The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam February 20th, 2024

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Episode Transcript

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See number one talk show in theOhio Alley. This is no bloom Daddy
experience. Your host bloom Daddy.His goal in form, entertain, and
tick people off. The bloom DaddyExperience on news radio eleven seventy w WVa
starts now seven oh six on Tuesday, Tuesday. Almost I just saw almost

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said Monday. It's a bloom Daddyexperience with Edison Sam on news radio eleven
seventy WWVA. That's why I caughtmyself. I was like, holy cow,
what are you doing? It does? Oh, it did, and
I knew it wasn't right. That'swhy I said, oh crap, and
give you just seen my I don'tknow if you saw my face or not,
but it was like, uh,okay, that's that's when you do

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the contemplating pause. Yes, andthat's what it was. It was very
not very good. So it isa Tuesday. It was three day weekend.
Good weekend. Yes, I'll tellyou what. I would take three
day weekends all the time. Okay, but we're going to get into that
a little bit later, but we'llgot some top headlines for you right now.
Yes, So Blair Police are lookingfor your assistance and this is in

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regards to a gas station robbery thathappened Sunday night. A white male entered
the Rich Oil station on Noble Streetand had the clerk hand over all the
money in the register. The individual, who did not show a weapon,
escaped on foot with cash and cigarettes. He's described with wearing a black jacket
with camouflage stripes on the sleeve,black pants, and a black mask.

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The suspect is believed to be involvedin two similar robberies, but the police
are asking those who live within thatvicinity, if they have surveillance systems,
to please check the tape. Ifthere is anything that that individual may be
caught on your home security cameras.They are asking for you to reach out

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to the police or if you haveany information on on possibly who this person
is. Yes, and there isa phone number for the Dollar Police is
They're not seven four zero six sevensix thirty three twenty two six seven six
thirty three twenty two. Yeah.And it's just, I mean, these
things are happening more and more,and you know, you don't know who
it is, and you know,I mean, I kind of I didn't

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want to chuckle, but I meanwhen you said he escaped with cash and
cigarettes. I mean, but cigarettes, you know, at ten dollars a
pack. Oh yeah, even ifyou buy the cheap ones, there's still
like three or four dollars a pack. I mean, I don't smoke,
and I'm glad I never did.I think they're more than that now some
of them are. Yeah, Imean, I mean, I in my
other job, I'll be in this. I'll be in a carryout or something
and somebody will come in into orderlike two or three cartons of cigarettes and

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it's like three hundred and eighty dollars. I'm like, are you out of
your mind? Oh my gosh.Really, well you figured if you're doing
ten packs, that's over one hundredbucks, you know, depending on what
you want, plus the tacks andeverything else that's in there. Well,
and right now, crime, Imean, I hate to say it,
time is rampant across the country.Absoluse that's because nobody gets prosecuted. No.

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Well, the news that the ClevelandPlush tinplate mill is shutting down is
a canniball to the stomach, accordingto Governor Jim Justice. He says he's
going to do anything and everything withinhis power to help the nine hundred workers
who are going to be laid offcome April. The state has a workforce,
West Virginia's Quick Response Team and anEconomic Development task Force. But you're
going to be made available to workwith the unemployed workers. So you know,

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that's a that's a good thing.At least the governor's stepping up.
Maybe try to help these people outfind new jobs somehow, get you know,
get something new. I mean,what do you go. Sometimes you
can get in they'll do these thingswhere they'll send you back to like traditional
training and maybe community college or somethingwhere you can go and get trained for
a different job. Well, andthis is also going to have a ripple

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effect. This is going to affectthe businesses all around that area, the
small businesses. So this is ofcourse, this is going to affect the
workers and the families, but againit's gonna economically affect the entire area of
Weirens right. Unfortunately, terrible storiesso some national news. President Biden says
Republicans are walking away from America's obligationsoverseas. While speaking to reporters on the

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White House lawn, Biden said itwas shocking that House Republicans are walking away
from the threat of Russia and obligationsto NATO. The comments come as the
Republican led House took a two weekbreak without bringing legislation providing militia military aid
to Ukraine and Israel to the floorfor a vote. You know, this
is this is kind of controversial becauseI mean, it's easy to blame the

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Republicans, but you know, let'sjust if you look at Biden in Ukraine,
that's where Hunter was employed, youknow, for you know, he
well, I don't know if hewas employed, but he was getting a
paycheck. And so I mean he'she's got ties to kind of help them
out. And I don't think anybodywants to see Ukraine get taken over by

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Russia. I don't. I don'tthink there's anybody that wants that. But
at some point in time, ifwe're not doing why are we continuing to
spend money on this when there's youknow, basically they're at a stalemate.
Instead of why don't we try tonegotiate a peace deal? Why don't we
try to do something instead of justcontinuing to send them money. Plus you
know, the military weapons and materialsat no charge. I mean, we're

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just given it to them, Imean, and who's paying for that.
That's me and you paying for thewell on the other side of this,
I mean, I'm sure the Presidentis referring to the bill that was supposed
to address the issues at the border, but more of the money is dedicated
to outside countries as opposed to protectingour own borders exactly. And that's why
the Republican led House. That's easyto say on a Monday, no Tuesday

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morning, Tuesday morning, that's whythey've left it at a stalemate, because
it's not putting America first, andthat's what people are tired of, exactly.
Well. Sticking with the Biden administration, they're considering more sanction against Moscow
after the death of the opposition leaderAlexi Navani, the high profile vocal critic
of Vladimir Putin, died in prisonlast week, kind of like Jeffrey Epstein.

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Probably, President Biden now says hewould be willing to enact additional sanctions
on top of those already levied afterRussia's invasion of Ukraine. Those sanctions aren't
working because, I mean, thebottom they get, they get their stuff
from other places. I mean,it's just whether we do it. But
they're they're going to other either communistcountries or anybody else that's willing to help
them neutral countries. You don't thinkChina's helping them. You don't think Venezuela

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is helping them. I mean,these these countries are you know, they're
they're they're the ones that are helpingRussia. Well, let's be honest,
if you had President Biden issuing sanctionsand you were putin, I wouldn't be
scared at all. I was,Yeah, how intimidated would you be.
Let's be honest, not at allto want to hit this one back to

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Wheeling. Sure, okay, Soparking downtown Wheeling that is on the agenda
for tonight as the City Council meets. Two ordinance before the Council include authorizing
the hire of a Pittsburgh construction firmto conduct repairs and maintenance on the Tenth
Street and Robert C Intermodal parking garages. The cost of the project is estimated

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at nearly nine hundred and twenty seventhousand dollars. These will be the first
reads of the legislation. The meetingis set for five point thirty this evening.
Well, I can tell you thisI know the Tenth Street Parking Garage
needs it needs major repairs. It'syou know, it's an older when I
don't know how much repairs the theRobert C. Bird Intermodal Center needs because

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it's relatively new. I mean,it might need some patchwork here and there
where, maybe some you know,quote unquote potholes, or you know,
maybe something happens. You know,it's just wear and tear, but it's
nowhere. It can't be anywhere nearthe damage that's been done to the like
they have sections of the Tenth Streetgarage blocked off that you can't even park
in any of the spots because thecements come up and you know, I

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mean they're exposed to the weather eventhough they're covered, but the water still
gets in and it runs down,it freezes, it gets it hangs up
in certain places, and it createsyou know that when it freezes, it
expands and then it puts cracks andholes in cements. So I mean it's
just like highways, I mean absolutely. Yeah. Well, and then there's
the other new parking garage that's beingbuilt on Market Street. So hopefully once
that gets finished, because that feelslike that has been going on forever too.

