The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 12, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:17):
WWVA starts now the bloom Daddy Experience he gets seven
oh six on news radio eleven seventy. Every day I
get text from buddies going back and forth on opposite
ends of the political spectrum. Now, I don't have anybodies
who are Democrats liberals who are far far left. And
this buddy that I have is one of the most
intelligent people I've ever met in my life. And he's

(00:38):
got common sense, which is a rarity in the Democrat Party.
But this is what he texts me, Why don't you
take the hard line when it comes to Trump? This
is at three point fifty nine. He knows I'm doing
a show and I'm sitting here talking to you, jabbing
back at him, And I said, in what way, this
guy's done more good in nine months and Joe Biden
did in four blankety blank years. He's an a all

(00:59):
at times, I agree, but he's cleaning this crap hole
up to which he responds, Trump's supporters completely suspend their beliefs, values, principles,
and virtues when it comes to Trump. Dude just gets
a pass. So it's perfect timing because I was planning
on talking to you about this anyway, because all I
hear from people are, you know, Trump hasn't done anything.

(01:21):
You know, I'm still paying the same for prices, and
grocery prices haven't gone down, and blah blah blah. Let's forget.
Let's not forget. You don't turn around four years and
nine months. You don't. If you are a realistic human being,
it doesn't just, you know, snap of the fingers all
of a sudden, your prices drop when they've been at

(01:42):
a certain rate for four years. But I want you
to just consume what I'm about to tell you here
for a second. I took a look at some of
the top economists. The rate of inflation has come down
dramatically from its peak. When was its peak twenty twenty two.
Joe Biden, Tariff's gonna cause only a one time price bump,

(02:02):
but the level of most prices has continued drifting upward
for years. So that's going to result in a lot
of increases for a lot of things that you need,
a lot of your necessities. Again, you're not going to
turn around four years of momentum in nine months. Now.
The problem with Trump right now is you can't convince
people that your policies are working if you're paying, say,

(02:25):
twenty percent more for a cup of coffee, or as
my buddy says, I go to the grocery store, I
do the shopping, all the prices are up, and the
GOP suddenly finds itself in the same hole that Democrats
have been struggling to climb out of for years, and
that is, you know, the economy. It's going to get
you one way or another. But the economy in a
lot of ways is fine. You take a look at growth,

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it's good. Inflation is a fraction of what it was.
The labor market for now. Even the thing that brought
down Democrats in twenty twenty four hasn't gotten better since,
and that is grocery prices. They're up twenty nine point
two percent since February of twenty twenty twenty twenty. Rent

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your your rent about the same, energy prices up forty percent,
and as I mentioned, coffee costs, I think twenty percent
more than it did a year ago. What did Trump
promise that grocery prices would go down? But yet ground
beef fifteen percent more. So he made these promises and
people are going, Okay, what's the deal here? But in

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a lot of other areas things have improved very quickly.
But again, it's been nine months. We have historically low unemployment.
Do you fill up your truck or vehicle today? Gas
prices lower than they've been in years, stock market hitting
new highs. So why aren't people happy? Because they're being

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lied to by the media. Think about it. You never
hear any good stuff about Trump if you watch MSNBC, CNN, NBC,
CBS down the line. Control the message, you control the population.
It used to be the media versus the establishment. They
were the government Watchdoug. Now it's the media versus you

(04:13):
mind control. It's now the government lapdog. A twenty twenty
study this is done by the Media Research Center Washington Examiner,
ninety two percent of mainstream media coverage of Trump negative,
the most hostile coverage of any modern president ninety two percent.
So all these liberal outlets are just pounding the population

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negative negative, negative, negative. When it comes to Trump no positives,
and there are plenty of positives, but they never hear
about it. Report from the Pew Research Center. First two
months of Biden's term, nearly two thirds of stories focused
on his policy agenda rather than his character. This guy's
incredibly flawed. It's one of the most racist presidents to

(04:58):
ever hold the office. Go look his history. But who
is the racist Trump? Trump? Trump's press time over a
thousand questions answered in his first month of this second term.
Biden's press time, You tell me you know the answer
to that. Skip dozens of interviews, including ones during the

(05:22):
Super Bowl. Major press briefings, didn't do them. Hid media
outlets dedicated forty six minutes to Trump's January sixth pardons,
which I have said countless times. I totally disagreed with him,
totally disagreed. You attacked a police officer, you destroyed property
at the Capitol. You should not have been pardoned. I

(05:43):
think it's the biggest mistake of his presidency. Forty six
minutes say dedicated to that. Do you see who Joe
Biden pardoned? Everybody and his family. It's one of the
most crooked political families in history. Three minutes of coverage.
It's of coverage to Biden's preemptive family pardons forty six

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minutes to Trump's January sixth partons. By the way, Trump's
second term gas prices have dropped egg prices down sharply. Okay,
well the bird flews over. Oh, I mean still counts
one way or another. The piece deal between Rwanda and
the Congo broken, the ceasefire agreement in Africa, Israel Hamas conflict,

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I mean, new trade partnerships, manufacturing expansion. You're not going
to hear any of it unless you listen here or
you watch Fox. The media has brainwashed control the message,
you control the people. Do I wish Trump was more presidential? Yes?

(06:48):
Do I wish he was more civil? Absolutely? I've never
given him a pass on his behavior. I think he
looks He acts like a jackass most of the time.
Like name in a stadium in Washington, DC after him,
that's a joke. People don't care. They want their grocery
prices down. They don't care if it's Trump stadium. It's
stuff like that where I sit here and I cringe

(07:09):
and I go, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Come on, focus, focus on what matters your ego? Does
not matter. It doesn't so yeah, that stuff does tick
me off. With that said, I could never vote for
a Democrat today ever, whose party is all about open borders, freebies,

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defund the police, controlling the narrative, controlling freedom of speech.
Go back and look at the social media companies under
Biden who were told they couldn't post certain things that
were the anti COVID message or the other side, men
competing against women, embracing hamas in Palestine. This party is nuts,

(08:01):
it's unhinged, and thank God's moderate Democrats stepped up over
this government shutdown. They need to seize backpower. Ma'am Donnie,
you know that guy in New York City, his incoming
aid was the chief architect, architect of overhauling the NYPD.

