The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 14, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 (00:15):
WWVA starts now the bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh
six on news radio eleven seventy. I want to go
live to Philadelphia. Retired Senior Secret Service Agent Don Mahallack,
ABC News Law Enforcement contributor, joining me right now. Don.
The US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center or NTAC

(00:36):
has released the state of Behavioral Threat Assessment in Management
K through twelve public schools. What exactly does that mean?
And what did they say? Good to be with you.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Over the last decade or so, the Secret Service has
been going around the country teaching schools, law enforcement and
counselors a behavioral Threat Assessment management approach to deal with
potential access school violence. That's all based on a study
the Secret Service did about school shooters. The Secret Service
looked at school shooters and school shooting incidents and tried

(01:07):
to identify behavioral characteristics that were consistent amongst all the
school shooters. They formalized that report, and they went about
and support schools, law enforcement and mental health professionals that
under a behavioral threat assessment process, which is a holistic process,
if I can see and identify these behavioral characteristics and

(01:28):
mitigated ahead of time, it could stop a potential act
of school violence. So that happened over the last decade.
And this this report looked at did what the Secret
Service do work? Did it help schools? Did it helped
keep school safer? And eighty eight percent of principle said yes,

(01:49):
the behavioral threat assessment process employed by schools around the
country have not only kept schools safer, but have helped
improve school climate. So overall, it's aroundic sus sex success
for school safety.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Don what behaviors did they find most school shooters have
or shared?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So some of the behavior yeah, So some of the
behavioral characteristics that they identified were a lot of school
shooters had a grievance or perceived grievance. They thought somebody
or something harmed them in some way or some fashion.
A lot of them also had a fixation on violence.
They fixated on violence, they talked about violence, they researched violence.

(02:31):
A lot of that fixation on previous school shooters, Columbine
being like the Golden whatever for school shooters that they
seemed to all fixate on. Another thing they also tended
to do is they also tended to basically exhibit concerning
behavior that people saw but basically nobody really reported prior

(02:54):
to committing an act of violence. So those type of
behavioral characterists it's exhibited by school shooters were things that
pretty much in the path before the behavioral threat assessment approach,
schools would either ignore or they would use a disciplinary
approach against the student. But the behavioral threat assessment approach
does is says, Okay, let's bring in law enforcement, Let's

(03:16):
bring in mental health, Let's bring in the administrators, let's
bring in teachers. Let's look at these behaviors. Let's look
at the student and look at the family and see
what and see are they on this pathway to violence?
And if they are, what can we do? What resources
can we push to the student, to the family that
can potentially stop them and get them on a better path.
A lot of it is mental health treatment, mental health therapy.

(03:38):
In the minority cases, you sometimes have to use the
law enforcement lever, but overall, you bring all the tools
to the table to stop a problem, because in reality,
if a student is exhibiting these behaviors, it's a cry
for help, and we want to make sure we get
them to help to get them on at a better place.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Talking to Don Mahollay, ABC News Law enforcement contributor, retired
senior Secret Service agent, live from Philadelphia on this report
on threat assessment in schools, Don, you said a keyword there. Family.
That's what I've always wanted to know because the thing
that I've noticed most these school shooters are young white boys.
But what about what did it say about the families

(04:17):
of these school shooters? Were these kids ignored by their parents?
Were these kids? Was there any kind of abuse, mental
or physical? I mean, there's got to be something going
on in the home that's creating these monsters.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
So the report said that in most of these cases,
the students come from broken homes, homes that have dysfunction,
homes that have problems, which is what permeates or permits
the behaviors that we see that puts them on this
pathway to violence. And there's also a mental health piece
of a tool. Most of the school shooters have some

(04:52):
type of a mental health issue. That's either been identified
or not been identified. And the other thing that another
thing that they characterized is that bullying. Bullying was pervasive
amongst a lot of these school shooters, and not that
it's an excuse, but bullying is also something that a
lot of school shooters talked about after the fact that
occurred to them.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Listen, you've been around, I mean, you're a smart guy.
I wonder your opinion on that. Bullying has been around
since the first school house was built on little house
on the prairie. Yet people didn't shoot anybody. I mean,
when I went to high school Dawn, there were shotguns
in the back of trucks because guys had them there
for deer hunting and stuff. In the parking lot. Nobody
shot anybody. So can bullying really be used as an

(05:34):
excuse when it's existed forever yet we haven't seen this
until the mid nineties.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
No, bullying is not an excuse for this kind of behavior,
but it's something that the study identified as a characteristic
that was persistent amongst all of these amongst all of
these school shooters. The bottom line is, let's face it,
there's a lot of violence that kids are exposed to today.
That back in the day, even when you and I
were kids, we weren't exposed between social media, between social media,

(06:04):
video games, you know, online stuff, videos, whatever, kids see
more violence and more violent con uh con you know,
violent content. Then I think then I think you and
I saw combined when we were kids. And in addition
to that, you go into the Internet, you can find
places that support and perpetuate this this violent behavior. So

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if somebody is on it, as I say, if somebody
is on the edge of considering doing a violent act
or not, they can go on the Internet and they
can find someplace, somebody somewhere that will push them over
the edge, right, And that's and that's and that's one
of those things that we all the nation has to
be thinking of, and which is why social media companies,
you know that have to enforce their terms of use

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and have to always be looking at what's going on
on their sites to make sure that this type of
this type of violent conduct is not being you know,
perpetuated on your social media.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Don real quick before I let you go, did they
find any common threat as far as these kids being medicated?
I mean, that's something else that it's different from when
you and I it just seems like all these damn
kids are medicated in some way, shape or form.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
The study didn't talk about whether the behavioral medication was
part of the behavioral caster. It did say that in
a lot of these situations, the school shooters did have
some type of identified or unidentified mental health issue that
was going on with them.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Okay, Don always appreciated, man, thank you, thanks for having me.
All right. That's Don Mahullay, ABC News law enforcement contributor
and retired Secret Service agent, live from Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's Friday seven, nineteen, Friday, Friday Friday, The bloom Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I love to
start off a show with Otis rolling his eyes at me,
bouncing in here. It's Friday, It's Friday, come on, come

(08:06):
on now. But you know what that means.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
It's payday.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
It's payday. That's part of the happiness.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, at least it is for me. I mean, every
Friday is a pay day for me.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
It's payday for me too. So that's uh. I actually
paid a couple of bills this morning, first thing this morning.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
So that's an idea of me'll do that during the
break you got to keep the lights on. I'm not
worried about that. I mean again that the bills get paid.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Oh but I hope you guys are waking up in
a good mood too. I'm in a really good mood today.
I don't know why, but we're going to have a
couple of people in a good mood this morning. We've
got your chance to win. We have a four pack
for the Wheeling Nailers, which is for Saturday's games.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
It would be tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
That would be tomorrow, and that is.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
First responsors night. Okay, we've been saying this all.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Week, I know, but I keep second guessing myself in
my head and flip flop.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
And it's on your notes I gave you on the
story show prep.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
It's called show I know it's it's buried under a
couple other pages. But anyways, so we're gonna have your
chance for that here a little bit later in the show,
and then also coming up here very shortly, we're gonna
be talking to the one and only Sarah Evans listen
country music superstar. She's going to be here at the

