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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael darry Show is on the air. Before I ask
(00:50):
for moone to play the song, we will be cross
fading too, Oh across fading. Yeah, I put the wrong
emphasis on. I put the emphasis on the wrong Salabel.
I want you to stop for a moment, because on
this day in nineteen seventy three, the debut album of
(01:15):
the greatest band of all time, not just American, not
just English speaking, not just this millennium, Leonard Skinner released
their album pronounced Leonard Skinner. They're the best band. Yeah,
(01:37):
it's not funny. You already know who I see. You
took me off the track and got me upset. So
back to my point. Today. In nineteen seventy three was
the release of that album. It had Give Me Three Steps,
It had Simple Man, it had hold On I Feel
(02:03):
like William Wallace and Braveheart Hold Hold. So this album
has two, undisputably two of the greatest ten songs in
(02:24):
all of American music history, no doubt about it, Simple Man,
Free Bird. If you send me an email disagreeing and
you think that's clever, you're embarrassing yourself. Don't do that.
It's like I think to myself, forgive him father, for
he knows not what he does, you know, and they're
(02:45):
so proud to see me. I like Paul McCartney. Yeah,
well he likes skannered anyway. So when I say free Bird,
I know what you think. You think long guitar riff
at the end of the song, and most people do.
(03:06):
Most people's gains rips that guitar, Rossington letter, Artemis pile.
You got vocals by Ronnie I mean it is, you
got Cassie singing background. Yeah, all of that is true,
Every bit of that is true. However, the part of
that song that does not get it to do that
(03:30):
I think makes the song special is not the ending.
It's not this incredible maestro performance exhibition display demonstration on
the getfiddle. It is the opening piano. And it's so
(03:53):
subtle and so smooth that you forget the most requested
rock song in all of rock history at a concert
because of the badass, long haired gemming out guitar is
(04:15):
actually a very smooth piano opening instead of a dusty
hill bass line. You've got the keyboard setting the tongue
and I'll bet if you're honest you never even notice
(04:38):
that because you're waiting for the build up of the
very lengthy guitar solo at the end. So on this
the day we celebrate n eighteen seventy three, the release
of Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd, I want you to listen anew
(05:00):
to the opening piano. H really, I think that's funny.
That's funny. That's funny. Ha ha, that's your upper decker. Okay,
all right, okay stop. The rest of the song goes downhill.
(05:42):
I believe that. I believe the greatness of that song
is before Ronnie's vocals, before the improvised guitar riff, because
that's the era, right, You've got Queen doing Bohemian Rhapsody,
You've got a Zeppelin, you got you got these long,
you got these long. Hey, Jude's coming out like that's
(06:04):
the thing, and FM radio was embracing the longer songs.
I think the greatest part of that song is the
first twenty seconds. Okay, do that again. There's what's incredible
(07:28):
is what has already all happened by the time Ronnie
starts singing. You started with this bassline effect by the piano.
I wish I understood music theory. I could use proper chrominology,
but you get my point. You get that effect which
begins to set the mood, and you at first it
(07:52):
stuns you, and then you go, oh god, that's free
bird coming right. But that that sets the tone. We're
about to get serious, We're about to go And it's
also a very slow, not ominous, but heavy. This is
this is gonna be heavy. And then and then you
build into the guitars coming in one by one, the layers.
(08:14):
By the time you get to Ronnie, I mean you
you've had a whole song already. Paris Show. I want
my intention to do music deconstruction today, and I'm certainly
(08:35):
no expert. I'm just a fan. I just appreciate art
in all its forms, in how we communicate, how we
express ourselves. I think the songwriter is the modern day poet,
the real poet Marlowe, Shakespeare and Baron, and the people
(08:58):
John Dunn, the people who moved us with words that
allowed us to say things that we felt in a
way that maybe we could have never constructed. So I'm
just a fan. You don't have to tell me you
know more about this or that band. You won't know
more than Skinner. It about anybody in the world Ramon,
(09:21):
but any other band in mine. So when I started
in radio, Pat Gray was on in the morning, followed
by from nine to eleven Glenn Beck, and first they
took Glenn back off and put me in his spot,
And less than thirty days later Beck got the big
gig on CNN that really launched him to the next level.
(09:45):
He was nationally syndicated, but it wasn't as big as
Beck would become, and Glenn was his Houston lead in,
and then Beck had the syndicated show from nine to eleven.
They took Beck off and put me on, and the
vice president of programming thought it would be real cute.
