The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 29, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
The bloom Daddy Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA
starts now.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, good Monday morning, folks, after the big Christmas weekend
eight oh six, Thank you for tuning in with us.
Otis good morning morning.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh back at it, back at it for a couple days.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
For a couple of days, a little bit of normalcy.
Have you caught your breath yet after all of the Oh.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah, I mean my Christmas Day was very uneventful, so
was mine. My Christmas Eve was a little more hectic.
And then the twenty sixth day after Christmas. Yeah, not
a whole lot. I mean I still have to come
in here in the mornings because I have to either
do the news, oh yes, or load the news and

(01:00):
load the weather and so on and so forth.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
So you have more important responsibilities than well, I wouldn't
go that far.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I'm just the idiot that doesn't well because you know,
well we have Corey Klug and Corey lives in Washington,
PA or in that area, right, So it's not really
fair for him to come in and have to do that.
I mean, some of the stuff he can you can
do remotely, but some of the other things you can't.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
So yeah, and you could have called me, but I
would not have answered the phone.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
I mean, in reality, I'm probably the closest one. So
that's why I kind of ye do it.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, my, yeah, my, My Christmas Day, like you said,
pretty uneventful because, as we mentioned last week, I believe
it was that we you know, you and I traveled
for for holidays and did it a little bit early
prior to the actual day, like the weekend before. Yeah, yeah,

(01:57):
so it was it was quiet. I watched a lot
of cooking shows for some reason.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Did you get anything for Christmas that you didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Expect besides what I got from you, which, by the way,
I have a story with that, okay, with that colorful gift.
Not really no, So.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I think people are trying to tell me something. Oh god, okay,
because I got four versions of some sort of a
vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh my gosh, those aren't cheap.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
So I got a wirely you know, one that you
get like a wireless so you charge it and then
so there's no cord, so it's handheld, but it's a
it's a bigger I mean, it's a it's a full
size vacuum.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Then I got another one that you charged. It looks
like the old one that you would run over, like
like there's not electric or anything. It just kind of
picks the stuff up and then you have to like
open it up and empty it out.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And then I got a wet a very small wet
dry shop back kind of like for your car.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
And then I got another kind of like a dustbuster
type thing that you could use for your car or
like your couch or whatever. And I'm thinking to myself,
what are you people trying to tell me?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh, that's funny. Yeah, somebody's sending you a message.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I only have the cleanest car in town, because I
mean between all the remote you know, the wireless and
everything else to the vacuums. I mean that's for your car.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Should also have the cleanest house.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Well that dog that's not gonna happen. Well maybe with
two dogs that shed like crazy. Mean, I can run
the sweeper and within like if I run the sweeper
on one side of the room, by the time I
get to the other side of the room, there's more
dog hair on the other side.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, that's what I said. Maybe they thought, Okay, he
got a second dog this year, so maybe he needs
a little assistance with with the dog hair.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, I just need I need a cleaning lady. But
I got to clean my house to where they can
clean it.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
A cleaning lady can come in. I did a little
bit of that during my couple of days off. The
kind of stuff that you put off, I accomplished that.
I got my husband to move the stove nice. Kind
of gross is all I can say. Yikes, even he is.
He pulled it out and he looked at one side

(04:15):
of the oven. He goes, oh, oh, what is that
and it was like this long, and I'm like, that
would be your scrambled egg juice that had dripped down
the side. Honey.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'll tell you what I did buy myself and it
should be coming in this week, okay, maybe tomorrow. I
bought myself a steam cleaner, so like, so you like,
I'll be able to just to steam like my shower
instead of happy instead of scrubbing it. Because there's places

(04:48):
that you can't get a scrub rush into like those corners,
little crevices and cracks, and then you know it's supposed
to it's got all kind of adapters and everything else.
So I mean, I'm gonna be able to do lot more.
And so that's that's my goal.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
All of these stories all educate everybody.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
On Yeah, that I'm a slob.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
No, no, no, between the both of us. Once you
get old, Christmas is not as fun gifts anymore. They
are purposeful, you know, clean your shower gifts.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
I will say this. I will say this the one
gift that I got that was kind of unexpected. So
there is a picture from the Toronto Blue Jays. Okay,
his name's Alec Manola. He's from South Florida, went to
school with WVU, made his major league debut three or
four years ago with Toronto and had had had it

(05:47):
really was an all star in his either first or
second year and ended up getting hurt and the pitch
clock kind of screwed up his mind a little bit
because everything. Anyway, he was in Morgantown and so my
youngest son took one of his baseball rookie cards and
got it autographed. Oh so it's an in person autograph. Oh,

(06:11):
although I have probably about twenty to twenty five autographed
I like Manola cards. This one is an in person
so it's kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
It makes it well, the effort that you're starting to
put behind to make that happen. Yeah, no, it was.
It was a quiet, kind of regenerate type of holiday
for us. It was quiet, and just the weather kind
of sucked too. Yeah, that kind of just took it
down a notch. That was me. That was a sound effect.

(06:43):
That was a sound effect. It was supposed to be.
It's not the same when you can't see what I'm
I'm doing with the radio.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
You know what I do? Like the sitting in here
is the winner's bread of the Christmas carrier.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
You go to frame that?

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Probably not. I'm just surprised I haven't thrown it away yet,
But I do have the winners and.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Losers bracket, which, by the way, if you missed that episode,
you can go listen to it on the podcast if you. Oh,
that's right because of the music, I'm sorry, Okay, forget that.
Scratch that part. But obviously we know who the winner was.
It was the one and only.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
I think that's my third belt.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I was going to ask how many times?

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, I think it's the third, could be could be fourth,
But I remember three wins, so I may have had
one a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
They pile up that they all just start to blend together.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
They don't. And then I had somebody ask me if
I was going to sing Christmas carols at the party,
and I was like, are you out of your mind?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Why you do have it? I hate to admit it.
You do have a very nice voice.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Well, I'm not comfortable singing. Let's put it that way
now in the shower by myself and in the car. Yeah,
I mean a rock star.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Now with a steam steam cleaner from the shower, you
can use that as the microphone.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I mean, I've got any time if I don't have
the TV on, if if I'm doing something cooking or whatever,
I've got my portable speaker and my music playing.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
And uh so, anyway, well, we hope everybody else out
there had a merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Getting ready for New Year's New Year's resolutions, if you
make them, I don't, so I do not either, Just
I can't. Just I don't want to set myself up
for failure.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
So if I it's added pressure.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, I just I mean, there's if there's things I
want to change, I go ahead and do it. That's all.
I did it last year without making it, without making.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
A resolution, and it is to me. It's it to me.
It's added pressure. There's this these I don't know, it's
a mental thing for me. It's a mental block. There's
added pressures, there's there's more expectations. And then you see
the people who like jumping head first in every gym
is jam packed.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
For thirty days if that yeah, so for two weeks. Yeah,
But anyway, you know, here's the thing. You know, we're
obviously we're gonna be here today, Tomorrow and Wednesday, and
what we thought we would do is just kind of
take a look back at twenty twenty five and we're
gonna try to break it down by month. We're gonna

