The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 15, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good Monday morning, seven o six. Thank you for tuning in,
of course, the bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Bundle up, folks, Bundle up. It
is chilly out there. I got in my car otis god.
I love a garage, I will say that. But pulled

(00:47):
out about maybe thirty seconds out in the weather. Out
of the garage. My car was reading two degrees.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Mine said three three.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh you were You were a heat wave warmer than me. Yikes,
is it cold out there? The wind chill is is?
What's so? It just it hits you like like shards
of glass. It's it's cold. So bundle up this morning, folks.
Make sure your guess tank is full and all of
those good things. I'm not I'm sure preaching to the choir.

(01:19):
What do we have on tap? So want to remind
you free lunch email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com that's
samat iHeartMedia dot com, name, phone number and place of employment.
And of course the drawing for that will be on Wednesday,
and then otis and I will deliver it to your
office on Friday. But then today we have something special,

(01:40):
don't we otics we have You've got them in there.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah, we got a family four pack to the
West Virginia Mountaineers versus Mississippi Valley State game next Monday,
which is basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well yeah, okay, hey, listen, just clarifying.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's women's softball. We don't even have a tea in softball.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
WVU doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh no, there was a there was a big thing
a couple of years ago. WVU doesn't have women's softball
and Iowa State doesn't have men's baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
So the Iowa State softball team was rooting for the
West Virginia men's baseball team, and then West Virginia men's
baseball team was rooting for Iowa State's girls softball team.
There was a big article. I mean, well, I don't
know if it was a big article, but there was
an article about it. And just how like like unlikely,

(02:35):
these two unlikely teams came together and they don't even
I mean, like they're never going to see each other
in person unless unless it's WVU baseball coming. Well, Iowa
State doesn't have a baseball team, so they're not going
to go there. You see what I'm saying. But yeah,
there was there was an article about it. It's kind
of funny actually, but.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, we have our baseball or basketball ticket there. I
even messed it up when we have basketball ticket, Yes,
we did. We have a pair of a four pack
of those and those are for Monday's game, correct, Yes, Okay,
so that's coming up along with we have more pairs
to b C Taylor a Taylor Family Christmas. That show
is this Saturday, So these are your last chances to win,

(03:15):
so we have those coming up a little bit later
in the show. Oh, just did you venture out this
weekend or did you kind of hunker down?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
And I did not venture out Saturday, although I really
wanted to because I wanted while the snow was fresh
and everything else. I wanted just I wanted to go
out because I figured there's nobody on the roads.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
And no, that would have been yesterday.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, that was yesterday. That was Saturday when it started snowing.
I wanted to go out like at night, oh I
got you, like, went and take the jeep out on
the freshly snowed on roads. Unfortunately I didn't do that
because I got lazy and uh I was going. My
intentions were to go to Cleveland to see the WVU

(03:59):
a high state basketball game that went double overtime and
the whole works, and I didn't go because of the weather.
I just wasn't I just didn't want to be stuck.
And in a way, I'm kind of glad I didn't go,
because with double overtime and everything else, I would I
wouldn't have got home till two in the morning, and
I'd probably been exhausted. But yes, yesterday I ventured out

(04:21):
early in the morning and there was like when I
say early, like between eight and nine. There were very
few people on the road. And I went to a
local store that opened at nine, and like the one
employee looked at me and there's a big box store.
And the one employee goes, what are you doing out?

(04:43):
And I said, well, you're here. He goes, yeah, I
was the only one for like an hour that was here.
And I was like, well, you know, I said, I
had I said, I had to run an errand for
for a group of people that I know, And so
I did all my shot being in like half an
hour and got all this stuff to where it needed

(05:03):
to go. But yeah, it was. They just looked at
me like what he did? Ask me? He goes like,
what are you doing here? And I'm like, I just
had to do it. But I will say this, I
noticed in Saint Clairs Voe at the sheets and I'm
going to throw it out there because that's where it was.
But the unleaded eighty eight gas, which is like a

(05:25):
higher octane, you can't put it in any cars before
two thousand and one, and you're not supposed to put
it in like your lawnmower and stuff like that. Two
dollars and seventeen cents a gallon.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
And I think the eighty seven the standard regular unleaded
gas was like two thirty four or something like that.
Her two thirty seven, so it was it was under
two fifty. Wow. So there's your free promo sheets. I'm
just gonna give your heads up.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, I had all the plans yesterday to go out
and with the neighborhood and sled ride and get the
ATVs out and everything until I took my dogs out.
And I've mentioned this before. I live up on a
pretty significant hill and we just get wind like crazy
up there and I take my dogs out and I'm like,

(06:20):
oh no, no, no, no, no, no, this isn't happening.
It was so blessed cold with that wind whipping through,
and where we were going to go is just pure hilltop,
completely open, no trees to break up the wind, nothing,
And I'm like, yeah, no, I really want to sled ride.
I really want to have fun, but no not. Why'd

(06:41):
you roll your eyes? I think it's fun.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I didn't say it was it oh to do.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
That kind of stuff. But then I'm like, no, I can't.
I can't bring myself to do it. And I also
decided Saturday morning I was going to run to the
store along with everybody else and their brother, and I
actually went to a big box store, Walmart, which I
tend to try to not go to, and it was

(07:08):
I was there at like seven thirty eight am because
I thought I'm gonna beat everybody. I'm going to beat
all the crazies, and there were all these kids and
I'm like, why is everybody out in about like what
is going on? Well, it ended up it was Belmont
County Sheriff's shop for a cop day, and these kids

(07:31):
were so excited and they were having so much fun,
so much fun, and I thought, good for them. I
mean it was you know, at first I thought I
kept thinking, all right, just get out of my way.
I was kind of that grumpy old lady. But then yeah, basically,
but then when I realized what it was, I was like, Okay,

(07:53):
this is pretty cute. They're having a they're having a
good time. They were. It was quite sweet. It was
quite sweet. And there's a lot that goes into all that.
I don't of course, I don't know how it all
works and everything, but yeah, there was a lot of
folks enjoying that. But yeah, I was I was kind
of that grumpy you know.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Well, the funny thing was move out of my way.
Saturday night rolled around that I didn't have any milk,
I didn't have any like little munchies, and and I
was jones in for something sweet, you know, like you know,
maybe a scoop ice cream something or like a you know,
maybe a couple cookies or something.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
You know.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I was just Jones in for something. Not that I
couldn't have made anything, but I just was like, because
I had some like muffins mixed in the cupboard or whatever.
But I was just like, God, I could go for
a Wee's cup right now, I didn't have any. And
then I was thinking, well, I could go for it.
I could get a bowl of cereal. Oh you don't
have any milk? Stupid. And it was like, yeah, well that's.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
The way it always works. And see what made me
so mad was survived. Yeah, on Friday, I even went
to the store. I'm like, I'm gonna beat everybody to it.
I'm not gonna go tomorrow. Everybody's gonna be trying to
get there before the storm hits Saturday afternoon. I'm going
to go today. And of course I forgot like two
things because I made I had plans and I made

