The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 22, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Indeed number one tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
is no bloom Daddy experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now the.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news radio
eleven seventy. I am going to talk to Frank LeRose,
who joins me in studio right now. Fifty first Secretary
of State and green beret. There's never a former Green Beret,
and it's never form. It's always green beret, right.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's a lifelong commitment. I actually still serve as a reservist,
which I enjoy, and yeah, part of who I am.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, we're going to talk about the military in a second,
but first I want to talk about November fourth, the
elections coming up. No big statewide issues, but a lot
of mayors, councils, school boards, bond issues, stuff that matters,
but stuff that a lot of people sometimes overlook.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Let me footstomp this one the one that probably matters
more than anything else, that very few people pay attention to.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
School board races.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, don't just vote for who's got the most yard
signs on your block. Do your research. You can go
to our website Fotohio dot gov. Find out what's going
to be on your ballot. Do a little bit of research.
It's going to take maybe ten to fifteen minutes to
vote when you decide to do it. You got three choices.
Absentee voting, early voting at the Board of Elections, which
goes on for the next week and a half, right,
and then of course election day. And you mentioned you know,

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mayor's races, city councils. We all know it. It matters
who lives in the White House, but what matters, probably
more is who works at the courthouse, in the schoolhouse
and city hall. These local elections really make a difference,
and it comes down to a few dozen votes in
a lot of cases. So don't say one vote doesn't
make a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And when it comes to local elections, national elections, you
need poll workers. And the last time I checked, not
trying to be mean here, the average age of a
poll worker probably seventy six. How do you get more
people to want to volunteer to help out?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Now, First of all, we launched all these different recruiting
programs that focus on my fellow military veterans. There's another
one that we do with seventeen year old high school students.
We call it Youth at the Booth. Seventeen year olds
can be poll workers, so a year before they're allowed
to be a voter. And what a great thing to
put on a college application or a job application. So
if you've got a high school senior and your family,
encourage them to go to my website vote Ohio dot

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govn sign up to be a poll worker. We've even
been able to convince companies around Ohio to give their
employees what we call civic time off, a free day
off to go be a poll worker. Here's the thing,
it takes thirty thousand people to run election day. Think
of a full seating section down at the Horseshoe and
Club is a big mobilization of people. And we still
have counties that are looking for a few, especially here

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in Northeast Ohio. I know that a few of our
Northeast Ohio counties are still looking for poll workers for
this November's election. You get paid for it. You're going
to be really getting a good education and how elections work.
If you've maybe got some concerns about elections, administration, election integrity,
that kind of thing. Send up to be a poll worker,
and I think you'll know why. I can say that
we make it both easy to vote and hard to cheat.
And it's going to feel good when you come home

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on election night watch those results scroll across the screen.
You're going to know you were part of delivering this.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So when you sign up to be a poll worker,
what's the process in getting selected? And on November fourth?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, is it shift?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Are you there all day? Just kind of explained what
somebody is going to be walking into.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
So the first step again, go to our website Votohio
dot gov. There's a button there click to sign up
to be a poll worker. Ask you for some information.
Your county Board of Elections will contact you, right so,
whatever county you live in, they'll call you and schedule
you for training. They usually do that on the evenings
or weekends. They may have you go down to the
county fairground and go for three hours of training. So
you're going to be well prepared. You're going to know
what to do. They're gonna pair you with somebody that's

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maybe had years or even decades of experience. You're talking
about those great senior citizens that service poll workers. They'll
pair you with somebody like that that's been doing it
for a long time, and they'll a sign you to
a voting location in your community, probably close to home,
maybe you know a few miles from home. And it's
a long day. Yeah, six thirty am the polls open,
you got to be there well before that. Seven thirty
pm the polls close. I think you're going to find

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it a rewarding experience. And again, like I said, you
get paid for it, but that's not really the biggest
motivation for doing it. You'll be illegitimately.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Times of free pizza too, right, a lot of free pizza.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
You get to hand out stickers all day. No, listen,
I think that people that have done it for years
find it rewarding. They get to sort of look behind
the curtain. Sye, how is this a whole election administration
thing done?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Tiginger Frank Lero's fifty first Secretary of State, also Army
one hundred first Airborne Division Green Beret, Bronze Star in
Iraq Eagle Scout Eagle Scout Amen be prepared.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
And still in the reserves. I wanted to ask you.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I saw where enlistment is up across the board, why
do you think that is?

Speaker 4 (04:41):
And how important is that?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
So a couple things, and again not to make this political,
but I think one of the things is that we've
got a president of the United States now who understands
that warriors need to be warriors, right. The Defense Department, now,
the Department of War is not a social experiment. It's
not meant to drive whatever social change you're trying to do.
It's to meet and defeat our enemies on the battlefield,
to protect our American way of life. And so we've

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really had a refocus at the Department of War under
Secretary Hegseeth and President Trump that we train men and
women to defeat our nation's enemies. We train warriors and
preparedness is what we're all about. Meritocracy. It doesn't matter
what you look like, what your gender is, if you
can do the job we want you, right. And I
think that a lot of patriotic young men and women

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in this country are looking for a sense of purpose.
And I'll say this, we live in a time where
people wonder is my life meaningful? Did I do something
that matters anybody? That raises their right hand and takes
that oath. Whether you sign up to be a mechanic
or a cook or a door kicker, whatever you get
to do. Anybody that serves their country never needs to
ask themselves did I live a life of purpose?

Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's my biggest regret.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
If I could go back in time, I would have
I would join the military because of exactly what you
just said. And I've always admired guys like you. I mean,
I watch I've talked about it the Sean Ryan podcast,
whether it's Green Berets, Delta Force Seals. I've just mesmerized
by it, by that commitment, the toughness of it, the dedication.

(06:08):
What do you still utilize and you still serve. But
I'm just saying from your military career, what do you
think is the most important thing you got from that
that you still utilize in your daily life today?

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, bloom Day. I think of that old movie Good
Morning Vietnam. I think if you maybe broadcasting on Armed
Forces Radio, I can see in uniform doing that.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'd be I'd rather be out there in the stuff.
I mean honestly, So ask what I learned from it?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
First? It's lead from the front. Lead by example. There's
a big difference between a so called leader that says, hey,
go do this and another one that says, follow me,
we're gonna go get this done. So that's the bottom line,
and this is something that you learn from a very
early stage in the military is leadership by example, compassionate
leadership as well taking care of your soldiers, because you

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can't accomplish your mission without taking care of your souldier.
But one of the things that that also I get
from this, and this is specific to being a Green Beret,
we're kind of the soldier diplomats. We work with our
foreign counterparts. We work by with and through our foreign counterparts.
They got a bad guy that they want to get
rid of. Well, instead of us having to do it
for them, we want to train them and equip them

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to help them, right, this is what we do. And
so learning how to work with people that had a
different upbringing to me, sitting on the floor and eating
roasted goat with my Iraqi counterparts isn't exactly my idea
of a great Thursday afternoon, but you know, that's what
you do when you when you're building rapport with your
foreign counterparts and so really in some ways that that's
helped prepare me for what I do now. There's all
different walks of life in Ohio, and you know, I

