The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam October 23, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
D number one TUK show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The Bloomdaddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. I want to invite somebody very special to
the show right now. His name is Bob Woodson, civil
rights leader, community development leader, author, founder and president of
the Woodston Center. That's a nonprofit research and demonstration organization
that supports neighborhood based initiatives to revitalize low income communities.

(00:42):
He also launched the Center's seventeen seventy six Units campaign.
He was in Lorraine earlier today giving a speech to
lawmakers other individuals, and he's kind of enough to stop
by the studio here today.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Bob, thanks so much for coming in. Pleased to be here.
I want to start.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I mean, there's so many things to hit on here,
but neighborhood empowerment has been huge for you, and solutions
driven by the people within the community rather than top
down government programs. How did your upbringing, how did your
military service in the Air Force shape your philosophy?

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well, thanks for asking, I think. I was born in
nineteen thirty seven in Philadelphia, blue collar neighborhood. I was
the youngest of five children, and my dad fought in
the First World War. He was a Harlem Hellcats, but

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he was wounded there and suffered some illnesses that later
took his life when I was nine years old. So
I was left with my mother with a fifth grade education,
the youngest of five children to raise. But the neighborhood
was stable. As I tell people, in those days, you
elderly people could walk freely without being fear of being

(02:04):
assaulted by their grandchildren, never heard guns fired, and ninety
eight percent of the households had a man and women
raising children. But there are all kinds of other support structures,
the Elks and other self help organizations. But it also
meant that I had to rely on my peers more

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than my blood family. And so I guess, and there
were five of us. One of them, some of your
listeners will know, was Matt Robinson. He was Gordon on
Sesame Street, okay, the first black guy on Sesame Street.
His daughter is Holly Robinson, the actress who's married to

(02:47):
Rodney Peake. I had a chance to eulogize him about
fifteen years ago in Hollywood.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
But so I guess I.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Gained us understood why kids joined gangs or have organizations
outside of the family, But we were all responsible.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
They were a year older.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Than me, and when they graduated, I was left unaffiliated.
So I dropped out of high school and went into
the military. Didn't have much interest in education, but I
was always good in math, so I had straight a's
because they have to study. And the Air Force, the
first time I had left the Tri state area and

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went and really got my eye open, taught me discipline.
I heard white people with Southern accents for the first time, interesting,
and so it just exposed me to a whole new world.
I was in the station in New York and then Mississippi,
so I had a chance to see racism in the raw,

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but it didn't freak me out because I was used
to going around with my own folks anyway, and so
we just found our way. And so I finished high
school in the military, and they trained me and went
to the space program and flew the first Earth satellite attempt,
and so I just kind of gat it matured. It

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really matured me. Plus it really integrated people with different
walks of life.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
You founded the Woodston Center, launched the seventeen seventy six
Nights Initiative. Did you have an aha moment when you
decided to focus on entrepreneurship and self help rather than, hey,
let's rely on government welfare policy reforms.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, well I just came out.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
I was a young civil rights activist after I finished
graduate school, and I was leading civil rights demonstrations in
Barred Rustern's hometown of Westchester, Pennsylvania. I met doctor King
through him. But something happened to me. First of all,
I parted company with the movement on the issue of

(04:59):
force bussing for integration. I was against integration, well, at
least as the opposite of segregation. Me was desegregation, not integration,
So that put me at odds with the leadership. The
second thing that turned me off was we led demonstrations
outside of a pharmaceutical company, and when they desegregated, they
hired nine black PhD chemists. Then I realized that class

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was interfering with race. And so when they and so
I sensed right then that a bait and switch game
was going on. Then a lot of the civil rights
leaders became elected officials, and then I saw the sixties
poverty programs. I knew from the beginning that it was

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going to be worse for poor blacks than anything that
I witnessed experience under segregation, and I was proven to
be true.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Talking to Bob Woodson right now, civil rights leader, community
development lead, author, founder, resident of the Woodson Center, when well,
in your view, what are the biggest misconceptions people, especially
outside the inner city context, have about how change actually
happens in low income neighborhoods.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Well, first of.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
All, the biggest myth is that with the deterioration that
occurred in the black community, somehow that's the legacy of
slavery and Jim Crow. That is just not true, and
there's evidence to support there that a lot of the
decline that you're talking in the black family occurred as
a consequence of the sixties, where welfare was not only encouraged,

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but it was demanded and people were recruited into the
welfare system, and the socialists Cloud and Pivot at Columbia
University had this paper that says the best way to
fight poverty is redistributed income. That's socialism. But we're going

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to use a black community as a battering ram. And
so there was used to be a stigma of black
commune being a welfare but they changed that, and then
the government started to recruit blacks, and so more blacks
flooded into the welfare system in four years in the
early seventies at a time when the unemployment rate for

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blacks was four percent, and so what they predicted was true.
There was you separate work from income and school dropout
rights out of wedlock births.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
All of that.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Occurred as a consequence of federal policies that separated work
from income. And then the civil rights leaders became elected
officials in these cities and they were administering the twenty
two trillion dollars in where seventy percent of the money
goes to the paper who served the poor. So we
created a commodity out of poor po and the civil

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rights people didn't raise any.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
How is what you just said received within the black.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Community among low income people, It is well received. There's
this myth that somehow the elite leadership speaks for all
Black America on issues of choice and education. Only eight
percent of the leadership supports it. Sixty percent of low
income black supported the leadership supports defund the police. Eighty

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percent of low income blacks do not support defund the police.
Sixty percent of blacks don't believe that racism is their
biggest barrier to flourishing. The leadership doesn't belive it. So
there's a huge gap in the black community. But you
don't know that because low income blacks don't have a voice.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'm going to continue this conversation. I've got to take
a break. More of the interview coming up here on
eleven seventy WWA.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Seven twenty one on the Blue Daddy Experience with Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Sam is a
little under the weather. So if you thought yesterday was bad,
she sent me a text at about twelve thirty this morning.
Of course I didn't get it until I got out
of bed this morning that said that she was one
hundred times worse than she was yesterday. So she's at