(08:24):
ELI Biscard Church, Ivy League educated California native, political newcomer,
all about the Democratic Socialists of America. The Department of
Community Safety proposal that ma'am Donnie has is all this
guy's replace police officers with mental health professionals to deal
with non life threatening emergencies. Talk to any police officer,

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You'll get a lot of calls that you think are
non life threatening emergencies that end up being life threatening emergencies.
Didn't we already go down this road with the whole
defund the police thing. We're going to put social workers
out there. They tried that in different cities, didn't work.
But yet here we go in New York City. By
the way, this new department's going to cost about one
point one billion. And while I'm on it, the reason

(09:10):
that that guy is in power in New York City
is because of the most dangerous voting block in America
as of right now, women, young women. About two thirds
of voters under forty five, including eighty four percent of
women age eighteen to twenty nine, voted for that guy.
Voted for that guy. Sixty five percent of women age

(09:31):
thirty to forty five, young, white, spoiled, purple haired women
are the most dangerous voting block in America. They don't
know what they're doing. They're emotional. Every decisions driven by emotion,
and they're nuts and mommy and daddy won't reel them in. Unbelievable.

(09:54):
You're going to elect a Muslim in America with these women.
Don't understand what a lot is. People don't understand Islam
is not a religion. It is a political belief system
that controls every aspect of their lives. What he believes
in is not conducive to America. It's not conducive to
Western ways. And by the way, they'd be walking five

(10:16):
feet behind them wearing a blanket over their head. But hey,
let's love this guy. Let's vote he men the dumbest,
most dangerous voting block in America. Eighteen to twenty nine,
White spoiled.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Women sew on your Wednesday the blim Dotty Experienced samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva Otis. There was a
lot in that monologue to open the show. He had
on a lot of things. But you know what, We're
going to save reactions to that to the eight o'clock hour.

(10:54):
And here's why. Because it's Wednesday, so we've got Politics Unleashed.
Elgin is traveling for work, so Tony is on his
own today, folks. So a lot of things that bloom
Daddy hit in that segment. I'm we want to hit
on in Politics Unleashed. So instead of going into that

(11:17):
right now, we're gonna save.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
That to the eight o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
How's that sound, Otis?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think that sounds sure?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I wouldn't wanna, you know, overkill basically too much,
because there's plenty to cover in that I want to
hit on some top headlines here for the area. A
dispensary in Winnersville is damaged after a car crashed into
the business. The incident happened yesterday at Sunnyside Dispensary. Authorities

(11:46):
say their driver lost control and slammed into one of
the building's entryways. No one was hurt and the building
sustained only minor damage. Interesting not exactly where you want
to get into an accident, then after what they sell there.
A public hearing is being held today to discuss a
proposed sales tax in Wellsburg. The hearing will revolve around

(12:09):
the city's application for participation in West Virginia's home rule program,
which would allow it to assess a one percent sales tax.
The program would also allow the city to issue immediate
citations for public nuisances. If approved, the sales tax would
go into effect on July first of next year, and

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then work is set to begin next year on the
new John Marshall High School Aquatic Center. The Marshall County
Board of Education approved a bid of over thirty seven
million dollars by Cooliani Construction to build the facility on
the campus grounds. Construction is expected to begin on January
first and last about two years. The center will feature

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a competition swimming pool, a warm up pool, track, weight room,
multipurpose room, concessions, and two classrooms. That's one heck of
a facility they're getting down there at John Marshall. Holy cow,
that's pretty big. And then for those out there with infants,
there is a statewide recall alert we want to let

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you know about. The West Virginia Department of Health is
alerting parents about a voluntary recall of certain lots of
now this is the brand by Heart Powdered Infant formula.
The recall follows a multi state outbreak of infant bachelism,
with thirteen cases reported across ten states. No cases have

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been reported in West Virginia so far. Parents should stop
using any recalled formula immediately and check the FDA recall
web page for specific lot numbers and disposal instructions. Again,
the brand is called by Heart Powdered Infant Formula, So
if you have any of that in your kitchen or

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in your and it's check things and then go, you know,
check the website and see if the lot numbers fall
within the recall.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Window.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Also, nationally, West Virginia is in the news. So there
is a mother who has filed to the Supreme Court
in response to the West Virginia statewide law saying that

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boys cannot participate in women's sports. It is possibly going
to the Supreme Court. The case is called West Virginia
versus b p J. Now, this filed response is on
behalf of the child in that case, which is a
fifteen year old transgender student at Bridgeport High School in
Harrison County. This child was barred from competing on the

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girl's track because of the West Virginia bill, which says
students must compete on the team gender of their gender.
It's pretty simple. I cannot believe we are still having
this conversation. I cannot believe that this has to go
to the Supreme Court to say a boy's a boy,

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a girl's a girl. I'm not going to quote the
movie from Kindergarten Cop. We all know the line. What
really caught caught my attention. In this statement by the
mother of the child in question, the fifteen year old
says that BPJ which stands for Becky Pepper. Jackson says

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that the mother says, is a teenage girl from West
Virginia who is bright and kind, she makes straight a's
and loves math and science. Well, I think the science
teachers at her junior high needs to reevaluate their teaching

(16:08):
method because last time I checked, scientifically, boys cannot become
girls and girls cannot become boys. It's very simple, ladies
and gentlemen, It's very simple. But we are still having
this argument. We are still having this conversation. And this

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times back into one of the points that bloom Daddy
made earlier about Democrats. This is another one of the things,
the cultural issues that the Democrats have forced upon the
American people, and the American people have said, no, we
don't want this, we don't want this another one of

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their forced ideologies that is taking down their party. But
this is happening right here in West Virginia, folks, happening
right here in West Virginia. Science is science, plain and simple.
Seven twenty eight The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, yesterday he was stuck in an airport. Today he's
not Jim or an Acy, former Congressman Bloomdaddy Show political
analyst Jim, thanks for jumping on here on a Tuesday.
How bad was it at the airport?

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Well, it was bad, And again, bloom Daddy, what's interesting
is I changed my trip. I was originally supposed to
be on the West coast, and I said I do
not want to fly back through Chicago, so I went
on another business trip down to Florida and figuring that
Fort Myers would not have been a problem, and it
was just as bad. Every airline going into a major

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city was backed up, and of course for me to
get back to Cleveland because of all the other delays
and problems, I got caught up into two so three
and a half hour delay. But at least I got back.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, I got caught up in some things that and
I didn't send you topics, so we're winging it, Jim.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
That's fine, okay. By the way, before we start, I
do want to sincerely thank all the veterans listening to
your show. I mean, they are why we are the
Land of the Free and home of the brave, and
I sincerely thank him.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Totally agree all right, this government shutdown eight Democrats, moderates
breaking from the party. You've got in fighting, You've got
Democrats saying Chuck Schumer should be relieved of duties. Are
you shocked? Because if Democrats, if there's one thing they
do much better than Republicans, they never air their dirty laundry.
They stick together Republicans, it's there for everybody to see.

