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“Well, I think it's really should be what others did on our summer vacation.”
Well, it used to be as recently as maybe probably 20 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, that I would try to get away from the news. Yeah, when I went on vacation, it's impossible. Now, I just, I continue to do show prep all the time, and I was, this was yesterday. I was like, I got shot, bookmarked a lot of things.
When I got up to 70 things that I had bookmarked, there was still probably, I don't know 100 more things that I had bookmarked. I just said, don't think about it, just go in and start on the current events of yesterday and move back through the week if we want to come at something else. That's, that's what I did.
I kept bookmarking and I thought, well, I'm going to have to do so much rolling because it was every day. You know, it really doesn't stop while you're on vacation. I mean, you know, I spent some downtime with mom and dad, but even then, you know, mom's got Fox News on all the time.
I mean, at two o'clock in the morning, seriously, mom is out in the other dead with Fox News blaring. So I get up. I spent the night there, a couple of nights in a wake up and dad goes, hey, I'm sorry. I did mom keep you up with the blaring to be honest, slept like a baby, waking up crying
every hour. But no, I, I, I slept fine.
I didn't hear anything, but mom will be there, you know, I mean, she's always locked
on to Fox News, whatever she's got, you know, on television, you know, whatever you've got on television. She's going to change it to Fox News. So it's, it's, uh, and of course with all the notifications on, on our phones, I'm not going to just turn them off.
In fact, I added a couple of different sources, including Politico because of the platinum story.
“And I thought, you know, I, I know how to compartmentalize Politico, you know what I mean?”
It's, it's a leftist news group, but they also also sometimes have stories that are accurate. And then, of course, you wait for others to report the other sources to report on this, whatever story they've got.
Of course, they were the first to report on the whole platinum thing.
Um, well, I'll tell you this after, uh, the, the, the time that we had off, uh, the, the one thing that was crystal clear is there's no way I can retire. There's, there's no way I can't happen. Listen to me. Listen to me.
It cannot happen. I'm telling you for the love of this nation, this cannot happen. I cannot be sitting around all day, reading these stories and then going, well, it is a good, good, good watch from YouTube, I mean, I'm not sure what about, burning the dinosaur and doing this.
Well, yeah, it's just, it's like there's got to have it out, like, got to have it out, like, I mean, I woke up at, at, at 20 to 10 and, and slept really good and I'm like, it's like, I'm so, I'm so glad I, I'm going back to work. Not that I don't, you know, not that, you know, it, I didn't have a productive vacate. Listen to me, a productive vacation, vacation supposed to be not productive, not in my
case.
“It's like, okay, yeah, you have to recognize who you are, right?”
You have to have an understanding of self and then this self is not ready to have all of this information accumulate in the brain and nowhere to go. Right. It's just, you can't do it yet, you can't do that. So we're, we are ready to go.
It was in Europe and I was, this is Saturday night, I woke up at, because when, especially when we're on vacation, but I do it every weekend, I try to go to sleep early on a Saturday night and wake up early on Sunday morning, you know, like 4 or 5 a.m. That way I can, you know, fold 12 hours can go by and I'll be tired. I go back to sleep and get back into the sleep pattern for, for, for during the week.
Because I woke up at, you know, like one a.
went, I'll be able to go back to sleep.
“It's going to be, I've got to, you know, because I had set the alarm for 5.”
I said, but I'll be, I'll be ready to go and all of a sudden, well, let me just check the phone and there was TMZ with the update that Lindsey Graham had died. And, and then that was, that was it.
I never got, it was an able to get back to sleep to probably 5.30 and then slept just
for an hour and that was actually good because it put me right back into the sleep pattern. But with the, uh, we'll start out with, uh, with that and a couple of things that I want to, to play because there's two things that hit me with, uh, with Lindsey Graham. One is, one is personal and again, when I say personal, I didn't know the guy. I never met the guy.
I didn't know. I mean, so you look and, and, you know, Lindsey Graham is one of those senators that would go anywhere to talk to anybody at any time. Yeah. Yeah.
“If there's an issue out there, he's going to be out there talking, he was an uncappled”
hill. I mean, in the Senate, he was the go-to guy if, if the president had an issue with Democrats.
He could send, yeah, Lindsey Graham to talk to a Democrat and, and quite often, not always,
but quite often, Lindsey Graham could talk to a Democrat and change some votes. Again, that's, you know, that's relative if you think about the numbers, but he was good. He was a good, I would say, negotiator, uh, or diplomat in those regards and also foreign diplomat. You know, I mean, he's been beside the president on a number of things, the Middle East,
uh, most recently, just got back from Ukraine and just yesterday, he got back. Just yesterday. Just yesterday. So the president shortly, possibly minutes before he passed away. So there, uh, uh, uh, uh, two things, it just, that caught my, my, uh, attention and, you know,
to encapsulate somebody's life in, in two audio cuts isn't really fair to, to, to, to, to, to them. But these are just two things, two impressions that I immediately got that I had remembered. Then was the, the sense of humor that he, uh, that he had and this was after the death of, uh, uh, Joe Lee senator Joe Lieberman and a memorial service that was held and this is how
Lindsey Graham began, uh, uh, uh, his, um, his memories of, uh, of, uh, of, uh, Joe Lieberman hearing out. All right. I learned today that his middle name was Isadora. His passing saved him a lot of grief.
