The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 30, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, folks, Happy Tuesday. Thank you for kicking off
your morning with us. Of course the bloom Daddy Experience.
I'm sam otis joining me on your Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Otis two days away from twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yikes. Yikes, is all I have to say about that.
Have you been having fun with what we've been doing
so before we get back into.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
It minus the work we're putting into.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It, mine is that side of it, I guess. So
if you missed the show yesterday, what we're doing for yesterday, today,
and tomorrow, we're kind of just going back over the
year of twenty twenty five, you know, sports headlined, news headlined, entertained,
what we did.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
National, local, Yeah, whatever, we can figure out.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
What I have realized through this is you don't remember anything.
Excuse me. Absolutely, My memory sucks, is what I have
realized because I look and I go, oh, I remember that,
and then something pops into my head and I'm like, oh, okay,
what about this story and I look it up. Oh

(01:26):
that was from twenty twenty four. Yeah, talk about things
running together?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, h yeah, yeah, you just I mean, well, you know,
we also live in a world where you know, we
want to remember. You don't really remember short term, you'll
remember long term.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
So well that and also we are just inundated with information.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, and doing this for two years. Sometimes things run together.
I mean, if it's something super significant, right then it
stands out. If it is something that is an I
want to say ordinary but it is like run of
the mill news, or if it's something that you're not
one hundred percent interested in, right. So we're going to

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start this. We're going to start off with May. So
like obviously early in May is the Kentucky Derby. I
couldn't remember the Kentucky Derby winner. And to be honest
with you, you'd probably have to go back for me
to actually remember what year and the Kentucky Derby winner
would probably have to I'd probably have to go back
to seventy seven. Other than that, I can't remember any

(02:32):
of them. I know not. I think Seattle Slew was
seventy seven.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
And wasn't there a movie made about.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
A horse Secretariat where there was that one? I mean
there's been a couple of them.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, Seabiscuit, that's it. Seabiscuit, that's the one I was
thinking of.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, Secretary it was seventy two and was the King
of the But I will say this, every horse in
the Kentucky Derby this year was a direct descendant, not
a direct but was a descendant of Secretariat.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh I didn't know that. So somehow they're in the
gene pool.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, everyone every they were basically all related.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So Secretariat got around.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, he's the Secretariat. Was the Anthony Edwards of his day.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh there's nothing good like a kicking off a Tuesday
with a horse.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Joke or ratting at an NBA star because he's got
like seven kids from seven different women, and they're all
like under eighteen months old or something like that, or
they're all under two years old. Oh my, And I
guess he just writes checks. He doesn't want to take
care of him. He just writes a check and says
we're done.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
All that's lovely. Well that's like, well, he's small time
compared to Mariah CAREY'SAX Nick's Nick Cannon.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I actually saw on social media on Christmas Day somebody
was making a joke because he was posting all his
family portraits with all his different baby mamas and he
only got like five and.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
There's there's like just because it takes nine months to
round them up. Yeah, and by then he's got another kid.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, Merry Christmas. What a great example of parenting. Anyways,
we digress, digress, so let's get back into it. Like
I said, we're recapping twenty twenty five local, national, sports, entertainment,
all of those type of things. And if you have
something that we miss, go to our Facebook page and comment,

(04:28):
you know, throw it up there for us. Or of
course you can text us seven zero four seven zero,
start the message off with bloom Daddy and leave us
your message. So you already brought this up. May kicked
off with the Kentucky Derby sovereignty who was written rowed
by Venezuelan born jockey one. But wasn't there? There was

(04:50):
all kinds of controversy with it. Wasn't there because of
the mondiness of the track and all of that.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, I think it was. That doesn't make controversy, but
there was a horse that was disqualified.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's what it was, okay, and.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know because I think it was an illegal bump
or I can't remember exactly what it was, but the
horse was disqualified. The thing about the horse racing industry,
you know, you went to Kentucky Derby. You just won
the first off you run, You won the Crown Jewel,
So odds are you're gonna run two weeks later in
the Preakness and then in June and the Beaumont because

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you're looking for the Triple Crown, and that's just gonna
take the value of your horse up because they're gonna want,
you know, the sire rights and all that stuff. I mean,
you're gonna make millions off off your horse and he's
never gonna have to run again. But two weeks later
after the Kentucky Derby is the Preakness. Okay, Sovereignty didn't

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run in the Preakness. They didn't even entering.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Also, they didn't even have a chance at the Triple Crown.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well they did, but they chose not to entering.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, they chose not to entering, and I believe it
was because they just didn't want They thought two weeks
wasn't enough time.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
And the triple Crown is a rarity, correct, that's.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
It doesn't happen often. I mean I think you know,
obviously there's different numbers, like the Preakness this year was
one hundred and fiftieth Preakness, and I think the I
think you were over that in the in the Derby,
I think they're like at one hundred and sixty year
one hundred and seventy or something like that. And then
the Belmont they have their because it wasn't a triple
Crown until like the early nineteen hundreds, and so's they're not.

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They didn't run all at the same they didn't start
all at the same time. So what happens is, you know,
there I can't remember how many triple Crown winners there are,
but there's probably about i'd say fifteen maybe just off
the top of my head. I mean I can look
it up.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's a rich man's sport.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Uh yeah, I mean you it has become one.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, well remember we had Remember Betsy came in
right before the Kentucky It brought us hats.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
She brought you. She wasn't bringing me hats.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Because that's one of the big things, of course, with
the derby. Who won the Preakness? Did we ever?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah? Journalism?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Journalism, all right, all right, so that was the big uh.
The big sports story was the Kentucky Derby in the
month of May. May feels like it was so long ago.
Here's a term you probably haven't heard in a while.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Just real quick. Yeah, thirteen horses have won the Triple.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Crown out of how many years? Does it say?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Nineteen nineteen was the first triple crown winner?

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh? Okay, so then it is a rarity.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
So the last one to do it was in twenty fifteen,
I'm sorry. The most recent American Pharaoh in twenty fifteen.
Justify in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I remember American Pharaoh. I remember that name. But as
I was saying, Skype, do you remember Skype?

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, it's kind of like Zoom.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Huh. It was the precur or to Zoom. Well, it
officially went offline in May of this Yearah, it was
established in two thousand and three. It was a Microsoft product,
So that went out the door. The big story of May.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Was the pope. Well, he's from Chicago.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I know, I knew you would pick up what I
was what I was getting.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
At, uh, cardinals were throwing down.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, served that up on a platter to you. Cardinal
Robert Privos, sixty nine years old, was elected the two
hundred and sixty seventh Pope of the Catholic Church, but
the first American. Shockingly, they chose an American. Let's see here.

