The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam December 31, 2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, good morning, folks, Happy New Year's Eve. Oh thank
you for tuning in on your Wednesday morning. Of course,
this is the bloom Daddy Experience. I'm Sam, He's otis
here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Oh does you
have your hat.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
In your It's appropriately champagne day.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
In case you wanted to know, I did not know. Well,
that ties in perfectly.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
There's a reason for that. I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Do you have your your whistles in your all? That?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I will probably be asleep. I'd be two at ten
or ten thirty.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't think I've actually seen New Year's Eve at
midnight for two years. I did last year, did you, Yeah,
I had, Well, I was at.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Your house for a little bit last year.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh that's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
And then I went on and spent New Year's Eve
with a friend.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, was that last year you were at my house?
Oh gosh, well, sorry, there's no invitation this shit.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That's perfectly fine. I'm okay with that.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
There's nothing going on. Nothing going on is quite quiet.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
It was funny. I got a phone call last night
from my dad, you know, like just out of the blue,
and he says, hey, what'd you do Christmas Day? And
I said nothing, I just hung around and he goes, well,
why didn't you come down? And I'm like, well, because
I didn't know what your plans were and you didn't say, hey,
if you're not doing anything, come down. So I wasn't
going to invite myself. Plus I got two dogs to

(01:41):
take care of. You know, I was just down there
five days earlier, goalk on, Hello, Hey, I'm are you.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Doing anything for Christmas? Let me in? Please?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
You don't have any friends? I don't have any friends.
Can you help me out?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's like tiny Tim, Hello, that's appropriate, tiny Tim? Oh goodness, yeah, sorry, okay,
I can see how that can be taken a certain
way too. Oh goodness. But yes, tonight is New Year's Eve.
But listen, you can't actually start celebrating early thanks to uh.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Our friends a curtains.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Uh huh, yep, okay, it's not even a deal. Well
it's a deal.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
So here's what they're doing this time of year. They
take a break and close the doors. This is for
the Saint Clairsville store and for some well deserved time
off and all of that. Now what they're doing today
and today only, you can go on out and get
a free scoop in a cup or in a cone.

(02:47):
They're giving away free ice cream.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
So one free scoop, free scoop.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
In a cone or a cup doesn't include Sundays, it
doesn't include the half gallons. But this is the opportunity
to go out and get some free ice cream.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
So they're clearing out the stock basically.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yes, that's fine. Yeah, So you know how they the
big tubs that they scoop from, because they're going.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
To think they're like a probably like a three gallon
or five gallon.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Tubs because of them's closing for a couple of months
once they're open. But they have to yes, they can't
reseal them in that hole.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
So instead of throwing it away, they're reboarding your customers
or anybody here in the High Oley.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
So go get a free scoop on us or on kirk.
It's kurk on kirk, So go take advantage of that.
And while you're there, of course, uh stack up.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
For get your free gear because they're not going to.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Get your half gallons. That'll get you through the.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Time period January February time period.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yep, yep, yep, that's fun. I know where I'm going
after the show.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Are they going to be opened that early? Oh no, probably,
I don't think they open till what noon?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
They don't open un till noon, Okay, but I do
know some people.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, yeah, pool that deal. Yeah, make a phone call.
You're gonna have to slaby that let me in. You'd
have to slaby that number, let me in.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
So anyways, that's going on all day today, so go
take advantage of that. So what we're doing, as we've
been doing the past couple days, we are basically going
through twenty twenty five little year in review, what happened
locally nationally in the sports world, in in you know

(04:29):
who we lost twenty twenty five, or doing a recap, Yeah,
doing it month by month yep.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
And we've got today's the last quarter so or the
last third.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Actually September, October, November, December. Yep, that's what we're hitting
on this morning, and of course talking about fun stuff
with New Year's Eve. So I want to kick it
off with September, Sure, go ahead, Do we want to hit.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Might as well hit the headlines first?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
All right?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, September basically kicked off something that we've not seen before,
which is the US military strikes that were launched against
drug vessels or suspected drug vessel vessels in the international
waters in the Caribbean Sea. The first one happened on
September second, killing eleven people. Now here's what makes this unique.

(05:17):
As I said, we've not seen something like this before.
It's a departure from the typical law enforcement of drug
vessels coming, you know, to our shores, where you know,
this administration basically is saying enough is enough. If you're
bringing this poison into our country, you're not gonna make it.

(05:38):
And this has and this continues to this day. So
that was kind of the launch of this mission to
stop the flow of illegal substances into our country. So
that was kind of the big kickoff of September. It
was followed up by President Trump deploying ten F twenty

(06:00):
five fighter jets to Puerto Rico to take part in
military action against drug cartels in the Caribbean Caribbean region.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
So you could have said Caribbean, it would have been right.
What's right, They're both.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Right, Okay, that's what I thought. So again, this administration
is saying enough's enough when it comes to the drug cartels.
They're trying to put an end to the flow of
that into our country.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
And those that are opposed of anything that Donald Trump
does says, oh, these could be fishing boats. Well, fishing
boats don't travel like fifty miles an hour, sixty miles
an hour and open.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Waters with big blocks of white stuff. Yeah, not that
I'm saying that. That's that, you know, right, I guess
I just had a vision from your typical drug movie
Miami Vice.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, oh, now, and you know we had there were
some other things that you know obviously, you know, because
obviously the big story that we're going to get to
is Charlie Kirk. But we're gonna step into the the
next segment because we you know, this is we've only
got a couple of minutes left in this one. But
it was the wrap up of the regular season for baseball,

(07:08):
so you know, I mean, football is in full swing
at this point in time in September, it's kicking in
the year, so at least for the college I mean
there are two or three games in started September. Anyway,
Yankees Aaron Judge took the American League and Major League
batting crown with a three thirty one batting average. Seattle
Mariners Cam Rally was the AL and Major League Baseball

(07:31):
home run king with sixty home runs. Switch hitter I
believe tied to an American tieder record is a switch hitter,
because I believe you no, Mickey Mandle didn't hit sixty,
so I think he has the record for most home
runs as a switch hitter in a season. And he's
a catcher.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
You're looking at me, I know.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
I just thought. Trey Turner was the National League batting
champion with three oh seven average, and Kyle Schwarber, a
fifty eight home runs for the Nation League was also
the we mentioned yesterday was also the All Star Game
MVP Schwarmer fifty eight home runs. So and they both
played for the Phillies.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
So just like to say that mean, yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
And you know, obviously and after the season's over in November,
you're the awards go out and Aaron Judge put up
solid numbers, but in reality, cal Raley should have been
the MVP because you could have taken if you took
if you took Cayl Raley off of the Mariners this year,

