The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 20, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. Good Monday morning. I'm gonna hit on a
couple of different things, but let's start with mother Nature.
How about this switcheroo by the weather. Huh Saturday gorgeous?
What seventy three seventy five degrees? And then Sunday today,
But here we go, it's wintertime. Shouldn't be surprised. Also,

(00:42):
Sam's going to be in a very very good mood
today because her Browns actually got a win. Surprise, surprise.
But I'm not going to talk about that, per se.
I want to hit on Baseball First Show. Heyo Tani
Friday Night, three home runs, ten strikeouts, the greatest single
performance in a postseason ever. And I'm hearing everybody out

(01:05):
there saying, oh, he's the greatest of all time. He's
better than Babe Ruth. Stop stop, you gotta compare player
to player are to era. To say that show Heyo
Tawi is better than Babe Ruth when you take a
look at the numbers compared to when they play, is laughable.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Go back to nineteen twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
If you don't believe me on this, look it up.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Nineteen twenty, Babe Ruth hit fifty four home.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Runs seven other teams in the American League, taking the
Yankees out of it. Eight teams total in the American League.
Those other seven teams. Go add up all the home
runs that those seven teams hit and combine them, and
they don't beat fifty four Babe Ruth out homeward the

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entire American League.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Put that in perspective. Think about that for a second.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, Shoe Otani, I would say, hands down the
best player in baseball today, but the greatest of all
time when he's out homering entire teams, which would mean
he'd have to hit oh. One hundred and sixty four
to two hundred and forty home runs in a year.
Then talk to me about being the greatest of all time.
Babe Ruth out homered the entire American League. Ain't nobody

(02:29):
sniffing the babe And don't let me remind you while
he was doing that. Every night during the baseball season,
Babe Ruth was getting drunk, banging two to three women,
wake it up, hungover, and then going to the ballpark
and eating about eight to ten hot dogs and then
going out in out homering the entire league. And if

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you don't believe me, read The Babe by Robert Kremer.
I read it when I was thirteen years old. It's
the first book I ever read. Robert Kremer is one
of the greatest writers of all time. He outlines everything
pertaining to Babe Ruth. So the day show, Hey Otani
hits I don't know, two hundred and ten home runs
in a season and he's out all night slinging it,

(03:12):
drinking it and still doing it. Then you can sit
there and talk to me about the Babe. Until then,
Babe Ruth is the single greatest player in the history
of Major League Baseball, hands down, no comparisons. Let's jump
over to college football for a second. Indiana, I'm gonna
be ranked second or third in the nation. Vanderbilt gonna

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be in the top ten for the first time since
nineteen forty seven. What you have seen is the transformation
of college football thanks to the transfer portal and paying
players now because teams like Vandy, teams like Indiana, they're
getting top level talent where in the past they could
never do it. Why are they getting that top level talent? Well,

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Number one, when you can pay guys, that makes the difference.
When everybody can pay guys. Back in the day, it
was the big schools paying guys under the table. You
know it, I know it. That includes Ohio State, that
includes Michigan, that includes the entire SEC. Now that everybody
can do it, you're seeing some teams rise up. The

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other thing is the transfer portal. Think about it. Backups
at Ohio State, Oklahoma, you know the big schools, Clemson,
they're leaving and going to the indianas in the Vandis
for a number of reasons. Number One, they want to start,
they want to play, They don't want to be a
backup anymore. Number Two, now you can get national media
exposure anywhere. It used to be you had to play

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at the big schools to be on TV and possibly
have a chance to go to the NFL. Now you
can play anywhere. With streaming and all these TV deals,
you're gonna get exposure social media, you're gonna get exposure,
so you don't have to go to the big schools
number one to get paid under the table number two
to get exposure. And think about what this is doing
to the bigger schools. Your top backups at these bigger

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schools are now leaving, going to other places. So that
means from a depth perspective, your bigger schools.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Are taking a hit.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
So if a couple guys get hurt, all of a sudden,
the guy they're plugging in not that good. That four
star that they had sitting on the bench is now
playing in Indiana. He's not playing at Vandy, and now
you're going to a guy who's a third string, of
fourth string, of fifth string. It has made everything more even,

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it's made it more fair. Basically, college football, whether you
like this or not, is now the NFL. Free agency
in essence, that's what the transfer portal and paying players is.
Free agency has brought parody to college football. You're not
going to see dynasties anymore. It's going to be rare.
You're not going to see juggernauts. It's going to be rare.

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Too many guys floating around, too many guys coming and going.
Building a culture, building a team philosophy very very difficult
in today's college football. So I'm gonna go to Otis first.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Otis.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I made my case Babe Ruth by four the greatest
player of all time.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think that he's the greatest player of his era.
I don't think he's the greatest of all time. And
I say that because I think Hank Aaron was a
much better player than Babe Ruth was. I mean, the
numbers show it. I mean Hank, Hank had thirty seven
hundred hits. Babe didn't even have three thousand hits.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Don't you think though, that when we get in discussions
like this, that's where the stipulation needs to play is era?

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, it does come into play, because here's the thing.
Keep in mind, there were only sixteen major league teams
when Babe Ruth played, So there were eight in the
American League, eight in the National League. And bloom Daddy's
comparison is that Babe hit more home runs than the
entire American League. Nobody hit home runs back in the
twenties until Babe Ruth came along. Like Ty Cobb even

(06:58):
said if I wanted to hit home runs, but he didn't.
That's I mean, that's according to Taykob. But you know,
and you can't compare. You can't compare Hank Aaron to
Babe Ruth. You can't compare show heyo TONI, show hey o.
TONI is not the best. I mean, he's the best,
maybe the best player right now, but he's not the
best player of all time. And and and the comparing

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the Babe Ruth. The only reason they're comparing him is
because they both pitched and they both hit. You see
them like Babe Babe was a pitcher before he moved
to the outfield.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
It's kind of like having the conversation of when you
ask ask somebody what's the best movie of all time? Well,
you can't compare subjective a drama to a comedy. They're two.
It's the same thing with an athlete. You can't compare
somebody from the twenties to twenty twenty five. It's just
it's a different world. It's a different I mean humans

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are even built differently now. I mean, look at the
size of people.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I don't think Babe Ruth, I mean, would he be
to play in today's game I don't know.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah, he wasn't exactly a walking specimen of health and physicality.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
I mean again, it was a different time. I mean,
these guys had jobs in the off season. They didn't
they didn't train year round. They were they were selling
furniture or selling cars in the off season.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
They now Babe wasn't because Babe was the highest played
player in baseball. You know, at one point in time,
he was making more money than the president was. Back then,
that was unheard of, you know. I mean, he had
the line, they said, well, what's what's how do you
justify making more money than the president? And he said,
I had a better year, which is the truth.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
So, I mean, but bloom Daddy's way off his rocker.
Babe's not the best player. I mean, Babe is the
reason baseball is baseball. I mean as far as like
he's like Elvis. You know, you can't talk about rock
and roll without talking about Elvis. You can't talk about
baseball without talking about the Babe he.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Brought that It, Yeah, that exactly. You can't explain, but
it's that that it you want to, Oh, we gotta go.
We can't even turn to the college football subject.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, we can get it when we come back, right, we'll.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Piggyback on that when we get back. Plus, I want
to talk about our weekend because I think I know
where Otis was. I don't think he went to Florida.
I don't. I'm waiting on my gift. Okay, I'll tell
you what I'm joking about when we get back. It's
seveno fifteen. You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven

(09:43):
twenty one, The bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam's News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Before we go to the college football. Yeah, let me
just also state one other thing about Babe Ruth. Babe
Ruth did not play against any African American player.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
That there was.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
You had that, you had Major League Baseball, you had
the Nigro leagues, and he did not play against you know,
did he play he played against the best talent that
was in the major leagues. Did he play against the
best talent that was out there? Probably not.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
And that goes back to the major leagues of that era,
is not the major leagues of correct today, correct, Yeah, Yeah,
So okay, we've settled that.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
I just wanted to throw that that little bit out
there because I mean, again, like I have a buddy
of mine that we have that he argues all the
time that no, Babe played against the best players of
his era. Yeah, but it wasn't all inclusive.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
No, So no, he didn't.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
You see what I'm saying, Like he didn't play against
you know, obviously, I think it would have been a
little bit later like Satchel Page and Cool Papa.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Bell and.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know, Josh Gibson and and you know, these these
guys didn't have the opportunity that Babe had. So he
was in a limited Now keep in mind with only
having sixteen teams the number of players, so you had
to be pretty darn good to be able to make
a major League baseball roster, Okay, because there's twenty five

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you know, you have for forty man roster, but you
have twenty five on an active roster. So twenty five
times sixteen is a lot different than twenty five times
thirty is what you have. Now, you see what I'm saying, Like,
there's more opportunities for people today because you've doubled, almost
doubled the amount of teams in the league.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
So anyway, yeah, it's the comparison is not Apple to Apple? Basically, sure,
you can't, you can't. Yeah. So back to college football,
that was brought up a little bit too. I wanted
to didn't really want to get into it real deep.
Following up with what bloom Dotty said, but I Indiana, Man,

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I've got to give credit where credit is due. My
husband said at the beginning of this football season, Indiana's
going to be the sleeper. I don't know where he
got that. I don't know where he pulled that from,
but he's somehow new.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well, they've been improving, he said.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Last year.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, they were good. They were good last year. They
just they couldn't get over the hump.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Now, I think with some experience and you know, putting
in like you know, whether it be the transferporter or whatever,
if you fill a couple of those gaps, whether whether
if it's an offensive or defensive lineman or receiver or whatever,
then you know you filled a gap. I disagree with
what bloom Daddy said though about college football. I think,

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I mean, I honestly believe that the rich are going
to get richer in the long run. Now, is he
right saying that the guy that's the third string quarterback
or the third fourth string running back at a highest
state and then he goes to Indiana or he goes
somewhere else get the better opportunity to get the better
I one agree with that, But I think you're going
to see the same eight teams year in and year

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out because that's what college that's what they want. That's
what ESPN wants, because they are in charge of the
college football playoffs.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Well, they want the SEC is what they want.

Speaker 8 (13:15):
They want the they want they want they want. They
want Ohio State, they want Notre Dame, they want Michigan,
they want Georgia, they want Alabama. They and then after
that they don't they want Texas, you know, they want that.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
But they would love to see USC in there, you know,
or or.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
They want they want a West Coast team, So you
want Oregon or Southern Cow or somebody like that, Stanford, whoever,
that's it. They want a West they want somebody from there.
That's what they You know, you're going to see the occasional.
You know, you might see Utah or Texas Tech or
Texas A and M or or you know some of
these schools that aren't always there. You know, like the

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Big twelve is going to be a rotating you know,
it's not gonna be the same winners a year in
your right, but like you go to the SEC, it's
still you're going to have that. Like remember I don't
know ten years ago, like Northwestern came out of nowhere. Yes,
you know you're going to have that. But your Vanderbilts
aren't going to be consistently good.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
And that's what I was thinking when he when he
was talking about that, is there is going to be
the magic sauce that lightning strikes and the right combination
of the right players hit at the right time. It's
it's the Cinderella story.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
I mean, look it's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Look at West Virginia in nineteen eighty eight, they were undefeated,
go on to play Notre Dame get beat. I mean,
but they had major Harris Red you remembered. I mean
that that team was a good team. Then they had
the Pat White era, which was now another good team.
But they lose the pit and they don't get to
they don't get the shot to go to the National Championship.
So you know you will see that occasionally, Like, so
that was the last time West Virginia was even relevant.

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So what was that two thousand and seven or something
like that. I mean, you're not gonna see it all
the time.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
Well, and how many seasons are we into the portal now? Three?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, a couple?

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, three or four mates the third Well, keep in
mind the first year of the transfer portal, like the
number was minimal. How many people went.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Through the trash.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
And that's my point is we're only so far into
this quote unquote experiment. So the folks out there who
make these decisions, the money and everything else that's that's
swirling around college football, they haven't figured out all the
tricks yet either. So you know, there's always going to
be the brain trust that figures out Okay, if we

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do this, it's going to elevate hence team. So none
of that is even This is still an experiment in general.
But he's right. I do agree with him. This is
the NFL. This is part A to the big Boy
of the NFL, and that's what we're seeing. And that's
why the NFL lost a lot of viewership and a
lot of fans because you can't keep track who's on

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your team, and it's all about the money and the
average person, the viewer, they want to know who their
players are. I can name the roster for the Browns
in the eighties with Clay Matthews and Reggie Langhorne, and
you know, all of those are nice byner because they
were together, you knew the team. You can't do that nowadays.

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You just can't, and that takes the enjoyment away from
the fan because you don't feel like you know the players.
You're not invested. And that's what's gonna happen with college
football too.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Well. Your Indiana's are going to be good for a
year or two. Your Vanderbilts might be good for a
year two, but they're not gonna be consistent. They're not
gonna be the Alabama's, the Ohio States, the Michigan's, the
Texas or whoever.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
You know. It's unfortunately, that's what it's gonna be. You're
you're you know.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
They they want Notre Dame, they want Ohio State, they
want Michigan. They want Penn State too, but that's not
gonna happen this year.

