The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 16, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one TUK show in the Ohio Valley. This
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bloom Daddy Experience.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's seven oh six on news Radio eleven seventy. As
I do every Monday, we talked politics with Jim and
n Acy, former Congressman, Blind.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Daddy Show political analyst Jim, how you doing today?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
I'm doing good. It's a little cold, but that's so
high weather. We got to be used to it.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
You've got it. Let's jump into this. We think it's real.
It's from the President's account. It's got a check mark
by it. I'm just gonna read it. A very sad
thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured
and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy
store has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly

(00:58):
due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. He
was known to a driven people crazy by his raging
obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals

(01:20):
and expectations of greatness and with the golden Age of
America upon us perhaps like never before, May Robin, Michelle
rest in peace?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Why why? Why?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Jim Well boom daddy. Yeah, this is part of the problem.
I mean, when we're looking at the mid tims that
are coming up, it's not what Republicans are doing as
much as what President Trump is doing. Some of the
things he's saying, some of the things he's doing. And
this is a perfect example. This is all over social
media today. It does have the checkmark by it, which

(01:55):
shows most of the time that that is a verified account.
And it would have been very easy for him to
just come out and say may Rob and Michelle rest
in tease his last line, but instead everything else he
said is things I wouldn't even let my children say
about somebody they hated. So it's part of the problem.

(02:16):
And I know some of your listeners will say, oh,
that's for an acy. He doesn't like Trump. I love Trump.
The difference is I don't like everything he does, and
this is one of the things I definitely don't like.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Rob and his wife, by all accounts right now, had
their throats slit by their son. And here's the President
of the United States, first of all, saying that he
died due to the anger he caused others through Trump
derangement syndrome, which is false.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And if he's going for a joke there, I mean,
my God, read the room.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
But this after, you know, the same people that will
sit there and defend the president over vile garbage like
this are the same ones after Charlie Kirk got murdered
that chastised the left said their rhetoric caused it. They're
sick people. They have no place, you know, breathing the
same air we breathe. And yet they'll sit there and

(03:10):
they'll applaud something like this and make excuses for him.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well, what's interesting, bloom Daddy, is Rob Reiner, who did
not like Charlie Kirk. When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, actually
came out in an interview and said, this is a
horrible thing. This is not something that he was unbelievably
going after the guy that assassinated Charlie Kirk. So it
just shows you the difference. I mean, Rob Reiner did

(03:35):
not support Charlie Kirk, did not like Charlie Kirk. But
after the assassination, Rob Reiner had some very nice words
to say about Charlie Kirk, which is really the difference.
I mean, you can disagree with somebody, but in the end,
these murders, this type of stuff, this should be left
alone and we shouldn't have these kind of comments that

(03:55):
the President made today.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
And here's the crux of it.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I love what he does as far as policy is,
far as putting world leaders in their place, as far
as accountability goes, but all of that is overshadowed by
stuff like this. And I hate to say this, but
I truly believe when he walks out those doors of
the White House, he's going to leave the Republican Party
in ashes.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, that's part of the problem. And there's a new
poll out today, a Marquette Law School poll that actually
is showing that if election is today, believe it or not,
a majority of people would vote for a Democrat. Now,
and I'm talking about the congressional racist. So think about that.
That's a real problem because we know the Democratic Party

(04:39):
has serious problems, they have issues, but yet the majority
of the American people would vote for the Democrats over
a Republican and that is really going to be a
problem come the midterms. Now there is time we can
fix this. Republicans can fix this, but I got to
tell you time is running out, especially if we keep

(05:01):
having comments like this by the president.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, the Trump can never do no wrong.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Trumpers will sit there and says some other poll polls
are wrong, but yet when polls show something favorable to him,
they're all over the polls.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Jim, Yeah, and you know what, I understand that polls
are snapshots of time. And there are those that say, well,
I've never been polled, and quite frankly, I've only been
pulled a few times in my life as well. But
I can tell you that I'm part of a large
group that is they were doing polling all the time,

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and these polls are all starting to look the same.
That's the problem. When you have one poll and you
say it's isolated, that's one thing. But when you start
to see polls that are starting to show President Trump's
approval rating, especially among independents, that it's so far down
thirty nine percent. I think the market poll has in

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the twenty nine percent. This is not a good thing
when independents make up a large majority of voters and
he's losing part of the Republicans, and of course he
doesn't have any of the Democrats, which is going to
be reflective of the Republicans. So when a Republican runs
in November of next year, people are not going to
think of, hey, this is a good Republican. They're going

(06:22):
to think this is a Republican that's supporting this president
that I don't like. And that's the fear we should
have as Republicans to say we have to change this.
And in some ways some Republicans are going to have
to separate themselves from the president. I just saw a
poll today in Ohio. President Trump has a fifty to
fifty approval rating. Now, just last November he won by

(06:45):
twelve percentage points. He's lost almost twelve percentage points in
a recent Paul I saw, Jim.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
When history looks back on Trump, do you think policy wise,
they will look back and what was right for America.
I'll look back and rank him very high, maybe even
top three. But when it comes to divisiveness, when it
comes to bringing out the worst in human beings, he'll

(07:13):
rank number one.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
No, I think the president policies will be looked at
extremely favorable. He did and still is trying to change
things for the better, So that's always going to be
the positives. But as you said, and here's what I believe,
it will be overshadowed by his comments and the way
he's done it. And I think in the end that's

(07:34):
the sadness because I think I've said this on your
shows in the past. If he would just continue to
do what he's doing, not come out with these outland
his comments, get the economy back on track, keep illegal
aliens out of this country, he would be ranked one
of the top presidents ever. But I think his comments
and some of the things he's doing the way he's

(07:55):
doing it are going to hurt him from being that.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
It's almost like, you know, you compare this of sports.
Some guys not in the Hall of Fame, whether it
be football or baseball because of what they did off
the field. Their accomplishments on the field should have him
in one hundred percent, but some guys aren't in because
of their actions off the field and that pertains to Trumpet.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, that's exactly You're going to be the issue here.
People are going to look back and say that some
of the things he said, the issues, and all of
this is going to be brought up and it's going
to stop him from being in that Hall of fame.
That's a great analogy because the president is doing some
really good things. It's just the way he's doing it

(08:36):
and the way he's approaching it is starting to turn
a lot of people away.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
And what his full on supporters don't understand him. They
go who cares? Who cares?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, a lot of people do.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
They might not care, but the vast majority of other
people absolutely do.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Jim has always thanks for your time.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Thank you, you have a good day.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
All right.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's Jim and Acy. Former Congressman bloom Daddy showed Political Analyst.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Seven twenty Welcome back to Blue Daddy experienced salmon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA coming up. We're going to
have plenty of chances for you to win. This morning.
We have two sets, two pairs, two sets of two
of a pair of Taylor Family Christmas Show. Is this Sunday?
Was that confusing, otis you you.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
Got two chances to win a pair take there you.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Go, I over describe, So we have two chances for
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(09:50):
Tongue in cheek and then the twenty eighth Hold on
here one second, I didn't have it pulled up. My apologies.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
Is skate with a nailer?

