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Hi. You know, it got up to 109 in my town yesterday. You know, it's crazy. I was running errands. About the time you posted, you posted, you were working in your yard.
Yeah.
“And I think it was a little laughter that actually.”
It was 106 then. It was 106 then. I think it was an hour or an hour and a half later. I went to go run some errands just in my neighborhood. And it's radiant heat.
It wasn't the actual temperature, but then by truck, Red, 121 degrees. That's the radiant heat basically coming off of the pavement that affects that reading. Then you drive around for a little bit and it kind of gets closer to what the actual reading was. But yeah, 109.
And then we're supposed to get back up above 100 today. And I had to go visit a friend in the hospital in Fort Worth, so I got caught up in traffic. And when I got caught up in traffic, I got caught up in an area where there was a ton of road construction being done. And so I'm looking out, you know, seeing the workers out there saying how the hell did
they do that? I saw a ton of cooling tents.
But then something I never thought of before.
What's that? Because there's all the massive road construction equipment in there. And so as I'm sitting there at a dead stop, yeah, for like 15 minutes before they it got moving.
“And I think it was because construction equipment or something was crossing the highway.”
But I'm looking at these, you know, these big dump trucks and earth movers, excavators. And thinking to myself, they're all in close. I got to have air conditioning. They do. I looked it up on AI and it said they do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they talked about specifically in Texas and had the companies that actually are there to immediately repair if there's any problem with the air conditioning. Yeah, no. In those massive vehicles, you die if you didn't have it.
Friend of mine, who I've known since it's great school, works in this area in construction. Right now, he's working on the expansion of DFW. And equipment he's in is is air conditioning. Now, a lot of the stuff that they have to do, they have to do by hand, you know, so they got to get out there and they got to get the sun.
But they're very careful, you know, about breaks and everything else. And also working at night, you know, helps a little bit, sometimes that's the catchup on a schedule. You kind of have to work when you can, and now that we're kind of past our rainy season, you can work at just, you know, you can work almost every day and, you know, a hundred
degrees. But a hundred and nine, they're very careful, you know, there was a pulse of carrier, another pulse of carrier, just about 15, 20 minutes north of here, who passed away from the heat. And that's happened before.
It was actually that it actually happened in our area before last year or year before. And you think about the people like on my street, my mailbox is on my porch. So Daniel, our carrier, a great guy, I've known him for years and he comes by and he's got to walk the whole street, you know, I don't know how big his route is.
And it's amazing how fast he gets one street done, but they're, you know, they're working
in the heat.
“They, you know, I remember my dad, but my dad was in after his military career, he drove”
a truck delivering pharmaceuticals. And the truck that they had him in for the longest time was a smaller truck. It wasn't the smallest box truck, but it was a box truck. So it wasn't an 18-wheeler at that time, and it had no air conditioning. I'm like, are you kidding me?
I mean, he just had to wear a rag around his neck, the whole time kept gay to write. He kept a cooler actually in his truck filled with ice down with everything. Now, he was in doors, he would go in when he would deliver to hospitals and pharmacies. He would, you know, of course, he would take his break then.
He was home every day, he got home every day, you know, so, but still my gosh.
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If I would listen on your favorite platform. Yeah, I had people saying, you're not really doing lawn work. I'm like, I'm only offered 10 or 15 minutes of hydrating very, very well. But I don't really stay out for more. You can tell.
But I have an evaporation. I got a couple of evaporation hats, which are the greatest things ever invented. That are very simple. They have like a sponge-like material.
You basically soak the hat and then you ring it out.
And in the sponge area at the top of the head, it evaporates and you be amazed. You'll be out there now. It doesn't last, or less easily, the 15 minutes that I'm out there. And then I come in for 10 minutes, cool off, throw it on some water, put more water on the evaporation hat, put it back on.
“But when you take the hat off and you walk in, your head's completely cooled.”
It's cold. I mean, it's, the rest of your body might get hot, but I did have, oh, getting back to your car thing. But I lived in Florida in Texas from late '82 to late '86. I didn't have air conditioning in my vehicle.
I lived in Florida and I lived in East Texas. So I mean, it's hot there as it does here. I've had a couple of cars without air conditioning. It's not good. It's amazing how, when I was in my 20s, it wasn't as big of a deal.