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So are you shocked they're airing their dirty laundry right now?

Speaker 5 (18:40):
I am a little shocked. I'm surprised, But I got
to tell you, after serving in Washington for so many years,
I keep thinking there's something in the background to all
of this, because normally these kind of things don't happen
unless there's some pulling out there, unless there's something that reflected, hey,
this is a good idea. And there are some skeptics,

(19:02):
including myself, that believe that Chuck Schumer was okay with this,
but he had to vote no because if he votes yes,
he would be crucified. He gets crucified anyway. But then again,
remember none of this matters until we get thirty to
sixty days from the election, which is a year off,
and people will forget about some of this stuff too.

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So you got to put all that together, in my opinion,
and make a decision and say there must have been
something that made this happen, because these kind of things
normally would not happen.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
All right, let's shop over to ma'am. Donnie in New York,
his top incoming aid was the chief architect of this
radical proposal overhauling the NYPD. They're back to, let's bring
in social workers to handle a lot of stuff that
cops handle, which was already pushed, was already somewhat tried,
will not work. But more than that, when you take

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a look at who got him elected in New York City,
he won about two thirds of voters under forty five,
including eighty four percent of women aged eighteen to twenty nine,
and most of those women white from wealthy families. The
purple hair that voting block terrifies me, Jim, because I

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think they are emotional about everything, caught up. They're indoctrinated,
they're brainwashed. I don't think they have a grasp of
what the real world is all about. Just wanted to
get your thoughts on eighty four percent of women age
eighteen to twenty nine going for this guy.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Well, what's interesting is you just talked about a turnout model.
And that turnout model, of course, occurred not in New York,
it occurred across the country. A lot of cities and
communities actually lost good Republican leaders because young female voters
who you just explained did turn out. City of Wadsworth,

(20:58):
we elected a Woman's a woman who says she's not
a woman and not a man, she's a person and
doesn't believe in saluting the flag or pledge and allegiance.
She doesn't believe in prayer before council meetings. So there
was a turnout across the country in that age group,
but also a large turnout in New York City. And

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that's what causes many times people to get elected that
were shocked get elected. It's all about turnout. And let's
face it, Republicans need to pay attention to what just happened,
especially in the next election coming up.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah. Well, in my opinion, I mean, that voting block
scares the hell out. I mean because that voting blocks sheep.
They are sheep. You know, they're controlled by the media.
They don't think of the ramifications of their actions. And
if they're going to be turning out in force, we've
got problems We've got serious problems.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Well, I think you just you just talked about the
biggest problem Republicans will have in the twenty twenty sixth
election is making sure they turn out, making sure everybodybody
who wants to see our country move in the right
direction and move forward turns out the vote. Because what
we're explaining is a radical group of voters who do

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turn out. They do make sure they get out and
vote while apathy and many Republicans are showing apathy across
the country. Look, when Donald Trump's not on the ballot,
apathy occurs with a lot of voting blocks. And we're
just going to have to be careful and hopefully we
all learn a good lesson.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Talking to former Congressman Jim Ornacey Bloemdaddy Show political analysts,
let's talk about Trump here for a second. He promised
to bring grocery prices down. They have not come down,
but we have historically low unemployment. Gas prices are lower
than they have been in years. The stock market is
hitting new highs. But yet people are not happy. Why
do you think that is, Jim.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Well, people are not happy because the middle class, the
wages have not continued to rise like there, We're hoping
they're still going to the grocery store, paying a lot
of money for beef, paying a lot of money for groceries.
The other gas is down. But overall, there is an
inflationary situation occurring in our country. I think inflation's up

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one point seven percent. Costs are up, and people are
still having trouble making ends meet. I heard about a
poll to this, I think it was this week, and
I forget who it was done by. One out of
four people are living paycheck to paycheck, which means that
ninety five percent of everything they're bringing in is going

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for essentials. One out of four in the United States.
That is probably one of the major drivers of why
people are not happy when everything is just going to
pay food, gas, rent, you know, the utility bills, and
they have nothing left over. That's going to be a
big voting block as well, and that's something that President

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Trump and Republicans are going to have to be aware
of in this next election as well.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
But all these prices, these grocery prices went up starting
in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I think the inflation
reached a peak in twenty twenty two. Can anybody realistically
think that a guy can turn everything around that's been
speeding full speed ahead for four years in nine months.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Well, the problem is he owns the economy now, and
you know, he said he would. He said he would
make the changes. He said he would stop the war,
the wars including the Ukraine War, and a lot of
this stuff. You know, when you're in when you're a
candidate talking about what you're going to get done, people remember,
and he did say he would bring prices down, and

(24:38):
of course they're not coming down. But it is his
economy now, and he's going to have to be able
to show that he can get this done or people
will say, look, we're going to go a different direction.
One of the most one of the biggest problems in
our country right now is we seem to go right
left on every election. We swing one way and then

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we're not happy two years later and we swing another way,
and it doesn't cause any stability going forward. My son
told me that the other day, and it's so true.
It's a big concern that we can't we can't seem
to get this middle ground and just keep pushing through.
So hopefully he can get some of the things done,
he promised in his campaign.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well he has problem. Okay, so let's think about this
for a second. Gas prices have dropped, egg prices are
down sharply. He brokeered the ceasefire agreement in Africa. He
negotiated the Israel Hamas temporary peace hostage release. He's got
new trade partnerships. A lot of people are saying that
these tariffs are going to hurt initially but will benefit.

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But the problem is, Jim nobody knows about it because
the mainstream media controls the population. I took a look
at a study from a media research center Washington Examiner.
Ninety two percent of mainstream media coverage of Trump negative,
the most hostile coverage of any modern president. You take
a look at his pardons for January sixth, forty six
minutes of coverage. Biden pardons his entire family, the Biden

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crime Syndicate three minutes of coverage three So when he
does do something good, I guess my question to you is,
how the hell is anybody going to know?

