August 13, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air. Where was
his father? It starts in the house and well, well
when my father got locked up, Well where was his father? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did, you know fifteen to twenty five?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
One did twenty eight? Isn't that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though my parents were together, But I still had
a father who was a gentleman and a good example.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They seem too much violent prime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont circle. But they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
touch you with If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years
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old and you have a gun. I convict someone of
shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public
bus in the chest, intent to kill.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I convict him, and you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The judge gives them probation, says you should go to college,
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of no cash fail. We need to recognize that the
people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
If you think to yourself, why would she make a
song that sounds like it's celebrating baby mom? How would
she make that that's not something to be proud of?
Why would she do that? It is very important as
you gird your loins for the cultural war in which
(01:49):
we are swimming right now, it is very important that
you remember that you must understand your enemy. You must
understand your opposition, and you must understand what motivates them.
(02:10):
If you do not do that, then you will never
be able to fix your country as long as other
people live in it, because you will always ascribe to
them the motivations for their actions that you have for yours.
And it's very important to understand that's not their motivations.
(02:32):
That would be like the father in his fifties as
his daughter is going out her senior year to prom,
and the eighteen year old boy with testosterone coursing through
his blood and only one thing on his mind showing
(02:53):
up at the door, and the father coming to the
door and opening it and saying, oh. He's saying, sir,
he's looking me in the eye. He's dressed in a tuxedo.
He's a fine young man.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Honey.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let's let our little Susie go away with Bobby for
a week. I'm sure nothing will happen and all will
be well. No, the father doesn't do that. He says,
climber boy, you touch my daughter and I'm gonna kill you,
because he knows that he too was young. See, he
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understands that while he's an old man now, he was
once a young man, and as a young man he
remembers and he knows that his precious little daughter doesn't
understand the mind of that eighteen year old boy, because
he is an animal at this age. And any woman,
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and it's always a woman who thinks, oh, not my
little Andrew.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Why do you say that? Don't you have two boys?
How can you know? I don't say it because I
have two boys.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
My boys are the most polite, mild mannered, respectful young
men you could meet. And by the way, so was
I at eighteen. But I know what I was thinking,
and so I know what little boys are thinking. If
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you ever go to the dog park and watch dogs interact.
You know that some dogs are showing up like an
eighteen year old boy to pick up his cute girlfriend
for prom. They're like, all right, what can I hump
out here in the park. If you don't understand how
other people think, you're going to put yourself in a
(04:45):
real pickle.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So back to the issue, the baby Mama song.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Uh, the opposition to the president locking down DC. You
think you're why would they oppose that? I get this
email day befuddled white people? Why would they oppose that?
I mean, they're the one's gonna get shot. You know,
the President's trying to clean up DC. The statistics show
(05:13):
there's sixteen times more likely to be killed by a
black person than a white person. Why wouldn't they want
a president to fix the problem. I mean, you know,
if you're not a criminal, seems like you'd want it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Tell me what's going on? Michael?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I say to myself, do you know why you're
if it's a lady, do you know why you don't
have eight different kids from eight different men and live
on welfare and have have a rotating revolving line of
good for nothing loser dudes coming in and laying with
you every night and your kids watching it while you
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smoke crack because you make different decisions. You've got a
different decision tree am to do this? Or am I
going to do that? So you're choosing not to live
that life. You're choosing how you're gonna pay your bills,
how are you going to spend your time in, whom
you're going to invest, what foods you're gonna eat, all
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of those things. Well, those people are also choosing, They're
making choices. They make choices very differently than you do.
And when you understand that someone wasn't dropped from Mars
into where they live and how they live and with
whom they live and the actions they take, those are
all decisions, decisions of comission or old mission. They may
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choose not to go get a job. They may choose
not to move out of the neighborhood. They may choose
not to turn down the guy who's fathered five different
kids from five different women in the neighborhood because that
day he's kind of looking handsome or smelling good, or
maybe he brought her a bag of fries and that's
all she really required in order to turn this trick.
(06:58):
Once you recognized that their decision making process is different
than yours, then you open yourself to understanding. Okay, so
how are we going to proceed? Because they don't think
the way I did, and I don't think the way David.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man. I have never met someone so wonderful
I call him. Written to Marchael Barry.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I won't spend as much time laboring the point as
I did this morning, but this song everything I own.