No. I really didn't know, there wasn't like, I've got to sell this car and I got to do whatever I do to be able to get air conditioning. It was just like whatever. Yeah.
Well, it was, you know, when I was young, I always thought, well, I'll fix the air
conditioner because there was an air conditioner on the car, but this one car had. But I didn't mind rolling the windows down. You know, it was an old money car, it was a cool car. And rolling the windows down also kept a weed smell out of the car. So that way, if the cops pull me over, that's not true.
It wouldn't keep the weed smell out of the car, not unfortunately. No, no. It was, I never really, because, you know, I wasn't an adult. So I didn't, I wasn't like traveling hours, you know, to go see someone or whatever. I was going, I lived in a small town.
I was in the car maybe 15 minutes at a time, you know, so it wasn't a big deal. And now, I lived 2.2 miles from here. No, I'm going to have AC. I'm going to have AC, even at night, I'm going to have AC even in the winter. I'm going to have AC, I mean, what a great, you know, and I know, we know liberals hate
air conditioning, yeah, yeah, except their own, right exactly, exactly. But it was, it's just, I will, I will say this though, that it's wonderful to walk back in the air conditioning, but I was out for a while. And after that, I take the hydrating fluid that has salt. And somebody was telling me that the other day they said, you know, salt is, and I go,
what they have in the hydrating fluid, they, you know, the powder, excuse me, you put into water and they got like 20% of your minimum daily adult requirement of salt, sodium. But when the, the biggest impact it has is if I'm, if I'm, when I used to golf during the summer, I really don't golf during the summer anymore, it's just too much of a beat down.
And I finished nine holes and you felt beat down, you take the bottle water, you put that powder in, you shake it up, you take it, you get a salt high, you can feel it. Yeah, you can actually, you start waking up, it's like, whoa, yeah, and, but I, I stop
Because, yeah, I, I can't, I, I, I golfed one time in 112 degrees and we walk...
I can't be fun. Much, yeah, we gave up like on the 14th hole we walked in and I just said, you know, but that was a long time ago, but that I was still up to just even two years ago, I was
golfing during the summer and I finally just said, it's too much of a beat down.
It just is, I mean, the, the, yeah, just, you know, when you get older, it just, it really,
“and I think age really does have an, I don't know why, but age does have the impact”
of how you handle heat. Now, I did have heat stroke once and what's when I lived in East Texas, and we used to play basketball in middle of the day and it'd be 105, 106. And one day, I took the ball out of bounds and I could still remember the feeling, it was a, you forked feeling, I'm playing basketball. This is great. It's so hot out and I've got the chills. Yeah, I make the ball out of bounds. I mean, I was, I, I would have, my head would have hit the concrete
if the guy in front of me guarding me, hadn't caught me. But, you know, the guy would have
taken the ball out of bounds and he's guarding me and there I go, woo, right there. And yeah, woke up at the side and drank water and I was done for the day. I didn't go to the hospital. That was probably shoulda, but I was young and foolish back then, but I learned at that point, you just, you don't mess with, you don't mess with heat. Yeah, I've been in the situation actually in an ER with dehydration. And ironically, I was in Galveston at this ER and they gave me
IV, you know, sailing solution. And I thought, this is ironic because I was literally right across the street from the beach that has the most salt water. And I'm paying probably a lot of money or the insurance company was for me to get this hydration. I had some other things going on and it wasn't ended up not being too serious. But one time I did, I ran, I was running actually went out for a run, 98 degrees. And when I came back around the house, you know, by the house,
I thought, I think I'd better go inside because my sweating started to slow down and I thought, that's, that's not good. And sure enough, I went in and then when I laid down my heart, it was just racing, racing. And I actually took, actually drank salt water, salt water and pickled
“juice. That's what I drank. They sell it now as hydration. Did they really? I just bought two”
gallons of it pickled juice. They before yesterday. Yeah. I think I'd rather die. Yeah. And now they're taken the yellow dye number two out of it. So it's actually clear. Okay. I don't know, you know, so it doesn't taste like pickles. No, it's still juice. It takes like pickles. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. It's, it's, it will hydrate you. All right. So I make this smell like a burger. Yeah. So there's that. We, you know, we had mentioned about a sonpiker, telling Lundami to shut the F up.
