The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Bloomdaddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. Good Monday morning to you. I hope you
had a fantastic weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
And I can't believe we turn back the clocks. I
can't believe it's dark now at five o'clock. I can't
believe it.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I hate it, and I'm gonna have to spend a
lot more time at my happy place, which is the
second floor at Boskov's Christmas display.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Seriously, I go there and my mood is just better.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Anyway, day before elections and I wanted to throw my
two cents in. I can't believe I'm actually going to
talk about a township trustee race, because in the whole
relative scheme of things, that's usually a that not too
many people care about and quite honestly doesn't get a
lot of media exposure. But in this case, I think

(01:09):
I need to make a statement. Now, I know Sam
covered it on Friday. She's been covering it and I
think she's done a fantastic job. What I want to
say is Richland Township Trustee race Rick Ferrell Jimmy Denoble.
I know them both incredibly well. Those are two guys
you need to vote for, and I'm gonna tell you why.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
First of all, Jimmy Denoble.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I was on Saint Clairso Junior Sports with Jimmy Denoble
for almost eighteen years. Every day I was up at
those ball fields, dragging them, raking them, getting water off
of them. And there were two guys there with me
all the time, Jimmy Denoble and the guy by the
name of Kenny Coleman. And neither of them had kids
in the organization. Neither of them had grandkids in the organization.

(01:55):
So why were they up there hours on end. Because
they care about the community. They wanted to have nice
ball fields for the kids, even though there was nobody
in their family benefiting from any of it. That's the
kind of guy that Jimmy Denoble is. Jimmy Denoble is
one of the hardest working guys I've ever seen. He's
a quality human being. And I know he takes being

(02:18):
a trustee very seriously, and he's willing to bend over
for anybody. It doesn't matter if you have money, it
doesn't matter if you have prestige, it doesn't matter if
you're at the bottom of the barrel. You go to
Jimmy Denoble with an issue, He's going to help you.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Rick Ferrell.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Rick Ferrell probably put more into the soccer programs in
Belmont County than anybody I know had a passion for it,
and Rick has that same passion as a township trustee.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
For you.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
This guy lives at the courthouse. He's constantly checking on things,
going over things. He's putting one hundred and ten percent
into that job. These are two very very good guys,
two very very good family guys, and two guys who
you want to be your township trustee in Richland Township. Now,

(03:07):
as far as the other guy running, I don't know him.
I can't say a bad thing about him. I can't
say a good thing about him. I know nothing about him.
But I know this, the guy backing him is one
of the most deplorable human beings I've ever seen in
my life.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
You know who I'm talking about the.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Only radio guy in the history of the Ohio Valley
who has to pay somebody to put his show on
the air. A guy whose career is so tanked his
show is only on twice a week. A guy who
calls iHeartMedia at least two to three times every six months,
begging for a job. A guy who, in my opinion,

(03:44):
has some serious mental issues. That guy is backing the
other guy in this Richland Township Trustee race. That's all
I need to know about the other guy, because I mean,
people who lack character hang out with people who lack character.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
So I'm just gonna leave it at that. I'll let
Sam take it from here.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
But in that Richland Township Trustee race, Rick Ferrell and
Jimmy Denoble are your guys.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm not telling you to vote for him.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
If you know me, throughout my years of being here
on WWVA, I never told you to do a thing.
I just tried to give you all the information that
you need to make the right decision. And I'm telling
you Denobyl and Ferrell are the right decisions. And Sam,
you can finish this any way you like.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Okay, then all that dog talk about tea ut up
for me. Listen, this entire thing has gotten ridiculously out
of control. Like I said on Friday, this particular office. Listen,
it's township trustee. Once again, what these guys do who

(04:58):
hold these positions are very import you know. It's the
stuff that gets done that until it's a problem you
and I, the citizens don't think about. They're the ones
that take care of things before they get to the
point where it's a problem. And everybody wants to complain
about potholes and spend an entire two hour radio show

(05:18):
talking about a pothole. But besides that, these are the
guys that get the work done before we know about it.
What is amazing is it has gotten to this point
that we continue to talk about this particular election, which,
by the way, tomorrow we are on election eve right now.
Tomorrow is the day, so go out and vote. It

(05:39):
doesn't matter who you vote for. We're not telling you
who to vote for. We're just telling you to do
what is necessary. Back to the Richland Township situation, Listen,
I don't live there. I don't have a dog in
the fight. I don't I don't live there. My whole
point on Friday was to lay out to you, the listener,

(06:03):
the questions that I have as to why certain people
have felt the need to turn this quote unquote political
race into such a major topic for people to talk about.
Why And again back to the million dollar building that

(06:25):
we've talked about now countless times. Why it's built, it's done,
It's been built for two and a half years.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's a dead horse that has.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Been beat to death, has been beat to death.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Look, I don't have a dog in the fight either.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
I mean, I'm on the opposite side of the river.
I'm on the good side.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
I begged to different godd But I know Rick.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
And I've known Rick for a while. I don't know
him that well, but I know him well enough. And
nice guy. And mister Denoble was in here and very
you know, professional, very and just like a nice guy.
And like bloom Daddy said, here's a guy that came

(07:11):
out and worked on the baseball fields with no dog
in the fight because he just wanted it to be
good for the community. Yeah exactly. So, I mean those
are the guys that you want in those offices. You
don't want to show, No, you don't want a mouthpiece. Yeah,
you want somebody that's going to actually contribute to the

(07:34):
community right exactly.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
And that's why I brought up last week. For all
of those talking heads who have turned this into what
they've turned it into, the million dollar building, this particular race,
you know, somebody like the Rick Ferrells of the world
and the Jimmy Denobles, they're the ones that you're going
to see volunteer at the Saint Clairsville Food Bank. That's
why I brought that up on Friday. There's a difference

(07:58):
between wanting to hold a seat politically and wanting to
take care of your community. There's a difference. I personally
believe there's having the title and feeling like big man
on campus because you hold a title, and then there's

(08:19):
doing it for the right purposes. And I think that's
where politically we all tend to lose. Perspective on politics
is what is the intentions, what's the motivations, what's the purpose,
what's the desire out of having that position? So listen,

(08:41):
as of tomorrow, we will have the results and the
poor horse can ride off into the sunset. Hopefully that's
the goal.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Dead horse is normally ride off into the sunset.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Well, that's just off into the heavens.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Little heads up there. Dead horses normally what they become
dog feed and oh that's nice.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
And once again, the third candidate involved is that is
running is Jay Stevens. And I'm going to put the
invitation out there once again. You are more than welcome
to come on. Just like mister Dnoble did, and just
like mister Ferrell did. All you have to do is
email me. It's very easy, Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's all you have to do, Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.

(09:32):
Of course, all candidates are welcome to come on. So
it is seven fifteen coming up. We've got a couple
of things, including later in the show, we have former
Ohio State Senator Frank Hoagland's going to be joining us,
so we have that coming up a little bit later.
It's seven fifteen. You're listening to the Bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Oh, welcome

(10:08):
back at seven twenty one on your Monday the Blue
Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Well, Otis,
we fell back the clocks.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, I got a question for you though, before we
get into the turning back the clocks Halloween. Yes, what
was your turnout?

