The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 21, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Experience on news radio eleven SEVENTYWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. Well, now that the shutdown is over,
the Labor Department finally released their jobs numbers for September,
seven weeks after they would do, and it shows week
hiring but very few layoffs. So what does that mean.
It means that if you have a job, you've got
some job security, and if you don't have a job,
you're probably not finding employment. US employers added fifty thousand

(00:43):
jobs in September. That's an improvement on the twenty two
thousand they added in August, but it's still it's still
not real good. Unemployment rate remaining low at four point
three percent, So these hiring numbers modest. Why is that
Brenda Siri is a hiring experts She is the IT
and CEO of Corporate Connections, has over twenty years of

(01:03):
industry experience and talent acquisition Branda. Why why are these
numbers mediocre at best?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, typically this is a slower time of year. You know,
we've got the holidays coming. I know in my line
of work, we see a big slowdown in companies hiring
at the end of the year. Typically they've set their
budget out at the beginning of the year, they know
how many seats they can fill during the year, and

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they'll get close to the end of the year and
they'll start looking at their budget and they'll start thinking,
can I put that higher off until the beginning of
the next year and maybe use some budget funds in
a different way. So it's not really surprising to me
that you're not seeing a huge surgeon hiring at this
point in the year. But you know, I'm personally really

(01:54):
excited by the hiring that has occurred in twenty twenty five.
I think it's been a good year for jobs seekers.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
What about AI?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I saw were most companies with slow entry level hiring
states because of artificial intelligence? Can AI get a lot
of the blame for where we are? And is it
going to get more blame as we get on into
the future.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know, I think that with the introduction and growth
of AI, I mean it has made a significant impact
on entry level jobs or jobs for employees with less
than five years of experience. It really has had an impact.
You know, it's affected you know, roles like people who
track and ex strike data for companies, write code for companies.

(02:33):
It really can transcend many industries. I think today it's
it's affecting more of those entry level or lower level
type of positions. But is it going to completely eliminate
jobs forever? No, it's not going to definitely not. You know,
I like to tell people think of AI as a tool,

(02:55):
not a job eliminator.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
You're a hiring expert. I want to run this past you.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Have had a couple of conversations recently with some people
who own a rest One owns a restaurant, one owns it,
you know, a company, and they both told me they
can't find people to work. And as one individual told me,
he said, look, I pay well, I offer four oh
one K matches, I offer great health insurance, but I
can't get people to work. And it's usually that twenty

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three to about thirty five age group.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
He said.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
They come to me and they say they want to
dictate their work schedules. They want to say, you know,
they want this, or that they want everything molded to them.
Are you seeing that out there in the workforce these days?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
More of that.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
I have seen more of that. In fact, I was
talking with someone just last week about this and he said,
you know, Brenda, I'm at the point where I've just
let these people know, Look, here's the deal. If you
don't like it, leave, I'll find other people. I'm not
putting up with it. I think that in that age group,
you know, look, everyone during the pandemic went from being

(04:01):
you know, on site in an office to working from home.
They didn't have to commute, they had a little more flexibility,
and they started figuring out that maybe they could take
on additional work assignments, they could be a little more
open to the practice of polywork. And I've found that
what that is doing is it's kind of creating more

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of an entrepreneurial spirit in people. And I think that
that is giving that that particular age demographic the idea
that they have the right to dictate their schedules, which
is obviously off putting to many employers, but I do
think that's kind of where it all started.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mean, Brenda, I think the mentality has changed from
when you and I were in our twenties, and it
was you just did what you had to do. You
worked over time, you worked holidays. You never even questioned it.
It was just part of the way it was. Now right,
twenty three to thirty five year olds look at that
mentality as crazy, like that they want the best right

(05:05):
out of the gate, or they're not going to work.
I just wonder how people are surviving, right, I mean, you.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Know, it's interesting because I you know, probably about a
month ago, I had a really early morning flight to
catch and my Uber driver came and picked me up
at four thirty in the morning, and I was thanking
him for being out at that time of morning to
pick me up, and he was like, you know, this
is just one of four jobs that I have. And
I'm like really, and he said yeah, he said, I
drive Uber, I do some tech consulting, I'm a day trader,

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I'm going to school to get my PhD. And I'm
teaching some courses at the university. And I think that
that is a trend that we're seeing a lot in
a younger generation, is they're like, why do I have
to be tied down to one job for fifty to
sixty hours a week like I watched my parents do
when I could have all of these jobs and this flexibility. Right,

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they think of that as having a lot of flexibility,
and that's what they are looking for. I just think
it's a different mentality.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
So which mentality is right?

Speaker 5 (06:04):
Good question?

Speaker 4 (06:06):
It really is.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's a great question. I mean I think back to
my dad and even to my husband, who worked for
the same company for many, many years, and that's just
what we did, right. You got in the door, you
were dedicated, you grew with the company, and left when
you retired. And what I have seen in today's workforce

(06:31):
is people aren't necessarily attracted to the idea of hiring
someone who has stated a company for forever because they're
afraid they're going to become stagnant. They're not going to
be flexible in their thinking and open to new ideas
and learning something new from a different company. So I
think that while we all love the idea of that,

(06:54):
let's just stay in it for the whole career mentality.
It's not that way today, and even lawyers are turned.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
Off by that.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well that was my next question for you if the
younger generation wants more flexibility, If these younger employees want
more flexibility, our employer is going to have to adapt
and give that to.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Them or the company.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean do they have to adapt. No, but
could they possibly find that it's harder and harder to
retain employees. Possibly. So I think that that companies today
need to sort of change with the times. And you know, look,
remember probably within the last ten years when you know,
culture was so important that companies started doing things like

(07:40):
putting ping pong tables in break rooms, right, and smoothie
machines and things like that to attract and retain talent.
I think today that's not the same kind of culture
that our incoming talent is looking for. They are looking for,
you know, the flexibility to you know, maybe work different

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hours or look, I want I want to work, you
know in the morning and then have a few hours
off in the afternoon to be with my kids, and
then I'll come back to work in the evening. And
I think companies need to recognize that the you know,
times are changing.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Bratta, thanks for the time, and I appreciate the insight.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
You got my pleasure. Thanks for having me on the.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
Show seven on your Friday morning. Thank you for kicking
it off with us The bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and
Sam here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We have
a jam packed show today and listen, you are going

(08:45):
to benefit. We have three chances for you to win.
We do, we do, we do, we do? What all
we got? Well, let's see we can go back and forth.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Well, we're going to go.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
We're gonna give away a pair of tickets to see
Chevy Chase the screening U Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
So we get another chance at those YEP and Q
and A.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
With Chevy afterwards and.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
Oh yeah old Chevy like we know.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
Coming up coming up next week, we are we're scheduled
to have an interview with Chevy. So that should be
fun a lot. It's a great I don't I don't
think ten minutes is enough. Now when you're thinking that
you got you gotta ask. It just all depends on
how long the answers are. So and then coming up
after that, we will have a family four pack to

(09:30):
catch the West Virginia Mountaineers basketball squad on December third.
They'll be taking on Coppin State and one two I
gotta look here, one two three that's a Wednesday night,
So we'll have a chance of a family four pack
for for the WU basketball men's basketball.

Speaker 7 (09:47):
Are you in the deal?