(09:13):
hot pepper soup stuff, stuffed pepper soup and all of that,
and of course I forgot two things. So that's why
I ended up having to go. But yeah, U and
when I left, when I was home about an hour
and a half later, I got on social media and
one of my friends said that they there were people
yelling at a couple of the local grocery stores. The
storm's not coming. It's not coming now, just being goofy, yeah,

(09:38):
just being goofy. But then I hunkered down. I hunkered down,
all right. And also listen, folks, if you didn't see
my absolutely silly, stupid video, we are still taking registrations
for the Stuffed Stalking Spectacular, which is going to be
drawn Friday.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Of course, that is our big holiday grand prize Extravagonza.
We've got so much in there. We've got stuff from
our friends at the Pike forty Dotton Cattle Rivers City,
of course, a year's worth of Kirk's ice cream we've
got in there. The big prize, a pair of Jody
Messina tickets. We've got two passes to the two Mindset

(10:20):
to Wellness up in Wellsburg. So there is tons in
this prize. So just go to our text line seven
zero four seven zero. Start the message off with bloom
Daddy name, phone number, email, and a holiday emoji. So
send us an elf, send us a Christmas tree, or
even the big guy himself, Santa Claus. Seven sixteen. We're
gonna go to a quick break. You're listening to the

(10:42):
bloom Daddy Experience Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA seven The bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So I told you about We
told you about the WU tickets, we told you about

(11:03):
the lunch, we told you about the stuff Stocking Spectacular.
Well we just got handed something else to give away today.
We are on fire, folks. So we're going to have
a family four pack for the Nailers for Saturday, December
twenty seventh when they take on let's see here, the

(11:25):
Indiana Fuel. Is that correct? Am I saying that right?
Indie Fuel? I'm sorry? The puck drops at seven ten.
But here's the thing. It also features a concert by
local fan favorites Tongue in.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Cheek kind of a Navy's tribute band.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah yeah, So we've got a we've got a concert
and a hockey game all in one for you. So
that's going to be coming up here very very very shortly.
Your first chance to win those this morning. So how
fun is that? How fun is that? Want to hit
on some top stories this morning if you're just waking up.

(12:02):
It has been reported and is factual. Hollywood director Rob
Reiner is dead. He was found along with his wife,
stabbed to death. His wife's name is Michelle, inside their
Los Angeles home. They are now reporting, just now it
came across the screen that their daughter found them, which

(12:24):
is horrible. Police say the cup was discovered Sunday in
their Brentwood neighborhood, sparking a homicide investigation. Now it is
being reported it is speculated that a possible sub suspect
is being detained by the LAPD, but the LAPD says
no one has been detained and no one is currently

(12:45):
being questioned. The Los Angeles Times says investigator has found
no signs of forced entry and are interviewing a family
member as the investigation continues. So two sort of conflicting
reports there that no one is being questioned, but then
LA Times is saying that a family member is being interviewed,

(13:06):
so a little bit of conflicting information there. Brown University
has shut down the rest of all of its fall
semester after a deadly mass shooting on campus. School leaders
canceled all remaining classes, exams, and projects, saying students can't
reasonably continue learning right now. The shooting killed two people
and wounded nine others in an engineering building as students

(13:29):
prepared for finals, and a suspect in his thirties was
later arrested at a hotel about twenty miles away. But
I believe that has been updated and that person has
been released. They are still looking for the shooter. The
shooter still is at large. And then also around the world.
This is a horrible, horrible story. Australia is in mourning

(13:54):
after Prime Minister Anthony Albanize condemned a mass shooting at
a Jewish gathering as pure evil. Gunmen opened fire at
a Honaka celebration on Sydney's Bondie Beach, killing at least
sixteen people and sending forty others to the hospital. Police
say the shooters were a father and a son, with

(14:15):
the father killed by officers and the son hospitalized. As
flags across the country fly at half staff. There are
videos circulating out there online of the incident. There is
one gentleman who is being hailed as a hero who
tackled one of the shooters and it's hard. It's hard

(14:35):
video to watch, so if you don't want to see
something like that, please avoid it. But that man should
be hailed as a hero for taking down one of
the gunmen. Also back here in the States, the White
House Borders are is pushing back against criticism of immigration enforcement.
Speaking at the southern border, Tom Homan urged Democrats to

(14:55):
stop attacking ICE and Border Patrol agents, calling them patriots home,
and said Trump administration policies have made the border the
most secure in history and claimed new funding will allow
ICE to triple its force, with about ten thousand new
officers expected by January. And there are reports out there
that the sign ups if you will to become a

(15:19):
Border patrol or ICE agent are through the roof. Police
in Miami are investigating after a woman was This is
a crazy story. Police in Miami are investigating after a
woman was found dead inside a Dollar Tree store freezer
Sunday morning. Officers say they were called to the location
after an employee made the alarming discovery. The victim is

(15:41):
believed to be a thirty two year old woman. Circumstances
surrounding her death are unclear, and the investigation does continue. So,
you know, waking up this morning and in yesterday seeing
what happened to Brown University, what happened on Bondi Beach

(16:04):
in Sydney, Australia, and we continue to see just horrific
and and and as the Prime Minister said, pure evil
is out there. And for some reason yesterday just hit
hard the the You know, we saw what happened to

(16:28):
the West Virginia National Guardsmen. We now see these two instances.
We see what happened to Hollywood director Rob Reiner. It's
a really ugly time. There is pure evil walking the
streets currently and they are acting on it. And look

(16:49):
at what time of year it is, It's the Christmas season.
Makes you step back, step back and ask why why
is this happening. It's a hard question, and it's a
question that I don't think we ever get a real
answer to because I don't think there actually is an answer.

