The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 10, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
D number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy, his
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Experience on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now the.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news radio
eleven seventy. Right now, Texas Senator Ted Cruz joining me. Senator,
thanks for being on the show. You've got a lot
of accomplishments in your career, but i gotta ask you,
where does first sitting US senator to host a national
radio show rank.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, it's terrific, and I'll tell you I'm glad to
join you on the air. We've got the podcast Verdict
with Ted Cruz. We do three days a week. We
do Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and we've got about a
million unique listeners all over the country. And then we're
also on a syndicated radio show on two hundred and
thirty five radio stations all over the country. So we've
got millions of listeners. And I'll tell you the reason

(00:57):
we do it. It's the reason you do your show,
which is to warn people, to let them know what's
going on. And what we try to do in the
podcast is take people behind the scenes, take people behind
the scenes inside the United States Senate, inside the White House,
inside the Supreme Court, and give them information you can't
get anywhere else. And I think people listen listen to
the podcast because it lets them know what is really happening,

(01:20):
and it gives them the information, frankly, when you're standing
around the water cooler talking with friends, when you're talking
with family over the Thanksgiving dinner table, to know the
facts of what's really happening, because so much of the
corporate media doesn't report the actual facts, doesn't report the truth.
And this is designed to empower you with the inside story.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Being a you're an essence of politician and a journalist
member of the media at the same time. Since you've
started this podcast, has it given you a different perspective
on the media or changed the way you thought of
the media before you started it?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Look absolutely, I mean, so much of the corporate media
is fundamentally dishonest, and so we do podcasts. One of
the things that's powerful about the podcast is that we
can drive news and so when when Biden was president,
I'd do podcasts highlighting the incredible harms of the open
borders and the invasion at our southern border and what

(02:17):
would happen Kareane John Pierre would hold a press conference
of the White House and reporters would would ask at
the press conference, so Cruz said on today's podcast such
and such, and she'd respond and almost always just lie
about it, and then the next podcast I'd play what
she said, and you could drive a narrative. I'll give
you another example. The Biden administration had a plan to

(02:39):
take colleague Shaik Muhammad, the mastermind behind nine to eleven,
and to take the death penalty off the table, and
they were planning to do that. In the Quiet Night,
I devoted an entire podcasts to laying out the horrific
evil that was September eleventh, that was Kaleide shape Muhammad,
and it produced such a massive public backlash that the
Biden administration backed out and did not end up sparing

(03:03):
the life of Clead Shake Muhammad. That's the advantage. And
by the way, nobody in the press was covering it
till we leaned it on the podcast, and then it
changed the entire dynamic.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm glad you brought that up because I've been in
the media since nineteen ninety two. I've seen it become
less and less accountable, and it's all become spreading a
false narrative or just controlling the masses.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I mean, let's face it, you know this.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
If you control the masses, if you control the voice,
if you will you control the people.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
I mean, we saw it, we saw it during COVID.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
But what you just said, Senator, the media anymore, not
only do they lie, but they will just not cover
certain stories, whether it's Hunter Biden's laptop or whatever it
may be.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
They will just simply ignore it all the way.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
And the media gets a lot of scrutiny, and they
brought it on themselves because we quit policing ourselves with
the advent of the Internet, and it's just the wild,
wild West anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
You are absolutely right. I'll give you another example. There
was a young marine who testified before the House of Representatives.
He was in Afghanistan. He was at the Kabo International
Airport and they had descriptions of a terrorist who was
a threat, a suicide bomb threat, and they saw him.
He met exactly the description. He asked for permission to
engage with the terrorist. His commanding officer said, no, you

(04:21):
don't have permission to engage. He said, how do we
get it? He said, I don't know. We need to
get the political superiors up chain to sign off on it.
He went and tried to tried, tried to get closer
to this terrorists. It turned out to be the terrorist
who detonated the bomb killed thirteen servicemen and women. This
young marine was badly wounded. He wasn't killed, but shrapnel

(04:41):
from the explosion wounded him badly. His testimony before the
House of Representatives was absolutely riveting, and it showed a
complete political failure that they had him, They knew who
he was, They could have taken him out, but it
was the Biden White House, the political operatives that stopped it.
And thirteen servicemen and women died as a result. And
I got to tell you it was stunning. Not a

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single one of the networks covered it. As I said
on the podcast, this should be the lead on the
six o'clock news all across the country, but they didn't
want to cover it. They try to erase news by
simply pretending it doesn't happen. That's part of the power
of doing something like a podcast is you can get
information out even if CNN and MSNBC don't want you
to know about it.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Talking to Republican Senator Ted Cruz, I got to ask
you about I mean, when it comes to topics in America,
the economies at the top, why are Republicans not doing
a better job, Senator, of addressing affordability concerns. I mean,
you've got some Republicans out there very frustrated with President Trump,
thinking he's focusing too much on international matters. You know,

(05:44):
this is what doomed for the most part, Democrats. I mean,
why aren't you guys doing a better job of hitting
the affordability topic.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
So look, I certainly agree Republicans need to address it
and need to talk about it more. I will say
we are seeing very real victories you look at on affordability.
For example, gas prices. Gas prices have plummeted this year,
have dropped more than a dollar a gallon in some places,
two dollars a gallon. That's a big difference for a
working family trying to get to and from work, trying

(06:13):
to travel their family around. You know, I did an
event with the President last week in the Oval Office
on Wednesday, and we were there with the CEOs of
the big three auto companies, and the President was signing
an executive order on cafe standards. When we passed the
Big Beautiful Bill on July fourth, I authored the provision

(06:34):
in that Big Beautiful bill that zeroed out the cafe standards. Now,
what does that mean. The cafe standards are what Biden
used to ratchet up the miles per gallon they required
cars and trucks to be. They ratcheted up so high
that what they were trying to do was effectively ban
the internal combustion engine, force everyone to buy an electric
vehicle by making the CAFE standards so high that you

(06:57):
could not technologically comply with that and get an automobile
a gasoline powered engine. And and so we zeroed it out.
I wrote that legislation. The effect of that, and what
President Trump did this past week is for consumers that
are looking to buy a car truck, this is going
to drive down the cost of cars and trucks by
thousands of dollars. These Biden rags made cars and trucks

(07:21):
much much more expensive. That makes it more affordable to
get a car, get a truck that you need to
provide for your family, and not only that, it will
result in saving lives. Why is that because what the
automakers had to do to comply with these new standards
is remove steel from their cars and trucks and replace
it with plastics, so when you have a car wreck,

