The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 8, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience did seven oh six on news
radio eleven seventy. The big story Republicans won that hotly
contested congressional election in Tennessee. A lot of people thought
this was a test 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.

(00:42):
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, but they Democrats cut it in half as
far as the last time your thoughts on this, Yeah, Moon.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
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 checker 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. Yet yet I

(01:23):
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 3 (01:40):
Oh, without a doubt, And you're right, a win is
a win. But let me ask you this. 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 5 (01:56):
What do you read out of that?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, I think that's you know, nationwide, 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,

(02:20):
So it is something 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

(02:43):
in popularity, and 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

(03:03):
red if we 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

(03:26):
that will 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 5 (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 form. But we know that he's
not capable of that, So what else could he do?

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Well? 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

(04:29):
and 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 to 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? Blue Daddy, you would never have me back on.
And you know, the media, they're just doing their job.

(04:51):
And 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
charis 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 Afton 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. But

(05:54):
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 their

(06:15):
ideas resonating with so many people.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
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

(06:41):
bringing out. She did do like ten years ago, she
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
a candidates that are more more towards the middle than
we will, the Republican Party will be able to be successful.
Right now, the Democrats are putting some people up there

(07:01):
that are just kind of shocking in what they're thinking
and saying. But hey, we'll be talking 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'll
somebody come on and say, oh, oh, we don't like
shad Or Sanders, But I think the country kind of

(07:23):
enjoys what's going on with the brown So wish you
the best and always great to be with you.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
No problem.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
We'll do this again, Dan, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
All right, stay winning.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Seven eighteen. Good Monday morning, The bloom Daddy experienced Sam
and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. I hope you
had a good weekend. I had an incredibly busy weekend.
We'll get into that here a little bit in a
few seconds here, but I wanted to first off, kick

(07:57):
off and let you know about something new we have today.
We have two chances for you to win this morning,
and it's new. It's new, So we have two pairs
of tickets to the new Golden Ticket Cinemas at the

(08:19):
Ohio Valley Mall. Now, a couple weeks ago, I was
out there for the soft opening, if you will, and
brought you behind the scenes images and videos of what
the new theater is like. And now I have tickets
for you. So that is going to be coming up
here a bit later in the show. So we have

(08:40):
those this morning, and then coming up in the show,
we have a two part interview with Detective Ryan Ahller
of the Belmont County Sheriff's Department. Now, if you're not
familiar with that name, he is one of the main
detectives on the Stretch homicide. It's a really good interview.
It's very interesting, a little behind the scenes. Now, of course,

(09:01):
it is still in the process of working its way
through the legal system, the trial and the arrest I mean,
I'm sorry, the legal courtroom side of this is now
in the process of proceeding. So you know, there's some
stepping around what can't be talked about, but you want
to hear this interview that's coming up in here in

(09:24):
a bit coming up next after that, after this segment,
so stay tuned for that. So anyways, back to the weekend.
I hope everybody had a good weekend. Like I said,
I had an incredibly busy weekend. One thing I want
to kick off with is Operation Toy Lift. Now this
was year nine. We have been with toy Lifts since

(09:44):
the beginning, and I must say every year it gets
better and better. Now, if you follow us on social media,
you had the opportunity to see me basically freak out.
I am deathly afraid of heights and it was very
apparent when I went up in the bucket truck and

(10:08):
the video that I took while that was going on,
I was basically hunched halfway down in the in the bucket.
So yeah, it was not my finest moment. I was
absolutely terrified. The gentleman that was with me that works
for AEP in the truck was very patient with me,
so I want to say thank you to him. But

(10:30):
I have decided next year it is not going to
be me. I believe it is Otis's turn to go
up in the air, and I'm sure he'd be oh yeah,
that's no problem. Yep, mister big man. So it is
it is his turn next time, or our dear friend
Corey from w v K, I think it. I think

(10:51):
it's their turn. But listen, the event is great. The
event is awesome because of all the different entities that
are in that make it happen, but also because of
you here in the Ohio Valley stepped up once again
and brought tons, absolutely tons of toys for the boys,

(11:11):
the girls, the teenagers. It's heart heartwarming. It absolutely is heartwarming.
And then, of course, yesterday I got to participate in
the Saint Clairsville Christmas Parade. Help lined up and was
part of the organization organizing team volunteered for that beautiful event,
huge parade, over eighty floats. So shout out to Lisa

(11:34):
and the entire team with the Saint Clairsville Area Chamber
of Commerce for making the parade happen once again this year.
It was a great event. I got to meet Connor
the Clydesdale who basically my entire hand went in his
mouth when I was trying to feed him some trees,
So that was fun. There's nothing like horse slobber on
your hand. Yeah, that was. That was a good time.

(11:57):
But also congratulations to our dear friends of show Kirk
and Judy Porterfield. They were I always get the name
of oh grand Marshal. I'm sorry, that's it. They were
the grand Marshal of the parade. So congratulations to them,

(12:17):
well deserved. Their families date back, I believe, over two
hundred years in Belmont County, so congratulations to them being
the grand marshals of the parade. Now, I just mentioned
how wonderful in giving the Ohio Valley is, and it is.