(17:13):
Just just disgusting displays of humanity. Disgusting displays of humanity.
Seven twenty eight. Let's do it. Let's do our family
four pack to the Nailers one, eight hundred sixty two,
four eleven seventy. Let's do caller number twelve, Caller number twelve,
one eight hundred sixty two, four eleven seventy. The bloom

(17:36):
Daddy Experience here on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, seven
thirty six on this It's a Monday, folks, the bloom
Daddy Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Yeah,

(17:58):
it's definitely a Monday. So congratulations to Jeff. He's going
to go to see the Nailers, So congratulations to him.
Jeff from West Amsterdam. No, West Alexander. I'm sorry, how do.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
You get Amsterdam out of Alexander? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
No, oh, my apologies. So congratulations to Jeff. We're gonna
have another chance for you to win a pair of
tickets to that game here coming up a little bit
later in the show. And then a family Yeah you
said tickets, Oh did I My apologies. And then of
course we're going to have a pair of tickets coming
up here very shortly to see a Taylor Family Christmas

(18:36):
happening this Saturday up at Wheeling Park Performing Art Center.
If you missed the show on Friday, we actually had
BC Taylor himself in here to talk about the show
and what to expect. So of course you can always
go back to our podcast and listen to prior episodes
of the show, which I've shared the link on our
Facebook A couple times about that. So if you want
to go check that out, that interview of course, or

(18:58):
anything else, you can always go back to our podcast
and listen to those. Speaking of last week, we had
in Otis the Uh, Candy and George from the High
Valley Mall. We're going kind of a little bit down
memory lane with stories. So on our Facebook I put
it up there. There was one comment from somebody made

(19:22):
me laugh and I just wanted to mention it. He said,
I believe his name was was Mike, but he said
that in honor of the snow falling. My favorite memory
of the High Valley Mall was taking my jeep and
doing donuts for the first snow at the parking lot

(19:42):
in the High Valley Mall. And then you told your
story this morning. It's like, okay, that seems to be
a theme with jeeps.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
I'm not a donut guy, so you go out. I mean,
I'm not a driving donut guy.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
I was gonna say, you're not going to turn down
a good time.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, I probably would really.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh no, you give me a a glazed doughnut. Mm mmmmmmm.
One of my favorite things. One of my favorite things.
So we were talking about I mentioned earlier the loss
of the homicide of of Acclaim director Rob Reiner. What
do you what do you think of when you first

(20:19):
think of Rob Rob Rob Reiner.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Mike's diivic meat head.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yep, me too, me too.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I mean he won how many I don't know how
many Emmys he won or was nominated for, but I mean, uh,
you know, he was great in that role. Opposite of
Carol O'Connor. They had, you know, Carol O'Connor was the
you know, the staunch conservative republican. Mike's divic was the

(20:47):
you know, bleeding heart liberal hippie, which which carried over
into real life. Yeah, but you know, the the chemistry
on TV was fantastic and even well, Carol O'Connor with
Jean Stapleton is Edith, Mike, Mike Stavick, Rob Bronner, and

(21:11):
Sally Strauthers obviously Sherman Hemsley, when George Jefferson was on there, uh,
you know, and just you know, Caro O'Connor was great.
I mean, he was obviously the center of the show,
but the interactions with Rob Bryner were fan There's there's
some bloopers out there where sometimes they kind of ad

(21:33):
libbed or you know, impromptu type thing. They might have
changed a line or just made a comment and you
can just kind of see where they like look at
each other and like Okay, I'm gonna try not to laugh,
and they get through. Sometimes they get through the scene.
Sometimes they don't. But you know that's and that's the
magic of sometimes recording live TV is you get to

(21:54):
see some of that stuff. So it wasn't live but
in front of a studio audience. But yeah, I mean,
and then I think in all in all honesty, there's
a lot of there's a lot of things that Rob
Ryner directed that people don't realize that he directed. Like
I mean, I know he did The Princess Bride, but
I totally forget he did stand by Me, That's right.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
So he did this as spinal tap too. Yeah, So
I mean, and didn't he do when Harry met Sally?

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah? But there was he did a couple of serious
films too. I think.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
I've got his. I've got his I m dB, I
am dB page pulled up. But it's all broke out
between director, producer, starring in. But when you talk about
the show All in the Family, which was you know
what basically put Rob Reiner on the map. We actually
had to. I had to study that show in college.

(22:50):
Now I can't remember everything, you know, but we we
had to. Uh really were good men there you go. Yeah,
but we really got into the effects that that show
had on the media landscape in general. It wasn't it
It wasn't just the entertainment side of it, but what
it brought to the forefront. Now in today's day and age,

(23:13):
you couldn't air that show more than likely because of
the type of character that Archie Bunker was.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh yeah, it just I mean it would be it
was one hundred Well that the Jefferson. Almost anything Norman
Lear did is today today politically incorrect.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
But you can't not see things like that. I think
a lot of people could learn from that show today.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh absolutely, it's and it's still available. I mean you
can see it on reruns. It right, Like I say,
it came on last night at eight o'clock on TV
land a TV LAN. Yeah, I think me TV one
of them. I can't remember what you want, but yeah,
I mean the thing about Norman Lear was he was
not afraid to push the envelope. He would he would

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take topics that were kind of taboo at the time,
especially for primetime TV with Edith. Edith got raped at
one point in time, which was menopause. They dealt with menopause,
they dealt with the birth of Joey. You know, the

(24:30):
politics that was back and forth. A lot of race
was involved, you know, So, I mean it was very
it was very groundbreaking, so to speak. Plus, you know,
his dad was Carl Reiner, you know, famous actor, yeah, director,
you know whatever. I mean, played Alan Brady on The

(24:52):
Dick Van Dyke Show, which Dick van Dyke just turned
one hundred over the weekend. So I mean, not to
change the subject, but you have that that happened as well. Yeah,
I mean it's said obviously, you don't want to see
anybody lose their life, especially in that manner, right, you know.
I mean he was very outspoken. Rob Reiner was very

(25:13):
outspoken politically. Obviously he does not like to did not
like the Trump administration. But you know, again, I think
sometimes you get those people that live in Hollywood and
they live in their gety communities. They don't live in
the real world, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
So well, and that kind of goes back to you
mentioned the the the rape episode. I still remember watching
that episode, and you know, Edith's character was always very lighthearted, boisterous.
She was the heart of that family. Nothing angered her,

(25:53):
you know what I mean, Like she was just she
was the more pleasant, happy character, non confrontational. There you go.
That's a good term. And that episode and her acting
in that episode, I can it. It was just it

(26:15):
took your breath away because of the polarity, you know
between what you knew of that character and where it where.
That one act took that character and she did it brilliantly.
But that's what that show did, is it brought, like
you said, it brought certain subject matter to the forefront

(26:36):
that nobody else would touch. And I think having those
in your face conversations where we try to, you know,
currently we try to we try to I guess, for
lack of a better term, sugarcoat and hide everything or
or not talk about certain subject matters that uh, you know,

(26:58):
that's lost in a way. That's lost in a way
because storytelling through television shows can be very very impactful.
We need a little bit more of that. Seven forty five.
All right, we've got another chance for you to win.
We've got a pair tickets to see a Taylor Family Christmas.
Let's talk about something happy Taylor Family Christmas this Saturday

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up at the Wheeling Park Performing Arts Center one eight
hundred six two for eleven seventy one eight hundred six
two four eleven seventy. Let's do caller number fourteen this time,
caller number fourteen one eight hundred six two four eleven seventy.
It's seven forty six. You're listening to the Bloom Daddy
Experience here on your Monday morning here on news Radio

