The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 4, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed 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 (00:17):
WWVA starts now the.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Bloom Daddy Experience. He had seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. The big story Republicans won that hotly
contested congressional election in Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
A lot of people thought this was a test.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Of whether Democrats could mount a national comeback next year.
Republican Matt Van Epps beat Democrat afln Bain, who, by
the way, is one hundred percent nuts. I mean, you
want to talk about looney, but the fact that this
was close kind of scary. Let's bring on political expert
Dan Snell. He's elected office five times. Dan, I mean,
when you take a look at this race, Republicans won,

(00:53):
but they Democrats cut it in half as far as
the last time your thoughts on this.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, move, Daddy, great to be with you and your
Ohio listeners. Yet, you know what a win is a win,
and the Republicans can take that. It's not necessarily a
big checkered flag. It's more maybe like a yellow warning
flag if we were on a race car path. But
a win is a win. The Democrats can say they
got momentum and that there was underperformance by the Republicans.

(01:21):
Yet yet I think it's a wake up call for
the Republican Party. The Democrats have a natural historical benefit
of what's going to happen in twenty twenty six. But this,
this was something everybody's going to talk about. Both sides
will spin it the way that they best think that
makes them look good.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh, without a doubt, and you're right, a win is
a win. But let me ask you this.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
The Democrat only won one county, Davidson County, where National
is located. So once again, big metropolitan area goes Democrat,
everywhere else goes Republican.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
What do you read out of that?

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah, I think that's queah.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
We saw that last time, and I know that the
rural parts of America. Donald Trump talked about that all
the counties that he won, Although I did see some
numbers that in those rural counties he did, the Republicans
did drop a pretty significant like ten or fifteen points
percentage across the average county there, So it is something

(02:21):
that we're going to take a look at. You know.
The key thing is you were talking about sports and
how people are passionate about whether it's the Browns or
Ohio State, and sports and politics are so similar in
that momentum has such a huge impact on it. And
right now the Democrats have the momentum. Donald Trump has
had some slips. A month ago, everything was right and
high for him, and he was gaining in popularity, and

(02:44):
now all of a sudden things are happening with the
Epstein files and what's happened going on in Venezuela, and
some times are tough, but he is a teflon guy.
There's been some presidents and leaders that are teflon. He
seems to be able to bounce back. Right now, momentum
is wearing blue. Well, I think that red if we

(03:04):
get some better coaching. Sometimes words, you know, I wrote
the book The Winsome Candidate to talk about how to
be a winsome leader. Sometimes the behavior and words matter.
So I would only encourage President Trump to not call
the media stupid persons or piggy and try to be
a kinder, gentler version of the presidency and that will

(03:26):
help in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, I think a lot of people, once again we're
talking to Dan Snell, political expert. I think a lot
of people, a lot of Americans like what he's doing.
Maybe they just don't like the way he's doing it.
So how can he some way, somehow keep doing what
he's doing when it comes to the border, when it

(03:48):
comes to getting rid of people who shouldn't be here,
when it comes to taking out drug runners, when it
comes to dealing with the media.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
How can he do better?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
You said, be more presidential, and so many in you know,
some way shape it the form. But we know that
he's not capable of that, So what else could he do?

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Well?

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think, And to give him a little grace on
that behavior, I think that it might be time this
oftentimes happens in the first of the year, to change
maybe some advisors. I know Stephen Miller, his deputy chief
of staff, is locked in tight there, and I think
his personality sometimes drives the press releases, the speeches and

(04:29):
the words and behavior that President Trump says, And at
some point I think that he may have to adjust
and get some people that have different a little bit
different approach at dealing with the media. You know, if
I came on your show, Blue Daddy and you asked
me a question, I said, what are you a stupid person?
Bloom Daddy, you would never have me back on. And
you know, the media, they're just doing their job. And

(04:51):
so I think there's ways that he might get some
wiser counsel into how he addressed it. Not that he's
going to change himself, because he's got a certain charisma
that that works and is winning for him, but just
a little bit of fine tuning, adjustment, especially going into
twenty twenty six, because after the first of year, we're
going to have a full year of economic data and
what the tariffs did, and you said it, he's done

(05:14):
a lot of incredible things when it comes to the
border and immigration, but the you know, people vote with
their pocketbook and they're feeling it around the kitchen table
what they're talking about. So I hope he can just
do a little bit of minor fine tuning and he'll
be better twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Dan, before I let you go, one last question. This
Democratic candidate aft In Baine. She's nuts, She's one hundred
percent woke. She's saying that like women should strike or
you know, quit going to work to protest the government
until they get what they want. And you know, I
guess I missed the memo Dan. I didn't know it
was so bad on women in America in twenty twenty five.

(05:53):
But she also she's another one still wants to defund
the police after she's seen the chaos that that whole
thing started years ago. And then you look at Mandami
in New York City where he wants, you know, government
run grocery stores. I guess what I'm asking you is,
why are these candidates who are so out there with

(06:14):
their ideas resonating with so many people.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, I think we've learned in politics in recent years
that you just you need to create us versus them
and for us and they're bad. And she did that
in Tennessee. You know, they nicknamed her the AOC of Tennessee,
and they played on the fact that you know, she
was saying in things, some of the stuff that she
did say that they really did a good job of

(06:40):
bringing out. She did do like ten years ago, might
she might have moved a little bit. But for the Democrats,
if they do not move to the center and to
be a little more moderate and to have candidates that
are more more towards the middle than we will. The
Republican Party will be able to be successful. But right
now the Democrats are putting some peaceeople up there that

(07:00):
are just kind of shocking in there in what they're
thinking and saying.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
But hey, we'll be talking.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
About this because the news cycle is in every three
or four days, it's every three or four hours, Blue Daddy.
So I'm always happy to be with you, and I've
become a Browns fan because of Shador Sanders. That'll probably
be controversial somebody come on and say, oh, oh, we
don't like shad Or Sanders, but I think the country
kind of enjoys what's going on with the brown So
wish you the best and always great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
No problem. We'll do this again, Dan, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
All right, Stay winning.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Sevent eighteen on your Thursday morning The Blue Daddy Experience.
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So listen, folks,
I'm going to warn you now. We we have a
case of laughter this morning off the air, getting yeah,
the giggles. We I don't know what's going on but

(07:57):
just a heads up.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
We are.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
We are if we start laughing, we just haven't been
able to do. Oh no, you were laughing pretty good
at one point too.

Speaker 8 (08:09):
That's only because it was my joke and I totally
caught you off guard.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yes, yes you did.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
We were recording something for something else and something just
kept coming up and coming up and coming up, and
then I just said to you, I hope there's no
more fing what these things are. And it was like
and you were like, oh God, please tell me you're

(08:37):
going to edit that out.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Yeah. Sometimes, listen, we talk. We talk a lot. Yesterday
I talked.

