1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: So Michael Very show is on the air. Where was 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 2: his father? It starts in the house and well, well 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: when my father got locked up, Well where was his father? Yeah? 5 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends, 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: and they did, you know fifteen to twenty five? 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: One did twenty eight? Isn't that I was the only 8 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 2: one of the three to have a father in my life, 9 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 2: even though my parents were together, But I still had 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: a father who was a gentleman and a good example. 11 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: They seem too much violent prime being committed by young 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 3: punks who think that they can get together in gangs 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 3: and crews and beat the hell out of you or 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 3: anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 3: be in DuPont circle. But they know that we can't 16 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 3: touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 3: touch you with If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 3: old and you have a gun. I convict someone of 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 3: shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public 20 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: bus in the chest, intent to kill. 21 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 2: I convict him, and you know what. 22 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 3: The judge gives them probation, says you should go to college, 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 3: We need to go after the DC Council and their 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 3: of no cash fail. We need to recognize that the 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: people who matter are the law abiding citizens. 27 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: If you think to yourself, why would she make a 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: song that sounds like it's celebrating baby mom? How would 29 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: she make that that's not something to be proud of? 30 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: Why would she do that? It is very important as 31 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: you gird your loins for the cultural war in which 32 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: we are swimming right now, it is very important that 33 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: you remember that you must understand your enemy. You must 34 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: understand your opposition, and you must understand what motivates them. 35 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: If you do not do that, then you will never 36 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: be able to fix your country as long as other 37 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: people live in it, because you will always ascribe to 38 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: them the motivations for their actions that you have for yours. 39 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: And it's very important to understand that's not their motivations. 40 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: That would be like the father in his fifties as 41 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: his daughter is going out her senior year to prom, 42 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: and the eighteen year old boy with testosterone coursing through 43 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: his blood and only one thing on his mind showing 44 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: up at the door, and the father coming to the 45 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: door and opening it and saying, oh. He's saying, sir, 46 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: he's looking me in the eye. He's dressed in a tuxedo. 47 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: He's a fine young man. 48 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 2: Honey. 49 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: Let's let our little Susie go away with Bobby for 50 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: a week. I'm sure nothing will happen and all will 51 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: be well. No, the father doesn't do that. He says, 52 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: climber boy, you touch my daughter and I'm gonna kill you, 53 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: because he knows that he too was young. See, he 54 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: understands that while he's an old man now, he was 55 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: once a young man, and as a young man he 56 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: remembers and he knows that his precious little daughter doesn't 57 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: understand the mind of that eighteen year old boy, because 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: he is an animal at this age. And any woman, 59 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: and it's always a woman who thinks, oh, not my 60 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: little Andrew. 61 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: Why do you say that? Don't you have two boys? 62 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 2: How can you know? I don't say it because I 63 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: have two boys. 64 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: My boys are the most polite, mild mannered, respectful young 65 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: men you could meet. And by the way, so was 66 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: I at eighteen. But I know what I was thinking, 67 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: and so I know what little boys are thinking. If 68 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: you ever go to the dog park and watch dogs interact. 69 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: You know that some dogs are showing up like an 70 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: eighteen year old boy to pick up his cute girlfriend 71 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: for prom. They're like, all right, what can I hump 72 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: out here in the park. If you don't understand how 73 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: other people think, you're going to put yourself in a 74 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: real pickle. 75 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 2: So back to the issue, the baby Mama song. 76 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: Uh, the opposition to the president locking down DC. You 77 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: think you're why would they oppose that? I get this 78 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: email day befuddled white people? Why would they oppose that? 79 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: I mean, they're the one's gonna get shot. You know, 80 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: the President's trying to clean up DC. The statistics show 81 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: there's sixteen times more likely to be killed by a 82 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: black person than a white person. Why wouldn't they want 83 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: a president to fix the problem. I mean, you know, 84 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: if you're not a criminal, seems like you'd want it. 85 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: Tell me what's going on? Michael? 