The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 17, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The 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 WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. Good Monday morning to you. And I'll
tell you what if somebody could figure out the NFL,
call me up and explain it to me, because.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I just from week to week there's no consistency other
than the fact that the Cleveland Browns stink, which I'll
get to in a second. But seriously, teams that should
run away with wins don't. Teams that haven't won in
weeks do. I know they want parody in the league.
But a lot of this stuff is hard to explain.
Like the Steelers sitting there atop the North with six wins.

(00:52):
I mean, Aaron Rodgers goes out, the defense is not
played well this year, yet somehow, some way, this team
has six wins in a division that is well between
the Steelers and the Ravens as of right now. The
Ravens tried to do everything they could to give the
Cleveland Browns a win, and Cleveland even dropped that.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
But I mean, the NFL is.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just such a crazy, crazy league anymore that when you
think you've got a grasp of it, you just simply
do not In Jalen Ramsey, what are you doing? I mean,
throwing a punch at another guy. It never ceases to
amaze me. The lack of discipline, the lack of focus
with some of these guys. And Ramsey's always been one
of those hot heads. He's always been one of those

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guys running his mouth. Extremely talented guy, but sometimes you
wonder if the talent justifies dealing with everything that is
Jalen Ramsey. Then you go to the Browns. I mean,
this team literally was handed a victory, the Ravens handed
them sixteen points, and yet their offense couldn't score a touchdown.

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The Ravens did everything they could lose that game. Lamar
Jackson when he's on is electric. When Lamar Jackson has
an off game, it's pitiful, Like there's no middle ground
with this guy. It's either four touchdowns in absolute electricity, or.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's how is this guy even in the league. There's
no middle ground.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
With him, and yesterday was one of those one of
those cases where he was just got awful his reads.
He wasn't taken off when he should have ran. Miles
Garrett had four sacks and I'd say three of them
were because of Lamar Jackson just not getting rid of
the football. But nonetheless, the Cleveland Browns show once again
why they're the Cleveland Browns, and Sam, I'm gonna give
you a chance to air it out on this one.

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But this team just simply cannot get out of its way.
The fact that Kevin Stefanski, who is now five and
twenty two in his last twenty seven games still as
a job is beyond me. First series of the game,
fourth and one, they get it. Nope, flag, the same

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flag you see over and over and over. Illegal formation.
That's coaching. That is one thousand coaching.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
End of the game. Bad teams. Fine ways to lose.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Get the the get the kickoff after the touchdown, and
what do you have? A hold sets you back ten yards.
Then you have another penalty, and then Cory Bojorkez, who's
been one of the best punters in football, rips off
a thirty eight yarder. It's like as soon as the
first domino falls for a bad team like the Cleveland Browns,

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it's domino after domino after domino. Nobody steps up to
stop that next domino from falling over. And I'll say this,
Shadore Sanders looked rough. Joe Namath, Dan Marino and Brett
Favre would look rough behind that Cleveland Browns offensive line.
It's terrible. It's the worst line in the NFL. So

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I don't know how we can expect anybody to flourish
back there. But I will say this, I'll take Shadoor
Sanders over Dylan Gabriel any day.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Of the week.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Should or at least throws the ball down the field.
Schuldoor at least brings you a little bit of electricity.
And how about the Browns did not let Shador Sanders
take one snap with the starters the entire week. Why
because they wanted Dylan Gabriel to have all the snaps.
How much sense does that make? Once again, Shadoor Sanders

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is one injury, as we saw yesterday, away from taking
the field, and this kid doesn't get one first team
snap in practice, and the Browns wonder why they're two
and eight. Sam the floor is yours well.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
First of all, if there was a championship trophy or
a parade down Main Street in celebration of a team
who finds the most ridiculous ways to win over history,
breaking all kinds of records on how to lose, there
was one, There was like two that went down two

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weeks ago. It would be the Browns. It would be
the As a lifelong fan, I have lived through them all.
I have lived through them all. But the case that
Kevin Stefanski is still the head coach. You know why,
because the owners have been completely Their attention has been

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drawn away when it comes to building that stadium. Their
attentions over here. They're worrying about that stadium and the
multi million dollars they're going to make with concerts in
there and everything else. That's where that's where their focus
has been, not the product being put on the field.
But listen, Shodoor Sanders, okay, bringing out Brett Farve and

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name it and all those names.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
He was four of sixteen for an interception, a fumble,
for a total of forty seven passing yards, two sacks,
and a passer rating of thirteen point five. I don't
think I've ever heard of passer rating that low thirteen
point five. Will say this, and I keep saying this

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when it comes to Sanders. If he did not have
that last name, would we even be talking about him
right now? Would he even have gotten to where he
is and where he was in college if it wasn't
for his dad? And I understand that's criticism that he's
going to face, but it's a it's a valid question

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at this point. Now. Should he have had first team reps? Absolutely? Absolutely,
that falls on the coach and the coaching staff and
in the quarterback room and everybody that that's completely unacceptable.
But the question still remains. If his last name wasn't Sanders,
would he be where he is? Would be Would we
be even having this conversation right now? A third string

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quarterback making his rookie debut yesterday? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Turning to the the entire AFC North two seasons ago,
three seasons ago, it was the most tough divis in
the entire NFL. How quickly how quickly it changes? Bloom
Daddy mentioned the Chase Ramsey conflict. The NFL is reviewing

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an altercation that happened in the game Yesterday, Steeler safety
Jalen Ramsey told the media that Bengals receiver Jamar Chase
spit on him during the game. The defensive back throw
a punch at Chase and was ejected when the incident
happened earlier in the early in the fourth quarter. The
Cincinnati star denies spitting and said he never opened his

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mouth to Ramsey, So, of course that will be dug
into an investigated and then staying with these Steelers, they're
hoping that star quarterback, of course, Aaron Rodgers will avoid
a serious injury. ESPN reports the team hasn't has an
initial concern that Rogers suffered a slight break in his

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non throwing hand. The quarterback will undergo further testing today.
So the fact that is his non throwing hand, that's
a good one. That's a that's a good that's a
good sign. But is it completely broke, a slight broke, break,
a fracture. Hopefully the team will have some information later,

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uh later today. And talking about the Browns for somebody
who grew up with the Browns, just real quickly, I
wanted to highlight this. I've been following this on social media.
Brown's legend to Browns fans, Bernie Kozar will always be
a legend. I don't know if you've been following this,

