The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 7, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The number one touch 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.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. This is a story that may affect
you right now or very possibly will affect you in
the future. New survey twelve hundred adults in the United
States found seven to ten family caregivers don't want their
aging parents to live with them. And even though most

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adults don't want their aging parents to live with them,
many still find themselves in that situation because for a
lot of families, it boils down to cost. Nearly half
of Americans provides financial support for their aging.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Parents or in laws.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Now you couple that with the fact that a lot
of these parents are also providing final ancial support for
their adult children or teenage children, and you have what
you call these Sandwich generation, raising children while caring for
aging parents. And that is a tough position to be in.
Ron Glasgow is a financial strategist.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Heads Up.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Glasgow investment solutions. He started his financial services career in
two thousand and one after proudly serving our country in
the Marine Corps RON. First of all, thank you for
your service, Oh, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Like I always say, man, it is terrific what you
do with VETS. I got a lot more out of
the CORE than the CORE got out of me as
I did deploy. But you know, sir, proudly and thank
you so much for what you're doing for our vests
that really really needed.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Absolutely, I mean, I hold VETS in the highest regard.
You also know firsthand what I'm talking about here when
I talk about the Sandwich generation, because you found yourself
in the same position, did you not?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I did a couple of times actually, So you know,
my dad was diagnosed with lafoma and lung cancer in
two thousand and nine and that ultimately changed the course
of my entire career to assist with that justice. Last June, unfortunately,
my mom passed after a long about with dementsha. So
that you know, cre create a lot of a lot
of hardship for the family. We were very lucky to

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we plan in advance.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
However, well, your financial strategist and that's what I want
to get to here, because a lot of times these
parents aren't able to put enough of their own retirement
because of all the people they're helping out financially. So
if you're helping out your kids, you're helping out your parents.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
This is a.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Vicious cycle, ron because pretty soon you're gonna need help
yourself as time goes on.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's absolutely the case, and the thing I tell everybody
is you've got to have those tough conversations with your
parents first. And look, my dad was born in nineteen
thirty eight, my mom was born in nineteen forty. They're
part of the generation that just flat out didn't complain.
I can still hear my dad saying, don't worry about
a boy. That was his answer when I would try
to ask them about long term care and things of

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that nature. You've got to push through that, however, and
really find out what their wishes are. I think a
lot of people, including myself, think that they want their
parents want to stay out of a home, or they
wanted to live with them, and it's really not the case.
I was fighting tooth and nail to get my mom
to become in love with me when she was diagnosed dementia.
It turns out it was a much better for her

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and her wishes to go and be a an independent
living and an assistant living facility where she'd be around
people or age and still interact. So having those tough
conversations is the first step before you get into the money.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, okay, go ahead. I'm sorry to mean to cut
you off.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
No, No, that's kind of the point I was making there.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, Well, let me ask you this. I mean, how
do you know when it's time to put your oxygen
mask on?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
First?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean you want to do that as soon
as you start seeing you know, as soon as you
start seeing aging. I mean, I'm forty nine years old,
I'm extremely healthy, and I have all my paperwork in place,
as is my wife. So I can't tell you how
important it is to get the trust and the will.
And that's for your possessions, but for your own personal health.
It's so important to get that financial power of attorney,
that healthcare power of attorney, and that living will. These

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things are very very important to carry out your wishes.
For example, my other You know, dementia's the underlying cause,
but no one really dies of dementia, she had a collection,
she fell and punctured alung. It was very much in
her wishes not to be resuscitated. As harsh as that
was for the family, as much as we wanted to
see her revived, it was her wishes not to. The

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medical community is trained to save lives no matter what.
So without that paperwork, we would have ultimately extended her
life against her wishes and should have had a poor
quality of life from that point until the ultimate passing.
So get your paperwork in place early. It's never too soon,
all right?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
What about saving? I mean, you're a financial strategist. How
I'm sure you hear this from people all the time. Ron,
How the hell am I supposed to save money when
I am financially supporting my aging parents and I've also
got kids that need help.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yes, it's important to Again, once you have those conversations
about what the wishes are, then you've just got to
you gotta lift the skirts, so to speak, and really
look at what the finances are. How much money do
your parents have? Do they have the money to support themselves?
What's that draw down rate? These aren't complex financial calculations,
you know, anybody with a spiral notebook and a pencil

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and a calculator. They kind of drafted out. Or if
you need to help, you come to a professional like me.
But you really want to see one te your parents
take care of themselves financially, whether that's living with you,
whether that's in some kind of institution. That's the first step.
When it comes to adult children. And I hate to
be harsh here, you get to have some hard heart talks.
They're adult children. That means you shouldn't be spending a

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whole lot of money on them. Now, we all want
to help people when they're down. We all want to
help people get to that next level. But if it's
taking care of your adult children is robbing you of
your repirement, you really need to set them on a
different path. And that's just real talk.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, when you talk, you look at the studies ron
it shows tens of millions of parents have found themselves
stuck in the Sandwich generation. So if tens of millions
are stuck in this in the middle, what's that mean
for the future.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
It's tough. It's a very bleak, very bleak Outlook. You know,
I know fifty percent of people out there don't have
a retirement account. People really don't realize what their finances
are and how they're going to take care of themselves tomorrow.
All the time I see people who confuse pensions with
four to one k's, you know, two very different things.
The picture's gonna pay you the rest of your life.
A four to one K is only gonna pay you

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at pilose exhausted, and that's based largely on what you
put into it. Also, that's a taxable account, so whatever
comes out, you're gonna lose thirty to forty percent. So
you really need to sit down and start penciling these
things out. Like I said, you don't need to be
an Excel guru. If you have a high school education,
you should be able to do a basic framework of
what is going to cost to live in the future.

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Once you have that, and you're gonna see that you're
woefully short, you've got to get started. The time to
get started saving was yesterday. Time is the most important
factor when it comes to doing this, because money compounds.
I think Albert Einstein said it best man's greatest invention
is compounding interest. Get that money working for you as
soon as possible. If that's fifty bucks a month. It's
fifty bucks a month, but get it started.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah. And the other thing I saw too, which was incredible.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I think all of us incur eighty percent of our
lifetime medical costs in the final two years of life.
So you know, if you don't save properly, you know,
you have a lot of issues. That's that's gonna hit
hard at the very end. And if you're taking care
of parents, obviously that's going to fall on you.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, it really is, you know, And it's the same.
But you know, I see even very well to do
families that have to go into what's called the Medicaid
spin down, meaning you basically bankrupt your parents in order
for the state to step in and to provide some
kind of support. And that's an awful thing. And we say, no,
it's never going to happen to me. And look, those
medical expenses become enormous at the end. So when you're

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doing heavy those rough talks, you want to look at
things like long term care insurance that's largely gone by
the wayside, the old school policies that were really comprehensive
because the insurance companies realize they cost so much. But
you can't get some other hybrid policies. For example, my
wife and I have a policy that if I die,
she gets two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. However, if
I need long term cair support, I could tap that

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two fifty for that need. So there are other things
you can do. But again everything starts with planning. If
you wait until somebody's sick, it's just too late.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
All right, Ron, thanks for the insight.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right, Bron, Glasgow Financial Strategist, Heads Up, Glasgow Investment Solutions.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Seven nineteen. Good Friday morning, folks. Oh the bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWV Mike, goodness, Am
I happy it's Friday. My eyeball is actually hurt this morning.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
You know we're seventy two hours away from Monday.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
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know what, it'll go by like it'll blank, it'll be over.
But listen, we have a chance for you to win
this morning. We have our last pair of Sarah Evans tickets,
so that's going to be coming up a little bit
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Speaker 6 (09:02):
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Speaker 6 (09:12):
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Speaker 5 (09:18):
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Speaker 6 (09:22):
If you're calling from a landline, you're gonna dial. If
you're going to call from your cell.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Phone, you're just how many people land lines anymore?

