Not everyone is a fan of JD Vance

Bloomdaddy, host of "The Bloomdaddy Show" on sister station WTAM in Cleveland has some choice words for JD Vance

Episode Transcript

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All right, today one of theRNC in Milwaukee is complete. Our man

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on the scene is Bloom Daddy fromnews radio WTAM in Cleveland. Bloom,
thanks for the time again this morning. I guess the biggest question I have
for you is did you have fiftycent wings at Applebee's or did you have
the Bourbon Street mushroom Swiss Burger?No, we went to some German rather

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German food. I'm telling you rightthat We're so heavy. It was so
I'm talking to you right now andI feel like I've got a lead balloon
in my stomach. So that did. No more German food? One and
done. How was the how wasthe commute to the venue yesterday? Because
we got we were talking about eightthirty yesterday morning, and you were saying
that you're going to have to leaveplenty early because of traffic and security.

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How was your How is your missioninto the facility? Horrendous? So I'll
put it to you this way,and you know, when I'm fill in
a TV and so I know whereyou're at Derrick, Columbus, Imagine leaving
your station and taking four hours totravel three quarters of a mile. Wow.
Yeah, it was unbelievable. Imean I almost didn't make it on

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air at two pm and we leftit nine. Wow. It was the
redirections, the bumper to bumper traffic, the checkpoints. I mean we were
in the car for literally four straighthours, and then one checkpoint we rolled

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into. You've got to roll downall the windows in the car. They
make you pop the hood, popthe trunk. One of the funniest parts
of the day with Keith Kennedy,my boss. We're in a rental car.
He couldn't he didn't know how topop the hood. Security personnel had
to basically climb in the car itpop the hood. But they were checking
everything. I watched a guy lookingunder the radiator hose, bombs fiffing dogs

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coming around you in every car.I mean they had to do that to
every car. So imagine four lanesof downtown city traffic coming from every angle
being funneled into one lane and everycar is going through that checkpoint getting searched
like that. So yeah, itwas it was four hours. Then we

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get out. There's streets they won'tlet you down, there's you know,
personnel, cop security everywhere. Iwas looking up on the rooftops. So
yeah, I'm carrying a tripod,and for people out there listening a tripod,
you know, you set a cameraon if you don't know what it
looks like. It's kind of longand from a distance it could probably look

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like a weapon. And I'm carryingit on my shoulder, trying to help
out a guy from New York whoworks try hard. And I look up
and I see all these little dotson buildings up there, and I'm thinking,
oh, I know, I'm atsomebody's scope everything, No doubt.
It was just kind of it waskind of surreal. But yeah, we're
leaving. I mean, you know, we're an hour behind you, and
it's seven to ten here in Milwaukee. We're leaving in about thirty minutes.

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Sure, I don't go on theair till two pm Central times, so
I don't know what we're gonna do, but we're gonna find something to do.
Yeah, So it was just acrawl. And then how was the
parking? I mean, once yougot through all the security, was it
just a normal parking sitting? Likewere you in an open lot or were
you in a structure? No,we were in a structure, and we
have a parking pass that gets usright close to the venue, but we

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couldn't figure out how to get tothe garage with the parking pass. We
just parked in the first garage wecould find because we had to jump out
and hustle to the venue. Andthen your media center is in Panther Arena,
which is right next to the mainarena that the RNC is taking place,
so you know, we just hadto hook it. So we get

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out of the vehicle and we juststarted walking and we'd come up to one
place that you think you could walkto the arena and they would tell you,
no, you've got to go toanother checkpoint. And it was,
yeah, it was, it was. It wasn't the most enjoyable. It
wasn't the most enjoyable experience. Yetyou got three more days of that.
Brothers speaking with speaking with Bloom Daddyfrom WTAM in Cleveland. He is on

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the scene in Milwaukee for RNC Daytwo. Of course, Bloom the big
story. JD. Vance gets thenomination from right here in Ohio for President
Trump's a vice presidential running mate.He is thirty nine years old, turns
forty in August, and he reallybrings that Midwest sensibility and he's going to

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help Trump in states like Michigan andPennsylvania, Wisconsin. Do you think,
because I mean this is where we'regonna I think it's a terrible thing.
Do you really? I must havehad four different tables at this venue looking
at me like, how could yoube saying that? I think it's horrible.
I don't know how he's I thinkhe's bringing the same voters Trump already

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has. And listen, I dealwith him, Okay, I dealt with
him a lot in the beginning.I don't know how much you've dealt with
him. Yeah, we talked tohim. He as an opportunist. I
mean, this is a guy whoflip flopped on Trump at Trump's supporters,
and I know he owned up toeverything else. But this is also a
guy I who I thought I wasgonna have to get a cease and desist
order when he was running. Wecouldn't. We couldn't get rid of him.

