AM Show Hr 3 | Texas Pride, Country Music & Election Season

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is on the air. Girl, they got a whole bunch of promiscuitary women's out there these days. And I'm warning you, guys, y'all going to end up pregnant for these men, and y'all going to be sorry when y'all get like I am and have 19 children's at your house and can't get rid of them and don't remember who none of them dead is. Here's my baby dad. Honey, look around my house. Cheeto, limbo, Cracker Jack, Orangelo, K. Martina, Salmonella, Velvita, Janita, Genitalia, Catfish, Leroy, Cocoa, Pluto, Penelip, Jack Daniels, Beaufort, and LaMangelo. Who is these children's dad? Honey, I wish I'd wrote down their name. I got their credit card. Look here, aloe vera, Mabeline, ginger vitus, brale cream, Cruix, Nyquil, gangster Q, daffodier, Ron Bacarty, Captain Morgan, Democtoris, DeLorenton, Galotrum, Felicia, Chlamydia, Champagne. Oh, Lord, who are these children, Daddy? I wish I knew because I tell them to come get them for the weekend, honey. Lord, who are they dads? I'd be so confused by all these faces. Look at there. Nova Scotia, Bubbilicious, Couponita, gonorrhea, ice bucket, butuglia, vizine, and margarita, percolator, terminator, bellcrow, taquo, varicella, chromosome, obstetric, and chatea. Now, you know that's a shame. Who is these babies dance? Lord, have mercy. I wish he would step forward. Come claim your children. Yep. To the phone lines we go. Lizzie, you are up first. Go ahead, sweetheart. Good morning, Michael Bari Weiss. Okay, so I think this Ella Langley song resonates with so many people because she's endearing. She's got great timing. The hook is great. Um, it's catchy, it's classic country like another caller had mentioned. Yeah. It's interesting, but all of those things, the question becomes, you're telling me all the wonderful things about her. That's not to say there haven't been endearing artists. That's not to say, so I think that. It's my theory anyway. You might be right, and that's the reason for it. And I'm not necessarily disagreeing. I think there are moments in time where an audience is waiting for something that they may not know they want. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, actually, when he introduced iTunes, people told him,

There's no market for that. People like albums. And he said, no, they like songs. They want the song, and they want to carry it with them wherever they go. You can't carry the album. And they don't want to buy a whole album. The 5% of music junkies know what song is in what order on the album. And then you have concept albums. You could look at... comfortably numb or the wall. You can look at Tommy that the Who did. There were a series of those at that time. There were albums as concepts that said, this is where the band is now. This is the instrumentation. Paul Simon, when he went to Africa and he wanted to bring in all the African percussion. So there were people that wanted albums as a... as a thread, as a moment, as a whole, as the whole quilt. But he said, no, people want individual songs and they want the freedom to carry, they want them portable, and they want the freedom to be able to pull them up at any time, anywhere. The audience didn't know they wanted that, but once it was presented, the reaction that the industry couldn't believe it. When he brought in the iPhone in 0708, and he said, you don't really want a stylus. A stylus is holding you back. You've got a stylus. It's called your E.T. finger right here. You're going to use that. And people said he's crazy. And there was no keyboard. The Blackberry was hot. We just moved from the palm pilot to that. So I think that, at least my theory, is that... The American audience was waiting for something like this. You can like rap. You can go to the wedding and at 11 o'clock cut loose and have some drinks and start dancing to Florida. But I think people, while they do appreciate that and they might enjoy that. I think that people started wanting something that spoke to them on the day to day. And maybe that was on the way to drop off the kids. Or maybe that was driving to Fredericksburg to Republic Wine Castle this weekend. They wanted something that spoke to them in that way. Look, the Dixie Chicks politics were awful. What they said and did was stupid. How they reacted from then when they... realized that they weren't going to be able to get their audience back and they really kind of felt like their audience was idiots. Before that, the Dixie Chicks had lightning in a bottle. And if you look at what they were doing and how they were doing it, there's a lot of music meeting people where they are. That's what Robert Earl Keene was doing. That's what Cory Morrow was doing. That's what Pat Green was doing. That's what Wade Bowen was doing, Charlie Robinson. And I think that this music is hearkening to a different time in a different demo. Everything in life has been programmed in American modern society has been programmed to an audience that they feel has been underserved for a long time.