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can really adapt well and fit well in with with
with all those different groups of people because it's something
I learned in the military.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'm going to assume goat tastes like chicken.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Everything tastes like chi.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
That's why I'm assuming goat tastes like you if.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
You do enough spice on it. Yeah, greasy chicken.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
What age was young Frank Leo who thought you don't
want I want to go jump out of airplanes?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, no question. I grew up in Coppley, Ohio, just
down the road from here. I was inspired by my
boy Scout leader you mentioned being an Eagle Scout. Bill
Miller was a World War Two veteran. Liberated a concentration
camp in World War Two part of the Normandy invasion.
So I got to sit around the campfire at Camp
man Talk down here in the Cuyahoga Valley and hear
stories about liberating a concentration camp. So fourteen, fifteen years old,

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I knew that's what I wanted to do. I enlisted
right after high school. Left for basic training, and I
was where I belonged. I knew that from day one.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Why at Green Beret?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I was looking for a challenge. My first job was
Army engineer. I was a heavy construction equipment operator, ran
bulldozers for the Army. A lot of fun. But I
was looking for a new challenge. Guy my church said,
have you ever thought about trying to become a Green Beret?
And I thought, well, that one hundred and sixty five
pound kid from Akron, there's no way I can tell
you that. But it seemed like a good challenge, and
I was really intrigued by the mission. Right. The work

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that the Special Forces does is that creative again, soldier
diplomat kind of work. You're looking for not just people
that are strong, but people that are creative and have
something between their ears.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Why I still do it today though? Why the Reserves.
I mean, you're a Secretary of State. I'm sure you
could be spending that weekend doing something else.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
Why.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, my wife's asked me this question to be candid, right,
And it's something I love. It's part of who I am.
Being a soldier is sort of at the depth of
my being, and it's I hate to call it my
hobby because that sounds like a trivial, but it's what
I do when I'm not doing normal life and honestly
because I love it. When I think about, you know,
you think about what do you want on your gravestone someday,

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like you know, first of all a Christian, second of
all a husband and a father, but third soldier. That's
that's who I am.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, that's powerful.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
All right, before I let you go, one last thing
you want to say about the upcoming elections, anything you
want to throw out?

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Thanks thanks to our election officials. This is the team
that makes it happen. There's a reason why Ohio's the
gold standard around the country for running elections, and it's
the dedication of our bipartisan election officials. It seems like
right now how Republicans and Democrats can't agree with what day
of the week. It is all of the eight boards
of elections, all three thousand voting locations, all thirty thousand
of those poll workers, Democrats and Republicans working together to

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deliver your election.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
All right, Franks, thanks for stopping in.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Thanks for Daddy.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Seven two on the bloom Daddy experience. And if you're
wondering where Sam is. She's still here, she just doesn't
have much of a voice. This morning, on her fifty
fifth birthday. Stop she can now eat off the senior
menu at Perkins and bob Evans and all the places
that offer fifty five and over menu.

Speaker 6 (10:40):
It is not my fifty firth fifty fifth birthday. I
did not get my AARP membership on.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
You get that at fifty By the way, I kind.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Of sound like an old lady. Currently.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah, well, we told you not to talk. Try to
save it for politics left right, her politics unleased. I'm shure. Yeah,
that's you. That tells you how bad, how far back?
I just went. Yeah. So, but it is Sam's birthday,
So if you'd like to wish her a happy birthday,
you can go to our Facebook page. She made several
comments on there already about it being her birthday, so
it's no secret she wants it out there. She wants

(11:11):
all the recognition she can get, so you could or
you can text her at seven zero four seven zero
and wish Sam a very happy fifty fifth birthday.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
The recognition was to say thank you because I came
into some birthday presence today. The recognition was for you.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
No, you also, but you mentioned it in another one too,
So anyway, so it is Sam's birthday, and I did
pick her up a couple of little do dads for her.
Let's see. One is for your travels. I got you
in the highest date at probably rubber, like a vulcanized rubber.
It's on Ohio state bagtag. And then we got you

(11:55):
a Shitsu Christmas ornament. I could have bought you too,
because you have two shitsus, but they would have been
the exact same things. That didn't make any sense. And
then I got you at Cleveland Browns. They were on
sale because they stink. But it's a mini Christmas tree
that you can hang and it lights up. So there
you go. That's what you got for your birthday.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
Hey, I'll take it.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Looking at some local news, you know, we had Blue
Daddy on talking some politics and whatnot. So in West Virginia,
in Hancock County, the trial of Wirton Dennis, accused of
concealing a hidden camera inside an employee's only restroom. It's
being pushed to next year. The situation came into light
last year in twenty twenty four, after investigators say a
female staffer in the office of doctor Jeremy Crow reported

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finding a water bottle in the bathroom with a camera
in it. Crow faces dozens of charges, and attorneys say
that the criminal trial is being delayed in part due
to civil suits filed against the doctor. So more on
that coming. We'll say anything that you If you look
around town and Wheeling and you see that the power

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polls are being replaced, that's part of a project to
improve electric reliability. Appalachian Power Company crews are also working
to install some new cross arms and that all this
work should be completed in December and finally in Willing.
If you've been out to the Elmgrove Patterson Ballfield area,
the pickleball courts have been closed for a while for

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some renovations, but people are back playing pick a ball
at the Patterson's Courts sports complex. The new courts opened
last week and the courts are named after a local
pickleball enthusiast, Pat Carroll, So they are the Pat Carroll Courts.
So a little bit of local news for you. And uh,
you know, I'm trying not to I want, I want

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to engage Sam, but I don't want her to have
to talk.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yeah, this is this is a little tricky.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
Yeah, it's okay, but you know there are things that
you know that you want to ask, so.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
It doesn't hurt to talk.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
I just so, yeah, I get it. But you're just
to save your voice, is what I'm saying. So does
it feel any different to be fifty five? As she
spitzered hot chocolate out, She's not fifty five.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
No, I'm not even fifty.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
I was. You know. The funny thing is, like sot
at the little store where I bought your stuff in Florida,
they have these like flashback birthday cards, so like I'll
just use I bought one for my mom from my
mom's birthdays in December. She was born in nineteen forty.
So when you open up the card, you know, it
tells you that the ad like the things that were

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going on in nineteen forty, So what the headlines were,
like the top songs, what a loaf of bread costs,
what the average income was, so on and so forth.
I couldn't remember what year you were born orls. I
couldn't remember. I had an idea, so you just you
can just nod and say if I'm right, okay. Seventy
eight okay, and I was gonna buy. I was gonna

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buy seventy seven, seventy eight, and then I was like,
I'm not buying two of these cards. They were like
five dollars apiece, I mean, and I said, I'm not
gonna buy one because I don't know it if if
whichever one I get wrong, I don't know anybody born.
I probably do, but I just can't use it for
somebody else. Well I could have probably found somebody.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
No, I don't feel any different today besides the way
that I sound. It's weird though this morning on my Facebook.
Of course, that's the first thing you open up in
the morning, at least, I do. You know, we're all
addicted to our phones. But I was served all of
this different stuff about uh, you know, things that have

