1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Michael varieshow is on the air. What you represent to 3 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: them is freedom? What the hell's were with freedom? And 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Oh yeah, that's right, that's 5 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: what it's all about, all right. 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: But talking about it and being it, it's two different things. 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 3: Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was. 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 4: Weaponized to conduct a genocide. 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 5: The free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 5: The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that 11 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 5: happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 5: they hated minorities, and they hated those that they had 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 5: a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 5: There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: There was none. 16 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 5: There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were 17 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 5: a sole and only party that governed that country. So 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 5: that's not an accurate reflection of history. 19 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: They may take our lives, but don't know, okaysomes wesd 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: and this bird. 21 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 6: Duke. 22 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 7: And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes 23 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 7: not so clear what happened to some of the Cold 24 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 7: Wars winners. I looked to Brussels, where you commissioned commissars 25 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 7: warren citizens that they intend to shut down social media 26 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 7: during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what 27 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 7: they've judged to be quote hateful content. Or to this 28 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 7: very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens 29 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 7: suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of 30 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 7: quote combating misogyny on the Internet a day of action. 31 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: I looked to Sweden, or two weeks. 32 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 7: Ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in 33 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 7: Kuran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder, and as 34 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 7: the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to 35 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 7: supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant and 36 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 7: I'm quoting a free pass to do or say anything 37 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 7: without risking. 38 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: Offending the group that holds that belief. 39 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 7: This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish 40 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 7: government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within 41 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 7: so called safe access zones, warning them that even private 42 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 7: prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, 43 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 7: the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected 44 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 7: guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe. Free speech, 45 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 7: I fear is in retreats. 46 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: On Canadian soils, watching on Canadian ice as the Star 47 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: Spangled banner, our national anthem was played performed, the Canadian 48 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: crowd booed within nine seconds of our team hitting the 49 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: ice the opening puck. Within nine seconds, there were three 50 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: fights that broke out, resulting in America whipping Canada's ass 51 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: physically and in the game with a three to one victory, 52 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: as Justin Trudeau watched on in shame, and they played 53 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: freebird after each goal was scored. It was a beautiful, 54 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: beautiful moment. President Trump at the Daytona five hundred yesterday 55 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: and if you've not seen, we were going to play 56 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: the audio, but it doesn't do it justice. It's sort 57 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: of like what happened at the Super Bowl, just even more. 58 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: People were very, very excited. They took the Beast around 59 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: for a lap, which is the presidential which is the 60 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: President's car, his secured car, and they handed over the 61 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: microphone to him to talk to the drivers. And he 62 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: kept it pretty brief twenty thirty seconds, wishing them well. 63 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: But the notable part because he knew you got to 64 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: make you got to make a news headline was this 65 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: is your favorite president, and truthfully, probably Kenna. 66 00:04:50,480 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 8: Was President Radio, your fa I'm a beef fan. I 67 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 8: am a really big fan of you. 68 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 6: People that you do this, I don't know, but I 69 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 6: just want you to be safe. Your talented people, a 70 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 6: great people, a great Americans. Have a good day, you 71 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 6: have a lot of fun, and I'll see you later. 72 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: We'll open the funnel line seven to one three none none, 73 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: one thousand seven one three none nine one thousand. Some 74 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: of you probably are not at work today, but you're 75 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: listening at home or as you run errands or do 76 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: home projects whatever that may be Little Chile in Houston today. 