Speaker 1: Welcome to the Nightcap on seven hundred w l W.
Speaker 1: Back in the saddle after a long long absence, Gary
Speaker 1: Jeff Walker on the reds off day, which means I
Speaker 1: get paid. It's about darn time I get paid. Our friend,
Speaker 1: our mutual friend, Dave Bagrath from Dayton. He and I
Speaker 1: hatched a plot to bring a very special friend up
Speaker 1: to the studio for his birthday. Today is his birthday,
Speaker 1: April fourteenth. He shares this birthday with the late Great
Speaker 1: Peter Edward Rose. And maybe you I don't know, but
Speaker 1: let me introduce to you, not on the telephone, but
Speaker 1: in the studio, the one the only Dick from Dayton.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Dick? Good, Jerry Jeff, thank you for
Speaker 1: let me come down and see you had no idea
Speaker 1: you were coming to the studio, did you know?
Speaker 2: I've been as much as sound like I heart, you know,
Speaker 2: but I'm glad I got to meet everybody. That's great.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to meet Willie, got to meet Scott Sloan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Aristin Elmore, Tony Pike, Tony Pike, Brian.
Speaker 2: Comb, Bryan Comb's yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Scott's now we had already met because you've come down
Speaker 1: to huddles. Yeah, I was. Yeah, the anniversary parties and
Speaker 1: uh yeah for last year's birthday you were there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so your friends got you some cakes. Huh? How many cakes?
Speaker 3: Dick?
Speaker 4: What it was?
Speaker 2: Three from Myers? Uh huh and they gave I showed
Speaker 2: the one today and then they had uh I think
Speaker 2: there were what were there pe conrolls? Oh that sounds great,
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: Did the crew at McDonald's did you see them today earlier? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how were they doing good?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: I talked to April and uh, what's her name? Crystal?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They want it was great. What do you think of
Speaker 1: the studios this first time?
Speaker 2: You think this is something? This is beautiful, This is
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: Did you have any idea you were coming to the
Speaker 1: radio station today, Dick, No, No, that was a secret.
Speaker 1: You know what Dave and I were talking about something
Speaker 1: to do for your birthday because Dave Bokgraph, as I
Speaker 1: mentioned is here, he brought you down because he had to.
Speaker 1: He had to pay off Dick from Dayton and and
Speaker 1: me Gary Jeff Walker. He made a bet on our
Speaker 1: behalf for the final four based on your Dick picks
Speaker 1: you picked. You picked Florida to win you picked Houston
Speaker 1: to win in the semifinals, and you picked Florida as
Speaker 1: the national champions, and it all came to pass. Yes,
Speaker 1: isn't it amazing? Yeah, it's wonderful, especially since we didn't
Speaker 1: have to lay any of our own money out and Dave,
Speaker 1: Dave brought us cash. That's good. It's really good. So
Speaker 1: what are your plans for the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: You got any big plans of the strummers or well,
Speaker 1: probably anybody playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll probably go to the Star City Dovers and
Speaker 2: Miamisburg that's under Debbie Woodell. There's about three concerts we
Speaker 2: played there at the Miamisburg like Kingston and I haven't
Speaker 2: been for a while because I've been so busy.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: I've been over to see my friend at the nursing home.
Speaker 2: He's doing a lot better. Is that ing Ingrid?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, lady, she is doing better. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, it's it's amazing that Dave came
Speaker 2: to our concert. It was about a year ago at
Speaker 2: Laura wood and taped it. That was cool. That was
Speaker 2: so cool. And then I met some people down that's
Speaker 2: this coffee hub where I'm supposed to see. I haven't
Speaker 2: played in the strummers. I've been busy checking out some altorneys.
Speaker 2: But it's one in Laura wood On. It's Thursday. Hopefully
Speaker 2: make it. But a friend of them mine's been coming
Speaker 2: to pick me up on Friday over a uh. He's
Speaker 2: from Cedarville. Bob Ford. That's Oh, that's a good party.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. But you know, it's nice to know
Speaker 2: really good people, isn't it, Dick? Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: you know Dave back Breath and Dave is like your
Speaker 2: number one fan. Oh yeah, and the guy you just
Speaker 2: mentioned from Cedarville. What's his name? You remember?
Speaker 1: Bob Ford? Bob Ford. But there are so many people
Speaker 1: that love you, Dick.
Speaker 2: Do you know that?
Speaker 8: I know?
Speaker 2: I love people.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: And you know I'll tell you who else I call
Speaker 2: who It's about quarter seven, good morning from Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, in the garden with Ron Wilson, fifty kr.
Speaker 1: I'm there. I'm there right at quarter of seven, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the building the same time Ron is.
Speaker 1: We're just a couple of studios apart somebody. And when
Speaker 1: Ronald always come well he did from Dayton called and
Speaker 1: all he wanted to do was talk about Gary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how long you been calling me?
Speaker 2: Thirty years, haven't I?
Speaker 1: Well, it's close. Yeah, I've been on WLW for twenty eight.
Speaker 1: All I know is you've been a fixture. You've been
Speaker 1: a staple of faithful, loyal listeners to this radio station
Speaker 1: for as long as I can remember. And it is
Speaker 1: quite the honor to have you at Thanks Studio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate Dave, And you know, I want
Speaker 1: to say something that, Okay, that I have loved that.
Speaker 2: I think that was the best influence of me, my
Speaker 2: cousin Benny, my uncle Tony, my dad, and I want
Speaker 2: to say thanks to my aunt from northern Ohio. She
Speaker 2: was a people person like you and Dave and everybody
Speaker 2: here at Iowa. She my younger cousin or my uncle.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 2: He played a little of the drums a little bit,
Speaker 2: and he would come pick me up every my birthday
Speaker 2: and I'd stay in Cleveland. We'd go to the one
Speaker 2: time we'd go to the you know, the Italian Polcus
Speaker 2: Italian festival. The way we'd play it was called string Night,
Speaker 2: and you could play till in the morning.