(08:39):
but he as of this morning at five am, was
going into surgery for a full liver transplant. Over the
past four to five days, he's had two surgeries. I
believe it was to get him to this point. He
has been posting every morning positive video, so I've been
following following this in higher thing. But as of this

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morning at five am, he was to go into surgery
for a transplant. He did receive a liver, so I
keep checking to find out this guidess of that, but
it has been It has been quite a story to follow,
quite a story to follow. Transplant, of course, is a
big topic. Otis and I you we always talk about.
So to watch this firsthand go on, you know, it's

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it's uh, it's emotional. It's emotional, but hopefully we'll have
some good news later this morning. It's seven sixteen. You're
listening to The bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVAE. Happy Monday, folks. The bloom Daddy

(09:47):
Experienced Sam and Otis news Radio eleven seventy WWVA all right,
So before we tell you we have some new things
for you, we have two new chances for you to
this morning. But I'm gonna give you a little bit
of a tease of what one of them are. All right,

(10:08):
this is a quote, what is it? A letter confirming
your reservation at the nothouse? Does that remind anything and
anybody of anything? Let's see here. You couldn't hear a
dump truck driving through a nitroglycerine plant. Come on, folks,
you gotta know what I'm talking about. Otis You know
what I'm talking about? Well, yeah, you know, you know

(10:29):
what it is.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
I know what it is. But those clues didn't help
me at all.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
No.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Oh man, there's the good one, but I can't say
it on the radio.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Hey, Clark Crappers, There you go, There you go.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
There, he gave it away, He gave it away. All right, folks,
we have two things today. First off, we have got
a pair of tickets to a Motown Christmas. A great
show is gonna happen Saturday, December thirteenth, Motown Christmas. And
of course it's going to be the classics performed on
the stage. And that's how happening December thirteenth. We're gonna

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pair that up with a gift certificate to McCormick's Auto
Service down in Glendale. So we got a little prize
pack there. And then if you picked up on his
little quote, we have a pair of tickets to see
a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase right here

(11:22):
in Wheeling. Who will do a Q and A after
the viewing of the film right here on the Capitol
Theater stage. So we have a pair of those for
you this morning, So stay tuned and we will let
you know when to call in for your chance to win.

(11:43):
I absolutely love Christmas Vacation. It is my must watch
every year every year, that along with Rudolph, but Christmas
Vacation is my absolute must watch. I just I love

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that movie. But you love Chevy Chase, don't you. You're
You're a huge.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Flat No, I wouldn't say I love Chevy Chase. But
I think Fletch is one of the greatest movies ever made.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
I'm sad to say I've never seen it.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
It is so stupid that it's funny. I mean, but
it also it is, but it has it has a
little bit of a mystery plot to it as well.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Is he an investigator like.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
He's an investigative reporter, Okay, and so what happens is
he gets hired to kill a guy. The guy wants
him to killing because he says he's dying of cancer
and everything else. Well, then that's where the plot twist
comes in.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Okay, maybe I'll have to watch it.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Watch.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, Joe don Baker is in it. And then he
did the voice for Johnny Quest. He was an animal's
Animal House, and I can't think.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Of his stump, chuck.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
It's gonna bother me to death.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
But with that again coming up, we're gonna have your
chance to win those two things. I am so excited
about this. Like I said, Christmas Vacation, everybody can relate
to somebody in that movie. They can relate to one
of the characters. They can relate to one of the
the storylines. You know, everybody's got that weird relative like cousin, Oh,

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cousin Eddie. Everybody's got a cousin Eddie.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
I wouldn't go that far, but maybe.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Maybe not to that extreme, but you know, so we're
gonna have your chance to win those and that that
ties in perfectly to uh, what I got the opportunity
to do on Saturday. I want to let you all
know about it if you haven't, if you don't follow
us on Facebook, which by the way, you should, there's
plenty of videos out there in pictures that I took.

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But I got the opportunity and I cannot thank Jenny
and her team at Golden Ticket Cinemas, which are the
new cinemas out at the Ohio Valley Mall. I was
supposed to have somebody with me, but I got stood up.
I don't know who that would be, but.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Because I didn't wake up till ten thirty, because I
had a dog that kept waking me up every ninety
minutes Friday night.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh that's who was supposed to be with me. Folks. No,
but I got the opportunity to go into the cinemas
do a tour behind the scenes tour before they opened.
They opened at noon that day. But it was awesome
to get the opportunity to see it first, bring it
to you first before anybody else got to see the
new look in the new feel of the new cinemas.

(14:43):
It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. They've put a lot of work
into it. You know, there is. It's of course got
the same layout, so you know, don't think that it's
structurally going to be a completely new environment. You still
got the two corridors on each side of the concession stand.

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But the concession stands beautiful. They've got all kinds of
modern ways of the concession stands, for example, like you
get to put your own butter on, and and you
can keep going back and keep going. Like there's so
many different new things that they're offering, including a draft
beer wall, which by the way, is not open as

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of yet, but it's going to feature local craft beers.
There's gonna be wings, there's gonna be so many different things.
It's gonna be a complete new cinema experience than what
we're used to. And and if again, if you didn't
watch all the videos, one things that the seats are
so comfortable, and inside each theater there's a nice carpet down.

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But guess what, your feet don't stick. If anybody remember
going into the cinemas, your feet would always stick to
the floor that is gone. It is clean, everything smells
so new, and the excitement is there. While I was
there with the gates down, and everything. There were probably

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oh gosh, five or six different families that came up
to the gate and said, are they are you open yet?
Are they open yet? What's going on? So the buzz
is there, the buzz is there, and are they are open?
They officially opened at noon this past Saturday, so they
are open in time for the sequel to Wicked and

(16:38):
all the upcoming holiday blockbusters. So go check them out,
and go online and check out the prices, because you
know on Facebook and a lot of people question the prices,
they are definitely affordable, So go check them out. It's
seven twenty eight. You're listening to the bloomdadd Experienced salmon
OTAs here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Welcome back to the Blue Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA.
Want to hit on Donald Trump right now. There's a
lot of things that I like that this guy is
doing policy wise. Love what he's done with the border,
Love what he's done with ice. Don't make me feel
sorry for people who've been here for ten years, knew
they weren't doing the right thing, never took the time
to do the right thing. Cut in front of the

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line and all of a sudden, they're getting kicked out,
and people want me to shed a tear.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Huhuh.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
I don't shed a tear for anybody who puts themselves
in a bad situation knowingly, doesn't do anything directify it,
then wants sympathy when hell hits the fan. Not happening
with me. Love the fact of what he's doing with
these trade wars. It's going to hurt a little bit,
but I think it's going to pay off, as we've
seen over and over again certain things about Trump policy wise.

