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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is nice to be excited about the future of
our country again, isn't it. It's amazing. It's amazing to
wake up in the morning excited about the future of
our country. I mean, it affects everything you do. It
makes you want to invest in the long term, makes
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you want to invest in other people, makes you want
to take better care of your own health because you
want to live longer. It's incredible. On this day, March tenth,
in eighteen seventy six, the first successful test of a
telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell, and one hundred
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and forty nine years later, his sister is still hogging
the line. Jim, did y'all have a Did you have
your own line growing up in your bedroom? We didn't
either until I was We had the one phone member
for the household, and then our Christmas present one year
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was that we would get a phone line that would
just be for me and my brother. And I'm trying
to remember about what grade I would have been. Chris
was four years ahead of me, so if I was
a freshman, he had just graduated. If I was in eighth,
he was a senior. If I was in seventh, he
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was a junior. If I was in sixth he was
a sophomore, must have been his sophomore year. And I
didn't really need a phone in my room because I
wasn't talking on about anything that nobody else because the
phone system was you could pick up any phone in
the house and hear who was talking on it. So
we got our own phone in our room, and that
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was kind of one of those deals. You know, about
two thousand and eight or so, you were a big
deal if you had an iPhone. And the first person
I knew who had an iPhone with Sean Welling, and
a group of us all gathered at his home because
he got it, like the day it came out, and
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we all sat around and watched this thing. You know,
it was the baby Jesus being delivered to the Magi.
It was. It was man, it was something. This was
a gadget above all gadgets. Would never see anything like this,
and we none of us knew how it worked, and
you just sat and watched that, you know, this crazy
thing was happening. Well, when I was I guess must
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have been sixth grade. If you if you had a
phone in your own room, you walked around wanting people
to call you on the phone in your own room.
That was a big deal. You were you were a
fancy man, you had something special about you. But my
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brother was sixteen by them, so he was you know,
he was talking to the girls, and you didn't want
to talk to the girls, especially because my mom was nosy.
You didn't want to talk to the girls where your
mom could pick up the phone and listen. And then
you get called into her room after the phone, you know,
after the call, and she's telling you you can't be
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having those kind of conversations. It was on this day
in nineteen sixty nine in Memphis, Tennessee, that James Earl
Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Junior. Interesting
thing about that he would later try to recant, which
is kind of interesting. You say that you committed the murder,
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and then later you come back and going, oh, no,
I really didn't. I have watched more documentaries on the
Kennedy assassination, the MLK assassination, the moon landing, and I
wonder those were all in the sixties before I was
even born, and I'm fascinated by him. I wonder if
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there will be such a mindset towards conspiracies of things
that are happening today in the future, I wonder because
I can think of a few things that are going
to be worthy of conspiracy theories for a long time,
and that is January sixth, and that is the twenty
twenty election, and within that period of time. I don't
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I don't see them as conspiracies. I am one hundred
percent certain there was massive voter fraud in twenty twenty,
one hundred percent certain. And I am one hundred percent
certain that January sixth was a setup, one hundred percent.
I have no doubts. I don't care if somebody doesn't
believe that. I'm one hundred percent certain. On this day,
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in nineteen seventy seven, astronomers discover the rings of uranus
were really kind of like astronomers. That's not qus. Just
don't laugh about that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's that's sixth grade, seventy eight years ago today.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Donald Thomas Schultz he was the founder of Boston, the
main songwriter, the primary guitarist, keyboardist, and the only remaining
original member of the band Boston. He has appeared on
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every Boston release. He's played guitar bass, keyboards and drums
on their albums. Went to MIT, where he was trained
as an engineer. He designed and built his own recording
studio in an apartment basement in the early seventies. He
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started writing songs while earning his master's degree at MIT.
The first Boston album was mostly recorded in his basement studio.
Almost all of the instruments the devices that were used
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he invented. He would go on to found Schultz Research
and Development to develop and market his own inventions under
the brand Rockman. He holds multiple patents related to his
work at SR and D, which is Schultz Research and Development.
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That is one impressive dude. Typically a guy that founds
a band doesn't also have patents and develop a company
and all sorts of other crazy things. Born on this
day in nineteen sixty two, Jasmine Guy, actress, singer and director.
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I had the biggest crush on her, Jim the biggest.
She was so cute. Rick Rubin born on this day
in nineteen sixty three. That makes him only sixty two.
He looks a lot older than sixty two, maybe just
because he didn't take a break of care of himself.