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Like, No, that's that's a that's a game that I
will not be going to because I am going out
of town two days later.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
So gotcha.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
We'll see what happens. And then finally, we have your
chance to win a pair of tickets to see a
Motown Christmas right here at the Capitol Theater on December thirteenth.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, December thirteenth.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
So three chances for you to win today. And uh, hell,
you're already winning because you're listening to us.

Speaker 7 (10:16):
You're a winner every day when you tune into us.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
That sounds so cheesy, I mean it does. That's dumb.
That's like that's something you would hear like in the
late eighties on a morning Zoo. You're a winner because
you're listening to us on zoo one oh four. Oh shoot,
those days were bad.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
Well, well haven't we talked before about the like the
old the.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Music was bad. Most of the music wasn't good. I
mean there was great songs that came out. But there
were some that were like turns.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
I like the old school DJ's that would turn on
the radio voice.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Well then they called them pukers.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Oh I never heard that term, because wore.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
They would when they would talk, it would be like
they would puget. They Hey, you're you're gonna you're gonna win.

Speaker 7 (11:05):
There was that that wretching type of yeah, so yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Anyway.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
Anyways, well it is because it is a Friday. We
do have a question for you, a pole question, a
pole question. And first of all, here's how you get
in contact with us. All right, tell you this all
the time. The phone line is not just to win stuff, folks.
One eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. You can
chime in on all of our topics. One eight hundred

(11:35):
six two four eleven seventy. You don't have to go
on the air. By the way, Otis will ask you
if you want to go on the air or if
you just want to make a comment that he will relay.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
It's a lot more fun if you go on the air.

Speaker 7 (11:46):
But it is more fun. Yes, So that number is
one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. You can
chime in on our text line seven zero four seven zero,
start the message off with bloom Daddy and then give
us your message and then of course it is on
our social media. So our question today is sparked by
a story. Andre McKenny, fifty four years old is a

(12:10):
convicted murderer serving life in prison in Australia. He is
suing the Department of Justice and Corrections over a ban
on the wonderful delicacy vegemite behind bars. So basically he's
in prison and he can't get vegemite. He's not happy,
he's suing And if.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
You've never had vegemite, you're not missing anything.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
I have never had it, but just the look of
it is not appealing whatsoever. He argues that the prohibition
that started since two thousand and six violates his right
to enjoy his culture as an Australian prison officials banned
the popular breakfast spread, claiming inmates inmates could use it
to hide contraband or make alcohol. So that leads us

(12:54):
to our fun Friday topic, which is what food would
you miss if you were in prison? So if you
were in the joint for either short period of time
long period, doesn't matter, you're behind bars. What food would
you miss the most.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
That's tough.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
That's tough, man, because you've heard about the food in
prison and it's barely edible. So put your thinking caps on, folks.
That is our fun question of the day. First, the
first that pops into my head is pizza. But that's
kind of like everybody, it's like, that's like the go
to for everybody, but mine is that's that's initially where

(13:38):
my mind.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Well, there's a possibility you could get pizza, but it's
probably gonna taste like a cardboard box. It's gonna be
catch up and if you're lucky, I mean, or it's
just gonna be it's gonna be. They're gonna bring in
frozen and throw it in the oven and they the
people that make it, don't really care.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:55):
Yeah, So that's what we're having some fun with this morning,
along of course, with all of our chances to win.
But coming up we're going to we kind of well,
we can say we kind of drop some bad news.
We've got some bad news. But on Veterans Day, we
have a tradition and honestly, I dropped the ball. Well

(14:17):
we did, we both did.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
We both just never even thought about it.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yeah, just slipped through the cracks. We just completely would
forgot and.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
We had we had actually had a listener reach out
about it. And if you're if you're wondering what we're
talking about. Back when bloom Daddy was here on a
regular basis, there were every Veterans Day he would bring
in Bill Carpenter.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
It was a tradition.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
Vietnam War veteran, you know multiple I mean, Vietnam War
hero is really what he was. And every year he
would tell the Orangutang story. Now Bill, you know, all
Vietnam veterans have their own little some of them have
their own little quirks. Bill would come in, he'd have

(15:05):
his backpack or his briefcase or whatever it was, and
he'd have all his stuff laid out. You know, he'd
start pulls. Bill was the most fidgety guy in the world.
And in case you haven't realized, Bill passed away last night.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
I was gonna say, yeah, just you know, so we
got terrible.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
It's a huge loss. Uh, you know for anybody that
knew Bill, it's a huge loss for us. And you
know it's it's just it's not it's a sad day,
but we have to go on and do our job.
But Bill would come in and he'd be sitting across
from from bloom Daddy where you're you're sitting now. He

(15:46):
would sit there and he would just like he was
always into something, and he was like bloom Daddy would
lose his mind because you hear clicker, you hear paper shuffling,
or you hear coins or keys or something, and bloem
Daddy's tr I had to talk and he'd be looking
at Bill that he's looking at me like like I
can't do anything. I'm in this room, and it's just

(16:06):
like you know, every break Bill, you can't the microphones,
you're picking up everything because I'd have these mic turned
off and then when bloom Daddy would ask him a
question to have to turn it back on. I mean,
it's just Bill. Bill was just a great guy, had
great stories, you know, and unfortunately for you know, for us,

(16:26):
you know, he's now no longer with us, but a.

Speaker 7 (16:29):
Very dear friend to the show for many, many years,
many years. So when we get back, we are going
to play the infamous orangue Tang story, the hilarious Harangutan
orangutang story in honor of our dear dear friend, Bill Carpenter.
Seven eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon

(16:52):
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVAI. Welcome back to bloom
Daddy Experience, sam and Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.

(17:12):
We got some sad news last night, dear friend of show,
Bill Carpenter, Vietnam veteran we unfortunately lost. So we are
going to do a tribute for him this morning.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Yeah, We've run this in the past. This is probably
I think the last Veterans Day that bloom Daddy was
actually here on WWVA Live and we had Bill. He
would always have Bill come in on Veterans Day, and
of course what everybody wanted to hear every year was
the Orangutang story. What a tradition, and it became a

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Veterans Day tradition. And so in honor of Bill and
in his memory, we will play this. We're going to
bring you the Irangutang Story.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
We've got Bill Carpenter aand here Bloe Daddy Military analysts,
member of Tiger Force, Vietnam sniper. Okay, here we go,
you ready, I'm ready. This ranks is one of the
greatest otis is already laughing.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
Why are you already laughing in there?

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Because I know what's coming all right.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
June nineteen sixty six, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Little Billy Carpenter,
seventeen years old, private first class. You're with your buddies
outside of a beer garden, getting drunk, and all of
a sudden you see ambulance after ambulance after ambulance going by.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yes, what do you do?

Speaker 8 (18:30):
We decided to go to vestigate the source of why
all these ambulances are coming.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Up the road?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
And what did you find?

Speaker 5 (18:37):
A carnival or fair, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
And at that fair there was a circus wagon.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
And you see these old pictures.

Speaker 8 (18:47):
I mean it's probably maybe fifteen feet long, maybe at
the max sixty eight, probably eight feet wide, maybe got
bars all around it. And inside there's a one hundred
and thirty five pounded rangutang. You could get one hundred
dollars if you went three rounds with this rangutang.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, one hundred dollars if you make it three rounds
with this orangutang. How much did you make as an
army or as a private first class back in nineteen
sixty six in a month one.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
Hundred and some dollars plus fifty five dollars extra for
jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, so you could almost make what you made in
a month by just surviving three rounds with a one
hundred and thirty five pound of ringtang.