(12:37):
It absolutely is. That's one of my favorite parts about
the living in this area, born and raised. It's one
of the most proud parts of being a citizen of
the Ohigh Valley. I do want to touch on the
big announcement or the big press release that came out
Saturday from the City of Wheels, and this goes back

(13:01):
to the top story that's been going you know, that's
been on everybody's radar for about a week now, which is,
of course, is the closing of the homeless encampment in
the full and area here and Wheeling. Well, the city
put out a release letting us know the aftermath of

(13:22):
closing down this one encampment. Forty one thousand dollars. Folks,
forty one thousand dollars was spent to clean it up. Now,
I shared on our Facebook page one of the images
that the city shared in this announcement. It's disgusting. It's

(13:43):
a dump. It was a dump. Now keep in mind,
this is property owned by the city that they I
guess gave for the for the homeless to live on,
and they treated it like a dump. Now, we talked
about this last week, but once these numbers come out,

(14:03):
this is where it is. I think it's shocking for people,
and of course the keyboard warriors on social media. I'd
clean it up for half of that, and I do
the why is it so much money? Well, it was
thirteen from what I've been told, it was thirteen roll
up on the major dumpsters, not the short square, squatty

(14:26):
ones that the city trucks can dump. No, we're talking
the flat bed roll up, full size, huge dumpsters. Thirteen
was cleaned out of there. Thirteen dumpsters of trash. But
here's my question, before it was trash, and before a
lot of that stuff was treated that way, how much

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of that was donations? How much of that was donated blankets, clothes, tens,
and so on. How much of that was given by
our community to help out the homeless and it was
treated that way. And I don't want to sound cold,
and I don't want to sound inhumane because these are

(15:08):
human beings, don't get me wrong. But my question to
you is when is enough enough? So this time around,
it was forty one, three hundred and fifty dollars to
clean that up. I've got some other numbers for you.
Seventy five thousand dollars was allocated in November of this

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year for temporary housing and significant other costs. That was
given by the city. So there's another seventy five thousand
dollars dating back to let's see here on September of
twenty twenty three through March of twenty twenty four, it
cost approximately seventy seven thousand, six hundred and twenty two

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dollars to clean up other camps at that point in time.
That is a lot of money that's just cleaning up.
And then the donation or the approved money from the
city council of seventy five thousand. But we're not what

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is not in those figures the man power for the
city you know, the police department or EMTs. There is
so much that goes into all of this. My question
to you is when is enough enough. I've been following
on social media a lot of the comments that we're
on the City of Wheeling posts the keyboard Warriors that,

(16:32):
of course, oh you mean it's nasty. There was no this,
there was no that. There was no warning. Yeah, there
was warning back in October that they were shutting it down.
This is an ongoing problem. So for those that want
to sit behind a keyboard and judge and criticize and
call people mean and call people evil, do you have

(16:54):
an idea? How do you make people go into shelters
when they don't want to follow the r And when
are the people Wheeling, the taxpayers who are funding this,
when are they going to be put first? That's my
question for you. But coming up on Thursday, we have
a special guest coming into the studio to talk about
this who actually does have ideas and a plan, and

(17:17):
that's doctor Norman Woods. That's going to be a great
conversation about this topic. But we got to jump to
a quick break. It's seven twenty eight. The bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back on

(17:41):
this Monday, the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Joining us in the studio, we have
special guest Detective Ryan Aller of the Belmont County Sheriff's Department.
Thank you so much for coming in this morning.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
First of all, that's my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
And of course we're going to talk about the Strettion
double homicide. Want to get into some details on that
with you. Now, this happened September twenty first of twenty
twenty one, so we are going on over four and
a half years since the incident happened at this point,

(18:19):
very close to that, yes, yeah, and the issue struck
a lot of people. This was this was a crime
for Belmont County in the Ohio Valley that we haven't
seen in a long time to this level.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Hopefully we don't write yes quite sometimes yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Before we get into that though, how long have you
been a detective?

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Detective since five? About twenty years now, so.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Twenty years have you come across or have you been
involved with a crime to this level before?

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yes, but you get up to this level every thing's
a little different. Yeah, I think cases just as bad
as this, not cases as complex as this.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I love that word because this is an incredibly
complex case and story. So let's dive into the morning
of September twenty first, twenty twenty one. When you walked
into the home of the victims of the double homicide,
Tom and Angela Struschen. What hit you first?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Dude?

Speaker 6 (19:26):
There's a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
There, and I know you can't go into a lot
of details now untunately can because everything is still pending
with the case.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
I remember personally thinking this was going to be a lot,
It was going to take a lot. It just had
the air of being complex, and I had no clue
just how complex it was going to be at the time.
You get in earth these scenes and you've got to
try to piece together what happened. And it was one

(19:58):
of the craziest scenes I've ever.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Been to, for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
And you said, you know, piece together the scenes. What
is when when you're investigating something like this, what are
the first steps that you take as an investigator in.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Any suspicious death? You want to first the first thing
is to preserve evidence, so you you got not just
in this case. In all cases, if you have somebody
that's deceased, usually around the time you arrive, law enforcement
gets on. The first responders you gonna scene em mess