(08:35):
they wouldn't have had the success that they did. Whereas
Aaron Judge with the Yankees, it really wouldn't have made
that much of a difference. You don't think, I mean,
you would have had somebody else come in there, and
I mean, yeah, I mean, but what I'm saying is
Aaron Judge is probably gonna win. He's already won like
two or three MVPs. He's gonna win probably two or
three more. I just personally think that I would have
given it to cal Rally.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I saw Aaron Judge is a huge human, beings like
six sevens and he's solid.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
I mean, he's thick. Oh yeah, I mean he could
play football.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh yeah, he could be a heck of a tight end.
Oh yeah, He's just a beast.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Of a He's a big boy.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
He's a big boy. Imagine keeping that fed.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh I don't think he has a problem. No, well,
I mean he's got he's got a couple bucks.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, no, I know I always think, like you see,
like the Watt family, I always think back to, like
when they were in high school, what that mother like,
what the food bill would have been.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
To keep they had, like a commercial refrigerator in your house. Yeah,
it was like going to the story. You just opened
up the door and everything's in. They get the window
right there. It's like going to the cooler in your
gas station.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh gonna say.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Poop, pick out a six pack of beer, pop or something.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
All Right, we're gonna continue talking about September twenty twenty
five when we get back. Of course, we're going to
talk about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And then also
something goes away and it's a sound. As soon as
I tell you what it is, you're gonna it's gonna
pop right into your head. You're listening to the Bloomdaddy Experience.

(10:08):
Samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Happy New Year's Eve, folks,
The Bloomdaddy Experience. Samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA.
We are counting down twenty twenty five headlines, losses, sports,

(10:34):
all of that good stuff local. We are breaking it down.
We are right in the middle of September, So let's.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let's get into the Yeah, yeah, well in September, you had.
One of the earlier passings was Rick Davies. He was
the lead singer and founder of Supertramp. Okay, uh, you know,
kind of heavy late seventies, early eighties Breakfast at America,
one of the pretty good album I'll be honest with you, Okay,

(11:03):
we had what was the fashion designer?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
You had, Giorgio ARMANI.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, that's another one that was early on. He died
in ninety one. Robert Redford, The Natural, This Thing, Butch
Cassidy and The Sun Dance Kid. He was in a
couple of the Marvel movies.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
He worked up until.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, I mean he was. He was at it and
probably you know, as far as like the ladies are concerned,
like oh big heart throb from the sixties and seventies
and eighties, and you know, so, I mean.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
He was, yes, he even I mean he could have
been my grandfather. But was a very attractive man. He
was even up until He was also a really famed director,
which you know, tends to be left out of the
conversation a lot, but he was a very successful director
in his own but he was eighty nine years old.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah. Yeah, And of course, of course the big one
that's going to lead to some of our stories here
is the passing of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
So yes, us political activists.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
The assassination, we might as well say, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
The assassination. Yeah, the loss of Charlie Kirk was the
big story of September. Now, the very next day, on
September eleventh, his assumed assassin was turned in, if you will,
by his family, but at the urging of his father

(12:30):
and the family minister, which I can't even imagine being
that father having to you know, that is my son.
I can tell by the pictures and you know, but well, you.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Know, I mean, here's here's the thing. You know, your
son did something wrong, something of that magnitude. I think,
I think your conscience has to say, I have to
do the right thing. You know, it's your son. You
don't stop loving them, you but you know that they've
done something horrific.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Back to the day that it happened, for me, this
was something and it still affects me in a way
that I can't explain my reaction that day. It's one
of those things that I will always remember where I
was when this happened. And the closest that I feel

(13:30):
like I can equate it to for other generations is
where you were on September eleventh or JFK. And I
am not I am not comparing him to JFK.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
On what I'm saying is he was significant moment. Did
you remember?

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes, that, but also he his youth and the now
question that we have of what could have been with him.
I followed him on social media and for somebody who
all he did was was talk, and all he did

(14:07):
was give people the opportunity to give their point of
views on particular subjects, political subjects, national subjects, and gave
them a microphone to be heard and debate with him,
you know, to have his life taken the way it
was in such a public forum. That's one of my

(14:30):
biggest issues right now as it goes through the court system.
His his attorney's trying to keep cameras out of the courtroom. Well,
he had no problem taking that man's life in front
of a camera. But yeah, it's just one of the things.
It really really affected me.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Well, and you know, we talk about, you know, some
of these events, but in the lead up to the
capture of the assassin. You know, it was videos and
and security cameras and home security cameras that they pieced
together to also identify.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
This following his movements. Yeah, and here's one part of
this story that I think a lot of people leave
out is the thousands of young adults that were on
that college campus that day that witnessed this in person.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well, you know, they had the memorial on the twenty first,
and over one hundred thousand people attended the service for
him in Phoenix, Arizona, which was held at State Farm Stadium.
So I mean, you know that was the big thing. Well,
then of course he had fallout after it.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh and that continues to this to this day.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
With Jimmy Kimmel. He got suspended for his comments and
because he didn't need they weren't fact based. You know,
it was his Trump derangement syndrome that kicked in. But
you know the bad thing about that was six days
later they put him back on the air. So I
mean he only missed I mean, you throw a weekend
in there, he only missed a couple of days of work.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, here, the thing it wasn't ABC as a whole
that took him off the air. It was carriers of
those affiliates.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, it was the affiliates. Yeah, yeah, people who carry
the show.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
So you know, I mean words half meaning, Yeah, they do.
And you know, I mean, I think Jimmy Kimmel got
what he deserved as far as his suspension. But you know,
there's people are gonna say, oh, free speech and everything else.
But you know, there are certain things you can say
and certain things you.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Can There's called tact and it was lacking in that
instant for Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Well. One of the other things that happened at September
was the first day of Autumn. I don't know if
you remember that. It was September twenty second. It was
the official start of bottomn Jeff Bezos was looking forward
to the fall season and he shared some of his plans.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
He designed Jeff Bezers.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
The day's in occasion for celebration. It's the first day
of autumn. It's like the prime day of the changing seasons.
Other the arrival of autumnal equinox is bitter sweet as
we bid bye bye to summer and winterize.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
Our megayachts and our megayacht support yachts, Oh yes, and
our megayacht support, yacht support, dochts, you know, typical stuff.
We also look forward to the prurient pleasantries of autumn,
namely the arrival of klingy cashmere sweater season for my
smoker good wife, Lauren Sanchez. Dang girl, I cannot wait

