The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 13, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
D 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 SEVENTYWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. Good Thursday morning to you, and thankfully
the government shutdown is over.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
So if you're planning on traveling this weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
By air or the upcoming holiday season, whether Thanksgiving or Christmas,
that is very, very good news. And obviously if you
got a family member that works for the government, exceptional news.
Once again, speaking of great news, West Liberty University football
coach Roger Wilie is going to retire at the end
of this season. The fact that he's allowed to retire

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at the end of this season is a travesty.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
This team's two and eight terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't think this guy and I didn't go back
and check the stats once again because I've hit on
this enough, but I don't think he's had a winning
season in over a decade. The fact that this guy
has been allowed to sit up there draw a paycheck.
Be inept as a coach is a travesty in and
of itself. And you know, when I've talked about this,
people have asked me, man, what do you got.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Against Roger Wilaye. Nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think I've met the guy maybe three times in
my entire life. What I have a problem with is
West Liberty University athletic directors, the president, the individuals who
make decisions on hiring and firing because they accepted losing.
So unfair to the kids, so unfair to West Liberty

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University alumni, just unfair to everybody that they would sit
back and allow a program to underachieve for over ten
years and not care and allow this guy to draw
a paycheck when the product he's putting out on that
field is terrible. And I feel sorry for the kids

(02:07):
that have gone there with high hopes, aspirations, excitement about
maybe being a part of something good, and they've been.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Crushed by a guy and his staff.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Let's not forget the staff here who just collected a paycheck,
went home and came back and never.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Feared losing their jobs.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I mean, let me ask you out there listening, Unless
you're a teacher and you're in a teacher's union where
there are no expectations. Aren't you expected to produce when
you're at work? I mean, aren't you expected to achieve?
If not, you're probably fired. So why did Roger WILEI
get a pass for over a decade on not achieving?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
And who stays in that position when you can't win.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Just collecting a paycheck being okay the fact that you're
a loser. I mean, he's the head coach of the
football team. The football team is an embarrassment. I'd have
walked away after year five when I figured out I
can't do this and I can't do it at an
acceptable level. But what human being stays and basks in

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the misery of losing.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'll tell you somebody who does that.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Somebody who's checked out, Somebody who's okay with just collecting
a paycheck, putting forth minimal effort and doesn't care that
he's embarrassing himself in the school. There's nothing else I
can deduce from this. I don't know how anybody can
look at it any different. I mean, the fact that

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the university has allowed this guy to say when he's
going to walk away when his record is atrocious, the
program never showed any growth, any improvement is beyond accept
So West Liberty University, you should be ashamed of yourself
from what you've done to kid after kid after kid
that's come through that.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Program for the last ten, twelve, thirteen years. You should
be ashamed.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You've allowed a guy to collect a paycheck to be
the face of your football program without adhering to any
type of standards or caring about winning.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And I could say the.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Same thing about baseball, and once again got nothing against
Eric Berkele. My two kids were on scholarship. He gave
them some great opportunities. But the lack of effort that
that guy puts in the fact that he's okay with
losing year after year after year. Once again, same thing
as said about Wiley can absolutely be said the same

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for Eric Berkele. But once again, it's the university. How
do you not care? How do you not care that
a baseball program that the school is no owned for
from back in the day, back in the sixties, seventies, eighties,
early nineties really brought West Liberty all the attention they

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ever had. How can you not care that it's just floundering?
And then you go football and I get it. Hey,
we're basketball, We're a basketball school. Well, the basketball coaches
have shown you what you can achieve at West Liberty.
Why wouldn't you expect that from football and baseball? Unbelievable
to me. But again, when the power is to be

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and you know who you are, don't care. This is
what you get. This is what you get. You get
the Roger Wileyes of the world who cash that paycheck,
put in the least amount of effort and walk around okay,

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being a losing coach. I don't know if you could
live your life that way. I know I sure as
hell can't. It's just unbelievable to me.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
You read the guy's bio, you think he was the
second coming of Vince Lombardi, and then you start looking
into the numbers and you realize he's the second coming
of Missus Lombardi.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
No personal grudge, don't know the guy. I'm just telling
you West Liberty University should expect more from their coaches.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Actually, let me change that.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
They should demand more from their coaches because those coaches
are not only the spokespeople for that university, they are
the face of that University. So basically, the president of
West Liberty University, the athletic director of West Liberty University,
and previous ones the board of regents. They are okay

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with being losers. That's what they're telling you. They're okay
with being losers. And how frickin' sad is that you're
listening to The bloom Daddy Experience eleven seventy wwva.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Nice to see you're ready.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Seven eighteen. I'm ready. I'm here the bloom Daddy Experience.
I'm Sam He's otis.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Ten seconds into the music, he decided I'll just put
my headphones on and pull the mic over. Oh yeah,
we do have a shoe to do. I just feed
my face.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Hey, it's been a morning.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
You haven't done the damn thing.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
No, I know, I'm so lazy. No driving in this morning.
But before here we get no, no, no, Before I get
to that, we have we have some goodies today, folks.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, we got a little bonus that we didn't know about. Yep,
this just popped into us late yesterday.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Well, first of all, it's Thursday, so we've got our
ice cream from Kirks. Of course, that's standard, that's our
that's our Thursday regular that you just go to our
text line which is seven zero four seven zero, name
and phone number and then ice cream.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
So we know that you gotta start. You gotta start
to text off with bloom daddy. Yes, first word has
to be bloom daddy and then your name, phone number
and ice cream.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yes, or be be clever like some other folks have
and they've sent us little ice cream cones and a
little scoop emo emojis. Yeah, so we have that. And
then like like Otis said, uh, late yesterday, we were
informed that we have another family four pack.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
For the nailors for tomorrow night, for tomorrow night, and
we will email these two you so you don't have
to pick them up or anything like that. So you know,
it's it's quick.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Fixed the magic of technology.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Sometimes we'll go with that.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sometimes it's a pain, sometimes it comes quite handy. So yes,
we have another family four pack.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Like everything sounds weird in these like something and.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're really nice headphones.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, it's just something weird.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Is your connection lose it is?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Now?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
No?