86 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: And I say to myself, do you know why you're 87 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: if it's a lady, do you know why you don't 88 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: have eight different kids from eight different men and live 89 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: on welfare and have have a rotating revolving line of 90 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: good for nothing loser dudes coming in and laying with 91 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: you every night and your kids watching it while you 92 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 1: smoke crack because you make different decisions. You've got a 93 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: different decision tree am to do this? Or am I 94 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: going to do that? So you're choosing not to live 95 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: that life. You're choosing how you're gonna pay your bills, 96 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: how are you going to spend your time in, whom 97 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: you're going to invest, what foods you're gonna eat, all 98 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 1: of those things. Well, those people are also choosing, They're 99 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: making choices. They make choices very differently than you do. 100 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: And when you understand that someone wasn't dropped from Mars 101 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: into where they live and how they live and with 102 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: whom they live and the actions they take, those are 103 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: all decisions, decisions of comission or old mission. They may 104 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: choose not to go get a job. They may choose 105 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: not to move out of the neighborhood. They may choose 106 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: not to turn down the guy who's fathered five different 107 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: kids from five different women in the neighborhood because that 108 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: day he's kind of looking handsome or smelling good, or 109 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: maybe he brought her a bag of fries and that's 110 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: all she really required in order to turn this trick. 111 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: Once you recognized that their decision making process is different 112 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: than yours, then you open yourself to understanding. Okay, so 113 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: how are we going to proceed? Because they don't think 114 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: the way I did, and I don't think the way David. 115 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 2: It shows me what it's like to be, you know, 116 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: a real man. I have never met someone so wonderful 117 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 2: I call him. Written to Marchael Barry. 118 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: I won't spend as much time laboring the point as 119 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: I did this morning, but this song everything I own. 120 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: I would give everything I own just just to have 121 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: you back in my life. By Bread, It is a 122 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: love song between a son and his father, written nine 123 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: years after David Gates was the lead singer of Bread, 124 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: written nine years after his father died, and the history 125 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: of the song was that when David Gates was struggling 126 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: his dad was still alive. 127 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: This was in the late fifties. 128 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: He was struggling to make a penny and he bought 129 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: an orchid for his Mother's mother loved orchids, and orchids 130 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: are expensive. It bought her an orchid as a gift, 131 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: told her how much he loved her, and his father 132 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: called him to say, David, you have no idea how 133 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: much that gift to your mother meant to your mother, 134 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: And she'd give you everything she owns if you just 135 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: asked for it. Because of that, I mean, she'd you've 136 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: affected her. And that line stuck with him. She'd give 137 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: me everything she owns. And so nine years later, nine 138 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: years after his father passed, a friend of his said, 139 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: you know, your dad would be so proud of your 140 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: success if he were here, because his father never saw 141 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: what a success he became. And let's be honest for 142 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: most of us. If our kid says I think I'm 143 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: going to pursue a career in music, you think for 144 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: how long? I mean how long for you get a 145 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: real job. If nobody pursued a career in music, then 146 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: our favorite bands would never have generated the music that 147 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: we love the soundtrack of our lives. But let's be 148 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: honest for somebody else's kid, right, the odds are if 149 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: you pursue a career in music, you're going to be 150 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: a drunkie, a I mean a whino, a junkie, a loser, 151 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: a lay about if nothing else, you're gonna need to 152 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: borrow money all the time. You don't expect that you're 153 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 1: going to go off and be so successful, and David 154 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: Gates thought to himself, boy, I'll tell you what, of 155 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: all the success I've had, he had just won an award, 156 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: of all the success I have, I'd give everything I 157 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: own just to touch my father again, to hold him, 158 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: to hug him, to love on him, to tell him 159 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: how much he's meant to me in my life. And 160 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: he realized that he would give everything he owned for 161 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: that moment, but it would never happen, And so he 162 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: wrote it to sound like a love song between a 163 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: man and a woman, because that's that's the kind of stuff, 164 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: you know, we all well, that's what makes a hit record. 165 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: But buried in the midst of that was his tribute 166 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: to his father, And it's really a call to arms 167 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: to say, you know, if you have a mother or 168 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: father left in this world, you not promised tomorrow you'll 169 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: wish you had them back. So show them the love 170 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: that you feel for them before it's too late that 171 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: you can. It's interesting, the best of intentions, Oh Randy 172 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 1: Travis song I hear tell the Road to Hell is 173 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: paved with good intentions. But Mama, my intentions were the 174 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:45,599 Speaker 1: best love that song. We all have the best of intentions. 