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Yes, that's it, Sunday Skate with the nail So we
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All you have to do is email Sam at iHeartMedia
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(10:18):
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your entries in. Did I cover at all? Otis?

Speaker 7 (10:33):
I guess?

Speaker 6 (10:35):
You guess. Okay, all right, So we have all of
that coming up. So back to the conversation between bloom
Daddy and Jim or Nasi. In regards to the comments
by President Trump about the murder of Rob Reiner, of course,
film producer, actor, director that happened over the weekend by

(10:59):
the qu used son Nick. Details on that horrific crime
continue to be released by the l a p D
and those involved in the investigation. He has been arrested
and is being held without bond, according to reports. According
to reports that I have read, of course, a knife

(11:21):
was used. I have seen. I have read where I
think it was the La Times said that their their
throats were slit. This is awful. This is an awful, awful,
horrific crime. When I saw the post by President Trump
yesterday and I read the first line, a very sad

(11:45):
thing happened last night in Hollywood, I thought, Okay, we're
off to a good start. And then I continued to
read and it was disappointing. It was very disappointing what
President Trump said. I understand that Rob Reiner was a

(12:08):
very loud voice in opposition of President Trump. I understand
that Rob Reiner said and labeled the president terrible things, fascist, racist,
and it goes on from there. But we have got
to get to a point where things are not tit
for tat. We can't do that. That is what has

(12:33):
to stop. And just like the point that bloom Daddy
made was the point I was going to make this morning,
which is if we are willing to call out people
like Jimmy Kimmel and other keyboard warriors who attacked Charlie
Kirk and called him a racist, and people said, you know,

(12:55):
this is what you get when you don't believe in
gun control and all the other horrific things that we're
said about Charlie Kirk. We have to take a step
back and be willing to call out even our own
sitting president who says and puts out a statement like
he put out yesterday. We can't be hypocrites. If we

(13:17):
are willing to call out the hypocrisy on the liberal side,
you have to be willing to call out the hypocrisy
on both sides. You have to You have to to
say I was disappointed is an understatement. And not everything
has to be politicized. That's another problem in this country.

(13:40):
Not everything has a political angle. A political narrative, a
political spin. It doesn't and it doesn't need to be
twisted into that either. And unfortunately, when the president does
things like this number one, it's it's fuel for the media,

(14:09):
it's fuel for the opposition, and it's fuel for people
who believe, like Rob Bryner, who wants to attack the president.
It just fuels their narrative. And I'm sorry, when you
hold that office, or any political office, especially the presidency,

(14:30):
you need to carry yourself in a presidential way. And
I don't care if you're a Republican and Democrat, independent,
I don't care. When you hold that office, you represent
everybody in this country, everybody, and you are held to

(14:52):
a higher standard. And if this was a quote unquote
political opponent the day disagreed with you hold yourself above that,
carry yourself above that. Don't go to this level because
it fuels the narrative. And it's a just in simple terms,

(15:16):
it's a bad look. It's a bad look because then
what it does it pulls away from other stories that
are out there that are happening. You know, yesterday a
report was released about former President Biden where eighteen thousand
known or suspected terrorists gained access during the Biden administration

(15:42):
as they came across the border. But see, because of
remarks like President Trump made yesterday, that's not going to
make the headlines. It's also not going to make the
headlines because of of course, political agenda that certain media
outlets have. But my point is it's a bad look,
it's unpresidential, and it pulls the narrative away from what

(16:06):
really needs to be covered in the media, what happened
in Australia, the horrible slaughtering of sixteen Jewish people in Australia,
what happened at Brown University. The spotlight doesn't always need
to be on the president and yesterday I'm sorry it
was a bad spotlight. It was not needed. It was

(16:29):
uncalled for. That is when you step up as the
president and say something in regards to a tragic, you know,
incident happened over the weekend. We lost a Hollywood I
don't want to say icon, that's not the right term,
burder leader in Hollywood, and just say some nice things

(16:51):
and move on. That's all that needed to be done. Yesterday,
that's it, and it went it was it went too far.
And as I said, I thought the first line. Okay,
we got something good going here. Then it took a
hard left and it was just not a good look.
Seven eight. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. As

(17:11):
I said, we've got plenty of chances to win. Coming
up here a bit later in the show. We're gonna
have one here very shortly. Actually, you're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience on your Tuesday here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA. Seven thirty six. Welcome back on your Tuesday,

(17:34):
the bloom Daddy Experience, Otis and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. About forgot our name's there for a second.
It's been a morning. About, it's been a morning I
about found on the steps this morning. I don't know
what was what my issue was. I was all discombobulated
and misjudged the height. So yeah, lit little off kilter

(17:55):
this morning. Getting into some local top heads. In Moundsville,
authority say, a woman who reported she was attacked last
week actually stabbed herself. Victoria Wade reportedly told Moundsville police
that she had been had been assaulted in a shopping
center parking lot, with investigators determining the report was a hoax.

(18:20):
Wade is being charged with falsely reporting a crime. They
do not talk about the extent of the injuries. I
can't imagine stabbing yourself. Why, why? And what it would
take to be able to do that? That would be God,
That would be hard. West Virginia State University is mourning

(18:41):
the death of junior guard Ishmael Smith. The twenty one
year old was found dead in his dormitory dormitory Sunday
by teammates. Coach Brian Poor says Smith had just finished
practice and seemed fine joking around in the locker room.
Smith Smith was the team's leading score averaging more than

(19:01):
sixteen points per game. The cause of death has not
been released. That's a tragic story. Senator Shelley Moore Capito
says she's running for reelection in twenty twenty six. The
seventy two year old Republican chairs the Senate Environment in
Public Works Committee and holds a leadership position in the
Senate majority. President Trump endorsed Capito back in May. Capitol

(19:25):
has more than four million dollars on hand for her campaign,
far more than any other any of her Republican primary challengers.
She was first elected to the Senate in twenty fourteen,
becoming the becoming West Virginia's first female US Senator. Meanwhile,
Capito says she says she'll get a classified briefing on

(19:45):
the Trump Administration's plans for Venezuela. The Republican says lawmakers
need to be informed about any potential military actions. The
administration has been ramping up to its ramping up its
military president in the region and has carried out strikes
on nearly two dozen boats since September. Capitol says she's

(20:07):
says she supports aggressive action against drug traffickers, but once
the administration to be be transparent with Congress and the
American people. Also locally, otis what are you doing for
lunch today? No, but Joe's Tire friend of show. They're

(20:32):
taking advantage of the perfect winter weather. They announced yesterday
that they're going to have a sledding party out at
the Barnesville location. A sledding party, Yes, it's actually happening
this afternoon at two forty five. The company will offer
a limited limited number of tubes sledding tubes, and participants

(20:55):
are encouraged to bring along their own sleds or other
means of downhill snow travel. So toboggans all all of
the good stuff that you might have. So they're going
to be serving hot chocolate and cookies to go along
with to keep you warm during all of the fun.
So if you're looking for somewhere to sled ride, there

(21:16):
you have it. Good idea, Joes, I like that. That's fun,
So good idea for them. Also, we were talking earlier,
of course, about the tragic death of Hollywood director Rob Reiner.
Also lost on the same day, Anthony Geary. If that
name doesn't ring a bell, Luke Spencer was his character

(21:40):
on General Hospital. So if you grew up in the eighties,
everybody heard the Luke and Laura. Right, That's right, isn't it?
Luke and Laura wedding?

