The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:16):
WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. So there I am Saturday, getting ready
for the buck Guys and Wolverines, and of course I'm
a Wolverines fan.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm I would have congratulate you, Buckeye fans. It's not
gonna happen again.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
But I'm watching Fox Big Noon kickoff and Tom Rinaldi
always does a human interest story and I see the
guy he's interviewing, and I think to myself, why does
that guy look familiar? And then I see the name
Aaron Jessepseic, and I'm like, I went to grade school
with that guy, third through fifth grade. So I do

(00:54):
some digging. I reach out, and I find out that
Aaron now lives in Medina, and he's you wanted to
me right now, dude, I was so shocked when I
saw that name drop. But how did Ronaldy find out
about your story? And what was it like sitting down
with him doing that interview?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hey, man, Hey, so yeah, they found out about my
story because when that thing happened a couple of years ago,
the Michigan Hospital kind of started out as a pr thing,
being that Ohio a lum got saved by the University
of Michigan. They kind of played up that story. Well,
the local networks up in Detroit picked it up. Well,
then when those guys picked it up, networks around here

(01:31):
in Cleveland picked it up. So they all kind of
ran this little story about me and being saved and
all that. So that's pretty much how Renaldy founded I
guess as he was researching the game, he came across,
you know, some story about this Ohio photographer. They reached
out to me back in June, and man, it took
like three months to put that thing together, with a

(01:53):
lot of back and forth with those guys, and to
your question, like Renaldy was amazing that guy. I got
a friend now and pretty much the whole staff from Fox,
you know, all the video guys. I worked with a
bunch of different people to make that thing happen, and
everybody was first class from A to Z man, I'll

(02:13):
tell you what.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm watching you on the big screen, and it took
me right back to Saint Mary's Grade School in Saint
Clairs of Ohio, third through fifth grade. You know, I'm
watching you and I'm thinking about Nick Cornett and Swannee
and Pat Draska and Ort McCourt and Ronnie Ballalog and
all of us guys, you know, just as his little
little guys back in the day, third fourth, fifth grade.

(02:34):
I haven't seen you since probably graduation in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Seven, probably right, man, it's been a graduate.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, how'd you end up in Madinah?

Speaker 4 (02:41):
The job took me here. I started graduating from Ohio
State and then got an opportunity to work with a
couple guys up here to own a photography studio. We
did portrait seniors and sports. That was our thing and
just kind of got my feet wet with that. Got
introduced to the pro sports side by a couple of friends,

(03:02):
and you know the rest is history worked. My butt
off never said no, and here I am.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, you know, after that piece aired, I can imagine
a lot of probably names from the past like me
reached out to you. First of all, I mean, you
knew me as David Bloomquist back then, even in third
fourth grade, you guys called me Bloomy or Bloomer. Did
you have any idea who bloom Daddy was before I
reached out to you the other day.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
Nope.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
But I will tell you one of my buddies had
told me he listens to you, and I always meant
to check it out, but I don't think I ever
got the chance to. And you know, my radio is
always stuck on like a sports channel, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, how about.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Hey, I listened to you yesterday for a while. Man,
I got I got a little taste of it.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, well, thank you. Hopefully you keep on listening.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
But how many people reached out from your past after
that peace on Saturday?

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, I couldn't keep up with the text messages. I'm
hoping if there's anybody out there that I didn't hit
back that my apology. But yeah, my phone was buzzing
like crazy, my Facebook messenger emails. I got loads of stuff.
So it's cool. It's great, you know something like that
when it brings you know, old friends back to connect it.

(04:14):
You know, it's the weirdest things to connect people and
whether they're good or bad. It's you know, it's great
when you hear from people you haven't heard from in
a long time, like you, man.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, talking to Madonna resident Aaron Jessepsic right now and again.
We went to grade school together back at Saint Clairsville, Ohio,
third through fifth grade. I saw him on Fox Big
Noon kickoff Saturday. Look, you've been a professional photographer, journalist,
photojournalist for over three decades. I mean you've shot World Series, Cavaliers,
Championship sports, safaris. You're going to the Olympics in Milan,

(04:47):
Italy here coming up in February. Just kind of how
did you get so interested in photography? And when you
think back on your career, do you ever sit there
and go, wow, I can't believe I got to do that.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, you know, going into college, man, I went to
Ohio State undecided. I had no clue what I wanted
to do in life, and the thought of sitting on
a sideline or underneath the basketball hoop taking pictures and
getting paid to be there would be a pretty cool idea. So,
you know, really, I got my degree in photography at
Ohio State. Started out high school sports with you know,

(05:20):
a little local company, learning my stuff and got the
opportunity through a real good friend when I moved up
this way to work for a local newspaper, the mcdonna Gazette,
and then introduced into the Browns a contact through Reuter's News.
Just kind of worked my way up, never said no
to an assignment, always tried to be the guy there
to help out do things for people, and you know,

(05:42):
it really just kind of kept progressing. And my job
work with the Calves has always been kind of the
same thing. You know, help one person out. If somebody
ask you for some help, I'm helping them. And you know,
it just keeps adding to the to the experience and
the opportunities you get out.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Of everything you've done sports event Safari's traveling to different countries,
is there one event or one experience that stands out.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
That's probably.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, you know from experience, like the super Bowl is
cool just because you know what a spectacle it is
for you know, the entire world so to speak. You
know what I mean, You know how big of an
event that is. So it's always cool when you can
be there and you know so many people are watching
that thing. You know that that really makes it interesting.
You know, being able to photograph my son playing football.

(06:32):
You know, Cooper uh played at Madonna and you know,
being able to photograph him all that time is great.
Now he plays at Tippan University, so I get to
continue to photograph him playing football over there. You know,
that's probably the most rewarding is when you get the
photograph your kid. Yeah, you know the one who just
like that. I always told him, like, I've got the

(06:53):
photograph Jordan Lebron, you know, all these great people. But
you know when you see your kid in the camera
coming at you like, yeah, that's pretty sweet.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, that would be the icing on the cake, without
a doubt. Well, listen, man, it's it's great reconnecting. I'll
come to Madna. We got to get dinner sometime, or
if you're in town in the city, get a hold
of me because I'm right upstairs at the studio right
now and we'll go out and go back over some memories.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Sounds good man, We'll do it all right.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
That is Aaron Josepsic Professional photographer, photo journalist. What title
do you do you want? Professional photographer, a photo journalist,
what do you prefer?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
I'm a photo journalist. I'm a photographer. I do it
all man like. Like I said, you don't say no,
somebody needs something, we do it man.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
I take them.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I'll take all those titles.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Sounds good If you google Aaron Josepsic or Tom Rinaldi,
I'm sure you could go back and watch the piece
Renaldi did Fox Big Noon kickoff from Saturday. Aaron's gonna
tell you what happened in ann Arbor back in twenty
twenty three, because I didn't even you know, tip of
the iceberg with what I did here today.

