October 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Dr. Mark Evans on cultural amnesia
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Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, welcome to our show today. It's it's Monday.
We're getting closer to Halloween. And I saw a story
about how Texas is the second most reported ghost sightings
in the entire country. New York came in number one,
Texas was number two. So evidently we have a lot
of ghost sightings here in Texas. I have my own
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ghost story. I told it this morning, but in case
you didn't hear it, my ghost story goes back to
when Elizabeth and I first this is when we first
got married, when we first bought our bought our first
house together, and we moved into the sticks in this
little house and you know, we uh it was a
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small little neighborhood, no street lights, just kind of you know,
very very quiet, off the off the beaten path, kind
of kind of eurie a little bit at night, and uh,
one night, we go to bed and we're laying there
in bed and I hear this this voice, you know, Jimmy.
It was a female voice, sounded like an older female,
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you know, saying my name is Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
At first, I thought maybe, well, maybe I'm hearing things.
I was just getting ready to start to drift off
to sleep, and I thought, well, maybe I just maybe
just heard you know, thought I heard something. And then uh,
a minute or two later, did it again. Well it
was a little bit louder this time, and then it
did it a third time. And I'm going keep hearing
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somebody calling my name, and Elizabus going I don't hear anything, Okay,
all right, So we lay back down, we started to
try to go back to sleep again, and then all
of a sudden, I start to hear hear the door downstairs.
Our bedroom was right upstairs from the front door of
the house. And I hear this rattle, and you know
that the rattling you hear of somebody trying to you know,
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get in get in the door. And I jump up
and I look out and there was you know, there's
window panes on either side of the door, so you
could see outside of the door, and I can see
the handles moving, but there's nobody there, and Elizabeth is
going getting scared. She goes call the police. I'm going,
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what am I gonna tell them? There's nobody here? That
what am I gonna tell them? So I get up
and I investigate, and I walk around the house for
a little bit, and then I can't find aything out
of place, anything wrong. So I go back upstairs and
lay back down. All right, now it really escalates. Now.
The next noise I hear it sounds like the rafters
are coming in on the house. Is the sound of
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breaking and creaking wood, and it is really super scary.
So I get up again and I make sure I
look through every part of the house, and I finally
get to the point where I checked the garage. That's
the only place I haven't looked. I've been. The house
had a basement. I've been to the basement. I've been
in every room of the house looking for anything that
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could explain the noise. And finally, finally I opened the
door to the garage and the garage doors open. We'd
gone to bed and we forgot to close the garage
door and we leave. We generally leave the door to
the house from the garage unlocked, so there's an unlocked
door leaning in the house. The garage door was open,
so I shut the garage door. I go back to bed.
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That's it. No more noises. And I'd say A few
months later, we had a woman who was a was
a psyche. She claimed to be a psyche, and she
came to the house. She was doing a story for
the local news about a ghost story, I guess it was,
and Elizabeth had told somebody about her ghost story, so
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they were coming. They're going to cover this, and and
she comes to the house and she's in a car
out front, and she's not coming into the house. And
I'm going, well, if you're a psychic, then please know
you should come into the house anytime you want to,
you know, because I'm I'm a super skeptic. I'm not
a believer in any of this stuff. And you know,
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she gets out of the car, she walks up to
the house, she knocks the door open.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
The door.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I said, say hello, and I you introduced myself. And Elizabeth,
she says, I heard you calling me to come into
the house. I just was waiting for the TV crew
to get here. Oh you did, okay? Anyway, long story short,
she goes around the house and she says, it lives
up there. Now I know about you, but I don't
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like the idea of somebody saying it in quotes, it
lives up there. What is the it we're talking about here?
Turns out that she saw an older woman and said
her name was Margaret. Yes, she's an older woman. Her
name is Margaret. She doesn't mean any harm, she's just here.
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She's just here to protect you guys. And I'm thinking, okay,
hang on second, Margaret was Elizabeth's grandmother's name, And okay,
that's what it was. It was a warning, you've left
the garage door open. The door of the house wasn't locked.
I'm telling you need to pay attention. And it never
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happened again. We never had anything like that happen again.
But that made quite the impression on me. So you know,
that's my ghost story. So I was asking this morning
on the air, because we seem to have so many
ghost sightings here in Texas if any of y'all had
any any ghost sightings or or any stories to tell
these things. As you heard haunted things in Texas, that
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kind of thing. As we get closer and closer to Halloween,
and we got some pretty interesting answers.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Hello, this is Bobby and Humble. Yes, there are ghosts, spirits,
whatever you want to call them.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I have seen them more times than I can count.
I've experienced them more times than I can count.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Believe me, don't believe me. Really doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Spiritual warfare is going on all around us, all around us.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Hey, Jimmy, this is whyatt from Porter. I've never personally
experienced a ghost, but I try to keep an open mind. However,
I do find it interesting that in stories or TV
shows or movies or whatever, ghosts are often portrayed wearing
the clothing from their era or period, clothing, which makes
me wonder if ananimate objects like clothing can become spectral.
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Two hundred years from now, will ghost be seen walking
around staring at cell phones?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Hey, gimme an old Waverley lady kept here in a
fiddle tune playing, and it was legend that there was
some Confederate soldiers buried underneath the house. Old there, and
she went into town to New Waverley and bought an
album that had a wagon wheel on it. In the
first tune on it was Soldiers Joy and that was
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the fiddle tune that they marched to on the way
home after the war.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
That's interesting stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I used to live in Richmond, Virginia. A lot of
Civil War history there. I had a lot of a
lot of ghosts talking ghost sightings there all. Ever been
to Gaysburg the battlefield. I've been to Gatesburg a couple
of times and that place isn't haunted. It ought to be.
It sure feels like the kind of place that would
be haunted anybody else.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Good morning, Jimmy. Three locations that stand out in the
downtown Houston area that are haunted and you can look
them all up online. The Julia Iison Library at five
hundred McKinney, the Old Spaghettiuse at nine hundred Commerce, and
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at eight hundred Congress. It's the look Caraft.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Good morning, Yang. This is Henry Spring. I used to
do security at Old City Park in Dallas. There's a
mansion there built by a Civil War general and the
furniture would always be rearranged every time I did walk.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Good morning, Jimmy. Skin from Magnolia as far as the
disembodied voice is concerned. If I'm recording my voice and
you play it back later, that would be a disembodied voice. Subsequently,
all of the talkbacks you receive are disaboudied voices speaking
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to you just a thought, have a great day.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So in other words, your ghost.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Is that what you're telling me. Old Town Spring also
has a reputation of being haunted. I've never had anything
happen there. I've been. I've stated the Manger Hotel right
next door to the Alamo. When we made our pilgrimage
to the Alamo, that's where we stayed. Asked to stay
in the old part of the hotel because I'd heard
that part had supposedly was haunted. Nothing happened, So who knows.