Speaker 8 (08:46):
Sometimes you talk too much, too much, Yes, talk too.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
Much, and sometimes you get so tongue tied and the
words do not come out right. Or sometimes the most simplest,
simple simple see there you go, the most simple word
you could try to say just will not come out,

(09:11):
and all you can do is laugh because you just
feel like a fool. And that's that's kind of what
we were doing.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
Everybody plays the fool.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
That's yes, I know, I know real click want to
let everybody know what's going on today. So of course
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(09:46):
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(10:07):
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(10:48):
is the Sunday game against the Gargoyles. Also four ten
I was gonna say kickoff, but that's when the pup drops. Yes,
so that is this Sunday. We have two chances for
those today, and it's an extra special day because it's sensory.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
Day, Sentry Day, which I have no idea what that means,
but I'm guessing that it's not gonna be as loud
of music and the HORNRN and other things going like that.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
So I hate the horn. I'm sorry. I know that's
a hockey thing, but that horn just immediately gives me
a headache, it does. It just it's the soft The
horn is not my thing. The horn is uh, it
is not my thing. You mentioned you like to your own.

(11:33):
I do not.

Speaker 8 (11:36):
Oh that's blue dad.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
It's gonna say, I do not what nothing? Oh, speaking
of you mentioned that you said that was a song,
the reference you made, the main ingredient. Yeah, I'm I'm
already out. I'm already out. I'm like Kramer and Seinfeld.
The wamageddon wamageddon, you know what that.

Speaker 8 (11:57):
Is, and that'd be a no.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
Okay, Oh okay, I have some music news that you
don't know. Hey, blind squirrel finds not every once in
a while. So wam agedon is so you know the
Last Christmas by wam.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Oh, Okay, I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
Now, Yes, So it's a viral game. And if you
happen to turn on say I don't know a particular
radio station here locally mixed ninety seventy three, and you
hear Last Christmas, you're done.

Speaker 8 (12:29):
You're out.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
You're out.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
So as soon as you hear it, you're out.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Like does that count, like if it's in a commercial
or does it count?

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Like?

Speaker 8 (12:37):
Let me see the rules, because I think I think
that that comes up in like a promo that we're
running for Christmas.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
Music says covers and remixes don't count, but that classic
track uh does everywhere? Akas played everywhere?

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
It doesn't say anything about promos or commercials. So I
guess it depends on who you're going up against in possible.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
Rules, I guess. I mean, if you're playing with a
bunch of your own friends, you can set your rules
however you want.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
But I am it is.

Speaker 8 (13:06):
A terrible song. I mean, that's why I can't listen
to Christmas music anymore, because I mean it's it's okay,
don't get me wrong. I can hear it once for
the whole season, and I'm good. It's same with Mariah Carey.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
I'm gonna say the Mariah Carey once or twice.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
And I'm done. You know, once a week maybe okay.
But like you know, I'm a traditionalist. Like I like
White Christmas Rosby I like and even though it's not
that old. I mean it's probably fifty years old. But
like Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmas Time, that's a good one,
you know, you know, and you know Chuck Berry, Run Run,

(13:42):
Rudolph Geene Autry, you know, Burrowives. Those are the ones
you like. Silver and Gold.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
Yeah, Mariah Carey's song it's good.

Speaker 8 (13:52):
Yeah, but it just gets oplay.

Speaker 7 (13:54):
They beat it to death. It just is too much.
She makes every year, like three or four four million
dollars off off of the rights of that Shoves Christmas. Yes,
she does. I would too. I would too.

Speaker 8 (14:07):
It's it's like Barry Bonds July first, when he gets
his paycheck from the Mets for doing nothing because they.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Extended that contract thing.

Speaker 8 (14:16):
It's a million dollar something like one point two million
dollars a year every July. For another I think it's
another three or four years.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Maybe we need to set up something like that.

Speaker 8 (14:24):
I don't think that's going to happen. It sounds good
and I would be all for it, but as a
betting man, I'm going to say that's not going to happen.
And here's it doesn't have to be a million. I'd
be happy with a one hundred thousand a year, fifty
thousand a.

Speaker 7 (14:42):
Year, twenty thousand a year, Yeah, I would.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
I mean, we've just negotiated down very quickly.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
It wasn't even like by five thousand dollars you drop.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
Maybe like a ball you can. I'll go down to
whatever doesn't put me into the next tax tax bracket.

Speaker 7 (14:58):
There you go, because that's where they get you.

Speaker 8 (15:01):
Yeah, or I'll go up the tax bracket, but you're
going to pay the difference.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Well, we mentioned Christmas carols. Are we going to we
gotta our annual Christmas karaoke.

Speaker 8 (15:11):
Christmas karaoke will be on December nineteenth.

Speaker 7 (15:15):
Okay, that's the morning of our company Christmas party. By
the way.

Speaker 8 (15:18):
Oh, so we can start getting loaded early.

Speaker 7 (15:23):
We could really tie one on this Christmas.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
Yeah, we got too far to drive. Yeah, but we're
doing Somebody didn't think about that did they.

Speaker 7 (15:32):
Hey, listen, I was told to come up with something
different for Christmas, so I did.

Speaker 8 (15:39):
And it's not a bad thing. I mean, we're going
out to read forty numberjacks, so you know.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
Yeah, So basically stay if you don't like your coworker, well.

Speaker 8 (15:51):
You did not hear that from me. So when the
trial comes up, they will replay this show. Oh yeah,
please please note the date so that it pulls up
on the podcast. Where after she throws the axe at me, Well,
she probably wouldn't. She probably wouldn't be able to hit

(16:12):
me anyway.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
You don't need all your toes, do you.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
Not worried about my toes? Well, okay, worried about other
parts of.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
My body, other appendages.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Like my head, because that's a big target.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
You do have an exceptionally large cranium. I'm kidding. No,
you don't know. We're gonna have fun. We're gonna have
fun out there. We're gonna have fun with Chris's karaoke.

Speaker 8 (16:32):
Stink will be here, Okay, this is the we're working
on the line. We're working lineup. Will be yourself, myself,
Stink King of Stink, Elgin, probably Devo. Well, we're gonna Tony,
and Tony says he's not doing it, but Tony doesn't

(16:52):
realize he doesn't have a choice. So, you know, let's
see what happens.

Speaker 7 (16:59):
We take do not take no for an answer. You
know what we should do. We should have put an
offer out there, win a chance to be on Christmas
Karaoke if you're a too late hardcore listener. Well, we're
trying to get Kirk from Kirk's ice Cream too, and
we're trying to get Kirk from Kirk's.

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Last year we had Randy. So let's see Randy's coming back.

