The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 26, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one Touch show in the Ohio Alley. 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.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now seven oh six on a Wednesday morning. The bloom
Daddy Experience with Sam and otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
In the House for Sam takes two people to fill
her shoes. The King of Stinking Devo, what's up, Fellas?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Good morning? Hey, happy pre Thanksgiving, pre big game of
the year.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, I can't like it's Wednesday. I can't even get
like that doesn't there's too much going on between now
and Saturday for me to get even excited about anything.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Wow, that's because you're a WVU.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Think well, and I'm definitely not excited for that game.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, that'll make you want Fred down it.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, I had to laugh. I was talking to my
son because he lives down in Morgantown and what they're doing,
because obviously the students will be on Thanksgiving break and
WU has no chance to go to a bowl, so
you know, there's there's nobody that's going to go to
this game, you know, I mean you're diehard fans will, right.
But what they're doing is they're selling so like the

(01:23):
students can join what they call the Mountaineer Maniacs and
you pay like one hundred bucks for the year or whatever,
and you get you get a little goodies like a
T shirt and then you get preferred seating and stuff
like that sounds cool, and so what they're doing is
they're advertising be a Mountaineer maniac for a day. So
for forty five bucks, you could you get your ticket.

(01:45):
I think, you get a T shirt, you get like
a little goodie bag, you get a clear you know how,
because a clear bag policy at Basis stadiums, so everything
comes in a clear bag that you could reuse. And
it's just like desperation to get people to the game.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, I always say that's why God invited invented tailgating,
because when things are good, let's go tailgate. When things
are bad, let's go tailgates. So it's a nice constance.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
So my son also said, my stepbrother, I don't think
he's missed a game since like two thousand and three
or something like that, or home game, And so my
son's coming home obviously for Thanksgiving break, and he says,
my stepbrother Bill keeps He's like, hey, you're coming back
for the tailgate. We're gonna be tailgate at this time.
And he's going, dude, I'm not coming back for a

(02:31):
meaningless game. And he said, I'll watch it on TV.
Or he says, even if I turn it on.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
You're like, well why not who goes for the game?
We go for the fund well, but all the side activities.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
But he said, my stepbrother he'll do is he'll go
into the game for maybe five minutes, maybe the first quarter,
and then he'll leave just to say that he never
missed the game.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well, hey, look, I've been at different colleges. The tailgating
West Virginia is the best, without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, I mean the.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
To watch the team, the cheerleaders, the band walked through
the tailgators on the way to the stadium. I've never
seen that anywhere, and it's just like what an.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Experience there's I think, you know, I remember I remember
when the last time I think a high state West
Virginia played, and it would have been late nineties, early
two thousands, and they made it an all day event.
I mean they brought bands in, they had bands playing,

(03:29):
you know, you had because they have different lots they
have now. Well, but what I'm saying is they like
because I remember we were walking through the lot and
I'm thinking, man, I've heard this song before, you know
you sometimes And it wasn't a cover band, but it
was a Pittsburgh band called The Gathering Field and they
were they were kind of like a big popular band
back in the early nineties. And the guy that actually

(03:49):
is the lead singer and songwriter for The Gathering Field
at one point in time wrote the theme song for
Good Morning America and performed it and everything else. But anyway,
I'm like, I mean, like I'm singing the songs, I'm like,
what am I? How do I know these songs? Of
course at the time, I was, you know, I was
indulging in a lot of adult beverages. So yeah, yeah,

(04:10):
so you know you'll have that, I guess. But yeah,
I mean it's they definitely w U tailgating is is
they're professionals.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, I'll give you that, no doubt in my mind.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I remember somebody posted on Facebook at one point in
time like it was one of those mountaineer chat things,
and they they said, how do you prepare for WU tailgate?
We said, don't try to keep up. Make sure you
have Uber yeah, Pepperini rolls, and please don't try if
you're if you're a rookie, don't try to keep up. Yeah,

(04:44):
you know with with the pros.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, that was there for the pit game this year.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, well that's that's normally a good one.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, so the first game of the year. It doesn't
matter who they play that, but they people go all
out because you figured summertime, it's August. You know, you're
in your shorts, in your T shirt, you know, probably
sweating like crazy unless it's raining, but you know, and
then so everybody still had that has that. It's it's
that crossover between summerfall vibe and then you get into

(05:13):
like game five or six and it starts to cool
off and then yeah, and you're not winning, and then
then it goes and then everybody's like, Okay, the ViBe's
kind of gone, but we're just gonna stay here and drink.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
And crack the music a little louder. And I all
was good within oh yeah, a few yeah SIPs.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
So the best I mean, I can remember back in
the day that some of the tailgates that we used
to go to. Wow, I told you I'm going to
Arizona And the last time I was there was for
the Fiesta bowlhen WVU played Notre Dame and I just
told you, I don't remember much about the tailgates.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well that's what's the great, Like I said, the great equalizer.
One time I went down to an Alabama LSU game. Okay,
you talk about being out of pocket, and you know,
they have an awesome setup down there. You know, they
use their whole oval for everyone to set up their
tents and TVs, and then all the frat row and
all the bands there are right by the stadium. It's

(06:13):
a complete event. I'd encourage anyone to go to tailgating
all different colleges and experience it everywhere because people that
really enjoy and have fun. Hey, you want your team
to win. Yeah, you might spike an empty beer can
or two, you know, and frustration, but the event itself,
the whole days is awesome.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I've heard. I've heard SEC tailgates are pretty good.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
That Alabama one was hard to beat, and they love
I wore my brutus Ohio State shirt that I'm wearing now,
and I wore a Bear Bryan hat. They loved me,
you know. They were so like, get over here, come on,
you know your.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Brutus you you know, And I think people think, you know, no,
it might be a little different with Pitt fans, but
I think for the most part, you know, when you
go to WU and you see it like you'll see
an opposing team's fans walking through. So I was down
for the Utah game and there were some guys and I,
you know, they they stopped to ask me a question.
It's just something stupid and I and I said, have

(07:10):
you guys ever had a Pepperini role? And they're like no.
So I had made some pepperinie rolls, so I gave it.
They were like, oh man, these are great. It's like,
how do you I said, It's so simple. How do
you not? You know, how do you not never had this?

Speaker 4 (07:24):
And out there?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah. The funny thing was, he said, because I think
WU played at b YU the following week, and the
guy from Utah said, you would never be able to
do this at b YU because I guess on their
campus they don't allow any alcohol. So if you're going
to tailgate at b YU, like there's no tailgating.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Better bring a lot of power drinks or something.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
You better hide it.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, yeah, so good stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So you've you said you've been to ann Arbor. I mean,
what's it like tailgating up there?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's kind of legendary, not as good as W. Nothing
is nothing to beats W. I'll tell you right now.
That's legendary. But I was up there for I think
it was a hundredth game and uh I was showgating
with Mike Duch's parents and Mike came in after the game. Yeah,
so yeah, I mean it was pretty cool. I mean,

(08:22):
but it's laid back there. It's not wild.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I've heard. I've heard it's kind of like a like
a white collar tailgate.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, you know, like yeah, crazy, except when you tailgate
with bloom Daddy and ann Arbor, because then there's crazy people.
Because my last memory going to ann Arbor was if
you've never tailgated with bloom Daddy, to see him in
his rarest element and also in a super happy element
because they won that day. Oh my goodness, it was

