The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 21, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. Well, you know on Mondays, I talk politics
and I love to talk politics with Jimmer Nacy, former Congressman.
Bloom Daddy showed the political analyst Jim. Thanks for being
on the show. Let's start with the shutdown. In the
court of public opinion? Who do you think is winning
thus far?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well again, thanks for having me, bloom Daddy. The It's
really coming down to a couple of things. If you
look at fundraising, Republicans are winning because they are out
fundraising the Democrats right now. But I still get back
to the same old thing. Where are the dependents? What's
their position on this? Because at the end, you know,
Republicans are going to support Republicans, Democrats are going to

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support Democrats. Where the independence And if you really look
at polling in public opinion, the independents are really blaming
both sides. But when you ask them, wait a minute,
you can't say both sides, who do you really blame?
Thirty five percent are blaming Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans,
nineteen percent are blaming Democrats. So I continue to go

(01:27):
back and when it comes to public opinion, if I
was running for election, and anyone running for election has
to worry about where the independents are. The independents are
clearly blaming both sides, but leaning more toward blaming the Republicans.
And I think that'll be the real key for the
general election next year, depending on how that the independents

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are thinking them.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Jim, I read an article Oxford Economics. They said a
shutdown that last the entire quarter, which has never occurred,
would reduce growth for those three months by one point
two to two point four percentage points. At that point,
I think everybody probably loses, obviously.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
The American public. But what I'm saying, I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Saying that every politician out there on either side is
going to face some serious heat from the public.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I would agree with you, and I've seen those
same studies and it's happening right now. People just don't
see it, you know, the IRS is not open. There's
a lot of organizations within the government that help move
you know, the GDP numbers forward, and they're all those
government entities are all shut down. Movement of infrastructure, all

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of this much occurs through government followings, government issues that
have to be finalized before you can move product. So
many things are going to occur. The longer this shut down,
the curves that it is going to hurt the economy
and that will start affecting everybody. It's it's kind of

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like I said, people don't understand this, but a shutdown
is not good for the American people. It just is.
And I know people think, well, it's not affecting me
right now, so who cares. But it is affecting them,
and it will affect them, especially with the economy and
the numbers, and then the best messaging will be the
winner when it comes to politics. But that's not doesn't

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mean it's not going to hurt the economy.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
All right, let's shut up the topic. Number two, Jim.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
The Israeli military connecting strikes against the moss and Gaza
after accusing the terrorist organization of violating its ceasefire agreement
on Sunday, So it looks like peace in Gaza was
once again false. Hope should we just shelve peace talks,
join Israel and eradicating the moss once and for all.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, it's one of the things President Trump's talking about
now is if this doesn't work or radicating them off,
I hope that's not the case. I think in the end,
I would hope that the United States would worry about it,
more about it its economy, try and help Israel as
much as they can, but not fully engage in this thing.

(04:04):
It's not our war, it's not our area. We should
support Israel, but we don't have to get involved. And
I hope we never get involved from the sense of
putting boots on the ground or getting involved from that standpoint.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, the longer we let them stay, the more we
are going to get dragged into conflict after conflict after conflict.
I mean, Jimmy's has been going on for three thousand years,
this organization.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Every time you think they're ready to have peace or
they're ready.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
To talk, it's just to catch their breath, reorganize and
do what they do. So how many times does this
have to happen before both sides? And I'm talking about
Israel and the United States finally realize the only way
dan this is dann them.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well again, I mean that's a that's a that's a
position that I would hope the United States doesn't take on,
you know, with putting troops on the ground and getting involved.
I heard President Trump say this this weekend, and it's
so true. You know, past presidents have gone in, blown
up things and then walked away and then you'll just
let it continue. He does seem to be one who

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wants to go in be part of the peace process.
But as you said, this has been going on for
three thousand years. I do think it's a conflict that
is between the Middle East and Israel. I do think
the United States should be involved from the outside. I
just don't know how far we should allow our troops
or be involved militarily in this conflict. By putting boots

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on the ground, are actually getting involved. But again that's
something that will decide going forward.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
For sure Taker Politics with Jim orn Acy, former Congressman
bloem Dady show political analysts last topic, two retired FBI
agents who investigated the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bonding,
said may oral candidate in New York, Zoe Ran Mahamdanni
is foolish to campaign with an emom linked to the attack.
So everybody says, ma'm donnie is radical. Everything points to

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the fact that this guy is radical. Yet you've got
big time Democrats backing him in his mayoral bid. What's
it say about today's Democrat party, Jim that they view
Senator John Fetterman as more of a radical than this guy.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, it's interesting. Everything tends to take us to the
idea that Mundonnie. We all know he's a Democrat socialist.
He's definitely an extreme, but he's an outsider. I've seen
polling that shows that what people like about him most
is he's outside the party. He's not part of the
party apparatus. And I can tell you whether it's Republicans, Democrats, independence,

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more and more people are looking to support somebody outside
the party apparatus. The problem with this individual is, yes,
he is outside the party. He is not an insider,
but his ties to so many people, his ties to
his socialist expectations, all of these things seem to be

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Trump's by him being an outsider, and that's what people
are leaning toward, which is scary. Because it tells you
the United States, the voting populace has really decided they'd
rather see outsiders than insiders. And that started back in
twenty sixteen with Donald Trump. It's going to continue, I
believe as we go forward.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, but the difference is Trump loves America.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
You're talking about a guy here linked to people who
hate America, with anti American rhetoric in their actions.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I mean, there's a big difference.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
You could be an outsider, but you better support an
outsider who cares.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
About this country. I don't think this guy does.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, let's see. I don't disagree with you there, one
hundred percent agree with you. But remember what I said.
The voting electorate is looking for outsiders, and I think
that will be a key going forward in elections. I
hope he does not win, but I do believe that
at this point he seems to be leading the pack
as far as being elected and all Poland keeps going

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back to people like him being an outsider, even though
as you said, he's not the right type of outsider.
He doesn't like America, he doesn't like American values. But
people are only seeing him as an outsider, and that's
why he's gotten me momentum and attention he has And Jim.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Here's another aspect of why politics makes me want to vomit.
Sometimes you've got Republicans loving John Fetterman right now, saying,
look at this guy, he's a voice of reason within
the party.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
He's got common sense.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
But if somebody in the Republican Party does that, they're
a rhino, They're a piece of garbage. I mean, the
hypocrisy here is astounding to me.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well, I hundred percent agree with you. It's one of
the reasons why I left Washington. Fetterman is a left
leading progressive insider. I mean, that's the best way of
labeling him. He is not somebody the Republican Party should
look up to. He is actually a left leaning progressive
insider to the Democrat Party. It's the reason he won.
But you're exactly right. Republicans are looking at him as