Speaker 1: It was in Cleveland and a real hoot and naddy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know my one cousin, he always calls me
Speaker 2: he's from Malaria, which is close to the he plays too.
Speaker 2: And I have a cousin she went to Bowling Green
Speaker 2: and my uncle was a big he was a baseball fan.
Speaker 2: And Carla plays piano and flute and a little bit
Speaker 2: of guitar, and she always she'll call me today.
Speaker 1: And it was inescapable that you would be a musician.
Speaker 2: To Dick, Well, you know, I think it was my
Speaker 2: dad wanted me to and Benny thought i'd be because
Speaker 2: you know I was three, Yeah, I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 2: Jerry Jeff Never. I just watched him and picked it
Speaker 2: right up. I picked it right up, no.
Speaker 1: Formal training whatsoever. You just kind of watched it, and
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to I got a picture. I
Speaker 1: gotta oh, I want to try to give it to Dave,
Speaker 1: to Dave from Dayton. Uh you know what it is?
Speaker 1: What it.
Speaker 2: Was a picture in the nineteen It was the ilk
Speaker 2: corning and the yearbook from Centerville High School. All right,
Speaker 2: And I got a picture short hair and I have
Speaker 2: mother coat, says Dick. Rado plays his mandolin the Talent
Speaker 2: Show and I want to thank my friend, he Brad Blair.
Speaker 2: He was from uh up North. He sponsored me and
Speaker 2: he was my stage manager. You know, yeah, it's good,
Speaker 2: it's good. And uh you know somebody i'd like to
Speaker 2: play with sometime, Rob Ryder.
Speaker 1: What a great name from Cincinnati radio and TV history. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I never thought i'd meet Willie or somebody like in Austin.
Speaker 2: They always call me he's good.
Speaker 1: Happy, Now.
Speaker 4: I call you?
Speaker 2: Think they'll take my call?
Speaker 1: Dick? Are you happy? Yes?
Speaker 2: I am, yes, I amonderful, I am happy.
Speaker 1: Great. Great. I'll tell you what. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break and I'm going to give you a
Speaker 1: chance to get your uke out. Did you bring your uke?
Speaker 1: What you bring with you? Yeah? Yeah, your yuke?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay. When we come back from the break, I'm going
Speaker 1: to have you break your uke out and you get
Speaker 1: ready to just play something a little bit of it, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Dick from Dayton on the night Cap on
Speaker 1: his birthday this April fourteenth, twenty twenty five, and a
Speaker 1: little bit more, Dick, just ahead on seven hundred WLW
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Speaker 4: Well you are not alone.
Speaker 1: Personal finance of your mouth, Dick.
Speaker 2: Oh, what I was going to say too that I
Speaker 2: was happy that Joe Burrow and Chaser back.
Speaker 1: That was good. Oh yeah, that was pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Auntie Higgins and Higgins Higgins, you.
Speaker 1: Won't have any easier time, wrote rooting for the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns this year, Dick.
Speaker 2: Hey, another thing I wanted to say too about I
Speaker 2: was uh happy that I got to meet Lynette.
Speaker 1: You know that Lynette at the anniversary party. It was
Speaker 1: great to have you both there, really.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I like the the one lady from No
Speaker 2: it's Sherry Cherry Cherry, yeah, the green Hornet. And as somebody,
Speaker 2: I also want you to say hello too that I
Speaker 2: loved I used to call him and he loved it.
Speaker 2: Do do uh uh Memphis Jambo Barbara. I will definitely
Speaker 2: say a load to the music professor for you, Dick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He always asked about me, doesn't he occasionally?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I loved Mike all One when I
Speaker 2: oh he's the best he puts you on the air.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's glad. He was glad. I liked radio.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who else it used to come see
Speaker 2: me at loaves, David Cathy from from Harrison. They used
Speaker 2: to go, you know, see me there. I'd play and
Speaker 2: you know they were nice and uh well Dave, he
Speaker 2: it was nice. He recorded the Bavery Creek Strummers.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It was about a year ago. And I was have
Speaker 2: a friend that takes me to.
Speaker 8: Band.
Speaker 2: She her eyes bad and she couldn't take me, you know,
Speaker 2: but it was it's good.
Speaker 1: But what's her name?
Speaker 4: Debbie?
Speaker 1: Debbie? And you want to say hi to Debbie?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wie and I wanted to say hi. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you who I want to say hi to you too.
Speaker 2: That are my true best friends. Well you guys that
Speaker 2: I heard right, But the crew at the McDonald's and
Speaker 2: and uh at Wilmington Pike. The group, great group. There's
Speaker 2: probably eleven of us. Eddie didn't marry. I got to
Speaker 2: get my phone fixed. And then there was let's see
Speaker 2: pastor Mark want me to go to a dinner tonight?
Speaker 2: You know's you know, and.
Speaker 1: You're in demand on your birthday, Dick, do you understand
Speaker 1: are you talking in studio with Dick from Dayton, and
Speaker 1: now Dick, you are going to play a little bit
Speaker 1: on your uke for us. Okay, what do you want
Speaker 1: to play? I'm going to do a little bit.
Speaker 10: Of uh the m t A. Okay, let me tell.
Speaker 1: The stories about a man.
Speaker 11: Damn right forever on the pre Now you say Boston,
Speaker 11: they say, so.
Speaker 12: Runs for free busting the man whoever returned, Oh he
Speaker 12: ever returned? Oh he ever read turned off his face
Speaker 12: on them. But whoever runs a street to buston? Is
Speaker 12: the man to ever return?
Speaker 4: One more verse? Now he says I was a busting out.