(08:52):
awesome entertainment for free.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
He didn't even see that. He didn't even hear the
jab he said they won again.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, you know, go ahead and enjoy the short lived
moment that you have.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
You have.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Days, you have, you have.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
You have the national championship. But you're going four the last.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's true, but you.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Can't be Listen, you can't beat the champ. Do you
beat the champ?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
You haven't done it.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
You are the champ if you play it honestly and
without cheating. So that you know, here we go.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Okay, the program, we're going to talk more about We're
going to really talk more about a high state Michigan
in the next hour because we've got bloom Daddy with
an interview that's going that's going to come up at
the eight o'clock hour, and then we're going to talk
about it at the eight thirty squad.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
But coming up, we've got your chance to win. We've
got a pair of tickets to see Chevy Chase at
the screening of A Christmas Vacation right here to Capitol
Theater on December ninth. And we've got uh para tickets
for the Motown Christmas. I think it's our last pair.
So if you want to see Motown Christmas right here
to Capitol Theater on December thirteenth. Yeah, it's great, it's

(09:58):
a great show, and so you'll have we'll have your
chances to win on that seven sixteen on The bloom
Daddy Experience eleven seventy News Radio WWVA seven two on

(10:22):
The bloom Daddy Experience with Sam and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Just a quick programming note. If you're
a Nailers fan and you normally turn in tune into
Mix ninety seven three to catch the games, uh, tonight's
games are actually going to be on Fox Sports. Uh
so that's AM fourteen hundred and uh one oh three

(10:44):
point nine FM. So if you're if you're tuned into
catch Nailors games, again, it's tonight only because there's a
programming conflict. And so if you want to catch the
Nailer's game tonight, if you can't make it the West
Banco Arena, tune into Fox Sports fourteen hundred or one
O three three point nine. So taking on the indie
fuel tonight. It's one of their big day. It's one

(11:05):
of their big games because the night before Thanksgiving it's
a big party night. It's like I think it's like
the number two or three party night in America?

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh yeah, without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I think Saint Patrick's Day is one. And I think
I think that Thanksgiving these too.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well, because most people are coming home, sure, homecoming basically.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
I tell you, yeah back in the day that this
was reunion night.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, him and I both djding. That was
a job you wanted because you knew we're gonna have
a packed house wherever you dj.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah. Get listen. Have you guys ever participated in a
in a Thanksgiving Day turkey trot? Like I normally to
five k.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Race, you know, but I.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
I thought turkeys could fly.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm glad you said that we're gonna have to do
that later because it's it's in the system. Yeah, it's
like a four minute We've got to do the lessons.
I'm so glad you said that. Don't let me forget Okay, yes, but.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I said could run. Yeah, you got a turkey trot?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay, So you know I'm participating in the turkey trot tomorrow,
my first. It'll be my first turkey trot. And I
just did the Christmas through ogleby how many five five
and my feet are still hurting from Sunday's Walk and
I'm walking again tomorrow morning like an idiot. But Tito's Vodka.
They've launched their own version of the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot.

(12:27):
It's a stay at home special they're calling the Turkey Rot.
So instead of getting out there in the fresh air
and jogging a few miles, you get to rot on
the couch. And for twenty five bucks, they'll include everything
you need to embrace your laziness, a race bib, a
special water bottle filled with a cocktail, and a and

(12:48):
it's a zero point zero alcohol car sticker. It's not
all bad because some of some good actually does come
out of this. All the proceeds goes to meals on wheels.
That's awesome, so, which means you can be lazy and
you can actually feel good about it.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Very nice.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
So the Turkey Rot turns you into a turkey blob.
That's perfect.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, But and then you're donating the meals on wheels.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, it's a win win win. Absolutely, it's a win
win sleep on the couch.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Speaking of Thanksgiving, do you guys have any Thanksgiving traditions?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
M Eat, drink and be merry.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I guess it's you know, it's Maze's parade. It's still
turning on. And I always like watching that document around
a History of Food and one of the channels I forget,
maybe Discovery or something. It just goes yeah, it just
goes over everything. You don't realize how much America has.
And it starts off with the Pilgrims as far as
talking about the history of food right to today's processed.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Have you ever played it in a Turkey Bowl bowl?
I never have, and then I'm too old now and
I get too bad of a hit. I got too
bad of a hit. I could have done it maybe
twenty years ago, fifteen years ago, can't do it.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
It seems like if you play the Turkey Bowl, it's
always raining, it's always wet and muddy.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I know a lot of
people that do it, you know that participate in Turkey bols.
But that's a that's a that's a Thanksgiving Day. There's
some people out there there that I've seen this on.
I guess there's some. It was asked on Reddit like
I get on REDDITU. But there are some that there's
a turkey pizza that somebody does so they have the

(14:28):
usual turkey insides, all right, but they have a pizza too,
and they put the carved turkey on top of the pizza.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Carved turkey on top of the pitt cave.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
See it, I guess.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
So instead of maybe maybe, instead of like a marin
ao sauce, you put like maybe, you put the turkey.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Baby, yeah, instead of the sauceage pieces of turkey.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I thought you were going to say, they're they roll
up the pizza and shove it into the cavity of
the turkey, just like you know, like stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
How about out? How about turkey bowling? No, you use
instead of a bowling brawl, and you used either soda
or water bottles is to makeshift pins and you you
bowl down the hallway. Well, of course there's always the

(15:20):
turkey toss where they say they like the turkeys on fire,
which I don't know why you would have to like
the turkey on fire, But and then they throw them
across the field to see whose turkey can go the
furthest Oh my god, m now.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
The turkeys are yeah, just hey, what's the turkeys sound
like on fire? Well, let's find out.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Don't do it probably like it normally would any other day. Yeah,
but yeah, we've got we don't really I don't really
have any Thanksgiving Day traditions. I mean used to be
as a kid, you know, my grandparents, we would one said,
my grandparents. None of them drove, so we would always
have to go get them and and that was a
big deal. They would come to our house and yes,

(16:02):
you know, so we would have Thanksgiving at our house.
That was about the biggest tradition.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Seems like there'd be a it used to be a
lot more traditions. I don't know if anyone else has
the same thing, they're just not quite as traditioned. I mean,
we used to go visit for Christmas all the time.
We used to drive down to my you know, parents,
load up the carve the kids, and then they'd come
up as they got older. And I don't know if
it's because you know, everyone already knows what's going on
with everybody's family, where it's not as much of a

(16:29):
you know, we've got the schedule list. Now we don't
see you guys for you know ever, Well just look
on Facebook you'll see what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
So well, speaking of traditions, a Motown Christmas, it comes
to the Capitol Theater almost every year. I know it's
been here a few times.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
I went last year. It was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Okay, so we're gonna have your chance to win a
pair of Motown tickets Motown Christmas tickets right here at
to Capital Theater. Date is December thirteenth, one eight hundred
and sixty two four eleven seventy. That's one eight hundred
sixty four eleven seventy and be collared number twelve, color
number twelve to wear a pair of win a pair
of tickets to see the Motown Christmas right here at

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the Capitol Theater. We're going to be back right after this.
It's the bloom Daddy Experience on News Radio eleven seventy
wwv A. Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience seven

(17:29):
thirty six on your Wednesday Thanksgiving Eve these Radio eleven
seventy wwv A in the house for Sam today is
Devo and the King of Stink. My men, my guys,
my dudes.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
We're here Substitute Day on the eleven. It's like, Hey,
you're used to be in a substitute He can't get
out of it. He's run.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now, you don't have a real job, So I'm not
even gonna ask you. You normally have the day after
Thanksgiving off?