(08:52):
He was, of course, the successor to Pope Francis, who
passed in April. I believe it was. We talked about
that yesterday.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
So yeah, only the second from the America's one of
his immediate predecessor, Pope Francis, was from South America. Oh yes, so,
but he began his papacy on May eighth.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
So well, it wasn't it didn't. People show up to
everything with Chicago Deep Dish pizza.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
And then somebody, in fact, I think the Bears, No,
and he, the Pope, came out and said he was
a White Sox fan. So White Sox, the White Sox
send him a jersey.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's right. I knew there was a jersey.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think it says Pope. It says Pope Leo, and
it's number sixteen on the back. And then but yeah,
I mean, uh, you know this pope obviously he's he's
a he's a very we're gonna say, I'll be kind
and say he's a very liberal pope. Yeah, he's not
a Trump fan, let's put it that way.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
New not even remotely close. So that sort of well,
we got a little.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Sports news, we get some other stuff coming out. Yeah.
Three is that we can't forget every month. We've got
our buddy Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh that's right. Also spring May with springtime and the
biggest craze of the year, hit your favorite thing this year?

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I know, I know, I saw it.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I saw it, all right. You're listening to the bloom
Daddy Experience. Samon otis here on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
Happy Tuesday, Welcome back the bloom Daddy Experience. Samon Otis
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are breaking down twenty

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twenty five and we are right smack in the middle
of May. So Otis you know, you and I have
both been kind of headfirst into breaking down the months
and everything. One of the websites that I got on
actually had international headlines and I thought this was groundbreaking.
I had to bring this to the show. Okay, nearly

(11:06):
three weeks of uninterrupted twenty four hour live streaming, which
it totaled four hundred and seventy eight hours of Sweden's
Great Moose Migration.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh, I watched it about for four hours.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's what it ended. After all of the moose moose
moose crossed the Angerman River. It's not moose's right, no moose,
the mease the moose moose. Yes, So if you missed it, folks,
I apologize. You had four hundred and seventy eight total

(11:41):
hours to have catched, to have caught all of this
life catch. Yes, I did. Yes, I did.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
That's terrible.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I talk for a living. Yes, So you know, sorry,
your your sol you missed it. It was in May,
so I know I'm bummed that I that I missed
out on that one.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, taking a quick look at some of the sports
events that happened over the month of May. The PGA
Tour champion Scottie Scheffler, So I mean that was he
won two majors this year. We're going to get to
the other one here in a little bit. But also
Commissioner Rob Manford Major League Baseball, he removed seventeen deceased people,
including shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose from MLB's permanently

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Ineligible list, stating obviously, a person no longer with us
cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game,
paving the way for them to be included into the
Hall of Fame. So that's a big thing.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
It is a huge thing. We kind of touched on
it yesterday actually if you remember. But here's the thing.
Shoeless Joe Jackson has been deceased for how long?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
First of all, at least fifty years.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, and then Pete Rose, Listen, that man loved the
game of baseball.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well they call him Charli Hustle for nothing.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Well, and you know the thing is what he accomplished
on the field shouldn't keep you out of the Hall
of Fame. And the same with Shootless Joe. I mean,
shootless Joe was illiterate, so he didn't know what he
was a lot of times he didn't know what he
was reading or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
He used an X right when he signed.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
I think he was, Yeah, I think he did. But
the other thing was, you know, they accused him to
throw in the World Series in nineteen nineteen, but yet
he had like a almost a three sixty batting average,
I mean, had a couple outfield assists. I mean, it
wasn't if you look at his stats from the World
Series in nineteen nineteen, for what they banned him for,
There's no way he was even thinking about throwing the

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game or any of the games.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Everything that I've read on him and I've watched, and
he always seems like one of those people who trusted
the wrong people and was naive to the underbelly or
other people's bad intentions.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yes, yeah, so you know. But here's the other thing.
You know, we're gonna switch a little bit from sports
because we gonna get our guy in.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh, of course, we can't leave.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Before we hit our soelebrity passings of May. After Jeff
Bezos reversed the plan to itemize the cost of tariffs
in the price of products on Amazon, President Trump called
him a good guy. Well, that didn't really sit well
with Jeff, who's been trying so hard to cultivate his
image as an evil genius.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
I am Jeff bezais with an official rebuke of Donald
Trump last week. The President referred to me as something
enormously insulting.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
He called me a quote good.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Guy, What the what you're bro I'm out here trying
to be an evil genius. I'm the reason Amazon workers
were adult diapers. I single handedly sabotage Katy Perry's career.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
If I'm such a good guy, then why am.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
I assembling two ordred of the most reprehensible humans on
the planet to be guessed at my wedding? Make it
make sense, mister President. I suppose it's possible. But after
hanging around with Elon Musk for the past six months,
by comparison, everyone else is a good guy.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
You're giving me smalls.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's the only reason I picked that one, because it's
got that at the end. I actually just.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Used that line a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh, I think I'll use it all the time. I
use it all the time, so yeah, I mean, you
know it the tariffs and everything there was everybody I
think blew that way out of proportion.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah. Well, it was a word that just made me
still is. It's a word that just makes people uncomfortable.
But it did not stop the craze of the year.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Which was, or is the La boo boos. Oh.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, these creepy looking little monster things that not only
became a craze for kids. Women are hanging and they
have been all year hanging these little things like from
their five thousand dollars person stuff. And I don't get
I don't get it. Maybe I'm old, I am old,

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but they're creepy little monster things and they have been
the absolute craze of the year when it comes for
you know, and your favorite things.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
That's a story we have to tell at another time
because we don't want any kids to hear this.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, no, But anyway, you know.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
We had some celebrities that we lost and a couple
of big ones. But Ruth Buzzy, she was a staple
on Laughing in the early seventies, late sixties, early seventies,
just just a funny lady. Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty
passed away. Of course, two of the big ones, Loretta Switt,
who played Hot Lips, Hold of Hand on Mash passed away.

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And you know, for anybody that grew up in the
eighties and the nineties and loved this show like I did,
Norm from Cheers and just the we spent I think
we spent a couple of segments on this after his passing,
and we played.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Some of the best lines.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
The best lines. You know, it's a dog eat dog
world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear. I mean, that's
that's one of the classics. It's just uh, you know.
And they said, hey, what are you up to, mister Peterson?
And what are you up to? Norm? And he said,
my ideal weight if I was seven ft ten?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
How do you remember that?