Speaker 7 (17:18):
Oh that's right, Yeah, because Randy brought his breakfast.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
Hell yeah, Randy's your Your invitation stands Randy seven eight.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
We got to run to a quick break. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWV.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Another big story pertaining to politics and Donald Trump. The
family of a Columbian fisherman who died in a US
military boat strike in September. They fought a formal complaint
with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, alleging the
US government illegally killed him. Let's go live to La
Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst Royal Do they have
a case here, Well.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
You know, it's hard to know. But one problem from
their case is that, according to investigators who were there
when the ship was attacked, they found a sentinel and
cocaine floating in the water after the strike. Now, this
contradicts these statements by the family members of the sailor
who was killed. They said, Oh, it was his uncle, Burt,
you know, just a friendly neighborhoods fisherman.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
So that piece of.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Evidence looks bad for him. But as you know, the
big context here is eighty three people have died in
the last two or three months from twenty one strikes
on vessels by the Trump administration. So every strike is
going to have to be the subject of a separate
fact finding inquiry. Was this overkill in terms of going
after fishermen type boats or were they going after the

(18:41):
narco guys with the drug smuggling activities.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, the other angle to this is the Washington Post
report that had two sources with direct knowledge of the
first of these strikes saying that a second strike was
ordered on the boat that killed two survivors. And you've
got people out there saying that's a war crime because
the law of war require either side in a conflict
to provide care for wounded in shipwrecked troops. Does that

(19:07):
hold any weight in the court of law.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yeah, it could well hold weight because, as you suggest,
there is evidence that the second strike may not have
been justified. Then when you get into the war crime issue, though,
is this really a war? Donald Trump might say, just
as with the immigration issue as well, it's like an invasion.
It's enough like a rebellion that I should use the
National Guard. Is this really a war? It might not be.

(19:30):
And you know this commission you mentioned, it's totally voluntary.
They're basically just into transparency and pressure and human rights.
They can't actually force anybody to do anything, but they
can create a real firestorm of public opinion against a
country that is seen is overstepping their balands.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Talking to Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst in La Royal,
the thing that makes these stories so interested interesting is
I think that most Americans are not shedding tears over this.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
I mean, these are drug smugglers. These are people bringing things.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
To are shore that are killing Americans, possibly members of
their family. So illegal or legal, I don't know how
many Americans really have bleeding hearts for this scenario. And
I know that doesn't matter in a court of law,
but in a court of public opinion. That's what I'm
getting at here.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Well, it's a great point you make, because you're right,
Americans are very conscious of the human toll. How many
people don't have somebody in their family or among their
friend group who died of an overdose. You know, they
thought they were taking an opioid pill and it was
laced to a sentinel or whatever.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
On the other hand, you don't have a complete license
to kill. You You have to be reasonable and rational,
and the decisions about the strikes, and so every one
of these deaths, of course, is going to be investigated
for years and years.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
One thing you said got my attention, the fact that
drugs were floating in the water after this strike. I
would have to think that that is a major hurdle
that the family this Columbian fisherman is going to have
to explain or overcome.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Absolutely, no, that is a crucial fact, and as a result,
this may not go very far. I apologize for the noise.
I happened to be here in downtown La at federal court.
They have just announced that the guy who was one
of the people who killed Matthew Perry, the actors for
Salvador Placentia, has just gotten his sentence minutes ago, thirty
months in prison for distributing four counts of ketamine. So

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that's the breaking news from Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Is that a sentence that you think people will feel
is justified or is that him getting off lightly?

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Great question? Forty years was what he was looking at.
But get this, the prosecution went for a thirty six
month plea deal. They only got thirty months. Why because
they couldn't prove that the actual drug that killed Perry
was something that was supplied by this doctor. All they
could prove is that for months he did supply like
twenty vials of ketamine. But as a result, the case

(21:57):
wasn't that antetyped so they didn't get forty years, said,
they got thirty months.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
All right, roll, thank you for everything you bet.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Tony and I spoke about this yesterday, the drug boats.
I think I was pretty clear on my stance with it.
And it's sort of what bloom Daddy said there, which was,
you know, most Americans or there doesn't seem to be.
I don't want to say most, but there doesn't seem
to be a lot of sympathy, if you will, for

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those that are perishing on these drug cartel boats, because
there has not been sympathy for the American citizens that
has been that have been poisoned for decades in our
country by the crap that they've been bringing in on
those boats.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Well, and one of the things Tony was talking about
yesterday was, you know, the due process. Let's go back
and let's think of about a couple things here. First off,
more people died under Obama's drone strikes than in any
other administration.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
Good point.

Speaker 8 (23:08):
Don't forget that Barack Obama had a drone strike at
a wedding where it killed multiple innocent people along with children.
Nobody's complaining about that. Biden's drone strike in Afghanistan took
out like ten civilians in Afghanistan. We're talking about drug runners,

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and you know, the Democrats are saying, oh, well, these
aren't really your drug runners. These are just the mules
that are being paid to take them via the boat. Well,
we're going after the boat and they're collateral damage. I'm sorry,
we're destroying the product. If you're on the boat. You
just happened to be collateral damage. Sorry about your luck.
You were doing something illegal. Now the other there's a

(23:55):
meme out there and I had to pulled up yesterday
ready to say it, and so I'm going to paraphra
because they don't remember it. But it's as Democrats are
all up in arms about this, but they don't care
about the people that are dying of the drug overdoses.
They're worried about seven people on a boat or ten
people on a boat, but they're not worried about the
one hundred thousand people that died of overdoses last year.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Well, and that goes back to the bleeding heart mentality.

Speaker 8 (24:22):
It's also Trump, let's face it, well, it is.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
It is, but there seems to be because of the
Trump portion of the conversation. There seems to be this
growing element in the Liberal party of everybody's a victim.
We're going to feel sorry for everybody except for an
American citizen who pays their taxes, don't that does not

(24:47):
break the law and just wants to live and being
a contributing member of the American society. They will side
and worry about everybody else. Every other element, despite if
they're drug runners are not. But if you pay your
taxes and you're raising a family, and you have not

(25:08):
broke the law, and you just want to again be
a contributing member of society, they don't care about you.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
But if they want your money.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well yeah, they want your taxes so that your taxes
can continue to pay for all of their laws that
they create to support the illegal immigrants and to support
taking care of the addicts who become addicted to the
drugs that come across on these boats. It's this it's

(25:43):
this never ending cycle.

Speaker 8 (25:46):
That you and I are paying the bill for how
many how many Democrats have said, hey, build bridges, not walls. Yeah,
but yet they all live in a gety community. Oh absolutely,
yeah yeah, but they have a wall around their house
and they have security and everything else.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
You know.

Speaker 8 (26:00):
Well, I mean they're so hypocritical it's unbelievable. And there
are Republicans out there that the same.

Speaker 7 (26:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 8 (26:07):
But if we're not just pointing the finger of one group,
there are people that are, you know, you know, like
I've heard before, the reason the reason Doge and Elon
Musk got out is because the Republicans didn't want to
give up their benefits either. So let's you know, let's
not forget that. You know that there's a there's a
windfall on both sides.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
I was having a conversation with somebody yesterday and it
just blows my mind. The I hate to say it,
the stupidity of some people where like like the like
the the Lesbians for for Palestine, like yeah, and.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
If you were in Palestine, you'd be murdered.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Yeah, good luck, they would be head you. That's where
the mentality of some of these people right now, it's
just it's laughable, unfortunately, but the squeaky wheel and that's
what they are. But listen, let's lighten it up a bit.
I just mentioned beheading. For goodness sakes, Christmas, Yeah, Merry Christmas.