Speaker 5 (08:52):
There we go, Oh is that better?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
No, it's just like something like crackly.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
No.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Maybe maybe it's nice that there's just not an echo
or something. Maybe just there's something weird in them today.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
I know that those were your Christmas presents last year.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, they were. They're nice.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
They're WVU blue and everything.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
If they're WV blue, they're pretty darn close.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
Yeah, man, I.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Kni'd steel blue. Maybe kind of like a steel blue,
which just cool to me. They're close. Like you said,
they're close, they're closed. They're not royal royal blue.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
They're navy blue.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
They're not really navy either, They're kind of like they're
like I said, they're like a steel blue.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
I'm gonna take a picture of them and put on
our sociore and tell me if those are not WVU
like navy blue. Anyways, anyways, oh my joint, it's pretty
damn close. Okay, my drive in this morning. Listen, first
of all, I almost hit a deer, So everybody getting
in their car, pay attention to. The deer are out
this morning. I don't know if it's because the temperature

(09:59):
is gone up a little bit and they're playing catch
up for the past couple of days, but the the
the deer are definitely out, So take heed of that.
Oh now we're clever and we've got sound effects. Okay, okay,
no to the to the person in the the truck

(10:22):
this morning. And I'm talking like a U Haul sized
delivery truck and it was not a U haul truck.
By the way. Coming across the island, uh, the over
the overpast portion of the island, there's the the entry
uh entrance ramp from the island coming into downtown before
you go across the bridge, the yield Okay, entrance ramp

(10:44):
on ramp. Okay, I used entrance. You used on You're
on it this morning. You something's gotten you worked up
this morning? Oh my god, Okay, forget it, go you
go go.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Just I mean about your drive.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
In Yield means yield, that is all I wanted to say.
It's so annoying. Yield means if there's nowhere for me
to go to get out of your way, to merge
over into the left hand lane.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's one of the worst on rams theies.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
That's why the yield sign is there.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Nobody pays attention to it.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
I know.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I mean I was literally sandwiched between him and the
car in the passing lane. It was. There were some
very loud four letter words yelled this morning driving in
so Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Good news out of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Yes, go for it.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Paul skeans the Pirates.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
I don't have any fancy buttons over here to make.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Go ahead anyway, Paul Skeen's it was the unanimous decision
in the National League for the cy Young Award. So
he and Tariq Schooble Terrek Dave's bloom Daddy says Trek,
I say tevy anyway. Uh, he won the cy Young
in the American League for the second season in a row.
Scuba went thirteen and six with a two point two

(12:07):
to one ERA and thirty one starts. For Detroit Schemes
was ten and ten, which sucks as a record, but
he had one point nine to seven ERA in his
first full big league season. He didn't get any run
support either, so there was there was a handful of
games where he got no decision, and then there was
a handful of games when he lost like one nothing

(12:30):
because he got no offensive support. So, and if you're
thinking the last of the awards for baseball for the season,
or tonight the MVP and the All Major League Baseball
teams will be announced, wrapping up the end of season awards.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
So do you think Nutting is sitting somewhere going, Okay,
how do we profit off of that?

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well, here's the other thing. Did or trade him?

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Now?

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Does Paul Skins have a clause in his contract that
if he wins the cy Young he gets an extra
million dollars? And that's coming out of.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Oh I hoped, yeah, all, I hoped yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
So a lot of times they have like those are
they have incentive clauses in their contracts, So like if
they make the All Star Team, they get fifty thousand dollars.
A lot of times on those you sometimes on those
those things, and then they also get paid by Major
League Baseball to play in the game. It's like a
it's like a flat thing. Doesn't matter if you're on
the winning team or the losing team. But for the

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All Star Game, let's say they may give you like
twenty five thousand dollars for playing in the All Star Game.
A lot of the players take that money and then
they donated to charity. So and then they also like
if you make the playoffs, so the first round of
the playoffs, the winning team makes x amount of money,
the losing team makes this, and then the next round
it's a little higher and then if you make it
the World Series, it's a little higher. So I mean

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like the Blue Jays and the Dodgers both had buys,
so it doesn't matter. But if they would have played
in the wild card and then well no, the Dodgers
did play in the wild Card, so it would have
been they got so they the Reds they got money,
the Phillies they got money, the Brewers they got money,
and then they got money for beatings. So they were
the winning each time they get a little bonus and

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it comes from Major League Baseball.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, and then also in sports take, we'll switch to hockey.
The Penguins are still hard at work overseas. The team
squares off against the the Predators. I'm sorry, the Predators
against Philippe Forstburg. Is that close? Okay? Phil From from Stockholm, Sweden.
Tomorrow afternoon, Pittsburgh heads into the NHL Global Series on

(14:29):
a two game losing streak. Of course, you can listen
to all the action live from Sweden on our sister
station Eagle one oh seven five. And then, as we mentioned,
we have tickets for this, but the Nailers are home
this weekend at Westbanco Arena for a pair of games
against the main Mariners Friday, which is Military Appreciation Night,

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and Saturday is First Responders Night. Puck drops both nights
at seven to ten. If you can't make it to
the arena both games. Of course, we'll be broadcast on
our sister station, Mix.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Three, and we'll be giving away a family four pack
to tomorrow night's game. Here in a little bit.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yep, we are giving it kick. Yeah, we are giving
it today. And then also, just real quick, I thought
we could have a little bit of fun with this.
I posted this on our Facebook page last night. So
we're gonna go over into Ohio. The Columbus Zoo is
asking for everyone's help in naming their newest baby elephant.

(15:27):
Now the Asian elephant Phoebe, gave birth to a male
calf on October twenty first. Folks can make name suggestions
on the zoo's website through November sixteenth, so only a
couple days left. Park leaders say the names should reflect kindness, conservation,
or the wonder of wildlife. Zoo leaders will select the

(15:48):
four finalists on November twenty fourth, and then put those
four finalists up for a vote. So go to our
Facebook page and leave your comment. On what you think
think the little guy's name should.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Be temporarily little guy?