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disappeared since we were kids, like candy and games and
you know, all that kind of stuff. And I'm like, yep,
it knows it's my birthday because this is gone and
this is gone and do you remember this, and do
you remember that? And yep, they know, they know all.
They don't miss a beat.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Well, you know, one of the things like we we
obviously took our vacations back in August, but I was
in Florida for the weekend. I don't know if you
know this or not, but the top twenty twenty six
travel destinations in the US are out Okay, according to
a worldwide survey by Expedia, Hotels dot Com, and Verbo.
Big Sky, Montana tops the list. The report ranks the

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top ten destinations based on flight and accommodation searches on
Expedia from twenty four thousand global travelers over the last year.
The other destination of hotspots include Okinawa, Japan, Okay, No Desire, Sardinia, Italy, Fuquak, Vietnam,
and Savoy, France. Rounding out the top ten, Fort Walton Beach, Florida,

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U Couleete, Canada, Cottsworlds in the UK, San Miguel the Islande, Mexico,
and Hope Art, Australia. Did you like that?

Speaker 6 (16:55):
That's good? All I know about ok Japan. Isn't that
where mister Miagi's from? In karate Oknawa?

Speaker 5 (17:03):
I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm right.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Karate Kid was like my tweener. I wasn't gonna really
watch it. I was too old. I love you know anyway,
Alf Machio. More bloom Daddy coming up after the break.
It is seven to twenty eight on the bloom Daddy Experience. WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Time now for your tirade Topic number one. The National
Flag League. I don't know about you, but it's hard
for me to enjoy an NFL game anymore. Flag after
flag after flag. It's like the officials have a quota
to meet and most of the flags aren't even warranted.
And then when they are, no call, and hell, I
have no idea what to catch this anymore? And instant replay?
Where do I start there? Whoever's watching in New York

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is not supposed to overrule the officials unless the evidence
to the contrary is blatantly obvious. Yet what do they
do overrule the officials when there's no clear cut evidence
to the contrary and when everything is slow mode down
to a fraction of a second. Of course, you're going
to see a millimeter of movement of the ball. That
doesn't mean it's not a catch. But hey, we're watching

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the National Flag League. As you know, holding calls that
are not holding pass interference, it isn't pass interference. And
you know, any run over twelve yards is gonna be
a flag for something. Let these guys play the damn game,
and if you see something blatant, call it otherwise, let
me enjoy football once again. Please it don't even get
me started on roughing the passer. What a joke that is?

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Topic number two dub Browns NFL trade deadlines out there
and you've got people saying should the Browns be buyers
or sellers?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Is this even a debate?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
This team beats a one in five Dolphins team in
disarray in a windstorm, and all of a sudden, this
team is a potential contender. This team's going to be
two and six after this Sunday in New England. We
have an unproven rookie at quarterback, terrible offensive line, terrible wideouts,
and an elite defense until you get in the red zone.
Then it's the worst defense in the league. A coach,

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it's average, it best and I'm being gracious today. And
a culture that is a kin to an eighth grade
class with a substitute teacher. Should this team be a
buyer or a seller? Come on? And finally, topic number three,
the greatest of all time. I've heard people say it

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about shoe Hey Atani and it makes me matter that
a midget a crowded elevator. Babe Ruth is the greatest
of all time. It's not even close. The Babe was
also a dominant pitcher early in his career, and then
he segued to just hitting because he was so good
at it. When you compare time periods versus time periods,
as in the twenties for Ruth, the nineteen twenties and

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the twenty twenties for Otani, apples to apples, Sha ho show, Hey,
I can't even talk now Otani see, I'm getting upset.
Couldn't hold Babe Ruth's jock. Let this sink in. In
nineteen twenty, Babe Ruth hit fifty four home runs. The
next closest was George Sissler with nineteen. That's a difference

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of thirty five home runs. Cal Raley led Major League
Baseball this year sixty home runs. Kyle Schwarber was second
with fifty six. That's a difference of four. But how
about this. Ruth's fifty four home runs in nineteen twenty
were more than the Indians, White Sox, Saint Louis Brown's
Red Sox, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics combined.

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You heard me correctly, Babe Ruth hit more home runs
in nineteen twenty than the other seven American League teams combined.
And he was doing this while drinking all night, having
sex with multiple women all night, and eating nearly ten
hot dogs before and during every game. It's all well
documented if you want to look it up. He wasn't
training year round, he wasn't getting massages on a daily basis.

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He wasn't getting a white new baseball every pitch. He
wasn't working with hitting coaches every day. He wasn't traveling
first class from city to city. All Babe Ruth was
doing was king. Simply put. Nobody, and I mean nobody
can come close to what Babe Ruth did.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
That's your tie, Rade, He's an idiot. Listen. I'm not
gonna I agree. I don't. I don't think Shoe hey
O Towny's the best player ever, might be the best
player of his era. And we kind of touched on
this the other day, But for me, pound for pound,

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Hank Aaron's the best player of all time. I mean
just his numbers show it. I mean, never hit sixty
home runs. I don't think he ever hit fifty, may
have hit fifty once. Here's a guy that hit seven
hundred and fifty five home runs over his career, started
in the Nigro leagues. So what didn't have a true
full baseball? I mean, could have had two more years
or three more years added on to his career stats,

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had way more. I mean, now you're gonna Hank never pitched.
But you know, once they realized that Babe could hit,
he didn't pitch either. So you know we're show hey,
O TOWNI they know he can do both, and he's
doing both under that listen, and he bloom. Daddy's right.

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Babe Ruth didn't get a new baseball every other pitch
or whatever you want to say, but the bats and
the balls were not. Babe Ruth also never faced any
hundred million hour pitchers. Okay, Babe Ruth didn't face the guys.
You know, these guys were beer drinkers. They were guys
that they were part time baseball players, part time furniture

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car salesman, whatever you want, real estate whatever. So yes,
they didn't train like they do today.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
Well, I mean just the physicality of humans at that
point in time sure completely different.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
I mean look at it, and you weren't playing necessary.
You were playing against the best white guys at the time.
Not the best players at the time. You were playing
against the best white guys at the time. So I'm
leaving it at that. Bloom and Bloom Daddy called it
the National Flag League, like I said, as part of

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the reason why I don't watch the NFL, I can't
stand the replays. I can't stand the length of a
game in the NFL. It's just way too long.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Well that and they called ticky tag plays and then
when there's blatant holding, they don't do anything about it.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
Anyway, Let's move on and let's talk some other sports.
Go for it, all right. The Penguins blasted the Caducks
last night five to one. Sidney Crosby was one of
three goal scorers in the second period. Chris Latang notched
his six hundredth career assist as Pittsburgh has won three straight.
And we'll visit the Panthers tomorrow night. That's Florida, by
the way, in case you're interested. You know, uh, Chris

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la Tang notching six hundred career assists. It's really not
that hard. When you get Sidney Crosby and Gunny Milkin
on your team. You know, when you've got goal scorers
six hundred assists, I bet bet the longevity playing almost
twenty years and the Tang's had some health issues, you know,
had a stroke had you know. I mean, I'm not

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talking like injuries. I'm talking like actual health issues. So
I mean to play almost twenty years and did what
he did or has done what he's done, it's pretty
impressive stat. Tomorrow they're taking on the Panthers, like I said,
from Florida, And of course you can catch the Penguin's games,
all of Penguin games and tomorrow night's game on our

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sister station, Eagle one O seven to five. Now speaking
about show hey O Tawny last Friday in the game
that he pitched and hit three home runs. In those
three home runs could make millionaires out of the fans
that caught him. The balls were caught by people in
the stands and one outside the stadium in the bushes.

