The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 12, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news
Radio eleven seventy. Tyler Robinson man accusa killing conservative activist Charlie.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Kirk, first in person court appearance.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Remember the event on September tenth. Robinson allegedly took off
from the scene after shooting Charlie Kirk. Massive man hunt
turned him in on the turned himself in on the
night of September eleventh. Number of charges against him. Now,
one of the issues in this case is whether cameras
should be allowed in the courtroom. Jeremy Rosenthal, Bloomdaddy Show
legal expert, joining me right now. Jeremy, what do you

(00:51):
think the ruling on that will be?

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I think there'll be some degree of openness. Erica Kirk
wants it to be open. You know, she's had it
kind of to her eyeballs with some of the conspiracy
theories here. I think there's legally, you know, there's a
presumption that goes towards open courts. You got to have
some reasons if you want to shut the public out,

(01:15):
then again, you also want to make sure that the proceedings.
You don't want to do this twice. And a good
way to screw it up is to you know, is
to let some misinformation get out there or have this
be broadcast.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I mean, this is one of those cases where a
lot of people are gonna want to watch Jeremy.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, no, there's no question. I mean, you've got just
I mean, there's so many really high emotions here. I mean,
if you see you know, we see cases like Karen
Reid and and things like that, and these are people
who are not really you know, they're famous for being
in the courtroom, right and and that's scintillating enough. And

(01:55):
so you get something that's as high powered and high
charged as this, you oh, yeah, no, it's definitely going
to get a lot of eyeballs in and legally speaking,
I mean, the public does have a right to know.
We do have open courts in this country, we do
have freedom of the press in this country. So it's
a question of what will the public, you know, what
are they going to let us have we weren't able

(02:17):
to watch Donald Trump's jury trial. I think that that's
I would have liked to have seen, you know something there,
you know, and for whatever reason, we got to see
Johnny Depp and Amber heard in every minute of that thing.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Unfortunately.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, right, I mean, I okay, great, thanks, So we'll
see what they do in Utah so far. You know,
I think that the authorities out there have handled this
pretty well. You know, it's a balancing act. You know,
you don't want to look you want to give if
you got a guy like Tyler Robinson who seems kind
of cooked, right, let's just be honest and call it

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like it is, right, you just don't want to give
the guy an excuse. You know, you want to have
a fair trial that is above board. So you really
don't want that spoiled by a juror watching or seeing something.
And you look at the Luigi Mangioni case, that's a
perfect example of why you might do this. In Luigi
Mangioni's case, he's looking to get a bunch of evidence

(03:18):
thrown out. But we've all heard it a million times, right,
he had a three D gun, He had a manifesto
in his backpack, and now we're going to throw that
out and the jury won't be able to see that.
That just makes everybody's job harder. Now, we got to
find twelve jurors who know nothing, nothing, nothing about the case.
Makes it harder.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I'm talking to Jeremy Rosen, thought legal expert, prosecutor before
becoming a defense attorney.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
You brought up the jury.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean, from what you've seen experienced different studies, does
allowing media access to trials like this?

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Does it influence the jury?

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Jeremy, It has to it really does.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
I think every juror who shows up no that this
case is a big deal. Right, And to go back
again to Manhattan and the Donald Trump trial. And I
only bring that up because that thing is such an
outlier that you have probably the most recognizable human on earth,
that you had to pick a fair jury for right,

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and you were able to find You had to go
through seven thousand people, but you were able to find
twelve people that everybody could agree on right and and
and so if you can do that for Donald Trump,
you can do that for Tyler Robinson. Now the difference
is going to be is yes, I do think that
there's ramped up emotions. I mean, if you have television

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cameras in there, jurors are going to be very You
know that you're not gonna they're not gonna want their
faces to be splashed all over it. So I do
think it's going to have an impact, all.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Right, Jeremy, Always appreciate your time.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
Have a great day to not be on camera, to
not have access for medias on have access, no cameras
in the courtroom. But he is more than willing to
gun down somebody speaking at a public event. Think about that.

(05:18):
Here is an event where this Tyler Robinson gunned down
a young father in front of thousands of college students
at a wide open public event that was being filmed
not only for social media, but for all kinds of
different platforms. There's cameras everywhere nowadays, and this guy is

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fighting for the for the chance to not have cameras
in the courtroom. Why you wanted to assassinate and murder
this young father on camera. You made sure as many
eyes as possible got to see the act that you
allegedly have to throw that in there, allegedly committed. You

(06:04):
had no problem at that point in time to have
things on camera. Wanted to have as many witnesses as
possible to watch you pull out, pull off that horrific,
horrific crime, allegedly pull off, go back. But now that uh,

(06:29):
you need to face your actions and punishment. Possibly now
you don't want to see. Very convenient, very convenient. And listen,
I understand, I understand. I get the whole. You know,
you don't want to influence the jury. You want to

(06:52):
this needs to be one and done, have the court proceedings, guilty, innocent.
Don't want this to drag on and drag on and
drag on through the legal system. I completely understand.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
All of this.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
The quicker somebody like this can be shipped off into
some dark hole in some corner of our universe is
the best for everybody involved, in my opinion. But you
don't want any excuses if say, for example, it goes
through found guilty, and then the defense attorneys say, well,

(07:32):
you know this, this is cause for overturning and we
need another trial, and then it goes on and on,
and then it costs everybody out. You know, the taxpayer
of thousands and thousands and millions of dollars and then
he gets a book deal or whatever. We don't want
all of that. I get all of that, I completely understand.
I just think it's quite hypocritical that the act that

(07:52):
mister Robinson allegedly committed in front of, as I said,
as as many cameras as possible, he now longer no
longer wants to be in front of the camera, A little,
a little hypocritical. If you will, you agree? What do

(08:14):
you think otis?

Speaker 7 (08:16):
Well, I don't think it should be his call or
his attorney's call. I think it should be up to
the judge. No, well, it's if they want it, that's fine.
If they don't want it, that's fine.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
Yeah, I just again I find it. I find it
quite quite the hypocrisy. That's a pretty good that's a
pretty good term we've been using here recently. What we're
also gonna say here, we're going to uh, we're gonna
have We're gonna have fun today. I am so excited
about this coming up. We have in the eight o'clock hour,

(08:44):
we have BC Taylor joining us in studio, of course,
representing a Taylor family Christmas. The event is December twenty one.
The concert up at Wheeling Park, performing Arts Center. We
have tickets for that too. We're gonna be doing a
couple sets of those throughout the show and also coming
up here very shortly, we're gonna be joined by Candy
and George of the High Valley Mall, and folks, you

(09:07):
are all over this on social media. I some of
the comments we've got are fantastic. We're gonna talk about
just We're gonna take a walk down memory lane. We're
gonna take a walk down memory lane. We're gonna talk
about you know what was, what's to come, great memories,
holiday memories, shopping at the High Valley Mall, some of
the best stores, restaurants. It's gonna be great. So that's

(09:29):
coming up here in a little bit and tying that
into the mall. We're gonna have your chance to win
a pair of tickets to Golden Ticket Cinemas, the new
Cinemas at the a High Valley Mall. So we have
things for you, and we've got great conversation on its way.
Seven point sixteen on your Friday, The bloom Daddy Experience
OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven seventy ww.