This was when Rick Rubin sat down with Paul McCartney
for one of the top three music documentaries ever made
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McCartney three two to one on Hulu Together.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Now, what do you remember about this?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
At the time, I was just working with this bloke John.
Now I look back and I was working with John lennonv.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh my lovely.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
We were writing songs that were memorable because we have
to remember them.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
How did this happen?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
It was a question of me John old George becoming
the bass player. The two of them said, well, I'm
not doing it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
When could you look back and realize what we did
back then was really special?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I clearly remember when Ringo kicked in.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It was like, Wow, he's really good. I'm gonna tell you,
I know.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
A good little song. I brought it in the chords
and then George once said it'd be nice. We could
have a little intro and Harrison just went do do
do do? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know what you got?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Now this one, this.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
With that, This is why we don't go into tape beautiful,
not the one in the USA that was a party night.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
That's where the audience approats, You're way for it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Wait for it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Clearly these guys are going for.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Don't go out lace and the car pools. Some guys
jumped out, one of them out a knife, and so
they took a lot of gemos.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
We were hippies. We just did not listen.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I want to read to you one thing. Paul is
one of the most innovative bass players that ever played bass,
and the stuff that's going on now is ripped off
from his beetle period. He's a great, great musician.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Did I write that that is John Lennon? That's John?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, I hadn't heard that. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You talk about a complicated relationship, think of this. McCartney
lives what forty five years beyond Lennon and still alive,
so who knows. And he has such a complicated relationship
because obviously they had this animosity toward each other based
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in so many things, creative, personal, ego, you name it.
And yet you can't get away from the fact that
the work you created together is still the majority of
the defining work of your career. I understand McCartney did
so many things beyond. I'm glad Ramon's not here today, Jim,
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because I would have to argue with him over this,
and I don't have to argue with you born on
this day in nineteen seventy one. Wait a second, John
hamm is younger than me. How can that be the case?
All right, here's a little clip Jim pulled. The setup
is nineteen sixties New York alpha male Don draper John
ham struggle to stay on top of the heap in
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the high pressure world of Madison Avenue advertising firms. In
this scene, Don and the boys are pitching to a
lipstick company. This is the sixties. The client is stuck
in his old ways. Don decides not to waste any
more time and gets up to leave.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I don't think there's much else to do here but
calling a day, gentlemen, thank you for your time?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Is that all?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You're a non believer? Why should we waste time on kabuki?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It means that you've already tried your plan and you're
number four. You've enlisted my expertise and you've rejected it
to go on the way you've been going. I'm not
interested in that, you can understand.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I don't think you're three months or however many thousands
of dollars entitles you to refocus the core of our business.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Listen, I'm not here to tell you about Jesus. You
already know about Jesus. Either he lives in your heart
or he doesn't. Every woman wants choices, but in the end,
none wants to be one of one hundred in a box. Unique.
She makes the choices, and she's chosen him. She wants
to tell the world he's mine. He belongs to me,
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not you. She marks her man with her lips. He
is her possession. You've given every girl that wears your.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
One.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You're gonna, I mean, Jim, You're gonna have to step
up your game today. Because I got the follow from
Hendra Lindsay. She says, good mornings are my son. Jackson
is listening to you with his AirPods while we're at
his dentist appointments. You were requested by a thirteen year
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old young man who loves listening to you whenever he can.
Thanks for giving him some distraction this morning. This is
the second time in the week that I have heard
from somebody that they listen to our show while they
were at their dental appointment. I'm not sure what to
make of that. I don't know if we should program
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the show differently, put some grinding noises in there, or
what that's worth thinking about. You should probably think about
programming the show more toward a thirteen year old now
now that you know there's one out there, because when
I'm thinking of the show that we're doing, it's never
really for a thirteen year old to be completely honest,
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or a twenty three year old for that matter. But
there you have it. We've got little Jackson Lindsay. Doesn't
that sound like a stage name, Jackson Lindsey. Well, congratulations
are in order. They didn't take the grand prize, but
they got the bride'smaid position. In a hell of a
season for the bel Air High School basketball team, they
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fell to Duncanville fifty four fifty two, but the bel
Air Cardinals were one three pointer away from winning, and
they had the shot. They just didn't make it. I'd
like to know who took that shot, because I'll tell
you this, whoever the kid is who took that shot,
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that's the leader of the team. That's the kid that's
going to be something in life. If you are bold
enough to take the shot to win the game for
your team that young, that's a big deal. Now you
think about those Bulls teams and the wins. You'd have
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Packson or Steve Kerr with big shots to win championships,
or for that matter, you think about the Rockets the
two championships, and you think about the guys that made
the shots that won the championships, the clutch shot down
down the stretch, Mario, Sam Cassell, Robert or because they
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weren't about to let Dream or Clyde have that shot.