(27:07):
We have your first chance to win this morning. We
have a four pack to the Nailers for Sunday's game
versus the Gargoyles. God, I love saying that Gargoyles four
ten puck drop. Uh that is uh again, that is
this Sunday. We have a chance. Let's do. Let's do
call her number seventeen seventeen one eight hundred six two
four eleven seventy one, eight hundred sixty two four eleven

(27:30):
seventy Lucky Number seventeen. It's seven forty six on your Thursday.
The bloo Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA seven fifty two. Welcome back The bloom Daddy Experience.

(27:50):
Congratulations to William from Irondale. I'm not familiar Irondale.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Oh hi, it's in Ohio.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
Thank you for that groundbreaking information.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
I'm gonna say it's a little north to northwest of
US Okay, I thought it was north three. The area
code kind of gives it away.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Oh all, congratulations William. Sorry, I'm not up. Yeah, I
want to say it's okay.

Speaker 8 (28:18):
Anyways, she didn't do well in her Ohio history class.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
What's that got to do with history? Wouldn't that be geography?

Speaker 8 (28:27):
But that countsls that like when we had West Virginia history,
we had to know all fifty five counties.

Speaker 7 (28:31):
And oh no, that's not how we did it. It
was in geography. But that's my education versus yours.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Or lack.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
There a couple of quick top headlines for you.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
The High School on the Hill I did go to.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
I went to Harvard on the Hill.

Speaker 8 (28:50):
Harvard on the Hills.

Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yeah, yeah, baby you that's when it was still at
State College. Wasn't a university anyways. Some top headlines. A
blast of arctic air is sweeping across the Midwest, bringing
record breaking cold to millions this morning. I didn't think
it was so bad. Cities from the plains to the
northeast could see temperatures drop below zero, with highs staying

(29:15):
below freezing in many areas, including twenty nine in Pittsburgh,
seventeen in Chicago, and thirteen in Minneapolis. The frigid weather
is expected to continue through Friday, so we may be
dropping as the day goes on, so bundle up, folks.
The Agriculture Department is threatening to block Democrat ran states

(29:39):
from accessing SNAP funding. According to an announcement from the
Agricultural Secretary Brook Rawlins, the agency is moving to stop
federal funds for states refusing to comply with the agency's
demand for data about foodstamp recipients. More than twenty states
and Washington d C. Challenged the request with a loss,

(30:00):
arguing the data demand was illegal and information gathered would
likely be used for an immigration crackdown. What's wrong with
that if they're not here legally, And what's wrong with
making sure the people that are receiving these benefits qualify

(30:21):
and should be receiving these benefits. I don't understand why
that's a bad thing, but you know, maybe that's just
me speaking of illegal immigration. California has launched an online
tool for residents to report alleged misconduct by federal agents
in the state. Governor Gavin Newsom in the state's attorney

(30:42):
general say the portal allows Californians to submit photos and
videos showing the actions of federal agents, including ICE. So basically,
let's target our law enforcement on a local level. A
disturbing worry out of Marshall County. Three educators are facing

(31:04):
charges after a teacher reportedly grabbed a young autistic child
by the throat. The incident happened September eighth at mcnich
Elementary School, with reports saying a special needs teacher grabbed
the nonverbal six year old by the throat and squeezed.
The incident was caught on tape and reviewed by school

(31:26):
principal Jane Ann Duffy and Marshall County Special Programs Director
Aaron Kafaro, but neither reported. The teacher is charged with
battery and assault, the principal is charged with failure to report,
and the special Programs director faces eight felony counts, including
child neglect resulting in injury. Now to continue with that,

(31:50):
the teacher's name is Kirsten Nicole Moses. Now, that is
the teacher that is accused of grabbing the six year
old non verb autistic child. She faces again for felony charges,
two counts of battery and assault of a disabled child, strangulation,

(32:10):
and child abuse resulting in injury. The principal, Duffy, is
charged with one misdemeanor count of failure to report. Then
the program director, Kafaro also faces several charges, including eight
felony counts of child neglect resulting in injury, multiple misdemeanors,
including failure to report. The investigative investigators do say Kafaro

(32:35):
has put eight children at risk by not removing Moses
from the classroom and failed to report the abuse on
at least two occasions. Sarah, again, these are all charges,
you know, guilty until proven innocent, but a very int

(32:58):
did I say it backwards? Oh my god? My apology?
Is innocent until proven guilty, but very very disturbing story
out of Marshall County. Many of us know autistic children.
I do personally. It's a struggle. It's a struggle for
the kids, it's a struggle for the parents. And when

(33:22):
you leave your children with educators, there's trust. It's all
about trust, and especially when your child is special needs,
and when that trust is broken like some you know
in this incident, this accused incident, it's heartbreaking to hear,

(33:45):
heartbreaking to hear. So we will see as this goes
through the court system what happens. Yeah, I'm sorry. Otis
is just hits me a little bit there, hits me
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
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news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
Welcome back. It's eight oh six on this Thursday, The
Bloomdaddy Experience, Samon Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We've
had to hit on a little bit of holiday stuff
earlier Otis didn't we we did. We were talking about
Christmas music and uh way Mageddon. I was going to
say why malicious, why Mageddon and got into the Christmas

(35:09):
music conversation. Well, listen, this time of year, it's all
about the fun stuff, but it's also about giving back.
And for the past seven eight years on ask phil
this question, we have probably been a part of Operation
Toy Left. And joining me now is Philip Stall, who's

(35:30):
the Public Info Officer Information Officer for the City of
Wheeling Police Department. Do you get a badge with that
title since it says office.

Speaker 9 (35:37):
I had a swipe in and out of my office.

Speaker 7 (35:39):
Stall. Oh, okay, okay, I thought you might I think.

Speaker 9 (35:42):
Be a key card badge.

Speaker 7 (35:44):
Well, thanks for popping in this morning.

Speaker 9 (35:45):
Welcome. Yeah, this is year nine.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
We started nine.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
Twenty seventeen was year one, okay, and we did it
during the pandemic. Yes, outdoors, and you know it was
we just to drive through kind of things, so we
didn't we didn't take a break there. So it's nine,
year nine.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
I can remember sitting for the first the first meeting
like what is this now? It's a great idea. So
let's give a little bit of the backstory again. We're
talking about Operation toyleft and year nine. As Phil just
told us, So how did this all come to be?
I know it's all it all came from the brilliant
mind of Chief schwartz Feger.

Speaker 10 (36:22):
Yeah, when he worked at a previous his job before
he came to Wheeling, they did a similar event that
was along the highway and the idea was to have
they had bucket trucks or lifts that would grab the
attention of the highway traffic. And I don't know if
it was called the same thing, but you know in
police terminology we call things, you know, even war terminology.

(36:45):
You might hear it like operation blank, right, so we
call it Operation toyleft because the idea is it's a
police operation and we have people in this lift to
get people's attention to collect toys. So that's kind of
how that name came to be and where the idea was,
you know, sparked. I guess, uh the iiO that we

(37:05):
partnered with the Belmont County Sheriff's Office because the mall
location is ideal for that type of attention, and we've
been doing it there since. We moved a couple of
locations throughout the mall parking lot, the property, the property
and all that. The very first year we were actually
at the very very front and that yep, Chick fil
A came and then we moved over to where the

(37:27):
former Sears building was. Sears went out of business, we
moved inside to Sears, moved outside of the Hears, so
we're still outside. We kind of call it the parking
lot near between Ferguson's House of Furniture and all to Beauty.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
That's like the lot.

