AM Show HR 3 - President Trump Is Leading The World To Peace

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
After Paul Bosh died after a heart attack in his
home in Sugarland, IRV Marks at the memorial to him,
said this.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
While we were making the commercials, we always had a
lot of fun. Uh. Mac was there. Uh, Doug Russell
was there, and uh and myself, and we'd visit for
a while, and then Uh I'd bump into Mac and
I take the money out of his pocket. He'd do
his commercial jump up and down and look for his money.
It wasn't there. He'd go deserved. And we always had

(00:36):
a spare microphone. H pull there and sometimes I'd sort
of goose him while he's doing his commercially jump out
of his skin. He was a lot of fun and uh,
but that was the atmosphere that Paul created. Paul created
an atmosphere of comfort for the sponsors and and fun
for us. And uh we sort of sort of miss

(01:00):
going down there. On Friday night, I saw them miss Paul.
As you know, Paul had uh huge cauliflower ears. I
guess that was his uh, his purple heart of the
uh wrestling ring. And Uh, every time we got to the dinner,
I'd always make fun of his ears. He loved when
I did it incidentally, and one time I told him, Uh,

(01:22):
and my wife lays claim to this that she asked
him to wearings and do an ad for for the store,
But it was really my idea, and Uh, I told him.
I said, Joe Namath did uh panty hose and Pavarotti
did first, whilst you gotta do earrings. Loved the idea.
We did a uh A newsprint Dad, and we took

(01:45):
the pictures right here in our store, in our employee lounge,
and UH one of the local magazines would run it.
They thought it was uh not too right for a
man to be wearing earrings. So we senate to Texas Monthly.
Texas Monthly published the ad was written up in ad

(02:06):
Week ad Age. Everybody was talking about it. I started
getting calls from ad agencies telling me how great it
was and they wish they thought of it. And we
lived on a gloria that print ad for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
IRV Marx passed away, I don't know, somewhere around twenty
years ago or so. His two sons took over the
business and it's a tough business and closed it some
years later. When I started in radio, I actually spoke
for I w. Marx, and I didn't have any money

(02:45):
to buy jewelry. I didn't know what jewelry costs. But
I remember going over for the first time to meet
Brad who was running the shop and his brother Daniel,
and going in the door and I thought, oh, buy
some for my wife, the right.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Thing to do, a nice thing.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
And I come home and look what I bought for
you today. And I guess I was a little surprised
at what jewelry costs, or maybe they showed me the
stuff that wasn't entry level.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I just remember I don't even know what the amount was.
I just remember at the time feeling very small on
my city because I was new to radio and on
my city council salary, which was forty eight thousand dollars
a year. There wasn't Yeah, it wasn't gonna happen. They
were over on Holcombe slash bell Air at just about

(03:37):
the point where they where the two where the two
streets come together. And you know, if you're east of
say Stella Link, I think that's Holcombe and west that's
bel Air. That's kind of where I always considered it
at that It's an interesting intersection because I consider south
of that Holcombe bel Air intersection on Stella Link that

(04:01):
to be Stella Link and above that is Wesleyan. And
it's interesting because that's a four way where each one
of those legs is named a different thing where they
intersect there. So I looked up by the way interesting.

(04:21):
I started with IW Marx and I got crossways with
Brad Marx over can't remember what it was.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
He didn't like that I had said what was it
I had said? And he didn't like it and like my.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Opinion on something, and so he called Eddie Martini and
he said, I don't like that. Michael said that I
don't want him saying that. And Eddie wasn't telling me
to say it or not say it, he was just
passing along that it had been said. And I said,
I'll tell you what. Tell him he can kiss my ass.