Speaker 6 (09:29):
People? Well, most work places still have landlines.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, okay, we do, right, we do? We do, we do.
So that is going to be coming up here a
little bit later in the show, so stay tuned for that.
But you have a couple of things we want to
get out there for the community, right yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Just a reminder the Pap Club. Every year, it's located
at forty four to ten Jacob Street and South Wheeling.
For Veterans Day, they are offering a free Veterans Day
breakfast from nine am to noon again, that's next Tuesday.
It's free for all men and women, veterans, non member veterans,
and first responders. They're going to be serving eggs, toast cream,

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corned beef. If you've been in the military, you know
what that is, sos or.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
If you grew up on a farm, you know what
that is.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Sausage, bacon, donuts, and coffee or all on the menu.
If you're a veteran, you are encouraged to bring your medals,
your ID tags, your hats, your photos, any memorabilia, anything
like that. And if you're going to be in there
and you want to have a few adult beverages or
I guess any beverage, everything is a twenty five cents off.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
And this is happening.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
This is happening Tuesday, November eleventh, from nine am to noon.
That's the breakfast and then all day is the special again.
That's the PAP Club located at forty four to ten
Jacob Street in South Wheeling.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well, and since they brought up Tuesday and Veterans Day,
let's put this out here now that on Tuesday show
for us. You're looking at me confused.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
Okay, I'm just waiting because I didn't know we decided anything.
So go ahead.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
You know, if you have a veteran you want us
to mention or on the air. We're going to be
on the air.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Yes, okay, so we made it official just now.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
That's right, it's a holiday, duh. Oh well okay, well, folks,
we're going to do this for you. We're still gonna
come to work. But yeah, if you have a veteran
that you want us to honor, to mention, tell their story,
you can email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. You can
text us seven zero four seven zero, start the message

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off with bloom Daddy, or of course you can go
on our social media because that's the day for it.
We really want to. Yeah, I mean highlight our local veterans.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
You know, this country wouldn't be where it is if
it wasn't for veterans.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah, and right now our country, I mean, we wouldn't have.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
The freedoms that we do without our veterans.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Yes, and we need these reminders right now as much
as possible.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, not everybody agrees with our thoughts,
but you know, that's that's the great thing about America.
We can agree to disagree. You can have your own
political thoughts, your own religious thoughts, and you're not going
to be persecuted for it, or you shouldn't be. Let's
put it that way. You shouldn't be. Depending on who
you're friends with on Facebook or social media or whatever,

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you may be persecuted. But you know, there's the freedoms
that we have are thanks to our veterans, and.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
That is the most important part of the conversation. Yeah,
whether you agree or disagree why they were there, what
they did, they also sacrifice, you know, they made the sacrifice,
so that will be happening on Tuesday. So bloom Daddy
was talking about parents, which ties in perfectly with our
one of our questions of the day since it is

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a Friday. What was the rule your parents had that
you realize now as an adult was just bizarre, just bizarre.
So put your thinking caps on, folks. You can again
text us seven zero four seven zero, call us one
eight hundred and six to fort eleven seventy, or of course,
go on our Facebook page and comment. So a weird,

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bizarre rule that your parents had? Can you think of
one off the top of your head?

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Yeah, okay, and it wasn't my parents, it was more
my mom. Okay, you want me to go ahead and
share it now?

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (13:22):
Okay, So my mom had this thing. So when we
would have dinner, obviously as a kid, the name of
a food or the sight of a food would would
kind of like you didn't want it, okay, so like,
and then every once in a while you would just
taste it and not like it. So there would be

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like I to this day, I can't stand Brussels sprouts.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
I can't look at them. They look like little brains.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
And I can eat spinach, but I can't eat cook spinach.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
And I don't like cook carrots either, unless it's in
like soup or something, you know what I mean, that's
diced up small enough that you don't even really notice it.
So my mom had this rule that if you sat
down to dinner, if you didn't like something, you had
to have a no thank you helping. So in other words,
it was like, so, you know, let's just say you

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had we had no chicken, so you had chicken maybe
mashed potatoes, and then you had green beans. Well I
didn't want the green beans because they were green, you know,
and you just didn't need them as it. Yeah, And
so the rule was you had to have which was
normally like just one spoonful, you know it wasn't a

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lot like if you in the in the green beans
scheme of things. It was probably like twelve green beans,
like little little on't you.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Just enough to say you had it?

Speaker 6 (14:42):
Just enough vegetable? Yeah, exactly. And so that no thank
you helping became standard in the house. So as I
got a little bit older and we didn't necessarily always
sit down at the table and eat, like I was
able to take my plate and go downstairs in front
of the TV and eat. The poodle that we had

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at the time would eat the Brussels sprouts. I got
credit for eating them, and and I never had them.
And they couldn't figure out why the poodle's dog the
farts smelled so bad. But all that, but I look
at I look back at it now, and I mean,
it's not like a it's not like a rule that

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if you broke it anything that you got in trouble
or anything. But I look back at it now, and
now it kind of like allows me to be a
little more open minded on maybe foods that I haven't tried.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah that didn't work for me, Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
Well no, no, no, no do do you don't eat cereal?
You don't need I mean like, again, you have the
pallate of a five year old, and there I have
a friend of mine I lov ing to death, but
he does not, like he won't eat a salad. He won't,
he won't like he lives on basically chicken wings and
pizza maybe and playing burgers. I mean, and he's worse

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than me then, I mean he'll eat other things, don't get.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Me wrong, but very simplistic.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
Oh yeah, I mean you know the one time I
remember we went somewhere and I said, hey, why don't
you try this? And he's like, there's no way I'm
trying that.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
At least he's upfront and honest. So so we're having
some fun this morning. Again. You know, what is a
bizarre rule your folks had as a kid, and now
as an adult you look back and you're like, why,
you know, what is the point? Like I always go to,
don't sit so close to the TV. It'll ruin your eyes.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
Yeah, my grandparents used to say that.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
I mean, was that true? I don't know. I mean, look,
who knows. Nowadays we have so many screens in front
of us at this point.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Probably it probably probably, yeah, it's not gonna maybe hurt
your eyes the way that they told you that it
would but it overworked.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Them or yeah, yeah, something like that. So again Collus one,
eight hundred and six two four eleven seventy. I have
a good when we get back. But my mother, God
bless you.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Mom.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
I'm not gonna rip on you, but I'm gonna call
you out. Yeah, thank god. She's probably not listening. Seven eight.
You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experienced samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy wwva. Okay, so stop and think about that.
When you get out of the shower of the bathtub