175 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: You know, we're all going to get up early, We're 176 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: going to work out, We're going to go to bed 177 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: early and get enough sleep. We're only going to be 178 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: kind to the people around us that we love. We're 179 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: never going to be short tempered. We're going to be 180 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: there for people when they need us. We never consciously 181 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: choose to fail to become the person we want to be. 182 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: We never consciously choose that. Nobody consciously chooses to be 183 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: five hundred pounds. Nobody consciously chooses to be a deadbeat dad. 184 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: Nobody consciously chooses to be a lazy employee, a salesman 185 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: who doesn't hit their numbers. 186 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 2: You fill in the blanks. 187 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: It is simply that things get in the way, and 188 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: in that moment, our brain tells us to pick the 189 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: bad thing, not the good thing, instead of working out. 190 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: The brain says, you know, do that tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow, 191 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 1: I'm gonna work out tomorrow. But for now, I'm gonna 192 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: eat a bag of free TOAs the big scoopers. What 193 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: are those called? They called scoopers, the big scoops. I'm 194 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: gonna eat a free do's big scoop and. 195 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 2: Bean dip. Oh is there anything better. 196 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: Honestly, is there any there are things that are worse? 197 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 2: Okay? 198 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: So is better? Okay, so it's better than with the 199 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: Freedo's big scoop, not with Friedo's No. 200 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 2: I I was listening. 201 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: Well, it's funny that the conversation ended up there, because 202 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: I was talking to my buddy Michael Robinson Aggie Plumber 203 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: the other day and it was a Saturday afternoon and 204 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: I said, what are you doing? And he said, well, 205 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the couch. I said, okay, that's where 206 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: you are. That's not what you're doing. 207 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: You're not. 208 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: I think what I will do right now is engage 209 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: in the act of sitting on the couch. You're doing 210 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: something else, that's just where you are while you're doing it. 211 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: And he said, I'm not doing anything. I said, that's 212 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: not an answer. Are you watching television? No? 213 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: Well, what are are you sleeping? No? What are you? Okay, 214 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 2: I'm eating keso? Was that so hard? 215 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: By the way, if you're not, if you're not from Houston, 216 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: eating keso is in and of itself, an act, and 217 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: it's an act we undertake. Often we eat a lot 218 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: of queso. And when I say keeso, I don't just 219 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: mean the Spanish word for. 220 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 2: Cheese. 221 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: We are Every Texan is in one way or another. 222 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: Now hear me out, so you don't lose your mind. 223 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: Every Texan is one part Mexican. We are we are 224 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: one part Mexican. Now it might be one percent, it 225 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: might be ninety nine percent. And some of them are 226 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: even here or even here legally. But even the white 227 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: people like me have a portion of us that is Mexican. 228 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: You cannot take it out of us. 229 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: You just can't. 230 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 1: I mean, it's we're all one part German, one part Kunas, 231 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: which is Louisiana French, which is different than France French. 232 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: It's even different than than than the k Bessois French. 233 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: The Acadiana that came down was a different kind of 234 00:13:52,280 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: people that it's like adding hillbilly and Appalachian appellationans uh 235 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: to to the French that came down. And it created 236 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: this this interesting culture and Mexican and and I mentioned German, Czech, 237 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: the Bohemian side, all those things combined together to make. 238 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 2: Every text in Texas. 239 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: It's hard to I mean, I know, we just looked 240 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: like John Wayne or George straight. 241 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 2: But but we've all got some Mexican in US. There's 242 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 2: no doubt it's it's it's part of the culture. 243 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: It's like we breathed it in and it's just it's 244 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: like a virus. 245 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 2: It's in our It's in our m R, it's in 246 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: our DNA. Now you did. 247 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: The culture is important. The Left has won the culture 248 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: wars for a long time. You want to know, you 249 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: want to know how that manifested itself when Barack Obama 250 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: ran for president. You remember the very attractive young lady 251 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: who did the song about Obama and she had a 252 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: crush on Oba. I don't have good numbers on this, 253 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: but I have a feeling, a gut feeling and instinct 254 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: from a lifetime of watching the interplay between culture and 255 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: politics and how people vote. There was a tendency for 256 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: people to believe that every person in America is a 257 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: Republican or a Democrat and they vote based on the 258 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: same things you do. But that's not true. There are 259 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: people who will vote for somebody because