(09:30):
Capitol Theater for her holiday tour, and we will be
talking to her.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
She's in December fifth.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
December fifth, Yes, it's it's actually called the Holiday Road Tour,
so that is coming up creative. Well, the title. I
kind of thought the same thing, but I wasn't gonna
say it. I don't want to say it out loud.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
I got something. I got a message. If Tony's listening,
Oh seventy baby, backyard brawl, it's a good win. Last night,
we're four, No, you're three and one. Wow. So just
putting that out there, yikes.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Should have Betty, Oh yeah, should have told to put
his money where his mouth is. But if I would
have bet him, it would have been the other way around.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
It would have flip flopped on you.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
That's just how my luck rolls. If I had have
bet him on any any of the the betting casino
apps or whatever, they'd have get shelled. It's just that's
how it works.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, I'm like the.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Born loser the old comic strip.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Oh, I don't call yourself a loser.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Hey, I'm self aware.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Not every day you're a loser. You get to spend
their mornings with me.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Again, the born loser, that's what started it.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh shoot, shoot, shoot shoo, shoot you want to get
into some top headlines.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Well, I mean, I think we ought to mention because
it is such a you know, it's close to home
for you. And I will say this at the game
last night, for all the WU basketball games on the scoreboard,
normally during the twice a game, during a time out,
you know, you can send in like a happy birthday
to Sam, or a happy birthday Otis, or at the anniversary,

(11:30):
or it's my first game. You know, they've got the
scrolling and at the end they said they mentioned Steve Lipscomb,
and you know it said in memory, in loving memory
of Steve Lipscomb, a true West Virginia mining hero. And
obviously they found him inside the rolling thunder Mind after

(11:53):
he was lost for several days. He was forty two
years old, was discovered by a search team yesterday morning
after water levels inside the mine receded enough for their
crews to safely enter. According to Governor Patrick Morrissey, the
mine experienced a sudden substantial inflow of water last Saturday afternoon.
All seventeen other miners in the area were able to

(12:14):
evacuate safely, as Lipskomb was attempting to ensure his crew
made it out.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
So, yeah, he was the foreman. It was a six
day search, he was thirty six hundred feet underground. Yeah.
But when saying the word hero, the fact that he
made sure his crew made it out.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
He saved seventeen lives.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you said, you know it hits
close to home for me, it does. You know, I've
mentioned many times before I'm the proud wife and daughter
of a of coal miners. You know my father, my
father is retired. But for anybody out there who you know,
even if even if you're not the person that goes
to work every day, it is it is a way

(12:58):
of life. It really truly is a way of life.
And there is and I've been very vocal about those
who criticize the industry who have no idea what it
is like. I do not personally know what it's like
to go down into the mind. I've made the choice
to not experience that so that it's not in my

(13:18):
mind when I think about my loved ones going into
that area, that that that world. But if you if
you don't understand it and you don't live it, you
don't it's hard for you to grasp that. Hearing the
garage door open at three o'clock in the morning is

(13:42):
one of the best sounds you can hear. That's your
husband coming home safely. You know, down to as simple
as that. So there's a lot of criticism of the industry,
but you know, when you live it and you breathe it,
and it's it's a way of life. It's the simple
things like that that that that stick with you. So
to to his family and everybody affected by this, you know,

(14:06):
God bless you and and and it's it's unfortunate, but
he is a hero. He is a hero. A couple
other top headlines locally, a local elementary school has been
named a West Virginia Blue Ribbon School. Ohio County's uh
Steen Rod Elementary School was recognized by the state's Department
of Education. Another school in Wood County was also recognized.

(14:30):
And then, driving in rain and snow in West Virginia
is not safe, West Virginia drivers, otis.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
He doesn't say West Virginia drivers, It says driving in
rain and snow in West Virginia is okay.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's according to a new study by Angel Reyes and
Associates that ranks the Mountain state as the second most
dangerous state to drive when inclement weather strikes. The study
mentions twisting back roads, blind curves, and elevation changes among
a number of factors. Wyoming sits at the top of
the list, speaking of West Virginia and Rhodes. Next Friday,

(15:07):
We're here. We're here, folks. The twenty first, the Fantasy
of Lights parade returns to Main Street here in down
town Wheeling. So it goes back to the original route
here on Main End Market. And that is next Friday night.

(15:27):
So we will be getting out of Dodge very quickly,
won't we.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
I will be nowhere near this building at that point
in time.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Everybody always asks me. They're like, oh, you have to
have the best seats in the house for the parade,
and listen, I'm not a just not a parade person,
and I just I get out.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
I get out once my kids got out of the
parade mode. I thank God every day.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
And I'm not trying to be like negative Nancy, but
it's just it's no, I get out as fast as
I can.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
I mean, it's I mean, listen, I understand. For some
for you know, Santa is the big he's the headline
of the group. But Let's be honest. If you're if
you're an adult, and I mean if you're you know,
you have friends, maybe your kids or your neighbors, kids
playing the band at some school or something, they dance,
they dance or whatever. You know, that's always nice. The
kids love it. But as an adult, did they throw

(16:21):
out candy? Not anymore than not aloud? Cast too many,
cause too many issues. People running into the street, especially
like on Tenth Street here where because they have to
keep the traffic flowing to get to the interstate. So
they were saying people kids were running out into the
street in front of cars and stuff like that. So
they just eliminated it all together.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well parents, Hello, all right, Like I said, we have
a four pack nailers for Saturday for tomorrow. That's coming
up here a little bit later. And coming up next,
we are talking to the one and only Sarah Evans.
That's going to be here at the Capitol Theater December fifth,
so stay tuned for that. It's seven twenty eight. The
Bloomdaddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy wwva if you heard that little holiday
cheer there, we're getting in the festive spirit because joining
us now, I'm so excited about this.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
We are talking to Sarah Evans, who's going to be
joining us here in Wheeling on December fifth. Good morning,
good morning, how are you so so good? Thank you
for taking the time to jump on with us this morning.
We're going to talk about your holiday road tour coming
December fifth, right here to the Capitol Theater in Wheeling.

(17:46):
So tell us what's in what's what's going to be
happening here on the Capitol Theater stage.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
Well, we've been doing this Christmas tour for a long time.
We try to change it up a little bit every year,
but it's so much fun because you know, it's a
break from just playing all the normal songs that we
do year round, and it's a very old fashioned show

(18:12):
with a lot of all of the Christmas songs that
totally take you back, and you know, it's very nostalgic
and it's just a really fun night. And we also
play a lot of the hits as well.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
So in your mind, what makes like the ultimate Christmas show?
Is it a combination of the classics and some of
the newer stuff. What is the ultimate Christmas show for you?