77 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: For those of you outside of Houston listening, what's that work? 78 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: Was not an option for us? But I'll bet your 79 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: sales is not working today, Let's put it that way. 80 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: President's Day, which is what we celebrate today, does not 81 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: actually fall on any president's birthday, but it once did. 82 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: It was originally celebrated on February twenty second, which was 83 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: George Washington's birthday, our first president, of course, but it 84 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: was moved to the third Monday in February in nineteen 85 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: seventy one, that's because Congress that year passed the Uniform 86 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: Monday Holiday Act, which moved some federal holidays to Monday 87 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: so that folks could take three day weekends. Not exactly 88 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: an example of the hardest working people in the world, now, 89 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: is it? 90 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 2: You know? 91 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: No, I probably better not say that, probably better than 92 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: I not say that today. But we are happy to 93 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: be here with you. We love what we do and 94 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: we don't consider it work. We are fortunate to get paid. 95 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: We get to talk to you folks, wherever you may be, 96 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: and it's always an honor to know that you're tuning 97 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: in to us, whether you are on your way to 98 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: work or doing whatever it is that you're out doing. 99 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: On This the four year anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's passing. 100 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: It's also the birthday of Ricky Medlock, who was the 101 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: frontman of the band Blackfoot, was also a Leonard skinnerd 102 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: member Train Train, one of the greats from Blackfoot. It 103 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: is also the sixty second birthday of Larry the Cable Guy. 104 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: It is also ninety years to the day that country 105 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: singer Johnny Bush was born in Houston, Texas, who, of 106 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: course wrote what came to be Willie Nelson's signature tune 107 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: Whiskey River. That was a Johnny Bush number, Houston's own. 108 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: Too bad that Houston doesn't honor our heroes. We've talked 109 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: about in the past doing a Houston Hall of Fame. 110 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: I mean there's something of a little one, but it's 111 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: not known, and I don't think it's a physical space. 112 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: But it should be done. It definitely should be done. 113 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: But when I can't get used to the new clock, 114 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: I was wondering why you didn't go to break. I 115 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: just realized that it wasn't time to go to break. 116 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 9: See. 117 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: I screw up ever so often too. You don't have 118 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: to feel so bad. Michael Berry. The favorite song of 119 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: our dear friend the Lake Great Scott James Grand Trains. 120 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was in New York over the weekend and 121 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: she was speaking about something, it's not entirely clear what, 122 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: and she was hammered. She was on Broadway, presumably speaking 123 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: to actors, and there are eye rolls from the people 124 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: around her that they can't believe this is what she's 125 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: been reduced to. It's like a bad Santa version of 126 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: Kamala hair. It's it's bad. I mean, she is mumbling, stumbling, slurring, 127 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: she can't remember where she was. She just kind of 128 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: generally speaking in platitudes. I have two more stories that 129 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: are local that I want to get to and then 130 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: we'll take some calls from you. The first is some 131 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: of you will remember the story of John Barnes. He 132 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: was a Santa Fe ISD police officer when Santa Fe 133 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: High School was shot up in twenty eight teams a terrible, terrible, 134 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: horrible thing. John Barnes was a recently retired HPD officer 135 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: who went to Santa Fe because supposed to be an 136 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: easier job, serve out the rest of his career. Well, 137 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: then there was a school shooting, and he behaved admirably, 138 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: admirably heroically, even he was forced to wait seven years 139 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: or an answer from the Public Safeties Officers Benefits program. 140 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: This is a guy who was critically wounded as he 141 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: confronted the gunman and actually died twice they resuscitated him. 142 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: He's waited for seven years to be told, no, we're 143 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: not going to give you benefits. Now you see that 144 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: nine point five billion dollars is being spent by fire 145 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: ravaged California on illegal aliens, and we can't take care 146 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: of a man who saved lives by stepping out to 147 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: get shot for the kids at Santa Fe KPRCTV with 148 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: the story. 149 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 3: I don't know why exactly it was denied, but at 150 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 3: this time it's been denied. 151 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 4: Almost as hard as it was to hear the word 152 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 4: no is the fact that John Barnes had to wait 153 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 4: more than five years to get that answer. 154 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: Till mecket I can appeal it. 155 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 3: I've waited, you know, five and a half years since 156 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 3: I applied, and I'm just I'm just worn out with 157 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 3: all this. 158 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 4: Barnes was the first to confront the gunman in Santa 159 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 4: Fe High School in May twenty eighteen, a blast from 160 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 4: a shotgun shredded Artery in his arm and ended his 161 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 4: career as a cop. Barnes took us through that day 162 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 4: in a recent episode of our investigative docu series The 163 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:26,719 Speaker 4: Evidence Rim. 164 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 3: I never saw him, I never saw. All I knew 165 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: was I had a big, big hole in the arm. 166 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 3: Was like someone had stuck a hose, garden hose in 167 