[laughter] That was, and the other one, I, I think that he probably will, will be most remembered, uh,
“uh, for, and it's, it's, it's not to me politically what I think his most important contribution”
was to the United States, but it's what I think people remember and that is the cabin on hearings. Yeah. And, and this was, this was, uh, Lindsey Graham at, at that moment, you know, the one at FBI investigation, you could have come to us.
What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. You said that, not me. You've got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Cagan, tell him that Lindsey said, "Oh, 'cause I voted for them."
I would never do to them what you've done to this guy.
This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. You know, when, when the change was made and grassly, uh, was no longer the, uh, chair of the Senate, uh, judiciary committee, and then Lindsey Graham was assigned to that role. I, I was very, I was pleasantly surprised. I was glad because it was during that era of what I call the re-awakening of Lindsey
Graham. Um, that's all relative, but in, you know, there are times when there's a greater profile, a certain person on Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill, uh, will be more active than others and be more proactive, and I have been asking for, uh, during the first Trump term, who in the GOP or who, you know, out there that's not in the GOP yet, who is going to do the
fighting that Trump has been doing, and again, this was back in his first term. Who is willing to go to bat and really fight for what they believe in, fight for what they believe is right, because it seemed like there was so much of this, I don't know. It's just malays, it's just, you know, laziness or just lack of enthusiasm coming from
The GOP, that with Capitol, and, and, and that was when that fire was lit, an...
the left just went at him, of course, as a result of that.
And then, you know, you get into, you go from there to then the, what he has done in, in foreign relations with, with the president, um, there are key figures in negotiations. Uh, now, you know, up to this point, up to his passing, he was head of the Finance Committee, uh, and I don't know what the exact discussion was, uh, with, uh, with your crane, but it is, you know, believed, obviously they were going to talk about, you know, how much more
money they're going to get, you know, or what they maybe want to sentiment on Capitol Hill was, and how to change that sentiment, I don't know. Okay, when he was on Air Force One recently, talking about the president or talking with the president, standing beside the president, they were returning from a trip in the Middle East, um, he, he, he commented the mic for a minute or two, and he was making, you know,
very, very, very strong points, um, and some might say, well, that's a lap dog approach. I didn't, I didn't necessarily see it as that. I thought to myself, you're kind of need to let the commander achieve speak on what is going to be, what the policy is going to be, because, you know, he would, he was saying things as if it was going to be, you know, that was the decision that had been made, and
“of course there hadn't been a decision made, but I think if you listen to the language”
of Lindsey Graham, and in his later years, after this, you know, what I call the reawakening
of Lindsey Graham, then you understand, then that basically what he's talking about
is his goals, what, what the goals should be. I don't think he was necessarily trying to speak for the president or create policy on the fly that he had no authority to, uh, on Air Force One on that trip. I think it was a matter of expressing what needs to be done, and also helping to navigate that political pool or that, well, they are political, the, the press pool, uh, on, on
Air Force One. You know, when there's a gaggle on, on board Air Force One, and the president has been very good about talking to the media. In fact, you know, sometimes to a fault, we've said, um, but, but he has no problem stepping back there and, and answer and questions and, and taking questions, and on that
“trip, I think Lindsey Graham was very proactive in, in expressing what the policy should”
be. So, um, if you look at all the above, and, and, and, and what the cumulative, I guess, total was in his political career, um, he gets a very good grade as a public servant from me. Um, I'm not a member of a state, so I, or a citizen of a state, so I couldn't vote for
him, but as we all know, when you serve in that role that affects people outside your state, of course. You know, and I, uh, I, I just, it, it drives me crazy is because, uh, we get it all the time, and, and I thought with Lindsey Graham, I didn't agree with them all the time. Who does?
Who does? Yeah. You know, I'll get that. Right. I really love your show.
Not that I agree with you 100% of the time. Yeah. No. Yeah. Right.
What? Yeah. Well, then, rot in that place where the devil is, yeah, I mean, it's like, I, I didn't expect it to you.
I've never had that expectation, but you, you saw that, uh, a lot, uh, and by the way, we weren't
you weren't talking. You weren't referring to a main. No, I was not referring to a boy, we'll get, we'll get to that, and it's just so much on my mind, it's just, it's just, it's just busting out here. Yeah.
“With, uh, with, uh, Lindsey Graham, uh, more to say on him because I, I think that, the, the, the”
strongest, he has been, in fact, I, my sense is that you haven't heard the president be as critical of Ukraine. And if there's somebody, remember when he got off to playing, that's who, you know, that might have been the last person, uh, you know, that the president talked to before he died.
Yeah. As, you know, as the president was even, in, in, in playing yesterday, it's off to playing
Calls the, you know, once to talk to the president about his trip.
I think that remember the early criticism of Ukraine, I think it was, the one thing that Lindsey
“Graham did, and I've often talked about John Bolton and, and, and John Bolton, you know,”
the trouble that he's in now, and I, my senses that you're right, that he only took that job to write the book. Yep. Because the things that he did to write the book, you know, the TDS took control over him.