(17:34):
to taste the pumpkins. Spice a lotte on your lips
and trust.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Me, there's a lot of surface area there to work with.
Happy foll y'all.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
The best part about that one is I don't think
that's when we got to because we we had to.
That was only good for that day and we didn't
get to it. So but anyway, we got more coming up.
We're gonna be looking at October. October coming up here
just a little bit. It's the bloom Daddy Experience with
Sam and Otis on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experienced salmon Otis, News
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are breaking down twenty twenty
five folks, because guess what we are how many hours away?
And it's over right, yeah, out the door will be
twenty twenty five onto twenty twenty six. So with that
being said, Happy New Year's Eve. We've covered September already,

(18:44):
so we're going to get into October, the best month
of the year, because God, I love October, of course
you do. Well, yeah, that's the month, the month I
was born, of course, but I just think it's like
one of the prettiest months of the year with the
leave changing. I can't argue with you there, Yes, so

(19:05):
that's what I was getting at. Not that you know
I was born that.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Have to get defensive about it.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
So anyway, so the HU all right, So the month
kicked us off with Sean Diddy Combs.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Which we talked a little bit about yesterday.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yes, well, this was got to the sentencing portion of
the trial where he was sentenced to four years and
two months in a federal criminal case of transportation for prostitution,
which he is currently appealing. So he was sentenced two
years I'm sorry, four years and two months.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
That's what.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
How many months?

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Thirty six and two thirty eight months?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
So I'm sure do you meagine?

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Did you imagine if you four times twelve is forty eight?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
You get put into a cell? Yeah, you get put
into a cell. And it's like, oh my, it's puff
Daddy is my cell mate.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Or Diddy or whatever whatever other name. He had a time.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Well did he start calling himself love at a certain
point too.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Anyways, so he was sentenced for his.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Doing anything to stay relevant.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
For his crimes at the at the point in time,
staying in the music world. For the Swifties out there.
Early in the month, her newest album Who Taylor Swift,
of course dropped Life of a show Girl, which was
her twelfth studio album, and people lost their mind. They

(20:41):
went in with the lyrics with a fine tooth comb
and broke it down. And there was there was one
I can't remember what it was off the top of
my head where she was talking about Travis Kelsey and
it was it was a salacious line. That's what people think.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
So yeah, that was word for it.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, so that was the big music news that month.
Also that month, if you have gold laying around, the
price of gold went up to four thousand dollars an
ounce for the first time ever.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
So yeah, I'm not buying any gold off right anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
No. No, Well, if you had any laying around that
you could, well I could.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I could probably I could probably go to my financial
advisor and say, hey, I'd like to invest X amount
of money into gold, But then I don't know if
it's going to give me the return that I want,
like a short term return.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I got you.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Had I done it ten years ago, maybe I would have.
You know, maybe I could be making a thousand dollars
an ounce. But I mean, in reality, let's say I
bought let's say I bought ten ounces for thirty thousand dollars. Well,
I'd only made ten thousand dollars that in that ten
year period. Oh, it's not bad, but it's not. I mean,

(21:59):
I think what I've got my stuff in is now
is making better.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, that's one of my goals this year is too.
As I said earlier this week, be a little bit
more diligent about that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Some of the bigger news as far as like you
know we were talking, is the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
You know that we don't know if it's still an effectory.
I guess technically it's still in effect, but there's still
stuff going on. Yeah, but Hamas did return the last
twenty survivors this twenties surviving Israeli hostages, and Israel freed

(22:37):
about two thousand Palestinian prisoners and detainees. And this was
all just about two years after the first terrorist attack
Israel's military response, so you know, I mean it's you know,
then you had to course more drug cartel boats being
blown up, I think somewhere in the vicinity of like
the sixth or seventh one in October man And then

(23:01):
of course you had the big louver.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
The heist huh.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Around the world, and then the big controversy is it
louver or Louvras.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I have yet to hear it called Louverra anywhere. They
stole uh, the Napoleon's jewels worth over one hundred million dollars.
And here's the thing. They did it during the day,
so they didn't do it under the cover of darkness.
They did it right there in the daylight, which that
you even have to have bigger cajones to do it

(23:33):
right there out and the daylight. They took off what
was I reading, They took off on those electric scooters.
So if we ever need but what we have out here,
we'll jump on one of these.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yes, yeah, I guess you'll have you know, you know,
the other thing was Jamaica got hit hard. Yes by her,
came Melissa. Now you've been to Jamaica, haven't you have not?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I've been to Jamaica eight or nine times. It's our
favorite island. Again, you go this year?

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Did you make it? Is that where you went? Okay? Yeah,
that was back in August when you went.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
It wasn't August, but it was. It was actually very
when this hit. We went in the end of August,
so it was like we had just been there.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
You missed it by like two.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Months, uh huh.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And seeing the videos of actually places that we had gone,
especially a hummingbird sanctuary that we went to, it was
completely wiped off the map. And to think we were
just there. But I'll tell you what, that island is resilient.
They are up and moving.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Again, well most of them are. I mean, I'm sure
they've gotten some aid from other countries, and you know,
of course, I'm sure we bailed them out, you know,
and we're sending people there to help with the infrastructure
and so on and so forth. But yeah, I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Don't think they'd ever seen a hurricane that substantial.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Probably not, yeah, but it was because it was a
level five Category five, So that's a big yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
One thing I wanted to mention going back to the
Israeli hostages that were freed. Those are some of the
most impactful images of twenty twenty five I think of
you know.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I can't argue with you in the airports.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Of you know, it's just them running into their family's arms.
I mean, those are just images that will stick with me,
you know.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
So yeah, and of course you know we've got you know,
we can maybe in the next segment. You know, we've
got obviously our passings and probably another visit from mister Bezos.
But you also have the World Series taking place in October,
so in maybe a little bit into November. I think

(25:45):
it ended on November first all, did it? Yeah, I
can't remember exactly, but normally because of the extended playoffs
and everything else. You know, it's just like everything else
in the NFL, they they've taken where Reggie Jackson was
mister October. Now if you in the World Series, your
mister November. So but you know, it is what it is.

(26:05):
But yeah, I mean, an exciting seven game World Series.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It was it I remember yep in wasn't there like
a tie out?

Speaker 3 (26:12):
There's no ties, but I mean, yeah, but we'll get
in Okay.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Sorry, I just remember it being like a cliffhanger type
World series.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Let's just put it this way. There was I think
it tied the record for the longest World Series game
as far as as far as the number of innings. Okay,
maybe not length as far as minutes, hours and minutes.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh that okay, yep, yep, yep, yep. All right, we're
going to talk about that. And then also somebody lost
his title yikes in October.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Real quick, just go ahead and mention Kirks.