Speaker 8 (19:30):
Yes, that's what my friends was with me. Conveyed to me, like,
knock him out and you know, we'll have a bunch
of money.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Now, you saw these ambulances going by, so obviously you
had to realize that other guys didn't fare that well
against this orangutang.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Right.

Speaker 8 (19:43):
Well, sort we didn't really see too much of what happened.
But the thing just show you how smart beer will
make you. I watched this rangutang destroy a friend of
mine and I wouldn't even thought about fighting him. So
just go show you how smart beer will make you.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
All Right, So you get your courage up and you
get in this carnival trailer with this orangue tank.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, they give you a red granger helmet, uh.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well of those old leather football yeah, no face mask.
It has one bar one bo like Terry Bradshaw wore back.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
In the day. That was.

Speaker 8 (20:16):
That was so the rangu tank can use it as
a weapon, and and and the rangue tank had and
you got boxing gloves on. The rangue tank has a
muzzle on. He's got boxing gloves on all four feet.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Okay, so you get in there. You're feeling pretty good, right, yeah,
all right, you start hammer You start hammering the orangue tank.

Speaker 8 (20:37):
No no, no, I start jabbing at him, and it
puts its hands up or it starts a whimpering like
a puppy backs in the corner. An't you know, I'm
a real animal lover. This thing just kind of peeks
up at you everything. So my buddies, you knock him out,
knock him out, And I don't you know, I don't
really want to hit it.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
And come on, we need the money. So okay, I
sucker punched this thing and it disappeared.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
It disappears.

Speaker 8 (20:59):
Well, if you ever looking at an orangutag, their arms
are like ten feet long, you know. Just and this
thing reached out through the bars, got a hold of bars,
swung itself up behind me, come down on my neck,
got me a scissors hold.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Let The nastiest part you ever.

Speaker 8 (21:12):
Imagined and kick and kick me and the kidneys with
the other two feet.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
What does an orangutank for? It smell?

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Oh my god, Like I said, I've smelled. I've smelled
rotten bodies. You name it. Nothing. I don't know what.
It's undescribable.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
So this thing's on your shoulders, what does it do?

Speaker 8 (21:29):
Then it reaches down and jerks his helmet off of me,
and it convinces to beat me. Well, so I tried
to run, but there's not much room to run in
a circus wagon. And I'm screaming for this guy to
open the door.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Why didn't you just go out the door?

Speaker 5 (21:44):
It was locked. They weren't gonna let that ragon tank
get loose in.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
That car, so you know, it didn't get out until
that guy decided I was close to death. And so here,
you know, what did you fight back? I did well,
I attempted to. You know, you you would duck two
feet and you get hit with two feet, hit hard
enough to make me look like a raccoon. That blacked

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both of my eyes, cracked my ribs, just located my jaw,
and I guess that's hard enough.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
So you're you're beating on this thing it's whippering, obviously
beating on.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
I'm hitting it. The beating what didn't register with the
iring if?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Okay, So so there had to be some sort of
a dog whistle or something that turned this thing on, right, yeah, because.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
It would it wouldn't fight back at first, and so
this this guy gave it a signal. Whatever the secret
signal was, I never found out about that, you know,
just uh, it beat.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Me three ways, long, hardened continuously.

Speaker 8 (22:49):
I mean, you know I believed all that stuff they
taught me about being a parent trooper. Hey, you're you know,
you can whip ten civilians and six marines and you're
hard on woodpecker lips.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
You know, just you know, just to well, all that
hardness went away.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Did you did you fear for your life in there? Hell?

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yes, the end of my life.

Speaker 8 (23:11):
You know they say you watch your life flashes before
your eyes will trust me, I couldn't see through my
eyes anymore.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
Had to.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Did it hit you rapidly or did it, like I
told you, long harden continuously?

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (23:27):
You do know what I can say. It's you've seen
pictures of ragged their arms, you know they're proportion for
their body.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Was it quick did you see him coming?

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Didn't you know when you see him coming? That was
the bad part.

Speaker 8 (23:40):
Yeah, you see him coming and you knew you couldn't
do nothing about it, because, like I say, you would
duck two feet and you would get hit it too.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
I can just imagine you grabbing a hold of bars, screaming,
let me out of this thing.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
And this the bad part you I mean, I tried.

Speaker 8 (23:53):
To tackle this thing, and I try to get the
barre of you know, the worst thing you can do
to just beat you that much.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
More so, at what point does this guy realize you're
about beating to death before he calls this thing off?

Speaker 8 (24:05):
When I was close to death? Yeah, well finally I
did the smart thing. I pretended to be dead. I
fell down on the floor and everything. They drugged my
carcass out of the way.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Two black eyes broken, nose broken, jaw located, jaw broken ribs.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah, anything else is that it? Did you get right broken?

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Ego? That was a bad part?

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Did you get a right in the oh?

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yeah? Yeah, I found out what the ambuss were going
up and.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Down the road for What did your CEO say after
you got beat up?

Speaker 5 (24:43):
Call me ten different kinds of dumb asses.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
Yeah, and then after after that, the next the general
Commanding General finally put out director at the next GI
the funck that the Ragtag was going to get a
court martiall and had to pay.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Their own hospital bill.

Speaker 8 (24:57):
He had he had more people in the hospital, car.
I'm serious, they had, they had. They had to put
a big they had to put a couple of big
kents outside the hospital just for the rangutankcademies.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
What's what's the one lesson you learned from this dope
fight or rang attack?

Speaker 8 (25:17):
The bad and then the bad part about it was
when I went to Vietnam?

Speaker 5 (25:20):
What do they have in Vietnam?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Rang?

Speaker 5 (25:23):
I want? I wann't. I wasn't worried about the North
Vietnam agent. Boy, I sure watched them trees.

Speaker 8 (25:31):
Yeah, I told them guys, forget about all that hand
to hand stuff they teach you, because it ain't gonna work.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
We gotta go. Thanks for coming in, Billy, You're well
all right, we're back after this.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
Welcome back. It's seven fifty on your Friday. The Blue
Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy w
w v A. Just like Dave O said, otis never
gets old. I will say, I.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Totally forget I put the screaming monkeys in the back.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
I will say when when Bloom Daddy and he invited
me on doing the Friday gig in this and that
where this all kind of started for me. When it
was Veterans Day, he said, I want you to come
to that show. I don't want you to hear this story.
And I had not heard it before, and he's like,
I don't I remember him. I don't know if it

(26:22):
was you. He said something, don't tell her anything. Wanted
me to be completely blind to you know, to the story.
There's laughing right then, there is deep in your soul
that that belly laugh. And it was one of the deepest,
funniest stories the first time I heard it I've ever heard.

(26:45):
And he sat here. I remember watching him tell the
story and he sat here and of course I'm talking
about Bill Carpenter, so dead pam his face as he
told the story, which in person made it even funnier.
So again, a friend of shoe Bill, thank you for
all of the great memories, and thank you for one

(27:08):
of the funniest stories I have ever heard.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
It's I mean, it's a classic. Oh, it's just it's.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
And you can see it as he tells the story.
Can you not see an orang a tang with the
arms and the legs?