(10:06):
Eddie would never have done this. This was another person.
He thought it would be real cute to have me
go in just after they announced it they're taking back
off the air and sit down with Pat, and Pat
would interview me about taking this position, and that was
real funny to him. But it wasn't funny. It was
disrespectful to Pat because that Pat is the reason Glenn
(10:29):
is a Mormon. Pat evangelized witnessed to Glenn when Glenn
was suicidal. I'm not telling you anything that they don't
talk about. Glynn was not going to survive, and Pat
sat by his side and offered testimony and teaching and coaching,
and Glenn became a Mormon out of the deal. That's
(10:51):
how close they are and always have been, and as
you know, still are. Pat's part of Glenn's network now.
And it came back around. So Beck, I replaced back. Yeah,
I replaced back, and then our show starts picking up
steam and we're getting amazing plaudits we never expected, and
they take Pat off and put me in his place. Well,
(11:13):
that's weird because I would listen to Pat as I
was driving in every morning, and I never cared for
the band Bread. I didn't dislike him, but it didn't
matter to me. So I really grew to appreciate Bread,
which happens to be a Mormon band, because of Pat's
(11:37):
love of it, as well as the Bluebelt ice Cream song.
And so I began listening to Bread more and what
I thought was cheesy, watered down like Sister Wife kind
of music became much deeper. Bread had a huge hit
(11:57):
with a song baby I'm Gonna Want You. It's a
love song. Maybe I'm Gonna want you. Baby, I'm gonna
need you. You're the only one I care enough to
hurt about. Maybe I'm crazy, Maybe I just can't live
without You're loving an affection, give me directed. It's a
love song, right, So when you come back to the
song we just played, it's the next in the line.
(12:22):
Bred's a hit machine. So you just assume this is
another love song, and it is a love song. But
David Gates, the lead singer, his father had died in
sixty three. Before his dad died, he sent his mother
an orchid, and he said he could barely afford this orchid.
But his father called and said, you rocked your mom's
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world sending her this flower. This is the most powerful
thing in the world. You can have everything she owns
because you did this, this thing, this gesture. So his
dad dies in sixty three and never gets to see
how successful he becomes, And in seventy two he writes,
how often does this happen? He writes a love song
to his father, who does that? Right? He writes a
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song about if he could just see his father one
more time? Oh, man, if I could just see him
one more time. But he couches it in a way
that sounds like a love song, so that it'll become
popular and people will listen to it and people will
buy it. It's a song to his dad. If this
song doesn't just blow your mind, I don't know what
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will you shall live from her? Kept me wong, kept
me walm. You gave my life to me, Set me free,
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set me free fast years I ever been through, all
the years, I haven't debated. I call give the life my.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
All.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I would give the day got call just to have
you back, to give you taught me about to lie?
What what? You never said too much? But still your show.
(14:56):
Watch you nobody else could ever know. Card me can't go.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Then I would do by.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
End up my life.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I would give that Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Just to have you back. We got hold of both
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your shoes, Bill writes Zara, I took your advice. Recently,
my brother and I brother in law and I gifted
to our why sisters a heritage film of their dad,
Jack c Age eighty nine of Houston. Yesterday we held
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the premiere showing at Jack's home with a room full
of family. As the credits rolled, we clapped tears of
joy and smiles all around, including my father in law,
Chance in his team exceeded all expectations from the additional
research they did, photos, videos, additions, audio enhancements, music transitions,
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so many little things all made the viewing a great
experience and not just something to watch. Plus the whole family,
the kids, the grandkids all now have this documentary as
told by their papau Jack forever. Thank you for the recommendation.
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I am often My mother used to say, say, how
do you have the most amazing people around you? You
are so lucky. You're the most incredible people around you,
your wife, your colleagues. Because I seek out the best
people and I do not waste a moment on anyone
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who is not incredible. You don't have to be the
most beautiful. You don't have to run the fastest. You
don't have to be the physically strongest. You don't have
to score, you don't have to be a MENSA member.