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That will hopefully alleviate some of theparking issues that are happening in downtown
and maybe general maintenance throughout the yearsinstead of waiting for it to all hit
the fan at one time. Youknow, maybe there's a novel idea.
If there's a small problem, takecare but fix it and then you don't
have a big problem later. Yes, scurrying to deal with it last minute,

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but then again that's that's common senseand we're talking about government. Yeah,
So anyway, what are we gotcoming up? Coming up? A
little bit of inside scoop from somesources about some issue things happening at Wheeling
University. So stick with us.In five minutes. You're listening to the
Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis and Sam onnews Radio eleven seventy WWVA seven one on

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the Bloomdaddy Experience with Sam and Otison news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So
to get into this, where doI begin? So, Wheeling University formerly
Wheeling Jesuit. There has been alot of rumblings out there about issues that
are happening. Starting back in Septemberof twenty twenty three, there was a

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silent protest by students in regards toissues they're dealing within their dormatory also mold
plumbing issues, and those are twoof the major reasons that last night there
was a board meeting held that wason a vote for the employment of President
Jenny Favid. Sources say she wastold Thursday to either resign or be fired,

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and she showed up for work onFriday, hence the board meeting then
being called to order last night.As of right now, as of this
morning, we do not know thefinal board decision. Our sources have not
gotten back to us. But thishas again, like I mentioned, this
has been an escalating situation. Again, the two major reasons the extreme dorm

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issues and that includes mold, theplumbing issues, and multiple students being misplaced
and moved due to these ongoing issues. And if you think about it,
when you were in college, yourdorm it's not like a hotel room.
You make it your own little world. So to be displaced and move from
room to room, that's not asmall undertaking. That's a lot. It's

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not. But I think in thein the grand scheme of things, I
would rather have, I would rathermove to a new dorm room than than
deal with, say, the moldissues and the plumbing issues and everything else,
and and and that's a minor sacrifice, to be honest with you,
I mean, move getting getting yourstuff together and moving it, as long
as the university provides some assistance inthat, whether it be moving carts,

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you know, depending on where theyhad to move to, or did they
rent maybe a couple U hauls andsay hey, we'll help you move your
stuff here and there. I don'tknow, we don't know that, but
I mean I think that that's tome, that's a minor I mean,
it's it's not it's not necessarily amajor thing. I think that. I
think the mold in the dormitory.First off, there's the kids. The

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students should have never been put inthat dorm if there was mold and plumbing
issues before they moved in in Augustor whenever school started. Well, according
to my source, these issues haveyet to be resolved, and students and
parents are tired of it. Imean, they're paying for college. If
it's if it's been there since September, this this should have been taken care
of, you know, I'll giveyou you know, maybe you're looking into

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it. Maybe you've got to dothis. I'll give you a month,
but by October first, in November, these these things should have been resolved
well. And another one of themajor issues is that Jenny Favett is not
popular with students or the faculties.That terms like a toxic work environment has
has been thrown around under her leadershipand it and from what people have said,

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it's very reminiscent of when she wasa Belmont County commissioner, because there's
nothing wrong with having a no nonsenseattitude and that gets things done. And
I believe that's the mindset of herand that's her way, you know,
leadership. But in the same regardsthere there has to be a little bit
of flexibility, but again that alsogets things done well. When you interpret

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the world in black and white andthere's no gray area, you're gonna you're
gonna create more enemies than you arefriends. And I can tell you that
just about in any job that I'vehad, and especially in my other job,
you know, there are rules andregulations that are in place, and
it's just it's just like if youlike you antiquated laws maybe in the city,

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so like I don't know, ifyou know this or not, but
it's actually illegal to spit on thestreet in City Wheeling, Okay. I
mean, I mean nobody, nobody'senforcing it, okay. But when it
comes to certain things, if youif you just look at it in black
and white and don't adjust to thesituation, then it's not You're not going
to be very popular. And sometimeswhen you're in a leadership role, popularity

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is not your goal. And youknow, I don't know if that's necessary.
You know, toxic work environment,I get that, but you know,
is it because you're not getting whatyou want? Or is it because
you see what I'm saying. Ithink this can be a little judgmental,
but it also I mean I alsounders stand it well. Favid was hired
in twenty nineteen and at that pointin time they were struggling financially and one

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of the goals was to fundraise andhelp get them out of the financial struggles
they were having. And they're stillcurrently dealing with these struggles under her leadership.
Now, again, we do notknow the final decision last night of
the board. As soon as weknow, we will get that to you.
But I mean, think about it. If you think ten years ago
when it was Wheeling Jesuit. Itwas a key of Wheeling. I mean

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it was a shining star of Wheeling, the NASA building everything up there.
It was constantly people in and out. I don't even think about it anymore.
It's almost lost its it's not whatit once was. Well, and
here's the other what you're seeing issome of these higher education facilities. Look

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at out Orderson BROADUS, they closedtheir doors. The only people that are
still in school there are the seniorsso that they can get their degree.
I mean they're in there last yearand everything else. That's the only that's
the only thing that stayed open wasfor the seniors. My sources tell me
that Wheeling University is about three yearsaway from where Alison brought us. Someone

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I've heard the same that you know, they financially can't do it. They're
not getting the students that they oncegot. Uh. There's there's a lot
of competition in higher education, well, the online I think online education the
college level is hurting universities and collegesacross the nation. I wouldn't disagree,
but I also think that the costof education and some Wheeling Wheeling University is

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a private school. Uh A bwas a private school. If you're not
a public school and getting public funded, you're you're you know, you're relying
on your too, You're relying onthe tuition to pay for your bills,
to pay your bills. And ifI mean Bethany College is struggling, you
know, they're a private college andthey're They're enrollment is way down. They
may not have the same problems thatWheeling University has, but I know that

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I know that the enrollment of Bethanyis way down, and you know,
they're struggling. So we have somelocal universities that are that are staples here
in the valley that are struggling,and it's financially well. If there's not
open communication between the leadership of universityand the students that live on campus and
the parents of these students who arepaying the freight to send their kids there

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in the faculty and there are wordslike black mold fold floating around and your
children are being moved from room toroom and the president is not answering these
phone calls. That's the problem.I think communication is failing and that's a
huge issue. And I think that'sthat's probably the majority of it right there.
I mean, I think the otherthing is I think I think just

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Whaling University is struggling financially and withenrollment. And if you don't have the
money as a private school, ifyou don't have the enrollment, you don't
have the money. So we gotmore to come on the bloom Daddy Experience
with Otis and Sam on News Radioeleven seventy WWVA. It is seven thirty