It just wasn't happening. The bell Air Cardinals were seeking
to become the first HISD team to claim a basketball
state title since the twenty thirteen twenty fourteen both those
years Yates teams. Those teams won championships because Dallas Madison
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had to vacate their championship, so they didn't technically outscore
Dallas Madison, but they are named as the state champion.
Belair was also looking to become the first Houston area
team to win a title in the UIL's largest classification
since Cyprus Falls in twenty seventeen. Belair's Shelton Henderson, a
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five star recruit, and a duke Sinee, led the Cardinals
with twenty five points, fifteen rebounds, three assists, Duncanville had
a TCU commit named Caden Edwards, who was named the
game's MVP with twenty six points and six rebounds, twelve
points in the third quarter alone to carry the Panthers
to victory. Duncanville was back in the state championship game
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for the first time since twenty twenty two, when the
Panthers beat McKinney on the court to win the Class
six A championship, but that championship was vacated due to
the use of an ineligible player and the coach, David Peevey,
was given a one year suspension because of it. I'd
like to know the story on that. Bel Air was
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unranked at the beginning of the playoffs Wow, but they
reached San Antone on a ten game winning streak and
defeated some tough opponents along the way, including a San
Antonio Brennan team that ranked number four in the country.
Henderson said, no one thought we would be here coming
into this season. Every game they said was an upset
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for us, but we never thought it was. We knew
we were the better team coming into pretty much every game.
Coach Glover prepared us very well, got us in the
right mindset for every game, got us prepared. Just coming
out here in San Anton was really a blessing. I've
never met this kid, but I like the way he interviews.
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I like the things he says. I he's uh, he's
pushing the right buttons as far as I'm concerned. So
I was getting some emails from folks. Our phone system
is is acting up at present, so you'll have to
email me. But people were sending I made the point
that when I was in sixth grade and my brother
was in tenth grade, our Christmas present that year was
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that we got our own phone line. We shared a
phone line for our bedroom bedrooms. We each had our
own bedroom, and that was the biggest thing imaginable. And
it's interesting when you consider ages. I heard from some
folks who said, you know, they were in X grade
when they got their own phone line, and what a
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big deal that was. I'm curious for you. You'll have
to email. Our phone systems not up yet, but it
may be. Our engineer is in tinkering on it as
we speak. But I'm curious to know what age you
were and what year that would have been, roughly, and
what that item was that when you got it. Maybe
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it was the bicycle. Maybe it was the car. You know,
the whole car thing is so different today. Crockett turned
sixteen and didn't even go get his license, had no
interest in going to get his license. In fact, he
didn't get his license until just before he turned eighteen,
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and had no interest in having a car none. And
my wife would say, Crockett, you got to at least
get your license. If you don't want a car, that's fine,
but you've got to get your license. And it'd said no,
not interested, and she said, well, what are you going
to do? Uber he didn't care. And I really think
the difference there from when I was young, because all
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we ever wanted was a car. That was there were
two types of kids in our schools. You either had
a car or you didn't. And that was the big divide.
It wasn't rich or poor, because you could be poor
and have a clunker. It was had a car or
didn't have a car. If you had a car, you
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had freedom. If you didn't have a car, you dated
somebody with a car, or you were friends with somebody
with a car, because otherwise you were stuck and we
were out in the country. So it wasn't like, you know,
there was ease of getting around. Somebody had to come
get you, and if you were sixteen and still taking
the bus, it was I mean, it was a shame
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that was impossible to bear. You had to find somebody
that had a car that would pick you up, and Lord,
the unspeakable things you had to do to get that
person to pick you up because you did not want
to be on the bus going to school. Nobody you
know today, at least maybe because we go to private schools,
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but a lot of the parents, almost everybody, actually, I
think everybody. I don't know that our school even runs
a bus, but everybody's parent drops them off. When we
were growing up, nobody's parent dropped them off. Everybody rode
the bus. But if you were driving age, you got
a job before that, so you could say, even if
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it was a clunker, so you could save up and
get a car because you did not want to be
on the bus at sixteen. Well, the the phone wasn't
quite that exciting, but it was up there before of
American Idol Carrie Marie Underwood born on this day, forty
two years ago. She won an American Idol in two thousand
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and five, so twenty years ago. I am I'm gonna
have to hear, especially from the women. I'm not dissing
Carrie Underwood. I don't dislike her. My understanding is our
politics are probably more to my liking than most of
the other folks who come up like that. I'm just
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saying that by the time she was on the scene,
I wasn't paying attention to music or new musicians or
anything else. Chad has the call. I don't know how
in the world he tracked this thing down, but Chad
has the call of the Bellair High School against Duncanville
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where they came very close within a whisker. If they
make the shot at the end of winning and here
is the end of that game, the.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
First thing they have to do is get it in bounds.