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and you are wet. She didn't want us to step
on the bath mat with wet feet. The purpose of
a bath mat is to dry your feet and not
drip water all over the floor of the bathroom. So

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we were talking about this question yesterday. For today, I'm
like I'm trying to I was thinking bad, like, what
is one of the weirdest things? And that's the one
that came from my head And it was like, where
how did this even sell button? Bush come to her mind?
The button was pushed again, So yeah, that's one of

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those weirdest ones that I can remember. So what we're
talking about is if you're just tuning in, excuse me
some of the weirdest rules that your parents had growing
up that now that you look back, you're like, uh,
what was the purpose of that? So if you want
to get in on the conversation, you call us one
eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. That's one eight

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hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Or of course you
can text us on our text line which is seven
zero four seven zero. Start the message off with bloem daddy,
just like Ed did. Ed said his parents would always
say no, uh, no, turning on the lights during thunderstorms.

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I guess possibly they would shock you. It would shock you.
There would be some sort of electrical glitch running through
the house.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
What was that one?

Speaker 5 (19:04):
No turning on the lights during a thunderstorm.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
I've heard of. Not taking a shower.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
That was my parents rule. Don't take a shower, but
don't turn on don't.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Like, don't swim in the pool during the storm.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Either, Yeah, oh the pool. Don't get in the pool
after eating. You had to wait my parents was an hour.
You had to wait an hour. That never work.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
It was all, it was all.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
It was all foody, wasn't it pretty much? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
So if you have one and you want to get
in on this, let's have some fun.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Well, probably happened at one point in time somebody that somebody.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
Knew got it cramped or or they ate.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
And then went swimming and threw up. And then she like, oh,
you can't do that.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah. Another one on our text line, this is from Sarah,
says we couldn't have food the same I'm sorry, we
couldn't have the same food twice in one day. So
she gives the example can we have roast chicken for dinner?
And her parents was you know, you had a chicken
sandwich for lunch, so you couldn't have chicken twice in

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one day.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
I mean, that's weird, weird. I'm sorry, but I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
That's not more weird than not stepping on a bath
mat with wet feet.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
That's what it's there for.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
Thank you who had that rule?

Speaker 5 (20:24):
My parent? My mother?

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Did you even say that?

Speaker 5 (20:28):
Yes, you're busy, you know that that was mine my parents.
My mother's rule was when you got out of the shower,
you got out of the tub, you couldn't step on
the bath mat with wet feet. Now as an adult,
that's the purpose of that particular item in your bathroom.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
Your mom is a bath man, so so bizarre that
just that doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Well, this is the person that raised me, folks, weird.
That might explain a lot. That might explain a lot.
Since we're talking about parents, here's a parent of the
year nominee. How do we put this one out here?
So so again, if you want to get in you
have a great story about your parents. One eight hundred
sixt to forty eleven seven rules. Yeah, a rule of

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your parents. So here's a parent of the Year nominee.
This Baltimore woman, she's accused of seeking her dog on
her daughter.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
That's not good.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's a loving mother for you. Police were called. This
happened on Sunday morning. There was a where they found
a seventeen year old girl suffering from wounds of a bite,
wounds to the body. According to the investigators, the teenager
and her forty two year old mother argued the woman

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allegedly commanded her dog to attack the girl. Both the
mother and daughter needed medical treatment and the dog is
in the custody of animal control. There are charges pending
against the mother. You don't say.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Let me let me just jump in here real quick.
The dogs in animal controls possession. It's not the dog's fault.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
He was listening to the command.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
He was listening to the command. I mean some dogs
are trained, I mean, like police dogs or whatever. You
can train your dog to be an attack dog if needed,
if you live in a bad neighborhood, if you if you,
you know whatever, you can train your dog to be
an attack dog.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
He doesn't say what type of dog.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
That doesn't, but you can almost guess. But it's not
the dog's fault. So like the dog. If they put
this dog down, that's a shame because it like the
dog was following the command that it was taught.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's not.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
I mean the bigger story is the mom six it
on a seventeen year old kid. But I mean the
thing that irritates me as well as the fact that
you're gonna potentially put a dog down for following your command, right.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, But it goes back to the mother. What parent?
What mother does that?

Speaker 6 (23:06):
She's crazy?

Speaker 5 (23:07):
I mean, listen, I understand I was a teenage girl once.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
No were you? Yeah? I was, oh are you? And
I continue note adult.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
Male, now I continue to be an adult female.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Nice?

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, yeah, just verify. Yeah, okay, I was going to
say something. I'm going to bite my tongue, but where
was I going with his? So being a teenage girls,
if you have you have not raised a teenage girl?

Speaker 6 (23:38):
Thank god?

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, and that is correct, because I was awful. Not
when I was seventeen, but between the ages of about
twelve and fourteen, I was awful my mouth, everything else.
And to this day, I will always remember my mother
saying to me, I love you because I have to.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
I got that a few times. I brought you a bed.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yeah, I brought you into this world, so I love you.
But at this point in time, I cannot stand you
because I was awful. I was awful.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Well, what's changed?

Speaker 5 (24:16):
I'm I can't even say it. I can't even I
can't even like boost myself up without laughing.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
There's a good reason, because you can't even boost yourself up.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
I'm an absolute joy and pleasure.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
Coming up in a little bit. Don't forget your chance
to win Sarah Evans tickets. It's gonna be a little
bit later in the show, so don't call right now.
And it's your last chance to win.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Yes, it's our last pair, so stay tuned for that.
We're gonna be doing that here in a little bit.
It's seven forty five. You're listening to The Bloom Diedy Experienced.
Otis and Sam here on news radio eleven seventy w
w VA seven point fifty one. The Blue Daddy Experience

(25:05):
Samon otis here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I'm
having a Monday, So we're we're good.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Oh yeah, okay, just making sure just one little.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah, one little button was pushed improperly in the last segment.
So that's where we were, but we're all taking care
of now we're back. Okay. So we were talking about parents,
weird bizarre rules. We have Joe on the phone right
from Mountsville.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Joe's from Moundsville. He's on the road in Washington, PA
as we speak, though, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
Joe, Good morning. Notice is Sam listen to you all
every morning?

Speaker 4 (25:40):
Oh? Thank you.

Speaker 6 (25:42):
I appreciate that. I try every once in a while.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
It works.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
Hey, one that my mom had was and it never
made any sense to me. I've never tried to do
this as a parent myself. Do you as I say
not as I do.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
That's a famous uh huh, that's a good one.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
Yep. So in other words, all right, yeah, don't drink alcohol.
But they're sitting there throwing one back, you know, right,
So yeah, as they're holding a beer, right, do not
drink alcohol. Yeah, I never told my kids. No, I
told him, don't drink too. You't old enough, That's what
I told him.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Or until I take you to the bar for the
first time.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
Yeah, Unfortunately I was able to do that. Oh I
did take into a bar, yeah, a couple times.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
So anyway, we got some sports to hit on.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
Okay, go ahead, Oh you want me to go first?