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, little, he's probably not even little now, I
mean they're how big are elephants when they're born? Probably
the size of a small cow.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
This small house or a small house. Yeah yeah, get shed.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
To let me go. Yes, we had we have a
cop did you?

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Did you have a name? Do you have a name?

Speaker 5 (16:25):
I don't. I've been thinking about it.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
I'm just gonna go with Fred.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
Fred.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
No, it's a it's a boy, you know, just something easy.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Well, we have Davo Love Davo, Donald Trunk.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Nice, that's Winner Winter hands down. I don't know if
I did, you might as well just stop because that
whatever comes up after that isn't going to be worth it.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
So yeah, Donald Trunk from Davo.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
But go on, or call us Dave, you actually came
up with something funny for once in your life.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
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Speaker 4 (17:00):
My phone will be blown up here in a second.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
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a quick break at seven twenty eight the Blue Daddy
Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
I want to talk about something now that I really
don't want to talk about. But this is out of
Marshall County and I saw where a Benwood guy but
the name of Casey Clem Smith, just pled guilty to
four felony sex.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Offenses against a child. He was twenty seven, she was seven.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
So he entered at Kennedy Plea, which acknowledges that there's
evidence for a conviction without admitting guilt. So he now
faces a prison sentence ranging from twenty one to seventy
five years. He's currently in the Northern Regional Jail. The
prosecutor in the case said that it's a good thing
that we keep the nine year old off the witness stand.
The girl was seven when this occurred, having to relive

(18:09):
the trauma, and I agree with that. My problem with
something like this is somebody like Casey Smith shouldn't be
allowed to breathe anymore.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
And you know exactly where I'm going with this.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Anybody that could do that to a seven year old
child does not deserve to breathe the same error that
you and I breathe. That girl will never be the same.
That girl's life forever changed for the worse. She'll go
through counseling, she'll go through everything. Pray to God, she
ends up having a productive life. But so many children

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that young, when they are preyed upon by the Casey
Smiths of the world, their life is a living hell.
So therefore, when you do something like that to a
child in the world that I want.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
To live in, you should cease to exist. Now.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I know what people will say, he's going to go
to prison. He's going to get what he deserves. And
I hope that's the case. I hope he has to
endure the most brutal prison stay in the history of
prisons days. Because when I see stuff like this, it
makes me sick. When I see stuff like this, it
makes me want to vomit. When I see stuff like this,

(19:22):
I think we should be able to bring back public stonings.
And I'd be the first one with two rocks in
my hand to take a shot at Casey Smith to
think what kind of human being could do something like this?
And I truly believe you can't fix human beings who
do stuff like this.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
And you know, I've talked to enough.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Law enforcement officials who investigate child abuse to know that
he was twenty seven when this was going on. But
they've all told me to a t that some of
the stuff they see is beyond description.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's just heinous.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
But what they if you're the most when they find
somebody unlike Casey Smith, who let's say is forty five,
fifty five, or sixty five doing the same thing, they're
scared to death because they know it didn't start.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
At thirty five, forty five or fifty five. It started
a lot younger.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
And they know the more they're gonna dig, the more
children's lives they're gonna find destroyed by certain individuals to
be twenty seven years old and do that to a
seven year old girl. And if I understand the story correctly,
I believe he was dating this girl's mother and whenever

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she would leave, he would pull the seven year old
back into the bedroom and just.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Do unspeakable things.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Casey Smith has a very very special place in Hell
and I just wish he could go visit that place
much sooner rather than later.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
I mean, sam, otis your thoughts on something like this?

Speaker 5 (21:00):
There are certain people that do not deserve to walk
this earth. That's about as blunt as I can put
my thoughts on these actions of this individual.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well, if there's anything that I've learned in my years
of working with some of the law enforcement people is
that child predators are normally not well received in the
prison system. Oh yeah, and there's like a I mean,

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I hate to say this, but there's like a code
of honor amongst prisoners that when they find out that
that's what you've done, they take matters into their own hands.
And I mean, if you're going to respect a group
of people for what they do, I respect the prisoners

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for what they do because that is something that is
just like like bloom Daddy said, it just it sickens you.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
They have their own code of ethics in their microcosm
of a world that they live in prison. Yeah, this
this story is is just disturbing. It's a horrible story
to the young lady. God bless you and and hopefully.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Well keeping her off the stand and making Yeah, I
mean if there's any If there's any good thing that
came out of this plea agreement is the fact that
she does not have.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
To take the stand, and hopefully moving forward she receives
the support, the the counseling what what she needs. And also,
besides the damage done to her, there's also you know,
the mother trusted this man, So there's gonna be guilt there.

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And I'm not accusing the mother, no, no no, but
that is going to be long term with that mother too.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
There's a lot of things that come into play. And
Blue Daddy said, hopefully she leads a productive life. Hopefully
she just leads a normal life. You know, I'm not
you know, whether productive or not. Let's just hope it's normal.
The you know, we talk about this all the time,
and you know, you see these people, you know, these

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people that commit these crimes against children, there is something
not connecting in their brains and it's just I mean,
it's it's the same with any basically criminal in a
sense that you know there's there you don't have that remorse,
you don't have it's like you don't have a conscience,
and they they don't necessarily see what they're doing is wrong,

(23:53):
whether whether it be against children, whether it be against
adults or whatever. They don't you know. I mean you
look at you know, your your serial killers, look at
your you know, your mass murders. There's something that is
not working upstairs.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
There's a disconnect. Yeah, there's there's there's some sort of disconnect.
The problem is people have tried for years now, whether
we're talking homicide, whether we're talking pedophilia, people try to
determine a reason or figure out an excuse. Sometimes there

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just isn't. There just isn't. And when I was reading
up on this story and then I went and I,
you know, put in uh pedophile and consequences and why
and how and this and that this popped up and
I heard this term three or four years ago. There
is there is a a portion of society that is

(24:56):
trying to take away the stigma of the term pedophile.
They're trying to negate or lower the cultural shadow, yes,
stigma that that word puts on people.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Well, they're trying to justify their actions exactly.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
The new term that they've put out there is minor
attracted person or a map. Nope, sorry, you're still a pedophile,
plain and simple. There is no, there is no taking
away or minimizing what that is and saying minor attracted person. Okay, No, no, no,