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I love what I don't like about Trump personality, which
is what hinders a lot of people. I'm willing to overlook.
I don't have Trump derangement syndrome. I voted for him twice.
I'd much rather have him than Kamala Harris. But the
point I'm trying to make is what's going on right
now with Marjorie Taylor Green. Marjorie Taylor Green was Trump's

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biggest supporter. This woman has been nuts since day one.
We talk about nutbags and the Democratic Party like AOC
and ilhan omer where Marjorie Taylor Green is the Republican
Party's ilhan Omar or AOC always has been this chick
stone cold crazy. But Trump didn't care because she did
whatever he said.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
She kissed the ring.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Now all of a sudden, she's not kissing the ring
over the Epstein files. And Marjorie Taylor Green is crazy.
She's a nut bag, and I'm gonna have her primaried.
I can't stand the kiss the ring mentality of Donald Trump.
You didn't have a problem with Marjorie being nuts three
months ago or a year ago, because she was doing

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your bidding for you. Now all of a sudden she
stands up to you over something like human trafficking and
Jeffrey Epstein, and now all of a sudden, she's crazy.
This is where every Republican should be bothered by the
way he acts. First of all, I don't think there's
a bomb show in the Epstein files. The Biden administration

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had him for four years. If there was something on Trump,
don't you think they would have came out with it.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I do so.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Then why is he so worried release these things? He
said he was going to do it, Now all of
a sudden he doesn't want to do it. And there's
certain Republicans that say, oh no, no, no, Maga wants
this out. Most of you who voted for Trump wanted
this out. Now all of a sudden, he's reversing. Course,
you can't have it both ways. But this is what
I cannot stand about Donald Trump. Anybody who stands up

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to him within the own party, he goes scorched earth
against him. I want people within the party to stand
up to the President or other Republicans when they're wrong.
I don't want to everybody go at the flow mentality
that doesn't benefit you, that doesn't benefit me, whether you're
a Republican or a Democrat. And when I take a

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look at politics today, I liken it to high school.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Think about it.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
You know the cool guys, the cool group, the cool chicks.
People afraid to speak up, People just bowling down to
peer pressure because they just want to be a part
of that group and they are scared to death if
they get kicked out of that group, they're going.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
To be ostracized, They're going to be ridiculed.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Same thing happens in both parties today, more so in
the Republican Party with Donald Trump. This is high school stuff.
This is if you don't do exactly what I say,
If you don't bend down and kiss the ring. Every
time I hold it out, I'm going to destroy you.
That is not healthy, not for a nation, not for
the workplace, not for the wholes of any high school

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in America. And this is what bothers me about this guy.
And it's this kind of behavior that overshadows what he's
doing on the border with these trade wars Israel and Hamas.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
I mean, go down the list.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Because that's all anybody can focus on, especially the liberal media.
He's giving them red meat. And at a time where
the Democratic Party is lost, we have this. Republicans are
showing cracks, You've got infighting. This is the point where
everybody should be on the same page for the most

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part and full steam ahead running this country.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
He told you he was going to release the Epstein files.
He told you he.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Wanted to get to the bottom of it. Now all
of a sudden, he doesn't want to do it. The
problem for him is a lot of his followers want
it out and this is going to set up one
hell of a showdown within the Republican Party. It's going
to be very very interesting once he hits gets into
year two of his presidency. You know, he's approaching that

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lame duck status about halfway through. It's going to be
real interesting to see how many Republicans start pushing back,
because you're already seeing a little bit of it right now.
As far as the Epstein files, throw them out there.
Let's have full exposure of who did what, the powerful,
whatever it may be. Victims should have a voice, and

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everybody out there listening right now should be on the
same page when it comes to human trafficking, when it
comes to the abuse of young women, and if some
prominent people, including Trump, have to pay the penalty for that,
then so be it. Otis Sam, your thoughts on this,

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Do you want.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
To take this first or you want to be to
go Well, I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
I mean, the whole Trump thing is, you know, with
the Epstein files and whatever I've said it before, or
you know, until there's names named, it doesn't mean a thing.
Are they going to release the names? Are they going
to redact the names. There's there's so many things that
could happen with this. So if you want to release it,

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release it. You know when they start, you know, if
I see somebody's name on there, like a Bill Clinton
or a you know, a Supreme Court justice or somebody
of that nature. Then I'll be like, oh, there you go.
Until you see that. You know, it's just a it's
just a group of disgusting people, you see what I'm saying.
I mean, so it doesn't really bother me, and it's

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I don't think it's going to have any effect politically
on anybody.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Here's the thing. When it comes to the public and
everybody wanting these files released, it's a tantalizing subject. So
when you take the possibility of political leaders, high profile citizens,
you throw in sex, you throw in money, you throw

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and power. It is the perfect recipe for a national
soap opera. That's what this is. I think the majority
of people who are demanding to hear to see these
these documents, that's what they want. They want the stories,
they want the it's all about the the the soap

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opera esque thinking. It's not about supporting the victims. Let's
be honest. They want to hear the dirty laundry. They
want to read the dirt. Now a little bit of
an update. President Trump last night said on Late last
Night on True Social he did say that House Republicans
should should vote to release the files, and then saying

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that there is nothing to hide and that it is
time to move on from what he calls a Democrat
hoax perpetuated by radical left lunatics in order to deflect
from the great success of the Republican Party. And we've
said this, otis. You know, the Democrats under Biden sat
on this for four years and did nothing with any

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of these documents. So is there anything in them? Probably not.
If there was, they would have put them on campaign
signs during the election last year, but they didn't, so
there probably isn't anything there now. The House is set

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to vote tomorrow Tuesday on a measure to require the
Department of Justice to release all the files report of
course pertaining to Epstein. But going back to Trump in
the criticism and a few of the points that bloom
Daddy made, otis, I've said this for years, back to
his first term. He's his own worst enemy. With his

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mouth and with social media. He has this this way
where it's almost like he's the carnival barker, or he
is the ringmaster of a circus where he can't not
throw himself out there, make himself the center of attention.