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Like I said, if if what had happened to me
hadn't happened to me, then I'd be the biggest skeptic
on the planet. If you've had it happen to you,
then you're no longer a skeptic. All right, listen, quick
little break back with born a moment Jimmy Barrett AM
nine fifty KPRC. All Right, dob, I'd like to kind
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of analyze some of the things we have going on
right now. You know, we had the note Kings protest
over the weekend. I don't know what the attendance was
like in the Woodlands. I didn't go. I wasn't even
curious to go to see how many people showed up.
I have seen a lot of you know, the footage
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from some some of the other states, and even from
downtown Houston. I noted that local television was calling it
thousands and thousands and thousands of people. I have no
idea what they head count was. It looked like it
was a fairly decent turnout in the city of Houston.
I have no idea how many people showed up in
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the Woodlands. And of course in cities like Boston and Chicago,
you're gonna have you're gonna have a lot of those
people show up there. What's interesting to me is who
these people are that are showing up, and they are
overwhelmingly old, angry white people, old angry white people. These
are the people that are out there protesting. These are
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the people that were protesting the Vietnam War when they
were kids. These are the people who were protesting the
Nixon administration. These are the people who were academia type
liberal students back in the seventies, and now that they
are in their late sixties and seventies, they're they're out there.
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They haven't changed the lick. You know, many of us
could say that when we were young and stupid, we
were liberals because we didn't have any of our own money.
We didn't, you know, we didn't. We were repelling from
our own parents, and we certainly didn't want to be
as conservatives we thought they were, so we were liberal.
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And as my I've said many times in the show,
and as my father was fond of saying, if you're
young and you're not a liberal, you don't have a heart.
If you're older and you're not a conservative, you don't
have a brain. And I really do believe that a
lot of a lot of instances. Anyway, I started thinking,
is this just me to think these are all, you know,
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the old hippies that are doing this. No, they didn't
report on Fox over the weekend. Here's some audio, by
the way, from some of these no King protests and
some reaction to it from Fox and Friends weekend.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
President Trump, we don't want you or any other.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
King to rule us. We will never surrender.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
So Donald Trump, stay the hell out of Chicago, in.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The City of the Immigrants, in Boston.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Every day is no king's day. Donald Trump is not
a king. Donald Trump is a boy. Trump does think
that he's a king, and he thinks that he can.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
Act more corruptly when the government is shut down.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
You know, it's so funny to think about everything that
Trey was just bringing us from the Middle East, and
they're like very serious, big issues that the Trump administration
is dealing with. And then you flip over to how
did the Democrat leaders, all of the most powerful Democrats
in the United States spend their day yesterday? They were
at They were at summer camp, singing campfire songs and
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being really ridiculous. One thing, though, I think is really
kind of interesting. And by the way, I think it's
wonderful that these people are getting out and moving around
and marching. It's probably very healthy. A lot of these
people look like they don't get out very much. I
think that that's a very positive step we want.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's kind of part of the MAHA movement.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Get them, get them moving.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Move around.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
It's better than maybe even better than pickleball.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
But I do think it's kind of interesting for a
group of people that spend all their time yelling at
us about what is it diversity, inclusion and equity, they
have a real diversity problem. At these rallies.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
It's like a see you know, you'll you'll be in
Chicago and it's a.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Sea of white people.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
It's all old white people, to the point that even
like left like the MSNBC was calling them Q tips
for the because of all their.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
White hair.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Q tips. That's funny. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely an
older crowd. You've seen too. Who the sponsors are, right,
including the Communist Party of America and the Democrats, Socialist
That's who's behind this. That's who's sponsoring this. There is
just a laundry list of radical left groups that are
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are in charge of the No King protest, and of
course money from you know, the George Soroses of the
world who want to back this thing up and keep
this thing going. Now, the question becomes, what is it
about Donald Trump that has led to all this? At
the end of the day, isn't that kind of what
we need to get down to here, because this is
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not a rational amount of hate. This is just a
completely irrational amount of hate. But maybe in their minds
it is rational. Maybe we're not looking at the bigger
picture of what the left is really trying, the progressive
left is really trying to do, and what a danger
Donald Trump is to it. If you think that this
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guy is out to destroy you, then yeah, you're going
to hate him and you're going to fight back with
everything you've got. Victor Davis Hanson, he's written so many books.
I can't even name half of the books that he's written.
He's an academic, but he's not a progressive left. He's
a conservative academic. And he takes a look, or has
taken a look at what is behind all the Trump
arrangement syndrome. Where does all this irrational hate come from?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Here?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
He is talking about what the left believes is at
stake when it comes to Donald Trump.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
He's saying that it's not enough just to address the
political revolution that the Democrats and the left wage. He
asked a more fundamental.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Question, where do they get this power to do this?
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Because the issues that they're running on and they champion
do not have public support. Open borders don't have public support,
and genderism doesn't have In male sports, females sports doesn't
How did they get this power? And he said, I
know how they got this power. They got it with
the indoctrination of K through twelve, higher education, as you said,
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changing the demography with an open border, weaponizing the bureaucracy, FBI, CIA,
R I R S. So he said, it doesn't do
any good to deal with the effects unless you go
to the causes. And that's why the left went crazy.
They said, well, we don't have any power in the
House to send at the Supreme Court in the White House,
but we have all this other power that will regenerate
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that political power as soon as you know, when we
kick in two years. And now all of a sudden,
they said, oh my gosh, Donald Trump is addressing how
we form propaganda, how.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
We create bias, how we.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
Create all these dogmas that the people don't want, and
we push it down their throat to these institutions. He's
addressing the root causes. And that's why I don't blame them,
because as they understand that if he's successful, they're going
to be neutered.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
And that's the bottom line. He's He's an they say
in Trump is an existential threat to democracy. He is
an existential threat to them is what he is. All right,
quickly break back with a guest coming up next here
on the show, doctor Mark Evans, who believes that the
greatest threat to our future is not economic, it is cultural.
