The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 1, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed number one touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on News Radio eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
WWVA starts now the.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. All right, I'm going to start off this
Monday morning show by showing you that I have class.
I'm a Michigan fan, so I'm going to say this,
even though it's very tough. Congratulations to you a house
date Buck guys on your victory. Good luck in the
Big Ten championship against Indiana.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
And you played a very good game.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
But don't forget you're one in four in the last
five years against us, So enjoy it because we're taking
it back next year.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Do you think it was going to be any better
than that? Really?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
You know, I want to start off this show too
by once again talking about somebody who passed away. It
just seems like, you know, it's one of those things
as you get older, people that you grew up with
or people that you've known that are twenty thirty years
older than you it's their time, and this time it
was a guy who I've competed against on a baseball

(01:18):
field for a long long time. And I'm talking about
Ron Antil, the former head coach at Cambridge Legion. He
was seventy eight years of age. He died on Friday,
and unfortunately a big Ohio State fan, so he did
not live long enough to see Ohio State's win in
ann Arbor, which I feel terrible about. But I'm reading

(01:40):
his obituary because somebody sent this to me and this
is actually really cool of the family to include this,
and it's actually funny. And they go on to talk
about what Ron did. He graduated from Cambridge High School
in a class of nineteen sixty five, retired from the
Post office, coach baseball for over thirty seven years, and

(02:02):
it goes on to talk about how Daytona Beach was
a second home to Ron and his wife, how he
brought back trees that were planted in his yard that
won him best Yard for two years. But then it's
this line in the obituary that made me just crack
a smile, and it simply says he enjoyed coaching the
Ohio State Buckeyes from his couch, and that is just

(02:26):
such a powerful line. That is just such a funny line,
and that brings a little bit of levity to a
very sad situation. I know I knew Ron very well
from coaching Saint Clairsville Legion for about.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Eight or nine years.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Some of my best baseball memories are playing Cambridge Legion
and Ron in Cambridge. I mean, it was just such
a huge, huge game rivalry, call it what you want.
Of course, his son Jim was his assistant coach. I

(03:05):
know Jim Well sent him a text last night telling
him condolences on his dad. But I'm telling you, like
in all the baseball I've played in all the years
I played in the OVBL, coaching Saint Clair's o Legian
against Cambridge in Cambridge by far and away my best
experience in anything that I ever did, playing or coaching baseball,

(03:29):
just because I love the atmosphere out of Cambridge. They
hated us so bad, we hated them so bad. They
had real good teams, We had real good teams. And
the intensity of those games, the friction of those games,
the absolute nastiness of those games, made them tremendous to

(03:52):
be a part of And I'll say this, the field
in Cambridge is probably the worst field I've ever seen
in mind entire life playing on that field. And I
used to tell this to Ron all the time. I mean,
him and I would go back and forth. I'm like, Jesus, Ron,
can you cut the lip off the field at some
point in the next thirty years.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
I mean, I've never seen balls hit on the.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Ground fly up in the air higher than at Cambridge's field.
But with that said, as far as a place to
watch a game, I don't think there's.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
A better venue in the entire Ohio Valley.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just the way it's set right there by the park,
actually in the park, the way you're up over the field,
with those grand stands, the hillsides around it, summertime, ninety
three degrees, that swimming pool is packed across the road.
Saint Clairsville, Cambridge. Nothing better, absolutely nothing better. And I'll

(04:50):
tell you this, I always respected Ron because of his
passion for baseball. But Cambridge Legion baseball, well Legion baseball
in particular, because Legion baseball to me, there's no greater thing.
And it is a dinosaur. I mean it's dying. It's

(05:11):
actually dead. I mean, let's just be honest about it.
Travel baseball has overtaking it. But if you played Legion
baseball growing up, if you coach Legion baseball, just, in
my book, nothing better. And he had such a passion,
such a dedication to that Legion team out of Cambridge
that I always respected that about him, the amount of

(05:32):
time that him and his son Jim put into that
and they didn't have to. They had no skin in
the game other than a love of American Legion baseball,
Cambridge and coaching kids. So Ron's going to be missed.
I mean, he was just a tremendous, tremendous baseball guy
and I love baseball guys.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
And not seeing him in that dug out.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Of course I don't coach with Saint Clairville American Legion anymore,
but if I did, it would have been a very
very weird experience going to Cambridge in not seeing Ron
in that dugout. Because the guy lived and breathed it
worked on a field concessions. I mean, he just made
sure it all happened. So condolences to the Intel family.

(06:20):
Ron had a great life, put a tremendous amount of
time in saw some great baseball, and I guess at
the end of the day, you know, that's what it's
all about. And speaking of baseball, you know, I've been
watching a lot of offseason stuff and I noticed something
the other day about the Pittsburgh Pirates and it was
an article and they really called out Bob Nutting, same
thing I've been.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Doing for let's just say fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
But there was an article that pointed out that the
Pittsburgh Pirates are one of the most profitable baseball teams
in all of Major League Baseball. And the article actually
said the reason that is is because Bob Nutting pockets
money revenue sharing that's given to Theates that's supposed to
be spent on payroll. They're supposed to be using that

(07:05):
money to increase their payroll and to get talent. Yet
this guy is pocketing the money. And that's why the
Pate think about it. This team has been one of
the worst teams in all of baseball for over twenty years,
and yet he's making money pulling thirteen thousand people into
that ballpark a game other than fireworks and blankets.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
So how can they be profitable?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, I just told you keep the payroll low don't
care about winning and pocket money that's supposed to be
going to make your team better. Bob Nutting in absolute disgrace,
making wheeling in Pittsburgh, proud, Gonna take a break. You're
listening to The Blue Daddy Show eleven to seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Seven nineteen. Do I remember how to do this? Welcome
back the bloom Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. All right, we're off and rolling a
Do you miss me?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Absolutely? I know.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't don't even know why I bothered to ask
did you.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Do any Black Friday shopping?

Speaker 4 (08:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I did not. But before we talk about that, I
just want to go back to the little bit of
semi humility that bloom Daddy had with Michigan Ohio State.
He wants to throw out the past four years. All right,
I'm just going to reiterate this little number seven and

(08:33):
seventeen since two thousand seven and seventeen seventeen wins for
the buck Eyes, the buck Eyes, the Ohio State to
the seven for me? Oh'd you drove my mic So
just wanted to just wanted to throw that out there.