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The home or the clear Dodger Stadium landed in some bushes,
making it the third longest homer in Dodger's modern history.
But because O Tawny was pitching and hitting his game
is already the talk of legend, and that means each
ball could sell for millions. In addition to his three
home runs, a Tawny struck out ten batters in six
shutout innings, and last Friday's win against the Brewers obviously

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sent the Dodgers to the World Series for the second
year in a row. Now that being said, the Dodgers
are the heavy favorites to win this year's World Series.
The bookmakers like the Dodgers' odds, and they're even favored
to win Game one this Friday against Toronto in Toronto.
So the Dodgers obviously just wrapped up their four game

(25:39):
sweep of the Brewers. In the NLCS, the Blue Jays
had to go seven against the Mariners. Great series, good entertainment,
the Toronto Seattle series. Personally, I wanted Seattle to win.
They've never been to the World Series.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
Seattle's never been to the World Series.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Nope, nope, not even when they had not even when
when they were loaded like with Griffy and Randy Johnson
and Jay Buner and Edgar Martinez Alex Rodriez they got
beat by the Yankees. So you know it's uh. I

(26:17):
just would have liked to see in Seattle because Toronto's
been there. They've got two world championships. Let's let's you know,
Seattle is still young, so they've got there. It's not
like they're gonna go away.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
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we'll just leave it at that, and.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
I will do my best.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
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Not really, but that's the joke we're going with today.
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with Halloween designs. So I love, I like Halloween.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Speaking of Halloween, tomorrow night is adult trick or Treat.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Saint Clairsville, Saint Clair. I've already heard about it. Some
of the it's really fun. Some of the folks from
Cardio Drumming will be there drumming tomorrow. I will not
be there because I have a previous obligation on Thursdays. So,
but speaking of Halloween, it ranks as the second most
beloved family event following Christmas. That's kind of I didn't

(28:53):
realize that. So a survey of two thousand parents with
children ages three to thirteen find that eighty nine percent
favor Christmas, while forty five percent embrace Halloween celebrations. Families
spend an average of nearly twenty three hours preparing for
the Halloween activities. Research shows that seventy two percent go
all out costumes, trigger treating, and parties all that good stuff.

(29:15):
Parents eduicate most almost three hours planning food and three
hours creating outfits. One fifth host Halloween parties featuring theme
games for the roughly fourteen guests, and the celebration outranked
Easter and New Year's Eve in family popularity, with six
percent putting more effort into Halloween than they do Christmas.

(29:38):
I know a few people that like go all out
for Halloween. Oh I do too, and they go all
out more for Halloween than they do Christmas. I mean,
I have a few, you know friends that are are
that way. It's just there's not a lot of pressure
with Halloween.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
There's not.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
The Christmas creates pressure well.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Because everything has to be perfect, you know, people think
it has to be Hallmark Christmas movies has put a
lot of pressure on women.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Let's put it that way.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
To create the perfect holiday experience.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
It has Hallmark. Is there a Hallmark Christmas movie where
anybody time travels? Yes? Actually there is. Oh see, I
would never know. I've never seen a Hallmark Christmas movie.
You've heard of Joelle Joell Janelle Monet, Yeah, I think
she's a singer. She's like an R and B artist. Whatever.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Well.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
In a new Rolling Stone interview Musicians on Musicians, she
described to the reporter Lucy Dakis that she experienced time
traveling back to the nineteen seventies to see David Bowie perform.
This is her quote. I traveled back into the seventies.

(30:58):
I'm sorry, I traveled back into the nineteen seventies and
I saw him do Ziggy, Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
It was incredible. This caused the interviewer deck Has to
question whether she heard her correctly. You traveled back, she asked, incredulously,
with Monet responding yeah. I was backstage. I was like,
this is what I want to do. I jetted back
to the two thousands, and I was like, I can

(31:20):
have the musical, make the music, create the lyrics, and
create community around transformation and being queer, not even just
in sexuality, but in how we see the world.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
Cuckoo cuckoo.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Well, she has longsighted Bowie's influence on their ground on
her groundbreaking debut. They keep putting there in there she's
one persons. Yeah, you know, Okay, so anyway, the arch whatever,
She's still a girl. Her influence on the groundbreaking twenty
ten out debut album The Arch Android, which received a
Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary R and B Album.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Would you have a time travel where? What decade?

Speaker 7 (32:03):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (32:04):
I'd want to go back and see something cool? Yeah,
like like I'd want to go back, like just going back.
I mean I wouldn't have to go back that far,
but to go back to like nineteen eighty eight and
see Kirk Gibson's home run, that would be pretty cool.
How about the babes called Shot? Like I'm thinking around sports. Yeah,

(32:24):
I'd like to see Jerry West play live, like maybe
against the Celtics, to see West and Halachik go against
each other. I'd like to see Elvis before he became Elvish,
you know you know what I mean, before it hit. See.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
I was thinking more of like I would like to
go see a time. Excuse me, before.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Like you'd like to go back to the Handmaid's Tale.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
No, God, no, that actually wasn't set back in time.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
I'm kidding.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
But I'd like to see the West before.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
We developed it. Yes, yeah, and then you'd be killed
by an Indian probably, yes, But I'd like to see
Native American Excuse.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Me, I'd like to see the beauty of this country
before we took it over. And yeah, I don't want
to say destroyed it.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
No, I know what you're saying. Developed it back in
June should have been the end of June. June twenty ninth,
there was a five year old girl. She fell from
the Disney Dream Cruise ship while her mother took photos
of her sitting on a porthole railing. According to the
Browie County Sheriff's Office, the child climbed on the railing

(33:38):
and sat down before losing her balance and falling backwards
approximately forty nine feet into the ocean. Her father jumped
in less than a minute later, and Disney Rescue Cruise
rechieved both of them about half an hour later. The
father was hospitalized for injury, while the daughter was unharmed.
The mother told police she felt like there should be
coverings on the windows and cited that Disney is responsible

(33:59):
for what ad.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
The mother should be arrested.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Yeah. Assistant State Attorney Melissa Kelly declined to prosecute, writing
the conduct was arguably negligent and irresponsible, but didn't reach
the level of conduct necessary to establish criminal culpable negligence. Yes,
it did. Mom should be in jail for being an idiot.