Speaker 12: Man, but forever runs a free Manever, no, he ever returned,
Speaker 12: or he ever returned face on learning? Why forever runs
Speaker 12: a street from busting's some fans?
Speaker 4: Whoever returned?
Speaker 2: He's some man who never returned?
Speaker 1: Yeah, most memorable birthday ever, I should say.
Speaker 6: They don't.
Speaker 1: They don't get much better than this birthdays, do they?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 2: I said to my I said to my cousin, yeah,
Speaker 2: I said, you know what I would like to see
Speaker 2: in the future.
Speaker 13: And.
Speaker 2: I got I said, I want to see probably the
Speaker 2: closest to me, Cincinnati. And I said I wanted to
Speaker 2: take a trip down there, but I never believe this
Speaker 2: is a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad, is just? I mean?
Speaker 2: I would like to be bystock in my heart?
Speaker 1: I really would, you know? Well, I'm sure that I know.
Speaker 1: If you broke, maybe you met Willie. Maybe he can
Speaker 1: hook you up with some financial planners who can get
Speaker 1: that done for you. Listen, it's such an honor to
Speaker 1: have you here, especially on your birthday.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: And it's it's no small uh no small thing to
Speaker 1: get paid for a bet I didn't make based on
Speaker 1: your picks. This is an incredible night. Thank you so much, Dick.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, Gary Jeff. Have a safe trip home, okay,
Speaker 1: and we I'm sure we will talk to you on
Speaker 1: the radio real soon Saturday morning. Yes, sir, I'll probably
Speaker 1: never be the same I don't think I'll ever be
Speaker 1: the same after this, Dick, No take care. Brother?
Speaker 2: Is uh Lance here today?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Lance. He's off at nine, so he's
Speaker 1: he's he's gone. But listen, have a good one, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, will you put this in my legey one
Speaker 1: more thing? Say good night, Dick, good night, Gary Jeff. Well,
Speaker 1: wasn't that a trip thanks to Dick and Dave from Dayton.
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay in musicians mode. Next after News, Michael
Speaker 1: Jonathan joins us who he was a host and the originator,
Speaker 1: the creator of wood Songs. Old Time Radio R had
Speaker 1: him on a couple of months ago find out what
Speaker 1: they're doing to help people with their instrument drives, and
Speaker 1: they've had two very successful ones, which we will talk about.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Horne, who is an author of the Fate of
Speaker 1: the Generals, which is out tomorrow. It's a book about
Speaker 1: MacArthur and Waynwright and the war in the Philippines as
Speaker 1: we approach the eightieth anniversary of the end of World
Speaker 1: War II in the Pacific. He's also a speechwriter for
Speaker 1: George Bush Brian Reesinger, author of Land Rich, Cash Poor,
Speaker 1: about how the tariffs are going to affect farmers in
Speaker 1: this country. His thoughts on that J. T. Young always
Speaker 1: right to the point with his points and he'll be
Speaker 1: joining us. Dan was our second Amendment guy and also
Speaker 1: Before the Night Is Over, the wild Man on Pete
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Speaker 14: Jarge is brought against an alleged arsonists who targeted a
Speaker 14: governor with the nine thirty report I'm Shaan Gallagher breaking Now.
Speaker 14: A man is being held without bond after his arraignment today,
Speaker 14: accused of sending fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residents
Speaker 14: while he, his family, and a visiting family were asleep
Speaker 14: a welcome by a state police officer who was banging
Speaker 14: on the doors. Everyone got out safely, but significant damage
Speaker 14: was done. The suspect, thirty eight year old Cody Balumber,
Speaker 14: a Mchennic from Harrisburg, now charged with attempted murder, terrorism,
Speaker 14: aggravate at arson, and aggravated assault.
Speaker 15: A senior law enforcement official tells ABC News authorities are
Speaker 15: investigating whether this attack could have been motivated by the
Speaker 15: Governor's Jewish faith. Shapiro and his family were gathered Saturday
Speaker 15: evening with two dozen others. Hours later, state troopers banging
Speaker 15: on the door to get everyone out.
Speaker 14: ABC News is Aaron Katirwski in Harrisburg outside the resident. Shapiro,
Speaker 14: speaking Sunday afternoon, said he and his family would not
Speaker 14: be deterred as they would continue to celebrate Passover and
Speaker 14: their Jewish faith. Now the latest traffic and weather together
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Speaker 16: Cloudy overnight dis Temperatures will be a bit cooler, still seasonal,
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Speaker 16: will be the biggest threat out of the west at
Speaker 16: about fifteen miles per hour as you go through Tuesday.
Speaker 16: Mostly cloudy through majority of the day with winds gusting
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Speaker 16: Only looking at a high of fifty four with a
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Speaker 14: The Cloude in fifty nine degrees currently security videos showing
Speaker 14: the moment that a fifteen year old allegedly shot and
Speaker 14: killed a man in Coryville Saturday night. The video shows
Speaker 14: the victim, twenty five year old Kyle Merrick, outside the
Speaker 14: stagger Lees carryout on short Fine not far from the
Speaker 14: UC campus, as the teen suspect is seen with a
Speaker 14: gun in his hand, lunging at Merrick, who pushed the
Speaker 14: teen away and began to run. That's when the teen
Speaker 14: is seen raising his gun firing shot. Says Merrick appears
Speaker 14: to draw a gun a return fire. The team limped
Speaker 14: away while Marrek disappeared from the video. He was later
Speaker 14: found by police and would die from his injuries at
Speaker 14: the hospital. The fifteen year old arrested Sunday morning, now
Speaker 14: charged with murder. A two vehicle crashed late this morning
Speaker 14: and Warren County leaves a man dead. Ohio State Highway
Speaker 14: Patrol says just after eleven o'clock, a fifty seven year
Speaker 14: old man was traveling north on State Route seven to
Speaker 14: forty one in Turtle Creek Township when he went off
Speaker 14: the right side of the road, overcorrected, and crossed the
Speaker 14: center line, colliding with another vehicle that was driven by
Speaker 14: sixty nine year old David Willis of FRANKL. Glynn, who
Speaker 14: died at the scene, while the driver of the other
Speaker 14: vehicle was transported to Atria Medical Center with non life
Speaker 14: threatening injuries. Highway Patrol continues to investigate the accident. The
Speaker 14: Reds are off tonight as they will continue their homestand
Speaker 14: Tuesday night, opening a three game inter league set against
Speaker 14: the Mariners. They're also going for a four straight win
Speaker 14: following the sweep of the Pirates and looking to get
Speaker 14: above five hundred. The Inside Pitch bull kick off our
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Speaker 10: We will hear the radio ads about the irs.