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We'll talk to him in just a few minutes here
on AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Birt Show.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
All right, well, this.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Is definitely on my mind today culture, culture, and what's
going on in our education system. And our next guest believes,
by the way that America's cultural amnesia. If anything dooms
this country, it's not going to be the economy is
going to be our cultural amnesia. Doctor Mark Evans. Welcome
to AM nine fifty kPr seeing the Jimmy Baird Show.
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So how did you come up with this theory if
you will, that it's more about culture and less about economics.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, my background cultural areas. The doctrines in my name
is as it's musical, A self proclaimed from the Hollywood
rat race. I grew up the music part at a
large Hollywood movie studio. Trained and Explosure have become discussed
about ectors. They're coming out fool unfaculiar within music other
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than what they've heard social media which used a rock
rap pop. Many haven't read a books, hasn't been as
kind of them. Many others don't know the first thing
about our history. And I think that any ways, there's
a valid argument age that our problems are cultural, political
and economic problems will take care of themselves if we
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find a way to present the best of my culture.
So I written a couple of books from the subject.
It's called My Words, How to Discover the solid music
is the light of language and the pride of it
in the age of fashtops and cultural chaos. And the
other one is our musical heritage, from Yankee Doodle to
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Carnegie Hall, Broadway and the Hollywood soundscape. And we have
a website, culturalconservation dot org. And I came up with
the idea of starting a movement for cultural conservation to
preserve the best of the passage forgotten, the best of
the presents that should can be ignored, and the best
of the feature that shouldn't be undiscovered.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, let me let me ask you why you believe
we've lost this now. I'm sure there's more than one organization, individual,
whatever it is you want to say that's the blame
for this. How much of this do you believe is
just a natural cycle in our culture, and how much
of this do you believe is intentional? Because it's always
been my belief that the best way to subjugate a
democracy or a country is to do your level best
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to either change history or do not teach history. And
we've done a lot of both right these days.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I think that some of it has been intentional and
some of it has been accidental. I think there are
basically four things that have caused it. For assumptions that
he tended to make, especially over the last few years.
One of them is the mistake assumption that change progress
are asnonymous. They're not. I sometimes say the phase and
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the big box door, cornplate and still were Keith Sesster
than One said, fallacies don't cease to be fallacy because
they've become fashioned. So we can't assume that just because
something is new but better. The second mistake we've made
is we've confused same with quality and achievement. We live
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in what I call a celebrity culture, and I won't
mention names. We all know who the celebrities are. They're
glaring at us on the cover of every tabloids the
third years, technology is not the same as wisdom, and
people tend to assume if something is on a computer
or on a screen or associated with social media, it
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must prove. And in fact, technology isn't the same as
wisdom and certainly not the same as common sense. And finally,
we tell ourselves we know what we like. But particularly
amongst it's more opplifications to life, what they know and
what they know isn't offered very much because they're not
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getting exposed to what they should be exposed to in schools.
And when we look for solution, we look to the
wrong places. We look to academia, for people are very
much concerned with following trends, and academic source of information
we looked at frequent. It's not hard to why that
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solution is taking one scarious works in the English language. Hi,
I'm discovering here to help, and we look entertainment in
and that's not blue because it is typically for the problem.
So I'm a big self as you help, and I'm
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in as parents and helping their children and children discovery
our culture, language and the art. Not yet school.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Okay, we're breaking up a little bit on the phone here,
So I'm gonna try to uh, you know, we'll keep
trying to work through that technical end of it here.
But I think you said something very interesting there at
the end about parents, and and this is where I
think we get into the intentional part of it. Our
public school system is, as you most brilliantly pointed out,
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has not been doing his job about teaching basics. That
been more about They've been more about teaching I think
they've been more about teaching social issues than they have
been about teaching math and reading and history and the
things that we expect to send our kids to school for.
By the same token, while this has been going on
for the last thirty years or so, parenting has changed
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a lot in the last thirty years. Parents are not
not not to say all of them are this way,
but many of them are not as involved, especially in
their child's education, as they used to be. I don't
know if that's because they were taught that way, and
now we're getting into another generation of kids being taught
that way. But if you don't know, if you didn't
learn in school the things that you should have learned,
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then how do you know to complain about your kids
not learning the things they need to know.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
That's absolutely true. And I completely with everything he just said.
And of course it's for parent grandparents day to realize
you're never teaching. I was just art and ever too
old to learn. I have the pleasure of getting a
twined with a great science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. And
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Bradbury when he was young but had a family who
was too poor to send him the college, so he
went to the public library days a week for several years,
and he would tell people he never graduated college, but
he graduated from the Los Amplesos libraries. And that's just
one example. I have many of them in my book
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and at our website postal station dot org examples of
self education and stay. With resources available on the internet
and organizations like ours, it's possible for parents and grandparents
to learn they ever knew, and to facilitate that learning
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process and make it easier for their children and grandchildren
from the thing do it all right?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Well, here's the ultimate question I think when it comes
to all this, is there still time to turn this around?
Or is it too late?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well, you're asked if I'm an optimist or a pessimist?
Am I respond in this way? I asked one of
my mentors and very distinguished humors, Rich Farmer, authors over
sixty books like Verse and a world renowned scholars post worst.
Are you an optimist or a pessimist about you? And
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he said to me, the optimist always the glass as
at half full and half empty and thinks everything will
not all right, but it doesn't. Always. The pessimist books
at the same glass and comes to the opposite that
nothing will turn out all right and it's too late
to do anything about it. He said. I like to
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think to myself as a realist with dreams, and that's
my view. I like to be a realist. It's not
going to be easy, but we can't give up, can't
afford to give up. We have to save our cultures
and the best, certainly in my field, in music and
in the arts. And there is time if each individual
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takes an average. And there are a lot more people
out there who are concerned about this than anyone might imagine.
I'm often approached by people after I speak the audience
and people will come up. I'm so glad to hear this.
I thought I was the only one that's feltless. Well,
there are millions to feel that way. I do I
think to mean that you do, and it's not too late.
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It's not easy, not going to be simple, but you
can take your first step today.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Well, anything worth having is generally hard to achieve, So
I agree with you. I'd rather be an optimist about
this as well. Doctor Evans continued success sor thank you
so much for your time today. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Mike Light here, that's doctor Mark Evans back with Morning Moment.
