The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 5, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one Touch show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good Friday morning. Everybody is everybody ready for the weekend.
I am pankacking. I think we both thought, Hey, it's Sam,
that's Otis. It's the Blue Daddy experience here on news
radio eleven seventy WWVA. So we made it to Friday.
Last week on this day was Black Friday, and we

(00:43):
touched on a little bit Otis. But the numbers have
come out, Okay of the spending, now, I did. I
did a little bit of Black Friday shopping. I did
not do any Cyber Monday shopping because I am I'm
actually starting to panic a little bit. I haven't even
really begun to shop. I don't even have a list prepared.

(01:05):
So anybody out there that can help me with h
in particular gift ideas for a seven year old girl,
I'm all ears, all ears, I am stumped this year
with my knees.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Why don't you go it and get AI to tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Because I don't want AI telling me how.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
But no, it's not going to tell you how to
do it. But it's good. A I could give you
some good shopping ideas, Oh they could, it could, I
mean might you. It may give you something that you
weren't thinking of and then all of a sudden, boom,
there you go. I mean you don't, you don't have
to follow the list, but just just Christmas gifts for
a seven year old girl and see what pops up.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay, I like that idea. You you stumble across a
good one every once in a while.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, you know, And here's the thing, I mean what
I try to do because I have a seven or
eight year old nephew. I can't remember he's that in
that ballpark?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, oh god, we just finished each other's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
So but you know, like so I when I was overseas,
I picked a couple of things up over there. I
don't know if he's going to like him or not. Yeah,
you know. I also had to be careful because I couldn't.
You can't bring anything big back. So like I tried
to get him something from each of my three stops,
which was Amsterdam, Dresden, Germany and Prague in the Czech Republic.

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So again you're thinking small, lightweight, easy to pack on
your way home. I don't think he's listening, so I
can probably tell you. And he lives in Morgantown, so
I don't think I have to worry about it. But like,
so the soccer team that's in Amsterdam, they're called it's
spelled AJAX, but it's i X okay, So I got
like a he likes to swim, so I got him

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like a beach towel or a towel for swimming. So
it's their logo and everything else on that. And then
the soccer team in Dresden, which is the Dynamo. It's
like a pencil case a little bit bigger. It's about
the size of a you know, a small book. You
unzip it, it's got colored pencils in it, it's got erasers,
it's got so good for school. And then what I

(03:08):
picked up in Prague was just like their mascot. It's
it's it's kind of weird, but it's like this little
stuffed mole, like.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
A ground like a ground mole. Yeah okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
And it's got like a hat on and everything else.
And I know that sounds corny and cheap, but it
couldn't where I was, I couldn't find anything else I
could have brought him back. I guess a thc sucker,
But I mean I think his parents would have gone
out of their minds.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, but you would have been the coolest uncle ever.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Maybe maybe for the high school and college kids, not
for the seven year old.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, not the seven year old. No, no, no no.
Well see that's the thing I've always I love Christmas shopping,
I really do. I love being creative. I loved trying
to find new, different, unique gifts.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
But I am going to Arizona, so like, if you
want something from there, no I could.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, okay, I'll think about it. But yeah, the seven year.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Old girl, I like a turquoise necklace.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh that would be good.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, something that you're not going to get necessarily around here. Yeah,
maybe unless you went to the Cherokee Trading Post. I
maybe may have some turquoise up there.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well yeah, see right now, she's obsessed with Taylor Swift.
Obsessed with Taylor Swift, and I can't like.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
A poster or T shirt or something.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just can't bring myself to put more about you.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I know, I know, but you try to get what
the kids like.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm waiting for that light bulb to go off of ideas.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
So I also try to buy gifts for kids. When
I buy gifts for kids, I try to find something
fun but also something a little educational, so like if
there's a book or if there's a you know, an
educational toy like so for my nephew last year, I
got him like it was like this science kit okay,

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and he was he loved it and you know, so
he was able to do these experiments because that's what
he's into.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, I know, last year, I bought her the first
three books in the Little House on the Prairie.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Maybe a little young for a seven year old, but okay,
not really, I mean.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
They were not I mean they're novels, they're and she
read them like that she I mean, she loves to read.
But anyways, yeah, I just I'm struggling this year. I'm
actually disappointed in myself because I don't usually you know.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Are you going to go into debt for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think I'm still paying off debt from Christmas last year. Good, No,
I'm not. But yes, usually I'm not usually debt.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
But well, we got a story that says thirty one
percent of Americans they anticipate going into debt during this
holiday season.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Thirty one percent.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
According to a Talker Research survey two thousand winter holiday celebrants,
the thirty one percent of them said that they plan
on going to debt reveals widespread, widespread financial strain, as
sixty five percent say determining safe spending levels feels nearly
nearly impossible. So, yike, you have a.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Budget, Yes, I have.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I've play one fifer that does that.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, because last year I went out of control, and
this year I've told myself I have it. I have
a number and that number is going to cover everybody,
and I'm sticking to it. I'm sticking to it. But
back to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, sales were through

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the roof. We said it four percent above for Black Friday.
Then last year and then online spending jumped by nine percent.
So people are spending this holiday season. They are definitely
spending that. I know.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I am. I have have you yeah, I mean I
have a Christmas Club account.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You're too good at it.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And I've already blown through that. Oh I mean, it's
not a ton of money. Yeah, when you think about it,
I mean it's twelve hundred bucks. And when your kids
want something, you know, when you get a Christmas list
from your kids and there's something on there for one
hundred and twenty dollars and something on there for fifty dollars,
and you get you buy your dad something for eighty dollars,
and this and that and the other, and some of

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the stuff I bought already bought in Europe, so that
doesn't even count in that twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
So you know, it's those chi chings.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
It grows faster than what you think does.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
And you know, like when I went and did my
little Christmas extravaganza at the end of October in Washington County,
I think I ended up spending about half of my
Christmas Club fund there and I really didn't walk out
with that much stuff. Yeah, And then you know, then
you throw in Christmas at the Highlands, and I probably
spent on hundred bucks or so up there. I mean,

(07:34):
I didn't spend as much this year up there.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, and you've got half your stuff wrapped already too,
don't you.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Almost all of it's wrapped.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Maybe I need to just hire you. You could afford
me and say here's your budget.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Go.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
It might work out better.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
It might I can't guarantee you that it would, or
maybe I'm not necessarily well hire.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
You to wrap the presence too.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
I could possibly do that for you. I don't know
if I would be a great shopper. I mean I
would be. I mean because there's things that I could
tell you know, and I don't like to repeat. So yeah,
I always keep a list, unless it's a gift that
people really liked, like my candles.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, you got me beat this year. You got me
beat this year. I'm usually better at it, not this
time around. We're gonna jump to a quick break, Happy Friday.
I hope you're enjoying your Friday so far. We are.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I picked a Christmas song here and it sucks, So
we're just going this Christmas. Yeah it's supposed to be.
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
The bloom Daddy Experienced Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Welcome back on this Friday, The bloom Daddy Experience Otis
and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I am so