Speaker 10 (37:42):
It's kind of it's actually like a side entrance to
by Gabes and all that. You come down I think
it's Banfield Road and all that, and you can kind
of do the mall Loops.

Speaker 9 (37:50):
So that's the location.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
Well, and and here's how it works, folks. It's it's
real simple. All we ask is you bring a new
unwrapped toy, and as you said, we have it set
up almost like a drive through scenario and we all
of our volunteers do the work, will unload what you bring.

Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yeah, you just have to show up.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
And another thing too, And a lot of people think
that toys are between that age group of two and five. Yes,
we don't a lot of I wouldn't say complaints, but
a lot of people have said over the years that,
you know, we need things for middle schoolers. There's teenagers
in high school too. Just you know, Christmas issues don't

(38:31):
stop in that sixth grade. You know it's electric or
treating where it's like you're too.

Speaker 9 (38:34):
Old for that.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
Yeah, we always try to remind people to expand the
ass So it's fun to shop for the toys. Yeah,
you know, the bells and the whistles and the colors
and all that. But as you said, the teenagers, the
middle school kids, you know, this helps them out too.

Speaker 9 (38:52):
And it is just toys. We're not looking for clothes,
we're not looking for food.

Speaker 10 (38:55):
Yeah, it's very much centered around, you know, the traditional
Christmas gift of a to and this is a this is.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
A combined effort. So you mentioned of course the Wheeling Police,
correct Belmakhunti Sheriff's Department, but then of course the High
obviously the Ohigha Valley Mall. One of our newer, really
big partners are the team from FedEx and they have
been fantastic with their efforts. They provide the big boxes,

(39:22):
they provide the the trucks to haul everything because we've
gotten it's gotten. The event has gotten to the point
where we need that man power and that is a
kudos to the Ahighvaley.

Speaker 9 (39:35):
Yeah, they're really helpful with that.

Speaker 10 (39:37):
AEP helps with the buckets high value oil and gas
belt on Savings Bank United Way.

Speaker 9 (39:43):
Obviously, this whole thing.

Speaker 10 (39:46):
Kind of benefits them because they kind of take the
toys after we're done and they distribute them.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
Now we we do some.

Speaker 10 (39:51):
Distribute distribution ourselves that we kind of did years before
where we go to like the pediatric unit.

Speaker 9 (39:57):
At at that time it was two hospitals. Now we
just go to to Wheeling Hospital and.

Speaker 10 (40:02):
Even last year we didn't take toys, but we kind
of rigged our schedule up a little bit, and we
actually went up to the long term care facilities just
to say hello to some of the residents up there.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Really.

Speaker 10 (40:13):
Yeah, so we didn't take toys obviously, but we just
went to kind of say hello. And I think they
actually had Teddy Bears there that they were handing out.
So we took some of the crew up to the
long term care facility up at Wheeling Hospital.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
Well, and that's one aspect of this. So after, of course,
the event is happening this Saturday from ten to four,
as you said, in the parking lot across from Ferguson's
House of Furniture at the High Valley Mall. So once
all of the toys are gathered on Saturday, the United
Way and a team of volunteers and I got to
do this last year, takes a big area inside the

(40:47):
mall and sets up basically a makeshift store, if you will.
So then the different organizations that works through the United
Way they come and they shop through that store.

Speaker 9 (41:03):
Oh yeah, I'm not I've never done I know that.
They I know that. And we've also moved indoor stores
too because of them all. And it's a good thing.
That they keep.

Speaker 10 (41:11):
They shift things around because they're getting new businesses in.
But I'm not actually I've seen where we've kind of
dumped them, which is you'd be.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
Shocked with that.

Speaker 10 (41:18):
I think I've taken some pictures of that over the years,
but I've not seen them where they actually get in
and actually do the manual labor and separate everything.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
It's it's hours of work. Because it is amazing the
amount that is given during Operation Toyleft. Yeah, I mean
from full sized bicycles down to educational you know, books
and uh, there was a lot of astronomy stuff last year.
There's a lot of Teddy Bears, as you mentioned, all
that kind of stuff. But when you say that that

(41:47):
store set up, it really does hit you about the
the success, the growth over the years that Operation Toyleft.

Speaker 10 (41:56):
Yeah, We've never have had a problem where where we've
lacked donations. No, Yeah, during the pandemic, you know, different
economic times that we've had, We've never we've never run
into I've never had a post discussion where it's like,
man that this year, you know, did we didn't do that? Well,
it's we're perfectly fine.

Speaker 7 (42:14):
So well, and you mentioned the bucket trucks. So part
of this is the visual aspect where local, I don't
want to say celebrities, but but local.

Speaker 9 (42:25):
There is one at two thirty.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
I think names of recognition. You know, people of recognition
go up there and you wave and you yell and
you know that kind of stuff.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
And I have the list in front of you.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
Yeah, I was going to ask you for some of
the names.

Speaker 10 (42:40):
Somebody from sam somebody had that, Yeah, at two thirty.
But a lot of people from Wheeling Police, Fire, Wheeling
City Council, the Belmont County Sheriff's Office will have Santa
is number one. He gets in the bucket and they're
within a half hour intervals.

Speaker 9 (42:58):
Yes, so we have two buckets.

Speaker 10 (42:59):
We have one from Ohio, one from West Virginia. So
we have like like a couple of guys from Wheeling
PD will take turns from West Virginia. You obviously you
know you're since your headquarters here in West Virginia will
go on and then Ohio people will be in the
Ohio side, a lot of people from the Sheriff's office,
Comerland Trail Fire, Belmont Savings Bank, WTRF or another media sponsor.

(43:20):
And then we'll have our school winners, which are yet
I didn't get I did not. I don't know who
the school winners are yet, but we always have a
school winner where we challenge them to raise money and.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
Or collect toys for the Toy Lift.

Speaker 10 (43:32):
And that deadline was just the other day and I
didn't get an answer to see who.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
Got you one?

Speaker 7 (43:37):
Yet? Well that real quick, We've got We've got to
wrap this up, but want to remind everybody you can
also if you don't know what to buy, but you
just want to contribute, we will happily take gift cards.
And then we have special shoppers that will go and
fulfill where maybe things are lacking, like the older kids.

(43:57):
So if you're not exactly.

Speaker 10 (43:58):
Sure, you can drop off or even write a check
to you the way of the Upper Ohio.

Speaker 7 (44:03):
Yep again, that's Operation Toyleft happening this Saturday from ten
to four to thirty. You may see a crazy woman
in a Santa hat shaking, not because she's cold, but
because she's terrified of heights. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it
is going to be interesting.

Speaker 9 (44:19):
Wear an extra jacket. It's windy up there.

Speaker 7 (44:21):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be fun and it's a half
hour you're not coming down, and well I will definitely
I'll be doing some social media up there. Phil, thank
you so much this morning.

Speaker 9 (44:29):
We are welcome to We will hang out.