Speaker 9 (16:55):
So yeah, that's a.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Rough rough fact there seven twenty eight year listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
You got a federal grand jury indicting two alleged ANTIFA
members with terrorism related charges for that attack on an
ICE facility in Texas back in July. Cameron Arnold and
Zachary Evettz a charge with providing material support for terrorism,
attempting to murder federal and assisting officers, and discharging firearms
during attempted murders, planned and coordinated terrorist attack. At the

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same time, Lake County residents planning a protest on Monday
outside the Sheriff's office in Painesville because they're not happy
with the county's new partnership with ICE, which allows deputies
to enforce federal immigration laws. Spring On Tony fam Senior
fellow with the America First Policy Institute, advancing policies which
put Americans first. He served as the Assistant Secretary for

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Border Security in Trump forty seven, former active director of ICE.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Tony thanks so much for being on the show.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
First, let's start with the fact that you've got a
federal grand jury indicting these two alleged Antifa members for
that attack on the ICE facility in Texas.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
This is a good start.

Speaker 10 (18:14):
Oh boom daddy Kay, thank you so much for having
me back on. It's great to talk to your listeners again.
It's been a minute, but I'm happy to have a
conversation about the escalating rhetoric that created this environment. Right
you know, July fourth is when that Prairie Land attack happened.
And thankfully we have aggressive We have an aggressive FBI,

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aggressive DOJ that decided to bring the terrorism charges to
send a message to the individuals that think it's okay
to do a twenty twenty redux and try to intimidate
our law enforcement officers, and most important, they try to
intimidate the community at large who's watching this happen. And
the indictments couldn't come fast enough. But I'm pretty pretty

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satisfied and excited that it's terrorism because that's what they're doing,
trying to terrorize our communities into silence and terrorize us
into not cooperating with ICE.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Tony, you had issues with protesters, you and your family.

Speaker 10 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah, see, this is what I meant. By twenty twenty,
you know, barely first week on the job, these radical leftists.
Somehow I got docs to my home address, got put
out there and came to my home in Virginia where
my children were, and they had just finished their first
you know, began their first week of school. And here
I am in Washington trying to do the job, and

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these you know, fifteen to twenty folks decided that they
think it was okay to try to intimidate the director
of ICE by targeting his wife and kids via protest.
But that's what they do. And I'm happy that in
twenty twenty five, in the president's new administration that we're
not They're not putting up with it anymore. And I
think that's important to be able to push back on

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these individuals who believe that it's okay. Because July fourth
was the attack on Prairie Land, let's talk about September shooting. Thankfully,
you know, the men and women of ICE that I
had the privilege and honor of leading for a period
of time in twenty twenty weren't hurt. Unfortunately, some illigal
aliens were killed during that random attack and doubts fort Worth.

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But then locally, now you hear in October there's a
bullet to put out by DHS that there are bounties
now being placed on the heads of our ice officers,
ice agents, and CBP officers. And these are remember for
your listeners. These are law enforcement officials no different than
your local police and your local sheriff. Just like the
local sheriff in Lake County. These are individuals that swore

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an oath to enforce the laws and protect the communities.
All of this stemmed from September eleventh when they formed
Homeland Security and they're out there trying to do their
best to protect our communities. These are mothers, fathers, husbands
and wives putting their lives on the line every day
to protect our communities out here by arresting individuals who
are unlawfully here in the United States. And it's unfortunate

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that we sorry, go ahead, no, no, no, it's unfortunate we
have folks, you know, likening their operations. I'll even call
them out by name. Former governor and vice presidential candidate
Tim Wallas, the governor of Minnesota, called ice officers are
modern day gestapo. I mean, we're listening to people from
the least like miche may Or Michelle Woo from Boston

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calling our officers, you know, referencing them as in That's
one point thirty one, which is also known as the
neo Nazi radical group. And so it's this type of
language coming from one side of the political aisle that
has elevated the temperature and reduced the dialogue, nor actually
reduced the understanding that our folks out there are enforcing

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laws that the legislative branch passed, right, Let's not forget that.
So if there's changes that need to happen, I always
say this, if there's changes that need to be happen,
they need to go and maybe protest their legislators and say, hey,
can we change the laws here because ICE is a
part of the executive branch. And on that point I'll
yield the floor. Sorry, I'm very passionate about this. I

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hate seeing what I'm seeing right now.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
Hate it.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Hated, well so do I.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean I saw somebody condemning ICE agents saying, oh,
you know, they shouldn't wear masks. I think Gavin Newsom
pass legislation saying that they're not allowed to wear masks. Tony,
tell everybody why ICE agents are wearing masks. You know,
we're the face there weren't.

Speaker 10 (22:24):
Yeah, the cover there, you know, cover their faces, but
they have the placards identifying them as police officers. And
so it's to make sure they protect themselves and their
families because we have reports of individuals families now being docks.
And of course, you know, for folks like myself who
took on the leadership role, right and Daddy, we we
knew when we walked into that role. How how you

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know just how how vicious it can be. But you know,
my heart hurts for the men and women on the
front lines who are charging into these scenarios because that's
their duty and that's the oath swore. So they wear
the mask to protect themselves, but most importantly, to wear
the mask to protect their families from being outed like

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mine wore.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Talking to Tony fam senior fellow with the America First
Policy Institute, served as the Assistant Secretary for Border Security
in Trump forty seven, former acting director of ICE. Here Locally,
Lake County residents are planning a protest on Monday in
front of the Sheriff's office to oppose the county's new
partnership with ICE, allowing local deputies to enforce federal immigration laws.

(23:29):
In essence, they're protesting enforcement of the law, Tony. Like
you said, these laws are on the books, and I
love it. At the very end they say they're encouraging
residents to attend and stand in solidarity with their immigrant neighbors.
They're leaving out a word, Tony, illegal immigrant neighbors.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
And that's very important, Moon Dan.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
Let me say this, congratulations to the sheriff of Lake County.
I mean, he swore noes to enforce the laws, and
he's doing so in partnership with his federal ederal law
enforcement partners. But let me hit that point very hard here.
I want your listeners to understand that I came to
this country as a refuge in nineteen seventy five at

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the end of a terrible war. As a two year
old child. I watched my parents benefit from the freedoms
and opportunities this nation provided. But that was our pathway,
that was our legal pathway to the United States. And
when I hear these liberal leftists to conflate the two
topics between illegal immigration immigrants and legal migrants and lump

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us all into one pot, it devalues what me and
so many people who come to this country legally endure
to become citizens, to wait that period of time, and
to find the right way to get here. And so
I take offense to anyone on the left who wants
to talk about how we need to stand in solidarity

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with immigrant That's great. I'm an immigrant and I let ice.
So how about you stand with me as I promote
and I support our officers and our immigration authorities to
go out there and perfect the law.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Great point, Tony, And I saw an interview the other
day with the woman who was crying about her neighbors
Mexican couple lived there for fifteen years illegally, but said
they were good people, they had jobs, they've got kids,
and they were deported by Ice. Why should I feel
sorry for somebody who's been here fifteen years, Tony, and
never took the time to become an American citizen, never

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took the time.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
To do what they needed to do.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
They put their kids in that situation, nobody else did.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
I don't feel sorry for people like that.