(08:55):
looking forward to today, counting the minutes till we got here.
I swear this week has been like I am on
turkey hangover. It is just went on and on. I
don't know. I don't know what it is you eat.
I'm a turkey. But no, with with it being the

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being a Friday, it's all about we try to keep
it lighthearted on a Friday, don't we?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
We sure do, Yeah, we do, we do.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
With that being said, there's a story about a Idaho
runner that has a special attire when he when he runs.
His name is David record Breaker Rush. He completed the
famous Idaho Potato Half marathon.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
There's one I want a T shirt for. I would
do that. I would walk that just for the T shirt,
the Idaho Potato Half Marathon.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
See look I can see like mister potato head and it.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be great. Yeah. And speaking of the
T shirt, Yes, there's.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
A reason why this is unique. Yeah, because David record
Breaker that's his nickname. While he ran this marathon, he
was wearing one hundred and thirty seven T shirts, which
reclaimed his Guinness World Record title. So he's a serial
record holder. Goals, life goals. He maintains the most concurrent

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Guinness World Records originally set the mark at one hundred
and eleven T shirts. This happened in twenty nineteen before
he lost it to his competitor, who wore one hundred
and twenty seven. His first comeback attempt failed when he
reached one hundred and fourteen T shirts and lost lost

(10:47):
neck circulation.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's always it. That's always a deal breaker when you're
trying to break a record.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I thought I was reading that wrong.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
No, I mean, just as you're as you're walking to
half marathon, choking your death and you're dying because you
got no blood go into your brain.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh gosh. The one hundred and thirty seven shirts weighed
forty eight pounds total.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
God.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah. After years of effort and one spectacular failed attempt,
I finally reclaimed the Guinness World Record title. So I'm
so glad I didn't give up. It was a max
of determination, creativity, endurance, and a lot of T shirts.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
First off, where do you get one hundred and thirty seven?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I mean my husband's my husband's closet.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean I have a lot of shirts, and
I have a lot of T shirts, but I do
not have one hundred and thirty seven. That'd be like
a whole you'd have to have like two chested drawers
or dresser drawers to fill those at least two.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Usually about every two years we have a cleansing of
T shirts because we just have everybody gives a T
shirt for something, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, well, I mean I got two
for the five K's that I just recently watched, right,
one for the Twinkled Trot you gotta be careful, how
you see that in Ogleby, And then the other one.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
For the Yeah if you said that, if you said
that wrong.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, well I don't know if that'd be a great
stripper name, but it would definitely it might raise the
eyebrowser with the FCC.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
We'll leave it at that. Yeah, yeah, you all can
figure that out.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean, you know, I have no
desire to wear that many shirts like no, I don't
like I don't like I mentioned earlier in the week,
how I don't like to wear coats or like, yeah,
I mean I'll wear a I'll wear I normally have
a T shirt like an undershirt, and then I have

(12:45):
a shirt on over that, and then if I in
the winter, I'll put a pool over on or a
sweater or sweatshirt or something of that nature, and that's
enough for me because that's bulky enough.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, that's what I was gonna say. That guy Sos.
He walked down the Potato Marathon like the brother from
Christmas Story, Ralphie's little brother.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Well, after short sleeves, I don't know if he'd be
I don't know if his arms would be out.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well, I mean, if you got a hundred, you.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Can probably cut him off. You probably cut the sleeves off.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Oh so then he's like, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Mean that's what I mean. Well, and then like when
he was choking, when they were cutting the circulation off
to the neck, like, wouldn't you just cut him so
that they're they're a little looser.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Himself, a little little v neck Like yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
I mean nobody said I don't. I mean, I don't
know what the requirements are that the T shirts have
to be in pristine shape or you know, like like
can you cut the sleeves off.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Or or can they be the more comfortable that are
like twenty years old and they've washed him so many times,
they're and.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Are they are they like cotton polyester, or are they
the like the the dryfit type T shirts because those
are going.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
To be lighter, or we're thinking way too hard about this, yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Or like do we actually give two craps about it?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Would you? Have you ever like Guinness World Record?

Speaker 3 (13:54):
When I was a kid. When I was a kid,
I was there were things that I really I didn't
try any but I mean out there things that I
could that I wanted to try to be in the
Guinness World Records. I'm in there collectively or I was
in there. I don't know if it's been beaten yet.
But in twenty eighteen in Salt Lake City, we were
part of a group that was the largest gathering of

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transplant patients in one area. So what they did was
they they roped off an area and once you got
into the area, you couldn't leave, so they would count
you like you had to sign in, and so as
you signed as once you signed in you went into
the into the area like a bullpen type thing, and

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you were there for like a half an hour. Why
they because you had to be in there for so
long before they could do that because as the as
the Guinness authenticator was there, so he would go through
and make sure like nobody's name was down twice and
things like that.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
He validates everything.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yep. And so at that point in time, and I
don't remember how many, but I guess they said this
year the games are in Denver and they're going to
try to they're going to try to break the records.
I don't know if if they're gonna break if we're
gonna be breaking our own record, or if it's another
record set somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
So you are in or you there?

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh no, no, it's.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Just oh, you're just part of the group. But you've
got Guinness Book of World Records and you have an
IMDb page A man titles Ye fancy.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
And all from some loser from Wheeling, Western Virginia.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
You're not a loser. You need to spend time with
me every morning.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
That makes me a two time loser. So speaking of clothes.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, socks, socks?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Do you wear socks to bed?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I can't do it. No, if I'm sick, I can
do it.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, my piglets need to breathe.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Or if like if if you know, sometimes like you're
just maybe like just kind of relaxing, maybe on your
bed or something and you're watching TV and you just
doze off before you you know, maybe maybe you're fully
clothed or something. That's about the only time I can
sleep with my socks on.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
No, I can't sleep with my socks on.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
No.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
But they say that if you're having trouble sleeping that
you should wear socks. This guy, doctor Jesse, has over
one point three million TikTok followers, says socks can make
your feet warm, which ends up which ends up cooling
the body down. The body being cool tells the brain
that it's time for bed, and while some viewers agree

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that they cannot sleep without socks, some feel restricted as
I do and you do, or overly hot. If my
feet are warm, my body is overheated. In a miserable
one commentator wrote, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
No, no, no, no, I'm not a socks to bed person.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
No, I couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, thank you. I'm the person that has cooling sheets.
Have you seen that?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
We have one set and I can't remember where I
got them. Oh my god, I would love to have
a second set of them. They are I don't know
what it is about them, but they are the best,
the best. No sleeping is weird, So I can't.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, I could. Like I I've.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Never recorded myself sleeping. I'd love to see myself sleeping.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah. Well there's one thing about me, like I sweat
when I sleep. Doesn't matter, Like I could just have
a sheet on and have the fan and everything going on.
My body still sweats.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh weird. Yeah, yeah, just some of the positions I
wake up in. It's like how in the world. Just
you know, But that's part of being a human. We
are special.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Creatures, No, boy, we're creatures, are right. Uh.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience here on news
radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back to the Blue Daddy
Experience here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Joining us now,