Speaker 8 (09:49):
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Speaker 6 (10:00):
Seven twenty one On your Friday, The Blue Daddy experienced
salmon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, some.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Like is it Friday, like my days a day?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Don't do that.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
I'm thinking it's Thursday.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Don't do that.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
I did a quick head jerk at the calendar.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
Well I just did when you said you see me,
look at you like, wait, am I wrong here?

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Well that's what happens when you take a couple of
days off from your other job and you're all discombobilated.

Speaker 9 (10:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, I hate that feeling or that feeling when you
wake up at like one th in the morning and
your stomach drops because you think you've misslept through your alarm.
Oh I hate that feeling.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
I've done that.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Like after work, Yes, we take like a nap.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
There was one time when back in the day when
I was working for a delivery company, you know, like
kind of like a FedEx, but it was airborne. They've
been since absorbed by DHL. But I only worked in
the mornings. I only worked like a half a day.
So whatever reason, I came home and I dozed off,
and I woke up, and I jumped up, and I

(11:01):
hurried up, and I called our dispatch and the girl
entered and I said, hey, I'm sorry, I'm running a
little bit behind. And she says, what are you talking about?
And I said, and she goes, it's three o'clock in
the afternoon. Oh gosh, because I normally had to be
at work like at eight thirty or something like that
at night.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
No, in the morning. Oh okay, but I'd already done
my day.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Oh you'd already worked.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Thought it was already I thought it was the next day.

Speaker 10 (11:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
Talk about being thrown off.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Oh I was way off.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Did she laugh at you? Ask if you've been drinking
after your shift?

Speaker 7 (11:35):
No, I said, I just dozed off. And I said,
I woke up and I thought I was late for work.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
Yikes.

Speaker 9 (11:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
No, that's a horrible feeling. Horrible feeling that's happened to me.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
I've done it with this job.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
Oh yeah, where I've I've like, you know, sometimes I
might be sitting at home watching TV and then you
fall asleep kind of like you know, and your recliner
on the couch or whatever, and you wake up and
you go, oh my god, I'm late, like because I
didn't hear my alarm go off.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
And it's like, well, the reason you didn't hear it
off is because at night, yep.

Speaker 6 (12:04):
Well, what gets me here with this job is the light.
Like if I go to bed and it's pitch black
and it's eight o'clock at night and I wake up
and open my eyes and it's still pitch like, it's
got me so thrown off. That actually happened to me.
Like last week.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
You said Friday, and I'm like, it's not Friday.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
I know, don't do say if it's not Friday.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
I'm all, we're waed out. Yeah no, but it's just
me that's whacked out. There you have it.

Speaker 6 (12:34):
We're whacked out all the time. What we're not whacked
out about. How many times can we say whacked is
we're gonna remind everybody I told you about uh Taylor
family Christmas, told you about the cinema tickets. But still
going on is our stuffed stalking spectacular, the Triple S,

(12:58):
the Triple S. If you will, almost like we're a
ranch or the Triple S Ranch. Now, what we're doing
is all you do is you go to our text
line seven zero four seven zero, start the message with
bloom Daddy, we need your name, phone number, email address,
and emoji. The emoji needs to be like Santa or
missus clause some sort of Christmas Christmas themed emoji candy cane. Yes,

(13:21):
so tell us some of the things that is in
the stuffed spoks spoking.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
We've got gift certificates to River City Deluxe Toyd that's
courtesy of Lilini and Sun Jacob and Sun Meets. You
have a four pack of Golden Ticket Cinemas, including four
free popcorns. You have gift certificates to the Pike forty
Dutton Cattle Mindset to Wellness, which is a two spawed day,
two spaw day passes that includes salt room, red light table, sauna,

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float time and a polar plunge. You also are going
to get a year's worth of ice cream from Kirks
and a pair of Jody's Messina tickets. And of course
the big prize is sitting on your table. It is
the new Bluetooth wire the speaker.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
Forget Jody Massine now now Now it's the Bluetooth speaker.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Here's the thing. You can download some of Joe D's
music and play it through your new speaker.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Or you can create a Jody Messina playlist on the
iHeart Radio app there there you go and listen to
it through the Blue Stooth Bluetooth.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
For me, that's too much work. You want to I
just I just search and I hit play.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
Yeah, and then go for it. Yep, yeah yeah. Or
you can listen to us through the bluetooth speaker. That's
the real prize in all of this that everybody is is.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
That's the torture device forget water boarding. Very we're very
self deprecating.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Hey, listen, if you can't beat them, join them. That's right,
go with it. What do you say? Hey, nobody?

Speaker 5 (14:49):
You know what it is? Friday and we are live.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
I know, isn't that? I mean, that's like a mind
boggling bizarre Yeah, it's a it's a it's a thing
that people do. Yeah. So yeah, that's what you do.
And and otis can you see can you see the
stocking where I have all the entries?

Speaker 5 (15:07):
It's we may need a bigger stocking.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
We made yes, yes, and.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Do we need a bigger boat?

Speaker 6 (15:11):
We're gonna was gonna say in the tone of Jaws.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
Yes, the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws this year.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
We may need a bigger stocking. So get your registrations
and you'd use our text line.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
You might actually have to use the wheel, the.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
Wheel all the big the big.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Bin, the big big ye, the spinning bin.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Although just watch the the metal of death when you
reach it. Yeah, it can be vicious, it's it's it's vicious.
Can scratch, scratch all up.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
You had to put one of those things on your arm,
like when they train police dogs.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
The big the big sock thing. It's not a sock, but.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Yeah, it's a sleeve, but it's a padded.

Speaker 6 (15:54):
Sleeve, right, so yes, and here's the thing. We're going
to draw that winner during next Friday show, which is
our big holiday Oh blessing, blessing too Sounds and music,
which will be next Friday. Who do we have lined
up for that?

Speaker 11 (16:13):
So far?

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Us?

Speaker 7 (16:17):
You got Elgin, I know we've got Hopefully we'll have
Tony possibly the distinct Meister, and Davo who was here
last year, and Randy Randy, and we might have an
at large coming in.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
We might have a special guest. Spoke to spoke to him.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
No pro today, we get a pro. He's got to
be a judge.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
Oh oh yeah, I can't bring in a ringer now?
Who wants anybody with a good singing voice.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
That's the whole that defeats the purpose.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yes, it completely takes away the purpose behind it. Seven
eight let's go to a break. How's that sound?