Speaker 5 (10:28):
We had clusters of kids. It wasn't like a steady
We probably had Now I live on a rural road,
so probably had forty kids if that okay?

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well we normally, Like my neighbor lives up the street
and he said, so do you have a lot of kids,
and he goes, we had thirty nine, Like I guess
his wife counted, okay, And like I was stuck with,
I was stuck with candy leftover.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
I don't see any in here getting my Smarties.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
But what I mean, I have like five airheads left,
and you know, and I wasn't like I wasn't stingy,
But what I was doing was I was giving out
or two or three airheads and then a couple of
Smarties to go with it. And then if they were
really young, I gave them little miniature recy cups. So
you know. But I mean, our trick or treatment used

(11:23):
to be an hour and they moved it to an
hour and a half this year, and it was way
down and there was imports, you know what I mean,
Like you could see that like the lady.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Lady vanloads of kids? Yeah did well? Do you think
it had to do with the weather, because right before
ours started it was dark and rainy, like not rainy,
but like that spitty rain.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Do you think that I think it had I think
it had to do with it. It was a football
Friday night.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Oh yeah, that's probably more of it.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
So like your some of your parents and your middle
school kids, and you're you know, maybe they were at
football games, you know, or you know, they had something
else because it was a Friday night, you know. Had
it been like a Thursday, I think you'd have seen
more kids.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah. Yeah, I thought I was gonna win. I thought
I was going to be the best street with fun
dips and the full sized bubble tape.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Nope.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
My neighbor Vicky, she won. She had full sized candy
bars and then she had Wriese cups. But she didn't
just have the traditional two cups. Nope, she had the
fore Banger, the.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
King size Yep, nice, Yep. It's off to her.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah. I got to give the shout out to Tom
and Vicky because they nailed it. When it came to
the Halloween.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
I should have gone trigger treating there.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Well, they didn't all go. So Sam went home with
three TwixT bars, very nice and they are hidden from
the hobby.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Like like, as I saw the little kids, I'm thinking,
I can't give them smarties because they might choke on them.
And I didn't want to give him taffy because that's
what airheads are. So I said, I got to go
in and dig into my own stash, and I got
my little recat peanut butter cups and then I put
them in the mailbox.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
So like I had my bowl my bowls out and
then like said, like if I saw a little kid
come and I'd reached into the mailbox and pulled him out,
like like the one mom goes, oh, we got a
little secret stash in the mailbox. That's for my that's
for the little ones. And I said, I feel bad
because normally I give out like fruit, fruit jueses or
fruit whatever. And and I said, I didn't get to
the store to get him this year.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Did you have do you have any like really good
cost costumes? There there was this kid, Oh God bless him.
He was in one of those inflatable costumes and it
was a shark. So I saw it, okay, you've seen
that one.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
There was a kid that had the shark, but they
like he had to keep his bag on the inside
of his costume because he then did the little the
little fins. Yeah, so his hands were inside.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Well. Up on where I live, we get a good
amount of wind, right and we're watching this whole group
of kids come you see the shark kid. He takes
just a wallop of wind and he's kind of like
over to what side, and then it's the tail like
ends up between his two little fe I mean, he

(14:17):
was probably six if that, and he's tripping over the
tail while he's like being blown like a babble bobble
head in the wind, and it was almost like Weebel's
wobble but they don't fall down, and he did not
spill his candy. Nice, but it was hilarious. I mean,
these little feet are like.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Way he gets older and he falls down the steps
of the beer and he's hand he won't spill it.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Oh, it was so funny. It was so funny. That's one.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
That's that's the cost I didn't have any costumes jump
out at me that I can remember. I'm sure there
were a couple that were I mean you had a
couple like the little kids are always cute, you know,
but yeah, I mean nothing really jumped out. There was
one guy. He he had one of the electric scooters.

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So he and his daughter were standing on the scooter
going up and down the street. And I was like,
that's pretty good. I like I said, I like it.
I like the idea.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Now.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
That the one thing that made me mad. And not
that I really cared, but like you have when you
have a kid that's maybe under three, huh. So on
my street, some of the you know, some of the
kids would go down to one side and back up
the other. Yeah okay, and then that way that that
way you.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Got back and forth, back and forth, yeah right.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
And then you just walk back. So this this one guy,
and I've seen him at the top of the hill.
He always has his mask on. His daughter had his
mask on, like they're still afraid of COVID.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
COVID mask.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yes. And so not only did they hit me up
on the way down, that hit me up on the
way back. They doubled it. Yeah. And like I said,
I don't care, but like give everybody a shot.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, there's I guess I had enough.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
I had enough when the kid that cuts my grass
and some of his buddies were walking through and I said, hey,
come here, and I just I gave him a bunch
of extra candy at the end because I didn't want
to take it in with me.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
That's what I did. You didn't want to be stuck
with it?

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, I don't care about getting stuck with the smarties.
I didn't want to get stuck with the airheads.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
No, no, oh, I forgot to have those twigs. I
guess what I'm having is a snack the night.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Uh Twigs, I'm gonna.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Have a Twix. Hey, we've got we've got something new today.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Your chance to win, you a chance to win.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
But it's a new prize. What do we have. We
have a pair of tickets to see Sarah Evans, so
she's gonna be here at the Capitol on December fifth
for her holiday tourne So we have your chance to
win a pair of those this morning.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
She's with us every day we get that cardboard cutout
ever in the other.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Studio, Yeah, the Sara evens that pops up in random
places and makes you about uh when your paans, well
me anyways, Yeah, pops up everywhere. Yeah, So we're gonna
have that here a little bit later in the show.
So stay tuned for the Q to call on those
seven twenty eight on your Monday The Bloem Daddy Experience,
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
All right, I want to talk about the World Series
for a second. I want to congratulate Otis, who is
the only Los Angeles Dodgers fan that I know. And
because the Dodgers won the World Series, and because I
love my man Otis so much, I have decided to
give him my rookie sandykofax Court. Not sorry, Otis. I
saw you get excited, but you're not getting it anyway.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't know if.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
The Dodgers and Otis could talk about this in a second.
Won this World Series of the Toronto Blue gave it away?
And what I'm talking about Game seven, you've got second
and third, I believe, no outs, You've got a chance
to tie it up. I didn't get to watch because
I was in Buffalo for a Sabers game.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
That's a long story.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I'm gonna start watching the NHL more because I've just
lost interest in the other ones.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
But anyway, you've.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Got a situation there where you've got to get that
run in from third with less than two outs, So
that means you've got to make contact. Well, baseball anymore
is not a contact sport. The mentality has changed. Now
it's okay to strike out. It's not shameful anymore. Now
it's just try to hit a home run or nothing.
So all of a sudden, you get a situation where
you need to make contact, you've got to put bad