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 3: arm and turned on the faucet. It was just, I mean, 168 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 3: on the video you could actually see blood shooting across 169 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 3: and hitting the wall. 170 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 4: You technically died though, oh yeah, twice my heart stopped 171 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 4: in the helicopter or when I was going to the helicopter, 172 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 4: and I'm a heart stopped between four and five minutes 173 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 4: and then and then it stopped again in the r 174 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 4: Barnes joined Santa fe Id after retiring from the Houston 175 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 4: Police Department. He'd only been at the district two months 176 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 4: when he was critically wounded. Also, man, he hadn't been 177 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 4: there long enough to qualify for disability retirement, so he 178 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 4: turned to the Federal Public Safety Officer's Benefits Program, which 179 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 4: offers a one time payment to the family of first 180 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 4: responders killed in the line of duty, where those catastrophically injured. 181 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 4: Varnes says it took PSOB from twenty nineteen until last 182 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 4: week to decide he didn't qualify, and he's still waiting 183 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 4: to hear the full reason why. 184 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 3: That's what's so frustrating is is to have to wait 185 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 3: that long for an answer. 186 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: Is ridiculous. Why drag it out like that. 187 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 10: I'd like to have the person come to my office 188 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 10: and tell me face to face why this is the No. 189 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 4: Congressman Randy Webber wants answers. 190 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,959 Speaker 10: There's no reason why some bureaucrat sitting in an office 191 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 10: up here. Number one should number one should even question 192 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 10: the fact that this wouldn't qualify on the Public Offfers 193 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 10: Benefits Act number two, that it should take this long. 194 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: It's totally unacceptable. 195 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 4: Weber, along with Senator Ted Cruz, are again filing the 196 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 4: John Barnes Act, which would set a hard two hundred 197 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 4: and seventy day deadline for PSOB to make a decision 198 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 4: on claims. 199 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 3: You know, in my wits end as far as all 200 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 3: that's concerned, So we're just going to figure out what 201 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 3: to do. 202 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 4: This is not the first time the PSOB has been 203 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 4: taking a task for taking a long. 204 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: Time to decide claims. 205 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 4: Bills have been passed before to try to help speed 206 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 4: up the process, yet problems remain. Senator Cruz also told 207 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 4: us today we owe it to officers like John Barnes 208 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 4: to eliminate what he calls bureaucratic barriers hindering access to 209 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 4: their benefits. 210 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: It's atrocious. It's atrocious. We ask people to sign up 211 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: and wear our uniform and serve. We ask them to 212 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: run toward the bullets while everyone else runs away, and 213 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: yet in cases like this, they are treated so badly. 214 00:13:54,960 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 1: It's awful. Not yet confirmed Cabinet secretaries six out of 215 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 1: twenty two for President Trump. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez Dereimer, 216 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: US Trade Representative Jamison Greer no relation to Jamison Winston 217 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: Promo Jameis Winston, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, Kelly Leffler, 218 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, Education Secretary Linda Man. I think 219 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: that will happen very soon. And US Ambassador to the 220 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: United States Elise Stefani, Congressman from New York. Cash PTTEL 221 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: is what we care most about, of course, and so 222 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: the question of when Cash will be confirmed. I suspect 223 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: early to midweek. He was passed out of Senate committee 224 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: on Thursday. I believe pretty yes, it was Thursday that 225 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: he was passed out of committee. The cabinet secretaries that 226 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: have been confirmed Scott Bessant at Treasury, Pam Bondi, of course, 227 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: who's already making a mark as our Attorney General, Doug 228 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: Bergham at Interior announcing that we will drill, baby drill, 229 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: Former Congressman Doug Collins at veterans Affairs, where there are 230 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: great opportunities to do good for our veterans, Sean Duffy 231 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: at Transportation, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, of course, just having 232 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: been passed at HHS, some big developments coming out of 233 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: his office over the weekend, which we'll get to on 234 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: the evening show. Pete Hegseth at Defense, Tulsey Gabbert of course, 235 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: just having been passed, just having been confirmed at National Intelligence, 236 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence, Christy Noam, of course, Homeland Security, 237 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: John Ratcliffe's CIA, Brooke Rollins who served in the First 238 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: Administration at Agriculture, Marco Rubio at Secretary of State and 239 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: Texas own, Scott Turner at HUTT, Hezeldon at EPA, Chris 240 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: Wright and Energy. 241 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 11: Almost every American family knows the pain when a loved 242 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 11: one is diagnosed with a serious illness. Here tonight is 243 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 11: a special man be loved by millions of Americans who 244 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 11: just received a stage or advanced cancer diagnosis. This is 245 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 11: not good news, but what is good news is that 246 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 11: he is the greatest fighter and winner. 