(09:29):
home getting better.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
I guess is what we'll say.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
We're gonna take a look at some local news. There
has been some sentencing that is being ordered for a
Pittsburgh Ban convicted in a Wheeling cold case sexual assault.
Prosecutors say a twenty three year old woman was attacked
in two thousand and eight, with little progress made in
the investigation until twenty twenty. That was when DNA evidence

(09:53):
from the crime matched with the man convicted in a
twenty thirteen sexual assault. Joseph Jones was subsequently convicted in
connection with the two thousand and eight crime and has
now been sentenced to serve thirteen to thirty five years
in prison. For those of our friends that are up
in the Weirton area, more than one thousand Whirton residents
will be without power today. It's part of a planned

(10:13):
outage from Lawn Power. Those in the Wharton and Marlin
Heights area will be impacted. Notifications will be sent to
those affected, and the outage is expected to last from
eight thirty this morning until two pm. Also today, flu
shots are available free of charge and Wheeling Well pointed
West Virginia will host a vaccine clinic at Wheeling Island

(10:34):
on south Stone Street. That's the casino, the hotel, the racetrack,
so on.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
And so forth.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Shots will only be given to adults over the age
of eighteen and Anyone that gets a vaccine will also
be gifted a twenty five dollars gift card. In Brook County,
the commission is looking for a new commissioner. This comes
as AJ Thomas has announced his plans to resign next year.
Officials say there are certain requirements for those interested in
the position. Interviews are expected to begin in January.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
And then.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
This is kind of a fun one out of New Martinsville.
The New Martinsville Police Department is hosting its second annual
Hide and Seek from the Police event this Saturday. Participants
hide on foot while officers search for them in cruisers
over a two hour period. Registration costs ten bucks and
it's limited to two hundred participants. The event raises money

(11:24):
for the department Shop with a Cop Christmas program, which
provides underprivileged children with two hundred and fifty dollars each
for holiday shopping. So sounds like a pretty fun event
and for a super great cause. At ten dollars a piece,
two hundred participants, that's going to raise some pretty good
money and it sounds like a lot of fun. So

(11:44):
if you're in the New Martinsville area and you want
to be chased by the cops. I guess legally and
pay to have it done. Yeah, there you go. I
don't know if you win at prize or anything. If
you stay away from them, it doesn't say it's kind
of interesting. I'm sure you can look it up or
give them a call. Some other news that's out there.
And I know a lot of people from this area
travel to the Myrtle Beach area, you know, whether it

(12:06):
be maybe a little bit farther north like Holden Beach,
Nag's Head, Sunset Beaches in North Carolina. But North Carolina
residents are being reminded that there's a new law which
bans balloon releases. North Carolina Senate Bill twenty went into
effect on October first, which bans the organization of or

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participation in balloon releases. Violators or violations are punishable by
two hundred and fifty dollars fines, and then the goal
is to cut down on litter, as balloons are believed
to be one of the deadliest types of debris from
marine wildlife. And if you are an Amazon person and
you had the Amazon Web services, there was an outage

(12:50):
on Monday, well, it disrupted eight sleep Smart mattresses, causing
beds to overheat and then trap users in the upright position.
The AWS failure affected he controls on the smart beds,
leaving customers unable to cool down overheating the mattresses. Some
owners of the five thousand dollars Pod five Ultra adjustable

(13:12):
beds found themselves stuck with the mattresses locked in incline
positions designed to reduce snoring and back problems. Eight Sleep
CEO Mateo French Franceschetti apologized on social media, writing, the
AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night,
disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want

(13:34):
to provide and I want to apologize for it. The
company restored full functionality to all mattresses by ten pm Monday.
That was ten pm Monday, and they're working on an
outage proofing on their technology. So if you have a
one of those fancy beds five thousand bucks man, that's

(13:54):
a I don't know if that's I haven't bought a
bed for a long time, so I don't know if
that's expensive or not. And the last time I bought
a bed, I think I bought it on sales. That
would have been shoot going on maybe nine or ten
years ago, so I mean, I wouldn't be able to
tell you what a bed costs today. There's a great

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story out of Santa Cruz, California. There's a mischievous sea
otter and it's causing more trouble for surfers. In Santa Cruz, California.
Last week, there was an otter that reportedly bit a
surfer's foot before taking over her surfboard. The harbor patrol
officers found the otter still perched on the board about
twenty minutes later. The surfer was brought to shore safely

(14:38):
and lifeguards later retrieved the board. Officials say that her
skin wasn't punctured, so it was just like a little
nip I would guess. The incident is reminiscent of a
twenty twenty three where they had another otter that has
been tagged it's Arter eight forty one, and that otter
was known for stealing surfboards in the same area. Authorities

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have not confirmed if this is the same animal or not,
And of course there's always we have Florida man stories,
and police in Florida say a man stole a fire
engine while crews were inside Tampa Saint Joseph's Hospital on
Tuesday morning. The suspect was identified as fifty nine year

(15:22):
old Warren Scudder. Well after he stole the fire engine,
he crashed it into an suv before officers caught up
with him and blocked the engine's path. The driver of
the suv was treated for hip pain at the hospital,
and Scudder was arrested and charged with grand theft, auto
and hit and run. So not a good day for

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Warren Scudder. You know again, Sam is off. It's the
bloom Daddy Experience seven twenty eight on news Radio eleven seventy.
Sam's off today, trying to heal up and get better.
So you know, there you have it. With Halloween coming up,
Mars Inc. Has announced news for next year. The Snickers

(16:08):
Crunchy Peanut Butter ice cream bar is set to arrive
in twenty twenty six. The frozen treat features peanut butter
ice cream layered with caramel and crunchy peanuts. Interesting that
sounds kind of good. Actually, extra peanuts are also mixed
into the chocolate coating for added texture. The company said
Snickers and TwixT ice cream bars are currently the top

(16:30):
selling frozen novelties in convenience stores. So there you have it.
Second part of the bloom Daddy Interview is coming up
right after the news and we'll be back. It's the
bloom Daddy Experience with Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy.
WWVA News Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Welcome back to the bloom
Daddy Show. Cotinuing my conversation with Bob Woodson, civil rights icon,
community development leader, author, founder president of the Woodson Center,
also launched the seventeen seventy six Units campaign to count
the sixteen nineteen Project.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Before I get to that, I want to ask you.
I've always talked.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
About how the Republican Party needs to do a better
job of reaching out to the black voter, especially the
young black voter. So with that in mind, from a
conservative leaning perspective, Bob, what should Republicans and conservatives be
doing differently to engage with black American urban communities.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Republicans have Bill Bennett years ago said that when Democrats
see blacks and poor people, they see a see of
victims and conservativecy aliens.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
That's one way of looking at.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
I mean, I think what they got to understand that
conservatives have proprietary and strategic interests that are compatible with
low income black communities. Conservatives his own profit from the
existence of poverty, and so they should do. There was
a Republican of Dick Reardon in nineteen ninety at Los Angeles.

