okay, all right, we got a
little bit extra time, all right, and real quick, we're
talking about food and candy. Candy corn. Love it or
hate it? I like it, you like it. I don't
like it. It's one of the most polarizing Halloween candies
out there, and people like you said, you either love it,
hate or hate it. Some people think it's way too

(01:09:23):
sweet and basically like wax, while other people say it
brings them back to their childhood memories. Apparently, the key
to enjoying candy corn lies in pairing it with salty
snacks like peanuts.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
That's how you do it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
That's the new trend, mixing it with something salty. I
don't think that'll work for me either. All right, let's
do it. We have your last chance. We have a
pair Wells Township Haunted House one eight hundred sixty to
four eleven seventy one eight hundred sixty two four eleven
seventy When it go out with a bang.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
Yep, color number fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
Color number fifteen one, eight hundred sixty two four eleven
seventy for your chance to win, and then we have
our ice cream winner. We'll do that shortly. We'll talk
to you Monday,