I would give everything I own just just to have
you back in my life. By Bread, It is a
love song between a son and his father, written nine
years after David Gates was the lead singer of Bread,
written nine years after his father died, and the history
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of the song was that when David Gates was struggling
his dad was still alive.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
This was in the late fifties.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He was struggling to make a penny and he bought
an orchid for his Mother's mother loved orchids, and orchids
are expensive. It bought her an orchid as a gift,
told her how much he loved her, and his father
called him to say, David, you have no idea how
much that gift to your mother meant to your mother,
And she'd give you everything she owns if you just
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asked for it. Because of that, I mean, she'd you've
affected her. And that line stuck with him. She'd give
me everything she owns. And so nine years later, nine
years after his father passed, a friend of his said,
you know, your dad would be so proud of your
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success if he were here, because his father never saw
what a success he became. And let's be honest for
most of us. If our kid says I think I'm
going to pursue a career in music, you think for
how long? I mean how long for you get a
real job. If nobody pursued a career in music, then
our favorite bands would never have generated the music that
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we love the soundtrack of our lives. But let's be
honest for somebody else's kid, right, the odds are if
you pursue a career in music, you're going to be
a drunkie, a I mean a whino, a junkie, a loser,
a lay about if nothing else, you're gonna need to
borrow money all the time. You don't expect that you're
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going to go off and be so successful, and David
Gates thought to himself, boy, I'll tell you what, of
all the success I've had, he had just won an award,
of all the success I have, I'd give everything I
own just to touch my father again, to hold him,
to hug him, to love on him, to tell him
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how much he's meant to me in my life. And
he realized that he would give everything he owned for
that moment, but it would never happen, And so he
wrote it to sound like a love song between a
man and a woman, because that's that's the kind of stuff,
you know, we all well, that's what makes a hit record.
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But buried in the midst of that was his tribute
to his father, And it's really a call to arms
to say, you know, if you have a mother or
father left in this world, you not promised tomorrow you'll
wish you had them back. So show them the love
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that you feel for them before it's too late that
you can. It's interesting, the best of intentions, Oh Randy
Travis song I hear tell the Road to Hell is
paved with good intentions. But Mama, my intentions were the
best love that song. We all have the best of intentions.
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You know, we're all going to get up early, We're
going to work out, We're going to go to bed
early and get enough sleep. We're only going to be
kind to the people around us that we love. We're
never going to be short tempered. We're going to be
there for people when they need us. We never consciously
choose to fail to become the person we want to be.
(11:11):
We never consciously choose that. Nobody consciously chooses to be
five hundred pounds. Nobody consciously chooses to be a deadbeat dad.
Nobody consciously chooses to be a lazy employee, a salesman
who doesn't hit their numbers.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You fill in the blanks.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It is simply that things get in the way, and
in that moment, our brain tells us to pick the
bad thing, not the good thing, instead of working out.
The brain says, you know, do that tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow,
I'm gonna work out tomorrow. But for now, I'm gonna
eat a bag of free TOAs the big scoopers. What
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are those called? They called scoopers, the big scoops. I'm
gonna eat a free do's big scoop and.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Bean dip. Oh is there anything better.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Honestly, is there any there are things that are worse?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So is better? Okay, so it's better than with the
Freedo's big scoop, not with Friedo's No.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I I was listening.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well, it's funny that the conversation ended up there, because
I was talking to my buddy Michael Robinson Aggie Plumber
the other day and it was a Saturday afternoon and
I said, what are you doing? And he said, well,
I'm sitting on the couch. I said, okay, that's where
you are. That's not what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I think what I will do right now is engage
in the act of sitting on the couch. You're doing
something else, that's just where you are while you're doing it.
And he said, I'm not doing anything. I said, that's
not an answer. Are you watching television? No?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, what are are you sleeping? No? What are you? Okay,
I'm eating keso? Was that so hard?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
By the way, if you're not, if you're not from Houston,
eating keso is in and of itself, an act, and
it's an act we undertake. Often we eat a lot
of queso. And when I say keeso, I don't just
mean the Spanish word for.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Cheese.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We are Every Texan is in one way or another.
Now hear me out, so you don't lose your mind.