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He took some of his friends into East LA and
listened to low income and built the Reardon Center. And
he was the first Republican to win the mayor's race
in thirty five years because he understood if you plant charitably,
you can harvest politically, but you don't harvest a plant
in the same year. So he and he won by

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sixty percent of all the demographics because Dick Reardon came
in and really included the people suffering the problem in
their own rebirth and redemption. That's what Republican Steve Goldsmith
a few years after in Milwaukee, I mean Indianapolis, Indiana

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did the same thing with the same results.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
I want to ask you you mentioned culture earlier in
this conversation. The culture conversation, it's it's often kind of
kicked to the curb and we talk about systemic or
structural change.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
You speak about you spoke about it earlier.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Family, faith, personal responsibility local institutions. In your estimations, how
much of the solution lies in changing culture versus changing
let's say policy.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Culture's everything I think it was.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Samuel Adams said that democracy and capitalism are but empty
vessels into which we pour our values as a country,
and that is true with culture. The greatest crisis facing
America today is not racial. It is a moral and
spiritual freefall that is destroying our children. According to Harvard study,

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the leading cause of death of Appalachian whites is prescription
drugs homicide. For blacks and Silicon Valley it is suicide.
The suicide rate among teenagers and Silicon times at national average.
But elites keep bombarding our children, telling them a year

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after year that they live in a racist nation, and
if you're white, you are an oppressor, and if you're.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Black, you're a victim.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
After a while, these children begin to believe that perhaps
they're unworthy, and so if a person devalues their life,
they would be taking their own or take someone else's.
They're different size of the same coin. And so we
must we must set aside race. We must set aside

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our ideological differences and concentrate on the remralization of our
society and our children.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
What you just said is very powerful, but it's so true.
I mean, it is so true when you think about it.
And along the same lines, Bob, if you could hand
every young person in a struggling neighborhood one piece of advice,
what would it be.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
That you are There are two ways to prevent people
from competing. One is to tell them they don't have
to ye and the other ones by law. What we
can do is say to every young person that your
destinies is in your own hands, that you can become
agents of your own uplift. But values are caught, they're

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not taught. So what we do at the Woodson Center
we recruit people who have overcome the challenges that a
lot of our young people, and we put them in
proximity to these young people so they can inspire them
to become redeemed. America is a country of second chances.

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It is a country of redemption, and we have proven
that children can be rescued from their self doubts if
you expose them to mentors that have moral clarity and
put them in relationship with them right, they can guide

(22:02):
them to a more fruitful life.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
I'm talking to Bob Woodson right now, civil rights icon.
Your work with seventeen seventy six Knights, it positions itself
as the opposite of the sixteen nineteen project. Why did
you feel it was so important to start seventeen seventy
six Knights.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Because a friend of mine told me that the current
dialogue that we're facing is being driven by a group
of elite whites, guilty whites who are seeking absolution from
crimes they never committed, and by elite, entitled blacks who
are seeking absolutions i mean, justices they never suffered.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, that pretty much nails it.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
And so what we're trying to do is confront that reality.
And since they were using black journalists to take race
in America's birth defective slavery and use it as a
bludgeon against the country, we felt that the messengers to

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counter that must be black. But we didn't want to
engage in any more gladiatorial debate. We wanted to offer
a creative, inspirational narrative. So in our books that sold
out within three weeks. Usually a book of essays don't
sell like that, right, But because we told inspirational stories

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about how twenty blacks were born slaves and dyed millionaires.
And we talked about how the black community in nineteen
thirties to nineteen forty during the depression, had the highest
marriage rate. So we emphasized in our books publication not
how we suffered under the boot of slavery and Jim Crow,

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but how we achieved in the face of this opposition.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Last question I have for you looking ahead ten years,
What's one I don't know. Let's just say measurable change
you hope to point to and say we did that.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I we have what we call the violence free zones.
The violence we want to demonstrate that we can go
into a whole neighborhood and transform and redeem it from within.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
We have islands of excellence.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I can take you into one of the most violent
areas of Washington, d C. And show you where not
a single act of violence or crime has been committed
in one hundred days. Through how yeah, we can bringing
back bringing back people responsibility. What we call antibodies. That

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these grassroots leaders that I serve service antibodies. And the
best way to cure the human body is a strength
in its own immune system. So I would like to
be able to have the resources to go into some
of the he's really troubled neighborhoods and demonstrated how we
can bring about a reduction and violence, crime and restore

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civil order in those communities.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Bob, I'm sure everybody loved listening to you and Lorraine today.
Thanks so much for stopping by my studio. Thank you
been an honor. Bob Woodson, civil rights icon, community development leader, author, founder,
president of the Woodson Center. Much more to come here
on WTAM eleven hundred right after this.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Seven fifty on the Blue Daddy experience with Sam and
Otis otis flying solo this morning. Sam and you know,
if you were listening yesterday, you realized that she was
a little under the weather. And oh, around twelve thirty
or so last night she sent me a text and said,
of course I didn't get it until I woke up.
This morning, she sent a text saying, hey, one hundred

(25:56):
times worse than I was this morning. Don't think I
can make it in I'm sorry. Well, you know you
gotta do what you gotta do. I can make it sol.
It's not the end of the world. It's a lot
easier bouncing ideas off of each other but you know,
we can make it work. And if you have anything
you'd like to comment on, whether we've been talking about it,
whether it's bloom Daddy's topic, whether it's something you else