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Speaker 3 (27:03):
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samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy wwva's good Wednesday morning,

(27:30):
Thank you for joining us. Of course, the Boon Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We are of
course counting down going over the big stories of twenty
twenty five, and we are right in the middle of October.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Well, and you know what about October What I love
so much is it's playoff baseball. You have college football
in full swing. College basketball is just around the corner,
you know, So it's it's kind of like for me,
it's it's.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's like the triple threat of us.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
It's like heaven. It's almost like having I mean, it's
one of the greatest you know, of course being a
huge college basketball fan, March Madness. And then you have
spring training in the start of baseball season coming in
right there. You know, that's kind of a that's a
pretty big that's pretty big for me. But you know,
the thing was, of course being a Dodgers fan going

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into the playoffs in the National League Championship Series, the
Dodgers were taking on the Milwaukee Brewers and show, hey,
O Tani, probably the best player of this generation of
baseball players probably come because of what he's doing. He's
pitching in hitting, so which is very unusual. Correct, it

(28:45):
doesn't happen often, and it's been a long time since
it's happened. I mean, of course, when we talk about
pitching and hitting, it's not just like the pitcher's coming
to bat, like when the Nation before they implemented the
DH throughout the whole. But he's actually the DH when
he plays. When he's not pitching, you see what I'm saying,
he's also the DH when he does pitch. So but yeah,

(29:08):
I mean the last person to probably play regularly was
probably like Babe Ruth. I mean, that's who they compare
him to a lot. So, I mean, that's the last
time it was significantly that as far as as as
far as Major League Baseball. But with the National League
Championship Series, the Dodgers Showhy was in a three for

(29:30):
twenty nine postseason batting slump. He came out of that
in Game four with three home runs and he pitched
six shutout inning, striking out ten in a five to
one win to sweep the Milwaukee Brewers and take the
Dodgers back to the World Series to defend their title.
Of course, later on in the month in the World Series,

(29:51):
Freddie Freeman, who was the hero last year in one
of the World Series with a walkoff home run hit
another walk off solo home run to lead off the
bottom of of the eighteenth inning in a six five
win over the Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium. That game
tied the record for the longest World Series game ever,

(30:11):
didn't it? That's like two games? You played two games.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Didn't it end at like two in the morning or late?

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Like I mean, I think it ended our time. It
ended like around midnight LA time, but Eastern time. I
think it ended just after three am, because.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I remember asking you if you stayed up to watch it.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
But the and then they had to turn around and
come back to play the next day. So I mean,
not only do they you know, they played basically two games, Okay,
then then they finish at midnight local time, and then
they're probably back at the field at like ten am
eleven am for batting practice and whatever. It's just getting

(30:51):
getting ready to go for the game. I mean, it's
just and it came. You could see they most of
it was. It was a little SLUGGI shky, I'm sure. Yeah,
it was a sluggish game.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah. Also not in the sports world, but uh, a
little bit of news from across the Pond. Buckingham Palace
announced that Prince Andrew, of course the younger brother to
the King Charles, was stripped of all his titles and
he was evicted from the Royal Lodge due to which

(31:24):
must have been his royal home due to his association
with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He shall now be
known as Andrew Mount Baden Windsor and move into private lodging.
So talk about being the black sheep of the family
a little bit. Yeah, you are, you are out, you

(31:45):
are out. So yep, no longer, mister prince. No longer,
mister prince.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well you know October, You're retailers are normally prepping.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Oh yeah, for the holiday, the holiday season.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
So to staff up for that, Internet retail giant Amazon
was planning to bring on about two hundred and fifty
thousand people. The Amazon founder and evil genius Jeff Bezos
announced some of the perks available to the new hires Hire.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Jeff bezis Palla Shutler's resumes. Baby Amazon is hiring. We're
beefing up for the holiday rush by adding one quarter
of a million people. Now Amazon offers some sweet vennies.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
I should know. I used to work there.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
I've got a very competitive salary, stock options out the
war Zoo, a huge expense account, a sweet private jet,
and of course dental envision.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
So I assume all new hires will get the same package.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
No, stand by, ah, I see, I'm being told that's
not the case. The only thing new hires will receive
is a complimentary blue Amazon, so no one shoots you
as you pull up in their driveway in your own
Toyota Corolla to deliver their packages.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
And by the way, we need five references. There.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
You have it. A quarter of a million people signed
up for that.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh shoot, I wonder if I wonder if they got
that many people.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Oh, you never know. I mean some people looking for
a second job, or you know, maybe if you got
a part time or some people that maybe are in
between jobs. I mean, I can see where it could happen.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Well, you want to let's wrap this up with who
we lost. Of course, on October first, we lost Jane Goodall.
If you do not recognize that name, she was the
British primatologist and anthropologist who worked with chimpanzees. If you
ever saw any of the clips, it was amazing what

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she accomplished.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
And she brought a lot her research brought a lot
of information about how primates in the wild were in
their natural habitat act and how similar they are to humans.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Isn't she the one that discovered they used tools like
humans do?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Almost I can't answer that. I don't know if she's
the one that, but I think you know, she definitely
documented it.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, a very special woman. She was ninety one
years old. Also, we lost the actress Diane Keaton. Of course,
she was an Academy Award winning actress. Annie Hall, father
of the Bride the First Wives Club. She was seventy
nine years old, lost to pneumonia. Always wore a hat.

(34:40):
Very unique, unique woman. And then in the music world,
we lost Ace Freely, the guitarist for Kiss. He died
of head injuries suffered in a studio fall at seventy
four years old. Ye, paul Ace Freeley, sorry, she.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Gave us an We lost June Lockhart, the mom on
the Lost in Space, also Timmy's mom in Last sec yep,
yeah so. And then she I think she had a
little stint on Pettycoat Junction there after, the lead actress
there died.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
She's very pretty, yes, very pretty. So all right, that
wraps up October. We are on to November when we return.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
New Year's Eve, Happy New Year, New Year's Eve.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
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Speaker 2 (35:56):
Welcome back. It's eight of six on your Wednesday, your
New Year's z Wednesday, The Blue Daddy Experienced. Samon OTAs
News Radio eleven seventy WWDA. We are kind of we
are recapping twenty twenty five. We've just wrapped up October
and moving on to November. That doesn't feel like it
was that far away.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
It doesn't. It's like some of this is still fresh
in your mind.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah, well, we were talking January and February. It was
a struggle. Don't remember half of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
You know, the funny I don't want to say the
funny thing, but the ones that kind of catch you
off guarded the celebrity passings, yes, because you're like, oh,
my gosh, I forgot that they passed away, or oh
I didn't realize he passed away or she passed away,
and then you're going, oh, it was that long ago
or you know what I mean, like the one that
caught I knew Robert Redford had passed away, I just