(20:36):
will show up and try to do their jobs. And
if it's obvious that the person isn't want us anymore,
you know, you got to get get to get everybody
out as soon as possible so you can preserve evidence.
And sometimes that's difficult to do, but that's that's the
first number one thing that we do, once we make
sure that the scene.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Is safe and as you said, preserve the evidence. Because
once it gets into the trial stage, you know, everything
that happens in the first power of officials onseene that
all comes into the trial. So all of the chain
of custody, the security of all the evidence, all of
that comes into you know, high importance.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Oh yeah, I mean pretty much everything you do from
start to finish can come into the trail. And so
you really got to document well, and you be an
open book. You know, it's not everything needs to be
put out there. You can't hide stuff, not that we
would even want to, but you got anything you do,

(21:39):
you got to think that hundreds and hundreds of people
might be looking at it and reviewing it in the future,
especially when you get into a death penalty case.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
And that's where we're at. Yes, this is a death
penalty case. So to go back to the particulars of
the of course, the victims are Tom and Angela's struction.
They were the owners of Salsage Joe's restaurant in Belmont, Ohio,
but then had opened a second location in Elm Grove,
Salsa Joe's three oh four. So they were, you know,

(22:08):
prominent members of the community, and I think that was
that's one of the things that really caught the attention
because you know, if you went to the restaurants, you
saw Tom, I mean he was there all the time,
you know, always greeting the customers. So I think that
was one of the things that really captivated people with
what happened, and of course the brutality and how horrible
it was. But as you mentioned earlier, this case spanned,

(22:31):
you know, the investigation, it's been over three and a
half years of investigating pushing four yeah, four that it
took you all the way to Hawaii, yes, and to
arrest now who is facing trial Andrew Isaac Griffin, who
is native to actually Oklahoma. Correct, Yeah, thirty three years

(22:52):
old and took him. He took you all the way
to Hawaii to arrest him.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
I can't think of a case in the history of
our department, I mean, going back even into eighteen hundreds
for what we can read up on from back, going
back to the beginning that we had to travel this
much on the case.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
This case has so many ups and downs and odd
odd things where you know, he ended up being picked
up at the airport for going to another country. And
there's a name involved in the case, This gentleman's already
serving time for lying to the police, Dalton Ray. That's
a name that's not in a lot of the coverage
out there. So there's many there's additional players in this too.

(23:32):
With that, gentleman, I really keep calming on that, right, Okay,
can you till the trial's over? Okay?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
You know, And unfortunately there's a lot of things I
can't talk about. The trial's over now.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
He is now. Andrew Griffin, who is the accused, is
facing fourteen charges, including aggravated murder of Tom and angela'struction.
That is what has taken this to a capital murder charge. Correct, Yes,
And in the state of Ohio. We're one of the
few states that still have capital murder. Do you think

(24:07):
it will get to trial? The trial is set for
March of next year. I know you can't say for sure,
but you know usually other times there's a lot of
plea deals that go on. Do you think we'll get
to that point?

Speaker 6 (24:18):
You know, I really can't say. My job is to
put the best case possible, try to find the truth
as best as possible, and if a case goes to trial,
you know, my job is to keep that case as
good as possible so the prosecutor can also try to
get the truth out there as best as possible. So

(24:39):
I don't know if it's going to plead or not.
That's not my purview. I know that our office is
making a lot of plans because this trial would be
ringing in tense unless we hear different. That's what we're
working towards.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So when this first happened, we are a small community. Yes,
that's when the rumor mail kicks in.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Oh jeez, the r.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
How do you as an investigator, how do you sort
through that? Because you ask for tips, you ask for
leads and and and you want to talk to folks
in the community. But how do you decipher between the rumor,
the speculation and what are valid tips, tips that can
lead to where you need to go with the investigation.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Well, in this case and in all cases, especially in
murder cases, you don't get to pick which tip you follow.
I mean you got to you have to chase them
all down, every single one, and we did on this one.
But I couldn't tell you how many different rumors that
are out there. And then you know, there's a there's

(25:48):
an element of our community people that for some reason
try to I don't know, if they just want to
feel connected to something.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Like insert themselves into it.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
Yeah, and sometimes that causes like rumors to spread. There's
several rumors on this case that you know, I knew
that I did knew for a fact or falls. But
we still had to dump all this time and resources
into it because I mean, you just you got to
uncover every stone.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
And oh, we're going to jump to a quick break.
That's what the music signals. Can you hang out with
us a little bit longer?

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Sure, a R.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I have a couple other things I want to hit
on with this, because you know, it's top of mind
for a lot of people, and your insight is of
course firsthand and very interesting. So again, thank you for
your time. We're talking to Detective Ryan Ahller of the
Belmont County Sheriff's Department, of course, one of the two
lead detectives on the Tom and angela Strussian double homicide.