(25:45):
this is not some new form of sexuality that's going
to be accepted in our culture. And that's how this rebranding,
let's call it what it is. It's a marketing rebrand
of a criminal. That's what they're trying to accomplish here,
this small group of people who want to you know,

(26:08):
minimize what a pedophile and justify and yeah, and justify
or at.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Least attempt to justify what they're what they're trying to
make illness is.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Yeah, trying to make it socially acceptable is seems like
the end goal. But back to the original story and
and what happened out of Marshall County, Like you said,
otis the young girl did not have to testify. And
a lot of people may say, you know, he did
a plea deal. Was that you know? No, no, I

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must agree that not forcing that girl to And the judge.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Can say, look, you got a plea deal, But the
bottom line is I'm sentencing you to the maximum. Yeah,
and so for every count it's the maximum, whether that's
five years and there's twenty counts. Then that's one hundred years.
I'm sorry. You see you later, yeah, because you'll get
yours in prison. They'll take care of you.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
And God bless her and her family as they travel
through these very, very tough times. Seven forty five. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience OTIS and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven fifty one. Welcome back the

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Speaker 4 (27:57):
Don't for you. Coming up a little bit later in
the show, you'll have your chance to win a family
four packed. Tomorrow night's Wheelie Naylor's game against the Main Mariners.
It is Military Appreciation night and it's also a frosty Friday,
so there you have it.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Last night or yesterday I posted an update. So if
you remember otis was it? Probably back in like June
or July. We had the team here from Union Local,
the F sixteen Thunderbird jet team that came in to
talk about the jet that they've got from the US

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Air Force. Well, I posted pictures yesterday because it is
on its way. It is on its way. Well after
I posted that, there was much commentary about the cost.
The levee didn't pass in Union Local, but we can
buy a jet. Why isn't this money being used towards

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the school? Why did the school? You know, all this,
all of this bringing this up once again because I
want to clarify for people. Okay, I don't know how
many times this has to be said. First of all,
congratulations to the team headed up by Dirk Davis for

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accomplishing this for Union Local schools. It's a really cool thing. Secondly,
to everybody that continues to preach and say why was
not why is this money not being used for a
new roof or paint or whatever within the physical structure
of the school itself, want to remind you this was

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all done by a private organization with fundraising. This was
all done privately. The cost and the expenses done by
a private organization and fundraised to make this happen. Tax
dollars are being used to accomplish this. Okay, again, just

(30:08):
wanted to put it out there one more time to clarify.
I posted the picture because this team that made this
happen worked for many years to pull this off and
it's on its way, and just wanted to let everybody
know that it was on its way. I did not
want to open up another can of worms of everybody

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going back and forth about why this money wasn't spent
on the schools. I understand the concern, and I understand
there is needs at Union Local. I'm sure there is.
This was done privately through private fundraising, plain and simple,
and I just want to leave it at that.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
And if you're going to complain about money being spent,
why didn't you just pat Why don't you go out
and campaign to pass the levee instead?

Speaker 5 (30:50):
And then there's that side of it too, yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Because I mean, historically Belmont County and Eastern Ohio school
districts are famous for not getting Levy's pass, and you know,
yet they want to complain that their school system is
failing or whatever. Well past the levee. I mean, it's
in reality, it is such a small amount of money

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that's going to be added on to your property tax
or however they're doing it. I mean, it's it's minimal.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, and to reiterate that, the Facebook page of the
group who pulled this off made this statement in September.
We can assure you that every member of our committee
within the ULSD will be voting yes on the ballot
in November for the levee, and we encourage our community

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to do the same.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yeah, And unfortunately people don't listen.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
No.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
I mean living in Ohio County and knowing some of
the schools in West Virginia, the counties in the Panhandle,
are they you know, they have the public support the
past levies, and you know, unfortunately on the other side
of the river, they don't see that. They don't see
it the same way. And you have people out there

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that can't paying against it. I mean, obviously, if if
you're a property owner, the more property you the more
it's gonna cost you, right, But in reality, the average
person is going to probably pay somewhere between twenty and
thirty dollars extra a year, and that's not going to
make or break you. That's that's not even two dollars
a month. So I mean, if it's thirty dollars, it
is two dollars a month. But you know what I'm saying,

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it's not much more than that.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
And if you're I'm sure you waste, how about this
instead of going out and buying your six dollars Starbucks
coffee one day? There you have it. You know that's
going to make up for the two dollars that you're
spending on on the youth of Belmont County.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
Yeah, very well said I like that comparison. Yes.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
So to the comment on our Facebook page that left
this this is a waste of taxpayers money, well, it's not,
because it was it taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
You are under informed, Yes.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yes, so I just wanted to clarify and comment on that. Also,
speaking of money, the US Mint has struck its final penny.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Are you gonna be saving them pennies? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (33:14):
I don't know. Maybe I need to go dig through
my couch cushion. President Trump, of course, previously announced plans
to retire the coin, which dates back to seventeen ninety three.
According to the Treasury Department, the penny will remain a
legal tender and retain its value indefinitely, as there are
approximately approximately three hundred billion pennies in circulation, which it

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exceeds the amount needed for commerce.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Until people start putting them in saving them because they're
going to become collector's items. So if everybody saves, if
every citizen saves a dollar's worth of pennies, that's one
hundred pennies taken out, and you multiply that times how
many millions of people? Mm hmm, So how we're gonna
be short on pennies?

Speaker 5 (34:03):
Three hundred billion pennies makes how many dollars? Oh God,
where Siri?