Every Texan is one part Mexican. We are we are
one part Mexican. Now it might be one percent, it
might be ninety nine percent. And some of them are
even here or even here legally. But even the white
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people like me have a portion of us that is Mexican.
You cannot take it out of us.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You just can't.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I mean, it's we're all one part German, one part Kunas,
which is Louisiana French, which is different than France French.
It's even different than than than the k Bessois French.
The Acadiana that came down was a different kind of
people that it's like adding hillbilly and Appalachian appellationans uh
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to to the French that came down. And it created
this this interesting culture and Mexican and and I mentioned German, Czech,
the Bohemian side, all those things combined together to make.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Every text in Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's hard to I mean, I know, we just looked
like John Wayne or George straight.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But but we've all got some Mexican in US. There's
no doubt it's it's it's part of the culture.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's like we breathed it in and it's just it's
like a virus.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's in our It's in our m R, it's in
our DNA. Now you did.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
The culture is important. The Left has won the culture
wars for a long time. You want to know, you
want to know how that manifested itself when Barack Obama
ran for president. You remember the very attractive young lady
who did the song about Obama and she had a
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crush on Oba. I don't have good numbers on this,
but I have a feeling, a gut feeling and instinct
from a lifetime of watching the interplay between culture and
politics and how people vote. There was a tendency for
people to believe that every person in America is a
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Republican or a Democrat and they vote based on the
same things you do. But that's not true. There are
people who will vote for somebody because he's cute, or
because they like his accent, or because that one time
he was playing basketball and they thought that was neat
he was playing basketball. You think I'm kidding that there
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are people a lot of people, especially young people, They
vote on things like this. The comedy clubs. Every comic
was liberal for a long time. They were liberal, even
if they didn't call them liberal, even if they didn't
endorse candidates, which they typically didn't, but they were somewhere
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between liberal and libertarian. They were anti establishment. They were
populist in nature. Those messages, however, landed with an audience
of people who grew to distrust people who looked like
George H. W. Bush, and who grew to distrust the
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Bob Doles and the Ronald Reagan's and the Donald Trumps.
And these are old white men who are out of touch.
They're not hip and cool, like the comedian who's work
I enjoy, or the lead singer of the band who's
work I enjoy, or the actor in the movie that
I really like, And so I conflate who he is
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in real life with who he is in the movies,
and therefore I think he's really cool because the character
he played was really cool, and because actually he's a
creep in real life.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
But they don't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
They think, oh, you know, he's that guy in the
movies that I really like. And so he says to
vote for Doucacas or Obama, and Obama won the cool factor.
Cool factor turned out to be very important in two
thousand and eight, very important. And so we're over here
trying to win on the basis that hey, nationalized healthcare
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will be the end of healthcare as we know it.
It will destroy healthcare, and healthcare is very important. You
don't know how important healthcare is until you are someone
you love is sick. A friend of mine has been
at his mother's bedside and will be for the next
two or three days, and she is not going to
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make it, and he's talking about hospitals and what hospitals
are like. You don't think about how important that is
until it's you laid up in the hospital, till you
get the cancer diagnosis, till you get the terrible news
that the cancer has metastasized, it's grown, and the chemo
didn't work. Till you get the news that you've got
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a condition that you never heard of, named for some
doctor you never heard of, and you got to go
home and google it. But for now, the doctor is explaining,
this is a relatively rare case and here's how it's treated.
But you get we got to get you in at
that doctor to see it, and it's going to take
this long to get you in, and this is what
it's going to cost, and it's in congestion. And then
all of a sudden, you don't really care about getting
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a new car anymore. You don't care about that trip
to Italy anymore, you don't care about getting a bone,
You don't care about any of the things you used
to care about. You care about getting medical care to
save the one temple you were given and told by
God to protect. And now you need health care to
get there. And your health care is socialized. And so
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anything more than a common cold, well that wasn't sold
to people in voting for Obama, was it. And by
the way, he wanted to do the same thing to
the energy industry. He started with Obamacare, and he burnt
up almost all of his political capital in the process.
They were going to do carbon credits first, and the
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thought was, no, carbon credits is the takeover of American
industry in the name of environmentalism, which it's not environmentalism.
It is just a destruction of our way of life.