(26:18):
you want to bring up about White House renovation or
the government shut down or anything of that nature, feel
free to give us a call one eight hundred sixty two,
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the text number I don't, so it does not going
to do you any good to text today, and she
has access to the Facebook, so it's not going to

(26:40):
do any good to comment on the Facebook page. So
if you want to talk, you have to call me.
Do it the old fashioned way and give us a
call one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Be
patient because as I've got everything in front of me,
I may not be able to see the phone ring
right away, So just you know, let it ring and
I'll get to you eventually, you know. And it's no

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secret when Sam's here and we get into a topic,
and sometimes we get into some music, and we had
a couple of stories on some music related stuff, and
while while bloom Daddy was in his interview, I just
happened to be scrolling through some Facebook and I just
there was a It just kind of pops up. I
get this. It pops up on my timeline. It's called

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Charlie's Eighties Attic and it basically a lot of times
it will give you a week or something, basically like
the Billboard Top forty or whatever. So it pops up
that it's the US Pop chart from October twenty second,
nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's the Top twenty.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
And I was looking down and I'm thinking to myself,
you know, this is kind of in my wheelhouse my
college days eighty eight and when I was DJing some
frat parties or you know, we were having parties at
our apartment or a friend's apartment and we would be
set up our equipment and be the musical entertainment for
the evening. Just looking at some of these songs that

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you know, they bring back some memories, but some of
them you think about them and they're like, man, these
were bad songs like Phil Collins a Groovy kind of Love,
UB forty's Red Red Wine. But I just happened to
go down and it spot eight and nine, both songs
not the same song with two different versions but two

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totally different songs but with the same title Don't Be
Cruel Bobby Brown at number eight and Cheap Tricks cover
of the Elvis Presley's Don't Be Cruel at number nine.
Just didn't get a chance to look it up, but
to see if that's the first time that two songs
with the same title but different songs were in the

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top twenty at the same time, actually in the top
ten at the same time, So just curious. You know,
some other songs on there, the Locomotion to cover by
Kylie Minogue in Excess and Avertaris Apart Rod Stories Forever,
Young bon Jovi's on there with Bad Medicine. So two
songs from the Cocktail soundtrack, Don't Worry, Be Happy and

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Kokomo by the Beach Boys. So anyway, just a little
just happened to catch my eye there. In case you
missed it, Mattel, if you're a Barbie collector, you might
want to get into this because Barbie has a new
inspired doll by Fleetwood Max singer Stevie Nicks, and it's
kind of highlighting the solo career. It's called the Stevie

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Nicks Bella Donna Barbie marks the forty third anniversary of
her debut solo album Belladonna, which featured the hits Edge
of seventeen and Stopped Dragging My Heart Around with Tom Petty.
The doll depicts Stevie Nicks in the white flowing dress
from the nineteen eighty one album cover. So, you know,
Barbie's very iconic, very collectible. Maybe you're not a Barbie collector,

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but you're a Fleetwood Mac fan. Maybe a Stevie Nicks fan,
rock and roll fan might be one. Just a kind
of maybe make that purchase and put it away for
your kids or grandkids for down the road.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
You know.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
We keep it on the music theme. There's a survey
of two thousand music lovers. They found that thirty eight
percent of Americans believe streaming music is superior to physical media.
I don't know if it's superior. It's a lot easier
to access, let's put it that way. Fourteen percent think
listening to the radio is the best way to consume music,

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thank you, and fifteen percent prefer to hear their favorite
artists live. The average respondent spends two hundred and seventy
four bucks on music in a year, including concerts and
streaming services well anymore two hundred and seventy four bucks.
If you had a one concert, that could be the ticket. However,
the Talker Research poll found that thirty five percent of
adults believe a month of streaming shouldn't cost more than

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ten bucks, but fifty four percent would pay twenty for
a vinyl record. Says here, streaming is great because you
can obtain nearly anything you require almost all the time.
That's quote by Steve Nixon of Free Jazz Lessons dot Com.
He also said with physical music, the experience is different.
If you buy something physical, you support the artists, which

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is true. And I think that's one of the biggest
complaints that artists have about streaming is the the fact
that they're not always getting you know, they're there due
their due, their fair share of the money. Let's put
it that way. When it comes to live music, there

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are and I'll just I'll throw this out there.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
You know.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Two weeks ago went and saw Elvis Costello here at
the Capitol Theater. And I love Elvis Costello, but I
thought the live show was not It was not what
I expected. And I think there's some people that would
agree with me, the musicians. She was great, The music

(32:02):
was okay, you know, was was good. I mean it
was his songs, you know, but like the show itself
just didn't get you involved. And you know, I think
that's a big thing when you when you go to
see a live artist. I mean, I've seen, good God,
I don't know how many concerts I've seen. I've probably seen,

(32:22):
you know, twenty to twenty five rock and roll Hall
of famers play Springsteen, Mellencamp, I've seen the Stones, I've
seen Rod Stewart, I've seen you know my good it
is Tom Petty, you know, and they all do it differently. Obviously,
Bruce has claimed the fame as you know that he
plays a three hour show minimum. You know, if it's

(32:44):
under three hours, you got jypped. But and Mellencamp at
one point in time was a two to two and
a half hour guy before his health issues kicked in.
But you know, I mean, if you go see I
have a friend that when he goes to a concert,
he wants to see the artist performed the song exactly
like it was on the on the recorded version, And

(33:07):
I just don't know how you you know, first off,
that would be that's great if you just want to
sing along. But I think the interaction with the crowd
sometimes extending it, adding in an extra verse or you
know some you know, an extra guitar solo or something
of that nature. You know, it mixes it mixes it
up a little bit. And I think that a lot

(33:28):
of times. And I can tell you this from seeing Springsteen.
You know that he might take a three minute song
and turn it into a ten minute you know, this
ten minute epic version of it, and you know it
just live music. You just it just kind of gets.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
You in the mood.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
It gets you to where you need to be. Anybody
that has been to Jamboree and the Hills, there are
good live performers and there are bad live performers, so
you know, you know who they are.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
And if you go to.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
N you know what you like.