Speaker 5 (16:57):
I think wonderful.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
I think we need one, and I think everybody else
does too. The Bloom Daddy Experience on this Friday here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back, seven thirty
six The bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and otis here on
news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Coming up here very shortly. Hint, hint,

(17:24):
very very shortly, we're going to have your first chance
to win this morning. Up First, we've got a pair
of tickets to see a Taylor Family Christmas up at
Wheeling Park High School at the Performing Arts Center, So
that's going to be coming up here very very shortly. Otis,
can I tell you a little story from yesterday? I blushed?
I blushed yesterday. Sure, So after the show, I had

(17:46):
a doctor's appointment. It was at the dermatologist, and I
haven't been there probably in a year and a half.
So I called made the appointment a couple of weeks ago.
No big deal. Didn't even really pay attention to what
doctor I was seeing because there's a couple with this
particular office, and they said, you can see doctor. Uh
such and such could again, couldn't tell you his name.

(18:09):
He's got the quickest opening. I said, okay, fine, So
I go yesterday and uh, I'm sitting there waiting, I'm
playing on my phone and this and that, and walks
this doctor and I look up and I just smile
because and I hope he's not listening. Very attractive man,

(18:35):
very very attractive man. I was tongue tied. I didn't
know what to say. Last time I went. The doctor
was the doctor I saw at that point in time
was very nice, but I mean he was an older
gentleman and just complete polar opposite of what I saw yesterday.
And the nurse kind of giggled because obviously this had
this has happened in the past. Because I just sat

(18:56):
there and I didn't know what to say. I was like, huh,
You're not what I expected. Okay. So then later on
in the day, I'm meeting with a client and I
said something about, you know, I'm running late. I had
a doctor's appointment this night. So he asked me where
I was, and I told him he goes, oh, did
you see the hot doctor.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (19:13):
I did so. Anyways, that was my uh, that was
my story from yesterday. I was completely blushing, completely blushing.
So mister uh, mister hot doctor. Uh, my apologies for
being a little awkward and tongue tied yesterday. Oh this
is just shaking his head at me.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
What that's pathetic?

Speaker 6 (19:39):
What now?

Speaker 7 (19:40):
If I told that story, I'd be a perverted pig.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Oh I don't.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
I'm not trying to be perverted.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
That's not one I understand.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
I'm trying to make sure of I'm making one of myself, because.

Speaker 7 (19:52):
It's still it's about it's a bet your hot doctor.
I mean if I came in and told a story
about my hot doctor and she was blah blah blah,
I would sound like a pervert, even if I was
embarrassed myself. Oh okay, I think there's a double standard there.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
You think. Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
I mean, I'm not saying what you did was wrong.
I'm just saying that I think that there's there's perception
the way people perceive stuff.

Speaker 9 (20:16):
Well.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Also, I don't think women talk a lot about like
a hot looking dude, where men tend to Oh yeah,
she was smoking, they say it more often than women do.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yeah, I probably would agree with that.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
So I think that's where possibly that double standard comes
in because men do.

Speaker 7 (20:38):
It more well in the fact that you know, the
men have been guilty of like cat calls and stuff
like that.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
Yeah you know, so yeah, trust me, I know happens
to me all the time. I couldn't even get an out,
what's out? Laugh? What are you looking for?

Speaker 5 (20:56):
The police? Because they're going to do it drug busting here?

Speaker 6 (21:04):
I couldn't even complete my thoughts.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Come on, I'm kidding.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Oh anyways, Okay, that went all different. Have you ever
have you ever cat called? I can't really like it.
I don't cat calls a whistle right kind of?

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Okay, I mean that that's part of it.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
Hey baby, baby, you know you know.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
How when you're little, like seven or eight years old
and you don't know any better, and you know, you're
out with your buddies, Yeah, you might have done it then,
yeah you know. But I mean as far as like
as an adult, I don't think I've ever done it.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
I mean.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
There's some there's some there's some missing pieces in that adulthood.
So so I'm not going to say that I've never
done it, but yeah, I mean I don't necessarily remember everything.
And you know sometimes if you're if you're dating somebody,
or if you're married to somebody, you might do it

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to them.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Just well yeah that's different.

Speaker 7 (22:10):
Yeah, you know, just to have it kind of have
some fun with it. But I mean as far as
like being the pig on the street.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
No, I actually had. This was many years ago here
out front of the Capitol. I don't know if it
still is, but right out here under the Marquee was
a pickup for the for the bus transit right and
I was walking back in one afternoon and I walked
past this gentleman and he, I don't want to say,

(22:38):
grout at me, but he made some sort of noise
and then he smacked me on the backside nice And
I turned around and I was wearing very very pointed
high heels. And I turned around and I looked at
him and I said, I appreciate the you know, I'm

(22:59):
flattered if you you ever touch me again, or touch
any woman without being, you know, given permission. And I said,
see how pointy these shoes are they land what did
I say? I have very very good aim, and I
and I said something about your your your growling will

(23:19):
be a little bit more high pitched. When I put
this shoe would.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Be like Christmas thing.

Speaker 6 (23:24):
When he said, rinky, there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
grabbed me and grabbed or slapped me right on the
uh took us?

Speaker 7 (23:35):
What the fact that you said took us? Well, I
mean but it just like I wasn't exacting that word.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
He was shocked.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
He was I feel like I just got transported back
into the seventies. But took us.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
I think he was shocked that I actually turned around
and confronted him. And and that's nine times out of
ten if somebody does do something like that or you know,
is obnoxious or whatever, if you actually turn around and
confront them, they you know, tail between their legs and
they don't know what to say back there. They're just
tongue tied, so.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
They're not expecting that.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah, there's there's stuff that's in good fun and then
there's stuff where it's inappropriate.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:21):
That would be an HR violation if if one of
us did that to each other. So I have to
stop now. I'm not allowed to do it anymore. Even
if you.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
Ask touch my tuness oh, shoot, shoot, okay, how do
we change from that? What do we go to? What's
a better word for tukus, tushy, tushy, dairy air? Oh oh,
we're getting builing, We're getting by lingual. Now you're dairy

(24:56):
air at the louver Ra.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Let's good break.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
You want to do that? Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
I think your people just came.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Okay, no, let's do our first chance to win this morning.
We got a pair of tickets to a Taylor Family
Christmas December twenty first Wheeling Park High School Performing Arts Center.
We've got a pair for you and listen. Listen, not
High Valley BC, Taylor, Taylor Family Christmas. It's part of
the fabric of our holiday season. So you want to

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go see this show? One eight hundred sixty two for
eleven seventy one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy.
Let's do caller number? What do you want to do?

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Otis sixteen?

Speaker 6 (25:37):
All right, caller number sixteen one eight hundred six two
four eleven seventy. It is seven forty four on your yes,
otis it is Friday here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(25:57):
All right, folks, it is seven fifty on your Friday.
Congratulations to Christina from Dylan Vale. She is our first winter.
This morning, her and a friend are going to get
the opportunity to go to see Taylor family Christmas up
at Wheeling Park High School. We got another pair of
those for you coming up here a bit later in
the show, so stay tuned for that. All right, folks,

(26:18):
here we go. We're going to walk down Memory Lane.
It's Christmas season. So what's everybody doing. They're buying Christmas gifts.
What do you do when you shop? You go to
the High Valley Mall. So joining us now in studio
we have the mall property manager, George Diab, along with
Candy Noble Greathouse, who's been with us before, the marketing

(26:39):
director for the High Valley Mall. So, guys, thanks so
much for coming in this morning, Thanks.