Speaker 6 (27:21):
Descriptions are outstanding. I mean he paints the picture. Oh yeah,
if anybody painted a picture, it was Bill. Yeah. He
just I mean, and you hear bloem Daddy laughing, and
I mean he's heard the story thirty times, if not more. Oh,
he was crying and having in here watching him. He
is basically in tears, laughing so hard every time that

(27:45):
story goet told.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
And the man got his jaw broken basically like dislocated, Yeah, dislocated.

Speaker 6 (27:52):
Yeah, he just you sit there and you're one what
and then and you're in you're you go. Why did
it take so long for the company commander to say
anybody that fights? I mean he's like, if all these
ambulances were leaving when he said they were, like, you
would have figured that they would have got the order

(28:13):
before he got in the ring. But thank god they didn't,
because in the spool we'd never have the story.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Well and bloom, Dad, he says, well, why didn't you
go out the door?

Speaker 6 (28:22):
Well it was locked.

Speaker 7 (28:24):
It's just yeah, just a great story, great story all around.
Great guy, and again, thank you for all of the
wonderful memories. And if you missed the Orangutang story, you
can go listen to it on our podcast, so, which
will be up later today.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
You know, and it's you know, that's one of those
things that you know, Veterans Day is you know, I
don't want to say it's somber, but you know it's
you sit there and you remember those right, you know.
I mean, it's not Memorial Day, it's it's Veterans Day.
She used to honor the veterans, but you also think
about the veterans that are no longer with us. And
so you know, basically in about a year we will

(29:03):
be playing that again because I actually I actually made
a page for Veterans Day so that when that if
I'm still here next year, you never know, we could
always be fired tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Well let's put that out to the universe, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
I mean, but it's always a possibility, I know, you know,
it's one slip of the time. Yeah you're gone, but yeah,
we'll just you know, so we have a page dedicated
to Veterans Day, and as things pop up, we'll throw
things in there and and you know, and we'll make
sure that we didn't. We don't forget Bill, and we
don't forget that story. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
I'm just sitting here just smiling because it's so funny.
Uh So, Yeah, so we're gonna, we're gonna kind of
move on from that here, and of course we're bloom
Daddy will have we'll have some comments on on Bill,
of course.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
I mean, let's let's be honest. You you you told
bloom Daddy of Bill's passing last night, and you know,
I think bloom Daddy wants to do you know, he
wants to say a few things about but in all honesty,
it choked him up last.

Speaker 7 (30:04):
Night and he just it was a hard phone.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
It wasn't something that he could do at the moment.
So he's gonna he's gonna, you know, let it sit
for a while and then he's going to come back
and give you his thoughts on Bill, and we'll probably
have that for you on Monday. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (30:18):
And he can sure tell a story better than you
and I combined. They knew each other for many years,
oh yeah, many many years. So not one of my
best phone calls I've ever had. To make. But let's
turn the page a little bit to some top local stories.
One person is hurt after a camper exploded in Moundsville.

(30:38):
Authorities say the explosion happened last night at one hundred
and forty Ridgeview Lane off of Robert's Ridge Road. The
victim was sent to a Pittsburgh hospital with burns. The
incident is currently under investigation and no update on the
burn victim. Youngstown State University is bringing higher edgection back

(31:00):
to Steubenville. The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees approved
a resolution to buy nearly thirteen acres of real estate
and property that previously belonged to Eastern Gateway Community College.
The agreement follows a settlement and transfer agreement between Youngstown
State University, Eastern Gateway Community College, and Jefferson County. Eastern

(31:24):
Gateway closed its doors at the end of September. Some
really good news for Steubenville. Authorities are investigating a deadly
rollover crash near Amsterdam. Official say a pickup truck rolled
over Berkholtz Road northeast yesterday. The driver was unfortunately killed.
The cause of the wreck hasn't been released. And finally,

(31:45):
the city of Wheeling is Kicking off the holiday season tonight, folks,
the fortieth annual Main Street Bank Fantasy and Lights Parade
is returning to its traditional route, beginning use me beginning
at twentieth in Market Streets and ending at twenty second
and Main Streets. No parking times and street closure signs

(32:09):
will be posted in the affected areas, which, by the way,
they are already up here on Main Street. And to
those in charge, my car will be gone before the deadline.
I will be out of here. So yes, if you
are planning to come down two Wheeling tonight for the parade,

(32:31):
please keep in mind the nailers are also having a
game at I believe the puck drops at six thirty.
I believe.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, a little different start time. Normally it's seven ten,
but it's it's six thirty because of the parade.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
Ye night, So be patient, be courteous. You know downtown
is going to be very, very busy tonight.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Get to tell if you're going to the Nailer's game,
get there early because some of the parking that you
may be used to will not be there, so you're
gonna probably either have to park in the garage or
you're gonna have to Park somewhere else because Main Street
and Market Street are gonna be fool.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
There's a lot of excitement with the parade returning to
its original route, and it's the fortieth anniversary, so there
is tons of excitement surrounding the parade. Just a reminder,
we have plenty of chances for you to win coming up.
We're gonna have our first chance and that is of
course to see Chevy Chase and a screening of Christmas

(33:24):
Vacation right here at the Capitol Theater on December ninth.
So we have a pair of tickets for those for
you coming up, so stay tuned for that. It is
seven fifty eight, of course on this Friday.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
And we'll also have your chance to win a family
four pack to see the WV Down Years take on
the copp And State on December third. And we also
have Motown Christmas coming up, pair of tickets for that.

Speaker 7 (33:48):
What else don't we have? What else we got laying
around here? Whatever you want, got a couple of blankets, Lane.
But as I said, you're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience on your Friday morning here on news Radio eleven
seventy WWVAD.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Number one Talk show in the Ohio Valley. This is
the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His goal inform,
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news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 7 (34:28):
A six on your Friday. Welcome back the bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. All right, folks.
We talked about the Wheeling Christmas Parade, which is happening tonight.
We talked about the Wheeling tree lighting, which was this
past Wednesday. They're already but guess what joining me now
in studio we have the executive director for the Saint

(34:51):
Clairsville Chamber of Commerce because they are kicking off Christmas
this Saturday night for Light Up Night. Thank you for
joining us, Lisa, Yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (35:03):
Appreciate you guys inviting me to come in here and
talk about all the great things we got going on
in Saint Clairsville.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
It's going to be fantastic. So Light Up Night.

Speaker 9 (35:10):
This is year three year before. Well, I think they've
been lighting the tree. Well they've been having like a
tree lighting kind of ceremony for years. But I've been
with the Chamber for this is going on a little
over three years. Just took over as the director in July,
so this will be my fourth year participating in a
Light Up Night and bigger and better. It's every years, yeah, yeah,

(35:34):
So it's Saturday from four to eight. Something that we're
bringing back this year is our ice skating rink. It's
twenty foot by sixty four feet long and it's right
on Main Street, right on Main Street. It's free, it's
free ice skating, it's synthetic ice. The ice skates are
free to rent. We have free bouncy houses, trackless train
so a lot of things that the kids can come do.