Speaker 7 (21:48):
It was. I mean I never watched it because I
think I was in high school at the time, but
like the Luke and Laura wedding was like it was
like it was everywhere. Well, it was like watching Princess
die in Charles's wedding. I mean everybody was talking about it,
everybody was doing I mean, it was almost insane about
a soap opera.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
As soon as you say Luke and Laura. I can
almost see the TV guide cover image that was used.
Let's see here. He died at seventy eight from complications
during a medical procedure. His husband, Claudio Gama, confirmed the
death to TV Insider, stating it was a shock and
our family. For me and our family and our friends,

(22:29):
for more than thirty years, Tony has been my friend,
my companion. My husband Gary joined. That completely changes the
narrative of Luke and Laura. But Gary joined the ABC
soap opera in nineteen seventy eight, playing the street smart
hustler who's romance with Laura Weber became a cultural phenomenon.
Their wedding was in nineteen eighty one, and it drew

(22:50):
more than thirty million viewers and remains the highest rated
soap episode in America American television history. He appeared in
one nine hundred and ninety seven episodes from nineteen seventy
eight to twenty seventeen, with seventeen Emmy nominations. Wow, and

(23:12):
he actually was excuse me in episodes of All in
the Family with Rob Reiner, so they kind of it
all kind of ties together there. No, I never watched
General Hospital, but yeah, Luke and Laura, if you, like
I said, if you were a kid of the eighties,
and uh, I.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Don't think you had to be a kid.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
Well, I mean, if you if you remember when you
say soap operas were like at their height in the eighties.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
Now, seventies and eighties. I mean I can remember, like
I remember going to my grandparents as a kid and
my grandmother saying, I can't miss my stories. Yep, you know, yep,
it wasn't it wasn't the show. It wasn't it say
it was stories, yep, but yeah, it's just uh you know.
And she would watch the ones on NBC. So she

(24:02):
would watch Days of our Lives, the doctors, you know,
there was another one. I can't remember all of them.
Another World was one.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
That's the one my grandma watched another.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
Those were the three the three hours of the day
that you never get back when you stayed with grandma.
If it was a rainy day or snow day or something.
Other days you were just outside. It didn't matter. But yeah, yeah,
it's a soap opera is probably seventies and eighties.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, see it was you. And here's the thing.
You were either an NBC soap person CBS or ABC
and ABC soap people with the general hospitals. Folks were
hardcore like they felt they were like the soap operas.
To watch. I was the Days of Our Lives girl,

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and my grandmother was another world. So I grew up
on Boe and Hope were my I guess you could
say Luke and Laura if you will, but yeah, they
but my grandmother called them the same thing, called them stories.
And it was funny because it was as soon as

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The Price Is Right ended, it was time for Days
of Our Lives.

Speaker 7 (25:20):
You had local news on it.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Yes, you're right, you're right. It came on at one o'clock.
You're right. I was thinking it came on at noon.
You're right, you're right. And she would she would say,
either you're gonna sit here and watch it and be quiet,
or she would kick us outside. So my brother always
got kicked outside. I got to stay and watch. I
actually had a book it was called the It was

(25:44):
called The Days of Our Lives Family Album, and it
tracked all of the family history of the Brady's and
the Hortons.

Speaker 8 (25:54):
It is.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
Tumbas as pathetic as me. One either one or two
semesters of the review. I scheduled my classes around these Oh.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Yeah, yeah, heck yeah, I wonder where that book is
now that I say it. Oh yeah. It was like
it was like a picture album. All was the whole thing.
It had everybody in there, all the weddings and all
the inner minglings of that makes us both put the
different families. But when you really looked at it, at
some point it was like, okay, when are we We're
close to a little a little too intertwined when it

(26:29):
comes to the genetic pool of all of these families.
So yes, I'm not ashamed to say it. I had
basically the historical reference book on days of our lives.
Oh all right, we have your first chance to win.
Right now. We have a pair of tickets to see
a Taylor Family Christmas show this Sunday at Wheeling Parks
Performing Arts Center.

Speaker 7 (26:50):
One in Hunting Park High Schools just said they don't
get it mixed up.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
Oh I'm sorry, Wheeling Park High School one eight hundred
six two four eleven seventy one eight hundred six two
four eleven seventy Let's do caller number twelve. Let's do
caller number twelve. One eight hundred six two four, eleven seventy.
It's seven forty five. You're listening to the bloom Daddy
Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA Wow seven fifty.

(27:22):
Welcome back on this Tuesday, the bloom Daddy Experience. Otis
and Sam here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA Otis whoy.
Who's going to see Taylor family Christmas?

Speaker 7 (27:32):
Joanna from Saint Clairsville.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
Well, congratulations, Joe Anna. Have fun at the show yesterday
Monday Night Football? Did you catch it? I did not.
I went to bed early, folks. I was whooped. Anyways,
the Steelers are still a sure bed at home. Obviously.
On Monday Night Football, the team crushed the Dolphins twenty

(27:54):
eight to fifteen. Aaron Rodgers threw for more than two
hundred and twenty yards and a pair of touchdowns. Is
The Steelers haven't lost a Monday night game at home
since the early nineties. That's quite the streak. The AFC
North leaders visit the Lions Sunday afternoon. Also out of Pittsburgh,
the Penguins hit the ice again tonight. The team faces

(28:15):
off against Connor McDavid and the Oilers at home. The
sides swapped goalies in a trade last week. Tonight's game
is available, of course, on our sister station, Eagle one
oh seven.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
Fine, why didn't you read that as it was?