Speaker 5 (26:39):
Okay, So football this weekend? The uh let's see here. Well,
first of all, let's recap last night. The Broncos took
down the Raiders tend to Set in a ten to
seven rock fight from Denver to kickoff week ten.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
That was exciting.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Yeah, that sounds like a barn burner. Then, of course, elsewhere,
the Steelers square off against the Chargers on Sunday night football. Now,
this isn't a way game in Los Angeles. Pittsburgh is
in first place AFC North with a record of five
and three. Also, AFC North playing this weekend the the

(27:12):
stellar two and six Browns visit the Jets. Oh boy,
Sunday afternoon. Yeah that's gonna be while the three and
six Bengals are enjoying a bye week and following their
bye week, they will head to the Steelers a week
from Sunday. Let's hit on some college football. Week eleven

(27:33):
kicks off with the number one a High State when
they take on Perdue. Now he's in a High State fan.
I remember, forget how many years ago Perdua had our
number and a shocker I hate when we play Perdue.
They will be on the road in the of course,
tomorrow afternoon. The Buckeyes are still undefeated eight to no
following a big win over Penn State. Elsewhere, West Virginia,

(27:56):
who is three and six, hosts Colorado tomorrow at New
and Penn State battles Number two Indiana at home tomorrow at.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
New Everybody's at noon tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah Indiana, man, I honestly, what happens?

Speaker 6 (28:09):
I mean, that's they're they're they're having a great season,
but have they really played anybody?

Speaker 5 (28:15):
But I will say this, it is enjoyable and refreshing
to hear a different name being talked to about.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
Absolutely, yeah. But here's the thing. Will Indiana be able
to maintain? You know, are they the one hit wonder
for this year? Or maybe they might be U you know,
they might have the talent for a couple of years.
I mean, they weren't bad the last couple of years.
I mean they've been improving. They haven't been a cellar
dweller forever. But we'll see what happens. I mean, you
hired your you gave your coach an extension, so something

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you better hope. You better hope that he.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Lives out the expectations.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah. Penguins took down the Capitols five three at home
last night. Sidney Crosby netted a pair of power play goals.
Brian Rust also lit the lamp on the man advantage.
Just Pittsburgh's after two games skid, and they're going to
visit the Devil's tomorrow afternoon. Catch tomorrow's game and all
Penns games on our sister station, Eagle one oh seven
to five. And staying on the hockey theme, the Wheeling Naylors.

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They took on a brand new opponent for the first
time last night as they took on the expansion Greensboro
Gargoyles at First Rise in Coliseum. Wheeling cruised out to
a three to zero lead in the first half of
the match, then held on at the end for a
four to two win. Jake Smith won his EHL debut
with twenty four saves, and the Nailers got goals from
four different players. The Nailers take on the Gargoyles tonight

(29:35):
and tomorrow to round out the series. You can check
out both games on our sister station Mix ninety seven
to three. Puck drops at seven pm on both nights.
In just a quick college basketball note, the Western Virginia
Mountaineers improved the two and oh after taking down Campbell
seventy three to sixty five, and they host Lehigh on
Sunday afternoon. Why aren't there next week?

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Why aren't there more teams named the Gargoyles? I love
I really like that.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
I have no idea. I cannot answer that question. It's
just gotta I like it because it's something different.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Yeah, it's just got like a ring to it or
something speaking, but I don't know. Speaking of the Nailers,
we're gonna have your chance to win next week for
Nailers tickets for next weekends.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
They have the home series next week. Friday the fourteenth
is it's first Responders Night. I know that much. And
it's also Frosty Friday.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
So you say I know that much.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
I do know that much. I don't. They also have
some sort of a promo coming up on Saturday, but
I'm not. I didn't look that far ahead.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
No mean either, I just.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
I think that they and on Sunday. I know Sunday
is Skate with the Nailers, so you can always skate
with the Nailers after the game.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
So did you see?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (30:49):
I have not picked up the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
apple Pie fav. I know, I just didn't make it
up there. I might get there today.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
I yeah, we the listener. Oh who was it? Shoot,
I'm sorry, I can't think of her name right now. Yesterday,
right after the show, she sent me an email saying
it's at Walmart, the apple Pie, Macaroni and Cheese.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
So hey, real quick. You brought this up the other day, Alexavechkin.
We were talking hockey, so as well just stick with it.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
The Saint Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Bennington. He'sa facing backlash
after trying to steal the puck from Alexavechkin's nine hundredth goal.
Bennington can be seen on video pocketing the puck as
a Vetchkin celebrated the moustone. The other night on the ice,
a linesman approached Bennington and made him return the puck.
Avechkin broke the record for the most NHL's goals all

(31:40):
time when scored number eight ninety five the Passway and
Gretzky last season.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
So he was sticking it down as shorts well whatever.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
I mean, he's all padded up, so I mean he
could have put it anywhere. But yeah, I mean he
just wasn't his piece of history, that's all he wanted.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
Oh that's kind a shady man.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Well, I mean here's the thing. Eight ninety five N
six is the one, you know where he breaks the record,
So I mean that's the one that's probab bigger.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
But nine hundred, I mean that's a milestone that you
may never see again. But like just well, and he's
the goalie that it was, yeah, his Scordians.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, so it's kind of a milestone for him too.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
I mean I can understand like if Kirk Gibson hit
the home run in eighty eight and Dennis Secresley wanted
the ball, maybe he'd take it.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, he was part of the part of the street. Yeah,
oh shoot seven fifty eight. We uh was gonna say,
Sarah Evans, don't forget that's coming up. You're listening to
bloom Did Experience here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Se 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.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Welcome back. I guess having the microphone in front of
me helps. Sorry, it's eight six on your Friday morning.
The Blue Doddy Experience. Samon otis here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Just shaking your head at me.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
It's like, you know we're coming back. I mean, why
aren't you ready?

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Oh, because I'm.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Just sitting there twiddling your thumbs, my thumbs. I just
want to put this out there. Next Tuesday is Veterans Day,
So from nine am to noon, the PAP Club that's
located at forty four to ten Jacob Street in South Wheeling.
They are offering a free Veterans Day breakfast again from
nine to twelve men and women veterans, also available to

(33:45):
first responders. Menu is going to include eggs, toast, cream, corn,
beef sos if you're not if you're a veteran, I
don't need to explain it, sausage, bacon or donuts, coffee,
so on and so forth. If you are a veteran,
they encourage you to bring in your your ID tags,
you know, any hats, photos, memorabilia, anything, et cetera to
share with them, And that's going to be the breakfast

(34:07):
is available from nine am to noon, and if you
want to stick around for veterans all day, it is
twenty five cents off all drinks.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
So it's funny you say, so, s I can. I
can see my grandmother in the kitchen at the farmhouse
calling my grandfather. Now, she didn't say that they did
not use four letter words, but yeah, I remember she
would go blank on his shingles ready when we.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
Would when we would go over to my mom's college
roommates in Hagerstown, Maryland, and for a lot of times
on Sunday morning, we would have sos for breakfast, and
I remember being like, I don't know, six seven eight
year olds old, and I said, what's SOS stand for?
And they told you, so, well, why is it called that?