Speaker 9 (26:43):
For having us, Thank you glad to be here.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
All right, George, let's get some history on the mall.
So what and what date did it officially open?

Speaker 9 (26:55):
November fifteenth, nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Nineteen seventy eight here with sears. Okay, so, how many
stores were there from the beginning?

Speaker 9 (27:07):
From the beginning, there were ninety five ninety five ninety five.
It was even at that time, which I consider that
the golden age of malls, it was unusual to be
almost full upon opening.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
You have been there since the beginning, correct.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
Well almost, I started in nineteen eighty. There was one
gentleman before me.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Okay, okay, And you know, thinking back, I'm gonna make
you go back in the archives if you will, what
was that feeling like? Not necessarily the day it opened,
but if you think back, what were those days like
for you?

Speaker 9 (27:47):
For me, busy seven days a week. The traffic at
the mall was incredible. It was really the only place
to shop with the except of downtown, which was beginning
to wane at the time. So exciting just seeing so

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many people every every day.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
You've seen the ebbs and flows of retail over the
past four decades. Yes, And where we are today. And
we talked about this candy a couple months ago when
the announcement was made. You know, you guys are welcoming
three new anchor stores Burlington, the boot Barn in the
Academy Sports that's yes, yeah, so and those are you

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can already see what's going on right now with the construction,
do we have target dates.

Speaker 12 (28:36):
For those yet not entirely earlier in the year for
Academy and Burlington, Okay, within the first two quarters probably,
and then boot Barn is supposed to be the fourth
quarter next.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Year, okay, because the outside facade is moving quickly. It
is it is we.

Speaker 12 (28:53):
Are going to turn over in the beginning of the year,
and then they will do each individual store will do
their construction on the two earlier stories.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Okay, all right, So what I did, and like I said,
let's let's have some fun with this because everybody loves
to reminisce. I put this out on social media that
you guys were coming in and I basically just asked people,
you know, what are your fondest memories, stores, restaurants, Because
once somebody says something, then it sparks you, and then
it sparks you. So I'm gonna go over excuse me,

(29:22):
I'm gonna go over some of what we've gotten and listen, folks,
if you want to get in on the conversation, call
in one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. That's
one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. Or of
course you can jump on our text line seven zero
four seven zero start the message off with bloom Daddy.
So on Facebook, I'm gonna start off with this one.
This is from Randy. This is actually a story. My

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favorite memory of the mall is when I went and
saw my first movie in nineteen eighty seven with my dad.
My mom had to watch my then baby sister. It
was Masters of the Universe. He Man, there is a
Cinematic cat Me Award winner winner right there. Let's see.
I was five, about to be six. I still remember

(30:06):
my asking my dad if the actors were actually behind
the screen. Next year, there's actually a new Masters of
the Universe coming out in June. And then he ends
with I have the power because that was he Man's line.
So yeah, everybody, you know those stories the cinemas and
and again we've got you know, golden ticket cinemas coming out.
So Randy, you can now take your little one to

(30:28):
go the new see the new. He many think about that,
I mean, George, if we go back, if you go
back and think about it, Indiana Jones, Superman, Avatar, Uh,
Lord of the Rings. They've all come through the cinemas
at the mall. How many have you seen the movies

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have you seen at the mall?

Speaker 9 (30:51):
I'm not gonna not that many.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Now see, you'd have to keep me away if I
work there like that all the time. Okay, So let's
get into some stores. Stant Nancy on Facebook mentioned Ponderosa Restaurant.
Now this one, you all are gonna have to remind
me der dog House. Yes, what was that?

Speaker 9 (31:13):
It was a specialty hot dog.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Okay, oh okay? Where was it? Where was it near?

Speaker 9 (31:20):
Uh? It was near the current Michaels.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Okay, okay, on the on the on that side of.

Speaker 9 (31:26):
The mall oncourses.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
All right, how many people out there, I'm gonna pose
this to you all out there? How many people's first
job was at the mall? Mine was otis.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
No, never worked at the mall.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
You ever worked at the mall? Oh?

Speaker 9 (31:39):
Lord?

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Yeah? My first job was at the mall was at
the finish line, followed by I worked four or five
years at Big Boy. You go, the wall of windows.
The best people watching ever was sitting in those windows
watching people walk in and out of the mall.

Speaker 13 (31:56):
You can definitely people watch at the mall.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Definitely one thing working at Big Boy. And it cracks
me up because people on social media mentioned Big Boy
a lot or they called it Elbie's and Almos. Everybody asked,
you know what was the little burger place right next door?
It was Almos. It was the same stuff. It always
cracked me up because people would come to Big Boy,
they'd get a Big Boy for I don't know, six

(32:19):
seven dollars. You could get it at Almos for two.
It was the same food. A lot of people never
realized that, that's right. One of the others. This one
I didn't recognize, So maybe educate me a little bit.
D Palmadoro's De Palmadoro's.

Speaker 9 (32:37):
That was in an Italian specialty restaurant and it was
Lens Crafters currently occupies the space where they're located, Okay,
right across from the cinema in fact, huh.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
And one this one really got me. So this was
from Elena on Facebook. She said, as soon as she
thinks of them all, her first thought is the smell
of the water fountains. How many people out there right
now that I said that, you can remember that that
smell the.

Speaker 9 (33:08):
Chemicals, Yes, it was the chemicals to keep the water sanitary.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
Okay, okay, in the pennies, everybody throwing the pennies in. Yeah,
so when we talk about retail, we're going to talk
about this a little bit more because there are, like
I said, we have tons of commentary on here that
I want to get to because people took the time
to answer. But as we think about and we think
back to the the the mall and the way it
used to look, you know, it's so reminiscent of you

(33:37):
can actually see that the decades by the interior because
I remember the domes, the yellow yellow, goldish domes. Were
they actually looking outside or was there another No?

Speaker 9 (33:51):
No, those were false.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Okay. I always wondered if they were the real dealer
or No.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
I've been replaced with with real skylight, the real stuff
you can see the outside.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Yeah, okay, will you guys hang out with me a
little bit longer? Yes, wonderful. It is seven fifty eight.
We're gonna jump to a break. You're listening to the
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Eight or six on your Friday. We're taking a walk
down memory lane folks here on the Bloom Daddy Experience,
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Hanging out within u with
us in the studio is property manager of the High
Valley Mall, George Daeb along with Candy Noble Greathouse, the
marketing director. We're having some fun this morning. Before we
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so let's get back into this. So, like I said,
I put this up on our Facebook, got tons of
comments about the conversation we were going to have today. So,
first of George, looking back to that first year, you know,
the first year that you worked there, what was Christmas

(36:07):
like during that time?

Speaker 9 (36:10):
Festive? Of course, sure, and extremely busy, as I'd said earlier,
a huge Santa display, long lines for Santa meet and greet.
I mean, just very very busy.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
One of the things people always think about during the
holiday season is that it toy, the craze toy. So
the when I think back, when I think about that,
the first one is the cabbage patch doll. Right. Do
you guys have any memories of anything crazy like that
happening during any of the Christmases the past forty years
at the mall, like the long lines or the you know.