Speaker 6 (34:01):
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
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Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
News Radio eleven seventy gets the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Invite somebody very special to the show right now. His
name is Bob Woodson, civil rights leader, community development leader, author, founder,
resident of the Woodston Center. That's a nonprofit research and
demonstration organization that supports neighborhood based initiatives to revitalize low
income communities. He also launched the Centers seventeen seventy six
Units campaign. He was in Lorraine earlier today giving a

(35:15):
speech to lawmakers other individuals, and he's kind enough to
stop by the studio here today.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Bob, thanks so much for coming in. Pleased to be here.
I want to start.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
I mean, there's so many things to hit on here,
but neighborhood empowerment has been huge for you, and solutions
driven by the people within the community rather than top
down government programs. How did your upbringing, how did your
military service in the Air Force shape your philosophy.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Well, thanks for asking. I think. I was born in.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Nineteen thirty seven in Philadelphia, a blue collar neighborhood. I
was the youngest of five children, and my dad fought
in the First World War. He was a Harlem Hellcats,
but he was wounded there and suffered some illnesses that
later took his life when I was nine years old.

(36:14):
So I was left with my mother with a fifth
grade education, the youngest of five children to raise. But
the neighborhood was stable, as I tell people, in those days,
elderly people could walk freely without being fear of being
assaulted by their grandchildren, never heard guns fired, and ninety

(36:35):
eight percent of the households had a man and.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
Women raising children.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
But there were all kinds of other support structures, the
Elks and other self help organizations.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
But it also meant.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
That I had to rely on my peers more than
my blood family. And so I guess, and there were
five of us. One of them, some of your listeners
will know, was Matt Robinson.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
He was Gordon on Sesame.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Street, okay, the first black guy on Sesame Street. His
daughter is Holly Robinson, the actress who's married to Rodney Peake.
I had a chance to eulogize him about fifteen years
ago in Hollywood.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
But so I guess I.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Gained us understood why kids joined gangs or have organizations
outside of the family, But we were all responsible. They
were a year older than me, and when they graduated,
I was left unaffiliated. So I dropped out of high
school and went into the military. Didn't have much interest
in education, but I was always good in math, so

(37:43):
I had straight a's because they have to study. And
the Air Force, the first time I had left the
Tri state area and went and really got my eye open,
taught me discipline. I heard white people with Southern accents
for the first time, interesting, and so it just exposed

(38:07):
me to a whole new world. I was in station
in New York and then Mississippi, so I had a
chance to see racism in the raw, but it didn't
freak me out because I was used to going around
with my own folks anyway, and so we just found
our way. And so I finished high school in the military,
and they trained me and went to the space program

(38:29):
and flew the first Earth satellite attempt, and so I
just kind of gat it matured. It really matured me.
Plus it really integrated people with different walks of life.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
You founded the Woodston Center, launched the seventeen seventy six
Nights Initiative. Did you have an Aha moment when you
decided to focus on entrepreneurship and self help rather than hey,
let rely on government welfare policy reforms?

Speaker 5 (39:03):
Yeah, well, I this came out. I was a young
civil rights.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Activist after I finished graduate school, and I was leading
civil rights demonstrations in Barred Rustern's hometown of Westchester, Pennsylvania.
I met doctor King through him. But something happened to me.
First of all, I parted company with the movement on
the issue of forced bussing for integration. I was against integration, well,

(39:29):
at least as the opposite of segregation. Me was desegregation,
not integrated, So that put me at odds with the leadership.
The second thing that turned me off was we led
demonstrations outside of a pharmaceutical company, and when they desegregated,
they hired nine black PhD chemists. Then I realized that
class was interfering with race. And so when they and

(39:56):
so I sensed right then that a bait and switch
game was going on. Then a lot of the civil
rights leaders became elected officials, and then I saw the
sixties poverty programs.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
I knew from the beginning.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
That it was going to be worse for poor blacks
than anything that I witnessed experience under segregation, and I
was proven to be true.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Talking to Bob Woodson right now, civil rights leader, community
development leader, author, founder, president of the Woodson Center, when well,
in your view, what are the biggest misconceptions people, especially
outside the inner city context, have about how change actually
happens in low income neighborhoods.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Well, first of all, the biggest myth is that with
the deterioration that occurred in the black community, somehow that's
the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. That is just
not true, and there's evidence to support there that a
lot of the decline that you're talking in the black
family as a consequence of the sixties, where welfare was

(41:04):
not only encouraged, but it was demanded and people were
recruited into the welfare system, and the socialists Cloud and
Pivot at Columba University had this paper that says the
best way to fight poverty is redistributed income that's socialism.

(41:27):
But we're going to use a black community as a
battering ram. And so there was used to be a
stigma of black commune on being a welfare but they
changed that and then the government started to recruit blacks,
and so more blacks flooded into the welfare system in
four years in the early seventies, at a time when
the unemployment rate for blacks was four percent, and so

(41:51):
what they predicted was true. There was you separate work
from income and school dropout rights out of wedlock births.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
All of that.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
Occurred as a consequence of federal policies that separated work
from income. And then the civil rights leaders became elected
officials in these cities and they were administering the twenty
two trillion dollars and where seventy percent of the money
goes to the paper who served the poor. So we
created a commodity out of poor people, and the civil

(42:28):
rights people didn't raise any.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
How is what you just said received within the black community.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Among low income people, it is well received. There's this
myth that somehow the elite leadership speaks for all Black
America on issues of choice and education. Only eight percent
of the leadership supports it. Sixty percent of low income
black supported the leadership supports defund the police. Eighty percent

(42:58):
of low income Blacks do not support defund the police.
Sixty percent of blacks don't believe that racism is the
biggest barrier to flourishing. The leadership, oh doesn't believe it.
So there's a huge gap in the black community. But
you don't know that because low income blacks don't have

(43:19):
a voice.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
I'm going to continue this conversation. I've got to take
a break. More of the interview coming up here on
eleven seventy wwvs.

Speaker 6 (43:31):
Hey twenty on this Thursday, The Blue Daddy Experience of
Sam and otis news Radio eleven seventy wwva otis flying solo.
Sam's on taking the day off to kind of hel
up not feeling well, and if you listened yesterday, you
know she sounded like crap. So before we went to
the top of the hour news break, I was talking

(43:53):
about some music, live music, so on and so forth,
and got a phone call from Craig from Bysville and
he joins this now good morning, Craig.