(26:46):
We're going to jump to a quick break on your
Monday morning, the bluem Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy w w v A. We are back
the blen Daddie Experienced Sam and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA on your Monday morning. We're going to continue

(27:09):
the conversation with the detective Ryan all over the Belmont
County Sheriff's Department once again sitting here in the studio
with us talking about the double homicide of Tom and
angela Strussian, one of the most covered cases here in
the High Valley we've had in a very long time.
We were talking, sir, before the break, we were talking
about the rumor Maril speculation. You know, of course we

(27:32):
were told many many things, and you were talking about
how you decipher and dig through all of that. One
thing that looking this over and of course, looking into
this for many years. At this point, the defendant, Andrew
Griffin and Tom Strushian were business partners in the second

(27:55):
restaurant in Elmgrove, but prior to that, looking at social media,
the relationship that you know, I knew, I knew Tom,
they were friends. It seemed like, so maybe you can
or you can't say the motive behind.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
This or unfortunately I can't.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I knew that's what I was gonna get. That's I knew,
that's what I was gonna get. Yeah, because they it
did seem as if they were friends prior to all
of this happening. And then the business relationship. Yes, plain
and simple, we're gonna we're gonna keep it just it,
just that. And here's the reason why. Let's let's explain

(28:38):
to everybody why, Detective all or you can't say a
lot of things because this is still moving through the
legal system because the court appearent, not the court appearance,
the actual case is set to begin in March of
next year, in twenty twenty six. Correct, correct, and he
again once again, Andrew Griffin is facing fourteen charges. Yes,

(29:00):
and this is all being held in Belmont County. Let
me ask you this because of the amount of coverage,
because of you know, the rumor mill w'ere small town, USA.
Has there been conversation about mister Griffin having an unbiased
jury pool, for example, or any talk of taking it

(29:24):
to another area. But I know currently everything's being done
in Belmont County as.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Far as as I'm concerned or my knowledge, Yeah, that's
that's not my area.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
You know, there's a reason why police don't make a
little comments about facts about cases. I mean we pretty
much in general or we tell you, hey, we arrested
so and so for this, and there's a reason for that.
We don't want to take the jursey sours and we
don't want to cause a problem for the courts. That's
that's kind of something that's up to the lawyers that

(29:59):
do well through We just try to be consistent and
don't do anything that would considered improper.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
When he was arrested in Hawaii, and you may or
may not be able to answer this, what was his demeanor?
Was their shock? Was their surprise or knew this was coming?

Speaker 6 (30:20):
I can't comment on that.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay. Sorry, I'm trying. I'm trying here, folks, I'm trying.
How does this differ from other cases that you've you've investigated.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
The biggest difference between this case and other cases that
were pretty intense is the distance away from where the
case actually was. You know, we spent two years beating
all these rumors down and pursuing all these wild theories,
in which that's our job, like am planning and just
that's what we had to do. Once we got onto

(30:51):
that avenue, it started things started to there was a
real momentum and it really we started to feel, Okay,
we're in a right direction now. But that direction was
in Oklahoma and Texas and all over the country, wasn't
in Belmont County.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
How many states did you cover?

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Good bit, really.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Yeah, And we went out there almost a dozen times, maybe.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
More than that.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
And of course you probably you had to work with
other law enforcement agencies across the country.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
How many you mentioned the distance traveled? How much manpower?
How many people were involved in this investigation?

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (31:31):
Immense amount, ranging from you know, someone just tell law
enforcement Oklahoma helping us out, or law enforcement Texas helping
us out. Where we're out there Hawaii helping us with
the arrest. And the FBI was a very important. Ally
in this case, they gave us a lot of resources.

(31:52):
And that's another thing. It took a lot a lot
of resources Usually most cases, I mean, we have everything
we need to handle things, but something that's big, we
need a lot of assistance.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, and a lot of people tend to think when
something sort of a case like this for example, if
it if it drops out of the headlines, if you will,
people tend to think, well, what's going on. Nothing's going on,
The cops aren't doing anything. There is so much that
goes on behind the scenes that people have no idea about.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Absolutely, we were you know, we work this case every
day since it happened.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
And you continue to work it.

Speaker 6 (32:34):
Yeah, you don't stop till till it's till it's over.
Over and it's frustrating, especially for the family. Yeah, and
because you know they there were times where and totally
understand this, they were a bit frustrated with the Sheriff's office,
and I don't blame them, but you know, we sometimes
we can't tell.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
Them anybody anything.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
We're pretty open with the family and you know, as
best as we can. You lose a loved one and
you gotta wait for almost four and a half years
for resolution. I mean, that's just that's just every day.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Well and unfortunately when you take things like you know,
unfortunately entertainment, the growth of the true crime genre. You know,
it's not like it ends in an hour. Like we
have become sort of educated that that's how it works.
That's not how it works. That's got to make it
harder for you.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
The job is what it is. It's sometimes it's really hard.
Sometimes not. You just got to keep going.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well again, Detective Ryan all Or, thank you so much
for your time this morning. It was We will continue
to follow this case again. The defendant, Andrew Griffin, of
thirty three year old native of Oklahoma, goes to trial
in March of twenty twenty six next year, so it
will be interesting as it continues. And thank you to

(33:54):
you and everybody involved in the hard work to bringing
somebody to justice for this because in the end, that's
the point.

Speaker 6 (34:01):
Thank you very much. We appreciate.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, you're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and
Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva Z.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This is
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news Radio eleven seventy. WWVA starts now.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
News Radio eleven seventy. It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey,
it's eight six, let's get this hour rolling.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Welcome back to the show. All right, let's fok some sports.
How about Indiana to started.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Off with, who would have thought that Indiana would be
the number one team in the nation, the number one.