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six on your Tuesday morning. Thankyou for starting your day with us.
So prior to the break, wewere discussing some issues happening at Wheeling University
in regards to current president Jenny Favidand her possible loss of employment. Part
of the discussion was toxic work environment. That was a big phrase being thrown

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around, I guess according to oneof to my source. So during the
break, as we were talking,you have a story about toxic well environment.
You know. In my other job, I mean, I've had I've
had several supervisors, a couple ofretired, one passed away. You know,
it just it just that's how itworks. So I've had approximately six
supervisors and out of those six,two of them were toxic supervisors and part

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of the problem is in my inmy job, my supervisor is nowhere near
this area. So in other words, we're kind of on our own and
which is good and back right andwe and my other job is that I
have seven days to work forty hours. So I mean, I don't I
don't have a set schedule. IfI if I want to go out and

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work at night, I can.If I want to work during the day,
I can. Exactly, I justhave to. I just have to
let them know when I'm working.So the first supervisor was just, you
know, he was a guy thatjust wanted to be in control. He
was you know, he was inHuntington, we were up here, and
he just wanted to, you know, force his hand to say, look,
I'm the one in charge. Andit was a bad attitude. And

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he didn't get a lot of productionout of the people that were working in
this area because of his attitude.And the other one was he was kind
of a temporary but it had himfor about a year. And the other
one was got promoted to a supervisor. And as far as I was concerned,
she was she was a great person, nice girl. She was my
age. You know, we hadfun when we went to conferences. You

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know, she was kind of fun. But she got the supervisor's position and
she was she became like the newsheriff in town. Like she came up
to this area at one time andshe started yelling and screaming at owners and
everything else. And I said,look, I have to deal with these
people every day. You're up hereand you're making mountains out of Mohill.
Power went to the head. Powerabsolutely went to her head. And then

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it was it was the point whereshe came to me and she says,
I know you don't like me.I know you don't like me. And
I'm like, are we in theseventh grade? What is this? I
mean, come on, I meanwe have a job to do. Just
two years a little better and that'sall I you know, And then she
ended up she ended up walking awayfrom the job as well. She she
retired and then she came back andlasted about a year. And she didn't

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come back as a supervisor. Shecame back as an agent, but I
mean she only lasted about a yearbecause she wasn't getting along with her supervisors.
Well, if you've had a badwork environment, toxic work environ,
give us a call one six foureleven seven. You would love to hear
your story. I have been inthis building since I walked off the college
campus, so I have only workedhere and we have worked together for what

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fifteen years now, it's been awhile me and you. Yeah, No,
I haven't been here that long.Maybe I felt that I've only been
here since August of sixteen. Oh, okay, okay, it hasn't been
that long. Well, we havecrossed paths with some of the same people
in the building, and there handsbeen not some great those that have passed

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through this these doors. Shure itis and I think, but you're going
to have that that's in every job. Yes, absolutely, But I think
the environment depends the atmosphere where youwork, depends on the type of job.
So if you are stuck in thesame office all day long, say
you're in an assurance office and you'rethe around the same people, you have

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to get along, you have tocreate a positive environment, but you still
need production out of people. SoI think being in a position of leadership
is is it's a it's a precariousposition. Can't be if you're too soft,
they're going to walk all over here. Correct If you're too hard,
You're going to buck the system.Correct, But I think you need to
treat people as adults, absolutely,and you can't micromanage. Micromanage is the

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worst thing you can do. Ohit's We used to have one of those
and it drove me insane. Yeah, and insane. And you know,
I see and I see it inmy job where there are people that want
to micromanage, and it's you know, they want to know where you are
every second of the day. Well, it's hard to do because the other
job that I have, I couldend, I could tell that I'm going

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to do one thing and then somethingcomes up and I get to hurry up
and go do another thing in anotherarea. And you know, they want
you to say, okay, lookI'm going to be doing this and this
and this. Well you can't.It's just see I had we had somebody
like that here on the sales sideof the other part of my job that
I do, and he wanted anaccount of every minute of every day,
what we were doing, where wewere going, how long we were there.

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And finally I kind of called himout and said, you know,
do you need to do I needto mark down every time I stop at
a gas station or a McDonald's toyou know, take care of my human
things. Use the restroom. Yeah, use the restroom. And and well
you know you don't have to beAnd I said, well, you want
minute by minute, play by playof what we're doing, So that five
minutes or however long I stopped toget gas. Yeah, do you need

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to know everything? Yeah, thatdoesn't work. That doesn't work. But
with that being said, I thinkthe three day weekend that we had creates
a wonderful environment. It can,I mean, I think, because I
mean I think people take advantage ofit. I mean, there is there
are advantages to work in a fourday work week, you know, I

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and I see, you know,my son just started a four day work
week where he works four tens andyou know, I mean he I think
he likes it, other than thefact that he works Fridays and Saturdays and
his days off for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, so he works Wednesday
through Saturday. But you know,I mean, he still has he likes
He said, he likes it betterbecause it's a four day work week.

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Well, and I'll tell you what. I walk up this morning and I
was just I don't know, motive, not motivated. I was just awake
and ready to go, as opposedto a Monday morning where it's like,
oh God, I got to rollout of bed. And it also depends
on what you do every the weekend. I mean, if you're if you're
busting your hump doing chores around yourhouse. You know, like say maybe

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you're painting inside, or you're movingfurniture, you're tearing up carpet. I
mean, anything that's physical like that. You just you almost want to say,
I need another day off. Butthere's just something about a four day
work week. I know, Iknow I am going to get so much
more accomplished in these four days thana regular five day week. I mean,
I don't know. And it's easiersaid than done. I mean again,

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I you know I told you earlier. I can set my own hour,
So I mean, if I wantto work ten to ten hours one
day, I can, and Ican work six hours the next day.
They don't want us, they don'twant us take an advantage of three day
weekends all the time. And ifthey do, they don't want you to
take on Friday because Fridays are bigdays in our business. Sure, so
if they do. If you dothat and your work week starts on Saturday,

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so at least ours does. Soyou know, if I go out
on them if I want, IfI want a three day weekend, I
have to really kind of like bustmy hump Tuesday, Thursday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday to getmy stuff done, to take that Monday
off without taking a personal day orwhatever. Did you take advantage of a
three day weekend? Absolutely not,well I did. I went to tough

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Man. Okay, I had agood weekend. You did you have Friday
or Saturday? I went Saturday.Get Yeah, the weather gonna kind of
crap you on Friday. That's toughMan weekend. It seems like when tough
Man rolls into town there's always somethingweather wise happening. I don't know why
I was actually gonna. I wasactually going to go to a tough Man.
I work at Friday night, butI was advised by my supervisor not
to take the state car out inthe bad weather. So I said,

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Okay, I'll work during the day. Then we'll tell you what. Downtown
Wheeling was crazy this weekend. ToughMan was Friday Symphony was Fridays. Friday,
Saturday was tough, man, LeeBrice was Saturay. I mean it
was hopping. It was. Itwas a busy weekend in downtown Wheeling.
It was. It was busy.And you know what, we're going to
talk more about what we did overthe weekend coming up, because well we've