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Because I've seen him so many times? And uh, but
I mean some of them are just classics.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, yeah, how old was he?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
I didn't really, I did done probably Yeah he was yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Okay, yeah, so oh that's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah yeah, but Norm, Norm, No, they said they said
they had that the audience because it was filmed in
front of the live studio audience. The audience would participate
when he would walk in.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh, I'm sure, how could you not? All right, we're
gonna move on. We've got June coming up here on
the Blue Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(18:14):
Welcome back the Buen Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy WWVA. So we've made it midway through our
recap of twenty twenty five. We've made it to June
of twenty twenty five, which was a very busy month.
It was especially locally, especially for you and I. We

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had a lot going on that month. We'll kick it
off with a local story, which of course is east
O High Regional Hospital and our coverage of that. As
you know if you listen to this show, we had
been having many conversations, doing a lot of digging into

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the allegations of no payments, that entire scenario that was
going on. Midway through the month, though it was announced
that it had been sold to a gentleman named mister
Harold Ramsey. Now again, if you listen consistently and you

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take yourself back to June, we immediately reached out to
mister Ramsey, and the following day, which the announcement, if
I remember correctly, Otis was on a Monday, and we
had an interview arranged for the following Tuesday morning, had

(19:39):
him on the phone, and then he was getting on
an airplane and alle yes, and then could not do
the interview and hence have not heard a peep since,
even though there has been attempts made to reschedule and
all of that. Again, if you remember correctly, we were

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the the ones that were asking the hard questions first
before anybody else. And I have my original questions here
in front of me that I had for mister Ramsey
that I never got the opportunity to ask. But it's
funny because about a month ago, about a month month
and a half ago, I drove over to East Ohio

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to see what was going on, because if you remember,
it was in October. According to a lot of his
statements in other media outlets, it was going to be
reopened by October. Oh, it is not new No, it is.

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It is like a like a ghost town over there.
So that story ate up a good amount of our
time for a couple months. Not only you know, giving
a voice to those who were not getting a paycheck,
which was the best part of our opportunity to cover
this story. But then it was also, as I said,

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asking the questions, wanting to know who is Harold Ramsey?
Why by a hospital in Martins Ferry, Ohio. If you're
from New Jersey, New York, New York area, you know
who is three sixty Healthcare? You know? Can you explain
your explain the reports found about yourself?

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, but I think there's a lot of things that
go into this and basically kind of just a I
don't want to say wrap it up, but you know,
you have somebody come in from out of town again
make promises that they're going to do these things and again,
and you know, basically you're you're messing with the people
that you know, we're dedicated to that hostel, the employees

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and everything else that were dedicated to that hospital. And
you know, you blue smoke up, smoke up their beer rents. Yeah,
and that's where we stand.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
And now it's just sitting there. So yep, we'll see
what happens in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
With that, of course, the other big news in June
was the flooding in Ohio County. Yes, especially in the
Trirerophia Valley Grove area. Also, you know, we don't want
to leave out Marion County in the Fairmont area, they
got hit pretty hard as well. But you know, for
us locally, you know, and we took a very serious
You and I actually we were talking to each other

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because it happened on a Saturday night in yep, going
into Sunday, and the devastation was was you know, enormous
enormous to say the least. And we came in on
a Sunday and we did a live show for I
think two or three hours if I'm not mistaken, and
you know, we interviewed a lot of people that were

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involved or were affected. We had Lou Vargo on Boots
on the Ground. We had Stacy Stephen from a United Way.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
We had.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Rick Dunlevy from Elm Grove Elementary where they had set
up a temporary shelter. We had carry Vance from Vance
Printing in Graphics out on National Road by the school
Board office in Ohio County because his business was affected.
So I mean, we had we were trying to bring
everything to you that we could right as it was happening, pretty.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Much because there were lives lost. There were six, yes, yeah,
six six were lost during that horrible tragedy. And I
think one of the things coming in here and doing
that live show, one of the things that my goal
with it was that to keep the look you lose
from going down there. Like you know, here we're talking

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to people live that are that are like I said,
boots on the ground, there is no reason for anybody
to drive down there listen to these stories firsthand from us,
not from us, but from those that we're talking to.
So there was no reason to go down there.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Plus, yes, unless you were going down to clean or
to help out or write, to do something of that nature.
They just didn't want people coming in and videotaping the
devastation or taking pictures or you know, I understand. You know,
you're going to have the media that's coming in because
it was national news. Oh yeah, and but you also
had you also had the people that lived in that
area with with the you know, obviously the cell phone

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videos and so on that they were showing what was
happening at that moment. You were watching cars get swept
away and houses get swept away, and it was just
it was just horrific.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, and we continue to talk about it. I mean,
earlier this month we had Mike Minster, Minister Mike on
the show with tri Alphia Methodist, who came in and
gave us an update about you know, all the work
that they've done since June, but also you know where
people stand, what they still need, the help that they need.

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I mean, just as simple as and that's the reason
I had him on. Just as simple as the fact
that they lost Christmas decorations and they were doing a
drive for Christmas decorations for folks. You know, you think
about you know, the big stuff, you think about losing
a car and losing your washer and dryer, but then
when you go down to this, the the these smaller things,

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the photo albums, the family Christmas decorations. You know, those
folks lost that stuff too. So having Pastor mic on
to talk about that, you know, we want to keep
bringing a spotlight to those that are still dealing with it.
Months after well and.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
You still have people that are that have been dislocated.
Ye you know a lot of people have relocated, some
are still dislocated, you know, and like like you said,
you know these how do you have your how do
your kids have a good Christmas? When you're living in
a hotel. There's so there's there's the after effects of

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this are going to be felt for years and there's
still be you know, you can drive through that area
now and there is a sense of normalcy that has
come back to that area as far as some of
the businesses and everything. You're concerned, but you drive through
and you see the lots where houses stood, where they were,
and you know, there's still some there's still some out

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there that have you know, do not enter dangerous you know,
they they probably are waiting to be raised or you know,
something of that nature.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
So, and one of the most eerie things about that story.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Was the date. Oh yeah, same as the Wigi Creek
flooding yep, from nineteen ninety. I believe yeap.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
That still was just I don't I don't know why,
but that part of the story was was so I
guess eerie is the best best term.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
But it's a coincidence obviously, Yeah, it is. You know,
I'm sure for some for some people that it brought
back some pretty bad memories.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yep. All right, we are in the middle of June.
We're gonna talk about it more because we've got national headlines,
we've got sports where you're going to get into those.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
And somebody got married in June.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Oh oh that's right. Yes, I'm like, who I thought
you met somebody? You and ie?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay, well, I'm sure there is.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right, we'll be back the bloom Daddy Experience Otis
and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back the
bloom Daddy Experience. Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy
WWVA Happy June. No, I'm kidding, June twenty twenty five.