(36:46):
couldn't remember when. Oh, because we talked about it last.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Hour, but the Hull Cogan yesterday was the one that
got made. It's like, oh, that's right.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
You just sit there and you're going because you know
it's in the news, and then it's not. You know,
so it's it kind of like again in our in
our society of sound bites, and that's how we live
in eight second ten second clips. That's how you remember things.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Well, it's like what sticks. It's kind of like what
sticks in the brain.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
That you know what you you teased in the last
hour and you didn't bring up what was the end
of AOL dial dial?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Oh that's right, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I was going to look for the sound effect. We
got kind of sidetracked.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah that has gone away, folks.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, so there's no more dial up internet for AOL.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, I think you've got mail stays.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
But no it doesn't. It's been changed.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Oh that's gone too. Oh yeah, showing our age. Oh
you've got mail is gone.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
World.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Listen. I remember when, remember when you used to get
the AOL CDs. They would just they would come on
just everything that you can put it into your computer,
and then that would upload the software that you can
be able to get on AOL. I still have an
AOL mail account. I haven't checked. It probably got.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Over a million junk mails.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I think it's like last time I checked, I think
it was at twenty four thousand.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh my gosh, you know what you know? Speaking of
things that I brought up and didn't tell the story
on Monday, and I completely forgot to tell you this,
the gag gift that you got me at Christmas, the
colorful jockstrap. Yes, that night was our Christmas party for work, righteh,

(38:32):
my husband was not able to go. I was already there.
I get a text with a picture because I brought
all that stuff home and just left it on our
kitchen table. I get a picture saying please explain this,
and it's the rainbow jockstrap. And I said, I responded,

(38:54):
it'd say colorful.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
I wouldn't call it rainbow.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Okay, colorful? And I said not enough. This has to
be done in person, and he just well, And.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
The reason that I gave you the athletic supporter was
because of a comment or comments that were made by.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Some knucklehead, irrelevant knucklehead.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, there you go, and that says because you go
by sam which could be short for Samantha or anything else,
that you were struggling with your transition.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Oh yes, my gender identity. Yes, yes, yeah, so there's
a yes, there's a whole backstory to the joke.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
So since I thought that was hysterical, because again, this
person just likes to make stuff up. They don't, they're
not they don't really do any research right other than
but they you know that they pretend to do. And
so I just I rolled with it.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Here's the thing. I laughed at it, but I just
I wish I could have seen my husband husband's face
because I just I just put stuff down, wasn't even
thinking about it. And then the next day I'm putting
gifts away and I'm carrying around this thing, going where
do I what do I do with this?

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Now?

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Frame it does it go in my underwear drawer? Does
it go in my husband's underwear drawer?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Like?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
What do I do with this? You know, maybe I'll
hang it from my hang it, hang it from my
rear view mirror and my car.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Didn't you say some of the things that happened in November,
because I'm going to change this subject real fast.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Obviously, the longest US government shut down came to an
end as Democrats broke ranks to pass a funding bill,
though some debates over the American Affordable Care Act basically
Obamacare subsidies, subsidies continued, and they're still continuing to this day.
Of course. You know, the other big news was the

(40:47):
elections this year, and you know, you look at it
in I think the biggest election obviously is New York
City when the Democratics socialist yeah there you is now
going to be leaving leading New York City. Zoron Mondami

(41:09):
And one of the things that was pointed out early,
you know, he's talking about, oh, free bus rides and
free public transit.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
And free public grocery stores and in anything else free
free that, free health, free health care, free childcare, free whatever.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
At his victory dinner, or you know, the night of
the election, he had a cash bar. He didn't give
anything away. Yeah, this was this is the guy that's
preaching free everything but was charging for drinks at his
victory party.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
It's you know, I don't want to be Debbie Downer.
It's it's a it's a scary state of affairs for
the folks in New York City, and they are are
seeing a mass exodus from New York City. I've seen
multiple interviews with real estate agents in like Florida, the

(42:05):
southern states that are seeing an influx of people from
New York City, and industry is going to leave too.
Businesses are going to leave.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Well, you're right, and I mean because he wants to
tax the rich and he wants to tax businesses. And
he's like anybody that does business in New York it
doesn't matter where your home office is that he wants
to tax you. Now, of course, he can't do everything
on his own. He has to have council behind him
as well, and so I mean, some of the things
that he's proposing are never going to happen.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Well, in some of the things, I forget which main
one it is. It might be the bus, the governor
of New York is already kind of squashing it, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
So well, in the other two elections there were two
governors elected and both of them Democrats won, which was
New Jersey and Virginia. Moderate Democrats is what they're being
labeled as. So, I mean, you know, people are saying,
is this a pre review for the midterms in twenty

(43:03):
twenty six? Is this a preview for twenty twenty eight,
you know, because is the pendulum swinging? And you know, people,
I think there's people out there that are nervous about Mondamie,
Wimmy Winny. Oh yeah, because this is opening the door
for the aocs and the Bernie Sanders. And although I
don't think that they're going to nation nationally that they're

(43:24):
going to be able to pull that off.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Well, I think I think the another layer of the
fear is, and I believe Elgin has brought this up,
is that the Democratic Party is looking for a face.
They currently are kind of floating through without that leading face.
And AOC has been thrown around, and oh, Governor of

(43:50):
California News Newsom's been floated around. But then Mondami burst
on the scene, and now he's out.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
There yeah, he's not going to run for president.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
No, no, no, But I'm just saying, like, yeah, what
direction is that party going to go? And I think
that's where the fear, a lot of the fear is.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah. Absolutely, And I mean one of the things that
I heard the other day, somebody was filling in for
another talk show because of the holidays and everything else,
but they were saying that they believe that the Democratic
presidential candidate will be coming from California in twenty twenty eight.
It's either going to be Newsom or or Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Again, you think she's got a chance.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
No, I don't, But I think that's but I think
that's where the direction that the Democratic the Democrat Party
will go, because they're going to go with somebody that
that is recognizable. And I just think I think AOC
is too far left for the Democrat Party. But and
how you could elect either Newsom or Harris, I would

(44:52):
never know. I mean, Gavin Newsom has driven California on
to the ground.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Oh it's a cluster union, just like.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
The Democrats have done in New York City. You know,
it's it's unbelievable. What's what's going on? So anyway.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, that's why we don't live there, folks.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
You couldn't. You couldn't pay me to live there, not
even close. All right, when we get back, we're going
to continue on November, right, Yeah, we've got more to
hit on with that month, including who we lost, and
then also we wrapped up the World Series in November,
so we're going to get into that. You're listening to