he's cute, or 260 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: because they like his accent, or because that one time 261 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: he was playing basketball and they thought that was neat 262 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: he was playing basketball. You think I'm kidding that there 263 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: are people a lot of people, especially young people, They 264 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: vote on things like this. The comedy clubs. Every comic 265 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: was liberal for a long time. They were liberal, even 266 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: if they didn't call them liberal, even if they didn't 267 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:06,359 Speaker 1: endorse candidates, which they typically didn't, but they were somewhere 268 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: between liberal and libertarian. They were anti establishment. They were 269 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: populist in nature. Those messages, however, landed with an audience 270 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: of people who grew to distrust people who looked like 271 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush, and who grew to distrust the 272 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: Bob Doles and the Ronald Reagan's and the Donald Trumps. 273 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: And these are old white men who are out of touch. 274 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: They're not hip and cool, like the comedian who's work 275 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: I enjoy, or the lead singer of the band who's 276 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: work I enjoy, or the actor in the movie that 277 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: I really like, And so I conflate who he is 278 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: in real life with who he is in the movies, 279 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: and therefore I think he's really cool because the character 280 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: he played was really cool, and because actually he's a 281 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: creep in real life. 282 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: But they don't know that. 283 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: They think, oh, you know, he's that guy in the 284 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: movies that I really like. And so he says to 285 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: vote for Doucacas or Obama, and Obama won the cool factor. 286 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: Cool factor turned out to be very important in two 287 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, very important. And so we're over here 288 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: trying to win on the basis that hey, nationalized healthcare 289 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: will be the end of healthcare as we know it. 290 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: It will destroy healthcare, and healthcare is very important. You 291 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: don't know how important healthcare is until you are someone 292 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: you love is sick. A friend of mine has been 293 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: at his mother's bedside and will be for the next 294 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: two or three days, and she is not going to 295 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: make it, and he's talking about hospitals and what hospitals 296 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: are like. You don't think about how important that is 297 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: until it's you laid up in the hospital, till you 298 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: get the cancer diagnosis, till you get the terrible news 299 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: that the cancer has metastasized, it's grown, and the chemo 300 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: didn't work. Till you get the news that you've got 301 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: a condition that you never heard of, named for some 302 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: doctor you never heard of, and you got to go 303 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: home and google it. But for now, the doctor is explaining, 304 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: this is a relatively rare case and here's how it's treated. 305 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: But you get we got to get you in at 306 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: that doctor to see it, and it's going to take 307 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: this long to get you in, and this is what 308 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: it's going to cost, and it's in congestion. And then 309 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you don't really care about getting 310 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: a new car anymore. You don't care about that trip 311 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: to Italy anymore, you don't care about getting a bone, 312 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: You don't care about any of the things you used 313 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: to care about. You care about getting medical care to 314 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: save the one temple you were given and told by 315 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: God to protect. And now you need health care to 316 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: get there. And your health care is socialized. And so 317 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 1: anything more than a common cold, well that wasn't sold 318 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: to people in voting for Obama, was it. And by 319 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: the way, he wanted to do the same thing to 320 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: the energy industry. He started with Obamacare, and he burnt 321 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: up almost all of his political capital in the process. 322 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: They were going to do carbon credits first, and the 323 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: thought was, no, carbon credits is the takeover of American 324 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: industry in the name of environmentalism, which it's not environmentalism. 325 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: It is just a destruction of our way of life. 326 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: It's not just our energy, it would be our entire 327 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: quality of life. When you can't turn on your air conditioning, 328 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: and the government controls that, and you live like I 329 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: do in one hundred and five degree heat, that becomes 330 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: much more than saving the environment. It becomes ruining your life, 331 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 1: which is exactly what the Chinese have taught the Democrats 332 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: into doing. As the Chinese are belching through coal and 333 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: various forms of outdated energy that is very inefficient and 334 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: filthy and pollutes. I am not a green energy person, 335 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: but let's be very clear, this is not what is 336 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: leading to it being hot outside. But the left would 337 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: take away your ability to cool your home. Those sorts 338 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: of things are part of the culture war. You think 339 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: about how many actors were leftists, how they all gravitated 340 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: to Obama. 