Speaker 7 (18:37):
I think, to me, just the fact if it's good,
like if the music is great and the singing is great,
and everybody's moved by you know, the religious aspect of
these songs, which I love to choose those. We have
a couple of, you know, really big, quiet highlight moments

(18:58):
in the show that you know, usually I look out
and see people crying and I just love it. I
love it so much, and it's not easy. I'll tell
you that these songs are you know, They've got a
lot of chords in them. They're different than just your
three chord country song, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
You know, you said you've been doing this tour for
a while now, and we know that you've been here
at the Capitol Theater with your Christmas show in the past.
How do you keep it fresh just by.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
You know, kind of starting to think about it in
the summer and like, what do we want to do
different and what do we want to keep the same.
And you know, as you go along and do them,
you you get the reaction from the audience, so you
know which things are working and which things are you know,
more popular, and like last year, oh, this certain song

(19:50):
didn't really go over that well, so we're changing that,
just trying to be as creative as possible and also
make it, you know, a really cozy, fun night that
gets everybody in the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
And you mentioned earlier the word nostalgia. This time a year,
of course, brings back memories for everybody. Do you have
a favorite Christmas memory or say a Christmas tradition that
you celebrate with your friends and family.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
Well, every Christmas Eve we go to my brother Matt's
house and we do non traditional food. He makes lasagna. Okay,
so we go to church on Christmas Eve, go to
his house, have lasagna, and then we play catchphrase or
some kind of game, and we do dirty Santa. Is
that what it's called, you know, where you steal each

(20:39):
other's gifts. Some we'll call it pink el. What is
it called white white elephant? Yeah, we do that. And
then Christmas Morning, everybody is at my house and we
open gifts, and then I make a huge Christmas breakfast
and then Christmas Day we'll eat more food as though

(21:01):
we need more. Right at that point, the best part
of the holidays is going to be the most special
one I think I've ever had in my life because
of John Evans, who is six weeks old, and so
it's this first Christmas nice.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
That's that's what it's fun. Excited, Yeah, that's what it's fun.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
So, you know, it says we know that you've started
a podcast called Diving in Deep. You've had a wide
variety of guests and everything else. When din't you give
us a little information on that?

Speaker 7 (21:34):
The podcast is we're kind of on a hiatus right
now because we're going with another company and you know,
making a new set, and so we're hoping to be
able to relaunch in the beginning of twenty six. And
I'm also going in the studio and making new music
in twenty six. So twenty six is a combo of

(21:55):
touring but also new music, new podcasts, all that stuff.
So and new new grand baby. So very very busy
as always.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
You've been in the business now for you know, thirty
years or so. What what's the biggest change that you've
seen since you've come into the industry to today.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Well, the biggest, biggest, biggest change is you know, the
lack of record sales and the way that artists make money,
and you know how music is basically kind of given away,
So it's it's a lot it's a lot more difficult
to sort of make a living at it as it

(22:39):
used to be used to be. You know, where you
do the the stories that everybody hears. You moved to Nashville,
You get a record deal, you make a record, you
go out on tour, your label is supporting you. And
now you know, you can have one TikTok that goes
incredibly viral, and you might get signed to a label
and go out and have this big tour where you

(23:01):
have like one song. It's just very, very different, and
you know, then you have all the AI stuff that's
coming in that I hope and pray does not replace
real musicians, real songwriters, real singers. I really pride myself on,
you know, keeping everything super real, super authentic, and you know,

(23:25):
not using that stuff to make me sound better. I
just want it to be the best. And that's the
thing with my shows. To me, it's all about the music.
And so my biggest priority is having the best musicians
that I can afford and do the best show that

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I can and you know, sing the songs better. Than
I even sing them on the record, and I want
people to go away going, oh my gosh, that's the
best sounding show that I've heard in a long time.
Rather than the other details, like you know, the set

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and all of that. I just am all about the
music and always have been really.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah, you know, it's people's natural, god given talent should
be celebrated in not lost with technology increasing.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
Yeah, and if you you know, we take it too
far with technology, then we're going to lose the heart
of music and in the heart of movies and TV
shows and art in general. And I just really really
want that part to stay away from, you know, because
we have amazing producers and writers and musicians that you

(24:45):
don't want them all to lose their jobs because of AI.

Speaker 8 (24:48):
And that's a.

Speaker 7 (24:50):
Little stressful, you know, when you're wanting to make this
your career, right, So I would say that's the biggest change.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well. In one final question before we le you go,
Sarah Sarah again, we're talking to Sarah Evans. Going to
be here December fifth, here at the Capitol Theater with
holiday road tour. When when folks leave the show here
and wheeling when you visit us, how do you want
them to walk away. What's the feeling you want them
to walk away with.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
I want them to walk away wiping their tears from
their eyes, because it's a very emotional show, like it's
it's kind of an emotional roller coaster with you know,
happy Christmas songs, and then we do some really serious moments,
and I love the religious aspects of Christmas music, and

(25:38):
so we do a lot of those, but also we
play some of the hits, and so I want them
to go away just with their you know, breath having
been taken away from how great everything's sounded, and that's
the most important thing to me. Well, I can tell
you I want them to go away crying, but it's
a good cry.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
I can tell you that your Christmas Show is one
of the most popular shows here when we're wheeling, because
we recently gave away some tickets to your show, and
our phones were blowing up because people are begging us
for tickets for your show.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
Oh my gosh, that's so nice. Thank you, that's great.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, we can't wait to see.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
You really do put a lot into it, and like
I said, it's and my daughter, one of the three
of my children, is going to be out with me
on this tour this year, so that'll be great.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh what a cool aspect to add to the show. Well,
once again, Sarah Evans, thank you so much for your
time this morning.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Well, thank you, thank you guys for everything, and marthy
holidays to you, Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Thank you, same to you, same to you.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
There she goes, great day, Oh you two, there she goes.
Ladies and gentlemen. Sarah Evans performing here at the Capitol Theater,
December fifth, the Holiday road Tour. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy w
w vare.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
The Lessons.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Seven sixty one. Welcome back to Bundetti Experience. Sam and
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. She was awesome to
talk to. I mean she was fun. She was fun.
She brought up.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
The funny thing was I had, like the all these
questions in my mind and within the first thirty seconds
she answered them all.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
I know and I was like, oh, now where do
we go?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
She brought up a game called catchphrase, and I don't
know if you saw my reaction, I was like this,
we play that game every Christmas my family nerd. No,
it is so flipping fun nerds and everybody can play it.
It's not a nerd game.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
It's a fun just saying you're a nerd?

Speaker 4 (27:46):
What does that make me a nerd?

Speaker 5 (27:48):
That doesn't make you a nerd. I just wanted to
call you a nerd your entire life.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
No sound effects today?

Speaker 5 (27:56):
Oh you never know? Okay, I mean I can always
say something like a what would be a.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Nerd sound of? Is that a monkey of them? It
kind of sounds like a turkey in there at certain point. Okay,
that's special about jumped out of my seat. Oh that

(28:26):
was so loud in my headset.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Oh man, jeez, I need to get Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
You do not like that? Holy cow? Yikes. Oh all right,
let's go to this guy. We have a visitor. Uh.
In an effort to protest the political entanglements of certain corporations,
a Black Friday boycott is planned for several large retailers,
including Amazon. Amazon's founder and evil Genius thinks that's a

(28:58):
very cute idea.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Are Jeff Bezers?