(17:58):
a familiar voice. We haven't hurt in a while, but
we're going to get into why. Joining us now, we
have Steve Waters Riverbridge Wealth Management. He's a partner and
a wealth manager. So thank you Steve for coming back.
It's been a while.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
Yeah, good morning, Sammy, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
You've kind of had your.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Hands full a little bit.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
A little bit, so, so give everybody an update just
real quick.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, we just had our third boy, so Charles Stephen
Waters born about a month ago. But we now have
three boys under three and a half. Sam, So it's
been wild and.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Crazy over the Waters button for punishment.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
So so I forgive the not very quickly response with
the invitation for coming on the show. I you know,
I give you a pass.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I'm doing my best, So was your wife. Since he's
since he's in the stock market and everything else, he's
invested in either Pampers or Huggies or somebody because he's
reaping the benefits.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh God, bless you. Yes not. I can't even begin
to imagine. Congratulations all you know on that. That's that's
that's amazing. Three boys under three and a half. Oh buddy.
All right, let's get into it. So let's talk the economy,
let's talk investing, let's just talk money in general. So,

(19:15):
first of all, the biggest in the most recent poll
about President Trump, the biggest stickler that everybody is having
a really hard time with is the economy. But going back,
but if you compare and contrast, different articles are different coverage.
Some say the economy is booming some people but the

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but that is not the perception of the average Americans.
So kind of give us a breakdown, if you would.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, the economy, it's really bifurcated. And by that I
mean there are you know, there's there's kind of two
different tracks here. There are the wealthy people and then
there are the people that aren't quite as as well off.
The wealthy people they've never been richer sam the market,
you know, we're hovering around all time highs. We've had

(20:04):
a bit of a pullback over the past couple of weeks,
but generally, you know, the market's up seventeen eighteen percent
as of today, and so those people.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Are feeling really good.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
But then we look at you know, prices, We all
know how expensive it is to go to the grocery store.
You know, costs are are up, you know, certainly a
lot over the past five years or so, and so
the bottom, you know, income earners, they're really feeling as squeak.
So it's kind of, you know, a tale of two cities,
if you will, as to how people are feeling. But
in terms of the stock market, seventy five percent of

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the spending in this country comes from the top twenty
percent of income earners or wealth people, all right, and
those people are spending like they've never spent before. And
that's really what's kind of keeping the at least the
stock market afloat, because what's the driver of stock prices.
It's company earnings. And if you look at the latest

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round of company earnings, I mean, these companies are continuing
to make you know, a lot of money, and that's
really what's driving the stock market at this juncture. The
reality is that the people that you know don't have
you know, that aren't invested in stocks, or that you know,
the lower they don't have as big of an impact
on the overall economy as those wealthy people that are
spending well.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
And the big term that we have heard over the
past eleven months at this point is is tariff. And
there's a lot of blame on teriffs for the rise
and costs. But then the administration keeps saying, you know,
toe the line, it's it's going to pay off in
the long run. Is that the true Will it eventually

(21:42):
pay off? Or are we going to continue to deal
with this inflation, this you know, extra cough cost from
the teriffs.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yeah, So I mean let's put everything in perspective, right,
So back in twenty twenty two, inflation was at nine percent. Okay,
it's now down to three percent. So directionally, right, we're.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Heading the right way. There are some products.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
That that we've seen an increase even this year.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Beef, I know is one of them.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
But in terms of the tariffs, I know that the
administration recently removed some tariffs from some of those products
to help out a little bit. You have to remember, Sam,
that you know, we one of the drivers of the
decision to put these tariffs on has to do with
the national debt. Right back in December of twenty twenty four,

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the US Treasury had a deficit of over seven hundred
billion dollars. Okay, this past september, that's the latest print
that we have. But this this past September, the US
Treasury had a positive of one hundred and thirty billion dollars.
And so, you know, the tariffs are definitely part of that,
some of the things that that that Doge did right

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with cutting the government. But directionally in terms of the
national debt, we're you know, we're moving in the in
the right direction there as well. So the tariffs are
having an impact, but I don't think it's as big
of an impact on inflation as what the initial fears
were like back in April whenever these were rolled out.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Do you think that when it comes to these types
of conversations, there tends to be just headlines, you know,
inflation this or tariff's this. There's not a lot of
digging into it or education. And is that where almost
like the chicken little mentality comes from where it's like
the sky is falling. But then talking to somebody you know,

(23:34):
with with your background and your education on this subject matter,
it kind of rains people back in of you know,
this is what is really happening. Is it not explained
to the American people properly?

Speaker 4 (23:46):
I mean, I think that's a big problem with media
in general. We can you know, I don't want to
get into that too much because I'm right down the
middle right, but I mean it's all headline driven, right,
and so if you were to look at a left
leaning thing that you know, these tariffs are the worst thing,
and if you look at a right wing news, these
are the greatest things ever.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
And they'll defend it. And the truth is always somewhere
in the middle right.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
I mean, yeah, the tariffs have had some negative impacts,
but they've also had some positive impacts, and we.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Have a couple minutes left.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
But just I mean, what I wanted to say was
there's a lot of blame on the previous administration because
the inflation rate was so high. And so what they're
saying is, you know, Rome wasn't building a day. You're
not going to see the effects of the lowering of
the inflation rate as quickly as you saw it go up.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
I would agree with that for sure.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, it takes time to get some of that sticky
inflation by its nature is sticky. It takes time to
work that out of the system.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
And speaking of time, we have about two minutes left.
But are you forecasting for twenty twenty six? Yet? What
are you seeing on the horizon when it comes to
the stock market or say home buying things like that.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, I mean, so we just talked about inflation that
continues to be on a dowd work trend. We expect
that that will continue into twenty twenty six. Company earnings
have been strong. But then we didn't we didn't talk about.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
The tax package.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
The tax package that was past, the One Big Beautiful Act.
Now that's a that's a stimulus package, and that's going
to be a tailwind for the economy as well. So
science point positive for twenty twenty six. You know, we
we don't forecast a recession or anything like that on
the on the horizon some sectors, right, So back to

(25:31):
the tariffs industry, the industrial sector is certainly going to
benefit from these tariffs as some of these companies reshure
back to the United States and manufacturing and that sort
of thing. And then healthcare, we're bullish on on healthcare.
You know, aging population, aging demographics, people are going to
continue to need good quality health care. And then technology
of course, those those growth engines and artificial intelligence, and.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
That's one of the biggest conversation points is AI technology
and where it's going to take us in jobs. And
so maybe next time we have you on, we're gonna
let's talk about that. Let's get into the AI and
and the job world and factors there. Because it's they're
even talking about it affecting the stock market without.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
A doubt, I think it's going to impact all parts
of life.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
So yeah, let's do it next time.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, and a little bit sooner than we've had a
big break, so we'll get you back even sooner than
last time. But again three and a three boys under
three and a half. God, bless you, God bless your wife.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
She's ready to kill you right now.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Even breathe on be now. But thank you once again
for coming in. Stephen Waters with Riverbridge Wealth Management, of course,
acting partner and a wealth manager himself.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Thanks all right.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Have a good morning again, Steve. Thank you so much.
You're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy w w V A welcome back on
your Friday fadr sand warm out there, The bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. That little chili

(27:05):
is a little chili. That SoundBite? Real quick, quick quick?
Oh my gosh. That fiddle?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
No just a banjo.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh isn't a banjo and a fiddle? No they're not
the same thing.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Oh my god, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yes, listen, I have no musical talent. Whatsoe? A fiddle
looks like a violin?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
It is a violin?