Speaker 5 (34:48):
Seed going into the college football Tournament.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
What Kurt Signetti has done at that school in two
years is unbelievable. Now, three years ago, four years ago
couldn't have done it. You gotta have the train portal,
and you've got to be able to pay kids, because
now you're getting talent to places like Indiana and other
schools that never would have attracted that kind of talent.
But above and beyond that, when you take a look

(35:11):
at Signetti, you can tell this guy puts up with nothing.
You could tell there's a ton of accountability, There's a
ton of discipline, and when you have that in a program,
you're going to be able to do unbelievable things.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
I mean, let's be honest.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Here, they just took down Ohio State that has three
times the talent three times. Indiana doesn't have one five
star recruit. I believe they have two four star recruits.
The rest are threes and twos. And they just took
down a school that's been one of the top recruiting
schools in the nation for the past ten to fifteen years.
I mean, it was an unbelievable game, and Fernando Mendoza

(35:46):
has sold me. Not only did he win the Heisman Trophy,
but he sold me on being a potential first round pick.
As far as the rest of the field, I get
Notre Dame has a problem with what went on, But
other than Notre Dame fans, I don't think anybody's lining
up to shed a tear for Notre Dame. They played
two schools on their schedule and they lost to both.

(36:06):
Everybody else was a below caliber team. So it is
what it is. Do I like seeing James Madison in there?

Speaker 5 (36:12):
No? Do I like seeing too Late in there? No?
But again, it is what it is. Jump to the NFL.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Now, if the Cleveland Browns hired somebody with Kurt Signetti's mentality,
maybe they wouldn't be the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
You took a look if you didn't see that game yesterday.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
First of all, share standers, the only quarterback in Brown's
franchise history to ever throw for over three hundred and
fifty yards four total touchdowns, three passing and one running,
and loses to the worst team in the NFL. Lose
is not because of him, but because of his head coach,
any other coaches on that staff.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
The fact that nobody's been.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Fired already is exactly what's wrong with the Cleveland Browns.
There is a total lack of accountability. Total lack of accountability.
The Cleveland Browns remind me of when I worked at
WTRF here and Wheeling. No accountability. If you busted your butt,
you were treated the same way as the laziest person
in the building. No vision, no leadership, And that station

(37:12):
has been crap for the past twenty years and it'll
be crap for the next twenty years because somebody needs
to go in there and change the mentality. Kurt Signette
he said when he went in Indiana he had to
change everybody's way of thinking. In other words, you get
on board with me or I'm going to run you out.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Of here.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
The same thing needs to happen in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
How in the world can should or Sanders be the
best player on the field yesterday and get taken out
on the biggest play of the game, the two point
conversion to tie the game. The Browns had I think
thirty six total yards are rushing, and yet they try
to run the ball and then do some trick play
utilizing two rookies. That is one of the worst play

(37:56):
calls I've ever seen in my life. That is one
of the worst coaching decisions to take the best player
off the field at the most important time I've ever
seen in my life. The special teams of the Cleveland
Browns a joke. And yesterday they allowed the opening kickoff
to be returned forty one yards to almost midfield and
have a pump blocked, and yet the special teams coordinator

(38:16):
still has a job.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
You want inept, You want a.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Franchise that shows you every weekend how not to do it.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
It's the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
The crazy thing is, I can't believe nothing's being done
about it. You've got an odor in Cleveland who's moving
the team out of the city to a suburb ten
minutes away, is going to build a fortress if you will,
a shrine to himself with a dome stadium, is tripling
ticket prices, is asking people to pay over sixty thousand

(38:50):
dollars for PSLs. And he's fielding the worst team in
football and has since nineteen ninety nine or as long
as he's a on the team. Literally, Oh, I see
only in Cleveland. It's unbelievable. Kevin Stefanski has got to
be one of the worst coaches in the NFL. The

(39:11):
fact that this guy has won two NFL Coach of
the Year awards shows you that every blind squirrel finds
an and sometimes they find too. But the fact that
he has still got a job, the fact that some
of the guys on this staff, it just shows you
what happens when you don't hold people accountable. Think about
your job, think about your performance. If you fear being fired,

(39:33):
I guarantee you you show up every day and you
do your job to the best of your abilities. If
you don't fear being fired, I guarantee you probably take
the easy way out. You probably do half the work
you can, and you probably don't care. That is the
Cleveland Browns and the fact that Jimmy has them, has
no problem with his name being.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Attached to losing.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
The fact that Kevin Stefanski is not embarrassed to go
out in public to have his name attached to losing
is beyond me. I mean, I'm just sitting here kind
of talking in circles right now. Sam, You've been a
lifelong Browns fan. I don't know how how you or
anybody else in Brown's Nation can look at that franchise

(40:19):
and want to watch that product every weekend. Heartbreaking, It's sad,
it's ridiculous especially think about this. And I just realized
this the other day, and I should have known this,
but I didn't realize the Browns only had five retired
numbers in their franchise history. Two of them are from
Belmont County, two Fleming and Groza. Two of five Cleveland Browns,

(40:45):
one of the i mean, one of the franchises in
the NFL with one of the best histories. Two of
their five jerseys retired Belmont County natives. So there's a
huge contingent of Browns fan fans in the Ohio Valley
who year after year have been putting up with this.
And enough is enough, I mean enough is enough, and