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got sports too. We did,Man, we got a couple of things.
We can always push sports back ifwe have to, but it's there.
Okay, we got all, wegot all kind of stuff we get.
We're just getting started. Yeah,we got a whole another hour to
goe So what is it? Sevenforty four? Yeah, seven forty four
On the bloom Daddy Experience with Otisand Sam on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

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Hey, you know you talked aboutwhat you did. You went to
tough Man on Saturday, and anyany excitement on Sunday or yesterday. No,
just took it easy. Yeah,yeah, okay. I decided to
just kind of veg out. Okay, Friday night, I kind of you

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know, I watched It'snow for alittle bit, and then Saturday night I
watched Oppenheimer. Is that good?That actor? The main guy creeps me
out? He always plays creepy EranMurphy. Yeah, who spells his name?
It's it looks like it's siring,but he pronounces Karen. So I

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thought the movie was good, butI like kind of like historical biopics,
and it kind of went back.I mean, there were some things in
there that I I mean, obviously, I think everybody knows that that that
Jay Robert Ropenheimer was the father ofthe you know, atomic bomb, and
it wasn't just him. I mean, there was a team of people that
were there but how they went aboutit was pretty cool. It was like

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it was it was pre atomic,you know, how he became a professor
and how he got into everything.And I read some comments online after I
watched the movie from his like grandchildren, and there were a couple that they
were kind of displeased with, because, i mean, every movie that you
have has some they take the liberties, yeah, creative liberties to kind of

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get the movie and give it aflow and you know, maybe create a
you know, create a scene whereit's something it kicks in your head.
Yeah, And there were a coupleof things in the movie that they didn't
like, and they didn't like atthe end when well, don't spoil it.
Well, i mean, if everybodyknows history, you know what it
is. But I'm just saying inthe end, his security clearance was taken

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away from him, and after hisdeath, I think it was in twenty
fourteen, you know, they PresidentObama basically cleared him of all the charges
and and everything else. So theywere kind of upset that that wasn't like
a footnote at the end. Ohthey didn't include that. No, they
did not in the movie. Sooverall is a long movie. Three hours,

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But I mean it kept my attention. So I mean, normally I'm
not a three hour movie guy.Yeah, which is a reason why I
haven't watched a lot of movies becauseif they're over three hours, I just
say I'm not watching it. ButI really wanted to see this and I
was glad I did, and itkept my attention for the full three hours.
But I'm also a history guy.I mean, I like, I
like learning more about history that Ididn't know. There were things in there

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that I didn't know. Well,i'll tell you what. I started binge
watching a series. It's a bbI think it was originally a BBC series
called Orphan Black. It's probably sixor seven years old. It's really good,
really good. I found it onPrime, okay, so if anybody
is looking for a good I don'tknow if it was that might have been
an FX or no, I'll tellyou. I think it was on Audience.

(29:36):
That was the old Direct TV channel. I have no idea. Yeah,
who's is it raingmy mallick in that? Now? Okay, then I'm
thinking of something else now, No, no, no, this is this
is the main character is a female. I'm pretty sure it's BBC. But
it's really good. It's a reallygood one to Binge Watter. I know
there was something workin and something blackwith Ramy Mallik. I think anyway,
Well, and we've got plans forthis weekend already. Oh yes, I
forgot. Yeah. I want tomention everybody this Friday night, we are

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stepping up and we are going tobe celebrity dealers. You can actually see
us in public if you dare,Yeah, if you dare, yeah.
So we're stepping up, stepping upfor the United Way Marty Grass theme,
and it's gonna be a really funtime over at Willing Island Casino. It's
called Casino Night, is it not. Yeah, you stumped me Night at

(30:25):
the Races. Maybe it's night atthe race ship you stumped me. Well
that happens. I mean that wasthe idea Night at the casino. We
were both close. Yeah, buttickets are still available. We're gonna have
a really good time. We're gonnabe dealing blackjack, war and roulette.
So I'm gonna let you do blackjack. I did blackjack last I'll do Blackjacket

(30:47):
and Heartbeat. But again, thisis all in support of the United I
know why you don't like blackjack.You gotta count to twenty one. You
gotta do math. Yeah, no, I can't do math fast like that.
I'm sorry, you know what,I'll admit it. I'm not ashamed
to say it, not ashamed to. Hey, we got some sports stories
for you. We do we doso. NFL Franchise Tag season. The
window is open, so NFL teamshave some tough decisions to make today.

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The tag window opens at four PM. Teams are allowed to tag one player
scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. The value of the one year deal
is based on the average of thetop five salaries in the player's position.
So who do you think the Bengals, the Browns, and the Steelers are
gonna franchise tag? I have noidea, Yeah, me neither. I

(31:33):
mean, it's not gonna be aquarterback because they've got, you know,
huge contracts they're locked in. Imean, and maybe here's the other thing.
Maybe they don't have anybody eligible forthe franchise tag. That's true,
you know, or there's somebody outthere that they don't. I mean,
they're not gonna waste it on somebodyif they don't have to. Yeah,
that's true. So hey, Penguinsare hoping to get back in the win
column. Tonight they face off againstthe Islanders at PPG Pangs Arena, Pittsburgh,

(31:57):
coming off a tough loss to theking where Sidney Crosby scored the team's
only goal. Tristan Jerry made thirtyone of thirty three saves for the Penns,
who were in seventh in the MetropolitanDivision with fifty five points. And
you can catch all the Penguins actionon our sister station, Eagle one O,
seven to five and that's tonight.Well, and the Nailers are today
too, aren't they. Naylor's play. I believe it's five to ten because

(32:19):
they're out in Utah. That's onour other station, Mix ninety seven point
three. Yep, we've got Ifyou want hockey, hockey, We've got
hockey. So you listen to theNailers game. When it's over, you
just tune into the Pens. Thereyou go, flip flop, Cleveland.
The Browns are going to kick offin Brazil this season. Nice against the
Eagles. This has to be Phillywas selected by Commissioner Goodell earlier this month.

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Is the first team to play inthe inaugural Brazil game at Corinthian Corinthians
Corinthians State Okay Stadium, Yes,easy for you. Yeah. In Brazil,
so football is kind of becoming old. Well, they want to.
They're trying to do that. They'retrying to you know, they have the
games in London where Jacksonville seems toplay every year. I thought the same,

(33:07):
it's always, but they're doing thatbecause I think the ideal playing is
to put Jacksonville in London. Reallyyep. That's because if if if they
don't work out in Jacksonville, thenthat's where they're probably gonna end up playing
is in London, which that wouldbe almost I mean that would that would

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suck because you'd almost what you wouldhave to do is is you'd have to
have like two away games back toback all the time because the travel would
just be horrible. Oh yeah,that's true, that'd be I was thinking.
I was thinking of it from afans point of view. I mean,
if you're playing, if you're aJacksonville fan and they're playing at home
in London, what time would thegame be eight o'clock in the morning.