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Don't do that Let your accomplishments speak for themselves. Let
what you've accomplished be your voice. Not getting on true
social at three o'clock in the morning, not calling other
politicians names or loud mouths or you know, all the

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different monikers that he gives a lot of these people.
And Marjorie Taylor Green, I think she's nuts, she's extreme,
she's incredibly nuts. But having criticism to the leaders has
to be done. That's how the conversations are had. And

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if you're the one being criticized, if if you have
the mentality to sit back and reflect on what those
criticisms are, that makes you a better person. And that's
the kind of stuff that's meant missed left out in
our politics nowadays is nobody's willing to go against the mold.
Nobody's willing to do the criticism. I mean, look at Fetterman,

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look at what he's accomplished. He's not afraid to criticize
his own party. So to Marjorie Taylor Green, I gotta
give her credit for having the cajones to do it.
We can't. You just can't follow the follow the lead.
That's not what politics are for, that's not what being
a leader is seven forty six. As we mentioned, we've

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got plenty of chances for you to win this morning.
Those are coming up, including your chance to see Chevy
Chase right here after a screening of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
It's seven forty six. You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experienced,
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back,

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seven fifty two, The bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I just want to remind
you we have two chances for you to win this morning.
Coming up. We're gonna have your chance to win a
pair of tickets to a Motown Christmas happening right here
at the Capitol Theater that is happening December thirteenth, which
is a Saturday, Saturday, December thirteenth. We have a pair

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of tickets for a Motown Christmas combined with a gift
certificate to our friends at mccormicks Auto. And it's that
time of year, folks, to get ready to get your
car ready for the cold, cold weather that is coming
our direction. So that is coming up, and then we're
gonna have your chance to win on National Lampoons. But

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not quite yet. We've got a call otis who we
have we do.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
We've got Davo who wants to comment on bloom Daddy's
last segment.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Okay, good morning Davo, Good morning to you.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
Happy Monday.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yes sir, yes sir? What are your thoughts?

Speaker 6 (29:02):
So I have to laugh because whenever bloom Daddy starts
talking good about Trump, I know, but just wait a second,
here it comes because you've heard the term crocodile tears.
You know obviously that's when you pretend to be upset
about something. Well, I think with bloom Daddy Trump, it's
crocodile accolades because I know when he's talking good about him,

(29:27):
saying all the great things with the economy and the border,
here comes the big steamroll, though, because he just can't wait.
But he just spent I don't know, three four minutes
maybe five talking about Trump. Gave one minute to hell. Yes,
he loves you know, he likes to cherry pick what
Trump is. Let's cherry pick all the great things that

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affect the country as a whole, economy, border, et cetera.
And then he spends four minutes ripping him about Marjorie
Taylor Green, you know, and to get it backwards or
spend that around. Let's spend four minutes on the great
stuff that's effecting the country, and let's spend a minute
on the Marjorie Taylor Green if you want to, you know,

(30:11):
but get it straight. He talks about I can't stand Trump.
He demands loyalty and if you don't, well then he
goes scorched dirt. Please tell me what leader says Julius
Caesar and maybe before that all the way for George Washington,
everyone else that isn't like that, and he makes it
seem like he's just the only one that demands loyalty.

(30:33):
Go ahead, you guys, rip him the shreds on air
and watch what happens with the loyalty factor from him.
I mean, yeah, we can disagree with him, but you
better not go scorch dirt on Bloomer or forget about it.
I mean it's like that with any leader and anything
rob history. So I don't understand where he comes from

(30:54):
when he goes that route.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
No, I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying,
but I'm just playing devil's advocate. Here sure, and I
and as I mentioned earlier, I have said this, Trump
is his own worst enemy with his mouth and he
and what I mean by that is I may agree
with what he's saying, but he's fueling the fire of

(31:18):
his critics. So he is giving them the headlines, he
is giving them the quotes that they can cherry pick
and chop up. That creates the image that they have
through mainstream media created of Trump himself. He feeds the
beast sometimes and that's what he needs to stop doing.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
Well, he does do that, but it's an effective way
to fight. If that's the skill level that he brought
to get him to this level in world leadership, much
less country leadership, how are you going to now, Okay,
this is how you throw the ball, This is how
you swing the club, This is how you swing the bat.

(32:03):
Now change all that. We know that's what gots you
to the major leagues. But now change I mean when
you again he cherry picks the good parts. Oh, he
does great things. They're phenomenal for peace in the Middle East,
or in the economy, or again the border. But you
got to change everything else. That's a natural part of
your personality. Those those liberal left. They're going to They're

(32:27):
going to find all the stuff they want to anyway,
they're going to the hell them make it up. They'll
just make it up and spit that out. The what
he's learned is I'm never going to get good accolades
or you know, editorials from them. Don't going to be
who I am, because this is how you got to fight.
Because I know our enemy. Our enemy are the Communists

(32:48):
are darn close the switching the balance in this country.
And that's who his target is when he's talking like that.
And I never wanted someone like Trump in a sense
of gee, I don't know who to follow. Oh, this
guy looks good. I liked him because he's talking back
the way I wanted, like George Bush to quit being

(33:11):
silent as they rip you apart, rip them back the
only thing they respond to. And that's how you win
the war. We're not here to win the battle. We're
here to win the war. And he said in a
mind tone and a mind speak for everyone else in
the country has met much lower levels. This is how
you fight with people who don't have, you know, the

(33:34):
scruples or the fair way of fighting.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Or they don't have the they don't have the platform
that he has. Yeah, the small voices.

Speaker 6 (33:43):
Actually, he's spinning his way of fighting back. That's getting
down into the trenches, down the governor, down to you know,
county township levels, even down the local school boards. He's
not saying a fight like, you know, grabbing my throat
and all that. But you can't just sit there silent
and take all of this and not dish it back,

(34:06):
right because other people are kind of you know, going,
what do I say against these democrats? Well, and he
shows you here's what you do.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
I hate I hate Dave O. I hate to cut
you off. I'm so sorry, but we've got it. We're
up on against a hard break. So but thank you
for calling in. Okay, you're well seven fifty eight. You're
listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience. To forget. We have a
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Speaker 1 (34:38):
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Speaker 4 (35:00):
At six on your Monday. The Bloom Daddy Experience otis
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(35:21):
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Or of course you can text us seven zero four
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(35:44):
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(36:08):
gonna have a chance for you to win. Those also
wanted to touch on this local story. Give an update.
So of course, we brought to you first the arrest
of Andrew Isaac Griffin, who is the charged offender in
the Stretch's murder that happened in Belmont County. Now, this

(36:30):
double murder trial is moving, you know, they say the
wheels of justice moves slowly. They do. But an update
is five hundred names have been chosen at random. This
happened Friday, and this of course is for prospective jurors.
Now the it's a it's a private process, the choosing