Yeah. Because it's like, you're hesitating. You're not, that's, there's saying that's why AOC, you know, her numbers, you know, AOC's numbers are Trump has better favorability numbers in AOC. And one of the reasons and Piker was talking about it is because I'm down. He's starting to hesitate
when he gives an explanation. Yeah. Basically trying to think now. Yeah. How will the public
“judge this instead of just saying it? And he said, that's what AOC did. Right. You know, AOC now”
parses her words and you can't. You got to be, if you're going to be a communist, be a county and be a proud county. If you're going to be a Nazi, if you're going to be a Chinese communist, where are the uniform? If you're going to believe in anti-Semitism, if you're going to be a racist, if you're going to be a misogynist, if you're going to be a sexist, be an absolute dominant in your face communist sexist misogynists, Nazi, whatever else you want to throw in there. Yeah.
No, that's exactly what we have talked about for a long time. But we said it during the interim period after the election in 2008 before he was inaugurated. We talked about Barack Obama. For the people who think, you know, that he's going to do all of these things on the left, that voted for him. Well, he's going to have to moderate. He's going to have to temper some of these things. And the way he talks, he's going to say a bunch of things and do a bunch of things,
you're not going to like. It's, it's the case with all of them because diplomacy will at every
Turn will catch you and then you're in the headlines and they don't want to b...
for that reason. This is the problem with their ideas, their ideas are failures. They've been proven.
“Well, that's what whether it's meandami or AOC, they start looking and saying,”
I don't, I believe this, but I don't know if I can sell it. Right. Because she came out, you know, she's one that really was the sort of the architect of the Green New Deal, yeah, which really sent you to communism. Right. She really hasn't proposed anything that radical sense. No. There's a big blowback on that, but you think about AOC with only 35% of approval. Trump's is better. Yeah. And, you know, you look at that and you're just, when I, when I saw
that I went, all right, here we go, eventually you will become an oppressor. And if you do not subscribe to the socialism communism of the DSA, then you are an oppressor,
“piker said it the other day, when you say, you're a collaborator with the Democratic Party,”
basically, to hell with the Democratic Party. Oh, this is the problem with identity politics
that if you get to a point in the same applies to the DSA, you're either with us full on or you're not. Yeah, you're our enemy. You can't hesitate. If you hesitate, you're the enemy. Right. You can't be silent. You're going to be the oppressor eventually. I said it a couple of weeks ago. Eventually, I'm Donny, we'll be the oppressor. So it begins. We are right, I radio. Brought to you by FPPF, fuel power max. Owner operators can save a hefty amount of money by participating in discount
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reparations, Tallarico, which he has never talked about before. He's just always kept quiet on it.
He didn't want to broach that topic, but here this is, she says to him, "Black people don't trust you for this reason, and you cannot win without us, so you stay here, you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences. Listen to this, here we go. I appreciate you being here and I appreciate you traveling in and I appreciate you. No hell, all right. You can tell he's stalling too. Yeah. I thank you for coming. Yeah, really appreciate you coming. I want to start by saying
that's great to talk. That's something you can't do in talk radio. No, you can't stall like that. Yeah, I just want to start by thinking everyone for being here today. No, no, no. We're so glad that you went to the app or turned on the radio station,
Or we're now we actually do, we thank our listeners because we are grateful f...
we are not. But it's not a stall tactic. No, it isn't. Just love that. We'll get to more of that coming up here.
“You know, it's, it's really interesting because with the, with the DSA now in there and the Radical”
Democrats now taking over the, the party, everything is different when it comes to, you know, you being an oppressor. Yeah, because now, I mean, we played the thing from, from Tallarico, where the black woman was saying, people black Democrat women, people don't trust you. You cannot win without us. So you stay here and you answer our questions.