Speaker 13 (36:49):
Well, you know, not a tremendous amount, but I know
the ferbies, Like.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
We were talking about ferbies.

Speaker 12 (36:55):
Yeah, remember, everybody was trying to get their hands on
those and toys.

Speaker 13 (37:00):
R Us of course did it. But then we had
a couple of small, small stores that would get them.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
And then they know.

Speaker 12 (37:07):
The other thing is though beanie babies not necessarily for Christmas, Yeah,
but Hallmark and Gorn's Candies would have special beanie baby days.
And that was my early days in the mall. And
they would be standing outside the way before ten am,
just on a random I don't even know what day
of the week it was, but maybe like a Thursday.
I don't think it was a weekend, and they were

(37:27):
standing there to see what the next one was gonna be.

Speaker 6 (37:30):
And I'm sure you could look into the eyes and know,
don't go there. Yes, let them get their beanie babies.
And yes, they were there on a mission. Greg on
Facebook sent us a message and said he remembers Dexter's subs. Yes,
I don't remember that one. That's not familiar.

Speaker 9 (37:49):
They were in the side concourse. The mic was concourse also, okay,
actually right next they were where cas.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Is now a good one that Otis brought up. We
were talking about this little bit yesterday that Otis brought
up was Zides. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (38:09):
They were Marietta based and they were a regional, local, regional.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
Sports one that we got a ton on in Otis.
You might remember this one better than myself. Was first
of all, Judy on Facebook said the Kreagan Christmas holiday figurines.
That doesn't ring about to me. And then we got
this by tons of people. Phil on Facebook said, the

(38:38):
York Steakhouse and going upstairs at Zide's Sports Shop to
specifically look at baseball hats.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
Yes, that's correct. Sides had a what we call a mezzanine.
It was a metal structure that you could walk up
and that was additional sales area. Kreagan we never had
creak and displays. They were a large Stubenville based Christmas manufacturer,

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but we had never dealt with them.

Speaker 13 (39:10):
Oh okay, maybe a store did though. Maybe a store.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
Okay, okay, yeah, World Bizarre does that ring about?

Speaker 9 (39:18):
Definitely. World Bizarre was was one of our original merchants
and they sold baskets figurines literally from other areas of
the world, primarily Asian countries, and it was a very
popular store.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
Yeah, Otis, we were talking Abbey's.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
We of course had it was I think it was
Abbey's two is what it was actually called.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
I remember the glass windows. Wasn't there women's heads that
was like the windows.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
Yes, yes, it was like a stained glass.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
Yes, that's it. Going down to where the cinemas are at.

Speaker 9 (39:57):
Yes, that hallway it was now uh within what is
now Tilt Studio.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
Okay, in that vicinity. And you were mentioning you mentioned
National Record.

Speaker 7 (40:08):
Mark and National Record In Coffman's is where you went
to buy your tickets for any.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Of the concerts around here.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
Correct, And most of the time you went to Coffman's
because you could actually put it on your Kaufman's charge card,
but you had to pay cash at National Record Mark.
You couldn't pay with a credit card. So and then
you also had like for me, when I was in
high school, the big store was Chess King.

Speaker 9 (40:29):
Chess King, Yes, I don't remember chess.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
It was a lot of skinny ties bought.

Speaker 9 (40:34):
There was men's men's apparel, candy.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
Maybe you'll remember this one. It was was it Merry
Go Round? And when we were in high school you
went there for the IOU sweatshirts and the skids Do
you remember some skids pants?

Speaker 9 (40:51):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (40:51):
Yes, oh, they were so bad.

Speaker 13 (40:55):
Was a Merry Go Around? There was a Merry Go round.
I'm not really sure, but I think that's right.

Speaker 9 (41:00):
Yeah. It was definitely Merry Ground. It was near Sears
at the time, and it was extremely popular with the
young younger.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
It was the trendy stuff.

Speaker 9 (41:10):
It was trendy.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
Yes, we have a call.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:12):
You didn't think we were going to go a through
back segment without Davo, did you?

Speaker 11 (41:15):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (41:15):
No, all right, Davo. What do you got for.

Speaker 10 (41:17):
Us to the wayback machine? Okay? Well, two things you
had asked if anyone had worked there. I did not,
but my brother did. He worked at Captain Max and
he almost burned down the mall when he was cleaning
the friars as they closed, and his last vision to
him slinking away in his car was all the fire

(41:38):
trucks and all the light. He's like, yeah, that was me. So.
But my other thing was there was no what a
fantastic time to be anywhere from age sixteen to twenty
when that mall opened, Because what a place to take
your girl if you first started dating in high school,
because you went to the listening booth and the National

(41:59):
Record March, those were hot on your list, and then
you went through all the records, and then you went
over to Spencers. Yes, and you know, saw all the
naughty little t shirts lon giggle with each other and
what a great way you know to just you know,
flirt a little.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
And you thought.

Speaker 10 (42:19):
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (42:20):
If you went to Spencer's and you saw the naughty
jokes and the naughty stuff and you were a teenager,
you thought you were bucking the system, if you will,
kind of you know, being being naughty, being a bad boy,
bad girl. Yeah, that's great, that's great. Thank you.

Speaker 10 (42:35):
Being able to bring up little things without you know,
being too blunt yep, you know, yep. And why it
changed from of, you know, walking through wheeling it was
cold on the sidewalks going store to store, and all
of a sudden you had this all you know, indoor
heated way to shop and walk around with your girl
and it was awesome.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Got to hold hands for the first time. Yeah you, yes,
thank you, thank you. I always think of it always
pops into my head. Mister Bulky's. And the store that
was on the outside where Thomas Carlott is now. You
would pick stuff and it would come down that really

(43:15):
cool conveyor Best that's what it was called Best. You
would stand there and be like it's coming and you
see like, oh, here's your new toy. And you you didn't,
you like pick a slip and then you turn the
slip in.

Speaker 9 (43:28):
And it was a showroom. You you would, you would
browse and you would choose what you wanted and yes,
fill out a slip, take it to the desk, and
upstairs was the warehouse.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Yes would, And it was always so cool. I remember
my little brother always wanted to climb up that thing.
Oh great memories, great memories. And one more I want
to throw out there before I let you, guys go
the Wendy's, the tables, the brick You would walk down
the brick path and do you go left or you
go right? You know I can still see it, I

(44:01):
can still smell. It's so funny when you talk about
this kind of stuff, how much it sparks your memories.
And George, I want to leave you with this. This
is from Lisa. She says, George Daab, the manager, is
an awesome guy and has been the first and only
mal manager since it's beginning. George, we appreciate you so

(44:22):
very much. So that's from Lisa. I thought that was
very sweet, very sweet. Guys, thank you so much this morning.
I hope everybody had fun with this. All right, everybody
and enjoy. We're all We're not die. I'm just gonna
let you guys go. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
Welcome back.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
It's eight twenty two on this Friday, The bloem Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. All right, we're
gonna stick with the Christmas themes. So joining me now
in the studio. You might recognize this name. You'll definitely
recognize the last name. B. C. Taylor. Good morning, good morning.
So we're of course we're going to talk about the

(45:12):
concert and everything. So but prior to you coming on
and you you grew up here, correct, Oh yeah, okay exactly,
we were talking about them. Ma all oh yeah, So
I gotta, I gotta. I'm gonna put you on the spot.
What do you remember growing up at the High Valley
mall stores, restaurants. What do you remember?