(45:31):
the Blue Daddy Experience here on your New Year's Eve.
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back the Blue Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Boy, I hope

(45:55):
my husband's at home getting things ready for New Year's Eve.
The assignment is on him today. Probably not, but it
is New Year's Eve. I hope you are getting ready
to ring in the new year. But thank you for
kicking it off with us. Yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm
ready to wrap it up.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Yeah, November, big old Bell. We had some passings in November,
a lot of them sports related, but though the one
that early in November November third Dick Cheney, former vice
president from two thousand and one to two thousand and nine.
He was the Defense secretary from nineteen eighty nine to
ninety three and a congressman from seventy nine to eighty nine.
Died at the age of eighty four from complications of

(46:34):
deeumonia and vascular disease.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
So was he the one that got shot in the tuckers?

Speaker 3 (46:40):
He shot somebody?

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Okay, yeah, yeah, So that's what I remember about.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
If you're if you're a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, you know
Lenny Wilkins from the NBA NBA Hall of Famer. I'm
sorry Basketball Hall of Famer, because there's not an NBA
Hall of Fame. It's just the general Basketball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
So he is in there as a player and as
a coach. Lenny Wilkin. Wilkins was a nine time NBA
All Star. He was the MVP in seventy one. He
played for the Saint Louis Hawks and the Seattle SuperSonics.
He coached the SuperSonics to a championship in seventy nine.
He was the Coach of the Year in ninety four
with the Atlanta Hawks, and of course, he spent a

(47:23):
good bit of time in Cleveland as their coach during
their Heyday with Mark Price and Brad Doherty, and you know,
the only thing they couldn't beat was the bulls.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yes we know.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Of course, former commissioner NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabu passed away
as well, and Fuzzy Zeller, American golfer won the Masters
in eighty one and the US Open in eighty four,
died at the age of seventy four. Character. He was
definitely a character, wasn't.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Lenny Wilkins always known as just like a really nice guy.
Maybe I have him confused with somebody.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
No, I mean I can't. I can't picture anybody saying
anything bad about you. I mean, he just he was
that kind of a guy, just kind of a laid
back and go with the type of dude. And of
course not if we're going to get into it my
baseball dodge.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
There you go. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Back to back World.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Champions Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
What it was a great World Series seven games. Of
course you had the eighteen inning game. You know, show
hey o Tawny hit three home runs, struck out ten
batters in the in the final game. You know, it's
just the blue If you're a Blue Jays fan, you
you have you have something to look forward to, because

(48:38):
if they can keep the core together, they're gonna be good.
I mean they're they're good now, and they're gonna they're
gonna compete for championships as you know, as long as
they can stay healthy and and but yeah, I mean
it's it was a It was a good World Series.
It could have gone either way. To be honest with you,
that's why you play seven games for me as a

(49:00):
Dodgers fan. You know, hey, it worked out.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yes, you were quite happy.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I'm not the Dodgers fan I used to be, because
the game's changed since I became a Dodgers fan in
seventy seven. But how did you become a Dodgers fan
real quick? Of course, I liked the Pirates. I was
ten years old, so I liked the Pirates. The Pirates
didn't win the National League East. The Phillies did, so

(49:26):
I couldn't root for the Phillies because I hated the Phillies.
So I rooted for the Dodgers to beat the Phillies.
So they did, and then they went to the World Series,
and I couldn't root for the American League or the Yankees,
so I've rooted for the Dodgers, and that happened two
years in a row. So I just kind of stuck,
even though they lost the World Series both years. So
and then you had Fernando Mania and crazy things like that.

(49:48):
Plus plus I became a Steve Garvey fan. You know,
as a kid, it was just Steve Garvey was the
guy that the guy that I looked up to. For
lack of a better term, do you look up to
this guy depends who he.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Is, the one and only evil genius.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Oh, mister Bezos.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yes, So, according to news reports, Jeff Bezos, Bezos' wife
Jeff bezos wife, Jeff Bezos's wife, Lauren Sanchez, spends one
million on clothing every month. That's insane. The Amazon founder
in evil genius is here to defend that kind of spending.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
Jeff Bezos.

Speaker 6 (50:32):
The petulant Press has printed what they think is a
scathing story about my wife Lauren's wardrobe budget.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
It's one million dollars per month.

Speaker 6 (50:42):
Perhaps I'm in a billionaire bubble, but that seems reasonable.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
No.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
I mean, take a look at her smoking hot, smoking mountains.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
There's no way she could buy off the rack. Sore
to speak.

Speaker 6 (50:55):
Besides, have you seen the price of designer Coulture lately
her truth be old, neither us law, and she only
shops in stores that don't have price tax. So throw
us a freaking burned here. Okay, we're rich. Where is
she supposed to buy her clothes on Amazon? One size
definitely does not fit all.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Doesn't buy off the Wreck?

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Well, speaking of of off the Rack, back to January.
She was a big spectacle at the inauguration. Remember she
was there?

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
You don't remember.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Oh, okay, that's been the lifetime again. Okay, anyways, just
being honest.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Yeah, but there was a lot of focus on what
she had in focus at the inauguration.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Okay, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
There you go, there we go. Oh goodness.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Let's just jump into December, okay, yeah. Very early on
the Ukrainian President Zelenski met with Trump in Florida to
discuss the conflict with Russia.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Uh. And then over the Christmas break he met with
him too at mar A Lago.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
And I guess the big story. Let's let's say the
big story. But John Cena had his final match on
December thirteenth the Capitol One Arena. If you're a big
wrestling fan, I am not and Disney Plus. If you're
a swiftyeylor Swift fan, they have a behind the scenes

(52:32):
look at the eras tour. It's called The End of
an Era, was released on Disney Plus on December twelfth.
I think it's a six part thing. Yeah, I've seen.
I've seen some of the promos on some of the
channels that I watch, you know, because they're plugging Disney Plus. Yeah,
I mean it's it's a behind the scenes look at
the tour.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Oh boy, yep.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
If you're interested. If you're not me, well there you
have it.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
If you're not, I'll tell you about a show that
I don't know if I liked it or but I
couldn't stop watching it. And I still can't tell you
whether or not it was good or not.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
It's called The Chair Company.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
It's on HBO. Halfway through it, I'm like, do I
finish this? Am I enjoying this? I don't know, but
I can't stop watching it.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
I started doing that with Fallout.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
It's yeah, it's kind of like Twin Peaks. If you
remember that back in the eighties. I did, oh, okay,
well give it a look. See if you like it.
I don't know I'll leave it up to you. You're
listening to the bloom Daddy Experience. We get back. One
of the top local stories of the year happened in December.
We're gonna talk about that in an interview we did
and much more on December The bloom Daddy Experience Sam

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and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back The
bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.
We are going over twenty twenty five year in review.