(09:12):
play You're gonna hear some Jeff Bezos clips because we're
gonna pull one from each month, because they do them
every Monday, So we're gonna pull one from each month.
It has something to do that we thought were funny
and and has something to do with what was going
on in that month.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
So and then some of you know, our memories of
twenty twenty five. You know, highlights of our years are
our year ourselves.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Obviously, January was very big because you and Elgin went
to the inauguration, and I think so did Jeff Bezos.
So just a little, just a little.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
We partied with him. We just didn't tell you back then.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Okay, I hope he bought Oh.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Heck yeah, heck yeah. All right, there's the music. That
means we've got to go to a.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Break of looking at January coming back.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, yes, that's what well, yeah, first month, Yes, that's
what we'll hit on. What we get back January twenty
twenty five. Year in Review coming up next. You're listening
to the bloom Daddy Experience here on news Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. Welcome back on your Monday, the last Monday

(10:25):
of twenty twenty five. Am I saying that right? Yes? Yeah,
last Monday of twenty twenty five? Thank you for tuning in.
Of course, the bloom Daddy Experience. I'm Sam he is
otis in there. So we're going to kind of do
a year in review. We're gonna go month by month
talk about things that happen nationally internationally. The top headlines.

(10:48):
You know, things here locally are experiences, and just kind
of dig into all of that because twenty twenty five
has been a year, a busy year, a violent year.
I hate to say it, but it has been but

(11:09):
a long year went quick but felt long at the
same time. I don't know if that makes sense to people. Yes,
it seems like it flew by, but it seems like
in the same regards, there was a lot of u
of heavy things. So let's jump into January. Where we
want to start otis well.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
I mean, I think where you have to start is
I mean, I don't know if it was political. I
can't remember if it was political or whatever. But you
had the in Las Vegas, you had the Tesla Cybertruk explosion,
and then you had the attack on Bourbon Street in
New Orleans, all starting.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
The year off violence.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Unfortunately. Yeah, you know, and and so you know that
that wasn't you know? It was it because of you know,
you don't you don't want to. You can look back,
you know, I mean, I mean, I'll be honest with you,
like I was looking at some of these things and
I remember them, but I don't remember them, you know,
And I think The one that stood out the most

(12:08):
in January was the California wildfires. Yeah, and how many
people got displaced, and then the controversy around it, especially
with Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
With how things were handled between yep, you.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Know, why wasn't why weren't the reservoirs full of water?

Speaker 3 (12:24):
And the mayor was in another country, the Los Angeles
mayor all what's her name?

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, But then and then they tried to blame it,
you know, they they tried, they wanted to blame it
on the climate, but that even though there was they
found that there was somebody that started the fires, they
still wanted to say it was climate change. And I mean,
and I'm not laughing at the wildfires or a distraction,
but I just just to fit the narrative how they
went into that well and then and that wasn't necessarily

(12:52):
in January, but that was the fallow up.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
To everything well, and then following up to the devastating
fires were the Texas the floods, the floods in Texas,
the girls camp that got devastated, you know, the multiple
lives that were lost. It seems as if the year
kicked off unfortunately with heartbreak natural disasters human made, you know, violence,

(13:17):
and it's unfortunate that that's the way the year kicked off.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Well, and then you go and you get about a weekend.
You know, obviously, former President Jimmy Carter passed away at
the end of twenty twenty four, but his funeral was
in January on the ninth, and of course, the president
declared a federal holiday on that day, and you know,
the stock market was shut down and everything else, and

(13:42):
you know, I don't know rightfully, so I think, you know,
you respect the former president sure, whether he was good
or bad or indifferent, you know, I mean, I understand
why they did it. You know, we've only had you know,
Trump's the forty seventh president. You know, it's just realistically,
he's not like he and Graver Cleveland. So technically there

(14:04):
have been forty five presidents in our two hundred and
fifty year history. So you know, that's that's a pretty
small number of people that hold that job.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Well, and here's the thing, whether you agreed or disagreed
with with Carter's presidency and his you know, that's where
that's and I don't want to get, you know, deep
into this, but that's where I think we've lost sight
in politics. Is your president is your president, whether you

(14:35):
agree or disagree with the policies or where they want
to take this country, is still your president in that
respect still needs to be there. Yeah, I think. I
mean I didn't like Biden. I didn't agree with Biden's principles,
but he was still my president, sure, you know.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
And Jimmy Carter was. I mean what he did after
his presidency is humanitarian. I mean, that's that's where his
legacy is. His legacy isn't as the president, it's it's
it's his posts and you know, I mean, you know
that was that was that's his legacy.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah. See, I of course was not around under Jimmy
Carter's president.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
I mean I was young. I mean I was in
I was in you know, elementary school, so you know,
like fourth, fifth, sixth grade, seventh grade.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
So yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
I mean, it wasn't like I was into politics by
any means.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, you weren't. You weren't out beating the political drums.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
No, but you know, we're going to get to the inauguration.
But you know, also, you know, if we're going to
talk sports, then college football National Championship was held on
January twentieth, and he won. Well was it Miss Mercedes
Benz Stadium in Atlanta and a highest state versus Notre Dame,

(15:57):
which I was reading for Al Qaeda? Geez, not gonna lie.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
But the the buck eyes, the worthless nuts beat the
fighting Irish thirty forty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes they did. Oh, I learned something over the holidays.
By the way, Speaking of Buckeyes, I went to another
family's Christmas party and they kept talking about peanut butter balls.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Look a squirrel.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, I know, I know, but I've got to throw
this out there. They kept talking about peanut butter balls
and their grandmother's classic peanut butter ball recipe, and kept
going on and on about these peanut butter balls. Finely
look at him, and I go, that's a buck eye.
Oh my god, the looks of daggers thrown my way.
Not in this house. They are not nice.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
And I went, I got to respect those people.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
What do you mean we do not say that word
in this house. My grandmother would be rolling over in
her grave to hear them called that word. I went,
uh huh. I hate to tell you, they're buck eyes.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
I kind of like peanut butter balls. I think I'm
gonna go with that from now on.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, anyways, they're buck Eyes. Yep, they are buck Eyes,
and the buck Eyes had the championship.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
They'll be playing on Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Huh oh, this is this is my husband's favorite time
of year. I'm sure it's Davo's favorite time of year.
Or you know. We will play more college football in
my home over the next seventy two hours, roughly than
the entire year combined. He will not leave.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, you have you have, you have that game New
Year's Eve, and then you have the other three he'll
watch on New Year's Day.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
He's already watching games of like yeah, who who is that? Yeah?
And he'll have roots growing out of you nowhere. Oh,
happy Monday, everybody. We're gonna run to a quick break.
You're listening to the Bloom Experience here on news Radio
eleven seventy WWVA. We're close to kicking off the new year.