In fact, I prefer you not what Ramone almost figured
that out. People are not fungible, they're not robots. They're
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not plug and play. One number two pencil goes out,
grab another one. They're exactly the same. Can't tell a
difference people. People are not exactly the same. One guy
comes into work. Let's say he's working the cash register
at the restaurant. He goes and takes a poop every
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ten minutes. Do you ever go to a restaurant and
they got one head and it's locked, and you got
a prarie dog and you're sitting there and you're like,
so you do that passive aggressive thing. You get real quiet,
like you left, and now you pretend you're another person
and you go to the door to open it and
(18:28):
jiggle it because you know that makes people uncomfortable, and
you jiggle it. I'm in here, and you oh sorry,
and then you wait about thirty seconds, and then you
do the loud walk. You come up and you kind
of bump into the door like it's a whole different
person and I'm in here. Oh yeah, okay, And you're thinking,
at some point they're gonna go, dang priests, I gotta
get out of here, right, But when that person comes out,
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if it's been ten minutes or more, and that's the
only bathroom, one hundred percent, that's an employee. That employee
hides and you get to hide in the toilet because
nobody wants to call you out for it. Oh Mar,
you're taking eight dunce today. Are you doing an upper
deck or what's going on? Dude? I need you in
the kitchen, not on the crapper. Well, that's where they
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go to respond to emails or text message. I had
a bar and restaurant owner tell me a little while back.
He said, I used to love to go to your
place RCC because your staff were so attentive. They were
always smiling, they were always there, they anticipated your needs.
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And ma'am, my employees, I can't keep them off the phone.
I mean I can't keep them off their their cell phones,
text messaging. And it isn't that the people I had
were great and your people are sorry. It is you
have to set expectations with people very clearly. Amazing to
me how many people don't realize that. I have watched
(20:04):
so many people who are always hiring and firing people,
and every time they have a new employee in some
short order, they will say, oh, old Susie, she's she's
not working out, she's not any good at all. What's
wrong with her? She did she did, she does this,
She shows up late, she does it to Okay, does
(20:26):
she know what time she's supposed to? Arrie? She ought
to how should she ort to? I mean, people know, No,
they don't know. That's just it. I am an over communicator.
I'm not the greatest boss manager leader in the history
of mankind. I know that. But what I'm gonna do
is study people who are because what I'm trying to
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do is build a team with purpose in life to
perform a mission and enjoy the process as we're going.
And in order to do that, you don't just fill
out that forum show up here tomorrow. Here's your keys,
and here's the shirt, and that's the time clock. And
you cannot assume that someone knows anything. My kids will
(21:09):
always say, Dad, we know, we know. No, let me
explain that we already know. Why does it bother you
so much if I tell you something that you already know?
Because there may be something in the ten step process
I'm about to give you that you know already. And invariably,
right around about seven, they'll go, oh, oh, you have
to park on the side and go to the side door.
(21:31):
Yes you do, Oh that I didn't realize that. Okay, okay, yes,
don't leave anything unset. Set expectations very clearly and constantly
reinforce them. That's what the military does. It's what coaches do.
(21:52):
Can you imagine you play for Nick Saban and you're
a sophomore and you win the championship and there you are,
You're pouring the bucket of gatorade on him. He's hugging
you and everybody's happy, and you know it's a matter
of days until he's chewing your ass again. And he
has talked about that process. I can't celebrate with my
team the way I would like to when we win
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a championship because I know I got to chew their
ass very soon. And so there, you've ascended the mountain,
You've won the championship. Now you're back. What a players
want to do show up fat and out of shape, gloat, brag, swagger.
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But what got you that championship is busting your tail
with humility. I don't know how we got on that subject.
Oh I know, I do know. But the point of
that is, just like I said earlier, David Crook was
the worst Litle League baseball coach. I ever saw, an
absolute monster of a man, and a lot of people
know that and never wanted to confront him because they
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wanted their kids to be on All Stars. Absolute monster
of a human being, turned out to be a monster
of a husband as well, and anyway, just just a
bad human being David Krook. But then I had coaches.
My dad coached me as well, But I had coaches
in life. I still have coaches in life. Eddie Martinez
a coach, even though he's a friend, even though he's
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my boss in many ways, and he knows how to
handle me without me flying off the handle. He'll say, hey,
you know you need to do this, Hey, you really
need to call that guy back, he got his feelings hurt,
or you really need to do this. And he does
it in a way like my mother would do, like
my wife does, like my kids do for that matter,
to know how to manage me, to know how to
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get me to do what they want without me overruling them.
Trump does that with the media. Trump gets the media
to cover him in a way that they don't. They
don't want to cover him, but he gets them to
cover him. He gets them to tell you what he's doing.