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Ok, yeah, as do people here at iHeart do as well.
There are a lot of people that are lucky enough
to take it for granted that Friday after Thanksgiving is
a day off. But let's take a moment to salute
the folks who don't have that luxury.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
This station presents real American heroes to real American heat.
Today we salute Friday after Thanksgiving workers.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Friday after Thanksgiving workers.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
As you waddle out of bed at ten thirty am
to go pick in the leftover stuffing, take a moment
to be thankful for those who got up at six
point thirty to keep America moving.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Will you tell.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
You wherever you go, someone will be working there.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Care whether it's your souper sale shelf stocker, your midday
mucky automaker, or your movie theater ticket taker. Give a
nod insolute to the person on duty during your day off.
They are Friday after Thanksgiving workers, real American heroes.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Friday after Thanksgiving workers.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
Let them meet their leftover lunch in peace.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Leftover turkey, left ever, best leftover stuffy.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Now when I did work. Oh boy, that was one
day all we worked because no one else was there. Sure,
it was a crazy easy day for me.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I got you, I got you. But we do have
a caller that wants to come on, and I believe
he wants to talk about tailgating day from Mountinsville. What's
going on?

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Man?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (19:44):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:45):
All right?

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Listen to you every morning. Appreciate that ceris we're to
stink or to stink. Teach.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh you don't want to know, you don't want you
don't want him.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Influencing your kids, might not ever send them there?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Good for.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Ohio?

Speaker 8 (20:02):
Yes, okay, all right. So I'm from Mountsville. Actually I
work at Marshall County co Op and been here for
forty years. And I've been to sixty seven Division one
football stadiums to see games. Wow, and before I die,
I'm hitting all one hundred and thirty four. I guess

(20:23):
this year there's one hundred and thirty six. I'm on
the doorstep or retirement, and I'm going to do something
I don't think anybody can say they did, and that
is attend a game at all the Division one stadiums.
And the reason I called you were talking about BYU.
I was there at a game back in the late nineties.

(20:45):
I remember they were building the interstate for the upcoming
Olympics at that time, and there was a lady I
was dating, Anita. We were both graduates from WU, and
we went to a BYU game. We were on vacation
and that was one of my stadium at the time,
and so we uh we got starphat a starrophone cooler,
filled it with ice and beer, and we arrived at

(21:06):
the at the parking log four hours before the game.
And there was nobody there three hours before. Nobody there
three hours nobody they were in one hour before kickoff,
one hour before kickoff. Everybody flooded that stadium. And that's
a memory I'll never forget that they did. I used
to buy shot glasses as a souvenir for my brothers, okay,

(21:28):
and they did. They didn't shell, they didn't sell shot
glasses and bookstores. I remember the hot dogs and uh
and and Pepsi's were very very cheap in the stadium.
I mean like fifty cents a piece, you know, back then,
back then, really something. But the final story of this
experience was, uh, we were in the upper deck, and

(21:49):
I remember seeing the mountains. We were able to the
press box and across the field behind the stadium was
the mountain Range and it was just beautiful. And and
uh BYU was driving left to right trying to score
the winning touchdown with two minutes to go. They were
down like five points by you fumbled. The quarterback fumbled
a snaff and twenty seats down to our left, we

(22:12):
were near the student section. This young fellow stood up
after the quarterback fumble to cost in the game.

Speaker 9 (22:18):
He stood up and he.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
Said, gee, whiz, guys, you can do better than that.

Speaker 9 (22:25):
Vote from WV.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
You know, we were thinking, like in Morgantown. I don't
want to say it on air.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Yeah you can't.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
But yeah, nothing but good memories of all my stadiums.
I could write a book.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well, and maybe you should.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, you should go for a Guinness Book of World
Records on it.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Here's the here's the big question. So Stink says WVU
tailgates are number one. So obviously, if you've been to
that many stadiums, what's the best tailgate that you've been
to outside of WU.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
Well, obviously I'm biased with WVU and I don't go to, uh,
you know, the campuses to tailgate.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
I go.

Speaker 8 (23:04):
I go to get the whole experience. I do a
little bar hopping, you know. But the one that really
sticks in mind is still Water, Oklahoma. And the great
thing is I have friends from a lot of the
campuses that I've been to. But still Water in its
own way is very, very similar.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
To Morgantown, Oklahoma.

Speaker 8 (23:21):
Is Oklahoma State, the Cowboys and Escobo Joe's, you know,
the bar there, and the people are great. And the
people in the Big Twelve tailgating with and you know,
talking with, I would say all of them. I've been
to all the Big Twelve stadiums. They're wonderful, wonderful people

(23:41):
Versus what we went through in the Big East with
the yuppies on the East Coast. I get tired of
be I get tired of being called a hick and
a hillbilly and all this, you know. But it's been
refreshing to be in the Big Twelve conference. Although it's
a it's a long distance away. Yeah, but I would
recommend highly to sports fans if you want to go

(24:03):
to an away Mountaineer game, go to Steelwater. I'm really,
really something and go too.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
So okay, Dave, appreciate it, and good luck on your journey,
because uh, that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Get that book going.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
Yeah, I'll keep you posted.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
All right, sounds great. The thanks so much, Happy Thanksgiving?

Speaker 8 (24:21):
Thank you, yep, Thanksgiving. Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
So, I mean, what do you say sixty three that
he's been to.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
I think it's sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think, yeah, yeah, it's in the sixties.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Ge withiz G Willickers.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
How many have you been to?

Speaker 9 (24:33):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
I mean, like like I can't. I think I've been
to like five or six maybe seven about counting counting.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Bowl games about that. And I tell you what the
reason that Alabama LSU game was so good because I
was a neutral observer there. You can go to the
game where your team's playing, and that'll give you a
great experience at all. But to you, if you can
go to a few where you can be h you're
really interested in the game, and you can be a
neutral observer, you'll really be able to take in the
thing and see what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
So I'll say this. So this year we went to
Central Florida, which is basically Orlando. Okay, and so my
buddy and I have a cousin that lives down there.
So my buddy and I we drive my cousin's car
because they were just going to meet us later because
she wasn't feeling well. So I had paid for a
parking pass in the one parking lot, and we pull
in and there's a couple canopies up, you know, in

(25:23):
their wu canopies. And so we find our parking spot
and people come over. Hey, you know, we've got food.
If you want to come over, Hey, appreciate it. You know,
this and that and the other. And we're kind of
milling around a little bit, and we would see the
Central Florida people. They would pull in and you know
those like collapsible wagons that they have, so they would
fill up their collapsible wagon and then they would they

(25:45):
would drag it like with their chairs and they're cooler
and whatever, and then they would go somewhere else. And
I'm like, you got an entire parking lot here. Now,
the entire parking lot. You got people in there. They're drinking,
they're eating, they're doing this, they're doing that. Not one portajohn,
not one bathroom, not line. No, you had to walk
two parking lots over before you found a portajeohn to

(26:08):
take a leak.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
That's horrible.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it's like they had a building right there that
you could like just let people go in on the
ground floor and use the restroom or something. Everything was
locked up. No porta John's in this parking lot. But
we just watched people like load their stuff up and
take off, and it's like, where the hell are they going.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
There's nothing that makes a good tailgate or party more
miserable than when there's no restroom facility within you know,
half a mile. You're like, it's not fun anymore.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Luckily, we hooked up with some friends that live in
Orlando and so we went over to their tailgate eventually,
and of course their their lot was full of portajohn
so it was beautiful. Yeah, I guess that's that's that's possible.
So hey, coming up in a little bit, we've got
your chance to win. You're gonna see Christmas Vacation Chevy Chase.
A pair of tickets to see that coming here to

(26:56):
the Capitol Theater on December ninth. Right now, it's seven
forty five on the bloom Daddy Experience with Sam and
Otis King of Think and Devo. We'll be back right
after this seven fifty one on the bloom Daddy Experience

(27:19):
with Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWBA Devo
and the King of Think, filling in for Sam as
she takes a much needed time off. Hey, Hey, so
have you guys dave? I know you don't. I don't
think you do. But do you get Do you pay
attention to the price of turkeys? No? I guess they've
gone up, so you. Inflation and other factors have boosted

(27:41):
the price of the Thanksgiving turkey. In fact, buying a
bird is going to feel like buying a luxury car.