(27:28):
We are recapping. It feels like June outside, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
It's very great.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm sorry people, I'm just I'm just messing with you.
We're recapping twenty twenty five, so we are in the
middle of June.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well, music, the music world took a huge hit in June.
Two rock and roll Hall of famers, two musical geniuses,
if you really want to say it. The first person
to pass away in June was Sly Stone from Sly
and the Family Stone and you know, was it music genius?

(28:00):
Late sixties, early seventies. And then of course the drugs
and a lot of different things kicked in, and you know,
so you'll have that.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Kind of a theme with musicians in that era.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
And then Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I mean,
when you if you really like people, Brian Wilson had
the utmost respect from almost every musician because of his
creativity and how how he saw I mean, he was
one of those people that could see like music, he
could see it instead of just hear it. And I'm
not talking about just looking at the notes on the

(28:33):
paper or the words. You'll have people that can like
they'll they'll tell you that they can feel colors or
something of that nature. He saw music, and he had
he had huge visions. And even though like at the time,
the Beach Boys and the Beatles were kind of like,
he looked at it as a competition. He would he
would admire what McCartney and Lennon were doing, but yet

(28:54):
he wanted to outdo them, you know, And then they
would in turn admire what Brian Wilson was doing and
then went outdo him.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
There was a friendly rivalry.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
It wasn't really a rivalry, but I think they inspired
healthy competition. Yeah. I think there was inspiration on both
sides from all of them, and they didn't I don't
even know if they knew it at the time, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, So but anyway, those were
the two losses in June.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
So we also lost a celebrity chef, Anne Burrell. If
you're a food network person like I am, that was
very unexpected. So we also lost her at that point
in time. Also in June. Oh, that was a shocker.
Let's get into some headlines because June was kind of

(29:38):
a hot button month across the nation. It kicked off
with the series of No King's protests that occurred across
all fifty states. Of course, this was in opposition of
the Trump administration. On the same day as this, it
kicked off on the same day as the United States

(29:59):
Army Military Parade in DC. If you remember that pomping
and circumstance was which was in celebration of the anniversary of.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Two fiftieth anniversary.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Correct. Yeah, So, and there were no Kings protests here
in the Ohio Valley, which were actually kind of sad.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Funny thing is it? Ninety of the people that they interview,
but they had no idea what they were protesting. Oh no,
it was just it's just Trump derangement syndrome, and it's fine.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, walking around in what was it, turtle costume?

Speaker 5 (30:27):
What it was?

Speaker 2 (30:29):
So, yeah, that was one of the big talking points
for June, along with later in the month, the US
joined Israel in an offensive against Iranian nuclear facilities. That
was the bombing of the Three Sites and included more
than a dozen massive bunker buster bombs on subterranean, four

(30:50):
door and netance facilities. While Tomahawk missiles struck another location.
I'm not even going to attempt to say that one.
And then Operation Midnight Hammer involved one hundred and twenty
five aircraft and submarine launched missiles. That was I remember
when that happened. It was it was a very it

(31:12):
was a shock, it was a surprise.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, they kept it for the most part, they kept
it under wraps. Yeah. Of course, later on Pete Heggsath
would come under fire because of somewhere along the line
somebody received the text message they shouldn't received it, and
you know, so they're again making mountains out of molehills
to try to discredit Pete hegg Sathing, you know, but
that's what they do well.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
And then before we move on to sports real quick,
also in the month of June was the murder of
Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who
were shot and killed at their home. Now, if you
remember this, this was another one of the politically motivated
attacks that happened throughout the year. That's been unfortunately an

(31:56):
ongoing theme throughout the year, and we're going to be
getting to another one later on in the year. But
political violence seemed to increase during twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Unfortunately well in sports, and the first of the month,
the Belmont Stakes was run and a Sovereignty that won
the Kentucky Derby ended up winning the Belmont Stakes. It
was a little slightly shorter course because they had to move.
The renovation to Belmont Park is being done, so it
wasn't complete, so they actually ranted at Saratoga Springs, so
it was a little different race. So it's a different location,

(32:26):
a little shorter so, but Sovereignty and Junior Alvarez or
alvareto two, about three of the Triple Crown didn't run
the Breakness, so what could have been?

Speaker 5 (32:38):
I guess yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
And then of course the Stanley Cup, Florida Panthers won
their second consecutive title, again defeating the Edmonton Oilers five
to one. MVP was Sam Bennett of the Panthers. He's
the center. And the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City Thunder defeated
the Indiana Pacers in Game seven, winning the franchise's first

(32:59):
NBA total since moving from Seattle to Oklahoma City in
two thousand and eight. MVP his guard, Oklahoma City guard
Shy Gilgias Alexander. I know I've brutalized that, and I've
heard it so many times. I just I can't remember

(33:20):
what it is.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm not an MBA fans, No, I yes, exactly, But.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
You know, so those were some of the things. But
celebrity wise, we had a huge Oh one of the
other things we forgot In June, Jj Spahn he won
the US Open Championship right in our backyard up in
Pittsburgh at Oakmont Country Club. Oh okay, so PG. We
didn't want to leave out the PGA Tour champion. No, no, no,
our PGA champion. So anyway, but Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
In the news the wedding of the year.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, well, the Amazon gazillionaire. Well, you know, I got
to move over here my screen here.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
He took some time away from his Yeah, he took
it some time away from his honeymoon to give a
few details about his Lavish Venice wedding.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
I have Jeff Beziers.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Sorry, ladies, I'm off the market. I'm officially wedded. Our
Lavish nuptials were quite epic.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
Believe me. You have no choice but to believe me.
Since all the guests had to sign in NBA, so yeah,
believe me.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Oh, on a grand occasion. You haven't lived until you've
seen Jared.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
Kushner doing the chicken dance.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Leo DiCaprio got sir wasted here on the flower Girl.
And of course there was that awkward moment when Erprah
caught the bouquet. Sorry, stedman, but all told, it was
a simple affair.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Just a few hundred of.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
The world's richest and most influential people, a few thousand
protesters gathered outside the forty five walls, earned two people
madly in love.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Oh and yes, one air type free number.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Our invitations got lost?