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, okay, okay, hey folks, I don't know everything about it.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
What did I say to Tony on Wednesday? We should
get money for hiring a handicap? Jeez? You prove it
every day. Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Hey, I'm honest, honestly, never mind, don't try to fake it.
I'm honest about who I am.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
So speaking of the cold weather, just try to move on.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yes, bundle, bundle, bundle.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Do you layer when you when the cold weather? Or
do you like wear a bulky coat? The one that
I see in the studio there is it's a bulky coat. Like,
there's no way I would wear that unless I was
going to be outside for hours.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
It's like a human comforter.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
It's like you're it's like you're on a North Pole excursion.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I just left my dog's led team at home. I
mean that things like that's a puffy coat.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
How many like Between this job and my other job,
I've probably gotten five or six different styles of coats.
Oh yeah, you know how many? I wear?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Zippo?

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
I don't even wear the vest because it's too bulky,
and I hate because when you drive, I want to
be comfortable. In my other job, I'm in and out
of the car all the time, so I take.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
It off when I get in the car. I don't
drive with a coat on.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
But yeah, that defeats the purpose because then you're taking
it on, taking it off, taking it off, put it on,
taking it off.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
God, well, and you said your other job and then
this job. Love our boss, but every holiday season he
finds a new alternative outdoor company labeled thing.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Which you would take a survey like, ask us what
we want. I mean, I appreciate, I appreciate the gesture.
I'm not complaining by any means. But there have been
things at both jobs. They give me clothes at the
other job shirts. I don't think I've maybe I've worn
one when I had to, because I will not wear them.

(29:42):
They're myself and the guy that works in brick and
Hancock County and the guy that works Wetzel Tyler Pleasants
Ritchie Doddridge. Very rarely do we ever wear our state
issued clothes like they gave us some. I think back
in April or May, they're still in a bag in
my state car.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well. I think our boss is finally running out of.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
I don't think we're getting something to wear this year.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
No, I don't either.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
I think I saw him in the office and I
wasn't supposed to.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh you were peaking.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
No, I didn't peak. I was looking. I was actually
looking for something. No, I was looking for something else.
It was it was right after all everything flooded, but
I was looking for something for the show, but I
couldn't remember what it might have been. Tickets. You're right, absolutely,
I have.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Been inkling the basketball ticket. That's what I was getting out.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah. But you know the other thing of the cold
weather does, and I guess there's scientific evidence to back
this up.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
There's scientific evidence to back everything up.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Cold weather makes people crave more food.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh absolutely, yep, yep, so yep.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
It's a hormonal shift, I guess people. It drives people
toward high calorie comfort foods. According to a British physician
named doctor Crystal Wiley, and she's from Zava Digital.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Healthcare, No, I, I one hundred percent agree. This time
of year is when I get the cravings. And I
call it farm food, good old stick to your bones
heavy cream Like.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, yeah, here's what it says. It says reduced sunlight,
lower serotonin and dopamine, increasing your carbohydrate cravings. There you go,
and the average winter weight gain reaches one to two pounds.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh, I think I've beat that.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Well, I think I've beaten it too. Searches for how
to stop eating so much jumped two thousand, three hundred
and fifty percent last month. Whoa souh. Doctor Wiley offers
seven science backed, appetite controlled methods, adding spices like chili
or cayenne, starting meals with high fiber foods, eating protein

(31:55):
rich breakfasts, choosing seventy percent dark chocolate including Omega three fats,
using smaller plates, and drinking five hundred milli liters of
water thirty minutes before your meal. Water Yep says it's
not just hungry at your brain's way of compensating for
lower mood and light levels.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
It's a comfort thing. That's why, you know. It's why
it's called comfort food.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
On top of it, do you have a favorite comfort food?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Mashed potatoes?

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Like you didn't even hesitate. I don't look at that
as a comfort food. I look at that as a
side dish.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Okay, all right, macaroni and cheese. Okay, what are you thinking?

Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'm thinking more like a soup or a salad. I mean,
not a salad, like a soup.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Or a chili uh okay, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Know, something that's warm like a stew.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Actually just made chili last weekend.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
So like maybe, like, like I said, chili a stew.
There's a I can't remember who. Oh, I think remember
when the Hoogie Shack was out there by the Dairy
Queen and Fulton. Yeah, they used to have a cheese soup. Okay,
that was phenomenal. I don't know where they got it,
if it was Wisconsin cheese. I've had other people that

(33:06):
have made cheese soups and they're good, but it did
not touch the old Hoogie Shacks.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
There was something that there was something with that.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
But cheese soap soup is just so heavy and so gloric.
I mean, like they recommend, but I think it's a
thousand or two thousand calories per day if your average.
And I think the cheese soup was like two thousand calories.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
In itself with one scoop.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
I mean, but god, was it good. This My mouth
just started water.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
This time of year is when I break out the
stuffed pepper soup.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, that's a that's a household that's it.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
That's it. That's a quality soup.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
In the crock pot. Things in the crock pot last time.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
I mean again, that's kind of like a stew roast
you know, you get into that, but again.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
It goes back to that warm coat, like it's that
comforting stick to your bones.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, I can't disagree.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Food.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
It's like you have to say it like that. It's
the food.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
It's it's a heavier food. You norm really don't eat light.
It's good because if you eat light, then you want more.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
To me, like I said, I call it farm food.
It's what my grandma used to make on the farm,
like like you said, the stews, the mashed potatoes, the gravy,
like just the hard working, hot, warm, cozy food.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
All right, Now that we're hungry, Yeah, well we gotta,
we gotta, we gotta break coming up where we can
actually have a couple of minutes ago get something to eat.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Bring on the pop tart.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Heavenly, there's something.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
I think.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
I have a yogurt out there in the refrigerator. I
had two of them, but somebody swiped one.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
Not me.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
I didn't say, I'm not putting the blame.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
On any Okay, you looked at me like, oh, go
grab yourself a pop tart yourself. We'll be back. The
Blue Daddy Experienced salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy w w.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
VA, indeed number one talk 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. WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
We'll get in the festive spirit because joining us now,
I'm so excited about this. We are talking to Sarah Evans.
He's going to be joining us here in Wheeling on
December fifth.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Good morning, Good morning, how are.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
You so so good? Thank you for taking the time
to jump on with us this morning. We're going to
talk about your holiday road tour coming December fifth, right
here to the Capitol Theater in Wheeling. So tell us
what's in What's what's going to be happening here on
the Capitol Theater stage.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Well, we've been doing this Christmas tour for a long time.