(08:54):
If we're all going to you know, kind of beat
our chest and sound like mister big Man and all,
did you're there? Won the past four years? Yoda yoda,
yoah seventeen and seven, since two thousand, seventeen and seven.
So and uh, mister Buckeye himself had a little bit
of fun too if you if you missed that, it's

(09:17):
a great image. But anyways, okay, that was my That
was my little response to his his humility being being
a well, I forget what his term was. Wasn't going
to you know, gloat or whatnots as a Michigan fan.
So anyways, Black Friday, Yes, I did some Black Friday shopping.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Did you go someplace or did you do it online?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
No, Well, see I was out of town. I was
in Columbus, So I went to a couple specialty shops
that my parents took me to. Okay, well, Columbus area.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
I can appreciate that I avoided the major shopping. Did
you areas?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Like?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
I refused, like even if I needed something, I refused
to go anywhere weekend because I was not going to
get caught in that traffic, in that craziness. And I
did something I haven't done for a long time, and
I went and got fast food on Saturday night because

(10:16):
I didn't want to go anywhere near a grocery store,
anywhere near any store or restaurant or anything other than
just to get you know, because I just I like,
if I'm gonna, if I need something for the holidays,
it'll I'll I'll go someplace this week and by like
on Tuesday or Wednesday, when nobody's out, you know, like

(10:37):
during the day, you know, on my lunch hour or
something like that, I'll I'll sneak in and get something.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
But that's on my to do list today. As the
grocery store, I we're down to like zip, we have
a few, we have a couple of containers the leftovers left.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
But well I had Chinese last night, so.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, I'm pretty sure that the leftovers are getting to
the end of their lifespan at this point. What is
it Monday?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Were they Thanksgiving leftovers?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about Thanksgiving? Excuse me, excuse me. Yeah,
so I think they're probably close to their end of
end of lifespan. I couldn't think of what I wanted
to say. Listen, folks, it's Monday. I've been off for
a couple of days so well.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Federal health officials say time is nearly up for any
remaining Thanksgiving leftovers EPSIE. The US Department of Health and
Human Services points to the Monday after Thanksgiving is the
last day to safely eat refrigerated food following the holiday.
Food that was placed in the freezer can be safe
to eat indefinitely, but quality declines over time. The USDA
says frozen leftovers begin to lose moisture and flavor within

(11:44):
two to four months.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh, speaking of Thanksgiving, so did you I didn't. I
didn't pig out, quote unquote, but we had a really
nice Thanksgiving Thanksgiving meal. There was a line that my
mother used at the table. God bless her sometimes and
hopefully she's not listening. Sometimes she words come out of

(12:09):
her mouth and she doesn't think. And I can't really
say what she said on the air very innocent. It
was a very innocent, off the coff remark, and it
stopped everybody in their in their tracks, like mid fork
was in the air of my brother because what she

(12:32):
said was just off the coff shocking, and she we
all basically we all started laughing so hard and she's
sitting there going what what And we're like, think about
what you just said, and and it was Yeah. So

(12:52):
that was one of the one of those moments, one
of those moments at a holiday meal that will stick
with you for many years to come. But again, I
can't really repeat what she said because it would not well, yeah,
it would not go well no, probably not, probably not.
Did you did you feel a little gluttonous after the

(13:15):
big dinner?

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, I mean I my cousin normally has something on Thanksgiving. Well,
this is the first year they've actually had it on
Thanksgiving because they were in town. But yeah, we went
up to his house. He puts on a good, good
deal and his daughter, who is like a world class

(13:36):
CrossFit person.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Oh yes, yeah, you've mentioned her.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Well, she's she's she won the world's last year. I
can't remember where she was, but anyway, she makes these
desserts that are like phenomenal pies, cakes, cheesecakes and everything else.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
And it's like, does she eat them?

Speaker 5 (13:54):
She'll have a piece on thanks but like after like
after that day, no, she won't. She'll have a you know,
she'll try, but she won't, you know, and it won't
be big, and she doesn't.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
She doesn't blurge over over intull.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
But she makes your own whip cream. Like everything she
puts in her stuff is natural. Oh, she doesn't buy
store bought, you know, so I'm sure like she used.
She didn't buy canned pumpkin filling. She probably had pumpkin
filling that she made herself.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Good for her.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
But anyway, I had a slice of pecan pie. Yeahow,
like I could have taken I could have taken the
pie home. Let's put it that way.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Our Thanksgiving meal came from the Amish country. My parents
got it ahead of time because my mother had surgery
so she couldn't do all of that. But honest to god,
it was so good. But the pumpkin pie was the
biggest pumpkin pie I have ever seen in my life.
It was like the size of a hubcap. It's like

(14:57):
this ridiculous. And I don't eat pump I don't like
pumpkin pie. My husband doesn't like pumpkin pie. So there's
about three quarters of a pumpkin pie left in Columbus.
But she brought it. She brings this pie out. It's like,
holy cow.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
Who likes pumpkin pie?

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Me?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
You could have brought it home with you.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh I could have. I could have. Sorry, I wasn't
thinking ahead, wasn't thinking that far ahead. What all went
on while I.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Was gone great Radio?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I heard we had some visitors.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
We had Stink and dave O come in and thank
those guys for doing that. You know, it's just a
lot easier to bounce oh conversation off of somebody else.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
So I bet Davo's celebrating today.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Oh yeah, I mean he texted me like thirty.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Times during the game.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, I'm probably exaggerating a little bit. But then he
was like, then he sent me a screenshot. He was
must have halftime or something, must have switched over to
the WU game and took a screenshot. He goes, come on,
notice you guys aren't out of this yet. And I'm like, yeah,
you're out of your mind. We're done. I knew we
were done in the first quarter.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
You know, Davo is one of those guys. This morning
at work, he's gone on every piece.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Of Oh you should have seen him in here.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
He's walking into work today with you know, completely and
scarlet and gray and down to his socks and underwear.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Probably that's what he was like in here. The other day. Hey,
we've got your chance to win coming up.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
We do. We're gonna have two pairs of Chevy Chase
tickets we're going to do throughout the show, and we
have one last pair of tickets for Motown Christmas. You
have one pair left, folks.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
You get three chances to win this morning. Plus you
can register for your free.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Lunch which will be delivered on Friday Kirks ice Cream
and Kirk's ice Cream. So hey, it's the season of
giving and we're doing.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
It all kinds of goodies. We're given away goodies.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Goodies, goodies. It's seven twenty eight on your Monday, post
holiday weekend. Oh, I hope you're up and moving. I'm
working on it, folks, I'm working on it. Listening to
The bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven thirty six The bloom Daddy