(05:06):
And he said he's one of our biggest advertisers. And
I said, yes, but he's not my boss. He's not
telling me what to say. And so that was that,
and so I didn't speak for him anymore. And about
three months later I saw him in public and he
came up and he was like, because we've been buddies
before that, and he said, hey, what's going on? What

(05:27):
do you mean? But why where'd you fire us? And
I said, well, you told me I couldn't say that,
and we recovered all is well. But that gave me
an opportunity to meet Connie and Billy Stagner, who tomorrow
will have been in business for fifty years and have
become dear friends of mine. They're having an event at
their shop in friends with Robert Reis. Just told me

(05:50):
that Rick Flair got boots from Republic Boot Company. What
do you think he got on his boots? Jim Martini glass,
They have had a good idea.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah. Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Kenny Duncan Junior goes to New York for I don't
know what it is, Comic con some baseball trading conventions,
some uh what is that thing? F what's it? What's
it called? I still don't't really even understand what the

(06:25):
damn thing is. Uh. You take an item and you
monetize it, and it's it's three initials, n FT, it's something.
It's something to do with one of those. And Kenny
Duncan Jr. Takes him to New York and they go
to these conventions and he said, man, it's like you're
walking with Donald Trump. People go crazy over Rick Flair. Well,

(06:50):
first of all, he's identifiable because he's got to look. Secondly,
he is as relevant today as he has ever been
because he's everywhere all the time. He is ubiquitous. He is,
he is, he is. I'm not going to say over exposed,
because I don't think he is. You got to make
a living, and that would be a judgment. It's not

(07:11):
a judgment against him. It is just to say that
to be relevant at his age and continue to do
that is amazing to me. You know, most people are
more or less forgotten shortly after their their heyday and
by the time they retire, and a few years later,

(07:33):
there might be a random person who kind of remembers
him to be this popular at this point in his life.
I love those stories. You know, Tony Bennett had had
a late life resurgence and d be I can't remember
who it was, Lady Gaga. So you're kind of dancing
around him and he would be standing out in the

(07:53):
middle and you know, crooning the same song in the
same dated style of you know, when he was at
his peak, which I'm here for. I love it, but
it's just fascinating that it kind of came back around.
I'm always amazed when somebody who was big before I

(08:14):
grew up it's still around, or that their music or
art or film or whatever. My kids will mention their
name and how do you know that? How did that?
How did that show up on your screen or to
your mindset, because it's always interesting. One of the ways
that happened was Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero made millions of

(08:39):
dollars for I don't know, probably twenty bands or guys
who were in the twilight of not just their career
in some of their lives, and Guitar Hero came out
and all of a sudden, their music was back. Some
of them took to touring again. They had a whole
new audience of people, and you know, irony is a

(09:01):
big thing for young people, so I think there was
also the you know, there was the idea of you know,
going to watch this eighty year old in concert, and
I think kids saw that was hilarious. Of course, Betty
White was damn near one hundred years old, and she
was still the toast of the town, and there would
always be this kind of cheeky way that she would
say she had a delivery, and it was always like, yeah, well,

(09:23):
when nobody's looking, you and I are about to get
it on whatever it would be in Betty White words,
and that was part of the charm to her. You
know who just died, Jim Hyacinth Missus Bouquet on keeping
up Appearances? Did you ever watch that show?

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh man?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
There's two types of people, people who watch British sitcoms
and people who don't. And if you don't, you don't
give a damn And I get it, my apologies, I
fully understand. It's like when I talk about he Haw
and people haven't and they wish I'd stop talking about
he Haw, And it's hard for me to explain how
awesome he Hall was, how truly incredibly good he Hal was,

(10:11):
and people have he Haul kind of pigeonhole compartmentalized, as
you know. Two dudes coming up out of the cornfield
and saying I'm from wah population three hundred and forty eight,
Well that was one of them. But I love that,
by the way. I thought that was fantastic. But the music,

(10:34):
if you'd go to the YouTube machine and you put
in Conway Twitty place he Haul. They had a little
little faux, a little shack over to the side. I
guess they'd roll it out when this scene would come on,
and they would have people come out and sing on

(10:54):
the front of it. You got George Jones, Conway, Twitty,
Dolly Parton, Porter Wagner, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, you name it.
Of that era they were on Hea Haul. The music
was great, the sketches were great. It was it was fantastic.
It was absolutely fantastic. But what I was going to
tell you is, so I went, Oh, Robert Reis reminded