Jimmy Barrett AM nine fifty KPRC. Well, we tried to, uh,
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we tried to end on an optimistic note and talking
about our culture and what's wrong with our culture and
what's what's been wrong with our public school system and
in all of that, and and and and I would
agree with doctor Evans said, yes, we should all try
to be optimistic about this. But here, here, here, to
me is one of the bigger things that I'm concerned
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about right now, and we should all be concerned about it.
And that is what's going on with the rhetoric that continues.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
The left is not going to change its rhetoric. That
is that is clear. There are people who are motivated
by it. You've probably heard the story. Of course, we
don't know with one hundred percent Surtay, at least not
as I'm doing the show today, exactly what that hunters
stand was. Was that just a hunter stand that just
happened to have a clear line of sight to the
runway at West Palm Beach Airport where President Trump comes
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in and out of on air Force one. Is that
just a coincidence that somebody decided this would be a
good place to hunt for deer? Or is it, you know,
is it just some hunter stand that he put there,
or is it something else? Is it an assassin's perch
that we don't know? The FBI is investigating. I'm guessing
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we will investigate further, but we do know this. We
know the violence against Ice has become more prominent. We've
had several well documented incidents, including right right in the
Dallas Fort Worth area, So we know that's going on.
So let's let's share with you an interview from this
morning on our morning show with Thadeus Cleveland, he's the
Tarrell County Sheriff, about the potential for more bloodshed. We've
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already seen it with Ice, haven't we. Hey more Jimmy
grit Be on with you, and no, we certainly have.
You know, here in Texas alone, we've already had what
three or four incidents, one down the Rio Grand Valley,
one up in Dallas, and and then just there south
San Antonio. So yeah, this this rhetoric continues, and uh,
and it's putting not just law enforcement, you know that
their lives at risk, but and it's an Americans, those
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that we may have in custody, and then of course those.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Who are are are really creating the chaos.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
So what what's the answer here other than toning down
the rhetoric obviously, which if the if the left was
going to tone down the rhetoric, I would have thought
they would have done it by now, wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You most definitely? And uh, you know we we we've
heard some some talk about it, but uh as far
as slowing down the rhetoric, calming down the rhetoric, but uh,
but we continue to see these you know that they
call them protests are far from that. It's it's anarchy
and uh and it's it's it's putting people at danger.
And actually, you know, there's probably more more consequences right
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now from our own American citizens than there is a cartel.
They're American citizens are more of a threat. So uh,
I tell you we're going to continue to see this happen.
I'm not sure what's going to be able to to
quell it or stop it, but uh, and certainly needs
to people are people are.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Going to be.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I like to say, Jim that you know, these these
agents and officers have shown a tremendous amount of restraint.
There's been some situations. I know one agent from here
at Sanderson that's been deployed in Chicago and and and
the stories he's told it's, uh, it's i'ml like we've
ever seen before. It really is.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Well, the only thing that's keeping us from anarchy is
that we refuse on the right to participate in it.
Have you ever foresee a time though, where things could
get bad enough where we have no choice but to
participate in it?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, and we're still in the greatest country in the world,
right the United States probably be an American And that's
exactly why President Trump's wanted to sit in a National
Guard and not to go in there and and and
you know, add more fuel to the fire, but to
protect these facilities, to help the agents and officers that
are out there protecting the facility that they're continuing to
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be targeted. I don't know that we'll get that far,
but I certainly hope not. I certainly hope not.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I hope not either. He may have heard the story
on Florida. I want to get your take on this.
You know, it's all conjecture at this point, but they
found a hunting stand right out of what right outside
of West Palm Beach Airport, in direct line designe to
where air Force one uses the runway. There coincidence, you know,
with all the attempts that have already happened, including one
previously in Florida. I think you have to look at
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that pretty seriously, don't you.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
You know, of course he's utilized that airport talking about
the president many times before, and I'm certainly they've done
security sweeps. You know, he's a man that's unfortunately hated tremendously.
There's a tremnious amount of hate that that's targeted towards him,
you know, and we're seeing them ramp up the security
not just for the President but even for within DHS.
(31:56):
Righty Scott two, Darge Commissioner. I know he's got security
killed the us CIS, which is Customs and Immigration Services.
They're all having protective detail because of all that we're
seeing across the United States. You know, it's it's it's
certainly been inflamed. And we'll continue and we've got to
probably another three years of this. Jimney another three years,
(32:18):
oh boy?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
And if jd. Vance wins, do we get another four
years after that? I'm assuming that he's the nominee. Maybe
I shouldn't assume that. All right, one more for you
because this is this I found kind of interesting. This
is former California governor and actor Arnold schwartzenega on with
Bill Maher talking about ways to save the democracy, and
(32:45):
he had a couple of ideas he floated to see
what you think of these ideas. Hang on a second.
We've got Arnold right around the corner here here he is.
So what I suggest that the.
Speaker 13 (32:57):
Way we save democracy nationwide is to really have a proposal, like,
for instance, to Save Democracy Act. It's just an idea
where we go and make election day a holiday so
that everyone has time to go out and go to
the election. They wanted to have you had to have
(33:19):
fear redishiating, to have independent ratistic and commission in each
state all over the United States.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And the number three that they won't do it. The
number three to have a voter ID.
Speaker 13 (33:35):
So when you go and vote, people should know that
you are that person. I think if we take those
three things, there's something that the Republicans like, there's something
that the Democrats like. Get together in solve this problem.
We have to go talk to each other rather than
hating each other, talk to each other because the people
want and that's what the people need.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Do you think Democrats are going to go for a
voter ID? What do they all we said about voter IDs,
you know how how they're basically you know, racist and
blah blah blah blah blah. They'd have to completely change
the tune on that. I would not have a problem
with the idea of election day being a national holiday.
Everybody gets the day off to go vote. Along with that, though,
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can we like do away with early voting because we
do a lot of early voting now to make it
more convenient for people. I don't think there's a lack
of participation. I don't think that's a problem. But if
you want to do a national holiday election day, I'm
all for it. Just do away with the early voting,
Just do away with the things that would allow for
ballots to be tampered with, so we don't have to
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question the results of the election. And let's go back
to paper ballots. Please can we do that too? All right,
I'll leave it at that for today. You'll have a
great day. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow morning, bright
early five am over on news Radio seven forty k
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Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, welcome to our show today. It's it's Monday.