(35:57):
All of our businesses, well not all of them, but
a lot of them on Main Street are open, so
that's a great time for you to start your Christmas shopping.
You can enjoy some of the eating establishments that we
have on Main Street. They'll all be open. Noueles Town, Audrey's, Augiacinta's,
we have a new big shop Suite Spy Sarah right so,
and of course all our pizza shops, Pizza Milano, Papa
dis So, they'll all be open. So it's a great

(36:18):
time to bring the family do some shopping. There's a
lot of fun activities for the kids, a lot of stuff.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
Going on in Saint Clair's go on Main Street. Well,
and you bring up the shopping aspect of it. You know,
everybody talks when they're planning their shopping list. They want
something different, they want something unique. Well, when you shop
small and you shop local, like the possibility for light
up night in Saint Clairsville Saturday night, that's perfect. It's
right there. So you go, you entertain the kids, you

(36:45):
get a little Christmas shopping done, and you kind of
start getting in the Christmas spirit right right.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
And also what we have is not only just the
stores that are on Main Street. They're going to be open.
Some of them are having their own little kind of
Christmas activity is going on. So the Saint Clairsville Library
they're gonna do free crafts for the kids. So you
can go in do your free craft, you can use
their restroom, you.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
Can warm up.

Speaker 9 (37:09):
That's another great thing. You can go into these stores
and shop around and it might be a little chilly,
just everybody knows we live in Ohio.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
Bundle up, you know.

Speaker 9 (37:17):
But and you can stop into these stores and see
what they have to offer. And then also we have
a one of the storefronts on Main Street. They it's
for rent and the the the owner graciously allows us
to use this every light up night for a vendor village.
So we have over ten vendors that will come in.
They'll be indoors inside vendor village. And then we have

(37:39):
about fifteen other vendors that will be on on the street,
so not only the street that the business is on,
Main Street, but a lot of local vendors will be
there as well, artisans, right, yeah, exactly, so you can
pick up that special thing for somebody.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
Well, and that's what you know. This is on main
Street in Saint Clairsville, small town, USA. You know there's
as it's a great way to what do I want
to say, get back to get back to the heart
of community. And this event is fantastic for that. I
can't wait to go this year. I've gone the past

(38:13):
four years. I think it's amazing. And last year we
had reindeer.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Okay, this year we have so this year we have
our Highland Christmas cows, so I could. They're the fluffy
ones that are real cute. You can take your picture,
you can pet them. One of the new businesses on
Main Street, it's called Graciously Abby's Art Center. So she's
gonna turn her whole art center into a Santa's workshop.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
The kids can.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
Actually go in, they can make their ornament. She was
doing some sort of a fundraiser to try and raise
money so that these ornaments would be free, and I
think it's kind of I think it might be the
first twenty five kids that go in get a free ornament.
After that, I think it's maybe like five or eight
dollars or something to make your ornament. But she also
is bringing her cows, and I'm told that they'll have
like cute little reindeer, you know, headbands on whatever. They

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think that they're reindeer, and I'm not going to be
the one to tell them that they're not.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
So listen, pretty much every every decoration or craft show
you go to, there's a there's a Highland cow something. Right,
They're hot now, cows are hot fats there. We're you know,
breaking a trend here with the Highland Scottish cows. But
they are going to be on Main Street. Okay, so
the highlight of the night is the tree right right?

(39:24):
And yeah, how are you, how are we lighting the tree?

Speaker 9 (39:27):
So Sanna, of course is going to be arriving somewhere.
So the event is four to eight. Somewhere around seven o'clock,
Santa will arrive with the Saint Clairsville Marching Band and
the cheerleaders. He will march up the street and he
will come and he will magically throw his magic dust
magic dust.

Speaker 7 (39:44):
Yeah, and he will light our Christmas tree.

Speaker 8 (39:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (39:48):
So, and the Christmas tree was donated proudly donated by
a family, a local family in Saint Clairsville, Fred and
Cynthia Caruth. I think that's the right way to pronounce
their name. And the story behind that tree is I
was told that they planted that tree when it was
one foot in their yard.

Speaker 7 (40:05):
So it then grew to forty.

Speaker 9 (40:08):
Foot and so they graciously donated that tree to the city.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
And yeah, there.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
May have been some issues between taking the tree out
of the yard and then transporting it to Saint Clairsville.
I know the day they put it up, there was
some question some people driving by, you know, questioning.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
There was just some some negative reaction. I get it.

Speaker 9 (40:29):
It's the it's the holiday season.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
Sometimes people just get a little grumpy. That's fine, but
there's gonna be anche.

Speaker 8 (40:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:38):
But but if you drive by now, I mean and
and and you know what happened to the tree.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (40:44):
Accidents happen. Things happen. The people that were doing it
know that it happened, but they also tried to fix it.
And it's decorated now. And you know it may have
a little bit of the top like cut off, but
you know it didn't look like that when they took
it out. But the family wants to know that. They
are very proud that that is, that they're able to
share something that they've had in their family for I
don't know how many years it takes for it to

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grow to forty year forty b But they're so excited
that their grandkids can be take a picture with it
and they can share that with their community that they love.

Speaker 7 (41:12):
And that's what I was going to get at, because
you mentioned to me before we got on here. The
grandchildren are very excited and very proud that it's their
family tree. They're going to get to see sand to
light it. So for those who want to be the
grinch and nasty and judgmental and you know, clicks and

(41:33):
all of this with this negative attitude. Let's keep in
mind the backstory, and let's keep in mind the reason
for the Christmas Tree and the reason for this season
and what this is all about, because it needs to
be positive. It may not be perfect, but that's not
the point exactly.

Speaker 9 (41:50):
If you believe in the miracle and the magic of Christmas,
then you will experience it. So you know, just just
have some good in your heart, and you know, that's
all we asked. It's everything is for the kids, things
for the community. You gotta think outside the box.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
And again, so that's Light Up Night, which is this Saturday,
November twenty second. But while I have you here, the
parade is coming up December seventh. December seventh, so you're
got a little a little busy.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
Yeah, yeah, nothing going on in the chamber, no, yeah,
So December seventh is our parade. We we it's It
will be aired on TV live broadcast on WTRF and
it will start a two thirty and then it'll actually
like step off of the high school at two forty five,

(42:39):
so by the time it gets around uh to the courthouse,
it'll be about three o'clock. This year, we have in
an opening production before the parade even starts, which we've
never done before, so featuring the Saint clair's Ville cheerleaders,
and then we have probably about twenty five of little
cheerleaders from the community that are going to be joining them,
so that will be something special and something new. We

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have over eighty five entries in the parade, so's yeah,
it's a lot.

Speaker 7 (43:06):
Does Mary Beth know this?

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Well, I kind of told her eighty, but since I
told her that, we've gotten five more.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
But we're done. We are full.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
We can't take any more entries. So if you got in, great,
it's gonna be a great day.

Speaker 7 (43:18):
So I will say I know this because my husband
and I volunteer for right organize. We're in charge of
the section with the big trucks. Yes, so a lot
of those this year, sorry to tell you, but oh
do we all great?

Speaker 6 (43:30):
Great?

Speaker 7 (43:30):
So we are going to be quite busy that day, Hobby.
If you're listening, just real quick, we've got about a
minute left. You know, all of these, all of these
amazing nights and these events that the Chamber puts on.

Speaker 9 (43:42):
Who helps make that possible our sponsors. We could not
do this without our sponsors. Our title sponsor this year's
Whiteside absolutely.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
Could not do it without them.