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He wanted on the show every damnday, and we put him on
a lot, and then once hegot elected, he's a ghost. And
I'm not the only radio host that'stold me the same thing. And I'd
even heard from a congressman in Ohiowho told me I helped get him elected.
Once he got elected, this guyghosts me. This guy, this
is a Republican, he said.I get more, I get my phone

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call return more from Sherif Brown thanI do. JD Vans. So I've
got a bad taste in my mouthabout the guy. I just felt he
should have went Marco Rubio or afemale. But at the end of the
day, who the hell am I? Well, yeah, I mean,
you've got it, you've got anopinion. I'm okay with the pick.
And I just to unpack a coupleof things that you just said. Number
One, it's fairly common for politiciansto ghost you once they get in office.

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That's not a unique thing to JD. That happens a lot. It's
like pulling teeth once they're in office, and they're busy to get them back
on. I get that. Idon't like it, but I get it.
Been doing this a long time too. It happens. As far as
you know him flip flopping on Trump, I look at that as a positive.
He learned, he owned he's owningit, he's owning his mistake there.

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He realized that once you know,he was bad mouthed and Trump,
and then he realized, you know, once he actually meets the guy,
he's he's good. His policies work, so he gets in line there,
and you know, did he realizethat or did he realize he needed Trump
to get elected? And this iswhere I go back to the opportunitist part.
And here's the other thing. Whatthe hell has he done? Been
a senator for a year and ahalf. And this is I argue with

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Trump supporters all the time. Andlisten, I voted for Trump's plice,
I'll vote for him again. Butmy point is he's seventy eight years old.
Trump is and people will go,oh, well, he's healthy.
He's seventy eight year old. Healthypeople die every day. You want to
know why, Mike, because they'reseventy eight. Yeah, it's old,
okay. And what has JD.Vance done to take over this country in

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case something does happen. Well,certainly his short on experience, we get
that, but that's also you know, again I look at the other side.
That's also attractive that you know,Trump had zero experience in twenty sixteen,
and we had some of the besttimes in this country for four years
when he was in office. Soexperience. You got enough people around you
in your cabinet and so forth,you know that is becoming less and less

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of a requirement. I mean theage thing. Age has been a huge
issue in this campaign, as youknow, with Biden at eighty one,
he can't string his sentence together.You know, this guy's forty years old.
He'll be forty four in four yearswhen he's running in twenty twenty eight.
I mean that's as somebody in theirmid fifties. I applaud that.

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Yeah, I mean, I understandwhere it's coming from. We can make
no points on both sides of themap here. But it's just kind of
funny. If I if I appliedfor the job at TVN and some guy
with a year and a half experienceapplied, I would think you'd probably hire
me. But yet when it comesto the presidency, everybody thinks that here
it stuffesn't matter, no big deal. It's like, huh, it's the
number one job in the world.Experience should matter. And it was a

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problem with me with Trump the firsttime. But Trump ran a lot of
businesses. He was very worldly inhow he had a career. I was
able to accept it a lot moreyou know, than a guy who wrote
a hill billy eulogy and all ofa sudden, you know, just to
jump on the Trump bandwagon when hewanted to elect it. So we're going

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to agree to disagree on this one. That's fine, and that's that's that's
healthy, that's normal. And youknow, at the at the end of
the day, bloom is, peopledon't vote for vice president. You're not
looking to him. You're not lookingfor that person to bring voters to the
party. If you need a vicepresident to bring voters to the party,
then there's a problem with the topof the ticket and the president. So

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this guy is just he's he's justlike Trump. Are is Mike other than
Trump's base? Who's he getting?That's the problem. I mean, that's
the you know, is he goingto get any of these independent voters which
basically are going to this election?And that's that's my point. And to
me, a vice presidential selection wasalways somebody who a if something happened to

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the president, people feel confident intaking over. That's why Kamala Harris was
such a horrendous pick. And besomebody who can bring you voters that you
can't already get and that's why Ithought he would go with a female,
because femalely, he's not getting thatsuburban housewife vote. And you know,
I thought maybe maybe, you know, he just has to get a little
bit of that independent block and JadieVance to me brings him the same people

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he already has. Yeah, Idon't think he needs it. You know,
again, we'll agree to disagree onthat. I think I think it's
a good pick. It's a good, solid pick. Got about forty five
seconds last bloom Daddy in Milwaukee fromour sister station WTM in Cleveland. So
what are you expecting for day two, dude, Misery. I mean to

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say, I just want to getin there, and I mean I'm expecting
it to be more of a partylike atmosphere today, if you will.
I think yesterday, with the announcement, you know, with Troupe coming to
talk, I think there was alot of things, the document, the
classified document case being dismissed, whichwas a huge win for him. I
think there was a lot of newsbreaking. I think more today it's going to

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be maybe more relaxed, in alittle bit more celebratory mode.