We're getting closer to Halloween. And I saw a story
about how Texas is the second most reported ghost sightings
in the entire country. New York came in number one,
Texas was number two. So evidently we have a lot
of ghost sightings here in Texas. I have my own
(00:55):
ghost story. I told it this morning, but in case
you didn't hear it, my ghost story goes back to
when Elizabeth and I first this is when we first
got married, when we first bought our bought our first
house together, and we moved into the sticks in this
little house and you know, we uh it was a
(01:16):
small little neighborhood, no street lights, just kind of you know,
very very quiet, off the off the beaten path, kind
of kind of eurie a little bit at night, and uh,
one night, we go to bed and we're laying there
in bed and I hear this this voice, you know, Jimmy.
It was a female voice, sounded like an older female,
(01:38):
you know, saying my name is Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
At first, I thought maybe, well, maybe I'm hearing things.
I was just getting ready to start to drift off
to sleep, and I thought, well, maybe I just maybe
just heard you know, thought I heard something. And then uh,
a minute or two later, did it again. Well it
was a little bit louder this time, and then it
did it a third time. And I'm going keep hearing
(02:00):
somebody calling my name, and Elizabus going I don't hear anything, Okay,
all right, So we lay back down, we started to
try to go back to sleep again, and then all
of a sudden, I start to hear hear the door downstairs.
Our bedroom was right upstairs from the front door of
the house. And I hear this rattle, and you know
that the rattling you hear of somebody trying to you know,
(02:22):
get in get in the door. And I jump up
and I look out and there was you know, there's
window panes on either side of the door, so you
could see outside of the door, and I can see
the handles moving, but there's nobody there, and Elizabeth is
going getting scared. She goes call the police. I'm going,
(02:43):
what am I gonna tell them? There's nobody here? That
what am I gonna tell them? So I get up
and I investigate, and I walk around the house for
a little bit, and then I can't find aything out
of place, anything wrong. So I go back upstairs and
lay back down. All right, now it really escalates. Now.
The next noise I hear it sounds like the rafters
are coming in on the house. Is the sound of
(03:05):
breaking and creaking wood, and it is really super scary.
So I get up again and I make sure I
look through every part of the house, and I finally
get to the point where I checked the garage. That's
the only place I haven't looked. I've been. The house
had a basement. I've been to the basement. I've been
in every room of the house looking for anything that
(03:26):
could explain the noise. And finally, finally I opened the
door to the garage and the garage doors open. We'd
gone to bed and we forgot to close the garage
door and we leave. We generally leave the door to
the house from the garage unlocked, so there's an unlocked
door leaning in the house. The garage door was open,
so I shut the garage door. I go back to bed.
(03:49):
That's it. No more noises. And I'd say A few
months later, we had a woman who was a was
a psyche. She claimed to be a psyche, and she
came to the house. She was doing a story for
the local news about a ghost story, I guess it was,
and Elizabeth had told somebody about her ghost story, so
(04:11):
they were coming. They're going to cover this, and and
she comes to the house and she's in a car
out front, and she's not coming into the house. And
I'm going, well, if you're a psychic, then please know
you should come into the house anytime you want to,
you know, because I'm I'm a super skeptic. I'm not
a believer in any of this stuff. And you know,
(04:33):
she gets out of the car, she walks up to
the house, she knocks the door open.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
The door.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I said, say hello, and I you introduced myself. And Elizabeth,
she says, I heard you calling me to come into
the house. I just was waiting for the TV crew
to get here. Oh you did, okay? Anyway, long story short,
she goes around the house and she says, it lives
up there. Now I know about you, but I don't
(04:56):
like the idea of somebody saying it in quotes, it
lives up there. What is the it we're talking about here?
Turns out that she saw an older woman and said
her name was Margaret. Yes, she's an older woman. Her
name is Margaret. She doesn't mean any harm, she's just here.
(05:19):
She's just here to protect you guys. And I'm thinking, okay,
hang on second, Margaret was Elizabeth's grandmother's name, And okay,
that's what it was. It was a warning, you've left
the garage door open. The door of the house wasn't locked.
I'm telling you need to pay attention. And it never
(05:42):
happened again. We never had anything like that happen again.
But that made quite the impression on me. So you know,
that's my ghost story. So I was asking this morning
on the air, because we seem to have so many
ghost sightings here in Texas if any of y'all had
any any ghost sightings or or any stories to tell
these things. As you heard haunted things in Texas, that
(06:03):
kind of thing. As we get closer and closer to Halloween,
and we got some pretty interesting answers.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Hello, this is Bobby and Humble. Yes, there are ghosts, spirits,
whatever you want to call them.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I have seen them more times than I can count.
I've experienced them more times than I can count.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Believe me, don't believe me. Really doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Spiritual warfare is going on all around us, all around us.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Hey, Jimmy, this is whyatt from Porter. I've never personally
experienced a ghost, but I try to keep an open mind. However,
I do find it interesting that in stories or TV
shows or movies or whatever, ghosts are often portrayed wearing
the clothing from their era or period, clothing, which makes
me wonder if ananimate objects like clothing can become spectral.
(06:52):
Two hundred years from now, will ghost be seen walking
around staring at cell phones?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Hey, gimme an old Waverley lady kept here in a
fiddle tune playing, and it was legend that there was
some Confederate soldiers buried underneath the house. Old there, and
she went into town to New Waverley and bought an
album that had a wagon wheel on it. In the
first tune on it was Soldiers Joy and that was
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the fiddle tune that they marched to on the way
home after the war.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
That's interesting stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I used to live in Richmond, Virginia. A lot of
Civil War history there. I had a lot of a
lot of ghosts talking ghost sightings there all. Ever been
to Gaysburg the battlefield. I've been to Gatesburg a couple
of times and that place isn't haunted. It ought to be.
It sure feels like the kind of place that would
be haunted anybody else.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Good morning, Jimmy. Three locations that stand out in the
downtown Houston area that are haunted and you can look
them all up online. The Julia Iison Library at five
hundred McKinney, the Old Spaghettiuse at nine hundred Commerce, and
(08:04):
at eight hundred Congress. It's the look Caraft.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Good morning, Yang. This is Henry Spring. I used to
do security at Old City Park in Dallas. There's a
mansion there built by a Civil War general and the
furniture would always be rearranged every time I did walk.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Good morning, Jimmy. Skin from Magnolia as far as the
disembodied voice is concerned. If I'm recording my voice and
you play it back later, that would be a disembodied voice. Subsequently,
all of the talkbacks you receive are disaboudied voices speaking
(08:49):
to you just a thought, have a great day.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So in other words, your ghost.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Is that what you're telling me. Old Town Spring also
has a reputation of being haunted. I've never had anything
happen there. I've been. I've stated the Manger Hotel right
next door to the Alamo. When we made our pilgrimage
to the Alamo, that's where we stayed. Asked to stay
in the old part of the hotel because I'd heard
that part had supposedly was haunted. Nothing happened, So who knows.