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somebody who can cut deals and be in the middle.
I wish we still had. See the problem is there
used to be the blue dog Democrats, which were reasonable Democrats.
They're gone. They're all gone. And I got to tell
you the moderate Republicans that were deal makers, they're pretty
much gone. And if they're not gone, they're there, they're
just not saying anything because they're afraid to get knocked

(09:38):
out of government if they speak up. So you've got
these blue Dogs and these moderate Republicans who can kind
of help move things along just sitting back. I have Look,
some of my colleague friends are still there. You never
hear from him anymore. I call them all the time.
Where are you guys at Well, we're not representative of
the parties, and we're just here to try and do

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the best we can. It's a real problem right now
in Congress that we don't have those blue Dogs and
those Republicans who are willing to work to try and
get some of these things accomplished.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
And I don't see it coming back. And that's why
we need a third party.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
But I don't see that happening either, do you no.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
But that's the independence. That's why you're always going to
hear me talk about. I think the independence are the
answer to the future as they continue to grow and
become that block. The minute they say enough is enough,
we're going to vote anti Republican, anti Democrat, and an
independent steps up. That's probably ten or fifteen years from now.
But that's where I believe we're going to end up someday.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Jim, thanks for the time.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Thank you, you have a good day.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
You too, Jim or n Acy, former Congressman, bloo Daddy
Show Political Analyst.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Seven. Good morning everybody, the bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and
Sam News Radio eleven seventy w I sound so funnyva, Yes,
this is me. Not feeling so hot this morning, a
little under the weather. So if I sound funny to you,

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Otis had a good laugh when I walked in, thought
somebody else was joining him this morning. So it's been
fun folks. It's that time of year and it got
me already. I sound like a dude. Hey, I'm on trend.
I'm on trend. Sound like a dude. Anyways. All right,
So we're going to we have a busy show on

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it's good. So otis you stumbled upon? You came upon
this this morning. Now I've posted it on our Facebook page.
So tell everybody about the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame. We're

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gonna have some fun with this.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Well, I didn't really well you saw it, Yeah, I
saw it, and I just kind of brought it up
to you and I mentioned the ten people that were
inducted in the very first class. And in that class
was Fred Rogers, Michael Keaton, Andrew Carnegie, Jonas Salk, doctor
Jonas Salk. That's four of them.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
George Benson, Robert Clemente, Roberto Roberto. What did I say?
I said, Robert Roberto, I'm sorry. Did you see Michael
Keaton the actor always got his head in his hands already. Listen.
I'm on I'm on a few over the counter supplements
this morning, so feeling a little so.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
But anyway, Yeah, I mean we said we were kind
of in actually give credit where credit is due. I
think it was Michelle Wright from WTAE that it was
her post on Facebook. So but she'd asked, like who
who was left off the list or who deserves to
be on the next list?

Speaker 4 (13:42):
And of course, you.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
Know, I mean it's all subjective and we don't know
what the criteria was. Like you broke it down and said, Okay,
there's a like a category musician, actor, you know, philanthropists, medical,
so on and so forth.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
So that's kind of what I picked up looking at it.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
It looks like there's like there's not two from one
category unless you want to put like Fred Rogers and
Michael Keaton in the same you know, kind of like
both I don't know if you want to call him actors,
but you know Fred was on TV. So but I mean,
like the names that are popping up are obviously Art Rooney,

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Senior Mary elmw Hannis Wagner, Myron Cope, doctor Thomas Starzel
is in there. If you're not familiar with who he is.
He is he was based at UPMC Presbyterian, a couple
of Pittsburgh based hospitals, but it's credited with doing the
first liver transplant, So you know there are there are people, uh,

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I mean obviously, then you get into like people are
putting on there like Arnold Palmer, he's from La Trobe.
I don't know if that really counts.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
You know.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
You know what I mean is that too? Is that
too far away to be considered Pittsburgh? Like somebody said
Barbara Feldon from Get the old Get Smart TV show,
She played Agent ninety nine, but she was from Butler.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
So I mean again, but I think do they necessarily
have to be born and raised in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Well, Roberto wasn't. Erto came as a poet, you know,
he basically played his entire career in Pittsburgh, which would
be the same with Mary o Lemieux. But I mean
in some of the names that are popping out there,
I mean, obviously, just about every Steeler from nineteen seventies
the seventies is on the list.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Of people that.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, I mean, whether it be Franco or Rocky or
Jack Lambert Lynd Swan, Terry Bradshaw, Men, Joe Green. I mean,
all their names have made it. Bob Prince is on there.
If I didn't say Myron Cope, he's been on there,
Mike Lang's on there.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Well, you mentioned Donnie Iris.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
Donnie Iris is on there, Donna Ours.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
That's all you have to say it.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
You had to say it in Pittsburgh Geese, donnaill Ores.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
But this is the first year that they've done this. Yes, correct,
So that's why you know people are getting out there,
and you know you left this one off, you left
that one off. You can only do so many.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Well, I think it appears that they're that they are
taking ten at a clip. I mean, that's the first
last was ten. I mean, Pittsburgh's a relatively big city
with a long history.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
So well, again, as as we talked about it, I
pointed out it's almost like they're broke up into category.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
People said, Mark Cuban. Yeah, and I can't remember all
the names that I've seen because I exited out of.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh yeah, okay post.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
So well, here's what we do.

Speaker 6 (16:33):
Here's Jillie Billy Cardell is on there.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Here's what I did. I posted it on our Facebook page.
So if you want to get in on the conversation,
if there's somebody that they left off or somebody that
we haven't mentioned, got our Facebook, give us a call
one eight hundred and sixty four eleven seventy. It's seven
twenty eight. We got to go to a quick break.
You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It's seven thirty six on this Tuesday,

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the Glendaddy Experience. Otis in Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Otis.
Over the break, we were talking about the Pittsburgh Walk
of Fame inductees on Facebook. We got one suggestion, gene Kelly.
I didn't know Gene Kelly was from Pittsburgh. I mean,
there's a classic and then Sarah says for the women

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out there, and I'm gonna butcher his name. Joe Maggie
and Ello, the actor, real big. He's a huge Steelers fan.
I'm trying to think of something he would have been
in that you would recognize him. He was in True Blood,
he was in Magic Mike. If you saw the Magic
Mike movies, I'm not sure those would have been on

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your viewing list. No, not so much so.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
A couple of Jean Kelly was born in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
A couple of suggestions we got on Facebook along with
Jim Kelly football football.