Speaker 2: They tell you to be afraid to be scared, and
Speaker 2: they try to frighten you into calling I'm not here
Speaker 2: to do for.
Speaker 1: Dayton, playing me in youth excited the studio. I figured
Speaker 1: we'd make this music orient this entire hour of this night.
Speaker 1: Calf Art seven other wl W. Jerry Deffick joining us
Speaker 1: is a return guest he was with us several months
Speaker 1: ago talking about a instrument drive for musicians of hard
Speaker 1: hit disaster areas. At the time we were speaking, it
Speaker 1: was about western North Carolina and the remnants of Hurricane
Speaker 1: Helene and people who had lost literally everything, and the
Speaker 1: drive to give them instruments and thus give them hope
Speaker 1: to go on and resume their lives, because music is
Speaker 1: a great salve for a lot of different ailments, and
Speaker 1: it was enormously successful. They just did another drive with
Speaker 1: Wood Song's Old Time Radio Hour on PBS and on
Speaker 1: public radio for Pikeville, Kentucky. I just saw the video
Speaker 1: of that today and as our guest will tell you,
Speaker 1: it was epic. Michael Jonathan, Welcome back to the Nightcap.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 5: It's nice to be back again, garat Jah, thank you
Speaker 5: so much for inviting me in Hello to your rather
Speaker 5: huge WLW audience.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know what, if we can help
Speaker 1: a little brother out, it's always a good thing. That's
Speaker 1: how I feel.
Speaker 6: Yes, it is.
Speaker 5: It's nice to talk to someone who gets that.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: So you have been doing this Wood Song's broadcast both
Speaker 1: on public TV and public radio for how long now?
Speaker 5: Michael well, let's see this Monday, we're taping a show
Speaker 5: number one, one hundred and thirty eight. So we've been
Speaker 5: at it for a while. I don't keep track of
Speaker 5: the years too well.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 5: It's it's been happening, and it's been amazing because it's
Speaker 5: run out of the fuel is love.
Speaker 6: I mean, nobody gets paid to do it.
Speaker 5: It's an all volunteer thing, and it's on over five
Speaker 5: hundred radio stations. It's on American Forces Radio Network, it's
Speaker 5: on public television nationwide, it's on the RFD television network
Speaker 5: coast to coast. And for something like that to happen,
Speaker 5: you're in broadcasting and you realize that, you know, if
Speaker 5: you do that without financial transactions, then the love quotient
Speaker 5: must be very, very strong and sincere and with wood songs.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of people complaining, or some people
Speaker 1: complaining about maybe the federal funding not being as great
Speaker 1: or being cut off at some point, but all of
Speaker 1: these shows are basically viewer and listeners supported. As you said,
Speaker 1: it's fueled by love more than anything else, and I
Speaker 1: think that's as it should be. But apparently if you're
Speaker 1: on PBS, you're on NPR, you're on Armed Forces Radio,
Speaker 1: which I did not know that that's cool, And you're
Speaker 1: on RFD television. They don't put shows on that many
Speaker 1: platforms unless they are touching people in a special way,
Speaker 1: and they are touching a lot of people. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't get to do thirteen hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 1: shows without doing something of quality, I would say, And
Speaker 1: not only that touches the emotional nerve, but also is
Speaker 1: just a quality product. So I commend you on that.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Well, we celebrate them.
Speaker 1: You kind of, Michael, you kind of broke up. What
Speaker 1: did you? Can you repeat that? You kind of broke up?
Speaker 1: You celebrate what?
Speaker 5: Sure, we celebrate the music. And that's a universal thing.
Speaker 5: It's the it's the soundtrack of rural America. That's what
Speaker 5: wood Songs represents. And I'll say it in broadcast terms.
Speaker 5: Content is everything. It's it's what matters most. You can't
Speaker 5: put junk on the air. That's why Gary Jeff is
Speaker 5: such a popular evening radio personality.
Speaker 6: And you know, you have to have you have to care.
Speaker 5: And I think when people tune in wood Songs, they
Speaker 5: can tell that the artists and the audience and the
Speaker 5: folks that work on the show care deeply, and that's
Speaker 5: why when we see an opportunity to do more than
Speaker 5: just the broadcast or play music, we can actually help
Speaker 5: the community that makes wood songs possible. That's why we
Speaker 5: do these these instrument gifting efforts.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's very very nice that you would
Speaker 1: laud my contents and you're part of it tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 4: No, I know, I know what you meant.
Speaker 1: No, I know what you meant. The origination of this
Speaker 1: for you. You had some transformative musical experiences growing up,
Speaker 1: and they weren't obvious at the time, I guess. But
Speaker 1: one of your neighbors growing up was a guy named
Speaker 1: Pete Seeger that people may have heard of, correct, And
Speaker 1: what was your relationship with mister Seeger.