(09:24):
Like I said, if if what had happened to me
hadn't happened to me, then I'd be the biggest skeptic
on the planet. If you've had it happen to you,
then you're no longer a skeptic. All right, listen, quick
little break back with born a moment Jimmy Barrett AM
nine fifty KPRC. All Right, dob, I'd like to kind
(09:58):
of analyze some of the things we have going on
right now. You know, we had the note Kings protest
over the weekend. I don't know what the attendance was
like in the Woodlands. I didn't go. I wasn't even
curious to go to see how many people showed up.
I have seen a lot of you know, the footage
(10:18):
from some some of the other states, and even from
downtown Houston. I noted that local television was calling it
thousands and thousands and thousands of people. I have no
idea what they head count was. It looked like it
was a fairly decent turnout in the city of Houston.
I have no idea how many people showed up in
(10:38):
the Woodlands. And of course in cities like Boston and Chicago,
you're gonna have you're gonna have a lot of those
people show up there. What's interesting to me is who
these people are that are showing up, and they are
overwhelmingly old, angry white people, old angry white people. These
are the people that are out there protesting. These are
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the people that were protesting the Vietnam War when they
were kids. These are the people who were protesting the
Nixon administration. These are the people who were academia type
liberal students back in the seventies, and now that they
are in their late sixties and seventies, they're they're out there.
(11:21):
They haven't changed the lick. You know, many of us
could say that when we were young and stupid, we
were liberals because we didn't have any of our own money.
We didn't, you know, we didn't. We were repelling from
our own parents, and we certainly didn't want to be
as conservatives we thought they were, so we were liberal.
(11:43):
And as my I've said many times in the show,
and as my father was fond of saying, if you're
young and you're not a liberal, you don't have a heart.
If you're older and you're not a conservative, you don't
have a brain. And I really do believe that a
lot of a lot of instances. Anyway, I started thinking,
is this just me to think these are all, you know,
(12:04):
the old hippies that are doing this. No, they didn't
report on Fox over the weekend. Here's some audio, by
the way, from some of these no King protests and
some reaction to it from Fox and Friends weekend.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
President Trump, we don't want you or any other.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
King to rule us. We will never surrender.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
So Donald Trump, stay the hell out of Chicago, in.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The City of the Immigrants, in Boston.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Every day is no king's day. Donald Trump is not
a king. Donald Trump is a boy. Trump does think
that he's a king, and he thinks that he can.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
Act more corruptly when the government is shut down.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
You know, it's so funny to think about everything that
Trey was just bringing us from the Middle East, and
they're like very serious, big issues that the Trump administration
is dealing with. And then you flip over to how
did the Democrat leaders, all of the most powerful Democrats
in the United States spend their day yesterday? They were
at They were at summer camp, singing campfire songs and
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being really ridiculous. One thing, though, I think is really
kind of interesting. And by the way, I think it's
wonderful that these people are getting out and moving around
and marching. It's probably very healthy. A lot of these
people look like they don't get out very much. I
think that that's a very positive step we want.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's kind of part of the MAHA movement.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Get them, get them moving.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Move around.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
It's better than maybe even better than pickleball.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
But I do think it's kind of interesting for a
group of people that spend all their time yelling at
us about what is it diversity, inclusion and equity, they
have a real diversity problem. At these rallies.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
It's like a see you know, you'll you'll be in
Chicago and it's a.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Sea of white people.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
It's all old white people, to the point that even
like left like the MSNBC was calling them Q tips
for the because of all their.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
White hair.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Q tips. That's funny. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely an
older crowd. You've seen too. Who the sponsors are, right,
including the Communist Party of America and the Democrats, Socialist
That's who's behind this. That's who's sponsoring this. There is
just a laundry list of radical left groups that are
(14:28):
are in charge of the No King protest, and of
course money from you know, the George Soroses of the
world who want to back this thing up and keep
this thing going. Now, the question becomes, what is it
about Donald Trump that has led to all this? At
the end of the day, isn't that kind of what
we need to get down to here, because this is
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not a rational amount of hate. This is just a
completely irrational amount of hate. But maybe in their minds
it is rational. Maybe we're not looking at the bigger
picture of what the left is really trying, the progressive
left is really trying to do, and what a danger
Donald Trump is to it. If you think that this
(15:12):
guy is out to destroy you, then yeah, you're going
to hate him and you're going to fight back with
everything you've got. Victor Davis Hanson, he's written so many books.
I can't even name half of the books that he's written.
He's an academic, but he's not a progressive left. He's
a conservative academic. And he takes a look, or has
taken a look at what is behind all the Trump
arrangement syndrome. Where does all this irrational hate come from?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Here?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
He is talking about what the left believes is at
stake when it comes to Donald Trump.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
He's saying that it's not enough just to address the
political revolution that the Democrats and the left wage. He
asked a more fundamental.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Question, where do they get this power to do this?
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Because the issues that they're running on and they champion
do not have public support. Open borders don't have public support,
and genderism doesn't have In male sports, females sports doesn't
How did they get this power? And he said, I
know how they got this power. They got it with
the indoctrination of K through twelve, higher education, as you said,
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changing the demography with an open border, weaponizing the bureaucracy, FBI, CIA,
R I R S. So he said, it doesn't do
any good to deal with the effects unless you go
to the causes. And that's why the left went crazy.
They said, well, we don't have any power in the
House to send at the Supreme Court in the White House,
but we have all this other power that will regenerate
(16:36):
that political power as soon as you know, when we
kick in two years. And now all of a sudden,
they said, oh my gosh, Donald Trump is addressing how
we form propaganda, how.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
We create bias, how we.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
Create all these dogmas that the people don't want, and
we push it down their throat to these institutions. He's
addressing the root causes. And that's why I don't blame them,
because as they understand that if he's successful, they're going
to be neutered.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
And that's the bottom line. He's He's an they say
in Trump is an existential threat to democracy. He is
an existential threat to them is what he is. All right,
quickly break back with a guest coming up next here
on the show, doctor Mark Evans, who believes that the
greatest threat to our future is not economic, it is cultural.