(41:06):
I think yesterday Sam was the icing on the cake.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
I wouldn't call it icing. I'd have a better term
for it, but I can't say it on the radio. Okay,
So first of all, I want to go back. I'll
answer I have comments on the Browns, but I want
to go back to the High State game. First of all,
Daveo was thinking about you Saturday. I hope you have recovered.
But listen, Buckeye fans, there's no reason, you know, we're

(41:30):
not jumping off the cliff. We're number two possible opponent
Texas A and m and Miami. So we have to
wait and see the outcome of that game to see
who was next up for the Buckeyes. Here's the thing,
Indiana and my husband, I'm gonna give you all credit.
He has been saying since the beginning of the year

(41:51):
that Indiana was one to watch out for. He said, they're,
you know, not sleeper person, but he said they're a
lot better than what I think a lot of people
were giving them credit for. And he said it started
last year and he said this year they're going to
be the ones to uh, They're gonna be the ones
to watch out for and he was right. He was right.

(42:13):
But here's my question. Are they going to be able
to maintain that momentum? That's the big thing. It's a
different time. It's a little bit different once you get
into the playoff scenario and you're not on home turf.
Because listen, they had they had the home crab behind
him Saturday night. And I don't care when anybody says
that's a big part of momentum, it really truly is.

(42:37):
Buck guys were slow. Buck guys were slow. It just
wasn't It wasn't their night. And I knew it. I
knew it all day Saturday. I had my gear on,
I was ready, I was pumped, but I knew that
there was a good chance that it was not going
to go in our favor. And unfortunately I was right.
But again, dave O was thinking about you the whole night.
I thought he's pacing. There might be a few four

(42:59):
letter words floating out there coming from his household. But
you know, listen, no no point in uh there's no
point in going nuts, folks. So all right, that's there.
We have it for uh buck eyes, notre dame. Sorry,
bad luck period. That's my only only comment on that.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
It is.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
It's a really bad look. It's a terrible look. For
some reason, Notre Dame has this this elite mentality. If
they don't get their way, they're you know, they're gonna
do what they want to do. Fine, fine, then don't
play in a bowl game. That that's that's it's bad luck.
But to each thrown. I guess now to the Browns,

(43:41):
I will say this, Jimmy Haslam is slowly becoming the
Bob Nutting of NFL. He is, and that falls on
Browns fans shoulders. What do I mean by that? They

(44:02):
are allowing this owner, two year after year, support and
put on that field a terrible product. If I am
going to criticize Bob Nutting and the Pirates and the
terrible program that he supports and puts on the field,

(44:26):
I'm going to criticize Jimmy HASLM. The difference is Jimmy
Haslam has spent the money. The problem is he has
spent it stupidly. Deshaun Watson is example A. He's willing
to spend the money, but he spends it in a

(44:46):
stupid way. As a fan, when Shador through the interception yesterday,
I was done. I turned it. That's where I am
at as a fan. We no longer have our season
tickets either, because the prices just kept going up and
up and up. And I refuse to spend thousands and

(45:12):
thousands of dollars to go and watch a subpar product.
I refuse to do it. And that's the problem. There
are other Browns fans that won't do that. And let's
be honest. Jimmy ant Haslam. His attention is on the dome.
That's where his mind is. You know why, because that's

(45:35):
where the money is. That's what bloom Daddy just told you.
It comes down to the money. And listen. I've talked
about this with many people. People agreed, disagree with me.
I don't want a dome. I want nothing to do
with a dome. My favorite games in Cleveland that I've
gone to December, early January snow, rain, freezing rain. That's

(45:58):
AFC North football. I'm not cushy in a dome. I
hate the dome. I hate the idea of a dome.
That's AFC North football. You bundle up, you wear layer
upon layer upon layer. It's tough, it's gritty, it's cold.
Think of the games that you'd love watching on television.

(46:19):
Same thing. You want to see the snow, you want
to see the ice HASLM doesn't want it because the
money's in the dome. It's eight eighteen. You're listening to
the Bloomdaddy Experience, samon OTAs News Radio eleven seventy WWVA

(46:42):
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Bloemdaddy Experience, salmon OTAs News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Oh gosh,
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to Christmas? Who's counting down the days to a couple
days off during Christmas? I am, I am definitely. Of course,

(47:05):
we're gonna have our traditional Christmas karaoke that will be
coming up on the twentieth. This twentieth of this month,
it's a Friday, So if you are in the market
for some of the best Christmas caroling you will ever hear,
you definitely want to tune in that day. There's a

(47:26):
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(48:08):
So that is coming up. I also want to give
a big thank you to Detective Ryan Aller for coming
in of course to talk about the state of in
the direction and everything that went into the investigation in
the structure murder. So big thank you to him once
again for that. Real quick going back to sports, one

(48:29):
thing I didn't hit on the Steelers. Steelers one they
won yesterday. They are now have sole possession in the
AFC North, holding the first place in the division. They
defeated the Ravens twenty seven to twenty two in Baltimore, so
on the home turf of Baltimore. So congrats to the Steelers.