Speaker 10 (27:49):
The price of turkey is at an all time high.
But if you're a person of means, a delicious turkey
is still within your reach. It's the Butterball November to
Remember sales event. If you can afford to put a
new car with a big red bow in your driveway,
you can also afford to put a turkey on your table. Mmm,

(28:09):
it smells so rich this Thanksgiving. Be thankful you won't
have to cook a cornish game. Hen and tell your
family it's just a teeny tiny turkey.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
It tastes like chicken.

Speaker 10 (28:19):
It's the butter ball November to Remember sales event because
this year a turkey is the ultimate luxury.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
There you go, So the November to Remember, Yeah, yeah,
we should have saved that for Kevin Straw Bottomedale yesterday
for him. But you know, along with Thanksgiving comes football,
so you know, the whole day to mar is filled
with football. Of course. It kicks off week thirteen on
Thanksgiving Day, first game of the day, Green Bay at Detroit, and.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Detroit's hurting without Sam la Porter, their tight end for Iowa. Yeah,
and I mean they use him so well, and I've
never seen the Titan block like it. I think he's
I think he's probably one of the best tight ends
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Okay, Still, for so many years, Detroit was so miserable
to watch. But it's nice that they've upgraded their game
so that it actually makes a Detroit game on Thanksgiving
I think a little meaningful.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
The Detroit game that stands out on Thanksgiving for me.
And I couldn't tell you when it was. It was
one hundred years ago, I can tell you that. But
they were playing the Bears and it ended it to
tie in regulation. Detroit kicked off to the Bears and
whoever the return man was ran it back for a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Game over them, just like an incidents like.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
I don't even remember. I don't remember when it was,
who it was, or.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I remember that because I remember it. Yes, because you're
getting settled in your See, Okay, we've got some overtime here,
We've got another ten minutes of it and then six
seconds at the oh, it's over.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Okay, there you go. Second game of the day is
the Chiefs at the Cowboys. Anything there, nah.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Just the tradition of it. Again, I when I think
of Cowboys, I think back the seventies and eighties and
all that. Currently who cares.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
And then rounding out the night is an AFC North
contest Cincinnati's at Baltimore with.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
The return to Joe Burrow. Amazing how they timed out
just for the big you know TV rating audience.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yep, yep. And that's a that's an It's not normally
the Thursday night games on Amazon Prime, but that's going
to be on NBC because it's their Sunday night game
of the week.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yeah, the NFL killing herself. Nobody's watching that stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Well wait till they come out on Tuesday nights and
Wednesday night on Netflix.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
No, you have to pay to watch the NFL.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Oh you hear that? Yeah? Right.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
So the Steelers square off against Josh Allen and the
Bills at home on Sunday afternoon. Mike Tomlin said, there's
great optimism that Aaron Rodgers will play. However, the Steelers
are going to be a little short handed against the Bills.

Speaker 11 (30:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
They'd already ruled out left tackle Broderick Jones and defensive
tackle Derrek Harmon for Sunday's matchup up. Jones is dealing
with the neck issue and Harmon has a knee injury.
And of course we talked about the Bengals in Baltimore
tomorrow night. The Browns host the forty nine Ers Sunday afternoon,
and you get you get to see your boy shardor Sanders.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Take this, Hey, you play fantasy football?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
No, I refuse.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Okay, So I have Josh Allens my quarterback. Okay, two
weeks ago he hit fifty points, fifty point eight points.
I could beat them ready just for him. Last week
it was eight point. How do you figure the NFL out?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
You don't, You don't. And tonight the Penguins are back
on the ice. The team faces off against Tage Thompson
and the Sabers at home. Pittsburgh has dropped back to
back games following an overtime loss to the Kraken. Catch
Tonight's game and all Penguins games on our sister station
Eagle one oh seven to five. And of course we
talked about a little bit earlier about the Nailers, but
the league leading Wheeling Nailers are at home for three

(31:53):
games this week, starting tonight. The Nailers will host the
Indie Fuel Tonight at West Banco Arena for a seven
to ten puck d up, and fans attending tonight's game
are also going to be treated to some entertaining IWS.
I see yeah, IWC, No, I see w wrestling. Okay,
I think I might have taked that backwards. Anyway, this
the Cincinnati Cyclones blow into town. Would you like that blows?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
They blow into town for a pair of games this weekend.
Saturday's game is a seven to ten puck drop and
a great game to take the kids as it's blue night.
So if you have young kids, bluey.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Right, yes, no, my three year old grands soon. Okay,
so you're in that game.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
The Sunday is Game two against the Cyclones for a
four to ten game, and then after the game it's
skate with the Nailors. You can catch tonight's games. Don't
forget a little programming change. Tonight's game has been moved
to our sister station, Fox Sports AM fourteen hundred or
one oh three point nine FM. Of course, Saturday and
Sunday's games will be back on the traditional sister station,

(32:54):
mixed ninety seven to three. So there you have that
bluey Night, Blue Knight.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
Right.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm telling you know a lot of parents out there
perked up.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I'm half tempted. My son is supposed to come home tonight.
If I don't know, if I'm not gonna be able
to pull it off, I got something else I've already.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Got playing Walked.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, I'm over booked. I was. I was thinking, Man,
I just just to go down and see the wrestling. Yeah,
I mean no offense than nailers, but I mean, like, okay,
I can't see a Nailor's game anytime. But you go
to a Nailor's game and a wrestling match, a wrestling
match breaks out.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, you never go to wrestling match and see a
hockey game breakout. So this is the only.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Oh yeah, did you know my story about that?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh? Here we go here you get about a minute
and a half.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Okay, So I was working security.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
That's a comical in itself.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Yeah. So they signed me to John Cena, So I
had to walk John Cena out to his bus.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
You look like he's little. You'd be like his kids,
like you would put me.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Well, John Cy, you have protected me, boy.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
And what the hell like you're not gonna like if
somebody were come up to see, like are you You're
not gonna stop him. He's gonna he's gonna have to
put him in their place.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
I'd be a punching bag to.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
You can call down to fake a heart attack.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
He was cool because he invited me on the bus,
and I mean, what wow, what a bus. He was
a nice guy. I'm sure at guy.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Well, we're gonna be talking, well, bloom Daddy's gonna be
talking a high state Michigan coming up here right after
the break So and then we're gonna come back after
the interview and we'll throw our thoughts in and and
our predictions for a high state Michigan.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
How's that good?

Speaker 2 (34:41):
I know, don't forget. Don't forget your chance to win
coming up here in the next hour. Two tickets to
see Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase. Question and answer that's
gonna be coming up here in the next hour. So
you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. News Radio eleven
seventy w w V A. Sam Otis King of Stink
and Davo.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Z number one Tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy, his
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(35:28):
Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey, it's
eight six, let's get this.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
Hour rolling this Saturday at an arbor. It's Michigan Ohio.

Speaker 12 (35:37):
State for the one hundred and twenty first time and
what is just simply called the Game. Matt Wilhelm was
in the game four times, former consensus All American for
the Buck Guys, and of course national champion with Ohio
State joining me right now, Matt, what's going through the
minds of these Buckeye players entering this game Saturday.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
A lot.

Speaker 9 (36:00):
And I think because the result of the last four,
it's you know, there's some urgency and there's some pressure.

Speaker 11 (36:08):
You know that that.