(18:17):
Otis has been busy. We got some new music there
sounds new to me.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
It hadn't been around for a while. Yeah, it's nice.
It's may have made the show a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh okay, Oh, thank you for tuning in of course
the bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
So we were talking about things that happened in January
of twenty twenty five. We talked about the funeral for
President Carter. Of course, as we mentioned earlier, we're going
to go through the months doing little recaps, little reviews

(18:48):
of what went on nationally, internationally, here at home, things
that we got into. But when I was thinking about
my twenty twenty five I've got to admit my year
kicked off with an absolute bang of an opportunity, and
that was getting to go to the inauguration of President Trump.

(19:13):
You an Elgin, Yeah, myself in Elgin and my husband
went along. The biggest thing that sticks out to me
was how blessed cold it was.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Well, that's why they moved everything inside.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes they did, Yes they did. So did we get
to have the full inauguration effect experience now, But just
to be there was amazing. I mean, to be able
to say I went to the inauguration of a president,
doesn't matter what president. Just to be able to say

(19:45):
that I have done that is really cool. I mean,
I don't know a better adjective to use when it
comes to that. But you know, it's one of those
things where for most people it's a once in a
lifetime thing. And I got to go and I to
experience and was surrounded by people who were excited, they

(20:07):
were proud, they were enthusiastic. The one thing, though, like
you said, otis you know, didn't get to have the
full experience because of how cold it was. And I
remember sitting there with Elgin and my husband at the
little airbnb that we stayed in and saying, because Trump

(20:32):
and his administration and the people that made the decision
to move the actual ceremony indoors, there was a lot
of speculation that the reason that was done was because
there were not people there to see the event, that
his ego was so worried that people would not attend

(20:55):
that they moved it indoors. I beg to differ folks.
I was there. It was cold, And here's the thing.
If if he and he and his administration said now
we're going to keep it outside, there would have been
people who were over enthusiastic and would have because it

(21:22):
was there were ticketed areas, and I forget exactly how
all it worked out. But then there was like the
standing room only basically, so you would have had to
have waited in line and the first come, first serve
and get into like the bowl area, if you will.
There would have been people who would have misjudged overnight

(21:43):
how cold it would have gotten. They would have waited
in line and may have froze to death or lost
a limb because it was that cold. And then if
that would have happened, they would have blamed that on
Trump too and would have said, oh, look, he has
to have all those people there. He didn't make the
right decision and make sure everybody was safe. And this

(22:04):
is all on him, So it didn't matter which way
it went right. He would have been playing for something
either way. But I will never forget any time I
see one of those little pedal calves where.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
They have the little like the little rickshaws.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes, our evening on a rickshaw in the cold, in
the cold, I will never forget. I believe I shared
a video and pictures of that where this poor guy
drove us around the entire city. It was just I
don't know, but it was an absolutely amazing experience. And

(22:43):
I will say this, it was just as cold, if
not colder than you could imagine.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Oh, I'm sure, but you know who else was at
the inauguration?

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Nobody else from this area.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Jeff Bezos OK, and he left his mountaintop layer and
he reported live from the inauguration in Washington, DC. While
the swearing inn was supposed to is gonna took place indoors.
Bezos was outside in the frigid cold, waiting for the
festivities to begin, and he comments on how things are

(23:14):
going and how he feels about being seated between Elon
Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
I'm Jeff Beza's reporting live from the inauguration.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Now, who came up with this fricked seating chart?

Speaker 5 (23:28):
I'm squished between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, my two
arch nemeses.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Now I feel like the creamy center of a nerd oreo.
Worse yet, I got stuck with the tab for coffee
because Elon for gauntess.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Doze coin wallet and no one accepts PayPal. Plus it's
freezing out here. The blue origin now refers to the
color of several of my bodily extremities. I was jealous
of Zuckerberg's giant winter hat that looks like his grandma
knitted it for him.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Until I found that's his hair.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Luckily, Donald Trump's inauguration speech will be short.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
I'm sweet.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
After all, he seldom rambles and he's not much of
an attention hound.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hey, Bernie, can I borrow your giant mittens?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
I don't remember hearing that one? Oh yeah, oh, that's
a good one. Oh many.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
So we've selected a bezos from every month, you know what.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
One thing about the inauguration I don't know if we'll
ever know, but was when Baron Trump walked over to
President Biden and said something and said something, and the
look on Biden's face, the look on Baron's face as
he walked like what was said? And he did it

(24:49):
so that the back of his head was to the cameras.
So there can't even be like lip reading experts that
speculate on what was I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Say he said A I.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Don't know what that means.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Audios, m oh.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
I was bowling pins popped into my head? Is an
AMF A bowling thing? Yeah? Yeah, So I would love
to know what was said between the two of them, Well,
just the one actually did any speaking well true true?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
That would have been classic that'll come out someday, you think, Yeah,
somebody's Baron trumple share that at some point in time,
we'll see.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh and then of course, and I know this is
what you worry about, but the fashion that day, Malania
looked just that hat and.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh my god, yeah, I mean obviously you know, very uh,
very elegant.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Oh to say the least elegant, but but with a
bit of.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Almost like royalty.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah hootsbub behind it, like like dominance. There was like
a dominant feeling behind that entire look. I mean that
those are two of the images that I remember from
that weekend. And and then of course not weekend, but
and then of course you're missing us.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, you know, we had some celebrity that passed, some
celebrities that passed away in January as well. Wayne Osmond
from the Osmonds, the first one, you know, Donnie, Marie
and j and you know, there's what twelve of them, yeah,
I think there was like seven. Yeah, but still Mormons, Utah,

(26:30):
Sam Moore from Sam and Dave hold On, I'm coming.
There's a whole you know, there's a whole slew of songs,
rock and roll Hall of Fame. And then the one
that I think a lot of people, even if you
weren't a baseball fan, you kind of recognize the death
of Bob Buker Major League the Miller like commercials, just