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Well, the one thing he does have the biggest microphone
in the country and in the world, so he's just
going to have to keep presenting all of these things
he is doing, and there are a lot of positive
things he's doing, but keep in mind it doesn't help
that person. It's the economy. The economy, the economy, and
the people that will get out and vote are the
ones that are hurting in the economy. I think that's

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he's got to be able to win those individuals over.
If you look at some of the polling, the people
that are losing, and you and I have talked about this.
I just saw a poll again this week. And I
know people say polls or an acy pollser no, polls
are you don't accept the poll, but you accept the trend.
And the trend in the polling is that the independence

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seventy percent of dependents now do not approve of what
President Trump is doing in the economy. Remember, in the
economy that affects their pocketbook.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
That's a real.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Key voting block. And he's got to be able to
win those individuals over before the midterms or Republicans will
have a struggle come next year.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
All right, Jim, thanks for the time today.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Thank you you have a good one.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Seven fifty one on your Wednesday. Welcome back to the
Bluem Doddie experience. Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
You know what I forgot. Otis at the top of
the show.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
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(28:23):
your registration. I want to go back. We were talking
about the West Virginia law in question in regards to
transgender athletes and going to the Supreme Court. Possibly got
a message privately on social media and I wanted to
bring this to you. It's a different perspective. So it

(28:45):
says being a sport official in Ohio, I'm sorry being
a three sport official in Ohio and a two sport
official in West Virginia. I just wanted to send you
a message regarding transgenders and women's athletics. This is an
interesting perspective. This person sees it firsthand in different sports.

(29:06):
Obviously it's one hundred percent. It is an advantage physically,
their development is the same as a man until they
decide to switch teams, so to speak. I've seen it
whenever I walk into a gym. They it's very obvious.
They stick out. It is what it is, but it's
an unfair advantage raising. Having raised a sun, it's amazing

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that I will not have to have my three year
old around when she starts sports in a couple of years.
Is night and day the parents. I can't fathom a
parent of a girl ever supporting this stuff, but here
we are. I can't agree with you enough. Another comment
on social media in regards to this topic. I posted

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it on our Facebook last night. Shelley says they're sending
us back one hundred years. Women died for our rights
just for a biological man to have the advantage to
win again. That's a perfect statement by Shelley. That is
what is being missed in this conversation. You know, women
fought to get where we are, and now men who

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cannot succeed athletically in their own category of sport saw
a window to crawl into and take advantage and look
like this dominating athlete when they have a physical advantage.
It's plain and simple. It's night and day the advantage

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that they have. And I don't care how many hormones
you take or anything else. There is an advantage, plain
and simple. Women fought to get the opportunity and equal rights,
and not just on athletics, on everything in general. And
now there are men out there who are cowardice. I'll
say what it is. They're cowardice and they are not

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successful as a male. So they've decided, Hey, there's this
cultural movement. There's this cultural movement of encouraging I'm sorry,
a mental illness. So huh, I see this opportunity to

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lift myself up as long as I call myself something
that i'm not and never can be, to get ahead,
and I'll look like a winner. I'll look like a winner. Well,
the International Olympic Committee is starting to wake up also.
They recently, over the two days ago, banned all transgender

(31:42):
females from Olympic events. So are we turning a corner?
Hopefully so, hopefully so. But I just didn't want to.
I wanted to read that message to you that we
got on privately on social because I think it is
it's a different perspective those that have to officiate. And
we've talked about officials before, otis what they have to
deal with with the outrageous parents and now there's this,

(32:04):
So a completely different perspective than what we've talked about
before when it comes to that particular subject. But let's
turn from that and let's stay along sports. So Paul skeens,
of course, the Pirates pitcher is up for a major
award tonight. The ace Pirates pitcher is a finalist for
the National League Cy Young It's the second straight season

(32:27):
he's been nominated for the award. Meanwhile, one of the
best pitchers in baseball is at the center of trade talks.
Pirates general manager Ben Cherrington told the media yesterday that
teams are regularly calling on the availability of schemes. Cherrington
said the answer is always consistent as the team continues

(32:50):
to continues to build around the ace pitcher. So you
think they actually are Otis you think they actually or
is that just lip service they're actually building ground schemes
or is it just.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
Well they haven't yet. You know, there's a bunch of
rumors out there right now, but that's all they are rumors.
So we'll see what happens. I mean, the hot stove legal,
the hot stove leg will be heating up here pretty soon,
so we'll see what happens in the offseason.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
It's one of.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Those scenarios in sports, whether it's baseball, football, when you
have that one player. So Skimes for the Pirates, I'll
use Miles Garrett for the Browns. They're they're the they're
the face of the franchise, you know, for the position
that they plays. As this said, is this person is

(33:43):
an ace, this is a stud. Are their best years
at that position being wasted with a bad franchise.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
I don't know if you're under contract that they're not wasted.
I mean, you're you're under a contract play for that team,
So you how are your tea How are they wasted?

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Because there's never a chance they're going to be. They're
gonna win anything.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
That's not their fault.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
That's what I'm saying, but that doesn't.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Mean they're wasted. Well, if they chose Miles Garrett chose
to sign that contract, I understand Paul Skins is in
his rookie contract. He's obligated for two more years before
he can become a free agent.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's not wasted.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
He's under contract, so it's not wasted.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
But the team is wasting them.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
If they're not a team fault.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
If they're not, that's what that's my point. If they're
not building around them, they're wasting the base best years
of those athletes. It's seven fifty eight. The bloom Daddy
experience Here on news radio eleven seventy see.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
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Speaker 2 (35:04):
Radio eleven seventy gets the blue Daddy experience. Hey, it's
eight six. Let's get this hour rolling. Every day I
get text some buddies going back and forth on opposite
ends of the political spectrum. Now, I don't have anybodies
who are Democrats. Liberals who are far, far left. And
this buddy that I have is one of the most
intelligent people I've ever met in my life. And he's
got common sense, which is a rarity in the Democrat Party.