Speaker 10 (25:38):
You know, it's called adulting. And you know, we teach
our children that, or we try to, many of us
try to teach our children about the accountability that comes
with decisions that are made and that you know, children
suffer the consequence of decisions made by their parents. Now,
I want to make a point very clear. While while
folks in the you know, regular citizens may not feel

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sim but they let me just say this, when we
are out there enforcing immigration laws, we are not saying
that the individuals that we are arresting and putting in
removal proceedings are bad people. You hear me when I
say that, we're not saying that at all. What we're
saying is we've identified this individual or these individuals as

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folks that have entered the country illegally or have remained
in the country illegally, and are subject to removal from
the United States of America absent any founded claim of
credible fear or asylum. So when these individuals who are
out there giving their tear jerker stories out there about
how these people are wonderful folks, hardworking, no one on

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the Homeland Security ICE sider or immigration enforcement side is
saying that they're bad people unless they're criminal aliens and
they have criminality in their record that just places them
on the top of our priority enforcement list. But when
we enforce the laws, really what we're saying is you
don't have a legal basis to be in this country.

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You are now in our custody, and in removal proceedings,
you will get your hearing before the court and let
the court decide whether you have a bona fide viable
claim to adjust status to remain in the United States period.
So I just want to be clear, I don't you know,
I don't have sympathy bomb.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
I'm telling young Vietnamese.

Speaker 10 (27:23):
I came to this came to America in nineteen seventy
five at the end of the terrible war in Vietnam,
and somehow I rose above my station in life to
serve the president not once but twice. And I'm in
a position to be able to deport individual Vietnamese folks
because I always look at it this way. If you

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spent decades in this country and you did not take
the necessary measures like my parents did to work towards
gaining citizenship and the greatest nation on this planet, and
then now you want to cry fout, I don't know
why anyone would want to advocate for keep folks like
that here. And then that's the question I still haven't

(28:03):
yet to having yet to figure out. Yeah, well took advantage. Yeah,
took advantage of the country and the system and the process,
and when they got caught and all of a sudden,
now ICE is the bad guy. I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, neither do I, Tony.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I appreciate your time, love what you're doing, and we're
gonna be touching base often about what's going on with
the ICE around the country.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
Absolutely looking forward to my man.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
That's Tony fam Senior fellow with the America First Policy Institute,
served as the Assistant Secretary for Border Security in Trump
forty seven and former acting director of ICE.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
Welcome back seven point fifty two on your Monday The
bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy
wwva Otis people had a busy weekend. I had a
busy weekend. Not really. I did go to the lipstin Challenge.
It was awesome, absolutely awesome. I just want to give
a huge, huge shout out to Anne Mario Grady, of course,

(29:02):
the executive director of a Special Wish, in her entire team.
It was a fantastic show. It was fantastic, So congratulations
to all of those that participated. Because the show doesn't
exist without their hard work. The champion this year Shanna Shephard,
and then first runner up Brian Campbell, followed by The

(29:22):
Capital's very own Justin Mularkey. So there are your first, second,
and third place finishures in this year's Lip Sync Challenge.
Like I said, it was a great show. Some of
the creativity, the stuff they come up with, I can't
even as soon as they do, it's like, oh, that's
a great idea, Where did that come from?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (29:41):
And I'm sorry People's Choice Award Susan regret, so again
just shout out to them. Got a hit on this otis.
Do you find any Kings this weekend?

Speaker 10 (29:55):
No?

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Yeah, so did nobody else? No King's protests. I'm sorry.
I can't not talk about it, can't. I watched a
lot of the coverage, a lot of the videos circulate
circulating out there. A couple of things I picked up
on those that were out there protesting, really pay attention

(30:17):
to the crowd. They are either young, entitled kids that
have no jobs and no responsibilities, or they're old white
retirees who have no jobs and have all the time
on their hands. If you look for those that are
within the age of working like Otis and I. We

(30:44):
like our saturdays because we have time. It's time off
from our job. We don't fall into either of those categories. Listen,
it was a joke. It was a joke around here.
There's people running around in frog costumes, running around in
chicken costumes. Why what does that even mean? The frog

(31:07):
prints like, they looked ridiculous, they looked stupid. Nobody's going
to take somebody seriously when they're doing that. If you're
out there and you want to make a difference and
you care about this country, then be a serious adult.

(31:28):
These people are not serious. Nine times. You know, the
majority of them are probably paid. I'm not saying around here,
but nationally, majority of them are paid. MSNBC, they've already
put out this video that has been proven by fact
checkers across the internet. It's old, it's old. It's an
old image. They're trying to use this, this image of

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all of these people. The numbers that they're putting out
there are absolutely ridiculous of how many people attended in
this and that this is all political theater, that's what
this is. This is political theater trying to portray unrest
in this country. There is unrest from these people that

(32:12):
have lost their minds. They have lost their minds. I
watched a lot of different stuff where people were walking
up and and asking questions. They have no answers, and say,
you know, why are you out here? What has he done?

(32:32):
What is this administration done?

Speaker 11 (32:34):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (32:36):
You know he wants to get rid of all the
illegal immigrants. You know, these are human beings. There's this
whole it's all about self gratification. It's all about making
themselves feel better, because when they're faced with the question, okay,
you care about the vulnerable, you care about those that

(32:57):
want to be you know, the whole luntra that they
feed themselves. Okay, then then please take the old it's
the old saying that we've been saying for years. Take
them in, give them food, give them shelter, give them clothing.
There's no answer to that. There's no answer to that.
They don't want anything.

Speaker 10 (33:17):
To do with that.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
I mean, if we want to talk about kings in
a monarchy, let's pay attention McConnell forty plus years, Schumer
forty four years, Pelosi almost forty years. Who's the real
monarchy who's outlasted their time? Sanders thirty five years, vaccine
waters thirty seven plus years, Trump four years. Who's the
real king, Who's the real monarch? Here's the real dynasty?

(33:41):
Those people are. Those people are. And if we want
to talk about a controlling administration, go back to twenty
twenty and think about what rights were taken away from
you at that point in time. Couldn't go to work,
kids couldn't go to school. Those kids are still struggling education,

(34:04):
you know, on learning. So if we want to talk
about a monarch and we didn't want to talk about
stifling and taking rights away, go back to twenty twenty
and revisit that time. Then you'll see what it's like
to have your rights taken away. We all dealt with it.
It's seven p fifty eight. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, z.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This is
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Speaker 5 (34:51):
Welcome back. It's eight oh six on this Monday morning.
Thank you for tuning in. Of course you're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio E seventy WWVA.
So over the past couple weeks since the assassination of
Charlie Kirk, for me, it hit me, and I believe

(35:14):
I talked about this when I happened. For some reason,
that moment in time affected me in a way that
to this day I cannot answer why. But as time
has passed, I see that I'm not alone in this.
So I wanted to talk about this along with a
couple other subjects that we're going to get into. But

(35:35):
I want to welcome to the show Pastor Chris Figuretti
of Newbridge Church, because what we're going to get into,
I think you're a perfect person to talk about with this.
So please, thank you so much for coming in this morning.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
Thanks for having me. It's exciting to be here.