Speaker 5: Well, I'd play with the kids on his He had
Speaker 5: a log cabin on the side of the mountain overlooking
Speaker 5: the Hudson River that he bought in the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 5: and you know, he was known around town. I was
Speaker 5: just a little rock and roll kid, New Yorker and
Speaker 5: unless you can plug the thing in.
Speaker 6: It's not a real instrument.
Speaker 5: So he played the banjo, which was like very foreign
Speaker 5: to us, and you know, he'd show up at our
Speaker 5: school after a storm with his axe and chopped.
Speaker 6: Firewood, and you know, I didn't.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I got a job right after high school on the
Speaker 5: Mexican border at the little radio station kV o Z Radio,
Speaker 5: right on.
Speaker 6: The Mexican border in Laureta, Texas.
Speaker 5: And I played a song by Roger mcgwin and the Birds,
Speaker 5: and I noticed it was written by my neighbor, and
Speaker 5: I was like, Oh, that's.
Speaker 17: Who Pete Seeger is no ken? I called him up.
Speaker 17: I said, it's Michael from next door. I just found
Speaker 17: out that you are Pete Seeger. He laughed, but I said,
Speaker 17: I want to be a folks singer too.
Speaker 6: What do I do?
Speaker 5: And he said, go to the Appalachian Mountains?
Speaker 6: And I did.
Speaker 5: I moved to Mousey, Kentucky, and not to County, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: What year was that, Michael.
Speaker 5: Gosh nineteen eighty nine ish, ninety ninety one ish, right
Speaker 5: around then.
Speaker 1: And this was all part of the genesis of how
Speaker 1: wood songs eventually happened. You had at least a burgeoning
Speaker 1: or fledgling young career in radio there on the Mexican
Speaker 1: border in Texas, and you said, so you played what
Speaker 1: Turn Turn Turned by the Birds and realized that it
Speaker 1: had been written by Pete Seeger adapted, I believe, from
Speaker 1: the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible exactly.
Speaker 5: You know, an interesting song written by an atheist, don't
Speaker 5: you think so? And was really neat is Roger mcgwinn
Speaker 5: became a good friend. He's been on Wood Songs four times.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it opened a big door.
Speaker 5: I was on tour with Judy Collins and we were
Speaker 5: in the town car heading to the venue was Ravinia
Speaker 5: and Chicago Beautiful Venue, and they had on the car
Speaker 5: radio system Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keiler, which I
Speaker 5: never heard before. He had a friend of mine on
Speaker 5: His name was Sam Bush, a great mandolin player, and
Speaker 5: I thought, wouldn't that be cool to have a show
Speaker 5: like that? But without the stories, it's just about the music,
Speaker 5: and and you know, is that how hard can it
Speaker 5: be to create a live audience national syndicated radio broadcast.
Speaker 5: And we went for it and it worked.
Speaker 1: What was a reaction at first when you proposed this
Speaker 1: to somebody? I mean, did they hop did they hop
Speaker 1: right on it? Or what was the you know, well, I.
Speaker 6: Went to my friend. His name was Kevin Johnson.
Speaker 5: He had a he had a recording studio in Lexington,
Speaker 5: and I told him what I wanted to do and
Speaker 5: how I wanted.
Speaker 6: To do it.
Speaker 5: We had no affiliates, no radio contacts or nothing.
Speaker 6: And he looked at me and he blinked. He goes,
Speaker 6: you know you're crazy. I said, yeah, he goes, I'm in.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 5: So we had we had one little radio station and
Speaker 5: you're gonna love this.
Speaker 6: We had no technology.
Speaker 5: Because we were broke, you know, and so we would
Speaker 5: deliver the show on a cassette tape and they would
Speaker 5: have to turn the cassette tape over to get to
Speaker 5: the second half hour.
Speaker 1: That much.
Speaker 6: That's how That's how wood Song started. You know.
Speaker 1: When I started in radio, Michael in nineteen eighty, I
Speaker 1: worked at a little station in Gallatin, Tennessee, and one
Speaker 1: of my duties was to turn the station on to
Speaker 1: sign it on on a Sunday morning, and we were
Speaker 1: a sunrise to sunset thousand on AM radio station in
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, just outside of Nashville. And one
Speaker 1: of my duties was to run the preacher who had
Speaker 1: been in the studio earlier that week and recorded a
Speaker 1: full hour sermon and money appeal whatever they did. And
Speaker 1: they had a choir that came into music, but it
Speaker 1: was on a real to reel tape recorder, and I
Speaker 1: would have to find a way to play some kind
Speaker 1: of record on the turntable. That's right. I had two
Speaker 1: turntables and a microphone, just like Beck, and then I'd
Speaker 1: have to string up the other hour on the reel
Speaker 1: to reel in the middle of that three minute song
Speaker 1: and make sure i'd cute it up. So believe me,
Speaker 1: I know about doing radio without technology. I did that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have to do it anymore. But
Speaker 1: I understand exactly what that's like. And it's not as
Speaker 1: easy as we make it sound. Michael, That's what it is.
Speaker 5: Well, when you're ignorant, like ignorant folks singing banjo player
Speaker 5: like I am, we just went forward thinking that, well,
Speaker 5: we'll figure it out. We had a wonderful audience. Remember
Speaker 5: he was an eye doctor, and he came up to
Speaker 5: He says, when you guys, do better if you were
Speaker 5: delivering it on compact disc. And so he bought us
Speaker 5: a tower CD burner and a bunch of burnable CDs,
Speaker 5: and so that really accelerated the affiliate list once we
Speaker 5: got that.
Speaker 1: Oh no doubt about that. Let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about these wonderful instrument drives that you guys have been
Speaker 1: able to successfully do through wood songs Old Time Radio Hour. First,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the Heleene thing the first time
Speaker 1: you were on the air with me, and I think
Speaker 1: you know we were right there at the beginning of that.