Speaker 7 (35:59):
We try to change it.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Up a little bit every year, but it's so much
fun because you know, it's a break from just playing
all the normal songs that we do year round, and
it's a very old fashioned show with a lot of
all of the Christmas songs that totally take you back

(36:21):
and you know, it's very nostalgic and it's just a
really fun night. And we also play a lot of
the hits as well.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
So in your mind, what makes like the ultimate Christmas show?
Is it a combination of the classics and some of
the newer stuff? What is the ultimate Christmas show for you?

Speaker 5 (36:41):
I think, to me, just the fact if it's good,
like if the music is great and the singing is great,
and everybody's moved by, you know, the religious aspect of
these songs, which I love to choose those. We have
a couple of you know, really big quiet it highlight
moments in the show that you know, usually I look

(37:05):
out and see people crying and I just love it.
I love it so much, and it's not easy. I'll
tell you that these songs are you know, they've got
a lot of chords in them. They're different than just
your three chord country song, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
You know, you said you've been doing this tour for
a while now, and we know that you've been here
at the Capitol Theater with your Christmas show in the past.
How do you keep it fresh just by.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
You know, kind of starting to think about it in
the summer and like what do we want to do
different and what do we want to keep the same.
And you know, as you go along and do them,
you you get the reaction from the audience, so you
know which things are working and which things are you know,
more popular. And like last year, oh, this certain song

(37:53):
didn't really go over that well, so we're changing that.
Just trying to be as creative as possible and also
make it, you know, a really cozy, fun night that
gets everybody in the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
And you mentioned earlier the word nostalgia. This time a year,
of course, brings back memories for everybody. Do you have
a favorite Christmas memory or say a Christmas tradition that
you celebrate with your friends and family.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
Well, every Christmas Eve we go to my brother Matt's
house and we do non traditional food. He makes lasagna. Okay,
so we go to church on Christmas Eve, go to
his house, have lasagna, and then we play catchphrase or
some kind of game, and we do dirty fanta. Is
that what it's called, you know, where you steal each

(38:43):
other's gifts. Some people will call it pink el. What
is it called white white elephant? Yeah, we do that,
and then Christmas morning, everybody is at my house and
we open gifts and then I make a huge Christmas
breakfast and then Christmas Day we'll eat even more food,

(39:04):
as though we need more. Right at that point, the
best part of the holidays is going to be the
most special one I think I've ever had in my
life because of John Evans, who is six weeks old
and so it's his first Christmas.

Speaker 6 (39:20):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
That's that's it's fun. Excited, Yeah, that's what it's fun.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
So you know, it says we know that you've started
a podcast called Diving in Deep. You've had a wide
variety of guests and everything else. Why don't you give
us a little information on.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Net the podcast is, we're kind of on a hiatus
right now because we're going with another company and you know,
making a new set, and so we're hoping to be
able to relaunch in the beginning of twenty six. And
I'm also going in the studio and making new music
in twenty six. So twenty six is a combo of

(39:58):
touring but also new music, new podcasts, all that stuff,
so and new new grand baby. So very very busy
as always.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
You've been in the business now for you know, thirty years,
or so, what what's the biggest change that you've seen
since you've come into the industry to today.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Well, the biggest, biggest, biggest change is you know, the
lack of record sales and the way that artists make money,
and you know how music is basically kind of given away.
So it's it's a lot it's a lot more difficult
to sort of make a living at it as it

(40:43):
used to be used to be. You know, where you
do the the stories that everybody hears. You moved to Nashville,
You get a record deal, you make a record, you
go out on tour, your label is supporting you, and
now you know, you can have one TikTok that goes
incredibly viral, and you might get signed to a label
and go out and have this big tour where you

(41:05):
have like one song. It's just very very different, and
you know, then you have all the AI stuff that's
coming in that I hope and pray does not replace
real musicians, real songwriters, real singers. I really pride myself on,
you know, keeping everything super real, super authentic, and you know,

(41:29):
not using that stuff to make me sound better. I
just want it to be the best, and that's the
thing with my shows. To me, it's all about the music.
And so my biggest priority is having the best musicians
that I can afford and do the best show that

(41:50):
I can and you know, sing the songs better than
I even sing them on the record. And I want
people to go away going, oh my gosh, that's the
best sounding show that I've heard in a long time,
rather than the other details, like you know, the set

(42:11):
and all of that. I just am all about the
music and always have been.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Really yeah, you know, it's people's natural, god given talent
should be celebrated in not lost with technology increasing.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Yeah, and if you you know, we take it too
far with technology, then we're going to lose the heart
of music and in the heart of movies and TV
shows and art in general. And I just really really
want that part to stay away from, you know, because
we have amazing producers and writers and musicians that you

(42:49):
don't want them all to lose their jobs because of AI.
And that's a little stressful, you know, when you're wanting
to make this your career, right, I would say that's
the biggest change.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Well, in one final question before we let you go, Sarah,
Sarah again, we're talking to Sarah Evans. Going to be
here December fifth, here at the Capitol Theater with Holiday
road tour. When when folks leave the show here and Wheeling,
when you visit us, how do you want them to
walk away? What's the feeling you want them to walk
away with?

Speaker 5 (43:19):
I want them to walk away wiping their tears from
their eyes, because it's a very emotional show, like it's
it's kind of an emotional roller coaster with you know,
happy Christmas songs, and then we do some really serious moments,
and I love the religious aspects of Christmas music, and

(43:41):
so we do a lot of those, but also we
play some of the hits, and so I want them
to go away just with their you know, breath, having
been taken away from how great everything's sounded, and that's
the most important thing to me. Well, I can tell
you I want them to go away crying, but it's
a good cry.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
I can tell you that your Christmas show is one
of the most popular shows here when we're Wheeling, because
we recently gave away some tickets to your show, and
our phones were blowing up because people are begging us
for tickets for your show.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Oh my gosh, that's so nice. Thank you, that's great. Well,
we can't wait to see you really do put a
lot into it. And like I said, it's and my daughter,
one of the three of my children, is going to
be out with me on this tour this year, so
that'll be great.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Oh, what a cool aspect to add to the show. Well,
once again, Sarah Evans, thank you so much for your
time this morning.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
Well, thank you, thank you guys for everything.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
And mark the holidays to you.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Thank you, same to you.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Same to you. There she goes, great day, Oh you two,
there she goes. Ladies and gentlemen. Sarah Evans performing here
at the Capitol Theater, December fifth, the Holiday Road Tour.
You're listening to the Bloom Daddy Experience here on news
Radio eleven seventy Wwvaare lection Welcome back to Glen Daddy

(45:06):
Experience on your Friday morning here on news radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Let's talk some sports. It's a big sports weekend,
especially if you are a college football fan, not.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Just college high school. I think all the state playoffs
are going off going on.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Oh are they They're not done?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
No, this is this state, the West Virginia State playoffs
this weekend. In fact, I'm sorry. Later tonight at seven pm,
Wieliing Central will be taking on the Fighting CBS from
Clay Btel in for the club, I believe the Class
A state championship.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Oh okay, what is a fighting CB?