(18:40):
on ball. You should probably choke up a little bit.
You're just trying to drive it somewhere, and these guys
can't do it. They can't do it because they don't
do it anymore.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's not important anymore. It's not emphasized anymore.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
So it wasn't shocking to me that they couldn't get
a guy in from third base with less than two outs.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
And to me, that's just so pathetic.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
That is, that is not the baseball that I have
loved my entire life, which is I'm gonna come back
full circle to the Dodgers, but I just want to
kind of expound on this a little bit. That's why
I'm starting to watch the NHL again. That's why I
went to a game to watch the Buffalo Sabers, a
buddy of mine in Cleveland, he's a huge Sabers fan.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
We go up, we watch.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Them because this is a game with a salary cap.
This is a game where you know somebody's not spending
four hundred million dollars on a roster and somebody else's
spending thirty seven million on a roster. I watch Major
League Baseball anymore. I can't stand it. All these guys
do is try to throw one hundred and six miles
an hour. Very few of them pitch. All these guys

(19:40):
try to do is hit the ball out of the
park and exit velo. None of them are good hitters anymore.
We had two guys at the American League get over
three hundred this year. That's atrocious. I can't stand five
pitchers a game.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I hate it.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
I think it's ruined the game of baseball. Then you
go to the NFL once again. Yesterday, I'm watching games
the National Flag League. You can't watch game without thirty flags.
It's miserable. You just know on any good play there's
going to be a flag. And then when there is
a blatant penalty, it's not called and how many times
are we going to say see instant replay where you know,

(20:16):
the call on the field should only be overturned if
there's overwhelming evidence to the contrary. There's not overwhelming evidence
yet in New York they reverse the call. You go
into college football, Caleb Downs from Ohio State. If that
isn't targeting, I don't know what targeting is. Therefore we shouldn't.
We should just get rid of targeting. It's the that
and roughing the passer have ruined the game of football

(20:38):
in college in the NFL. And I know I'm all
over the place right here, but damn it, my name's
on the show and I can do that.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
So you know, I take a look at two sports.
Here's the other thing.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Baseball it's all or nothing, home run or nothing. Can't
stand it. NBA it's three pointer after three pointer after
three pointer.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
It's all or nothing. Can't stand it.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yet, the one sport I want it to be all
or nothing, the NFL college football. I want to see
the ball thrown vertically forty fifty sixty years.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Down the field.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
What do we get freaking bubble screens and tight end screens.
Can't stand it? Son I'm a hockey fan, and I'm
gonna be a Buffalo Sabers fan. I don't give a
damn about the Penguins.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
All right.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Back to the Dodgers, nonetheless, I mean, what did they
spend two point six billion dollars in a roster? I mean,
come on, they had the best lineup in the game,
They had the best rotation in the game. They should
have won this based on the money part of it.
But otis, I want to ask you the question, do
you feel the Dodgers won this or do you feel

(21:40):
the Blue Jays lost it?

Speaker 4 (21:43):
I honestly think it's a little bit of both.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
I feel like a ping pong ball, first.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Of all, after Hall of Fame, look a squirrel, geez, please, No,
I think it's a little bit of both. Because I
was sitting there watching Game seven with a buddy of mine.
We went and got some wings, and we were watching
the game, and there was a time when Bobachette was
on second base ball was hit the right field uh
ta Escar Hernandez, the right fielder for the Dodgers, the

(22:10):
worst of the three arms in the outfield. Okay, Ball's
hit to him. Baschett's at second and he stops at
third and I'm and I looked at my buddy. I said, oh,
he should have gone. He should have you know, you
gotta you gotta, you gotta score there. And they showed
the camera on Bashett and he's like like he was
mad at himself because he didn't go. And he even

(22:32):
looked at the coach and it was like he mouth
he mouthed, I fed up. Okay, he scores that run.
It's a different Blue Jay's Window series because the Will
Smith Hen run doesn't mean anything. That doesn't tie it up.
They're still down to run. Boom Blue Jays win. Now

(22:54):
do I think that the Dodgers, you know, they had
that never say die attitude, So I'm I think that
that has a little bit to do with it, a
little bit, you know it all it's all about luck too.
I mean, uh, the PA has catch where he crashes
into Keky Hernandez and then the wall. I mean that
could have very easily just gone off the way they
could have when they collided. It could have been disaster.

(23:15):
The ball falls in Boom Blue Jays win. So I
think there's a lot of you know, I bloom Daddy's
right in the regular season. I think, you know, it's
it's home run, it's all or nothing. There were there
were a lot of bass hits, a lot of doubles,
a lot of off the wall, you know. I mean,
I'm not saying that they're not swinging for the fence,
and there was a lot of a lot of pop ups.

(23:37):
But I mean I thought. I thought Vladimir Guerrero played
a hell of a game in Game seven. I mean,
he made a couple of nice defensive plays the shortstop
for the Blue Jays. I mean, he he came up
big with his bat. But it just, you know, I
think the Dodgers played smarter. They they they so like,

(23:58):
Will Smith is your catcher, he's on second, there's a
base hit the right field. He scores, So you know,
he did what Bobaschett should have done. You see what
I'm saying, you know, I mean, like, so, I do
I think that the I think the Blue Jays made
some mental errors on the bases. They had the opportunity
to score and they didn't take advantage of it.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
The one image I keep saying seeing from Game seven
is the home plate overview of the he's out. Yeah, yeah,
they wouldn't I mean they're trying to make controversy with it.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
I mean, it's it's not I mean, you can see
his foot. It doesn't look like it's on because it's
lifted up a little bit, but like his toe or
whatever still on the it's still on the plate.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
And Clayton Kershaw is retiring after this, correct.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the way to go out well.
And I mean, and I will say this, I mean,
I don't. I posted it on my personal Facebook page
because Keky Hernandez made a comment on it. The one
Dodger pitcher. He's a reliever. He did and play in
the series because he and his there was they had
a family emergency. His wife was pregnant. They think that,

(25:06):
you know, it's it's I'm not releasing it what happened.
I mean, it's it's their personal stuff. But it appears
that either there was something wrong with the baby or
something wrong with her, and so he got left off
the World Series. He's one of their big, you know, believers,
and in game six his numbers fifty one. In Game six,
all the Toronto Blue Jays relievers had fifty one his

(25:28):
number written on their on their hat and like kicking her,
and Ande said, he said, look, that's bigger than the
game of baseball.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oh yeah, and that's a whole other.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
And he said, you know he respects him for that,
and I you know, how do you not?

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah, you know?