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Seven nineteen Wednesday Morning, Good morning, folks. The Blue Daddy
experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w VA,
A little bit more calm of a morning compared to yesterday.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I thought yesterday was calm.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
Oh well, yes, that's right for you. It was first no,
they had.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
A big snowpile like right and then so like instead
of like parallel parking, so that I didn't I just
drive right through this.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
Now, But of course you did, but you have a jeep.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
That doesn't mean you could do that. I was like,
do I drive through it? I'm thinking, because now it's
all ice or something? You know what I mean that
was the thing that made me a little nervous because
I didn't It was big enough that it could have
probably I probably knocked the top off of it. But
if that was all frozen ice, that would have sucked.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
Oh yeah, that could have lovely.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
It wasn't frozen, so not dude, it.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Maybe could have done damage to the vehicle.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean it could have been something. Do you sing something.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
I was thrilled yesterday when I came home. I went
home from work because personal problem. My husband, who I'm
going to give a shout out to. Here we go,
it's going to say a good thing this time around.
He had straightened up the garage to the point where
I could pull my car in.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (09:18):
Imagine that your two car garage. You can actually put
your car in.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
You have a remote start, you don't have to worry
about that.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
Well I don't have a remote start.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
See, you should have bought a car. You should bought
your car from strab they have.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
I Oh, now, don't put me in the listen bad
list with with Kevin.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Maybe we'll have to ring that up later. Oh great, great,
you know, hey, you're going to advertise with this. I'm
going to be loyal.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
Well this was I bought it prior to all of that,
I don't think, so okay, whatever, How did this go
from me saying, hey, I could park in my garage.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Too, because nobody cared about your other.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
All right, it's all yours, go for it.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I don't have anything at your ship.

Speaker 7 (10:05):
It's not my show, it's our show. It is we are.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's pretty cool that we are a duo. The interview
that bloom Daddy had, how that guy just you know,
take I mean, first off, when he said he majored
in photography, I'm thinking that just sounds like so.

Speaker 7 (10:26):
Hippie.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, it just sounds like so unreal, like that's what
an athlete would.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
Right, I was gonna say, that's about three steps above
basket weaving.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. There's a lot
to photography, but not so much anymore because everything's digital.
But back in the day, thirty years ago, you probably
had to develop your own film and the chemical things
like that. I mean, I get it, you know, it's
not and then it's a matter of you know, I mean,
obviously art is because photography is art at times, it

(11:02):
is a lot of perception. So I mean like you
might think that this picture is fantastic, but your professor
may think it's horrible. You know, and you know, but
I'm sure they tell you like what to look for
and how to do you know, like when do you
But I mean those guys use them those expensive cameras
that they had the rapid fire, so like you're it's

(11:22):
almost like you're taking a video and it's just in
like you're you're getting a picture every tenth of a
second or something. So that if you take a picture
of Michael Jordan going up for a dunk, you take
you start when he's leaving, and then you keep going
till he's you know, he hits the floor, and you
probably got like seventy five pictures. But out of those
seventy five, you can pick the one you want.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
I start. I actually started to take photography in college.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
And it doesn't surprise me, and I got out.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
Real quick because I couldn't grasp the whole like the oh,
I can't think of the term right now, but all
the buttons and everything. And I'm like, Nat.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You didn't you didn't know what your f stop was there?

Speaker 7 (12:02):
You go that that yeah, yeah, it was not.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
It was not stop been something different from me.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
Right right, well, and then there was like the people
the photographers to do, like the National Geographic and those
type of things. Some of those people will wait for
hours and hours and hours to capture these shots, like
you know, something like crazy.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
The other thing is like, what's kind of neat about
the photography that they do is they have those those
powerful lenses that are almost like telescopes. Yeah, and you
could be five hundred yards away from that line and
it looks like you're six feet away.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
Well, and you want to be five hundred feet away
from a lion, I mean.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Or maybe even farther. I mean, just because even even
in my best day with a five hundred foot head start,
I don't think I'm out running a lion depending on
how far I had to go.

Speaker 8 (13:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
You're wearing your Turkey trot shirt today.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
That just means I walked, That doesn't mean I ran.
It took me fifty seven minutes to go five k
so I mean somewhere in that timeframe that lion's catching
me in fifty seven minutes.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
Right now, in my head, I have this vision of
like you as a cartoon and a lion cartoon like
Warner Brothers and you're trying, you're like on fire. No,
but that's cool to hear somebody you know from the
area that has gotten to that point in their career
and accomplish what that gentleman has accomplished.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Anybody, anybody from your like so, I mean, that's pretty impressive.
Anybody from your class or your school has done anything
big time that you know of. Now, Like, I mean,
there's a couple there are a couple of girls that
are a year older than me that would have graduated
a year ahead of me. Ones they've both been on

(14:02):
TV in advertisements and the ones more on like Broadway
and not in New York but in Chicago, okay, and
out in LA I can remember when when we were
in junior high together and my dad said I would
love to invest in her and be her agent because
that's how talented she was. And then the other girl

(14:24):
that graduated with her, she ended up I think she
was on a soap opera for a long time with you,
you know. And then there's a guy that he was
the drummer for Joan Jet for a while.

Speaker 7 (14:38):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
I mean, oh he I think there were some inner turmoil.
Let's just say there were some personal issues.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
Gotcha.

Speaker 7 (14:45):
Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
That happened a lot with eighties rock stars.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
I gotcha.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
No.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
I honestly, when I graduated high school, I kind of
completely severed ties back there.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just speaking at the guy that was the drummer
for jone Jet. He was also in the movie with
Michael J. Fox, Late to Day with jone Jet and
Michael J. Fox.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
I don't know that one.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, it's Late to Day. It's a Springsteen song, but
oh she covered it and did a hell of a job.
Oh no, but that's the name of the movie. It's
it's Michael J. Fox, jone Jet and this guy's in it.
This guy was in my mom's home room and didn't
apply himself a lot in high school, and so my
mom would always like look after her homeroom babies as
she called him, and a couple of the guys that

(15:32):
were in her homeroom I played basketball with, so they
were always like they would play pranks and tell her
that they found to stop that it was mine and
it wasn't you know.