Speaker 6 (18:02):
Joe Namath made the list. Dan Marino made the list,
Joe Montana made the list, Terry Bradshaw made the list.
So a lot of the Mike Ditka is on the list,
but it's it's the first year, folks, So yeah, and
you know, I mean you.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Can't get them all in right off the top.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
So sure. I mean, it's just like any other Hall
of Fame that starts out. I mean, just like when
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame started out. I
mean there were probably groups that were left out. Yeah,
and not because they didn't deserve it, but because you
can't put everybody in in the first class.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Could you imagine being the board trying to make that
decision the first one.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
I don't think the Beatles were in the first class.
I think they were in the second.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
But just to have those debates, that for being to
come up with that and the inauguration class, to have
that responsibility and you know, what's the qualifications, what's the criteria?
How do we whittle this down.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
You got to look at you got to look at
the history. So like like at the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, like do you do you put Bill
Haley and the Comments in because they basically are credited
but started rocking rock and roll? Now obviously that's not
where it started, but that was the first rock and
roll hit allegedly. Then you put Alan Freed in because

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he's the one that coined the term rock and roll,
you know, and then then it becomes.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Then it's just a disaster after that.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
You know.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
But you look at like, I mean you look at
the influencers. Yeah, you know, you got you know, the
people that were in the blues in the twenties and
that kind of that transition between you know, Elvis, you know,
you got so many. I mean, they're like in my mind, like,
how do you not have the Beatles in the first class?

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But I'm thinking to myself, you know, if you really
look at the people and you can you're limited to ten. Well,
how did the Beatles get there? Well, they got they
were influenced by somebody. So they were influenced a lot
by Chuck Berry. So do you have to put Chuck
Berry almost in the first class. You see what I'm saying.
I mean, it's just weird. And you know, again there's

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criteria and there's you know, depending on like are they
doing it by category? One person from each category? Which
makes it even harder because you know, you look at
I mean, you look at Pittsburgh and the first thing
you think about when you think about Pittsburgh it's sports
a lot, you know, you do because you had the
success of the Steelers at one point in time, you

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had success with the Pirates, you had success with the Penguins.
So I mean, and that's.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Three teams, right, you know some cities only have one
or two, so they've got even more to choose from him.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
So I mean, like, if you're going with one athlete
per year, good god, right, you know it's you're almost
I mean, how do you not put Roberto in the
first class? For God's sake, He's got a bridge named
after him. I mean, there's an award named after I mean,
the whole He's the whole package, you know, So I
get that now. You know me as a baseball fan,

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I would like to see would I would go with
Hanness Wagner next? But if you're only going to put
one person in from sports, then I got to go Mario,
because Mario basically, I mean, not only did he come
to the Penguins and turn them into a winning franchise,
but when he retired, he saved them from leaving Pittsburgh,
so by purchasing the Penguins.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
But then you make an argument for football, how do
you go hockey next?

Speaker 6 (21:30):
How do you leave Art Rooney? I mean you could
put Art Rooney in as a philanthropist too, so.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, yeah, kind of skirt skirt and he's not an athlete,
so you'd have to he would probably fall into one
of the other categories.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
And then you know, if you're going to go actor,
but then you have Andy Warhol, who's in there. So
there's an artist.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:49):
I mean not to say that Pittsburgh doesn't have more
than one artist, but I mean at some point in time,
you're going to run out of people that deserve to
be in a Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
It's a limited list to choose for, right, But then
how do you not put in Steelers coach j Yeah,
I mean there you go. I mean, because if it
wasn't him, they wouldn't have the team of the seventies
I mean he how.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
Do you not put Dick groad it. I mean, there's
a guy that he was a m v P for
the Pirates at one point in time, and I mean
Bill Mazeroski, the home Run. I mean, for God's sakes,
I mean, you know Willie Stargel, you know, m VP
World Series Champion, multiple World Series champion. I mean, you know,
so there's there's you know, look at what Steve Blast

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did you know? He was a good pitcher, won the
World Series and then became a lifelong broadcaster. I mean,
where do you put him? You mean, did they fall
in the Fred Rogers category?

Speaker 4 (22:46):
You see?

Speaker 5 (22:46):
It's just hard well And then you and I talked,
you know, how do you not put Katie k A
in there? The groundbreaking radio the first radio station. So
how do you not?

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yeah, I mean there's there's I mean in you weren't
familiar with him, and I wouldn't have been. But like
Porky Chedwick was a MI staple in Pittsburgh as a
DJ in the fifties and sixties, moving into the seventies,
and like I said, at one point in time, I
don't I can't remember what station he was on, but
there in the eighties and nineties, he still had a

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show on I believe three WS on like Sunday Nights,
and it was just all old like it was Porky Chadwick.
And I think Porky's in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. So, I mean there's there's a ton of
there's a ton of people out there that I mean,
if you then then again then you throw in the
Arnold Palmers from La Trobe and you see what I'm saying.

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I mean, if you're gonna go.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Outskirts, yeah, if you expand the you know, then then
so basically what we've concluded is it's a cluster. We
would not be good at making the decisions. We would
not be able to whittle it.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
We'd be food bored.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Oh shoot shoot. So yeah, but if you think somebody
has been left off the list, or you have a recommendation,
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see who we got a message? Just heard Otis say
Chili is on? It was that the chill Bill you
were referenced Chili Bil.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Now he's one that was getting comments to be on
the be inducted into the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame or
whatever it's called.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Got you also another one, I know one who should
be on that Walk of Fame Bill Chili Billy Cardell
grew up on Chiller Theater. I don't remember Chiller Theater.
You're saying, yeah, I mean it was.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
It came on after Saturday Night Live, That's what I remember.
It would come on at one in the morning.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Is the monster movies?