Speaker 3 (45:43):
CB is a like a naval term. Oh okay, I'm
not sure, but I think they took the name CBS because.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Of Clay Hotel. I got youa. Okay, all right, that's.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
So good luck to the Marion Knights, bring home another
championship to the Northern Panhandles.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
I say, they've got a couple under their belt.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, we'll just get from there. We just leave it then, just.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
A few, just a few. But I started this off with,
of course, talking about college football. The game of the
week for me and I believe Devo probably, of course,
is the Big Ten Championship happening Saturday night actually in Indiana,
Indiana at Lucas Oil Stadium. Ohio State, ranked number one,

(46:24):
takes on number two Indiana. It's gonna be on Fox.
I believe both teams are currently undefeated. Now, of course,
the team that wins gets a ticket straight into Both
teams are going I was gonna ask you that both
both will wind up going there.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. Let's say Indiana, I
mean you have one versus two. I don't know if
if two beats one, like by a field goal, it's
not Is it really an upset? I don't. I wouldn't
say that it would be.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Would it really affect the rank?

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Like a one and a five if a one in
five or a one and a four playing or something
of that nature, and it's a close game, and let's
say the lower seed wins, I wouldn't call it an upset.
Now if Indiana comes in and beats him by thirty,
then I would call that an upset. Yeah, you know,
But I mean I don't think either teams like they

(47:25):
haven't played a lot of teams with winning records. Let's
put it that way.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Both teams are beatable. It's not like it's not like
either one is. You know, as a Buckeyes fan, you know,
I want to say they're unbeatable, but let's be let's
be honest.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Tier everybody's beatable. Yeah, I mean a high state goes
out and fumbles the ball twice or three times and
they throw two interceptions. I guess what odds are you're
probably gonna get beat well, and and if you lose.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
The fumbles last week, you know, we came out and
immediately through an interception, there's no tanto, all right versus Michigan,
and I thought, oh oh, but of course we turn
you know, they turned it around. And but it's either way,
it's gonna be a good football game. Again. That's Saturday
night at eight o'clock. Is that right? Eight or seven

(48:13):
o'clock at eight o'clock, I'm sorry, And it is on Fox.
So of course number one O High State takes on
number two Indiana, and I.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Will have to tune in later to see what the
score was.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
No, I'm sure Davo will keep you up to dates.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
I will be at a concert.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Oh okay, Davo, you can, you can.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
I'm surprised he hasn't texted you.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
You con vent to me throughout the game as you're
pacing the floor watching it. Also, staying along the lines
of football, it's a big weekend for Steeler fans. Steelers
take on the Ravens in an AFC North match up.
Both teams are six and six going into this, but
currently somebody's gonna.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
End up six to seven. Really, I didn't know what
that was until I told you the other day. No,
and it's so stupid.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
It is so stupid. But currently in a tiebreaker situation,
Baltimore is uh leading in the head to head on
that one. So the Browns host the Titans on Sunday
and then Cincinnati takes on the Bills.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
So not exactly Listen, the the AFC North is not nope,
out of reach for any of these teams. I mean,
I understand, like since he's four and eight, the Browns
are three and nine. If the ball bounces the right way,
And you know, I mean obviously, when you when you're

(49:39):
in your division, somebody's got to win, somebody's gotta lose,
like Baltimore Pittsburgh. So somebody's gonna be seven and six,
somebody's gonna be six and seven. There's a ninety nine
percent chance of that because they get the one percent
chances there could end in a tie. But you know,
so if if Cleveland wins, they're going to be four nine.

(49:59):
If since he wins, they're gonna be five and eight,
there's still only going to be two and three games
out of first place. So I mean, I don't think
I don't think you're going to see any wild cards
coming out of the AFC North.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
No, no, well. And back to the Steelers Ravens game,
so it is, it's going to be in Baltimore. So
Baltimore is going to have the home field advantage. And
I don't care what anybody says. That makes a difference
in a game.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Not so much in the NFL, you don't think.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
No well. And then on top of that, Pittsburgh is
seeing some turmoil and if you didn't see earlier in
the week, Ben Roethlisberger threw his hat into the ring
when it comes to the conversation about fire Tomlin, which
was being chanted at the game against the Bills. He said,
I quote, maybe it's a clean it's a clean house time.
And I like coach Tomlin. I have a lot of

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respect for coach Tomlin. So didn't really say to get
rid of me, but also saying it's time to make
time for change, clean house.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
So well, I mean, sometimes you get a little long
in the tooth, and let's be honest, you don't carry
the same weight.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
That you did fifteen years ago.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Well, or maybe the players, you know, you give the
players a little more breathing room, and then they kind
of take advantage of it, and then you're not as disciplined.
And I think there's a lot of things that play
in the deck. You see it a lot in obviously baseball.
I mean very rarely does any coach stay as long
as Tomlin has. I mean, it's it's rare in these days.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Well, and that's I mean, there's that's where Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh
has been successful, is they stick with a coach. It's
not constant turn turnover like in the Cleveland. I mean,
Pittsburgh hasn't won a playoff game since twenty seventeen, so.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
I dont get it.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I mean that's, uh, that's been a while, and for
Steeler fans, that's a long time. They're not used to,
uh to that.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Yep. Well, let's close out this segment. Don't forget. The
Nailers are at home this weekend for three games against
the Greensboro gart Royles. Tonight is a frosty Friday, Tomorrow
is Wizard and One's Night, and Sunday is Century Day.
Huck Drop Tonight Tomorrow is seven ten pm. Sunday four
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Speaker 2 (52:09):
With that, you're listening to The bloom Daddy Experience, samon
Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back on your Friday,

(52:29):
The bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA Otis. Here's a name we haven't heard for a while. Okay,
and listen. Every time I see his name come up,
it makes me laugh. And I don't know why. It
might be his partnership with Martha Stewart. It just there's
something about Snoop Dogg that I find incredibly entertaining. But

(52:53):
he's back in the news because if you remember during
the last Olympics, he was.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Like an ambassador.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Yeah, like man on the street type of thing, and
very successful. It was.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
It was a very it was a successful stint for
NBC and people were tuning in too Snoop's segments, so
to speak.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Well, he's taking it even more seriously this time around
because he has canceled his planned New Year's Eve special
with NBC because he wants to focus even more on
his correspondent role for his twenty twenty six Milana Cortina

(53:34):
Winter Olympics. So he is he is in for this?