Speaker 5 (35:50):
So if you're not familiar, of course, Newbridge Church meets
every Sunday, actually right here in the Capitol Theater.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
It's an awesome place to do church.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
It is yeah, taking this taking the stage, yeah literally, yeah, literally.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
It's a it's a great venue for church. It's it's
easy for people who are afraid of churches to come
because it's a familiar venue and it's the acoustics are great,
the music is fantastic. We just love being here at
the Capitol.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
So okay, so let's get into this one. My main
spark to invite you on was to talk about, as
I said, since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there has
been this for me, this feeling, and it's it's across
the country, this feeling of resurgence, and we're seeing it

(36:43):
play out, and we were seeing it right now in youth.
So I'll use the University University of Oklahoma for example,
nine thousand students attended service, seven thousand students at the
at USF, eight thousand students at the University of Tennessee. Yep,
this is all since what happened to Charlie Kirk. Have

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you seen that happen at Newbridge? Are you experiencing it?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Also?

Speaker 7 (37:07):
We are, But I don't think it started with Charlie Kirk. Okay,
you know, I think it started probably about two years ago.
There was an event or what they would call a
revival at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, and people came from
all over the world to be a part of that,
and then it started spreading from school to schooling. So
we've been seeing this at schools for the past couple

(37:29):
of years. You're seeing a lot on sports teams. Ohio
State of course, has a lot of Christians on their team,
and they're very outspoken. And you're seeing baptism services happen
on the quad and you know, hundreds or thousands of
people getting baptized. That was going on long before Charlie
was assassinated.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
The movement, which is surprising I think for a lot
of folks, is the age. The age is the youth
is getting more involved than I think we have ever
seen before. Why do you think that is?

Speaker 7 (38:03):
Well, I think it's a I mean, I could speculate
on what the you know, psychosocial dynamics are, but I
really think it's more spiritual. It's something we've seen before.
Throughout the history of this country. There have been four
great awakenings they call them, or revivals in the history
of America. And it usually happens when the culture is

(38:26):
headed away from God and going off a cliff and
everybody's wringing their hands and going, oh my, I don't
know if we're going to make it. And then all
of a sudden, people just start coming to faith in
mass and so, you know, we've seen this back in
the early eighteen hundreds, after the country was established. Prosperity

(38:46):
takes off, people become soft and lazy, the culture heads
off in a very decadent direction, and then all of
a sudden, God does something and starts calling people. And
it's usually the young people. That's not new either in
the sixties. If you've seen the movie Jesus Revolution. Did
you see that movie with Kelsey Grammar. You've got to

(39:09):
watch Jesus Revolution. Came out year or two ago. Fantastic movie,
but it tells the story of what they're I think
historians will call the fourth grade Awakening. And so, you know,
the sixties were full of tumultuous dynamics, all the assassinations.
It felt like the world was going off of a cliff,

(39:31):
and all of a sudden, all these hippies, all these
baby boomers who were coming of age start coming to
faith in Jesus and start coming start i mean, started churches.
Our church grew out of that. Actually, if you watch
the movie Jesus Revolution, the church that is featured in
that movie is the Church of the planted our church
here in Wheeling, West Virginia in nineteen seventy nine. But

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that was a revival or an awakening that was happening.
It was happening among the youth. The churches in America
were very formal, kind of disconnected from that Baby Moon
generation that was so different from their parents, and so
outside the church, all these people start coming to faith.
And it's this dynamic that happened and happens despite what

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we're doing, right, you know, it's and certainly you know
events and factors play into that. Charlie Kirk's assassination I
think got a lot of people's attention and is waking
them up to this spiritual stirring that is going on
in our culture right now. But it's been going on
for a couple of years.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
I think it was almost like and I hate to
say it was a turning point.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
Yes, I think it sho appropriately named organization, right, Yes,
I know.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
For me, the comparison I made was it was like
my generation's JFK. Not that he was a president, but
it was his youth, his intelligence, his small children, and
the question that will be left with what if what
would have happened with his leadership. So that's the comparison

(41:06):
I have made, because you we'll never know now unfortunately.

Speaker 7 (41:11):
Right, yeah, no, we won't know. And you know, the
impact of that event on the younger people, anybody under
thirty five that I've talked to, was, you know, either
because ideologically and politically they were on the other side
of Charlie. They just you know, we hate Charlie or
completely rocked by his assassination. And for the younger people

(41:36):
is definitely the JFK moment of this generation, you know,
because we don't assassinate people. That's you know, that's just
it's been years, it's been fifty years, and so yeah,
I think it's really got people's attention that way. But
then it pointed people towards the faith that Charlie had.
And you know, of course his memorial service was half

(41:57):
worship service, or even more than that, it was a
worship service indeed, and so people are like, oh, what
is this? And I think it all comes back to
that stirring that's going on inside of people. That's bigger
than a social dynamic or a sociological dynamic. It's a
spiritual dynamic, and I think it's the way God rescues

(42:20):
our culture in our world by pulling people. Because you
don't change the world politically, you know, you can't legislate
morality or the right direction or anything. But only God
changes human hearts and that's what will ultimately change culture
and people's lives and their eternities.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
Well, and we are so inundated with information to the
point where we you know what is true, what is
you know what is false? What is painted with a
particular agenda? And I'm talking you know, politically, spiritually, whatever
term you everybody does that. And now there's so many

(43:00):
at our fingertips. When you are talking to the young
people or to your congregation or those that were impacted
with Charlie Kirk, you know, all of these things that
are going on. How do you advise people to look
within themselves, to take care of themselves, to calm themselves down?
What advice do you give folks?