Speaker 9 (36:09):
Again, there's always going to be pressure associated with this game.
But I think this one, because both of the last four,
is significant and and I think for everyone inside that
Buckeye building down in down in Columbus. Now none of
the players have beaten Ohio State, so that is something
that you want to eradicate while also protecting what comes
after this football game without looking too far ahead, and

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that means the opportunity to control your own destiny destiny
and play in the Big Ten Championship, likely versus Indiana,
and then also maintaining one of the top four spots
in the college football playoff now with the twelve team playoff,
and that would mean a first round by so uh.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Not only is Michigan always.

Speaker 9 (36:49):
High stakes, Not only is this an opportunity to uh
beat that team up north and and and really check
the box of a win column for a lot of
these young men who wear the scarlet gray.

Speaker 11 (37:00):
But then what comes after this game is also at stake.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Two areas of thought pertaining to this game right now.

Speaker 12 (37:07):
From Buckeyes fans, I've heard this game doesn't matter as
much anymore. We won a national title last year, Who
cares if we lost to Michigan.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
That's one.

Speaker 12 (37:17):
And I've heard that national title is just unfulfilling because
we didn't beat Michigan.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Which one are you? One?

Speaker 11 (37:26):
That's tough? That's extremely tough.

Speaker 9 (37:29):
And I mean it's easy to say as someone who
again to as you guys open the show is two
and two against Michigan, but also as a gentleman who
entered with the opportunity that if we beat Michigan, we
have the opportunity to go play for a national championship.
And again, I know the makeup of the BCS, even
the fourteen playoffs and the current system are all completely different.

Speaker 11 (37:51):
But as an Ohio kid wearing the scarlet and gray, you're.

Speaker 9 (37:57):
Indoctrinated into understanding what this rivalry and what the game
and as Urban Meyer has always said, the best rivalry
not only in college football but in all of sport
represents and we have been now four years in a
row on the losing side of this.

Speaker 11 (38:15):
It is high stakes. So that said, I still believe, you.

Speaker 9 (38:19):
Know, and I've heard these to your point, I know where're
kind of sitting the table for it is like, you know,
Jack Sawyer has done many of interviews, you know, I
think him, even him and Will Howard as Steelers talking
about I would absolutely take a national championship. You know,
with the loss of that team up north, there's fans
and folks and former players you know that have done
you know, all of the above, which is winning a

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national championship beat Michigan.

Speaker 11 (38:42):
So it's a loaded question. I hate to say it.
I'm usually you put me in a pickle.

Speaker 9 (38:48):
I'm very much a gentleman who likes to live in
the black and white, like an and or situation.

Speaker 11 (38:53):
But in many cases, I think it's it's a loaded question.

Speaker 9 (38:56):
And I kind of straddled the line on this because
you know this rivalry there's and.

Speaker 11 (39:00):
I go back to when I was a recruit.

Speaker 9 (39:02):
I say that it's like there's those people that say,
you can be oh intent, you can go one and eleven,
as long as that one win is against that team
up North, and there's some sense of satisfaction of what
came through that football season. Although it's a significant amount
of losing, it's very satisfying to get that one against
that team up north. But and again having been out
in Columbus last couple of weekends with you know, with

(39:22):
my son, it's uh, you know, looking Ryan.

Speaker 11 (39:24):
Dan in the face, dude.

Speaker 9 (39:25):
The expectation of Ohio States is to win every game
we line up and play, you know that another team, right,
you know, either on the road or in Ohio Stadium.
So this isn't just another game. So but to accomplish
your goals in many years, and we've seen you know,
it's ruined and kept us out. We've lucked in, i
think in the fourteam playoff with CJ. Stroud, you know,
three four, five years ago, we've lucked into losing to

(39:48):
Michigan and still backing our way into the college football playoffs.
So believe me, I believe that these young men who've
never been able to experience what it's like to beat
Michigan one to me, this unblemished record of twelve and
zero taking it into an extremely competitive Big Ten championship

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football game. So it is high stakes, and a national
championship does allow you to stand on a pedestal and
look down on all of college football and say we
are the best. And that's one thing that you that
if you win or lose against Michigan is not always
the case.

Speaker 11 (40:23):
So I can completely see it from both sides.

Speaker 12 (40:26):
Talking to Matt Wilhelm, former NFL linebacker, former Buckeye great,
you brought up Ryan Day.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
I'll tell you what you know.

Speaker 12 (40:33):
I'm a Michigan fan, but I am also a fan
of really good programs. I think Ohio State is the
premier program since Saban retired in college football, and I
think Ryan Day did one of the greatest reversals in
the history of the game. After that loss last year,
I mean he was done. Ohio State fans, Buckeye Nation

(40:53):
was done with this guy. They were over him, and
he picked himself up off the king of this went
and won a national title. Comes back this year, a
bunch of senior leadership gone, Matt new guys everywhere, loses
both coordinators, and doesn't skip a beat. As a Michigan fan,
I respect that, and I think the job he's done

(41:15):
is incredible.

Speaker 9 (41:18):
No doubt, no doubt, And I think all of those
things are absolutely certain. I think you know, I was
one of those guys, and I have an amazing admiration
and an amazing relationship.

Speaker 11 (41:28):
You know, even prior to Mason being committed to Ohio State.

Speaker 9 (41:30):
With Ryan Day, and I respect the hell out of
him as a coach, as a dad, as and as
a human. And I think he just happens to be,
you know, the head coach at the university very near
and dear to so many Ohioans and Ohio State alumni
fans and Buckeye fans all across this you know, the world.

Speaker 11 (41:46):
Not just the country. Yeah, it was, it was. It
was funky times. And I think the faith within that
building that you.

Speaker 9 (41:57):
Could very quickly after a player you know, kind of
a player's only meeting or kind of like a players
and coaches only meeting to kind of like unravel and
turn the page very quickly to the college Football Playoff
and then host that in Columbus and beat and and
look the way that you did, you know, in frigid,
freezing temperatures against a very good SEC football team, and

(42:19):
then go and then the Rose Bowl against Oregon.

Speaker 11 (42:22):
You very quickly after those two wins.

Speaker 9 (42:24):
Kind of like for all, I hate to say it,
like you never forget, but you almost forgot about the
Michigan loss because of the way in which we won
those first two playoff.

Speaker 11 (42:32):
Games against who it was against.

Speaker 9 (42:35):
Having lost prior to Oregon early in the season, and
then play a very good Texas team. You know that
everybody was, you know, saying it was gonna win a
national championship with Steve cars Our keys in and and
so on, and then you know you'd beat a very
good Notre Dame team.

Speaker 11 (42:48):
So it has really, you know, brought this team together.

Speaker 9 (42:53):
And this is the one thing that I think at
Ohio State you always have to discount, and I hate
to say, regardless of head coach or coach, is like
they evaluate talent and bring in the best talent to
Columbus Ohio on a year in, year out basis.

Speaker 11 (43:07):
And again I'm not just and I'm not taking shots
at you. Michigan has top fifteen.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
Classes most years too, right, But but to go get
top five caliber players every year, And and I say this,
and we know this to the high school level. We
as coaches can script up and game plan as much
as we want, but it's a player's game.

Speaker 11 (43:28):
And if you've got dudes that go out.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
You know and play well, uh, they're the ones that
go win you this football game, not necessarily one call
or one drive or you know, one coach's preparation.

Speaker 11 (43:38):
It's it's a player's game.

Speaker 9 (43:39):
So I think Ohio State recruits at an elite level
year in year out. I thought they hit the portal,
you know, with the Junkins, Ad Davidson, Iguanosen. You look
at Will Howard, you know, being a one and done
guy winning a Natty coming from Kansas State. They just
added strategically through the portal. But the bread and butter
is still recruiting high school players, developing them down Lombus

(44:02):
and then putting them in a situation to go out
and play in the Scarlett and Gray.