Speaker 6 (28:31):
Oh, tonight's game is available for your listening pleasure on
our sister station, Eagle one oh seven five.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
I'm going to write it.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
I want you to read it because listening pleasure.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
Yeah, that just sounds weird to me. It's supposed to
sound weird. Oh okay, that's why I put it in there. Oh,
I thought it's something different. You can't just always say, hey,
you can catch tonight's Penns game on our sister station.
Oh okay, it was just something a little different. I
got you maybe to catch somebody's at ten or But

(29:01):
you don't read what I.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Write, So okay, my apologies. I did not mean to
offend it.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
Just you didn't invent it. Just sometimes it just confirms
my fact that you don't know how to read.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
I still love you, or I know how to edit
while I'm reading.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Yeah, creepy, but you do know how to do that.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
Creepy listening pleasure. That just sounded weird. I'm sorry. When
it comes to hockey, the two that term in hockey
just doesn't get together. Also back to the Steelers, the
defensive coordinator for the Dolphins, Joe Berry, who was uh
he coached at Green Bay during Roger's tenure at Green Bay.

(29:44):
He said to Rogers during the game last night on
the sign lines referred to him as, you're the goat
greatest of all time. I think that's highly debatable, don't you.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
I mean, he's one of the best quarterbacks of his era, yes,
but of all time. I mean, I don't know how
you how you? I mean, I understand it's not a
one player game, you know, unless you're into you. I'm
not talking about WWE, but unless you're into wrestling or
tennis or something of that nature.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
An individual sports.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
Yeah, it's not just you. I don't care how good
you are, it's you have to have the pieces around
Tom Brady had a lot of pieces around him, you know,
and had a successful coach and you know, so, I
mean everything fell into place to make Tom Brady probably
the greatest of all time. And the same goes with
Michael Jordan. I mean, Michael Jordan was a freak, but

(30:43):
if you put him on you know, if you put
him on the la Clippers at the time, he's probably
he's going to be individually great, but he's not going
to have six championships. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
So yeah, if the puzzle was incomplete.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
When you play a team sport, it's never you're never
the greatest by yourself. There's people that helped you get there,
whether it's in football, whether it's running backs or receivers,
your offensive line, you know whatever. And then in basketball,
you know, it's who's on the floor with you, your coach.
There's a lot of the baseball same thing, right, I mean,
you can hit seven hundred home runs and that is

(31:20):
on you. But I mean, also is the pitching been diluted.
I mean, there's a lot of things that come into play.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Well, in the first comment you met about the era,
I think is a huge factor that comes into play
when you're especially talking about the quarterback position in the NFL,
because you can't compare the protection and I don't mean
protection by the offensive line, I mean protection by the
refs that the quarterbacks have today versus well, the rules. Yeah,

(31:50):
versus quarterbacks of say the seventies, like a Terry Bradshaws or.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
Roger Staubacher, whoever, you know, they.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Were some of them were for their lives.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Absolutely. I mean even back in the seventies, I mean
Jack Lambert didn't like the late hits or the roughing
the passers, and you know, he said, what are you
going to do? Put skirts on them? But what are
they now? It's even worse now.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
So yeah, and and there are certain quarterbacks and many
may agree or disagree with me that in today's NFL,
whether we're talking a Tom Brady and I know he's retired,
but a Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes or Ben Roethlisberger
or I'm trying to think, you know, you even like
sneeze in their direction. As as a defender, you're getting

(32:35):
roughing the passer call. But again, you can't compare today
to the sixties and seventies in the way football. It's
just it's a different it's a different era of football,
and you can't.

Speaker 7 (32:46):
I mean, I also think that that's I mean, we're.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
Leaving Joe Montana out of this conversation.

Speaker 7 (32:50):
I think I think the roughing, you know that they
get extra protection is is a little bit overblown because
you see it more because their games are televised more,
because they're a successful team.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
I agree and I disagree with that because I.

Speaker 7 (33:07):
Also believe that the NFL issue statements that they don't
want their prime players getting hurt.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
There you go, there you go, And that comes down
to the money and the money or the ticket sales
and the jersey sales and everything else that it all
adds up to be. But and I understand what you're saying.
You're saying perception is because you see the games so
much more.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
You're if you're a Steeler fan, I mean you're going
to see every Steeler fan living in the or every
Steeler game living in this market.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
And then then and then it becomes who's the hot teams? Well,
New England was always on TV because they were hot.
Kansas City, you know, had a great ten year run,
so they were always on TV. Uh, you know, just
or if the player, if there's somebody on a team,
I mean, obviously you're going to get a matchup that's crappy. Yeah,
but you have, you know, you have more opportunities to

(33:55):
see more games because it used to be you would
just see Monday night football plus your local game and
then the game of the week. Well now with the
with the red zone, with you know, the football package
with prime, with anything. I mean, you're able to You're
able to watch basically every game you want to watch.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
But there are particular qbs that the NFL puts on
a pedestal of protection.

Speaker 7 (34:19):
I don't know it's just qbs. I think it's I
think there's players, because I think they I think they
protect the receivers and running backs as well too. At
times they do.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
But yeah, the big.

Speaker 7 (34:30):
Quarterbacks, the quarterbacks your moneymaker. I mean, that's the face
of your that's the face of your offense, the face
of your franchise. Nine times out of ten.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Is your quarterback.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
And Kansas City man is Patrick.

Speaker 7 (34:41):
Mahomes has changed the game too, the way he plays it.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
His acls blown, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah he's out?

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Yeah, sorry, I think.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
Sorry, Bo a friend of mine, he's.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
Big, who's bow.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
Bow and Rosie and the entire family. They are like
Kansas he chief knuckle.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
Hey, they've had a good run.

Speaker 7 (35:02):
So and he even posted that on Facebook. He said,
you know, his motto was he wanted to see him
win a Super Bowl before he died, and he's seen
three of them. So that's my mom. He said, I'll
go back to my old motto. Wait till next year.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
There you go. Hey, seven fifty eight, you're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Z number one Tuck show in the Ohio Alley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host, bloom Daddy. His
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Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
Now eight six. Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon
otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Oh, does
you know what we haven't mentioned this morning?

Speaker 7 (35:57):
Hard to Tell r.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Stalking Spectacular, The Triple S if you will, kind of
like the Triple H from WWE The Triple S. Okay,
So what that is is we have basically a stuffed
stalking of all kinds of goodies. We're gonna be drawing
the winner on Friday's annual holiday show, So get your

(36:21):
registrations in. All you have to do is text us
seven zero four seven zero is the text line. All right,
seven zero four seven zero. You start the message off
with bloom Daddy and then just give us your name,
phone number, email address, and then like a holiday emoji,
So whether it's Santa or a snowman or a Christmas tree,

(36:42):
I don't know what else is out there for holidays,
that'll be your registration. So just get those in again.
That is seven zero four seven zero. Start the message
off with bloom Daddy. And when I say it's stuffed,
it is stuffed. So we got plenty of things in there.
I'm not gonna rattle them all off because it's a

(37:02):
long list, but there's plenty of things in there, so
make sure you get those registrations. And also coming up
very shortly, within the next six minutes if that, if
that gives you enough time, we're gonna have another four
pack family four pack for the nailers, so that will
be for the twenty seventh. We're gonna have that coming

(37:26):
up here very shortly. And of course that is a
Saturday featuring a performance by local favorites Tongue in Cheek,
so that's gonna be also coming up. So otis there's
a recent survey when you look back, and we're gonna
we're going to do this a little bit more in
depth for our sort of New Year's Eve week if

(37:49):
you will like kind of like a year in review review,
But when you look back at twenty twenty five, how
would you describe it? Would you say it has been? Okay?
Has it?