It's not just our energy, it would be our entire
quality of life. When you can't turn on your air conditioning,
and the government controls that, and you live like I
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do in one hundred and five degree heat, that becomes
much more than saving the environment. It becomes ruining your life,
which is exactly what the Chinese have taught the Democrats
into doing. As the Chinese are belching through coal and
various forms of outdated energy that is very inefficient and
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filthy and pollutes. I am not a green energy person,
but let's be very clear, this is not what is
leading to it being hot outside. But the left would
take away your ability to cool your home. Those sorts
of things are part of the culture war. You think
about how many actors were leftists, how they all gravitated
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to Obama.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
He's cool man, He's cool. He was hanging out.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
With Diddy when all we knew that was it Didny
was cool and he was having the White Party, which
turns out to be a freak show of the Epstein
Island for black people. And Will Smith and all these
in Oprah, Winfrey and all all the cultural icons were
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for Obama, and Hillary worked very hard to try to
get them for her. But Trump had relationships with a
lot of them. Bill had relationships he was cool, but
everybody knew. Everybody, deep down knew that Hillary was unlikable.
Hillary didn't have the friends that Obama and Bill Clinton
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did because everybody knew deep down that Hillary was an
unpleasant person. She's what my grandmother would say, she's ugly.
And that wasn't a reference to the fact that physically
she's ugly. She is, but that was a reference to,
you know, kind of a dark soul. She's not a
pleasant person. What we are witnessing now is the president
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fighting the culture wars as they must be fought, because
that's how we win back this country. So for those
of you who don't understand that and just keep want
to keep gritting your teeth and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Saying talk about hellos, hey talk about that. No, you
calm down. This is what needs to be talked about.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This is why the president is devoting time to this.
This is how you build bonds with people who are
not naturally likely to vote for you or to vote
for your causes. Look at how Trump built the coalition
of Rogan and Elon and.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Robert F.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Kennedy, who's running for president's a Democrat, and Toolsey Gabbert,
who was the vice chair of the Democrat Party. You
find areas of agreement, and you do this through culture,
and you do this through through communication.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
This is well, this is exciting stuff to me. We're
about contraception. Is that's just not an option for you?
Was your ambitions with Michael Berry? He is younger ambitions
and I love women. Hey, you came no man for
loving women.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
About two or three years into mergeoning radio radio business,
like pro sports.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You don't typically get to stay very long.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's very easy to get fired, very hard to get hired,
and longevity is difficult. And so people get into radio
they're scared to death of getting fired. It's a great gig.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And so I made the statement one day.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
But so Eddie Martini, who is not only my dear friend,
has become my dear friend, started as my boss.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's still my boss.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And he said to me one time, I just I
didn't really have my feet under me in this career.
And he said, you know, I hate to be so
hard on you, but if I didn't, you just play
Freebird for an entire segment. And he didn't believe that
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music should be played on talk show. I think music
is modern day magic. I think it's the poetry, the pros,
the language by which we connect as kind of my
I'm a grown man, I'll do what I want, probably
ill advised move. You know, Rush got fired from playing
under my Thumb what was it nine times in a row?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He loved that story. He got fired.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
From a radio station as a DJ doing that. We
all have our little moment where, like a child, we
need to show I'm in charge of me.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So I was in a mood.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We were signing off as we are tonight, and I said,
we started Freebird, and I said.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let it play.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
It was like, you know, damn the Torpedoes moment, and
there we were, and it became a tradition that once
a year on this day, the anniversary of the release
of Freebird, my favorite band, Leonard Skinnard. It was their
debut album called Pronounced Leonard skinner and it's the most
requested rock song, the most requested song in concert of
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all time. Part in jest by many people, but partly
it's a great, amazing song. This song is very meaningful
to me personally and defying everyone because we're children who
have to ever so often.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Remind people that we're in charge of us.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Is a long standing tradition, so I ask you to
join in with me in celebrating that long standing tradition
on this the anniversary of the day the song was released.
Sing along, do your air guitar, If you do air piano,
extra credit because the opening with the piano riff is
my favorite part. The bass feel of the piano is
my favorite part. We're just gonna sit here and sing
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along with you.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Have a good thank you, and good night.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air. Where was
his father? It starts in the house and well, well
when my father got locked up, Well where was his father? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did, you know fifteen to twenty five?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
One did twenty eight? Isn't that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though my parents were together, But I still had
a father who was a gentleman and a good example.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They seem too much violent prime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont circle. But they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
touch you with If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years
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old and you have a gun. I convict someone of
shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public
bus in the chest, intent to kill.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I convict him, and you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The judge gives them probation, says you should go to college,
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of no cash fail. We need to recognize that the
people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
If you think to yourself, why would she make a
song that sounds like it's celebrating baby mom? How would
she make that that's not something to be proud of?