(34:22):
I'm sorry her mom's an idiot. So anyway, we've got
bloom Daddy coming up, and after that, we've got Politics
Unleashed with Eljim mccardo joining as via phone. So we've
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
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Speaker 4 (35:18):
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Speaker 1 (35:19):
The bloom Daddy Experience on news radio eleven seventy. WWVA
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Speaker 2 (35:27):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling. I am
going to talk to Frank LeRose, who joins me in
studio right now. Fifties first Secretary of State and green beret.
There's never a former green Beret, and it's never form.
It's always green beret. Right, it's a lifelong commitment.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
I actually still serve as a reservist, which I enjoy,
and yeah, part of who I am.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, we're going to talk about the military in a second,
but first I want to talk about November fourth, the
elections coming up. No big statewide issues, but a lot
of mayors, councils, school boards, bond issues, stuff that matters,
but stuff that a lot of people sometimes overlook.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, let me footstomp this one, the one that probably
matters more than anything else that very few people pay
attention to. School board races. Yeah, don't just vote for
who's got the most yard signs on your block, do
your research. You can go to our website Fotohio dot gov.
Find out what's going to be on your ballot, do
a little bit of research. It's going to take maybe
ten to fifteen minutes to vote when you decide to
do it. You got three choices. Absentee voting, early voting

(36:29):
at the Board of Elections, which goes on for the
next week and a half, right, and then of course
election day. And you mentioned you know mayor's races, city councils.
We all know it. It matters who lives in the
White House. But what matters probably more is who works
at the courthouse, in the schoolhouse and city hall. These
local elections really make a difference, and it comes down
to a few dozen votes in a lot of cases.
So don't say one vote doesn't make a difference.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
And when it comes to local elections, national elections, you
need poll workers. And the last time I checked, not
trying to be mean here, the average age of a
poll worker probably seventy six. How do you get more
people to want to volunteer to help out.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Well, first of all, we launched all these different recruiting
programs that focus on my fellow military veterans, There's another
one that we do with seventeen year old high school students.
We call it Youth at the Booth. Seventeen year olds
can be poll workers, so a year before they're allowed
to be a voter. And what a great thing to
put on a college application or a job application. So
if you've got a high school senior and your family,
encourage them to go to my website Votehio dot gov

(37:27):
and sign up to be a poll worker. We've even
been able to convince companies around Ohio to give their
employees what we call civic time off, a free day
off to go be a poll worker. Here's the thing,
it takes thirty thousand people to run election day. Think
of a full seating section down at the Horseshoe and
Club is a big mobilization of people. And we still
have counties that are looking for a few, especially here

(37:47):
in Northeast Ohio. I know that a few of our
Northeast Ohio counties are still looking for poll workers for
this November's election. You get paid for it. You're going
to be really getting a good education in how elections work.
If you've maybe got some concerns about elections, administry, election integrity,
that kind of thing. Signed up to be a poll worker,
and I think you'll know why. I can say that
we make it both easy to vote and hard to cheat.
And it's going to feel good when you come home

(38:07):
on election night watch those results scroll across the screen.
You're going to know you were part of delivering this.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
So when you sign up to be a poll worker,
what's the process in getting selected?

Speaker 4 (38:16):
And on November fourth?

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Is it shift?

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Are you there all day? Just kind of explain what
somebody is going to be walking into.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
So the first step again, go to our website vote
Ohio dot gov. There's a button there click to sign
up to be a poll worker. Ask you for some information.
Your county Board of Elections will contact you, right so,
whatever county you live in, they'll call you and schedule
you for training. They usually do that on the evenings
or weekends. They may have you go down to the
county fairground and go for three hours of training. So
you're gonna be well prepared. You're going to know what
to do. They're going to pair you with somebody that's

(38:45):
maybe had years or even decades of experience. You're talking
about those great senior citizens that service poll workers. They'll
pair you with somebody like that that's been doing it
for a long time, and they'll a sign you to
a voting location in your community, probably close to home,
maybe you know a few miles from home. And it's
a long day. Yeah, six thirty am the polls open,
you got to be there well before that. Seven thirty
pm the polls close. I think you're going to find

(39:06):
it a rewarding experience. And again, like I said, you
get paid for it, but that's not really the biggest
motivation for doing it. You'll be illegitimaterobably.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Times of free pizza too, right, a lot of free pizza.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
You get to hand out stickers all day. No, listen.
I think that people that have done it for years
find it rewarding. They get to sort of look behind
the curtain. Sye, how is this a whole election administration
thing done?

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Tiger Frank Lero's fifty first Secretary of State, also Army
one hundred first Airborne Division Green Beret, Bronze Star in
Iraq Eagle Scout Eagle Scout Amen be prepared and still
in the reserves. I wanted to ask you. I saw
where enlistment is up. Yeah, across the board. Why do

(39:46):
you think that is? And how important is that?

Speaker 3 (39:49):
So a couple things, and again not to make this political,
but I think one of the things is that we've
got a president of the United States now who understands
that warriors need to be warriors. Right. The Defense Department, now,
the Department of w or is not a social experiment.
It's not meant to drive whatever social change you're trying
to do. It's to meet and defeat our enemies on
the battlefield to protect our American way of life. And

(40:09):
so we've really had a refocus at the Department of
War under Secretary Hegseeth and President Trump that we train
men and women to defeat our nation's enemies. We train
warriors and preparedness is what we're all about. Meritocracy. It
doesn't matter what you look like, what your gender is,
if you can do the job we want you right.
And I think that a lot of patriotic young men

(40:30):
and women in this country are looking for a sense
of purpose. And I'll say this, We live in a
time where people wonder, is my life meaningful? Did I
do something that matters? Anybody that raises their right hand
and takes that oath. Whether you sign up to be
a mechanic or a cook or a door kicker, whatever
you get to do. Anybody that serves their country never
needs to ask themselves did I live a life of purpose?

Speaker 4 (40:51):
It's my biggest regret.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
If I could go back in time, I would have
I would join the military because of exactly what you
just said. And I've always admired guys like you. I mean,
I watched I've talked about it as Sean Ryan podcast,
whether it's Green Berets, Delta Force Seals. I've just mesmerized
by it, by that commitment, the toughness of it, the dedication.

(41:14):
What do you still utilize and you still serve? But
I'm just saying, from your military career, what do you
think is the most important thing you got from that
that you still utilize in your daily life today?

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Well, bloomday. I think of that old movie Good Morning Vietnam.
I think if you maybe broadcasting on Armed Forces Radio,
I see in uniform doing that.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
I'd rather be.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I'd rather be out there in the stuff. I mean honestly,
So ask what I learned from it?

