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The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam March 18, 2026

March 18, 2026·1 hr 10 min·6 clips

Vivek Ramaswamy reveals how having a third kid causes more sleepless nights than his gubernatorial campaign.

The morning starts with St. Paddy's Day downtown. Thousands are out despite the weather, and the show folds that street-level noise into a check-in with Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. He talks about pushing through Northeast Ohio, having a baby a little over a month ago, and visiting all 88 counties last year. Then the room snaps back to the Ohio Valley. Waterfront Hall turns into the practical kind of question this show likes: what should actually go there? Pizza gets side-eye. With DiCarlo's nearby and Fabio's up the street, the hosts wonder whether another woodfire pizza place can really make the case. Downtown's struggles come up, but they do not sit in gloom. They ask listeners to call, react, and say what would work. The clock keeps pulling everything along. Nailers tickets, caller numbers, Frosty Friday, free lunch entries, and bracket reminders all roll through the hour like part of the same local conversation. Chris from Valley Grove wins first. More Nailers tickets and doo-wop tickets are teased for later, keeping the giveaway pace moving. Sam's email becomes the lunch line: name, phone number, and place, with River City feeding ten on Friday. Basketball brackets come back near the end. The hosts remind listeners to pick a champion, add the championship-game tiebreaker, include name and phone number, and send it to Sam at iHeartMedia.com. The close has a little live-radio stumble: a wrong name, a quick fix, and one more caller number. It feels loose in the right way. They sign off plainly and promise to talk tomorrow after one last push for caller number 19.

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Local politics, downtown debate, and brisk live-radio chatter, with a slightly segmented pace.

This episode stays close to the ground: St. Paddy's Day in the Ohio Valley, a live interview with Vivek Ramaswamy, and steady talk about what Waterfront Hall ought to become.

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Press play for an Ohio Valley morning that moves from a live Vivek Ramaswamy interview to downtown debate and station giveaways.

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