(07:43):
the plastic would just crumple. And more and more Americans
were dying. As a result of zeroing out these oppressive
Biden rules, car makers are going to be able to
make the cars and trucks that people in Ohio, people
in Texas want to buy, and that's going to keep
American safer, but also going to make cars and trucks
more affordable.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
What is the state of the Republican Party right now?
I keep on seeing there's a civil war within the
Republican Party. Sometimes it's almost seems like a Springer show.
You've got Trump fighting with Marjorie Taylor Green, You've got
Marjorie Taylor Green fighting with you.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
You've got you fighting with Tucker Carlson.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
And from an optic standpoint, Senator, it looks like the
party is not keeping their eye on the ball.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Is that the correct assumption or am I wrong?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, listen, I mean there are divisions within the party
and the divisions with it within any party, although actually
I say that the Democrat Party unfortunately is totally united,
and they're united on the hard left. So look at
the Democrat Party. When we had a vote on open
borders under Joe Biden, every Democrat would vote for open borders.
When we had a vote when Joe Biden nominated multiple

(08:51):
candidates who are advocates for abolishing the police. When he
nominated in the Department of Justice, every Democrat voted for
the candidates who are the nominee who had called for
abolishing the police. So there is unity on the left
on the right, listen, one strength and weakness we have
is we're individualists. So there is a division of thought.
I will tell you. Listen, there are folks like Tucker

(09:12):
Carlson who have decided to go hardcore isolationist and really,
I think, attack the nation of Israel. He was just
in in Cutter embracing the Katari's. Look, Cutter funds terrorists
who are undermining who are undermining America. They fund propaganda,

(09:32):
and I think we have an obligation to call that out.
You know, a decade ago, we saw anti Semitism begin
rising on the left, and the leaders of the Democrat
Party didn't do anything about it. They looked the other way.
And I think anti Semitism is all but consumed the
Democrat Party. It's tragic what has happened. I will tell
you this year, we are seeing it rise on the

(09:55):
right and it is dangerous. I have never seen what
we've seen in the last six months on the right,
and I've resolved that I'm going to stand up and
fight it. That I don't want to wake up in
five years and find both political parties in America viciously
anti Israel and profoundly anti Semitic, and that's not what
we believe. Donald Trump has been the most pro Israel

(10:17):
president America's ever seen, and we stand with Israel because
it advances America's national security interest. Because the enemies of
Israel Hamas and Hesbela and Iran, they want to kill Americans,
and so it's in our national security interest. And at
least from my perspective, I'm going to stand up and
do what's right for thirty one million Texans, for every American,

(10:39):
because that's my responsibility for fight to fight for the
people of Texas. And to fight for Americans across the country.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
I totally agree with that.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Talking to Senator Ted Cruz, host a verdict with Ted
Cruz right here WTAM, eleven hundred Sundays at nine am.
Final question I have for you, and this was kind
of breaking news today, Senator. The Trump administration lawsuit seeking
the immediate release of a memo providing the legal justification
of US military strikes on these drug boats, as of course,
filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Been a lot of scrutiny over this.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I mean, is this a black and white issue to
you or there's some shades of gray here?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, listen, I think that lawsuit is not likely to succeed.
I'll tell you, I've read the memo. The memos classified,
but I'm under the skiff and I've read the memo. Look,
narco terrorists are killing Americans. And if you look at
under Joe Biden, we had four years of open borders,
we saw twelve million illegal aliens flood into this country.

(11:35):
We saw gang members and murderers and child rapists flood
into this country. And we saw illegal drugs flood into
this country, Fentanyl coming in massive numbers. Just a couple
of years ago, we had more than one hundred thousand
Americans die of drug overdoses in a single year. That
is almost double the number of Americans who died in

(11:56):
the entire Vietnam War. The Vietnam War we lost just
over sixty thousand Americans. Two years ago, we lost one
hundred thousand Americans to drug overdoses. And President Trump is
doing something we have not seen a president doing a
long time, which is saying the narco terrorists and cartels
that are flooding drugs into our community, that are killing

(12:16):
our children, We're gonna stand up and take them out.
And I got to tell you, look, if you're a
narco terrorist in Venezuela right now and somebody asks you, hey,
you want to get in a swift boat full of
cocaine and get out of the oceans, You're gonna think
twice about that. You may say, you know what, I'm
feeling a little under the weather. Why don't you get
Bob to drive that boat.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, I don't think I'm going onside to see the sun.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I'm quite happy with narco terrorists being afraid. And every
one of these drug boats that the President is sinking
is saving lives in America, and I think the Commander
in chief has an obligation to protect Americans and to
save lives.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Senator, thanks for your time today. Let's do this again.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
I look forward to it.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
Seven twenty four, Good morning, everybody. Happy Wednesday, The Blue
Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva Otis.
What's today?

Speaker 6 (13:14):
Wednesday?

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Wednesday? Nothing else?

Speaker 6 (13:16):
No, it works.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Come on, it's Otis's birthday. Happy birthday to you, Happy
birthday to you.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Hold on. You might not want to sing that, because
we might.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
We don't want to.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Get in trouble.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Oh come on, isn't old enough.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
You would think, But you would think some of the
Christmas carols that we play are too so okay, Yeah,
but yeah, that's kind of like our little inside thing.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Well at least you just said that, not that you know.
I was, you know, hurting your ear drums from my
musical time. I was gonna say, I need to hold on.
That's what I need to do, is I need to
maintain the vocal chords for our big Christmas karaoke.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
I got to make sure that I'm on par next week.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
But thanks for the wish to.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Get my title back. Who won last year?

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Elgin? I think didn't she was it Elgin?

Speaker 5 (14:10):
I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
That's terrible?

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Was it you? Was it you?

Speaker 6 (14:16):
No? I won a couple of years ago. I think
I've won. I think twice. I think Stink's won like
four or five times. I don't know if bloom Daddy's
ever won.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
No, he did once, because didn't he set himself up?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
No?

Speaker 6 (14:29):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Well, he always sets himself up, so somehow.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
He always well then he always he does.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
He has easy songs like Frosty.

Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, but he also also he would also end up
singing Jesse's Girl.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Okay, so anyway, Well, with it being your birthday, I
do have I have a present for you.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
Okay, this is gonna make me a little nervous.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Well, we'll we'll open it during the break, or you'll
open it during the break. I was gonna bring it
in for you, but well, you know, I'll save it
for you. Are you going to celebrate today somehow?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
No?