341 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 2: He's cool man, He's cool. He was hanging out. 342 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: With Diddy when all we knew that was it Didny 343 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: was cool and he was having the White Party, which 344 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: turns out to be a freak show of the Epstein 345 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: Island for black people. And Will Smith and all these 346 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: in Oprah, Winfrey and all all the cultural icons were 347 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: for Obama, and Hillary worked very hard to try to 348 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: get them for her. But Trump had relationships with a 349 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: lot of them. Bill had relationships he was cool, but 350 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: everybody knew. Everybody, deep down knew that Hillary was unlikable. 351 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: Hillary didn't have the friends that Obama and Bill Clinton 352 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: did because everybody knew deep down that Hillary was an 353 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: unpleasant person. She's what my grandmother would say, she's ugly. 354 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: And that wasn't a reference to the fact that physically 355 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: she's ugly. She is, but that was a reference to, 356 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: you know, kind of a dark soul. She's not a 357 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: pleasant person. What we are witnessing now is the president 358 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: fighting the culture wars as they must be fought, because 359 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: that's how we win back this country. So for those 360 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: of you who don't understand that and just keep want 361 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: to keep gritting your teeth and. 362 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 2: Saying talk about hellos, hey talk about that. No, you 363 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 2: calm down. This is what needs to be talked about. 364 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: This is why the president is devoting time to this. 365 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: This is how you build bonds with people who are 366 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: not naturally likely to vote for you or to vote 367 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: for your causes. Look at how Trump built the coalition 368 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 1: of Rogan and Elon and. 369 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 2: Robert F. 370 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: Kennedy, who's running for president's a Democrat, and Toolsey Gabbert, 371 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: who was the vice chair of the Democrat Party. You 372 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: find areas of agreement, and you do this through culture, 373 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: and you do this through through communication. 374 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 2: This is well, this is exciting stuff to me. We're 375 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 2: about contraception. Is that's just not an option for you? 376 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 2: Was your ambitions with Michael Berry? He is younger ambitions 377 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 2: and I love women. Hey, you came no man for 378 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 2: loving women. 379 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: About two or three years into mergeoning radio radio business, 380 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: like pro sports. 381 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 2: You don't typically get to stay very long. 382 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: It's very easy to get fired, very hard to get hired, 383 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: and longevity is difficult. And so people get into radio 384 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: they're scared to death of getting fired. It's a great gig. 385 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: And so I made the statement one day. 386 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: But so Eddie Martini, who is not only my dear friend, 387 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: has become my dear friend, started as my boss. 388 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 2: It's still my boss. 389 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: And he said to me one time, I just I 390 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: didn't really have my feet under me in this career. 391 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: And he said, you know, I hate to be so 392 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: hard on you, but if I didn't, you just play 393 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: Freebird for an entire segment. And he didn't believe that 394 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: music should be played on talk show. I think music 395 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 1: is modern day magic. I think it's the poetry, the pros, 396 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: the language by which we connect as kind of my 397 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: I'm a grown man, I'll do what I want, probably 398 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: ill advised move. You know, Rush got fired from playing 399 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: under my Thumb what was it nine times in a row? 400 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 2: He loved that story. He got fired. 401 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: From a radio station as a DJ doing that. We 402 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: all have our little moment where, like a child, we 403 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: need to show I'm in charge of me. 404 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: So I was in a mood. 405 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: We were signing off as we are tonight, and I said, 406 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: we started Freebird, and I said. 407 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 2: Let it play. 408 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: It was like, you know, damn the Torpedoes moment, and 409 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: there we were, and it became a tradition that once 410 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: a year on this day, the anniversary of the release 411 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 1: of Freebird, my favorite band, Leonard Skinnard. It was their 412 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: debut album called Pronounced Leonard skinner and it's the most 413 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: requested rock song, the most requested song in concert of 414 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: all time. Part in jest by many people, but partly 415 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: it's a great, amazing song. This song is very meaningful 416 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: to me personally and defying everyone because we're children who 417 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: have to ever so often. 418 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 2: Remind people that we're in charge of us. 419 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 1: Is a long standing tradition, so I ask you to 420 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: join in with me in celebrating that long standing tradition 421 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: on this the anniversary of the day the song was released. 422 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: Sing along, do your air guitar, If you do air piano, 423 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: extra credit because the opening with the piano riff is 424 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: my favorite part. The bass feel of the piano is 425 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: my favorite part. We're just gonna sit here and sing 426 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: along with you. 427 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 2: Have a good thank you, and good night.