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yeah, horror movies, you know, and most of them were
B movies, so you know they.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
Were they're almost comically but you.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
Would get like a Godzilla movie or like I remember
the one being Garganta the gargantuans or Gargantua or something
like that. And then because that one like freaked me out,
and then I look at it like I've seen it
today and it's so bad. But as a little kid,
it was like, oh my god. But yeah, it's definitely.

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Chili Billy was a Pittsburgh staple there on Channel eleven
for a while.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Oh also asked on our text line, did we mention
Andrew Carnegie.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Yes, he was in the first class.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yes he is on the first class list. He is
under industrialist slash.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
Philanthropy lanthrop philanthrop.

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A couple national headlines want to get to. The government
shutdown has now reached three weeks, folks, tying the second

(28:54):
longest in US history, with no end in site. Another
Senate vote failed yesterday as Democrats insist on extending healthcare
subsidies for millions under the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, about
seven hundred and fifty thousand federal workers remain furloughed and
others are on the job without pay. Also, President Trump

(29:18):
now has the greenlight to deploy National Guard troops in Portland.
A federal appeals court ruled the president's decision can't be
reviewed by the courts, though one judge called that absurd
and a threat to the state's rights and free speech.
In related news, Washington, DC's attorney general says the guard
could stay in the capital through next summer, and Trump

(29:40):
is is hinting he might use the Insurrection Act to
send troops to San Francisco. Well, I'm sure we will
be talking about all of this tomorrow on Politics Unleashed.
Also yesterday, if you did not notice, we did, and
I did. Amazon Web Services said it has fixed the

(30:01):
widespread Internet outages the disrupted major websites in apps yesterday.
Services like Venmo, Microsoft Outlook, Zoom, Snapchat, Lift, and even
Amazon's own Alexa and Ring were affected. Earlier in the day,
AWS confirmed all systems are back to normal. The experts

(30:22):
warned the outage could end up costing hundreds of billions
of dollars.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
Be hearing about that next week. Everybuddyjeff Bezos will be back.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yeah, he'll have a he'll have an explanation for It's
actually kind of scary, Moe. I mean, when you think
about it, that's just a handful that were affected. That's
how the pendant. We are on the internet. I mean
it's scary. Also happening today, Vice President JD. Vance will
be in Israel, where he's expected to visit the headquarters

(30:56):
of the International Task Force monitoring the Gaza ceasefire. Israeli
reports say Vance will also meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Natannelle,
who later this week. So busy things happening around the
world and here in the States. The World Series is set.
Otis it is the little team that could has made it?

(31:20):
Have they not?

Speaker 6 (31:21):
They're not really a little team.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
For some reason, I think of him as like the
little engine that could. I don't know why, but I do.
I'm talking about the Toronto Blue Jays, who will be
taking on the Dodgers. Otis's team. Are you excited?

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Oh, I'm excited. Is you can't believe they know? They
won last night four to three with a win over Seattle. Obviously,
game seven, George Springer hit a go ahead home run,
three run homer for the Jays in the bottom of
the seventh. Julio Rodriguez and cal Rally each went deep
for Seattle. Of course, now they're taking on the Dodgers
Game one, eight o'clock Friday, Night from Toronto. Game two

(31:56):
Saturday night, eight o'clock from Toronto off Sunday in LA
on Monday.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
And this sports announcement will just set your pants on fire.
I know it will, because the NBA regular season starts today.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Yay, like nobody cares, I mean nobody around here. Well
I shouldn't say that, but.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Kevin Durant will now He's now part of the Rockets
that know that happened. Let's see here. The nightcap features
a Golden State showdown between Luka Doncic and the Lakers
against Steph Curry's Warriors from Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
So well, and yay, what people around here carry care about?
The Penguins are back in actual face off against Keith
of Sherwood and the Canucks at home. Pittsburgh's coming off
a shutout win against the Sharks over the weekend and
has won two straight games. You can check out the
night's game on our sister station, Eagle.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
And if you really want to play a game or
take take a risk, the Mega Million's jackpot has hit
record territory once again. Tuesday nights drawing is worth an
estimated six hundred and fifty million dollars.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
I saw I saw a hockey game Friday night.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Oh you did.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
I saw the Orlando Solar Bears and the Florida ever
Blades in Orlando.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
I love the name Solar Bears for some reason.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
That just we get We went to the game. Wheeling
native Chris Heller is the president of the Solar Bears,
so hooked us up with some free parking, some free passes,
some free food.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
What did you say. There was like ten thousand people there.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
I think it was ninety eight hundred was the attendance.
And they are in the same league as the Nailers.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
They draw you figure, they're so close to Tampa, the
ticket prices are affordable. You're drawing from a much larger area.
Oh sure, you know so.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
I mean.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
And like their sales of merchandise, like everybody had either
on it and we were looking at some of the
price he says, and my buddy and I were like,
holy cow, there's everybody's wearing one of these too. They
were like one hundred, Like the average jersey was one
hundred and sixty bucks, and almost everybody was wearing one.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Miikes. Well, good for them though, good for them all right,
it's seven fifty eight. We're gonna jump to a break.
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Speaker 2 (34:42):
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Speaker 4 (34:46):
Hey, it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. Well.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
You know on Mondays, I talk politics and I love
to talk politics with Jim er Nacy, former Congressman. Blue
Daddy Show political analyst Jim. Thanks for being on the show.
Let's start with the shutdown in the court of public opinion?
Who do you I think he's winning thus far?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well again, thanks for having me, Bloombaddy. It's really coming
down to a couple things. If you look at fundraising,
Republicans are winning because they are out fundraising the Democrats
right now. But I still get back to the same
old thing, where are the dependents, where it's their position
on this Because in the end, we know Republicans are
going to support Republicans, Democrats are going to support Democrats.