(17:14):
Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Now
you mentioned Otis our free lunch which we uh picked
the winner on Wednesdays, but we didn't tell people how
to do it. You email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name phone number in business,
and then we bring you free lunch courtesy of our

(17:36):
great friends at River City on Friday. We bring it
to your place of employment and it feeds up to
ten folks. So that's what the free lunch is. All
you have to do is email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com,
name phone number in company.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Might as well tell them how they can register for Kirks.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh for Kirks, Well, that's our text line seven zero
four seven zero. Go on there and just give us
your name and phone number, and that's your registration for
a chance to win a free half gallon of Kirk's
famous homemade ice cream. So yeah, we say we're giving,
We're giving. I took some of that Kirk's ice cream

(18:16):
with me to Columbus to go with all of our desserts,
which made my seven year old niece very very happy.
She refers to Kirk as the ice cream Man, so
every time she comes to visit me, she has to
go see the ice cream Man. So anyways, anyways, talking
about Thanksgiving, I just wanted to go back real quick.
Did you watch the parade, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade?

(18:38):
Otis that it's not a big tradition of mine. But
did you, by any chance happen to tune in?

Speaker 4 (18:44):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Okay, I figured that would be the answer.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
So it think I was sleeping, To be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I kind of wish I was, but I was not.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
It brought in and a record viewership, all right, with
thirty four point three million watchers. Now are people watching
it throughout the entire time? Probably you have it on
in the background. It's one of those things where you
have it on in the background. The audience increased by
eight percent this year, so congratulations, they had great viewership.

(19:13):
That's fantastic. Did anybody else buy chance catch the poor
dancers that had to dance in fresh horse manure? I
got to give it to these young ladies. They did

(19:35):
not miss a beat. They kept on going in the slippery,
slippery droppings of the horses that were before them. I
just thought it was I felt so bad for him.
I thought it was terrible. I just happened to look
at the TV at that point in time, and I thought, man,
these poor girls, it was nasty.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
It was nasty. It was nasty all but anyways, we've
got to call yeah, speaking.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Of pooper scoopers, somebody wants to glow.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh, I bet I know this.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Good morning, dave O, good Marning.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
What a great introduction, cleaning up the Michigan poop off
the field?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Still up there, you still got a big old smile
plastered across your face.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, let's just say the world is right again. The
sun is rising in the east, right setting in the west,
the earth spinning properly all as well. Michigan's back where
they should be, number two in the rivalry get and
that was absolutely awesome.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
So there you get back a taste of.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
Knowing our namesake host there on the bloom Daddy had
to that's the best he could come up with. We'll
get you next year. Okay, Well he's losing his touch
a little. He used to come back with a lot
worse come back, but he knows when he's been beat.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
So that was good.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
So for somebody who's a fan, just real quick, the RQB.
Julian's saying, is he not the most calm, cool, collected
red shirt freshman we've seen in a while?

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Absolutely yes, that you knew that first interception that had
nothing to do with talent ability anything. It was you know,
heat of the moment, all the adrenaline, the intimidation of
being up there in a game like that and that
kind of stadium in the weather, and you knew it
was like, that's actually great. I guarantee you now it's

(21:38):
out of his system. He'll calm down and go, Okay,
that was stupid. He won't go into a full panic
because he is so calm, can collective. And once again,
I already sent a couple of gifts to Nick Sabe
and appreciate him retiring so that he would come up
to us stay in the first place. But yes, he's terrific.

(21:58):
He will be an NFL bomb, And I mean in
a good way.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, he's just guy comes he's he's just got a
certain it's just got a certain.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
The meaner, Yeah, the attitude, it's just so engaged in
the comments. I don't think any moment, that moment, that
first minute was too big, maybe, but the other fifty
nine minutes sure weren't so. And I just want to
remind everyone that you know, you heard it here first
or last week. Davo's prediction of twenty four to three

(22:35):
not too far off.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
No, you weren't too far off the field goal?

Speaker 6 (22:39):
Here, a field goal there? I stay it's covered now
the spread, I think every game except one this season.
I tell you, if you were a betting guy or now,
you could have made a lot of money on this.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
I can't believe how they well.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
When you only played four teams with a winning record,
guess what you're about?

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Spread, Well, you.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Had to go there in you so but.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
One and state in effect?

Speaker 6 (23:05):
You know, And I'm sure w v U fans are
you know they're all heading out to Indianapolis watch the
game right?

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Get out of your mind?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, thank you for for Philly.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
I won't even watch it on TV, to be honest
with you, Yes you will. No, I won't. I'm not
because I'm I'm gonna. I'm gonna be in Phoenix at
a concert, you knucklehead.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
He's got on his scarlet gray underwear for the game.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
I guarantee. I don't even known scarlet and gray.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yes I do not.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Well, thank you so much for filling in for me
last week.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Guess what here you Hey Dave?

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Thanks you, Hey death?

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh do you hang up on him?

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Kes?

Speaker 5 (23:56):
So there he goes.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
I had I had a feeling weed here from him.
Oh yeah, I had a feeling.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
He wanted to gloat. Hey, I don't know if you
saw this, probably not. I just I just yeah, KFC
has candles out for the holidays.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Does it smell like chicken?

Speaker 5 (24:17):
One is a bucket of chicken. One is buttery biscuit.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
I can maybe do the biscuit.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Like KFC chicken. Like I wouldn't want my house. I
mean that would be nice. That would be nice for
like five minutes, and then after that I'd want to puke. Yeah,
that would just I'm just curious to see how much
they cost.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Speak, holy cow, what do they cost?

Speaker 5 (24:40):
The KFC bucket of chicken candle? Twenty eight dollars?

Speaker 2 (24:44):
How big is it?