(34:51):
Well there you go.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Well, then, as a kid, you thought it was cool
because you could say like yeah, yeah, kind of yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
You get away with saying it, like you could get
away with it, but then you kind of get semi scolded. Yeah, yeah, hey,
we're not going to use that language.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
The adults would look at you like you're kind of funny,
you're pushing your luck, but you're clever about it. Yeah,
like they appreciated the effort. A huh yeah. Yeah. One
thing I want to remind you about also mentioned this yesterday,
but the Northern Lights may be visible overnight and as
many as twenty two states. It's thanks to an arriving

(35:30):
geomagnetic storm caused by a powerful solar flare. That means
millions stand a good chance of catching a glimpse of
the Aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights. The light show
is always unpredictable, but a cloud free sky and a
minimal light pollution can increase the odds of seeing them
before or even sometimes after sunrise.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
So there were two five syllable words in there, and
you got them both. What aurora, boreality, no geomagnetic, and unpredictable.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
I'm doing a little bow.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
Congratulations to local Shut.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Shut up man, you're on a roll this morning.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
So the guy said I was funny, So I figured
I might as well throw one out there.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Oh yes, you get a compliment, and then it becomes
a dig at me, the opportunity to dig at me.
That's what I'm here for.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
You know, we talked a while back about the National
Toy Museum and all the toys that were up for induction. Yeah, well,
I guess they got voted in yesterday, three of them.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Okay, wait, let me guess.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
Okay, I don't remember what they all what all the
because I threw that story away.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
Shoot, okay, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
So Trivial Pursuit got in Battleship m hmm, and slime slide.
I don't think Slime's old enough to be in.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
It came out in the eighties, which is old. Trivial
Pursuit came out in the eighties too, didn't it.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
Yeah, Yeah, early Eighties. Battleship and Trivial Pursuit have each
sold over one hundred million copies during their decades long run.
Milton Bradley's plastic Battleship edition from nineteen sixty seven transformed
the nineteen thirties pencil and paper game into a hit,
later inspiring a twenty twenty I'm Sorry, a twenty twelve
Universal Picture movie.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Yeah, it was not very good.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Well, obviously it shouldn't be. Canadian journalists Chris Haney and
Scott Abbott created Trivial Pursuit in nineteen seventy nine and
eventually selling the rights to Hasbro. Slime commercially introduced in
nineteen seventy six. I didn't know that Okay remains popular
as best store brought and homemade versions using ingredients like baking,
soda and glue.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
I just made some with my niece when she visited.
We made slime from scratch. That was an interesting experiment
gone wrong.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
So the other The other finalists were Catan, which is
a board game Connect four and Tickle meomel.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
Sock Elmo Pully perfect timing for Tickle Me Elma, remember God,
that was one of the holiday.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
I have one that's still in a box.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Of course you do.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
I didn't buy it. My mom did I have I
have a Bart where you pulled. No, she couldn't get that.
She no, she tried to get one because I was
in college when the Cabbage Patch kids came out. But
I do in box. I have the Bart Simpson. It's
probably about eighteen to twenty inches tall. And you pulled

(38:30):
the string and he says cowabunga and what's up or something?
Mar shorts And then I don't have the I have
the box, but it's not in the box. I have
the Peewee Herman, the same thing where you pull it.
I know you are, but what do I?

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Oh, yeah, we lost him this year, didn't we.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
I don't know if it was this year, but yeah,
yeahassed Away answered.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
I didn't know battleships started off.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
As pen and pencil. Yeah, yeah, I didn't either.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
I didn't know that. No, And it's and I the weird,
you know, started talking about Tickle Me Elmo. Of course,
we kicked off Christmas music last night on Mixed ninety
seven to three, so it's officially Christmas season here, folks.
I wonder what this year's it toy will be. I'm
sure Santa and missus Claus are getting ready for that.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
But I see if we can find out what it's
gonna be.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
I have you seen the toys out there? Oh? What
are they called? They're these creepy little animal looking things
with these teeth. Oh shoot, I've seen him in a
couple of places, and I'm like, what's wrong with toys Nowaday?
It looks like something that would crawl out from underneath
your bed, Like you know, you always hear about the
monster under the bed. These things look like they would

(39:40):
be the monster under the bed. But they have these
big teeth, like big toothed snarl smile thing. But then
they look like they have on a rabbit costume, kind
of like Ralphie in a Christmas story his sleeper outfit.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
Thing.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Like, I don't know what they're called, but they are
bizarre looking.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
So it looks like it's for This is for Toy Insider, Okay.
The Littlest Pet Shop spinning style boutique is popular care
Bears times Wicked two pack box set, so they're care
Bears that kind of look like the Wicked characters. Disney's
Ultimate Stitch interactive feature Plush Okay, for Real Maggie, the

(40:19):
Feed and Follow cow, which it's a cow with a
baby bottle. Lol, Surprise hairbead Salon Little Live Pets Alcis.
It looks like a dog that's got a band aid
on its paw. Okay, Plato Barbie Designer Fashion Fashion show
playset and Tomagotchi Paradise looks like a little plastic egg. Okay,

(40:45):
Umm says more. With more than fifty thousand possible characters
to nurture, kids can use the zoom lens to explore
their characters on a cellular level, then zoom out to
explore the planet K two together to play with a friend.
I bet you that's fun.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
The thing I was referring to, it's called the Loba
boo boo doll. Labba lobba boo boo, La boo boo. Okay, doll,
I don't they're they're just they're just weird looking. They're
they're little little monsters. I don't know. Maybe I'm showing
my age, but yeah, la boo boo monster dolls, oddly

(41:23):
squishy creative kits. Yeah, just no, okay. It says it
came up as trending toys.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
You know. There you have there, you have it.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
There, you have it.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
So if your kids start asking for stuff, you have
no idea. What wasn't it easier back in the day
when you could just buy Legos and Lincoln logs and a.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
Talk a truck, yeah and speaking spell and yeah, you
lost your train of thought, didn't you.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Now, I was trying to think what the hell those
things were called the Erector set. We're like, oh, yeah,
you know, so yep, race cars, hot wheels, match box box.
You know, I've been seeing like hot Wheels has been
you never really saw them advertise a lot, but like
I've been seeing a lot of advertisements for hot Wheels.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
There's a lot of regeneration of eighties toys right now.
Strawberry Shortcake, my Little Pony, Rainbow Bright for the girls stuff. Anyways, Yeah,
there's a lot of regurgitation happening, if you will. Eight fifteen.
Just a reminder, we've got.