Speaker 7 (44:31):
Together on Saturday once again. Eight sixteen. You're listening to
the bloo Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
wwva Hey twenty one The bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis

(44:53):
News Radio eleven seventy wwva Otis. Next year you're doing
the bucket truck.

Speaker 8 (45:02):
Maybe if I'm here.

Speaker 7 (45:04):
You got out of it this year because you know,
because I'm smart, you're not available, you are otherwise obligated
to somewhere else. So next year it's it's it's your
turn because you think we'll see, we'll see. But thanks

(45:28):
for Phil, to phill it for stopping in listen as
we as he mentioned, this is our ninth year, ninth
year doing Operation Toy Lift, and it is a fabulous,
fabulous event. There's a lot of hard work. There's a
lot of people that volunteer to to make this happen,
not only on Saturday, but leading up to it and

(45:50):
then also after the fact to make sure the toys
get to all those in the Upper High Valley through
United Way that need them to have a great holiday season.
But it comes down to the folks out there who donate,
and every year everyone steps up here in the High Valley.

(46:10):
So right now I'm just going to say thank you
ahead of time because I know once again this Saturday
it's going to be the same result. We have a
great community. We have great people in this community, and
I see it every year at Operation Toyleft, So just
wanted to throw that out there. And then again, if
you want to see somebody freezing or tail off and
scare the entire time, be out there at two thirty.

(46:32):
I might have to find a get up to wear.
I have to find my elf hat and everything else.
But we'll see, we'll see. I want to hit on
some let's hit on some sports news. Otis. Let's see here.
The West Virginia is now seven and two after a
ninety one to forty nine win over Coppin State and
plays Wake Forest Saturday night in WU basketball, and then

(46:57):
the Penguins hit the ice again tonight. The team faces
off against Nikita. All really really Nikita. Cuture drift, that's
what cuture off, That's what I was getting Okay, that's
what I said, and the lightning from Tampa Bay. Pittsburgh
has won three of its last four games after crushing

(47:20):
the Flyers. Of course, you can catch tonight's game and
all of the pen's action on our sister station, Eagle
one oh seven.

Speaker 8 (47:26):
Five in all three games from the Wheeling Naylors this
weekend Tomorrow night seven ten, Saturday night seven ten, Sunday
four ten, All those games we broadcast on our sister station,
mixed ninety seven to three, and we're gonna.

Speaker 7 (47:38):
Have your chance to win coming up here very.

Speaker 8 (47:40):
Shortly, family four pack to Sunday.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
To Sunday's game. Speaking of hockey, did you happen to
see this story? So the Olympics, I've heard of them. Yeah,
you've heard of those. NHL returns to the Olympics this
time around, Okay, so we're just a few months from
that happening. Well, there seems to be an issue. First

(48:05):
of all, the hockey rink for the Olympics is not
close to being finished. Again, we're only a few months away,
so they're still very far behind in actually building the
complex and the rink. Here's the other issue. Though it's

(48:25):
been revealed that the ice, the sheet of ice, the
playing rink itself is completely the wrong size.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
I saw that story.

Speaker 7 (48:37):
That's it.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
It's like it's short. Well here's the thing. So all
the Olympic rinks that they use, I don't know if
they just use one, sometimes they use two, just depending
on But anyway, there are there are there are a
lot bigger than the NHL. The NHL. The rinks sometimes
can vary a little bit because of the of the
size of the arena, the complex. So like the ice

(49:02):
at West Banko Arena is smaller than the ice in
Pittsburgh because it's just a smaller facility. But they make
it work, you know what I mean, there's they can
still make it work. It's everybody's going to be playing
on the same surface. So, I mean, I don't know
what the big deal is. It's not like anybody's going
to have an advantage. Is the actual the length in

(49:23):
the width is the problem.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
But is the actual field of play still the same? No,
the rink is all the way to the edges, like
there's not lines that are like I don't know hockey
real well, well, the.

Speaker 8 (49:38):
The the icing line has to be so many feet
from the backboard, okay, So and then the blue line
is so many feet from you know, the backboard.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
Okay, So as long as that those MEAs ice are
still the same, then it doesn't really affect.

Speaker 8 (49:58):
I mean it's probably well in international play there the
rinks are normally a little bit bigger. At least they
look bigger because there's no advertising and stuff on the rink.

Speaker 7 (50:07):
I got you. Well, and here's the other thing. When
it comes to the Olympics. I don't know if you've
ever seen every time there's an Olympics, whether it's summer
or winter, they go around and they build all of
these giant facilities and then they end up doing nothing
with them. I think it's I think it's on Facebook
where I've seen where you go back to. I'm trying

(50:31):
to think of a recent recent Olympics, and all of
those facilities are just sitting there, completely empty, deteriorating. All
of that money, all of that time, all of that energy,
and it just goes to waste.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
Look at Sarajova, like the Bob said, they've totally it's
full of graffiti and everything else.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Yeah, it's so much money and waste.

Speaker 8 (50:50):
Well, it all depends some of them are repurposed.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
Some are.

Speaker 8 (50:54):
I mean, like the Montreal Stadium was they used that
for the expos there for a while. Oh okay when
the seventy six Olympics left, and uh, you know there
there are other facilities. But I mean, you know, like
you've got the Staples Center, You've got you've got places
with LA coming that you don't necessarily need the build

(51:15):
by Yeah, but they probably will. And I know that
sounds crazy.

Speaker 7 (51:19):
Yeah, that's I was gonna say, why build?

Speaker 8 (51:21):
But I mean they also have the Memorial Coliseum that's
been used for the eighty four Olympics and the last
before that when the Olympics were in LA.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
That's the Rose Bowl Stadium, right, No.

Speaker 8 (51:31):
The Rose Bowls and Pastena that's this is the this
is the Memorial.

Speaker 7 (51:35):
A shoot, I know what, I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 8 (51:37):
But they Dodgers played there at one point in time.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
They kind of look the same. I don't know, we'll see.
I just thought it was funny to see that the
measurements might be wrong. It's a twenty eight. We got
to do your chance to win Onete hundred sixty two
four eleven seventy Caller number eighteen for the Nailers ONETE
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy eight thirty six. That's
a new one, Otis, welcome back to the Blue Daddy

(52:01):
experience here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. That sounded
like a new sound club.

Speaker 8 (52:07):
Now it's a newer one.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
No one.

Speaker 8 (52:09):
Yeah, I've been on there once or twice.

Speaker 7 (52:11):
All right, congrats to Chad our latest winter from Barrackville,
West Virginia. He's going to get to go see the
Nailers on Sunday, So congrats to him. Oh, don't forget.
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(52:56):
I'm gonna kick it off with this one. Now you're
trying to steal something otis, but you got to get
it out of the store without being seen.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
What do you do? Since I'm not experienced in this,
I mean obviously, I mean, depending on how big it is.
I mean, what are we talking? Are we talking piece
of jewelry? Okay? I probably you're going to try to
slide it into a pocket, okay, or maybe that might
be too easy. You know, if I have a hat on,

(53:28):
might put it in a hat in like that little place,
depending on the hat.