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Some mad I just popped up. It doesn't say it is.
I can't tell. Oh, there's also a KFC bucket of
chicken car freshener air freshener. It's ten dollars. I mean,
I'm rounding up. It's like twenty seven ninety six and
then nine dollars and sixty cents.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, no, thank you.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
Well.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Rounding up is the theme right now with all the
pennies gone. How many places I've gone to where they
just round it up, and that's kind of cost these businesses.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
In the You know, here's the thing in the long
there's no penny shortage. They're just telling you that there
is because unless people are just taking them out of circulation.
You know, like I saved my change, so I'll go
home and I'll throw my my coins in a bout. Yeah,
but eventually what's going to happen is I'm going to
cash them in and they're going to go back into
the system.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, there may be a water jug missing from here
that now has my coins at home.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
That's what I did, you take one? Possibly I was
gonna say, don't take one, I'll give you one. I
have one of all that I don't use.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Possibly there may be a jug at the household. Well, now,
the first time it happened was I was going to
throw DQ and and uh, I'm looking at it. They're
going what They're like, No, we're rounding up because of
the pennies. I'm like, why, Yeah, it's not like.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Yeah, it's not like you're running out of them. The
banks have them and everything else.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
So it's not like the penny culprit run around and
took all the pennies from all the businesses and the banks.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
And eventually here's the thing. If they just like, if
you're if your things, you know, nine dollars and twenty
one cents, if you're that you're building, they round you
up to nine twenty five. Are you really gonna get
I don't care that four cents isn't gonna make or
break me. No, but over the course of a year,
that's probably gonna cost you somewhere in the vicinity of
one hundred bucks, so easily.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, what's it gonna cost for these businesses that are
rounding up or down or how it's gonna it's gotta
cost them some money?

Speaker 5 (26:44):
And what are they doing with it? Are they donating
that four cents? So they donated? I mean, is that
go when their profit? I'm gonna just make your price
to where it comes out to an even number, like
a five or ten.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, but then there's the tax, isn't there.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm just saying you figured out.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
We're gonna what was I gonna say? Oh, we've got tickets, Yeah.

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(27:58):
back seven fifty two The bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and
Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Just a quick reminder
or heads up for everybody who travels the Washington Avenue
Bridge area in Woodsdale. Beginning tomorrow, the bridge will be
closed to all traffic as crews begin a full replacement

(28:19):
of the structure. Now again, this is the Washington Avenue Bridge.
Starting tomorrow, will be closed to all traffic. It is
going to be a very long process as they completely
remove and rebuild the bridge. Now, detour information is as follows.
Westbound traffic is to use US forty and mount A

(28:40):
Channel Road, which is Exit two A. Eastbound traffic is
to use Exit five. Drivers are advised to follow these
detour signs and allow for of course, extra time for
travel during the closure. So a heads up that that
is going on and it is going to go on
for a while, so just a heads up with that

(29:02):
that change in traffic patterns and also that particular area.
Don't forget there's businesses over there. So there's a lot
of small businesses over and there in that area, so
don't forget about them during this time because it will
be it's going to be another situation kind of how
the downtown businesses had to deal with closures during the Streetscape.

(29:23):
You know, it was hard for a lot a lot
of businesses through that time, so it will be tricky
for them over there.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
For the most part, the businesses that are on that side,
you're going to have to access via I seventy. You're
not going to be able to get to them from
National Road. So that's about the only that's about the
only change Wheeling universities that you know you're gonna have
to everything's going to have to be done off of
I seventy in the Washington Avenue exit.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
So yeah, yeah, So if you do travel that area,
be prepared and give yourself a little bit of extra time.
One other thing I wanted to mention today, with it
being December first, the homeless camp officially closes today. There's
a lot of scuttle butt hubbub on social media. There's

(30:07):
a lot of people who are trying to fundraise and
ask for donations. There is the different organizations that are
trying to find places for these folks. There's a lot
of angry people on social media about this on both

(30:28):
sides of the conversation. Let's all remember that these are
human beings. Do I agree? I'm torn on this issue
because they're human beings. Been in the same regards. If
you have drove past the encampment, it's a mess. It's

(30:49):
an absolute mess. So my question is, once this closes,
whose responsibility is to clean up the aftermath? It's going
to be the city who's going to pay for it.
The taxpayers are Here's where here's my This is where
I have a hard time with this entire this entire
situation is if you're going to come into our community,

(31:12):
which a lot of these people are shipped in from
other towns and other cities, and I know there will
people be people out there that say, no, that's not true.
It is true. I've spoken to people. It is true,
because we are a giving community. We are a giving community.
The problem is are we being taken advantage of? And

(31:35):
are we Are we feeding the problem? And I believe
we are at this point. There are certain organizations that
are feeding the problem. But my point is what I
wanted to get back to the folks that are going
to be displaced, the state of that particular part of
the city now that has held that camp. It's a mess.

(31:56):
So now there's gonna be a cleanup. There's gonna be
a cost of the cleanup. If you're going to come
to our community, if you want to be a part
of our community, and you want our community to take
care of you because you are down on your luck
and and you're more than willing to accept this and
accept that free of charge, then be a functioning, giving

(32:18):
part of our community. And what do I mean by that,
don't leave your trash laying around, even though you're being
displaced or you know they're closing down the encampment. Throw
your trash away the entire time, it hasn't, and it
has gotten to the point where it is, so guess what.
It's another responsibility of the community to take on. At

(32:41):
a certain point, you have to be a functioning, contributing
part of the community that you're in. That's where it's
gotten out of control. It's gotten out of control. I
understand there are people who fall on hard times. I

(33:02):
don't disagree with that, but what is Elgin saying give
them a hand up instead of a handout. We've given
out way too many handouts, way too many handouts, and
it is, as I mentioned, December one. So today it
will officially be closing. So my question is moving forward,

(33:23):
what happens next? What happens now? What happens next? It's
going to It's going to be interesting to follow and
see what happens. Where are these folks going to go?
Who knows? Who knows? But be aware it is happening,
It is going on, and it will close today. They're
asking for volunteers to help clean up though, so there

(33:46):
you go. If you don't have anything going on, help
clean up the trash from the homeless camp. Seven fifty eight.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA, z.