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We are at the end.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
We've made it down stretch.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Yeah, we made it to December, folks, Oh, figuratively and
actually in reality, because it is New Year's Eve. I
hope you're getting ready to ring in the new year
with friends, family, and a lot of fun. Maybe some
good food. That's what I'm looking for too, hopefully. Oh,
we're in the middle of December. Let's get into otis
a local topic that really kicked off back in October

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when the announcement was made on October twenty second that
the City of Wheeling was going to be closing the
homeless encampment over in the Fulton area. Now again, that
announcement was made on October twenty second, Why am I
talking this talking to you about this for December recap
because December first, at five o'clock is when it was

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actually shut down. There was a lot of and it
still continued controversy behind where these people were going to go.
The city said there were enough beds. Other organizations that
work with the homeless said there were not enough beds.
This is an ongoing topic, and it's not just a

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local topic. When it comes to the homeless and the
homeless that struggle with mental illness that also are drugged addicts.
This is a national topic. This is not just something
that's affecting people here in the Wheeling area. We had
a lot of commentary on it, so I'm not going
to get into all that, but we did have I
wanted to highlight a interview that we had with doctor

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Norman Wood. It's on our podcast. It was a really
good conversation with doctor Wood, who I actually discovered on
social media. His commentary it was not politically one sided.
It was from a point of a person who worked

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with the homeless in multiple areas across the country came
at it from a physician's point of view. A really
good conversation, so you can go back on our podcast
channel and listen to that, which you can easily find
on the iHeartMedia app. So we're gonna that rounds out
the biggest local stories here of the year, I think
is the homeless in Him.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Sure. And then also in December nationally, you had a
federal judge that ordered the release of the grand jury
records related to the Jeffrey Epstein and Gaseline Maxwell investigations. Yep,
those have since been released, and I don't think anything's
really come of it, No, No, which is what I predicted.
I mean, everybody was hoping that, you know, the tds

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ors were hoping that Trump would be you know right,
you know, and the guys on the people on the
right were hoping that Bill Clinton would be Bill and
Hillary would be in there, And well Bill was in there.
I think they're all in there at some point. But
I mean, there's nothing that says that they did anything back.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Yeah, the most controversial would probably be the picture of
Bill Clinton in the hot tub. But he's not with anybody.
He's just in a hot tub. You got to remember,
And maybe I'm looking at this from like an entertainment
point of view. I guess. But this group of people
that are all associated, that's a circle of folks in

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a world that I hate to say, you and I
can't relate to. So there's going to be pictures at
events of famous faces because they're all running in that
same circle. That doesn't mean they're nefarious at all.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
And the other thing is, if you're the average person
so to speak, huh, and you have an opportunity to
get a picture with Donald Trump or Bill Clinton or whoever,
then you're going to get that picture taken, you know
how many. I'm sure there's thousands of pictures out there
of Trump with somebody that's under the age of eighteen, right,

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I'm sure there, and they're just all they are is
just somebody saying, hey, can I get my picture with you?
The same with Bill Clinton, same with you know. So
you know, you have to kind of look at things
and go you put things into perspective. You just can't say, oh,
well there's a picture of Bill, Bill Clinton or Donald
Trump with a seventeen year old girl. That doesn't mean
anything happened. Yeah, So yeah, you know, I mean, I

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don't want to beat it to death, because I think
it was beat to death, but there was nothing there,
and now what they have what they wanted and they
can't find anything. Some celebrity passings real quick. Raoul Malo
from The Mavericks died of cancer at the age of
sixty on December eighth. December sixteenth, Buck Rogers from The

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twenty fifth Century Gil Girard one of my favorite shows
growing up. I was a kid, and then you look
like I said, you look back on that and you
go God, that show was terrible. December eighteenth, Greg Biffle,
an American auto racer NASCAR Cup Series two thousand and
five runner up, died along with his family, wife and
two children at the age of fifty five in a

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private plane crash. And of course the big one. On
December fourteenth, Rob Reiner, Emmy Award winning actor. He and
his wife murdered by their son, allegedly at the age
of seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
So really sad, disturbing story, very sad and disturbing stories.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
So you know, the other thing about December is it's
college football playoffs, it is it is Christmas. There's so
many things that happened in December, you know, and of
course she had you know, you have cyber Monday that
necessarily wasn't this year. It was in December. But you

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know it's one of those things.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Well, it's one of our busiest times of the year too.
I mean we have been involved from the beginning with
Operation Toy Left. We'll proud to be a part of that.
So all those different events that go on.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Yeah, sure. But because cyber Monday turned twenty years old
this year, because it was term old. The term was
coined in two thousand and five, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
looked back at this special day for online retail billionaires
like himself.

Speaker 6 (01:00:15):
I'm Jeff bezis Happy twentieth birthday, Cyber Monday. The term
cyber Monday was coined way back in two thousand and five.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
And now my favorite day of the year is all
grown up.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
Oh so it's cyber Monday. Shop like it's two thousand
and five. Put on your juicy couture track suits, play
some black.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Eyed peas, and hit up Amazon for.

Speaker 6 (01:00:40):
A PlayStation two or oh, sign up for Amazon Prime TV,
and then asked, Hey, what the heck is streaming TV anyway?
And can I use it to watch? My name is Earl.
But on this throwback cyber Monday. Just remember to pay
twenty twenty five prices inflation.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
You know what can I do?

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
So come on, don't be a hollow back girl, because
cyber Monday is.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
Dumb bomb.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Crunk crunkh Hey, why don't you let the folks know
what's going on at Kirks today?

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Oh that's right, okay, So here's what's happening our friends
at Kirks. Of course Kirk they're doing free ice cream.
Here's how it works. Free cup or free cone, one scoop,
one scoop. This does not include just set fyi. This
does not include Sunday's milkshakes, half gallons, banana splitz. Yeah,

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none of the specialty stuff. Just basic scoop of ice cream,
either in a cup or a cone. They're closing for
a couple months, for two months. They're taking a break,
basically a well deserved break, so they've got to empty
out the cases. So now's your opportunity. Go and enjoy
some free ice cream. I mean, seriously, best way to

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kick off the new year, the only way to kick
there you go, there you go, so go enjoy it.
Tell him, tell him we sent you, and listen. You
may hear one scoop one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Scoop it kirks, it's healthy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Oh, yes, so to speak, Yes, it's all right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Music means we're gonna wrap this baby up here in
just a few minutes. Yes, we're gonna wrap up twenty
twenty five. Yeah, let's get into Uh, let's make some predictions.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Oh oh boy, okay, all right, we'll do that. You're
listening to The Blue Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio,
eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back. We're wrapping this up with

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a big old bow on New Year's Eve, The Blue
Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. So
how do we want to how do we want to
wrap this up?