Speaker 9 (29:02):
It has come to my attention that there's a Black
Friday boycott planned against Amazon.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, good luck with that. I mean, what are you
gonna do go to.

Speaker 9 (29:14):
An actual store on Black Friday? Really, you do realize
you need to get dressed for that, don't you. Are
you really gonna change out of your pajama pants and
into your going out pajama pants just to dive to
a place where there's people. It's bad enough you'll be
with people on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Now you're going to do it two days in a row.

Speaker 9 (29:37):
Knock yourself out, and trust me, the second you pull
up and see the line out the door, you'll say
by now and then head right back to Amazon to
click bye.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, I'm really shaking in my food server here.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
You do the Black Friday thing, don't you?

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Hell?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
No, oh no, it's bloom Daddy does. He loves Black Friday.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
No, there's not a shot in hell.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
I got the two of you confused. I don't know
how I could do that.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Really.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
What I like Black Friday? I think it's fun.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
I mean I remember before COVID, like when they would
have the sales starting at four o'clock in the morning
or whatever it was. And I remember my buddy's telling me,
one of my buddies going, oh yeah, I was. I
was in line waiting to get an, I got that
TV for three hundred and twenty nine dollars. I'm like, dude,
Like at eight o'clock it was like three hundred and

(30:37):
thirty nine dollars. Is that ten dollars really worth it?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
God?

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Well? And prior to COVID was when there was that
huge push for places to be open on Thanksgiving, and
I remember back then it was a big conversation of
you know what, everybody can wait to shop on Black Friday.
Those employees and I can't I can't remember for it
was Walmart or what the chain stores were at that

(31:06):
point in time that were doing it, but I remember saying,
those people deserve to be home on Thanksgiving with their families.
You know, you can get the deals on Black Friday.
You know what?

Speaker 10 (31:17):
It was?

Speaker 4 (31:18):
What are you laughing at?

Speaker 5 (31:19):
I had a buddy of mine who had a kid
right around Thanksgiving and the deal for some reason, and
of course this was a long time ago, and there
was probably some adult beverages involved, but we were out
on Thanksgiving and he had his kid and I said,
if you have your kid on such and such a date,

(31:41):
I'll shave my head. And so he had the kid
on the date and so we were trying to find
clippers to shave my head, and we went to like
fourteen different stores that were closed because it was Thanksgiving,
because they were getting ready for Black Friday, and I
think we finally found somebody that was opening, and then

(32:02):
later that night we shaved my head. So not bald,
it's just pretty close.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Pretty close.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah, And don't ask me why that came, why that
happened at all.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
When this long time ago, thirty years ago, oh okay.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Like it would have been let's see ninety ninety four,
ninety five somewhere in there.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Did you still have the facial hair though, with the
bald head.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah, I might have had a full beard.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
That'd be weird looking, so a little different looking.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
My kids have never seen me without facial hair.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Really, I've never seen my husband without facial hair. I've
never seen him clean shaven. I don't even know what
at the bottom half of his face looks.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Go to Snapchat. You can go to Snapchat. It'll take
the facial hair off and then he can take a selfie.
There's one of the you know how they put the hat,
the hats on your hand or do whatever. Yeah, yeah,
you can do that on Snapchat because I did it
one time and it removed my facial hair.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
My friend just texted me, if he ever came home
with completely clean face, it'd be like I'm married to
a different having an affair with some stranger. Yeah, never
seen him completely completely.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
I think I've had I've had a mustache.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
You're gonna say, mullet.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
No, I've had a mustache since I was a junior
in high school. It's never been shaved ever.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Your your upper lip has not seen the light of
day since you went through puberty, basically.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Since I was since I was sixteen years old. Seventeen
years old. Oh my lord, so.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Well, you saved a lot of money on razors.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
I guess I haven't bought a razor, and I don't
know how long I use my beard trim to shave
up my side.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
My god, your upper lip has gotta be pale as
never seen the sun.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
It's like my rear end.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
On that note, we're gonna go to a break. Seven
fifty eight. The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy wwv.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
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 seventy.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
WWVA starts now News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom
Daddy Experience. Hey, it's eight six, let's get this hour.
Rolling Guardian's pitcher Emmanuel Class turning himself into authorities. Of course,
Louis Ortiz did a couple of days ago, these high
profile sports betting schemes. I want to bring in Brad Garrett,
ABC News Crime and Terrorism Analyst live from Washington. Brad,

(34:59):
when you take a look at what's going on, not
only in baseball, but basketball's got a scandal. I'm sure
there's going to be other sports out there too, kind
of give me a profile. Kind of give me a
profile these athletes and sports executives who are implicated in
these sports betting crimes.

Speaker 11 (35:14):
Okay, just thirty seconds of how we got here. Yeah,
twenty eighteen, there was a Supreme Court ruling that allowed
the States to set up sports betting, and from that
point forward, we're now talking seven years. It's absolutely exploded.
Where you can have an app on your phone, the
addiction rate to gambling, you know, setting aside the players

(35:35):
for a second, is unbelievably high. And so we're in
the midst of really sort of a gambling haven, if
you will, in the sports arena that, as you well know,
includes prop bets where you can bet over and underperformance
of a player in a given game, and that obviously
goes to some of the folks charged in these indictments

(35:56):
about you know, they have told people they're going to
under play, so bet accordingly to make money. But you know,
it's something that I don't think you can put back
in the bottle because the public likes it so much
the sports betting aspect, not the not the player's behavior.
But you know, if you to your question, if you

(36:17):
look at the studies on what type of person. I
don't know enough about these players to say that fits them,
but what studies have shown is the following. They tend
to be narcissistic, self serving, power grabbers, deceitful, and they're
just people who are in it for themselves. Now you
would argue, well, wait a minute, some of these folks

(36:39):
have made over one hundred million dollars in their in
their basketball, football you know, career, and they're still out
there basically cheating to make money, whether it's in a
rigged poker game in one indictment to the stuff that
you just talked about recently, So you know, it's you
know why they do it. I think there's a number

(36:59):
of reasons, and I don't know that there is really
a concrete way to stop it. They can slow it down.
They're now using algorithms looking for anomalies in sports betting,
and they've actually it isn't one of the indictments where
there actually can show that a particular player at a
particular time, you know, find an injury underperformed intentionally. But

(37:24):
it happened so many times and that's how they'd caught
some of these guys. So we'll see. That's not a
perfect way to do it though.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Talking to Brad Garrett, ABC News Crime and Terrorism Analyst
live from Washington, DC so in Ohio, Brad Governor Dwine
wanted to get rid of prop bets. You've got sports
books out there now limiting how much can be put
on a prop bet. But I've got a gambling expert
who's a good friend of mine, who works for iHeart,
who said, look, you can't get rid of it. The

(37:52):
bottom line is this, This was all going on before
it became legal. Now there's more safeguards in place. That's
why these guys are getting by. He said, it's actually
better that it's legalized now because there's more people watching
and therefore it's going to cause yeah, people to get caught.
But all this went on behind the scenes before anyway,

(38:13):
without anybody watching.