Speaker 9 (43:50):
Thank you Panhandle Cleaning a Restoration. You guys are wonderful.
They're always helping in the community. They are a big
sponsor of ours. Also other sponsors we have EQT Belmont
County Tourism, Saint Clairsville, the City of Saint Clairsville, Expand Energy,
West Banco, Thomas Auto Center, South Central Power, Schultz Ford
Lion Industries, Remax, Broadwater, and of course Littmann Enterprises because

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they gave us the porta potties.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
We can't have anything there. You go, you need the potties. Sorry,
white Sides. I think Litman might be the most important
with the porta pottis Lisa Kindler. Thank you so much
for coming in this morning. Thank you guys for having me.
This is fun. Thanks so much. I told you pcpas again.
Saint Clairsville Light Up Night is this Saturday night. I
want to see everybody there because I'm going to be

(44:35):
there and I cannot wait to see the Highland Cows.
I'm so excited Santa you too, but the Highland Cow
I can't wait. Eight sixteen. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Hey,

(44:57):
twenty two, Welcome back to the Blue Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy w w VA. I gotta
tell you, I'm starting to get starting to get excited.
I'm starting to get into that, into that, into that
mindset that season. So you know, like like we were
talking about Lisa and I light up night Saturday Night

(45:19):
in Saint Clairsville. It's fantastic. It is fantastic. I may
be a little biased because I live in that area,
but it is a it's a great night, great night.
So if you don't have any planned Saturday night, make
plans to be on Main Street in Saint Clairsville. You
will not be disappointed. Will not be disappointed. So yeah,
so make sure you are there for that. Now, if

(45:41):
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Speaker 7 (46:54):
Make the noise?

Speaker 6 (46:56):
What noise?

Speaker 7 (46:56):
The turkey noise?

Speaker 6 (46:57):
I don't know if I can do it on command.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
I'm sorry, my eyes are watered. Oh obviously I didn't
listen to that first. Oh gosh, that was funny, that
the idea. Who Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Oh,
I'm so so sorry. Speaking of turkey, remember the turkey
and Christmas Vacation cuts it and goes because it's dry

(47:30):
and empty. Bring that up, because we're gonna have your
chance to win Chevy Chase tickets or a screening to
see Christmas Vacation that's coming up here very shortly. We're
supposed to do it within the next couple of minutes. Yeah,
literally within the next couple of minutes. I kind of
dropped the ball with uh. With Lisa, we were having
way too much time, talking too much fun, talking about
everything happening, so kind of got distracted on that, but

(47:52):
talking about turkey. So KFC is kind of getting in
on the on the action. KFC is rolling out a
Thanksgiving fee that skips the turkey and focuses on surprise,
surprise fried chicken. It comes complete with mashed potatoes, biscuits,
and a trio of gravies. A trio of gravies that
you can mix a match and folks uh keeping it cozy.

(48:15):
The classic pot pie has made its return. It's basically
Thanksgiving in a bucket without the need to carve anything.
But here's where they're wrong. KFC should do turkey. Use
their original recipe batter and deep fry turkey.

Speaker 6 (48:40):
No, you'd have to.

Speaker 7 (48:43):
I would try it. I would try it.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Yeah, I don't know if that would be successful or not,
but I mean it, I mean it probably wouldn't be bad.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
Doesn't sound bad, I mean you put I mean I
would give it a whirl.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
The original recipe is seven herbs and space. So I
mean those seven herbs and spices are probably in your
cupboard as you speak. So I mean it's just a
matter of putting the right amount of each into the
seasoning and then coating your bird and deep fried or
would you I don't know if you, Yeah, I guess
you would.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
It's one of the but I mean business fire Department
days of the year, isn't it, Because there's idiots trying
to deep fry a whole.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
Turkey, a frozen turkey. They put it in frozen. That's
why that.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
Basically is like a bomb, isn't it sort of?

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Yeah, a frozen it causes a lot of problems.

Speaker 7 (49:35):
Oh yeah, have you ever deep fried with turkey?

Speaker 6 (49:38):
I gotta, I gotta.

Speaker 7 (49:39):
I don't even think I've had.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
When I was married, I got a deep frar for
Christmas or my birthday or something Father's Day or something.
And it never worked properly, Like there was it didn't
seal right or whatever.

Speaker 7 (49:52):
Oh the fry itself, yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
The hose to the fryer or the connection from the propane.
It would always like you could get it to wear,
but it would always like I don't know what happened.
I would always just drain the propane tank. And maybe
I wasn't doing it right. Who knows, but I don't.
I have no idea where that that went got lost
in We could have no, I don't know, we could
have thrown it out, who knows.

Speaker 7 (50:15):
Yeah, that's what you want, is a a open de
effective Yeah, deep friar. I don't even think I've ever
had deep fried turkey.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
I've had it. It's good. Yeah, you got you gotta
really load it up with the you know, you get
those injectors and you put the the you know, the
flavoring inside so that it stays moist, you know when
you're deep frying it.

Speaker 7 (50:33):
So yeah, anyway, got to throw it in there, don't you.
Once a week he gets that work.

Speaker 6 (50:39):
I didn't even think about it. Yeah, I'm just being
honest there.

Speaker 7 (50:43):
All right, let's give away to do it Chevy Chase
Christmas vacation right here at the Capitol Theater, December ninth.
We've got a pair for you. One eight hundred six
two four eleven seventy one eight hundred six two four
eleven seventy What number do we want to do?

Speaker 6 (51:00):
We're gonna go twenty ooh.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Bigan We're going big this morning, caller number twenty one
hundred sixty four, eleven seventy and we're not done yet.
Coming up next, we're gonna have family four pack for
WVU basketball tickets. So we are busy folks. A twenty
eight The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA eight thirty six, Friday Morning, The bloom Daddy Experience.

(51:36):
Congratulations to Matt Our, winner of Chevy Chase tickets from Wheeling.
But Matt was listening from where South Carolina, South Carolina,
South Carolina. Otis told me that, and I said, well,
how's he gonna go to the show, Well, he lives
in Wheeling. I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, but you know
how he's doing that, Matt, I mean, Matt is listening

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to us through the iHeart app. So if you are
out of town or say traditional radio can't pick us
up for some ungodly reason, which you can pick us
up like everywhere, you can listen to us on the
iHeart app live. Just search WWVA and there we are.

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And if you miss us, you can listen to the
podcast replay there you are, So listen.

Speaker 6 (52:21):
There you have it sports vans.

Speaker 7 (52:22):
Don't tell us. You can't find her, so you can't
hear us because we're pretty much everywhere. Speaking of some
of the things we've been doing with the tickets and stuff.
We had a great email yesterday Otis and I didn't
I didn't show this to you, but yes, oh that's right.
I always forget we shared this email account.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
I was thinking because I looked at it and I
was thinking, oh crap, she didn't get her tickets.

Speaker 7 (52:44):
No, no, no, But I just wanted to read this.
It says my name is Julie and I was the
winner of the tickets to the Capitol Music Hall Christmas
Show on December thirteenth. Thanks again for the opportunity to
win the tickets. It's a great early birthday present. My
birthday is number fifteenth. I also want you and Otis
to know how much I enjoy listening to your show.