Well, it's a zero-sum game. If you say, look, Bluebell ice cream eaters, y'all have eaten homemade vanilla for too long. Now we're going to serve you this slop over here that's going to be some whole different flavor that you've never heard of. And it's going to be gooey boogers. And you go, oh, I don't like it. Yeah, but some people like gooey boogers. So that's what we're going to give. We're just going to pump out gooey boogers. And people are going to go, well, I mean, I don't want to be the guy that's against gooey boogers because that doesn't really speak to my experience. That doesn't resonate with me. And maybe gooey boogers is presented in such a way that some people will actually like that little crunch with the, you know, the whole thing. But when you give them back something that is consistent with their life, their feel, how much of who and what we are, we don't even know. You heard your pop-ball playing a banjo on the back porch, or you heard the steel guitar when your mom was dropping you to school. Or you heard a certain sound, a certain vibe, a certain flow that did not include an electric machine making a dance beat. It did not include an LA sound or death row records. Nothing wrong with those things. But if that's not your experience and it feels like that's solely what you're getting and all of a sudden you get something. And by the way, country music hasn't been appealing to that. Country music decided they would marry pop and country and make pop music with a twang with some dude and skinny jeans talking about riding down by the river, and that wasn't appealing to people. The term anal intercourse on your program. If it's relevant to the story for journalistic purposes. Okay, stop that for a second, Ramon. I'll ask the question I asked you off air. I'll be most impressed if you can say out loud before we get to it in the song. If he's deaf, dumb, and blind, how did he play pinball? What was his ability to play? It's in the third verse. Ain't got no distractions. Can't hear no buzzes and bells. Don't see no lights of flashing plays by a sense of smell. I did a deep dive into that song, and it turns out, That when Pete Townsend first showed that song to the writer at Rolling Stone, who he most, as an English writer, he most needed a positive review. This guy could make or break this whole rock opera. The guy said, no, I don't believe he was a religious guru. He wasn't a pinball player. This was this young man who had all this attention. And the crowds loved him. And the reason they loved him is he was like Saibaba. He was like Rajneesh. He was a guru. And the writer said, nah, people are over that. The Beatles already did Rajneesh. That's silly. I can't give that five stars.

But that guy loved to play pinball. And Pete Townsend had played pinball with him, and he found that that guy's obsession was pinball. And he said, well, I have another idea. I wanted to pitch to you. What if he's a penball wizard? And that's why everyone gravitates to him. The guy said, that's genius. It's never been done. You finish the album on that basis. I'll give you five stars, and he did. True story. True story. All right, to the calls, we go. We'll start with Ralph, and then John, and the phone lines are open. 713-99-9-9-1,000. Ralph, go ahead, sir. And, Zohran Mamdani, I have a question here for you, and hopefully you'll grab me a little latitude because I'm black. But why is it that black people were voting 96% for the Democratic Party, and that was the party of slavery before Trump? Now, we know it's a little better now, Um, it's, it's a question. It's, it's a discussion that I think has occupied a lot of energy that is probably misplaced. Um, the real reason for that, yes, the Democrat party was a party of slavery and the Republican party of abolitionists and not originally, but, but let's just, let's simplify and say, yes, that's true. What happened was the Democrat Party was really the Southern Party, and the Republican Party was the Northern Party. Then you had a lot of movement of people, and you needed to figure out once slaves went from non-citizens, non-voters, non-stakeholders... to three-fifths of a full person, to a full person, the population of the South changed dramatically. And so the Democrat stronghold of the South wanted to retain power. I've said this many times, and this is hard for people to understand, most politicians do not have a core set of beliefs that they deeply... care about they can convince you they do and it's usually whatever matters most to you what they want to acquire and consolidate is power so as those southern democrats had to transition from blacks as non-voter to three-fifths of a person dread scott to a full person to the pulling away of their restrictions, that's Jim Crow, to full voting rights, to mobilizing. Blacks got very, very good at mobilizing voters. And in fact, are still better at it today than any single group. They're 10 times better than Hispanics. They're better than Asians who don't count enough. Jews don't make up enough of a population to be able to organize as voters. So blacks are the muscle of the Democrat Party. Why the Democrat Party? Because it was the Southern Party. And in order to have statewide officials and Democrat officials, then they began crafting policies that would be sympathetic to blacks.