(36:55):
of the names, but there were there were five hundred
names chosen. The list will be reviewed or has been
reviewed by the sheriff, to jury commissioners, the deputy, several
employees at the courthouse. The names were selected from roughly
forty and sixty eight registered voters. The jury selection portion

(37:19):
of the trial is scheduled to begin March six. I'm
sorry March second. So a little bit of an update
with what is going on in regards to that murder trial.
It has been a very top of mind conversation the
brutal murders of that couple three years ago. Now I'm like, no,

(37:43):
I off the top of my mind. I can't remember
the exact date, but that is moving forward. I live
in Belmont County. I have been called for jury duty usually, God,
I usually get it once or twice a year. Honestly,
I've never made it past the filling out the documents.
So something about me does not make me a good

(38:07):
perspective juror. I guess. I hate to say this. I've
always wanted to sit on a jury always. I find
the legal uh, the legal process fascinating. You've heard me
talk many times that I'm into true crime and documentaries
and all that kind of stuff. But to actually see
it first hand and and and experience, I think would

(38:31):
be would be fascinating. Otis, have you ever sat on
a jury trial or been called for jury duty any
of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
I have been called for jury duty and I was dismissed.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
So you actually made it to the courthouse.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
Round like in person, like I was. I was drawn
for jury duty and in the question and answer session
they eventually dismissed me.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
See, I haven't even made it that far over in
Belmont County. They send you this this whole set of
paperwork and then you fill it out and then from
there you may or may not get called. And I've
never been actually called, so don't know why.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
I've also had the I mean i've been I've had
the where they send you the postcard and you have
to call in at a certain time on a certain
date and then they tell you if you have jury
duty or not. So I've had multiple ones of those
so well.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
And I wonder if a lot of it has to
do with your personal demographics, if they try to spread
it out among genders and ages and in those demographics.
I don't have a random draw, but I think, yeah,
it's more of a random draw. I think that comes
into play once you're called for jury duty, and then

(39:42):
the lawyers themselves point out the particulars and try to
build the jury of who they think are more going
to be more sympathetic to their side of the trial,
whether it's the prosecution or the defense. But again I'm
just speculating. I am in no way, shape or form
an attorney, but I've always wanted to do it. I've

(40:03):
always wanted to do it. I find it absolutely fascinating,
absolutely fascinating. But that is moving through the process in
Belmont County, and you gotta be patient. The saying the
wheels of justice move slowly is not. It didn't come
out of nowhere, folks. There's a reason why. There's a

(40:25):
reason why a couple other things I wanted to like
we should hit on this morning. Let's cover some sports.
The Steelers crushed the Bengals thirty four to twelve at home.
Aaron Rodgers threw for almost one hundred and twenty yards
and a touchdown before leaving, as we mentioned earlier, with
an injury just before halftime. Kenneth Gainwell caught a pair

(40:46):
of touchdowns as Pittsburgh has won two of three, and
we'll visit the Bears this coming Sunday. Meanwhile, the Browns
fell to the Ravens twenty three sixteen. Dylan Gabriel through
for almost yards before leaving with an injury. Shardore Sanders
went four of sixteen with an interception as he came

(41:07):
in interception, two sacks and a fumble. Let's not minimize
the accomplishments of the rookie. At halftime, the Browns were
winning sixteen ten, sixteen ten, it was theirs for the taking,
and once again they found a way to lose. The
Steelers are hoping quarterback Rogers. The initial concern was possibly,

(41:33):
you know, a slightly broke wrist, a slight, slight break
in his throwing hand. He's going in for further testing
today to get a complete diagnosis of what that injury is,
so hopefully later today there will be some answers. Meanwhile,
in the NFL, and we mentioned this earlier, the NFL

(41:53):
is reviewing this altercation between the Bengals and the Steelers.
Steelers safety Jailer and Ramsey told the media that the
Bengals receiver Jamar Chase spit on him. The defensive back
threw a punch at Chase and was ejected when the
incident happened in the fourth quarter of the game yesterday.
Now showing up on social media, there is a slow

(42:17):
motion video showing Chase spitting in the direction of Ramsey.
Here's my hesitancy, folks. Is it legit? I don't know
the video is out there circulating at this point in time.
With as much that is available with AI and everything else,

(42:40):
who knows if it's If it's real or not real.
I'm not saying one way or the other, but I
have seen a video that is circulating out online of
this incident, this so called spitting incident, if it actually happened.
But here's the thing. If you watch players, a good

(43:02):
amount of them, they're spitting all the time. Like was
this intentional? Was this a knee jerk reaction or was this?
Was this a intentional spitting at somebody? Or was this
a football player spitting because he spits all the time.
I don't know, they all do it. Who knows? But
it is being investigated. And as they said, there is
a video circulating out on social media, so I guess

(43:24):
you can find it and come to your own conclusions
whether if it was an intentional act. Also, the Penguins
split the NHL Global Series from Sweden. The team shut
out the Predators four to nothing yesterday. After dropping Game
one two to one, Pittsburgh snapped a three game losing streak.
And we'll head back to the States to host the

(43:46):
Wild Friday night. So there's some sports for you. How'd
your h How did your mountaineers do this weekend? Should
I okay? Should I even ask? Twenty five twenty two
is so what you said, that's an odd score. Seems

(44:07):
like an odd score.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
Anyways, or maybe it was twenty five twenty three something
like that.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
Oh goodness, Happy Monday, everybody, it's eight fifteen. You want
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(44:35):
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(44:58):
twenty one. Congratulations to Judy, our first winner this morning.
So Judy, we will get your winnings of Motown Christmas
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Speaker 5 (45:09):
Two from Cannonsburg.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Judy from Cannonsburg with one n.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
Yes, just a reminder that if you've won within the
last thirty days, you have to wait thirty days. So yes,
we had a little issue with our first potential winner,
but he had actually won on Halloween.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
Which was not thirty one, which is not thirty days.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Oh, we were talking a little bit about football, of course,
so of course with Thanksgiving comes football. Well, it's now
been announced that Jack White and Post Malone will headline
the halftime shows of the scheduled Thanksgiving Day games. Listen,
you can't have Thanksgiving without football. I'm sorry, that's just

(45:52):
I think that's the one game of year I watched
the Cowboys unless they're playing against the Browns. Other than that,
I never watched the Cowboys. No to the Cowboy fans
out there, you know who you are. White will perform
during the Lions and Packers game at Ford Field, while
post Malone will launch the Salvation Armony's annual Red Kettle

(46:13):
Cookoff cookoff I'm sorry kickoff by performing at the Cowboys
Chiefs matchup. That'll be an interesting game. White is a
Detroit native and a twelve time Grammy winner who was
just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
last week as the guitars and lead singer of the
White Stripes, while Malone is a Texas native and avowed

(46:34):
Cowboys fan who received eighteen nominations as a multi genre
artist who has yet to win ooh eighteen times and
is yet to win. His twenty twenty four country record
F one Trillion topped the Billboard two hundred and Top
Country Album Charts, receiving a twenty twenty five Grammy nomination
for Best Country Album. So those are your headliners for

(46:58):
the Thanksgiving Day games? Did we ever figure out Jack White?
With the uh with the with his band?