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We'll talk to him in just a few minutes here
on AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Birt Show.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
All right, well, this.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Is definitely on my mind today culture, culture, and what's
going on in our education system. And our next guest believes,
by the way that America's cultural amnesia. If anything dooms
this country, it's not going to be the economy is
going to be our cultural amnesia. Doctor Mark Evans. Welcome
to AM nine fifty kPr seeing the Jimmy Baird Show.
(18:06):
So how did you come up with this theory if
you will, that it's more about culture and less about economics.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, my background cultural areas. The doctrines in my name
is as it's musical, A self proclaimed from the Hollywood
rat race. I grew up the music part at a
large Hollywood movie studio. Trained and Explosure have become discussed
about ectors. They're coming out fool unfaculiar within music other
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than what they've heard social media which used a rock
rap pop. Many haven't read a books, hasn't been as
kind of them. Many others don't know the first thing
about our history. And I think that any ways, there's
a valid argument age that our problems are cultural, political
and economic problems will take care of themselves if we
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find a way to present the best of my culture.
So I written a couple of books from the subject.
It's called My Words, How to Discover the solid music
is the light of language and the pride of it
in the age of fashtops and cultural chaos. And the
other one is our musical heritage, from Yankee Doodle to
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Carnegie Hall, Broadway and the Hollywood soundscape. And we have
a website, culturalconservation dot org. And I came up with
the idea of starting a movement for cultural conservation to
preserve the best of the passage forgotten, the best of
the presents that should can be ignored, and the best
of the feature that shouldn't be undiscovered.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, let me let me ask you why you believe
we've lost this now. I'm sure there's more than one organization, individual,
whatever it is you want to say that's the blame
for this. How much of this do you believe is
just a natural cycle in our culture, and how much
of this do you believe is intentional? Because it's always
been my belief that the best way to subjugate a
democracy or a country is to do your level best
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to either change history or do not teach history. And
we've done a lot of both right these days.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I think that some of it has been intentional and
some of it has been accidental. I think there are
basically four things that have caused it. For assumptions that
he tended to make, especially over the last few years.
One of them is the mistake assumption that change progress
are asnonymous. They're not. I sometimes say the phase and
(20:33):
the big box door, cornplate and still were Keith Sesster
than One said, fallacies don't cease to be fallacy because
they've become fashioned. So we can't assume that just because
something is new but better. The second mistake we've made
is we've confused same with quality and achievement. We live
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in what I call a celebrity culture, and I won't
mention names. We all know who the celebrities are. They're
glaring at us on the cover of every tabloids the
third years, technology is not the same as wisdom, and
people tend to assume if something is on a computer
or on a screen or associated with social media, it
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must prove. And in fact, technology isn't the same as
wisdom and certainly not the same as common sense. And finally,
we tell ourselves we know what we like. But particularly
amongst it's more opplifications to life, what they know and
what they know isn't offered very much because they're not
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getting exposed to what they should be exposed to in schools.
And when we look for solution, we look to the
wrong places. We look to academia, for people are very
much concerned with following trends, and academic source of information
we looked at frequent. It's not hard to why that
(22:00):
solution is taking one scarious works in the English language. Hi,
I'm discovering here to help, and we look entertainment in
and that's not blue because it is typically for the problem.
So I'm a big self as you help, and I'm
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in as parents and helping their children and children discovery
our culture, language and the art. Not yet school.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Okay, we're breaking up a little bit on the phone here,
So I'm gonna try to uh, you know, we'll keep
trying to work through that technical end of it here.
But I think you said something very interesting there at
the end about parents, and and this is where I
think we get into the intentional part of it. Our
public school system is, as you most brilliantly pointed out,
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has not been doing his job about teaching basics. That
been more about They've been more about teaching I think
they've been more about teaching social issues than they have
been about teaching math and reading and history and the
things that we expect to send our kids to school for.
By the same token, while this has been going on
for the last thirty years or so, parenting has changed
(23:19):
a lot in the last thirty years. Parents are not
not not to say all of them are this way,
but many of them are not as involved, especially in
their child's education, as they used to be. I don't
know if that's because they were taught that way, and
now we're getting into another generation of kids being taught
that way. But if you don't know, if you didn't
learn in school the things that you should have learned,
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then how do you know to complain about your kids
not learning the things they need to know.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
That's absolutely true. And I completely with everything he just said.
And of course it's for parent grandparents day to realize
you're never teaching. I was just art and ever too
old to learn. I have the pleasure of getting a
twined with a great science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. And
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Bradbury when he was young but had a family who
was too poor to send him the college, so he
went to the public library days a week for several years,
and he would tell people he never graduated college, but
he graduated from the Los Amplesos libraries. And that's just
one example. I have many of them in my book
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and at our website postal station dot org examples of
self education and stay. With resources available on the internet
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process and make it easier for their children and grandchildren
from the thing do it all right?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Well, here's the ultimate question I think when it comes
to all this, is there still time to turn this around?
Or is it too late?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well, you're asked if I'm an optimist or a pessimist?
Am I respond in this way? I asked one of
my mentors and very distinguished humors, Rich Farmer, authors over
sixty books like Verse and a world renowned scholars post worst.
Are you an optimist or a pessimist about you? And
(25:27):
he said to me, the optimist always the glass as
at half full and half empty and thinks everything will
not all right, but it doesn't. Always. The pessimist books
at the same glass and comes to the opposite that
nothing will turn out all right and it's too late
to do anything about it. He said. I like to
(25:50):
think to myself as a realist with dreams, and that's
my view. I like to be a realist. It's not
going to be easy, but we can't give up, can't
afford to give up. We have to save our cultures
and the best, certainly in my field, in music and
in the arts. And there is time if each individual
(26:11):
takes an average. And there are a lot more people
out there who are concerned about this than anyone might imagine.
I'm often approached by people after I speak the audience
and people will come up. I'm so glad to hear this.
I thought I was the only one that's feltless. Well,
there are millions to feel that way. I do I
think to mean that you do, and it's not too late.
(26:35):
It's not easy, not going to be simple, but you
can take your first step today.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Well, anything worth having is generally hard to achieve, So
I agree with you. I'd rather be an optimist about
this as well. Doctor Evans continued success sor thank you
so much for your time today. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Mike Light here, that's doctor Mark Evans back with Morning Moment.