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Sure, I don't know how.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, sure isn't if weird? As you get older, birthdays
are kind of like eh, like they come and they
go with just another day. Yeah. Well, with you being
close to Christmas, it kind of.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
I mean I think I'm far enough away. I think
I'm far enough away that it's you know, because I'm
fifteen days away from Christmas. So like my cousin, his
birthday's Monday, so he's only ten days away from Christmas.
My mom her birthdays on the twenty second. Yeah, that's even.
I mean, that's that would be worse.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
I always felt bad for Christmas babies because then their birthdays.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
Are just kind of guy that I played, the guy
that I played basketball with in high school and went
to WVU with him his birthdays. He's a Christmas baby.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
My dad is in New Year's Eve baby. His sister,
my aunt is a Christmas baby. So my grandma was
busy couple holiday seasons.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Well you hear the people that were born like in December,
early December, mid December are probably Valentine's babies.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Oh yeah, if you time yeah, you're right. Yeah, you
go back and you time it.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yep, don't forget. We get your chance to win coming
up a little bit later. Yes, we have a Taylor
family Christmas huh, which you have the date in front of.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
The twenty first December twenty first.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Performing Arts Center. The pack up at Willing Park High School,
So we'll have a pair of those coming up for
you very.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Shortly, very shortly. And then of course our text line
is blowing up, because that is how you register. Seven
zero four seven zero. Start the message off with bloom
Daddy name, phone number, email and Santa Emoji. You know
why because we have a absolutely stuffed stalking.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
Price pack can tell you what's in the stuff stocking?
Will we get back to the ba break the what
the bake? Yeah, it's Wednesday, my first day with my news.
He went got some got new libs for birthday.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Oh, seven twenty eight, stay tune will give you all
of that when we return, and of course later on
in the show, we've got politics unleashed and there's plenty
of things to hit on seven twenty eight. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon otis here on news
Radio eleven seventy w w v A seven thirty six

(17:38):
on your Wednesday. Excuse me, the bloom Daddy Experience. Salmon
otis News Radio eleven seventy wwv A. So mention before
the break our big holiday stuffed stocking Spectacular there you go.
The triple s's stuffed, all right, write that one down,
stuffed stock King Spectac, you lure. Okay, here's what it entails,

(18:04):
all right. So I'm gonna read the first couple. Otis,
you still have your you still have your list of
everything that we got somewhere. Oh you're you're in there
multitasking and thinking. Okay, I'm gonna give you the first
couple because listen, as Otis said yesterday, if you have
not completed your Christmas shopping, we may have something in

(18:27):
this for you that, if you win, can help you
finish your shopping list. All right, So up, first, we
have a gift certificate from our wonderful friends at River City.
We have a gift certificate to Deluxe Toys in Martin's Ferry.
That is thanks to Randy and our friends at Lawlinian Sons.

(18:48):
We've got a gift certificate from Jacob and Son meets
in Martin's Ferry. You can get your holiday ham turkey.
I'm a ham person at.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
Christmas cabasi your well also, yeah, like because a lot
of people do porkin Sauer Krawd on New Year's Eve.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
So yep, So that's from Jacob's son. And then we've
got a four pack of Golden Ticket Cinemas tickets at
the High Valley Mall, the New Movie Theater, and that
also includes four free popcorns, so the kids, if you
take the kiddos, they're each going to get their own
popcorn too, So notice you you go.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, we also have a gift certificates from the Pike
Forty dutt and Cattle. Their Mindset to Wellness is offering
two spa day passes that includes the Salt Room, the
red Light Table, the sauna, the float time and the
polar Plunge.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I've done that.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
We have a new Bluetooth wireless speaker so you can
listen to us everywhere. Is that's it here?

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (19:46):
They kind of neat there, old look antigui. We also
have a year's worth of ice cream from our friends
at Kirk's ice Cream. And finally, a pair of Joe
d Messina tickets when she I'm here to the Capital
Theater sometime next year January, I think it is, Well
that's next year.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Well yeah, technically that's next year, so.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
We'll just say next year slash next month.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
There you go. Yeah, And here's the thing folks. Here's
how you register. You go to our text line which
is seven zero four seven zero. You start the message
off with bloom Daddy, name, phone number, email address, and
then the Santa emoji.

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Or a Santa emoji if there's more than one. Yeah,
there might be like a Santa face and there might
be one more like he's carrying.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Well, we got a couple uh missus clauses yesterday.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Okay, that counts. Sure, we'll count yes.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
But that's so that we can distinguish between the registration
for that.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Yes, if you did a Christmas tree, we could take
that too.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, any let's just say anything Christmas y, yes, Christmasy.
So that is how you register for that. But here's
the thing. We also are doing our free lunch today,
so we got to get your registrations in for that.
Email sam at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Sam at iHeartMedia
dot com, name, phone number, and business. Then we will

(21:05):
bring you lunch on Friday feeds ten in your office
courtesy of our friends at River City. So get your
registrations in for that. Also, we mentioned Jody Messina I
just pulled up that show is January twenty ninth, So
those tickets are for January twenty.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Ninth, later next month.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yes, and yesterday the Capital had a big announcement zz
Top coming. Did you see that? I did, Yeah, zz
Top Coming.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
I just looked over there and it was just on
the uh.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Oh on the digital board.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
The one that I can actually see. Oh, we got
Alison Crowns coming to yep.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
That came out yesterday too, So nice. They are working
their tails off here.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
Zz Top came to West Banco Arena before it was
West Bank Arena, when it was just the Wheeling Civy
Center Civic Center YEP, back in the late eighties. On
Maybe They're Eliminator Tour. They had, you know, like it
was they had two albums that came out, like one
that came out like when I was in high school,
so eighty three eighty four with Sharp dress Man and

(22:08):
all that, and then they had one that came out
when I was in college and my roommate and I
both worked that zz Top show. As you know, I
think he was a driver, if I'm not mistaken, I
was a runner, So I mean, I can't remember the
exact date, but yeah, they put on a great show.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
I saw him a jammery in the Hills.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Well, I forgot they were there.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, I saw him.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
Unfortunately, I can't remember which one. The drummer's still alive,
but one of them has passed away.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
Oh really, Yeah, they've got to be.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
They're older, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Still touring. I mean, that's that's a hard life.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
Speaking of passing away, I don't know if you saw
the lead singer from The Mavericks, Raoul Malo, passed away
at the age of sixty after he was diagnosed with
stage four colon cancer. Oh.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
I saw a headline about somebody with a rare form
of colon cancer passing away. I just didn't read the article.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
R oh Low, he's I mean, if there was anybody
that sounded like Roy Orbison or could sound like Roy Orbison,
it was him. I mean, he just had like a
powerful voice from the Mavericks, and he had a little
bit of a solo career, and I think he teamed
up with the I think he was in another group too,
but yeah, just sad to see you. That's what I think.

(23:29):
They played at Jamboreeen and Hills one year too. I believe,
if if not more than one, but that that was
a that was a band that I would have liked
to have seen.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
I'd have to go back and listen to something they
did to put two and two together.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Yeah, maybe we can do Maybe I can get you that,
maybe the top of the hour or something.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, it's funny talking about music. You you know it
inside and out. You're so I.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Wouldn't get that far her. I mean, but you know
a little bit better than you.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
Yeah, you're very good at it and being in this
industry as long as I have. And I'm not going
to say how long that is because that will date me.
But it's funny because I'll be talking to people and
they will it would be like somebody like you, for example,
and they start rattling off an album and this was

(24:15):
track number six on such and such album and it
came out in such and such year, And I sit
there with a blank look on my face and I'm like, okay,
And they'll say, how do you not know that? Like,
because I don't, Well, you've looked, You've worked in radio
for you know, over two decades.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
How do you know?