Are you suffer the consequences and the free beacon had that on, on, on X. And then they had a
story. James Tallarico now says, he backs reparations for slavery. And if you do the research,
“he hasn't backed reparations before. Right. And they, as they write here, claiming Texas still”
suffers from the reverberations of slavery. Tallarico threw his support behind reparations during the town hall events, saying he would enact tuition relief, home ownership, baby bonds for black people to help build generational wealth. The move comes at a fraught time for the Texas
Democrat as recent polling shows. He struck me to shore up support from the black community and
comes one day. He came up with this one day after he was dressed down by an angry voter who declared the black people don't trust him. And it's a delivery goes remarks. Mark a significant
“left word shift now in his messaging from his primary campaign was he declined to comment on”
reparations, which were supported by Crocket, Jasmine Crocket, as he presented himself to voters as a progressive who could appeal across party lines. We told you he wasn't a moderate the messaging help propel Tela Rico to a comfortable primary victory in March over Crocket, who is black. And now claims she lost her Democrat primary race due to racism. Oh, by the way, they, the campaign said that back then too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was racist. It was a racist race. Crocket said
during a podcast appearance. It's a couple of weeks ago. Crocket's view appears to be shared by a significant portion of black Texas voters. A New York Times CNN poll in June found the 12% of black Texas voters hold a very unfavorable view of Tela Rico. They said Tela Rico's troubles with black voters appears to stem from an episode in February in which the former congressman Colin Olred, a black man who lost his 2024 election to Senator Ted Cruz in a nine point race publicly
accused Tela Rico, a being a racist for having the audacity to allegedly refer to him as a quote, mediocre black man and of quote. Wow. We're not, we're we're laughing at where we know because we know where this is going. Yeah. Allward briefly ran for Senate again in 2025 and after his early departure from the race, Crocket was considered a heavy favorite for the Texas Democratic Senate nomination, commenting on Olred's departure in February. Tela Rico reportedly told a
Dallas-based political commentator that he signed up to run against a mediocre black man, not a formidable and intelligent black woman. Olred seized on Tela Rico's alleged comments to cast him as a racist in a video message urging all young black men out there to shrug off their haters by voting for Crocket. Tela Rico denied making the offensive remarked and called
The accusation, a mischaracterization of a private conversation.
like I said, even Tela Rico now, he's a racist. Yeah. Well, of course, he's a racist.
“Now you may be saying that Jasmine Crocket has no credibility because the last racist thing that”
she talked about was Argentina against Spain and racism is why and she couldn't figure out whether people were cheering for Argentina or not. She really was muttling that message completely. Yeah, she fumbled that. She really fumbled that. But racism somehow was involved
in that ironically she fumbled while talking about soccer.
And as was noted immediately because the point we believe she was trying to make is that people were supporting Argentina over Spain for racist reasons and she was reminded by most critics of her racist commentary that apparently she missed the colonization of Latin America by the
“Spanish. Right. Yeah. Oh, I got it so great. It's so great. Is ignorance that bliss?”
Am I missing? Am I missing out on something? I mean, I don't pretend or claim to be the smartest guy in the room ever, even if I'm the only one in the room. No, that's a great point.
You and I could never take and I know our audience couldn't take just a slogan and run with that
without question whether it was true or not. Well, we wouldn't make it one segment. You know what I mean? You're you're not going to it's it's just to me it's it's mind-boggling what gets people to vote for individuals who are just off the charts ignorant. I just I just don't get it. I really don't get it and yet it happens. Well, it comes down to the willfully ignorant voter. You go out of your way to make things that aren't important important
and the issues themselves aren't important but it doesn't matter. You vote in a different way.
“That's how it runs. You're voting for the wrong reason. You're voting for anything else”
but the issues. You know, the ads come together with, you know, and that so and so is strong on crime, or, you know, no, no, no, no, or likes. Yeah, not anymore. No, no, strong on crime not strong on police. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, I'm strong on crime. I'm strong on crime. People like to see that person's prolonged appointment. No, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, I support the gang. We want crime. No, we're strong on crime. We want crime. We were worth listening. Criminals are just trying to feed their
family like everybody else. It was, was AOC, right? AOC. Yeah. My gosh. Oh, seriously. It's, you could, there, if she can get elected, if if all of these others can get elected, I'm just wondering how bliss is that ignorance? I mean, wow, you've got to live because the willfully ignorant voter is the one that's making this happen. These are all choices. These people don't just walk into office. You just jump on board. It's just become that easy to win in certain
parts of this country. Yeah. And, but here's the problem. You know, at some point, they become the oppressor just as we point it out. Look, there's, the clock is ticking as soon as you win. It's only a matter of time. And, I'm donning us finding that out now, and AOC has been finding that out for quite some time. You know, I just want to get to this here for the end of the hour,
Because I, you and I were talking about this, you know, I think it was by the...