(27:39):
eleven seventy WWVA, seven fifty one on your Monday. Welcome back.
It's a chili one out there. Bundle up as you're
getting ready to head out to work unless you've already

(27:59):
started your Christmas break a little bit early. If you have,
I'm quite jealous. I'm quite jealous. Thank you for tuning in,
of course, the Bloomdaddy Experience. Sam and otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Just a reminder, we're still doing our lunch, Ellen,
got your text. We're still doing lunch, which of course

(28:21):
is our free lunch delivered on Fridays. But we draw
our winner on Wednesday, so to register for that all
you have to do is email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's samat iHeartMedia dot com, name, phone number, and company,
and that is your registration. And as I said, we'll
draw the winner on Wednesday, and then we deliver the food,

(28:42):
which of course is courteous courtesy of our great friends
at River City. We deliver that food on Friday. Took
me on an adventure this past Friday. Got to go
out to Lafferty stomping grounds of our very own bloom
Daddy when he was a little, a little little man.
But got to go out and visit Melissa at out

(29:06):
in Lafferty. So that was on Friday. So get in
your registrations of course, so that will That is our lunch.
And then we just had our newest winter this morning.
But Otis still has the name, so I don't know
who who our winner was.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Joe An from Wheeling.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Joe Anne from Wheeling, congrats have fun at the show
Sunday for a Taylor family Christmas. So there is that Otis.
We kind of touched on this earlier. Dick Van Dyke,
Hollywood legend, celebrated his one hundredth birthday. Of course, the

(29:43):
legendary actor and comedian, of course, is famous for the
Dick Van Dyke show in the classic classic films like
Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and was still
working as recently as twenty twenty three, when he appeared
in an episode of The Simpsons Days of Our Lives
and the Masked Singer. I didn't know he was on that.

(30:04):
Van Dyke credits his longevity to having a positive outlook
and never getting angry. Scientists actually say there is evidence
to support his claim. A British study from twenty nineteen
found that people who are more optimistic lived between eleven
to fifteen percent longer than those that are pessimistic. Otis

(30:26):
what's that? What's that?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Uh u.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh shoot, oh shoot? One hundred years old and he
is still I watched an interview with him a couple
months ago. I forget what it was on, and they
were saying they, you know, are you gonna gonna make it?
And this he was still, I mean, quick witted. Didn't
seem like he had slowed down a lot mentally or

(30:55):
anything like that. But when I think of Dick Van Dyke,
I immediately go to Mary Poppins immediately for me. Anyways,
that's that's just my he was the Chimney sweep and
and uh, I'm trying to think of the song that
he said that was his and in Mary Poppins and
and that's where I go with Dick Vandyke that and

(31:16):
then oh what was the he was a medical doctor
who solved mysteries. That's it.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
It runs constantly, I think on the Hallmark Channel. But yeah,
made it to one hundred years old? Wow?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Would you want to make it to one hundred?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh? I mean it depends. I mean, like if I'm
still able.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
To think, think and know who you are.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
And not had to have somebody change my diapers. Yeah,
well when you I mean yeah, I mean it's just
to be able to do things on my own. I mean, so,
did you grow.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Up watching the Dick Van Dykes Scherer was up four?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Oh, it was before my time, but I mean I
watched it in reruns, so I mean it was what
it was. I mean, it was one of my favorite
shows growing up because Rose Marie and Murray Amster Murray
Maury Amsterdam. Oh, and I can't remember the other guy
that they always picked. He was the producer or something.

(32:22):
But you know, Carl Reiner was in it, but they
they were they were TV show writers for like the
Alan Brady Show, which was kind of a you know,
like a Tonight Show type thing or an Ed Sullivan
type show, and they would just have all these little things.
Of course, Mary Tyler Moore was in it with Tick
Vandyke Jim.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Chiminny Jim Chim. That was his song. It just popped
into my head for Mary Poppins. I can't remember how
long all it goes. What you're looking at me like,
I'm nuts. That's that tends to be. That's not anything new.
That's not anything new at least, I mean, because wasn't.

(33:01):
Betty White was really close to one hundred and we
lost her.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, he was like ninety nine, and yes, she was
like ninety nine point eighty five.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
She was right there. Oh, I'm sorry, that's not funny.
We shouldn't laugh at that.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, I mean, but I mean it just like you know,
they they I think, you know, you have all these
like People Magazine, and you know, you have all these
little things that want to get the jump on their
hundredth birthday, and sometimes you jump a little.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Too soon kind of jinks.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
It a bit I want if you jinks it.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
But yeah, well sort of in a way, in a
way sort of do.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, we can go buy it. Hm, we can use that.
That's fine, Okay, you use jinks.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
As I must jinx myself this weekend.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, So Saturday night my husband was at work, I'm
home by myself and I'm wide awake, and I'm like,
huh do you ever have those things? Or you just
put off?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
And you're like, that's an understatement.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, I'll get to this. Well, I decided to clean
my oven this weekend. Yeah, open the windows. Just just
a bit of advice. If you're gonna use oven cleaner,
open the windows. Otherwise you won't make it till one
hundred because I about exit exphiciated, asphyxiated myself. Oh shoot,

(34:30):
I thought I was gonna I thought I was gonna
get that right and sound really smart. But that didn't
work out so much. Asphyxiated. There you go, there you go,
You're you're red, You're laughing so hard at me.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I'm just done.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
What give up? He gives up, folks, he gives up.
Seven fifty eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Z number one talk show in the Ohio Valey. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Eight six on your Monday. Welcome back the bloom Daddy Experience.
Sam and otis here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
ODIs you want to talk to some sports? Sure, because
I know football is your favorite. We're not going to
kick off with football though.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Kickoff?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Oh that was intentional, that joke. Okay, no, it wasn't
It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I know better?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Oh shoot no, Let's kick off with the real leader
in sports, the ww SO. John Cena says he's stepping
out of the ring once and for all. He is
taking he is retiring. He's the seventeen time WWE champion.
He fought his last battle Saturday night, tapping out after

(36:15):
being put in a sleeperhold sleeper hold by three times
Austrian champ goun Too. Sorry, I had to say it
that way, Yeah, you have to say it that way.
Gono Gonto Sana announced his retirement last year, saying his
body hurts and was screaming and was screaming to close
the chapter. The forty eight year old will continue his

(36:38):
acting career with three holiday Hollywood movies in the pipeline
and will still be part of the wrestling world. He
has signed on as a signed a five year deal
to be a WWE ambassador. Plus he has all of
those garbage bag commercials to continue. Is it hefty that
he Yeah, it's hefty that he is the spokesman for