That's how you know you don't Trump doesn't call you
every morning. You know what Trump is up to because
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the very media that hates him tells you, and he
forces them to tell you. So the point is, human
beings are everything in a company. I don't care what
the company is even AI. Human beings are everything. Human
beings are everything in your home. Human beings are everything
in your life. That's all. We arrive as human beings,
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we die as human beings, and in between a bunch
of jump plastic and jump invest in the people around
in all. Also, when I'm gone, boy, this is just
gets better and better and better. Pinch myself. President Trump
(24:46):
as the head of the Kennedy Center, just announcing that
George Strait will be honored at the Kennedy Center I
as civilian honor you can receive. And I think about it.
I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about George Straight
being chosen by the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo to cover
(25:12):
a missed date. Do you remember who missed the date?
Who very good to cover for a missed date, and
how that really launched him? Obviously, I think that was
the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV did
(25:32):
for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo did for
George Strait. And I think about this little bitty fellow,
little skinny, fair faced, fresh faced killboy in his boots
and his jeans creased down the middle, and he's reaching
(25:54):
out there and shaking people's hands and he's happy to
be here. And that's George Strait, and now he's going
to be honored. Have you ever been to the Kennedy Center. Nothing.
I went up because the kids were interning in Congress
this summer and spent some time, and we went back
to things that I had worked at a law firm
there and I hadn't but I hadn't spent any real
(26:16):
time there in a while, so I had to make
multiple trips to DC, and so sometimes this summer I
was doing my show from my hotel room. And it's
good that you didn't notice. It means our equipment is good.
And don't try to say you notice now that I
told you. Anyway, we went to a show at the
Kennedy Center, and I mean, it's it's kind of a
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tired whole building, to be honest with you. But it
the grandeur and the fact that Trump understood, just like
he's taking over the Olympics, why let the left have
these things? Why not? So George Strait will be honored
Gloria Gaynor will be honored. Michael Crawford. I think he's
actually an Englishman, but he's famous for being the voice
(27:00):
of the of the Phantom and Phantom of the Opera.
He's kind of the voice that's a nod to the
cultural crowd, or to the high culture, to the to
the fine to the uh performing arts theater. And then
(27:20):
who else, Sylvester Stallone and last but not least kiss.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh hell yes, oh yes, this is not about their daddy.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to
be was a DJ, not a talk show host. I
don't know why I e would say that. Oh yeah,
Trump's gonna do his y m c A d as
to this. Hell yes, America's back. Oh he's gonna be kiss,
makeup with platforms. What will his be give it all?
(28:15):
Oh I got it, I got it. He's all white
like a pantamime. But there's a bullet streak across where
the bullet went across, and his ear is black. Oh
hell yes yes. Instead of fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive
(28:44):
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade versions of Nancy Pelosi throwing eggs
at him and an iron dome emerges and they shatter
and crack like Paul Pelosi's knee, and over to the
side Paul and Nancier of both getting hammered, but in
(29:05):
very different ways. Oh, I love it, and he's just
doing that y m c A dance all around the
stage and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing teeth gnashers
(29:26):
and lamentations as they bow before us. And then stallone
comes out circa Rambo yes. And then Gloria Gainer comes
(30:04):
out looking like Thelma Houston Stark in nineteen seventy eight,
and they fade down kiss and they make a barbershop
quartet behind them, and she starts into I Will survive,
and everyone knows.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
This is a tribute to Donald Trump, Donald J.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Trump, that a breed that was put you Bae. Kept
thinking I could never live without you by my side.
But then I spend so minute night thinking how you
did me wrong, dodgs wrong, and I learned it's like
that last scene, officer and a gentleman. I think loved
(30:47):
you here without that bank. I should have changed the
way to go, Paula, but they're way to go in
Donald Trump, look at this dirty four convictions and then
Stormy daniels over to the side her her dress falls
(31:10):
off and she is exposed in all her shame, and
Eugene Carrol is over there and her eyes have turned
blood red, and then she turns to stone like Medusa. Well,
I want to thank you all very much. This is great.
(31:30):
These are our friends. We have thousands of friends, said said,
I won't fight for you, for your family and your future.
Every single day, I will be fighting for you. We're
gonna make our country better than On the screen is
displayed a picture of Bill Clinton in the blue dress
(31:53):
and red high heels, with his come f me look
on his face like he's in bride's heead revisited that
hung in Epstein's New York home, and Hillary just keeps fainting,
(32:18):
but they put smelling sauce under her and say, no
face the music, Hillary, you ain't no ways time. That's
just how I imagine that might not I don't know,
that's not official.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael darry Show is on the air. Before I ask
(00:50):
for moone to play the song, we will be cross
fading too, Oh across fading. Yeah, I put the wrong
emphasis on. I put the emphasis on the wrong Salabel.