Speaker 4 (34:08):
You gotta you gotta put the.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
That's a question, that's point. That's a question for siri.
Oh wait, no, turn off three billion. She did her
little bubble. Don't don't talk three billion dollars, three billion dollars.
It's three Oh, I got you three billion dollars, three
hundred it's three hundred billion pennies. May make their Okay,

(34:30):
I got you seven.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Fifty eight, he gets right, move two points.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Don't ask me to do math that fast. Especially big
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Speaker 5 (35:08):
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Good, And then we will email the tickets to you.
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and we will do the drawing for that at the
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had a little fun last night posted this. The Columbus
Zoo has a new male calf and they're looking for
a name. So I thought i'd throw it at you
folks out there to give us some suggestions, just like
height Heidi did, and she said, what about Chili? Wendy

(36:38):
said Ellie Ellie the elephant, except Wendy Ellie is yes,
so maybe Elmer. I know Eugene, but so far Davo
takes it. Takes the win with Donald Trunk.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Doesn't meet any of the requirements though, No, but it's
it should say. It says it should reflect kindness, conservation,
or the wonder of wildlife, or it could honor someone special,
so I guess it does.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Yeah, yeah, how do you come up with a name
that fulfills.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
All of Well, it's either or it's not all of them.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Yeah, what name reflects conservationismism?

Speaker 3 (37:23):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
That would be tough. So if you have an idea
post on our Facebook page, of course you can text
us or call us. Want to hit on a couple
top headlines nationally, The government shut down is officially over
after President Trump signed a funding bill passed by Congress.
The measure, approved by the Senate on Monday and the
House on Wednesday, keeps the government running through January thirtieth. Well, boy, folks, God,

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I hope we don't go back to this on January thirtieth.
Democrats had blocked the bill for more than forty days,
demanding it include an extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits. Also,
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will vote next
week on a bill requiring the Justice Department to release
all of it's Jeffrey Epstein case files. The move comes

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after the measure reached two hundred and eighteen signatures, the
number needed to force a floor vote, following reports that
Epstein mentioned Trump in emails to Glaine Maxwell and a
journalist The White House is being pressed on the emails
from Jeffrey Epstein that mentioned President Trump. On Wednesday, Press

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Secretary Caroline Levett was asked about the Epstein emails and
said Trump about a particular email that said Trump spent
hours at Epstein's house with a female victim. LaVette would
not address the email substance and again said the victim
in the email is the late Virginia Jeffree, who LaVette

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said earlier stated Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing.
She called the email are released a selective link to
the liberal media by Democrats in the House. We have
not heard the end of this.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Well, it's it's it's part of the the The Democrats
released it and they redacted her name, and so it's
basically from the testimony that she gave, and there's a
whole there's a whole two or three pages like where
she says, well, did you see Donald Trump at you know,

(39:28):
the Islert his residence and he and she says no,
I do not recall seeing him, and like everything is
basically what they released was this lady's testimony saying no,
Donald Trump was not involved. But they've because they redacted
the name, it makes it look like and.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
She reiterated that point yes, many times over.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
And of course she's no longer with us. So guess what,
it's very easy to put that out there because now
you have nobody that that you can go to say
this is one hundred percent false. I you know, or
it's true, he was not there, I did not see him.
Blah blah blah blah blah. You know, everything that they
are releasing is false other than my statement is true.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
And I've read a handful of what was released yesterday.
I have not read all of them yet. And the
way they are redacted, the way that none of it flows,
it's very it's very tricky to interpret what is being
said in these emails. But you also have to take

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into account who these emails are from, first of all,
first of all Jeffrey Epstein and then an author. There's
a lot to this, but again we have not heard
the story of the end of this. But I will
also criticize Fox News, and I'm going to this is important,
This is important, and CNN and a lot of course

(40:54):
the liberal media are all over this, but I'm going
to be critical of Fox News. I went to look
at their cover and it's buried deep on their page.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Well, what the Democrats released is a non story. That's
I mean, it's it truly is a non story.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
But it's still important.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
No, it's not. It's a non story.

Speaker 5 (41:13):
It's not important in the grand scheme of things. Take
the Trump portion out of it. What this man did,
his connections, It is an important story.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
It's only important if people are brought down, and nobody's
going to be brought down.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
So okay, we'll agree to disagree on that one.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
I just I mean, I think until it starts naming
names and until people until heads start to roll, then
it's a non story because you're not going to see
the people's names in the report.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
But it is naming names. It named our president's name. Again,
is there any truth behind it?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Now?

Speaker 4 (41:49):
That's why they are not reporting on it.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
Okay, But again, you can't just bury it either. It
has the name of our sitting president in it.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
Well you can say you can, you don't have to,
but you don't. It doesn't have to be the lead
every hour like it was on the other ones.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
No, no, no, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying
it needs to be the top story of the day. No,
the shutdown being over is the top story of the day,
but it needs to be a little bit more relevant
in the co Let's.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
Just put it this way. How long have they had
the files on Epstein? Eight years? Nine years?

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Oh, I know, nobody's done anything with it.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
So if Trump's name was actually in there and there
was anything that was worth prosecuting or releasing his name
to where he was involved in anything, they would have
done it in twenty fifteen. They would have done it
in twenty twenty, they would have done it in twenty
twenty four. So you know, just keep that in mind.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Oh and I was when I was reading them, I'm like,
they're putting these out there because Trump's name. Trump's name
is on them, but none of it makes any sense.
So I agree with you on the fact that no,
I don't think he's involved in anything. But again, I'm
just going back to the media coverage. Is if we're
going to criticize liberal media, we've got to criticize both

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sides as much.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
I think the other thing is, I think you can
kind of take your heat off the Fox because they're
reporting for not reporting a non story. It's a non
story because if you if you break it down, there's
nothing in the release, so it's a it's a it's
a non story.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
But you can't just ignore it either, because then it
looks like you're pandering to the conservative side, which is
what we criticize the liberal side for doing, is pandering
to that side of the aisle.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Well, I mean, if you're going to talk about it,
talk about how they that's the pandering that they're doing.
They're trying to release it because they're trying to make
make it.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
I agree, So I agree. Also, Treasury Secretary Scott Passent
says the Trump administration will soon soon announce new steps
to lower prices on imported goods like coffee, bananas, and
other fruits. He also says Americans can expect substantial announcements
in the next few days and predicts people will start
feeling financial relief early next year as inflation eases in

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wages rise. Eight point fifteen. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience,
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(44:31):
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Appreciation night, So that is coming up very shortly. Oh
did you ever have those occasions where you took your

(44:54):
headphones off backwards as I'm talking to you? Okay, okay,
I can take the hint. I'm out.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
No.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Do you ever have those occasions where you think, like, yeah,
I'm still cool?