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They don't want to watch football ninein the morning. With the NFL wants
it because then you have a gameat nine, you have a game at
one, you have a game atfour, you have a game at eight.
I mean you have four games.You get football all day on Sunday.
I mean they own Sunday as itis, they do, But traditionally
everybody's used to one in four clock. I don't know that. No,
not my cup of tea. Yep. And if you're a Mountaineer fan,
they hit the Hardwoods tonight. Theylook terrible the other night. They've looked

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terrible the last handful of games.But yeah, they take on Central Florida
tonight well in Morgantown. And ifyou want tickets to come see us at
night at the Casino for the UnitedWay, I'm gonna post it on our
Facebook page. There you go.Sounds good and it's all for a good
cause. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Seven fifty eight you're listening to The
bloom Daddy Experience with Sam and Otison news radio eleven seventy WWVA se number

(34:58):
one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This is no bloom Daddy Experience.
Your host bloom Daddy. His goalinform, entertain and tick people off the
bloom Daddy Experience on news radio elevenseventy WWVA starts now Ato six on the

(35:21):
bloom Daddy Experience with Notice and Samon news Radio eleven seventy WWVA. You
know, and I just realized,no, Blue Daddy has a forty weekend.
No good for him. He tooktoday off. I didn't even I
mean I knew, I knew it, but I was like, we didn't.
We didn't throw him under the bus. We're used to it, well,
carrying, carrying the load. Yeah. Hey, taking a look at
some local news. Blair police areseeking a man who held up a gas

(35:44):
station on Sunday night. They're lookingfor a white male. He entered the
Rich Oil station on Noble Street andasked the clerk to hand over all the
money. The individual, who didnot show a weapon, escaped on foot
with cash and cigarettes, which islike gold to some people. He was
described as wearing a black jacket,camouflage stripes on the sleeve, black pants,
and a black mask please say.He is believed to be involved in

(36:05):
two similar robberies, and people livingin the area are being asked to check
their home surveillance systems to see ifhe was caught on any of their cameras.
Basically, get your ring doorbells andthings like that, and anyone with
any information please contact the police departmentat seven four zero six seven six thirty
three twenty two. That's seven fourzero six seven six thirty three twenty two

(36:28):
if you if you have watched anytrue crime of recently those ring doorbells surveillance.
We are never unwatched. We arenever on a camera somewhere right well,
or anybody that has a business nearbymaybe has outdoor cameras or something that
you know they have it. Alot of people have it, like where
their cameras are set up on thefront door, but it kind of like

(36:49):
picks the parking lot maybe maybe alittle bit of the street. I mean,
it's amazing what the cameras can dobecause it's i mean, I hate
to say it, but it's likeBig Brothers watching everything all the time.
Time. So according to my source, there was a board meeting last night
held at Wheeling University in regards tothe employment of current president Jenny Favid.
There are major issues happening at theuniversity, including issues with the dormitories,

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with plumbing, black mold issues,also parents and students are frustrated and tired
because students are being misplaced, displacedand moved around. And also, according
to my source, Favid is notpopular with students or faculty, creating a

(37:35):
toxic work environment. As of thismorning, we do not know the results
of the vote from the board,but as soon as we do, we
will get that to you. Favidwas hired in twenty nineteen, and just
a little bit of background, inSeptember of last year, there was student
protest in regards to a lot ofthe issues that they are experiencing at Wheeling
University. And there's no reason whyif this is going on since September that

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it should still be going on inthe middle of February. Black mold should
be addressed immediately, no matter whoyou want to talk to. I mean,
there's businesses out there that take careof that. They can fix your
plumbing, they can do whatever itis to eliminate that issue. But black
mold is something that you don't wantto mess with. It can be deadly

(38:21):
in reality, I mean it couldbe. There's news that the Cleveland Cliff's
timplate mill is shutting down. Itcame as a cannonball to the stomach.
According to Governor Jim Justice, hesays he's going to do anything and everything
within his power to help the ninehundred workers who are going to be laid
off come April. The state hasa workforce, West Virginia's Quick Response Team
and an Economic Development Task Force whichare going to be made available to work

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with the unemployed workers. So that'sa good thing and good thing for the
State of West Virginia and Governor Justiceto step up for that. Yeah,
and weird. Weiren has struggled formany years now after the steel mills closing
down, and this is just anotherkick to the gut. I mean,
like Justice said, cannon ball tothe stomach, because it's not it's of

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course the families the employees are goingto be affected, but it's the surrounding
community, the businesses, the smallbusinesses. This all trickles down to everybody,
and it's a it's a terrible unfortunatecircumstance. Well, when nine hundred
people lose their job, that's notI mean, that's a lot different than
nine oh absolutely, yeah, yeah. So I mean, you know,
you don't want to see anybody losetheir job. But when it comes to
nine hundred. That's a big number. That's a big kick, yeah,

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out of wheeling. The future ofparking is on the table tonight at City
Council when they meet. On theagenda is the conversation about the Tenth Street
and Robert C. Bird Intermodal parkinggarages. The total costs for renovations that
they are talking about, maintenance andbasic repairs on both of these facilities nine
hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars.So the meeting is set for tonight at

(39:52):
five thirty. Okay, parking,parking, parking, parking. Listen,
and I get you know, theTenth Street Garage is in desperate need of
some repairs. You know, theInnermotal Center is not that old. I
mean, I can understand maybe itneeds some you know, pothole repair or
something like that, you know,but it shouldn't need the major repairs the
tenth Street does, right, Andthe Tenth Street Garage, I mean there's

(40:14):
there's there's spots where you can actuallythat the cement has gone through and there's
actually holes. Yeah, so Imean it they're gonna have to probably tear
sections of that out, put newrebar in, or do whatever they need
to do and then fix it inthat sense. Well, it's and let's
try not to do it where youshut down the street, because there's so
many streets shut down right now,let's just work on what's inside. Well,

(40:35):
And it's funny. This past weekend, I was talking to somebody I
can't remember who it was now,an older person and they had not been
downtown in like six months and camedown here. I think they had to
go to a doctor's pointment and said, you're not exaggerating, No, when
you talk about downtown. I said, it's a war zone. No,
this is not exaggeration. They're like, okay, we get it now.

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But for those who haven't been downhere, they don't understand it. They
you know, they think everybody's youknow, making a big deal at a
mountain out of a molehill. Nope, nope, nope, No, it's
real. It's real, folks.Yes, Hey, did you see this
where former President Trump is launching hisown line of sneakers. No, yeah,
I guess. He announced the launchon Saturday while attending Sneaker Con Sneaker

(41:20):
co. I never even heard sneakerCon. Well, that was in Philadelphia.
He told the crowd. He's wantedto do this for a long time,
and he thinks the shoes will bea big success. Of course he
does. The line, called TrumpSneakers, is available for pre order and
features three pairs of shoes ranging fromtwo hundred to four hundred bucks. That's
a little steep. The website sellingthe shoes also features a perfume and cologne
on sale for one hundred dollars each. The announcement comes one day after Trump

(41:45):
was ordered to pay three hundred andfifty five billion dollars in his New York
civil fraud trial. So, Imean, is this his way of making
some extra cash? I don't knowif I wore his perfume, would Biden
sniff me? No, you're tooold. That's true. You gotta be
under twelve. Yeah, that's true. Hey, But not only has Donald
Trump released his own brand of sneakers. Not to be outdone, Joe Biden