Speaker 5 (24:34):
How do you not know? Because you know, just because
I work in radio doesn't mean I know every album,
every release year every track like it's just not but
they look at me with like this puzzled face. It's like,
I just it's not my thing.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
I can do that with some albums. There are some
that they just resonate with you, you know, or they
were that came out at a significant point in your life,
or maybe they were that big.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
I mean like like if you if you look at
like when I was in high school, so you had
Thriller by Michael Jackson, you had Purple Rain by Prince,
you had Born in the USA by Springsteen. So I
mean there were some you know, there's three iconic albums
that came out right there, and I mean that just
those are just three quickly, right, Van Halen nineteen eighty four. Uh,

(25:25):
you know, there was just so many that came out
in that time frame that were that spawned multiple hits
that were you know that were you know, their classics.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Well, and see I can't I can get back to
when I was high school in the nineties and I
can remember, you know, I Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime,
one of my favorite albums of all time. Street No,
I was not a back It's not a Backstreet Green.
Oh No, I was a nuke. I wasn't n ko TV,
thank you very much. I was hanging tough Man. But

(25:57):
that was junior High. That was junior High. But I
can remember those, you know. Could I tell you the
name of the albums?

Speaker 9 (26:05):
No?

Speaker 5 (26:05):
But since then, No, I don't. That's not it's just ya.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
I mean, the later you go, unless it's something that's really.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Groundbreaking.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah, pops like like Cracked rear View about HOOTI and
the Blowfish, your Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Moore set,
you know, they just came out a little bit later,
you know, in late nineties, early two thousands.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
So I mean, well, and it's also kind of like
when you move into adulthood you have other things that
occupy your your brain space that yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
I mean, but for me, like they it's almost like
a lot of times it comes in waves. Yeah, Like
a lot of great albums come out, and like you
have three or four at a certain time, and it
all depends on your musical taste too.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Don't you think it's been a while since we've had
a wave of good if let's speaking of like the
rock genre, it's been a while.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah, I mean I think I think there's some out there.
I think there's some hidden jam, but I just I
just don't think that they get the airplay that they
would have maybe forty years ago. Yeah, obviously a lot
different because it's all music's done. Yeah, and we even
Sarah Evans said that in her interview.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
I want to do our first Uh the chance to win?

Speaker 6 (27:18):
Is this our first one? That's of our early one today?
Is it minus the lunch?

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Well, yeah, you're right, Yeah, we can do it. That's
because we have politics on leash at the eight o'clock hours,
so we don't want to try to squeeze too much in.
But let's do it. We have a pair of tickets
to see B. C. Taylor and the Taylor Family Christmas
Show December twenty first, which is a Saturday at the
Performing Arts Center up at Wheeling Park High School. And listen,

(27:43):
everybody knows the tailor name when it comes to the
holiday season here in the High Valley. So it's a
great show. People that went last year absolutely raved about it.
So here's your chance to win. One hundred six to
four eleven seventy one eight hundred six two four eleven
seventy let's do caller number fifteen. Let's do caller number fifteen,

(28:03):
one hundred six two four eleven seventy. It's seven forty six.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience, samon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy. Wwva, well we made it to seven
fifty two the bloom Daddy Experience. Congratulations to Jim from Wheeling.

(28:25):
He was our winner this morning for the pair of
tickets to Taylor family Christmas. Congratulations mister Jim, hope you
have fun at the show. Otis. Let's hit on some
just real quick, some top headlines here. Governor Morrissey says
West Virginia Guardsman Andy wolf is making progress. The governor
said Wolfe's family believes Andy will remain in acute care

(28:48):
for another two to three weeks. Wolf, of course, was
among two National Guard members shot before Thanksgiving in Washington,
d C. I read also where he so wonderful signs there.
Martins Ferry is saying goodbye to the old parking meters.
Motorists will be asked to use the park Mobile app

(29:09):
for parking next year. Officials haven't decided when the parking
system will be changed, but they expect to start using
the app next month or in January. Well, next month
is January. And then also students at West Liberty are
promoting dental health. First and second year hygiene students recently

(29:30):
distributed toothbrushes to children and families. The university's Student American
Dental Hygienis Association participated in Christmas parades for both Wheeling
and Moundsville. It's something that the Sadha has done for
the past twenty years, So thank you to those students
for making that happen. And then also got information from

(29:53):
the Wheeling Historical Wheeling Heritage, which of course is the
historical society here in Wheeling. They have announced that the
Dimmidale neighborhood has been officially listed as a Historic district.
The designation recognizes Dimmie Dale's architectural character, cultural significance, and
its role in Wheeling's rich historic landscape. With this listing,

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Dimmie Dale joins other nationally recognized districts here in the
Wheeling area, including the Center Market Square, Chaplin Street, Row,
Downtown Wheeling, East Wheeling, North and South Wheeling, along with Woodsdale, Edgewood, Warwood,
and others. So congratulations to that portion of Wheeling, and

(30:38):
then I wanted to give everybody a bit of a
heads up on what we're doing on Friday's show this Friday.
So Number one, we're gonna have B. C. Taylor in
the studio to talk about the show, which we just
did tickets for. Maybe we'll get him to do a
little singing for us. We'll see possibly, possibly not, I
don't know. Might be a little early for the vocal

(31:01):
Cords also on Friday. So I want everybody to start
putting their thinking caps on because I'm really excited about
Friday show. I want to have fun. What we're going
to do is we have Candy Noble Greadehouse along with
George from the Ohio Valley Mall. George has been with
the mall since it was built in nineteen seventy eight,

(31:25):
and we're going to go a little nostalgic. This is
the time of year where everybody's shopping. Everybody's going to
the mall, they're doing all their Christmas shopping. We're going
to talk about the Mall of the past and today
and everything in between. So when you think back to

(31:46):
when you use you know, when you were a teenager
and you hung out at the Mall, which is what
I did. The stores that were there, the stores that
you'd love to go to, the stores that are still there.
And I don't want and I want this to be fun.
I want this to be a walk down memory lane.
And this is not to rip on the state of
things and nothing like that. You know, when I think

(32:09):
of them all, I think of Aladdin's Castle, I think
of mary Go Round Otis. We were talking about it.
You mentioned Abbey's back in the day when it was there. Yeah,
so we're just gonna take like I said, we're gonna
take a walk down memory Lane.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Well before the show, I was telling you I was
looking at the list and the layout.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah, we have the actual architectural plan.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
From the fact that Hickory Farms. As a kid in
high school and college, junior high, taking my Christmas Club
account and for my family, my aunts and uncles and
my grandparents, I would buy Hickory Farms was a yearly statement.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
It was like the go to Yes, who doesn't like
a good smoked sausage in a mustard?