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I listened in the mornings on my fifteen minute drive
to work. It's nice to listen to people that carry
your same views on a lot of different topics. Thanks again,
and I hope you and yours families have a blessed Thanksgiving.
So Julie, thank you, thank you, so much for that message,
received it yesterday after the show and just put a
huge smile on my face. So I just wanted to

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bring that up. Also, one other thing I wanted to
mention real quick, and we'll talk about this a little
bit more after. Starting in December, we hear at iHeart
and all of our stations, we have teamed up with
Harvey Goodman Realtor and here is what we're doing. It's
called Home for the Holidays. What you can do is
you purchase a Harvey Goodman dog mandana on Custom Inc.

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And all proceeds okay, not a portion, All proceeds go
to the Road Home Animal Project, which will have and
what they do is they help pets find homes, basically
find forever homes. So we have teamed up with Harvey
Goodman to hopefully raise a lot of money to help
out the Road Home Animal Park Project to help them

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continue to do the work that they do and finding
local dogs homes. So if you can go to Custominc
dot com and get one of the bandanas and know
that your proceeds go to helping animals throughout the community.
So and for somebody like me and Otis, we are
both huge dog lovers. We talk about our dogs all

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the time. You know, this hit, this hits home because
I'm one of those people that if I see something
on social media and I'm like, oh, I want to
adopt that one. Oh I want to adopt that one,
Like I, yeah, it would be bad, it would be
really really bad.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
Well, I've seen a few dogs at shelters that I
was like, man, how did I if I had just
waited a little bit longer? Because there was a there
was a like a golden uh up for adoption, and
you know, you just the best dog ever had was
It was the blind crippled Golden Retriever. So and that's no,

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that's not any knock against any of the other dogs.

Speaker 7 (55:15):
Oh no, no, absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
I think it was because he. I think he was
my favorite because he because he was like damage goods
and he pulls your heart kind of like the first one,
you know. I mean I had I had a dog.
Had my parents got me a dog when I was
like in the second or third grade, and we ended
up it ended up going to the farm.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
Oh yes, the farm.

Speaker 6 (55:37):
So you know it was one of those deals where
you know, Chester was like the first dog that he
like that I connected with.

Speaker 7 (55:46):
Yeah, see that didn't That didn't work for me because
I grew up in the country on a farm, so
it would always be you know, why did you take
duke to another farm?

Speaker 6 (55:55):
I think I finally asked my dad about a year ago.
So what did what did you ever do with that dog?
He or took him to the pound? Well, he got
mad when he lifted his leg on the vest of
his three hundred dollars suit. Oh so in the seventies,
the three hundred dollars suit was pretty nice, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (56:12):
Well, yeah, and since we're talking about animals, as I mentioned,
we're doing this Santa Paus with Harvey Goodman realitor. Listen,
if a monetary donation through customing may not be feasible
for you, and you still want to help, you know
you're an animal lover like we are. We've mentioned this before.
The local shelters around here are very, very full. They

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need help. So if you have old towels, old rugs,
old blankets, newspapers, food, any of that kind of stuff,
they will take it. As the as it continues to
get colder and colder, they need that kind of stuff
for insulation, for the dogs that are are outside. They
will take a lot of those donations. So if you

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have some of the stuff laying around, or you need
to clean out a closet and you know, you can
do that and take it to your local shelter because
they will they will put it to use. They will
definitely put it to use.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
Where is hey? You know the Nailers, That's what I
was getting. They're back in action tonight. They host the
Reading Royals at West Banko Arena for a frosty Friday.
Puck drops at six thirty tonight, a little different. Normally
they drop at seven to ten on home games on
the on Friday Saturday. You want to get to town
early to avoid the parade, traffic and parking and everything else.
We talked about that a little bit ago. Nailers travel

(57:32):
back to Reading for a Saturday night puck drop at
seven pm. So if you want to avoid the traffic tonight,
can't make it to Reading, you can listen to both
games this weekend on our sister station, Mixed ninety seven
to three. And of course the Penguins after their trip
to Sweden, they're back in action their home tonight against
the Wild. They split the two game NHL Global Series

(57:53):
with the Predators in Stockholm last weekend, and you can
catch tonight's game on our sister station, EGO one O
seven to five.

Speaker 7 (57:59):
Well, and then weeks twelve of the NFL season kicked
off last night. The Texans took down the Bills twenty
three to nineteen, which I believe was kind of a
shock for most football fans. Elsewhere, the Steelers will battle
Caleb Williams and the Bears from Chicago Sunday afternoon. Aaron
Rodgers was limited at yesterday's practice as he works through
a broken wrist on his non throwing hand. If you

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can't watch the game on TV, of course, tune into
our association Eagle one O seven five for all the
Steelers action yep.

Speaker 6 (58:27):
And of course men's college basketball. You know we're gonna
be giving away here tickets to WVU. WVU is Action
in Action tonight. They're five and oh, they played Clemson
in the Shriners Children's Charleston Classic.

Speaker 7 (58:39):
That's a mouthful, say that again.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
Shriner's Children's Charleston Classic. And they will play either win
or lose. They played. It's kind of like a little
mini tournament. So if you win you play the winner
then of the Georgia Xavier game, and if you lose,
you play the loser of that game. So they don't
know who their opponent is yet on Sunday. It all
depends on what happens today. So they could either play

(59:01):
at one o'clock on Sunday or at three thirty. Oh, okay,
if they if they're in the championship game, if they
win tonight, they'll play at one o'clock. If they lose,
they'll play at three thirty.

Speaker 7 (59:11):
And I mentioned the other day, excuse me about the uh,
the change of hours, and you know a little bit
of that. Excuse me, my goodness, the darkness. Try and
living here, folks, So it could be worse if you
live here. So up in and I'm going for it,
and I'm going to see if I can land it.
So Oochkavic. That's in northern the northern tip of Alaska.

(59:36):
The sun has now officially checked out for the next
two months. These folks are going to be in the
deep polar night. What happens is the horizon stays dark
until late January, so roughly the next two months they're
going to be in darkness. Twenty four to seven.

Speaker 6 (59:53):
So and even when it comes back, it's only going
to be a short period of time, so like, yeah,
you're gonna have an hour of day light if it's
even daylight.

Speaker 7 (59:59):
So oh man, that would be that would be rough.

Speaker 6 (01:00:02):
You like sawn or dusk are for a while and
then you'll finally it'll get But then in the summer
they probably get a day where it's just one hundred
percent daylight.

Speaker 7 (01:00:09):
Yeah, they have longer days. Yeah, so five point thirty
for dark for us is a little rough. But man,
two straight months of pure dark darkness. Oochkavic, I think
I did that pretty well.

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
No, man, all right, all right, let's do it. We
have a family four pack for WVU basketball tickets. What's
the date on that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
One?

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
December third? December third, you're taking on Coppin State and
that is a Wednesday night. So a family four.

Speaker 7 (01:00:32):
Pack one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy one
eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy caller number thirteen
Can I say it now? I haven't used thirteen in
like two weeks, so yes, all right, One eight hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy caller number thirteen. It's eight
forty five on this Parade Friday, Parade Friday, we're gonna

(01:00:54):
call it. You're listening to the bloom Daddy experience here
on news Radio eleven seventy wwvs Hey fifty, welcome back.
Congrats to David our winner of the family four pack
to w from Glendale WVU basketball tickets, So congrats to David.