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Speaker 3 (34:21):
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Speaker 4 (34:25):
Hey, it's eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Welcome back to the Bloomdaddy Experience on your Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Other big story today, they're still trying to figure out
a motive in the shooting Friday Washington, DC. You had
the Afghan national walk around the corner and just simply
open fire on our National Guard, killing one National Guards
woman from West Virginia, critically injuring another. Everybody's searching for
a motive. What could it possibly happen here? We end

(34:54):
up finding out that this individual was an interpreter in Afghanistan.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Who worked with US forces.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I also found out, well I think we all know
by now, that this individual traveled all the way from
the state of Washington to Washington, d C. To commit
this heinous act. So again, what could possibly be a motive?
Over the weekend, talk to some people from Washington, DC,

(35:21):
some sources of mine, just trying to put some pieces together,
and a couple of things stand out to me, and
they brought this to my attention. To this guy drove
all the way from the state of Washington to Washington,
d C. To open fire on the National Guard. Think
about how long of a drive that is. Think about

(35:42):
how long this guy had to rethink what he was
going to do and yet still didn't stop himself from
doing it. What I'm trying to say is, no matter
how mad you are, if you're in a decent state
of mind, if you're traveling hours in a va to
commit a heinous act, You've got a lot of time

(36:04):
to think this over. You get a lot of time
to come to your senses. You've got a lot of
time to look in at rear view mirror and think,
you know what, I can't do this or I shouldn't
do this. But yet he still did it. That tells
me he was incredibly motivated. All right, So what motivated him?

(36:24):
Did he become radicalized? Possibly, we've seen that before. But
at the same time, as my sources pointed out to me,
we as a government, specifically when it came to Afghanistan Iraq,
we made a lot of promises to people that we
did not uphold. Now, what I'm about to say is

(36:48):
not excusing this guy from his behavior, because he needs
to be put to death for what he did.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
But again, I'm just trying to search for a motive.
When you have.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
A individual from Afghanistan working with US forces. Obviously they
put their life in danger, they're hunted, they put the
lives of their families in danger. We told these individuals
that when their work was done, we would get them out,
We would get their families out, everybody would be safe.

(37:25):
I would not be shocked, based on who I talked
to in DC, if we come to find out that
maybe we made some promises to this individual about getting
family members out and we didn't back those promises up,
and maybe those family members ended up getting slaughtered by
the Taliban or whoever over there. As far as a

(37:46):
possible motive, again, not justifying in any way, shape or
form what this guy did, but to drive that far
in a vehicle, to have that much anger and rage,
somebody promise you, promises you, Hey, you help us out,
We'll make sure your family's safe, and they don't back
it up, and something happens to your family.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
And we know this has been the case.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Numerous times with other individuals who helped us over there.
That would be your motivation right there. Again, speculation based
on who I spoke with, because whenever you have an
event like this, everybody is searching for answers. Everybody wants to.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Know that motive.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
And I think right now it's probably one of the
two I mentioned. Either number one, he just did become
radicalized and he wanted to kill Americans, American troops. Or two,
CIA made some promises they didn't back up, and this
guy wanted justice for maybe whatever atrocities were committed against

(38:54):
his family. It's a guessing game right now, but it
also shows you just how vulnerable not only our troops
but any of us when it comes to somebody who
for whatever reason flips that switch. You don't know when
it's gonna happen. You pray you're not in the area.
When it happens, you pray some red flags pop up

(39:15):
and somebody can stop it. But all too often we're
talking about things like this, and we're talking about people
who are no longer with us. I mean, sam Otis,
I think it's got to be one of those two things.
And I think we're gonna find out sooner rather than later.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Let's all be honest with ourselves. The withdrawal from Afghanistan
was an ass absolute cluster, you know what, it absolutely was.
I can remember I was in the car, we were
driving to Cleveland, and I remember watching it on my
phone as that was going on and saying to my husband,
this is an absolute mess. This is a mess. And

(39:56):
then you saw the airplanes full of people that they
were just going to ship all across the world and
into the US. Let me ask you this, and Otis,
I'm imposing this to you too. Are we not seeing

(40:16):
almost like, what's the best way to say this? The
trojan horse has made its way into the US under
the guise of refugee status, under the guise of the sympathetic,
bleeding heart mentality of a lot of the American citizens.

(40:41):
The trojan horse has made its way into the borders
of the United States this question. I guess what I'm
saying is there's this underlying to me anyways, there's this
underlying feeling of they're here and what I mean by
that are the bad guys. And that's not the most

(41:03):
adult term to use, but they're here and they're biding
their time.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
I think there's a combination of things, and that's just
part of one of the things. I don't think that
that's the only thing. I think that the liberal teachings
at you know, at schools and universities and so on
and so forth, instead of just teaching down the middle
and letting students decide on their own. You know, you

(41:28):
have these and it goes both ways. You know, you
have either liberal or conservative, but in that field it
normally leans toward liberal. But yeah, I mean, I think
there's a lot of things that come into play, and
that's just one of them.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
There's just this mentality from the liberals of you know,
the world is rainbows and unicorns and it's not. There
are horrible people out there that want to do horrible things.
The one thing I didn't get with the whole National
Guard shooting was why was the guy naked? Why was
he naked? Now? Of course that's not important to add all,
but just a little update, real quick. Homely and Security

(42:03):
Secretary of Security Christy Nomes said the suspect in the
shooting was likely radicalized after arriving in the US. The
twenty nine year old Afghan national came to the US
in twenty twenty one and has believed to be radicalized.
Federal prosecutors say he'll face first degree murder charges in
the murder of Sarah Beckstrom. So horrible story there, absolutely horrible.

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But coming up, we're going to talk to a local
author with an interesting conversation and an interesting new book
that's coming up next. But before we get to that,
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Speaker 2 (45:45):
I told you before the break. We have a local
author in the house, and we also have a very
well known local restaurant restaurateur. Please welcome to the show
local author William Welker, along with Joey Maroon of A.
Thank you guys for popping in.

Speaker 9 (46:02):
So excited to be here.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
This is going to be a really good conversation. I'm
so excited to talk about this. What we're talking about
is mister Welker, William Do I call you William Bill
or mister Welker Bill? Okay, Bill, I've.

Speaker 9 (46:16):
Been called a lot of things I used to officiate,
so I don't want to get into that.

Speaker 10 (46:20):
That's one of the nicer things I've heard someone.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Cod Well again, we're here to talk about your new
book called The Emotional Battle Coping with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
or better well known as OCD. So let's get into
this conversation. First of all, right, off the bat, what
inspired you to write this book?