Speaker 7 (44:02):
Warning the subject he was talking about I and the
songs you read off you know, I grew up in
the sixties and seventies, and it just seems like from
seventy five to eighty five there was some change in
the music, and I really couldn't put my finger on it.

(44:23):
I'm thinking maybe discoll but then disco went by the wayside,
and then I guess you'd call a rock and roll
tried to make it come, you know, maybe comeback. And
it's just funny how just a matter of ten years booth,
you know, it changed so much, you know, especially the

(44:46):
characters you know, like the Hood and Rolling Stones, and
then all these other artists submerged and some went away.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Well, I mean the music is very for maybe lack
of a better term, it's kind of cyclical, but in
it maybe not. It doesn't doesn't always come back. But
I think, like you said, you're you're obviously a little
bit older than me. I'm gonna guess that you're probably
in your mid to late sixties, correct, Okay, so I'm

(45:18):
in my mid to late fifties, so I'm ten years
behind you. So I think the music when you grow
what what you listen to when you're growing up, is
what you there there's a there's a window where you're
influenced by your music. You know, I have kids, and
I have friends that are younger, and I do not

(45:39):
understand their musical tastes. Okay, my parents didn't understand.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
My musical tastes.

Speaker 6 (45:45):
So you know, it's it's that there's a window and
and and we had an article on it one time
a while back. But your music influences are like between
a certain age, like between thirteen and sixteen and then
and then it kicks in. And that's what you're you know,
I mean, you know, you're you grew up with the

(46:08):
Who and led Zeppelin and the Stones that were that
were at the top of the charts in my wheelhouse.
I mean it was Phil Collins, Daryl Hall and John Oots.
I mean so a little bit. But the you know,
Zeppelin was there in eighty eighty one. You know, the
Stones haven't gone away, you know. So, I mean, you know,
I get where you're coming from. But like today's music,

(46:31):
I mean, hell, there's no way I can listen to
ninety percent of.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
It right right I there, And yeah, you explained that
very well. You know that you're right. You know what
we grow up with and what makes us feel good.
You know, you know, cranking up that we'll get fulled again,
you know, shrowing down the highway.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (46:54):
Well, I mean, and you know, if you're if you're
a music person, like I like to consider myself. I
like to consider myself because I can. I can listen
to just about anything. But you know, if you take
me back to you know, the fifties and the sixties,
like I can listen to Bill Haley and the Comments,
I can listen to uh Seacrews, I can.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
You know they're there.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
There's oldies out there, Elvis, you know that you could
that you can relate to. And you're sitting there and
you're thinking, man, this was great music. The the Animals,
you know, early to midst of course, the Beatles, like
you said, the Stones, Yeah you know. But I mean
I also, I don't think I'm closed minded when it
comes to music.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
Now.

Speaker 6 (47:37):
There's there's groups that I don't like that are very
popular with other people, Like I'm not. I can't listen
to Pink Floyd and I can't listen to Rush. I
just there they don't for whatever reason, I don't. I
can't relate to them.

Speaker 7 (47:50):
I hear that absolutely here.

Speaker 6 (47:53):
And and you know, music is music is definitely subjective
because it's what you what you grew up with. But
you if you had older brothers or sisters, or your
best friends or or what. Like one of my best friends,
he loved R e O speedwagons, high in fidelity. I
I just didn't do anything for me. So yeah, yeah,

(48:14):
but love it.

Speaker 7 (48:16):
Go ahead, and Jane, you know he was talking about Rush.
I'll just finish up with this. I had a friend
who loved Rush, and that's all he would play. You know,
this is back in the Yeah, I remember when he
was going over to Pogos Pub in Youngstown and finally
my friend reached from the back seat pulled out the.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
Tape through nice I can appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
Oh yeah, it was you know, a big to do
once we stopped, you know, but uh, you know, not
a fight. Just you know, and listen to it.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
And to the people that like Rush, that's that's great.
It just doesn't it doesn't do anything for me. You know,
if you like him, then so be it. So but okay,
I appreciate the call. Craig, all right, you too quick
story about a Rush of what he was talking about
and having a friend. I had a friend. I still
have a friend. He's a year older than me and

(49:16):
huge Rush fan, and he this is like when concerts
were coming out on DVD and so on and so forth.
So he approached me and said, hey, I want you
to watch this Rush concert on DVD and I'll watch.
He said, do you have a Springsteen concert on DVD?
And I said, yeah, I got a couple, And I said,
you know, I was trying to find the best one,
so I got the one from Barcelona, not the best one,

(49:39):
but probably the best one in my collection.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
So we swapped.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
DVDs and I sat there and like the biggest thing
that he excited him was when the guitar player from
Russian I can't think of his name off the top
of my head, but he does like a leg kick,
and I'm like, like, that's your excitement of the show
where you have jumping all over the stage, playing different instruments,
interacting with the crowd, so on and so forth. And

(50:06):
it's just in his response to me, was I forgot
how he said, I didn't realize Bruce Springsteen was that
good of a guitarist. That was his interpretation. My interpretation
on the rest wal the Rush DVD was the musicianship
was great, but the concert itself was very boring. So
that's just again, that's just me. So, hey, you want

(50:27):
to just give a quick shout out on a couple
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(50:48):
And for our listeners and friends up in Weirton, more
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be sent to those affected, and the outage is expected
to last from about eight thirty, so about right now
till two pm. So if you're in Weird and your

(51:11):
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(51:33):
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Daddy Experience with Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy, WWVA.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
News Radio eleven seventy, It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Welcome
back to the Bloomdaddy Show. Continuing my conversation with Bob Woodson,
civil rights icon, community development leader, author, founder president of
the Woodson Center, also launched the seventeen seventy six Units
campaign to counter the sixteen nineteen Project.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Before I get to that, I want to ask you.
I've always talked.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
About how the Republican Party needs to do a better
job of reaching out to the black voter, especially the
young black voter. So with that in mind, from a
conservative leaning perspective, Bob, what should Republicans and conservatives be
doing differently to engage with Black American urban communities.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
Republicans have.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
Bill Bennett years ago said that when Democrats see blacks
and poor people, they see a see of victims and
conservativecy aliens.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
That's one way of looking at I mean, I think.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
What they got to understand that conservative have proprietary and
strategic interests that are compatible with low income black communities.
Conservatives don't profit from the existence of poverty, and so
they should do. There was a Republican Dick Reardon in
nineteen ninety at Los Angeles. He took some of his