Speaker 6 (42:27):
Our last Paris there Evans tickets coming up shortly.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Shortly, shortly, shortly. But when we get back, because it
is the holiday season, we're gonna be talking to Lieutenant
Lawrence of the Salvation Army because the bells, the bells,
they are a coming it's eight sixteen here at the
Bloomdaddy Experienced, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back.

(42:55):
It's eight twenty the bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seven WWVA. As I mentioned earlier, you know,
the Christmas music launched on our sister station, Mixed ninety
seven point three. So for me and here at the stations,
it's kind of like our official kickoff to the holiday season.
One thing though, when it comes to the holiday season season,

(43:16):
it's not just about what you receive. You know, this
time of year is also about what you give. So
joining me now in the studio to talk about giving
and what is currently needed here in our area. Please
welcome Lieutenant John Lawrence of the Salvation Armony. Thank you
so much for coming in this morning.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
We're glad to be here.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
So right now the weather is starting to drop, the
red kettles are going to be coming. So when are
the red kettles going to be hitting our stores? Or
do you need volunteers?

Speaker 7 (43:48):
All of that, we do need volunteers. You can go
to register toaring dot com and you can sign up
to ring the bell at each of our locations at
Ohio Marshall Wetsteller and we'd be glad to have you
come out. You could sign up for either a two
hour time period or up to eight hour time period.

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A lot of people are grouping together with either of
their businesses or civic groups. We also have people like
aunor societies coming out. We've had football teams come out.
We've had the sheriff department, the police department to have
stepped up and they rig for us. And there are
so many wonderful people that come out and help us.

(44:29):
And this year we're running a little bit behind what
we need as far as the number of volunteers. So
if you could call three oh four two three three
four four zero zero, or simply go to register toering
dot com and you can sign up for a time
slot to step up and rink. If you ring for
two hours, that'll help feed a family of four. If

(44:50):
you read for eight hours, say you maybe family members,
our friends get together. You could literally help somebody pay
their heat bill and that way they they warped this winter.
So things of that nature go directly to help other people,
and especially right now with the food insecurity, it's been
a growing issue over the last several years with the

(45:12):
price of food going up, and right now there's somebody
who have relied upon that benefits. We're not talking about
just the people that you generally think of, but we're
also thinking about people like sedar citizens who are odd,
fixed incomes, disabled people, fixed incubs rely upon those staff

(45:33):
benefits to get through the month. And we're seeing literally
quadruple the number of people coming in asking for food
assistans this year as compared to previous years.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
I was going to ask, what is the largest need
right now? The biggest request that the Salvation Army is
facing along with the food.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
Along with the food, it's utility assistants and rent assistance.
A lot of people know that over the last decade,
the rental prices here in the Upper Ohio Valley have
soared and definitely outpaced the economy, and as a result,
people are getting it's spending less and less money they

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have available to pay utilities, less and less money they
have to buy food, and less and less money they
have just to get back and forth to work, clothe
their kids. And so this year is like any other
year we've had recently, with the fact that people are
coming to us so great numbers with food assistants and
other things that we really need the community to step up,

(46:38):
come out and give it their time either rigular the
bell or with our Agel tree. This year, we have
close to six hundred kids on our Agel Tree this year.
Those are kids that go from Ohio Marshall, Westell, Tyler Counties.
These are your neighbors children, children who sit next to
your kids at school and we're helping the have something

(47:03):
special that Christmas barty, whether there's toys, clothing, needed items
and also that special thing that have put that smile
that kids face Christmas body. And so you could also
call three or four two three three four four zero
zero to adopt a child. We have an updated numbers,
but the last update we still had three hundred and

(47:24):
twenty kids that need it adopted.

Speaker 6 (47:26):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (47:27):
Wow, that's a staggering number. And that's that's here in
our area here.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
In Ohio Marshall, Wessel, Tyler Counties.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
And so say say you're say you're a business an
organization and you want to have a child off of
the Angel Tree, do you have locations arranged for the
Angel trees yet? Or you're still you can still have
an angel tree at a location.

Speaker 7 (47:52):
Most of our locations are already set okay. We we
set up angel tree locations at Walmart's and we all
we'll have one of it the sports Complex, okay. And
then others do toy drives for us, like the Casino
do is a toy drive every year for us.

Speaker 6 (48:08):
And so things of that nature.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
But it's those who call it. They we have people
who adopt anywhere from one. Last year, Wheelie University stepped
up and did one hundred and fourteen agels. We're waiting
this year. They're getting their numbers together. They're releasing it
across their tire capus and so we're waiting for their
numbers to come in. They are going to help again

(48:32):
this year, but we are not sure what number yet.
But it's people like that that step up. We put
out angels on the trees and Walmarts and the Sports
Complex and people take off those. Sometimes they come back,
sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're forgotten to angels and so,
but we have people call it and we provide for

(48:55):
them the angels and those adopted angels generally have a
greater number coming back. Last year for second day of distribution,
we were shopping and buying stuff for angels that have been.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
Forgotten well and for a lot of people listening right now.
So say they're also on a fixed income and they think,
you know, I want to pull off the angel tree,
but they can't afford to do it. Volunteering your time
as a bell ringer for the Red Kettles is just
as beneficial and just as important as spending a dollar.

(49:29):
To donate your time is just as pression and useful
for you too.

Speaker 7 (49:34):
Absolutely, if you can step up and ring the bell
for us, We've got slots open starting the first day
we're ringing, which will be November fifteenth, and from all
the way through December twenty fourth. You could go vid
at volunteer to rig. We really need people to step
up those first three weekends because that really sets the

(49:55):
pace of what we're doing going forward.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
But also if you.

Speaker 7 (49:59):
Rig for it tire day we are having a Red
Kettle kickoff Lutchett on November the twelfth. iHeartRadio is one
of our sponsors for it, and we have Rid Baker
from the Athletic Director from WVU at Toty Coritti, the
voice a WVU that was speaking at it it's at
the White Palace there Willie Park. The doors open at

(50:22):
eleven thirty. If you ring the bell for a full day,
you could come into that for free. If you step
up and take at least five agels, you're allowed to
come there for free. And we really want to pack
the house absolutely.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
And I'll share all of your information on our Facebook
page so people can follow along and get in contact
with you. Lieutenant John Laurence, thank you so much this morning.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
Thank you all.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
We got to jump to a quick break. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA.

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This is a story that may affect you right now
well or very possibly will affect you in the future.
New survey twelve hundred adults in the United States found
seven to ten family caregivers don't want their aging parents
to live with them. And even though most adults don't
want their aging parents to live with them, many still
find themselves in that situation because for a lot of families,

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it boils down to cost. Nearly half of Americans provides
financial support for their aging parents.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Or in laws.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Now you couple that with the fact that a lot
of these parents are also providing financial support for their
adult children or teenage children, and you have what you
call these Sandwich generation, raising children while caring for aging parents,
and that is a tough position to be in. Ron
Glasgow is a financial strategist heads up Glasgow Investment Solutions.