247 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: That you will ever meet. 248 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 11: Rush Limbaugh, thank you for your decades of tireless devotion 249 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 11: to our country, and Rush, in recognition of all that 250 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 11: you have done for our nation, the millions of people 251 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 11: a day that you speak to and that you inspire, 252 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 11: and all of the incredible work that you have done 253 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 11: for charity. I am proud to announce tonight that you 254 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 11: will be receiving country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal 255 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 11: of Freedom. I will now ask the first Lady of 256 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 11: the United States to present you with the honor. Please, Rush, Katherine, Congratulations. 257 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 6: I fast. 258 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: It wasn't too much longer after that than on this 259 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: day four years ago, Catherine came on the Rush Limbaugh 260 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: Show to deliver the news we did not want to hear. 261 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentleman Catherine Limbaugh. Hello, everyone. 262 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 9: I know that I am most certainly not the Limba 263 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 9: that you tuned in to listen to today. I like 264 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,959 Speaker 9: you very much wish Rush was behind this golden microphone 265 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 9: right now, welcoming you to another exceptional three hours of broadcasting. 266 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 9: For over thirty two years, Rush has cherished you his 267 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 9: loyal audience and always look forward to every single show. 268 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 9: It is with profound sadness I must share with you 269 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 9: directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away 270 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 9: this morning due to complications from lung cancer. As so 271 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 9: many of you know, losing a loved one is terribly difficult, 272 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 9: even more so when that loved one is larger than life. 273 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 9: Rush will forever be the greatest of all time. Rush 274 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 9: was an extraordinary man, A gentle giant, brilliant, quick witted, 275 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 9: genuinely kind, extremely generous, passionate, courageous, and the hardest working 276 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 9: person I know. Despite being one of the most recognized 277 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 9: powerful people in the world, Rush never let the success 278 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 9: change his core or beliefs. He was polite and respectful 279 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 9: to everyone he met. From today on, there will be 280 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 9: a tremendous void in our lives and of course on 281 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 9: the radio. Rush loved our miraculous country beyond measure. An 282 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 9: unwavering patriot, he loved our United States military, our flag, 283 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 9: our Constitution, our founding fathers. He proudly fought and defended 284 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 9: conservative values in a way that no one else can. 285 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 9: He made the most complex issues simple to understand, while 286 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 9: making that level of genius look easy. It most certainly 287 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 9: was anything but easy. Irreplaceable, remarkable talent on behalf of 288 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 9: the Limbaugh family. I would personally like to thank each 289 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 9: and every one of you who prayed for Rush and 290 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 9: inspired him to keep going. You rallied around Rush and 291 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 9: lifted him up when he needed you the most. Russia's 292 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 9: love for our country and belief that our best days 293 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 9: are ahead live on eternally. I'm terribly sorry to have 294 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 9: to deliver this news to you. God bless you Rush, 295 00:20:58,600 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 9: and God bless our country. 296 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: What strength that took for her to do. But it 297 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: was the ultimate gesture of love for Rush, because she 298 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 1: was talking to the people that he adored so much, 299 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: and she knew, she knew she had to convey his 300 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: love for us the audience in those few moments when 301 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: she was grieving as a wife, not as a listener. 302 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: What Rush brought to something much more than radio or 303 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: media or politics, was he was the voice of a 304 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: movement which is much bigger than a person. I've said 305 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: again and again President Trump will at one point no 306 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: longer be our president, and he will at one point pass, 307 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: just as we all will. But the measure of a 308 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 1: man is the movement and what can be accomplished from 309 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 1: the movement. And the two things I think he did 310 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 1: that really drove the movement were one an in three things, 311 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: an insightful understanding of human nature which transcends politics but 312 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: drives politics, Number two, an incredibly accessible manner of explaining 313 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: that to people who might be a truck driver or 314 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: have a PhD in nuclear physics, or a university professor 315 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: or a police officer or anyone else, a very accessible explanation. 316 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: And third is ability to make us laugh and in 317 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 1: that vein to lighten the mood. It is the sixty 318 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: second birthday of Larry the Cable Guy, and here he 319 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: is with a little political commentary. I love doing this. 320 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something. I get to meet the 321 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: coolest people, all kind of celebrities I never thought i'd 322 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: ever meet. And the strangest one was I met Hillary 323 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 2: Clinton about seven months ago. All right, talk about strange 324 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: budfeaders right there, all right. And we didn't even really 325 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: talk to each other. We kind of stood next to 326 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: each other to yearnal for a. 327 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: Couple of minutes. You know, I mean, I D. 328 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 8: I know what I am. 329 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: I come black, he happed. 