(53:20):
friends into East LA and listened to low income and
built the Reardon Center. And he was the first Republican
to win the mayor's race in thirty five years because
he understood if you plant charitably, you can harvest politically,
but you don't harvest a plant in the same year.
So and he won by sixty percent of all the

(53:42):
demographics because Dick Reardon came in and really included the
people suffering the problem in their own rebirth and redemption.
That's what Republican Steve Goldsmith a few years after in Milwaukee,
I mean Indianapolis, Indiana, did the same thing with the

(54:03):
same results.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
I want to ask you. You mentioned culture earlier in
this conversation. The culture conversation, it's often kind of kicked
to the curb and we talk about systemic or structural
change you speak about you spoke about it earlier, family, faith,
personal responsibility, local institutions. In your estimations, how much of
the solution lies in changing culture versus changing let's say policy.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Culture's everything I think it was.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Samuel Adams said that democracy and capitalism are but empty
vessels into which we pour our values as a country,
and that is true with culture. The greatest crisis facing
America today is not racial. It is a moral and
spiritual freefall that is destroying our children. According to Harvard study,

(54:53):
the leading cause of death of Appalachia and whiteses is
prescription drugs homicide. For blacks in Silicon Valley, it is suicide.
The suicide rate among teenagers and Silicon Guy is six
times at national average. But elites keep bombarding our children,
telling them a year after year that they live in

(55:16):
a racist nation, and if you're white, you are an oppressor,
and if you're.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
Black, you're a victim.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
After a while, these children begin to believe that perhaps
they're unworthy, and so if a person devalues their life,
they would be taking their own or take someone else's.
They're different size of the same coin. And so we
must we must set aside race. We must set aside

(55:42):
our ideological differences and concentrate on the remralization of our
society and our children.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
What you just said is very powerful, but it's so true.
I mean, it is so true when you think about it.
And along the same lines, Bob, if you could hand
every young person in a struggling neighborhood one piece of advice,
what would it be.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
That you are There are two ways to prevent people
from competing. One is to tell them they don't have
to yep, and the other ones by law. What we
can do is say to every young person that your
destinies is in your own hands, that you can become
agents of your own uplift. But values are caught, they're

(56:27):
not taught. So what we do at the Woodson Center
we recruit people who who have overcome the challenges that
a lot of our young people, and we put them
in proximity to these young people so they can inspire
them to become redeemed. America is a country of second chances.

(56:48):
It is a country of redemption, and we have proven
that children can be rescued from their self doubts if
you expose them to me.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
That have moral clarity.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
And put them in relationship with them right, they can
guide them to a more fruitful life.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
I'm talking to Bob Woodson right now, civil Rights Icon.
Your work with seventeen seventy six Knights, it positions itself
as the opposite of the sixteen nineteen project. Why did
you feel it was so important to start seventeen seventy
six Knights.

Speaker 4 (57:29):
Because a friend of mine told me that the current
dialogue that we are facing is being driven by a
group of elite whites, guilty whites who are seeking absolution
from crimes they never committed, and by elite, entitled blacks
who are seeking absolutions i I mean justices they never suffered.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Yeah, that pretty much nails it.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
And so what we're trying to do is confront that reality.
And since they were using black journalists to take race
in America's birth defective slavery and use it as a
bludgeon against the country, we felt that the messengers to

(58:14):
counter that must be black. But we didn't want to
engage in any more gladiatorial debate. We wanted to offer
a creative, inspirational narrative. So in our books that sold
out within three weeks. Usually a book of essays don't
sell like that, right, But because we told inspirational stories

(58:38):
about how twenty blacks were born slaves and died millionaires.
And we talked about how the black community in nineteen
thirties to nineteen forty during the depression, had the highest
marriage rate. So we emphasized in our books publication not
how we suffered under the boot of slavery and Jim Crow,

(58:59):
but how we achieved in the face of this opposition.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Last question I have for you looking ahead ten years,
What's one I don't know. Let's just say measurable change
you hope to point to and say we did that.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
I we have what we call the violence free zones.
The violence we want to demonstrate that we can go
into a whole neighborhood and transform and redeem it from within.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
We have islands of excellence.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
I can take you into one of the most violent
areas of Washington, d C. And show you where not
a single act of violence or crime has been committed
in one hundred days through how yeah we can bringing
back bringing back people responsibility, what we call antibodies. That

(59:54):
these grassroots leaders that I serve service antibodies, and the
best way to cure the human is a strength in
its own immune system. So I would like to be
able to have the resources to go into some of
these really troubled neighborhoods and demonstrate it how we can
bring about a reduction and violence, crime and restore civil

(01:00:16):
order in those communities.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Bob, I'm sure everybody loved listening to you and Lorraine today.
Thanks so much for stopping by my studio. Thank you
been an honor. Bob Woodson, civil rights icon, community development leader, author, founder,
president of the Woodson Center. Much more to come here
on WTAM eleven hundred right after this.

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
Eight fifty on News Radio eleven seventy Wwva Blundetti experience
with Sam and otis no Sam today. She's a little
under the weather. If you listened to yesterday show, you
would realize that she sent me a text and said,
I am a hundred times worse. I cannot make it
in and she apologized. But we are not alone because

(01:00:56):
we have the one, the only Kevin Cook from Strawbot
Motive joining us at the moment. Good morning, Kevin, I'm busy.
I have two hats. I'm wearing two hats today. I
do have this for you because you're you're you're in

(01:01:17):
my age wheelhouse, so to speak. Did you know that
today is National TV talk show host Day and it's
observed annually on Johnny Carson's birthday.