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Well, you know, I think I think he understands where,
you know, if something's working, let's keep rolling with it
while it's working, because eventually it's going to run its course.
Everything does.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I didn't even realize he did anything for New Year's Eve.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Well, I guess back in May he signed a deal
to do a two hour special and there was going
to be I think it was supposed to be in
Miami and he was gonna have all kind of special
guests and everything else because he said, after he made
this announcement, he said, you know, don't worry in twenty
twenty six at the you know, we're gonna be bigger, back,
bigger and better for twenty twenty six New Year's Eve. So,

(54:18):
I mean, the thing about Snoop is, I mean, he's
a hot commodity right now, and whether it's in advertising,
whether it's and I read something I can't remember where
I read it, but he allegedly has a super high IQ. Okay,
I don't remember where I read it. It was about

(54:39):
it was about I don't know if it was like
artists or actors or something that have high IQSH.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
And he made the list. Basically, he was.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
On that list. And you know, I can't remember there
was there's been a there were a couple like actors
that graduated from like MIT and and you know, I
think Matt Damon's on that list, and there's a few others.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
I'm sure mine Bill Blossom. Yeah, she's like a rockets.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Yes, I mean, well I think neuroscience was her.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Is that what it was?

Speaker 3 (55:08):
I think so? Yeah, But yeah, I mean there's his name.
He was on that list. And you know, it's funny
because you think about where he came from. I mean,
he was a gang member at one point in time,
and because he talks about the crypts and if you
look at old videos and stuff, he's there's of course

(55:30):
I learned this in my training, but he would give
he would give gang scigns in some of his videos
or like if if they were filming him getting off
of a bus, so you know, if it was like
TMZ or somebody like, he'd flash a crypt sign or
you know, he'd give a hand signal that was like hey,
crips or you know, but.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
If you didn't know what to look for, he did what.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
To look for. You'd never notice it interesting, so, you know,
but uh, it's it's kind of neat that, you know.
I mean, I thought he did great with the with
the Olympics, and then of course he was back in
La because at the end of the Olympics they had
kind of like a little concert on the beach which
with the red hot chili peppers, and I think Snoop

(56:09):
and Dre were on there and and I can't oh,
Billie Eilish, I think was on it. But it was
like the end of the Paris Olympics, and it was
the transformation to the LA Olympics, you know, like for
for twenty twenty eight, for.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
The passing of the torch more or less.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Yeah, literally, entertainment wise, Yeah, but Snoop's not the only
person in the news for the Uh well wait a.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Second, I just want to see Snoop do curling? What winter?
What sport should he? Should he try out? Ice skating, curling,
bob sledding, luge.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Or you lay on your back on that sled and
there's no you fly? Yeah, pretty much. I don't think.
I don't think you're gonna see Snoop downhill ski. The
funny thing was so I was at the Transplant Games
in twenty nineighteen, and there was a guy that I met.
We were on a train going to Scotland because there
was like eight of us going up Okay, and Lloyd

(57:06):
is his name, and he's from southern California and he's
African American black. So he said he made the comment
that he competed in the World Transplant Games in the
Winter Olympics. And I said, what are you What are
you competing in the Winter Olympics, you know, you know,
what are you competing in? And he goes, are you

(57:27):
asking me that because I'm black? I said, no, I'm
asking because you live in south southern California. I mean,
what do you practice it? And everybody just bustled, because
I mean when he looked at me, because we really
didn't know each other, and he goes, are you asking
me that because I'm black, and like he was serious,
and everybody just stopped and he got like dead quiet

(57:49):
on this train. I said, no, it's because you live
in southern California. I mean, it's not that you couldn't
go to Vail or someplace like that and ski, but
you just don't think of people in southern California, like
ice skating and skiing and everything else. So but yeah,
I mean if you'd just seen like everybody, six other

(58:10):
people just froze, well yeah, and it was just and
then when when I said that, everybody just busted out laugh.
But yeah, Snoop's not the only uh huh the wrapper
from the Summer Olympics that is jumping into the Winter Olympics.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Would we say eighties or nineties rap star? Okay, all right,
flavor flave, flavor flav.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
He is throwing uh, he's throwing his cards in the
in the hopper for he's going to be the official
hype man for the USA bob sled and skeleton teams.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
So he would he's a little dude, he is.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
He did that big clock on hanging around his neck.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
You would shoot off like a rocket on one of
those things.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
He said it's cooler than cool Runnings. He said, it's
the coolest runnings. So you know, it's just uh, but
here's the thing. He's sixty six years old. Oh my gosh, Okay,
so you know the thing about it is again he
threw his he threw he kept behind the women's water
polo team because they needed some financial assistance.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Oh he didn't know that for the Olympics, okay.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
So he kind of put him out on social media.
People were donating to help offset some costs for training
and stuff like that for the water polo team. And
again he was by having him behind them, it like pumped.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Yeah, brought the spotlight.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Yeah. Absolutely. And so just to say, you know, just
to have flavor flav for your bob sled and skeleton,
I mean, it can't get any better than that?

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Did Flavor Flavor?

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Find love?

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Wasn't he with Brigitte Nielsen in that one? Like they
that for a long time.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Like that wasn't it? But then he ended up having
his own oh flavor flip of love.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Yeah, just FLI Yeah. So the Winter Olympics coming up,
I believe in February, and I guess it'll be on
NBC and all their.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
All their because subsidiaries or whatever the term is.

Speaker 4 (01:00:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
One of the things we've got coming up is Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Oh yeah we do.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
And if you are into if you don't want to
do a whole bunch of cooking, but maybe maybe we'll
call it reheating if you're like me. Yeah, So there
is a Perogi and Cabby droll sale down at the
r Lady of Perpetual Help, Ukrainian Catholic Church down at
Jacob Street in Wheeling. The phone number there is three
or four two three two one seven seven seven. The
last day to order your order is Thursday the eleventh,

(01:00:42):
and you get to pick them up on Thursday the eighteenth.
Leave your order on the answering machine. Perrogi flavors are
potato and cheese, potato, cheese and onion and Sauer Kraut.
There's seven bucks a dozen and if you want Cabby drolls,
they're two fifty each, so you can order as many
as you want. If you want twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Of them, you're making me hungry now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Oh and I can tell you this. I know somebody.
I know the people that make the proogies. You have
one hundred year old Olga.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
You have my mom who moves around like she's one
hundred years old. Oh well, she'll tell you that Olga
out hustles her. But my mom and Olga and my godmother,
they all work on the parogi.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Do you give a stamp of approval?

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Absolutely? Again, that's that the our Lady of Perpetual Help
Ukrainian Church in South Wheeling three O four two three
two one seven seven seven leave your voicemail or they
do have an email, how about that? O L P
h WHG at gmail dot com. Can we can we
scan this and put this on their Facebook?

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Okay, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Can do that. Easyps there you go, EASYPZ are going
to jump to a quick break. You're listening to the
Bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis, News Radio eleven seventy w
w VA. Welcome back on your Friday morning, the Bloom

(01:02:04):
Dotty Experience. Otis and Sam here on news radio eleven
seventy WWVA. But we have a guest in the studio.
All right now listen, folks. I know we have talked
about eating today, so this is a little bit the
polar opposite. But it's that time of year, once we
get past Christmas, we've got to start talking health, you know,

(01:02:27):
so please welcome to the show. Seana Larisse, the owner
of the New Wheeling Feeling Nutrition, Good morning, good morning, Well,
thank you so much for coming in.