I want you to stop for a moment, because on
this day in nineteen seventy three, the debut album of
(01:15):
the greatest band of all time, not just American, not
just English speaking, not just this millennium, Leonard Skinner released
their album pronounced Leonard Skinner. They're the best band. Yeah,
(01:37):
it's not funny. You already know who I see. You
took me off the track and got me upset. So
back to my point. Today. In nineteen seventy three was
the release of that album. It had Give Me Three Steps,
It had Simple Man, it had hold On I Feel
(02:03):
like William Wallace and Braveheart Hold Hold. So this album
has two, undisputably two of the greatest ten songs in
(02:24):
all of American music history, no doubt about it, Simple Man,
Free Bird. If you send me an email disagreeing and
you think that's clever, you're embarrassing yourself. Don't do that.
It's like I think to myself, forgive him father, for
he knows not what he does, you know, and they're
(02:45):
so proud to see me. I like Paul McCartney. Yeah,
well he likes skannered anyway. So when I say free Bird,
I know what you think. You think long guitar riff
at the end of the song, and most people do.
(03:06):
Most people's gains rips that guitar, Rossington letter, Artemis pile.
You got vocals by Ronnie I mean it is, you
got Cassie singing background. Yeah, all of that is true,
Every bit of that is true. However, the part of
that song that does not get it to do that
(03:30):
I think makes the song special is not the ending.
It's not this incredible maestro performance exhibition display demonstration on
the getfiddle. It is the opening piano. And it's so
(03:53):
subtle and so smooth that you forget the most requested
rock song in all of rock history at a concert
because of the badass, long haired gemming out guitar is
(04:15):
actually a very smooth piano opening instead of a dusty
hill bass line. You've got the keyboard setting the tongue
and I'll bet if you're honest you never even notice
(04:38):
that because you're waiting for the build up of the
very lengthy guitar solo at the end. So on this
the day we celebrate n eighteen seventy three, the release
of Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd, I want you to listen anew
(05:00):
to the opening piano. H really, I think that's funny.
That's funny. That's funny. Ha ha, that's your upper decker. Okay,
all right, okay stop. The rest of the song goes downhill.
(05:42):
I believe that. I believe the greatness of that song
is before Ronnie's vocals, before the improvised guitar riff, because
that's the era, right, You've got Queen doing Bohemian Rhapsody,
You've got a Zeppelin, you got you got these long,
you got these long. Hey, Jude's coming out like that's
(06:04):
the thing, and FM radio was embracing the longer songs.
I think the greatest part of that song is the
first twenty seconds. Okay, do that again. There's what's incredible
(07:28):
is what has already all happened by the time Ronnie
starts singing. You started with this bassline effect by the piano.
I wish I understood music theory. I could use proper chrominology,
but you get my point. You get that effect which
begins to set the mood, and you at first it
(07:52):
stuns you, and then you go, oh god, that's free
bird coming right. But that that sets the tone. We're
about to get serious, We're about to go And it's
also a very slow, not ominous, but heavy. This is
this is gonna be heavy. And then and then you
build into the guitars coming in one by one, the layers.
(08:14):
By the time you get to Ronnie, I mean you
you've had a whole song already. Paris Show. I want
my intention to do music deconstruction today, and I'm certainly
(08:35):
no expert. I'm just a fan. I just appreciate art
in all its forms, in how we communicate, how we
express ourselves. I think the songwriter is the modern day poet,
the real poet Marlowe, Shakespeare and Baron, and the people
(08:58):
John Dunn, the people who moved us with words that
allowed us to say things that we felt in a
way that maybe we could have never constructed. So I'm
just a fan. You don't have to tell me you
know more about this or that band. You won't know
more than Skinner. It about anybody in the world Ramon,
(09:21):
but any other band in mine. So when I started
in radio, Pat Gray was on in the morning, followed
by from nine to eleven Glenn Beck, and first they
took Glenn back off and put me in his spot,
And less than thirty days later Beck got the big
gig on CNN that really launched him to the next level.
(09:45):
He was nationally syndicated, but it wasn't as big as
Beck would become, and Glenn was his Houston lead in,
and then Beck had the syndicated show from nine to eleven.
They took Beck off and put me on, and the
vice president of programming thought it would be real cute.
(10:06):
Eddie would never have done this. This was another person.