Speaker 6 (32:56):
And the prices were right, you know, you can get
the nice little package deal, right, you know, so, and
then you didn't really have to struggle to think about it,
and you knew they were going to probably eat it,
so well, and.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Think about and I was talking to somebody about this idea.
Think about what the mall used to look like. So
go back to the eighties where there was the domes,
remember the domes and you could see you know, or
the fountains and the one section of the mall where
you would you would step down, there would be a

(33:27):
fountain and then there were like built in benches. Do
you remember that area. So that's that's kind of what
we're going to do do on Friday. So there's a
little there's a you know, little starters for you.

Speaker 6 (33:40):
Well. And then back in the day before we had internet,
when you went to go buy your concert ticket, you
either bought them at National Record Market or Kauffman's. Yeah,
and you went to coffins because you could put them
on your Kaufman's charge card. If you didn't have the cash,
so oh well, you couldn't pay You couldn't. You had
to either pay cash at National or where you could

(34:00):
pay cash, or use your Kaufman's card at Kaufman's. You
could not use a regular credit card.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
I didn't do that huh yeah, So that's what we're
doing on Friday. So there's little uh, there's some ideas
to jumpstart your thinking about that. So putting some work
on your shoulders out there. It is seven fifty eight.
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(34:26):
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Speaker 5 (35:08):
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(36:16):
house cleaning there. All right, Tony, we're gonna kick this off.
It's time for politics unleashed. FYI, good morning, good morning,
good morning. Sorry, We're gonna kick this off with a
fun story since you are a legal mind, before we
get into the heavy political side of things. All right,
all right, okay, So authorities on Sunday mornings seized a

(36:39):
drone all right after it dropped contraband into the Lee
Correctional Institution's yard in Bishopville, South Carolina. The contraband was
as followed, steak crab legs with the fix since Old

(37:00):
Bay seasoning, so you got to make sure the crab
legs are seasoned properly. Marijuana and cigarettes, so you got
to go with the old faithfuls too. The marijuana and
the cigarettes was intended for the inmates. Seems some folks
were planning on an early holiday Old Bay crab boil
and steak dinner along with their marijuana and cigarettes. Officials

(37:22):
posted on the social media account for the prison. They're
calling it hashtag Contra band Christmas. According to the spokesman,
I'm giving the inmates who were expecting the package are
a bit crabby.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
That's pretty creative, exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
Flying drones near South Carolina prisons carries up to thirty
days in jail, while dropping contraband is a felony which
you could face up to ten years of prison.

Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yeah, despite what's in the pack, don't do that people.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
I thought that was I thought that was pretty funny.
I thought that was pretty funny. Hopefully the I don't
know if the crabs are still alive or you know.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
Yeah, I don't know, but they have the right seasoning, right.
That's what the people, That's.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
What matters to me, Yeah, exactly, that's what matters. Like,
I guess they were just forgetting the butter. But I'm
all right, of course you'd recognize that voice Tony Edmond
with Edmund and mom here talking politics and we will
have Elgin here in a bit, so I'm told, either

(38:36):
by phone or in person. So we're gonna kick it off,
you and I with this one though. So a recent
study has been done by the organization called Pew Research,
fifteen percent of young adults say they follow the news
all or most of the time. Now, you and I
last week sort of ended the conversation talking about the

(38:59):
media and the younger demographic of voters. So that's why
I'm kind of starting it off with this. Sure, what
does that say about our state of journalism and media
today that only fifteen percent of young adults, which when

(39:19):
it comes to politics is a very important demographic of
a voter base, that only fifteen percent actually pay attention
to the news.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
Yeah, it's important in voting and they're also consumers, right, Yeah,
I do think it's a it's a little alarming. I mean,
where you get your news matters too, but that number
seems awfully low. I don't know how it compares southern generations,
but you know, in order to be informed, you have
to stay informed. And yeah, i'd certainly worried about that.

(39:52):
And then that fifteen percent who are they're getting their
news from, because it's not a matter of just perspective.
The facts are the facts, and people can spin them
they want, but you got to get the information. And
I don't know that they're really paying attention.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Well, okay, so this this poll, when we say young adults,
it's for ages eighteen to twenty nine, that's the age window.
So they were asked, you know, why why do you
not follow the news closely like the older generation?

Speaker 7 (40:22):
Right?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
The overwhelming consensus was the way that it makes them feel.
So one twenty four year old female replied with, I
try to avoid it for my sanity. If I watch
too much of the negativity in the news, it affects
my mood. Right, Okay, that's all, well and good, I
do it. I've said it on here. I take a

(40:44):
break from things sometimes you have to.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
You have to, Yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
Definitely have to, But you also can't stick your head
in the ground and not pay attention to what's going
on in the country or the world.

Speaker 7 (40:56):
That's true, and especially if you're some if you have
a invested interests or you want to have an impact
on what's happening, you got to know what's happening. And
stuff passes you by because you're not paying attention, then
the people carrying out whatever actions you don't like are
going to think you don't care, and if you don't care,
they're just going to keep doing whatever they want. So
I think, especially when it comes to the sort of

(41:19):
hot hot topics, crossfire type debate shows and you got
to have a hot take, I'm sure that turns a
lot of people off. It's one unfortunate thing about the
demise of print media. But you can still read it
doesn't have to be a newspaper. You can read things
on traditional things like the USA Today has a website.
You can read the news on there. You can control
your consumption to still be informed and not be overwhelmed.

(41:41):
That's what I'd recommend to people.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Well, and that's one thing in this poll that I
wish they would have asked the question of when you
do read or when you do look for the news,
no matter how you receive it, whether it's online, social media, television,
and radio should probably throw that at too. How far

(42:06):
into it do you go? Do you read the entire article,
do you watch the entire or listen to the entire segment,
or do you just read the headline and the quick footnotes.
Do you really actually invest your time in reading and
paying attention to what is being reported.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
Yeah, that's a good point, and people should be paying
attention to not just headlines before articles make should also
make sure they're being consistent. You can follow something I
mentioned the USA Today or the AP online for example,
where they have a lot of people do a lot
of good reporting. Read the stories. Don't just read the headline.
A lot of times the headlines are for hooks. We
need to get eyeballs on this story. And sometimes the

(42:46):
headline can be completely misleading, or a headline can say
something that the article actually refutes because they want you
to pay attention, But yes, read the full articles well.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
And then it goes into the conversation of who controls
the media, And that's been a big topic for over
a decade now because it's very blatant what side of
the aisle different networks fall on. Fox is obviously conservative,
CNN is very liberal, NBC is very liberal. So that's

(43:21):
where I think the media is hurting this country. Because
again back to this poll, this is very interesting. Thirty
nine percent of adults under thirty say local journalists should
advocate for change in their community and give their own
personal beliefs in thoughts on topics as opposed to being

(43:44):
a neutral journalist.