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We will get those out to you today.

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
And we just got another set of WV tickets that
will be given away next week.

Speaker 7 (01:01:24):
Oh did somebody popped in with some Santa Claus. Nice? Nice,
So we'll do those what next week? You said?

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
Okay, we'll Donday next week?

Speaker 7 (01:01:34):
All right, all right. A couple of celebrity birthdays to
throw out there. Happy birthday out to Ken Griffy Junior
kid fifty six years old. Goldie Han loved her and
over overboard, absolutely love overboard with her. They're not married,
but partner, I guess. Kurt Russell eighty years old. Goldie

(01:01:58):
Han is eighty years old.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Well, she got her break into show business on the
old TV show laughing.

Speaker 7 (01:02:07):
It was laughing, not the Gong Show for some reason, laughing, okay,
and then Nicolette Sheridan, most infamously known from Desperate Housewives.
This is great. So in our paperwork it says she
turns sixty to two. But then in quotation marks it says, disputed.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
That happens every once in a while.

Speaker 7 (01:02:26):
That's it. I've never seen that before. So happy birthday
to them. And then it's a World television Day along
with World Visectomy Day. How do you celebrate World viseectomy Day.

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
In a recliner with frozen piece? Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:02:48):
Shoot? And speaking of celebrities and entertainers, if you are
a fan of Friends, so there are eight unaired episodes
from the Friends spent off called Joey. They're now available
on the Friends YouTube channel. And it's been twenty years
almost since the spinoff called Joey was canceled in two

(01:03:10):
thousand and six. Of course, it starred Matt LeBlanc as
the title character Joey. It ending during its second season
with these final episodes that were never broadcast here in
the United States. The complete forty six episode series now
streams on YouTube. Joey, of course, followed the character as
a move from New York to Hollywood to advance his

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acting career. Other people in the show were Drea Dima
Matteo from The Sopranos, Paulo Costanzo, I don't know that person,
and Jennifer Coolidge. Oh love Jennifer Coolidge. Despite debuting with
eighteen point six million viewers in two thousand and four,
the ratings continuously declined through both of the season. So

(01:03:54):
if you are a fan of Friends, there you go.
You can go check that out on the Friends YouTube
YouTube channel.

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
You know, we talked earlier, you know, this year, not
too long ago, about the passing of sister Jean. She
was the big fan of the Loyola Chicago basketball team
and became famous when they made their run to the
Final Four. Well, there's another college football fan out there,
or this is a college football fan, I should say
just to say she was, Yeah, and this woman has

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become famous for being a fan of the Colorado Buffalo's
football team. She's celebrating her one hundred first birthday. Her
name is Peggy Koppham and coach Deon Sanders and athletic
director Rich George attended a birthday celebration for her. Earlier
this week. She began attending sporting events at the university
with her twin sister Betty when they were just fifteen

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years old. She's one hundred and one. She's been a
season ticket holder at Colorado Buffalo football games since nineteen
fifty eight and has a near perfect record when it
comes to attending the games. Coach Sanders praised cop him
during a Tuesday press conference, saying his love for her
was undarned believable.

Speaker 7 (01:05:09):
So did she take her twin sister?

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
I don't think. I don't know if twin sister.

Speaker 7 (01:05:12):
Is Oh still, yeah, know that it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
Doesn't really Yeah, I got you go into that deep
of the story. Yes, But to be a season ticket
holder since nineteen fifty eight, well, and think about.

Speaker 7 (01:05:24):
It, Colorado the in it's football season, So imagine the
weather that she has probably sat through. Uh huh?

Speaker 6 (01:05:31):
And is she still going to games at one hundred
and one? God bless her?

Speaker 7 (01:05:34):
Boy. I hope they bumped her up to like a
box seat or something.

Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
At this point, or at least gave her a heated seat.
You know, you can buy those seats of that heat
up and everything else. Give her the handwarmers.

Speaker 7 (01:05:45):
Well, she's one hundred and one, and I saw Dick
Van Dyke is pushing a hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
Yeah, he's going to be a hundred. He hopes he
makes it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:52):
Yeah, not that far off of Betty White.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Didn't quite make it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:56):
Don't don't don't bring up that, don't bring up Yeah,
she was so close, so close. We are a week
away from Black Friday, the infamous holiday shopping at stravaganza.
So here's what's going to be open. So it's going
to be open on Thanksgiving Day, first of all, not
Black Friday. Thanksgiving Day. Big stores like Walmart, Target, and
Costco will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, but most locations

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of Whole Foods, CBS, Dollar General, Walgreens, and Kroger's will
be open. Each store will be adjusting their own hours,
so you might want to look online before you waste
a trip. So if you forget the cranberries or what
we always forget the whipped cream for the pie. There
are some stores they're going to be open on Thanksgiving Day,

(01:06:42):
and then of course Black Friday, the Walmart's of the
world and the Targets and the Costcos they will be open.
So you know, there's a couple of them for you.
Like I said, you know, do.

Speaker 6 (01:06:52):
You miss Walmart being open twenty four to seven?

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
Now are there not anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
It's the pandemic.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
I didn't even notice why the pandemic. Yeah, I didn't
even realize they weren't open twenty four to seventy.

Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
I mean there might be some locations that are, but
I mean it used to be that was their claim
to fame, that they were open twenty four hours.

Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
I will say this, and I probably shouldn't. I avoid Walmart.
I just I just don't sometimes careful.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
You go to Walmart because you know they have it,
and you know it's going to be there, and you
know it's going to be a relatively decent price.

Speaker 7 (01:07:24):
But I avoid Walmart because as soon as you pull
into the parking lot, it's a nightmare. Nine times out
of ten you can't find anywhere to park. People just
walk behind you as.

Speaker 6 (01:07:33):
You're trying any parking lot.

Speaker 7 (01:07:34):
Yeah, but Walmart seems to always be insane. No, I
didn't realize that they weren't open twenty four to seven anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:07:41):
No. I think they closed at eleven o'clock, or maybe
it's twelve o'clock now it's gradually moved back, so like
I think at one point in time it was eleven.
They might be opened till midnight now, And of course
that might be location to location. It may not just be.

Speaker 7 (01:07:57):
Oh you know, like yeah all the way across. Yeah,
are you doing Black Friday?

Speaker 6 (01:08:03):
Are you out of your mind?

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
I mean I I think I have the majority of
my stuff done. I mean there's a little like I
just in fact, while you were doing the interview with Lisa,
I just I added a few things to my cart
and oh and exited out.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
So you were multitasking.

Speaker 6 (01:08:25):
I was multitasking for me. Oh yeah, yeah, the comic
the comedic relief Christmas present for you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Oh okay, all right, we're going that route this year.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
Well this one is okay, and you just if you
really think about it, you might figure it out.

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
So oh all right, all right, Well it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
Has to do with something somebody said.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Okay, before we're out of here, we got one more
chance for you to win. We got a pair of
tickets to see Motown Christmastown Christmas Show December thirteenth, here
at the Capitol Theater. One hundred six two four eleven seventy.
Let's do Caller number fifteen. One eight hundred six two
four eleven seventy. Caller number fifteen. Happy Friday, Happy Parade,

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Friday Light Up Night tomorrow in Sant Clairsville. The holidays
are here, folks. We'll talk to you Monday,