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, man, did you'll have that?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Darn, darn, darn darn.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
I'm not really that upset that I didn't make it. No, no,
because I would have had to go to Europe twice.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Then.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Oh yeah, I mean that's now.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
If Jeff was paying, I'd have been there in a heartbeat.
And what do you get them? What do you get
him as a wedding gift? Hey, here's a set of
steak knives.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
You have an extra vacuum laying around.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Here's a shop back for your car. Well, here's a
shot back for your blue Origin.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh shoot, oh, you're listening to the blue Daddy Experience.
We're gonna move on to July when we get back here.
On news radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Z number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
is no bloom Daddy experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal in form, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom
Daddy Experience on news radio eleven seventy DOUBLEVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Welcome back on your Tuesday morning, the week of New
Year's Eve. We are wrapping up twenty twenty five with a.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Nice little bow for you head into the second.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Half, heading into the second half of the year, which
of course takes us to July. As we approach New
Year's Eve tomorrow, right, yeah, yeah, you have big plans.
Hell no, that's either no, I'm.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
So boring anymore.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Well, I don't even know if i'd say it's that
we're boring. It's just.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
I reached out to a couple of people to see
if they wanted to do anything, and they're him.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Han, yeah, that's kind of My husband said, He's like, well,
maybe we'll leave, we'll go early to like a nice
dinner somewhere.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
And I'm like, eh, yeah, I'm kind of with you.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I don't really care.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yeah, I mean my age, like, it's just it's not
that big of a deal anymore. Plus I call it
amateur night.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
So yeah, you know, it's not as bad as it
used to be. They I think people realize that, you.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Know, calm down right.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, but it used to be like those that were
skilled professional drinkers, huh, would stay home because the amateurs
were out there.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
They didn't want to deal with the Yeah. Yeah, well
let's get into you want to kick it off with
headlines for July, of course, the big one was the
Texas flooding. In the early hours of July fourth, heavy rain,
of course, inundated the Texas Hill Country region, which quickly
sparked what we now know and we witnessed the catastrophic flooding.

(37:48):
Over one hundred and thirty people were killed, including at
least one hundred and seventeen in Kerr County. More than
two dozen of the victims were from Camp Mystic, a
Christian girls sleep away camp in Kerr County. That was
some of the images from that were so sad.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
And it was so close to the flooding that we
had here. Yeah, and the fact that, you know, obviously
the number of lives lost created I think a bigger story,
and I don't think there was any I don't think
it was a It made it the peer as a
bigger story because of that. They were still it doesn't

(38:32):
matter if there's any loss of life. It's a tragic story.
But I think because of the camp and the age
of the victims and so on and so forth, that
it got more headlines. And people around here weren't happy
because at that point in time it hadn't been declared
a disaster.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Are yet that's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
So you know, I know it kind of ticked some
people off around here, and rightfully so well.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
And I hate to say this. I mean, I remember
the Texas flooding, but we were so wrapped up in
what was happening here that for me personally, I don't
want to say I didn't pay attention to what happened
in Texas, but priorities were local.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yes, you know, unfortunately, we were still focusing and still
still talking to Stacy Stephen from the United Way and
what was going on here locally, because the cleanup, you know,
it's still going on, still going on, and so you know,
I mean, but it was still fresh when this was happening.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, so that sort of kicked off July unfortunately. Also,
if you are somebody who's been following this story that
dates back to twenty twenty two actually, which of course
is the University of Idaho killings, Brian Coburger, the young man,
not young, charged, charged, and actually pled, was sentenced. He

(39:54):
was given four consecutive life sentences on the four first
degree murder counts and the maximum penalty of ten years
on the burglary count. Again, this the the actual homicides
happened in twenty twenty two where four young college students
lost their lives three three girls and a boy.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah, and you know the thing is he he was
going to go to trial and he you know, he
was saying that he was innocent and didn't do this,
didn't do this, and then all of a sudden he admitted
to the crimes. And then it a change of a
plea hearing, because I think they were looking at the
death penalty and I think he finally realized that and said,

(40:37):
you know, I'll just you know, I'll take my three
squares a day. Well, I mean, and then they hadn't
lived into twelve by twelve selves.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah, they had a DNA that tied him back to
the sheath of the knife that was used. They have
video evidence of his car circling the block, you know,
all of that stuff. So I think also, along with
you know, not wanting to face the death penalty, you
set back and you go this is pretty convincing evidence. Well,

(41:08):
speaking of trials, well, one other thing that was really
strange about this trial was he was a CSI student.
I mean he if anybody you know he was into,
not into, but he was trained in criminal investigation, and I.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Think part of in his sick mind, I think part
of it was he was trying to see if he.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Could get away with it when yeah, he could beat
the system.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yep, we're talking about trials. After an eight week trial
in Manhattan Federal Court, Sean Diddy Combs was convicted of
two counts of transportation for the purpose of prostitution. The
jury acquitted him of more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges,
and he was sentenced in October. He apologized in court,

(41:52):
saying I've been humbled and broke into my core. He's
now serving a four year sentence at FCI. Fort Dick's
a federal prison in New Jersey. So he's appealing the
conviction of your sentence up.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
There's a documentary, a four part documentary on Netflix about this,
and I actually watched it over the Christmas break and
they had two of the jurors from the trial speak
and he got convicted on the lesser charges, which I
don't agree with. But one of the they had the video,

(42:23):
remember the video that came out where he was kicking
the girlfriend and everything in the hotel. There were two people,
two jurors, and the older gentleman said, well, she kept
going back blame the victim. Yeah, you know, so I
thought that was interesting. Watch it if you know, watched
the documentary.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
If it interests you, well, that gripped the entertainment world.
You know what else gripped the entertainment world?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Not if you had oil?

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Baby oil was the tagline Sidney Sweeney has great genes.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Oh yes, oh that's right.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
So big American Eagle ad campaign mounched around mid twenty
mid July. And you know genes spelling G E N
E s. Yes, God did dead cause a controversy because
she's blonde and blue eyed and built like a brick warehouse. Anyway,

(43:17):
So they were saying that it had racial undertones, and
it was oh, what was it that they wanted? What
am I thinking? Like Nazism? You know they were.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
The supremacy, Yeah, white supremacy.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, but anyway, go ahead, eugenics there you know, Yeah,
that was brought into it.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, that was brought into.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
But because you know, the Aryan race type of theme.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Oh, because she was blonde hair and blue eye. Yeah.
Although it made American Eagle relevant again. I mean, they
had one of their best years selling genes that they've
had in many years. Right, it's just well, here, here's.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Here's what I was going for, white genetic superiority. Oh okay,
so that's where I was going. But I didn't interpret
that at all.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
No, And that's exactly what I was going to say.
Is for those who see everything through a lens like this,
that reflects on you in the way you think, not
necessarily the intentions of the people that came up with
this ad campaign. That's the way I look at it.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Well, you had ads, you had billboards, you had I mean,
it was just it was just a play on words,
is what it was. Yeah, And you know, you know,
when you're advertising and you know you have to come
up with something creative, and so a lot of times
it is a play on words, or it's a you know,
it's a catchphrase or you know, where's the beef for?