But I always said, John Bolton's opinion on the enemies that we have.
I always think is something that's absolutely necessary, you know, in the, you know, in the United States government, Bolton, uh, and also Lindsey Graham expressed what I, wholeheartedly believe is the truth about our enemies and especially radical Islam. Yes. And he did a good job on Sunday morning new show shows as recently a couple of times
in fact, um, where he would just, he would just throw it back. This is exactly what's needed with the liberal activists and these newsrooms and on these, you know, deaths at these deaths that are on these shows that Lindsey Graham was highly capable in doing. And, and it's, it's very important, you know, because I'll have the audio cut later on,
but the president was, uh, basically, uh, asked a question over the weekend.
You were saying a month ago that about the Iranians that they are rational people in
today, you called them scum what changed Trump. I got to know them and Marco Rubio's behind him and smiling, you know, when the president
“said that, and you hear that from the president and you say, how naive are you?”
Yeah. But how can you not look at the last 47 years? How can you not look at the history and say a month ago, you thought you could trust them. The same thing with JD Vance.
Right. That's one thing where you had Lindsey Graham stand completely and totally strong. Uh, again. But her, I didn't agree with Lindsey Graham on one hundred percent. Um, yeah.
Yeah. I had to say, uh, but that's where he was strong. We'll get to more of it coming up. We are right. I radio.
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“So when it comes to, when I look at a Lindsey Graham, I think the most important thing”
that he did politically was constantly was one of those people out there, over a period of, we're talking 30 years talking about the enemies that we face and why there are enemies. You look at, and you look at, for example, and I brought up a Trump the other day saying when he was asked, what's the difference? One month ago, you were like, these irrational people, they want to have it, your vice president
was out there saying, well, you know, there's a new group of people out there that want
Peace and we know it's a load of crap.
If you know about Islamic radicalism, you know it is and you had really Rubio and you had
the strong voices of Rubio and Lindsey Graham saying, these people are enemies. They're not like us, stop doing this.
“And that's extremely important to have right now in our federal government.”
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And they're going to do everything they can to get you back on track and we hope to share your story soon from relief factor, you know one thing I wondered was when we went on vacation. I mean social media was just full of soccer and the world cup still on we're heading to the semi finals and there's hardly anything on social media about it. What happened when we were all the United States lost okay. Yeah, the whole big controversy on the.
“Now that players out. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I it was you know it was one of those things that was going over my head ago. I don't care.”
I mean it's totally over my head. I don't pay attention. I have no idea what any of it means. And I don't care. And I just it's not my thing for the fans who love it. It's great. That's awesome. I love watching fans. You know, really get enjoyment out of things. You know, I'm I wouldn't cry over it if you're team losers. You know something about that. Gary, but yeah.
Look, I cry over Jerry Jones. And that's apparently never going to end it. But you know the the whole thing is is that was soccer.
You know, we're we're not a soccer nation. There are plenty of soccer fans here. Yes. But we're not a soccer nation. We're a football star. It's just nation. And you know, I mean we get excited. People get excited. I don't get as excited as I used to, but you know, you start getting into mid summer than like next month and start, you know, oh, man, all these scrimmage games and oh, man, here comes the season. And then of course, you know, you and I share our disappointment for our team. You usually mid October knowing that they're out of it. So it's, you know, I just thought to myself, you know, if there is a perfect sport for for fans, you know, if you want to talk like long term, like enjoyment, if you really just love the game, right, if you love the game.
Even if your team isn't great, if you love the game and watching the game, it probably have to be baseball because there are so many games, right. I mean, you're, I love going to a baseball game and watching a game.
There, I don't much watch on TV, but I love going to a game.
And, but I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I thought to myself, if you're going to get your money's worth, I guess, or a value out of a sport, probably going to be baseball.
“Yeah, I'd say football. Well, now football is we are a football nation, and I, but I say that because there's fewer football games and the experience of it, the experience of going in to an NFL stadium.”
Okay, the sparing, especially especially, especially if you have tailgating, it becomes part of the culture of that, you know, because again, you know, talking about analyzing sports to me is fascinating. You know, and it's a fact on on society, but the, because this is really more, where I want to go on, this is, is more on social media, starting out with, you know, the whole soccer and we're a soccer nation now and everything else.
“It's what is being driven on social media today, which obviously you and I, because we've been doing this for such a long time, we can pick out the BS immediately.”
Soccer is not going to be the national sport of the United States. It's going to remain football, but it is the, it is what you see on social media today, and I'm going to expand this to politics and everything that we have seen over the last, you know, week week or so that we've been off. So, social media, and I think you said this to me about a month ago, I don't know if it was on the air off the air, that, that I use social media for the new sources, and I also use it for entertainment at times when I know somebody says something ridiculous when they're gaslighting, I love reading the comments.
It's more entertainment, but I tend to think you may be under a great point that social media is not reflective at all as to what goes on in normal conversations between people each and every day.