Speaker 7 (43:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
See that that I disagree with.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
Yeah, and we're coming back to an age where people
are just used to what Sean Hannity wants called opinion journalism.
I'm not giving neutral stories. I'm giving my bent on
these stories. That's problematic, and that's that's a lot different.
And because local print journalism is in decline, that's those
newsrooms are where the real news, the real stories were developed,

(44:10):
and those are completely going away, and opinions are pushing
everything because people got to make money off this stuff
instead of being interested in fair balance and accurate reporting.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Well in opinion media grew when the twenty four hour
news cycle was created. Sure, I mean, you can take
the Sean Hannity's of the world, you can take the
Rachel Maddows of the world, you can take who was
the guy at the end of sixty minutes?

Speaker 7 (44:34):
Andyrooney with the eyebrows.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
Yes, Andy Rooney, that's opinion media. The problem is those
who the networks they do not tell you. Okay, this
segment coming up is opinion based. Yes, there is no distinction.
That's where the confusion, and I think that's where a
lot of the problems lie with the news that we
are consuming nowadays.

Speaker 7 (44:56):
Before we go to break, I hear that Elgin's on
our way in.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Okay, we better go opened the door. All right, it's
a sixteen The bloom Daddy Experienced samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA, Welcome back. I'm sorry, it's like a

(45:23):
comedy of airs in here. What what what were the
Keystone cops? That's what you're making me think of. Oh
Elgin in the house, that's who we're laughing at, folks.
Oh politics unleashed, you know, serious time, serious.

Speaker 9 (45:37):
Time, something unleashed.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Yeah, she couldn't get her headphones on, folded or whatnot.
Welcome back, it's been a while, yes it has. How
was your trip very nice? It was very nice.

Speaker 9 (45:47):
It was very nice.

Speaker 5 (45:48):
Got to decompress, and I did get.

Speaker 9 (45:51):
To decompress, though, coming back with a little bit of
an adventure that.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Sounds like it.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Yeah, what was the group the Kia Boys, apparently out
of Columbus that like to steal cars?

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Oh okay, a great way to come home, great way
to come home.

Speaker 9 (46:06):
Welcome back, el, Yes, well, thank you, Yes, yes.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
Yes, Tony stepped up, stepped.

Speaker 9 (46:11):
In, and that's okay.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
We'll let him.

Speaker 9 (46:14):
He's moderate.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
He did quite well, Yes.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
He does, he does quite well.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
Yes, he did quite well. All right, so let's get
into this. How's that sound all right? I'm going to
read you an email. Tell me what your thoughts are
on this. Okay. Trump was elected with a mandate to
enact his agenda. He had the popular vote, won every
swing state, the Senate, and the House, and has the

(46:41):
majority of the Supreme Court. Through executive orders, he's slapped
political correctness in the face, got men out of women's sports,
closed our borders, stopped multiple wars, reduced inflation, and brought
in trillions and trillions of dollars in investments. Now, what
has the Republicans in Congress accomplished? They used the sixty
vote philibus to rule to protect their donors and stop

(47:02):
any real, meaningful changes that people voted for. If the
uniparty Republicans are successful at purposely purpose is purposefully stopping
Trump's agenda. That's easy for you to say Republicans will
lose the midterms just to protect the donors of the
uniparty from the change we voted for. Do you agree?

(47:24):
There's a lot wrapped up in there?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
But there is.

Speaker 5 (47:27):
But who used the Filibuster's Republicans?

Speaker 9 (47:30):
But wasn't it the Democrats? That may be a typo
in the in the email, it must be because the
Republicans didn't use the filibuster.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
Well, I thought the same thing, but I thought maybe
I missed it somewhere.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
I'm not sure what they mean by that. Every Congress
for decades, the philibuster rule has been in place.

Speaker 9 (47:47):
Hence the reason for the filibuster. You can't get rid
of the filibuster because if you're the minority party, that
is the only way that you have to check and balance,
so to speak, the majority party from taking over.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
Well, let everything, maybe, maybe let me try and clarify
here and hopefully this is this was the intent, basically
saying that the voters voted for the Trump agenda, that
is what the voters wanted overwhelmingly. I think what this
email is saying is through other acts of other Republicans rhinos,

(48:22):
if you will, they are trying to stop some of
these things happening, along with Democrats. And how will that
affect the midterms?

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Is right?

Speaker 9 (48:36):
There's the Rand Pauls of the world that there were
just a couple. The Senate is the Senate and the
house's house. Obviously, we have the majority in the House,
and we were able to pass things in the House,
but when it got to the Senate, that's when the
filibuster was implemented and certain things were stopped. But there
were also some Republicans that were also standing strong against

(49:01):
the Trump agenda, Ran Paul being one of them. I
think the bottom line is, yes there is an agenda,
Yes there is a mandate, and yes these things have
been done. You can't make law out of policy in
every instance, and that is that I think that's where
the difficulty comes. If you make law out of every policy,

(49:24):
then you know what happens in the next go round
when the other party gets into majority. Then you get
the filibustergate. And that's the way the government is set up.
That's the way the constitution is set up. That's the
way it's a checks and balances, and while there is
majority in a slim majority in the Senate, a majority

(49:47):
in the House, Supreme Court, et cetera, you still have
three separation of powers through the three different branches of government,
and that needs to be respected. And I think it
needs to work.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
Yeah, absolutely, and that I had developed a thought along
the same lines to the extent if we just focus
on the popular vote for now, it's at the electoral
college aside whether somebody wins by two votes or a
hundred million votes, there's still constitutional protections in place, as
there should be. Nobody should be running rough shot over everybody.
And the representatives in the House and those senators in

(50:23):
the Senate, they have their own constituents they need to represent,
and there needs to be pushing pull from within your
own party and from outside your own party. That's why
I think something like the filibuster is good to have
in place. Should it be reformed, I believe it should,
but it shouldn't just go away, and there needs to
be pushing pull. It's got to be that way, and
it sometimes is from one topic to the next, so

(50:47):
it's ingrained in the system that there is balance. There
should be balance. Minority voices should be heard, meaning party influence.
And you know, the House and the Senate don't always
get along. That's okay. The courts put a check or
they should put a check on what the executive and
the legislature are doing. That's good too, because the constitutions

(51:07):
in place to keep things balanced when it's working the
way that it should. And like I said, whether you
wouldn't buy one hundred million VOTs or two of us,
that's it absolutely the way it should be.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
Well, and don't you think we're gonna we got about
a minute left, we gotta go to a break, but
just I'm gonna I'm gonna leave this with you. Don't
you think that that's where a lot of the issues lie.
That a lot of people believe you just blindly agree
with the party that you're foind it. It's basically like

(51:36):
going in and voting and going a R R R D,
you know, and you're just gonna check check check, check check,
and not read up, pay attention, educate yourself. And then
once somebody is in office, and whether we're talking Trump
or anybody else, you just agree with everything. I think
you have to question authority to make to hold them accountable.