Speaker 4 (25:43):
So, But anyway, I mean, and I knew Bloomer was
to give me his co fax besides, I already have one.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
He tried to try.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
And I don't know who's who's who is worth more money,
But I think I know what my cofax is worth.
I don't know his is ungraded, so I don't know
what his is worth. Mind's graded. So but yeah, anyway,
so you know, I'm glad by Dodgers, won. I mean,
and he's right. I mean, you know what they spend

(26:12):
compared to what like the Guardians or the or the
Royals or the Pirates or whoever you know the mid
market team spend. It's it's really not fair.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Well, let me ask you this. He was talking about
swinging for the fences, the big this, big that if,
and he mentioned multiple sports across the board. Don't you
think between basketball and the three pointers and the dunking,
between baseball and the home runs, football is a little
bit of a different beast. But it takes the planning,

(26:45):
in the skill planning and the game planning out of
the hands of the coaches in a way. If you've
got the big bat that you can rely on or
the big arm, and you don't have to game play
plan besides who's playing, you know what, night, there's a
little there's less skill involved, I guess, is what I'm

(27:06):
getting at.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
No, I think the skills still there. I think it's
just a different skill set. They're they're they're they're they're
coaching a different skill set than what they used to
both in the NBA and Major League Baseball and football.
You know, I just think it's a different skill set.
So like you're not in the NFL. You know, they
want to drop back passers, but then they also went
to quarterback to run the ball like a Patrick Mahomes, Right,

(27:29):
You see what I'm saying. Yeah, uh so they are
Jayden Daniels or somebody of that nature, you know, Jackson, Yeah,
it's not you. You don't necessarily have to be the
drop back passer anymore.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
The running back's basically gone out of the game for
the most part. You know, it's it's all about like
he said, bubble screens and tight end screens and very
rarely do you see. I mean, the games change, two
different ideas.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
We'll get into that because we've got of course football
wrap up for the weekend and a couple other things.
We're gonna get into that one. Get just a reminder,
we're gonna have your chance to win this morning. Sarah
Evans here at the Capitol, December fifth, kicking off the
holiday season, seven forty six. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience, Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome

(28:20):
back seven fifty one, the bloom Daddy Experience Otis and
Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I just want to
let you know, coming up in the eight o'clock hour,
we're gonna we're gonna be speaking with former Ohio State
Senator Frank Hoagland. He is fascinating, He is so interesting.
He of course a decorated Navy veteran Navy Seal, as

(28:43):
I mentioned, former state Ohigh State senator. Gonna get his
thoughts on just the political climate today. You know, he's
served from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty three, so it's
gonna be a really good conversation that's coming up in
the eight o'clock hour to.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Sports just real quick, bloom Daddy said, I think there
was only two players that hit over three hundred in
the American League. There were actually six even to correct, Well,
I'm just I'm just just want to be factual. Yeah,
in Major League Baseball seven total. Only one in the
National League, and that was Trey Turner from the Phillies.
He hit three oh four, but you had like three hundred.

(29:23):
So Aaron Judge hit three thirty one, Boba Schett hit
three eleven, the rookie from Wilson from the Athletics hit
three eleven, George Springer three oh nine, so you know,
I mean they're three oh four, three hundred, so they're
six in the American League, so seven total. But he,
I mean, he's not wrong other than the number he's

(29:44):
you know, I mean it used to be you would
have multiple players hit over three hundred, and you know,
even if they just hit three hundred, it wasn't that bad.
But you know, you had like Tony Gwynn would hit
oh yeah, three forty three fifty, George Brett three forty three, fifty.
I mean, you know, it's just and I know what

(30:05):
he's saying with the with the swinging for the fence,
and it just it's He's right, it's but then the
game it's cyclical. So I guess what's gonna happen Somewhere
down the road. It's going to change and go back
to the other way.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah, talk about hitting. I just cracked my funny boat.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I saw you. Oh, that's why I kind of build
you out there.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
I waits you up, that wakes you up. Staying along sports,
let's recap the weekend. The Steelers took down the top
team in the AFC. Didn't see this coming, I'll be honest.
I thought the Colts were gonna take it to snap
their their losing their two game losing streak, which that's
not even a streak as far as I'm concerned. The
deem defended home field with a twenty seven to twenty

(30:45):
win over the Colts. Jalen Warren scored twice on the
ground as Pittsburgh snapped a as I mentioned, two game
losing streak. They will now visit the Chargers on Sunday
Night Football this weekend. The Bengals, the other team playing.
The Bengals lost a heartbreaker to the Bears forty seven
forty two at home. Joe Flacco threw for almost five

(31:08):
hundred yards to go with four touchdowns and three turnovers.
Holy cow. The defense gave up the game winning touchdown
with seventeen seconds left as Cincinnati dropped back to back games.
Now the Browns visit the Jets. That's gonna be a
barn burner, folks, the Browns and the Jets who Sunday
afternoon while the Bengals head to the Steelers a week

(31:31):
from Sunday. Cleveland is two and six and Cincinnati is
three and six. And then also, I don't know if
you saw this, the longest field goal record was broke
this weekend. Yeah, Jacksonville kicker Cam Little hit a sixty
eight yarder, breaking the previously held record of sixty six

(31:53):
by Raven's former kicker Justin Tucker. Boy, Justin Tucker was
like Clayton that you knew he was gonna head it.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Anyways, did you talk to anybody that went to the
Nailers game on Saturday?

Speaker 5 (32:04):
You know what I did not?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
I talked to they said it was packed. I heard
it was They said it was a lot of fun,
you know, they had the circus going on and everything else. Well,
the Wheeling Nailers, they had a thrilling first weekend at
West Banco Averna because it was capped off with some
overtime magic. On Sunday afternoon, Wheeling trailed to nothing early,
then fended off a barrage of shots in the third
before Max Graham delivered the winning goal a two twenty

(32:25):
five of overtime. The Nailers beat the Norfolk Admirals Street
to two for the second day in a row and
improved a four to oho to one on the young season.
So I mean, there you go. Nailers back in action
this Thursday, Friday and Saturday as they had to Greensboro
to take on the Gargoyles. I always loved the garden.
The puck drops at seven pm all three nights, and

(32:47):
you can check out all the Wheeling Nailers action on
our sister station Mixed ninety seven threes.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
And by the way, I'm working on more tickets for
the Nailers.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Sweet and I think their next home game is the fourteenth,
and that is first WEE Spondors night. So just if
you want to get there, your tickets, so I'm sure
their specials there for the first responders. And speaking of hockey,
the Pens are back on the ice tonight. They face
off against Austin Matthews and the maple LEAs from Toronto.
Pittsburgh has dropped two of its last three following the
weekend loss to the Jets in tonight's game, and all

(33:17):
Pens games are on our sister station, Eagle one oh seven.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Five Eagle one o seven, staying local, wanted to mention this.
State workers can begin commenting today on proposed changes to
their health insurance through PEIA. The PIA Finance Board is
holding public meetings over the next three weeks, starting tonight

(33:42):
in Wheeling. Tonight's meeting will be at the Highlands Events Center.
Beginning registration will begin at five point thirty and the
meeting starts at six. PEIA is proposing a three percent
aggregate premium increase and a two hundred dollars monthly spousal
charge increase. The changes will would take effect next July first.