This had come out yesterday. Remember, the beginning of the show I had mentioned,
“Jason Alexander, probably a Constanza reference or something. But Jason Alexander has taken”
accountability for his past mistakes. The 66-year-old actor recently apologized to Courtney Stodd, a student for participating in a 2012 funny or die sketch in which he held a cell phone to her chest and made comments about her body when she was a minor looking back at the comedy sketch in which Mr. Stodd and I participated in 2012. I completely agree that it was inappropriate and I
truly regret it. He told Fox News Digital in a statement. But more importantly, I am sorry for any
harm or distress. It is caused her, I offer her my sincerest apologies. The apology comes one day after she call out Alexander on Instagram as one of the writers of the sketch adding as an adult. That fact has become harder or not easier for me to understand. I was 17 years in this photo. The older I get, the more impossible this is to understand. During this comedy sketch, Jason Alexander repeatedly rubbed his phone across my breasts while saying there was no signal in my head,
but plenty of signal in my chest. Later in the sketch, he joked that when I turned 18, he'd like to have his way with me. She had as she was a minor and didn't have a legal power to decide whether I wanted to participate and that the contracts were signed by adults. What is the 17-year-old in, because that was an organized that, you know, funny or die was, was a commercial enterprise. Yeah. What hell was the 17-year-old in a sketch for?
Well, and it was written into the sketch about her age when you turn 18. Yeah.
First of all, how is that even funny?
Maybe that was the die part. Yeah. That wasn't funny. If the name is funny or die,
“I guess there is no promise to be funny. Yeah. I don't remember that one.”
I don't think I've ever seen it. No. I don't think I've ever seen it. No. I don't think I've ever seen it either. No. I've only seen a handful of the funny or die things that happened. I mean, sir saying he was one of the writers, everybody signed a contract. Right. You knew what the script was. Yeah. So this wasn't just Jason Alexander doing it. No. I'm not trying to take responsibility away from them, by the way. No, but I'm just stating the truth. This was the people who run, funny or die, put it up there. Right.
This was a, it was posted, because it was on, it's, it's an online. Right. This is a group of adults
“who wrote it, produced it. Yeah. Directed it. How does that, how does that get through?”
Sorry, you're not, you're 17. You can't do this. Yeah. We're not, we're not going to do this. It, nothing from what I've read of those lines is remotely funny. But beyond that, the age, the whole age thing. Yeah. I, you had a group of adults. That, this sighted it was okay and made it happen. Yeah. Well, I, I, I know, I don't know how that happens. We are right. I radio.
Coming up more with Gary McNamara and Eric Hartley. It's right. I radio. We are, we're radio. He's Eric, probably, and I'm Gary McNamara. So that happened in the Jason Alexander thing in 2012. Right. Yeah. So I, I, I just, I, I, it still boggles my, my mind. We're anything of any type of sexual content at all. Would, you know, with, with somebody who is a minor, a minor actress. Right. Unless you get parental approval for that. And I don't even
Know, I mean, because you, as we know, there've been some young actors that h...
people of you and go, oh, I don't know about that one. But the fact is, it's like,
“apparently, I, whether she went along with it or not, I don't know. But I'm just telling you this.”
I don't care what movie it is. If I'm a producer, executive producer of that, it's not happening.
I know someone who's good friends with the families who son, I know somebody who knows
somebody who knows somebody. Somebody actually who used to work for us. Her best friend's son
was on a very popular Netflix series. And he was underage. And there was a lot of cursing and
“everything on the set. And eventually I think a couple of times in the script, you know, he cursed.”
There was nothing sexual or anything like that. Right. But a ton of violence. And, and, you know, and the question was brought up, you know, by a buyer friend who was one of our former colleagues.
“What do you, what do you think? To his parents? Well, he's an actor. And these are things he's”
going to see anyway. He's probably already seeing them on, you know, on in movies, you know, elsewhere. You know, he wasn't like five years old. But he wasn't 18 either. This is a different totally different story. This is Red Eye Radio, on Westwood One. Dissearch that up. And I will be there. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Motivation Insight with Chris Fambley.
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