It's, you know, it's the, to me, it's become the effect of, you know, how you talk about people talk about, and I've never actually done this. I've had it done to me, but, you know, people driving by and giving somebody the finger, you know, or something like that is screaming. I was driving in Florida on my way home from seeing visiting my daughter in a sudden while at the time at Pensacola and A.S. and we were driving home and this guy got around us. And we're in like a 45 mile an hour or so, we were in a town and he was so angry, I didn't notice he was angry until he got in front of us. Then he had a sandwich in his hand and he was shaking that sandwich out the window and I was like, what in the world's going on with this guy.
But I see this as, I see social media as that kind of thing. I mean, you're not going to, you know, somebody makes you angry if you're standing in line with the grocery store or something.
You know, you're likely not going to behave that way. You're going to behave that way when you have the protection of anonymity, if you don't use your real name on social media or the fact that you probably will never see this person face to face. And you don't treat, you wouldn't treat people, you know, you may say, hey man, I disagree with you. That's wrong or something like that, but it isn't the way that people interact. It's not the normal way to interact.
“There are some debates few and far between healthy debates, you know, I think David then boss put some things up, you know, people then just go crazy on his, you know, comments and it's like, you know, the guy wasn't trying to make that point.”
And he goes back and he'll respond to comments. Right. Well, to me, it's the, the left is clearly back on X. And to take this, I mean, when, when after the, you know, with Mitch McConnell last week with Lindsey Graham and Lindsey Graham passing away. Everybody wishes to, there, there seems to be this obsession, this almost addiction obsession about wanting to speculate as far out as possible. And then insult anybody or demonize anybody who doesn't agree with your speculation that is based on zero evidence.
In fact, the defense of it is the fact that will tell me that it's not true.
Yet your defenses, nobody can defend the fact that it's not true. So your narrative becomes an absolute.
“Yeah, that's the thing that just blew blew my mind since last week where everybody had it. I know that Laura Lumer was out there. She's one of the ones at first came out and said, McConnell's dead McConnell's dead.”
And then you just see the response out there. What's he conspiracy theorist guy who had a foul bankruptcy. Oh, uh, yeah, down in in in. It's almost as if since he's gone bankrupt and that that all of his followers Jones Alex Jones, they've all gone gone out on their own and and said, OK, let's promote every conspiracy theory possible out there.
Well, and it's doing it for clicks. Yeah, and it just, but it doesn't get, but it's almost as if it's inside the beltway arguing inside the beltway.
And I get the feeling that nobody is paying attention. And I look at what I looked what I look at. And again, it's anecdotal evidence, but what I look at is all the people that I know that range from the right to the left. And none of them are posting anymore. Yeah, they're hardly posting at all. Right. Yeah. It's almost as if, OK, this is just going too far. I don't want to be a part of of this discussion. And so yeah, I mean, it started with the, you know, over the top on both sides about soccer and everything else.
But I just wanted to use that as a jumping off point to everything that you saw about Lindsey Graham, because understand if there was one thing that you could get from social media and the left reaction on social media to Lindsey Graham dying. And the demonization of Republicans is not going to stop when Trump is out of office. No, no, not at all, you know, you know, and I'll fold the whole Platner thing into that. You know, I think the Platner thing is aligned with the Eric Swallwell thing based on the similarities of accusations and things like this, right.
But also that it was known by everybody on Capitol Hill, Swallwell was known as the Snapchat King, the King of Snapchat or something like that. They knew they knew with Platner, they knew of the current allegations and maybe not the political story that dropped, but they knew.
“And we said it, I remember the day I said it, I don't remember exactly what day it was, but I remember one day saying, this isn't going to be, you and I have been doing this for too long.”
If this was going this hard in the primary season against Platner in terms of accusations, then expect greater accusations to come out between now and the election in November, and that was not that was never not going to be the case.
It was always going to be that I knew something something else would come out. You can't trust this because there seems to be a pattern of a alleged behavior.
And so when you think about the way that all of this, and then all of a sudden both of them are out, Platner's gone, Swallwell's up, their focus has to be on selling socialism and communism. And of course, the continued demonization of the right and how the right just want to be dictators yet they're the one selling communism.
“It's bizarre, but that's what they want to focus on, anything that distracts from that focus is out.”
We are right I radio. Get in touch with what I radio, toll-free at 866, my dear I. We are right I radio, he's our crony and I'm Gary McNamara. I mean, part of it was, you know, why everybody jumps on immediately when somebody dies and they have their speculation of what it is. And if you disagree with them, then you are demonized like you can't believe.
Oh, yeah, and you could tell it's under, oh, must, must have been they got th...
It's a grand must have got the shot, you know, or whatever, and everybody speculates on it. We now know the corner scene. Aortic, what I call, the dissection, right, yeah, the separation because of cardiovascular disease.
And so I mean, I look at that and I wonder, as somebody was type two diabetes and you're always paying attention to your circulatory system.
“That's, you know, those are the kind of things I wonder. And I have no answer. Did he know he had it?”
Right, right. You know, for example, Tim Russert knew he had heart disease. Right, right, you know, when he died way back when he knew it, he knew that there was a possibility of this happening. Don't know whether he knew it or not. Some things can be detected in, in fact, some of these very cases with aortic dissection can be detected through leaks or, or, you know, a scan. I have something different with my heart that was detected and they're watching it and everything's fine right now.