(34:06):
So this is you know, yep, if you're a state worker, yes,
this is of course for you. This is where you
can go and get additional in for me well.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Patrick Morrisey can just do this real easy. He could
do what Jim Justice did and just give all the
state employees a five percent raise, and then that covers
your three percent PEIA increase, and it gives you a
little cost of living increase because guess what else is
going up your electric bill, your gas bill and everything else,
because they've they've increased, they've approved, they've approved the increases
for both of those. So you know, just give the

(34:37):
state employees a five percent raise and you don't have
to worry about it.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Well, they are problems solved, folks.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
For most, For most state employees, it's probably about a
buck bucket a quarter an hour. Some are less summer
more so probably average is probably about a buck bucket
a quarter.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
No, there we go, problem solved. Don't even have a
meeting now now I'm kidding. It is starting tonight. Registration
at five point thirty the Highlands Sports Complex, seven fifty eight.
The bloom Daddy Experience News Radio eleven seventy wwva.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
D number one talk 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. WWVA starts now news

(35:28):
Radio eleven seventy. It's the Bloe Daddy Experience. Hey, it's
eighth six.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Let's get this hour rolling good Monday morning to you.
Hope you had a fantastic weekend. And I can't believe
we turn back the clocks. I can't believe it's dark
now at five o'clock. I can't believe it. I hate it,
and I'm gonna have to spend a lot more time
at my happy place, which is the second floor at
Boskov's Christmas display.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Seriously, I go there and my mood is just better.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Anyway, day before elections and I wanted to throw my
two cents in. I can't believe I'm actually going to
talk about a township trustee race, because in the whole
relative scheme of things, that's usually a race that not
too many people care about and quite honestly doesn't get
a lot of media exposure. But in this case, I

(36:17):
think I need to make a statement.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
I know Sam covered it on Friday, She's been covering it,
and I think she's done a fantastic job. What I
want to say is Richland Township trustee race Rick Ferrell
Jimmy Denoble. I know them both incredibly well. Those are
two guys you need to vote for, and I'm gonna
tell you why. First of all, Jimmy Denoble. I was

(36:41):
on Saint Clairso Junior Sports with Jimmy Denoble for almost
eighteen years. Every day I was up at those ball fields,
dragging them, raking them, getting water off of them. And
there were two guys there with me all the time,
Jimmy Denoble and the guy by the name of Kenny Coleman.
And neither of them had kids in the organization. Neither

(37:01):
of them had grandkids in the organization. So why were
they up there hours on end. Because they care about
the community. They wanted to have nice ball fields for
the kids, even though there was nobody in their family
benefiting from any of it. That's the kind of guy
that Jimmy Denoble is. Jimmy Denoble is one of the
hardest working guys I've ever seen. He's a quality human being,

(37:25):
and I know he takes being a trustee very seriously,
and he's willing to bend over for anybody. It doesn't
matter if you have money, it doesn't matter if you
have prestige, it doesn't matter if.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
You're at the bottom of the barrel. You go to
Jimmy Denoble with an issue, He's going to help you.
Rick Ferrell.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Rick Ferrell probably put more into the soccer programs in
Belmont County than anybody I know had a passion for it,
and Rick has that same passion as a township trustee.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
For you.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
This guy lives at the courthouse. He's constantly checking on things,
going over things. He's putting one hundred and ten percent
into that job. These are two.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Very very good guys, two very very.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Good family guys, and two guys who you want to
be your township trustee in Richland Township. Now, as far
as the other guy running, I don't know him. I
can't say a bad thing about him. I can't say
a good thing about him. I know nothing about him.
But I know this, the guy backing him is one
of the most deplorable human beings I've ever seen in
my life.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
You know who I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
The only radio guy in the history of the Ohio
Valley who has to pay somebody to put his show
on the air. A guy whose career is so tanked
his show is only on twice a week. A guy
who calls iHeartMedia at least two to three times every
six months, begging for a job. A guy who, in

(38:52):
my opinion, has some serious mental issues. That guy is
backing the other guy in this Richland Township Trustee race.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
That's all I need to know.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
About the other guy, because I mean, people who lack
character hang out with people who lack character.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
So I'm just gonna leave it at that. I'll let
Sam take it from here.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
But in that Richland Richland Township Trustee race, Rick Ferrell
and Jimmy Denoble are your guys. I'm not telling you
to vote for him. If you know me, throughout my
years of being here on WWVA, I never.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Told you to do a thing.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I just tried to give you all the information that
you need to make the right decision. And I'm telling
you Denobyl and Ferrell are the right decisions. And Sam,
you can finish this any way you like.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
What I'm going to tell you, Excuse me, is what
I told you on Friday. Ask yourself the same questions
that I brought up. Connect the dots, you know what
is connected? To this connected to that, and I'll go
back to to what I brought to everybody's attention on Friday,
the location of a particular billboard on Route forty heading

(40:06):
east into Saint Clairsville in the what I will lovingly
comment or will give the moniker the mudhole, one of
the most shameful pieces of property in Belmont County that
is located across the street from some of the most
beautiful homes in Belmont County on Old forty in Saint Clairsville,

(40:27):
heading towards the High Valley Mall. It's very convenient that
the one candidate has a billboard there on that particular
piece of property. And I'm going to say this once
again to the third candidate, j Stevens, you are more
than welcome to come on our show, just like Jimmy
Denoble did, just like Rick Ferrell did. All you have
to do is email me Sam and iHeartMedia dot Com.

(40:50):
I will say this otis when I drive through Richelin
Township moving forward, I will have a different insight thinking
when I see beautifully paved roads when the snow is removed.
I never thought I would be so concerned about or
talk so much about a township run. But listen, folks,

(41:13):
that's the point of the vote. That's the point of
the vote. And I'll leave you with this on this subject.
And I brought this up before and I'll say it again.
For those who have turned this into what they've turned
it into. What do they contribute to the community? That's

(41:33):
my question. What do they contribute to the community. Do
they volunteer? Do they, you know, part of the food pantry,
different things like that, two of the candidates do. That
is what I will I will leave you with. Oh,
it is eight twelve. Coming up, we're gonna be talking

(41:53):
to former High State Senator Frank Hogland, just gonna get
his uh, get his temperature on politics today and what
he has planned. It is eight twelve. You're listening to
The bloom Daddy Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. It's a eighteen on your Monday, The bloom

(42:19):
Daddy Experience OTIS in Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Let's talk some mom, Let's talk some cars real quick.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
We can always talk jeeps. We always have there we
go japs jeeps.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
I thought i'd see a new one this morning. What happened. Boys?

Speaker 4 (42:36):
They asked me if I wanted to take it Friday,
and I said, don't you want the money first? So
you know, I was kind of the nice guy. I
could have taken it for free, and I could have
really had you.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
I think Kevin would have found you. Kevin you about
a hundred.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Yeah, we probably would not have it probably would not
have gotten away which free.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Well, oh it would have been with I feel like
he got away with Oh, here we go, here we go.
We he just remember the other day you threw out
there about a year's worth of free gas. I might
take yup on that.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Is this program recorded?

Speaker 5 (43:14):
No, not at all.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
So what do you want to talk about?

Speaker 7 (43:17):
We could talk about Jesus, but we also need to
talk about how about these Honda stores. Strib Honda right
here at the Highlands number one again in the entire
state of West Virginia and Mountaineer Honda over in Bridgeport,
West Virginia. Our second hand store was number two in the.