As they did that, it was a zero-sum game. For them to be able to say, black voters, we're going to give you all of this. They had to take it from somebody. If you cut somebody from the back of the line to the front line, somebody has to get moved back in the spot. to accommodate, right? So you can really see the shift become complete in 65 with LBJ's quote unquote great society. And he famously said, I'll have the N-words voting Democrat for 200 years. And as offensive as that statement was once it was reported and it became lower, it's true. He did create an ownership of black voters by the Democrat Party with those policies. And now what you have is the quote unquote thought leaders, the influencers, telling black voters, hey, um. We've got to continue to vote for this or you won't get the goods. And a lot of blacks, much like Jews, have been born into being a Democrat. Everyone they know is a Democrat, their teacher, their pastor, their auntie, their grandmother, their neighbor, their elected officials. And so they don't know anyone. who's not a Democrat. And I went into villages in Africa where I was the first white person anybody had seen or at least one of in a very long time. And people look at you like an alien. There are still Democrat strongholds where there's not a Republican representing them at city council, as a state rep, as a state senator, as a congressman, or as anything else. They are, they are, they are, they, it's alien to them. So being a Democrat is really more even a culture, uh, uh, to, to most modern blacks. I, I think that's really the answer. You also saw a shift in the Democrat and Republican parties that was occurring after LBJ and John Connolly is the best example. John Connolly is a Democrat governor of Texas when, when LBJ is, is, uh, when, JFK is shot in 63. And Connolly is also hit. And Connolly was, you know, he grew up under LBJ, but he's growing more and more conservative. And LBJ is a progressive power Democrat. And then Conley becomes the biggest Nixon supporter. He led Democrats for Nixon. He became Secretary of the Navy. Nixon wanted him for his VP. You're seeing Democrats switch over. And that's when you would later see Phil Graham and Rick Perry and a lot of the Democrat.

The white conservative Democrats switching to the Republican Party because the Democrat Party changed on them. Well, I had posted a number of comments last night that I meant to get to earlier in the show and anybody could react to those as well if they wanted. But I'll just read them real quick and then get to your call since most people have focused on something else. A friend asked me yesterday what exactly was Poncho Villa trying to accomplish? And I realized I don't rightly know. I mean, thieving and naven and maraud and looting is all probably a lot of fun. But if there was a bigger plan, I don't know if I knew what it was. I asked the question if anybody's ever owned a Plymouth. And then I was thinking about how many people in our audience have lost a toe or a finger or more. And if our audience was a higher percentage of people who've lost a finger, a toe, a leg, an arm, an eye, than the general public. And I think we probably are a little bit higher, would be my guess. And then I asked, oh, did you know, Ramon, that if your dog eats something you're not supposed to and you want them to throw it up? You give them hydrogen peroxide? I didn't know that either. I had somebody say to me yesterday. It's always funny how when people know one little fact, I said this and they go, you didn't know that? No, I didn't, but I can name every president from Washington. Can you know? You don't know that? It's the stupidest thing people. When people come over to play Jeopardy, they can sit there for 37 straight questions and have no clue the answer, and I rattle off 32 of them, and Ramon gets 33. And then they'll, they get one right now, you didn't know that? You know something, and it's okay that you know it, but not everybody has to know everything you know. Anyway, so a friend of mine, he lives about five states away, so don't worry. Mushrooms are legal there. I think they are. His dog got into a mushroom, or he got into his mushroom supply. And his dog was wigging out. And so he apparently gave his dog, or put a straw with hydrogen peroxide down his dog's gullet, and the dog puked it up. They took him to the... to the veterinarian. The veterinarian said he could have died. I don't know how you die. But I made that comment, and I don't understand how people do mushrooms because I don't like to be out of control. And it is shocking to me how many people that I know that I did not realize do mushrooms. I'm just blown away by this. Apparently, that's the hot thing now, is that people my age do mushrooms. And I don't know what it's about. I don't want to have some bad trip. I'm a control freak. I don't see myself doing it. Anyway, I also added, I don't like olives. I also don't like anchovies. I ask the question if people like capers. I like capers. You like capers among? And last one I'll offer up.

We went to dinner with a friend of mine, and his wife ordered a fig martini. And I taste you with me to taste it. And before I told him, I said, here you taste it. He said, I know it'll be good because I've never eaten anything with fig that wasn't good. And I got to thinking about it, and I believed that would be the same for me, too. I don't know if I've ever had anything that had fig in it that wasn't just delicious. All right, to the phone lines we go. Adolf, you're on the Michael Bari Weiss show. Go ahead. Yes, sir. I just, I have a story I like to tell people sometimes when you're talking about musical experiences. In 1979, my wife and I were dating, and we went to Asterold where they still used to have an occasional concert to see Charlie Daniels. And he played for a while, and then he said, We'd been in the studio for a while, and we just got out to start playing live music again. And we just wrote a new fiddle song, and we're going to play it for the first time ever. And it was the devil went down to Georgia. And you were there for that? Yeah, he said it was the first time they played it in public. So that was pretty awesome, because I was a big Charlie Daniels fan. Yeah, he was a very, very special man. I got to know him, not real well, but I got to know him before he died. He did a show for me. at the RCC that's September 19th of 2014. Our first weekend that we were open inside was Charlie Daniels band on Friday and Marshall Tucker Carlson band on Saturday. And I had met him before and I communicated to him through, I communicated with him through his son. And we got to spend some time together. And he was such an interesting guy. So many artists want to convince you that they're really complicated, and you'll never get to know them, and they're inaccessible because they're artists. He was the flip side. He was like your pawpaw. He kept everything real simple, and I like that. I like that in my food. I like it in my music. I like it in everything. We're on who you got next. John, you're on the Michael Bari Weiss Show. Go ahead. Yes, well, up until the last caller in the last break there, it begins to feel like a party pooper here. But I'm going to throw this out for your consumption. I wonder if our savior James is telling the black pastors as he distributes the $25 million from his backpack. of his connections to slavery. You know, he best seriously produced a girlfriend, you know, whenever it was.