330 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 2: If I'm nervous this show, I shouldn't have ate before it. 331 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 1: Come over here. 332 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much. This morning I went to 333 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 2: the bathroom and he U was electronic toilet and got 334 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 2: high score. 335 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: So I guess I had pretty nervous right there. 336 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 2: He would bet I had to wipe with a sham wound. 337 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 2: That ain't good right there, That ain't good right there. 338 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 2: I'm when I moved away back in tenth grade down Floord, 339 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 2: first time I ever come back. I'd come up on 340 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 2: greyhound bus and I had to go to bathroomsowdagg gone bad. 341 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 2: So I'm going to the backroom in a backpacker and 342 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: there wasn't no torlet paper. 343 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: So I go to the bus driver. I go, hey, 344 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: there ain't no torlet paper back there. He's like, there 345 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,360 Speaker 1: ain't no toilet on this bus. I had to move 346 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: to the front. Real play. 347 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 2: Oh he was matter in an albino hitchhiking in a snowstorm. 348 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: Hi, tay you what hey? Matter than an albino hitch 349 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: hiking in a snowstorm? Now that's pretty good right there. 350 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: Talking to some folks yesterday who have a an albino 351 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: possum in their backyard, there's no punchline. That's it. They 352 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: got an albino possum. I didn't. I didn't. Who knew 353 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: the Michael Berry Show to be part of your life? 354 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: It's the ninetieth birthday Johnny Bush. He passed five years ago, 355 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: but it's a life worth exploring, especially because of the 356 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: incredible Houston connections. Born John Bush Shinn the third, he 357 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: would come to be known as the Country Caruso, most 358 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: famous for writing Whiskey River. But it's an interesting history. 359 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: He was born in his family lived in Kashmir Gardens. 360 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: He was very influenced by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, 361 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: as many young men who would go on to be 362 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: crooner's were in Ernest Hubb, Lefty Frazell, Hank Thompson. His 363 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: uncle Jimon was the host of a local radio program 364 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: in Houston on a station with the call letters k 365 00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: t HT Do you know what? Kt HT? Very good? 366 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: KB and Me Best Music Ever KTHT. Johnny Bush's uncle 367 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: hosted a show there became KB and Me, which became 368 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: Best Music Ever. So you can think of auber Lynn 369 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: in the oldies and then Clear Channel then clipped it. 370 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what year, maybe you know, I think 371 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: sometime in the nineties they flipped it into a sports format. 372 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: Do you think it was the two thousands? 373 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 6: Uh? 374 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: You know what, You're right, You're right. You started twenty 375 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: five years ago. Still haven't received your watch nothing. Eddie's 376 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 1: probably not listening today, so there's a chance you're ever 377 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: getting that watch. But and somehow I think that the 378 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: person who's responsible for reporting to Eddie how long you 379 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: worked there, is not going to write you on the 380 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: list as having been there for twenty five years. If 381 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: it kills him, you're not getting that watch. Yeah, So 382 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: there's that. But it to a sports format, and they 383 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: had the stupid name, the Sports Animal. It was a 384 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: package that you could buy at the time that would 385 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: give you all the graphics and all that. And when 386 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: I took over the stations in early o seven, I 387 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: thought the Sports Animal was the dumbest thing ever. So 388 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: I said, we have news and talk on news Radio 389 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: seven forty, we're gonna have sports Radio seven to ninety. 390 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 1: And we're going to build the logo out of our 391 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: promo department so I don't have to pay people every 392 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: time I need to use the logo. That was the 393 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: dumbest thing. Nobody cared about the logo of a sports 394 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: station anyway. And if you look at the logo now, 395 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: it is the most pedestrian logo you'll ever see. And 396 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: that's because I had somebody in our promo department design it, 397 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: and it's very simple. It was all fonts that could 398 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: be easily replicated. We could cut and paste them. We 399 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: didn't have to keep paying all this dumb stuff. It 400 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: is radio after all. We didn't have money for that 401 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: sort of stuff. But anyway, Johnny Bush would moved to 402 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: San Antone at seventeen years old, and he would start 403 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: playing as a solo act at places like the Texas 404 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: Star In an announcer mistakenly introduced John Bush Shin as 405 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: Johnny Bush, not Johnny Shin, and the name stuck. So 406 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: he would take up playing drums with