(26:54):
mister Belvedere say the TV. Yeah you know so, I mean, uh,
you know. One of the things that I remember in
Paul Skeene's rookie year is when they went to Milwaukee.
The one thing he wanted to do when he went
to Milwaukee was meet Bob Yuker. And so they met
and Bob was a baseball guy. And it's out on
the internet. You could probably google it or whatever. I

(27:15):
saw it. But when Milwaukee made the playoffs. The Brewers
made the playoffs this past year, Bob Buker had already
written a letter knowing that he was probably not going
to be there, and the manager read it to the team.
I don't know how you could have kept a dry eye.
It was just I mean, he just said he like,
he was like, I know, you guys are going to

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be there and this and that. You know, it's just
it's very if you can pull it up, check it out.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yikes.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
I mean it's very emotional.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
He played too, yeah, and he was.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Very self deprecating.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Very he wasn't like a groundbreaking player.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
But you got to remember there were there were really
only sixteen teams in the league at that time, so
to make them a league team, you're a catcher. Each
team normally had two catchers, so you're one of the
thirty two best catchers in the league. He'd have been
I don't think you would have been a superstar, but
he would have been an average player in today's game.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, one other loss out of Hollywood that month in January,
January fifteenth lost David Lynch. If that name is not
familiar to you, he was the creator of the cult
classic TV series Twin Peaks.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
Who else you ever saw it?

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Never watch Twin Peaks? Oh lord, you want to talk
about a mind? You know what?

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Go go binge it?

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, And if you know the show, you know the
song and you're hearing it right now. We're gonna jump
to a break. You're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back

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on your Monday morning, The Blundetti Experience Otis and Sam
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Of course, over the next
couple of days as we lead up to Oh my lord,
can you twenty twenty six otis? Yep, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
I thought I'd be dead by the year two thousand.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Lovely. That's nice, just being honest, that's nice. As we
lead up to New Year's even Year's Day, and us,
as my husband calls it, his own personal football holiday,
which is kind of recapping month by month the you know,
top headlines internationally here of course within the US because

(29:43):
it's been a boring year here in the States, no
I'm kidding, and then locally and things that we you know,
throughout the year otis And.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Basically it's what we remember, for lack of a better terms,
what we can remember, which you know, a whole lot. No, no,
but you know, I'll say this. The one thing about February.
You know, obviously Trump had been in office for about
two weeks, and you know, he started with the tariffs

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and it sent the market and everything into a tailspin
for a while.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well didn't he on his I guess I'm going back
to January, like his first week in office or his
first forty eight hours in office, he signed more executive
orders than anybody.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean he you know, that
was the big thing, was the announcement of the tariffs
and all that stuff, and then the people hitting the
panic button and everybody saying, oh, this is going to
cost us and every prices of goods are going to
go up and blah blah blah, and some have and
some haven't. But then I think, what I remember the
most about February is the meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
That's what I was going to say.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
He basically just scolded Zelensky.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, it was like the teacher talking to the student,
where reptives like, You're going to sit down, shut up,
and listen to what I have to say because I'm
the president of the United States.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Well, if I remember, like Zelenski didn't shot Like normally,
if you're you're the head of state, you come in
at least you have a suit on, a shirt and
tie you have, you know, he came in in almost
like a sweatshirt you know, and khakis or something. You know,
like you know, just like there was no there was
no a lot of disrespect.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yes, there you go. Yeah, there was.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
At least in my eyes.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah. Well, and at that point in time, a lot
of people and I and I think that Trump also
felt as if Zelensky during the Biden years, received a
whole heck of a lot of US taxpayer dollars and
turned us into his own personal ATM and and I

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think Trump was saying, the tax is cute, plain and simple.
But we had not seen that type of confrontation between
two world leaders in front of the cameras like that.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
He basically get kicked out of the White House.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
JD. Vans piped in too at a certain point, and
I think, if I remember correctly, he voiced the sentiments,
as I said, of the American people in a more
eloquent way. But you know, sure, we're done footing the
bill for all of this, yep, you know.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
So. Also in February, you of course had the Super Bowl,
and I think that, you know, if they can add
one more game in and put two more teams in
the playoffs, we'll be having the Super Bowl in June.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
On a whole other streaming platform we have not heard
about yet.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, exactly. So it happened in New Orleans and the
Eagles and the Chiefs went at it. The Chiefs were
looking for a three peet.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Didn't happen it did not happen.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
But you know, to make it to the Super Bowl.
You know, the Bills did it four years in a row.
Of course they can't their row in four, Sorry Bills fans.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Jim Kelly, right.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Derman Thomas, Darryl Talley from West Virginia was on that team,
Bruce Smith on the defense, Scott Norwood the kicker wide right,
you know, I mean that's right, So I mean they
want they won four times, they've been owned four Kansas
City was looking for three wins in a row, which
would have just been that would have that would have
set a record because you've had back to back champions

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but nobody's ever won three in a row. But the
Philadelphia Eagle stopped him forty to twenty two. Jalen Hurts
was your MVP and we were talking during the break
about the Super Bowl halftime performance being Kendrick.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Lamar little dude.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
He was a little dude.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
But somehow I remember something. I thought it was another guy.
So I mean, or maybe because don Kendrick Lamar have
the big hair and everything.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Now, no, no, he's a little guy. I don't know
who has big hair. Maybe maybe I'm well he rolled out,
remember he rolled out Samuel L. Jackson and he was
wearing and uncle Sam. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
I mean I know who he is because he he's
got like some sort of a literary prize, isn't he.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yes, he's I want to say, he's known as a poet. Yeah,
I want to say, but don't quote me on that. Also,
in February, don't forget, Google was important, and they renamed
the Golf of Mexico.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Too the Golf of America.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
There you go, Does anybody call it the Golf of America?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
No, I don't think that lasted. I mean I think
there's probably somebody probably merchandise that very nice. Yeah, you
know where Hey, you have this Golf of America, this
America mark. Yeah, I just yeah, I just don't. I mean,
you know, I'm sure there's some T shirts and some