Speaker 9 (46:41):
Well, first of all, let me explain that I knew.
I did not know at the time, but I've had
OCD all my life. I'm seventy eight years old now
and I can still remember to this day my mother's
saying to me, Billy, you dwell on things too much.
What inspired me to write the book, I have to
say Joey did. And I do want to mention the

(47:02):
fact that I can't thank Joey enough for sponsoring the
book and we spread it. It's free, we make sure
it's all around the Wheeling area. But the main thing
that inspired me is because I was having so many
problems myself. I was having problems of guilt, worrying all

(47:23):
the time, and OCD. People have a lot of unwanted thoughts,
things they don't want to think about, but the more
they try not to think about it, they end up
thinking about it. So Joey and I got into it.
I argued with him, he argued with me, and he said,
write a book. I'll take care as far as sponsoring
it and having it published. By writing the book and

(47:45):
doing the research, I realized I was not alone. I
found out that all the symptoms that I had and
I have major symptoms. I'm full blown as far as
OCD everything, I found that I was not alone, that
there are many people going through this. So the inspiration
behind the book was to let others know they're not

(48:08):
alone number one and number two, to make them understand
you were not crazy. It's an emotional problem. You are
not crazy.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Well, and using the term OCD has become generalized in
our vernacular, where there's there's a lot, well, oh I
have OCD, Oh I have it, there's there's people who
are overly cleanly, and then there's OCD. Because a lot
of people when they hear OCD, they go to like

(48:39):
the Howie Mandel's of the world, who has spoken you
know right exactly.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
He's the one that really opened up everything as far
as OCD, and we certainly should be thanking him for
letting exposing to the nation the importance that you shouldn't
be alone with OCD. You know, he did a lot
for him and he inspired me a little bit too
to realize that, you know, I got to check into it.

(49:04):
That was part of the part of the inspiration there.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
And I think I think a lot of people put
the obsession with cleaning list because that's what Howie man,
you know, he won't shake your hand. Those types of things.
They attribute that to what OCD is, But there's varying
levels and varying compulsions that people who deal with OCD have.

Speaker 9 (49:25):
Right, Yeah, And I would say you might even say
this that everybody in a certain way may have OCD,
you know, at various levels. Okay, some are very minor
and it you know, it's just you kind of just
you know, li with there's no big deal, but there's
different like I say, different levels.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
One of the things, yeah, samuh. Definitely.

Speaker 10 (49:48):
Doctor being in a restaurant business over thirty five years,
when people come into the restaurant, they sit at the
bar or at table, will set them up and I
noticed they'll move their silverware to one side or the other,
or the salt and pepper to one side of the other.
And as I wait on you, if you continue to
come in, I try to set up the way that
you like it. And definitely everybody has a little bit
of OCD. And I think and Doc had always told

(50:10):
me through his life he had it, because I've known
him for years. Unfortunately or fortunately one of those things
I can't remember, but when his wife passes, when it
got bad, I would say, Doc, and you were calling
me instead of five times a day, ten times a day,
and we were trying to talk and I was actually
trying to understand and help you through that. That's what

(50:32):
friends do. But one particular day, Sam, I was telling
you off air. It was in June, I think, probably
a couple months after three months after your.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Wife passed, and it was like ninety eight degrees.

Speaker 10 (50:43):
I was cutting grass and I just had gotten done
and Doc called and I'm listening, and you know, I'm hot,
I'm bothered, And I said, Doc, I said, you know,
you have four kids, fifteen grandkids, six great grand children.
You talk to me all the time about I said,
Peggy would not want you to.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Be I like this.

Speaker 10 (51:02):
And that's when Doc raised his voice at me for
the first time and said.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
You don't know I have OCD. You don't know what
it's like.

Speaker 10 (51:07):
And I said, I don't.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Well hold that thought. Well, we're gonna continue that story
because I do want to talk about the passing year
of your wonderful wife, Peggy and get into the details.
We got to jump to a quick break, but you
guys are gonna hang out with me a little bit longer.
I bet you okay, wonderful, it's eight twenty eight. You're
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Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Thank hey,
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salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Hanging out with

(51:53):
us in the studio this morning. We have local author
William Welker along with Joey Maroon of Abby's Rush Now,
author restaurant owner. There's a reason this combo is working
because this new book that mister Welker has put out,
called The Emotional Battle Coping with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Kind
of I don't want to say brought you two together

(52:14):
because your longtime friends. But mister Maroon or Joey told
mister Welker, listen, make this book happen. And that's how
this has all come to be. Basically, right, guys.

Speaker 10 (52:26):
Absolutely, when Doc has written several articles in several books,
and when we had our discussion that day, I was
picking up from when we left. He got mad at
me and said I have a full blown new CD.
And I challenged him. I said, well, why don't you
help young children, write a pamphlet, write a book about it,
help somebody? So he promptly hung up on me, which
we have never had an argument, And quite frankly, that

(52:48):
whole evening I tossed and turned. I couldn't sleep, and
I kept thinking, why is this little man keeping me
up all night? However, at seven point thirty am, my
phone rang and it came up doctor well Hooker, and
I answered the phone doc by saying I'm sorry. I
think I said the same thing, and you said, nope,
don't be sorry. I started writing, and that's how it started.

Speaker 9 (53:09):
Yeah, and it was actually good for me. And I
think I mentioned this before because I felt I was alone.
I thought, you know, I had these guilt things. I
would worry about something that I did fifty years ago
and feel guilty about it. Things of that nature. Also,

(53:29):
whatever problem was, I would be worrying about a problem
and then dwelling on things. But mainly the thing that
bothered me the most was the unwanted thoughts. So when
I and I thought, you know, I felt alone, you know,
like nobody else could be like this, you know, what's
wrong with me? And then by doing the research that

(53:50):
Joey kind of promoted me to do, I found out
I wasn't alone. I found out that other people had
these same symptoms, the same these same problems. And that's
when I, as I said previously, I wanted to write
this to let others know they're not alone, to let
others know they are not crazy. It is an emotional

(54:12):
type thing. And what I do with it, I try
to keep myself busy number one. Number two, I try
to get involved in different organizations where I'm helping people
and thinking about them instead of just thinking about my
own problems. And that has helped very much. And also

(54:33):
I'm a big believer in prayer. I feel that has
helped me quite a bit over the years. I had
trouble sleeping, but my minister said, say the Lord's prayer
and that'll help you sleep. And it actually did. It
actually did help. You see, I'm sleeping a lot better now.
But I wanted people to know that mainly that they're

(54:53):
not alone. And it was a big thing for me
because I learned the same thing, and I learned that
there's so any different types of OCD. But I did
also want to mention that, like I said, there's one
positive thing about it. You if you're in involved in
any kind of project whatsoever, you will not quit till
it is done. Most of your OCD people are high achievers.