Speaker 7 (15:40):
But anyway, Yeah, no, no, Like I said, I kind
of severed ties back there, and I really don't know
what happened with a lot of the people that I
graduated with. So anybody from the class of ninety seven
at Buckeye Local, if you've gone on to do huge
things and I don't know about it, contact me.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
But this guy, my mom told this kid, she said,
you need to apply yourself. He said, I'm going to
be a profe drummer someday. He said, I'm going to
be famous in a rock band and everything else. And
my mom says, the odds of that happening or slim.
She goes, I wish you the best of luck, but
the odds of that happening or slim to none. And
but he did it, and she goes, I'll rephrase it

(16:15):
a little bit. She goes, damn. If he didn't prove
me wrong.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
That's about his you know, being a professional athlete. The
odds do the same thing there. Speaking of odds, you
have good odds this morning because we have a couple
of chances to win. Do look at that tie in.
We have got two four packs to give away for
then the Wheel Nailors for this Saturday's game, and this
Saturday is Wizards are ones, so those will be coming

(16:42):
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and of course it's lunch lunch Wednesday. We will deliver
the food on Friday. Email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name,
phone number, and business and that is your registration and
got that out.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
We have two chances for you to win the last
two Chevy Chase tickets yep for next.

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Tuesdays yep and coming up in the eight o'clock hour.
It's politics Unleashed. So all of that is on Tap
seven twenty eight, The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy, WWVA.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Slimjym School, Ranch, Doritos, SODA's Breads, Sauces, ho Hos. They're
in the crosshairs just like Big Tobacco was years ago.
And I'm talking about ultra processed food companies. Let's go
line to Los Angeles. Alex Stone. ABC News corresponded, Alex,
explain what I mean by in the crosshairs.

Speaker 8 (17:33):
Yeah, so, and I gotta say, bloom Daddy that the
fun Police came out today during this announcement that they
had a big table in San Francisco where many of
the things that a lot of us have eaten over
the years some of them being things that we think
are healthy or at least are marketed is healthy, like
wheat tins, neutri grain bars, special k bars, Cheerios, lean cuisine,

(17:53):
along with a bunch of other items like Oreos, craft Mayo,
chef Boyard, lunchables, Cheetos, Hotckets, fun Fetty elf on the shelf,
Hillsbury cake frosting. All of this was Aron and San Francisco.
What they are announcing is that they are suing some
of the biggest food manufacturers in the country because they

(18:16):
say that these items are making us fat, disease prone,
and overall and healthy. This is a rare moment where
liberal San Francisco and the Trump administration and Robert Kennedy
agree on this reducing of ultra processed foods and what
it's allegedly doing to our bodies. And the allegation is
in this lawsuit that this started back in the sixties

(18:37):
and seventies with tobacco companies buying up food companies, and
that these food companies use tobacco industry tactics and now
chemicals that they are allegedly putting into foods without most
people knowing to get Americans and especially children in those
in lower income areas addicted to these highly processed foods,

(18:57):
that they are made to be a dick and to
make your body unknowingly want more of them so that
they can make more money. And then they're name in
a bunch of companies craft Post Coca Cola, bunch of others,
and that they are alleging in this that these companies
have taken part in unfair and deceptive practices over the
years about foods sometimes being healthy other times just not

(19:20):
disclosing these alleged chemicals that are in them to make
you addicted to them, and the food companies bloomed down
and we reached out to them. They're an industry trade group,
responded saying that they support making healthier choices and they've
worked to increased protein and fiber, reduced sugar and sodium,
takeout synthetic color additives. But they argue that there is
no agreed upon definition of what an ultra processed food

(19:43):
is and that they say their food is being demonized
in all of this by looking at them only as
being fully ultra processed and not the full nutrient content.
But San Francisco and this lawsuit that they file to day.
They say, these companies know their food is making people sick,
like the to bac industry, that they have sold it
anyway despite that to make money and get rich.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Off of it.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
So Alex, there's a lot of similarities between the case
against big tobacco companies and the same thing with social
media companies in algorithms. We've seen our government go after
these industries. If you will, are we going to see
the same results that we saw with the big tobacco It's.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
A good question.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
I mean San Francisco and some at least it seems
like in the Department of Health would on the federal
side would like to see that where like tobacco companies
where they're pretty much their power is gone and they're
not what they once were. But then you run into
an issue of well, what would food be in a

(20:42):
lot of America. You can't put fresh produce in every
food that a kid is going to bring to school,
or in every seven eleven or in every small town everywhere,
So what would that food be? And ultimately, those who
are pursuing this loss, they would like these items not
to be offered to people to eat. But then what

(21:04):
is if you look at any box that you've got
in your cupboard. I mean that those are pretty much
included in this shelf stable stuff. What would it be
or would it be just acknowledging that these things are
in there, just taking out these alleged chemicals to make
them less addictive. There's a lot of what is the
end result in this? The ultimate end result for San
Francisco would be that these items are no longer sold

(21:24):
and we're not eating them. Realistically, that doesn't seem likely
that the doritos and everything else would just go away.
But they say, look that we grew up with these
items since the sixties on and that we don't even
realize that a lot of these things are ultra processed,
and we think we're being healthy and we're eating them
and it's something that in our minds we don't even
know about, but we want them. So they want that

(21:47):
to wind down over the years. But we'll see if
this is if this lawsuit's able to move forward, and
then it just comes down to maybe they can make
these items healthier in some way, but if we're going
to have a supermarket without shelf stable foods in them,
there's how would we do that? That answer we don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
All right, Alex, thanks for the time as always.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Dy Oh, just don't you think two words coming to
mind listening to to that conversation. Number one, practicality and
number two personal responsibility. So what I mean by practicality
is we have as a as a country, we're constantly
on the go, and it's all about quick and convenient

(22:34):
and saving the dollar. And that's where the shelf stable
conversation about food comes in. But we have become programmed
through marketing, through sugar, through the additives that you know,
the cereals of the world, and the potato chips and
and and the cheetos and and you know, all the

(22:55):
stuff that's terrible for us, that it's right there at
our fingertips. That's what I mean by quick and convenient
and practical. The frozen pizzas of the world, the frozen
chicken tenders, the eggo waffles, you know, all that kind
of stuff. It's all right there at your fingertips. And
at this point in time, you don't even need to
use a stover and oven anymore because we have things

(23:17):
like air fryers, which, by the way, I love my
air fry and I use it pretty much every single day.
So there's that side of it. But then there's also
the personal responsibility. You know, we all make a choice
of what we eat, how we eat, how we prepare it,
if we take the time to prepare it. I'm terrible.