Speaker 11 (38:14):
Well, I think there is some merit in that statement,
but I think you also have to look at the
flip side of that. Take the player out of it.
And if you start to listen to people, for example,
to treat gambling addiction, their therapists that they specialize in that,
they say they have so much business they can't keep
up with it. So the level of gambling addiction is

(38:39):
you know, statistically it's going to be higher because there's
so many more people involved in betty. It's not going
to go away, as I mentioned earlier, but it's one
of those things that you have to deal with. The
good in the bag when you legislate certain things like marijuana,
you know, financially it makes money, not so much that
people's health, etc. But it's out there and it makes
the stake money, just like gambling clearly will make or

(39:02):
does make Ohio money.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
All Right, Brad, thanks for the time today, appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (39:06):
You're welcome to take care, all.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Right, Brad Garrett, ABC News Crime and Terrorism analysts.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Don't you think otis when we talk about gambling addiction,
you talk about just addictions in general, but culturally with
the growth of the online betting, the sports betting, the
fantasy versions of sports, the easy accessibility with it on

(39:32):
your phones. Now, are we basically feeding the beast?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Absolutely, you know. I mean you can't. You can't go
to a sporting event without the advertising being, you know,
just right there in your face. There are so many
online betting avenues right now that I mean, that's the
only thing you see advertised on TV anymore. I mean,
whether it's FanDuel, bet MGM fanatics, I mean, everybody's getting

(40:00):
into it. Draft Kings, you know, they were the first
ones to get in it, and you know, I mean,
I'm not gonna lie. I have two betting accounts. I
couldn't tell you the last time I was on them
in I mean, but I also know somebody that bets
on he has to make a bet every day on something. Now,

(40:22):
sometimes he might only bet a dollar. I mean he doesn't.
I mean, he's not losing.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Big meting a paycheck.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
Sometimes he might only bet. He might bet the minimum,
like ten cents, just to just to have the bet
and just for just to follow to see what's going on.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
Now, he might do a five dollars bet here, he
might do a ten dollars bet here, But most of
his bets are probably under five dollars. You know, and
there during COVID when everything was canceled. I mean, he
admits he was betting on Russian ping pong. That's that's
the honest, That is the honest of God's truth.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Okay, Now in the world even find where to bet.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
Because because the website was giving them something another alternative.
You know, you look at Emmanuel class A and you
know there there has to be something that's not clicking
in your head because he was set to make thirty
million dollars and he was having somebody bet for a

(41:22):
twelve thousand dollars bet.

Speaker 10 (41:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
The numbers and that's just.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Like how dumb are you?

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Yeah, when you see those numbers, you just go why what?

Speaker 5 (41:32):
Why risk it?

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:34):
I mean, you're making you're gonna make thirty million dollars
and you're you're worried about a twelve thousand dollars quick
hit on a on a betting website. You have to
be the biggest more on there is.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
And in those situations, I don't think it's about what
you're going to win. It's almost about the ability to
get away with it.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Or it might be the control because now I can
control what's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Or and that's also saying I'm able to get away
with it under the guy, you know, even when the
bosses are looking.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yeah, I mean, I just I mean, and then you know,
now they're allowing college kids to bet on pro games,
you know, and you know, I remember Blue Daddy's guest
a couple of weeks ago said, oh, well they were
going to do it anyway. Well, you don't know that.
You know, if you take if you take away the temptation,
then you don't have to worry about it. But the

(42:30):
temptation is I mean, it doesn't matter because DraftKings and
all the advertisings at every major sporting event, college, pro, whatever.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
And it then calls into question the legitimacy or the
sanctity or the honesty integrity of sports. When you see
a very questionable call, you're going to look at that
ref and say.

Speaker 5 (42:58):
Huh, it's gonna doesn't matter. I didn't even have to
be questionable. You're just going to say it was that called.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
You're immediately going to go that direction. Yeah, well, I
think it all ties back to his guests there brought
up the marijuana targic. Yeah, we're a gluttonous society. If
you think back twenty five thirty years ago, you never
would have seen advertising about gambling to the level that
we see.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
You never saw a hard liquor advertised you can advertised
beer and wine.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Right, You never would have even considered walking to an
into a store and buying marijuana. I mean, and look
what we have today. There's a new shop out in
Saint Clairsville and you can't get in the parking lot,
you can't even get near it. It's crazy, it's crazy.
But that's how quickly things change. That's how quickly things change.

(43:48):
Eight fifteen will get back. We're going to be talking
to Mishelle Berry with the City of Wheeling about something
that Otis is participating in.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
And never forget we got a family. We're backed for
tomorrow' Wheeling Nailer's game coming up? What's the main mariners
for first responders night?

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Yep. Everybody's getting into the holiday season and we're going
to talk with Michelle about the city Wheeling and what
they're doing. It's a fifteen. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It's

(44:25):
a twenty one on this Friday. Welcome back the bloom
Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. If
you follow us on Facebook, you saw yesterday I had
the opportunity to visit the High Valley Mall for the
Kettle kickoff for the Salvation Army. So all the signs
are popping up. It is holiday season. Wheeling is in

(44:46):
on that too. Joining me now in studio, we have
rachelle Berry, the director for the Parks and Rec Department
here for the City of Wheeling. Good morning, thank you
for coming in, Thanks for having me. So you're getting
in on the holiday stravaganza that's going on throughout Wheeling.
So you know we were talking before we come on
people that are already fully decorated for Christmas. Right, But

(45:10):
I said, now the turkey Turkey, he's kind of gotten
skipped over. Not with you.

Speaker 10 (45:17):
We are celebrating the turkey.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
You're celebrating the turkey the morning of Turkey Day. Tell
us what's going on.

Speaker 10 (45:22):
We have the Wheeling Turkey Trot five k. We start
off the morning with a kids run at eight thirty
and then have the five k run, walk, stroll along
with coffee in hand, whatever you want to do, just
get out that morning and join the community and walk.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
With them, Bring a slice of pumpkin pottygo with the
turkey if you.

Speaker 10 (45:39):
Want, really, just stroll along. It's fine.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
So okay, So you mentioned the kids, So this is
for all ages.

Speaker 10 (45:46):
Yes, we don't have a limit on the kids run.
It's any ability as if a child feels they can't
do the full three miles, it's just a lap around
the track.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
And the purpose behind this is the proceeds to support
the parks in a foundation. Correct.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
Yes, So our main thing right now with the Parks
and Rec Department is our scholarship fund, which helps kids
that aren't able to afford a camp. Will either pay
for part of it or the full thing. Whatever the
parents need. And then also a Lifeguard Scholarship Fund which
is helping lifeguards get certified so they can get a job.
They just agree to work for us for a year
and that helps them get it.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
So again, this is the second annual Turkey Trot happening
Thanksgiving morning. So basically this is an opportunity to get
out of the house and get out of the chef
for the day's way, yes, and work off some of
the Thanksgiving dinner before you even eat it.

Speaker 10 (46:41):
It's a good excuse to get out, like, sorry, I
gotta go run.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Yeah, I can't make the cranberries. I've got to go
do the Turkey Trot. So what part of where is
this going to be held?