Speaker 4 (45:06):
No, absolutely not.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
Excuse me.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
First off, I've never thought I was cool. No, no, well,
I mean there was probably a time where you attempt, yeah,
to be cool.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
You attempt to be cool.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
And whether you are or not you really never know.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
So you know, sometimes I use LOL in my texting
because it's like, you know, the first cool thing. Well,
guess what, it's not cool anymore. It is not. It
seems that gen zers have declared replying l L in
messages as one of the ultimate phone x, along with

(45:49):
using the thumbs up emoji. I use that all the time,
all the time.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
You've never been cool either.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
Well yeah, so, so this new study says twenty somethings
also say having a loud, annoying ring tone isn't cool
anymore either. But the most irritating thing they say is
when you take hours and hours to respond to a text.
That's because that's how they converse. So I guess we

(46:16):
are in the same boat. Otis neither of us are
cool anymore or ever work?

Speaker 4 (46:24):
That's the better statement. Probably right, there never were.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
So now everybody else who is not cool or have
aged out of the coolness factor, get to our text
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Speaker 4 (46:42):
And you can also register for ICE.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
And give us a thumbs up.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
You know who else is cool? You know who was
really cool? Bob Ross?

Speaker 5 (46:51):
Love Bob Ross, so.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
He sold that he didn't obviously because he hasn't been
around for a while.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Three Bob Ross paintings sold for more than six hundred
grand at a Bottom's auction in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
They were only estimating that these were gonna sell like
for fifty thousand. Yeah. Well, they were part of thirty
Ross paintings being sold to support public television stations that
are facing federal funding cuts. Winter's piece, painted during a

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nineteen ninety three episode of the Joy of Painting brought
in three hundred and eighteen grand from a phone bidder
home in the Valley, also from nineteen ninety three, sold
for two hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars, while cliff
Side fetched one hundred and fifteen thousand. Roughly, I'm rounding up,
rounded down. Three additional Ross works will be auctioned January
twenty seventh, with more sales planned for New York and London.

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All proceeds benefit American public television stations, particularly the smaller
rural outlets.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
So did you ever watch his biography that came out?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
I did.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
I would love to have a Bob Ross painting. I'm
not an art collector. I do have a little bit
of art in my house, not that any of it's
worth anything.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
He has that hidden moneue that nobody can find.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I mean, I think the most expensive piece I have
is about three hundred dollars I paid for.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
Yeah, I don't have.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
And it's a print. It's a numbered print, so I
have if anything is in my house, it's normally a
numbered print. So in summer from local artists, some are
from national artists. Summer but it's not like I delve
in artwork, you know, like I'm not snobbish enough to
know enough about art.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Well, like his biography, I think I want to say
it was on Netflix like three or four years ago,
but wherever wherever his hometown.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Was, which off the is Indiana somewhere.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
Basically that show saved that location for PBS. Okay, and
what he did, I mean it was the most basic
of basic television vision setups you could ever have, and
then then it speared into you know, paint by number

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like all this kind of stuff. But then somebody bought
his name and like like it's this whole long drawn
out story and it's actually kind of sad what happened.
But then he was also sort of a ladies man
back in the day, that nice.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Red Afro ready Chafro. Now he's actually he was born
in Florida and died in Florida.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
But yeah, he I want to say his money was taken.
I can't remember. But it was actually kind of sad
because you know, you think of Bob Bob Ross, he's
a happy guy and happy little tree, and we could
have one little more happy little tree right here.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Happy clouds, happy little cloud, everything was happy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
I remember my grandmother. We used to get off the
bus at her house because my parents both worked and
on the farm and they had hardly any TV channels
of course, uh and and she would put on Bob
Ross so that my brother and I would take a nap.
She would make us a nice little snack and then
put on Bob Ross because his voice was so calm

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and so soothing that we would conk out.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
If you have Pluto TV, which is a free streaming service,
there is a channel that is nothing but barb Ros.
It's just Bob Ross twenty four to seven. So and
that's true. I mean you could put Bob Ross on
and like it's like you're out. Oh yeah, yeah, you're out.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
Yeah again. It's like Keith Morrison from Dateline or I.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Was telling you when my oldest son was little, we
watched Little Bear.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
It never put him out, but it put me and
my wife out at the time Bong gone out and
like we'd wake up and go we'd look at each
other like Little Bear did it again.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
And I wonder how many people have one of those
paintings laying around because in that Biery Pharaoh wall, biography
that I watched, But yeah, just smooth as butter there.
They would just like take what he painted and just
shoving in a room somewhere. Yeah, because there were so
many of them, and you know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Yeah, they said a lot of times that what would
happen is he would paint those pictures and then they
would be distributed to public television stations and then for
them to hang like in their hallway or something like that.
And some people did it, some people didn't, thinking, yeah,
what Bob Ross, who's her? You know? But now like
now they're coveted.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
Oh, you can get like Bob Ross candy.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
I got a Bob Ross bobblehead. I do. I got
I got it for Christmas. One of my kids gave
it to me for Christmas last year.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Is they wearing bell bottoms?