(23:38):
I'm one hundred percent honest. I am terrible with food because.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
My one dog has so many allergies. I find myself
reading the ingredient's label on his more than yourself treats
than I do for myself. Now, what I a lot
of times, what I'll do is I will look at
let's say I want some breakfast cereal. You know, I'll
look at the box to see what the sugar content is,

(24:05):
and I will try to buy zero sugar or very
very like maybe one gram of sugar. But you know,
if I buy bread, did there's an Italian bread out
there that has zero sugar. Cheerios not honey nut or
anything like that, but the regular cheerios have zero sugar.
I think there's some cornflakes that you know that, And

(24:27):
that's what I do. I buy that, and then I
try to avoid a lot of the starchy foods just
without without even looking. Now, if I'm out to eat
or something like that all bets are off, you know,
just whatever's there is there. But I just try to
go either hamburger or some sort of a pork pork loin,

(24:49):
pork chop, something of that nature. And I do a
lot of mine in the air fryer as well.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
Yeah, I love my air far But I mean we
joke about, like say the Twinkie, for example, that the
Twinkie in the car cockroaches will survive, you know, arm again,
and but we put that in our bodies. You know,
there's the image that floats around on there. I think
it's either an Iceland, I forget where it's housed, but

(25:13):
there is a McDonald's Happy Meal, Yeah that's forty years
old or whatever.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
There's a big macover in New Zealand or Australia or
something that's thirty five years old or something of that nature.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
But we're putting that in our bodies. So but again
it comes back to personal choices too. So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Well, I've heard that there's a fast food restaurant out
there that basically when the frozen meat, prepackaged meat comes in,
it basically says for human consumption. It doesn't say what
it is like ground beef check in stek blah blah blah.
It just says for human consumption.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
So yikes, Yeah, that sounds that that is definitely mystery meat.
That is definitely mystery meat.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
But for your consumption. For human consumption, we have a
family for to.

Speaker 7 (26:05):
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Speaker 2 (27:02):
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Speaker 7 (27:03):
You Oh all right, everybody knows the pike anyways. Our
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we're not done yet. I didn't give out the full address.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
You don't have to. I'm sure Mike would appreciate it
if you didn't get our.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
First Winter of the of the morning. Of course, he's
getting a four pack to the nailers. We have another
one of those left. But also coming up, we have
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of those left for you, So those are coming up
a little bit later in the show. And then of
course coming up, we have politics on leash. We got
a couple of topics we want to get into there.
And then it's also lunch otice busy day. Yeah, too
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(28:26):
go back to the food thing. Do you remember back
in the eighties, when they got rid of vaguely remember
the eighties they got rid of Joe Cammell.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh yeah, I might that might have been the nineties.
Was it the nineties, It might have been, like I mean,
it might have been early nineties. Could have been late eighties,
early nineties.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yeah, Oh okay, that seems like. But everybody was in
an uproar about that, and the stopping of marketing for
for that was kind of tobacco and everything.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I said. It was kind of geared to kids because
it was kind of like a cartoon. Oh yeah, yeah,
I mean I never really saw Joe Cammell that way,
but I mean, I guess you can interpret it anyway
you want.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yeah, But sometimes I mean, I hate to say government
needs to step in because I don't like government stepping
in for you know, personal choices and things like that.
But if you see, like, Okay, I was in Columbus
over the holiday, and there was so much at people's fingertips,

(29:35):
and the people I were with said something about, you know,
Black Friday, we can go here and we can shop there,
and there's so much shopping up here and this and
that and I and I it kind of hit me
and I said you know, is there too much? And
what I mean by that is we have become we

(29:56):
are such a gluttonous society. We can't get in enough
of anything. There's not enough places to shop, there's not
enough things to spend money on, there's not enough food
for it. Like everything is is gotten out of control.

(30:17):
I mean, how many, how many times or how many
options or how many places do you need to be
able to go and shop? How many food options do
we need? You know, it's just gotten. Everything is is
It's it's gluttonous, I think. But in the same regards,

(30:39):
I like shopping at those places, so I'm not innocent
in it, is what I'm getting at.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
You know, it's funny because you talked about Joe Campbell
there and how you know basically all cigarette advertising has
been banned, right, Okay, Yeah, there's actually a Randy Johnson
rookie baseball card. Okay, I believe it's Donrius is the
company that printed it. So there are two versions of

(31:05):
the card. One is Randy Johnson like it's he's in
the stadium and you know they would have the advertising
on the scoreboard behind the advertisement behind him is a
Marlborough advertisement. On the other card. It's blacked out because
like they realized that they were basically advertising for Marlborough

(31:25):
cigarettes in that baseball card, so they stopped production and
then they did it where they just blacked it out.
So if there's actually two versions of the Randy Johnson
Rookie card, and that's infamous one, yeah, if you can
get and the one that has the Marlborough advertising obviously
is the one that is worth more money.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
So well, it kind of goes back to the advertising
conversation we've had about sports betting. You know what has
it led to, you know, is gambling, you know, gambling
on the rise. How it's now affecting the different sports
we're seeing it play out. You know, it's affecting the
It's affected the NBA at this point, it's affected spall
at this point. So again that goes back to my

(32:05):
original comment about gluttony. I mean, upon example is on
National Road in Saint Clairsville, there's a new cannabis store
right across the street from the Bowling Alley area. You
can't get into that parking lot, and and there's a

(32:29):
Dollar General right there, and you can't get in that
parking lot. It doesn't matter what day of the week.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
It is, get your cannabis and your monop.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
It's all right there. But it's it's amazing to see.
You don't have the experience in that, but it's amazing
to see how just one thing.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Is so.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
In demand and why, you know why, But that I
think that again goes back to we as a society,
more and more and more, how much what can we have?
What can we get away with? Doesn't matter how it
affects us, Give us more and more and more and
more and more. I don't know. I don't know, but

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I've drive past there all the time and that parking
lot is packed, absolutely packed. So and I'm not saying
it's wrong. I you know, I'm non innocent. I'm not
saying it's wrong, but it is. It's quite amazing to
see the amount of people that are going in there. Anyways, Anyways,

(33:40):
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Speaker 7 (34:43):
Eight oh six. Welcome back the Bloomdaddy Experience, salmon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It is time for politics unleashed.
We're having some headset there. We got it. Okay, we're
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(35:04):
pair take us to see Chevy Chase and National Lampoon's
Christmas Vacation somebody is still on vacation, still on Thanksgiving vacation.
That would be our friend, miss Elgin mccardal. She is
currently slumbering on the Caribbean island of Saint Croix. So

(35:25):
it's uh. I don't understand why she couldn't jump on
the phone. But I mean priorities. I guess which is
not us? It is not it's not us.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
We're not jealous at all.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
Now here, No, yes, you are here. Of course that's weather. Yeah,
that would be of course the other Tony Edmund did
not stand us up. He is back from his holiday vacation.
So Tony, where do we begin? Where would you like
to beget?