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Like?

Speaker 7 (38:01):
How would I rate it? Look on a scale one
to ten?

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (38:04):
How if we just do it that way? Okay, I
would say it was a five.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Okay, that's about as even as you can be.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
Yeah, I mean it wasn't there was nothing. I mean
it had its moments and it had its downfalls.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Okay. Personally yeah, personally Okay. If I take a step
back and I look at it from not personal accomplishments,
I guess, or like a personal bit just nationally, I
would give it about a seven. There are some things
that have been accomplished that really happy about. There's some

(38:43):
things that I'm really sad about. What we've seen, you know,
just over the past couple of days have been just
absolutely awful, horrific. The amount of violence in this country
is incredibly out of control. The hatred, the anger, the
disgusting acts are just I can't stand it. I think

(39:06):
it's awful. I think it's absolutely awful. I ask this
because a recent poll has been done where only ten
percent of Americans would describe twenty twenty five as a
great year. Most called it just okay. So the heart
that garnered the highest percentage at thirty nine percent. Nineteen

(39:30):
percent of those polls called it bad and ten percent
called it awful. Now, this is a poll of only
two thousand Americans, so keep that in mind. It's a
small it's a small amount of folks. But I think
it's very telling when it comes to the mood of
the nation.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
No, it's also word of a personal poll. It's not
about what's gone on around you. It's more about I mean,
if you look at the polls, it's asking about like
your physical health and correct your resolutions, saving money, getting
more exercise, you know. So there's there's like willpower. I mean,
this is more of a personal than it is like

(40:06):
I mean, I'm not going to rate those well the
net on on TV shows and celebrities and you know,
politics and everything else. That's I mean, I'm gonna I'm
gonna rate it. I'm gonna rad it on how it
affected me. So we do. We've got Dave Oh, he
wants to talk about Rob Broyn here.

Speaker 8 (40:22):
Good morning, Dave, Hey, there, good morning, good morning, sir,
good good happy warming up. A little bit morning.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
Thanks, So what do you got for us?

Speaker 8 (40:33):
Well, uh, listen to Bloomer and or an acy there
and then Sam your commentary on it. Let me start
just real quick with the overall pictures. There's nothing bigger
in the world to me in the scene of politics. Uh,
since Trump got elected till the time he's done in
office in a couple of years. Here is to pull

(40:55):
us off the communist cliff that the Democrats have us
so close to the edge up and everything I think
that should be focused on our side is pulling us
off that cliff. So when some Trump stick something like
this out there, and he started it off nice, as
he pointed out, he even ended it nice, you know,

(41:17):
got a little twisted and wonkey there in the middle,
which he didn't need to, but you know, unforced. The
area's just talking about someone you know personally, maybe had
issues with because of many many things that person had said.
And Trump used it as a time to you know,
take a shot. Now, how that affects us getting pulled

(41:40):
away from the communist cliffs the Democrats have us so
close to means nothing to me. I mean I've heard
Trump go to gold Star Family, do wonderful, beautiful things
with them phone calls to victims of the legal immigrant crime.
I never hear those things house on, you know, by

(42:01):
Bloomer and Mnaci, but I hear about this, and I'm going,
what's this got to do with the gigantic picture? Because
you guys are talking, you guys, but those two about
oh well, now we're going to lose more independence. Now
looks like that for the twenty twenty six. People are
going to look at that and they're going to go hmm.
He says something about Rob Reiner, which is very direct

(42:24):
between those two. How does that affect eleven million immigrants
of flooding illegal immigrants flooding the country. How does that
affect the economy and inflation that was getting up towards
double digits or past it? And you know where's that going?
So when we focus on this, like you said, Sam,
this kind of thing can push other important headlines off

(42:48):
the top. Well, who's thoughts that? I mean, Bloomer had
a choice. He could have talked about Reiner, or he
could have talked about the assassination of Jews on a
first day of Hanakok, which is a wide you know, worldwide.
Sure start of trying to, you know, destroy the Jewish population. Again,

(43:09):
he had a choice. He went this way. He went
with Marjorie Taylor Greenlay. That was so cutting edge to
pulling us away from the car in his cliffs. I
don't understand the focus on it. Yes, he didn't need
to go there in that middle portion of his thing.
But to me, and I'll wrap it up here, if
Trump cures cancer, but he also walks in a room

(43:32):
and sneezes out covered his mouth, which one do you
want to talk about? No, you weren't talking about to
cure the cancer. Or he sneezed in a room and
didn't cover his mouth.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
Sure, sure, David, I understand. I understand your points. I
think let me put it to you this way, so
I understand in the grand scheme of things, as I
pointed out, yes, the the tragic murder of Rob Reiner
and his wife that happened here in the United States.
Do I think there are I don't want to say

(44:04):
more important, but are there other top headlines that are
being missed because of this in his Hollywood standings and
who he was? Yes, like you pointed out what happened
in Australia, horrible what happened at Brown University and that
gunman still on the loose. Those particular headlines are being
overshadowed because of Rob Reiner and who he is. My

(44:25):
point when it comes to questioning President Trump is, if
we are going to, you know, call out, as I said,
those who want to criticize horrific remarks that were made
of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have to be
willing to call out President Trump. It was bad timing.

(44:46):
It was just distasteful, and it lacked tact. There is
a time and a place to criticize or or vocalize
your thoughts on somebody not less than t twenty four
hours after their throats were slit by their own child.
And I don't care who you are. There's a time

(45:06):
and a place, and there's attack to it, and it
was not done by our president.

Speaker 8 (45:12):
Don't disagree. So from a major media standpoint, you know,
when Joe Biden stares at the watch during all those
thirteen servicemen getting pulled off the plane, although that's incredibly
disrespectful to those servicemen and their families, that yeah, bothered me,

(45:32):
but I didn't want to hear about it. I didn't care.
What mattered to me was the huge issue of how
he pulled us out of there and allowed that to
happen in the first place. So focus on that, because
I don't need to hear that. I've got plenty of
other media on their side, Sam telling me all about this,
how horrible that is. With Reiner on our side, for

(45:53):
whatever reason, we feel we need to call this out
and make it like, well, what's the listeners or of
any list er off you we're supposed to think? Now, Well,
I guess I gotta go vote Democrat. No, right, I'm
said Tom Bob Ryner, because well that's the way him
and Brene you're talking. Oh, this is just another thing
to get independence. Sure you no independence, You don't pay

(46:15):
attention to anything. But right, I agree, Dave.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
I hate to cut you off. I'm so sorry. We're
up against a break. I'm so sorry, but I appreciate.