Speaker 9 (51:56):
Yes, absolutely, you should, yes, yes, no matter who it is,
right exactly. And you know you can't just vote along
party lines, right, whether you as a citizen vote straight
ticket or whether you in Congress represent you know, just
want to go along with your constituents. There's always gonna
be one or two and there should be.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna talk about that a little
bit more when we get back. It's eight twenty eight
Politics Unleashed here on the bloom Daddy Experience, Sam Otis, Elgin,
Tony got us all in there here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We are back. It's eight thirty six

(52:39):
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two four eleven seventy. He loved that comment. That's well,
maybe not today.

Speaker 9 (53:43):
It is his birthday, so yeah, yes, what next Wednesday?

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Is?

Speaker 5 (53:47):
What's next Wednesday? Your birthday? Well, it's everybody's birthday, all right.
So from the listener, it says regarding and we talked
about this last week, Tony, so maybe we'll get we'll
kind of get your thoughts on what's going on regarding
the splinter boats, the drug boats. How dare we blow
boats out of the water when these leisure folks are

(54:08):
just out catching some rays and fish. I think that
there's sarcasm behind that statement. Our law enforcement lives are
put in danger every day. It's about time we have
equal treatment for drug pushers ps drug pushers. We have
more rays for you, coming in hot courtesy of the
United States of America. So I think the first line

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had sarcasm behind.

Speaker 6 (54:31):
It, Well, they certainly.

Speaker 9 (54:32):
I think you can distinguish a fishing boat from a
drug boat. Well, barrels, barrels versus fishing rods.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
The plastic packages of white powder, right.

Speaker 9 (54:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think you know, I think there was
some pushback on that particular incident by virtue of the second.

Speaker 5 (54:53):
I guess the cleanup bomb or whatever, the.

Speaker 9 (54:58):
Double tap, yes, and and I think that's what the
issue was.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
There was a lawsuit filed yesterday.

Speaker 9 (55:07):
Let's see here, Uh, the the is a restraining order
to try to stop them from doing it.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
They want legal justification for the for the strikes. Basically,
the lawsuit was filed by the a c l U
and the Center for Constitutional Rights. But again they want
they're seeking immediate release of legal opinion authored by the
legal counsel. And again the US militaries claimed authority to

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carry out these strikes.

Speaker 9 (55:40):
Is that a request, Tony, or is that a I
don't know they're standing for the A.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
C l U to go here.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
Okay, sorry to to but.

Speaker 7 (55:51):
I don't know what their legal justification is for making
the filing.

Speaker 9 (55:55):
It sounds like a Foyer request more than anything else.

Speaker 7 (55:58):
Freedom of information for the audience. We're getting very technical. Yes,
the bottom line, we'll have to read the lawsuit and
then come back to the audience with their thoughts on it,
because we're not reading on it just yet.

Speaker 5 (56:09):
But in general, when it comes to the conversation about
these strikes on these drug boats, what are your thoughts?
As I said, ony Tony and I spoke about this
last week, and my stance was that these drug cartels
have have for fifty plus years poisoned this nation. We

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finally have somebody trying to make a difference, you know,
going a different route. Is it too extreme?

Speaker 7 (56:41):
And in short, what I said was I understand the
sentiment and something I never thought i'd ever say, but
I actually agree with Rand Paul on his stance. That's
pretty much what my stance is on it. To keep
it short, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
At the floor is yours?

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (56:54):
Well, I you know, I am sure that these strikes
were not done just off the cuff will. I am
sure that there were a lot of layers and legal
analysis that went into it. I'm not well versed on
international waters and what you can and cannot do, but

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I am as we sit here. There have been several
and I don't know that they haven't been acts of war.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
The war has started.

Speaker 9 (57:24):
It is defending the country. I think that these drugs
have come in just willy nilly, and they're in the
bottom line is they're coming across waters because the land
has been shut shut down, so they got to come
across somehow.

Speaker 7 (57:39):
Still there's still drugs getting in.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Oh, there's no doubt.

Speaker 9 (57:43):
Right, Yeah, there's there's no question. But there's still a
whole lot of drugs that are being stopped from coming in.
You know, you've got to You can't solve all of it,
but you can certainly temper some of it. Evil finds
a way, Yes, in anything that we've discussed, social media,
everything has its utility, but when misused becomes a problem.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
Well, and I was speaking to somebody last week about
this and I kind of took it full circle. So
if we talk about the drugs that are coming in, Okay,
one of the biggest topics here right now in our
own backyard is the homeless encampment and Wheeling. Okay, but
here's how I'm tying this together. The amount of drug

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usage in the United States has increased year after year
after year, which has then entailed increased the homeless problem
in this country, the drug addiction, and we're dealing with
it here and Wheeling, So one leads to the other.
And it's just and it's costing everybody, not only their

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loved ones, but it's costing the cities, it's costing the states,
and it's costing the taxpayers. That's the bill. I mean,
Wheeling just footed the bill.

Speaker 9 (59:03):
For forty thousand dollars to clean up.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (59:06):
And I think the problem too, is that the mental
health facilities that have been closed over time, you know,
nursing homes are supposed to be for our elderly well
nursing homes are now being used to house drug addicted
homeless individuals. I mean, several visiting nurses that I personally
know who are friends of mine, have made many comments

(59:27):
to me that it's no longer an elderly care facility.
You have a lot of drug addicted people. They don't
know where to what to do with them, so they
put them in the nursing homes, and then that becomes
a battle.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
One of the things that I heard last week that
I think comes into play is that from twenty twenty
one to twenty twenty four there were well over a
quarter of a million fentanyl deaths here in the United States. Okay,
so that's the big drug of choice coming across the
border whatever. The best way I heard it was ten

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to twenty. If you're going to take out ten to
twenty people that are getting the drugs here, that's well
worth the price of two hundred and fifty thousand Americans.

Speaker 7 (01:00:09):
So and my counter to that is it's not worth
sacrificing the due process rights that people have. An illegal
process that has to be followed in order to make
sure because even Congress wasn't right into this stuff, and
they're the ones, for sure that need to be read
into what's going on, how it comes to be, and
what proof they have that's what's going on with these things,
because I know one thing that has happened over time

(01:00:31):
is the Coast Guard is really good and intercepting, boarding
and confiscating drugs and confiscating people, prosecuting them getting them
to prosecution and tarrogeting them getting more information. They're amazingly
good at it. Now, just so the audience says, I
have an uncle who was in the Coast Guard for
twenty five years, and maybe a little bit of bias
on my part in that regard, but I just everybody

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should know that. But they're really, really, really good at it.
And there's a lot of videos you can find on
YouTube of the Coast Guard doing this. So I think
that the balance has to remain in place. And I
also had some plasure and say like, oh, we're being
too soft on it. Ensuring due process is not being soft.
It is incredibly difficult and you have to be really
tough to ensure that that's in place so that you

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can find as much as you can that what you're
doing is the right thing in the right way. There's
various ways of doing that, and that's what I think
needs to be insured in these processes. Plus what leads
to homelessness. There's a whole plethora of problems, and you
have a mental health The system in our country is
really broken. It needs to be reformed. And again the

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audience should now, I work three years at a mental
Health Facility in Pittsburgh, so I have up close and
personal I have a lot of thoughts on that as well.