Speaker 8 (01:01:29):
I did not, but I was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
Oh he was the king of Late Night that he
he he earned that Moniker. And you know, I was
in college when David Letterman started to get popular, and
I can remember my one roommate saying, oh, Johnny Carson sucks.
David Letterman's where it is now? Blah blah blah. And
you know, we were in that age group where you know,
David Dave was appealing to the younger college age kids

(01:01:57):
as opposed to John Carson. So I mean I could
see where people interpreted it that way.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
Yeah, good thing that Carson was.

Speaker 9 (01:02:04):
Nothing was political, okay, it was just you know, all
about the gas and he put a lot of effort,
you know, his knowledge of the Castle Spectact. But he
was party sharp, smart, is overall very good.

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
It was true entertaining absolutely. So you know, Johnny's last
name was Carson, or we could say cars on sale.
We're saying, man, wow, yeah, I didn't say it was good.
I didn't say it was good.

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Those things are just a change. I mean we see
them now very consistently with two hundred thousand plus miles
and I actually tell me that day that I want
to trade it. But it doesn't make any sense to
the thing that simply will not quit.

Speaker 7 (01:03:27):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
I mean it's they're just spectacle with its coil as
passports bridge lads, they're great incentence on all of them
right now. Uh. We aredineering at the end of the
mund and you know everybody noticed this last week, these
last few days, they had a bunch of sales managers
that are trying to hit their numbers.

Speaker 7 (01:03:45):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
The manufacturers have put a lot of fracture orders, you know,
to be dominant in the market. And with the incentives
out there, do that. Uh, and we put the money
in the trade.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
And making it happen, you do, I mean it makes
you guys, do make it happen. And I can attest
to that.

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
Yeah, And that's the fact. We'll Stuart as well, Jerry.
They carry ever Drives, the only odd dealer in the
entire state of Westerginia that has lifetime protection. They had
to ever Drive.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
It covers these vehicles.

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
You know, get your transmission drive right and something happens
if stam, I get a back your quick as possible.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
Again, I know that for a fact.

Speaker 7 (01:04:25):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:04:26):
All right, Well we'll try to do better with this
joke today.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Okay, Wow, well listen, hold on, I want you to
be on the defensive today. All right, you have to
be on the defensive just in case, because it's National
slap you're irritating coworker day.

Speaker 8 (01:04:45):
I will try to be careful all day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
You never know where it's gonna come from never irritated.
And I'm glad.

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
I am glad Sam isn't here because I'd probably get
slapped more than once. All Right, man, we'll talk tomorrow.
All right, we'll see you. As we said, it is
National TV Talk Show Host Day, and you know we
were talking about Johnny Carson, and it is observed annually
on his birthday. He was the king of late night television,

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hosted NBC's The Tonight Show for thirty years prior to
his death in two thousand and five at the age
of seventy nine. It's also National Boston Cream Pie Day.
It's iPod Day. Some celebrity birthdays today. Weird Al Yankovic.
I don't know if that's a celebrity or not. Dwight
yoakum And has been here several times. One of my

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favorites to go see Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool, Oh the body
what is it? The Bodyguard's Bodyguard or something like that
with Samuel L. Jackson, Great move, two movies, very good
and retired Football Star. That's what it says. I didn't
say that. Doug Flutie is sixty three today. So those

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are couple of the things that are going on Today again,
Sam and otis on the Blue Daddy Experience. Sam unfortunately
a little bit under the weather. The Chargers host the
Vikings tonight to kick off Week eight of the NFL season. Elsewhere,
the Steelers host Jordan Love and the Packers on Sunday
Night Football. Pittsburgh is coming off at disappointing loss to
the Bengals, but still leads the AFC North at four

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and two. Meanwhile, a future Hall of Fame quarterback has
been thinking about revenge. Steelers gunslinger Aaron Rodgers told the
media yesterday he has no animosity towards the Packers and
this is the first time the forty one year old
will play his former team. And don't forget Penguins tonight
on the ice from Florida taking on the Panthers. They're
on a three game winning streak. If you can't catch

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it on the two, it is on our sister station
Eagle one oh seven to five Tonight's game and of
course all Penguins games. Tomorrow nights starts the World Series.
The Fall Classic is almost here. The defending champs Dodgers
battle the Blue Jays in Game one Toronto, La, going
for their third title in six years after dominating the
Brewers in a sweep of the NLCS to advance. On

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the other side, Toronto is playing for its first World
Series in more than three decades after it celebrated back
to back championships in ninety two and ninety three. The
Jays fought back from a three to two ALCS deficit
to sink the Mariners and secure the American League pennant
former pirate Blake Snell taking the mound for the Dodgers,

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and actually two former pirates scheduled to take the mound
for the Dodgers during the series. Blake Snell in Game one,
Tyler Glass now I believe in Game three so, and
then Snell will be back in five and Glass now
in seven, I believe. Is how it's set up. It's funny,

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you know, we talk about certain things. And if you're
familiar with Tom Holland, he's the guy that's playing Spider
Man in the Marvel universe right now. Well, his contract
with Marvel reportedly prevents him from pursuing the role as
James Bond, and that's according to the Sun. The agreement
blocks Holland from taking any other parts that will overshadow

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that one meaning you know either one, effectively ruling out
the Double seven franchise. A source told the publication Tom
can't play two superheroes. It just won't happen. Holland previously
called Bond the pinnacle of working in our industry, but
joins actors like Tarren Edgerton and Glenn Powell who have

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stepped back from consideration. The search continues for Daniel Craig's
replacement following twenty twenty one's No Time to Die, and
Amazon seeks it. Because Amazon owns the franchise now, they
seek a fresh face actor in his late twenties or
early thirties. Scott Rose Marsha, relatively unknown actor, reportedly screen
tested in June using scenes from GoldenEye and was told

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don't impersonate a previous Bond. So there you have it.
Tom Holland out.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
Although I don't I don't know how Tom.

Speaker 6 (01:09:02):
Holland could be James Bond. I he's not really British,
is he?

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:09:07):
I guess that's something I have to look up anyway.
Thanks for joining us age fifty eight. Hopefully Sam will
be back tomorrow, but if not, The Blue Daddy experience
with Sam and notice will go on and we will
see you tomorrow.