They will go in the backcourt to Gibbs. So now
they got to get it going, gets a screen, kicks
it in the corner the three for.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
The lead, no prebound edwards. That'll do it.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Duncan down State champions again.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Unbelievable. What a set drawn up by coach Bruce in
the corner, wide open shot, a fantastic look, but just
off wide open. They were not looking in the corner.
Duncanville wasn't an incredible set, but this night is about,
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could we say, the re emergence of the Duncanville dynasty
as we're seeing a heartbroken bel Air team leaving it
all out there taking one of the top teams in
the state. Arguablieve, the top team in the state.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
After beating Allen to the wire, sophomore guard Jadarien Williams
took the shot. Boy, that's tough, man, that is tough.
I mean, heck he might. I guess he's not the
star because the star is going to do because a
five star recruit. But they weren't gonna let the five
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star recruit get that shot off. I'm guessing they at
least double teamed him. They're up by two, you go
for the win with the three pointer. You gotta respect that.
But for a kid who's only a sophomore to take
that shot, that's that's pretty bold. I'm gonna have to
tip the hat to that. So in the same week
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that Mayor John Whitmer says the city faces more than
a three hundred thirty million dollar budget deficit. Three hundred
thirty million dollar budget deficit. This is astronomical. That happens
the same week that Sylvester Turner passed away, and there
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will be encomium adfinitum in Houston government as to how
great Sylvester Turner was because he was the mayor. But
was he great? Was he great? How long before we
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can start discussing the lives that were negatively affected by
his administration? Oh? I know, I know some of you
don't like me to speak ill of the dead, but
it's nothing personal. At some point, if you were the
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steward of public dollars in public policy, you are responsible
for that and we should feel comfortable talking about that.
If multiple members of your administration are now in prison
for taking bribes, at some point, there is a pattern
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and a culture for which you are responsible, either directly
or indirectly. And I don't know that you're passing breaks
a link to that. So I'm not going to blame
John Whitmyer for a three hundred and thirty million dollar
budget deficit. Not yet. I am going to say, you're
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a year in what are you doing to stop it? Okay,
so we have a city hiring freeze good. I applaud that. Fantastic.
What else.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Then?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
In the same week we hear from the mayor that
there will be a two billion dollar renovation and expansion
to billion dollar renovation and expansion of the George R.
Brown Convention Center. But don't worry, you're not paying for that.
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We're told this has been going on since I was
at city Hall. That comes from what is known as
the hot tax, which is the hotel occupancy tax. Now,
when I was on city Council twenty years ago, we
already had the highest hotel occupancy tax in the country.
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And I will tell you it is not true that
locals don't pay that tax, because a number of you
and I paid for ourselves or someone in our family
to be put up in a hotel during Harvey. You
pay to have people put up in a hotel when
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they come to visit your company, guests from out of town.
You do pay the hotel occupancy tax, and back then
it was almost twenty percent. I suspect it's higher than that.
Now I don't know. Because it is a slush fund
that ends up being used to pay off politically connected people,
and because it's not directly taxpayer dollars, you tend not
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to notice it. It all goes under this banner of tourism, conventions, hotel,
application of the arts. But make no mistake, it is
a slush fund. These groups that are under this Harris
County Sports Authority, Houston First, Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau,
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and the city's arts programs, a Cultural Affairs Office. Let
me tell you what those are. Those are vote buying
schemes for far left activists and organizations. Give the taxpayers
back their dollars. Put officers on the street. Make sure
you got firefighters to respond when we have heart attacks
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and when we get shot by the left. Stop wasting
money on affordable housing. Pave the damn streets, Synchronize the
traffic lights, make sure the trash is picked up. But
that's not very glamour system. So instead two billion dollars
and increasing the hot tax. It's just awful.