Speaker 3 (41:43):
First, It's lead from the front, Lead by example, there's
a big difference between a so called leader that says, hey,
go do this and another one that says, follow me,
we're gonna go get this done. So that's the bottom line,
and this is something that you learn from a very
early stage in the military is leadership by example, compassionate
leadership as well taking care of your soldiers, because you

(42:03):
can't accomplish your mission without taking care of your soldiers.
But one of the things that that also I get
from this, and this is specific to being a Green Beret,
we're kind of the soldier diplomats. We work with our
foreign counterparts. We work by with and through our foreign counterparts.
They got a bad guy that they want to get
rid of. Well, instead of us having to do it
for them, we want to train them and equip them

(42:23):
to help them, right, this is what we do. And
so learning how to work with people that had a
different upbringing to me, sitting on the floor and eating
roasted goat with my Iraqi counterparts isn't exactly my idea
of a great Thursday afternoon, but you know, that's what
you do when you when you're building rapport with your
foreign counterparts. And so really, in some ways, that's helped
prepare me for what I do now. There's all different
walks of life in Ohio, and you know, I can

(42:46):
really adapt well and fit well in with with with
all those different groups of people because it's something I
learned in the military.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
I'm going to assume goat tastes like chicken.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Everything tastes like you.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
That's why I'm assuming goat tastes like you if.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
You does enough spice on it.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, what greasy chick out? What age was young frank
LeRose who thought you don't want I want to go
jump out of airplanes?

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Yeah, no question. I grew up in Coppley, Ohio, just
down the road from here. I was inspired by my
boy Scout leader you mentioned being an Eagle Scout. Bill
Miller was a World War Two veteran. Liberated a concentration
camp in World War Two part of the Normandy invasion.
So I got to sit around the campfire at Camp
Manitok down here in the Cuyahoga Valley and hear stories
about liberating a concentration camp. So fourteen fifteen years old,

(43:30):
I knew that's what I wanted to do. I enlisted
right after high school, left for basic trading, and I
was where I belonged. I knew that from day one.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Why at Green Beret?

Speaker 3 (43:38):
I was looking for a challenge. My first job was
Army engineer. I was a heavy construction equipment operator, ran
bulldozers for the Army. A lot of fun. But I
was looking for a new challenge. Guy my church said,
have you ever thought about trying to become a Green Beret?
And I thought, well, that one hundred and sixty five
pound kid from Akron, there's no way I can tell
you that. But it seemed like a good challenge. And
I was really intrigued by the mission. Right work that

(44:00):
the Special Forces does? Is that creative again? Soldier diplomat
kind of work you're looking for not just people that
are strong, but people that are creative and have something
between their ears.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Why I still do it today though? Why the Reserves?
I mean your Secretary of State, Sure you could be
spending that weekend doing something else.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Why.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Well, my wife's asked me this question to be candid, right,
And it's something I love. It's part of who I am.
Being a soldier is sort of at the depth of
my being and it's I hate to call it my hobby.
Because that sounds like a trivial, but it's what I
do when I'm not doing normal life and and honestly
because I love it when I think about, you know,
you think about what do you want on your gravestone someday,

(44:41):
like you know, first of all a Christian, second of
all a husband and a father, but third soldier. That's
that's who I am.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yeah, that's powerful.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
All right, Before I let you go, one last thing
you want to say about the upcoming elections, anything you
want to throw out?

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Thanks thanks to our election officials. This is the team
that makes it happen. There's a reason why Ohio's the
goal standard around the country for running elections, and it's
the dedication of our bipartisan election officials. Seems like right
now Republicans and Democrats can't agree what day of the
week it is. All eighty eight boards of elections, all
three thousand voting locations, all thirty thousand of those poll workers,

(45:15):
Democrats and Republicans working together to deliver your election.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
All right, Franks, thanks for stopping in.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Thanks Daddy.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Hey twenty two, Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience
with Sam and Otis on News Radio eleven seventy wwva
time for some politics unleashed, and for that we bring
in the one, the only, the legendary. I'm trying to
think of. There's another adjective I cat throw in there.
Elgend mccardial, Good morning. How did you know that today

(45:49):
was Sam's birthday?

Speaker 7 (45:52):
I kind of thought that maybe it was happy birthday, Sam.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
Well, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
She can now eat off the senior menu at most
rash runs.

Speaker 7 (46:02):
Well, yeah, senior menu seem to affected or voice.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Yeah, it has well. And the fact that she's missed
it by about seven years, she's seven years short of
that senior menu, seven or eight.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
Years not quite there.

Speaker 7 (46:13):
That's a long time.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
Yeah, you and I could be dead by then.

Speaker 7 (46:17):
Oh yeah, well i''ve long passed.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
The senior.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Yeah. I hit it a couple of years ago as well.
So you know, we've like, it's not a very eventful
week since you've been here last And just want to
ask you, how was your protest when you did the
New King's protest on Saturday?

Speaker 7 (46:40):
Oh wonderful, wonderful. I choose choose was by the doc
was like the alligator?

Speaker 5 (46:47):
Yeah, what was that all about?

Speaker 7 (46:50):
Who knows statue liberty. I mean, it was strange. It
was extremely strange. I really really could not understand what
the purpose of it was. I still don't know. I
still don't know I understand what they were thinking they
were doing. They were protesting that Trump was a quote king,

(47:12):
although some of the interviews I saw they didn't even
know why they were there or what acts he allegedly
did that was royalty. You know, news flash, folks, he
woke up on Sunday just what President Trump was still president.

Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah, you know, I think I think some of the things, like,
I mean, these people were protesting the kings, but yet
there are so many examples of the last administration that
were king like, you know, king like decisions where you
didn't have a choice, and the biggest one being the

(47:50):
Democrat Party just basically annoyting Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate, right, I.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
Mean, contrary to every constitutional mandate, contrary to their own
bylaws and rules of procedure within the Democratic Party. I mean,
it was bizarre, and I think the reason they were
kind of stuck doing that because the money that was
raised for the Biden Kamala campaign had to been used

(48:20):
by that campaign, so they didn't have enough time to
raise money. It was just bizarre. The whole thing is bizarre.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
Well, in reality, they didn't really have time for a
primary either. I mean, if you're going to be honest,
they didn't have time to do any of that before
the day election.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
Well, had they just realized or come to grips with
the fact that Biden was not capable of running another
election and done it way beforehand when everybody knew but
covered it up that he was not capable of doing so,
then they could have had a primary. But it you know,
the king like hierarchy or royalty or continuation of the name,

(49:04):
whether it be the Bushes, the Clintons, that you know,
it is in Biden in his fifty years of government service.
I mean, it's at some point that's that's king like
in that it is it just continues, you know, the
name continues, and your power continues, and your titles continue.

(49:29):
It's everything that the Democratic Party has today that the
Republicans do not. You know, I don't know now. I
anticipate there might be some Trumps coming down the line
that might be in line for for some offices. But again,
the whole march they let's let's go through I guess

(49:51):
the Blue States it would have been the cities and
then go march through the streets for what what are they?
What are they marching for? I got it.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
You know it's Trump de arrangement syndrome is what they're
marching for. And then they just they just want to
give it a different title. It's you know, it's what
they do. I mean, you had the the, the the
the not the Affordable Care Act. What was the one
that they passed? It was basically the Green It was
the Inflation Reduction Act Reduction Act, but it had more

(50:20):
climate change stuff and it then it didn't help anything
with inflation, right, I.