Speaker 6 (43:34):
State of West Virginia.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
So these guys are still battling it out. I mean,
every month the Strib Automotive Group sales more Hondas than
anyone in the state. We also outseil a lot of
the larger dealers in the Pittsburgh market.

Speaker 6 (43:49):
Okay, I mean it's just we have.

Speaker 7 (43:52):
Great vehicles, have our standing prices. The overall buying experience
is awesome, Okay, just absolutely incredible. We got great people
here that make it so easy. Are trading values are
higher than everyone else's, and it's just I mean.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
These guys are just absolutely crushing. It's awesome.

Speaker 5 (44:12):
Do you ever do you ever get tired of saying
that Kevin number one and number two?

Speaker 4 (44:16):
Like?

Speaker 5 (44:16):
Does that ever?

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Now?

Speaker 6 (44:17):
Do not?

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Do?

Speaker 7 (44:20):
Not not going to get tired of that? No, not
at all.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Would you would you get tired of winning gold medals? No,
you don't. Michael Phelps never did winning.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
We love winning.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Most people do. Most people do.

Speaker 7 (44:35):
And now it just feels like a winner because he
you know, he won in our little negotiation, you know contest.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
I don't know if I won. I think I just
I think I came out. Yeah, I think we.

Speaker 6 (44:47):
But we didn't get a great trade.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
Yeah, your trading is super, super nice.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
Yeah, we'll have it out.

Speaker 7 (44:53):
They're ready to sail here in just a few days.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Let's get it cleaned up and get it out there
on a lot.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
It doesn't need much, No, probably just needs vacuum out.
A lot of dog are in there. You could you get.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
Well, you could sell it. Celebrity former owner.

Speaker 6 (45:08):
Yeah, celebrity owned.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Put that out there like that too.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (45:14):
Yeah, we'll having We'll have him come sign the dash
for there.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
You go nice.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
All right, We're gonna talk tomorrow. We're done with you.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
All right, y'all have a bye.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
You blushed a little bit, No, I didn't. All right,
joining us. Now we have former High State Senator Frank
Hoagland on the phone. Good morning, sir, how are you.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
Good morning, Miss Sam. How's everybody doing?

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Good morning?

Speaker 5 (45:41):
We are good, We are good. So, first of all,
will you give everybody just a little bit of background
on you, because you are a decorated Navy veteran and
Navy seal, which I find just fascinating.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
Well Born in Ohio, right at student. Bill grew up
in Central America, Panama. Graduated actually eight years in Panama.
Graduated from Buckeye North High School. Met my lovely wife,
Miss Darland, on the side of road on Route seven,

(46:18):
got married, joined the Navy, actually joined the Navy, then
got married, did twenty one years in the Navy twenty
years in the teams, then went into the out sector,
worked in a certain government entity there for another ten years,
did over twenty plus deployments in one of the war zones.

(46:42):
Then got home, opened up three businesses, was asked to
run for state senator. Ran for state senator one mat
that was kind of interesting. Did that tour there, And
right now I'm out running around beating the bushes, trying
to make sure we do everything we can to help

(47:02):
our vetters, law enforcement, first responders. I hope that I
got two kids.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
I hope that throw those in there too.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
Yeah, well, it's a mouthful trying to throw it out
and just right.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
So, you and I have spoke multiple times. We've been
at different events together where we've gotten to, you know,
talk a little bit here and there. Right now, politics
has been, for roughly ten years now, a polarizing topic
from your point of view, from your years of service

(47:37):
not only in government as a as a state senator,
but then also as a serving military person. What do
you think is missing right now in politics? Where are
we going?

Speaker 6 (47:47):
Repe Okay, respect, but the thing education too, all right?
So we we as the Sedlian population have a very
small understanding of how it actually works. But what we
watch is the media goes out there and beats the

(48:09):
hell out of all of the what you call your politicians,
your legislators, or whatever have you, when in all reality,
whether no matter what party you're on, think of it
this way, and I'll use the state government. This is
my lessons learned. First of all, there's only two things
that a legislator can do. Advocate for their constituents and

(48:29):
have legislation drafted. Those are the only two things the legislature.
Now that you can get in front of a camera
and hype everything up. Yiha, right, you get your happy snap.
Move on. So the governor owns the capital in Columbus,
and this is just my own thought process, all right,

(48:53):
because the governor's the one that's got to sign everything
in the law. Regardless of what happens, the governor signs
everything in the law. You got your Senate, President and
your speaker. They rent real estate within the Capitol building,
so we call that the House, and we call that
the Senate. You can see up the chamber, lower chamber,
whatever you want. They rent. Those guys run out spaces

(49:14):
to hold committees in and they they'll have committee chairs.
So the good idea locker tunnels from the people through
the legislators, creates the piece of legislation out of that
good idea locker and tries to run it through the
tries to run it through the chain of command, which
would be the chairman and then your leadership, and then

(49:39):
depending on what the chamber you're in, it'd be either
the Speaker or the Senate President. If your legislation is
not like, or even if you are not like as
the legislator, the chances that you getting something to the
floor is pretty minimal. So that good idea died. It's

(50:01):
not going to go anywhere, whether the Speaker doesn't like
it or whatever have you. Let's say everything lines up
on the legislative side and you get it to the floor,
it gets voted off the floor. Now you've got to
repeat that whole process on the other chamber. You repeat
the whole process on the other chamber, and then the
governor doesn't like it and it doesn't get signed. So

(50:26):
the idea of trying to understand how all that works,
it's much more grandiose, and I'm not trying to make
a mountain out of a Molecia here, but it's much
more grandiose than what you'd ever imagine, and the processes,
and then you throw the politics in it, which makes
it even more complicated. And truly, the respect and the

(50:50):
education side is that's what's missing, because if you don't
respect each other at a job, how are you going
to get anything gone? Look, sam otis, if your boss
don't like you, what are your chances are you staying
in that position?

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Not very well?

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Now, our bosses don't like us anyway.

Speaker 6 (51:11):
If your peers don't like you, what do you You know?
You're you're totally outcasted. And if you're outcasted, the chances
of you getting anything done? And I don't care what
job it is, it's pretty much new. I think that
in every every part of the government that I have
worked with. And if politics in the military side too,

(51:32):
I'll start getting into the senior listed side. Do you
start getting into the senior officer side, getting get into
the flag officer side. There's a politics there.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
Yeah. Well, as we move further, can you can you
stick with us for a little bit longer because I
want to get your thoughts on a couple other things.
We've got to go. We've got about sixty seconds left.
We got to jump to a quick break. But are
you willing to hang out with us a little bit longer?