Speaker 7 (43:22):
Yeah, well, I mean a lot of people are struggling.
There's a lot of anxiety in our world today, and
there are a lot of reasons for that as well.
That could be another interview we do. But the reality
is peace doesn't come. Real peace doesn't come without a
relationship with God. Every one of us was made by
God to be in a relationship with God, and we

(43:42):
all have what they describe as a God shaped void
or whole in our heart. He's the only thing that
fills that. We try and fill it with, you know,
material things, pleasure, distraction, success, relationships, whatever. We stuff all
kinds of things in that God shaped hoole in our hearts,
but doesn't last. It distracts us for a little while.
God is the only thing that really brings peace, and

(44:06):
his presence living in us is the only thing that
brings peace. So I point people to a relationship with
Jesus Christ because that's what opens our lives up to
His presence living in us, and it brings what the
Bible describes as a peace that passes understanding. That the
fact like, even if all the wheels are coming off
culture and the world around us and our lives are

(44:29):
coming on glute or whatever, you can still walk with
a peace if God is at the center of your
life and His presence is in your heart. And that's
what I point people towards.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Hold that thought, because there's a couple other topics. I
want to hit with you on a grander scale. So
can you hang out with me for a little bit longer? Absolutely, okay,
I'm a of course you can. I'm fun.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
We'll be back with Pastor Chris Figuretti with Newbridge Church.
We've got more things to hit on. It's eight sixteen
on your Monday Morning, The Blue Daddy Experience, samon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA eight twenty one. Welcome back
on your Monday morning. You're listening to the bloom Ditty Experience,

(45:09):
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Speaker 10 (45:12):
W v A.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
Mister Kevin Cook's drop on a motive. You didn't float
away yesterday? You're still with us.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
No, we were flying back from Nashville. I stay during
all that, the weather, it's a lot.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
Yeah, I bet that was interesting in an airplane.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
Hey it was Gus went to went to see my
l s U Tigers, who didn't do very well. Still
good trip.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
They did better than the Mountaineers, let's put it that way.

Speaker 6 (45:42):
Yeah, that's that's not pretty.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Yeah, trust me, I was there, so I know.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
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fay thought nice nice.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
So what's going on up at uh up at straw?

Speaker 10 (45:57):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Is it raining? Deals?

Speaker 6 (46:00):
Look at you say, what you're doing?

Speaker 4 (46:04):
That was so bad?

Speaker 6 (46:06):
That was bad? Now I was, you know, I was
driving my Gladiator. You know, I'm driving a hobby Gladiator
orange good looking vehicle, and I got thinking about it
this morning. You know, we have to talk about those
in a while, because I mean, you could get behind
the wheel of a brand new twenty twenty five Jeep
Gladiator Sport four by four two hundred and sixty nine

(46:27):
bucks a month, or if you've heard of just purchase it.
That's four point nine percent interest. You can get on
those for up to sevty two months, which is an
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right three sixty nine a month and Ram trucks. How
about up to seventeen thousand, five hundred dollars off on

(46:49):
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engine when you crank it up and so you can

(47:10):
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protection on the engine transmission to drive train and check
them out.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
See what happens the V eight gets the gets the
testosterone flowing. That's what time say that. That's what I think,
is like.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's There's just there is absolutely nothing that
sounds as good as that Ram truck when you crank
it up. I mean just that growl, just that growl
that it has, and you know, it got a lot
of horsepower, a lot of torch sitting there waiting for
you to use it.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
I think that's what otis needs.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
No, all right, you know what I think?

Speaker 5 (47:54):
So I think it needs a truck's stick with my
g GS.

Speaker 9 (48:00):
I know, I know.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
All right, Hey, look driving it, glad. He is awesome.
I love driving money. You know he's driving At Wrangler.
We've got a lot of a lot of Wranglers in
stock and it's a good time to check out anything.
As far as across the Dodge keep Ram goes as
it is with Honda, Hunday, Nissan, Ford, We've got them
all online there, all sale price. Just you know, got
great weather today. So y'all come on out and see
you and see how much you can say.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
There you have it, Ali guys, all right, have fun.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
That's that's his signature line. Signature line. Yeah, the two
of you didn't have a very good football travel weekend.
Get out of town, watch your teams play, and no go,
no go weather. It was a good thing, that's true.
You were in Florida, you were you were lucky that way.
All right, We're going to get back into the conversation
with Pastor Chris Figuretti from Newbridge Church. A couple of

(48:50):
other things I wanted to to kind of talk with
you about. So we talked about the awakening that we're
seeing across the country, the youth movement that we're seeing.
You know, there's plenty examples of the proof of this.
You know, Bible sales are up forty one percent. The
app downloads that follow along, you know, religious apps, it's

(49:11):
up eighty percent. Christmas Christian music is streaming at an
all time high. I mean, this isn't just at a
college here, a college there. This resurgence is happening.

Speaker 7 (49:23):
Yeah, and it's bigger than any one event or any
series of events. There really is I think a supernatural,
spiritual stirring going on, and people are being drawn back
to faith. I mean, we've gone so far in the
other direction as a culture, and people at the end
of that road is emptiness and anxiety, and people are like,

(49:44):
they're kind of done with that. We've tried that. I
need something that means, something that is eternal, that has
significance and gives my life significance, and faith in Jesus
is it. That's what it's about.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Well, and with Newbridge, you know, you guys continue to grow.
I mean you're now our neighbors across the street with
NB Cafe. You have got New Bridge Academy for the youngsters.
Now that's not quote unquote daycare, correct, there's a little
bit there's there's education there too.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
Yeah, it's technically a day care facility, but it is.
We called it New Bridge Academy because the focus is
educational and really preparing those kids for the next phase
of their life.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
So and you continue to see growth, yeah.

Speaker 7 (50:28):
Absolutely, yeah. I think we've added twenty five kids last
month and we've got another twenty five to add this month,
So yeah, it's continuing to grow and really make an impact.
When we looked at doing that project on the corner
of tenth in Maine for the Academy, the waiting list
for childcare was between twenty and thirty months, and we

(50:50):
are in the process of eliminating that weight period entirely.
So it's really exciting.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
And continue to see growth. On Sundays, I have come
to the studio trying to get work done and I
can't find anywhere to park.

Speaker 7 (51:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, We're filling up the capital.
It's exciting. And you know, even as we've gone into summer,
I've been on staff at the church for twenty five
years and so I've been able to watch the seasonal
cycles and all of that. And typically in the summer
you get a little bit of a dip in attendance.
Peoplere on vacation, and you know, just it's kind of
a the weather's nice, you have all that going on.

(51:25):
We didn't see that this year at all. And then
coming into fall, which is typically a growth season, we've
just more and more people coming, new people all the time,
people engaging in faith, engaging with the church community. It's
really exciting. It's an exciting time to be doing church.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
That's what I was going to ask you, is the
excitement behind this to see the as we've mentioned, the
youthful faces, the change in attitudes. You know, people are struggling.
People are looking for something. You may not be able
to put a label on it, but people are looking.
We're in a you know, some people use the word
spiritual warfare. I've heard that thrown around. That's real, and

(52:02):
that's where people like you come in YEP to play.

Speaker 7 (52:04):
One hundred percent wonderful. Yeah, it's it's a lot of fun.
It's neat standing on the stage teaching the Bible when
people are interested. And all these young faces, these young
adults and college students and young families, and you know,
people were have been wringing their hands, lamenting that you know,
church is dying. It's not dying. It's growing. It's people.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
God's on the move and we're on the moose because
we got to go to a break. But thank you
so much for this morning.