Speaker 7 (53:32):
Yeah, you know, okay, that's what most people would do.

Speaker 8 (53:35):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (53:35):
You know there's a guy from New Zealand thirty two
years old. He's facing charges after he allegedly swallowed a
valuable Faberget pendant at a local jewelry store. This happened
last week. Police say the suspect entered Partridge Jewelers grabbed

(53:55):
a Faberget Double seven Special Edition to Pussy Egg Surprise
Lockett worth nearly twenty two thousand dollars. But what did
he do? He swallowed it.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
He swallowed it just too shall pass.

Speaker 7 (54:14):
That's how he got it out. The luxury item features
eighteen carrot yellow features eighteen carrot yellow gold with green enamel.
I don't know what that actually is, sixty white diamonds
I know what those ares are, and fifteen blue sapphires
inside a miniature eighteen carrot gold black eyed octopus with

(54:36):
black diamond eyes. So basically it's a very ornate piece
of jewelry. So he decided to swallow it. Doesn't really
say how big it is. I'm sure it's a pretty
decent size.

Speaker 8 (54:49):
If he took it with water. We just swallowed it
with that. I mean, first off, you glenn down your
diat that would have to hurt well, and think.

Speaker 7 (54:55):
About an octopus with all those different arms that could
get caught up.

Speaker 8 (55:00):
Just the little things that hold the diamond in what
are they the settings? Oh yeah, the little prongs.

Speaker 7 (55:05):
That's the word. Yeah, the things could get stuck.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
It's not gonna be good. It's not gonna feel good
coming going in or going out.

Speaker 7 (55:14):
No, no, nope. Have you ever accidentally, like we're purposely
swallowed anything weird or unusual? Swallow the tooth ones. I
don't think I have trying to think.

Speaker 8 (55:29):
No, I can't think of anything off the top of
my head, Like I mean, I don't think I've ever
swallowed it like a coin. You know, you hear people that,
like kids will put a coin in their mouth and
swallow it.

Speaker 7 (55:40):
No, I take that back, I accidentally swallowed the back
of an earring once like the little the little thing
that holds it, holds it in place. I was holding
it with my teeth as I was doing something and
I inhaled and it just went right right down the
old gullet. That's what my grandfather used to call it.

(56:00):
I don't know what that actually means, honestly.

Speaker 8 (56:02):
Okay, what.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
What?

Speaker 7 (56:07):
And I think I found my my date for the Christmas.
We were talking about our Christmas party earlier. This is hilarious.
So poor buddy, poor poor dude. He's completely sprawled eagle
on his belly, all fours. So there's a raccoon in Virginia.
He decided, speaking of breaking in and and theft, he

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decided to break into a local liquor store in Ashland, Virginia.

Speaker 8 (56:34):
Got schnockered.

Speaker 7 (56:35):
Yes he did, Yes he did. So he is uh.
He is a party animal. He is absolutely a party
He would be fun at the at the Christmas party.

Speaker 8 (56:46):
Rocky raccoon. I saw a story the other day where
raccoons are They're they're to say there. They said that
they're noticing that raccoons can actually be domesticated.

Speaker 7 (57:00):
Oh really, yeah, I want one?

Speaker 8 (57:06):
You can have them. I shoot them.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
Oh, when they're little, they're so cute.

Speaker 8 (57:11):
I still shoot them.

Speaker 7 (57:13):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (57:15):
I shot her pregnant one one time, and after I
shot it, you could see the babies inside me. Oh
I figured, I just I just saved all the neighbors
trash bandas.

Speaker 7 (57:27):
Oh oh that's all. Oh see, now I have a visual.
That's awful. You sound like the cruelest person right now.

Speaker 8 (57:35):
They were getting in my garbage. I got tired of
cleaning up after them. So you know what happens. You
pay the price. See that you just left them, and
they what am I supposed to do? They're still I'm
not going to cut the thing open and let them
out and then raise them lays of my kids.

Speaker 7 (57:47):
Yeah, but you just let them dying.

Speaker 8 (57:49):
Oh yeah I did. Oh god, I don't. I don't
want them getting that. So just more trash bands for
your garbage. I just eliminated the problem. I think one year,
one summer, I think I trapped four or five of
them and ended up shooting four or five raccoons. I
think the state, if it's illegal, the statute of limitations

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is run out.

Speaker 7 (58:14):
I just animals. I can't. I just I'm having a
horrible visual of that.

Speaker 8 (58:20):
Raccoon right now, oh, laying on its back, and all
I could see was the little belly going up. You
can see like little hands touching. Shut up, you can
see you can see the stomach moving. But he couldn't
see individual.

Speaker 7 (58:36):
I am horrified right now. I am absolutely Oh God,
I'm horrified.

Speaker 8 (58:40):
I did the neighborhood of favor.

Speaker 7 (58:42):
Oh in the long run, I'm sure you did. Speaking
of horrifying, I gotta tell you this story. The Italian man.
The fifty seven year old unemployed former nurse. He's from
northern Italy. He was arrested for allegedly dressing as his
deceased mother, Hello Norman Beats to renew her identity card

(59:05):
and continue collecting her pension. The man's mother, is that wrong? Yeah,
she died in twenty twenty two, so he continued to
pretend to be her for three years. So yikes.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
People will do anything, anything for a free buck. And
then this one will end it with this, We'll end
it with this. Sixty five year old woman was found
alive inside her coffin. This was at what Wat Rat
prak hong Thong Buddhist temple dot Land. To like that

(59:46):
got that one out let me try it again. No,
Her brother had driven her body three hundred miles from
their hometown for cremation after she appeared to stop breathing
two days earlier. She had been bedridden for two years,
so there was a reason behind this. The temple manager
and not going to try that name, said, they heard

(01:00:07):
knocking from the coffin and discovered the woman moving her
arms and opening her eyes. They were going to cremate her,
he said. I was a bit surprised, so I asked
them to open the coffin and everyone was startled. Yeah,
you don't say. She must have been knocking for quite

(01:00:28):
some time. The temple initially refused cremation because her brother
lacked an official death certificate. A Bangkha hospital had earlier
rejected the woman's body for organ donation for the same reason.
Temple staff sent her to a nearby hospital for treatment,
with the temple covering medical costs. That's horrifying. Oh my god.

Speaker 8 (01:00:53):
I'm sure it's not the first time it's happened.

Speaker 7 (01:00:57):
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(01:01:20):
be back here on the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon OTAs
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back eight fifty the
wood Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Listen.
If you look up in the sky, today's the last one.

(01:01:43):
The last supermoon of twenty twenty five will happen tonight.
The December ful moon is called the cold moon. Hey,
how appropriate is that? With the blast of Arctic air
that we're supposed to be getting. Is called the cold
moon in the northern hemisphere and may look larger than
usual as the lunar orbit swings relatively closer to Earth.

(01:02:04):
NASA says the moon will just be a mirror, just
a mirror, two hundred and twenty one thousand miles from Earth. Yikes.
NASA says it's up to one hundred and twenty meteors
will be visible per hour on a clear night sky.
So if you see some thing's up there tonight, that
is what is going on. I wonder what the trade

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in value would be of a two hundred and twenty
one thousand mile vehicle up at strawb otis.