Speaker 6 (51:56):
Yes, ma'am. I'm sitting here in Oklahoma getting ready to
go brief their legs. So I've got three hours before
that happens.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
Oh okay, Well we don't need you for three hours,
so you can you can still have breakfast and a
cup of coffee when when we're done with you. How's
that sound, yes, ma'am, okaat uh. We're going to continue
the conversation with former High State Senator Frank Hoagland after
the break. You're listening to The Bloom Daddy Experience, and
don't forget we're gonna have your chance to win. Sarah Evans,

(52:23):
December fifth, here at the Capitol Theater. That's coming up
here a bit later in the show. Here on news
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It's thirty six on your Monday,
The Bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam news Radio eleven

(52:45):
seventy WWVA hanging out with us. Right now. We have
former High State Senator Frank Hoglan on the line with us.
Thank you for sticking with us.

Speaker 6 (52:54):
Sir, thank you for show having me on here.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
So before the break we were talking about you know,
my first question was, you know what is what your
your thoughts on what is currently missed in politics? I
want to I want to flip that a little bit.
One of the big conversations out there is we have
become a society of sound bites and headlines where and

(53:18):
you said education to my original question, I think that
is also problem. The part of the problem is people
don't educate themselves enough on current affairs. What are your
thoughts on that?

Speaker 6 (53:32):
And people don't educate themselves about the topics that they
want to have a conversation in. Don't get me wrong,
I there's there's a degree that you are I would
agree with you on. But then there's also a degree
to where people educate themselves in the areas that they

(53:56):
don't really need the education is I guess what I'm
trying to drive that the sam strous is when all right,
so when you have a problem with you're with a
vehicle or something, you could get on YouTube and learn
how to deal with it, all right, but you really
have to pay attention, close attention to the instructions. But
in a political world. If you have a problem with

(54:18):
what's going on in that environment, you can to just
you don't. Can I see it? All the time? People
don't actually sit down and read the information that's being
put out so they have a better understanding and what's
actually being what's actually being done. I'll go ahead and
jump ahead of you a little bit, miss Sam.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
Okay, So look at the.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
Property tax issue. You really know what that issue, how
that issue is being written, written so that we can
take a vote on it. Almost every issue that we
vote on. The way that they write it is so
convoluted and you end up having to read it several
times to understand it because it's got lawyers writing. But

(55:01):
at the same time, the layman out there, they don't
read it. They just want somebody to tell them to
vote yes or no. I don't know we're driving it
the same direction or if we're driving differently. But that's
a lot of the legislation that I was involved with.
You know, being a chair of a committee, you're constantly

(55:24):
being asked questions about the legislation that's being presented in
the next committee, and people will have a say on it.
If it wasn't uncommon to get you know, our staff
will get two thousand emails and every email said the
same exact thing. So when I asked the person, did
you actually read up on this, and they'll say, well,
I have not read the bill, the conversation is done.

(55:46):
So if you want to get educated, there's senior areas
out there in today's environment to where you can't get educated.
Do you have to go to college now? But you
can be educated in so many different areas because the
Internet brought that to our attention. Heck, now you've got
AI that helps out. From what I understand, I'm an

(56:07):
old guy, so I don't have all that stuff down yet,
but I am still learning about it. So I don't
know if you and I are parallel on that particular topic.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
Well, and I'm glad you brought up the topic of
the Ohio property taxes. There's a huge push to basically
abolish taxes property taxes in the state of Ohio. I mean,
that's all well and good to say, just get rid
of taxes, but it's not a black and white issue.
I don't believe there's more.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
I totally agree. Well, you gotta figure I did my
due diligence. I approach things the same way I did
when I was overseas, all right, So you got to
do risk versus games. And if it looks easy, most
of the time, something's going to interrupt you. There's going
to be an option. It's going to come into play,
and it's going to squeeze life right out again. And

(57:04):
I see that with property taxes, you got to figure
The first set of property taxes is introduced in eighteen
oh s three from the state of Ohio. So for
well over two hundred plus years, Ohiosan paid property taxes.
The risk versus games in one sense, you could say, hey,
look if my house and everything like that's paid off

(57:26):
and I'm going pretty good financially, you would want it.
You would gravitate towards it. If you're not a homeowner
and you're struggling paycheck to paycheck, they're going to have
to recruit that money somewhere. So that means somewhere your
taxes are going to go up. Regardless, you're going to

(57:47):
be paying something to accommodate the rebuild of infrastructure. I've
had many conversations, let's just narrow this down to the
most common need that we're going to be pressed up against.
Here real soon outing the snow. I don't where we

(58:08):
live at really way out in the country. And if
the townships can't get out there to plow the snow,
how are the kids going to get to school if
the townships don't keep ahead? And where the state that
is now, oh god, they don't keep ahead of the snow,
and you have an emergency situation. You just complicated the

(58:30):
emergency situation that used to be simplified. So that's just
the root and aspects of just property taxes. Where are
you going to get the money right? And now you
also stated that, well, there's a big push. I actually
asked that question here recently to some people up in Columbus.

(58:53):
It had been said that like sixty one percent of
the people or something like that, twell over fifty percent
of the people are advocating to abolished property taxes. Look
the world I come from, we have to trust but validate.
So the information is out there. So I questioned that information.
There was one poll, according to what I was going
to you. You can look it up yourself, and mister Otis,

(59:17):
there's only one poll out there that suggested that. But
a lot of the people I've been speaking to they
don't see it. We don't see it. So I'm not
going to go out there and try to beat the
drum and saying, oh, yes, property factors are going to
be abolished. You know what we need to do is
first make sure that we prevent that from happening, because

(59:39):
if it does happen, I'll go back to the bigger picture.
Your local garments are going to get tanked. Do people
realize that your local garment uses that money to make
payment on loans if they had taken out I brought
that question up to the state. I asked them, I said,
you guys realize that, you know, the townships and the

(01:00:01):
counties are using that money to make payment your fire rescue,
they're pretty much gone. Your sheriff departments. What you're gonna
have one guy left in the sheriff department. Could you
imagine our area. I don't know where you live in Sam,
I don't know where you live, mistrotis, But you know
what a way to defund the police is what a

(01:00:22):
bull bounty?

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Right right now, I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
Sure crime is going to go up. We don't tolerate
crime in the Appalachian area. It's not going to happen
we're going to deal with it. And if you lose
law enforcement or you lose your first responders, your local
government's gone. We have to have that our townships keep

(01:00:45):
our roads open. Our township may maintain our infrastructure so
our kids can go to school. Education is going to suffer.
There's too many places that's going to be in pain
if any unlikely event that this should happened.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
I mean, if you look at what happened what is
happening now with the current government shut down and the
snap benefits and this and that. You know, when when
the money money is cut off, we get into the
circumstance that we're in excuse me, that we're in now. Unfortunately, Well, you're.

Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
Absolutely correct, and that that goes back to respect. You know,
I respect the people more than I do the party.
The people are. You're talking to a guy that had
been in charge when I was overseas. You've got to
take care of the troops, and there's only a few
things that in a leadership position that you truly need

(01:01:38):
to do. One, make sure the troops have the gear
and the education of the training to work their gears,
and make sure they understand each and every mission as
it comes at them.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
Well, mister Hoagland, I hate to cut you off. We
are out of time, but I want once again thank
you for coming on here this morning. Would love to
have you back anytime as we especially as we gear
up for twenty twenty six in campaigns. Would love your thoughts,
how you're involved everything. Want to have you back on.
But we got a message from a listener I just
wanted you to hear before we jump off here. It

(01:02:12):
says you're interviewing a true American hero. So that's from
one of our listeners. Thought you would love to hear that.