Speaker 7 (52:30):
Well thanks for having me appreciate.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
It, the Bloomdaddy experience here on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back. It's eight point thirty six on this Monday,
The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva,
excuse me, excuse me, goodness, goodness. Once again, thank you
to Pastor Chris for taking the time to come in

(52:54):
this morning and talk you know right now. I wanted
to have him in because just for a different perspective.
You know, we're all going through a lot every time
you turn around, like we've we've talked about many times.
We're just we're just inundated with information where you can't
get away from it. And sometimes you need grounding and
and and to hear from, you know, somebody like Pastor

(53:17):
Chris who has a different perspective, who talks to people
on a weekly basis. You know, it's refreshing to hear
you know, positivity, and that's what I wanted to bring
to the table. So another positive note for Browns fans
like myself. Hey, the losing streaks over. Folks. We blew
out the Dolphins thirty one to six. Who saw that coming?

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Not me?

Speaker 6 (53:39):
Not me.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
I was ready to watch a Hallmark movie at halftime.
That's what how I assume my day would go. But nope,
they won. Thirty one to six. Quinch On junk Judkins
rushed for a career high three touchdowns to go with
more than eighty yards. Cleveland snapped a three game losing streak.
Like I said, up next, we have the Patriots, so

(54:01):
we'll see what happens. The Steelers will host the Packers.
That will be interesting for week eight game. The team
hosts Jordan Love and the Packers on Sunday Night Football.
Pittsburgh is coming off at disappointing loss to the Bengals
on Thursday Night Football and drop to four and two.
So Steeler fans have had a long break. They got

(54:23):
a long break until they get to watch the Steelers
again and then back to college real quick. The latest
College Football Coaches Poll is out. High State remains the
top ranked team in the country, followed by Indiana, Texas
and m Alabama and Georgia. Miami tumbled seven spots to
ninth place. So a little bit update on football over

(54:47):
the weekend, and then otis you have an update on
playoff baseball?

Speaker 4 (54:52):
I do, okay, Blue Jays and Mariners are going to
a game seven. That's going to be tonight. Toronto defeated
Seattle six to two. Last night in Game six at
the Rogers Center to force Game seven, Vladd Junior hit
his sixth homer of the postseason on a solo shot
in the fifth, while Addison Barger went two for three
with a home running three RBIs you know just Josh

(55:13):
Naylor homered for Seattle and the setback. I mean, it's
it just this is what baseball is about. Going to
a game seven, it's I mean, this is this is
a good series.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
This is when it's fun.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
Yep, it comes out and the first six games don't
mean a thing because it comes down to this one
right now.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
So this is when it is fun. Real quick. A
couple celebrity birthdays. Snoop Dogg. I love Snoop Dogg. I
love when Snoop Dogg and Martha stewartt get together because
I think they're freaking hilarious together. But Snoop Dogg fifty
four years old, turns fifty four years old. And you
may not know this name off the top of your head.

(55:51):
William Zabka, Nope, Nope, that's the bad guy in Karate Kid.
With all my mind just went completely blamed. No, well,
raf Manche is the Karate Kid. Ah the Cobra Kai,
the lead guy, the Cobra Kai, and then they become
friends and the whole thing. He is sixty years old,

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sixty years old on this day. And then also in
this day in history, members of Leonard Skinner, including lead
singer Ronnie van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines, were killed
in the Mississippi crash of a plane chartered by the
rock band. So the boy that made a change to
rock and roll history.

Speaker 11 (56:34):
Didn't it?

Speaker 7 (56:36):
You were good?

Speaker 9 (56:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (56:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Have you watched I saw the preview this morning. I
was trying to get on Amazon Prime, which, by the way,
something's going on with Amazon today. I haven't really had
a chance to look at it. This morning, I watched
the trailer for the Uh oh god, why is my
brain not working? You're rock Bruce Springs, the movie about him.

(57:01):
Have you watched it yet?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (57:03):
No, no interest.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
I'm not gonna go see it in the theater, that's
for darn sure.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
They were already advertising it on Prime right, Yeah, I
think it might be on there available to rent now.
I saw it coming. I'm like, Eh, that doesn't really
doesn't interest me so much, not even not even closing.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
It's supposed to be like it's it's not it's supposed
to be if I'm not mistaken, Like in between the Darkness,
it's it's about Nebraska when he went so low and that,
you know, it's supposed to be like the Nebraska Album's
supposed to be like this, it's critically cleaned.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
So it's during that time period of his career.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Okay, at least that's what I read. I mean, I
could be one hundred percent wrong.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
So and I was watching this weekend the iron Man.
This woman, her name is Natalie Grabeau. All right, she's
eighty years old. She completed the iron Man this weekend.

(58:09):
She has become the oldest person, not woman, oldest person
ever to finish the iron Man World Championship, not just
against the US, the World Championship. Eighty years old. God
bless her so in that she completed a two point

(58:32):
four mile swim, a one hundred and twelve mile bike ride,
a twenty six point two mile marathon in sixteen hours
and forty five minutes. So if you round that up
in seventeen hours, she did all of that at eighty
years old. Talk about feeling like an underachiever myself. Eighty

(58:56):
years old, and she pulled all of that off again.
Her name is now Antalie Gribeau. She made history this
weekend completing the Iron Man. I couldn't even begin to
even consider doing just the two point four mile swim
let alone one hundred and twelve mile bike ride, not

(59:18):
even close. I wouldn't. I couldn't even do. No, no,
not even I couldn't. Eighty years old, at eighty years old,
I can't. I can't even imagine. So good, good, good
for her, Good for her. So how was Florida by
the way?

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Hut sunny and hut that's all we got.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
Sunny that the Mountaineers were a disappointment.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
Yeah, yeah, I knew that going in. They were disappointment
all season. So other than the pit game, so.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
Oh okay, well I I created a game this weekend.
So Saturday was gorgeous, right, we all enjoyed the beautiful
Indian summer day. The ladybugs, I'm gonna vent here for
a moment there lead whatever they are Japanese beetles or no,
that's not what they are either. They look like lady bugs. Okay,

(01:00:13):
everybody knows what I'm talking about. Those little I can't
say what they are politely on the radio. Overtook my house,
overtook my house. So I went and I got the
shot back with the long hose. Now I have really

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high ceilings, and of course they go all the way
into the little like where the ceiling meets the wall.
So it's probably I don't know, seven feet eight feet
in the air. I don't know how tall our walls are.
So I decided, okay, I'm gonna make a game out
of this. Because I couldn't catch it, I couldn't get
rid of them. So I got up there with the
shot back, and every time I would catch one, in

(01:00:55):
my head, I was hearing the coin sound from Super
Mario Brothers, remember when he had hit his hat on
the block ding ding. Every time I got one of
those stupid lady bugs, I was like ding ding. I thought,
you know what, instead of driving myself nuts and instead
of getting angry and frustrated, I'm just gonna turn this