Speaker 11 (44:05):
And I think that no one.

Speaker 9 (44:06):
You know, they're one of the top five best teams
that do that in college football. And you will always
have a chance to win if you've got a great
coach as well, which I think what Ryan Day.

Speaker 11 (44:14):
Has become after winning a national championship, the.

Speaker 12 (44:16):
Matt Wilhelm National Football League linebacker for eight seasons and
of course national champion at Ohio State out of Oliria
Catholic High School. First Team All Ohio selection goes to
places for John Cooper zero to two against Michigan, then
two and zero under coach Jim Tressel. Before we get
to the game this year, I want to ask you.
I mean, I was at those games in the nineties.
I worked in television at the time. You guys were

(44:37):
way better than Michigan, yet you lost most of those
games under Cooper. Then Trestle comes in. We all know
what he said, uh at the big pep rally and
he turned things around immediately. What was the difference between
Cooper and Trestle pertaining to the game.

Speaker 9 (44:53):
Matt It was an I don't say an obsession, but
it was just a complete year long emphasis on the game.
And I think that was, you know, with Jim Trussell
coming in, it was the implementation of you know, they
call it the you know, the countdown clock, which still
exists today. And again it's just an emphasis all year

(45:14):
long about what that game means. We'd actually would we
would actually study that game in little snippets, meaning like
you know, we'd watch three plays, you know, one day,
and then later in the week we'd watch three more
plays in the game, and then maybe before springball we'd
watch an entire drive. And what you start to understand
in this game, you know, because it's not.

Speaker 11 (45:32):
Very frequently a blowout.

Speaker 9 (45:34):
It's always very neck and neck whether they win or
we win. And it's cliche to say it, but you
learn it when you study it all year long. And
it's emphasized how much in a rivalry game against a
very good, well coached, physical football team, it's a game
of inches, you know.

Speaker 11 (45:52):
How do we just make you know if this guy
fits his gap? You know?

Speaker 9 (45:55):
And I think going back to you know, what is it,
maybe twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two, when they you know,
they pop those two runs, those long runs.

Speaker 11 (46:00):
I think with Donovan Edwards, pop's two long runs.

Speaker 9 (46:02):
And it's the difference between a guy getting a little
nosy and sticking his head in the wrong gap as
opposed to just playing his gap, and Donovan Edwards is
good enough to just go hit that little space and
takes it seventy five yards for a touchdown. It's the
little nuanced things in a rivalry game that really really matter.
And I think that was emphasized by Tressel, you know,
continued with I think elite talent, elite recruiting, and elite coaching.

Speaker 11 (46:24):
By Urban Meyer.

Speaker 9 (46:25):
And I would say that Ryan Day, while he hasn't
had this success against Michigan, which we hope changes this year.
He's a blend of both of those men, because you
know the current, you know, status of it is.

Speaker 11 (46:36):
You know, you walk through the.

Speaker 9 (46:37):
Woody Hayes facility, which you know I did this past weekend,
it's it's the game, not just this week.

Speaker 11 (46:42):
It is a year round.

Speaker 9 (46:43):
The game, you know, and its history and the countdown
clock are everywhere in that building.

Speaker 11 (46:49):
So whether a young man from.

Speaker 9 (46:50):
California or Florida, or you're born and raised there in
Columbus and you're wearing scarlett.

Speaker 11 (46:54):
And gray, you are you are?

Speaker 9 (46:56):
It is thrust into your face what that game means
to you know, you with a player that coaches that
university and Buckeye Nation across the world.

Speaker 12 (47:04):
When you take a look at this game, let me
just ask you a pointed question.

Speaker 6 (47:09):
How good is Ohio State?

Speaker 12 (47:11):
And I say that because I've never seen college football
more watered.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
Down in my life. I think it's very mediocre.

Speaker 12 (47:17):
I think Ohio State is the best team out of
a very mediocre field.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
I took a look.

Speaker 12 (47:23):
I don't think the buck guys defense has played an
offense ranked in the top forty in the in the nation.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
So how legitimately good is Ohio State?

Speaker 8 (47:33):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (47:34):
I think I think you're absolutely right in regards to
saying saying what you're saying about Ohio State. And I
think that you know their successes and the way in
which you know they've won their football games, have you know,
with how great the defense is played and how decisive
you know, Julian Sane and that offense has been, they
really have not been challenged. So it's uh, it's I

(47:55):
think I think they're great, and I think regardless they
kind of wipe clean what they did the prior, we
can just you know, restart the week for that set opponent,
and of course.

Speaker 11 (48:03):
This week it'll be extra emphasis.

Speaker 9 (48:05):
They're the number one team in the country, and you know,
yet no one in one of the top two conferences
in the in the call in the country are challenging them.

Speaker 11 (48:14):
So and again we don't.

Speaker 9 (48:15):
That's the one thing I'll say is, you know, even
at whether it's St. Ed's or you know, on Tangie
Orange or Ohio State or Michigan, is like we didn't
just script up the schedule, you know, to be a cakewalk.
It's like this has been determined you know, in years
past by you know by the Big Ten and the
non conference game, so we just line them up and
knock them down.

Speaker 11 (48:31):
And I think that's what Ohio State has done decisively.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
And I think too that.

Speaker 9 (48:35):
To your original point about you know, college football in general,
is that's what you know, Nil rev share the transfer portal.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Yeah, it's the NFL now, it is to.

Speaker 9 (48:48):
A certain extent, and it's it's not necessarily always going
to be whoever has the most money you're gonna have
to spend, And everybody's realizing that very quickly, is your
goal to win the conference or is your goal to
win a national championship?

Speaker 11 (48:58):
Is really going to determine how much money you have
to spend to go do that.

Speaker 9 (49:01):
And also folks can just I'm not happy here because
I'm not playing, and then Georgia Bama Ohio State can
pluck that said young man and become a plug and
play starter and be that chess piece to help them
go win and compete it for a Big Ten championship
in a national championship.

Speaker 11 (49:16):
So there is parody amongst college football.

Speaker 9 (49:20):
And I think that's the one thing, you know, as
you compared it to the National Football.

Speaker 11 (49:23):
League Roger Goodell and Paul.

Speaker 9 (49:24):
Tagilbu for years love parody, They love the unknown. Why
because it captivates the audience that you must turn on
the television and watch these two great teams, you know,
that are so similarly similarly compared, compete as opposed to
each and every week it's like, Oh, the Chiefs are
just gonna win.

Speaker 11 (49:41):
The Eagles are just gonna win.

Speaker 9 (49:43):
And I think that's why, you know, the Philadelphia winning
last year and kind of knocking the Chiefs off that
pedestal was so great for football.

Speaker 11 (49:50):
But then here we are.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
You know, the Bills are mediocre.

Speaker 9 (49:53):
You know, the Eagles lost to a five hundred football
cowboy football team. So it's it's tantali but it drives revenue,
drives AD dollars. And that's you know, the way in
which you know this, having having worked at in TV
and radio, how sports you know makes money.

Speaker 12 (50:10):
Talking to Matt Wilhelm, former Buck got great about the
one hundred and twenty first meeting Michigan, Ohio State in
ann Arbor at noon. Now, as far as Michigan goes,
I watch Michigan. They remind me of the Browns. A lot,
a lot of self inflicted wounds undisciplined. You know, they
they've barely got buy some bad teams. But you know,
when it comes to this game, a lot of it

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comes down to mentality. So when you take a look
at this matchup Saturday in Ann Arbor, what do you see?