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah, well, I suppose the news of the day, news
of the week is what's going on in the Caribbean.
Speaking of the Caribbean, yeah, really with boats, Yeah, the
issues surrounding maritime law, which for the audience. I am
an attorney. I'm not an expert on maritime law, not
an expert on the Military Code of Justice. So my

(36:22):
opinions are my opinions. I do have a legal view,
but I'm not an expert in any of this stuff.
And I hope everybody knows that. Ahead of time.

Speaker 7 (36:28):
Okay, so you brought up maritime law for the non
lawyers in the house. Is that an international? Is that international?

Speaker 5 (36:39):
Well, it's both, okay, but essentially the law of the sea,
and it extends out to everybody's international water borders and
then out into international waters. There are various treaties and
agreements worldwide which people follow.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
Now. Now, originally the boats that we're talking about, the
Venezuelan drug cartel boats that were military strike on them,
happened back in September, and it's now coming up once
again because questions are being asked about the first boat

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and then the bombing of a possible second boat of
survivors quote unquote.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
I think it was a second bombing of the same
boat after it had been destroyed. The bombing of the remains.

Speaker 7 (37:25):
Okay, but they're referring to them as survivors, not to
sound callous. Those are still the people that were on
the original drug cartel boat. So there's still the drug runners.
They're trying to paint the picture as if they're like
innocent boat sinking survivors. I guess they're still the drug

(37:48):
runners from the original boat.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
Well that's what we've been told. We haven't seen public
evidence presented to show that how they know that those
individuals aren't fact drug runners in the history what they've done,
and it's usually a lot closer to American borders. The
coast Guard none know if you guys have seen the
videos speaking the same notice, But the coast Guard will
actually go out send warning shots and they will board

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these vessels, whether they're submarine style or regular style boats, speedboats,
larger ships, whatever, They will go on and board them.
They will apprehend the people, they will take the drugs,
They will pull them in for questioning, and in some
cases they will charge them. In other cases they will
get them to flip to get higher up persons. And
some instances the people who are on these boats are

(38:36):
not actually part of the cartel organizations, but whether they're
recruited because they live in poor areas and they're pretty
desperate to get paid, and they know the waters from fishing.
So the open question for me is who are these
people to begin with? And where are we just striking
them once, let alone twice. But even if we take

(38:58):
it at face value and say yes they are quote
unquote narco terrorists for whatever purpose you want to use,
once they've been neutralized. Even in a declared war, which
we're not in, shooting twice on survivors is not an
acceptable endeavor.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
Okay, well, let me let me, let me put let
me put it this way. So, one of the largest
black marks on American society are drugs and has been
for thirty forty years. A lot of those drugs are
brought in from outside countries. It's it's no secret. Sure

(39:38):
what we have done for decades has not worked. Over
the past twenty years, roughly a million Americans have drug
have died of drug overdoses. That's just overdoses. That doesn't
even that number doesn't even entail the crime that comes
along with the drug industry. Additional, you know, murder of

(40:01):
drug dealer or drug Those numbers don't even include that
type of crime. So, if what we've been doing has
not been working, don't we need to become tougher on
the drug cartels that are bringing this poison into our country?
And is that not what they are attempting to do

(40:22):
with the bombings of these boats.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
I would say that you're right that what's been going
on in the quote war on drugs for the better
part of the last fifty years has been an abject failure,
and it does require us to change the way that
we're approaching this entire endeavor, and there's different ways to
do that. I don't think bombing these boats and not

(40:46):
being transparent about how we know what's on there and
who they are and how we're figuring that out, and
not giving people due process and throughout this system is
justification that the failure of the last fifty years of
justification for any action we take. Now, we have to
really scrutinize what's going on and be fair to the

(41:07):
systems and understand that not everybody who's involved in this
is guilty of anything, and we don't know that. We
have to bring people in or to do that. So
changing our tactics and changing our approach is a must.
But that doesn't give current blots justification for doing it
the way that it's being done right now.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
Okay, I understand, I get that, But the drug cartels
that are making millions and millions of dollars, who are
killing millions of Americans, they don't have a conversation. They
don't stop and say, Okay, we've got to consider where
we're taking these drugs and We've got to consider whose

(41:44):
hands these drugs are going to get into, and if
they're going to get close to the American schools and
the kids, and they don't have that soft hearted approach.
Have we not become two soft as a country. They

(42:04):
don't care about killing us, they don't care about bringing
those drugs into this country and killing American citizens. Sure,
why should we care about killing and taking out the
drug runners? And if there is another person on that
boat that is trying to get in this country and
they're being taken advantage of by the drug cartels, I'm sorry,

(42:25):
I'm sorry, but one or two lives versus five hundred
one thousand a million citizens here in this country. How
do you scale that? How do you measure that?

Speaker 5 (42:39):
Yeah, no, I understand it. I can understand people's frustration too,
And putting it that way, it makes a whole lot
of sense to say, well, if what we're doing is
going to save millions of lives over a certain period
of time, over the next thirty years, even if it
works as a deterrent, I can understand why that appeals
to people. But one of the things about this country
and do process rights, is that you have to apply

(42:59):
them even when it said it's most difficult, because otherwise
you end up sweeping up and itsent people, whether it's
within our borders or outside of them, no matter what
it is that they're being accused of doing, we have
to apply it when it's at it's most difficult to
make sure that all of our ducks are in rowment.
People's lives aren't taken away because of what they're doing

(43:20):
without any without any chance to be heard. And there's
a long tradition of that going back to even Magna
Carta in twelve fifteen and in other parts of Western
civilization before that. But that's why I think when it
comes down so you've got to know, you got to know,
and you have to be transparent about that process, and
people do need to have some sort of do process
in the in the instant as well.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
It's unfortunate because I think the for lack of a
better term, the bad guys who want to bring that
poison into this country have found loopholes or ways to
take advantage of our of our legal system, take advantage
of the the kindness of what America was built upon.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Yeah, I agree with that.