(35:27):
Where are the independence? And if you really look at
polling in public opinion, the independents are really blaming both sides.
But when you ask them, wait a minute, you can't
say both sides, who do you really blame? Thirty five
percent are blaming Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, nineteen percent
are blaming Democrats. So I continue to go back and

(35:51):
when it comes to public opinion, if I was running
for election, and anyone running for election has to worry about,
where the independents are. The independents are clearly blaming both sides,
but leaning more toward blaming the Republicans. And I think
that'll be the real key for the general election next year,
depending on how the independents are thinking.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Then, Jim, I read an article Oxford Economics. They set
a shutdown that lasts the entire quarter, which has never occurred,
would reduce growth for those three months by one point
two to two point four percentage points.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
At that point, I think.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Everybody probably loses, obviously the American public. But what I'm saying,
I'm saying that every politician out there on either side
is going to face some serious heat from the public.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well, I would agree with you, and I've seen those
same studies, and it's happening right now. People just don't
see it. You know, the IRS is not open. There's
a lot of organizations within the government that help move
you know, the GDP numbers forward, and they're all those
government entities are all shut down. Movement of infrastructure, all

(37:01):
of this much occurs through government followings, government issues that
have to be finalized before you can move product. So
many things are going to occur. The longer this shutdown occurs,
that it is going to hurt the economy and that
will start affecting everybody. It's Bloomberg's kind of like I said,

(37:25):
people don't understand this, but a shutdown is not good
for the American people. It just is. And I know
people think, well, it's not affecting me right now, so
who cares. But it is affecting them, and it will
affect them, especially with the economy and the numbers, and
then the best messaging will be the winner when it
comes to politics. But that's not doesn't mean it's not
going to hurt the economy.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
All right, let's shut up the top.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Number two, jim the Israeli military connecting strikes against the
moss and Gaza after accusing the terrorist organization of violating
its ceasefire agreement on Sunday, So it looks like peace
in Gaza was once again false. Hope should we shelf
peace talks, join Israel and eradicating Hams once and for all.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Well, it's one of the things President Trump's talking about
now is if this doesn't work or eradicating them off.
I hope that's not the case. I think in the end,
I would hope that the United States would worry about it,
more about it if its economy, try and help Israel
as much as they can, but not fully engage in

(38:26):
this thing. It's not our war, it's not our area.
We should support Israel, but we don't have to get involved.
And I hope we never get involved from the sense
of putting boots on the ground or getting involved. From
that standpoint, Well, the.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Longer we let them stay, the more we are going
to get dragged into conflict after conflict after conflict. I mean,
Jimmy's been going on for three thousand years, this organization.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Every time you think they're ready to have peace or
they're ready to talk.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
It's just to catch their breath, reorganize and do what
they do. So how many times does this have to
happen before both sides, and I'm talking about Israel and
the United States finally realize the only way dan this
is damn them.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Well again, I mean, that's a position that I would
hope the United States doesn't take on, you know, with
putting troops on the ground and getting involved. I heard
President Trump say this this weekend, and it's so true.
You know, past presidents have gone in, blown up things
and then walked away and then you'll just let it continue.

(39:32):
He does seem to be one who wants to go
in be part of the peace process. But as you said,
this has been going on for three thousand years. I
do think it's a conflict that is between the Middle
East and Israel. I do think the United States should
be involved from the outside. I just don't know how
far we should allow our troops or be involved militarily

(39:54):
in this conflict, by putting boots on the ground or
actually getting involved. But again that's something that will decide
going forward, for sure.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Talker Politics with Jim or nacy Former Congressman Bloem Dady
show political analysts last topic two retired FBI agents who
investigated the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bonding, said
mayoral candidate in New York Zoe Ran, ma'am donnie is
foolish to campaign with an emom linked to the attack.
So everybody says, ma'm donnie is radical. Everything points to

(40:27):
the fact that this guy is radical. Yet you've got
big time Democrats backing him in his mayoral bid. What's
it say about today's Democrat party, Jim that they view
Senator John Fetterman as more of a radical than this guy.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, it's interesting. Everything tends to take us to the
idea that Mundonnie. We all know he's a Democrat socialist.
He's definitely an extreme, but he's an outsider. I've seen
polling that shows that what people like about him most
is he's outside the party. He's not part of the
party apparatus. And I can tell you whether it's Republicans, Democrats, independence,

(41:13):
more and more people are looking to support somebody outside
the party apparatus. The problem with this individual is, yes,
he is outside the party. He is not an insider,
but his ties to so many people, his ties to
his socialist expectations, all of these things seem to be

(41:35):
Trump's by him being an outsider, and that's what people
are leaning toward, which is scary because it tells you
the United States, the voting populace has really decided they'd
rather see outsiders than insiders. And that started back in
twenty sixteen with Donald Trump. It's going to continue, I
believe as we go forward.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, but the difference is Trump loves America. You're talking
about a guy here linked to people who hate America,
with anti American rhetoric in their actions.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
I mean, there's a big difference.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
You could be an outsider, but you better support an
outsider who cares about this country.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
I don't think this guy does.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, let's see. I don't disagree with you there, one
hundred percent agree with you. But remember what I said.
The voting electorate is looking for outsiders, and I think
that will be a key going forward in elections. I
hope he does not win, but I do believe that
at this point he seems to be leading the pack
as far as being elected, and all Poland keeps going

(42:33):
back to people like him being an outsider, even though,
as you said, he's not the right type of outsider.
He doesn't like America, he doesn't like American values. But
people are only seeing him as an outsider, and that's
why he's gotten me momentum and attention he has.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
And Jim, here's another aspect of why politics makes me
want to vomit. Sometimes you've got Republicans loving John Fetterman
right now saying, look at this guy, he's a voice
of reason within the party.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
He's got common sense.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
But if somebody in the Republican Party does that, they're
a rhino. They're a piece of garbage. I mean, the
hypocrisy here is astounding to me.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Well, I out of percent agree with you. It's one
of the reasons why I left Washington. Fetterman is a
left leaning progressive insider. I mean, that's the best way
of labeling him. He is not somebody the Republican Party
should look up to. He is actually a left leaning
progressive insider to the Democrat Party. It's the reason he won.
But you're exactly right, Republicans are looking at him as

(43:40):
somebody who can cut deals and be in the middle.
I wish we still had see the problem is there.
Used to be the blue dog Democrats, which were reasonable Democrats.
They're gone. They're all gone. And I got to tell
you the moderate Republicans that were deal makers, they're pretty
much gone. And if they're not gone, they're there, they're
just not saying anything because they're afraid to get knocked

(44:01):
out of government if they speak up. So you've got
these blue dogs and these moderate Republicans who can kind
of help move things along. Just sitting back. I have look,
some of my colleague friends are still there. You never
hear from them anymore. I call them all the time.
Where are you guys at? Well, we're not representative of
the parties, and we're just here to try and do

(44:22):
it the best we can. It's a real problem right
now in Congress that we don't have those blue dogs
and those Republicans who are willing to work to try
and get some of these things accomplished.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
And I don't see you coming back. And that's why
we need a third party.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
But I don't see that happening either, do you no.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
But that's the independence. That's why you're always going to
hear me talk about. I think the independents are the
answer to the future as they continue to grow and
become that block. The minute they say enough is enough,
we're going to vote anti Republican, anti Democrat, and an
independent steps up. That's probably ten or fifteen years from now,
but that's where I I believe we're going to end
up someday.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Jim, thanks for the time.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
You have a good day, you too, Jim or n Acy,
former Congressman, bloom Daddy Show Political.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Analyst, Welcome back. It's eight twenty two on your Tuesday morning,
the bloom Daddy Experience OTIS and SAM News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. All right, we're going to get into Belmont
County now, specifically Richland Township. I'm joined by current trustee

(45:30):
Jimmy Deanoble. Thank you so much for coming in this morning.