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Well, it was like the place to go in high school. Uh,
and you would do the loop and walk around and
your friends, your guy friends would be on your left,
and if you were lucky enough to be like with
talking quote unquote talking to somebody, you would hold her hand.
But she would just face the right and talk to
her girlfriends, and I'd face my guy friends and we
would just walk. That's very specific, very specific. Yeah, but

(45:54):
but and then you know, you would try to you
would try to like figure out a way to see
a late movie and you know, because now you'd be
out till eleven, yeah, nine point thirty, you know. But recently,
what I remember most about the Ohio Valley Mall is
that because of the shows we're about to talk about,
we wouldn't shop for Christmas gifts until Christmas Eve. So

(46:19):
my mother and I would go out and it would
be our tradition to go and be like, Okay, we
got to get we got to get mamm something, we
get paps, we got to get something for Tawny to
open because we're all working up until twenty second, twenty third.
And so what I remember is hitting all those stores
and then ending at Fabio's and she and I would
both have a slice of pizza and talk about like,

(46:39):
oh my goodness, how quickly the season went. Yeah, like
all the Christmas is tomorrow, so there's a lot of
really wonderful memories there. Obviously, I know there was a
f Ye out there that, like, you know, you would
stop by or Sam Goodies. Was it Sam Goodies or
fy or both?

Speaker 7 (46:53):
Wait, there was a Sam Goodies, but I think Sam
Goodie came in after National Record Marked.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Oh maybe it was National that's what it was, a
record But anyway, I just remember that being you go in.
They still had the the headphones where you would sample
the CDs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the band.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
T shirts and there were actually there were two record
stores in the malt one time National record Mark and
then like like you said, there was another one. I
can't remember the exact eventually morphed into Sam good.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeo, okay, well whatever that was. I remember those two
being yeah, so I mean it was you know, I
h And obviously as a kid, you're going to the
game stores and they had two of those, and you know,
I remember a popcorn store. They had multiple colored popcorns.

Speaker 6 (47:33):
Somebody mentioned that on our Facebook was the was the
the popcorn store?

Speaker 3 (47:38):
I think there was a pet store there.

Speaker 6 (47:39):
There was a pet store because I remember watching.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Kids her kids.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
I think it was Petland?

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Petland?

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Yeah, Petland?

Speaker 6 (47:47):
Do you remember, mister Bulkeys?

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I don't know. No.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
What was the candy store you would go in?

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Yes? Oh, I stole a piece of candy from one
year and my dad made me take it back and
then I didn't get Mconald's on the way home and
he turns to my sister and goes, you can get
whatever you want, and I'm in the back seat. Yeah, yeah,
it was. It scarred me, Mike.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
My grandmother used to take me to Oh it was
down by Kmart where Kmart used to be. She called
it the five and dime wool worst Does that sound
right or Murphy's.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Murphy's I think I remember hearing about.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
She would take me and my brother in there, get
us candy, and then they used to have the u
inflatable rubber like hard balloons. I called them bingie bogie
balloons like that's gotta be the the of course, but
she would then fill her purse with the candy we bought,
take us to the movies, and as we were turning

(48:44):
on our tickets, she would have us bounce those balloons
so that they wouldn't notice we were sneaking camp Ah.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
She was slick. She was slick. That's impressive, yep.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
And she would have popcorn already made from home and
then Nichol's bread bag.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
That's hilarious. My dad would do that, really, he would,
he yeah, when he was going to the movies, he would,
he would, they would. I don't know where he would
buy it from, but where it was where he purchased
it from, it was much cheaper than the than this,
and he would It would be in a long bag
and he would wear a sweat or something and walk
in with this big back of popcorn and yeah, no purse, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:19):
Oh shoot. Oh, and my grandmother would aways don't tell
your mom, don't tell your mother. Okay, okay, all right,
we kind of went down.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Listen, we can keep we can keep going down there,
no problem.

Speaker 6 (49:31):
Three one out, okay, one more. I'm gonna throw out
to you Aladdin's Castle.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, well, not only do I remember
the old Aladdin's Castle where you walk through like this
stone archway was really dark right next I think it
was like right next to Fabio's at that time, or
down or maybe that was the back entrance or something.
I just remember there being some type of like, oh,
that's the arcade, and you know, I wasn't as a

(49:55):
kid always allowed to go. And then they remodeled it
and put it out by by the theaters, and I
remember two two times. One my one of my really
good friends at the time, had a birthday party and
it was the first time I had ever done a
birthday party at an arcade, and I was just oh,
my gosh, the light, you know, you just you're so
into it, and then overstimulated so many lights, yeah yeah,

(50:17):
too many lights. And then I remember going out. It
was the first time that or one of the first
times during the day that my cousin and I we
were allowed to kind of just roam in the mall
and it was it was we were going to see
the Star Wars episode one, the Phantom Bizz and we
I mean but we were we were at the arcade
before then, playing one of those just like childhood. Oh yeah,

(50:41):
you know core memories of this. Were so into this
movie and were so into video games and it's the
best morning ever and oh my gosh, you know.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
You couldn't have you couldn't have wished for more. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well we're going to jump to a quick break. That
voice you here is BC Taylor. We are going to
actually talk about the concerts.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Yeah, how much time did How long are you guys
on the air?

Speaker 6 (50:58):
Nine? Okay, well we got time, We got time. We're
gonna jump to a quick break and we're gonna have
another chance to win tickets to the show sounderful, so
you'll be in on that too. Of course, you're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience here on news Radio eleven
seventy WWVA A thirty five. Welcome back the bloom Daddy Experience.

(51:23):
Sam and Otis, News Radio eleven seventy wwva Otis. I
think we have a theme going today. I guess nostalgia
is the theme we have weave throughout this show. With
that being said, joining us, still hanging out with us,
BC Taylor. Of course Taylor Family Christmas Show coming up
December twenty first at Wheeling Park Performing Arts Center. So,

(51:47):
speaking of nostalgia, let's let's go that route.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
Let's let's kick, let's make people tear up, you know,
let's just get in it.