Speaker 1: Tell me how that turned out. And then we'll get
Speaker 1: to Pikeville.
Speaker 5: Well, about three or four weeks ago, we collected instruments
Speaker 5: from all over America. We had one thousand, eight hundred
Speaker 5: plus instruments, guitars, banjos, fiddles. They came from from Roanoke,
Speaker 5: and from Raleigh, North Carolina, and from West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio.
Speaker 5: Your area was wonderful Indiana across Kentucky. We had a
Speaker 5: fellow in Tennessee that just lost his son and he
Speaker 5: collected about one hundred instruments just in honor of his son,
Speaker 5: and we brought them to Warren Wilson College in Asheville,
Speaker 5: North Carolina. And my you know, we're we're fixing putting
Speaker 5: strings on, were polishing them up. We're making sure the
Speaker 5: next yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Michael, I'm sorry that your your signal broke
Speaker 1: up again, just briefly. So you're putting strings on, you're
Speaker 1: getting them refurbished, You're you're polishing them up, getting them
Speaker 1: presentable for the people that you were giving them to.
Speaker 1: And then what.
Speaker 4: Well we had.
Speaker 5: One of them to go on a Saturday. Here we
Speaker 5: had all these are going to show up, and we
Speaker 5: had a line of nearly one thousand musicians that lost
Speaker 5: everything in the storms of Helleen. They came from eastern
Speaker 5: Tennessee and across Northuth, Carolina. We left with not so
Speaker 5: much as a harmonica.
Speaker 6: Wow, I mean everything.
Speaker 5: One of the one of the amazing stories that came
Speaker 5: of that, there was a woman that we heard about
Speaker 5: that was in her house. The floods surged through the
Speaker 5: holler she was in, came up really fast. She had
Speaker 5: a severely disabled and he was wheelchair bounds and the
Speaker 5: floods came in, cracked her house in half. She saw
Speaker 5: her father on the other half of the house float
Speaker 5: down the waters. She grabbed her son and used an
Speaker 5: empty guitar case. You know, there's styrofoam in guitar cases,
Speaker 5: and she used that as a booie and she grabbed
Speaker 5: her son, held on for dear life, and floated down
Speaker 5: the floodwaters till she got to land. And we looked
Speaker 5: for her all day long. At the end of the day,
Speaker 5: we finally found her and she came to Warren Wilson College.
Speaker 5: I had one more instrument left. It was a Martin
Speaker 5: d eighteen. Beautiful instrument, beautiful Martin guitar. And that was
Speaker 5: the last gift of the days. We gave Jessica Dixon
Speaker 5: her Martin. She was a musician. Everything in her home
Speaker 5: was gone, every instrument was gone. They found her father's
Speaker 5: body two days later.
Speaker 1: That's heartbreaking and it is and heartwarming all at the
Speaker 1: same time.
Speaker 5: Your audience goes goes to woodsongs dot com slash Helene.
Speaker 5: You'll see her picture, you'll see the story of her there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fantastic. Let me talk about the drive for Pikeville, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: that you guys conducted.
Speaker 5: That was, you know, we're we're we're working on North
Speaker 5: Carolina and Helene and all of a sudden, our own
Speaker 5: home state of Kentucky, the Appalachian Corridor Pikevil, Pressensburg Hazard,
Speaker 5: Whitesburg got obliterated yet again with major floods. I mean,
Speaker 5: you don't hear much about it in the news, but
Speaker 5: they got hammered hard. And so I was like, well,
Speaker 5: we can't be helping North Carolina when our own home
Speaker 5: state got hurt, right, Yeah, So we said we thought
Speaker 5: we'd come back from North Carolina with a truckload of
Speaker 5: extra instruments. Well no, no, they were all gone. So
Speaker 5: we put the call out. We had a We had
Speaker 5: a whopping three weeks to put this together, and the
Speaker 5: Wood Song's audience collected over five hundred of these instruments.
Speaker 5: We've fixed them up Courrier's Music World and Richmond was
Speaker 5: a huge help. We fixed them up this past Sunday.
Speaker 5: We went to Pisful, hundreds of people were in line,
Speaker 5: you saw the video, and we gifted them all away
Speaker 5: and again, not so much as a flute was left over.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I just can't even imagine the looks on
Speaker 1: people's faces knowing this is going on, and they've maybe
Speaker 1: lost every possession that they have, including their instruments, and
Speaker 1: then they find out that this is going on. These
Speaker 1: gifts are being handed out by you, and it must
Speaker 1: give you a wonderful internal kind of warming that you
Speaker 1: can't find anywhere else. I can't even imagine.
Speaker 5: It's amazing, Gary Jeff. Love is the greatest transaction of
Speaker 5: the arts. It's what makes everything work. And the music
Speaker 5: of Appalachia this is the soundtrack of.
Speaker 6: The Marria's Front Porch.
Speaker 5: These are the musicians that represent the music of rural America.
Speaker 5: You know, there was a there was a woman in Raleigh.
Speaker 5: She had divorced her her musician husband, and she inherited
Speaker 5: half of his stuff, as you do in a divorce,
Speaker 5: and one of them was a three thousand dollars upright base.
Speaker 5: We had it in Pikeville and there was a fourteen
Speaker 5: year old little girl and all she wanted was an
Speaker 5: upright bass to play. Now, these things are very expensive,
Speaker 5: especially the good ones. Well, when we brought out that
Speaker 5: upright base and handed it to her and her father,
Speaker 5: you should have seen the look on her face. I mean,
Speaker 5: she just a little girl, and she just started weeping
Speaker 5: because she couldn't believe that she actually had an upright bass.
Speaker 5: And so, yeah, it's very emotional. Music is very powerful.
Speaker 5: It represents the spirit and love and life. And family
Speaker 5: and neighbors and home you know, of America, and that's
Speaker 5: why we do it.