It is nice to be excited about the future of
our country again, isn't it. It's amazing. It's amazing to
wake up in the morning excited about the future of
our country. I mean, it affects everything you do. It
makes you want to invest in the long term, makes
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you want to invest in other people, makes you want
to take better care of your own health because you
want to live longer. It's incredible. On this day, March tenth,
in eighteen seventy six, the first successful test of a
telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell, and one hundred
(00:43):
and forty nine years later, his sister is still hogging
the line. Jim, did y'all have a Did you have
your own line growing up in your bedroom? We didn't
either until I was We had the one phone member
for the household, and then our Christmas present one year
(01:05):
was that we would get a phone line that would
just be for me and my brother. And I'm trying
to remember about what grade I would have been. Chris
was four years ahead of me, so if I was
a freshman, he had just graduated. If I was in eighth,
he was a senior. If I was in seventh, he
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was a junior. If I was in sixth he was
a sophomore, must have been his sophomore year. And I
didn't really need a phone in my room because I
wasn't talking on about anything that nobody else because the
phone system was you could pick up any phone in
the house and hear who was talking on it. So
we got our own phone in our room, and that
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was kind of one of those deals. You know, about
two thousand and eight or so, you were a big
deal if you had an iPhone. And the first person
I knew who had an iPhone with Sean Welling, and
a group of us all gathered at his home because
he got it, like the day it came out, and
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we all sat around and watched this thing. You know,
it was the baby Jesus being delivered to the Magi.
It was. It was man, it was something. This was
a gadget above all gadgets. Would never see anything like this,
and we none of us knew how it worked, and
you just sat and watched that, you know, this crazy
thing was happening. Well, when I was I guess must
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have been sixth grade. If you if you had a
phone in your own room, you walked around wanting people
to call you on the phone in your own room.
That was a big deal. You were you were a
fancy man, you had something special about you. But my
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brother was sixteen by them, so he was you know,
he was talking to the girls, and you didn't want
to talk to the girls, especially because my mom was nosy.
You didn't want to talk to the girls where your
mom could pick up the phone and listen. And then
you get called into her room after the phone, you know,
after the call, and she's telling you you can't be
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having those kind of conversations. It was on this day
in nineteen sixty nine in Memphis, Tennessee, that James Earl
Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Junior. Interesting
thing about that he would later try to recant, which
is kind of interesting. You say that you committed the murder,
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and then later you come back and going, oh, no,
I really didn't. I have watched more documentaries on the
Kennedy assassination, the MLK assassination, the moon landing, and I
wonder those were all in the sixties before I was
even born, and I'm fascinated by him. I wonder if
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there will be such a mindset towards conspiracies of things
that are happening today in the future, I wonder because
I can think of a few things that are going
to be worthy of conspiracy theories for a long time,
and that is January sixth, and that is the twenty
twenty election, and within that period of time. I don't
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I don't see them as conspiracies. I am one hundred
percent certain there was massive voter fraud in twenty twenty,
one hundred percent certain. And I am one hundred percent
certain that January sixth was a setup, one hundred percent.
I have no doubts. I don't care if somebody doesn't
believe that. I'm one hundred percent certain. On this day,
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in nineteen seventy seven, astronomers discover the rings of uranus
were really kind of like astronomers. That's not qus. Just
don't laugh about that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's that's sixth grade, seventy eight years ago today.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Donald Thomas Schultz he was the founder of Boston, the
main songwriter, the primary guitarist, keyboardist, and the only remaining
original member of the band Boston. He has appeared on
(05:30):
every Boston release. He's played guitar bass, keyboards and drums
on their albums. Went to MIT, where he was trained
as an engineer. He designed and built his own recording
studio in an apartment basement in the early seventies. He
(05:52):
started writing songs while earning his master's degree at MIT.
The first Boston album was mostly recorded in his basement studio.
Almost all of the instruments the devices that were used
(06:12):
he invented. He would go on to found Schultz Research
and Development to develop and market his own inventions under
the brand Rockman. He holds multiple patents related to his
work at SR and D, which is Schultz Research and Development.
(06:35):
That is one impressive dude. Typically a guy that founds
a band doesn't also have patents and develop a company
and all sorts of other crazy things. Born on this
day in nineteen sixty two, Jasmine Guy, actress, singer and director.
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I had the biggest crush on her, Jim the biggest.
She was so cute. Rick Rubin born on this day
in nineteen sixty three. That makes him only sixty two.
He looks a lot older than sixty two, maybe just
because he didn't take a break of care of himself.
This was when Rick Rubin sat down with Paul McCartney
for one of the top three music documentaries ever made
(07:20):
McCartney three two to one on Hulu Together.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Now, what do you remember about this?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
At the time, I was just working with this bloke John.