But, you know, he's so busy. He was so busy, Lindsey Graham. Yeah, it's a good question, you know, whether or not he was aware of it. (Music) Top of the hour news is brought to you by how products is at how products.com. This is Ridae Radio on Westwood One.
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This is Ridae Radio. (Music) All across America. We are Ridae Radio. He is Eric Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome and good morning. Thanks so much for being here. Hi. By the way, also thanks to Dan Mendes.
Oh, Dan Mendes. Thanks, Dan.
Always does a great job filling in, and we are very grateful to have the Mark Coney award winning Dam Mendes.
You folks there at WTN in Nashville. You get them every day, so you're fortunate. And we're very fortunate to have him as a part of our Red Eye team. We're not sure what management has on him, you know, to force him into doing our show. But we've got to be something. There's got to be something. I've got to be something going on.
I'm not saying it's illegal to say it. I don't know. I'm just saying it. How to be something. Some skeletons in that closet. No, he's saying we really appreciate it. Dan is the hardest working guy.
He's up during our show. You know, to an on show prep on X and social media all the time. He's up right now. I'm sure.
And he's always throwing up stuff.
And of course, if you are in Nashville, you know. They have such a great team there in Nashville at WTN. We're just so grateful to be a part of that station. And all of our great stations. I did spend some time in gratitude over the over the vacation.
Just thinking about all the things that we get to do. And all the great stations that carry us. No, I cannot believe you said that. And the reason I can't believe you said that is that's where I was going to go. And we did not discuss this.
“No, and no, and I was going to say that one of the things I think I mentioned last hour.”
One of the things that I normally get to do on vacation is catch up with reading. Yeah. And I just had there. I got a good friend in the hospital. You know, I visit a dad. I just had a ton of stuff to do around contractors.
The house is 20 years old. So it's like I didn't have a moment to, you know, to do recreational reading, which I like. I'm like, I've got, I'm in the middle of like three different books. I can't read one book at a time.
But it takes me. But I catch up on vacation. I just, there is just such an enormity of news out there.
A lot of it's because of of social media and the internet.
Everything else over the last 20 years that it's completely changed.
“And I just, it was such a busy newsweek.”
I never got to do my recreational reading. I think I did do those. And it's about nine months, ten months old. I had YouTube, you know, on just shuffle. And it goes between different podcasts, music, whatever.
I don't have, I don't get the commercials. I pay not to get the commercials on YouTube and it's worth it. You can just let the thing roll. All of a sudden what comes up is the interview that Mike Rowe did with Jean Simmons from Kiss. Yeah.
Yeah.
I never seen it. I only saw the first half of it.
But it was so incredibly good. But Jean Simmons was talking about, again, he was, you know, came to the United States born in Israel. And he talked about gratitude.
“And I really, really, really think that everything that we see.”
Because we've covered a lot here, but it almost all sort of mixes in together. When you look at the insanity, you know, the hatred, the happy that, you know, Lindsey Graham is dead. You know, from my perspective, Lindsey Graham, you could look at as a moderate Republican over the last 30 years on things like, you know, he would, he would throw out the comprehensive immigration reform, you know, all of that. But he was viewed as a moderate Republican.
It doesn't matter. Yeah. The hatred that exists right now. And you and I often talk about what makes it, because Jean Simmons was, he was hitting exactly what we were talking about before we went on vacation. You know, talking about the United States of America.
And he was talking about something that we've always said, I'm not jealous of anybody.
I've never been jealous of anybody. I've never said I wish I was somebody else. No. I am so full of gratitude just to have opportunity. I celebrate other people's success.
I'm like, man, that is such an awesome story. And Jean Simmons is talking about it. He was like, you know, look at, look at Elon Musk. Look at what he's done. Look at, you know, Jeff Bezos and what he has done.
And he goes through these people. He goes, you know, and he said, okay, he's been probably paying attention. Milton Friedman. He said, all these people, look at these people did it. It wasn't government agencies that did this.
Now, these are people that we should be celebrating every single day. But we don't. No. We don't. We don't.
We demonize the people that actually create the wealth that keeps the system going. And then complain that the system must be flawed because they create these incredible products and industry that employees, you know, millions of people and somehow they're the problem. But then he got back to talking about the positive attitude that he still has, which is what we have. Yeah.
We have a very positive attitude about the United States, about the constitution. Because we have so much gratitude for the freedom and opportunity we've been given. Our expectations are not to be taken care of. Our expectations is not for somebody else to pay the freight for what I want now. When you have gratitude, you appreciate it.
When you believe that you're a victim and constantly oppressed because you've been brainwatched to think that, of course you're going to be an angry son of a bee. Yeah. No, that's it. You know, my wife is probably my greatest source of that.
Inspiration to stay grateful in terms of anybody outside of myself.
Now, my parents always taught me that.
You know, your parents, my parents, my parents were both born during the Great Depression. Your parents lived through the Great Depression as kids.
“And, and if you look at, you know, that, that I think there's a lot that's passed down from that.”
But, but it doesn't always have to be that you see people that come here from other countries. You see, you know, the Jane Simmons or you and I both met Uber drivers who were from the countries. And that are working around the clock because they can. They're like, no, this is great work. And I love staying busy and I love the opportunity.