Speaker 7 (01:02:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
This is gonna be a good conversation because we love
to talk local, we love to support local and you
just opened your doors.

Speaker 7 (01:02:45):
Correct, correct, November eighth, We opened up, but we had
our official grand opening last Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
And for those of us that aren't familiar, kind of
give us a background and what everything Wheeling Feeling Nutrition offers.

Speaker 7 (01:03:00):
Wheeling Feeling Nutrition offers you a healthy option for a
meal replacement. So instead of having that big bowl of
cereal or that waffle in the morning, we want you
to have a healthy protein shake, a healthy protein bowl instead,
which are very filling, give you all the calories and
nutrients your body needs and fuels you for the start
of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
What's in a protein bowl?

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
So our protein bowls have a base to them that's thick,
almost like ice cream. We have several different ones to offer.
You can get topped with granola, peanut butter. We have
all kinds of fresh fruit to put on top of them. Honey,
whatever you want. We have eight different bowls to offer
and they're all nutritionous and I'm good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
What inspired you to go this route?

Speaker 7 (01:03:45):
Well, I injured my knee a few years back, gained
a ton of weight and said I had to lose weight.
So I talked to my neighbor who's a personal trainer
and she started talking about the importance of protein in
your diet. So looking for ways to get protein in
my diet led me to Mounds and Nutrition, which is

(01:04:05):
in Moundsville, which is also a nutritious store.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Like we are.

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
And I started doing their protein shakes down there, and
I fell so in love with it that I said,
let me work here part time. So I started working
there part time. I was telling my friends about it.
My friends from Wheeling were coming down there. They kept saying, Oh,
we need something, and Wheeling to do this, and that
led me to opening Wheeling Feeling Nutrition and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Along with the you know, of course the consumption and
the eating, do you work with people for a plan
because everybody's body is different, It's true, everybody's tastes are different.
So do you work with individuals to reach their goals?

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
Well, we do have challenges going on all the time
where you can join us. We have one starting this Saturday.
Actually it's a no gain challenge. There's a small buy
in for it. You can join us. We're going to
have personal coaching. We have like a Facebook messenger group
where everyone's in the group. You come in and weigh
in weekly. We'll give you workouts, we'll suggest meal plans

(01:05:05):
to you and if you join that and at the end,
if you start it one weight and you're still that
weight at the end of this challenge, which is how
this one is working, we'll give you your money.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Back and and and you know our otis in there.

Speaker 7 (01:05:17):
I do and he's been in several of my challenges
and done very very well.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Well, that's because I load up before I know when
it's going to happen that way, you know, No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
So that's who you're texting your number, your you're way into.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Yeah, she gets the pictures of my scale and number
of steps.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Okay, I didn't put two and two together there. Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:05:39):
Yeah, he's done several of my challenges and he's actually
done very well.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Were you part of the Turkey Trot and the Twinkle try?

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
I did a twinkle trot with him.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
Yes, she didn't do the turkey trick. I did not
do the Turkey trt.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
So, so back to the wheeling feeling. Where you're located
in win woods reducated in Woodsdale. We are actually in
the bottom of our home. When I reached out to
my husband, told my one to do this. We had
been redoing our house. We were going to change the
way the house was set up. We had previously rented
the downstairs, and he's like, if you want to do this,

(01:06:14):
why not just do it downstairs. So I went to
the City of Wheeling, got it approved, did a lot
of work with Runcle Construction, who helped me along the
way get everything we needed. And you open in the
downstairs of our house.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
No rent, that's good for tax purposes. You should pay
rent to yourself. Come up with an LLC. Have an LLC.
So now the other thing is you said you talked
about the protein bowls, the protein shakes. You also offer
any icing teas, yeah, and you also offer protein balls
protein balls.

Speaker 7 (01:06:47):
Yes, we have energizing teas. We say, don't have that.
I don't want to say the name. But instead we
have a healthy option for energy. Okay. Our teas have
about one hundred and sixty milligrams of caffeine. They're healthy
for you, they're fat burning. They give you the energy
that you would get on from a normal energy drink.
But our version is healthy with loaded with B twelve,

(01:07:08):
all kinds of good stuff for you. And then we
also have protein balls. We do peanut butter and oreo
at my location. They're a quick snack. They're eighty two
hundred calories depending on which one they're filling, and it's
a healthy option that gives you more protein.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
So how does it? How does a protein ball with oreos?

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Thank you, that's what I We.

Speaker 7 (01:07:25):
Only put a little bit of oreo in there, just a.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Little bit, just to get that chocolate, to get that tape. Okay,
as soon as you said that, So wait a second,
I've never heard oreo and healthy in the same.

Speaker 7 (01:07:35):
Sense, And believe or not, people are crazy about those oreo.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
And you do do seasonal protein shakes as well. We do.

Speaker 7 (01:07:42):
We just for our grand opening, we launched launched our
Christmas menu which has lots of nice peppermint in there
for the season, and we have some peppermint mocha. We
have some Christmas sugar cookies and different things for the
season that remind you of Christmas and give you that
Christmas feel, but still give you that protein you need.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Well, and you mentioned weight loss you know a couple times,
but what you offer isn't just necessarily for weight loss,
it's just health in general.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
It's healthy. We have people who also come to us
and say, hey, we need to gain weight. We need
more protein in our diet. We've had people who've come
in and said, I have gastric bypass. I can only
eat so much, but I'm not getting enough protein. I
had a lady come in last weekend, which was so nice,
and she's like, this really helps me. I talked to
her afterwards and she's like, I got the nutrition I
need and I had that full feeling that I'm looking for.

(01:08:29):
So we can help with a variety of things.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
But we got about one minute left, So get to
the cardio drumming.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
Yeah, okay. We offer a free cardio drumming class every
Tuesday at five thirty at the House of the Carpenter.
There's two other girls who do cardio drumming. Three other girls.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
There's a class at Union Local, a class at Zavir
Hall and on Wednesdays, and there's a class in Barnesville
on Thursdays, all free. You can come. It's a forty
five minute routine. All you need is a bucket and
a ball and sticks and join us and we have
so much fun.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Tim is a regular.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Are there?

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Otis?

Speaker 7 (01:09:01):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
But and you told me he's an overachiever.

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
He is an overachiever. He likes his jumping jack.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
That's the term that one of the other that my
god cousin gave me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Yes and he got rhythm to the music he does.

Speaker 7 (01:09:16):
He has the rhythm that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Comes from playing basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
I think I need a video of that there. Yeah,
well again. Seana Larisse, the owner of the new Wheeling
Feeling Nutrition in Woodsdale. Go chuck him out. It sounds
uh peanut butter oreo balls. That sounds up my alley
stop by. Thank you for popping. Thank you, and good
luck with everything. Thank you, I appreciate it. You're listening

(01:09:41):
to let me see you Monday.

Speaker 7 (01:09:42):
Oh we're out.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
That's right, We'll talk to you Monday. The Blue Daddy Experience.
We'll see you on Monday.