(42:08):
has countered with his own brand ofaffordable orthopedic shoes and high tops aren't expensive.
There's a lot of emotion in thisrow. Now get the only footwear
you can afford in this economy.Doctor Joe Biden's orthophedic shoes I only pay
that little because I'm smart. DoctorJoe's are the perfect shoes for falling up

(42:30):
the stairs and falling off your bike. Doctor Joe's orthopedic shoes are what gives
the president the stamina to stand withoutfalling over. I got Harry Legs and
stay comfortable all day while pretending tolead the free world. I'm going to
go to bed doctor Joe's orthophoedic shoes. Hail to the feet. Come on,

(42:51):
folks, I'm gonna get to bedHail to defeat Velcrow included. Probably,
I'm going to guess Belcrez included.You know. It's just you know,
sometimes when we get these bits,yes, they just fit perfectly.
And that one, now, thatone was pretty good. Not what the

(43:13):
Harry Lke's comment say what he said, Harry Lake, no idea what the
Harry Legs comment stood for? Hey, what are we doing Friday? What
are we doing Friday? Oh?You and I have a date? No
boy, yep, don't say itlike that. We're going to spend the
evening together. Oh good lord.But we're going to be dealing all for
a good cause for the United Way. Celebrity dealers Blackjack Roulette and war.

(43:36):
That's kind of scary. But againit's all in support of the United Way.
We're gonna have a really good time. It's at Wheeling Island Hotel,
Casino, Racetrack. Come on over. Tickets are still available. I'm gonna
post it on our Facebook page.Tickets are fifty dollars. Fifty dollars,
but that includes me, two drinks. Yeah, lots of stuff. So
I did it last year. Ihad an absolute ball play money because it's
all play money. Oh yeah,it's all play It's all other than your

(43:59):
fifty dollars. You can always buymore money. If you run out,
you can buy more. But theidea is you're making a donation to the
United waight'. You're gonna get You'regonna get to play some casino games.
You're gonna get a good dinner.You're gonna get a couple of cocktails if
you want them. You know.Hey, yeah see, I'm a bad
gig. I was working, sothey put my tail to work. So

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I don't know how all the chipsand all that worked. I just knew
I had to deal deal deal dealdeal deal, And it's Marty Grothy there
you get. So we're gonna havea good time. Yep. Well what
are we got next? Oh,talking to Jess Kelly from Trinity Hell System.
We're gonna be talking about Heartmont andeverything that's going on with Trinity also
in Belmont County the new hospital that'scoming, So stick with us. That's

(44:40):
in about five minutes. The BloomDaddy Experience of salmon otis on news radio
eleven seventy ww VA on the BlueDaddy Experience with Nis and Sam on news

(45:10):
Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Well,joining us in the studio this morning,
I have Jess Kelly, community outreachspecialists with Trinity Health System. Good morning,
Jess, good morning. So gladto have you with us this morning.
I'm happy to be here, veryexcited. Well, good good.
Wanted to talk about a couple thingsthat Trinity has going on so right now

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for February and last Friday we hada couple of women of impact in here.
But February is Heart Month, Yes, it is, which is a
huge It affects everybody. Heart healthaffects absolutely everybody, and right now Trinity
is very much involved with Heart Month. What do you have going on?
So obviously being Trinity, we supportheart health all year around, but like

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you said, with it being heartmonth, with February, we started with
our Go Red luncheon that I havegotten to go to many years. It's
a wonderful event. Thank you.It's such a third great event. Great
thank you. So being the factthat heart disease is the number one killer
of women, I mean that's that'sa fact and that's very scary. When

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I started with Trinity four years agoand February rolled around, for me,
that was very eye opening. Sobeing that i'm community outreach, my role
is to create events, to createsituations to where the community can be involved
in what we are doing and know, you know their health risk and how

(46:43):
they can help. So yes,we can constantly put that out there,
we can say all of the statistics, but we need to make it fun.
We need to make it to wheresomebody can they want to come to
the event, they want to learn, but also pamper themselves. So that's
why we created the Go Red event. Well in Trinity is constantly growing its
cardiology department. Yes, that isone thing that I have noticed over the

(47:06):
past couple of years, to keepadding and keep adding. Like I know,
my husband goes to doctor Tristan Smith. I'm pretty sure that too.
Bloom Diding goes too. He talksabout that in the ads. So there's
the cardiac care that Trinity offers justcontinues to grow in the valley. It
does. And you know, youuse the word department. I like to
think of it as a team,okay, and I mean truly, I

(47:29):
know, I know it sounds cliche. However, they all work together,
you know, not just our doctorswe have eleven doctors on staff now,
but also our apps. Is itis one large team that is all working
towards the same goal, you know. And with Trinity, you know,

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our mission is to improve the healthand wellness of our community. You can't
do that without human kindness. Sohuman kindness is really where we're pushing.
You know. It's not just aboutseeing the doctor because of you know,
all of the credentials. It's aboutseeing the person, you know. So
that's also why, you know,another event that we do year round is

(48:14):
our Walk with the Doc program.We have that we do it twice a
month, once the second Thursday ofthe month in Steubenville at the Fort Steuben
Mall at nine am, and thenon the second Saturday of every month.
We're here in Saint Clairsville at theOhio Valley Mall at nine am as well.
We bring a physician with us eachtime to walk. The purpose of

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this is to get our community together. You know, when we had COVID,
everything shut down, we stopped doingprograms such as these. This was
the first one that we pulled togetherto make sure that our community could get
together in the same area, havethe same focus and same purpose, but
also bring our physicians in so it'soutside of the office. It's a bit

(48:58):
more comfortable. That's what I wasgonna ask. Walk with the Doc now
that's open to the public. Yes, a free and I think it's it's
a really interesting spin or twist onhaving a conversation with a physician because there's
a lot of people who they refuse. They refuse until it's absolutely an emergency
situation to have a regular GP orhave that conversation because they don't like the

(49:23):
clinical environment. Yes, and Walkwith the Doc puts them face to face
with a doctor, but outside ofthat where they're human, right right.
So along with those two things,what other events do you have coming up
this year? So we have manyhealth fairs that will be planning on.

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Those will be released on our Facebookpage. It's it's constantly changing, so
just I recommend that you check ourFacebook page for our upcoming events. I've
noticed a lot, you know.One of the couples that attended our go
Red luncheon this year for the firsttime, was because I met them in

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Fallensby at a health fair and theywant to know. They want to be
a part of the events that aregoing on. Those are the those are
the things I look forward to.Community impact, yes, because sometimes we
have very small events, say ahealthfare that you know, and in business,
we all want it to be thisbig outcome, even if five people

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show up, it's worth it.It is. It is because the situation
I'm talking about that day, wetruly we blew it out of the water.
Was a huge event, but wehad maybe twenty people show up,
but it was it was impactful andjust real quick, while I have you
in here, I've got to ask. I've got to ask because the excitement

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is there Belmont County. Last year, you know, ground break groundbreaking for
the new community Hospital, Neighborhood Hospitalwas about this time last year. Where
do we stand on the movement ofthat. Just just a quick update.
So that is something that I'm askedobviously a lot while I'm in the community.
We are breaking ground, We've hadthe fences up, so you know,