Now I look back and I was working with John lennonv.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh my lovely.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
We were writing songs that were memorable because we have
to remember them.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
How did this happen?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
It was a question of me John old George becoming
the bass player. The two of them said, well, I'm
not doing it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
When could you look back and realize what we did
back then was really special?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I clearly remember when Ringo kicked in.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It was like, Wow, he's really good. I'm gonna tell you,
I know.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
A good little song. I brought it in the chords
and then George once said it'd be nice. We could
have a little intro and Harrison just went do do
do do? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know what you got?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Now this one, this.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
With that, This is why we don't go into tape beautiful,
not the one in the USA that was a party night.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
That's where the audience approats, You're way for it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Wait for it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Clearly these guys are going for.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Don't go out lace and the car pools. Some guys
jumped out, one of them out a knife, and so
they took a lot of gemos.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
We were hippies. We just did not listen.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I want to read to you one thing. Paul is
one of the most innovative bass players that ever played bass,
and the stuff that's going on now is ripped off
from his beetle period. He's a great, great musician.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Did I write that that is John Lennon? That's John?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, I hadn't heard that. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You talk about a complicated relationship, think of this. McCartney
lives what forty five years beyond Lennon and still alive,
so who knows. And he has such a complicated relationship
because obviously they had this animosity toward each other based
(10:18):
in so many things, creative, personal, ego, you name it.
And yet you can't get away from the fact that
the work you created together is still the majority of
the defining work of your career. I understand McCartney did
so many things beyond. I'm glad Ramon's not here today, Jim,
(10:40):
because I would have to argue with him over this,
and I don't have to argue with you born on
this day in nineteen seventy one. Wait a second, John
hamm is younger than me. How can that be the case?
All right, here's a little clip Jim pulled. The setup
is nineteen sixties New York alpha male Don draper John
ham struggle to stay on top of the heap in
(11:01):
the high pressure world of Madison Avenue advertising firms. In
this scene, Don and the boys are pitching to a
lipstick company. This is the sixties. The client is stuck
in his old ways. Don decides not to waste any
more time and gets up to leave.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I don't think there's much else to do here but
calling a day, gentlemen, thank you for your time?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Is that all?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You're a non believer? Why should we waste time on kabuki?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It means that you've already tried your plan and you're
number four. You've enlisted my expertise and you've rejected it
to go on the way you've been going. I'm not
interested in that, you can understand.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I don't think you're three months or however many thousands
of dollars entitles you to refocus the core of our business.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Listen, I'm not here to tell you about Jesus. You
already know about Jesus. Either he lives in your heart
or he doesn't. Every woman wants choices, but in the end,
none wants to be one of one hundred in a box. Unique.
She makes the choices, and she's chosen him. She wants
to tell the world he's mine. He belongs to me,
(12:08):
not you. She marks her man with her lips. He
is her possession. You've given every girl that wears your.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
One.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You're gonna, I mean, Jim, You're gonna have to step
up your game today. Because I got the follow from
Hendra Lindsay. She says, good mornings are my son. Jackson
is listening to you with his AirPods while we're at
his dentist appointments. You were requested by a thirteen year
(12:43):
old young man who loves listening to you whenever he can.
Thanks for giving him some distraction this morning. This is
the second time in the week that I have heard
from somebody that they listen to our show while they
were at their dental appointment. I'm not sure what to
make of that. I don't know if we should program
(13:04):
the show differently, put some grinding noises in there, or
what that's worth thinking about. You should probably think about
programming the show more toward a thirteen year old now
now that you know there's one out there, because when
I'm thinking of the show that we're doing, it's never
really for a thirteen year old to be completely honest,
(13:24):
or a twenty three year old for that matter. But
there you have it. We've got little Jackson Lindsay. Doesn't
that sound like a stage name, Jackson Lindsey. Well, congratulations
are in order. They didn't take the grand prize, but
they got the bride'smaid position. In a hell of a
season for the bel Air High School basketball team, they
(13:48):
fell to Duncanville fifty four fifty two, but the bel
Air Cardinals were one three pointer away from winning, and
they had the shot. They just didn't make it. I'd
like to know who took that shot, because I'll tell
you this, whoever the kid is who took that shot,
(14:12):
that's the leader of the team. That's the kid that's
going to be something in life. If you are bold
enough to take the shot to win the game for
your team that young, that's a big deal. Now you
think about those Bulls teams and the wins. You'd have
(14:35):
Packson or Steve Kerr with big shots to win championships,
or for that matter, you think about the Rockets the
two championships, and you think about the guys that made
the shots that won the championships, the clutch shot down
down the stretch, Mario, Sam Cassell, Robert or because they
(15:01):
weren't about to let Dream or Clyde have that shot.