Speaker 7 (44:04):
Unfortunately, it's killing our citizens.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
Also yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah, I agree, Yeah, all.

Speaker 7 (44:11):
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(45:02):
It's age twenty two. Congratulations to Stacy, our second winner
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Speaker 2 (45:15):
Stacy's from Saint Clairsville. Stacey, we're not giving your address
out like she did earlier.

Speaker 7 (45:20):
Yeah, that's what I was trying not to do this time.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
But I can always say the city. You don't have
to say. You don't have to say, oh they live
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Speaker 5 (45:38):
Wow, yeah, not going.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
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Speaker 7 (45:53):
You handle the down payment on that one?

Speaker 2 (45:56):
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Speaker 7 (46:01):
Yeah, that's the right term, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Thank you very much like you to ask.

Speaker 7 (46:09):
That's all those date lines I've watched to kicking in there.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
I'm surprised you didn't say something else. I'll just leave
it at that.

Speaker 7 (46:16):
Very clever, Very clever. Going back to our prior topic.
Wanted to bring this up, Tony. You brought this up
during the break and you know, listen, I uh, you
know what my views are. I'm more conservative obviously, but
I will call out where it needs to be called out.
I had not seen this last night, but we were

(46:38):
talking about the drug cartels, the bombing of the boats,
the conversation about you know, is this the direction to go,
the poisonous being brought into our country? Everything that we
were talking about, this I don't agree with. Now I
don't know all of the details, but just from reading
over this very quickly, this is off the ap former
Hondura's president, Juan Orlando Hernandez. He was sent sentenced last

(47:02):
year to forty five years in prison for his role
in drug trafficking into the United States, where he brought
in tons what was the number, four hundred tons.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
I think it was four hundred tons, four.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
Hundred tons of cocaine into the United States. So think
about it, people, Cocaine is powder. So that is, for
lack of a better term, a crap ton of cocaine
brought into the United States. President Trump on Tuesday pardoned him.
He pardoned this man, the former president of Honduras. He

(47:36):
was released from the penitentiary here in West Virginia and
has been released. And when asked on Air Force One
about the decision to pardon this man, Trump said that
he felt that the president Hernandez had been set up,
even as prosecutors argued he protected drug traffickers moved hundreds

(48:00):
of tons of cocaine through the country. So, you know,
Tony and I were talking about it. You can't have
both sides. You can't be fighting the war on drugs
by bombing boats then parting somebody, as you said, who
has gone through our legal system and convicted and sitting

(48:22):
in prison for bringing hundreds of tons of cocaine into
our country.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
Right.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
You know, so that's a bit of a contradiction there,
if you will.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Yeah, it's certainly a conflict. And you know, it's one
of two things. Either he facilitated all the hundreds of
tons of cocaine coming into the United States and needed
to be held accountable. He went through an entire court
process and was convicted, which shows it can work to
forty five years sentenced to forty five years in prison.

(48:52):
So either we need to be giving the same due
process to people on these boats because maybe they bring
set up to use Trump's term, and have to go
through that process to make sure that that's what's actually happening.
They deserve to be there, or this is antithetical to
what he's proclaiming, because if he really is guilty of

(49:13):
these things and it wasn't a setup, then what's he
doing getting out of prison scott free right? Based on
a party that makes no sense. So no matter how
you slice it, it's incompatible with the state admission through
the rest of the administration specifically, what's going on with
these boats?

Speaker 7 (49:28):
Well, and we I mean we have here in our area,
we're I don't want to say slowly, but we're seeing
more and more of drugs come into our area. I mean,
look at what's going on right now and Wheeling with
the shutting down of the homeless encampment. Drugs are a
part of that situation. So we are not here locally,

(49:50):
you know, protected from the drug problem. I mean, you know,
we're dealing with it right now. It's a huge conversation
Wheeling about the homeless and the drug and everything. So
it is here. It is affecting us here on our
own backyard. But again going back to you can't let
somebody out of prison who's gone through our judicial process

(50:11):
and been convicted, right. I don't like that statement, you know, listen,
I like what President Trump is doing on a lot
of things. That statement and that reason for reason letting
somebody out of prison, that I don't.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Like, yeah, it's incompatible and if nothing else, it demands
more transparency hands of whatever that process was to determine
why whether he should be pardoned and why there is
a pardon attorney, and he sort of circumvented that process
quite a bit, President Trump has, but I think that's
part of the reason you go through that process. So
whatever he's seeing, even if this information that might be classified,

(50:46):
you can send out declassified versions or as he has
stated in the past, he could declassify whatever he wants.
Will then release it and show us and let the
public determine based on whatever rationale he saw and is
giving that this person should be let out. And again,
if that's the case, well then these people in these
boats have to go through some sort of judicial process
too to make sure that being quote unquote set up.

Speaker 7 (51:06):
Yeah, yeah, all right, we got to jump to another
quick break. Before we do that, we have another chance
for you to win this morning. We have another family
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Speaker 2 (51:27):
You're such a dark So.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
Get your phones ready one one hundred sixty two four
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and we get back Tony and I we're gonna talk
about the National Guard shooting here on news radio eleven
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Congratulations to Bobby from Triadelphia. I almost said Triadelphia, Oh
my god, but congratulations to Bobby. He is going to
Saturday Nights Nailer's game. All right, Tony, back to you.
We're in the middle of politics unleashed. So last week,
of course, during the Thanksgiving week, a lot of people,

(52:21):
you know, had so much going on. But unfortunately there
was the shooting in Washington, d C. Of course, to
West Virginia National Guards. People were shot. Unfortunately, the one
young lady Beckstrom lost her lost her her life. It's
brought to the forefront the conversation number one about the

(52:48):
debacle that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan back in twenty
twenty one. But it's also brought into the conversation security
and vetting of bringing a lot of people into this
into our country. What were your thoughts initially when you

(53:09):
saw what happened in DC last week.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
Well, I'll say first of all that my heart goes
out to the family of the two people who were
shot in the one who lost their life. That's she
was what won.