Speaker 5 (47:10):
The girl that was in it, Meg White?

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Is that his sister wife ex wife girlfriend? Okay?

Speaker 5 (47:18):
They came off as brother and sister, then they came
off married. I mean it was all like a mystery, okay,
but I'm pretty sure it was his ex wife.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
It was his ex wife, okay, because that was always
like this weird like question of of what their situation
was or what their status was or I don't know,
I don't know, very odd, very odd situation, A weird situation,
not weird. But I want I want your what would

(47:46):
you do? Otis? That's what That's how I'm gonna phrase this.
How would you what would you do? So there was
a guy in Ohio who purchased a thirty dollars scratch
off ticket. With that scratch off ticket, he won a
two million dollar jackpot. And basically what it was is
he he got correct or he matched all fourteen words

(48:09):
on this scratch off ticket, which got him the pot
of two million dollars. He had he got confused, I believe,
on the payout options. So he discovered that one option
was eighty thousand dollars a year for twenty five years.
All right, so that the monthly allotment, I'm sorry, the

(48:34):
yearly allotment of eighty thousand dollars a year for twenty
five years brings you to the two million dollar winning.
What he ended up choosing was a lump sum payment
where he will receive seven hundred and twenty eight thousand,
seven hundred and fifty dollars after taxes, where of course

(48:54):
he plans to pay off debt. That's a lot of
money to leave on the table. I think I think
I would have gone for the twenty five years at
eighty grand a year.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
I absolutely would have, yeah, because it's enough to keep
you going to where you can. You know, you're still
gonna have to pay taxes on that eighty thousand dollars,
so you're not gonna get eighty thousand dollars, but in
the long run, you're gonna get your two million bucks.
And you know, even if even if you're two so

(49:27):
when you get like if I, let's say that would
have happen to me, I would claim it with my
kids and make it a three way split and then say, okay,
this is how it's gonna work. I'm gonna get the
eighty thousand every year, then I will distribute it to them,
but if something were to happen to me, then they
can split the remaining eighty because the odds a megaling

(49:47):
twenty five years are probably slimmed to none.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Just now moving forward, Yeah, no, usually you know, right now,
lottery has been a big conversation. I believe one person
one this weekend, one of the big jackpots I don't have. Yeah,
it was it that one.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
So the law close to a billion bucks.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah, now that I would be okay with the one lunch,
I still would you.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
I would still take that because then I'm going to
be able to invest it how I want. I know,
I'm not going to go you know, if it's twenty
or twenty five years, I'm not going to blow through
that money. So why not take Why not, in the
long run, get more money for the more bang for
your buck. I don't need it all up front. No,
my credit is going to be great because they know

(50:32):
I've got it coming in.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
I just kind of feel bad for this guy. I
really don't think because it says here that he went
to multiple stores to confirm the prize and basically get
an explanation. Because it says when he scanned the ticket
multiple times at different stores to confirm the different prize payouts.
I don't think he was getting told. And I'm speculating here,

(50:57):
but I don't think he was getting told exactly how
it all works. And again I'm speculating. Maybe I'm wrong,
but it just seems as if he was a little
bit confused, I just would have gone gone a different route.
I would have gone a different route. And then I
came across this this weekend, and we've talked about the
younger generation, and you know how we're a little different,

(51:20):
and you know, I've made that comparison. There's a new
trend on TikTok, which by the way, I don't do TikTok,
but there's this new trend that I think the older
generation is even starting to go okay, this is even
more nuts than what we've seen before, where young people
are filming themselves doing nothing. That's it. That's that's the trend.

(51:45):
The time time lapse videos show these TikTokers with no devices,
no books, no music, no TV, no nothing. They're just
staying free of distractions and just sitting there. It can
be minutes and be hours they're just sitting there. The
trend is called raw dogging boredom, that's what it's called.

(52:09):
So they sit and they film themselves doing nothing. I
really wish I had enough time on my hands to
sit and film myself doing nothing.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Just set your phone when you come in, because you
pretty much do nothing when you get here.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
That's me. That's what I do. I do nothing. Eight
twenty eight. Don't forget. We have one more chance to
win this morning. We've got Chevy Chase here at the
Capitol Theater that's coming up here on the bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience eleven seventy WWVA.
Want to hit on Donald Trump right now. There's a
lot of things that I like that this guy is
doing policy wise. Love what he's done with the border,
Love what he's done with ice. Don't make me feel
sorry for people who've been here for ten years, knew
they weren't doing the right thing, never took the time
to do the right thing, cut in front of the line,

(53:11):
and all of a sudden they're getting kicked out.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
And people want me to shed a tear. Huh uh.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
I don't shed a tear for anybody who puts themselves
in a bad situation knowingly, doesn't do anything to rectify it,
then wants sympathy when hell hits the fan. Not happening
with me. Love the fact of what he's doing with
these trade wars. It's gonna hurt a little bit, but
I think it's going to pay off, as we've seen
over and over again certain things about Trump policy wise.