(37:00):
I'm pretty sure. I'm right on that. I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
So breaking sports news for you there. I used to
love wrestling. I grew up watching Macho Man and the
Junkyard Dog and The Ultimate Warrior Sting. Sting was that
the guy with the face paint. Yeah, Sting loved. At

(37:23):
that point in time, it was the WWF. But yeah,
did you ever you? I can't see you being a
wrestling fan.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, I was for a while. Really, I mean I
grew up in the eighties, so I mean, oh.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, yeah, you were there for the Heyday.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
We was there before. I mean I remember watching it
at my grandparents when Waco Cable which was Wheeleen Antenna Company. Okay, okay,
you got thirteen channel. Well you didn't get thirteen, but
the chant of the Waco channel, which would run the
Reuters news headlines and everything like that. On certain nights

(37:59):
they would carry wrestling out of Madison Square Garden, so
you'd get the big matches, which was like the precursor
to the WWF. And then you know, you had your
Saturday afternoon wrestling that was local out of Pittsburgh and
maybe out of Steubenville, and you know who where whoever
else had local wrestling. My grandparents were watching it so

(38:21):
and they thought it was real, and then, like I
thought it was real until my dad said, you realize
that's fake, right, And I'm like, oh no, it's not. No,
it's not. Then you know, you kind of get to
the point where, oh yeah, it's it's fake. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Although when they took it to I don't know if
they do that do this at this point, But when
they took it to where they were slamming like metal
chairs in their faces and across their backs and blood
running down their face, I don't think that was fake.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Oh no, Well, they cut themselves open and then when
they hit it, that's when it started to bleed. They
would pre cut themselves.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Really.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah, Oh, you never watched any of the.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, the no, I didn't know they did all that.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
I mean, don't get me wrong. There are sometimes that
you know this stuff, doesn't you know? The accidents happened,
you know, like when when they would fall on the
tacks and stuff like that. I mean, whatever happens happened.
But back in the day, they would always pre cut
themselves and then when the when you would get hit

(39:29):
in the head or whatever, then it would just it
would cause it to bust open again, and then they
would proceed to bleed.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
And geez, I didn't know they went that far.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Oh that was that was that was like the extreme.
I mean that was before they started jumping.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Off cages and twenty feet.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
In the air and hitting tables and thumbtacks and nails
and glass.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
And they kind of backed off though when owen Hart
died tragically, remember he fell from the rafters or something
went wrong with.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
The Oh they still do the high wire. I mean,
there's still some high wire acts after that. I mean,
but he was supposed to drop in from the catwalk
and some of the rigging went bad or whatever. He
wasn't rigged upright or yeah, but I mean they're still
doing they're still doing this. You know, it's it's all
it's all theater.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well now it's on and like back when I watched it,
you could only watch like Monday Night Raw and maybe
A that was like the big one. But now there's
it's on Netflix, it's on USA, It's on so many
different places. I don't know how you follow all this
the storylines, but I remember when Hall Cogan went bad

(40:40):
with the nWo.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
That was like that was went to the he went
to the w c W. Yeah, a lot of a
lot of the wrestlers went there, went.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
To the dark side, went bad. But anyways, yeah, so
John Cena's retiring. That's how we got into the wrestling conversation.
Some other news. The Steelers, Uh, we'll try to keep
their modest AFC North lead tonight in Monday Night Football
as they go up against the Dolphins at home. That's

(41:11):
gonna be a cold game. The team is ahead of
the Ravens by half a game for first place following
Baltimore's blowout win over the Bengals. That score ended up
being let's see twenty four nothing that was not a
play pretty site. Of course, you can hear the tonight's game,
of course, that me and the Steelers game on our
sister station, Eagle one oh seven five. Speaking of the Bengals, listen, folks,

(41:37):
they're not doing so great. They're they're about as they're
in the They're about the same dumpsters fire as the
Cleveland Browns. But at least the Browns stadium cleans the seats.
I don't know if you saw this, but the Bengals
organization ownership didn't even bother to take the time to

(41:57):
blow the snow off the steats eats in the stadium
for yesterday's game. I mean, come on, folks, these people
pay good money to go see a football game. You're in,
you're in an NFL team, and you can't even take
blow the snow off the seats. The Bills pay people
to come in and help clean up the stadium for

(42:19):
for a game, but they can't even clean the seats
off in Cincinnati. Just a bad look, Just a bad look.
And according to the NFL, each home club is responsible
for snow removal and having a plan in place to
ensure that the stadium is adequate and a pleasant viewing experience,

(42:43):
But not not for Cincinnati. Cincinnati is basically saying, you know,
pay the freight for the ticket and and enjoy a
a a wet dairy air while you're watching the game.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Could it have been that came?

Speaker 2 (42:57):
No, No, I've saw images. I mean the game was
yesterday at one o'clock.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
But I'm just saying, maybe they didn't have the people
on hand to do it. Well, maybe they got caught
off guard and didn't have enough people to do it.
I don't know. I'm just playing Devil's advocate there.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Well, either way, I don't think they got caught off guard.
Everybody knew it was knew that storm was coming. I
just thought it was a pretty pretty bad look. Also
an update Michigan. Former Michigan football coach Sharon Moore has
been released from jail. He's accused of threatening to kill
himself in front of a staffer he once had a relationship.

(43:36):
This is like a storyline out of a soap opera.
More appeared via camera at a court hearing from ann
Arbor from an ann Arbor jail, wearing a white jumpsuit
as he heard the charges against him. They include felony
home invasion, misdemeanor stalking and breaking, and entering more as
being released on a twenty five thousand dollars bond and

(43:59):
must wear a GPS device. Of course, he was fired
earlier last week over the alleged inappropriate relationship with a
staff member. That is a crazy story. I mean, talk
about being handed the keys to the kingdom and he
screwed that up royally. Gosh crazy, but it is entertaining

(44:22):
at the same time. It's a fifteen. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience. Don't forget. We're gonna have more
chances for you to win coming up coming up here
very shortly. We're gonna have another pair of BC Taylor tickets.
We've also got another family four pack for the Nailers,
and we got a family four pack for WVU basketball.
That's all still to come. Here on the bloom Daddy Experience,

(44:43):
Sam and Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, Welcome back.
It's eight twenty The bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam
here on news radio in seventy w w v A.
We're gonna go up on the hilltop. Kevin Cooks strawb Automotive.