Speaker 11 (50:37):
Well?

Speaker 9 (50:38):
I think I think, first and foremost to your point
about Michigan, there is something to be said about how
it has not looked pretty yet You're sitting here walking
into the game at eight and two or nine and two,
whatever it is, with only with only two losses. You know,
when some people, potentially after the USC loss, kind of wrote.

Speaker 11 (50:53):
This football team off.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
And I think the other thing you have to look
at as a Michigan fan or a Buckeye fan is
you know E J.

Speaker 11 (51:01):
Underwood and in his usage and or development.

Speaker 9 (51:05):
While it hasn't been great or elite for a true freshman,
it's also led them to many victories, and I think
they're relying upon him. But my key to this game
is going to be what Matt Patricia and this defensive
you know, dominant football team at Ohio State has done
all season long, regardless of opponent. You're kind of keeping

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them on, you know, only giving up I think double
digits in two games, averaging you know, around eight point
giving up eight points a game.

Speaker 11 (51:31):
Is he comes with that NFL pedigree, He's got the.

Speaker 9 (51:35):
Bullets in the gun with Rvel Reese and Sonny styles
and you know Kayden Curry. You know they're gonna they're
gonna rotate bodies. So he's got the weapons on defense.
And I think stopping the run will always be a
catalyst to winning this football game. So whoever can limit
the run or stop the run as we saw last year.
But then I think Matt Patricia and his ability to

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affect e j Underwood and maybe hit him and confuse
him and you know and force him to scramble, you'll
see more throwaways, you know, force him in a third
and along in those must pass situations where you're going
to force a very very talented true freshman to have
to win you the football game with his arm and
not his legs in that run game.

Speaker 12 (52:15):
Well, listen, I appreciate you spending some time here with
me today, and all eyes are going to be on
Ann Arbor Saturday at noon one d twenty, first meeting
between Ohio State and Michigan.

Speaker 11 (52:25):
Matt, thank you so much, my Pleasure Brother Anytime.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Good Wednesday morning, eight thirty six on the bloom Daddy
Experience with Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWBA,
King of Stink and Dave O filling in for the
vacationing Sam. Before you get into the Ohio State Michigan,
I want to put this out there, the Urban Collective.
It's a new open market and entertainment venue in downtown Wheeling.
They're gonna be hosting an open house on Small Business Saturday,

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photos with Santa. That's a biggie. Yeah. So all right,
So bloom Daddy was talking High State Michigan. I mean,
that's going to be the talk for the next couple
of days until the game's over, and it'll probably be
for after four days after a High State obviously number
one in in not only the rankings but in the
College Bowl seatings, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
So Devo is sitting here with his Ohio State shirt,
his jersey, his socks in his shoes, which almost makes
me want to vo.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
That's the only parts we want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
And and he's got the marijuana leaf on his shoulder.
Oh no, that's about it. Uh And then we have
the King of Stink in his Michigan twenty twenty three
National champions hoodie. Yes, of course, I'm wearing my w
pool over, which means absolutely.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Nothing for one of us is not like the other.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
So, Davo, You've driven the farthest to get here today,
so I'm gonna let you go first. What what what's what's?
What are your special memories? What's so important about this game?

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Total redemption is what this year's game is all about.
But the game itself. Yes, ever since I can remember,
I'm football, since third grade, this has been the biggest
thing on the calendar in November, even when I didn't
even understand what football is about. All I know is
the guys in the red shirts. So the good guys

(55:20):
and the guys in that other keller are not so uh.
We've gotten to the point where I've gone to so
many games of the years, great games, great memories. Maybe
not so great a memory sometimes, but it's just it's
more traditional me than Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
It's like, well, in the last ten years, the Michigan's
on a four game winston streak, and then before that
you're on a six game win streak.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
So well, actually longer. I mean when you go back
now the last twenty the last ten game, well, I'm
going twenty because it sounds better. We have to, yes, right,
because the last ten years were only six and four,
but the last twenty years were fifteen and five. I'd
rather focus on even though six and four still good too.
That means makes stink over there, four and six.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Okay, so you now stink you're you're the Michigan guy
that lives in Ohio.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
It's great to be a michiganver listen. Number one in hockey,
number six, hockey, number six girls basketball, number seven in
men's basketball. Whi's great to be woe leaders and best.
That's what it's about. You cannot be the champ until
you beat the champ, and you haven't done it.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
I'm sure the Browns would much rather beat the Steelers
in regular season and win a super Bowl. Yes, you
know that's always the bigger Well, now.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Disagree with that. The Browns would rather lose twice to
the Steelers and have a Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Thank you. You just made my point to the guy
over there and those weird killers. So you know, two
thousand seven days, when you are scraping seven days bright
spot in your in your miserable season, then you point
to that one game, and yeah, I would have rather
have won that game, the big Game, and then won
a super Bowl. But I'll take the super Bowl and

(57:11):
we'll beat you next year, which is this year, which
is in three days.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
Three teams was a winning record. Three in your whole schedule.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Uh, and how many of you been four or five? Zero?

Speaker 4 (57:25):
No, they we played teams of twinning record. We have
a better schedule.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
Oh and you cheat better, so you know, amazing how
we can't really pull it together. Allegedly, I don't know.
Somebody got fired about that. Somebody got banned from coaching
in the end.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Of our college I don't understand how.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
I don't think that's alleged.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
They went undefeated after that after that supposed Hey, gee,
I won't give who got who got punished for it? Nobody?

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Well, we did because we wouldn't all the way you did.
You know, we would have continued our streak. But you know, wow,
I will give credit to both of us. This is
where we have a little comrader. Last two national champs
big then Yeah, Michigan and high State Baby, Okay, I said.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
One of my greatest memories. And I've been to a
couple of High State Michigan games in ann Arbor. I
won't go to Columbus, Okay, I.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Don't blame you. It's bad, No, it's great. You really need.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Let him get his story in.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
I'm going to go up my son and I take
him to his first High State Michigan game. We stayed
in Pontiac, Michigan, and uh, we're going to buy scalp tickets.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
We did have any ticket.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
So we're sitting wait on the bus to go to
the stadium at the at the hotel and the guy
walks by and he had a Michigan jacket on. He says, uh,
guys who won the games? Yeah, I said for Michigan.
I said no, we're from Ohio. He said, oh really.
He said, well, I've got four tickets. He said, uh,
do you want to come? We want two? I'm like yeah,
So I said how much? He said thirty five dollars each.

(59:00):
It was face value. So I'm sitting here talking. He's
waiting for his No, wasn't that bar. He's waiting on
his buddy to come. Him and his buddy go to
every high State Michigan game every year. How they met
was both referees on the Miracle on Ice hockey team.

(59:20):
Nice they they and they became friends after that and
they go to every year. They go back and forth.
So buying take us off, that guy was like and
just to talk to him was amazing.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Yeah, Well you're you're you're you're the US guy referee
in the one of the biggest hockey games in the
recorded history. Yes, you know so, I mean the stories
that he had had to be fantastic tastic. Yeah, so
what about your your big story?

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Well, my biggest has to be the twenty oh six
game when High State was number one Michigan was number two.
They stupidly moved the game back to three thirty instead
of leaving it. But you know, we went. My son
Nick was with me. It was a junior in high school.
My other son, Mitch eighth grade. And I'll never forget.