Speaker 10 (46:51):
It starts a wheeling university on the track heads out
Curry Drive which is by Pleasanton Playground, on to Washington
Avenue and then back onto campus.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
And in the information provided there, what is the the
pardon turkey.

Speaker 10 (47:06):
That is for anybody out of town, many relatives and
that wants to get involved and wants to get the
T shirt. Basically, you tell us that you run, we
can't check anything, but that will send you a shirt.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
So everybody who participates gets a shirt as long as
they sign up by this Sunday.

Speaker 10 (47:22):
This Sunday, Okay, we'll have a few extra but to
guarantee the right size for you, sign up by this Sunday.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
And where can where do they go to sign up?

Speaker 10 (47:30):
Best place look for is wheelingwv dot gov. And then
along the tabs you'll see Turkey Trot on the left
hand side. Just click on there and get registered.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
Okay, And I think I know somebody that's already registered.
He's sitting in there.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
I just got an email last night Wheeling Turkey Trot
two weeks away.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Did you turn in your T shirt size?

Speaker 5 (47:46):
Oh yeah, I registered. I registered about a week or
so ago.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
He's going to be running.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
No, he's not. He doesn't run. He can't run. I
can run backwards. I can't run.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
You can run backwards.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
Yeah, with my hip, I can't all forwards, but I
can run backwards.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
You have a crew coming right.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
I don't know if it's a crew. I know there's
a couple of people that are going. The one lady,
she's like a champion walker like she Oh, she's like
she's she's serious.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
The rest of us are just we're just like yeah, whatever.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
You're gonna chitter chat the whole time.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
Well, I normally listen because it's it's the Hens that
chitter chat.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
The Hens nice.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
It is turkey trot nice.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
That's nice. So back to parks in wreck. You know,
that's kind of a broad term. What all does that
for the city, for the area for city of Wheeling,
That that entails what areas and parks and all of
that that.

Speaker 10 (48:37):
We are of the city parks there's twenty two of them,
includes the four city pools. We work in coordnation with
Wheeling Park and Ogley, but there's a lot of confusion.
We are not them, they're separate. We partner with some
camps and as festivities with them though. And then we
have I four seventy baseball fields, Jabe Chambers Sports Complex

(48:57):
oversee all of those and then just recreational program I
mean throughout the year for it.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
So there's a there's a lot of that you cover, Yes, a.

Speaker 10 (49:05):
Lot of projects updating constantly.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
So when when the weather changes as we get into
the colder months, how does that does that slow things
down for you at all?

Speaker 10 (49:14):
Not really, We're planning for the summer usually right now. Yeah,
and then we also try to throw in some of
Valentine's Day events Charcuterie board classes, that type of thing
to keep momentum going, to get some support for their
wreck department.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Since since last year was the first year for the
Turkey trot, how how was the turnout?

Speaker 10 (49:31):
It was actually really good. It was three hundred and
six people.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (49:34):
Yeah, which we had no clue what to expect. The
Turkey trot used to happen in Wheeling and then it
just fell off. I think some people retired, so we
were asked to bring it back. So I think some
people already had that momentum going.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
I think I know what I need to find. I
hope he's not listening in there. I need to find
him a turkey costume, you know, the inflatable one, the
new inflatable.

Speaker 10 (49:55):
I have one in the office if you want to
wear it.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Oh, he's not even smiling. He's not even smiling about
this idea. I don't. I think it would be great.
That's great social media picks for our page.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
Then you can dress up.

Speaker 10 (50:13):
It will help you go faster.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
No, not gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Well, shoot, so there is. You do encourage though, the
participants to get there early. And everything to pick up
your packets and so you don't have to wait in line.

Speaker 10 (50:27):
Yeah, we do have early packet pick up at our
office the Tuesday and Wednesday before. Encourage that that we
can show up be ready to go. You don't even
have to check in with us if not. We're there
at seven am Thursday morning. Come see us, get your
BIP and get ready to go.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
And this is a major project which you of course
don't do alone. And anybody you want to dimension or
thank for working on.

Speaker 10 (50:48):
This, Our entire team in the Rec department are amazing.
We have an intern right now that we keep putting
the turkey costume on and making him take videos. And
then also our Parks and Rec Commission, they've been amazing.
They out and help us get donations and sponsors and
promoting the event.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
And again this is happening Thanksgiving morning. It's the second
annual Wheeling Turkey Trot, all in support of the Parks
and Recreation Project Fund which supports the improvements and the
scholarships that you mentioned. Correct, and you can still sign
up give out that website again, WHEELINGWV dot gov backslash
Turkey Trot right.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
Yes, I would say just go to the main page.
You'll see the tab for it.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Is there a turkey that like comes with.

Speaker 10 (51:31):
The person running?

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Oh really, I was joking. I didn't think you were
gonna actually actually say that. And if anything, you get
a T shirt.

Speaker 10 (51:38):
Yeah, an awesome swag bag too.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Oh yeah, Well maybe I'll sign up and I'll be
and i'll be the uh, I'll be a pardon turkey. Yes,
I'll be out of town actually, So again, get your
registration in if you would like to participate. This is all,
of course for a great cause. It's what eight it's
a twenty eight on your Friday. That was a mouthful.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, Rachelle, Thank you

(52:03):
so much for your time this morning here on news
Radio eleven seventy WWVA thirty six on the Friday. Welcome
back the Blue Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
Have you ever been to a BUCkies?

Speaker 3 (52:28):
No?

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Are you going to read this story? Because I wanted
to say the words, but go ahead, just to say
I said it on the radio.

Speaker 10 (52:35):
Go for it.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Well BUCkies obviously they're Texas travel based travel stop.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
People are obsessed with these things.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
I've been to one I have not I have, I
have no desire to go back. Oh really, although I
will say this, everything that I bought was great, like
I had fudge and I had a sandwich and whatever.
But the amount of people that were in this store
was so uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
It's like a tourist attraction.

Speaker 5 (52:59):
Yes, okay, Well, you know they like to have fun
with their logo, which is it's a cartoon beaver.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
It's a beaver, buck teeth and everything.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
But when it comes to protecting their trademark, their lawyers
really don't mess around. BUCkies has sued in Oklahoma based
men's underwear brand called nut Huggers. There, I'd let you
say it, thank you.

Speaker 7 (53:23):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
The lawsuit claims the company's logo, which is also a
cartoon beaver, is too close to their brand. The owner
of nut Huggers says that he will fight it in court.
First off, if the name of your business is nut Huggers,
why is your logo of beaver?

Speaker 4 (53:43):
I was gonna ask that, but yeah, like.

Speaker 5 (53:46):
Why not a couple of acorns or a no tree or.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Cashews or I don't know, some variation of a legome right?
Is that what a nut is a lagome? Yeah? Okay?
Or Sam, we have a couple uh crazy stories?

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Should I mean it is Friday? Shouln't we address the
pole questions?

Speaker 9 (54:15):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Yeah, we could.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
I mean, that's probably a good place to start, since
like you posted him last night and we haven't even referred.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
To him at all, we haven't. The first one was
which household chore do you hate to do the most?