Speaker 4 (51:34):
I don't know. It's still in the box. I refuse
to take it out of the box anyway. Oh, we've
got your chance to win. And it's not a Bob
Ross painting.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
If we have that would be cool.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
No, what we do have is a four pack to
the nailers. Tomorrow night is military appreciation and what else
do you say, Frosty Friday, Frosty Friday. All right, one
six two four eleven seventy one hundred sixty two four
eleven seventy. Let's do caller number. Let's keep it simple.
Caller number ten, caller number ten. One in hundred six

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two four eleven seventy. It's a twenty eight. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Good Thursday morning to you, and thankfully the government shutdown
is over. So if you're planning on traveling this weekend
by air or the upcoming holiday season, whether Thanksgiving or Christmas,
that is very very good news. And obviously if you
got a family member that works for the government, exceptional news.
Once again, speaking of great news, West Liberty University football

(52:44):
coach Roger Wili is going to retire at the end
of this season. The fact that he's allowed to retire
at the end of this season is a travesty.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
This team's two and eight. They're terrible.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
I don't think this guy, and I didn't go back
and check the stats once again because I've hit on
this enough, but I don't think he's had a winning
season in over a decade.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
The fact that this guy has been allowed.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
To sit up there, draw a paycheck, be inept as
a coach.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Is a travesty in and of itself. And you know,
when I've.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Talked about this, people have asked me, man, what do
you got against Roger Wilaye.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I think I've met the guy maybe three times in
my entire life. What I have a problem with is
West Liberty University athletic directors, the president, the individuals who
make decisions on hiring and firing because they accepted losing.
So unfair to the kids, so unfair to West Liberty

(53:44):
University alumni, just unfair to everybody that they would sit
back and allow a program to underachieve for over ten
years and not care and allow this guy to draw
a paycheck when the product he's putting out on that
field is terrible. And I feel sorry for the kids

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that have gone there with high hopes, aspirations, excitement about
maybe being a part of something good, and they've been.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Crushed by a guy and his staff.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Let's not forget the staff here who just collected a paycheck,
went home and came back and never feared losing their jobs.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
I mean, let me ask you out there listening.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Unless you're a teacher and you're in a teacher's union
where there are no expectations, aren't you expected to produce
when you're at work? I mean, aren't you expected to achieve?
If not, you're probably fired. So why did Roger WILEI
get a pass for over a decade on not achieving?

(54:49):
And who stays in that position when you can't win,
just collecting a paycheck being okay with the fact that
you're a loser. I mean, he's the head coach of
the football team. The football team is an embarrassment. I'd
have walked away after year five when I figured out

(55:12):
I can't do this or I can't do it at
an acceptable level. But what human being stays and basks
in the misery of losing. I'll tell you somebody who
does that. Somebody who's checked out, Somebody who's okay with
just collecting a paycheck, putting forth minimal effort and doesn't

(55:32):
care that he's embarrassing himself in the school.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
There's nothing else I can deduce from this. I don't
know how anybody can look at it any different.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
I mean, the fact that the university has allowed this
guy to say when he's going to walk away when
his record is atrocious. The program never showed any growth,
any improvement, is beyond acceptable. So Liberty University, you should
be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to kid
after kid after kid that's come through that program for

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the last ten, twelve, thirteen years. You should be ashamed
you've allowed a guy to collect a paycheck to be
the face of your football program without adhering to any
type of standards or caring about winning. And I could
say the same thing about baseball and once again got

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nothing against Eric Berkele. My two kids were on scholarship.
He gave them some great opportunities. But the lack of
effort that that guy puts in the fact that he's
okay with losing year after year after year. Once again,
same thing as that about Wiley can absolutely be said
the same for Eric Berkele. But once again, it's the university.

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How do you not care? How do you not care
that a baseball program that the school is known for
from back in the day, back in the sixties, seventies, eighties,
early nineties really brought West Liberty all the attention they
ever had. How can you not care that it's just floundering?

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And then you go football and I get it, Hey,
we're basketball, We're a basketball school. Well, the basketball coaches
have shown you what you can achieve at West Liberty.
Why wouldn't you expect that from football and baseball? Unbelievable
to me. But again, when the power is to be
and you know who you are, don't care. This is

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what you get. This is what you get. You get
the Roger Wileyes of the world who cash that paycheck,
put in the least amount of effort and walk around
okay being a losing coach. I don't know if you
could live your life that way. I know I sure

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as just unbelievable to me.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Unbelievable. You read the guy's bio.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
You think he was the second coming of Vince Lombardi,
and then you start looking into the numbers and you
realize he's the second coming of Missus Lombardi.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Unbelievable. No personal grudge, don't know the guy.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
I'm just telling you West Liberty University should expect more
from their coaches.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Actually, let me change that.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
They should demand more from their coaches because those coaches
are not only the spokespeople for that university.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
They are the face of that university.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
So basically, the president of West Liberty University, the athletic
director of West Liberty University, and previous ones the board
of regents. They are okay with being losers. That's what
they're telling you. They're okay with being losers. And how
frickin' sad is that you're listening to the bloem Daddy

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experience eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
All right, it's eight forty seven. You're listening to the
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But we're gonna put out last call. Last call. You
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for today. Then I want to mention this. We got
an email from Fred. Fred said just letting you know
that I'm out of town for work and can hear
you just fine out here in Royal Center, Indiana. And
should I read the last part?

Speaker 3 (59:51):
It's up to you.

Speaker 5 (59:51):
Okay, This goes back to a story we had earlier.
May Casey get a daily visit from Bubba when he
gets in prison and that goes back to our store
out of Marshall County earlier. So but thank you, thank
you Fred for the email. That's fascinating all the way
out in Indiana, we are multi state otis. We always

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have been, well, okay, beyond traditionally beyond Dallas Pike, beyond
Dallas Pike and Bridgeport. Yes, we have a much larger
reach than others. I wanted to go back to very quickly,
and this will be my last comment on this. The
whole Jet Union Local situation had somebody comment on the

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Facebook post that I made a couple of minutes ago
that says, maybe they can fundraise their way to a
new roof that doesn't impact my property taxes. Well, to
this person, why don't you how about that? How about that?
The folks behind the committee to bring the Jet to
Union Local formed in twenty eighteen. This has been a

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seven year passion project that they have worked towards and
they fundraised for to raise the funds to pull this off.
They saw something they wanted to accomplish. They put together
a group and they work their tails off for seven
years to make it happen. So instead of be sitting
behind a keyboard and criticizing and making statements like maybe

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they can fundraise their way to a new roof that
doesn't impact my property taxes, do it? Do it. If
you see a need in your community and the funds
are lacking or the levees were not passed, then take
up the need yourself and do the fundraising and don't