(35:26):
But this is what he texts me, why don't you
take the hard line when it comes to Trump? This
is at three point fifty nine. He knows I'm doing
a show and I'm sitting here talking to you, jabbing
back at him, And I said, in what way this
guy's done more good than nine months than Joe Biden
did in four blankety blank years. He's an a all
at times, I agree, but he's cleaning this crap hole up,

(35:48):
to which he responds. Trump's supporters completely suspend their beliefs, values, principles,
and virtues when it comes to Trump. Dude just gets
a pass. So it's perfect timing because I was planning
on talking to you about this anyway, because all I
hear from people are, you know, Trump hasn't done anything.
You know, I'm still paying the same for prices, and

(36:09):
grocery prices haven't gone down, and blah blah blah, let's forget.
Let's not forget. You don't turn around four years and
nine months. You don't. If you are a realistic human being,
it doesn't just, you know, snap of the fingers, all
of a sudden, your prices drop when they've been at
a certain rate for four years. But I want you

(36:29):
to just consume what I'm about to tell you here
for a second. I took a look at some of
the top economists. The rate of inflation has come down
dramatically from its peak. When was its peak twenty twenty two,
Joe Biden tariffs going to cause only a one time
price bump, but the level of most prices has continued

(36:49):
drifting upward for years. So that's going to result in
a lot of increases for a lot of things that
you need, a lot of your necessities. Again, you're not
going to turn around four years of momentum in nine
months now. The problem with Trump right now is you
can't convince people that your policies are working if you're paying,
say twenty percent more for a cup of coffee, or

(37:13):
as my buddy says, I go to the grocery store,
I do the shopping, all the prices are up, and
the GOP suddenly finds itself in the same hole. The
Democrats have been struggling to climb out of for years.
And that is you know, the economy, It's going to
get you one way or another. But the economy in
a lot of ways is fine. You take a look
at growth, it's good. Inflation is a fraction of what

(37:35):
it was. The labor market for now. Even the thing
that brought down Democrats in twenty twenty four hasn't gotten
better since, and that is grocery prices. They're up twenty
nine point two percent since February of twenty twenty, twenty twenty. Rent,
your rent about the same energy price is up forty percent,

(38:00):
and as I mentioned, coffee costs I think twenty percent
more than it did a year ago. What did Trump
promise that grocery prices would go down? But yet ground
beef fifteen percent more. So he made these promises and
people are going, Okay, what's the deal here? But in
a lot of other areas things have improved very quickly.
But again it's been nine months. We have historically low unemployment.

(38:24):
Do you fill up your truck or vehicle today? Gas
prices lower than they've been in years, stock market hitting
new highs. So why aren't people happy? Because they're being
lied to by the media. Think about it. You never
hear any good stuff about Trump if you watch MSNBCCNN, NBC,

(38:47):
CBS down the line. Control the message, you control the population.
It used to be the media versus the establishment. They
were the government watched out. Now it's the media versus
you mind control. It's now the government lapdog. A twenty
twenty study this is done by the Media Research Center

(39:07):
Washington Examiner, ninety two percent of mainstream media coverage of
Trump negative, the most hostile coverage of any modern president
ninety two percent. So all these liberal outlets are just
pounding the population negative negative, negative, negative when it comes
to Trump. No positives, and there are plenty of positives,

(39:27):
but they never hear about it. Report from the Pew
Research Center. First two months of Biden's term, nearly two
thirds of stories focused on his policy agenda rather than
his character. This guy's incredibly flawed. It's one of the
most racist presidents to'll ever hold the office. Go look
at his history. But who is the racist Trump? Trump?

(39:54):
Trump's press time over a thousand questions answered in his
first month of this second Biden's press time, You tell
me you know the answer. To that skip dozens of interviews,
including ones during the Super Bowl. Major press briefings didn't
do them, hid media outlets. Dedicated forty six minutes to

(40:15):
Trump's January sixth pardons, which I have said countless times.
I totally disagreed with him, totally disagreed. You attacked a
police officer, you destroyed property at the Capitol. You should
not have been pardoned. I think it's the biggest mistake
of his presidency. Forty six minutes say dedicated to that.
Did you see who Joe Biden pardoned? Everybody in his family?

(40:39):
It's one of the most crooked political families in history.
Three minutes of coverage. Three minutes of coverage to Biden's
preemptive family pardons. Forty six minutes to Trump's January sixth partons.
By the way, Trump's second term gas prices have dropped
egg prices down sharply. Oh okay, well the bird fleos

(41:00):
over Oh, I mean still counts one way or another.
The piece deal between Rwanda and the Congo broken, the
ceasefire agreement in Africa, Israel hamas conflict. I mean new
trade partnerships, manufacturing expansion. You're not gonna hear any of
it unless you listen here or you watch Fox. The

(41:24):
media has brainwashed control the message, you control the people.
Do I wish Trump was more presidential? Yes? Do I
wish he was more civil? Absolutely? I've never given him
a pass on his behavior. I think he looks He
acts like a jackass most of the time. Like name
in a stadium in Washington, DC after him, that's a joke.

(41:46):
People don't care. They want their grocery prices down. They
don't care if it's Trump Stadium. It's stuff like that
where I sit here and I cringe and I go,
what are you doing? Dude? Come on, focus, focus on
what matters. Your ego does not matter. It doesn't. So, yeah,
that stuff does tick me off. With that said, I

(42:11):
could never vote for a Democrat today ever, whose party
is all about open borders, freebies, defund the police, controlling
the narrative, controlling freedom of speech. Go back and look
at the social media companies under Biden who were told

(42:31):
they couldn't post certain things that were the anti COVID
message or the other side, men competing against women, embracing
hamas in Palestine. This party is nuts, It's unhinged, and
thank God's moderate Democrats stepped up over this government shutdown.

(42:56):
They need to seize backpower. Ma'am Donnie, you know that
guy in New York City, his incoming aid was the
chief architect architect of overhauling the NYPD. ELI Biscard Church
Ivy League educated California native, political newcomer, all about the

(43:17):
Democratic Socialists of America. The Department of Community Safety proposal
that ma'am Donnie has is all this guy's replace police
officers with mental health professionals to deal with non life
threatening emergencies. Talk to any police officer, You'll get a
lot of calls that you think are non life threatening
emergencies that end up being life threatening emergencies. Didn't we

(43:40):
already go down this road with the whole defund the
police thing. We're going to put social workers out there.
They tried that in different cities. Didn't work, But yet
here we go in New York City. By the way,
this new department's going to cost about one point one billion.
And while I'm on it, the reason that that guy
is in power in New York City is because of
the most dangerous voting block in America of right now women,

(44:02):
young women, about two thirds of voters under forty five,
including eighty four percent of women age eighteen to twenty nine,
voted for that guy. Voted for that guy. Sixty five
percent of women age thirty to forty five. Young, white, spoiled,
purple haired women are the most dangerous voting block in America.