(55:19):
Most of your professional athletes are OCD and high achieves.
They have certain things that have to be done a
certain way before they start their game. Maybe it's the socks.
You know, I have to eat special socks. But that's
a sign of OCD. And also they're high performers and
if they don't perform to work, they expect to perform.

(55:42):
That bothers them very much. Yeah, definitely, professional athletes have OCD.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
I want to get back to something you mentioned a
few minutes ago about symptoms in your research writing this book.
What are some of the most predominant symptoms for people
to look for if they're thinking they may have a
tendency to have.

Speaker 7 (56:04):
O c D.

Speaker 9 (56:06):
Possibly possibly Well, Okay, the first three that I mentioned
are the big three, the guilt, the worry, and the
unwanted thoughts. Uh, but uh, fear of germs might be
an example repetitive behavior, worrying did I lock the door?
My dad had a little bit of O. C. D.
He ran basically a cigar store back in our hometown,

(56:29):
and there would be some nights you'd get home late
and they think, did I lock the door? And he
would and of course he did, but he would go
back to check to see if you locked the door.
Things things like that, Uh, strict routines, Uh, fear of
forgetting something. I mean, they're just all kinds of little
things that you're you know, did I get this done?

Speaker 8 (56:50):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (56:51):
Oh my gosh, did I'm not sure if I got
this done? A better check and you might even check
three or four times.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
And you also learn I'm sorry to interview interrupt you,
but you also learned that there's differing levels of severity.
Oh yes, of having this.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (57:06):
And like I said, I think most people, probably everybody
has it a little bit, you know, but it's just
that some people you know, really do have it like
I do. I'm full blown just about every symptom, be
it major or minor.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
I have that.

Speaker 9 (57:24):
And I'm seventy eight years old now and I've gone
through it my entire life. I would suggest to somebody
who has it, you know, in a serious manner, they
ought to check into no no OCD, that organization. I
believe insurances will will cover that. But for me, I'm
at HAD seventy eight. I'm so used to having it, and.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
You know, I just kind of makeup Yeah.

Speaker 9 (57:51):
Yeah, I don't know if anybody you know. It's It's
been ingrained in me for so many years that I've
learned to live with it. And I feel a little
bit a lot better now after researching OCD. And I
have to thank Joey for that. And I also want
to thank Joey for putting this book together and having
it published so we can share it with others. So again,

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as I emphasized before, so everybody knows they are not alone.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
What's one thing that maybe that's in the book that
you tell people that how they can handle the OCD,
Like if they know that they're OCD, Like, what's the
first step into I don't want to say, you know,
healing it, but what's the first step in maybe getting through.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
It, coping with it?

Speaker 9 (58:34):
Yeah, Like I said, what I tried to do is
coping with it, get involved something physical. I used to
jog quite a bit and that that would help me.
The main thing is stop thinking about yourself. Start thinking
about other people. Like Joey said, I'm very much involved

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with my grandchildren now and great grandchildren. That keeps me busy.
But the key is moving forward in terms of helping others.
If you're helping others, you're not thinking about yourself.

Speaker 10 (59:11):
Also, otis I think too, from what I can gather,
and I've researched this too with him, I think just
talking to people, just talking about it, yes, and not
dwelling on it, but talk about it.

Speaker 9 (59:24):
Yeah. I first found out I had OCD BAT when
I was twenty seven, and I did see a psychologist.
She was a clinical psychologist, doctor Dorothy Jones, and she
really helped me in terms I was having some really
serious problems back then, depression and what have you. And

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there's actually a story in the Emotional Battle Book dealing
with how to deal with OCD in terms of you're
not perfect, You're human. You're not going to have total
peace of mind. You're human being. You're not going to
have pure thoughts all the time. You're hearing human being

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there's a great story in there about that that where
she helped me quite a bit with that. I don't
I don't think at that's how if we really talked
about OCD. We're mainly concerned about my depression, but now
I know it was caused by my OCD.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Yet my husband refers to the issues that I have
as my quirks, which I think is the very nice,
not want to fight with your wife way of saying it.
But I do. I do crazy stuff too. We were
talking off the air. My my canned vegetables are in
alphabetical order in my cabinet. I mean, there are certain
things that and it's I always say it's my way
of doing it, and my way is the right way,

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and that's just you know, but it's that it's that compulsive.
This is the way it has to be done because
that's the way your brain tells you it has to
be done that way. So for those who are interested
in the book, how can how can they get a
copy of it?

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
Well, Joey, we have a go ahead, Joey, tell me
about do you have it?

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
We have it at the restaurant and then doctor Walker's
email and phone numbers on there too. He can email
it to you or send it to you or yep.
You've gotten several calls and several emails.

Speaker 9 (01:01:13):
So yeah, I've actually had a person from California, oh
ask you know, asked for a book, and I sent it.
I tried to get it. I got it to about
thirty different places this summer that I gave it to. Again,
it is free of charge, and we're Joey and I
are willing to speak in front of any organization who

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would who would like to learn more about ocy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
You brought us a couple extra copies, So for anybody
out there who would like a copy of this, reach
out to me Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. That's sam
at iHeartMedia dot com and I can happily get you
a copy. You bet you so, guys, thank you so
much for coming in this morning again again Joey Maroon
of Abby's and doctor William welcome the wonderful author. So

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thank you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
Joey, you should have brought breakfast. I should have. You're right,
I talk about it.

Speaker 9 (01:02:06):
I did have to mention one thing. I do have
a little bit of OCD when I go to to Abby's.
Uh he when I first went in there. He had
a certain price for a draft beer. And what used
to upset me is when that price kept going up,
and it bothered me. You know, you've got to keep
things the same instead of making the price go up

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and up. And Joey, can we talk about this later.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
That's an OCD. Simpson, a sympthing I can get on
board with.

Speaker 9 (01:02:35):
Okay, I agree with well Sam.

Speaker 10 (01:02:36):
Sometimes the price goes up for certain individuals if you
don't want them around as much as you would, I mean,
not you.

Speaker 9 (01:02:43):
Joey did try to bar me once, but I said
we're in a bar, so what are you going to do?

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
On that note, we'll leave it at that. We'll be
back the Blue Daddy Experience here on news radio eleven
seventy WWV. A height fifty one on your Monday. Welcome
back to bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis, News Radio eleven

(01:03:09):
seventy WWVA. I heard, uh, we have a special somebody.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
We have a special guest today because it's somebody's birthday.
He's sixty five years old today. Happy birthday, Blue Daddy.