(11:17):
me of what happened.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Let's see, let's see, let's see here, and.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh, here we go. Here's what happened. Robert Rees remembered
you were on the phone with a Jewish lady and
you were arguing with her, and she had just heard
you do a live spot for IW Marx and she
couldn't believe that they would support you, because she's mad
at me over what she's called in to argue with

(11:59):
me over you put her in her place on air,
but brought up IW mars. She was embarrassed and canceled
a thirty thousand dollars custom job with them. Brad Mars
got mad that you didn't apologize in a timely manner.
I met you over there for an apology. We had
a different person who was our sales director. Then he

(12:22):
pushed you to apologize. So you went over and you
were nice enough. But Brad was a not nice person
that day and walked right past us to his office.
It was a total blank move. Brad started using Milo Hamilton. Actually,
I thought Milo was great for them. Milo got it.
Do you remember Milo's spots for w Marsh okay anyway,

(12:45):
and also Walton Johnson. Oh anyway, he said. Corey Diamonds
came in a year later and the rest is history.
I love them. Tomorrow, starting at four o'clock is the
fifty year anniversary celebration, fifty years in business. They'll being
friends with love him Corey Diamonds. Jim pulled that from
a live from a live performance on he haw By Conway.

(13:11):
Are you looking at it right now? I remember correctly.
He's got his hair. It's it's not the kind of
more permed on the top. It's the combe straight back,
looks like a helmet. Yeah, and I think he's wearing
oh that one's all black, Okay, as an earlier one,

(13:32):
it's the all black suit and yeah, almost like a jumpsuit. Yeah,
heh yeah, that's a song right there, brother man. But

(13:52):
the United States has no obligation to host foreigners who
wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify
visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Get them out, you know. I hope that the hope
that Donald Trump can inspire some other people to grow
a set and find a spine and continue when he's gone,

(14:19):
because a lot of people are doing what they're doing
because Trump is president and they either work for him
or we live in in the Trump era. But they
would never of themselves, Sue Sponte, do the things that
they're doing now Trump makes them better. I just worry
that in the absence of Trump, how many of these

(14:42):
people will continue to do what he's doing. So there's
Trump in the Middle East being hailed by the leader
of Pakistan as he should win the Nobel Prize. The
Venezuelan opposition leader says he should win the Noble Prize.
He's got, he's got Hamas and Israel the parties at

(15:07):
the table in Egypt. This this is Jimmy Carter's camp,
David Accords twenty x. This is the most amazing thing
is this is this is history in the making. Who
would have believed he could do this? He's pulled it off,
and the whole world is watching and celebrating, and back home,

(15:31):
at exactly that moment, there's Chuck Schumer bent over, looking
like the evil, demonic spirit that he is, kind of
hunched over, looking like he's just he's shuffling into an
office to you know, push a button and have a

(15:51):
thousand more people murdered or starved to death. Just has
that look about him, just those evil eyes. And there
he is, while while President Trump is leading the world
in bringing peace the eighth conflict for which he is,
he has broken peace by sheer dent of personality. And
back home, the Schumer's shut down and they're they're talking

(16:15):
about the most absurd things ever. And then Jasmine Crockett,
who her staff says she never comes in the office.
Apparently she just goes from podcast to podcast and speech
to speech and probably picks up some checks in between.
And there's the President showing the greatest leadership we've seen

(16:36):
in modern America and perhaps of all time, and that
there's Trump displaying that to the world, and the world agrees.
And back home, Jasmine Crockett, they trying to tell me
we're gonna end the shutdown. We're not gonna end the shutdown.
We're not. He ain't my bows, hain't the bows of me?
They don't. Then they're not gonna tell me what to do.