Speaker 5 (54:30):
Just throw them in a hat and just pull one
out because I and I and I keep putting. I
put him off all the time. I'm I'm a very
bad procrastinator.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
Yeah, well you're a man.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
That's part of it.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
That tends to go along with your part of my
My the one that I can't stand. I absolutely know.
I can't stand cleaning bathrooms, whether it's the toilet, the shower,
any of those I can, or cleaning out the frit
I'm kind of torn because when you start digging in
the back of the fridge or the freezer, that's when

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you start Oh yeah, yeah, because you probably have a
science and experiment hidden in the back.

Speaker 5 (55:13):
I really don't.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
No, yeah, I tend to find although I.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
Think one of my shelves needs wiped off because I
bought a bag of grapes and so like a couple
of the grapes probably went bad and seek because the
bag has got some little holes in it. Andy, it's
not it's not bad, but it's just a little sticky,
so it probably just needs wiped out.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Little got a little little leakage happening there.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Yeah, I mean, like, I really there's a bunch of
stuff I really need to do, and I should probably
do it this weekend, because like I have been putting
crap off for so long that now it's starting to
irritate me. So if it's irritating me, it's time to
it's time to make a move.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
That means you might need a professional to come in.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
Oh, I know, I just need a.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Or that route.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
Yeah, I mean, well, I really just need a dumpster
because there's crap I just need to get rid of.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
Well, and see, I am debating whether I succumb to
the pressure of society and do my Christmas decorating this weekend.
Here's what happens though, and this is why I put
it off as long as possible. Number One, I love
fall decorations and it's still technically fall. We haven't even
made it to Thanksgiving yet. But when I start putting

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up decorations, you take everything down, and that's when everything
that's hidden comes to light. The cobwebs, the dust bunnies,
the all of that stuff pops out.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
In some cases it comes to life.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Or that way. Yeah, and then it turns into what
would have been two or three hours turns into four
to six hours, because then my OCD kicks in and
I have to clean the base boards, and I have
to move the furniture and all of that kind of stuff.
And one of the one of my goals this winter
is to pull out the stove in the fridge. Have
you ever done that? I don't even know how Some

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of that stuff gets back there and it fits. I mean,
you'll find a pork chop that you had for dinner
two years ago.

Speaker 5 (57:18):
I'm not finding pork chops. I can guarantee you that
I haven't either. A bit I was you might find
like you might find something like a a spice, like
a spice container or something of that nature. You know,
maybe if you were stirring something up, like a pot
of chili or something you like, maybe you there might
be a little bit like a kidney bean or something

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behind there. But I'm not. I'm not finding any like
body parts. I hope not.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
I was talking to set.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
I was talking to somebody last night. We were talking
about the Christmas decoration thing, and I, you know, I said,
I refuse, I'm not going to She was saying that
she has, uh, she's say four or five trees up already.
I know. So somebody that puts a Christmas tree in
their bathroom in their bathroom.

Speaker 5 (58:05):
I put my Christmas tree up in December of twenty
sixteen and it's not come down yet.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
Wait what backup?

Speaker 5 (58:14):
Wait, it's like it's only like a little three foot
Christmas tree. It's in the corner of my It's in
the corner of my liberty room. I have never taken
it down.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
What do you do? Just throw a blanket over it
and then I'll just leave it there. Sure that's nice
and dusty.

Speaker 5 (58:30):
Nobody comes to my house.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
Well, okay, since twenty sixteen, Well we can celebrate a
ten year anniversary of it next year.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
We sure can. Because it's not coming down.

Speaker 4 (58:43):
Do you turn it on?

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Do you light it up once in a while, just
to not only your Christmas season? But the ornaments are
on it and everything like nothing, nothing's changed.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
You don't use it to set them.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
Sometimes I add an ornament, but I don't think i've
added one for a while. Maybe i'll get you, I'll
take a picture.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
What's the topper? It's a star.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
A topper might get changed, Oh, because somebody gave me
the topper and oh, okay, it actually may we may
might need.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
A new topper. Yeah, what do you prefer? An angel?

Speaker 2 (59:14):
A star?

Speaker 3 (59:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
I have to look and see. I know there's an
angel on there. I don't know if it's the topper,
but the angel, I think is either going to go.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
The angel probably has gray hair at this point.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
Well, it doesn't have any hair. It's bald. It's a
bald angel, just a little it's like just a little
wooden head, like a little wooden circle with a halo.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Poor tree has been sitting there from us ten to
ten years.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Nine years coming up, probably about nine years almost nine years. Oh,
that's just what's our second pole question?

Speaker 4 (59:42):
Oh, the second pole question is have you ever seen
a nude person in an unusual place? And there's a
reason behind this question. So there was a guy's name's
Paul Severson, He's sixty six years old from Minnesota. He's
now facing disorder a disorderly conduct charges after multiple reports

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of public nudity outside of his home. Police filed a
November fourth misdemeanor complaint following witness accounts of him performing
yard work without clothing. The kicker is the yard work
involved a chain saw. Yikes, I can't even imagine.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
The I'm not operating the chainsaw or a weed whack
or nude the risk of hedge clippers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Nah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Yeah, I haven't seen many naked people out in the
wild like that in their natural habitat, I will say,
And you're supposed to see him here, I saw it.
I walked past the nude beach once. I did not
participate in the nude beach. I will tell you this.
You have not lived until you have seen an entire
group of roughly I think it was about ten people

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that were women, then men playing nude beach volleyball. I
believe I've told this story before.

Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
You can go to Pittsburgh and do the nude bowling. Yeah,
it's coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
No, it was last weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
It already happened, already happened.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
We missed it. We missed it next year, next year,
So you don't have a nude person.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
I do, but I've just I think I'm better off
not telling it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
Why.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Well, there's there's a there's a place in Marshall County.
Oh that place, and so they have an ABC license
and it is a nudiest colony. But I have never
seen anybody naked there. But I did see like they
have restrooms in the one building, and I did see
the one guy like instead of walking in and using

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the restroom, he just kind of whipped it out right
in the middle of it as I'm driving away, and
in my rear view mirror, that's what I say. No,
I mean, I was like, okay, Like, dude, why didn't
you just walk to thirty feet and go to the restroom.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Oh let it all hang out in the breeze, folks.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
And I'll just leave it at that. I'm not gonna
say anything. And the nice thing is I don't have
to go there that much anymore. I don't have to
go there anymore because the guy that does Wetzel County
in South he actually lives closer. So you passed the
buck so he's twenty minutes away. I'm like an hour
and fifteen minutes away, so he just has he gives ahead,
knocks it out for me, and I'm like, thank you,

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thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Oh, eight forty six coming up, we're gonna have your
chance to win.

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
We have forty there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Oh, I'm sure he'd love to hear that. You never
see what you want to see at those types of places,
or at nude beaches. We're gonna jump to a quick break.
We have Nailer's tickets coming up here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA, it's fifty one on your Friday. The
Blue Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam and Kevin Cooks draw Automotive.

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
He blew us off yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
Oh, I thought you were gonna say, did it again today? No,
he's here, He's here, Hi, Kevin?