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Otis?

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Let's do some predictions. How's that sound?

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
I think? So? I mean, we got four college football
all games in the next two days. We had the
highest state, Miami, kicking off tonight in the Bowl Championship Series.
We also have Texas Tech and Oregon tomorrow, Indiana and
Alabama and Georgia and Ole Miss. All those those games
are tomorrow as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
So well, Miami's been talking smack first of all on
Ohio State. So sorry, Miami, you're not going to win
buck Eyes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Okay, so I'm gonna write these down. Okay, okay, so
give me a second here, sam and Otis. Okay, you
say you're gonna obviously pick.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
At I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
I mean, here's here's my thing. I don't think Ohio
State schedule was very hard this year. I think the
hardest team, the best team they played was Indiana and
they got beat I'm not saying that Miami's schedule was
any more difficult, but I think, let's put it this way,

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there's three teams from the Big Ten and three teams
from the SEC remaining. Of course, Oregon in the Big Ten.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Just doesn't make sense, no.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Absolutely whatsoever. So I mean it's like, do you really
count them as being in the Big Ten? I don't.
I think a High State is probably on paper, the
better team, but I'm not sure they've had a you know,
they've had a chance to heal up. Miami had to
play ten days ago.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
So roughly, yes, I watched that game. It was like
watching paint.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Dry because they didn't play anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Tough, played Texas A and m.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Oh yeah they did. I was thinking, I'm sorry, I
was thinking. I was thinking they played too late.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
No, no, no, it was no Texas. December twentieth was
their last game.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Okay, so they've had eleven days off.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
You're just looking for a reason not to pick Ohio State.

Speaker 6 (01:05:01):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
I think they're the better, better team on paper, but
I just think Miami might be a little more hungry.
So I'm going to take Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Okay, okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Then tomorrow's game, we have Texas Tech and Oregon Oregon
out of the Big ten in Texas Tech out of
the Big twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Yeah, this one is a little more tricky to pick.
I think, Okay, I want to stick with a Big
ten team in Oregon. But there's just something about Texas Tech,
and I don't know what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Having seen Texas Tech play when they played WVU, I
watched that game. I think they have I think they're
silently underrated.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Is that what it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
There's just something they I think they have the talent.
I think they have the offense and the defense to
take it to the next game. I think I personally,
I'm going to take Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Now that's where I was leading.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Okay, all right, so we both have that. Now we
have you have another big big ten sec. And you
have Indiana, who's the number one seed going up against Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Indiana, Indiana, Yep, yep, they they're they're on fire right now.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
They are, They're hot again. I don't think that they
I don't think their schedule was extremely difficult. I think
the best team they played was a high state. I
want to see Indiana win because their head coach is
a WVU guy.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
Oh, I just I hate Alabama, I understand, and I'm
not an Alabama fan either, but I think I'm going
to have to.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
I think I'm gonna take Alabama, all right. And I
finally Georgia and Ole Miss Georgia, Yeah, with Lane Kiff
and leaving Old Miss, and I just think that there's yeah,
you know, he left it with unfinished business and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
There's too much flux going on it Old Miss.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
And Georgia having been there before and recently and and everything.
I think that that's going to come into place. So
you know, there you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
There, You're okay, all right, So now wait a second.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
So so we're gonna we're gonna skip ahead, okay, and
we're going to predict your national champion.

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
Man, man, I got to say, Ohio, state I've got to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
And if not Ohio State, I'm going to go out
on a limb here and say, Texas Tech.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
I'm going to take Texas Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Man, we're the thing too much.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
But I'm not taking I mean, because I don't think
a high state it's gonna win tomorrow tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Well oh yeah, you so, okay, But anyway, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
So anyway, I mean, I could be done tomorrow. You
could be done tomorrow. There we go. Yeah, you could
be done tonight. I could be done tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Stop it stop stop stop stop, all right, there's our predictions.
I want to ask you this question real quick. We've
looked back at twenty twenty five. What do you think
are some of the top stories or things of twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Locally, I think it was the flooding in June. Nationally,
I think it's Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
That's okay, Charlie Kirk was where I was going. Also,
the border. We haven't talked about the border at all,
how quickly the lockdown was of the mass entrance of
of illegals. Also, I think one of the biggest things
to come out of twenty twenty five is the growth.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
Of AI oh absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
We didn't really hit on that, but I did want
to throw that out there because I do think twenty
twenty five is just the beginning, the iceberg of where
we're going to see AI take this country in this world.
It's like the new it's this versions of the Internet.
How it's going to change things.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
But I think it's going to go. I think it's
going to go faster than the Internet did. Like the
Internet took it a little bit while to kick it.
So like when the Internet debuted then I think it
took it a while, like it took five to ten
years for it to really kick into gear. I think
AI is going to kick into gear within a year

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or two.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
I think you're right because the accessibility Internet was not
accessible when it kicked off to everybody sure where it is.
You know, those two things play hand in hand. So
I think that's a huge difference in twenty twenty five
that is going to lead into changes for the upcoming year.
So just a couple of things there, But let's wrap
this up with some thank you. Sure, you know we

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do a lot of this, but we have great people
that support us in this and contribute to the show,
and we just want to say thank you to them
and hopes to a new, you know, great new year.
Of course we're talking about Elgim mccardeal Tony Edmund are too.
Political analysts that join us every Wednesday, Steve Waters and
these people give their time to do this, to contribute

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to the show, make us sound smarter than what we
actually are, which isn't hard. So to everybody who supported
us during twenty twenty five, who gave their time to
come in and do interviews with us, once again, we
thank you, and.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
To the listeners and our sponsors and our sponsors. Thank
you to the sponsors. But we couldn't do this without
the listeners if it wasn't for you guys, you know,
And we try to have some fun. We try to
bring you some news, as we you know, did in
June with the flooding, and we do take ourselves seriously
and sometimes most of the time we're very self deprecating.
We'd like to have some fun with it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
We do, we do, So everybody be safe tonight, Please
have fun, be safe, enjoy the rest of twenty twenty five,
and here is to a wonderful twenty twenty six.