(44:42):
You know, anything like that and nothing.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Like this isn't new. Go back, sorry, go back to
the Calvin Klein ads with Marky Mark and Brooks Shields.
And you know it's again people read into things and
it's like some some times I just want to say,
lighten up.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Yep, absolutely, lighten up.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Lighten up. It's a couple of people lightened up in
July and then they got caught on the kiss cam. Oh,
the bloom Daddy Experienced samon Otis, News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

(45:27):
Welcome back the Blue Daddy Experience on your Tuesday here
on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. You know what also
happens in July Prime days?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Ah? It does it?

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Does? You know? And according to sales figures, Amazon's prime
days were down from previous years. All poor thing. As
you might imagine, this is a court of course not
sitting well with founder Jeff Bezos, and he files this
report from the North pole, or rather his mountaintop layer.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Jeff Bezos, Please excuse me if I seem a little down.
My mood is merely a reflection of something else that's
down even more. And that's Prime Day sales. I'm looking
at the numbers and I'm like, hey, what the what, folks.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
In case you've forgotten, here's how it works.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
I put a bunch of junk that wasn't selling before
on sale for forty percent off.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
You buy it, and then I buy a new.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Support yacht, Easy peasy, it's not Blue Origin Rocket Science.
Prime Day is supposed to be like, oh, I don't
know Christmas in July, but guess what Old Bazos clause
here knows when you've been shopping, and I know when
you leave items in your cart.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
I know when you've been bad or good. So click
by now and do your part. Oh no, you're all
on the naughty list.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
There's nothing wrong with be none. Then it is no no.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
And they do know when you leave something lingering in
your cart. Yes, they send you a little at least
on my phone. This is still sitting there.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
I don't get those, and it's like I don't normally
I leave things in my like, I watch them, but
I don't put them in my cart.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Oh my husband puts everything in the car and just
leaves his sitting there and then I delete delete.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
I did that on eBay sometimes.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Oh Sam, do.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Well I do for the Baseball Baseball card so I
needed three cards that complete a set.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Did you get them?

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I ordered them the other day, Okay, so yeah, well
you know, actually I needed four because there's two sets.
There's a subset. Oh so I needed an Aaron Judge.
So I got that one and then I got the
three to complete the base set. So that's that's what
I was looking for anyway. Looking at sports life is
complete now yep. The Open Championship we call it the
British Open, but the Brits call it the Open Championship.

(47:51):
Scotti Sheffler hit the second major of his year. He
also won the PGA Tour Championship. So Scottie Scheffler, you're.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
You're had a good twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Yeah, you're Brittish Open champ.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
The Baseball All Star Game saw Pittsburgh Pirates' phenom Paul
Skens start for the second year in a row, which
is pretty impressive for as young as he is. Is
the ninety fifth Major League Baseball All Star Game, obviously
between the American and National League. The game was played
on July fifteenth and was televised on Fox. It was

(48:25):
hosted by the Atlanta Braves and Truest Park. They played
to a six to six tie after nine innings, causing
the swing off tiebreaker role, which was originally implemented in
twenty twenty two. It was the first time it was
ever invoked in the All Star Game. The National League
won the tiebreaker four to three and the game by
a de facto score of seven to six. The Phillies

(48:47):
designated hitter Kyle Schwarber hit three home runs for the
National League during the tiebreaker and winning the All Star
Game MVP Award for his efforts.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
This is a fun last name, Schwarber Schreber.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
The Pirates are supposed league. He might be coming to
the Pirates ails YEP. I haven't seen any updates on that.
But also speaking of baseball, the Hall of Fame Induction
share ceremony took place at the end of the month.
Dick Allen, Dave Parker from the Pirates, C. C. Sabbathia E.
Chi Row, each Roe Suzuki and Billy Wagner all inducted

(49:20):
into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Nice nice, nice, nice, nice nice.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Of course, we have the infamous kiss cam.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Oh yes, I'm sorry. This is one of the best
viral moments of the year.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Also the dumbest it is.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
It's so dumb but so funny and the the so
basically what we're talking about. If you were living under
a rock. For twenty twenty five, there was this man
and this woman, Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot who went
to a Coldplay concert. I don't even remember where it was.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Was it in La No, somewhere in the northeast?

Speaker 2 (49:55):
I think, Oh, okay, So they go to this concert, right,
and the kiss goes to him and he's standing behind her,
his arms around and they absolutely look like a deer
in headlights.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Oh they got caught.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Oh they got caught and didn't die.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
One of them ducked down, the other one kind of
turned around and then like the friend was the friend
that was there was like, uh uh oh, what can
I do to help cover?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Well, didn't die.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Chris Martin from Coldplay caught him out.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So but listen that all happens, right,
it takes off on on social media. But then the
stuff that people came up with after the fact, the
the the ai little vignettes or memes or whatever the
right term is were fantastic.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Well, here's the thing. If they would have done nothing
and just stood there, nobody would have known except for
the people with that concept.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
So by doing what they did, they in turn made
it a national spectacle. If you just stand there and
don't react, your gold. Okay, so somebody there might catch you,
but it's not gonna make national news. This not only Nash,
it made international news. And then, like you said, but

(51:19):
they both lost their jobs I think, or they resigned
or whatever. I'm not saying they got fired, but they
both lost their jobs. I think one one of the
spouses of the people involved filed for divorce most immediately.
You know, had they had they just let it go. Now,
of course, it could have been somebody there that knew them,

(51:41):
could have had it on their cell phone video and
then they could have posted it on social media. But
it's still if they wouldn't have done anything, and maybe
a spouse or somebody would have caught them, and it
could have created it, but it would have never made
the national news.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
What was that? My grandmother always just say they had
the look of the cat that ate the canary? Is
that the line the cat that ate the canary or whatever? Oh? Yeah,
it was. But one of the best memes was it
the burger king King that was hugging the Wendy Wendy
from the Wendy's. I'm trying to think of all the
different ones that it spawned, but it was just as

(52:19):
it was hilarious, well.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
You know, and the fact that the fact that there
was and then I guess at the next concert, at
the next cold Play concert, which I think was in Toronto,
if I'm not mistaken, the lead singer from Coldplay, Chris, Yeah,
he get hot. He said, Okay, if anybody heres with
somebody that's not you're not supposed to be with, we're

(52:41):
gonna do the kiss for him now, right grave Everybody
your heads up and you kind of make it, made
a joke about it.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
But I'm pulling up some of the memes that were
that were done on on social media with this. But Simps,
the Simpsons got involved.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
I mean, if if you were anybody, I think Saturday,
I ain't Live did a sketch if I'm not mistaken,
or because Saturday Night Live wouldn't have been on then,
but there were there were, like people did sketches about it. Oh,
it just it might have been late night one of
the late night shows, did it.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
I wonder what that drive home from that concert was
like for the two of them.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
I'm sure it wasn't good.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Were they saying nobody saw that. Nobody's gonna know about that.
Also in pop culture, during the month of July, CBS
announced the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
It started in twenty fifteen. Big loss there, said nobody.