And he claims, I'm an eighth generation Texan. And my girlfriend here is, her family dates back to the signer, the Texas Constitution, and he founded Galveston. So I picked my interest. So I did some research on this founder of Galveston. And he's true. It is true that he did sign the Constitution of Texas. He and another man founded Galveston. But he was also a slave trader in Galveston, not just. a minor slave trader, but a major player to the point that even to this day, his family mentioned is the oldest house on Galveston, and some of the descendants of the slaves that he owned, they gathered there in front of the house. to colliterate June 10th. So I wonder if James is telling his black pastors about his connections to slavery. Well, thanks for the call, John. I suppose that's a good zinger for us to throw in there, but I've always thought this whole subject was stupid. I don't care if his great-great-grandfather was a slave trader or a slave or anything else. I'm tired of this whole nonsense. It's stupid. Mr. Michael Barry. He's going to have a guitar. I was on this day 69 years ago. 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis made his first national television appearance singing, a whole lot of shaking going on. on the Steve Allen show. One of my, I wouldn't say it's a great regret, but it's a regret, is not booking Jerry Lee Lewis, just for the sake of saying Jerry Lee Lewis played for us. But the deal was $55,000, but you were only promised a 20-minute show that were very explicit about this. They said it's a minimum 20-minute show. If the killer is not feeling it at 20 minutes, if he's having a bad day, if he's sickly, if his voice hurts, if sounded whatever his reason, no fault, at 20 minutes, he walks. You paid him before he went on because it had a lot of problems with that. And if he feels like continuing to play, then he will. But I thought to myself, for us to get to $55,000 in a venue that size, the next one will be a lot smaller. But even in that size, you got to sell a lot of tickets at a pretty good clip. People pay that amount of money to see the killer. And he gets, he does his songs kind of long. And his voice is going to be weak. You know that. I would have prepared people for that. I think that's part of your, I think it's good.

They cannot wait for that to happen. And if Orlando Sanchez wins, then that party comes to an end. And they cannot allow that. So they will engage in voter outreach. And every vote that comes in, whether a human cast that vote or not, will be for Letitia James Plummer and for James Talarico. And Gina Hinojosa and all the candidates up and down the line. They know they can't win the governor's race. They know that. They know they've got a shot at the Senate race. And they desperately want to hold on to the county judge race. Republicans are going to have to get out and vote. And in the great frustration, having been around this process for a very long time, you talk to a voter and you win their vote. Well, I don't know about Ken Paxton. He ain't married to the same woman anymore. You know, I wasn't sure about Corning, but, you know, you've got to convince that guy with 100 different points of information and how bad James Talarico is. You know, James Talarico, this is how he is with trans kids, reparations. He's going to be a vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president. He's going to be a Bernie Sanders sympathizer. Forget Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton's going to vote with Trump. All it's going to be is a vote. All these plans and data's and none of that matters. It's all going to be who controls them when they get there. And James Talarico is controlled by the extreme far left California delegation. There's no doubt about that. It's where the money comes from. That's why they want him there, right? So we got to win vote by vote, honest to goodness, shoe leather votes. They're going to corral votes of people that don't exist. Loads and loads them and we're going one by one and they're in the volume business. Yeah, it's a daunting task. You have reached the Michael Bari Weiss podcast and I'm honored to have you here. If I could just take a few seconds to tell you a little bit about our show. how we do it, why we do it. We are big believers in American excellence. We are big believers in old-fashioned culture, treating a woman properly, being respectful to your parents, being attentive parents to our own kids. Those are the values that underpin more than party or anything else, everything that we do. And hopefully you hear that in every show that we put on. And in the process, hopefully we make you laugh a little bit as well. I want to say thanks to our show sponsor, Ray Breyers, at The Pipeyard Inc. He buys and sells pipe. So if you've got a pipeline that you're abandoning, they'll come and rip it out and sell it. If you need to buy or sell pipe, this is my guy, you will talk to the top guy, and they will buy everything you have and loads of it. Thepipyard Inc.com. 409-78 pipe. 409-78 pipe. Did you know that most... Insurance companies will pay for a man to have testosterone replacement if he's below 350? Isn't that interesting? You've probably heard that testosterone will, well, invigorate you.

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