Speaker 6 (51:55):
I have said this now all week. You know, if
you grew up in the Ohio Valley, you know the
tailor name is of course synonymous synonymous with with Christmas
here in the Valley. So tell us, tell us your
best memory of your dad and Christmas.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Oh my goodness, that's.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
That's probably a question.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
The best musically, well, sure, even that's tough because there's
just so many I will say, just parking here and
getting out and crossing the stroking and looking in front,
like looking at the Capitol, walking in here. There are
so many memories of just doing that. And how it's
funny how we take for granted certain things, like how
I I just thought we would always do this. I

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thought he would always be here, we would always be
playing the shows, and you know, this is just life coming.
We got two shows at the Capitol every year, and
you know, and and now you know that that isn't
the case, you appreciate it so much more. I there's
a couple that come to mind. One when I first started,

(52:56):
when I first started playing uh any kind of drum
on stage, I came out and I did the the
I'll Camali faithful marching drum thing, and I was scared
to death and I was really stiff the first night.
And you know, it goes fine and we're backstage he goes,
oh you did. Yes, that was really great. But you

(53:16):
know tomorrow, you know, it's all about showmanship and you
need to get out there and you need to ham
it up. And I think that was like, I don't
know what happened, but I like a flip was switched.
And after that night, I you know, went out and
I was all over the place and playing and he
pulled me backstage afterwards he was like, you know, maybe
not that much, you know, just you know, dial it back,

(53:38):
just to just to touch. But I mean those types
of moments, that was great and one one that has
truly shaped me. I wasn't even actually involved. I heard
it third party. There was a stage hand. I don't
know if it was here or in Pittsburgh, but the
feeling was was mutual either way. The way he brought

(54:00):
or presented this was the same every night we were
wrapping up soundcheck and uh, okay, hey we're gonna go
We're gonna go eat, and it was it was, you know,
just a stage hand and he goes, oh, we don't
we don't eat, we don't, we don't eat with the artists,
And my dad goes, we are you working the beat?
Taylor Christmas show tonight, concert tonight, and that guy goes yeah,
he goes, well, then yeah, of course you're eating with us,

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and he brought him up and we had catering, and
it was it was one of those first times that
I that I had heard and obviously I experienced it,
of Dad did not. There was no hierarchy, like he
was the frontman of the show, and he treated the
people who were cleaning the seats the same way. And
his reasoning for that was we are all here for

(54:44):
the audience. Everybody is here for the show, you know,
and and to to live in there and their night,
make their night the you know, the best it can be.
And that has really stuck with me. So I try
to every time I walk into a new venue, whether
it's a Christmas show or I'm more looking for somebody,
I remember that no one is more important than anybody else.

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And that's really helped me, you know.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
As he brought down that invisible wall, so very.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Much, so very much so. And then and on top,
we were actually just watching it was on QD last night,
the Christmas Show on PBS, and and it's been a
minute since I've watched the actual Christmas show and it's
just I mean, he was just so good. He was
so good. Yeah. So you know you ask the favorite

(55:33):
moment I could I mean, literally, how much time do.

Speaker 9 (55:36):
You have it?

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Right?

Speaker 9 (55:36):
Right?

Speaker 5 (55:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (55:37):
Yeah, it would be so hard to Like I said,
that was a loaded question. I guess what made you
decide to kind of I don't want to say repurpose,
that's not the right term, but to kind of reinvent
or to bring back and take what it was and
create a tailor family Christmas feel of love and come

(55:58):
up with the new direction for the show.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I think one the biggest reason is this is my
Christmas season, Like, this is my tradition, this is what
I've grown up doing, the same with the band, and
it's the same for a lot of the people who
are coming to the shows. So the desire to continue
the show was very, very natural. It almost didn't feel
like a choice to a degree. And then as far

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as the direction of the show, part of it is
we always my dad would always try to change tweak
maneuver the set, that the way the songs flowed into
each other. Do we add a song, do we cut
a song? And so when we were approaching this new
version of the show. We really leaned into that because one,

(56:46):
he carried so much weight on stage just because of
who he was as a performer, as a singer, as
a front man, you know, as a personality, as a voice.
Where you remove that and there's a lot of open space,
you know, that you have to fill with production and
and thought out movements and lighting and you know, all

(57:09):
these different things. Not because there's there's there's a there's
an insane amount of talent on stage, but because he's
not there, you want to bolster the show as much
as you can, to make it as enjoyable, as approachable,
as as as you can. And again, because the show

(57:30):
is based in the essence of exactly why he started
the show thirty years ago. That joy, that love, that
that that brotherhood, that family element, the show definitely feels
the same. And the music is you know, we're still
doing Mary's Boy Child and Saw Three Ships and you
know all we Three Kings, all those songs Feel the

(57:51):
Love of Christmas. Of course, what a bad decision that
would be if I did a show called Feel of
Love and didn't do you know the actual song.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
Yeah, that's exactly work world.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Wow, No, no, it's bad marketing. It's bad marketing. But
because of that, you know, it definitely has that familiar
feel to it.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Well.

Speaker 6 (58:09):
And of course we have been talking about the December
twenty first show that's happening here and Wheeling, as I said,
at the Preforming Arts Center up at the at Wheeling
Park High School. But you have more than one date.
So for folks out there who maybe on the twenty
first they're not available, they can catch you in other
surrounding areas if you want to let people know those

(58:30):
dates and locations.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Yes, the eighteenth of December we're in Morgantown, West Virginia
at the Metropolitan Theater downtown Morgantown. The nineteenth and twentieth
we're in Moon, PA at the Moon High School Auditorium.
And so if the twenty first doesn't work and you
don't mind driving a little bit, we will be there.

Speaker 6 (58:51):
Yeah, make a weekend of it.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Yeah, Yeah, come on tour with us, you know, just
just throw some sandwiches in a cooler and let's roll.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
Well, and you mentioned some of the songs that we'll
be singing, so that night when folks attend the show,
because we've already got a handful of listeners. I actually
had somebody come up to me at lunch Tuesday. They
want tickets and they're like, we're so excited. That's so cool,
We're so excited. And I said for what. I didn't
know who the person was, and I felt really terrible.

(59:18):
I said, I'm sorry, and they're like, no, we want
i want tickets this morning to see the Tailor Show.
And I went, oh, okay, okay, so it's already. You know,
people are so excited about it because it's a part
of their holiday tradition. Yeah, you know, as I said,
Taylor and Christmas, it all goes together, so it's a
part of their family tradition too. But for folks that

(59:39):
may be going for the first time, what's it going
to be?

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Like?

Speaker 6 (59:41):
What are they experience?

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Sure, well, if you've never been. The best way I
could describe it is our the goal of the show
is no matter how you're feeling, our job is to
make you leave feeling the love of Christmas, walking out
with a smile, feeling a little lighter, getting like you're
actually excited for for the for the you know, the

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coming holidays.

Speaker 7 (01:00:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
And the way we do that again is it's it's
based in our faith. It's it's based around the birth
of Christ. So are our hearts and and and minds
are are geared towards that which which kind of I
think propels us to lead into. You know, it's all

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about love, it's all about joy, it's all about celebration.
It's very lighthearted. There's a lot of joking, there's a
lot of you know, there's just so much carmono. You
can see how much love we have for each other
on stage, and even if it's your first time there,
you will feel the connection between stage and audience and
vice versa.