Why would she do that? It is very important as
you gird your loins for the cultural war in which
(01:49):
we are swimming right now, it is very important that
you remember that you must understand your enemy. You must
understand your opposition, and you must understand what motivates them.
(02:10):
If you do not do that, then you will never
be able to fix your country as long as other
people live in it, because you will always ascribe to
them the motivations for their actions that you have for yours.
And it's very important to understand that's not their motivations.
(02:32):
That would be like the father in his fifties as
his daughter is going out her senior year to prom,
and the eighteen year old boy with testosterone coursing through
his blood and only one thing on his mind showing
(02:53):
up at the door, and the father coming to the
door and opening it and saying, oh. He's saying, sir,
he's looking me in the eye. He's dressed in a tuxedo.
He's a fine young man.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Honey.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let's let our little Susie go away with Bobby for
a week. I'm sure nothing will happen and all will
be well. No, the father doesn't do that. He says,
climber boy, you touch my daughter and I'm gonna kill you,
because he knows that he too was young. See, he
(03:29):
understands that while he's an old man now, he was
once a young man, and as a young man he
remembers and he knows that his precious little daughter doesn't
understand the mind of that eighteen year old boy, because
he is an animal at this age. And any woman,
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and it's always a woman who thinks, oh, not my
little Andrew.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Why do you say that? Don't you have two boys?
How can you know? I don't say it because I
have two boys.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
My boys are the most polite, mild mannered, respectful young
men you could meet. And by the way, so was
I at eighteen. But I know what I was thinking,
and so I know what little boys are thinking. If
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you ever go to the dog park and watch dogs interact.
You know that some dogs are showing up like an
eighteen year old boy to pick up his cute girlfriend
for prom. They're like, all right, what can I hump
out here in the park. If you don't understand how
other people think, you're going to put yourself in a
(04:45):
real pickle.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So back to the issue, the baby Mama song.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Uh, the opposition to the president locking down DC. You
think you're why would they oppose that? I get this
email day befuddled white people? Why would they oppose that?
I mean, they're the one's gonna get shot. You know,
the President's trying to clean up DC. The statistics show
(05:13):
there's sixteen times more likely to be killed by a
black person than a white person. Why wouldn't they want
a president to fix the problem. I mean, you know,
if you're not a criminal, seems like you'd want it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Tell me what's going on? Michael?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I say to myself, do you know why you're
if it's a lady, do you know why you don't
have eight different kids from eight different men and live
on welfare and have have a rotating revolving line of
good for nothing loser dudes coming in and laying with
you every night and your kids watching it while you
(05:53):
smoke crack because you make different decisions. You've got a
different decision tree am to do this? Or am I
going to do that? So you're choosing not to live
that life. You're choosing how you're gonna pay your bills,
how are you going to spend your time in, whom
you're going to invest, what foods you're gonna eat, all
(06:13):
of those things. Well, those people are also choosing, They're
making choices. They make choices very differently than you do.
And when you understand that someone wasn't dropped from Mars
into where they live and how they live and with
whom they live and the actions they take, those are
all decisions, decisions of comission or old mission. They may
(06:36):
choose not to go get a job. They may choose
not to move out of the neighborhood. They may choose
not to turn down the guy who's fathered five different
kids from five different women in the neighborhood because that
day he's kind of looking handsome or smelling good, or
maybe he brought her a bag of fries and that's
all she really required in order to turn this trick.
(06:58):
Once you recognized that their decision making process is different
than yours, then you open yourself to understanding. Okay, so
how are we going to proceed? Because they don't think
the way I did, and I don't think the way David.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man. I have never met someone so wonderful
I call him. Written to Marchael Barry.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I won't spend as much time laboring the point as
I did this morning, but this song everything I own.