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hats and everything else that are out there. So I mean, it's.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Headlines and sound bites. That's what we are, America.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Yeah, that's it, you know, and like like that's why.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
We can't remember anything, you know.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
To be honestly, until you said that, I totally forgot
about it, exactly.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I forgot about it until I saw it here in
this handy Dandy article that I have in front of me.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Basically, they're called notes and research that we try to do.
We didn't do a whole lot that we.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Sound like we know what we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Hey, you know we also got you know, February's Valentine's Day,
so we have we have maybe another visit from mister
Bezoso about Valentine's Day, and then we'll wrap February up
and jump into March.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
It was it was the year of romance for him.
The bloom Daddy Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy
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Speaker 5 (35:45):
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Speaker 1 (35:50):
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Speaker 3 (36:10):
It's eight oh six on your Monday. Oh goodness. We
are recapping twenty twenty five. We're gonna be here the
next couple of days doing this, so we're going month
by month. We're hitting on of course, national stories, sports,
celebrity deaths, you know, kind of what everybody else does.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
But we're having fun with It wasn't really an original idea.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
It's not groundbreaking, if you will, but we have made
it all the way to February, folks, the month of
bl gonna be.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Getting into some march here. Very short, but you know,
we did talk about Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day twenty twenty five,
little uneventful for me.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Good.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, I'm old and married. Okay, that's about how eventful
mine is.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Well, Jeff Bezos had a better Valentine's Day than both
of us, probably because you're gonna hear all about his
message high top his evil mountain layer.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
I've Jeff Bezos, sir, I was Everyone's Valentine's Day. Don't
answer that, because A I don't care, and B there's
no way it was as good as mine. It started
with breakfast in bed with my bay delicious fiance. It
was the kind only a billionaire could afford. Scrambled eggs,

(37:31):
then a couple's massage, but even though it's impossible for
her to lie on her stomach.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
If you catch my drift.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
And later on, after a romantic dinner, we got some
kinky and did a little role plane. I pretended I
was an average joe working stiff, just squeaking by to
Maken's meat and then she left.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
She loves me for who I am, right right, Yeah,
money doesn't have anything to do.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, she looks plastic.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
So there you have Valentine's Day with mister Besis.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Mister Bezos. Also in February was the Grammys. Does they
make care about any of that anymore?

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Award shows?

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, there was a record broke because Beyonce became the
I'm sorry. She made history winning Best Album for Cowboy Carter,
becoming the first black woman to win the top prize
in that category. I don't consider it country, but that's
my own personal.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Well, you know, to each your own, it's interpretation. Sure, sure,
I don't even know if I've ever heard a song
off of it.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
I've heard a couple and they're.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
I may have, and I just don't know it.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
They're just like every other song that she does, except
she puts on a really bad patent leather cowboy hat.
Doesn't make you country. But that's, as you said, my
own personal opinion or personal interpretation. We did lose some

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folks in February of this year because it's still twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
By the way ROBERTA. Flack killing me softly with his
song was Redone by the Fujis you know in this
decade or in this century.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yes, actually an actual remix or a new version that
was good. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (39:39):
It didn't okay?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
I thought it was okay.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
And then of course Jane had the celebrity death that
you know had. There was a lot of controversy around
was Gene Hackman and his wife Betty or Betsy I'm sorry,
and there was you know, I guess what it happened
is maybe she'd she'd passed away, and then he yet
Alzheimer's and really didn't know, and so they were trying

(40:03):
to figure out if it was drug related, if there
was any foul play and everything else, and of course
there wasn't. It was just, you know, it was what
it was.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
When you hear Gene Hackman, what's the first moves there?

Speaker 4 (40:16):
You go, Hoosiers are the replacements?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Oh no, I think Hoosiers.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
It takes heart, It takes Heart.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
That was actually on a couple of weeks ago Hoosier's
and Lex Luthor.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Well, what's the one he did with Will Smith where
they were the spies that they were being monitored by everything.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Oh, Coral, I don't remember. I don't He'll always be
Lex Luthor for me and bothered the original Superman movies
Will Smith.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
And I mean in the State.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Oh, I don't know if I've ever seen that.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Yeah, pretty good. It's actually a pretty good movie.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Also in February, speaking of of actors and actresses, we
lost Michelle Trachtenberg, which otis you have no idea? Correct? No,
She's most known for her role in the TV series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I grew up, you know,
watched it in college.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
With the movie that was before your Time with Gene
Hackman two is the French connection. Oh yeah, before my
I mean I would have been four.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
That was kind of his big breakout.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
He was also an unforgiven Oh yeah, yeah, so that's
Mississippi Burnie was another one.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
That's a good one. Yeah, that's one of the ones.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
You can beck in the dead quick.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Oh yeah. So anyway, Mississippi Burning is one of those
films that like you can only watch once.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Like that lists his movies here and I'm sorry, but
Superman the movie does not outrank Who's years. No, it
comes in French and uh. And I was gonna say,
maybe they're in chronicle logical order, but they're not because
The Quicken the dead's the last one and that's not.
And then there's ninety eight in front of an enemy
of this date.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
No, no, no, I am not saying that that outranks
other bodies of work that he has done. What I'm
saying for me?

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Right, what do you remember?

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yes, he is the original Lex Luthor version for me?

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Did anything see Takes Heart?

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Takes Heart?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Whatever happened to the cheerleader actress in that movie, the
dark haired girl short hair? Yeah, she was like one
and done. Never seen her in anything else.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
I think she was in a few other things, but
you just didn't know, Like she didn't have a big role.
I think she was more one of those ones that
they cast.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
That's an underrated sports movie.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
I think it is. I agree.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
The Kicker, The Irish Kicker. Yeah, that actor has been
in a ton of stuff, well Irish, right, I don't
know Scottish the linebacker.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
John oh, yes, Favreau, Yeah, he iron Man, well he yeah,
but he's he's in not only is he in the
Marvel movies with iron Man, but he's he produces a
whole ohu of them.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Iron Man was hit. The original Iron Man film was
his brain child, and that kicked off the entire frame.
But he's also he's the other half with all swingers.
Uh okay, who's that actor? The big all crap?

Speaker 4 (43:28):
I don't know. We need to move on to March.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Anyways, the big tall guy they were in swingers together. Crap.
That's gonna drive me nuts anyways.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Vince Vaughn, Yes, yes, I don't know how I got that,
but I did. I'm a big tall guy. I don't
know how I got that.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Anyways.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Anything else, sure, Charades was not would wouldn't have been
your strong.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Boy, Sit here, just snap in my finger, like that's
gonna tell you something. Anything happened for us big in
February that you can remember.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
No, I don't remember. I mean for me. I went
to floor for a weekend, if that's right. So there
you go. That was it.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Yeah, nothing real significant now now all right, let's move
on to March. What happened in March? Gosh? Oh, well,
remember the names Butch and Sonny.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Butch and Sonny huh.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
No, Well they were the poor SAPs that were stuck
on the International Space Station. They were finally rescued the astronauts.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Oh, that were up there for nine months yea or.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Two hundred and eighty six days. They were stuck up there. Wow,
they were finally rescued by UH SpaceX and Elon Musk
got up there and got him down.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yeah, do you remember that?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Could you imagine being stuck on a space station with
me for nine minus?