(16:59):
They they gonna tell me you what do I do?
I won't I do it. I won't. I'm I'm president
of mee. Okay, he don't even know, he don't know nothing.
We're not We're not gonna end the shut down, not
till I get what I want.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
And you're just like, good lord, this, this absolute ghetto
creeting is out here just smacking her jaws, just bad, bad.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Bad bad ba.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
And the worst part is the absolute worst part of
it all is if that was how she naturally, authentically spoke,
that might be acceptable, but it's not. We have tape
of her just a handful of years ago, speaking without

(17:49):
putting on all that all that that that performance, it's
a performance. It's worse than Mitt Romney going going to
to Alabama and I like the height of the trees
here the trees are the right size or Michigan, I
guess he was at that point.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
It is.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
It is completely performative. And when you when you stop
and think about it, because you can get blinded by
how much you dislike her and not be sufficiently analytical,
stop and think about what she is saying. In order
to be the queen of the poor black people, I

(18:34):
have to put on this this accent, this this pigeon English.
I have to speak in this manner that is not
authentic to me. This is this is not this is
not paying tribute to the people. This is pretending to
sort of dumb down that which you are and believing

(18:58):
they won't notice. And maybe they don't, but I think
they do. I think every member of our society has
really cottoned on to what's going on the difference between
the right and the left. Trump gave them options. You
will hear people say Republicans will say, well, I don't

(19:19):
know about those two, but you know Corning's only one
can win next November. You'll hear that a lot. Well,
you know, I know you like.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Let's say take pass it.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I know you like paston, but he can't win in November.
I don't love Corning. I mean, there's a lot of
things that I don't like, but I think he's got
the better chance to win in November. That is what
they tell people who who are people who would watch
a fight but never help, never save anybody, drive past

(19:51):
the situation and say, well, that's unfortunate, but keep going.
Allow their kid to be maligned in school and write
an email to somebody unrelated, but never go to the
school and do anything about it. These are people driven
by fear. These are people who paint within them. They
stay within the lines at all times because they don't

(20:13):
want to step out of line. They don't ever want
to be called out. They don't ever want to be
the point of the spear that everyone turns to. So
what they do is they keep their head kind of down,
but in their minds, they don't see it that way.
In their minds, that's the smart thing to do, because

(20:33):
you don't want to have to get into the fight,
you don't have to get into the argument over it.
And what Trump did is he said no, no, no, We're
going to paint in bowl colors, not pale pastels. To
quote Ronald Reagan, and he forces people to pick one
or the other, and that has turned out more voters.
Texas Southern University has announced a curfew at the school's

(20:55):
homecoming tailgate in the hopes of her being more violence.
Students and alumni are very upset. They said this was
due to gun violence at other historically black colleges and universities.
Here's a rundown of violence at HBCU events. Last weekend,
a child was injured at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi,

(21:20):
after a shooting outside a homecoming tailgate area. There are
just things that white people don't do. Drive bys is
one of them. This is nuts and everybody knows it,

(21:46):
and nobody wants to speak of it, which is a
really powerful thing. It's also how you ensure that it continues.
People will not speak up about problem plaguing some parts
of the black community, which by the way, mostly harms
other blacks. But nobody wants to speak up about it

(22:12):
for two reasons. The people who are not black democrats
representing that district, They're like, well, i'll just call it.
I'll be called a racist if I point out the
problem and discuss ways to solve it. Which is true,
by the way, doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. You
should still do it. Or the people within that community

(22:38):
who are in positions of authority are almost every time
to the person idiots and enablers. They have learned the
victim card. Who's to blame for somebody shooting up the
homecoming tailgate? Because I guarantee you wasn't a white guy
for five miles. Well, that's systemic slavery. It's the repercussions

(23:03):
of slavery.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You see.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
One hundred and sixty years later, we find ourselves in
a situation where sometimes we must get in the car
and go boys in the hood. So we drive down
the street and we shoot through the windows at other
black people's homes hopes that someone might be killed. And
it's not our fault, it's your fault. Okay, Well, how
about this. I never owned slaves and you never were

(23:31):
a slave. And for whatever reason, for the last one
hundred and sixty years since slavery, for one hundred and
forty of them, this nonsense was not being engaged in,
and all of a sudden this just comes up. We
didn't always have black people driving through black neighborhoods shooting