Speaker 8 (01:02:32):
You can ask Kevin right now?

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
Is he with us?

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
Yep?

Speaker 7 (01:02:35):
All right, Kevin? How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Am?

Speaker 8 (01:02:37):
I with you?

Speaker 6 (01:02:39):
Listen to the moon. You know all the information on
the moon. Do you believe we went to the moon?

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
I do?

Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
I question it? I question it.

Speaker 6 (01:02:49):
I kind of figured you would set up to tell
me deep damn, that you were going to say that, Yeah,
what do you think? I'm believe we do it. Yeah,
there's too many things that came about because of the
technology that we just you know, we're able to the

(01:03:12):
things we're able to accomplish during that feat that some
of that technology is still with us today. So yeah,
I definitely believe that. Clouted out, I learned a lot.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
All right, we'll talk to you later.

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I forgotten I did. I was editing something,
so I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
Yeah, Okay, two hundred twenty one thousand, we do trade
for two hundred twenty one thousand. There are a lot
of vehicles that last two hundred and twenty one thousand
miles and if it was purchased here, uh, it has
ever drive on it. And still you know that customer
that trading in was still protected. So yeah, they've definitely

(01:03:53):
got value.

Speaker 7 (01:03:54):
Nice.

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
Everything's got value, okay, when we will basically trade for
just about anything, so cars, boats, motorcycles, tractors, snowmobiles.

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
With that match chickens.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
You know, we'll figure it out. Everything's got a value
to somebody. We have learned that over the years. Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:04:16):
What is the craziest craziest thing you've traded in?

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
The craziest thing we've traded for over the years, probably
a tractor.

Speaker 7 (01:04:27):
Like a full size farming tractor.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
Yeah, like yeah, yeah, like a Mitchi smaller tractor that
we traded for a forklift one time. We still have it,
so pretty cool.

Speaker 8 (01:04:39):
So if anybody's in the market for a forklift, get
in touch with you.

Speaker 6 (01:04:43):
Goes there, you go.

Speaker 8 (01:04:46):
Price to sell.

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Our entire used car inventory, probably ninety eight percent of
it is all trade in, okay, and there's I don't
think there's another dealer within one hundred miles can say that,
all right, because they're buying those vehicles at auction and
selling them used. And the reason that we get all
these traders is because we pay more for trades. Okay,
all right, we want your vehicle. So do you got

(01:05:09):
something you want to trade in. It's gonna be a
great weekend. Come on out and see how much it's
worth and pick yourself out something new. And let's put
cardials together.

Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
And if you need a forklift, give Kevin a call.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Okay, we'll go with that.

Speaker 7 (01:05:21):
He'll put running boys on it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
Does it have a sticker on it?

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
I'm sure you'll put stickers on it?

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:05:28):
No, I mean, does it have a price sticker on
the forklift?

Speaker 6 (01:05:31):
No, it does not have a price. Use it shame light,
change light bulbs and in the shop.

Speaker 7 (01:05:38):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
So it came in handy, it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
Is coming very very handy over the years.

Speaker 8 (01:05:44):
Okay, all right, So we will not talk about the
forklift being for sale.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
I'm sure you will at some point in time getting
back up.

Speaker 8 (01:05:53):
It'll come back up, all right, Bye bye bye. That's funny.
I mean, how could you be the guy that goes
in and says, hey, I don't have a car to
trade in. But I've got this forklift if you're interested,
And then if I'm the salesman, I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
Like, excuse me, and then you go, I need to
talk to the boss on this one.

Speaker 8 (01:06:23):
I don't think I can make this call on my own.

Speaker 7 (01:06:26):
Is it used how many miles.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Hours?

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
Yeah, I can probably right. I drive a forklift ones
I have to. I was pretty good at it when
I had a summer job in an aluminum factory I had.

Speaker 8 (01:06:37):
I had a summer job at sleds. Oh yeah, and
that was before you had to be certified to operate
a forklift.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
I was certified.

Speaker 8 (01:06:46):
I put that on my resume, which comes in handy
at this job.

Speaker 7 (01:06:53):
It was on my resume.

Speaker 8 (01:06:54):
It got me here there? Did you there was a
forklift in the alley this morning was the last night too.

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
I could probably drive it.

Speaker 8 (01:07:02):
They gave you the keys.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
I used to whip that sucker around that factory. I
was pretty good at it, carrying what do we call
we had a giant hope you drive that better, and
you drive your car giant coils of sheets of aluminum. Now,
there were some guys that were like whoa, and they
would jump out of my way because I was cruising man,
because you couldn't see him, You couldn't see him ahead
of you because of that coil on the on the

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the forks. What I lost you there?

Speaker 8 (01:07:30):
I just stopped paying attention.

Speaker 7 (01:07:33):
Of course you did, of.

Speaker 8 (01:07:35):
Course you did.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
Sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
Oh, it's a buzz. Speaking of the forklift, that it's
a buzz. The concerts tonight, first concert of the weekend
here at the Capitol. It's Uh and Wilson not from
Heart and Wilson not from Heart. The the blonde and
Wilson that bland.

Speaker 9 (01:07:52):
Uh, easy for you to see the other.

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
And Wilson is brunette. Correct. Yeah, so this is the blonde,
the blonde version and Wilson. Uh, tonight here at the Capitol.

Speaker 8 (01:08:01):
So no power Ball Winter last night?

Speaker 6 (01:08:04):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:08:04):
Nope?

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
Oh what's it a now?

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
Saturday's drawing eight hundred twenty million bucks.

Speaker 7 (01:08:11):
Marry freaking Christmas? If you hit that?

Speaker 8 (01:08:15):
Oh, I guess I better. I guess I should play.
You can't, Well, I do within a group, but like
I give my twenty bucks and just whenever they tell
me I'm due, then I just give them another twenty.

Speaker 7 (01:08:25):
Oh how can you do you trust the person?

Speaker 6 (01:08:28):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
Semi What's how many? How many entries do we have
for ice cream?

Speaker 6 (01:08:37):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:08:37):
I'm sorry, we have US sixteen sixteen generate. We have
number eight, number eight. It was the same number for lunch.

Speaker 7 (01:08:45):
Was it? Number eight?

Speaker 6 (01:08:47):
Is uh?

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Jamie, Jamie, congrats, you are a winner. I will call
you after the show to get all your information so
that I can get you your give certificate.

Speaker 8 (01:09:00):
Penn, don't forget Pens tonight on our sister station Eagle
one oh seven five and Nailers Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday
on our sister station Mix ninety seven to three Friday
seven ten, Saturday seven ten, Sunday four ten, make it
to the Frosty Friday, Tomorrow, Wizards and one Saturday Night.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
All versus the Gargoyles.

Speaker 8 (01:09:19):
All versus the Gargoyles.

Speaker 7 (01:09:21):
That's better. And don't forget Operation toyleft on Saturday. Everybody,
have a good rest of your day. But no, stay warm.
The polar vortex is on its way. We'll talk, talk talk,
There you go,