(45:07):
Good Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
Sir, Good, good morning. You're off a chipper this.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
You got to see her. She looks like she walked
to work from Saint Clairsville. She's got these coats, this
coat that looks like it's uh yeah, a polar bear.
And then she's got the hat and gloves and everything else.
I mean, I know it's chilling, but you know she's
walking two hundred feet from her car to the inside studio.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
My husband said, my coat, my husband said, my coat
looked like I could be Chewbacca's wife.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
How I get it.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
It's it's cold after heck.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah it is, but but the deals are hot at
straw Boutomotive.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
There there you go.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
You just threw me a good one right there. Yeah,
I mean it really is. I mean it's a it's
in a year clear style. Uh. We do have a
few inches of snow. We got to clean off cars
this morning. But uh we'll wait for it to warm
up just a little bit. We'll get everything nice and
cleaned off ready to go. But yeah, there are there's
just incredible savings out there from all the manufacturers. You know,

(46:09):
where there's Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, chrys or Dodge, Jeep, ram Ford.
We've got every unit in stocks got clearly sell priced.
All you gotta do is log on to drivestrib dot com.
You can do that right there where you're at this morning,
in your pj's, where you're nice and toasty warm with
that you know, hot cup of coffee or hot cup
of hot chocolate or whatever, and start your shopping process.

(46:35):
We can even appraise your trade. We can do literally
all of it online. You can actually buy the entire
vehicle online, will delivery teeth so you don't have to
get out of this.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
There you go. Every every straw automotive vehicle today is white. Yes, yes,
there's today.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
It's a lot, you know, but you know what, we
prepare for it. We're ready for it.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
You know.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Uh, we've already got the plow trucks have been running.
We presolted everything over the weekend. We got sidewalks already.
Everybody's out there this morning getting everything cleaned off, like
you're sure it's nice and and say for everybody to
come up here that two mile hills didn't look too
bad this morning. Coming up had a little problem, I guess.
Going down on the other side. It's a truck rolled
over going a little too fast, like they have a

(47:24):
tendency to do sometimes in this slick But it looks
like they've got everything under control. So you know, come
on up check it out if you want to, or
log on driveshop dot com see for yourself how much
you can say.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Any any results on the toys for tots.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
Oh yeah, yes we did. We had almost a thousand toys, okay,
and I think the body shop won. Okay, a body
shop was responsible for bringing in the most toys, and
that's the second year in a row that they've done that.
But a thousand toys isn't that awesome?

Speaker 2 (47:54):
That?

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Yeah, a lot of happy kids on Christmas morning.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
Well, and we go set for four one hundreds.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Well you I'll kicked your coverage.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I definitely did. Yeah, everybody, you know, whether it's the
employees that participated, we're grateful for each and every one
of the for the customers that brought Toison in, for
everybody that that pitched in. Yeah, we were really really
grateful for that. And uh, with all the flooding and
all the problems that we've had this year in the community,

(48:24):
there were a lot of kids that we might not
have had the best Christmas for sure, and hopefully this
in some some way is going to help towards that.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
It makes it a little bit better.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
It does a little bit, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Thatt's off to you guys. All right, guys, Hey, have
a great day.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Stay warm.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
I'm gonna try to stay warm. That's the plan.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Heated seats, baby, heated seats.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
Heated seats and remote stars, you got it.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
And the heated steering wheel, yes, sir, all right, we'll
talk tomorrow. All right, bye.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Some of the best inventions out there.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Oh good lord. I don't know what I would do
without my heated steering wheel and heated seats. I hate.
I hate to work. I mean, he just waits.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
It's to wear clothes in general.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
No, I don't mind wearing clothes. I just don't like
to be I just don't like a lot of bulk.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Are you wearing a coat today?

Speaker 3 (49:11):
No, I gotta pull over.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I can't stand to be cold.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
That's all it is.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
I keep it's so cold out.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I'm only going to be outside for thirty five seconds now.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
See. I hate to be cold. I just I hate it.
I absolutely hate it. I actually saw something last night
online and I think I might if I can get
it in time for Christmas. Get it from my mom.
There's the call you can get like it's spas and stuff.
They already have them, but I want to get her
a heated It's a blanket slash towel heater. So you

(49:49):
know one of the best things are when you take
bath towels or blankets out of the dryer and that warm.
You can now buy this little thing that you can
and like leaving your living room and you can heat
a blanket in it. And I know there's I know
there's heated blankets, but this is just enough to warm
it up. So you just get that nice little feel

(50:11):
better now, Okay, fine, what nothing, I'm in a weird
mood this morning.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
That's just this morning.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Maybe I'm just counting down the days to a couple
couple days off, which way are going to take a
couple of days off, but not as much as usual,
not as much as usual.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Much as you think.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
No, no, you're not going to get rid of us
that easily, folks.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Well, I was just looking at the calendar.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Yeah, I see that real quick. Wanted to mention this.
We didn't get to it in the in the sports segment.
Just uh, Indiana football is celebrating a historic first. The
Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza has won the Heisman Trophy, becoming
the program's first ever winner. After of course, their dominant season.
The transfer from cow accounted for thirty nine touchdowns and

(51:05):
led Indiana to the perfect thirteen and oh regular season
and the Big Ten titles. So congratulations to him. What
do you do while you're on the phone? I was like,
what are you doing in there? So, yeah, Indiana quarterback
did win the Heisman Trophy over the weekend. But honestly,
what do you laugh what? Uh? What are you laughing at?

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Oh, you can't comment?

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Not going to I'm not going to throw their listeningerund
to the bus.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Okay, okay, I just mentioned the Heisman Trophy winner.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Does it really matter? No, in the in the grand
scheme of things, sometimes it seems like if you're the
Heisman Trophy winner, it's it's.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Almost The quarterback from Vanderbilt made a total butt of himself.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Was he the quarterback or was he a kicker?

Speaker 3 (51:53):
He's a quarterback?

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Okay, yeah. Didn't he like throw a temper tantrum?

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (51:57):
He basically said f the voters or everybody.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Oh, I didn't know it went that far. Yikes. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. Win, Yeah, that's that's great sportsmanship right there.
Kind of follows in the footsteps of Notre Dame throwing
a temper tantrum and not wanting to be in a
bowl game, which, by the way, I read online that, uh.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
You're not the only ones Northwestern did it.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Oh did they all? Okay that uh Notre Dame's being
blackballed on schedules next year because of that. But people
aren't saying it out loud. But I don't know, We'll see.
It's eight twenty eight, all right, let's do it. One
hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. We got another pair
of tickets for you for Taylor family Christmas, for this Sunday,
December twenty first, one hundred six two four eleven seventy.