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definitely keep an eye out. Butbut it is moving forward and we
are very excited and the community hasreally embraced us, so we are grateful
for that. There's a lot ofexcitement, a lot of excitement. Well,
just thank you so much for stoppingby this morning. Remember everybody,
right now, it is heart month. It's time to research, make your
doctor's appointment, and we will beback right after this. What are we

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talking, Otis, we're talking.Oh, We've got your story about the
that's right, I've got a subjectthat I'm I'm it's just this morning,
so we're going to talk about thatin about five minutes. You're listening to
the Bloom Daddy Experience with Otis andSam on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA eight

(52:53):
thirty six on the Blue Daddy Experiencewith Otis and Sam on News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. You know, duringthe commercial break, there was a thing
about the Beatles. Are you aBeatles fan? Not really, not really,
Okay, I don't know if youknow this, but there's a story
related to the Beatles. That's whatmade me think of this. Paul McCartney,
he's getting back his bass guitar afterit went missing more than fifty years

(53:15):
ago. McCartney said he purchased theHoffner bass guitar in nineteen sixty one,
played it for a number of Beatlesconcerts and albums. You know, just
did what you normally would do.It was stolen in nineteen seventy two,
but a Valentine's Day statement on McCartney'swebsite said it was returned and authenticated.
The statement credited the Lost Bass Project, which was created last year, for

(53:37):
locating the bass. So somebody stolehis bass guitar and it was one that
he like, he loved it,and they couldn't find it, couldn't find
it. He basically gave up hope. They started this project last year and
it got returned. Just somebody probablystole you know, somebody probably stole it,
and then, like you know,if it was more than fifty years
ago, maybe that person passed awayand it was left to the family and

(53:58):
the family said, uh, oh, this really isn't ours. Some granddaughter
founded. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So then anyway, that's just with
that Beatles story that was in themiddle of that break, I said,
well, let's just go with thisstory. So before the break I mentioned
something had me worked up this morning, and it's just another example of how

(54:22):
ridiculous this country is going two stories. This goes to biological males playing in
girls athletics. So a high schoolstory. Now, Kip Academy, which
is located in Massachusetts, has abiological male that claims to be female playing
on the girls basketball team. Duringa game against another school called Low Collegiate

(54:46):
Charter School, this male injured threegirls in a basketball game. Three.
I saw the video of one ofthe incidents and basically the this person grabbed
the ball, you know, withthis young girl and ripped it out of
her hands. So he threw aroundlike a rag doll basically, and she

(55:09):
was grabbing her back and all thisand that, and there's again and then
there was two other injuries during thatgame. Now my question is this and
Riley Gaines, who has been incrediblyoutspoken, outspoken about fairness in women's sports
and how it's being taken advantage of, and you know, women are losing

(55:29):
opportunities. Young girls are losing opportunities. And basically, three young women,
high school aged women, during thisbasketball game were injured by a male and
we're society is trying to make thisacceptable, which is disgusting because last time
I checked, if a man injuresa woman, it's abuse. Yeah.

(55:53):
Here's the thing. Title nine wasput into place for a reason. It
was equality for women in sports.So when you look at these universities,
they have to follow Title nine.High schools have to follow Title nine,
where if there's a male sport,there has to be an equal female sport.
Now, it doesn't have to bethe same sport. So in other
words, like so just for instance, like WVU doesn't have women's softball,

(56:15):
but they have women's gymnastics. Yousee, you see what I'm saying.
So I mean it's a sport,it's a different sport. The opportunity has
to be correct, yes, yeah, okay, So like in Iowa State
they have women's softball, but theydon't have men's baseball. Okay, So
it's the opportunities there. People likeBilly Jean King, pioneering women that played

(56:37):
sports in the sixties and seventies,and eighties that fought for the right and
fought for the equality are now beingcrapped on by this by people that are
allegedly, you know, they're sosupportive of women's sports and they're all in
favor of women. But yet,what are we doing as a woke culture.

(57:00):
We're saying, well, these people, they they they need, they
need an opportunity to No, theydon't. Here's what people, Here's what
people don't want to admit. Theseare men, sure, who are mediocre
at best in their own sports.Sure, So what they're doing is they're
claiming to be something else so thatthey then are more successful in a sport,

(57:21):
taking away places and advantages for realwomen, actual female athletes, to
put themselves ranked higher. And everyone of these athletes that you see that
you see this, whether it's aweightlift or a swimmer, a baseball a
softball player, basketball player, whenyou see the story, it says when

(57:43):
they were a male, they rankedyou know, three hundreds out of the
country. What they're mediocre. Sobecause they can't succeed, they are going
to claim to be something else andtake the place and take advantages and opportunities
away from real women. And alsoit happened in college. There's now a
trans college athlete. Again, anotherswimmer who has shattered previous records in an

(58:08):
event this past weekend. And againthis is a man claiming to be a
female breaking these records. Well,and let's face it. I mean,
if if women were good enough,why aren't they in the NBA? Why
aren't they in MLB? Why aren'tthey in you know, major league sports?

(58:29):
Because their bodies are different, yep, because their size is different.
If you put a if you puta woman in the NFL, she'd get
killed because they're faster, stronger.Maybe college, you come out, you
could possibly get somebody that could playcollege at a small school. They would
never be able to play Division oneunless they're a kicker or a punter or
something of that native. You see, that's the thing women, don't you

(58:52):
know. When you hear feminism,people think that that's women who want to
be exactly equal as a man.But biologically we are different. We are
made differently because we are created todo different fits than what a man does,
and a lot of people don't wantto admit that difference. I don't
look at it as a negative.I'm created to do something that a man

(59:14):
can never do, and that's tohave a child. So my body is
created differently to withstand and do differentthings compared to men. Unless you listen
to the woke crowd, right thatthe person that's trans from a woman to
a man and all of a suddengets pregnant. Yeah, well and then
they say that, well a manhad a baby. No, a man

(59:34):
didn't have a baby. That's awhole other conversation. But again it goes
back to the fact that you know, prior to my generation, there were
women who fought for the opportunity forfemale sports absolutely and it is being like
you said, it's being absolutely trampled. And here's the other thing with this
whole conversation. It's you don't seewomen who are calling themselves men taking away

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opportunities for men in sports because theycan't. Because they can't. So it's
and and honestly the biggest thing theymight be able to in a high school
in a high school somewhere along there. But I mean, as you get
older and bigger and stronger and youmove up in different leagues, you know
this is not going to happen.But the majority of all these stories you
see it's men claiming to be women. Sure, it's not the opposite.