Speaker 7 (45:33):
Thanks good to be here.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
So we are there. There is I don't want to
use the word controversy because I don't want to give
this fuel for the fire, but there is a conversation
happening right now in regards to the current race that
is happening for Richland Township Trustee. So before we get

(45:55):
into that, Jim, Jimmy, I call you, Jimmy. I hope.
That's okay, that's just okay. So before we get into that,
first of all, how long have you been a trustee?
Be four years now, okay, and this is your first
time correct, my first term? Okay, you are running for
second term?

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (46:12):
Okay. I will preface this by saying, anybody who is running,
any of the candidates, because there are three current candidates.
There is yourself, Jim Denoble, Rick Ferrell, who was also
up for reelection, and Jay Stevens. So any of the
candidates more than welcome to come on the show to discuss.
There are three running. There are two seats up for

(46:34):
that will be available in this election cycle. Correct, correct, okay, okay.
So one of the things, will you please, for those
that aren't familiar, what are the responsibilities of a township trustee?
If you could just kind of give us an overview in.

Speaker 7 (46:48):
A nutshell, it's taken care of taking care of our
township roads, whether it be potholes or paving, chip ceiling.
We take care of all the calverts, keep the water
flowing beside, so it's it's re leaving itself off of
the road and getting itself into the culverts. And we
put the culverts in under driveways and underneath the road there.
But for the most part, that's what we do. And

(47:10):
then of course snow removal in the wintertime and in
mow and besides the roads.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
Okay, summertime, okay. So basically you are the ones that
we call when there's a giant pothole that needs fixed,
or it's three o'clock in the afternoon the road the
roads have not been plowed yet.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
Yeah that sounds It's not as glamorous as it sounds,
but yeah, that's pretty much.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
What we do.

Speaker 7 (47:31):
We fixed botholes, okay.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Okay. So one of the things right now that people
are talking about and they want answers about, is this
quote unquote million dollar building. Now the building exists already, correct.

Speaker 7 (47:50):
Correct, Okay, there was a township building okay that was
in It was in disrepair, and you know, everybody has
an opinion on how much disrepair it might have been in.
But we addressed it from different angles, whether we replaced
the building, repaired the building. And we need definitely needed

(48:12):
to add to the building because we have a police
department that was housed in our meeting room and during meetings,
the scanner would go off and there's you know, there's
obviously private information in the public and us included are
not privy to a lot of that information.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
So well, in this particular building, like you said, it
housed a lot of comings and goings, a lot of
different entities used this one particular facility. And then also
on top of that, the roof had issues, the walls
had issues. So you and the other two current trustees
sat down, met with multiple people, got multiple pit bids

(48:52):
about whether repairing or replacing. Am I correct in saying
that that's correct? And the the fiscally was it determined
that the money to invest to fix the old building,
which was what fifty plus years old? Yes? Okay, so

(49:12):
if and I'm just throwing figures out there, so if
it was seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to fix
the fifty plus year old building versus a million dollars
for a brand new building, that was the conversation you
and the other two trustees had, correct.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
Right, But let me clarify. Okay, First of all, the
building was I don't know, it was about two thousand
square feet the existing building that was in question. Not
only did when this estimate when we've got an estimate
on building a twenty four hundred square foot building. It
had to grow in size because of the police department
Number one, number two. There is two buildings involved here.

(49:54):
It's not just the building, the medium house and the
police department, but we put on a garage and a
lean to on the constructions or on the road crew side.
So there were two buildings to the tune of fifty
two hundred square feet is what we put in. We've
got three where We've got a number of estimates, but

(50:16):
the ones we went with were the engineer came up with.
He gave us different options, and that was repairing the building,
replacing the building, and then of course the park for
the road crew, and those numbers are and I've got
the paperwork in front of me, so bear with me.
The equipment garage addition, was looking at three hundred and

(50:37):
seventy four thousand. That was not in question.

Speaker 6 (50:39):
That's the lean to, that's for the road crew.

Speaker 7 (50:42):
The Township Hall renovation, if we were to renovate it,
make it twenty four hundred square feet but keep a
lot of the existing structure. You were looking at six
hundred and twenty three thousand to tear it down and
to start over, we were looking at seven hundred and
forty one thousand, so you're talking to difference. So I
don't know, you can do the math. One hundred and

(51:02):
twenty some thousand dollars. It seems like a lot of money,
but it's a small percentage when you're talking about paying
the higher price and getting yourself an eighty year building
as opposed to a fifteen or twenty year building.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
Yeah, and hold that thoff. Can you hang out with
me a little bit longer? Okay, because they've got a
couple other questions that that you know, people have, and
I want to clarify things and get into this a
little bit more because this is, you know, a big
sticking point for voters. Because again we're hitting November. It's
coming up closely, so we've got some more to get
into with this conversation. It's eight twenty eight on your Tuesday,

(51:34):
The blim Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back thirty six on this Tuesday, The blim Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Joining us in

(51:56):
the studio, we have Jimmy Denoble Richland Township trustee but
also candidate for reelection for trustee in Richland Township. And
again the other two candidates are Rick Ferrell, also up
for reelection along with Jay Stevens. Both have an open
invitation to come on the show to discuss, you know,

(52:17):
what is happening the election, what their plans are for
the township, and the conversation that Jimmy and I are
having currently about the quote unquote building, the million dollar building.
So one thing I wanted to get back to, you know,
reading about this, seeing the post on social media, jim

(52:38):
there's a lot of conversation about the taxpayer dollars that
were spent to build this building? Is that correct? Because
I've also read that this was money from the American
Rescue Plan or how people refer to COVID money. So
is this taxpayer dollars that were spent to build bild

(53:00):
this controversial building or was it rescue plan dollars? It
can't be both, so you tell me.