He thought it would be real cute to have me
go in just after they announced it they're taking back
off the air and sit down with Pat, and Pat
would interview me about taking this position, and that was
real funny to him. But it wasn't funny. It was
disrespectful to Pat because that Pat is the reason Glenn
(10:29):
is a Mormon. Pat evangelized witnessed to Glenn when Glenn
was suicidal. I'm not telling you anything that they don't
talk about. Glynn was not going to survive, and Pat
sat by his side and offered testimony and teaching and coaching,
and Glenn became a Mormon out of the deal. That's
(10:51):
how close they are and always have been, and as
you know, still are. Pat's part of Glenn's network now.
And it came back around. So Beck, I replaced back. Yeah,
I replaced back, and then our show starts picking up
steam and we're getting amazing plaudits we never expected, and
they take Pat off and put me in his place. Well,
(11:13):
that's weird because I would listen to Pat as I
was driving in every morning, and I never cared for
the band Bread. I didn't dislike him, but it didn't
matter to me. So I really grew to appreciate Bread,
which happens to be a Mormon band, because of Pat's
(11:37):
love of it, as well as the Bluebelt ice Cream song.
And so I began listening to Bread more and what
I thought was cheesy, watered down like Sister Wife kind
of music became much deeper. Bread had a huge hit
(11:57):
with a song baby I'm Gonna Want You. It's a
love song. Maybe I'm Gonna want you. Baby, I'm gonna
need you. You're the only one I care enough to
hurt about. Maybe I'm crazy, Maybe I just can't live
without You're loving an affection, give me directed. It's a
love song, right, So when you come back to the
song we just played, it's the next in the line.
(12:22):
Bred's a hit machine. So you just assume this is
another love song, and it is a love song. But
David Gates, the lead singer, his father had died in
sixty three. Before his dad died, he sent his mother
an orchid, and he said he could barely afford this orchid.
But his father called and said, you rocked your mom's
(12:44):
world sending her this flower. This is the most powerful
thing in the world. You can have everything she owns
because you did this, this thing, this gesture. So his
dad dies in sixty three and never gets to see
how successful he becomes, And in seventy two he writes,
how often does this happen? He writes a love song
to his father, who does that? Right? He writes a
(13:08):
song about if he could just see his father one
more time? Oh, man, if I could just see him
one more time. But he couches it in a way
that sounds like a love song, so that it'll become
popular and people will listen to it and people will
buy it. It's a song to his dad. If this
song doesn't just blow your mind, I don't know what
(13:30):
will you shall live from her? Kept me wong, kept
me walm. You gave my life to me, Set me free,
(13:56):
set me free fast years I ever been through, all
the years, I haven't debated. I call give the life my.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
All.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I would give the day got call just to have
you back, to give you taught me about to lie?
What what? You never said too much? But still your show.
(14:56):
Watch you nobody else could ever know. Card me can't go.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Then I would do by.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
End up my life.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I would give that Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Just to have you back. We got hold of both
(15:48):
your shoes, Bill writes Zara, I took your advice. Recently,
my brother and I brother in law and I gifted
to our why sisters a heritage film of their dad,
Jack c Age eighty nine of Houston. Yesterday we held
(16:10):
the premiere showing at Jack's home with a room full
of family. As the credits rolled, we clapped tears of
joy and smiles all around, including my father in law,
Chance in his team exceeded all expectations from the additional
research they did, photos, videos, additions, audio enhancements, music transitions,
(16:36):
so many little things all made the viewing a great
experience and not just something to watch. Plus the whole family,
the kids, the grandkids all now have this documentary as
told by their papau Jack forever. Thank you for the recommendation.
(16:57):
I am often My mother used to say, say, how
do you have the most amazing people around you? You
are so lucky. You're the most incredible people around you,
your wife, your colleagues. Because I seek out the best
people and I do not waste a moment on anyone
(17:20):
who is not incredible. You don't have to be the
most beautiful. You don't have to run the fastest. You
don't have to be the physically strongest. You don't have
to score, you don't have to be a MENSA member.