(53:39):
I love what I don't like about Trump personality, which
is what hinders a lot of people. Now I'm willing
to overlook. I don't have Trump derangement syndrome. I voted
for him twice. I'd much rather have him than Kamala Harris.
But the point I'm trying to make is what's going
on right now with Marjorie Taylor Green. Marjorie Taylor Green

(53:59):
was Trump's biggest supporter. This woman has been nuts since
day one. We talk about nutbags in the Democratic Party
like AOC and ilhan Omar, where Marjorie Taylor Green is
the Republican Party's ilhan Omar or AOC. Always has been
this chick, stone cold crazy. But Trump didn't care because
she did whatever he said. She kissed the ring. Now

(54:22):
all of a sudden, she's not kissing the ring over
the Epstein files, and Marjorie Taylor Green is crazy. She's
a nutbag, and I'm gonna have her primaried. I can't
stand the kiss the ring mentality of Donald Trump. You
didn't have a problem with Marjorie being nuts three months
ago or a year ago, because she was doing your

(54:45):
bidding for you. Now all of a sudden, she stands
up to you over something like human trafficking and Jeffrey.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Epstein, and now of a sudden, she's crazy.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
This is where every Republican should be bothered by the
way he acts. First of all, I don't think there's
a bomb show in the Epstein files. The Biden administration
had him for four years. If there was something on Trump.
Don't you think they would have came out with it.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I do so.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Then why is he so worried release these things? He
said he was going to do it, Now all of
a sudden he doesn't want to do it. And there's
certain Republicans that say, oh no, no, no, Maga wants
this out. Most of you who voted for Trump wanted
this out. Now all of a sudden he's reversing. Course,
you can't have it both ways. But this is what
I cannot stand about Donald Trump. Anybody who stands up

(55:36):
to him within the own party, he goes scorched earth
against him. I want people within the party to stand
up to the President or other Republicans when they're wrong.
I don't want to everybody go at the flow mentality
that doesn't benefit you, that doesn't benefit me, whether you're
a Republican or a Democrat. And when I take a

(55:57):
look at politics today, I liken it to high school.
Think about you know, the cool guys, the cool group,
the cool chicks. People afraid to speak up, People just
bowling down to peer pressure because they just want to
be a part of that group, and they are scared

(56:17):
to death if they get kicked out of that group.
They're gonna be ostracized, They're gonna be ridiculed. Same thing
happens in both parties today, more so in the Republican
Party with Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
This is high school stuff.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
This is if you don't do exactly what I say,
if you don't bend down and kiss the ring every
time I hold it out, I'm going to destroy you.
That is not healthy, not for a nation, not for
the workplace, not for the wholes of any high school
in America. And this is what bothers me about this guy.
And it's this kind of behavior that overshadows what he's

(56:53):
doing on the border with these trade wars Israel and Hamas.
I mean, go down the list, because that's all anybody
can focus on, especially the liberal media.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
He's giving them red meat.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
And at a time where the Democratic Party is lost,
we have this. Republicans are showing cracks. You've got infighting.
This is the point where everybody should be on the
same page for the most part, and full steam ahead
running this country. He told you he was going to

(57:30):
release the Epstein files. He told you he wanted to
get to the bottom of it. Now all of a sudden,
he doesn't want to do it. The problem for him
is a lot of his followers want it out and
this is going to set up one health a showdown
within the Republican Party. It's going to be very very
interesting once he hits gets into year two of his presidency.

(57:51):
You know, he's approaching that lame duck status about halfway through.
It's going to be real interesting to see how many
Republicans start pushing back, because you're already seeing a little
bit of it right now.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
As far as the Epstein files, throw them out there.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Let's have full exposure of who did what, the powerful,
whatever it may be. Victims should have a voice, and
everybody out there listening right now should be on the
same page when it comes to human trafficking, when it
comes to the abuse of young women, and if some
prominent people, including Trump, have to pay the penalty for that,

(58:31):
then so be it.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Otis Sam, your thoughts on.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
This, It's unfortunate because in the conversation of the Epstein files,
the victims are being lost in the conversation. It's becoming
so politicized that that the conversation about the young women
that were abused in this situation. As I said, the

(58:56):
conversation is being lost. But the other side of this,
for the people that are so curious about these these
these files, what do they really want to learn? For
a lot of people, it's almost entertainment. Unfortunately. They want
to see the dirt. They want to see the under underbelly.

(59:16):
It's almost as if they think that they're going to
get to peer behind the curtain of a world that
you and I will never walk in. That's the world
of the rich and the famous. What what goes on
behind the closed doors of the mansions, the the elites
that they live in, a world that the rest of

(59:38):
us can never understand or even imagine. You know, we
we we always hear the terms of you know, money
can buy you everything. And I think a lot of
people believe that in these files the curtain will be
pulled back and we'll get to see a world that
these rich and famous people live in. You know, they

(01:00:00):
want the popcorn, they want the popcorn moment. They want
to see the names, they want to see the connection.
They want to see the dirt. It's it's it's uh,
it's it's soap opera mentality. That's what they care about.
But as of of late Sunday Night on True Social
Trump is telling House Republicans to vote yes on Tuesday,

(01:00:23):
that is when the vote will happen to to release
all of the files. But the question is how much
will it be redacted? What will we find out? Probably nothing?
Otis You and I have both discussed on multiple times that,
you know, the Democrats during the Biden administration, they sat
they sat on these this paperwork, on this these files

(01:00:45):
for four years and they did nothing with it. They
did nothing with it last year during the campaign. So
so if there was something so groundbreaking or.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
That would would pull that would absolutely pull the the
feet out from underneath the Trump administration, or would have
kept Donald Trump from winning the presidency, they would have
released all of those documents.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
They would have and they didn't. So, you know, is
it a case of where there's smoke, there's fire or
is this a case of there's a little bit of
smoke and there's no fire whatsoever. There might be a spark.
I don't know. We'll find out. But back to Trump

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and a lot of the things that he does, and
I've been critical, and I've said this, I've said this
multiple times. He's his own worst enemy. You know, one
thing that the Democrats do right is marketing. They market
the party well, and there are certain ways in certain

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individuals that carry themselves in a manner that shows leadership.
I think Trump does too, But there are certain instances
where his comments, his reaction, his name calling, it's not presidential.