Speaker 8 (46:22):
Your call, appreciate the time.

Speaker 6 (46:23):
All right, we'll talk again. All right, you're listening to
the bloom Daddy experience here on news radio. But before
we go, we got tickets. We've got the nailers. Almost
forgot Thank you. Otis for December twenty seventh, ONETE hundred
sixty two four eleven seventy one hundred six two four
eleven seventy. Let's do caller number fourteen for a family
four pack to see the Nailers December twenty seventh. Here

(46:45):
at home at West Banco Arena, WANTE hundred sixty two
four eleven seventy, caller number fourteen. You're listening to the
bloom Daddy Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA
eight twenty two. Welcome back on your Tuesday. Congratulations to

(47:05):
Scott from Tiltonsville. He and three other friends are gonna
get the chance to go see the Nailers play on
the twenty seventh this month. So congratulations Scott from Tiltonsville,
Y t R. If you're in the nil you're Phil
Tiltonsville Raylin. Yeah, going back back to my old stumping grounds,

(47:28):
looking at me like I'm like I'm nuts. That seems
to be the theme when it comes to the looks
from Otis. Uh So, going back to before dave O called,
we were talking about the great year. You know, what
would you consider your year to be? Otis? You gave
yourself a five out of ten? Correct? That's what you said,

(47:51):
five out of ten's not back.

Speaker 7 (47:52):
I mean, I the reason what I base that on is,
you know, I made some personal changes in my life
starting back in January that I think were for the better.
So so I give myself maybe a seven or eight
on that. My travel this past year has been fun,
Oh yeah. I mean I've been to Florida twice, been
to Phoenix, been to you know, Europe, so you know,

(48:17):
I mean give that probably a nine, you know, and
then but there's some other things in there that you know,
you know, you kind of you take the good with
the bad and the bad with the good. So I mean,
I mean there's some personal things I'm not going to
get into but that you know, kind of had an
effect on me and just you know, but you learn

(48:37):
to live with it and you roll on.

Speaker 6 (48:39):
Yeah, I'd give myself either a six or a seven.
It wasn't a bad year. It wasn't a great year.
There are some things I came short on here here
at work professionally, and not by much. That's what makes
it so hard. Just came right there knocking at the

(49:00):
door and came just a little bit short. But I
think my biggest struggle and there's probably a lot of
people out there that would agree with me. Balance. That's
where I feel like I came up short work slash
personal balance time, where I just I'm struggling with finding

(49:23):
that balance of between the two entities, and I think
a lot of people struggle with that. Shutting off the
phone not answering immediately when you hear a text come
through or an email come through, where when it is
seven or eight o'clock at night, that's me time, and

(49:46):
I think that would be Uh. I think that's where
I fell short this year because I did start off
the years telling myself that I was going to refocus
and prioritize things a little bit differently, and you know,
came short there. But what I say it was a
terrible year?

Speaker 7 (50:06):
No?

Speaker 6 (50:06):
Would I say it was an awful year?

Speaker 8 (50:08):
No?

Speaker 6 (50:09):
And uh, but think about that. You know, what would
you call this year for yourself? Was it a great year?
Or how would you rate it between one and ten? Good? Bad,
semi okay, could have been better, or hey, I knocked
it out of the park. And if you knocked it
out of the park and you feel like it was
a great one, uh, kudos to you. Please tell us
your secret sauce. What it was that that, uh, you

(50:34):
were able to accomplish that you're so proud of. Would
love to hear from you. One one hundred and six
to four eleven seventy. You can call us, or of
course you can text us seven zero four seven zero,
which is our text line and started off with blue Daddy.
Somebody who's ending the year on a high. I would
love to be this guy. Elon Musk. He's shattering another record.

(50:58):
He is becoming the first person in history who is
now worth six hundred billion dollars. His net worth, according
to Forbes magazine, has surged past six hundred and seventy
billion on Monday, So he hit the six hundred billion mark.

(51:20):
He has now jumped that like crazy and hit six
hundred and seventy billion dollars. That's insane, that's insane. But
his company SpaceX moves towards a public offering next year
at a reported eight hundred billion dollar valuation. Those numbers

(51:43):
are staggering, staggering, and listen, that's not I mean, you
can hit the power ball that was not hit yesterday,
by the way, and not even come close to sniffing
the net worth of Elon Musk As I mentioned, the

(52:03):
powerball jackpot is rolling over once again. Uh, there was
no grand prize last night, so the jackpot jumps to
a staggering one point two five billion dollars of ahead
of Wednesday's drawing. Now, there was a couple of million
dollar prize winners on Mondays. Those tickets were sold in
California and Arizona. Was that you were in Arizona, But

(52:26):
that was too long ago.

Speaker 7 (52:27):
Oh yeah, I could have pre bought. Well, that's what
doesn't make me. Doesn't make any sense for me to
buy them, because then I'd got to go back to
Arizona claim which for a million bucks i'd get back.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
I was gonna say, I think I would, I would.

Speaker 7 (52:37):
Find I'm not going back for four dollars.

Speaker 6 (52:39):
No, why not? Why not?

Speaker 8 (52:44):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (52:45):
All right, we have another chance for you to win.
We've got a pair of tickets to Taylor Family Christmas
one eight hundred sixty two for eleven seventy one, eight
hundred sixty to four eleven seventy. Let's do caller number ten,
nice round number. Caller number ten one eight hundred six
to eleven seventy. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back as eight thirty six.

(53:13):
Congratulations to Mike from Dylan Vale on his way to
see a Taylor family Christmas. So congratulations to Mike. Have
fun at the show. Coming up, we're gonna have another
chance for you to win. We've got a family four
pack to see the Nailers for a Sunday skate, and
of course the game on the twenty eighth, So that

(53:35):
is coming up here a little bit later in the show.
A little bit of a heads up. We'll call this
a public holiday shipping service message. The US Postal Service
says there are some important shipping deadlines for you to
be aware of. Wednesday tomorrow is the last day to

(53:57):
send your items off in time for them to arrive
by Christmas. That's if you're using the U of course,
the US Postal Service Ground Advantage or first class mail
service within the lower forty eight The deadline is Thursday
for Priority Mail service delivery, and this Saturday for Priority

(54:17):
Mail Express. If you go Express and Priority, we're talking
probably bigger dollars. So if you are shipping presents across
the country tomorrow, I would just say, get it all
taken care of tomorrow, folks. So a little bit of
deadline there for you when it comes to the Christmas season.