In fact, I prefer you not what Ramone almost figured
that out. People are not fungible, they're not robots. They're
(17:46):
not plug and play. One number two pencil goes out,
grab another one. They're exactly the same. Can't tell a
difference people. People are not exactly the same. One guy
comes into work. Let's say he's working the cash register
at the restaurant. He goes and takes a poop every
(18:08):
ten minutes. Do you ever go to a restaurant and
they got one head and it's locked, and you got
a prarie dog and you're sitting there and you're like,
so you do that passive aggressive thing. You get real quiet,
like you left, and now you pretend you're another person
and you go to the door to open it and
(18:28):
jiggle it because you know that makes people uncomfortable, and
you jiggle it. I'm in here, and you oh sorry,
and then you wait about thirty seconds, and then you
do the loud walk. You come up and you kind
of bump into the door like it's a whole different
person and I'm in here. Oh yeah, okay, And you're thinking,
at some point they're gonna go, dang priests, I gotta
get out of here, right, But when that person comes out,
(18:55):
if it's been ten minutes or more, and that's the
only bathroom, one hundred percent, that's an employee. That employee
hides and you get to hide in the toilet because
nobody wants to call you out for it. Oh Mar,
you're taking eight dunce today. Are you doing an upper
deck or what's going on? Dude? I need you in
the kitchen, not on the crapper. Well, that's where they
(19:20):
go to respond to emails or text message. I had
a bar and restaurant owner tell me a little while back.
He said, I used to love to go to your
place RCC because your staff were so attentive. They were
always smiling, they were always there, they anticipated your needs.
(19:41):
And ma'am, my employees, I can't keep them off the phone.
I mean I can't keep them off their their cell phones,
text messaging. And it isn't that the people I had
were great and your people are sorry. It is you
have to set expectations with people very clearly. Amazing to
me how many people don't realize that. I have watched
(20:04):
so many people who are always hiring and firing people,
and every time they have a new employee in some
short order, they will say, oh, old Susie, she's she's
not working out, she's not any good at all. What's
wrong with her? She did she did, she does this,
She shows up late, she does it to Okay, does
(20:26):
she know what time she's supposed to? Arrie? She ought
to how should she ort to? I mean, people know, No,
they don't know. That's just it. I am an over communicator.
I'm not the greatest boss manager leader in the history
of mankind. I know that. But what I'm gonna do
is study people who are because what I'm trying to
(20:47):
do is build a team with purpose in life to
perform a mission and enjoy the process as we're going.
And in order to do that, you don't just fill
out that forum show up here tomorrow. Here's your keys,
and here's the shirt, and that's the time clock. And
you cannot assume that someone knows anything. My kids will
(21:09):
always say, Dad, we know, we know. No, let me
explain that we already know. Why does it bother you
so much if I tell you something that you already know?
Because there may be something in the ten step process
I'm about to give you that you know already. And invariably,
right around about seven, they'll go, oh, oh, you have
to park on the side and go to the side door.
(21:31):
Yes you do, Oh that I didn't realize that. Okay, okay, yes,
don't leave anything unset. Set expectations very clearly and constantly
reinforce them. That's what the military does. It's what coaches do.
(21:52):
Can you imagine you play for Nick Saban and you're
a sophomore and you win the championship and there you are,
You're pouring the bucket of gatorade on him. He's hugging
you and everybody's happy, and you know it's a matter
of days until he's chewing your ass again. And he
has talked about that process. I can't celebrate with my
team the way I would like to when we win
(22:13):
a championship because I know I got to chew their
ass very soon. And so there, you've ascended the mountain,
You've won the championship. Now you're back. What a players
want to do show up fat and out of shape, gloat, brag, swagger.
(22:33):
But what got you that championship is busting your tail
with humility. I don't know how we got on that subject.
Oh I know, I do know. But the point of
that is, just like I said earlier, David Crook was
the worst Litle League baseball coach. I ever saw, an
absolute monster of a man, and a lot of people
know that and never wanted to confront him because they
(22:55):
wanted their kids to be on All Stars. Absolute monster
of a human being, turned out to be a monster
of a husband as well, and anyway, just just a
bad human being David Krook. But then I had coaches.
My dad coached me as well, But I had coaches
in life. I still have coaches in life. Eddie Martinez
a coach, even though he's a friend, even though he's
(23:16):
my boss in many ways, and he knows how to
handle me without me flying off the handle. He'll say, hey,
you know you need to do this, Hey, you really
need to call that guy back, he got his feelings hurt,
or you really need to do this. And he does
it in a way like my mother would do, like
my wife does, like my kids do for that matter,
to know how to manage me, to know how to
(23:37):
get me to do what they want without me overruling them.
Trump does that with the media. Trump gets the media
to cover him in a way that they don't. They
don't want to cover him, but he gets them to
cover him. He gets them to tell you what he's doing.