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It's not it's not presidential. I mean, he called Marjorie
Taylor Green Marjorie Trader Green. I don't think anybody cares
about her. That was a statement on her. And that's
just just a small example. But that is the kind
of stuff that is not presidential. It's just not. I

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like what the president's doing. I like what the president's accomplished.
I voted for him, I would vote for him again.
But those are the chinks in the armor that the
Democrats jump on. They jump on and they use it
against him. Eight forty six coming up, We're gonna have
your chance to win Chevy Chase, a National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation right here at the Capitol. A screening of the show,

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followed by a Q and A with this Dar himself.
We're gonna go to a quick break. It's eight forty six.
The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Welcome back.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
It's eight fifty the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. You know I told you, we
told you about you know, our text line and everything.
So I wanted to address a text that we received
this morning. Again. The text line is seven zero four
seven zero. Start the message off with bloom Daddy, and
then of course leave us your message. Just a reminder
that we're gonna have your chance to win. That is

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coming up here at the end of the show, so
stay tuned for that. That is for the live showing
of a Christmas story National Lampoo's Christmas Vacation. I'm sorry
I twisted that up Christmas vacation, So that's coming up.
But I told you earlier about my opportunity to go
to the new theaters at the Ohio Valley Mall Golden

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Tickets before where they opened their doors this past Saturday
at noon. But I got to do a little behind
the scenes tour. Within that commentary, I mentioned about the
pricing and the affordability. Receive this message on our text line,
it says Sam on movie tickets, what do you consider affordable.
When a senior citizen and a veteran you get one
of you get one of these discounts, and your tickets

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for two still come to thirty five dollars. And forget
getting candy, popcorn, or drinks. You're looking at spending fifty
to sixty dollars. That's not cheap. And if you're doing
the ones where you dine with the movie, that's seventy
five dollars or more. I remember movies when I was
dating were fifty cents apiece, and for two with popcorn
and drinks and candy coming to a dollar fifty and

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two dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
We're making thirty five cents an hour.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
Okay, But I understand the concerns. So I went directly
to Golden Ticket Cinema's website. I pulled up the ticket prices.
So on Tuesdays, all day excludes fat them in special events,
which is specialty special events, but Tuesday there are tickets
for five dollars and seventy five cents discount. Tuesdays, Mattiney's

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showtimes before four pm are eight dollars. Adult tickets are
twelve dollars. Senior citizen tickets or Senior tickets aged sixty
five and older are nine, and military with valid military
ID are nine dollars. So the highest ticket price according

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to the website that I am looking at, is twelve dollars.
So now they do have three D movies that are
going to be offered and in a special auditorium that's
called the Elite Auditorium. There is an up charge on
going to see that film, which is a surcharge of
three dollars. So I'm looking directly at the ticket prices,

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and as I said, the highest price is twelve dollars.
So just wanted to address the comment that we got
on our text line seven zero four for seven zero.
I mean, I don't think that is extreme. Twelve dollars
a ticket for a nighttime movie. Do you notice I
don't remember what they were prior?

Speaker 5 (01:06:15):
I mean, I haven't been to a theater in so long.
I think the last time I went to the theater
I went with my two boys for the last Star
Wars movie that came out. Oh gosh, that I don't
even know when that was. Okay, So what's that tell you?

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
So I think you know, Look, I mean I could
say when I was in high school. I think it
was three dollars to go see a movie. I mean, so,
I mean, yeah, you know, you know, I mean we
can sit here and complain and everything else. But again,
you know, it was relative to what you were probably
making at the time as well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
Well, I wasn't trying to no, no, I get it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:47):
Yeah, but this person also needs to realize that, you know,
rent at them always in cheap. You know, you have
to pay for these movies to come in. So there's
there are expenses that go into it, you know, the
maintenance of the facility as far as like sweeping up
and the ushers and so on and so forth. I mean,

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there are expenses that go into it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Well, and if you compare twelve dollars to see Okay,
that's the highest price listed on the ticket price that
I'm looking at on the homepage for the cinemas, twelve dollars.
You can't get what they call a value meal through
a drive through at a fast food restaurant for twelve
dollars anymore. I mean a lot of them are ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
You'd be close, you know, depending on what you get.
I mean they have Yeah, but I'm saying I see
what you're saying. Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean this
guy that you know went to see a movie for
fifty cents, you probably also paid fifteen cents for a
cheeseburger at the local restaurant. So I mean yeah, I mean, look,
you can't compare apples and oranges. I mean, I can
compare it to what you were making at the time,
to what you're making now, I get it. You know

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they're senior citizen discounts and military discount You can pay
nine bucks.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
I mean, so well, and listen, I understand what I
consider affordable may not be what somebody else considers affordable.
But again, I don't think twelve dollars for a nighttime
movie if you're.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Gonna go once a month or once every two weeks,
so you should be able to afford it. I mean, now,
if you're gonna go four times a week, then yeah,
I mean you're probably living outside your means at that
point in time, right right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
So anyways, I just wanted to address the comment that
we received on our text line.

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
Just I mean, again, you don't it's it's the nature
of this valley. I mean, anything that you put out there,
somebody's got something negative to say.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
About even putting up a Christmas tree. But we'll get
into that a little bit later on, you know, because
that happens. There's grnches everywhere that have to bring everybody down.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
But I mean, listen, if you focus on the negative,
that's what your life's gonna be. You can't focus. I mean,
we all have things that we disagree with. We all
have things that don't make us happy. We all have
things that You don't have to sit there and on it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
Now and listen. I understand criticism. That's part of what
we do here. We criticize it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
Well, you suck.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
We criticize each other, people criticize us. I'll call you know,
we call out things. There are certain things though that like,
you don't have to be negative all the time. You
don't have to be negative about everything all the time.
If that is your personality and you want to be
a miserable person, then by all means, be a miserable

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person in your own cave and leave the rest of
us alone.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Words will said. I say it every day at the
other job because I just there's somebody that I work
with that they're not happy unless they're miserable.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
I mean, there's people out there right now attacking a
Christmas tree. It's a Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
Tree, and why don't you wait till it's up and
decorated before you criticize it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
Yeah, just mean, you know, miserable humans.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Trees aren't perfect. They're imperfect. You know that's you can say, Oh,
I have the perfect Christmas tree. Somebody will find something
wrong with it. That's just the way it is.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
And that's the point. It's not supposed to be perfect.
It's supposed to bring a community together. It's supposed to
celebrate community. It's supposed to celebrate Main Street. It's supposed
to celebrate the time of year, the people that donate it,
the work that goes into it. But again, if you
just want to be a vile, angry, miserable, negative human being,

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stay in your own cave and leave the rest of
us alone. Just real quick. Wow, sorry, it touched a
nerve with me this weekend. Real quick. We talked about
cheeburgers here a minute ago. Oh no, no, no, we're
not going to do that. Forget that. I got lost,
I went I went down a rabbit hole there for
a second.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
You talk too much. I do talk to you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
Shadow you would think, you would think that's the job
that I do. But you know, hey, speaking of good
let's do it. Our first winner, our first winner for
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation screening right here at the Capitol
Theater one six, four eleven seventy. This the show is on.
Why Am I drawing a blank? Here? December ninth, December ninth,

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December ninth, one, eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy one,
eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy, Caller number twenty two,
caller number twenty two, one eight hundred sixty two, four
eleven seventy. Everybody, have a great Monday. We'll talk to
you tomorrow. Faday