Speaker 7 (53:21):
She was very young, she was pretty young.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
And that's awful, and there's never a justification for that,
no matter who's done it. And so my heart goes
out to them, and I wish them peace and as
much as they can get in the situation like this.
But I have sort of two avenues the thoughts on
this process. One, it's awful what happened should never happen.
At the same time, I don't think the National Guard
should have been there to be shot at in the

(53:44):
first place, because they shouldn't. I don't think that the
solution that was proffered as being what's going to be
effective in keeping crime down that whole situation. Let's keep
that conversation separate for the moment. I wanted to know
you know what the shooter's motivation was. And then I

(54:04):
started to learn that he came from Afghanistan but had
been helping the United States for ten years. He was
a translator in Afghanistan and had gone through multiple vetting processes,
had worked with the CIA. And I have no problem
with somebody like that in a vacuum who's helped us
coming here. But how did the vetting this that this

(54:25):
is something that he wanted to ultimately do, that is problematic.
I don't want to blame all immigrants for that, right,
all people from Afghanistan for that. I think people should
be careful to not do that because that's not fair
for any group of its racist ethnicity, age doesn't matter,
that's not okay. But yeah, I'm really concerned how this

(54:46):
person went through a lot of vetting, through multiple administrations
over a decade and this was completely missed. I don't
want to know.

Speaker 7 (54:53):
What happened, what flipped the switch, what radicalized him to
get to this point? And this may see why was
he naked like all the pictures he's naked, like what
was actually going on? And I know that's not, you know,
really important, It's.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
Just one piece of the puzzle though.

Speaker 7 (55:10):
Yeah, but why you know a lot of times there's
mental illness and you know that kind of stuff ties
into all of this.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
Sure it does, No, it absolutely does. And from what
I understand, he drove all the way across.

Speaker 7 (55:21):
The country from Life States, Yeah, to.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
DC in order to carry this out. That that's that
is something we have to get to the bottom of,
and we have to figure out what happened. And the
best thing from figuring out what happens to try to
keep it from happening again. And vetting processes always need
to be thorough and strong, and I think we should
bolster those. I've always thought that, But I also want

(55:45):
to caution people don't then don't have a response to
what we got to everyone from the Middle East kid
come over.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
We got to stop it.

Speaker 5 (55:52):
We have to be much smarter about how we're vetting
and what we're doing and find holes that cause us
to miss whatever it is we missed as a society
that this guy had this in his future. And I don't
know what it is. Maybe we didn't miss anything and
he's had a traumatic event and it screwed him up.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (56:13):
Well, And the administration announced yesterday that it was pausing
all green cards in US citizenship applications for people from
the countries over of course national security and public safety concerns.
Countries on the list include Afghanistan, Somalia, Venezuela, Hashi and
Haiti I'm sorry Haiti, and Iran. And the list, of

(56:36):
course totals nineteen total. So that's just a handful in
that this is in response to. This move comes after
the National Guard shooting last week. You've got to understand,
I guess the concerns when we see this story, so
it's an Afghan quote unquote immigrant. Then you look at

(56:58):
the story at store out out of Texas and Afghan
national is in custody after posting a video on TikTok
indicating he was going to was building a bomb to
target the Fort Worth area. Then you take into account
the sieve that our border had been for four years
under Bien. You know, Americans are concerned about safety and

(57:23):
security when we don't know who's walking our streets.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Concern for safety and security should always be paramount. But
I hate to break it to people. Even if no
one else came into the country, and we're not talking
about immigrant, we're just talking about people who were born
and raised here of all races, ethnicities, and genders. There
are still a lot of people who do a lot
of bad things and that reach this level with the
mass shootings that kind of stuff. It's still a big problem.

(57:50):
It's a societal problem more than it is an immigration problem.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't put more money if
he wants to ban people from all those countries temporarily,
and and then the second half of that is to
put more money and resources and time into vetting people
who do want to come here and have value and
have added value and can help us as a country grow.

(58:12):
We should be doing that too, and questioning how the
vetting system goes. But a lot of people seem to
want to throw like, well, all of our crime is
an immigration.

Speaker 7 (58:22):
Problem, and it is oh no, no, it's not right.

Speaker 5 (58:25):
And so I just want to make sure that people
understand that that that's you can't use people in those
instances as escapegot Plus, the percentage of immigrants who cause
problems is really really low. But for those who are
causing an issue, it should cause us to reevaluate our
vetting systems and make sure that we make it easier
for people to get here. When I say easier, I
mean a more transparent, step by set process to come

(58:50):
here and stay here and be vetted. But we've got
to do a much better job of vetting, apparently. And
those who vetted and pass the vetting and can stay
and can help be prosperous and have their future generations
also built there. We want that we should have, that
we prosper because of that, historically speaking, and those who
shouldn't go through the vetting process. If you fail, see

(59:12):
you later.

Speaker 7 (59:16):
I agree and I disagree. I guess I'll say that
it seems as if over the past seven eight years,
maybe ten years roughly, we are seeing more and more
crime on American citizens from people not from this country. Now.

(59:37):
Is it more predominant because of news covered social media
all of that, Yes, possibly, But you know, a year ago,
we're talking about the young mother in oh I can't
think of her name right now, in Maine that was slaughtered,
the young girl in Texas that was raped and slaughtered
by the illegal immigrants that were here. You know, when

(59:57):
is enough enough that have to say lock the doors.
And that may seem like an extreme response, but I
think a lot of Americans don't feel like their priority,
that the needs of those not from this country are

(01:00:20):
prioritized over the American citizen who work every day to
pay their tax dollars to take care of these people
that are coming into this country illegally.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
Yeah, I mean, certainly there's a sentiment out there about that,
and I think there's a communication that has to be
done from the federal government to tell them what their
money is going to and what it's being used for,
and how it's being used for. Make all of this
data transparent and accurate, for better or worse.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Just make the numbers what they are.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
The numbers are what they are, They say what they say,
and don't try to to, you know, to doctor them
in any way to present a case that you want
to present. Just put it out there. More transparency is better.
But again, even if that, if we close down the
country to all immigration, we still have a major crime problem.

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
Well, and it's not just the crime. I mean, if
you see what's happening in Minnesota under Governor Waltz and
the millions and millions and millions of Minnesota task payer
dollars by somaliads shipping it back to their country, I mean,
it's not just what's coming in, it's also what's going
out of our country, and I think people are starting
to get tired of it. And again not being put first.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Yeah, I think we have to go through all the
numbers and actually figure out what that means and what
that looks like. Because people are allowed to spend their
money on whatever they want to spend their money on,
we have to see how that money is generated.

Speaker 7 (01:01:41):
That matters too, And that all goes back to the
conversation about media. I don't think our media is covering
this a lot of these issues the way it needs
to be done.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
Also, once news gathering and coverage became a profitable en
Denver is that that's when all the problems started. But
that's a much larger conversation it is.