That's how you know you don't Trump doesn't call you
every morning. You know what Trump is up to because
(23:59):
the very media that hates him tells you, and he
forces them to tell you. So the point is, human
beings are everything in a company. I don't care what
the company is even AI. Human beings are everything. Human
beings are everything in your home. Human beings are everything
in your life. That's all. We arrive as human beings,
(24:20):
we die as human beings, and in between a bunch
of jump plastic and jump invest in the people around
in all. Also, when I'm gone, boy, this is just
gets better and better and better. Pinch myself. President Trump
(24:46):
as the head of the Kennedy Center, just announcing that
George Strait will be honored at the Kennedy Center I
as civilian honor you can receive. And I think about it.
I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about George Straight
being chosen by the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo to cover
(25:12):
a missed date. Do you remember who missed the date?
Who very good to cover for a missed date, and
how that really launched him? Obviously, I think that was
the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV did
(25:32):
for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo did for
George Strait. And I think about this little bitty fellow,
little skinny, fair faced, fresh faced killboy in his boots
and his jeans creased down the middle, and he's reaching
(25:54):
out there and shaking people's hands and he's happy to
be here. And that's George Strait, and now he's going
to be honored. Have you ever been to the Kennedy Center. Nothing.
I went up because the kids were interning in Congress
this summer and spent some time, and we went back
to things that I had worked at a law firm
there and I hadn't but I hadn't spent any real
(26:16):
time there in a while, so I had to make
multiple trips to DC, and so sometimes this summer I
was doing my show from my hotel room. And it's
good that you didn't notice. It means our equipment is good.
And don't try to say you notice now that I
told you. Anyway, we went to a show at the
Kennedy Center, and I mean, it's it's kind of a
(26:40):
tired whole building, to be honest with you. But it
the grandeur and the fact that Trump understood, just like
he's taking over the Olympics, why let the left have
these things? Why not? So George Strait will be honored
Gloria Gaynor will be honored. Michael Crawford. I think he's
actually an Englishman, but he's famous for being the voice
(27:00):
of the of the Phantom and Phantom of the Opera.
He's kind of the voice that's a nod to the
cultural crowd, or to the high culture, to the to
the fine to the uh performing arts theater. And then
(27:20):
who else, Sylvester Stallone and last but not least kiss.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh hell yes, oh yes, this is not about their daddy.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to
be was a DJ, not a talk show host. I
don't know why I e would say that. Oh yeah,
Trump's gonna do his y m c A d as
to this. Hell yes, America's back. Oh he's gonna be kiss,
makeup with platforms. What will his be give it all?
(28:15):
Oh I got it, I got it. He's all white
like a pantamime. But there's a bullet streak across where
the bullet went across, and his ear is black. Oh
hell yes yes. Instead of fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive
(28:44):
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade versions of Nancy Pelosi throwing eggs
at him and an iron dome emerges and they shatter
and crack like Paul Pelosi's knee, and over to the
side Paul and Nancier of both getting hammered, but in
(29:05):
very different ways. Oh, I love it, and he's just
doing that y m c A dance all around the
stage and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing teeth gnashers
(29:26):
and lamentations as they bow before us. And then stallone
comes out circa Rambo yes. And then Gloria Gainer comes
(30:04):
out looking like Thelma Houston Stark in nineteen seventy eight,
and they fade down kiss and they make a barbershop
quartet behind them, and she starts into I Will survive,
and everyone knows.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
This is a tribute to Donald Trump, Donald J.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Trump, that a breed that was put you Bae. Kept
thinking I could never live without you by my side.
But then I spend so minute night thinking how you
did me wrong, dodgs wrong, and I learned it's like
that last scene, officer and a gentleman. I think loved
(30:47):
you here without that bank. I should have changed the
way to go, Paula, but they're way to go in
Donald Trump, look at this dirty four convictions and then
Stormy daniels over to the side her her dress falls
(31:10):
off and she is exposed in all her shame, and
Eugene Carrol is over there and her eyes have turned
blood red, and then she turns to stone like Medusa. Well,
I want to thank you all very much. This is great.
(31:30):
These are our friends. We have thousands of friends, said said,
I won't fight for you, for your family and your future.
Every single day, I will be fighting for you. We're
gonna make our country better than On the screen is
displayed a picture of Bill Clinton in the blue dress
(31:53):
and red high heels, with his come f me look
on his face like he's in bride's heead revisited that
hung in Epstein's New York home, and Hillary just keeps fainting,
(32:18):
but they put smelling sauce under her and say, no
face the music, Hillary, you ain't no ways time. That's
just how I imagine that might not I don't know,
that's not official.
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