Jimmy Barrett AM nine fifty KPRC. Well, we tried to, uh,
(27:19):
we tried to end on an optimistic note and talking
about our culture and what's wrong with our culture and
what's what's been wrong with our public school system and
in all of that, and and and and I would
agree with doctor Evans said, yes, we should all try
to be optimistic about this. But here, here, here, to
me is one of the bigger things that I'm concerned
(27:40):
about right now, and we should all be concerned about it.
And that is what's going on with the rhetoric that continues.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
The left is not going to change its rhetoric. That
is that is clear. There are people who are motivated
by it. You've probably heard the story. Of course, we
don't know with one hundred percent Surtay, at least not
as I'm doing the show today, exactly what that hunters
stand was. Was that just a hunter stand that just
happened to have a clear line of sight to the
runway at West Palm Beach Airport where President Trump comes
(28:12):
in and out of on air Force one. Is that
just a coincidence that somebody decided this would be a
good place to hunt for deer? Or is it, you know,
is it just some hunter stand that he put there,
or is it something else? Is it an assassin's perch
that we don't know? The FBI is investigating. I'm guessing
(28:33):
we will investigate further, but we do know this. We
know the violence against Ice has become more prominent. We've
had several well documented incidents, including right right in the
Dallas Fort Worth area, So we know that's going on.
So let's let's share with you an interview from this
morning on our morning show with Thadeus Cleveland, he's the
Tarrell County Sheriff, about the potential for more bloodshed. We've
(28:58):
already seen it with Ice, haven't we. Hey more Jimmy
grit Be on with you, and no, we certainly have.
You know, here in Texas alone, we've already had what
three or four incidents, one down the Rio Grand Valley,
one up in Dallas, and and then just there south
San Antonio. So yeah, this this rhetoric continues, and uh,
and it's putting not just law enforcement, you know that
their lives at risk, but and it's an Americans, those
(29:18):
that we may have in custody, and then of course those.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Who are are are really creating the chaos.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
So what what's the answer here other than toning down
the rhetoric obviously, which if the if the left was
going to tone down the rhetoric, I would have thought
they would have done it by now, wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You most definitely? And uh, you know we we we've
heard some some talk about it, but uh as far
as slowing down the rhetoric, calming down the rhetoric, but uh,
but we continue to see these you know that they
call them protests are far from that. It's it's anarchy
and uh and it's it's it's putting people at danger.
And actually, you know, there's probably more more consequences right
(29:54):
now from our own American citizens than there is a cartel.
They're American citizens are more of a threat. So uh,
I tell you we're going to continue to see this happen.
I'm not sure what's going to be able to to
quell it or stop it, but uh, and certainly needs
to people are people are.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Going to be.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I like to say, Jim that you know, these these
agents and officers have shown a tremendous amount of restraint.
There's been some situations. I know one agent from here
at Sanderson that's been deployed in Chicago and and and
the stories he's told it's, uh, it's i'ml like we've
ever seen before. It really is.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Well, the only thing that's keeping us from anarchy is
that we refuse on the right to participate in it.
Have you ever foresee a time though, where things could
get bad enough where we have no choice but to
participate in it?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, and we're still in the greatest country in the world,
right the United States probably be an American And that's
exactly why President Trump's wanted to sit in a National
Guard and not to go in there and and and
you know, add more fuel to the fire, but to
protect these facilities, to help the agents and officers that
are out there protecting the facility that they're continuing to
(31:01):
be targeted. I don't know that we'll get that far,
but I certainly hope not. I certainly hope not.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I hope not either. He may have heard the story
on Florida. I want to get your take on this.
You know, it's all conjecture at this point, but they
found a hunting stand right out of what right outside
of West Palm Beach Airport, in direct line designe to
where air Force one uses the runway. There coincidence, you know,
with all the attempts that have already happened, including one
previously in Florida. I think you have to look at
(31:29):
that pretty seriously, don't you.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
You know, of course he's utilized that airport talking about
the president many times before, and I'm certainly they've done
security sweeps. You know, he's a man that's unfortunately hated tremendously.
There's a tremnious amount of hate that that's targeted towards him,
you know, and we're seeing them ramp up the security
not just for the President but even for within DHS.
(31:56):
Righty Scott two, Darge Commissioner. I know he's got security
killed the us CIS, which is Customs and Immigration Services.
They're all having protective detail because of all that we're
seeing across the United States. You know, it's it's it's
certainly been inflamed. And we'll continue and we've got to
probably another three years of this. Jimney another three years,
(32:18):
oh boy?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
And if jd. Vance wins, do we get another four
years after that? I'm assuming that he's the nominee. Maybe
I shouldn't assume that. All right, one more for you
because this is this I found kind of interesting. This
is former California governor and actor Arnold schwartzenega on with
Bill Maher talking about ways to save the democracy, and
(32:45):
he had a couple of ideas he floated to see
what you think of these ideas. Hang on a second.
We've got Arnold right around the corner here here he is.
So what I suggest that the.
Speaker 13 (32:57):
Way we save democracy nationwide is to really have a proposal, like,
for instance, to Save Democracy Act. It's just an idea
where we go and make election day a holiday so
that everyone has time to go out and go to
the election. They wanted to have you had to have
(33:19):
fear redishiating, to have independent ratistic and commission in each
state all over the United States.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And the number three that they won't do it. The
number three to have a voter ID.
Speaker 13 (33:35):
So when you go and vote, people should know that
you are that person. I think if we take those
three things, there's something that the Republicans like, there's something
that the Democrats like. Get together in solve this problem.
We have to go talk to each other rather than
hating each other, talk to each other because the people
want and that's what the people need.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Do you think Democrats are going to go for a
voter ID? What do they all we said about voter IDs,
you know how how they're basically you know, racist and
blah blah blah blah blah. They'd have to completely change
the tune on that. I would not have a problem
with the idea of election day being a national holiday.
Everybody gets the day off to go vote. Along with that, though,
(34:20):
can we like do away with early voting because we
do a lot of early voting now to make it
more convenient for people. I don't think there's a lack
of participation. I don't think that's a problem. But if
you want to do a national holiday election day, I'm
all for it. Just do away with the early voting,
Just do away with the things that would allow for
ballots to be tampered with, so we don't have to
(34:40):
question the results of the election. And let's go back
to paper ballots. Please can we do that too? All right,
I'll leave it at that for today. You'll have a
great day. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow morning, bright
early five am over on news Radio seven forty k
tr H. We're back here at four on AM nine
to fifty KPRC.
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