Ray Price. And 407 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: Ray Price in nineteen sixty three had two very talented 408 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: musicians in his band backing him up. One was Daryl McCall, 409 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 1: who would become a big part of the outlaw country 410 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: music over ten years later, and the other was a 411 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,719 Speaker 1: skinny redhead by the name of Willie Nelson. Willy Nelson 412 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: would eventually go off on his own make a little money, 413 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: and Willie Nelson would personally finance Johnny Bush his first album, 414 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: which was called the Sound of a Heartache, and Willie 415 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: gave him the money for that. But what's interesting is 416 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: the reason I chose Undo the Right. The reason Ramone 417 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: and I chose undo the Right for that bump is 418 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: that Whiskey River, written by Johnny Bush, became Willie Nelson's 419 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: signature song, and it really became the calling card of 420 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: Johnny Bush. But that song Undo the Right was actually 421 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 1: written by Hank Cochran and Willie Nelson, and that's Johnny 422 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: Bush performing it. One of my favorites if you want 423 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: to go deeper down the Johnny Bush rabbit trail after 424 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: We're Off is a song by Marty Robbins call You 425 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: Gave Me a Mountain and the Country. Caruso does a beautiful, 426 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: beautiful version of that song. Interesting story for people who 427 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: think that botox is all for vain women who don't 428 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: want to have wrinkles or aging Hollywood stars. Late in 429 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: his life, Johnny Bush could no longer perform, but he'd 430 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: become kind of a legend. Reckless. Kelly and a lot 431 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: of folks like that wanted him to join them on tour, 432 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: but he had no strength in his vocal chords, and 433 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: he underwent a treatment using botox that actually strengthen his 434 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: vocal cords sufficiently that he could get up and perform, 435 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: and of course he did. In fact, he became a 436 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: spokesman for people with vocal cord injuries or decline and 437 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: kind of made a name for himself late in life. 438 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: Probably gave him a great deal of a sense of 439 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: pride that he was able to, you know, make a 440 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: difference in the field the way he did, and he 441 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: would he would go on to perform. I remember in 442 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: the mid to late teens he was going on and performing. 443 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: I don't think he could perform alone, could be wrong 444 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: with that, but he would go on stage and perform 445 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: with others. Ramone, I sent you something this week, and 446 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it, because you never 447 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,719 Speaker 1: look at anything I do. But what's the boy's name 448 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: with aerosmith, Stephen Tyler. It's a video of him and 449 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: dressed as a woman as usual. I mean he's got 450 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: the floppy hat and all that. I mean, he's not 451 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: dressed as a woman. I'm kidding you. Just if you 452 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: didn't know anybody, you'd know it was a woman. But 453 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: if you know it's him, yoh, it's Stephen Tyler. And 454 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: no it's not a picture of his foot, so I 455 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: guess you've seen the pictures of his foot. Oh my goodness, 456 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: can you imagine some poor woman has to get in 457 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,719 Speaker 1: bed with a man with feet like that? Those are 458 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: oh man, they're bad. Just keep your socks on, honey, 459 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: because I just can't I can't fathom that, My goodness, 460 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: those things are ratchet. Anyway, he's walking along and some 461 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: street busker is singing what's he singing? Dad gum? And 462 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: I can't remember, don't want to miss a thing. And 463 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: Steven Tyler are standing there and kind of enjoying it. 464 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: People are around, and then people kind of look back 465 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: and they realize, oh, that's Steven Tyler watching this, and 466 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: wonder what he's thinking. And then just on a whim, 467 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: he strides up. And when he gets up there, the 468 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: guy who's singing and singing, well, by the way, it's 469 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: just him on an acoustic guitar. He spins the microphone 470 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: so he's not singing anymore. Steven Tyler is, and so 471 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: he starts singing. But then Steven Tyler at some point 472 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: very graciously turns it back like in between them, leaning, 473 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: we're going to sing this together. But the reason I 474 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: bring that up his voice is clearly not back to 475 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: where it was. But you know, he had all those 476 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: vocal problems, and he had surgeries and everything else. And 477 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: I can't imagine how frustrating that. I cannot imagine who's 478 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: our friend that's saying Johnny. I can see clearly now 479 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: Johnny Nash. Johnny Nash had goiters on his throat and 480 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: it ended his career early. That's got to be frustrating, 481 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: got to be frustrated. All right, we'll open the phone 482 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: lines and we'll talk about President Trump, the jd Vance 483 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: speech in Europe, which was absolute fire. Will continue our 484 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: tribute to Rush Limbaugh and anything else you would like 485 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: to contribute to the program as we roll along. Coming 486 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: up