Speaker 7 (01:03:23):
Seriously, that's how you're gonna do me on my birthday?
You're going to add. Oh boy, I don't even want
to say how many years ten on the other side
of fifty five. Now, though, that's not it. That's not
a good feeling. No, hey, no, because I mean when
I was in my twenties, I mean I looked at
somebody who was fifty six is ancient like that?

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
It's over here, I am, It is here.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
I am since since I'm three years ahead of you,
it is over.

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Well, you know, it's funny. I'm listening to the intro
and says the award winning bloom Daddy Show, and I'm thinking, oh,
I had to leave to get a the hell's going
on here?

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
That's pretty much what happened.

Speaker 7 (01:04:04):
Congratulations to both you. Oh yeah yeah, so yeah birthday.
I mean, here we go with another one. It is crazy, though,
you know, I was thinking about this the other day.
It just seems like it seems like once you hit
forty everything kind of goes into hyper drive. And you

(01:04:25):
blink and you're forty three, and then you blink again
and you're forty eight, and then you blink again and
here you are.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
At fifty six.

Speaker 7 (01:04:32):
It's just crazy how fast it goes.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
Well, what makes it go faster is watching your kids
get older.

Speaker 7 (01:04:38):
Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about it. One of my
kids asked me the other day, they said, is it
is it weird? You know, like seeing you know, as
you get older, like seeing kids that you coached, you know,
five ten years older. And I said, no, that that
that's not the weird thing. The weird thing for me

(01:05:00):
just seeing the guys who coached me or dad's you know,
that were in their forties when I was in my teams,
and then seeing them now because father time doesn't doesn't
give anybody a break, and that's the tough thing when
I'm seeing guys that were so vibrant, so strong now

(01:05:20):
in their late seventies, or you know, like I talked
about earlier on the show Ron Antil out in Cambridge.
I mean, I've been around that guy for the last
twenty years.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:05:30):
That's the stuff that affects me, at least as I age.
Seeing those people that are right on the doorstep of
going to the great unknowns. That's what gets me.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
Yeah, I mean, I'm you know, my dad's eighty five,
you know, hard to believe. Well, and the fact that
you know he was playing basketball, pick up basketball into
his mid fifties, and you know, I remember I think
he was fifty or fifty one something like that, and
he was living in Bluefield at the time, and he said, hey,
we're gonna play basketball tomorrow. And I'm like, okay, you know,

(01:06:03):
and I said what time? He goes five thirty? I said,
all right, he goes no in the morning. I'm like,
are you out of your mind?

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
Yeah, I wouldn't have.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
Done that back when I was eighteen, Like, are you
kidding me?

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
What I was in my early twenties.

Speaker 7 (01:06:18):
So yeah, that's the other The funny thing about aging
two is that now you know, when I tell my kids, hey,
you know, I need some help doing something. We're gonna
do it at eight in the morning, they look at
me like I've got three eyes. And I can remember
looking at whether it was my dad and my grandfather,
I remember thinking, why can't we just do this at
two o'clock or three o'clock. And it's because, you know, obviously,

(01:06:40):
when you get older, you get up earlier and you
just want to get stuff done so you can cruise
the rest of the day. And when you're eighteen or
twenty one, you want to sleep till noon then get
up and maybe get to it by two or three o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
Yeah, because you're recouping from the night before is normally
what was happening well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
And the other side of that conversation is also needing
the help because your body doesn't bend as well as
it used to in things creak an ache that didn't
hurt when you were in your twenties also, so you
need the extra help.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
Oh, there's no doubt, no doubt. I mean, I go
for walks now. I used to run the bleachers like
a like a fiend. I still hit the gym, but
I go play pickleball with my you know, twenty seven,
twenty five, twenty year old. And it's two days of
feeling like I got beat up by Mike Tyson. I'm like,
what is going on here? I mean, it's almost not

(01:07:28):
worth the pleasure of playing playing dealing with what you've
got to deal with afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
And I'm just going to tell you that it's like
a night better. I said, it's also like a good
night of drinking. You have two or three days of
recovery too, so you kind of back off of that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:45):
I don't do that so much anymore. I don't, you know,
we had a big get together, you know, about about
thirty of us. We do it every year over over
at the casino on the island, and we did it Friday. Well,
we do it the day after Thanksgiving, and my middle
son Cade went with me and he said, hey, listen,

(01:08:06):
I'll drive home so you don't have to worry about it.
And I go, no, I'm I'm fine. I'm going to
have like three four beers over a five six hour period.
And he goes, no, I mean, if you want to
get hammered, go ahead and get hammered. I said, no,
you don't understand. I don't what He's trying to force me,
almost like, hey, you have a good time, I can
drive you home. And I'm like, oh, there's no good time, Sam,

(01:08:28):
as you pointed out of getting up the next day
and feeling terrible that those days are over. I don't
want any part of them anymore. After about two or
three beers, I'm good and hey, let's let's move forward.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
It's just not worth it anymore. Oh, by the way,
you did get an early birthday present on Saturday. I
just got to throw that little eat eat in there.

Speaker 7 (01:08:47):
Oh really, you're going to throw that down there. Yeah. Yeah,
so I'll let you have you listen out, you bucket fans.
I'll let you gloat for a little bit. But like
I said, don't forget you're one and four in the
last five years.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Yeah, we're seventeen and seven since two thousand. So if
we want to throw out right.

Speaker 7 (01:09:01):
Yeah, okay, you want me to bring up the nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
What's I don't remember the nineties.

Speaker 7 (01:09:05):
Pen behind, but I know typical.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I don't remember the nineties matters.

Speaker 7 (01:09:10):
Nothing matters previous to the to the last twenty meetings.
Just rewrite the history books. That's fine, but the last.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Four yeah, forty nine and nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:23):
He's a mountaineer fan. Trod might turn it around. I
mean with the transfer portal and everything else and paying
these guys. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Here, here's the thing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:30):
You guys gotta you gotta notice. You gotta get all
your your buddies with money start throwing it at that
nil help rich rod out.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
I don't have any money. I got a couple of
the do, but I don't know. Then I think they
are because I know they donate about fifty grand a year.

Speaker 7 (01:09:47):
So yeah, it's because you spent all your money on
baseball cards. I did start spending it on athletes.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Hey, we gotta go, we gotta go. Happy birthday, Abby Birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Oh, I'm not Bunny. All right, we're at it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Yeah, we're gonna bake it up to my