I would give everything I own just just to have
you back in my life. By Bread, It is a
love song between a son and his father, written nine
years after David Gates was the lead singer of Bread,
written nine years after his father died, and the history
(07:44):
of the song was that when David Gates was struggling
his dad was still alive.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
This was in the late fifties.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He was struggling to make a penny and he bought
an orchid for his Mother's mother loved orchids, and orchids
are expensive. It bought her an orchid as a gift,
told her how much he loved her, and his father
called him to say, David, you have no idea how
much that gift to your mother meant to your mother,
And she'd give you everything she owns if you just
(08:15):
asked for it. Because of that, I mean, she'd you've
affected her. And that line stuck with him. She'd give
me everything she owns. And so nine years later, nine
years after his father passed, a friend of his said,
you know, your dad would be so proud of your
(08:35):
success if he were here, because his father never saw
what a success he became. And let's be honest for
most of us. If our kid says I think I'm
going to pursue a career in music, you think for
how long? I mean how long for you get a
real job. If nobody pursued a career in music, then
our favorite bands would never have generated the music that
(08:56):
we love the soundtrack of our lives. But let's be
honest for somebody else's kid, right, the odds are if
you pursue a career in music, you're going to be
a drunkie, a I mean a whino, a junkie, a loser,
a lay about if nothing else, you're gonna need to
borrow money all the time. You don't expect that you're
(09:19):
going to go off and be so successful, and David
Gates thought to himself, boy, I'll tell you what, of
all the success I've had, he had just won an award,
of all the success I have, I'd give everything I
own just to touch my father again, to hold him,
to hug him, to love on him, to tell him
(09:42):
how much he's meant to me in my life. And
he realized that he would give everything he owned for
that moment, but it would never happen, And so he
wrote it to sound like a love song between a
man and a woman, because that's that's the kind of stuff,
you know, we all well, that's what makes a hit record.
(10:03):
But buried in the midst of that was his tribute
to his father, And it's really a call to arms
to say, you know, if you have a mother or
father left in this world, you not promised tomorrow you'll
wish you had them back. So show them the love
(10:24):
that you feel for them before it's too late that
you can. It's interesting, the best of intentions, Oh Randy
Travis song I hear tell the Road to Hell is
paved with good intentions. But Mama, my intentions were the
best love that song. We all have the best of intentions.
(10:46):
You know, we're all going to get up early, We're
going to work out, We're going to go to bed
early and get enough sleep. We're only going to be
kind to the people around us that we love. We're
never going to be short tempered. We're going to be
there for people when they need us. We never consciously
choose to fail to become the person we want to be.
(11:11):
We never consciously choose that. Nobody consciously chooses to be
five hundred pounds. Nobody consciously chooses to be a deadbeat dad.
Nobody consciously chooses to be a lazy employee, a salesman
who doesn't hit their numbers.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You fill in the blanks.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It is simply that things get in the way, and
in that moment, our brain tells us to pick the
bad thing, not the good thing, instead of working out.
The brain says, you know, do that tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow,
I'm gonna work out tomorrow. But for now, I'm gonna
eat a bag of free TOAs the big scoopers. What
(11:48):
are those called? They called scoopers, the big scoops. I'm
gonna eat a free do's big scoop and.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Bean dip. Oh is there anything better.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Honestly, is there any there are things that are worse?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So is better? Okay, so it's better than with the
Freedo's big scoop, not with Friedo's No.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I I was listening.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well, it's funny that the conversation ended up there, because
I was talking to my buddy Michael Robinson Aggie Plumber
the other day and it was a Saturday afternoon and
I said, what are you doing? And he said, well,
I'm sitting on the couch. I said, okay, that's where
you are. That's not what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I think what I will do right now is engage
in the act of sitting on the couch. You're doing
something else, that's just where you are while you're doing it.
And he said, I'm not doing anything. I said, that's
not an answer. Are you watching television? No?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, what are are you sleeping? No? What are you? Okay,
I'm eating keso? Was that so hard?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
By the way, if you're not, if you're not from Houston,
eating keso is in and of itself, an act, and
it's an act we undertake. Often we eat a lot
of queso. And when I say keeso, I don't just
mean the Spanish word for.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Cheese.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We are Every Texan is in one way or another.
Now hear me out, so you don't lose your mind.
Every Texan is one part Mexican. We are we are
one part Mexican. Now it might be one percent, it
might be ninety nine percent. And some of them are
even here or even here legally. But even the white
(13:30):
people like me have a portion of us that is Mexican.