(44:26):
They don't know what they're doing. They're emotional. Every decision
is driven by emotion, and they're nuts, and mommy and
daddy won't reel them in. Unbelievable, You're going to elect
a Muslim in America with these women. Don't understand what
a lot of people don't understand. Islam is not a religion.

(44:48):
It is a political belief system that controls every aspect
of their lives. What he believes in is not conducive
to America. It's not conducive to Western ways. And by
the way, they'd be walking five feet behind them wearing
a blanket over their head. But hey, let's love this guy.
Let's vote hi. Men, the dumbest, most dangerous voting block

(45:11):
in America. Eighteen to twenty nine, white spoiled women Welcome back.
At eight twenty one.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
The Blue Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA,
it is time for politics unleashed with Tony. Edmund Elgin
is traveling for work. So Tony, you're all on your
loansome stuck with me.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Uh oh on an island off myself.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
I think you can handle it, though, I think you can.

Speaker 6 (45:45):
Technically not alone. The two of us could team up together.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Against him, oh youtub well I or you and.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
I could team up against him, or you can team
up against me.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
That's true, that's true. Just real quick that I want
to put out a reminder it's free lunch Wednesdays thanks
to our friends at River City, So get your entries in.
All you have to do is email Sam at iHeartMedia
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your name, phone number, and company. All right, So, Tony,
there's a couple of things I want to hit on today.

(46:16):
First off, let's let's go to the snap benefits conversation.
So right now, that's the biggest topic when it comes
to the shutdown. You know, November one has come and gone,
money was still not dispersed, and there is this campaign

(46:42):
out there saying that President Trump is starving, trying to
starve Americans which I personally do not agree with. I
don't think anybody's intentionally starving Americans. But I think what
is being lost in this entire conversation is why do
we have forty two million people on staff benefits? Why

(47:06):
is over ten percent of our population on food subsidies.
I think that's being missed in this conversation.

Speaker 8 (47:15):
Well, I certainly think it's part of it. On the
first point about the starvation aspect, I do think it's
a bad look to have emergency funds that could fund
these programs and have a judge order that they'd be used,
and then to appeal that order when you could just
release those funds and then talk about fixing the system
if you think something's broken when it's not dire, and

(47:36):
for a lot of people it is dire. But to
the point about that many people being on SNAP benefits,
I think it's a more complicated question than a lot
of people make it out to be. I think, on
the one hand, I think sixty percent of the people
are on are either disabled, elderly, or children, and in
most of those cases, I mean that's something that has
to happen to make sure that things Mistakes of the

(48:00):
past like what we saw in the twenties and thirties
when people didn't have food and suffering. It ends up
being everybody's problem anyway. But the other aspect of it
is that there are people who are working full time
where have worked within twelve months of applying for food subsidies,
who are still below the poverty line. And I think
that's a problem with employers relying on it. And I'm

(48:24):
talking more about big companies, not your local small businesses,
and they work really hard to make sure that they
take care of their people in large part. But if
you have people who have who work at big companies
who are working full time jobs and are still having
to are still qualifying because they're below the poverty level,
that's an issue too.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
But I think that it needs to be reevaluated. When
you take this statement from Hayden de Blois, who is
excuse me, the analytics director for the Foundation for Government Accountability,
he says, roughly one in every ten dollars spent on
foodstams in this country is improper spent improperly by the

(49:01):
improper people. Let's put it another way, He says, as
policymakers are grappling with food stamp benefits running out due
to the shutdown, The resources will that will be lost
to improper food stamp spending this year could more than
cover all the legitimate food stamp payments for the entire

(49:22):
month of November. And I think that's where a lot
of people struggle or question the validity of how a
lot of this money is dispersed to people, or these
benefits are dispersed to people.

Speaker 8 (49:36):
Sure, and I think that if that statement is true,
and I don't know whether it is or not, but
let's just stipulate for the purposes of the conversation that
that's true, then that's something that the DOJ has to
look into, investigate, find the people who are abusing this system,
and punish them accordingly.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I know I heard a lot.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Of times people will make the argument when it comes
to guns, will don't make it harder to get guns
for those who are law abiding. You're just making harder
for people who are law abiding by trying to stop
other things that are happening people who are misusing them. Well, okay,
well let's apply the same logic to something like snap benefits.
Don't make it harder for people who really need it
to be left out in the cold and literally be hungry.

(50:14):
Work harder to find the people who are committing the
fraud that exists, and prosecute them accordingly, and make an
example of the people when you do find them, make
sure that it's a deterrent and you put it out
there that if you are ripping off the system, you're
going to be punished. You'll be punished harshly. Another thing is,
I don't know what improper means. I don't know if

(50:35):
that's right. Yeaheah, because I mean, on the one hand,
you can have people who are doing things like selling
Snap benefits one way or another. They used to be
able to do it much more easily when it was
physical food stamps. They turn it in for cash. Those
days are over. But it could also be someone saying, well,
but you're buying specific subsets of food that Snap is
not supposed to be used for it, and people are

(50:56):
running it anyway. So we have to know what that
definition is.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Well, okay, so includes lost to fraud, So that means
including identity fraud, account takeovers, eligibility misrepresentation, and EBT card trafficking.
So selling off your cards for cash and then using
that cash the way you really really want to spend it.
But I'm gonna leave you with this number because I
want to continue this conversation we get back. Because Otis

(51:19):
and I briefly talked about this a little bit yesterday.
You know what we have seen personally and how it's
become a generational sickness unfortunately. But want to hit you
with this. SNAP has surged over the past two decades,
rising from seventeen point two million monthly participants in two

(51:39):
thousand in twenty twenty four, forty one point seven million
Americans get benefits, so it has tripled, not tripled, doubled,
more than doubled in twenty years. And why that's why
I think this needs to revalue. But we're gonna talk

(52:01):
about that when we get back. It is eight twenty eight.
You're listening to Politics Unleashed here on news Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back eight thirty six with Daddy Experienced, Otis,

(52:23):
Sam and Tony. We are, of course in the middle
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(52:44):
zero four seven zero and start the message off with
bloom Daddy. We did get a message, and it says
Bloomer said one in four people are living paycheck to paycheck.
I think it's two and four and I'm one of them.
Two part two, part time jobs and nothing to show
for it. I'm a conservative and a Republican, but I
soured on Trump when him and his little buddy Fauci

(53:06):
locked down the country and destroyed the economy. I haven't
voted for him since. That's why I strongly backed DeSantis.
I understand that sentiment, but otis I mean, wouldn't you say,
and Tony jump in on this when Trump and Fauci,
as this person says, shut down the government. We were very,