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Troy Smith was quarterback. Michigan drove that first drive down
for a seven to nothing lead. My boys looked at
me and said, oh no, And I said, don't worry.
If we march right down and match touchdowns immediately, we're
going to win this game. Troy Smith took him right
down the field, scored seven to seven, said games and
bag folks. Sure enough, forty two thirty nine, that field

(01:00:28):
completely flooded with scarlet and gray jerseys and shirts and
hoodies and filled out, and we stayed up top so
we could watch it. It was like watching this massive
bowl just fill with all these scarlet and gray fans.
It was awesome experience, and it was even greater because
we defeated that miserable team up north.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
And we gave that game away. Will have Will Will
talked about it. It's the little things that make the
difference in a big game like that is hitting Smith
out of bounds because they would have been giving us
the ball back. That would have been the end of
the game. We don't want it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
See you guy like you remember that. All I remember
is forty two thirty nine we won and it's part
of the fifteen and five from the last twenty year.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
All right, So your prediction for Saturday's big game, Well,
my heart.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Once they got notes, I got notes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Are you thinking about this whole day time?

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
It's a full of notes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Yeah, I'm a notdy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
Kind of guy. All right, heart says thirty one nothing.
But because of the weather, my brain says, twenty four
to three. What is the weather?

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
They're supposed to be twenty nine in snow?

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Yeaes and that definitely changes. But hey, they played in
a cold game last year against Tennessee and destroyed them. However,
the rain, the snow can.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Definitely so what you let me write this down? So David,
what was your prediction twenty four three, twenty four to three?
Obviously you're going to high states. Think your prediction.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Twenty seven twenty four and I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Know which way you're going.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Yeah, you went predicting WVU to win this game. Or
you guys have the same colors.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
No, they're they're mazed. We're we're old.

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Gold gold gold. Yes, you're not made you're yellow.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
So as much as I hate to say this, well
yeah you look at it, I'm going to go. I'm
going to go a highest state twenty four Michigan sixteen
sixty sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Sixty Yes, Otis's face seventeen sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
I just think it's a weird. It's going to be
something Weird's going to.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Happen, something where, yes, Michigan is going to show up
and pretend to be a football team.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
It's one. It's one versus fifteen, so it should be
a halfway decent.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Game, saying has has a clear park.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Listen do I who do I want to win? I
want Michigan to win. I'm just I'm thinking, you know,
two teams. I can't stand there a highest state Notre Dame. Hey,
if they played each other everywhere our root fork when
they play each other. You know how they bombed the stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
You know how you get to ann Arbor north till
you smell it west till you step in it. Well,
you get down to Morgantown south till you smell it
east till you step in. No one to do.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Guy all right, if he didn't have his buddy with him,
he can't spell the state. It takes two of them
to spell a four letter word.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
That's that's because we want to draw it through your head.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
So you never forget Daddy Experience.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
We're going to be back to wrap this thing up
in just a little bit. Don't forget your chance to
win Chevy Chase tickets to see Christmas Vacation coming up
very very shortly eight fifty two on the Bloom Daddy

(01:03:49):
Experience with Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA,
King of Stink and Dave O filling in for the
vacationing Sam. Don't forget your chance to win coming up
very short. Your last chance to win before next week
is we're not going to be here tomorrow or Friday,
so uh you chance to win a pair of Chevy Chase,
tickets to see Chevy and a screening of a Christmas

(01:04:10):
Vacation right here at the Capitol Theater on December ninth. Really,
I just I mean the question is, like I said,
when we interviewed him, it was it was probably one
of the weirdest interviews that we've done. Really just he
was just kind of like like you couldn't tell, Like
he started to ask you a question and you could
then it was like it turned into a joke, but

(01:04:30):
you couldn't understand, like he was hard to read.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Yes, it's very hurky jerky.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
It was a very hurky jerky interview. It was like
I said, I was telling somebody the other day. It
might've been my dad. You look forward to something that
you think is just going to be great, and you
you've got your mindset that it's going to be fantastic,
and it turns out to be a turd, you know.

(01:04:58):
The Chevy Chase interview. I was looking so for to it,
and then I just I just left it very uncomfortable.
The Elvis Costello show that was here back in October.
I was looking forward to it as soon as they
announced it, and it was it was a turd. Yeah, yeah,
other than it was a two hour show, which was great,
but it was it was it was twenty minutes of

(01:05:18):
It was great and.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
Probably one of the best ones I've heard recently with
Neil McCoy interview.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Oh yeah, well, and I mean, but Neil having an
interviewed Neil before you know what you're getting? Yeah, you know,
and you know he's you know, down to earth. He's
just like us, you know. He Other than the fact
that he remembers people's names and stuff like that, I don't.
I can't remember. Yeah, I can remember his name. I
can't remember I can't remember half of these people that

(01:05:44):
you know what I mean. I'll see somebody like it's
people I deal with all the time. There's people I
work with. I still don't know what their name was.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
I think Chevy. Though he comes across so odd, but
it's actually if you hear him enough, because I kind
of knew he would be a rough interview because I've
heard him before, it's actually kind of interesting to listen to.
I would love to go to you know, this screening
or the show and hear him because don't expect straight
you know, answers. It's actually part of his camaraderie, So

(01:06:11):
to spare camaraderie comedic way he delivers. We talked, you
know a little bit before. He's kind of like Andy Coffin. Yeah,
you don't know if he's being serious, is he joking?
Is he losing his mind? Which kind of what keeps
you off balance listening. I don't know what this guy's
going to say. I can't wait to hear what the
heck he does.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Yeah, he said, like one of the questions he said,
he goes, what does wheeling mean? And so I started
to answer it, or you know, where does wheeling come from?
Or something like that, and he goes, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
You started to say something about an Indian name anyway,
I don't really care.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Something to do with skulls and something or other, but
I can't remember exactly what it is. Uh, but yeah,
I mean, just just.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
A bizarre It doesn't matter. That movie will get you
in great spirit watching it at the Capitol. And then
you know he's.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Number one Christmas movie, Christmas ever, Christmas Story. Yes, yeah,
see I'm a Christmas story.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
I'm a Christmas both of them. Yeah, that's tough to pick.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
I think for me, it's Christmas Story one Christmas vacations, like.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
Do you want to beat your rival or do you
want to be a national champ. It's that kind of
you know, it could go either way. You didn't beat
the champ, but I but I want him in regular season.
I won't remember ten years from now, but I'll remember
that national title that I have in a crystal ball.
I'm liker. He no, you don't. It'll be lost in
a closet.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
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turkey gravy and a squeeze bottle.

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
Squeeze bo Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
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Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Yum can't wait to get there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
You know what I bought recently.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
It's hard now, but you know you can never guess what.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
You mayonnaise with pickles, okay, And I'm always like to
get all of oil with my mayonnaise healthy. And I
went to pick it up and I'm like, wait a minute,
this is mayonnaise with pickles. How was it pretty good?

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
Sam? Sam doesn't like the word moist. I mean, Duncan
Heines made their.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Entire career on she she can't stand the word. And
it's actually kind of funny because everyone's like, I guess
her mom for her birthday center card that said she
opened it up and it just said moist onion.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
So, uh, even when mom gets in on the act,
you know that's pretty good. Yeah, you know. So guys,
you know I appreciate you coming in the last couple
of days, like make sure that you two have a
great Thanksgiving. You'd be d safe driving back to Newcomers Town. Yes,
you you're just going to bart and so nobody.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
No, No, I'm oh, well, I get to pick up
some Christmas though.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Okay, that's so, you're just going across the river.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
Across the river, I'll spend my Thanksgiving memorizing lines. Yeah, okay,
play on it. Yeah, Dave good luck on your thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
We want to wish everybody out there a happy Thanksgiving,
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And if you've got a question, maybe he won't be
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he will and you'll really get a kicked out of
it again. Guys, thanks for coming in. Have a great Thanksgiving.
Everybody out there have a great Thanksgiving. We'll see you
on Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Have you heard it