I look around me and I see other opportunity. And this is an innovative entrepreneurial mind. And in the mind set, that is the mindset. You know, I, I don't think you necessarily have to have an entrepreneurial or innovative creative mind in order to be grateful. But those who are grateful.
Often create opportunities if you think about it because if you're grateful, ...
if you like what you're doing, you're grateful for our opportunity, then you're likely to be more present when that opportunity arises.
You're likely to be more vocal about the presenting, you know, a chance at that opportunity.
“And, and to me, I think that's everything.”
I think it's, it's just if you don't, if you're not in that mindset. And we can all get down every once in a while. You know, I mean, we go through things. You know, we go through life. You went through a few years ago, the loss of your mother.
I recently went through the loss of my brother. And a man I've known since I was nine years old recently called me and told me about his wife passing and, you know, And I have a good friend right now who's in real trouble. Yeah, good friend right now going through that. And both, you know, we both have parents in the hospital, by the way, is what I meant.
Yeah, and we both have parents who were going through illnesses and aging. Your dad's a hundred years old, which is remarkable.
So there are always concerns in life.
But, you know, for me, if you don't understand that opportunity. And, and I think that's it. It's, and you don't have to be in terms of wealth. You don't have to want to be Elon Musk. It is creating your own level of opportunity along the way and being present.
And to me, the best part of that is being present. Because I love being in an active situation and an active atmosphere where people are doing things. Where, you know, things are going on and happening.
“Because I think there's something to learn in any of those scenarios.”
And if, you know, if you shut yourself out, this is one of the one. Quite frankly, that I didn't like about vacation. There were a couple of days when I needed to catch up on some things around the house. And a couple of things when I, I just barely went outside. I mean, the heat is a bit oppressive.
And so it doesn't allow for opportunity. But I was getting a ton of things done. I was highly productive up until Sunday afternoon when I had to go to bed for the show. And it was, you know, that's great. But there's also that purpose when people ask about, you know,
Warren Buffett or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, they could all retire or could have retired years ago. And they keep going because the innovative mind, the creative mind, the passion for what they're doing. And, and how it benefits others, but also they're doing it for that. They're not necessarily doing it for the money. I'm sure they love the money, but it's, they're doing it for the sake of fulfilling a personal mission statement.
Richard Branson talked about when he was young. His mother when people freaked out about this. His mother dropped him up and said, okay, find your way home. And it was a kid. I forget how old he said he was eight, nine years old. And he found his way.
And the point was, and he, you know, later learned that she was nearby. She was not very far, but she wanted him to learn a path. She wanted him to learn to navigate his way, to find his way. It was a very different time. It was a great Britain, you know, but he, that innovative mind, you know,
became, I'm guessing, from that kind of instruction from his mother. Or maybe she just recognized he had an innovative mind to begin with.
“You know, when I think about Elon Musk, hey, I'm going to make a rocket.”
It comes back in lands down on earth. It just comes back and basically parallel parts itself on, you know, on the landing pad. And I'm thinking to myself, that sounds like something a six year old would say in fantasy. If you, if you 30 years ago, if you had said that out loud, it's like who said that?
A six year old because that's never going to happen.
But if you think about what they have done and how many companies he's running and all of the things he's into, there are two answers. Either he's been cloned multiple times, or he is somebody who is always working on something.
That's his passion.
The longer I live, the more I have observed that everything that you see about where we are as a society is
is completely delusional. And the difference is people that have gratitude that appreciate freedom and want that freedom. They want the opportunity, which they know will include failure, which they want.
“And the other side that we see, because I believe that when you have gratitude and you analyze things,”
what am I, you know, what am I grateful for? What do we have? And you and I've talked about, you know, before the 4th before independence day, you know, how the Democrats, socialists of America want to get rid of the constitution, you know, they want to completely rewrite it. And all that and we're like, no way, you know, because we understand what it means. And we have tremendous amount of gratitude that we have the separation of powers that we have, you know, the, the, the bill of rights that it was designed this way.
But the other side, when you look at it, and it's the same thing I think with socialism, socialism is based on class warfare. That's how you sell it.
But to me, racism has never, I won't say it, it would never, in my life, it has never been the major problem.
The major problem is jealousy, envy, and selfishness. And selfishness is not large corporations making a legitimate profit. Greed and selfishness is when you believe you have a right to what others have earned.
“Right. And when you have that, you have to be delusional in your mindset, you've got to be angry if you're a victim.”
If you're going to pretend that you're a victim of the man or society, the only way you can sell that is what is with unhinged anger and rage and fury. And that's exactly what you're seeing from the left because that's what envy, jealousy and selfishness brings. It brings out the worst character traits in a human being where gratitude, I believe, does the opposite. When you live in a free society, you can actually look and say, what is reality? What is the truth?
When you are just immersed in jealousy, envy, and selfishness, you justify it by saying you're a victim and therefore you're always angry.
And at the same time, completely delusional about what reality is. You know, when my brother passed away, he had a very modest set of assets. He had paid for his house. He was not married, didn't never had children. He paid for his truck. He had money coming in and money in a 401(k) money in savings. And he told me several times. He said, I have all the money I need. I'm good.