(52:43):
Let's do caller number eleven, caller number eleven one in
hundred six two four eleven seventy. It's eight twenty eight
on your Monday. The bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis
News Radio eleven seventy. Welcome back. It's eight thirty six.
The Blendaddy Experience Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(53:05):
So Amazon is experimenting with a thirty minute delivery. The
new fast delivery initiative is called Project Paragrine. And if
that sounds kind of like an evil genius's plan to
take over the world, well, Jeff Bezos agrees.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
I have, Jeff Bezos, I've devised a diabolical plan to
take over the world.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
For heard Project Peregrine.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Now you may think I've built an army of falcons
with freaking laser beams attached to their freaking heads, but sadly,
nerve a Project Peagrine refers to Amazon's new thirty minute delivery.
I came up with this plan all by myself whilst
ordering a large one top in pizza and cinnamon bread banks.
Now just imagine, with Project Peregrine's half hour delivery, you

(53:56):
can drunk shop on Amazon and your package will show
up before you forgot you ordered it.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Are you a less bit of shopper?

Speaker 5 (54:03):
Now you can literally do your shopping on Christmas morning
and the gifts will arrive before your kids wake up.
And as an added bonus, now I can make Amazon
employees work on Christmas.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Need to win win.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I discovered yesterday that I waited too long on a
couple of things. It won't be delivered in time for Christmas.
So yeah, maybe that would come in handy. I waited
too long, unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
I ordered some stuff last week and I think it's
scheduled to be delivered Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Really, Oh yeah, see what I was looking for too soon?

Speaker 3 (54:44):
A couple of the things were for me. I mean,
it wasn't like I was a couple of these things
were Christmas gifts, but a couple of could be you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah, yeah, I dropped the ball this year. I have
not been on it this year.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
And I try. I tried to buy. I try to
shop locally. I do too as much as I can.
It doesn't always work because there are certain things that
you're looking for that aren't available. Let right, Yeah yep.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
So anyway, Oh I thought you were I'm sorry. I
thought you were had more to your thought there, No,
I was just.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
I was actually just looking up to see when my
stuff was coming Miday Wednesday. Oh, this one's not coming
til somewhere between the twenty sixth and January third.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yikes, just real quick. We did get a message on
our text line about what is going on on seventy westbound.
There is a tractor trailer crash that is affecting Interstate
seventy westbound. It is at the bottom of the hill.
And this is according to the Ohio County EMA. So

(55:49):
they are drivers are urged, of course, to use caution
when approaching that area.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Does it say where is at the bottom of two
mile hill?

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Okay, yeah, so take caution if you need to. They
are saying that the fast lane or the inner lane
is remains open. But they are saying too, of course,
drive slowly, no rush, be cautious. But that is affecting
seventy westbound. So again that was on our text line,

(56:19):
which if you want to reach us on our text line,
it's seven zero four seven zero. Start the message off
with with blue Daddy, are you done with your Christmas shopping?
Are you done?

Speaker 3 (56:31):
I want to say yes, that's what I Yeah, but
my oldest son has not given me what he wants
for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
So he may get nothing.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
I mean as of right now, I mean he has.
I mean there were some things, of course that I
purchased in Europe, and I purchased some things in Phoenix,
so then there were some other things that you know,
that I know that he likes. So like with both boys,
I try to one gets one thing because he likes this,

(57:01):
and the other one gets something else. But it's on
the same line and about the same amount of money,
you know what I mean. Yeah, but you know as
far as like my youngest son gave me a couple
of things that he wanted, so I was able to
get there. And again I had to order those because
they were unavailable around here at least I wouldn't know
where to the shop for them. And then but my

(57:23):
oldest one, you know, he normally would tell me this
or that he hasn't said anything.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
So well, I discovered yesterday as I actually had a
list to shop for this year and I was going
through it yesterday and then I'm like, oh, I forgot
this person. Oh I thought I was done wrapped and
everything well not wrapped, stuffed in a gift bag. And
then I'm like, oh, crap, I forgot these couple people.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
So I always have normally some leftover stuff from like
the previous year, so that if I forget something or somebody,
he got a little backup plan. Good for you, because
it's not really like anything that goes bad. Yeah, I mean,
like there's a a plug in travel mug to keep

(58:10):
your drinks warm or maybe cool. I don't know. There's
some other things. I don't want to give them all out,
but yeah, I mean last year I found these rechargeable
hand warmers so you would put them like in your gloves,
and so I mean I bought extras because there were

(58:30):
the price on them was very reasonable. Yeah, And so
like a couple of people didn't show up at Christmas functions,
so it wasn't like they I just had them in
case they came, So if they didn't come, it wasn't
like I was chasing them down.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah. But it's always the it's always so awkward when
you go to something and somebody has a gift for
you and you didn't get them anything or like you
know what I mean, It's like I never would have
thought to get them something.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Never you never run out. If you can go get
a bottle of wine or a bottle, there you go.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
I actually have probably four or five bottles of wine
that people have given me. Because I don't drink wine,
I used to gift.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
It's always good. Yeah's some things you can read gift.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
I used to, but after one horrible Halloween night where
I drank too much wine and prayed for death the
next day.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Well, that's what happens when you drink boons Farm.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Oh no, it wasn't Boone's Farm. No, that's what happens
when you drink wine out of a straw because you're
wearing a fake beard and you drink out of a
straw and it tastes like kool aid. Oh god, no,
I prayed for death the next day. I was like,
I'm over it wine hangovers or oh oh it was awful.
It was, and I haven't touched it since. Maybe a

(59:42):
sip here, a sip there, but to actually, no, thank you.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
The last time I actually drank wine, I was in
high school. Really, I mean, I've had a couple of
SIPs here and there.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I've gone to tastings, but I'm not. I've just never been.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
It'll taste the same to me.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Really, No, no dry wine, no thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
I mean there's some, I mean there's some that are fruitier,
some that are you know, but I mean as far
as they really all have the same kind of taste
to me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
The I'm the wine drinker that the closer it is
to grape juice, the more I like it. But then
there's the people that I prefer dry wine because dry
wine is the fancy wine. No thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Then you have the people that they don't drink anything
under a one hundred dollars bottle of wine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Oh yeah, that's me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Yeah, that's me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
No, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
If it has I'm used to when I drank wine,
it was a screw top, didn't have a quirk.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Some of the best, one of the best wines I
ever had was in a box. I'm not ashamed to
say it. Listen, I'm not I'm not going to pretend
I'm something I'm not. I am not a wine a
fishion auto and yeah, I remember I have. I have
some relatives where the dry there, they're the the dry
wines or the this and the that. It's like paint thinner.

(01:01:06):
As far as I'm concerned, it's awful and it's immediate headache.
If you if you, I just.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
I don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
No, no, I'm just not a drinker. I never have been.
It's not something that I don't care about. I mean,
I don't care if you do. I don't judge those
that do. I just I don't like the I don't
like the taste, I don't like the feeling. Just not
my thing. But we were talking about Christmas gifts. There's
now a uh most people found there's the survey that

(01:01:39):
says that most people found that the best part of
Christmas is actually giving the gifts instead of receiving the gifts.
I prefer to give the gifts. I like being creative,
I like thinking out of the box and and and
just coming up with.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
This idea reactions. Yeah, yeah, so I've been told I'm
a good gift giver.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
You are a good gift giver. I actually said that
to uh Kevin last week, didn't I?