(53:31):
very very early on into COVID where it was still
what is going on? I think the long term shut
down once the Biden administration took over was more of
a detriment to the economy.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
Well, it was supposed to be the country was only
supposed to be shut down for ten days or two
weeks or something of that nature, and it ended up
being a lot longer than people thought. But that's when,
you know, everything was new. Nobody knew what was going on,
looking and seeing what was happening in Asia and Europe
and then so you know, we were just kind of
following the lead that we had seen. So, I mean,

(54:09):
Trump did not want to keep the country shut down,
but you know it was I think under advice he
kept it shut down a lot longer than he really
wanted to.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Yeah, I think so too. All right, back into the
conversation about the snap benefits. So I mentioned before the
break some stats here that over the past two decades
the surge in those on the benefits otis. You and
I were talking the other day about how and I've

(54:40):
had this conversation with multiple people, and we see a
lot of this here in the High Valley. The benefits,
the government benefits that a lot of folks survive on.
But I have always felt, and I've heard conversations, I've
heard people say things, I've experienced things in the grocery
st or that as a taxpayer, for as somebody who

(55:04):
works very hard, is so infuriating. But before we get
into that, Otis and I were talking and as I said,
I've had this conversation with other people, and these numbers
in a way prove it. Have we not created a
handout society a victim society where it has now become

(55:25):
a generational way of life to live off a lot
of these benefits. And what I mean by that is,
you know, twenty somethings, early thirty somethings, they were raised
in a household that was on benefits and they know
no other way to exist because we have provided way
too many easy handouts. And now we have this new

(55:47):
level of our economy. We have the upper you know,
the upper class, middle class, lower class, and then the
benefit subsidized class.

Speaker 8 (55:57):
I think everybody's situation is going to be a little different.
I think that there are families that sort of live
that way, but I don't know what the overarching theme
is and what the numbers are about how often that
happens and what that looks like. I do think there
are a lot of situations where you'll have a group
of people who do that, and then a lot of
other people will say, well, I know a family doesn't.
I also know family doesn't, and then it gets it

(56:19):
turns out they're all talking about the same people, but
it sounds like they're talking about a much larger group.
But so I do think that in some instances it's
more difficult to get the benefits and people think. I
think most people who are on it, based on the statistics,
are on it temporarily, and I think everybody's circumstances different,
Like the you have instances where farmers have to go
on it because of they have a down year in crops,

(56:40):
or they have the market changed. That kind of thing's
happening right now, where their supply chains are changing, their
customer bases are changing. They have to go on it
and go off of it. And like I said, there
are people who are working who are on it, the
individuals who live in circumstances where they it is being
passed down by generation of generations just what they know.
That's the kind of thing that I mentioned. If there's

(57:02):
fraud going on that DOJ should be prosecuting that, and
state agencies can do it too, because it's a lot
of times the states that administer the money comes from
the federal government, but the states administer the programs. So
but I also think it's a if and I said
this last week, if you invest more in education and

(57:22):
in a smart way, in a way of training people,
whether it's getting people to go through regular public school,
through high school, into trade schools to your college for
your college. If you invest in that and give them
the tools to succeed, more people than not are going
to and be able to take care of themselves. And
that's going to lift some of the strain off of
public services too. You know what the goal should be

(57:45):
to keep people off that if they can, Like I said,
the sixty percent that I mentioned children, elderly and fully
disabled people, that's not going to change. But for the
other people who were on it, that's one way that
you can invest to try to change that. It's got
to be a learning term plan. As you mentioned, that
took twenty five years to happen, so it didn't happen overnight.
It's probably something that's going to take a lot of
time to overcome. But that's one aspect that could help

(58:08):
change that. Prepare people to take care of themselves, and
then it's a less a lot less strain on everybody
else in's society.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Well, and I think it's also a frustration for the
American taxpayer. Listen. I there was a point in time
in my childhood growing up, my father lost his job
and for a short amount of time we had to
have assistance. And so I understand that situation. I understand.
I remember my mom saying, no, you can't get like

(58:34):
I remember being told, Noah's a kid, things are bad
right now, you can't get this right. But I think
it has gotten out of control. As I said, it's
become a generational way of life, and it's unfortunate that
it has gotten to that, gotten to that point where,
you know, I go to the grocery store and I'm

(58:55):
clipping coupons and paying attention to this, buying you know,
the off brand. I never buy name brand, hardly anything
to save a few pennies. And then I'm standing behind
somebody at the grocery store who's buying you know, name
brand this seven dollars boxes of cereal, stakes, everything else,
and they whip out a government card.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Right.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
I put in forty fifty hours worth of work every
week so that people can do that. So and I
go and I know that's just an example, that's just
one situation, that's just one person. But this person was probably,
I don't know, twenty five years old can work. That's

(59:39):
where this needs to be reevaluated. How many able bodied
people are living off the government?

Speaker 8 (59:45):
Yeah, and if that's happening, I think it's something that
needs to be addressed. Unfortunately, for most politicians, they don't
do anything about something until it's right in their face.
And when snap benefits are running out and the well
is running drive, then that's when they want to say, well,
let's work to reform or in the system.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
That's not the time to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
The time to do.

Speaker 8 (01:00:03):
It is not when things are in dire straits, when
you're not going to affect people who are the most vulnerable.
Go through that process, you know, the government, if they
could actually pass the budget, then talk about it while
you're while you're in a situation where people aren't going
to be suffering long term because you decide to put
the keep kicking the can down the road. I mean
even if this.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
And many administrations have done that. Oh, this has been
a problem for decades. This is nothing new.

Speaker 8 (01:00:29):
Yeah, no, it's and this is a commentary on Congress
in general. But I also think that you know, right now,
if the current deal actually passes the House in the
Senate and gets signed, the government reopens. It's only going
to cover things till the end of January. I mean,
are you kidding me? So we're going to have this
fight all over again, pass the fuller budget, and then
have a comprehensive conversation about how to make these things better.

(01:00:51):
Not make it harder on people who really need it,
but go after the people who are abusing the system,
because you'll always have people who abuse the system, no
matter what aspect you're talking about. And that's of corporations too.
It's not just individuals all right. Corporations absolutely exploit their workers,
they exploit the system. I mean, there are things that
need to be addressed as far as that goes too.
It's got to be comprehensive and it's got to be

(01:01:12):
a long term. People have to be patient, but people
in Congress have to do their job well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
And the well is going to run dry. It is
going to run dry because people of our age, people
of Otis's age, you know, the working tax payer, we're
going to eventually become the minority and who's going to
be able to foot the bill?

Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
And that's another question about income inequality and the growing
gap between the top and the bottom is.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
They problem to well? And then you factor in over
ten million illegals that came in during the Biden administration,
what they're draining the system of, and the taxpayer dollars
that they're using. This is an out of control problem
people that needs to be addressed on many levels. Whether
it is American citizen, whether it's illegal immigrants. The entire

(01:02:00):
problem is it continues to grow, and I cannot believe
during this shutdown that this is not being addressed more
eight forty five. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
We're gonna come back. What are we gonna talk about next? Tonyordability?
Paud Okay, we'll jump on that. I'm gonna let you
lead lead on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
How's that sound that works for me?

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
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Radio eleven seventy ww VA. All right, Tony.

Speaker 8 (01:02:47):
Affordability, Well, I mention it's a big topic now because
it was according to the exit pointing, it was a
big It was at the forefront of minds of people
in New Jersey, New York and Virginia in particular and voting,
and and what I think it speaks to is that
every people's everyday experience. You can't talk them out of
their own experiences. If they go to the grocery store

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and their bills higher than it was, you can't tell them, actually, no,
it's not and things are fine. You're to say, no,
I'm spending more money now than I ever did on
things like food. And I think one I mentioned before
about speaking to where people are, that's what you have
to do. You have to listen to what people are
saying about the impacts that it's having on their own pocketbooks,
and if the perception and if you want to say,

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they just have a bad perception of what's going on
and it's actually better, that's one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
And you can try to convince somebody.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
That the experience they're having isn't what they're having or
it's not widespread, but it's something that people are voting on.
And I think it be who's every politician in particular
to listen to what people are saying about affordability and
try to address that in both the short term and
the long term.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
Uh one, Teke, we got we've got a.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Call, yep, we've got to vote once to call me
in on something Tony said earlier.

Speaker 7 (01:04:02):
Dave, good morning, Hello all Hello, Well listen to Tony there. Now,
Tony comes across as a very level headed you know
Democrats that that, so I'll give him that compliment. But
he scares me though, too, because he doesn't represent what

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the national Democrat Party is all about, and it gives
the wrong impression that that's where maybe Democrats are. Tony,
You've said a lot of good things there. There's no
one at the top level though, that thinks like that.
I mean, they would primary you off the show if
they actually heard what you were saying there. You know,

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the time to stop these programs from getting out of control,
like snap or the border, et cetera, or Obamacare is
before the programs are made, because once the programs are made,
it's impossible to change them. And when you blame Congress
for things, I blame the media and the Democrat voters
because they'll start screaming the media at the top of

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their lungs. Oh, Republicans, you know, hate the poor they
hate anyone who needs helping hand, and politicians have no
choice but the back down. So because they will lose
the next election. Okak Now, they will be stamped out
through public opinion because they're getting buried with people who

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aren't thinking rationally or are thinking over emotionally, who just
dramatize everything to try to win the third points. That's
how Congress is faw that's media and voters or stupid
enough to listen to that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Okay, So David, let me poise this question to both
you and Tony. So basically, what you're saying is the
moderate Democrats, so like the eight that are trying to
voted to move the reopening of the of the government
back open, the moderate Democrats are aging out. What is
happening is are seeing with that party the extreme youth

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like the aocs of the world and the elon Omars
and now this Mondania in New York City, they are
now taking priority in the Democrat Party. Is that what
you're saying?

Speaker 7 (01:06:16):
Absolutely, because they they've pulled that party said the Democrat right,
it's so far left, it's not the Democrat Party, but
they hijacked the name. They're keeping the name for a while,
because it's all smoking mirrors. As they pulled over to
socialism and then eventually communism. They're using the Democrat name.
They'll dump that in about I give them five six

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seven years. The way the mask came off, they used
to try to hide who they were, you know, but
it started to loosen up under a bomba but not
all the way. And now it just keeps lurching further
and further left. But they still need that Democrat name
as a brand, you know. High behind.

Speaker 8 (01:06:56):
Appreciate your perspective on Wizard Dave, I certainly appreciate perspectively.
Appreciate your perspective on that, and I would say that
sometimes there are you'd be surprised there are more people
like me than not. But we're not terribly loud. We
don't yell and scream. We're looking to have conversations with people.
Those people are still out there, I assure you. And
also a lot of times people who are similar to

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the way that I think and talk about these issues.
They're not yelling and screaming, and they're not seeking attention.
They're seeking to get things done. And there are people
who run in elections across the country, as I said
last week. All politics are local. They're you know, Democrats
in Florida who are different from those in New York,
different from those in Wisconsin, different from those in California.
So I think that I'm more optimistic about the future

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of the party, but of the country in general. We
can address these issues. I'm also more optimistic about fixing
the programs. I think that if we put enough pressure
on people to actually make changes that are rational and reasonable,
we can hit compromises and move on to the next thing.
I do think there's a lot of things we can tackle.
As long as we do it together, we can make
it work. So maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I

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am optimistic about those possibilities and how these things can
come together in the future.

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
David, I think you are over optimistic because the party
has been taken over by yellers and screamers and over
emotional and dramatic. And you know, there's a saying, if
you're under forty and not a Democrat, you don't have
a heart. If you're not a Republican over forty, you
don't have a brain. And you know you're right at
the crossroads there. You've got a right mentality for that

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kind of thinking. Unfortunately, to people that can really, you know,
direct the party in that direction, they are at anywhere
close to being in charge. You have to yell more
doubt yell the people are being so loud in the
Democrat quotations Democrat Party right now.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Well, dave O, and not to cut you off, but
we're running short on time, but thank you for your
call this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:08:49):
You're welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
And I think Tony, this will take us into a
topic for next week. Blue Daddy hit on it a
little bit earlier in the show, but this leads into
how media and social media influences both sides of the
political spectrum.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
Great topic, look forward to it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
All right, we'll talk about that one next week. All right,
let's do our free lunch real quick. One through thirty two.

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Otis, Hey, give me one day.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
I'm sorry I dropped that on you. I'm so sorry.

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Let's see here.

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Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Okay, we have Randy. Randy, I will call you after
the show. You are getting some free lunch. Everybody, have
a great Wednesday.