You know, he's buying things up, creating his house, you know, here and there. It was an older house. And I just remember him saying, you know, it's hard to believe that I'm at this point of retirement and that I've done it. And he felt grateful. He felt grateful for that success at that level again, not Elon Musk money. But plenty of money that was going to be coming in for the rest of his life for however long he left. And he died unexpectedly a couple of years after that after retiring.
But now I look back on that and that's a success story in terms of what he did with his career and his assets living below his means.
“And he was happy, you know, and it's, I think that's how you have to live your life.”
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I mean, it just verifies what I've what I have learned and observed over the decades upon decades upon decades upon centuries upon centuries that I've been alive is that selfishness, jealousy and envy is what drives the liberalism and the socialism of that party.
“It makes it easy to justify being a victim when you're not a victim, gratitude to me is such a big key in having a happy life. Yep, it really it is.”
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They said they would they would like to express their deep gratitude to the staff at St. Vincent private hospital for their incredible care.
“In Australia he's from New Zealand. I think he lived mostly in Australia more details will be shared the family rights but for now.”
On behalf of the family we asked that you respect their privacy as they navigate this measurable loss.
But 78 years of age people know him from Jurassic Park. I never he did such a good job and whatever Omen he was in.
Yeah, it was the third one right where he was and and he was the devil right. Yeah, it was the final conflict which was 1981 and the adult version of Damian Thornton.
“Yes, he pulled off in a way that was to me scarier in many ways than the child version.”
That's that character that's the memory I have anything else he did. Yeah, he was the look on his face was so evil.
Yeah, that I never forgot. I was like, I don't like his character at all and that's the way you're not supposed to like his character.
He was a politician in that movie as well. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I forgot about that right. It kind of relayed.
But that's so when he was in Jurassic Park it was like, you know, whatever it was it was that look that he gave that he would give the camera as the adult Damian in that the Omen what the third Omen.
I guess. Yeah, yeah, that is what stayed with me and it's like, I don't like him at all. And I'll tell you to that 60's mod hairstyle that he had that they had the character basically wearing in that in that movie.
It was kind of like a, you know, politician when he put his suit on, but it h...
But it was, you know, this was just years after the exercise and of course the Omen, the Omen actually, which opened on June 6th, 1976.
“So six month, six day of 76, the 666 thing as they did is a kind of a gimmick went on to make a lot of money.”
And they, in fact, you some of that money it was said to help fund the production closing or the finishing of the production of Star Wars and some other movies. I was a huge movie. It was a massive massive movie.
He was not in that, but but was in the third one.
When you think of Jurassic Park too, the Jurassic Park thing kind of changed, if you look at CGI, it changed a lot of things, but Sam Neo was a character. He wasn't in the second one. He came back for the third one. And, you know, he just had that, you know, that look, you know, he's there reluctantly, you know, he's kind of like thinking, you know, this isn't going to go well. You know, as the expert. And now, but he, he also expressed terror in his eyes very, he had a way of making his face to me at least.
Oh, yeah.
In character development as an actor, he, like I said, for me, he'll always be Damian, he adult Damian,
Oh, man, the anti-Christ and I, you've scared the hell out of me as a character, but then, you know, the fear you could see in Jurassic Park, he just had that way with his face. What I like, though, is I read that on his social media, he would post images of his farm animals. And he gave, he gave them names. He, like, he named his farm animals after his friends and other celebrities, for example, as most again from Jurassic Park, his chicken, he called Laura Dern, the chicken. [ Laughter ]
I love it. So Dern, of course, another story of Jurassic Park. Right. So a great sense of humor. And he, you know, he said years ago, he was asked, well, why do you still live down under? You know, why haven't you moved to Hollywood? He's like, no, I can do everything from here.
If they call me about a role, and I feel like it's worthy, and I need to audition, then I'll make the flight or not.
“My life is here. Russell Crowe's kind of done that, who also has animals. He's actually got a beef ranch.”
But you think about, you know, basically being able to make a choice.
And I wouldn't say, I would say, Samuel, in terms of his talent, was an A-list actor. You know, he had a very consistent, if you go to his IDM, D-P, he's done so many things that I think he was great. But, you know, I mean, he's not like the superstar superstar, you know, kind of kind of actor, massive box office, aside from Jurassic Park, of course. You know, and so, but he still made his decision to be, you know, look, I don't want to live in Hollywood.
By the way, I was reading more and more articles recently about actors not wanting to live in California, and Hollywood at all anymore. They've bought, you know, ranches somewhere else. They're living in other other states that want to get out of the craziness. A friend of mine who works in Hollywood tells me that it's just, it seems from his perspective to be collapsing, you know, based on the fact that it's, you know, it's California, but it's also the fact that there are so many other places to do production.
You know, why not live in areas in any area you want, and you can also travel to places to do those movies, shows or whatever you want. I remember this goes back over a decade, but there were just rumors.
“Remember that a company, not to be mentioned, was, you know, might buy, you know, our show among others.”
