1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: This song that you're hearing is a looped version the 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: intro to a song by Chrissy Hind and The Pretenders 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: called My City Was Gone. I'm calling attention to this 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: because I haven't I haven't talked about this song and 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: in many, many moons, and I don't know how many 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: of you know where the song is from you this 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: is so identify it with this program. Understandably sooth thirty 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: plus years, but this song is used with the permission 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: of one of the most legendary female performers in rock, 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: Chrissie Hynd. Her publishing country company actually tried to take 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: it away. I guess this is back in the early 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: nineties when we were still doing the program out of 13 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: New York. The publishing firm tried to take it away, 14 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: and she interceded and told them, effectively to pound Sand 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: that if I wanted to continue to use it, that 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: I would have her permission to use it. UM negotiate 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: at a price. We pay them an annual fee for 18 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: the usage of the tune. I point this out because 19 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: Chrissy Hind is out today in a story in the 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: UK Daily Mail and the headline the Pretenders, Chrissie hynd 21 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: praises Trump for honoring Rush Limbaugh despite being a liberal herself. 22 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: She's doing this because her dad loved Limbaugh and she 23 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: believes in the right to disagree. This is another reason why. 24 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: But she was on w p LJ in New York 25 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: when they were Scott Shannon and guys for asking her 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: about this during the controversy of the mean we had 27 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: the but we actually had the song taken away for 28 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: a period of I think three weeks or a month 29 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: until she interceded. She was on p LJ in New York. 30 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: They asked her about it. She said, I don't care. 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: I want if Rush wants to use it, fine with me, 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: which totally confounded her publishing company. So we got the 33 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: song back. The reason is that her dad was a 34 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: huge fan of this program. Her dad's name was Melville, 35 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: nickname was Bud and Chrissy hind says that her late father, Melville, 36 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: would have hand would have loved Trump's presidency, would have 37 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: absolutely adored Trump, and would have would have just been 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: excited as he could be when Trump presented to me 39 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: the Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union. 40 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: Liberal rock star Chris she's a big animal rights efficient, 41 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: and of course, you know, we've had our fund with 42 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: the animal rights activists over the course of this program's tenure. 43 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: Liberal rock star Chrissy Hind shocked her fans by praising 44 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: Trump for honoring the conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, saying 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: her father would have been so delighted. Chrissy Hind, the 46 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: lead singer to Pretenders, wrote an open letter to Trump 47 00:02:54,720 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: on Twitter yesterday in which she says her late father, Melville, 48 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: would have enjoyed his presidency. Said Melville, known as Bud, 49 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: was a huge fan of Limbaugh, who has given the 50 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: Presidential Medal of Freedom after he announced he had advanced 51 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: lung cancer, but she admitted she didn't always see eye 52 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: to eye with her father, and they argued a lot, 53 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: but that was okay. We didn't cut each other's heads off. 54 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: Isn't that what being an American is all about? So 55 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: I wanted to let you hear the actual song here. 56 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: This is the open and I think in the open 57 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: if I if my memory serves it, it runs twenty 58 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: four seconds, and we've looped it uh to make it 59 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: run about a minute to handle the show up. And 60 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the whole thing here. But I want 61 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: you to hear the song that she made famous, My 62 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: City was Gone. It's about where she grew up in Ohio, 63 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: as you will hear as the lyric line unfault him 64 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: back to little but my city was gone. There was 65 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: no trainstension, there was no down town, some time to disappear. 66 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: All my favorite basics s big reduced to Okay, spacy 67 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: will to go. Oh. So I just wanted to play 68 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: a portion of the song, let you know where it 69 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: comes from, and to thank Chrissie Hynd for her comments 70 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: and the Daily Mail Today story runs today. Her open 71 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: letter to Trump is actually asking for some leniency for 72 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: Julian Assange as well, but she points out how her 73 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: dad would have loved Trump, and she very much would 74 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: have love for her father to have been alive during 75 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: Trump's administration. And who have seen me get the Distinguished 76 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: Presidential Medal of Freedom. Our studios are right across the 77 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: hall at the time, but I was not. We had 78 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: moved out of there. I think we've moved down to 79 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: Florida time this had happened, so I have I've never 80 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: met She was married and go with Ray Davies of 81 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: the Kinks for a while and then some other guys. 82 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: She's lived in London most of her life, but I 83 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: wanted to call attention. Thank her very much for this. 84 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: It's it's very nice.