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
Thank you very much, miss Sam. And I'll be honest
with you. I say this and everybody lasts, but I
think it's the truth of truth. I'm just the guy
that got away with pushing the threshold of stupidity on
a daily basis, and I made it home, unlike a
lot of my friends. So God bless you. Yes, I

(01:02:43):
just thank you very much. I got goosebumps from that
individual that put that up there.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
Oh well good.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
And I'm actually in Oklahoma right now trying to advocate
for ver law enforcement first responders today.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Wonderful.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
Thank you guys. Yes, have fun, Yes, we say.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
And we'll talk again. We will talk again.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
There you go, Former High State Senator Frank Hogland on
the show this morning, eight forty six. You're listening to
the bloo Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA eight fifty one. Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience,
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Once again,

(01:03:25):
thank you to Frank Hogland for jumping on with us
this morning. It's always interesting to hear the perspective from
those that are that live at day to day or
have lived it day to day. The political circus is
what I'm talking about. So I love having those conversations
with people like him, And of course he's welcome back
anytime on the show. We only scratch the surface, I'm

(01:03:47):
sure with his stories and everything and everything he's experienced.
So again, thank you to him. Oh it's just a reminder.
Want to remind everybody that state workers, happening tonight, can
begin begin commenting on proposed changes to their health insurance
through PEIA. The PIA Finance Board is holding public meetings

(01:04:12):
over the next three weeks with the with it starting
of course tonight and Wheeling. It will be held at
the Highlands Event Center. Registration begins at five point thirty
with the meetings starting at six. Now. Peia is proposing
a three percent aggregate premium increase and a two hundred
dollars monthly spousal searcharge increase. The charges would take effect

(01:04:35):
next July first. So just a reminder to those state
workers that this effects. That meeting starts tonight at six,
with registration at five point thirty at the Highlands Event Center.
You look perplexed in there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
I'm just looking at something.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Ohh okay. And then also we have your chance to
win this morning, Sarah Evans tickets. That's coming up here
very very shortly, since we are running of time. It's
been a busy show.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
You remember mister Pib.

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
Mister Pib. That's the knockoff of Doctor Pepper, right.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
More or less, it's Coca Cola's version Doctor Pepper. They
are reintroducing mister.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
Pib as Missus Pib.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
No. It's twenty four years after discontinuing the brand. The
company said the revived mister Pib will have thirty percent
more caffeine thirty percent than PIB extra. The brand that
it was originally replaced with. The soda is also getting
a new slogan, Bold Kick of Cherry for its intense
sweet cherry flavor with hints of caramel and lingering spicy finish. Okay,

(01:05:37):
Coca Cola said, mister pib and mister pib zero sugar
all the caffeine but minus the sugar, are now available
in Florida, Chicago, Las Vegas, Michigan, and California markets. A
nationwide rollout is going to start early of twenty twenty six.
So if you're a mister pib fan, thirty percent.

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
More caffeine, that's exactly what's new in the American dietary spectrum.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
Well, imagine mister PIBB with caffeine and all the sugar
you can imagine, so the zero. So there you have.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Dang.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
Speaking of drinks and health, health experts are warning that
an overlooked crisis, addiction crisis is hitting us involving energy
drinks now impacts one hundred and ten million Americans. The
energy your energy drink market has grown to exceed twenty
three billion dollars in value across the United States. Medical

(01:06:42):
professional that's that medical professionals caution that energy drinks contain
high levels of caffeine various chemicals in sugar that can
lead to rapid addiction development, let alone what it does
to your heart. The crisis has received little public attention
despite affecting mills millions of consumers. Experts emphasize that the

(01:07:03):
combination of stimulants and additives in these popular beverages pose
significant health risks. The warning comes as energy drink consumption
continues rising among Americans of all ages. That's the thing,
if you really look at some of these energy drinks,
the colors of the packaging, they're almost targeted towards guts.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
They are they are, they are, they're They're targeted to
the younger generation to get them addicted to it. And
that's what's happening. And the other thing is that you
shed your heart. It's bad for your liver too.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
Oh really, yeah, yeah, because hard to process.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Well, I don't know, because when when I had some
blood work done, my coordinator asked me, he said, have
you been drinking energy drinks because some of my numbers
went high? And he's and he goes, because the energy
drinks will they're not good for your liver.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Oh. Interesting, I've not heard I've tried. I tried an
energy drink one time. One time, and I felt so shaky,
so like I felt my heart. I'm like, this cannot
be good.

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
The only time that ever I had the energy drink,
it was mixed with the Starbucks. Oh my, so, I
mean like they had this. There was Starbucks in the
cannon and it had I didn't realize it was the
energy drink when.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Oh, okay, so it's like a double whaman.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
Yeah, but I mean it was after working late one
night and I was driving I think back from Morgantown
or Parkersburg or something, and I picked one up and
just to get me home.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
Yeah, he got me home and then some and you
were awake for the next two days.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Yes, pretty much.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
I don't mess with any of that stuff. A long
time ago, I had to wear a heart monitor once
and I don't. I just I don't like that flutter.
I don't like that feeling. I just no. But it
is true. I mean I know people that drink two
or three cans of them a day a day, and
if they, I mean they could not function without them.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
It's like there's people that drink I mean, you sit
there and you see him drink Red Bull or Monster
or whatever the drink is. I just sit there and
I go, you're out of your mind.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
Yeah, But then I mean, I think, not to criticize
you the amount of coffee that you drink every day,
but it doesn't have the sugar element to it. I
think that's where there's a bit of a difference.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Between it and normally that the only time I drink
coffee is here. Oh, you don't drink it at home
very rarely, like I had. I think I had a
cup yesterday and then I had I had a couple
on Saturday when I when I left them all.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
I just want to give a huge shout out real
quick to the beautiful town of Barnesville. We mentioned earlier
in the year. They were selected as one of Ohio's
Best Hometowns. Well, the magazine that this is featured in
is out and there's also a short video that is
a profile on the town. I will share the links
to those on our Facebook page. Sow the issue is

(01:09:48):
now available for purchase either in hand or in the
mail to the magazine subscribers. I will share all of
that on our Facebook page. So congrats once again to
the beautiful small town of Barnesville. That's a huge honor
to be chosen for that. All right, we have it.
Sarah Evans tickets. We have a pair, yep. Christmas Show

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the way, my neighbor started her Christmas decorations. Ashley, I'm
calling you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
Out on your decorations.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
Oh, yeah, one in hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy.
Oh did you pick the number for Sarah Evans. Yeah,
I'm stumping you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
We're gonna go fourteen.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
I was thinking twelve. I was gonna see if we
were on the same paths Oh, all right, call her
number fourteen one eight hundred six two, four eleven seventy
Sarah Evans tickets. Everybody, have a great Monday. We'll talk
to you tomorrow.