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
Maybe Hey, are you a mountaineer, Honda?

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
I am headed that way.

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
You know what, will be careful going through Morgantown because
that backyard brawl last night was very very nice.

Speaker 8 (01:03:17):
Did you go to the game?

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
I did.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
Good for you? Good for you? Yeah, it turned out
pretty good. Yep, yep. You did what they were supposed.

Speaker 6 (01:03:27):
To do, right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
Seventy one forty nine.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
That's what much of the ball.

Speaker 12 (01:03:33):
That's more of a beat down.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
Well, thank you very much. Did you hear that, Tony?

Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
Wow, he's not gonna come back.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
So what's going on in as Straw Automotive and Mountaineer
Honda today?

Speaker 8 (01:03:45):
I am we're headed, you know where to the number
one Honda dealer in the entire state. Just drove by
the number two Honda dealer and both of those aren't
of the Straw Automotive groups.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:03:56):
And you know, start thinking about some of the reasons why, okay,
because you know, there are a lot of Honded dealers.
There's Honted dealers.

Speaker 12 (01:04:05):
All over Pittsburgh, There's Honted dealers all over the state.

Speaker 8 (01:04:08):
But you know one of the reasons why is you know,
it's the experience itself. You know, we've got over five
thousand five star reviews, okay, which is.

Speaker 12 (01:04:18):
An incredible amount of five star reviews.

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
Which means you know that that people are getting not
only are they getting a good deal, because everybody wants.

Speaker 12 (01:04:26):
To give you a good deal, all right, but.

Speaker 8 (01:04:28):
We're also you know, going above and beyond only.

Speaker 12 (01:04:31):
Hand a dealer that has lifetime powertrain coverage, all right.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
The Strap Automotive group believes in the vehicles that they
sell so much that they're willing to stand behind them
for as why home as you choose.

Speaker 12 (01:04:42):
To own them, and in any event something fails in
that drive train, we take care of them. Okay, gets
back on the road as quickly as possible. Also, trade bags,
you know, the used cars that we have and sought
are trade ins, all right, if they're not something we
went to the auction and purchased, all right, Well you
spent the money to give you top dollar for your

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trade in in order to help you get in that
new vehicle.

Speaker 8 (01:05:07):
So that's just a handful of reasons why.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
Those are good reasons. Yeah, yeah, trade in value. I
mean power train you know, unlimited limited unlimited power train warranty.

Speaker 12 (01:05:20):
Awesome, yea yep, coming from you know, a strawb owner
strike from what was it, number six.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Number six multi.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
A Nissan truck, and I believe for there was something
else in there too, but a Nissan truck and four Jeeps. Oh,
a Dodge Journey. I had a Dodge Journey as well.
Great vehicles, yeah I had. I'm a smart fellow.

Speaker 8 (01:05:49):
Yeah, yeah, Well, the decisions that you make concerning your
automobile parts. Yes, I agree.

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
Okay, well, at least we got that. I've got I've
got that to fall back on.

Speaker 8 (01:06:02):
There you get. Listen, y'all have a great weekend. Come
on out. Whether it looks like it's gonna, you know,
be perfect for buying automobile.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
All right, buddy, sounds good. I thought you too. We'll
see you be safe. There he goes out the window.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
Today. Did you know this? Notice? It's National Pickle Day.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
I love pickles.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
I can't stand pickles.

Speaker 5 (01:06:26):
They had some. I bought some Old Bay flavored.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Pickles from the pickle guy.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
They were outstanding.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
I call him the pickle the pickle bucket. People that
are at the craft shows, I don't know where they
come from or anything, but they usually have what fifteen
different flavors.

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
I think there's about six?

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
Is that okay?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
They heard they have. I think they have they have
a sweet sweet like it's sweet something. Then there's there's
there's garlic, there's hot garlic, there's obey, there's maybe it's
sweet and sour. I can't remember them all, but I
had I had the hot garlic, I had the Old Bay,

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and I can't remember the third one. I had, but
my goodness, the old Bay was the most popular one
because I shared him with some friends, and the Old
Bay was.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
The best shared more than your attend.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
I should I should have bought more when they were
up at the Highlands last week and I dropped the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
I am not a pickle fan. I can't. I can't
stand pickles and good pickles.

Speaker 5 (01:07:29):
I cursed Tony Pacos out of Toledo.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
I cursed Chick fil A. They have ruined the chicken
sandwich everywhere. No you get extra pickles, No, because because
of them, everybody else puts pickles on chicken sandwich and
swear no.

Speaker 10 (01:07:43):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
My brother will drink pickled juice out of the jar
like he's drinking a glass of ice.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
Water helps with cramps. If you get a cramp, just
hurry up and take a quick drink of pickle juice
and it'll go Wait almost immediately. Hey, putting this out
there real quick. The Penguins, they hit the nice, they
hit the ice of broad or some afternoon hockey today
square off against the Predators from Stockholm, Sweden. Pittsburgh heads
into the NHL Global Series on a two game losing streak.

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Most of you will be at work, so you can
catch today's game at two o'clock on our sister station,
Eagle one o seven five, or you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Can stream it through Eagle one oh seven five.

Speaker 5 (01:08:18):
Sure on the iheard app Yeah, well you either were yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
And then of course the Nailers, which by the way,
coming up, we're gonna have you a chance to win,
like within a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
To your family.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Four pack, yeah, four pack.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
The Nailers are at home this weekend for of course
the pair of games against the main Mariners. Tonight is
Military Appreciation Night and tomorrow is First Responders Night. The
puck drops at seven to ten both nights, and all
the Nailers games, of course, can be heard on our
sister station, Mix ninety seven three.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
There you have it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
Then we've got football too. Let's see here ISAs State
takes on UCLA on SAT Tomorrow night. And then let's
see here the Patriots, who trounce the Jets twenty seven
to fourteen. On Thursday night, football happened, and then the
Steelers square off against Flacco and the Bengals, who are
three and six Sunday afternoon. Pittsburgh has dropped three of

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its last four, and the Browns host the Ravens later
in the day.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
And in college football, WU as at Arizona State tomorrow,
I believe at one o'clock and number twenty two Pitt,
which is seven and two hosts tenth ranked Notre Dame
tomorrow at noon. So there's your local sports, local games,
and if you want to tune in, man, that's tough.
I don't know who. I can't read for Pitt, but

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I can't root for Notre Dame either. It's like it's
like to whin of highest state plays Nentre Dame. I
root for al Qaeda to just blow the stadium up.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
As I sit here in my high state shirt.

Speaker 5 (01:09:41):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
All right, let's end this note this week on a
happy note. A chance for you to win. Sixty four
eleven seventy. Oh does you do the number?

Speaker 5 (01:09:59):
Uh, we are going to do you number nineteen.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
Caller number nineteen one eight hundred six two four eleven
seventy Again, these are four Saturday.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Tomorrow and we'll email them to That's just.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
What I was getting at. We're out of here on
this Friday again. One in hundred sixty two four eleven
seventy caller number nineteen. Everybody have a great weekend. We'll
talk Monday.