(23:52):
the place up. That didn't happen. But when's the last
time you heard a black politician talk about it? Won't
do it, and so so they'll find something to hyper
focus on that is the exception to the rule, and
they'll look past this. It's a diversion technique. Rodney Ellis

(24:16):
said something out the other day or somebody lives in
his district, send it to me, And it was reimagining.
I hate the word reimagining, not as much as I
hate reinventing. I don't want any part of government reinvented
or reimagined. I hate that word and the people that
use it. But anyway, so it was reimagining the criminal

(24:37):
justice system five years after George Floyd was murdered. Huh,
faulty pretense, Sorry, faulty premise. George Floyd wasn't murdered unless
you consider his practical suicide, which is effectively what it was,
a murder by George Floyd of George Floyd. And to

(24:59):
think now will never cure cancer. So here is this
guy who's a career criminal who overdoses again, he'd just
done it shortly before that, gets rested again, arrested again,
doesn't want to get caught with more dope, go back
to prison. So he ingests it all, which is not

(25:20):
uncommon actually, and then he probably really couldn't breathe. But
the point at which he said he couldn't breathe, he's
sitting in the back of the car, in the air
conditioned car, in the back seat, while the officers got
out and called this in to try to figure out
what was going on. Nobody was pinning him down, all
that nonsense. Nobody was hurting him. I can't breathe. I

(25:42):
can't breathe, he was saying, I can't breathe for the
back of the car. The reason he died had nothing
to do with Derek Chouvain, who now rots in prison,
because he's another person that nobody wanted to stand up
for and speak out on, because it's better to let
this one white guy just let's give him over to
the crowd, like how the Aztecs were doing it. Let's

(26:03):
sacrifice him to the gods of racism. Oh okay, good,
we got our trophy. We got a white boy. And
so he's in prison, and cops are all bad.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
M h.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Cops are all bad. And he's in prison and George
Floyd was murdered and Rodney Ellis is doing a day
a conference on reimagining the criminal justice system, and it
was a group of people on there who are all
of the opinion apparently that cops are bad and we
shouldn't enforce the law, and this kind of nonsense is

(26:35):
why crime is so bad in black communities. This is
the reason because, as I've told you a million times,
for every thousand shootings, there aren't a thousand shooters. There's
like seven. You get that guy off the streets, he's
a super spreader. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Tipping Point,

(27:01):
and he compared movements, whether it's patriotism or MAGA or
socialism or all sorts of movements. He compared them to
infectious diseases and he used AIDS as one of the cases.
And what doctors began to figure out once they got
in and did these one on one interviews, they realized,

(27:22):
for every thousand people who were infected by AIDS, there
weren't a thousand separate people who had had sex with them.
There were like three. They were super spreaders, promiscuous, They're
out sleeping with loads of people. And so you take

(27:43):
one of those guys out of production, you shut the
whole thing down. That's also true of crime. But when
you've got an a an apparatus, a governmental apparatus that
is absolutely protecting this, that is decriminalizing this, you are

(28:05):
creating a situation where there is no law in order.
There's chaos, reins, and it's survival of the fittest. And
this is an incubator, a petri dish for really bad guys.
Because now that really bad guy who can't keep it together,
who won't show up to work, who beats his baby,

(28:27):
mama's absent the cops, Now he becomes a warlord like
in Somalia. And so you create an environment where you're
actually incentivizing bad guys and punishing those who are law abiding.
So who hurts little old ladies, little men, children. That's

(28:49):
why so many children grow up and get into the
gang life, in the criminal life is that's a form
of protection. And yet we continue on. Texas Southern University
announces a curfew schools homecoming tailgate in the hopes of
curving more violence. Well, that's a great recruiting tool, isn't it.
How would you like to be applying to the Texas
Southern and you find out that they have to have

(29:13):
a curfew on tailgating because of drive by shootings. So
wonderful academic environment, isn't it? Probably racisn't your something