(01:01:16):
into a game. I'm just gonna turn this into how
do they get in your house? That's what I don't understand.
How do they get in? I had my windows closed.
Where do they come from? Cause it was like, man,
you saw one? Next thing you know, there's about forty
of them, and you blink and then they're sixty and

(01:01:37):
then you blink and then they're seventy five. Where do
they come from? How do they get in so fast?
How do you get rid of them? You can't, You can't.
It's like herpes, you just can't get rid of it.
Little little but turning into a game it makes it
a little bit more fun. But it's like they're the

(01:01:58):
Houdini of insects. That's all I can That's all I
can say. It's eight forty five. You're listening to the
Bloomdaddy Experience, samon OTAs News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back,
It's eight fifty The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio,

(01:02:19):
eleven seventy WWVA. Did you hear Amazon is hiring? Well,
maybe don't turn in your resume today. They're having cloud
issues if you haven't heard, but they are hiring to
staff up for the busy holiday season. The internet retail
giant is bringing on two hundred and fifty thousand people.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
Amazon founder and evil genius Jeff Bezos is here to
announce some of the perks available for.

Speaker 11 (01:02:44):
The new hires, HI have Jeff bezis BOLLI shup, there's resumes, baby,
am Marazon is hiring.

Speaker 9 (01:02:51):
We're beefing up for the holiday rush by adding one
quarter of a million people. Now, Amazon offers some sweet bennies.
I should know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
I used to work there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:03):
I've got the very competitive salary, stock options out the wazoo,
a huge expense account, a sweet private chet, and of
course dental envision.

Speaker 9 (01:03:13):
So I assume all new hires will.

Speaker 11 (01:03:15):
Get the same package. No stand by h huh, I
see I'm being told that's not the case. And the
only thing new hires will receive is a complimentary blue
Amazon aprons, so no one shoots you as you pull
up in their driveway in your own Toyota Corolla to
deliver their packages.

Speaker 9 (01:03:38):
And by the way, we need five references.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Five references. It's not wrong with a Toyota Corolla. I
don't know many Amazon packages you could get in there, though.
That's kind of a that's kind of a small small house,
or not a small house, a small car. I said
house because I was looking at something else. But before
we get to the holiday season, which by the way,
I did, I have started some of my Christmas shopping.

(01:04:06):
Start a little bit here and there, trying to trying
to get my mindset to that point. But we got
to get to Halloween first, folks. We have to get
there first. But if you are looking for, say, a
new piece of property, the Burrellville, Rhode Island farmhouse that

(01:04:28):
inspired the twenty thirteen horror film The Conjuring, it's actually
going to be auctioned off on Halloween. JJ Manning Auctioneers
states the antique farmhouse that has become famous for historical
paranormal sightings and activity. The three thousand square foot home
sits on eight and a half acres, with no starting

(01:04:49):
bid announced yet. The film was based on paranormal events
experienced by the Parone family in the seventies. Roger and
Carolyn Parone lived there with their five Andrea, Nancy, Christine,
Cindy and April for almost a decade. The family reportedly
encountered a strange phenomena, including foul smells, shaking beds, waal knocks,

(01:05:13):
I'm sorry, mysterious voices, and moving brooms. Paranormalal investigators Ed
and Lorraine Warren connected the disturbances to Bathsheba Sherman, who
allegedly practiced witchcraft in the eighteen hundreds and cursed the
land after sacrificing an infant on the property. I don't

(01:05:36):
know if that would be for me. I just don't know.
I don't think I would sleep well at night at
that house.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:05:49):
If any famous movie house I could could stay in,
I think I would. I would struggle with that, like
the Amityville horror House or the motel from Psycho, which
I don't think that was. That wasn't a real location.
I think that was a movie set. But yeah, I
don't think I would. I would sleep well at night

(01:06:13):
in in in a horrorhouse. Nope, Nope, not a horror
house that can you know what I mean? You all right?
Notice I don't think. I don't think your face matched
the walls.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
I don't think I've seen you blush like that.

Speaker 10 (01:06:37):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
I wasn't blushing ever, ever I did. I did break
down this weekend, and I've hidden them from my husband.
I broke down and I got some Halloween candy. I
got the new I got Reese cups that are shaped
like miniature pumpkins, and then I got also in the

(01:06:58):
same bag, there's cats that are shaped like vampires. They
taste different. I don't know why they don't taste the same.
But then this comes up, so hershe is the winner
of a lawsuit claiming that the It's Reese's Halloween candies
aren't spooky enough. Somebody took out a class action lawsuit

(01:07:21):
and accused the company of false advertising because it's jacka
lanterns don't have what a face. Somebody actually took this
to a lawyer, and a lawyer took this to court.
The packaging because and here's why, because the packaging shows

(01:07:45):
a jack of lintern face on the pumpkin. The consumers
claimed they were disappointed when they unwrapped the treat but
a US district judge ruled the lawsuit failed to prove
that there was any economic injury. Who has the brain

(01:08:05):
space or time to come up with some of this stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Who?

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
That's what I understand in this world anymore? Who says
I'm gonna buy myself a Reese cup and it's shaped
like a pumpkin and says, oh God, I am financially
injured because the face is not on the pumpkin. Really,
people get a life. And to the lawyer that took

(01:08:37):
the case. Shame on you. That's that's just again, so stupid,
so stupid. Who has the time, who has the energy,
who has the money. Seriously, it's Halloween, it's supposed to be.
It's chocolate in its peanut butter. Enjoy it, Enjoy it,

(01:08:58):
treat yourself, put on a few X pounds from it,
and move on. It's just I don't know, it's just
seriously ridiculous. But I treated myself this weekend and I
got a couple of them perfectly fine. I was not
scarred injured. I did not think that this morning I
needed to reach out to an attorney because the pumpkin
does not have a face on it. I'm okay, folks,

(01:09:21):
I'm okay, I'm okay. This world is full of crazy people.
This happened over the weekend. A shopping line argument at
a Marshall's store in New Jersey ended in a stabbing. Again,
people are losing their minds. Authorities report that twenty five
year old Amber Thompson became upset Saturday when she thought

(01:09:43):
another customer was moving too slowly in the checkout line.
Police say Thompson threatened the woman and later followed her
outside to the parking lot. Investigator say Thompson bought a
set of knives, removed one from the package, chased the victim,
and stabbed her several times. The victim was taken to
a hospital with non life threatening injuries. Thank goodness, officers

(01:10:07):
found Thompson hiding in a store bathroom with a bloody
knife on a baby changing station. She faces assault and
weapons charges. Rightfully, so, rightfully, so seriously, seriously, people, calm down,
Calm down, Lord, Monday. We're out, folks, we're wrapping it up.

(01:10:34):
Have a great day, enjoy it, Stay calm, smile, Say
hello to your friends and neighbors. Say hello to the
person in the checkout line with you. We'll talk to
you tomorrow.