Speaker 7 (53:07):
Right, Yeah, the money was part of the rescue plan.
We received over nine hundred thousand. I don't know the
exact figure to do I guess when that money came in.
It was anything less than ten million dollars that came
from that rescue plan went into the general fund to
be used to benefit the township. In this case, now

(53:30):
there was questions about you could have done this with it,
you could have done that with it? Well, of course
we could. A decision needs made. So if we would
have sent this somewhere or gave it all to the
fire department, somebody might have complained. If they come to
our next meeting and went into that building and smelled
the mildew, maybe they would have had a problem with
us given that money away. So that's what we were

(53:52):
elected for, to make decisions to take care of stuff.
Now keep in mind this doesn't happen every day. You
don't normally get a million dollars handed to you. So
we did. And it's not like this decision was made overnight.
This was a seven to eight month process between what
we were going to do and if we were going
to do it, and there was money invested to look

(54:13):
at this avenue and through the whole thing. Rick I
and Greg were all on board. Everything was good until
the very last moment when Greig he did not go
for it. It was just more or less of formality.
We had gone through everything. Like I said, it's probably
seven months we were working on this and it ended

(54:37):
with him of voting no. And again I've talked to
him after that. He has his reasons and I respect it.
I don't have any problem with that. But with the
two votes, that was enough in the building proceeded. Now
keep in mind, if you stand back and look at
the big picture, our funds that we operate on, our
budget that we operated on, it did not change through

(54:59):
this whole thing. Before that COVID money showed up. We
had a problem with our building and we had discussions
about what we were going to do, but it was
too pricey. Yet the time we could not replace the building.
This money shows up, and it was it only made
sense to investigate this avenue and it definitely, at the
very least it had to be remodeled. And then when

(55:20):
you look at these numbers, with what they gave us
to remodel it or build it all new, it it's
not even subject to an opinion. It was the right
thing to do with this money.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
So for other people who who maybe weren't involved in
anything like this, with the American Rescue Plan and this
money that literally kind of came out of nowhere. For
a lot of townships, counties, you know, we've a lot
of money floated around. Were there parameters or rules on
what and how that money could be spent that you

(55:51):
were faced with when making this decision.

Speaker 7 (55:54):
There are parameters, and I can't list all those parameters,
but I can tell you that there were avenues things
that we discussed doing that No, that doesn't really fit this.
You know this money, it's not designed for that. There
were certain things, of course I don't know them all.
It's just when we went down that avenue, we determined

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that see not either ape not able to do that,
or that's not in our best interest. So the beauty
of the whole thing is our budget. It did not
change through this. And we had a problem. We definitely
had a problem with the building, and we found a solution.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
And you took the opportunity basically.

Speaker 7 (56:38):
Right, And so our township has not And again this
is not local taxpayer money. And there was question as
to why we didn't spend it here, why we didn't
spend it there other places in the in the community.
Keep in mind, the county got I shouldn't quote numbers
and I'm not sure, but I believe the county ended
up with about thirteen million dollars, so they were able

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to take care of themselves.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
So when was this done? The building exists now, doesn't it.
It's completed. Why is this coming back up now? Because
this start? When did the groundbreaking happen for the building? Oh? Boy,
twenty twenty two, twenty three?

Speaker 7 (57:15):
I think it was twenty It was twenty twenty three,
and it took about seven months for them to get
the thing built.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
And it's coming back up now because of.

Speaker 7 (57:27):
Well it's coming back up now because there was money
used that came into our into our hands, that were
spent now anytime, I mean you you should have to
explain where a million dollars go, sure, and why it goes,
you know, and for what reason. But I welcome, you know,
I beg people if you have any questions. It's a
lot easier to give me a phone call. I'll show

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you paperwork, you know, I can show you all this stuff.
It's hard to do on the radio, you know, Sam,
you guys are on the radio all the time. This
is comfortable for you. Well, sometime Sam, sitting here, she's
wondering why I'm shaking so bad. You know, it's it's
it's hard for somebody's just supposed to do this all well,
and it's.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
Hard to rattle off numbers and remember dates and you
know all those exact things. I completely understand. I trust me,
I completely understand. You think your brain works fast, and
sometimes it's like hello, wake up upstairs. You know right,
we're live, we're talking. So no, I get it. I
did want to ask there seems to be this this
inn window, if you will, that this was all done

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in the dark, that these decisions were made and people
weren't aware. You know, you you had the meetings, you
have transparency, you have the notes that is all open
to the public.

Speaker 7 (58:41):
Correct, absolutely, and we we again we welcome people that
show up there. You know, we have a nice facility.
If nothing else, come take a look at it. See
what we've done. We've we've volunteered a lot of time there.
The trustees went in, we you know, we spent money
and when it got towards the end, well we needed
to deal with desks and stuff like that, we went

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in and built a surround and got a lamin at countertop.
As supposed to spending a bunch of money on desks.
You know, we're only there once or twice a month.
It doesn't need to be a show room or anything,
but it does have to be mildew free and the
roof not leaking so well.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
And you and you mentioned the equipment that you store,
and so if you buy equipment, you invest in that,
you want to be able to facilitate and keep it
in a facility where it's going to be protected and
it's going to last longer. So then after five years
you don't have to rebuy the same equipment. That so
it's kind of it's the comparison. Again. You were thinking,

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and I'm not defending you, but fiscally, what is the
right decision? It's like buying a house. Do you build
a house from scratch or do you buy the eighteen
hundreds farmhouse that needs half a million dollars worth of
refurbishment or do you build a new house for six
hundred thousand. It's going to last how much longer? That

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was what you were faced with, right.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
Right, and I you know, double down, I think we
made the right decision. The township is in better shape
for it, It truly is. And then as far as
how much this cost. You know, you know, I'm a
I'm a contractor, but I'm typically into private sector. I
don't do a whole lot of commercial work. I certainly

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don't do any industrial work or anything for the government.
I've never done anything like this. You know, I cannot
build a house for less than two hundred dollars a
square foot. This if you take the fifty two hundred
square foot and you divide it or ninety six, we
ended up paying sports dub but nine hundred and sixty eight,