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
And and the part we got about a minute and
a half left, not oh maybe not even that. According
to otis that I think the thing that's great is
the the family tie in the the you know how,
it's just it's about the holiday spirit. It's it's it's
not about I mean, i'd hate to say this about
Santa Claus and spending money in this and that it's
about celebrating, like you said, the love and everything. So

(01:01:11):
BC Taylor, thank you so much. Of course, tickets are
still available. I'll share everything on our Facebook page so
people can find all of that. But we've got a
chance to win.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Ooh, one hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
Six two four eleven seventy. Let's do Caller number eleven
for a pair of tickets. Leave work for you, all right,
Caller number eleven one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy.
Have a fantastic show. So glad to have you back
so much. It's eight forty six. You're listening to The
Bloomdaddy Experience, samon OTAs News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Hey

(01:01:48):
fifty one, welcome back on your Friday, The bloom Daddy Experience,
salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Congratulations to Taylor.
Taylor is going to see a Taylor Family Christmas up
at the Wheeling Performing Arts Center. H Taylor is from
Saint Clairsville. So congratulations to Taylor our latest winter and

(01:02:11):
have one more chance for you to win. This morning.
We've got a pair of tickets to the Golden Cinemas,
the new I'm sorry, the new movie Theaters out at
the High Valley Mall. That's coming up very shortly, so
stay tuned for that. Otis do we have, We've got
Kevin Cook. Good morning, Kevin Strab, how are you this morning?

(01:02:33):
On this Friday morning, guys, how y'all doing this morning? Good? Good,
good good?

Speaker 11 (01:02:39):
All right, I've got a question for you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
Good oh no, okay, oh yeah, this feels like a setup,
but all right, okay, okay, is.

Speaker 11 (01:02:51):
He like you know, is he like you know Christmas happy?
Is he's a crunch If he's a little kid, that's
gonna cutting line and a what kind of Christmas guy
is he?

Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
What kind of Christmas guy is he? Okay, he's an
He's an undercover Christmas enthusiast. And here's why I say that.
Here's why I say that. He tends to on the
outside be a little grumpy is not the right term,
but as if he plays as if it's it's not
that big a deal. But deep down he is an

(01:03:23):
absolutely fantastic gift shopper. He he loves, he loves, he
loves to do it. He comes up with creative gifts
for people, and he is the best, uh present rapper
that I've ever come across.

Speaker 8 (01:03:40):
Wow, I'm shocked.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
Yep, I am shocked.

Speaker 11 (01:03:44):
Okay, yep, bravo, bra.

Speaker 8 (01:03:49):
Speaking of present, all right, we're having you know, as
everybody knows, we've been talking about toys for tots and
all the dealerships. I believe today is media day, all right,
so you'll get to see, you know.

Speaker 11 (01:04:00):
If you check out the news this evening or listen
to us again on Monday, you'll get to see who,
you know, which dealership won, which dealership was able to
encourage not only the employees but also the customers to
bring in the most gifts. You can still bring those
in today if you choose to do so. We'll be
happy to make sure that a very deserving child, you know,

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gets a really really nice Christmas gift. For Christmas again,
the Toys for Touch program absolutely phenomenal.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
It is it is. Let me ask you this. So
I was involved in another a different toy drive situation.
The adults had so much fun looking at the toys.
I mean, there was a woman that was like, oh
my god, there's a rainbow break doll. I haven't seen
one of those since I was a kid. Are your
guys at the dealership's having fun like that?

Speaker 11 (01:04:49):
Yeah, it's really cool to see that. The the nostalgic
Bloye and some of these people have picked up.

Speaker 8 (01:04:58):
Okay, but what's the.

Speaker 11 (01:04:59):
Toys stay over in the.

Speaker 6 (01:05:01):
Martinspherre Deluxe Deluxe toys.

Speaker 11 (01:05:03):
Yeh yeh awesome, awesome place. Yeah, and so there's there's
been a lot of toys picked up for a lot
of areas. With the nostalgic toys are the ones that
everybody walks by to the display and goes, oh, I
had one of those. I remember that. Yeah, it's really cool. Yeah,
really cool finel, really cool. To end it out, headed

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down the Mountaineer, West Virginia's number one Honda dealer. It
just left Strap Honda, West Virginia's number two Honda dealer.
These guys are battling out again for supremacy by the
end of the year. It's really really close to see
which one of them is not only gonna win for December,
but also gonna win for the year.

Speaker 8 (01:05:42):
Okay, so if you want.

Speaker 11 (01:05:43):
To help those guys out, you know, log on to
a dryshop dot com today, check out and see how
much money you can save on Honda. They're doing everything
they can to put every deal together. Uh, same thing
that's happening at Hyundai Nissan both Cross or stores Forward.
You know, it's just all out right now trying to
sell every vehicle we can't. So I haven't merry Christmas.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
You too as well. All right, guys, okay, we'll talk
to you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
There.

Speaker 6 (01:06:09):
You is otis what do you when you think of
nostalgia toys? What do you think of where where's your
mind go first.

Speaker 5 (01:06:15):
As a kid? Like what you got? Or what really
makes you think of Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
What what is like a toy from your childhood at Christmas?
Like you It just it takes you there.

Speaker 7 (01:06:31):
I said, there's some that I don't remember if I
got them for my birthday or for Christmas because they're
so close, you know what I mean? Yeah, but I
remember the one year you know the race cars the tracks, Okay,
so they used to have slot that most of them
were slotted, so in other words, you would put the
car and it would have like a little fin on
it and it would stay.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
On the track.

Speaker 7 (01:06:52):
Well, there was there was a race car track that
was called TCR Racing that was Total Control race and
it actually took the slots out and you could change
lanes and you could do different things. And I really
wanted that for Christmas one year, and that stood out
as far as a gift because I ended up getting

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it obviously. And then but what really makes me think
was setting up the train around the Christmas tree.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Oh, we never did that. We didn't have a.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
Train to have an old I still have it. I
have a Marx Toys. Cool.

Speaker 6 (01:07:29):
You have that safe keeping correct, sort of your version
of in safe keeping.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
I mean you could find it. It's not that hard
if you did, if you have to, if you looked.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
But I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:07:40):
It's it's like not out in the open right now.

Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
We never did. We never did the train thing. I
remember when I think of Christmas, I remember the one
that always pops into my head at my household was
the game board Christmas. I don't know where that came
from or why it popped up. Maybe my mom didn't
feel like wrapping oddly shaped things. But it was game
after game after game, and we had an absolute blast

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with a game called Fireball Island. And I believe my
brother still has that game. It was an absolute blast.
If anybody knows of that game, I would love to
hear from you, because we're the only household that I
know of that ever had that as kids. It was
called Fireball Island. So look at the shot fireball Yeah yeah.

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At twelve, eleven and twelve, that was the goal was
to get a shot of fireball.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
Down.

Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
Oh, we're out of here, folks. But before we're out
of here, we're gonna let you win. One eight hundred
six two four eleven seventy. One eight hundred six two
four eleven seventy. We have a pair of tickets up
for grabs from Golden Ticket Cinemas at the High Valley Mall.
We got one pair for you one one hundred six
two four eleven seventy and we're gonna do Caller number eighteen,

(01:08:53):
Caller number eighteen. Everybody, have a good weekend, get ready
for the weather, it's coming. We'll be back Monday, four