It just wasn't happening. The bell Air Cardinals were seeking
to become the first HISD team to claim a basketball
state title since the twenty thirteen twenty fourteen both those
years Yates teams. Those teams won championships because Dallas Madison
(15:25):
had to vacate their championship, so they didn't technically outscore
Dallas Madison, but they are named as the state champion.
Belair was also looking to become the first Houston area
team to win a title in the UIL's largest classification
since Cyprus Falls in twenty seventeen. Belair's Shelton Henderson, a
(15:49):
five star recruit, and a duke Sinee, led the Cardinals
with twenty five points, fifteen rebounds, three assists, Duncanville had
a TCU commit named Caden Edwards, who was named the
game's MVP with twenty six points and six rebounds, twelve
points in the third quarter alone to carry the Panthers
to victory. Duncanville was back in the state championship game
(16:11):
for the first time since twenty twenty two, when the
Panthers beat McKinney on the court to win the Class
six A championship, but that championship was vacated due to
the use of an ineligible player and the coach, David Peevey,
was given a one year suspension because of it. I'd
like to know the story on that. Bel Air was
(16:31):
unranked at the beginning of the playoffs Wow, but they
reached San Antone on a ten game winning streak and
defeated some tough opponents along the way, including a San
Antonio Brennan team that ranked number four in the country.
Henderson said, no one thought we would be here coming
into this season. Every game they said was an upset
(16:52):
for us, but we never thought it was. We knew
we were the better team coming into pretty much every game.
Coach Glover prepared us very well, got us in the
right mindset for every game, got us prepared. Just coming
out here in San Anton was really a blessing. I've
never met this kid, but I like the way he interviews.
(17:15):
I like the things he says. I he's uh, he's
pushing the right buttons as far as I'm concerned. So
I was getting some emails from folks. Our phone system
is is acting up at present, so you'll have to
email me. But people were sending I made the point
that when I was in sixth grade and my brother
was in tenth grade, our Christmas present that year was
(17:39):
that we got our own phone line. We shared a
phone line for our bedroom bedrooms. We each had our
own bedroom, and that was the biggest thing imaginable. And
it's interesting when you consider ages. I heard from some
folks who said, you know, they were in X grade
when they got their own phone line, and what a
(18:01):
big deal that was. I'm curious for you. You'll have
to email. Our phone systems not up yet, but it
may be. Our engineer is in tinkering on it as
we speak. But I'm curious to know what age you
were and what year that would have been, roughly, and
what that item was that when you got it. Maybe
(18:21):
it was the bicycle. Maybe it was the car. You know,
the whole car thing is so different today. Crockett turned
sixteen and didn't even go get his license, had no
interest in going to get his license. In fact, he
didn't get his license until just before he turned eighteen,
(18:42):
and had no interest in having a car none. And
my wife would say, Crockett, you got to at least
get your license. If you don't want a car, that's fine,
but you've got to get your license. And it'd said no,
not interested, and she said, well, what are you going
to do? Uber he didn't care. And I really think
the difference there from when I was young, because all
(19:03):
we ever wanted was a car. That was there were
two types of kids in our schools. You either had
a car or you didn't. And that was the big divide.
It wasn't rich or poor, because you could be poor
and have a clunker. It was had a car or
didn't have a car. If you had a car, you
(19:23):
had freedom. If you didn't have a car, you dated
somebody with a car, or you were friends with somebody
with a car, because otherwise you were stuck and we
were out in the country. So it wasn't like, you know,
there was ease of getting around. Somebody had to come
get you, and if you were sixteen and still taking
the bus, it was I mean, it was a shame
(19:48):
that was impossible to bear. You had to find somebody
that had a car that would pick you up, and Lord,
the unspeakable things you had to do to get that
person to pick you up because you did not want
to be on the bus going to school. Nobody you
know today, at least maybe because we go to private schools,
(20:10):
but a lot of the parents, almost everybody, actually, I
think everybody. I don't know that our school even runs
a bus, but everybody's parent drops them off. When we
were growing up, nobody's parent dropped them off. Everybody rode
the bus. But if you were driving age, you got
a job before that, so you could say, even if
(20:31):
it was a clunker, so you could save up and
get a car because you did not want to be
on the bus at sixteen. Well, the the phone wasn't
quite that exciting, but it was up there before of
American Idol Carrie Marie Underwood born on this day, forty
two years ago. She won an American Idol in two thousand
(20:55):
and five, so twenty years ago. I am I'm gonna
have to hear, especially from the women. I'm not dissing
Carrie Underwood. I don't dislike her. My understanding is our
politics are probably more to my liking than most of
the other folks who come up like that. I'm just
(21:17):
saying that by the time she was on the scene,
I wasn't paying attention to music or new musicians or
anything else. Chad has the call. I don't know how
in the world he tracked this thing down, but Chad
has the call of the Bellair High School against Duncanville
(21:39):
where they came very close within a whisker. If they
make the shot at the end of winning and here
is the end of that game, the.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
First thing they have to do is get it in bounds.