You cannot take it out of us.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You just can't.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I mean, it's we're all one part German, one part Kunas,
which is Louisiana French, which is different than France French.
It's even different than than than the k Bessois French.
The Acadiana that came down was a different kind of
people that it's like adding hillbilly and Appalachian appellationans uh
(14:01):
to to the French that came down. And it created
this this interesting culture and Mexican and and I mentioned German, Czech,
the Bohemian side, all those things combined together to make.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Every text in Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's hard to I mean, I know, we just looked
like John Wayne or George straight.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But but we've all got some Mexican in US. There's
no doubt it's it's it's part of the culture.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's like we breathed it in and it's just it's
like a virus.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's in our It's in our m R, it's in
our DNA. Now you did.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
The culture is important. The Left has won the culture
wars for a long time. You want to know, you
want to know how that manifested itself when Barack Obama
ran for president. You remember the very attractive young lady
who did the song about Obama and she had a
(14:59):
crush on Oba. I don't have good numbers on this,
but I have a feeling, a gut feeling and instinct
from a lifetime of watching the interplay between culture and
politics and how people vote. There was a tendency for
people to believe that every person in America is a
(15:22):
Republican or a Democrat and they vote based on the
same things you do. But that's not true. There are
people who will vote for somebody because he's cute, or
because they like his accent, or because that one time
he was playing basketball and they thought that was neat
he was playing basketball. You think I'm kidding that there
(15:44):
are people a lot of people, especially young people, They
vote on things like this. The comedy clubs. Every comic
was liberal for a long time. They were liberal, even
if they didn't call them liberal, even if they didn't
endorse candidates, which they typically didn't, but they were somewhere
(16:06):
between liberal and libertarian. They were anti establishment. They were
populist in nature. Those messages, however, landed with an audience
of people who grew to distrust people who looked like
George H. W. Bush, and who grew to distrust the
(16:29):
Bob Doles and the Ronald Reagan's and the Donald Trumps.
And these are old white men who are out of touch.
They're not hip and cool, like the comedian who's work
I enjoy, or the lead singer of the band who's
work I enjoy, or the actor in the movie that
I really like, And so I conflate who he is
(16:49):
in real life with who he is in the movies,
and therefore I think he's really cool because the character
he played was really cool, and because actually he's a
creep in real life.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
But they don't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
They think, oh, you know, he's that guy in the
movies that I really like. And so he says to
vote for Doucacas or Obama, and Obama won the cool factor.
Cool factor turned out to be very important in two
thousand and eight, very important. And so we're over here
trying to win on the basis that hey, nationalized healthcare
(17:26):
will be the end of healthcare as we know it.
It will destroy healthcare, and healthcare is very important. You
don't know how important healthcare is until you are someone
you love is sick. A friend of mine has been
at his mother's bedside and will be for the next
two or three days, and she is not going to
(17:51):
make it, and he's talking about hospitals and what hospitals
are like. You don't think about how important that is
until it's you laid up in the hospital, till you
get the cancer diagnosis, till you get the terrible news
that the cancer has metastasized, it's grown, and the chemo
didn't work. Till you get the news that you've got
(18:14):
a condition that you never heard of, named for some
doctor you never heard of, and you got to go
home and google it. But for now, the doctor is explaining,
this is a relatively rare case and here's how it's treated.
But you get we got to get you in at
that doctor to see it, and it's going to take
this long to get you in, and this is what
it's going to cost, and it's in congestion. And then
all of a sudden, you don't really care about getting
(18:38):
a new car anymore. You don't care about that trip
to Italy anymore, you don't care about getting a bone,
You don't care about any of the things you used
to care about. You care about getting medical care to
save the one temple you were given and told by
God to protect. And now you need health care to
get there. And your health care is socialized. And so
(19:02):
anything more than a common cold, well that wasn't sold
to people in voting for Obama, was it. And by
the way, he wanted to do the same thing to
the energy industry. He started with Obamacare, and he burnt
up almost all of his political capital in the process.
They were going to do carbon credits first, and the
(19:26):
thought was, no, carbon credits is the takeover of American
industry in the name of environmentalism, which it's not environmentalism.
It is just a destruction of our way of life.