(48:52):
Aaron Rodgers threw for two hundred and eighty four yards
and a touchdown while also running for a score on
his You know he used the legs too. Pittsburgh snapped
its two games skid with the victory to improve to
seven and six. Lamar Jackson threw for two hundred and
nineteen yards, one touchdown and a pick in addition to
rushing for a touchdown, so they were both mobile yesterday.

(49:14):
Baltimore House has now dropped back back to back games
and fall two second in the division in the division.
Also in the Division, the Bengals fell to the Bills
thirty nine to thirty four. Was a nice snowy day
that goes back to what was I saying about the
Dome in Cleveland. Gotta love snow games. Josh Allen threw
for two hundred for more than two hundred and fifty

(49:35):
yards with four total touchdowns. Joe Burrow passed for more
than two hundred and eighty yards with four touchdowns and
two picks, which has now dropped the Bengals to five
of six in the division. Sam do we have Kevin?

Speaker 5 (49:54):
He said he was in a meeting.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Oh okay, so I'm getting stood up, thanks Kevin from
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correction on our text line, which, by the way, our
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you for the correction, Miss Allen. Miss Allen is always

(50:18):
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(52:09):
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back to the Bloe Daddy Experience
here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Joining us now
a familiar voice we haven't heard in a while, but
we're gonna get into why. Joining us now, we have

(52:33):
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 8 (52:41):
Yeah, good morning, Sammy, thanks for having me, you've kind
of had your.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Hands full a little bit, a little bit, so, so
give everybody an update, just real quick.

Speaker 8 (52:49):
Yeah, we just had our third boy, so Charles Stephen
Waters we've learn about a month ago, but we now
have three boys under three and a half. Sam, So
it's been wild and crazy over the waters for punishment.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
So so I I I forgive the not very quickly
responds with the invitation for for coming on the show.
I you know, I give you a pass. I'm doing
my best, so is your wife.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
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 he's the benefits.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Oh god, bless you. Yes not, I can't even begin
to imagine. But congratulations all.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
You know on that.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
That's that's that's amazing. Three boys under three and a half.
H 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, 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

(53:54):
the economy. But going back, but if you compare a contrast,
different articles are different coverage. Some say the economy is
booming some people, but the but that is not the
perception of the average Americans. So kind of give us
a breakdown, if you would.

Speaker 8 (54:13):
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.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
There are the wealthy.

Speaker 8 (54:22):
People and then there are the people that aren't quite
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 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

(54:43):
are feeling really good. 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 squeeze. So it's kind of you know, tale
of two cities, if you will, as to how people

(55:03):
are feeling. But in terms of the stock market. Seventy
five percent of 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

(55:25):
of stock prices. It's company earnings. And if you look
at the latest 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

(55:46):
an impact on the overall economy as those wealthy people
that are spending well.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
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 tear for the rising costs,
but then the administration keeps saying, you know, toe the
line it's going to pay off in the long run.
Is that the will it eventually pay off or are

(56:13):
we going to continue to deal with this inflate this,
you know, extra cough cost from the tariffs.

Speaker 8 (56:19):
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
heading the right way. There are some products that that
we've seen an increase even this year. Beef, I know
is one of them. But in terms of the terraffs,

(56:42):
I know that the administration recently removes 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, the US Treasury had

(57:05):
a deficit of over seven hundred billion dollars. Okay, this
past september, that's the latest print that we have. But
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 Doge did right with cutting the government.

(57:28):
But directionally, in terms of the national debt, we're you know,
we're moving 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 (57:43):
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,

(58:03):
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 8 (58:15):
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 ever.
And if you look at a right wing news these
are the greatest things ever. And they'll defend it, and
the truth is always somewhere in the middle, right. I mean, yeah,

(58:36):
the tariffs have had some negative impacts, but they've also
had some positive impacts.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
And we have a couple minutes left.

Speaker 7 (58:42):
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.

Speaker 5 (58:59):
It go up. I would agree with that for sure.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
Yeah, it's uh, 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 (59:09):
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 8 (59:22):
Yeah, I mean, so we just talked about inflation. That's
that continues to be on a on a downward trend.
We expect that will continue into twenty twenty six. Company
earnings have been strong, but then we didn't. We didn't
talk about the tax package. 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

(59:45):
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 the tear res industry. The industrial sector
is certainly going to benefit from these tariffs as some
of these companies reshure back to the United States and

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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.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
And 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.

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
Without a doubt, I think it's going to impact all
parts of life. So yeah, let's do it next time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
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 7 (01:00:55):
She's ready to kill you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Right now, even breathe on me 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 8 (01:01:06):
Thanks, eis all right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Have a good morning again, Steve, Thank you so much.
You're listening to The bloo Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back, it's eight fifty one
on your Monday, The bloom Daddy Experience, salmon Otis News Radio,

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eleven seventy WWVA. First off, congratulations to John from Barnesville,
our first winner of the first set of tickets ever
that we have to Golden Ticket Cinemas. He's going to
get those here a little bit later in the week.
We have one more chance for you to win this morning,
same thing, a pair of tickets to Golden Ticket Cinemas

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at the High Valley Mall. That's coming up here very
very very shortly, because very very very shortly we're done,
so that gives you any indication that's coming up before
the of the show. So congrats to John. And then
also I wanted to give a big shout out real
quick to Brian and Melissa. They won free lunch that
I delivered on Friday to her office in Wintersville. They