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Oh my god, I'd have been dead. One of us
would have been dead. Either I would have killed you
or I committed suicide. I'm sorry. Oh shoot, one of
us would have one of us would not have made
it home.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Oh gosh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
And I would have probably and I would have probably
checked out on my own. So because I couldn't do
that to your husband unless he called and said, look,
did me a favor. She's been playing in my murder
for years.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Push her out the window, open that, send her on
a tell her she's going for a flight.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Yeah. You know who played their allegedly played their last
concert in March. Chare No, Oh.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Gosh, wasn't. SHARE's always going on a farewell tour. That's
why I said, Chare Well, we're gonna we just uh
started into March. So we're going to continue the conversation
in March because there was a record broken by President Trump.
We'll talk about that. And then also something in South
Carolina that speaking of the wild West, we'll talk about

(46:02):
that too. The Blue Daddy Experience OTIS and Sam News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. That's fun. Welcome back on your
Monday at the Blue Daddy Experience OTIS and SAM News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We've made it to March, folks.

(46:27):
We are doing recap of twenty twenty five, hitting on
you know, top stories, the headlines, cultural things, sports, movies,
people who died, were hitting it all. So hope you're
having fun with us. We're having fun with it. We're
realizing how much we don't remember.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Speaking of people that died in March. Who Richard Chamberlain.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
The actor the Worn Bird.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
That's about all I'm remember him for. I mean, I
know he was in a ton of other things, but
that's what for whatever reason, that's what I remember.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
I have read that book probably half a dozen times.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
And former World heavyweight champion boxer George Foreman and the
Grill Maker.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Hey listen, don't knock on the Foreman grille. That sucker
got me through college.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
I've got one.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
More grilled cheeses had been made on that my George
Foreman than ever in history. Okay, got me through college,
made him a millionaire.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
George did anything else that happened news wise?

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Do they still make the Foreman grill? They're still out there. Yeah,
kind of, now that I think about it, I would
like to have one of those again. Anyways. Also, Donald
Trump beat a record his first year, his first March.
Of this second go around of his presidency, he beat

(47:54):
Bill Clinton's record of the longest presidential address to Congress.
I didn't know that, but you know a little bit
there now this one. I had not heard this story.
This weirds me out. But the first firing squad execution
in fifteen years took place in South Carolina. It was

(48:17):
the inmate or the accused or the criminal with the
right terminology, sixty seven year old Brad Sigmund. Yikes.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
I remember the first one. It was like nineteen seventy
seven when they brought back the death penalty. It was
in Utah and the guy's name was Gary Gilmore.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
There's another state out west that is doing firing squads
again here recently, probably Utah and a lot of not
a lot, but those on death road are choosing that way,
like if they're in a state where there's multiple options,
it's like, you know.

Speaker 4 (48:55):
So how they do it, I guess, for the there's
one person that actually has a bullet, there's like six
or seven, I don't know how. It could be five,
it could be four. I don't know, it might be three.
But they have a number of marksmen when they come
in and they all have only one of them.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Has a true bullet and the others are the.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
Others are blanks blanks. Yeah, And so that way that
person that they don't know which one actually killed, who
had the who was, who the actual executioner was. So
that that way, you know, you know, you might be it,
but you don't know for sure you are. I don't

(49:32):
know if that's a way. I guess it could be quick.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Okay, that's one way of looking at it.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
I mean I think it would be quicker. I mean
the lethal injection. I think basically, if everything goes right,
it's just basically you fall.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Asleep, but it's drawn out.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Yeah, it's long. So I mean, like a bullet to
the heart or the bullet to the head or I'm
sure they do it in the heart probably.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Wow, option A, B or C. What are you going with?
Could you imagine making that decision?

Speaker 4 (50:08):
I just hope I never have to make that.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Well, okay, that took a.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Turn for the the it's not something. Hey, we're Christmas dinner.
How would you like to go out? Like if you
were convicted felon that was on death road? Electric chair, yah, leath,
injection to the heart, maybe guillotine. Yeah, let's go to

(50:34):
the guillotine.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Oh my, let's go that route. Lovely, lovely.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
I don't think i'd want to be electrocuted. No, mm hmmm,
I think that would be I think that would be
very painful.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Well yeah, and then yeah, okay, let's move on. Yeah, okay, yeah,
let's let's you know.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Who had a big announcement in March as the tabloids
get win.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, our.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Buddy, our buddy, Jeff Bezos. They announced that he was
going to marry Lauren Sanchez and it was going to
be a summer wedding in Italy. It was going to
take place on his Megayacht. And you know, the big
speculation at that point in time was who's going to
be on the guest list.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
All Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
The Pisky Poparaxi is confirmed by marrying my brick cauclicious
bride to be this summer in Italy. Now these irksome
shutterbugs are speculating on the wedding list. They include the
usual suspects, you know, the Cardashians, the cloonies of the world.
They're guessing Leo DiCaprio will have the prime rib while
this pus one will have the Dino nuggets. Who some

(51:48):
wonder if my ex wife Mackenzie will attend.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
If she does, she.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
Best bring a fat envelope.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
I need to recoup some of that divorce settlement.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
And then there are those who think my arch nemesis
Elon Musk.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Would be invited.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
Yeah, sorry, Elon, but we're thinking of downsizing the list.
So maybe you could email a bullet list of five
wedding gifts you might bring.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
You're getting doged.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
I like when he says Leo DiCaprio's date's gonna eat
Dino nuggets.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
No jab there, no, no, not at all. He mentioned
Elon musk. He didn't have a great month in March
that In March, the Tesla stocks took a significant nose dive.
He lost, Yeah, he lost twenty two point eight billion

(52:46):
dollars in net worth during that time frame.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Yeah, dropping the bucket.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah, but they've all but here recently. There was a
big increase on something and he's now forget what the
significance was the amount that he grew. But yeah, he's okay, fat.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
I don't think he's heard he no, no, And you know,
when you lose a lot of that stocks and in paper,
I mean it's not like it came out of his
bank account.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Yeah, there's not a giant withdrawal out of his savings account. No. No,
I I couldn't even imagine having that amount of money.
And of course, throughout this time the protests began and
all of that was going on.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
That's when they started vandalizing the Tesla's all in.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
The Tesla dealerships and throwing the paint and all.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Yeah, yeah, all that good stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Yeah, And that's the thing going through a lot of this,
Looking back on it, there's all these different protests and stuff.
You can't even keep them straight. There's been so many
throughout the year. But we're not done yet, folks, We're not.
We're up to April.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Next.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
You're listening to The bloo Daddy Experience Otis and Sam
here on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back The
bloom Daddy Experienced, samon Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

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So we covered January, We've covered February, in March, We're
on to April. Why am I talking about April? No,
you've not traveled back in time. We are just kind
of going over twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
Spring is in the air now, yeah, or so we
can we can hope for the next two segments.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
Yeah, yeah, So looking back at April kicked off with
a bang, if you will. So, I don't know if
you remember this. I remember this when we're sitting here
in this studio watching thinking this guy's never going to
shut up. Followed by the next morning he gave it.