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criticize others who pulled off what they have worked seven
years to do. That's my last thoughts on that. I
just I can't stand when people sit behind and criticize
and criticize and criticize.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Or how about just voting for the levee and don't
worry about the seven or eight dollars or the twenty
dollars that your property taxes are going to go up
because you're not even going to notice it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Yep, yep, yep. How about that? How about that? Sorry
that just that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
It's a public school, not a private school, so public
funds pay for your schools, and if you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
Don't support the public funding in the levee then.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
And he'll probably be the first one to bitch when
the school has to shut down because you know whatever,
and not that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
They're in that situation. But you know, if there's an
issue with the roof, which was the example used, form
a committee of concerned community members, concerned parents, students, and
if that needs accomplished and the levee doesn't pass, but
you supported the levee and it still needs done, then

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start a fundraising committee and make it happen. Make it happen.
Set it just lip service or keyboard service. Put your
money where your mouth is and do the legwork.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
It's the people that have the money. Yeah that normally
you are the biggest complainers.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
Yeah, so yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
They're afraid that that thirty dollars a year, that maybe
one hundred dollars a year or whatever is going to
set them back. But yet you know, they probably have
oil and gas rights, you know, so they're getting to
check there. So why not just that's free money? So
why not just take that check? And why don't you
donate it to the school? Oh no, you probably won't

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do that, will you. Or maybe you have a business
that you can say, hey, why don't we get a
roofing company and try to help them out instead of
you know, no, but We're just going to sit back
and worry about twenty five dollars a year, fifty dollars
a year, whatever it is, something small.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
And criticize people who.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I mean, if you own five hundred acres in Belmont County,
then yeah, I'm probably going to hurt you a little bit,
but you probably either have your land timbered, or you're
getting the oil and gas rights, or you get some
kind of you're you're not just sitting on five hundred
acres of land and not making money somehow.

Speaker 5 (01:04:17):
Well, and don't criticize or judge other people who accomplish something.
You may not think that what they accomplished has any
meaning or purpose. It may be something you think, add
that's irrelevant, what is the point of that? But to

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them it is relevant and they did want to accomplish
it and they did so. Again, you may not agree
with the goal, but that was the goal they set
out for and they accomplished it. So set your own
goal and if it's to get a new roof, then
make it happen. Anyways, all right, I don't want to

(01:04:59):
be that into the ground me. Yeah, well, thank you.
How about this? I don't know. Again, these food people
are coming up with just absolutely ridiculous things. But before
I get to that, Michael Jackson we talked about him
earlier this month or earlier this week with the whole
hologram thing. Well, he is officially the king of pop
once again. Thriller has been sitting at number thirty two

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on the Billboard one hundred and until the chart dated
for Saturday, it jumped to the tenth slot. Thriller did.
That makes Michael the first ever artist to rank in
the top ten in six different decades the seventies till now. Yeah,

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Michael jumped past Andy Williams, who held the record at
five decades, courtesy of his Christmas song It's the most
Wonderful time of the year.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
So wonder what boosted Michael? Oh, probably the biography.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
The movie announcement, Yeah it's out there.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Yeah, probably boosted some sales, downloads or whatever they're basing
it on anymore, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean, but I
mean that makes sense because it ties in with the
latest story.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
Yeah. Well, and for a lot of young people who
may have seen the movie trailer, they're like, you know,
what all did he sing? Or what all you know?
And they go back and I work.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
With a guy that if a Michael Jackson song comes
on the radio, he if he's driving, he changes it,
and if you're driving, he complains until you do.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
Because of the accusations and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Yeah he should he should have been in jail that together.
And I'm like, dude, he's dead for fifteen years.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
That's what I did. Did you watch the movie trailer?
I did. I'm interested to see if they even touch
that subject matter. That was a absolutely terrible way of
making that statement. Oh my lord. As soon as you

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look to me, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Like, oh, I think about things before you say them. Uh,
never mind. Yeah, well okay, yeah, broached could have been
a good word, you know, discussed. Yeah, okay, you had
to go with touch.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
Friday yet not yet?

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Oh yeah, big game tonight. I'm just going to try
to get you off of it. Backyard brawl, yes, basketball wise. Yeah,
I wasn't planning on it. And a couple of tickets
became available and I said, they said do you want them?
And I said no, if I had known earlier. And
then I made a couple of phone calls and I
was like, you guys want to go, and they were like,

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let me see if I can make it work, and
so a couple of them made it work.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
Nice, a couple of the knuckleheads that I worked with.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
Did you and Tony are pitt graduate make any type of.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
Yeah, he kind of scootered out of here. You know,
I think he was scared.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
They were scared. Oh so if he's listening, Tony.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
Yeah, well you know, being called out. No, I'm not
calling him out, just you know, I figured I just
figured he would make the first you know, make the
first move. I'm always tired of making the first move.
But I mean, if he went to a little side
hustle side bet, I was gonna say, don't bet with
Sam because she never pays her debts.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
That's not true.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
You finally did it. It took you two years to
finally buy breakfast. Listen, and it really wasn't breakfast. It
was just a sandwich from a fast food joint.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
That it was something.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
It doesn't mean that, Like I was figuring, I get
to choose my breakfast, but no, you chose it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
For me because you said to make a sausage McMuffin
with egg and that's what you got. Yeah, and it
took so long I didn't realize how early they were
open in the morning. I didn't think there was a
window of time for me to.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
Make You should have got interest, like I should have
got an extra breakfast because it took so long to
get it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
Talking to food, this is Jello is mixing things up
with Thanksgiving twist with new desserts. Think Brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce,
and even pumpkin pie jello mold yum. All right, let's
do our ice cream get we have one through twenty one.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
I'm ready today. Okay, okay, thirteen.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Thirteen, we have Bob, Bob. I'm gonna Bob. I'm gonna
be Bob. It's not Bob Ross. I will be calling
you after the show so we can get you your
certificate for your half gallon of kirks. What are you
laughing at?

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
Very tasteless joke? What do you call with no arms
and legs in the ocean? Bob?

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:09:41):
We ended this on a very tasteful note. This morning
you got yours in and I slipped mine in on
my accident too. All right, we're out of here. We'll
talk to you tomorrow.