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were wonderful, So Brian and Melissa, thank you so much
for having me up there to bring you with your
free lunch. You guys were so nice and so fun
to chitchat with. So congrats to Brian and Melissa. Speaking
of that free lunch, that's what we do every Friday,
we deliver free lunch to a winner courtesy of our
friends at River City. All you have to do is

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email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Sam at iHeartMedia
dot com, name and phone number in company or business
however you want to say it, and we will bring
you lunch that feeds ten again thanks to our friends
at River City on Friday. Now we draw for that
winner on Wednesday, so you have plenty of time to

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get registered and trust me, the lunch is worth it.
And if it's not the food, you get to meet us,
So there's the icing on the cake. That's the real prize, folks. Again,
a little bit of sarcasm there. I wanted to go
back real quick to the interview with Steve Waters. I
love when Steve comes in because he can talk all
of that stock market. You know, listen, I'm not first

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in that stuff, so that's why we have our experts
like Steve that comes in the talk and talks about
those subjects. I did want to hit real quick on
you know, the economy and everything. What blows my mind is,
you know, everything's so bad and it you know, the
sky is falling every everywhere you turn. It's it's doom
and gloom. Everything's so terrible. Listen, folks, I got gas

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for under three bucks over the weekend. How long has
it been since we've seen that egg prices have dropped?
Because remember the price of eggs is how we you know,
track everything. And then look at the amount of money
that was spent on Black Friday and Cyber Monday last week,
last Monday, on the Friday before, I mean, it was

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record breaking. So it's kind of like, is it as
bad as they say it is, or is this all
media created.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
I don't know. All I know is I got gas
for under three bucks and I thought was fantastic. Thank
you nausey. By the way, a couple of other things I
wanted to let you know about. If you are a
resident of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, maybe after the holidays
this will be more on your radar, but wanted to
let you know that JB. Green team they are starting

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a new pilot program that it's gonna run through April
of next year. And what it is going to do
is going to allow residents of Belmont and Jefferson Counties
to dispose of E waste. So you may be asking
what is E waste, Well, that is electronics. So if
you have a TV that you have shoved in a

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corner or shoved in the back of a closet, because
currently we have one of those, this is the opportunity
to get rid of it. If you have ever tried
to get rid of electronics, it is a night mayor
it is awful. Well this is and I say that
because here at the studio we have been working on

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this for a couple months to get rid of the
crap that we have laying around here. So again, if
you're a resident of Belmont or Jefferson County, this is
going on through April of next year, which really isn't
that far away. You can get rid of TVs computers now.
With the computers and the hard drives, remember some personal

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information might be on there, and I'm pretty sure don't
quote me on this. You can take a giant magnet
and I think that will erase the drive. But maybe
I'm thinking old school computers. I don't know, servers, flat
screen monitors. Let's see here, old VCRs. If people remember
what a VCR is, FYI, I'm, you know, showing my age.

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I watched Top Gun on a VCR tape, a tape folks.
Kids would look at me right now, Like my niece
who's seven, like you, what are you talking about? What's
a VCR? She didn't even know what a home phone is.
So anyways, I digress video game consoles, keyboards, all of
that kind of stuff. The stuff that you have laying around,

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Like I said, that's been collecting dust and you didn't
know where to do. This is the opportunity to do it. It
goes through April, the nearest collection point for Belmont County
will be in Richland Township Site three point thirty one,
which is on Hammond Road in Saint Clairsville near Belmont College.
And then and they did not list where for Jefferson County.

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I will get that for you. My apologies, I thought
that was on here. But again, in Belmont County you
go to Hammond Road near Belmont College and that is
the drop off location. And again this is going through
April of next year. So clean it out, folks. If
it's been in the way, this is the opportunity to
get rid of it. Also, let's get into the power ball.

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It wasn't hit. It was not hit. So now it
is surged to eight hundred and an estimated eight hundred
and seventy five million, making it the second largest prize
of twenty twenty five and the seventh biggest in the
game's history. The increase follows the Saturday night drawing, where
no ticket, of course, hit the winning numbers. The next

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drawing is scheduled four tonight. Players can choose between a
lum sum cash payout of four hundred and three point
six million, or, of course, the annuitized prize. There's a
new word, obviously, I'm reading that never saw that word before.
Also today in history, Lucy Olball's character Loose Ricardo was

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announced to be pregnant on I Love Lucy. It was
a first in TV history to announce a pregnancy of
a character on TV. That happened in nineteen fifty two.
And also on this day in history, excuse me, of course,
the Beatle legend John Lennon was murdered outside his home

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in New York City by his disturbed stalker, Mark David Chapman.
He was only forty years old at the time. He's
one of those people that you know, we lost so young.
Of course I don't remember when it happened, but you
always wonder, what if, what what what would he have

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accomplished if he had that had not happened so unfortunately.
And then today's birthday. Kim Basinger, the actress seventy two
years old, Terry Hatcher sixty one, Dwight Howard, NBA Star
forty and Nicki Minaj the Rapper is forty three. Well, everybody,
have a great Monday, enjoy it. But before we're out

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are out of here. We'll talk to you tomorrow