Speaker 1: What's the address again for people to check out any
Speaker 1: videos of these incredible instrument giveaways that wood Songs is doing, Michael,
Speaker 1: Where can people find that again?
Speaker 5: Sure? Woodsongs dot Com. Right there at the top of
Speaker 5: the page. You'll see the link to Pikeville into Asheville,
Speaker 5: North Carolina. It is incredible the love that's out there
Speaker 5: when you simply invite people to participate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. And is there any specific
Speaker 1: time in this area? Do you know what your affiliate
Speaker 1: is in Cincinnati or the northern Kentucky area where people
Speaker 1: can watch the wood Songs broadcast the Old Time Radio
Speaker 1: Hour specifically on Squad Sure watch.
Speaker 5: It every Friday on RFDTV. It airs on public television
Speaker 5: k e T I believe Think TV from a Dayton
Speaker 5: also goes into the Cincinnati market. Kay Indianapolis Public Television
Speaker 5: also goes into the Cincinnati market, so they can certainly
Speaker 5: watch it. Unfortunately, Cincinnati Public Radio doesn't want to air
Speaker 5: that show that generates.
Speaker 18: From Lexington, so we're not on public radio, but we
Speaker 18: are on radio in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, across America, Ireland,
Speaker 18: but not in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Well that's all right. You can catch the television broadcast
Speaker 1: of Wood Songs Old Time Radio Hour. Michael Jonathan, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, and if you got something else going
Speaker 1: on soon, please let me know and if we can
Speaker 1: help generate a little bit more publicity for it, I'd
Speaker 1: be more than glad.
Speaker 6: To Gary Jeff, you're a wonderful guy.
Speaker 5: And thank you to WLW for all the support that
Speaker 5: you gave us and your audience is wonderful.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You bet you Michael Jonathan from Wood Songs Old Time
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Speaker 1: on Monday April fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Tomorrow Tuesday, April fifteenth,
Speaker 1: or Tax Day, as we all begrudgingly know, it is
Speaker 1: also the release date for a brand new book, The
Speaker 1: Fate of the Generals MacArthur Wainwright and the Epic Battle
Speaker 1: for the Philippines. As we close in on the eightieth
Speaker 1: anniversary of the end of World War Two in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty five. The author of that book is joining us
Speaker 1: for this segment. Is also known as a speech writer
Speaker 1: for President Bush. I want to talk to him a
Speaker 1: little bit about that duty and that discipline as well.
Speaker 1: But the author of the book The Fate of the
Speaker 1: Generals now with us, Jonathan Horn, How are you, sir?
Speaker 7: Doing great? Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: You bet so? What was the inspiration for this book?
Speaker 1: I mean, for a lot of people at this point,
Speaker 1: especially younger people, world War Two is not just eighty
Speaker 1: years past. It's like it's a fog of time somewhere
Speaker 1: back in the Middle Ages, I think for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. But these were crucial times. And these were
Speaker 1: crucial battles in the Pacific that eventually led to the
Speaker 1: end of World War two and the freeing of the
Speaker 1: Filipino people and so many American prisoners and the like,
Speaker 1: and the epic battles that took place, but orchestrated by
Speaker 1: the two main characters in your book. What was the
Speaker 1: genesis of this?
Speaker 7: John, Well, you know everybody knows that famous vow that
Speaker 7: Douglas MacArthur made early in World War two. I shall return.
Speaker 7: He said those words after receiving orders to leave the Philippines,
Speaker 7: which was then an American colony, and he left behind
Speaker 7: an army to face starvation and surrender and ultimately the
Speaker 7: largest surrender in American history, nearly eighty thousand troops.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: And very few people know about the general who took
Speaker 7: command after MacArthur left. His name was General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright.
Speaker 7: And he also made a vow, and his vow was
Speaker 7: to stay with his men, share their faith, even if
Speaker 7: it meant becoming the highest ranking American prisoner of war
Speaker 7: of World War two. And I felt that you couldn't
Speaker 7: understand the story of Douglas MacArthur's vow to return to
Speaker 7: the Philippines. Unless you understood the story of this much
Speaker 7: lesser known figure who had out to stay and share
Speaker 7: the fate of his men.
Speaker 1: Was wayn right there, for save the Baton Death March.
Speaker 3: He held out.
Speaker 7: So the surrender on Baton happened on April ninth, nineteen
Speaker 7: forty two. That was nearly eighty thousand troops surrendering. This
Speaker 7: is a massive surrender of the United States forces. Wainwright
Speaker 7: will hold out for another month on an island off
Speaker 7: the tip of Baton called Krigador, and hey will fight
Speaker 7: on for another month until finally the Japanese force him
Speaker 7: to surrender that position and also the rest of the
Speaker 7: Philippines and all. And one of the greatest forms of
Speaker 7: torture he'll face during his years as a Japanese prisoner
Speaker 7: is whether the American people will understand the decision that
Speaker 7: he made to surrender for the sake of his men,
Speaker 7: because he really did believe that the Japanese would carry
Speaker 7: out a massacre unless he agreed to surrender the Philippine islands.
Speaker 1: Well, can you even imagine a massacre on the scale
Speaker 1: of eighty thousand American servicemen. It's just unfathomable, and so
Speaker 1: many did die, So many did die in Japanese occupation.