Speaker 7 (50:25):
Mean, it doesn't. Not what they did. I don't know,
Like when you have a pro life march, for example,
you are marching for the unborn child. Okay that I understand.
This march was against royalty and you know, kings, but

(50:45):
we don't have a king. They may't think that. I
mean the marches that exist, like the pro life March
or the p Choice March. Okay, there that's something that
actually exists. There is no king that they're marching again. No,
it's a fictitious, imaginary idea that has been conjured up

(51:10):
in their brain that makes absolutely no sense. It was
a big waste of time.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
Well, and the other thing is Elgin, just real quick,
you know you mentioned the people being asked why they
were out there, they didn't have any answers. Well, that's
because they weren't given in an instruction manual when they
were hired to protest.

Speaker 7 (51:26):
Is when it comes to exactly, exactly exactly. I could
think of lots of other things to spend your money
on the dark money other than buying suits that seem
I mean, that's really they're getting paid. Here's your suit,
put it on. I did not. You couldn't pay me
to put all one of those classic suits.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
Not even for Halloween, not even for Halloween.

Speaker 7 (51:50):
I mean, they just look extremely uncomfortable, claustrophobic, just hot
and nasty and growth. Now I think past all.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
Right, We'll hold that thought because we've got more coming up.
Politics Unleased with Elgiam mccardal coming up on The bloom
Daddy Experience with Sam and otis on News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA eight thirty six. The bloom Daddy Experience with

(52:21):
Sam and otis on Sam's birthday. And she is a
little she's not really under the weather, but her voice
is just, for lack of a better term, we're gonna
say shot useless. Yes, so she's chiming in when she
can or when she feels is necessary. But we do

(52:42):
have Elgind mccardal joining us once again via phone on
politics Unleashed Elgin and I saw a meme just kind
of real quick. I just want you to give me
your opinion on this. It says that Thomas Jefferson said,
if serving in an elected office ever becomes a career,
corruption will surely follow. He hit the down on the

(53:05):
head from two hundred and fifty years ago.

Speaker 7 (53:09):
He did, he did you know, you know back in
the day when you know, horse and Buggy is how
the delegates got to meet together. You were intended to
be there for a short period of time and go
home to your family. You know, it's it is not
intended to be a career, and unfortunately it has become

(53:31):
a career. And he's absolutely right, but he said a
mouthful that quote. It's so true when you stay in
office for too long of a period, you get too comfortable.
And to go back on to our first topic, you
start acting like a quote king and believe that you

(53:52):
have the ability and the authority to do what you
please as opposed to what your pituents want you to do.
And so yes, I would say that that moon is
very accurate.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
Well, you know, I mean, if, like you said, two
hundred and fifty years ago, these people that represented you
know us in Congress and in the Senate and everything else,
they were farmers, they were plantationers, or they were business
people and they couldn't leave their business for you know,
years on end as they do today.

Speaker 7 (54:23):
Right, Well, I mean it's it's become a career. It
definitely has become a career. I don't know. I mean,
it is a job when you're not in BC advocating,
you know, or passing writing laws or voting on laws,
and you are at home. But when you're at home,

(54:44):
you're campaigning, especially with a delicate bounty. Because Congress every
two years they have an election. Sure, so they're elected,
they go they do their you know, legislation and the
legislative duties, and then they go home and then they
have to talk to their constituents and tell them and
inform them what it is that they did. While they

(55:06):
were in DC, and then within a year you're campaigning
for your next to be re elected. You know, that's
a two year gig. And then the Senate obviously is longer.
But as you said, it is designed because people can't
leave their business for that long, and it was designed
only for a short period of time, and then you
go back intend to your business. But now you tend

(55:27):
to go back and tend to your constituents and let
them know what it is that happened in DC.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Well, speaking of speaking of our career politicians, the Chuck
Schumers of the world, we are still in We are
now in week three of the government shut down. Are
there any cracks in the armor?

Speaker 7 (55:49):
I don't think. I think that once certain programs are
cut with the intention of not coming back, I think
that will start to maybe maybe crack the armor. I
don't know. It seems like a stalemate. But the issues

(56:10):
are still the thing. They haven't changed, and people are
starting to get hurt. So the ones that will come
back and get retroactive pay, I think that is something
in the back of their minds like, well, we're going
to get paid anyway, so we'll just hang out and wait.

(56:31):
So there's not much incentive there. The problem is that
the people who rely on certain services of the federal government,
workers who are not getting paid and not showing up
air traffic control, for instance. It does put a start
to affect the economy. It starts to affect inter state commerce.

(56:54):
And there are certain things that the president can do
under his ebjecutive powers in times like this that he
can quote act like unquote uh and address some of
those issues so that he can continue the government and
in its activities. There are certain I think I think

(57:17):
I heard correct if I'm wrong, that that he's funded
Did he fund the FBI? I think he did. I've
heard that.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
Okay, I didn't. I didn't see that or hear that yet.
But I'm not saying that you're right or wrong. I'm
just I I di's something that I have not heard.

Speaker 7 (57:34):
Yeah, you know you military.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
You're right. You see things with President Trump. I mean
he's out there. He is uh, he's on the news
every day. Basically, he's traveling to see the you know,
he's he's going to all these foreign countries. He's coming back,
he's doing what he needs to do. He's out there. Yeah,
you had kJ KJP, Karine Jean Pierre. I think she

(57:59):
was on the view if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, she
was on some talk shows or whatever. And and and
to this day she's still saying that Biden was competent
throughout his presidency. I mean, how can how how long
are they going to carry this lie?

Speaker 7 (58:16):
I don't I don't know if it's today as much
as she is carrying it because that's the only she
can promote her her her book. Without it, where's she
gonna make her money. She can't go against her former boss.
The Democrats have already considered her a traitor because she
has quote changed her changed independence or did she did

(58:41):
she thought? Or yeah, I think she did? In any event,
that that's the that's the problem. I mean, she carries
around the story that Biden was fine because that's what
sells her book because she says that she supported him
one hundred percent. She wasn't telling a lie. And the

(59:03):
Democrats have, you know, shunned her, and she has no
place to go. She's in no man's plan, so she's
continuing the narrative.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Well, the other thing is, if it wasn't for Joe Biden,
if it wasn't for Joe Biden. She wouldn't have had
a job because she only got the job because of
she checked boxes, right.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
She checked the DEI boxes absolutely, you know. So Yeah, No,
I don't I don't see any cracks in the armor.
I don't know where it's going to go. It's meant
to be. The cr was supposed to be a seven week,
seven week band aid to address the uh NO budget.

(59:43):
I don't know why they don't sit down and do
a budget. I think we've discussed that. But we'll see,
we'll see what happens. I don't know. We're getting close
to having the file if you're going to run for
the May primaries midterms, so we'll see. Yeah, I guess
how it all shakes out.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
That's me so with their with with hard headedness on
both sides. Let's be honest, there's hard headedness on both sides.
Does the country need a third party?