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He started his financial services career in two thousand and
one after proudly serving our country in the Marine Corps. Ron,
first of all, thank you for your service.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Oh, thank you very much. Like I always say, man,
it is trip what you're doing with vets. I got
a lot more out of the core than the core
got out of me as I did deploy. But you know, sir,
proudly and thank you so much for what you're doing
for our vets that really really needed.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Absolutely, I mean I hold vet's in the highest regard.
You also know firsthand what I'm talking about here when
I talk about the Sandwich generation, because you found yourself
in the same position, did you not?

Speaker 4 (52:20):
I did a couple of times actually, So you know,
my dad was diagnosed with lafoma and lung cancer in
two thousand and nine and that ultimately changed the course
of my entire career to assist with that then just
this last June, unfortunately my mom passed after a long
about with dementia. So that, you know, created a lot
of a lot of hardship for the family. We were
very lucky to be plan in advance.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
However, well, your financial strategist, and that's what I want
to get to here, because a lot of times these
parents aren't able to put enough of their own retirement
because of all the people they're helping out financially. So
if you're helping out your kids, you're helping out your parents.
This is a vicious cycle, ron because pretty soon you're
gonna need help yourself as time goes on.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
It's absolutely the case. And the thing I tell everybody
is you've got to have those tough conversations with your
parents first. And look, my dad was born in nineteen
thirty eight, my mom was born in nineteen forty. They
were part of the generation that just flat out didn't complain.
I can still hear my dad saying, don't worry about
a boy. That was his answer when I would try
to ask them about long term care and things of

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that nature. You've got to push through that, however, and
really find out what their wishes are. I think a
lot of people, including myself, think that they want their
parents want to stay out of a home, or they
wanted to live with them, and it's really not the case.
I was fighting tooth and nail to get my mom
to come in love with me when she was diagnosed dementia.
It turns out it was a much better for her

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and her wishes to go and be in an independent
living and then assistant living facility where she'd be around
people or age and still interact. So having those tough
conversations is the first step before you can get into
the money.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Well, okay, go ahead. I'm sorry, didn't mean to cut
you off.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
No, No, that's kind of the point I was making there.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Okay, Well, let me ask you this. I mean, how
do you know when it's time to put your oxygen
mask on?

Speaker 3 (54:04):
First?

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Yeah, I mean you want to do that as soon
as you start seeing you know, as soon as you
start seeing aging. I mean, I'm forty nine years old,
I'm ex surely healthy, and I have all my paperwork
in place, as is my wife. So I can't tell
you how important it is to get the trust and
the will. And that's for your possessions, but for your
own personal health. It's so important to get that financial
power of attorney, that healthcare power of attorney, and that

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living will. These things are very very important to carry
out your wishes. For example, my mother, you know, dementia
is the underlying cause, but no one really dies of dementia.
She had a collection. She fell and punctured alung. It
was very much in her wishes not to be resuscitated,
as harsh as that was for the family, and as
much as we wanted to see her revived, it was

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her wishes not to. The medical community is trained to
save lives no matter what. So without that paperwork, we
would have ultimately extended her life against her wishes and
should have had a poor quality of life from that
point until the ultimate passing. Get your paperwork in place early.
It's never too soon, all right.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
What about saving? I mean, you're a financial strategist. How
I'm sure you hear this from people all the time, Ron,
How the hell am I supposed to save money when
I am financially supporting my aging parents and I've also
got kids that need help.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Yes, it's important to Again, once you have those conversations
about what the wishes are, then you've just got to
you got to lift the skirts, so to speak, and
really look at what the finances are. How much money
do your parents have. Do they have the money to
support themselves? What's that draw down rate? These aren't complex
financial calculations, you know. Anybody with a spiral notebook and

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a pencil and a calculator they kind of draft it out.
Or if you need help, you come to a professional
like me. But you really want to see one to
your parents take care of themselves financially, whether that's living
with you, whether that's in some kind of institution. That's
the first step. When it comes to adult children. And
I hate to be harsh here, you get to have
some hard heart talks. They're adult children. You shouldn't be

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spending a whole lot of money on them. Now. We
all want to help people when they're down. We all
want to help people get to that next level. But
if it's it's taking care of your adult children that
is robbing you of your retirement, you really need to
set them on a different path. And that's just real talk.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Well, when you talk, you look at the studies ron
it shows tens of millions of parents have found themselves
stuck in the Sandwich generation. So if tens of millions
are stuck in this in the middle, what's that mean
for the future.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
It's tough. It's a very bleak a very bleak Outlook.
You know, I know fifty percent of people out there
don't have a retirement account. People really don't realize what
their finances are and how they're going to take care
of themselves tomorrow. All the time I see people who
confuse pensions with four to one k's, you know, two
very different things. The picture is gonna pay you the
rest of your life. A four to one K is

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only gonna pay you at Chilsea exhausted, and that's based
largely on what you put into it. Also, that's a
taxable account, so whatever comes out, you're gonna lose thirty
to forty percent. So you really need to sit down
and start penciling these things out. Like I said, you
don't need to be an Excel guru. If you have
a high school education, you should be able to do
a basic framework of what is going to cost to

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live in the future. Once you have that, and you're
gonna see that you're woefully short. You've got to get
started the time to get started saving was yesterday. Time
is the most important factor when it comes to doing this,
because money compounds. I think Albert Einstein said it best
man's greatest invention is compounding interest. Get that money working
for you as soon as possible. If that's fifty bucks
a month, it's fifty bucks a month, but get it started.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Yeah. And the other thing I saw too, which was incredible.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
I think all of us incur eighty percent of our
lifetime medical costs in the final two years of life.
So you know, if you don't save properly, you know,
you have a lot of issues. That's that's going to
hit hard at the very end. And if you're taking
care of parents, obviously that's going to fall on you.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Yeah, it really is, you know, and it's a shame.
But you know, I see even very well to do
families that have to go into what's called the medical
cage spin down, meaning you basically bankrupt your parents in
order for the state to step in and to provide
some kind of support. And that's an awful thing. And
we say, no, it's never going to happen to me.
And look, those medical expenses become enormous at the end

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so when you're doing heavy those rough talks, you want
to look at things like long term care insurance. That's
largely gone by the wayside, the old school policies that
were really comprehensive because the insurance companies realize they cost
so much. But you can get some other hybrid policies.
For example, my wife and I have a policy that
if I die, she gets two hundred fifty thousand dollars. However,
if I need long term care support, I could tap

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that two fifty for that need. So there are other
things you can do. But again, everything starts with planning.
If you wait until somebody's sick, it's just too late.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
All right, Ron, thanks for the insight, Yeah sir, thank
you very much.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
All right, Ron Glasgow Financial Strategist, Heads Up, Glasgow Investment Solutions.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
Hey twenty nine on your Friday, The Blundaddy Experience, OTIS
and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. All right, you
gotta give a shout out, I guess if you will.
So there's a new Guinness record that's been set by
a Miami couple. Names are Lyle and eleanor Gittens. Gittens,

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I'm like kittens, Okay, So here's what it's for. Lyle
is one hundred and eight Eleanor is one hundred and seven.
They received the world record titles as the as both
the oldest living married couple and the oldest married couple

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ever by aggregate age. The Miami residents celebrated their eighty
third wedding anniversary that happened earlier this year in June.
They married on June fourth, nineteen forty two. They met
a students at Clark Atlanta University in nineteen forty, where

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Lyle played basketball and was later inducted into the Hall
of Fame. Their marriage faced early challenges when Lyle was
deployed to Italy with the ninety second Infantry Division during
World War Two while Eleanor was pregnant with their first child.
The couple raised three children, son's son Lyle Rogers, and
daughters Angela and Igna Okay Poor Igne. Eleanor earned a

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doctorate from Fordham University at the age of sixty nine.
When asked about their secret, Eleanor said, we love each
other and Lyle added, I love my wife. They previously
shared evening Martini's, but now enjoy a Medello beer at lunch.

Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
Nice listen. I can't imagine living eighty three years. Doon'e
being married for eighty three years.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Nikes, man, just to tolerate one person for that many years.

Speaker 6 (01:00:56):
You and I have worked together for two years, and
I can't tolerate you for that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
Oh shoot, shoot, we do not end the show with
martiniz but maybe that's uh, maybe we should, maybe we
should do you remember you remember the sandwich the sandwich criminal,
the guy in d C.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
A guy that threw the sandwich at the.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Yes, yes, Well he is now at the federal Agent.
He has now been acquitted of the charges. The not
guilty verdict for Sean Dunn came Thursday after prosecutors earlier
failed to get a federal grand journey jury to indict
John John Done for the incident that happened on the

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streets of DC in August. During the trial, the border
patrol officer testified that the sub exploded all over his
chest after Done chucked it at him while yelling fascists. However,
the defense was apparently successful, making the argument that the
sub equated to a child throwing a stuffed animal at bedtime.

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My question is that I have yet to see it.
What type of sub Was it was it?

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
It wasn't meatball?

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
Was it tuna? Was it meatball?

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
That something with marin aero sauce would suck?

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
Yeah? That that dictates the weight we're Italian dressing, the
weight or the girth, and how much damage it could
have caused. I knew you'd love that word. You'd love it.

Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
So this let me. There's a story out there that
I like. I'm getting away from your story.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
This this takes guts, and I think it's hysterical. There's
a southern California police officer that got a surprise when
he pulled for a driver for a traffic violation. This
happened in Fullerton, and when the officer approached the vehicle
and asked for like since registration, the driver handed him
a get out of jail free card for the board

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game Monopoly.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
No shut up, come on.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
The officer had a good laugh but let the driver dough.
Though he appreciated the creativity, it was not a legal defense.
He wrote a citation. Listen, if I'm the cop, I
can't write a citation for this. I can't do it.
I'm sorry. I mean, now, if he's doing like one
hundred and a fifty mile an hour zone. I can
write the violation. I mean, I'll give him a break.

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
Don't be a narc.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
Yeah, and and but he later posted a photo of
the exchange on social media.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
That's pretty good. That's funny, that's good.

Speaker 6 (01:03:37):
Like, that's something I wish that I wish I would
have thought of, because like, for as many times as
I've been pulled over and for as many tickets as I've.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Gotten, well, okay, so that this leaves in leads in
perfectly to a story I heard last night talking about driving.
So a friend of mine was talking last night in
an event and was telling the story about this this
car that he was slowing down in the passenger lane
to let a car in the right hand lane merge

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in front of him because there was a I believe
it was like a little construction area coming up on
the right hand side of the highway. So this, this
friend of mine, was giving time for this person to
merge over to create that space for the workers. This person,
I guess got in front of him and break checking

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and then just absolutely took off like a bat out
of you nowhere. So this tells a story. And then
says and then I decided to pick up my phone
and made a phone call and said, hello, Shannon, I
forget the name, just wanted to let you know that
you're driving was inappropriate, and gave this message. Well, Shannon

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was a realtor with her sign on the side of
her car.

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
Yes, So he called and gave her a little bit
what for. Then decided and found a meme, found a
meme and texted a meme too. And again this person's
name was not Shannon. I can't remember the name. And
this actually was not around here. This was up in
like the Akron Canton area where it happened. And I thought,
as he was telling this story, I thought, man, I

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wish I would have thought of that. That is quick
thinking on your feet.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:23):
I thought it was clever. Yeah, I thought it was clever.
I will say, though, I think the Monopoly get out
of Jail Free cards. I think that like who carries
around to get out of jail free card?

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
I might go to a broad sale and buy a
Monopoly game just so I have extra get out of
jail Free cards and stick that just stick them in
my wallet or stick them in the car, like I'll
just paper clip them to my registration.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Oh shoot, that's a great back of a business card
for a bondsman.

Speaker 6 (01:05:55):
M yeah, well you gotta watch for copyright things, though
you have to change it up a little. Yeah, probably
to change it up just a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Put your face instead of the monopoly man's face. Does
he have a name the monopoly man?

Speaker 6 (01:06:05):
He does?

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
It's not monopoly Man. It's probably like Ted Ernie, or
would you say Ernie? Hold on, it's Lyle. It's like okay,
So while he's looking at that, I'll let you know
about a deal McDonald's is having.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
They have the monopoly game going on.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
Oh they all say that tied in perfectly. Didn't even
mean to.

Speaker 6 (01:06:26):
His name is Milburn Pennybag.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
Milburn Milburn okay.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
Milk or rich uncle penny Bags or simply mister Monopoly okay.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
McDonald's has added two new extra value meals to its menu.
The five dollars sausage egg cheese mcgriddle's meal includes breakfast sandwich,
hash browns, and a small coffee I'm hungry. The eight
dollars ten piece chicken McNuggets meal features I guess this
the ten chicken McNuggets, medium fries and a medium fountain coke.
So that's all going on at McDonald's. Let's talk about

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stupid peep. Well, we haven't talked about stupid people in
a while.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
You want to talk, let's just no, let's say that one, okay,
because I mean, if we're gonna give away Sarah Evans tickets,
we probably need just something real, short and quick. And
if you live in Weirton, just keep in mind that
some of you will be out water without water this weekend.
Cruise planning to install a new water valve on Saturday.
As a result, water service will be out for residents

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along Sinclair Avenue as well as Front Heights and Swartz Streets.
So if you if you are in Weirton, it's not Schwartz, No,
it's Swartz. Maybe that's W A. R.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
T Z thinking may the Schwartz be with you. Yeah,
Spaceball movie another one of your absolute favorites.

Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
I hate that movie, he said, I liked it. Yesterday
when Roger Hort came in and we said, I said
John co Coctas and he got it. He knew I
was talking about Fletch.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
Oh yeah. One eight hundred and six two four eleven
seventy one more Winner for the week. Our last pair.
Sarah Evans one, eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy.
All right, we're going Big Caller number twenty five, Big
Boy Caller number twenty five, Sarah Evans one, eight hundred

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sixty two four eleven seventy. Everybody, have a wonderful weekend.
I am looking forward to it. We will be back
on Monday.