Right. And, and when we heard that it was like, well, if that happens, we'd have to move to New York City. That's not happening. Yeah. You know, actually, we would, we would be done at that point because one of the, the great things about doing this show.
One of the things that makes us happy and, and probably, again, other people maybe would love to work in in Washington or New York.
Yeah.
And they're, you know, they're great cities. Yeah. But that's not me. It's just not me. It's not where I want to live.
I'm so happy that we get to do our show from Texas. I was offered twice jobs in New York City, and both times I said no. I, and they would have been, I mean, catapulting my earnings, you know, and I just thought to myself, No, it's not, it's not where my family is. It's not where my heart is.
And I don't think I could bring the same experience and presentation.
“You know, the life experience I think is important.”
In fact, it's critical to what we do.
You know, whatever you're bringing to the table. You're compassion for your passionate, not compassion. You're passion for whatever you believe has to be expressed. But I think a lot of that is from your, your life experience. And it would drive me crazy.
I mean, bless all the people who do it. You know, Larry O'Connor, our buddy and all those folks that don't get, M.A.L., you know, my sister lived in the Beltway for three years. And that was all, that's about all she could handle. Her husband is a government contractor.
And so they moved out. Now they live in a ranch in Texas and he works in the home. Well, I mean, was, especially when we're talking about, you know, if we were based in Manhattan, you almost have to live there. There's no way out.
No way. I was going to live in Manhattan, just absolutely. And again, people love it.
“You know, and this is like arguing soccer football.”
You either like it or you don't. And it's just, you know, the personal taste of what you like. One other celebrity note that we have to make though. Mm. A comment from Mick Jagger about Bruce Springsteen.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, why don't you talk politics? Think about this.
Mick Jagger, 470 years old. Yes. And now he's being asked about his politics. Yeah. He's like, exactly. He's like, nobody wants to hear my.
Nobody wants to hear me on stage. Ranting about about nobody comes to the show to hear you talk about politics. Yeah. It's rocking. I know it's only rocking role, but I like it.
It's funny because I just read an article about about him. And it was about the fact that he's so. He's in such good shape. And he says, I don't do drugs. And I exercise every, every day.
And he's 83 this month. 83. And he still dances around on stage like he did back in the 60s and 70s. You know, and that's the thing. Again, you know, a lot of rockers will, you know, they can't.
They can't do what they do.
Well, Mick Jagger really never sang out of his range.
So vocals wise, I'm sure it's not easy. But he can still hit those notes because nobody knows what the hell he's saying. And that Ron Woods said that one time, because I don't have any idea what he's saying. [laughter] I can't tell.
I don't know. And it's, you know, but it's, if you think about what the stones have done, it's, it's next to the impossible in their field. And they've stayed relevant, and they can fill stadiums. Well, except for the disco album.
Well, yeah, I, you know, to me, I didn't mind it because I thought to myself, well, I'll just chalk this up as to kind of making fun of disco. But my wife and I are very first, one of our very first dates. Not a very first, but one of our very first dates. The steel wheels tour in, was that 89, 90, at here in Texas.
And, and I told her, I said, you know, we weren't married yet. And I said, you know, we should probably go. We got free tickets, and there were great tickets. And we should probably go because this will probably be their last tour. [laughter]
And the writer that wrote the recent story that I read said, you know, it was back when it was back when, right after Charlie Wattstein. He said, I've got a chance to see the stones.
And this is, you know, the first tour since Charlie has died.
And this would be probably a time when they would bow out. Maybe when Charlie's after Charlie's gone, second by, boom, boom, boom. And here they are. They've made two albums since then.
“And I think they have a new one coming out.”
And he's 80, Mick Jagger's 83. And I think, you know, if you look at Keith Richards, he must be donating blood to science. Well, when you when you talk about the final tour, I remember the married with children where Al Bundy
Was working with his father on their car in the garage.
And he was a senior in high school.
Yeah.
“And his father's like, you know, what are you going to do?”
I met the well, dad, we got this really big concert. I really met this great chick named Peg. And we're going to the Rolling Stones farewell tour concert tonight. So that must have been like in the 80s, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It would have been like 70, 71, 72. Oh, it was a throwback in the show. Yeah, it was a throwback on the show of when he was in a wonderful way. I've met this really, I really dig this chick, Peg.
And we're going to go to the Rolling Stones farewell tour concert.
Yeah. Well, think about it. So to add to be like 70 or 71 because in the show, we've been a couple of years older than I was. Right.
I'm lying, but yeah, I just loved how he just said, No, we're not going to talk politics. Nobody cares what I think. Right. And come to hear the music, though.
You know, going all the way back around to Sam Neal, sympathy for the devil.
Yeah, there you go. Exactly.
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And Mitch McConnell making a statement yesterday. I mean, that when that went the conspiracy theories on that went through the wall. They did because we were told from some reports that when it initially happened that there was a report from his address that it was cardiac arrest. Right.
And his doctors are saying it's related to polio. He had a fall. And he's saying he should be back soon. I don't know why the disclosure or the statement wasn't put out sooner. Four weeks is a long time.
So I question that. Well, it all started with Laura Loomer saying that he had died. Right. And so that's the one on social media.
“You know, the only thing I would question from his camp”
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