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:00:17):
I still don't think that there should be a third party.
I think the third party is the independence. I don't
know that that would solve any issues. I think it
just further divides the issues. It's not going to bring
anybody together creating a third party that hasn't had historical

(01:00:41):
support significance is not going to solve the issue. I think,
going back to your initial statement of the quote from
Thomas Jefferson, I think we need to start trying to
put term limits or apply certain rules to Congress, because

(01:01:04):
as long as Congress is making the rules that they
don't have to live by, and they have a different
set of rules, they will continue to promote their own
self interests. As Tony had been saying last week and
a couple of weeks before, just do your job. Everybody
do your job. That goes for anywhere across the board,

(01:01:25):
whether it's Congress or daily life. If everybody just did
their job and didn't complain and used a little bit
of diplomacy in communication, we wouldn't be where we are.
But I don't know how the exception has become the
rule unless you go by the squeakiest really gets oiled.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
No, that's true, and you know everybody likes the squeaks.

Speaker 7 (01:01:52):
That's true. That's true.

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
All right, on Saturday, all right, we'll stick around with us.
It's eight forty five on the bloom Daddy Experience. Politics
Unleased continues with elgim mccardial right after this on News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA eight fifty one on the Blue

(01:02:18):
Daddy Experience, kicking it into the last segment with Elgind
mccardal with Politics Unleashed. Elgend, you know, the Democrats get
butt hurt over every little thing. So Trump redoing some
of the things in the White House and they are
having a complete breakdown on this. It's all being funded.

(01:02:41):
It's all being funded by Trump and his donors. What's that? Yeah, yeah,
the ballroom, you know, I mean it's there's some things
out there that are absolutely hysterical because it's like, oh, well,
he's doing this, and he's doing this. Well, the taxpayers
paid for Barack Obama to take out the bowling alleys
and put in a basketball court that nobody complained about that.

Speaker 7 (01:03:06):
Yeah, well, you're right they are. It is being funded
by donors and it's completely private money. And I think
it'd be beautiful. It's gonna beautiful. I mean, when when you
are hosting heads of state from around the you know,
around the world, and having no events and whatnot, and
you have how old is the White House? I don't

(01:03:27):
even know. I'm not a historian.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
It's been around a while.

Speaker 7 (01:03:32):
You think.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
Years, No, not quite two fifty because I remember George
Washington was in.

Speaker 7 (01:03:38):
New York, right right right, yeah, so I but but
I think it'll I think it'll be beautiful. But it
is a it's always it's always a hypocrisy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
Oh, absolutely, yeah. Sam's going to jump in here for
a second. What were you going to say, the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:53):
White House was built in eighteen twelve?

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
Yeah, that's what I thought it was. Yeah, and you know,
how about her, you know Harry Truman, excuse me, I
think he was a Democrat. He basically gutted the White House.
And you don't hear anybody say anything about that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:11):
Was that funded with tax panomies eighteen twelve. You're going
to have to do some updates. There are some things
obviously that are preserved for historical purposes. But you know,
we are in twenty twenty five, over two hundred years
and it needs it needs to be done. And again, transportation.

(01:04:32):
The world has shrunk because of transportation, because of the Internet.
The globe has definitely just the size has shrunk such
that heads of state from all over the world can
come whereas before airplane, before you know, all the modes
of transportation, you didn't have that ability. Well, you do

(01:04:54):
have the ability now, and why not have why not
have a place that you can have all of Congress
come for a ball or for an event, you know,
or a celebration. Well, why not? And I think I
would anticipate that it's probably going to have a lot
of events in July. When's it's supposed to be done.

Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
You know, I have I'm not off the top of
my head, I don't know, but I'm assuming they're they're
kicking rear end because I'm they're not going to be
It's I'm sure it's not your typical construction job.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
Oh no, I'm sure it's not. And with Trump in
his construction, yes, uh prowess so to speak. He always
came in under budget and you know, on time. And
I would think that one of the goals would be
to have it ready for the for the July celebration. Yes, absolutely,
you know, because that's you know, that's something we should

(01:05:48):
go for there, Sam road Tree road trip.

Speaker 5 (01:05:53):
Well, and the.

Speaker 7 (01:05:54):
Funny thing is quite the celebration.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
The funny thing is, I guess Hillary Clinton chimed in
on Trump and you know, the remodel and so on
and so forth, and somebody responded, well, you know, your
husband receives something in the Oval office, so you really
don't have a whole lot of room to talk. So
just putting that out there anyway. So I don't know who.

(01:06:19):
I don't know who Jake bro is. It's b r Oe. Okay.
So but he said he had a quote. I'm assuming
it's on like Twitter or something in one of those
things where he says, Pete hegg Seth showed up to
the White House meeting today with President Zelenski wearing a
Russian tricolor flag tie. These people love putin in Russia.

(01:06:40):
Now the tie that that Pete ha Seth's wearing, it
has diagonal stripes and it looks like it goes red
white blue, red white blue, red white blue. Jd Vance's
response was perfect, he said, or maybe he was wearing
the colors of America.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
Well, when you are describing it, I'm like, okay, where
is that putin? How is that putin?

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
Scholars? Well, because the Russian flag is red, white and blue.
But so is the French flag, so is our flag,
so is the United Kingdom flag, so is the Australian flag.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
I mean, what bizarre the spin the spin that is
put on things is just bizarre.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Well, they just I mean, they come up with these things,
and it just shows how ignorant they are, number one,
and the fact that they will try to find any
little thing to take a cheap shot.

Speaker 7 (01:07:33):
Yeah, it is. I think it. I think trumps derangement
syndrome is real.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
I do.

Speaker 7 (01:07:39):
I think it is.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
It's alive and well.

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
It probably has a psychological code that is used by
people because it is. It is bizarre. It is truly bizarre.
It's so far from reality that you start to question,
what what.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
World do you?

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Well, I mean, going back to the original topic at
the beginning of this segment was the protests on Saturday
across the country. People had no qualms of or hesitation,
you know, eighty six forty seven. Hopefully he Hitler's himself
in the bunker. I prefer crushed ice. They're not even

(01:08:23):
attempting to hide their prayer of of of murder. I mean,
they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
No, And I think that it's sad. I think we've
talked about the violence and in the rhetoric, and to
say that the Republicans are somehow creating a divisive country
and inciting violence to Charlie Kirk, I think that was,

(01:08:55):
you know, one of the things. It's just preposterous because
that is not the case, and what is the exact
opposite is what's happening, and it's unfortunate.

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
Well, they just show their true colors and how dumb
they really are.

Speaker 7 (01:09:09):
No get yep, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Well, there was a lot more topics we were supposed
to get into, but i we kind of didn't get there.
So maybe we'll save them for next week. How's that maybe?
All right? Hey, thanks for joining us as usual. Enjoy
yourself where you're at. I'm not going to tell everybody
that you're in the Bahamas, but that's okay, y'all.

Speaker 7 (01:09:30):
Wish I wish.

Speaker 5 (01:09:32):
All right, have a great one. Thanks. All right, there
you have it. That's going to wrap it up. We'll
be content. We'll have to do our lunch winter after
the show.