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
It's a forty six tony. You're off the hook your services,
You've put in your day of work for us. All right,
I thank you once again, And next week hopefully the
bathing beauty Elgin will be back from the beautiful white
sands of Saint Croix will be back.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
With relaxed Yes, yes, we should get a natural tan.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
Bill old darker. It's eight forty six you're listening to
the Blue Daddy Experience. Salmon Odas News Radio eleven seventy
w w VA. Oh goodness, a fifty one. Welcome back
to the Blue Daddy Experience. Salmon Oda's News Radio, eleven

(01:02:43):
seventy w w VA. So Tony's out, Kevin's in Bingo,
Good morning, Kevin Bingo.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Oh, We're just wonderful.

Speaker 7 (01:02:56):
We're great.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
This is a rare Wednesday appearance for you.

Speaker 9 (01:03:00):
It is a rare Wednesday parents. Yeah, normally I'm off
on Wednesday, but this I'm gonna take this weekend off.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
Kinds of things to do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Who are you going to see because normally when you
take off, you're going to a concert.

Speaker 6 (01:03:13):
Mountaineer Honda.

Speaker 9 (01:03:14):
Oh okay, the number, yeah, number one hundred dealers in
the state of West Virginia.

Speaker 6 (01:03:21):
Gonna go down there and congratulate those guys and you know,
can a good pat on the back.

Speaker 9 (01:03:25):
And tell them what a phenomenal job that they continue
to do.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
And they are also number one in the region in
customer satisfaction.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Wow, yeah, two for two awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:03:39):
Yeah, they had one hundred percent customer satisfaction ask work.

Speaker 9 (01:03:43):
Which is absolutely incredible. So not only are they putting
car deals together and making people happy that way. It's
the experience to sell is so outstanding that the customers
are fonding to our surveys and giving these guys, you know,
just one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
That's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 9 (01:04:08):
It is awesome. It is awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
Also, the service department there is normally number one or
number two in customer satisfaction.

Speaker 9 (01:04:17):
So you're getting a great deal, all.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
Right, you're getting a great experience. You're dealing with the
number one dealer in the state, and you're getting outstanding
service after the sale.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Okay, can that's more than that anybody?

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
Now, you cannot, absolutely cannot.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Plus we talk about it, you know, every now and then.

Speaker 9 (01:04:38):
The only handed dealers within one hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
Miles that have ever drived have lifetime power train protection.
Straw Automotive Group stands behind the vehicles that they sell for.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
A life and right for those for those that don't know,
what does power train cover?

Speaker 6 (01:04:57):
Transmission, drive train, all will drive come. It's full of
drive components. It's a long long list of very expensive
parts to repair.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
It's the high ticket items, very high.

Speaker 9 (01:05:16):
Ticket out of you're looking you know right now, just
to you know, to repair or replace a transmission on
some of these vehicles is six.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
Seven eight thousand dollars. All right, I mean it's just
unbelievable what it costs to repair these vehicles. Now, so
you know, peace of mind. Hey, we got your back,
all right, we got your covered.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
No, you can't ask for more than.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
That now, you cannot so anyway. And plus the roads
are nice and clear today.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Well look at you, traveling on a safe day.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
Traveling on a safe day.

Speaker 9 (01:05:52):
Yeah, yesterday could have been a little dicey yesterday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Say eight, if you're scared, get a dog.

Speaker 7 (01:06:00):
Oh he's mister tough guy when it comes to driving you.

Speaker 9 (01:06:04):
I know, I know what's kind.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
That's right. Can't go anywhere he wants, anytime you want,
and even if not be touched.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
He could go. And I bought that my jeep from
Straw Automative. Yeah, I'm a driving advertisement.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
You are that? Yes, you are.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
All right, my man. Hey, we'll talk tomorrow. All right,
there he goes.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
You need a you need a sticker on the side
of your car that says you're otis from w w
B A drive around a cool No, No, okay, you
don't want to be that guy. Okay, I'm gonna say this,
for the first time this time of year, a polar
vortex from the north pole. We'll be pushing chili sub

(01:06:53):
zero temperatures down into the US as far south as
Missouri and Kentucky. Starting tonight, ladies and gentlemen, the first
time of the year, polar vortext is on its way.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Is that a weather channel term? I don't just kind
of made up because it never existed ten years ago.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Neither neither did naming winter storms. Oh, winter storm, winter
storm Charlie.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Are they men or women? Because aren't hurricanes are always
female names?

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
No, not anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:07:25):
Oh no, they changed that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Oh they alternate, Ah they do.

Speaker 7 (01:07:30):
Oh I didn't. I didn't realize because I always used
to wonder why women.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Well that was that was originally, and then I can't
remember how many, probably fifteen twenty years ago, they started
popping in male names. And now, of course they are
names that represent every ethnicity known.

Speaker 7 (01:07:48):
Demand Oh okay, so okay, Well, basically what that means
is bundle up tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
The vortext is if you have to, If you have to,
I never wear a coat.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
That means I might just have to wear an extra
T shirt.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
You never do wear a coat, do you?

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Very very rarely?

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
Oh again, mister tough.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Guy, I just don't. I don't like the bulkiness. So
let's give away lunch.

Speaker 7 (01:08:12):
Let's give it. Okay, how many?

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
How many entries do wear?

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
Twenty two?

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Wow? Look at you?

Speaker 7 (01:08:17):
One through twenty two?

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
All right, let me just clear that out right in
two not one hundred and twenty two two and generate
didn't hit the button.

Speaker 7 (01:08:27):
Eight eight Okay, we have Melissa, Melissa from doctor Sosh's office.
I hope I'm saying that correctly.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
I thought you were gonna say doctor Doolittle.

Speaker 7 (01:08:39):
No, doctor Soshi. So Melissa, we will be getting in
contact with you about arranging everything for Friday, and we
will bring that to you Friday at lunchtime. All right,
and we still have this is our last pair, last
pair we're giving away Chevy Chase Tuesday, Tuesday, Capital Theater

(01:09:02):
right here, yes, in this building that we are currently in.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
One eight screening of a Christmas Story with the Q
and A with Chevy Chase and his wife afterwards.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
One eight hundred six two four eleven seventy one eight
hundred six two four eleven seventy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
You do the number, caller number eighteen.

Speaker 7 (01:09:22):
Caller number eighteen one eight hundred sixty two four eleven
seventy Otis you done? Yep, all right, we're out. We'll
talk to you tomorrow