They will go in the backcourt to Gibbs. So now
they got to get it going, gets a screen, kicks
it in the corner the three for.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
The lead, no prebound edwards. That'll do it.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Duncan down State champions again.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Unbelievable. What a set drawn up by coach Bruce in
the corner, wide open shot, a fantastic look, but just
off wide open. They were not looking in the corner.
Duncanville wasn't an incredible set, but this night is about,
(22:36):
could we say, the re emergence of the Duncanville dynasty
as we're seeing a heartbroken bel Air team leaving it
all out there taking one of the top teams in
the state. Arguablieve, the top team in the state.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
After beating Allen to the wire, sophomore guard Jadarien Williams
took the shot. Boy, that's tough, man, that is tough.
I mean, heck he might. I guess he's not the
star because the star is going to do because a
five star recruit. But they weren't gonna let the five
(23:13):
star recruit get that shot off. I'm guessing they at
least double teamed him. They're up by two, you go
for the win with the three pointer. You gotta respect that.
But for a kid who's only a sophomore to take
that shot, that's that's pretty bold. I'm gonna have to
tip the hat to that. So in the same week
(23:37):
that Mayor John Whitmer says the city faces more than
a three hundred thirty million dollar budget deficit. Three hundred
thirty million dollar budget deficit. This is astronomical. That happens
the same week that Sylvester Turner passed away, and there
(24:01):
will be encomium adfinitum in Houston government as to how
great Sylvester Turner was because he was the mayor. But
was he great? Was he great? How long before we
(24:26):
can start discussing the lives that were negatively affected by
his administration? Oh? I know, I know some of you
don't like me to speak ill of the dead, but
it's nothing personal. At some point, if you were the
(24:53):
steward of public dollars in public policy, you are responsible
for that and we should feel comfortable talking about that.
If multiple members of your administration are now in prison
for taking bribes, at some point, there is a pattern
(25:15):
and a culture for which you are responsible, either directly
or indirectly. And I don't know that you're passing breaks
a link to that. So I'm not going to blame
John Whitmyer for a three hundred and thirty million dollar
budget deficit. Not yet. I am going to say, you're
(25:40):
a year in what are you doing to stop it? Okay,
so we have a city hiring freeze good. I applaud that. Fantastic.
What else.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Then?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
In the same week we hear from the mayor that
there will be a two billion dollar renovation and expansion
to billion dollar renovation and expansion of the George R.
Brown Convention Center. But don't worry, you're not paying for that.
(26:12):
We're told this has been going on since I was
at city Hall. That comes from what is known as
the hot tax, which is the hotel occupancy tax. Now,
when I was on city Council twenty years ago, we
already had the highest hotel occupancy tax in the country.
(26:33):
And I will tell you it is not true that
locals don't pay that tax, because a number of you
and I paid for ourselves or someone in our family
to be put up in a hotel during Harvey. You
pay to have people put up in a hotel when
(26:54):
they come to visit your company, guests from out of town.
You do pay the hotel occupancy tax, and back then
it was almost twenty percent. I suspect it's higher than that.
Now I don't know. Because it is a slush fund
that ends up being used to pay off politically connected people,
and because it's not directly taxpayer dollars, you tend not
(27:19):
to notice it. It all goes under this banner of tourism, conventions, hotel,
application of the arts. But make no mistake, it is
a slush fund. These groups that are under this Harris
County Sports Authority, Houston First, Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau,
(27:41):
and the city's arts programs, a Cultural Affairs Office. Let
me tell you what those are. Those are vote buying
schemes for far left activists and organizations. Give the taxpayers
back their dollars. Put officers on the street. Make sure
you got firefighters to respond when we have heart attacks
(28:02):
and when we get shot by the left. Stop wasting
money on affordable housing. Pave the damn streets, Synchronize the
traffic lights, make sure the trash is picked up. But
that's not very glamour system. So instead two billion dollars
and increasing the hot tax. It's just awful.
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