(53:44):
Oh that music means we have to go to a break.
When we get back, we're gonna get a hit on
who we lost in July real quick. We didn't get
into that August, and then we'll get into August. All right,
you're listening to the Blue Daddy Experience samon OTAs here
on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. All right, folks, welcome

(54:11):
back on your Tuesday. We're gonna wrap up July with Unfortunately,
who we lost in the month of July, because we
lost a handful folks. Actually, who we want to hint
on first. Of course, Ozzy, I think we got to
I would saved that for last, but that's okay, okay, yeah,

(54:32):
I mean you're there now, so you might as well go.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
But Ozzie not long after his the Black Sabbath Final
Reunion concert and farewell and everything else, it passes away.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Yeah, you saw his final song. Did you see the
clip of that?

Speaker 3 (54:48):
I believe I maybe caught it on YouTube or social
media or something.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
You almost it almost had a feel of like he
knew that that was gonna be as Lias and far off. Yeah,
I mean, I hate to say it like that, but yeah,
it just kind of had that feel. Of course, we
lost lost Ozzie Black Sabbath.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Well, you lost televangelist Jimmy Swaggert too. That was the
televangelism thing was huge, like in this late seventies eighties,
but rocked with scandal. You know. I mean, I think
Jimmy Swagger, if I'm not mistaken, Jimmy Swagger like apologized
to his congregation because he had an affair with either
had an affair or an affair with a prostitute or

(55:32):
something of that nature. Didn't all of them at the
same I mean, they all did something wrong, but you
know they like, oh, forgive me, I have sin and
they're crying. It's like, I'm not buying it.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Real quick. I want to go back to Ozzie. I
was gonna say for people with my generation, the Osbourne's
Ozzy on that reality show with those cats and those dogs.
It was hilarious. Absolutely and Sharon, yeah, I remember watching
it in call I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
And then, of course, uh, theo Huxtablecolm Jamal Warner.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
This was awful.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Was he drowned in the Caribbean and h was was
while he was attempting to save I believe one of
his kids children. Yeah, I didn't put down. I mean
I knew he wasn't. I think it was one of
his children, but it was. He was there to save
a child, and unfortunately he drowned in the Caribbean.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Way too young, way too young. And he was also
a successful child actor who had made it as an adult.
He was on a couple of really good shows here recently.
I remember why you know one show recently on Fox
which was called The Resident. He played a surgeon. Fantastic
and it was like, oh, it's the Ohuxtable. Yeah, it
was a horrible story. Horrible, Yeah, shocking.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Well, he was on a short lived series on CBS
that he played the Michael Wilbon yeah to Tony Kornheiser,
you know, pardon the interruption, right, Yeah, so it was
the show was loosely based on that, because Tony Kornheiser
will talk about it a lot. Oh and so Jason Alexander,

(57:11):
George Costanzo played the Tony Kornheiser side and Malcolm Jamal
Warner played the Michael Wilbond time.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
I don't remember that.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Yeah, it only lasted a year because it was actually
it wasn't a bad show. But of course in today's
day and age, if you don't get the ratings in
the first two weeks, you're on. So but that was
one of those shows that and I think it was
and I hate to say this because I don't want
to talk down to anybody, but I think it was
smarter than the average the average audience person.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Well, yeah, because the average audience watches things like Big Brother.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Doctor Pimple Popper, right, basically what I'm talking about, Bloom Daddy.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Real Housewives, and myself, completely honest, I like that trash
TV myself.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
And then the other the other big passing in July,
the Hawkster Helk Cogan you know, I mean Terry Yeah,
so you know, I mean changed wrestling forever wrestling. Vince
McMahon can be credited with changing wrestling because he took

(58:21):
it from a regional thing to a national and but
he needed somebody to anchor. He needed he needed he
needed the star. And at that point in time, because
Andre the Giant was getting a little long in the tooth,
he was getting you know, some of the bigger names
from from the day, we're maybe getting a little older.

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Some of them, like the Rick Flair's and the Von
Ericks and everything, they didn't they weren't into They wanted
to stay regional. They wanted to, but they wanted the
because they they didn't want to just fit into what
Vince McMahon had.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
They didn't see the potential.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Well they did, but they also some of them were
under contract. Oh some of them, you know, the Van Eriks,
they were they had a piece of the pie in
the Texas Wrestling so they weren't going to leave their own,
you know, their own franchise. The Brett Harts, I mean
from the Canadian, the Pacific Northwest. You know, it took

(59:18):
them a while to come in because they you know,
they were trying to hang on and eventually they either
got bought out or whatever. But I mean, Hulk was
the face of wrestling from about nineteen eighty three till
he died.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Oh yeah, Well, it's one of those situations where two
people come together, like the stars align and it's the
perfect recipe for something new to sure be birth. That
sounds very dramatic when we're talking about wrestling, but you
know what I'm saying, like, if those two people didn't

(59:53):
link up, it wouldn't have well.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
And then you're wrestling purists like the Brett Harts and
the the ones that are family wrestling businesses. They didn't
have a lot of respect for Hallkogan as a wrestler
because he was just big and strong, and you know,
there were certain things that he really didn't have, like
the wrestling technique.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
But he had the personality, had.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
The personality, He had the it factor.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Yep, yep, that thing you can't put your finger on.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
So those are your July desk. But since we're talking
about people that passed away, since there's not that many
in August, we might as well, just go ahead and
hit August while we're at it, which is seventies bombshell.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
I was going to let you do it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Lonnie Anderson from WKRP in Cincinnati. Jennifer Marlowe was her secretary.
She was the secretary, but she's the one that held
the station together. She wasn't your ditzy blonde. She was
the professional. Even though she was a receptionist. She was
the one that kept everything, you know, she had standards

(01:00:56):
and everything else. And just wouldn't she a very positive
role model to be honest with you. You know, yes,
she had the looks and she had everything that you know,
the quote unquote receptionists would have and where the bosses
and the salespeople would hit on her. But she kind
of like she was kind of in charge, especially of
mister Carlson who ran the station. So but Lonnie, and