(54:53):
He still was talking. Yes, who am I talking about?
I'm talking about Senator Corey Booker of Nature.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Is he allowed to leave and use the restroom?

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Well? I remember thinking that at the time.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Depends.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Maybe that's why the gallery started to clear after eight
hours or so.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
If he was wearing we want to be drinking coffee.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Ooo oh buddy, who knows what he had for dinner either?
So Senator Corey Booker of New Jersey, he delivered the
longest speech in US Senate history. He spoke for over
twenty five hours. He stood there for over twenty five
hours and talked. Does anybody remember what he talked about?

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Nope?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Does anybody care?

Speaker 4 (55:38):
No?

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Can I venture to guess what he talked about?

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (55:44):
Probably it was probably anti Trump and and pro immigrants.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Yea, not even immigrants, illegal immigrants. And Orange Man is bad.
Everything Orange Man says is bad.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Trump derangement, some Trump derangement syndrome at its finest evil.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Yeah. Yeah. So that was on April first, followed by
let's see here April second. Then President Trump had his
own day of significance. He announced Liberation Day, unveiling wide
ranging tariffs on foreign countries importing goods into the US,
including a thirty four percent increased tariff on China and

(56:30):
twenty percent for the European Union. So the month of
April kicked off with a bang.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Well one of the things. In April, gold hit an
all time high as people were trying to reinvest, you know,
because they weren't sure about the tariffs and the tariffs
in the stock market and everything else, so they started
they were looking for a safe haven, and so they
started to do that, and then oil prices fell drastically

(56:58):
due to worries over the tariffs and the impact on
global economic growth and so on and so forth. So,
I mean, there were a couple there were a couple
of bad days in the stock market, but like two
of the worst. It was a two day decline, the
worst since twenty twenty, and they recovered pretty much. Yeah,

(57:18):
I think they're going strong now. So for the most part. Yeah,
I'm not saying they're perfect.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
But no, here's the thing, and I'll be one hundred
percent up front, folks, stock market, all of that, that
conversation I am not good at. That's why we have
an expert like Steve Waters that comes in.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
I'm starting at my age, I'm now starting to learn
a little bit huh, not enough to be no, you know,
but I know now what I'm looking for and I know,
like I know how to follow my stocks. Yeah, which
is I just figured that out. So it only took
me fifty eight years to figure that out.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
He's like a dictionary and and okay, we talked about
kicking off the new year and goals and all of that.
One thing that I need to do and if Steve
hears this, I need to call his office. I have
said this for probably about five years now. I need
to sit down with somebody like a Steve Waters and say,

(58:23):
here's what we have. Tell me what to do. Because
we have things out there with like four on one
k's and things like that. I don't know what it's doing.
I think it's doing well. It looks like it's going well,
but I don't know what I'm reading. And I'm to
the age where and that's part of it where I
don't want to face the fact that I'm to the age.
But I need to start having those conversations. And that's

(58:46):
that is one goal I'm going to set for myself
this year.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
Yeah, and I think, you know, there's there's a lot
of things about that, and we've talked in the past
about you know, if you if you just know a
little bit about what you're doing in or you have
the trust in somebody to do that. I have a
financial advisor, so you know, I don't do a whole
lot with my my my work retirement, that's automatically done
for me. So it's not like I can do what

(59:10):
I want with it. But I have I have something
that I got into divorce settlement that that's where my
you know, I've taken that money and invested it because
I had to. I'm not allowed to touch it until
June of this year. Huh oh, So that's that's my
that But that doesn't mean you want to. Well you can,

(59:31):
but I mean if I need the access that I
can do it without penalty. Oh, still, you still pay
the taxes if you like. So let's just say I
want to take a trip and I need five thousand dollars.
I can go in and take it out, but I'm
going to have to pay the taxes on it. So
I might have to take out six thousand to pay
the taxes.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Gotcha.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Well I said something to my husband and he's like, well,
I've been watching stuff on YouTube and this and that.
He goes, so I think I know, and I went no.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
No, no, yeah, don't take that chance.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
No, what's the old saying? I know just enough to
be dangerous or whatever that saying is yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
Now, I mean i'd take advice, you know. So like
I'm in a couple, I'm probably in a little more
high risk, you know. But the high risk also earns
you more money. But they're a safe high risk.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Here's the thing we're talking about my money. I am
not taking advice from some twenty six year old pimple
faced on YouTube or.

Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
If yeah, what if he knows what he's doing, that's
that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
But I want to talk to somebody face to face.
I get call me old school, we're talking money. I
want to see your face.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
Well, you know what happens in April? What the NCAA
Final Four?

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Oh you're absolute yep.

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
Now it starts in March. March madness obviously starts in March.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Otherwise, whoever you can call it that yet.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
But the National Championship Game is always normally the first
Monday in April, and this year, the Florida Gators defeated
the Houston Cougar sixty five to sixty three. The game
was played at the Alamo Doom in San Antonio. And
you know, the thing is college basketball fans in this area.

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If you're a West Virginia Mountaineer fan, WWU was the
first team out, so they did not make the tournament.
They were team number sixty nine because they take sixty
eight teams. And then the coach, Darren de Brees, just
up and left and went to Indiana, and the speculation

(01:01:23):
and the conspiracy theories and everything else rolled into town
because his son allegedly got hurt, allegedly had shoulder surgery
and couldn't play the season. But so now he's he
got an extra season, so now he's a senior, a
sixty year senior, I believe at Indiana so well.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
And then we of course had our big, our fun
who was our winner this year.