Speaker 9 (01:01:44):
As far as the due process. I mean, where do
you start and where you end with a due process
in international waters? Are they entitled to do process?

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
In the United States?

Speaker 9 (01:01:53):
Do you have does the do the drugs have to
come over? And with regard just real quickly on the
Coast Guard, you I would find it hard to believe
that the Coastguard was not involved in sharing their intel
with the Department of War.

Speaker 7 (01:02:08):
And that's one thing we should know, right, I mean, and.

Speaker 9 (01:02:11):
I think there's a lot of things we don't know well.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
And I would and I would counter with this if
if taking out these boats are considered possibly of an
active war, would not poisoning the American citizens for decades
be considered an active war? I don't you know?

Speaker 9 (01:02:28):
Rules of engagement?

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
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(01:02:53):
want to go back to the original thing. When you
got in here, we were talking about the filibuster. The
Republicans are allowing the filibuster to stop Trump's agenda. The
Republicans ignored the filibuster for other things. The Democrats have
promised to end the filibuster. The Rhinos are protecting their donors.
So it wasn't a typo.

Speaker 9 (01:03:14):
Okay, okay, yeah, that you read it that way. Yeah,
I mean you have to protect the filibuster.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
I'm sorry, you just do.

Speaker 9 (01:03:23):
You cannot make laws or rules that only benefit your
party now, because eventually it comes around. It's sort of
like the lawfair.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:03:37):
They went after Trump hard, hard, hard hard, and now
this administration is going after Komi and all those things.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
So it's kind of a tip for ta Chat.

Speaker 9 (01:03:49):
Just get you to do your job.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
We get back to do your.

Speaker 7 (01:03:52):
Job, and just to focus on the policy aspect of it.
You can't have you think there's good luck and Washington. Now,
if the pendulum can swing that hard one way and
then that hard the other way, absolutely nothing will get
to it will even be worse because at least one
thing the filibuster rule does do is encouraged by partisanship,
specifically in the Senate, which the world's most deliberative body.

(01:04:14):
It ought to be that way. I can get really
nerdy on you, but I won't. But Gelsa and I agree,
don't just blow up.

Speaker 9 (01:04:21):
The Philippeah, you can't blow up the filibuster. It's it's
the checks and balances, you know, it is. It is annoying.
Filibuster is annoying.

Speaker 7 (01:04:29):
But as it should be.

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
As it should It's kind of a point is that
that's the by design, but it is a mechanism to
stop the problem is. I think the intent and purpose
of the filibuster has been misused by both sides. You know,
for example, when they were trying to pass approval of

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certain judges at the end of Obama's administration, at the
end of Biden's administration, that they just wouldn't vote. They
wouldn't they wouldn't bring it up for vote, or they said,
you know what, we'll just wait on So he appointed
certain district court judges and they needed to be approved
by the Senate, so they would just delay. Oh well,
you know, midterms are coming or whatever. They always delayed it.

(01:05:15):
The Republicans delayed it when Biden's trying to get judges, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
And vice versa.

Speaker 9 (01:05:21):
And you know this time, how many US attorneys and
judges were stalled in their appointments. They don't think they
were appointed until like October.

Speaker 7 (01:05:29):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, I'm all for having
votes on this stuff, have a up or down. They
like to not put stuff up if they unless they
know what's going to happen for a vote.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Well, and one thing kind of turning it a little
bit here. It seems like every two to three days
we see another lawsuit or another decision by a lower
level court, and then it moves up to this court.
But then there's another lawsuit that goes back to the
lower courts.

Speaker 9 (01:05:55):
Then too many things are going up to the Supreme Court,
which shouldn't be. They're not courts of original Church.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
I think politicians are using the the legal system for
their own eject like it's being it's being mistreated, and
I think it's disgusting, honestly.

Speaker 9 (01:06:11):
And I think in general, and I think Donny you
probably will agree with me that how many people coming
to well, this happened to me, and therefore I want
to sue, Well, you need you need certain things to sue.
You need right, you need liability, you need damages, you
need causation. If you don't one of those is missing,
you don't have a lawsuit.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
Well, just because it didn't go your way, exactly, you can't, yeah,
like a toddler, because you didn't get your way. And
it's almost as if that's how a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Of these.

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
Legal wranglings are are coming off to the American.

Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
People, right and not. The average showshmo is not versed
on the intricacies, nor are we in that one issue
you can't make make an opinion or draw an opinion.
We didn't don't know the ins and outs of what
is being proposed, what is being sued. You know, you
just can't.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
Yeah, A lot of these are case by case.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (01:07:06):
As a general rule, I do think Supreme Court in particular,
they're they're taking on too many cases, and I personally
believe they're getting a little drunk with power. Their role
is not supposed to be. They're not supposed to be
having a case go up to them consistently all the time,
over and over and over.

Speaker 9 (01:07:23):
They're not courts of original jurisdiction. They're supposed to be reviewed.

Speaker 7 (01:07:25):
And cases flying up to them that are not on
the actual merits, but on all these technicalities before the
facts are developed and there's an actual trial, whether it's
in front of a jury or judge. It's happening way
too much.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
But then you add into the conversation when we're talking
about the Supreme Court, you know, they're trying to add
more justices to the court so that they they than
that then one particular party or the other has the majority.

Speaker 9 (01:07:56):
Well, and that's another problem too.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
I mean, you know, the.

Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Republicans didn't have a majority or Conservatives. We're not gonna
say Republicans. The Conservatives didn't have a majority on that
court for years and years and years and years. So
I mean it it is a trend. It's we have
the Constitution. It shouldn't be social and I agree with you, Tony. Mean,
too many things are being run up to the Supreme
Court as though it was you know, before facts are developed,

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and it's an appellate court. An appellate court can only
review what's before it and you cannot make up, so
they inevitably throw it back and then it's a news
media point that oh, well they lost, No they didn't
love they send it back and said, we don't have
enough facts to rule. So, I mean, it's it is complex,
and it's entire show talking about this kind of sty see.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
But that goes back to the original problem, to the
everyday American voter who is not educated in the legal
system and they're only relying on what they're getting from
the media. Right, you can't follow it. It's hard to
follow and understand, so that when you do go in

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the voting booth, you stand there and go okay.

Speaker 9 (01:09:11):
D R so right, And even even attorneys I think
when you read some of the Supreme Court opinions, I
mean it is so intricate and detailed on constitutional storry decisives. Yeah,
it just blows your mind. It's like, well that's not
really what it says. And you try to talk to
a friend, well that's not really what it says.

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
But yes it is okay, And sometimes your reaction to
go really technical on you is huh, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
Well we're going to leave it with that educated line.
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