It's not just our energy, it would be our entire
quality of life. When you can't turn on your air conditioning,
and the government controls that, and you live like I
(19:48):
do in one hundred and five degree heat, that becomes
much more than saving the environment. It becomes ruining your life,
which is exactly what the Chinese have taught the Democrats
into doing. As the Chinese are belching through coal and
various forms of outdated energy that is very inefficient and
(20:13):
filthy and pollutes. I am not a green energy person,
but let's be very clear, this is not what is
leading to it being hot outside. But the left would
take away your ability to cool your home. Those sorts
of things are part of the culture war. You think
about how many actors were leftists, how they all gravitated
(20:37):
to Obama.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
He's cool man, He's cool. He was hanging out.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
With Diddy when all we knew that was it Didny
was cool and he was having the White Party, which
turns out to be a freak show of the Epstein
Island for black people. And Will Smith and all these
in Oprah, Winfrey and all all the cultural icons were
(21:01):
for Obama, and Hillary worked very hard to try to
get them for her. But Trump had relationships with a
lot of them. Bill had relationships he was cool, but
everybody knew. Everybody, deep down knew that Hillary was unlikable.
Hillary didn't have the friends that Obama and Bill Clinton
(21:23):
did because everybody knew deep down that Hillary was an
unpleasant person. She's what my grandmother would say, she's ugly.
And that wasn't a reference to the fact that physically
she's ugly. She is, but that was a reference to,
you know, kind of a dark soul. She's not a
pleasant person. What we are witnessing now is the president
(21:44):
fighting the culture wars as they must be fought, because
that's how we win back this country. So for those
of you who don't understand that and just keep want
to keep gritting your teeth and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Saying talk about hellos, hey talk about that. No, you
calm down. This is what needs to be talked about.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This is why the president is devoting time to this.
This is how you build bonds with people who are
not naturally likely to vote for you or to vote
for your causes. Look at how Trump built the coalition
of Rogan and Elon and.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Robert F.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Kennedy, who's running for president's a Democrat, and Toolsey Gabbert,
who was the vice chair of the Democrat Party. You
find areas of agreement, and you do this through culture,
and you do this through through communication.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
This is well, this is exciting stuff to me. We're
about contraception. Is that's just not an option for you?
Was your ambitions with Michael Berry? He is younger ambitions
and I love women. Hey, you came no man for
loving women.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
About two or three years into mergeoning radio radio business,
like pro sports.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You don't typically get to stay very long.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's very easy to get fired, very hard to get hired,
and longevity is difficult. And so people get into radio
they're scared to death of getting fired. It's a great gig.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And so I made the statement one day.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
But so Eddie Martini, who is not only my dear friend,
has become my dear friend, started as my boss.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's still my boss.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And he said to me one time, I just I
didn't really have my feet under me in this career.
And he said, you know, I hate to be so
hard on you, but if I didn't, you just play
Freebird for an entire segment. And he didn't believe that
(23:50):
music should be played on talk show. I think music
is modern day magic. I think it's the poetry, the pros,
the language by which we connect as kind of my
I'm a grown man, I'll do what I want, probably
ill advised move. You know, Rush got fired from playing
under my Thumb what was it nine times in a row?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He loved that story. He got fired.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
From a radio station as a DJ doing that. We
all have our little moment where, like a child, we
need to show I'm in charge of me.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So I was in a mood.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We were signing off as we are tonight, and I said,
we started Freebird, and I said.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let it play.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
It was like, you know, damn the Torpedoes moment, and
there we were, and it became a tradition that once
a year on this day, the anniversary of the release
of Freebird, my favorite band, Leonard Skinnard. It was their
debut album called Pronounced Leonard skinner and it's the most
requested rock song, the most requested song in concert of
(24:58):
all time. Part in jest by many people, but partly
it's a great, amazing song. This song is very meaningful
to me personally and defying everyone because we're children who
have to ever so often.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Remind people that we're in charge of us.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Is a long standing tradition, so I ask you to
join in with me in celebrating that long standing tradition
on this the anniversary of the day the song was released.
Sing along, do your air guitar, If you do air piano,
extra credit because the opening with the piano riff is
my favorite part. The bass feel of the piano is
my favorite part. We're just gonna sit here and sing
(25:38):
along with you.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Have a good thank you, and good night.
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