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
Tyler Porter. Okay, you remember I remember that. Well, we've
done it three years now, so we've We've had Eric
Stephanelino was a two time champion, that's right. He's like
the Kansas City Chiefs. He went to and didn't make
it for number three. Uh yeah. So but Tyler Porter
was our winner and for our March madness, and we'll

(01:02:12):
be doing that again this year because it's although we
call we don't call it that, no, no, we do not. No,
it's our basketball challenge, huh yes, But it revolves around
the March Madness Tournament. So we're allowed to say that,
oh we are. You can because that's what it is.
I mean, you can use it in a story. You're
just not allowed to use it as a promotion.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Oh yeah that We're not doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
No, absolutely, we're not doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
No, we just have fun. It's all about fun. Has
nothing to do with that whatsoever. Speaking of sports hockey,
there was a big significant event that happened in April. Okay,
so alex of of Utchkin nice, yeah, left wing for
the Capitals, the Washington Capitals. He becomes the greatest score

(01:02:55):
in NHL history, passing the great one, a great one,
Wayne Gretzky. He hit the eight. He hit his eight
hundred and ninety fifth career goal.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
Yep. And he's still scoring him as its say, he's
still playing right, Yeah, yeah, so he's he's over nine hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
I think is he really ninety five? There?

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
So I don't know what it is offhand, but and
I don't feel like looking it up at this point
in time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Also, the Masters are in April. Rory McElroy claims the
Grand Slam with his win over.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
Justin Rose, the career Grand Slam.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Yes, I'm sorry, career.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Yeah, because if you do the Grand Slam, you win
all four majors in the same year. Oh, the career
Grand Slam means you won all four majors in your career.
So Rory, Rory, that's my dog. Can't tell you my
dog is named after Rory mcclrory. Really, I didn't name him.
Just keep that in mind. That's who he's named after.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
That's right. What's that music?

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Is that music?

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
Yeah? Okay, that means we got to go to a break.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
We do.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
We're going to wrap up April, right because we had
a we did have a significant loss in this world
that we're going to talk about. So we'll get into
that and a couple other things here.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
It's the bloom Daddy Experience on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Welcome back. We are not done yet, folks. We're going
to wrap up April twenty twenty five here in our
year in review that we're kind of well one month
by month by I hope you're having fun with it,
of course. I'm Sam. He is otis the bloom Daddy
Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So otis,
who do you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Have up first, Well, celebrity or celebrity deaths. Excuse me.
Steve McMichael Mongo played for the eighty five Bears, got
into the Hall of Fame, was diagnosed with ALS and
got into the Hall of Fame while he is, you know,
basically incapacitated. Uh offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, went

(01:05:07):
into wrestling, uh with that was on TBS T N
T went into the Turner one. I don't want to
say n W O, but w yeah, and was paired
up with he went into the Four Horsemen, you know, So,
I mean he he had a he had a good career,

(01:05:28):
but unfortunately passed away from ALS. And you know, it's
a horrible disease. It is, it is. But luckily he
luckily he knew that he got into the Hall of Fame.
So that's yeah, it's better than it's better than not
knowing that. Yeah, it's like Pete Rose, Pete Rose is
never going to know that he went into the Hall
of Fame if he ever does.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
What is that what I hate when I I don't
say I want to hate, but it's what is it? Posthumous?
They get Yeah, you get into something, It's like, why
did you wait if there's like a board that chooses, like,
why did you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
Why did you wait to put Jimmy Buffett and the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Yeah, because you waited
until he died.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Yeah, especially when you know there they have a terrible disease, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
Going to take me, but you didn't. They didn't know
that because Jimmy kind of hid his cancer until until
the end, you know. So, I mean it was kind
of like, okay, the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Pete Rose thing, those kind of Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
And then Val Kilmer, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
So that was I always love Val Kilmer. I loved
his films.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Okay, I did.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
I mean, I'm sorry, I'm your huckleberry.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
He was a batman, wasn't a very good batman.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
He wasn't a very good batman.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
But did Jim Morrison in The Doors.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Yes, he was great in that, Yes he was.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
And then of course Top Gun.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Top Gun ice Man. Yeah, so I'll always remember him
in Tombstone.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
He was.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
He was one of my favorite movies of all time. Tombstone.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Of course. One of the biggest deaths of not only
the month, but of the year was Pope Francis and
he was the head of the Catholic Church. He was
the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American pope, and
the first born or raised outside of Europe since the
eighth century.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
Geez.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
So you know, served from let me see here, March
of twenty thirteen until his death in twenty twenty five,
so about a twelve year reign there, and followed by
the Pope from Chicago.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Yeah, which obviously is another significant Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
We'll get to that because that's going to pop in May,
because you know they had there's the proceedings or whatever
in the Catholic Church where.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
The conclave that's what it's called.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
Yeah, the election, that's basically what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
The pope. Did you watch the movie Conclave? Oh, it's
it's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
So no, but I mean, I mean was a very
progressive pope as far as the church was concerned, I think.
But you know, he's the pope.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
So when a pope dies.

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
It's big news. So the other big news in April
was the fact that our boy Jeff Bezos and his
uh basically it was the launch date of the Blue
Origin with the all female crew, his harem, his haram. Yeah,
and I mean I made news. I mean I get

(01:08:30):
it because.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
It made ridiculous news.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Yes, you know so, but it was the launch date
for the all women mission on his Blue Origin. Women
astronauts and celebrities like Gail King, Katie Perry, and Bezos's
fiance Lauren Sanchez were on board the Amazon Evil genius
gave us the crew, gave us and the crew a

(01:08:53):
proper sendoff.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
I am Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Today's the day, Jim Martins, when six women will climb
aboard my rocket, so to speak, to be thrusted to
a place they've never been before, space, among them superstars
like Gail King and Katie Perry, but more importantly my
astro naughty fiance, Lord Sanchez. It shall be the first

(01:09:19):
time she'll experience weightlessness without the aid of her zampicks,
and providing her with the experience of zero gravity technically
counts as me paying for a butt lift. And of course,
my greatest concern is that she returns to Earth safely,
for two reasons. One she's the love of my life
and two the down payment on the wedding is non reflectible.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
Gotch feed ladies.

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
And of course they made it back safe.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
They did, so here's the question. Can they call themselves
an astronaut.

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
I think if you're going to be an astronaut, you
have to be in space for more than five seconds
or whatever it was, five minutes, And I think, you know,
they just got they get they just get to the
point where there you are weightless, huh. And then and
then you come back. So I mean, you break that barrier.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
But it's not like they walked on the Moon or.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
Or or did a did a you know, an orbit
around the Earth. They weren't in the space station.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
For two hundred and eighty six days exactly. So who
it was all Katie Katy Perry was random like king. Yeah,
they were all like just I don't know that whole
thing was.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
And of course would you go into space? Would you
do it? Yes? I would too. I wouldn't even think
twice about it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
Yes I think I would. I think I would. I
would scream the entire time during the launch.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
But if you gave me the opportunity right now, huh,
I would do it in a minute, in a heart beat,
New York second.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Hmmm, I don't know. I'd be scared to death, that's
for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Well, we got four more months coming up tomorrow, starting
with May.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Everybody have a great Monday. We'll talk to you tomorrow