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five hundred and seventy six dollars that's what came out
of our coffers went to Fort stew But if you
do the math there, it's one hundred and eighty six
dollars a square foot. So it's not like they were
out of line. Now, keep in mind we're not necessarily
comparing apples to apples. There aren't basements under this like
you have in a house. Sure there's no big, fancy
kitchen or anything like that, but there is prevailing wage

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and all the red tape any engineers and the architects,
and truly for them to come in at one hundred
and eighty six dollars a square foot. Again, I'm not
a commercial call. It was under the That seems pretty reasonable.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Yeah, yeah, well, Jim, thank you so much for your
time this morning. Again, Jim Denoble, I'm sorry. Richland Township
trustee up for re election along with Rick Ferrell and
j Stevens, and again, all candidates are welcome to come
on the show anytime. All you have to do is
reach out to is Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. It's
a forty five. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience

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here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA Welcome back, eight
fifty one The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy wwva Otis. Do you remember Snapple? Yeah, okay,

(01:02:03):
well it's back anywhere I thought. I haven't thought about
Snapple since I was probably in junior high. Well, it's
reintroducing the classic glass bottles.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Maybe that's why.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Yeah, that's what they were known for. So it's coming back.
And of course this nostalgic packaging and it's been requested
by people for years. It will feature the top flavors
such as the Snapple Apple, Kiwi Strawberry Peach tea zero
sugar peach tea and lemon tea. So for all the
folks out there who have begged for the glass bottles

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to come back, they are on their way. I've gotta agree.
I'm sorry. There is nothing nothing better than a coke
or a pepsi or a mountain dew and an old
school glass bottle. Every time I go somewhere touristy and

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they have like the oh, the the country store. You
don't talk like. You go to Myrtle Beach and there's
the country store and they always have like the old
fashioned candy and this and that. They always have a
refrigerator with the glass bottles of pop, and I always
they taste better. I don't know why they taste better.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
No, It's been a while since I've had a soda
out of a glass bottle. But I would say that
I would prefer like for me, like my go to
if I don't really drink a whole lot of soda, Okay,
but when I do have the craving for one, it's
like a it has to be a fountain pepsi.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
Oh yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.

Speaker 6 (01:03:38):
And that happens like in an extreme situation like where
you get caught if you're traveling on the road or
something and you just you go in and you grab
a sandwich in something, and you just need If they
have a fountain pepsi as opposed to a bottle, I'm
gonna buy the fountain pepsi.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
You really don't drink pop, do you. I've been to
lunches and stuff with you.

Speaker 6 (01:03:57):
I had one last night I had. I had a
sugar for root beer.

Speaker 5 (01:04:01):
Oh that sounds terrible.

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
I'm sorry, zero sugar, but it wasn't bad. It tastes
like root beer.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Not a root beer fan. Do you remember exchanging the
glass bottles? Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
Yeah, you just take them back from my grandmother all
the time in South Wheeling. I would take him over
to the food land. Then they'd put him on one
of those rollers there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:04:18):
My parents lost my brother that way. He was I
don't know, four or five, and they weren't paying attention.
He didn't exchange any bottles. He exchanged himself. He went
on the rollers and thought it was just like a
toy a ride and they couldn't find him. Okay, that's
where he was.

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Did they ever get him back?

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
Yeah, they got him back, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, he came back,
but yeah, he decided to hide. Hide in nah, hide
in the exchange place. A little entertainment news. So Disney
Plus and Hulu. So if you haven't caught on Disney Plus, Hulu,
Disney what's the third ESPN plus they've they've come.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Basically it's a ESPN because I have the I signed up.
They had a special going on. You get all three
apps for twenty nine to ninety five a month.

Speaker 5 (01:05:08):
Right, Yeah, so they've cut it. Yeah, there's like this
whole combo thing going on. Well recently, of course, you
know the whole Jimmy Kimmel drama back in September. Well,
now information is coming out, the ratings are coming out
where cancelations have gone up since they brought Jimmy Kimmel back.

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So people have gotten rid of Hulu and canceled the
app because Jimmy Kimmel is back. So he is no
longer winning, folks, no longer winning. And if you are
planning your Thanksgiving, maybe you want to go a different
route this year. Popeye'es is once again offering its popular

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Cajun style turkey for a limited time this holiday season.
I would give that a try. The fully cirked cooked
bird season with the chain's signature spices. It's now the
fourth year that they're doing it, so let them do
the cooking for you. I'm okay with that too. I
have never cooked a Thanksgiving dinner, and I don't think
anybody would ever want me to, not even close, because

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you would probably end up with food poisoning. Nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
Oh, I was distracted. Oh okay, okay, So I wasn't listening.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
I was waiting on a comment about me giving people
food poisoning. Well, and then we've got two stories about toilets.
You want to talk about toilets if you want, okay. So,
Color Health has introduced what is called the Dakota. It's
a six D device that attaches to toilet rims to

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monitor the user's health through optical sensors. This gadget analyzes
the waste for blood detection while tracking gut health and
hydration levels. Users authenticate through fingerprint scanning and to pay
annual subscription fees ranging from seventy dollars to one hundred

(01:07:14):
and fifty six dollars based on their chosen plan. So basically,
you can sit on a computer to do your business.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Now with a camera.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
With a camera. Whoever is on the other end of
that camera.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
Maybe it's a center. It says optical sensors. That tells
me camera.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Well, yeah, that's how I read it. So that's how
I read it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
If you have some low hanging fruit, they may get
a shot of that too.

Speaker 5 (01:07:42):
That's a crappy job, but a botch.

Speaker 6 (01:07:46):
No, God, that's again low hanging fruit. That'sn't all right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
I thought it was funny you would. And then China's
at it with the toilets too. My voice is going, folks,
excuse me. Chinese public restrooms are trying, and they have
a new trial. Right. They're dispensers that require users to
watch advertisements before they can get toilet paper. You cannot

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get away from screens and advertising anywhere you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
Can because you can pay instead for the toilet paper. Yeah,
you can pay seven cents, oh my god, instead of
watching the d and then they dispense it like what
happens If they only give you like three sheets and
it's a paper thin stuff, then your fingers go through it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
Says square. I can just hear you laying. Please, can
you spare a square? I need more? That'd be a again,
crappy situation. Redone.

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
I hope you are good.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
Because I need something. My throat is on fire. Everybody,
have a great Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
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