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So that's where the I think that'sit. That's a huge indicator of where
the problem is. It is thosethat are mediocre that cannot succeed in their
own genders, whether it be sports, business, what have you, claiming
to be women to take spots awayfrom actual women. What I would like
to see, they're even in thebeauty pageants. Now, what I would

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like to see is this biological malethat was in this high school basketball game,
if ten years down the road,if he's still trains right, or
did this person do it just tobe able to play at a high school
level because they weren't. They probablygot cut from their high school team and

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they said, well, you knowwhat, the only way for me to
play high school sports is the transas a woman, and I'll do that
until it no longer benefits me andthen I'll go back to being a guy.
Well, and here here's the otherthing that people don't want to pay
attention to, but it's happening moreand more often. In this high school
game, we had three girls injured. There was the volleyball game last fall

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where a girl just she got spikedright into the face, shattered her nose.
So there's more and more injuries.If you've seen the MMA fight where
a where a trans person, that'sjust ridiculous, and that's that's the MMA's
fault. Oh, beat the snotout of a woman was awful, absolutely
awful. Why anybody would want towatch that, let alone agree to let

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that happen is beyond me. Well, what they need to do these teams
that that that play, this schoolthat have that has caught well, no,
you just you just say we're notgonna play your forfeit. You do
whatever you have and nobody plays them. Yeah. So, and if that's
the case, then you see howlong the school keeps them on the team.
And that's what it's gonna take,because you're you're gonna punish eleven other

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players in basketball, You're gonna punisheleven girls because of one knucklehead. And
that's what it's gonna take. It'sgonna take schools, teams and players and
parents to stop worrying about being labeledand standing up for their young female athletes.
Yep So eight forty five on thebloom Daddy Experience with Otis and Sam

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on News Radio eleven seventy WWVA eightfifty one on the bloom Daddy Experience with

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Otis and Sam on News Radio elevenseventy WWVA. Want to wrap this up
this morning with some lighthearted stories?Sure, okay, So a human leg?
Uh oh, maybe this isn't aslighthearted as I thought. A human
leg has been found on an NYCsubway track. Investigators are trying to figure

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out how human remains ended up ona subway track in New York City over
the weekend. The NYPD says ahuman leg was found Saturday along the northbound
fore line in the Bronx. It'snot yet clear who the leg belongs to
or what happened. The leg isbeing looked over by the medical examiner.

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Boom, I just hear law andorder in my head. Police police are
stumped the oh oh really, comeon? That was good? You know
that was good? Yeah? Weneed Benson and Stabler on this one.
Hey, yesterday was an anniversary.In San Antonio, Okay. On February
nineteenth, nineteen eighty two, policearrested rockstar Ossio Osborne for relieving himself on

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the Alamo's cenotaph. Osborne bonded outof jail for forty bucks, then performed
before a sold out crowd at theHemisphere Arena that night. The city barred
Osborne from performing at any city ownedvenues for ten years, So in nineteen
ninety two, he publicly apologized anddonated ten thousand dollars to the Daughters of
the Republic of Texas, and heperformed in San Antonio later that year.

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Not surprised, I remember that storyand people in San Antonio were about to
lose their minds when it happened.So I didn't know a lot of this
ausy stuff until actually I watched theMotley Crue movie that Netflix did a couple
of years ago with you just gottayou gotta wonder how much of that is
actually the ants and the Yeah,here's my question between him and Keith Richards,

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how are they still alive? Lotsof pharmaceuticals, how legal and illegals?
I mean, I'm starting to thinkit's not actually them anymore. It's
just like an AI Well. Ithink Keith Richards is the same as Joe
Biden. They've been dead for tenyears. Nobody's just told him no.
But that's the thing. People,For some reason, people like Azzy or

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Keith Richards. They can do whateverthey want to their body and nothing happens.
Now, Okay, Ozzy's looking abit rough. Well, Keith Richards
looks like he's like I said,he looks like he's been dead for four
years. Yeah, but there's thosethat'll, you know, work out six
days a week and eat rabbit foodtheir entire lives. Yeah, they'll drop
dead it exactly forty two. Youknow, yep, I know what you

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mean. So Washington, Washington isin is tops when it comes to reporting
the nation's worst pothole problems. Ibeg to differ Washington. A new report
by the USA Today says the Evergreenstate is first on the list. Washington
is followed by Minnesota, Michigan,Tennessee, ind Pothole bills cost the state

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and the average of four hundred andfifty seven dollars each to repair, with
overall repairs associated with the problem offifty seven percent nationwide. I'd like to
see where Ohio and West Virginia rankin this poll, because I'm going to
tell you right now, if youif you have more potholes than what we
have around here, then that youdefinitely have issues. Now. I mean

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I can see Minnesota and Michigan becauseobviously they're a little colder weather, and
you know, the fluctuation. Washingtonthough, just kind of surprises me.
And then Tennessee and Indiana. Imean, just like I don't I mean,
we have potholes around here. Wehave potholes, go Lore. You
could lose small children in oh absolutely. I mean I don't know, I

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don't know if you saw this story, but Republican lawmakers in Tennessee they introduced
a bill that would outlaw the saleof refrigerated beer. This was this was
done well. The goal of thebill was to stop drunk driving and crashes
because currently in Tennessee, drinking whilebehind the wheel is illegal, but passengers
are allowed to consume alcohol. Okay, they've kind of backed off since that

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story came out because it was kindof a radical plan to keep people from
opening a cold beer while behind thewheel. After they considered the ban on
the sale of cold beer, blahblah blah, they tabled the idea after
hearing this ad from a popular brandof ice cold beer. Hey, Tennessee,
your workday is done, so reachfor room temperature, course light,

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the coldest tasting warm beer. Roomtemperature cores light is the silver bullet to
stop you from getting behind the wheeland cracking a cold one, because it's
not How can you tell if yourcan of room temperature cores light is a
ball me sixty eight degrees? Justlook at the mountains. They're not even

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close to turning blue. But afterthree hours in the friet, they'll be
ready to drink, even though you'llbe ready for bed room temperature cores light.
Taking the chill out of chilling outafter a long day at work.
There you have it could warm beer. That'd be good in England. See

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I okay, I don't drink beer. I'll be straight up on us.
I've tried the cheap beer. I'vetried expensive beer. I just do not
like beer. So warmer cold doesn'tmatter you And I don't think that's gonna
disge. Well, I think they'vebacked off. Tennessee's backed off. Yeah,
So I mean it's just I thinkit was something. It actually passed

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the House twice second two readings,and it went to the Senate. But
I think it kind of fizzled inEngland. I don't know if this guy
had cold beer warm beer, buthe called Please England said a drunken driver
did the right thing after doing thewrong thing and called on himself that he
reported he was driving and said hedoesn't know what he is doing. The

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man called the police to report heis a drunk driver. Nice fifty two
year old man. So how doyou cite him? I don't know.
I mean you pull over and kindof get in a passenger seat and you
wait for him to come get you. I mean, if they didn't prove
you were driving, then well theman said he had a rough weekend.
Oh yeah, well I would too. Yeah, so but it did.

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He was three times over the legalOh so, yes, he was drunk.
He wasn't drunk, he was hammered. So hey, we've got some
big news for our Friday. Yes, yes, our Friday, Marty Graw,
We're going to be celebrity dealers supportingthe United Way over at Wheeling Island
Hotel, Casino, Racetrack. Yep, come on over. Tickets still available.

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You're gonna be dinner casino chips.It's all for a good time,
had good cause we're gonna have agreat time yep, and see and see
how good we are at being dealers. There you have it. And then
on Thursday, we were talking toJody Miller about the new series, the
docu Sary He's Gifted and it's aboutorgan donation and so on, and her
story is the first episode, sowe'll be talking to her on Thursday.

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We'll see you tomorrow on The bloomDaddy Experience with Otis and Sam on news
radio eleven seventy WWVA