(01:01:21):
of course she had she was with She was in
that show with Burt Reynolds. I think it was Evening Shade.
I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
He was in Evening Shade, but she wasn't in it.
They were married at the time.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Oh okay, I loved Evening Oh yeah, because Mary lew
Henner was in here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Yes, she played the wife.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Yeah yeah, but Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson were married
for a while, and uh, you know, you know, posters galore.
I don't know if I ever had a Lonnie Anderson
poster or not as a kid, but I'm sure there
were some magazine pictures or something on my wall at
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Oh, I'm sure there was.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Being twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Well, it's so funny because I still have people that
will say things to me working in this industry that
I know they're pulling their their vision of what we
do is w k RP in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
I mean, have you worked in this industry, and especially
not not so much now, but in the late eighties,
early nineties, a lot of similarities. This sleazy salesperson. Oh yeah,
you know, you get the stoned.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Out yeah DJ, the rock DJ.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Yeah, you've got the soul you know, the soul DJ
as well, you know, the guy with the smooth voice.
Then you've got the guy that's holding it all together.
And you get the clueless guy that runs the station.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
But think they know everything.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Yeah. Yeah, as God as my witness, I thought turkeys
could fly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Oh God, that's a great episode.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Oh goodness, one of the best.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Oh, absolutely absolutely. Well, we're gonna pretend we know what
we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
That's a daily occurrent.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
We're gonna keep this trainer moving. We're gonna get into
the headlines of August, sports, national, everything. Stick with us.
You're listening to the bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Well, we're about to wrap this up,

(01:03:36):
but we got to wrap up August before we do.
The bloom Daddy Experience salmon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
Month of August, you know, kicked off with something that
we have not seen very often here in the US.
President Trump deployed at least eight hundred National Guard troops

(01:03:56):
into Washington, d C. And declared the federal and declared
federal control of the DC police force, which was an
interesting move by the President. But if you watched during
that point in time, you know, the man on the
street interviews the citizens of d C thanked the President

(01:04:18):
for this move. Crime dropped, it continues to drop, and
in a way, I like the mentality of if you're
not going to clean up your own streets and act
like respectable citizens. We're going to make you act like
respectable citizens. Maybe it's just me. I don't know, but

(01:04:41):
you know, we have not seen that before. And of
course later on we will discuss some of the West
Virginia National Guard troops that were in DC also that
ties into this a bit. Yeah, we'll hit on that tomorrow.
Also out of d C. I don't know if you
remember this name, Sean Dunn. Okay, think subway, think sandwiches.

(01:05:03):
This is the guy who decided to confront the Ice
agents who were patrolling the streets of DC and he
decided to throw the sandwich at the officer. Nothing like
being pistol whipped by a sub But what happened after
that went into.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
He was then eventually charged with felony assault three days
after the the sub incident, and then he was later
the charges were dropped or they were lowered, but he
did later on lose his job because of it. So,
but it was all caught on It was caught on tape,
and I guess what he had available at that point

(01:05:51):
in time of a weapon was the submarine.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Sub just they just made they they make me think,
what are you thinking?

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Sometimes you just can't make things up. No, you know,
that's plain and simple. You just can't make it up.
Two of the more disturbing stories of the year happened
in August. First off was the illegal truck driver, which
brought into the national narrative something that I was not
aware of, and I'm sure a lot of people were

(01:06:26):
not aware of the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Number of illegual aliens driving tractor trailers. Yes, they can't
read English.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Yes, it's incredibly scary. The gentleman at the center of
this story that happened on August twelfth was Hargenda hard Gender,
saying he is the one that tried to do an
illegal U turn and ended up crashing into a van
with an entire family in that and resulted in three

(01:06:56):
people passing away. This happened in South Florida, and I'm
sure you've seen the actual footage that was recorded inside
the truck of inside the the not the bet of
the truck, the main area where you can see him
driving at the time and the accident happens. But as
you know, otis as you said, and as I said,

(01:07:18):
you know, this brought into the spotlight a talking point
that I think a lot of people need to know about.
You know, and then wrapping up August when it comes
to top headlines was the story of Irena Zurutska. That
is the young twenty three year old Ukrainian refugee. She

(01:07:38):
is the beautiful young woman who was stabbed to death
in North Carolina on the train. Again a horrible, sad, sad,
sad story.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
I think the saddest part is that nobody, nobody comes
out to her, aid, Yeah, us.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Two people just walked right past the idea.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
I mean, granted, maybe they didn't maybe they didn't see
what happened. Maybe they didn't realize what had happened. I'm
not sticking up for them, but obviously I wasn't on
that train, but you do see the people walk right by.
Of course she's not she doesn't really react, she's just
kind of holding on to her. So, I mean, I
can see maybe if you weren't paying attention, you had
your eyes closed, your headphones in, you didn't see what happened,

(01:08:25):
you just get up and go. I get that part
of it, But I mean, just a very sad fact
that nobody came.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
To aid well in this in this story brought into
the conversation how many times the offender had been released
with multiple charges and a larger port. Point of conversation
is the need for better, better what's the word I'm
looking for, mental evaluation? Criminal. You know, all of the

(01:08:55):
stuff that's going on in this country, we seem to
continue to see increase acts of just horrific violence. I mean,
and it's on trains. Remember last year in twenty twenty four,
that woman was set on fire. It's like, God, I
don't know, I don't know. Sometimes there are things that
just are not explainable.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Well, we sure is heck, they want to end the
show on something. No, we didn't like that. So I
don't know if you remember, but Amazon purchased the rights
to the James Bond movie franchise. At the time, rumors
were swirling around that Jeff Bezos wants a particular woman
to play the next Bond girl. Well, if you haven't

(01:09:34):
guessed who that might be, please allow the Amazon evil
genius to fill you in.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
By Jeff basis, you may be aware that the James
Bond movie franchises under the creative control of Amazon, and
therefore by extension me.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
But to worry not, Bond fans.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
I shall keep my distance and not exert any influence
over the next film, except for one tiny, itty bitty suggestion.
The next Bond girl must be my wife, Laurence Sanchez. No,
might I suggest the name, Oh, I don't know, Booby Galorere.

(01:10:16):
She shall be the smokingest, hottest Bond girl ever and
her love scene with Double O seven will be rapturous. So,
in speaking of the love scene with doubloh seven, might
I make one seaween sea suggestion as to who shall
play him?

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
The names Basos Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Bezos in speaking of Love will end it on this
August saw the announcement of Travis and Taylor. Oh be

(01:10:58):
a big engagement announcement. So maybe twenty twenty six will
be the year of law.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
Another wedding we won't get invited to.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
We'll watch for our invitation in the mail.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
I won't be watching for it. I guarantee you it's
never going to come.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
No, everybody, have a good Tuesday. We'll wrap up twenty
twenty five tomorrow. We'll talk to you then