(54:40):
Also announced Miriam Webster. No, that's not like the local
lady down the street.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
No, the.

Speaker 6 (54:49):
Dictionary has announced the word of the year for twenty
twenty five. It is a four letter word, not a
fun one, by the way. The word of the year
is slop, slop, slop. According to Miriam Webster. The term

(55:11):
slot slop originally referred to soft mud in the seventeen
hundreds and later evolved to mean food, waste and rubbish. However,
in twenty twenty five is become defined as digital content
of low quality that is produced usually in quantity, by
means of artificial intelligence. The pick for the word of

(55:33):
the year is based on a significant increase in searches
in the dictionaries. Editors choose it to reflect the year's
trends and events. Never heard it use that way? Otis?

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Have you?

Speaker 6 (55:44):
I've never heard? No. When I think of slop, I
think of that's kind of like what you feed the
pigs slop like that. I've never heard of. Well, that's
that's what grandparents called it. No, I've never heard it
used in regards to artificial intelligence and anything like that.

(56:08):
So there you have it. The word of the year
is slop. What would you make the word of the
year moist?

Speaker 7 (56:18):
Because I know you love it so much. It didn't
take me long to come up with it.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
No, it didn't, No, it didn't. Mine would be artificial intelligence,
which intelligence once I get, which I guess is two words.
But that would be my word of the year, not slop.
Really you said moist really.

Speaker 7 (56:40):
Just for you?

Speaker 6 (56:40):
O goodness. Yeah, So there you have it. The word
of the year is slop. Don't know why, don't know why?
But and notice would as his would be moist. I
can't even say it with out being grossed out by it.

(57:02):
I can't even say it without being grossed out by it.
We were talking about the power ball earlier. The Virginia
Lottery is warning or basically sending a message to folks
to not buy scratch off tickets for their kids for Christmas. Now.

(57:23):
They've teamed up with the Virginia Lottery along with a
group called the Virginia Council on Problem Gambling. They've released
a public service announcement warning about the dangers of scratch
off tickets as Christmas gifts. The campaign's message is that
giving scratch off tickets or other lottery products to kids

(57:44):
is a highly inappropriate and possibly dangerous. Officials say that
giving a lottery ticket may seem harmless, but it could
lead to problems such as gambling addiction later in life.
They also want to make adults aware that giving lottery
tickets to minors and illegal is illegal in Virginia. Heck,

(58:06):
my parents have been influencing me the wrong way for decades.

Speaker 7 (58:10):
My kids have been doing scratch offs since they could
know what they were.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (58:14):
Yeah, they're just the dollar They're the dollar ones that
you don't win it. You know, you might win five
hundred dollars deal, but if they want a dollar, ten
dollars or something. They always just felt good about it.
I mean, it didn't create gambling monsters.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
Well, I mean you just you make it a make
it a game. Just make it.

Speaker 7 (58:33):
Yeah, I mean you just say, hey, look here's your
Christmas present. It could be nothing, or it could be
five hundred dollars anywhere in between.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
Yeah. I don't think you need an entire.

Speaker 7 (58:41):
Birthday president or whatever.

Speaker 6 (58:42):
I don't think you need an entire PSA marketing strategy
warning about the well.

Speaker 7 (58:47):
I think in West Virginia and I could be wrong
on this, but you you have to be eighteen to play,
like you have to buy it to buy them, right, Okay,
you have to be I think you have to be
eighteen to claim, but you can anything with the West
Virginia Lottery, but you can be any age to participate
in them. And so like, if my kids were still

(59:11):
under the age of eighteen and I hit the power ball,
let's say, or if I hit, you know, for a
million dollars on a scratch off, just say, technically they
could still be winners as long as I'm on there
with them. So in other words, I can I can
make the like I can say the three of us
were together.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
Oh okay, I got youa.

Speaker 7 (59:30):
So then we can divide it three ways.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Heck, I bet if my parents got the money back
that my mom has spent on lottery tickets every Christmas,
it could probably take us all on a trip somewhere.
I don't think my brother hit once for a decent amount,
and I want to say it was like five hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (59:47):
Maybe I know somebody I think they hit for either
I can't remember if it was ten thousand or twenty thousand,
they hit.

Speaker 6 (59:52):
Whoa on a scratch Oh Merry Christmas. Heck yeah, heck,
that's been a while ago. So some of the new ones,
my mom's tried to be experimental, and she's bought like
the five dollar ones that are you know, the bigger
size lottery tickets, and you read the instructions on the
back and sometimes it's almost as if you need a

(01:00:13):
doctor to figure out the rules in the strategy and
if you actually win. There are some that I've actually
kept and just taken back to the store and had
them scan them to tell me if I've won or not,
because I can't even interpret all of the craziness that
goes into what it is on how you win. But
I'll tell you what, when you're playing one of the
holiday ones and say like the wild card is like

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a star or a Christmas tree, and I'm like, oh,
I got one Christmas tree, and then it just fizzles out,
and the disappointment just just overtakes you. But I don't know.
I've never won anything real significant on any of the
scratch offs. But in Virginia don't do it because they don't,

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they don't want it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:01):
Leading Virginia is like a They're like a state that
doesn't let you have any fun. You can't give your
kids scratch off tickets, if you have lights, like you
don't have people dress up their cars and put Christmas
lights on them or yeah, you're not allowed to do
that in Virginia. You can't have radar detectors in Virginia.
I mean there's all kinds of things that they have
like you can't do.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Is there states slogan welcome to the no Fun state.

Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
Well, they are a commonwealth, so the Virginia Commonwealth. So
the Commonwealth of Virginia, just like Pennsylvania, is a commonwealth,
which means absolutely nothing other than it's a it's just
a title.

Speaker 6 (01:01:33):
There's still a state onay oh okay, but it's the
Commonwealth of Virginia the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That just sounds.

Speaker 7 (01:01:42):
I think there's four or five states that are considered commonwealths.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
They're a little morey.

Speaker 7 (01:01:47):
It's more of a seventeen hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:01:51):
Welcome to the No Fun Virginia. It should be their slogan.

Speaker 7 (01:01:55):
Yeah, the best part of Virginia left in eighteen sixty three,
became West Virginia.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Yes, folks, it is two states. There are still some
commentators out there that.

Speaker 7 (01:02:07):
Western Yeah, don't get me started.

Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
Still screwed.

Speaker 7 (01:02:11):
All right, where are you from West Virginia? Oh I've
been to Richmond. Yeah, me too, but it's a totally
different state.

Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
Who wasn't on ESPN like three or four years ago.

Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
No, it doesn't have to be three or four years ago.
It's whenever they were talking.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
I think it was during I think it was during
March madness or something, and they made some sort of
comment and I actually paused and went back, and I'm like,
he did actually say that West Virginia was the western
part of Virginia. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 7 (01:02:39):
Hello, welcome to geography, one oh one.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
Just hold up your hands, folks. There it is. There's
the state of West Virginia.

Speaker 7 (01:02:46):
Not only did you get a high school diploma, but
you got a college diploma. And you're dumber than a.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Rock and you're on a national broadcaster. But you know, hey,
everybody screws up. I guess it's eight forty five. We're
gonna go to a quick break. Don't forget. We got
another chance for you to win. And you can still
register for free lunch sam at iHeartMedia dot com. Sam
at iHeartMedia dot com, name phone number, place of employment,
and we will be drawing that winner tomorrow. And of

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course all of the food is courtesy of our great
friends at River City. You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience.
Samon otis here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA, we
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your registrations in for free lunch sam at iHeartMedia dot com.
But also don't forget about our stuffed stalking spectacular. We're
gonna draw that win winner on Friday's show, the traditional
Christmas Karaoke, So for that just go to our text
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a holiday emoji, So get your reach trations in for that.
But now joining us, of course, we have Christmas himself,
mister Celebration, Kevin Cookstraw about a mode of good morning Kevin.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
Wow waiting and on a little than Florida.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
Right. I don't know because she couldn't figure out what
to say.

Speaker 6 (01:04:20):
I was I was tripping a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:04:21):
Sorry, all I heard was Christmas karaoke. So I just
a saying the trail is doing Christmas karaoke somewhere.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Oh, we're doing it on Friday's show on Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Okay, so you're gonna say karaoke.

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
Oh, yeah, it is, it is. It is a groundbreaking
some of the most beautiful Christmas caroling you've ever experienced.

Speaker 7 (01:04:44):
That's called that's called putting it on thick.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
That's called sarcasm.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
It never ends, does it just never ends?

Speaker 8 (01:04:52):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
But it is.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
You know, it's warming up. It's what is it a
bombing twelve degrees out there right now?

Speaker 7 (01:04:58):
Cool baby, something like that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
But the sun shining and it is getting warmer. Okay,
so it would be a good day to get out
and check out. How about Christ of God's jeeps and rams?
We don't talked about those in a while. I've got
gladiators for two hundred and fifty nine bucks a month.
Two fifty nine wow for a brand new gladiator.

Speaker 7 (01:05:19):
A brand new somehow I'm missing?

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Yeah, so bad.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
No, it's not. That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
How about free money zero percent interest from up to
seventy two months on Ram fifteen hundreds zero percent seventy
two months. You know, everybody's kind of you know, complaining
of the last two or three years that you know,
interest rates have you know, been higher than what they
should be. And I agree with that. And so you

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know what's christ are doing right here at the end
of the year. They bringing back to zero percent. You
know they're going to loan the money for absolutely nothing.
You'll be every monthly payment that you make will be
one hundred percent of principal. Okay, just that's incredible. So
take advantage of zero percent right now, up to seventy
two months on rams Uh and on forwards. You've also
got zero percent interest almost across the board for up

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to sixty months on Explor's influm fifties escapes, super duties. Okay,
free money, there's free money everywhere, whether it's CHRISTI dozed
bram Ford. You know, today's a good day. While it's
warming up to get out, check out the savings for yourself.
You know, get this year in clearance. You know all
this bonus money, all this zero percent. Take advantage of

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the deals they are here.

Speaker 7 (01:06:38):
Sounds like a plan and you'll.

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
Sing about them on Friday, right.

Speaker 7 (01:06:42):
Yes, sure we will. Exactly are you going to write
the song for us to whatever jingle you would like
us to sing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
It to, really maybe try to put something together counts.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
I think Kevin should come sing with us. Oh you know,
well that was quick death.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
We do not want that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:02):
Nobody wants to hear us sing either, So I mean
it's you'll just be right along with the rest of us.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
What a pass.

Speaker 7 (01:07:10):
Quitter. You're such a.

Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
Quitter, right, alright, all right?

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
I tried hanging up on him.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
There he goes.

Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
I think a little Southern Cajun Christmas carols would be fine.

Speaker 7 (01:07:29):
Absolutely, Yeah, if you're scared, you're scared.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
Oh, that sounds like a challenge there. That sounds like
a challenge. You know it can't be are you Have
you been practicing? Have you been warming the pipes?

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
I sing in the shower, and that's when Pong goes
in the other room, crying, whining. Oh shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot,
what are we getting? When are you bringing in some
more snickerdoodles. I was actually thinking about your snicker doodles
last night on my couch. That sounded weird. That sounded

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very strange.

Speaker 7 (01:08:10):
Wow, I was thinking.

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
No, I wanted something sweet.

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
I know the feeling. I went to the store to
buy some snacks. Well, I got some food to put
in my refrigerator for the first time in two weeks,
and I was gonna buy some snacky poos and I
totally forgot.

Speaker 6 (01:08:31):
So you forgot. Now, I was sitting I was sitting
there last night, and I'm like, you know, I want
something sweet, but I didn't want chocolate, Like I didn't
know what I wanted, and your snicker Doodles popped into
my mind and I.

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
Thought, huh about that?

Speaker 6 (01:08:46):
Yeah, it is very specific. Yeah, probably Speaking of cookies,
the price has gone up. Leaving cookies and milk for
Santa now costs on average eight and forty four cents.
This is according to research that has been done. It's
increased thirty one percent since twenty twenty. How many cookies

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are you leaving for Santa?

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
Honestly, well, what do you think the averages? I'm going
to say the average is probably three to four cookies
and a glass of milk.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
Yeah, that would be Yeah, there's no way three to
four cookies and a glass of milk is almost nine dollars.
That just sounds that sounds crazy and outpaces the twenty
five percent national inflation rate during the same period, egg
prices drove most of the increase, surging one hundred and
thirty thirty six percent since twenty twenty, with wild price

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swings hitting one hundred and eighty seven percent in twenty
twenty two. Who sit and figures this out, some goofball?
I mean, really talk about a what's the phrase peanut,
peanut pincher, peanut counter no being counter bean counter peanut. Wow,
what a job to sit around and figure all of
that out. I don't know. I don't think my milk

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and cookies cost that much for Santa for Santa. But
now that I've talked about Otis and your uh snicker doodles,
now that's all I'm going to think about the rest
of the morning. But we have another chance for you
to win. It's not Otis's snickerdoodles. It's our final four
pack to the Nailers for today. This is for the

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game on the twenty eighth. So one eight hundred six
two four eleven seventy one eight hundred six two four
eleven seventy Otis, give me a number. Let's go sixteen,
all right, call her number sixteen one eight hundred six
two four eleven seventy. Everybody, have a great Tuesday. The
sun shines out. According to Kevin, we'll talk to you
tomorrow