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Maybe? Yeah, I praised you. Oh that's right. I wouldn't
give me a compliment, I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Yeah that's a bit of an extreme.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
No, yeah, I get a little bit of a compliment.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I gave you a very nice game you did, he did.
Maybe you should try it sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Give a compliment. Yeah, I do, good times, maybe just
not publicly.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Eight forty five. You want to do another uh chance
to win? Yeah? Sure, let's do another family four pack
for the Nailers.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
Okay for next Friday or no, for Friday twenty I'm sorry,
Saturday the twenty seventh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Yes, the twenty seventh versus the Indie Fuel. And of
course there's also a concert that night too with Tongue
in Cheek. So two for one on this one two
for one, a hockey game and a concert. Uh, what
number you want to do? I've been picking the numbers
all morning. One eight hundred six to two four eleven seven.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
We haven't done this in a while. Let's do thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Okay, one, eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. Lucky
number thirteen one eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy.
It's a forty six on your Monday. The bloom Daddy Experience,
Sam and Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA eight fifty one.

(01:03:37):
Welcome back The bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Congratulations to Rich from
Dylan Vale. He is going to go see the Nailers
and Tongue in Cheeks, So congratulations to Rich. Speaking of that,
we have one more chance to win. It's coming up here,

(01:03:57):
of course, obviously very shortly. We have a four pack
to see the WVU basketball team take on. Do you
say Mississippi State, My.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Wrong, Mississippi Valley State.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Oh, okay, us close.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Uh, Mississippi State would be the SEC team. This is
I don't know what they're probably in the Sembelt Conference
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Okay, but that's coming up.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Monday, Monday the twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yeah, so we have a four pack of those that's
coming up here very shortly. And then, of course, just
a reminder, get your registrations in for free lunch courtesy
of our friends at River City. Just email Sam at
iHeartMedia dot com. That's samat iHeartMedia dot com, name phone number,
and company. Or even if say you wanted to register

(01:04:44):
for somebody else, maybe there's maybe there's a company that
you deal with that you've had great customer service and
you want to give them a holiday lunch this Friday,
go ahead and register for them. That's not a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Either, because this will be our last lunch delivery of
the year of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Yes, yes, so get those in sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
And then of course there is our stuffed Stalking Spectacular
and you do that through our text line seven zero
four seven zero, name phone number, email address, and holiday
emoji like Santa or Christmas Tree. What have you got?

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Just a reminder that they Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Ukrainian Church. Oh yes, they are doing Christmas progies and
Cabby drolls. But the deadline is this Thursday. Last day
to order is Thursday December. Oh nope, I'm sorry. Last
day to order was last Thursday. Whoops. I saw what
I saw December eighteenth on here and I screwed that up.

(01:05:40):
So if you don't have.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Your order in, too bad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Sorry about your like whoops, just looked at the wrong date.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
That's out, hey, Ladies of Perpetual What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Ladies, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukrainian Church.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Our apology?

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
My mom, my grandmother Olga.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
So your mom's probably out there shaking her head right
now she does Oh well, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
She knows better.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
I would probably get a phone call every day if
she listened.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Okay, Mama Otis, I need to meet Mama Otis.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Yeah, okay, go down and get some parogies and Cabby drils.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I can't, it's over.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
They might have him for sale this Thursday, because they
sell them every Thursday. But I think that Christmas order.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Oh, the like pre order, so.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
That would be like that. They sell parogies every Thursday,
and I can't remember the time, it's something like ten
to four.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
I never thought of perogi's as a Christmas thing. Just
I guess that's just every.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Year for my Christmas party when we when it was
going on ribs and progies. Really, mh huh, that's not
and people would look forward to it. They wanted the progies.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
I'm not a big parogi person. I don't get the
I just wasn't raised on them. I just I don't
get all day. I don't get the hoopla. Not my
not my thing, not my.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Thing, no my smothered in butter and onions like you're
as you're eating them, you can hear your artery's clog.
Your doctor's on speed out because you're gonna have a
massive coronary.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Well that's kind of like when I first started seeing
my husband and I went to his family for Christmas
and their uh Christmas food ritual was lasagna, And I'm like, Christmas,
lasagnia is I don't know, that's what we do. We're
we're hand people.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Well, I mean you have your hand for for Christmas dinner,
but the Christmas party was ribs and pro.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Oh, I got you, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
It's the thing was that the running joke was because
the Christmas my Christmas party started, either we can't We're
not sure if it was my freshman year in college,
which would have been eighty so hold on, I've gotta
think eighty five, or if it was the next year
eighty six, because the first year was just me and my.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Buddy big yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
And then the next year a few more people came
because we were all home from college. You know, you
didn't have kids, you know, you just wanted to get
away from your family at the time. So people just
came to my house. And then the next thing, you know,
it grew well, you came to my mom's house. And
then after got married and whatnot, is the party moved
to our house. And it would always say, like so

(01:08:39):
and so Christmas party. It's either like the fourteenth or fifteenth,
because we would it would never be specific. It would
be the fourteenth or fifteenth, and then the next year
would be the fifteenth or sixteenth. And then because I
didn't know what they would which what classified as a
party if two people classif or three people classify as
a party. Then it started the first year. So there

(01:09:01):
you have it. But the party hasn't happened in a
long time. It's probably been maybe twenty thirteen was the
last one. Oh really, it was going to get reduced,
it was going to get reinvented, and then that fell through.
So you know the story behind that one. So I

(01:09:22):
do okay, dude, think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Okay, Oh yes, okay, I got ya, I got ya.
On this day in history, just real quick, a little
bit of music history. Johnny Cash's fulsome Prison Blues was
released also on this day in history. In nineteen thirty nine,
Gone with the Wind premiered, of course, with local Cattus

(01:09:45):
Alum Clark Gable along with Vivian Lee and for never
heard of this holiday it's National cat Herders Day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Yeah, good luck with that, alrighty.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Ca, Yeah yeah, no, that's like sometimes. And then of
course the power ball was not hit over the weekend,
so it is now let's see here that nobody matched
the six numbers in Saturday's drag pot, so it will
roll over to tonight Monday's drawing. What it'll be worth
over one point one billion dollars billion billion dollars. All right,

(01:10:25):
let's do it. One eight hundred sixty two four. We've
got a four pack for Monday's WVU basketball game.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Week from tonight, A week from tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
One eight hundred six two four eleven seventy. One eight
hundred six two four eleven seventy, Collor number seventeen, color
number seventeen. One hundred sixty two four eleven seventy. Everybody,
bundle up, stay warm on this cold Monday. We'll talk
to you tomorrow