Speaker 7: But what courage, I think, yes, And you know that's
Speaker 7: the thing. The Japanese themselves did not the lead and surrender,
Speaker 7: so you can imagine how they treated forces who surrendered
Speaker 7: them to them. They tortured them. And of course there
Speaker 7: was the Baton Death March, which those eighty thousand American
Speaker 7: and Filipino soldiers, because the Filipinos were fighting under the
Speaker 7: American flags. As they mentioned, the Philippines was then a
Speaker 7: colony of the United States is and Wingingwright received slightly
Speaker 7: better treatment as a general, but he was still tortured,
Speaker 7: he was isolated. They Japanese moved him from the Philippines
Speaker 7: to Taiwan and eventually all the way to Manchuria, where
Speaker 7: he faced negative forty nine degree temperatures and his body
Speaker 7: began to break down. There's this line in his diary
Speaker 7: where he said he was going to fight for life
Speaker 7: in his prison, just as he had fought for life
Speaker 7: to the very end in the Philippines. And no one
Speaker 7: had called him yellow then and no one would call
Speaker 7: him yellow now. And it's a very moving line given
Speaker 7: all that he went through describe.
Speaker 1: The two differing styles between these two generals that are
Speaker 1: featured in the book The Fate of the Generals MacArthur.
Speaker 1: What was MacArthur like?
Speaker 7: Well, MacArthur, of course was one of the most charismatic
Speaker 7: figures in American history. He was probably the most famous
Speaker 7: general America had on the eve of World War Two,
Speaker 7: and I think that's the reason that President Roosevelt made
Speaker 7: the decision to order MacArthur out of the Philippines. But
Speaker 7: of course this really was like the captain deserting the
Speaker 7: sinking ship, and MacArthur, of course you can imagine what
Speaker 7: that must have felt like for him to leave his
Speaker 7: army behind, and the troops in the Philippines had some
Speaker 7: harsh feelings toward MacArthur. At the same time, his vow
Speaker 7: to return to the Phillips eyes show return meant a
Speaker 7: lot to the Filipinos during their years of occupation under
Speaker 7: the Japanese. He really did keep America and force the
Speaker 7: United States to live up to that now to return
Speaker 7: to the Philippines and to ultimately land in nineteen forty
Speaker 7: four and retake the islands from the Japanese.
Speaker 1: So, Jonathan, you caulled a lot of this book from
Speaker 1: the actual diaries of these two men. Correct, well, we had.
Speaker 7: It's been more than forty years since anyone has written
Speaker 7: a biography of General Wainwright, and in that time his
Speaker 7: personal papers, his diaries, his letters had been deposited in
Speaker 7: military archives. But because nobody had written a new biography
Speaker 7: about him in all those years, these papers had gone
Speaker 7: virtually unexplored. So here was an opportunity to be able
Speaker 7: to tell Wainwright's story in a way never before possible,
Speaker 7: and to restore him, I think, to its proper place
Speaker 7: in history, which is side by side with MacArthur's.
Speaker 1: It doesn't relate to the book necessarily, but I'm always
Speaker 1: fascinated being a member of the media, which I'm not
Speaker 1: so proud about a lot of the time. Does the
Speaker 1: story of the reporter earning Pile, who of course died
Speaker 1: in the Pacific during an enemy attack? Did you uncover
Speaker 1: any was earning Pile ever? In the Philippines? The reporter
Speaker 1: earning Pile?
Speaker 7: Well, you know what, there were so many interesting stories
Speaker 7: of reporters with Douglas MacArthur, because he really did have
Speaker 7: a way, He had control of the only means of
Speaker 7: communication with the outside world. Which was the radio and
Speaker 7: the communicates he tended to issue. He had a tight
Speaker 7: censorship regime on reporters. These are in the early months
Speaker 7: of World War Two, before he had received those orders
Speaker 7: to leave the islands, and he had a tight censorship regime.
Speaker 7: And so as a result, the only thing that Americans
Speaker 7: knew about what was happening the Philippines was what MacArthur
Speaker 7: said in his communications, and so often those communications only
Speaker 7: mentioned one man, MacArthur himself.
Speaker 1: Imagine that. So I wanted to ask you for a
Speaker 1: few minutes. I know we're here to talk about the
Speaker 1: book which is out tomorrow, The Fate of the Generals
Speaker 1: MacArthur Wainwright and the Pardon Me The Epic Battle for
Speaker 1: the Philippines by Jonathan Horne. You were a speechwriter for
Speaker 1: President Bush, which Bush George W.
Speaker 2: Bush?
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, all right. So I've always wondered about
Speaker 1: that particular discipline and how it is much different than
Speaker 1: compiling a book like the one that is out tomorrow, Jonathan.
Speaker 1: It would seem to me, on one balance, it's easier
Speaker 1: to be a speech writer if you know the person
Speaker 1: you're writing the speech for very well, so you can
Speaker 1: write it in their words or things that they would
Speaker 1: obviously naturally kind of say and craft it that way.
Speaker 1: How well did you know, George W Did you spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time with it?
Speaker 7: You know, President Bush did give access to his speechwriters.
Speaker 7: We were allowed to have meetings with him, and believe
Speaker 7: it or not, he was people often to surprises people.
Speaker 7: But he was a very very strong editor. He had
Speaker 7: a thick sharpie marker and he was not afraid to
Speaker 7: use it on the drafts that we wrote for him
Speaker 7: and let him know and let us know when we
Speaker 7: had missed the mark. One thing was true about writing
Speaker 7: for President Bush, and I think it must be true
Speaker 7: for writing for all presidents, which is, if you're writing
Speaker 7: a speech you want to give, you're going to fail
Speaker 7: as a speech writer. You have to write the speech
Speaker 7: that the president wants to give. And the fortunate part
Speaker 7: about writing for President Bush was he had very firm convictions.
Speaker 7: He had very firm value system, and so we often
Speaker 7: knew where he would stand on any given issue. And
Speaker 7: of course, have we ever were wrong, He let us
Speaker 7: know that too, and we fixed it. But there wasn't
Speaker 7: a lot of guesswork because he did have such firm
Speaker 7: values and such firm beliefs and that made our job
Speaker 7: a lot easier.
Speaker 1: Well, in comparison, say to a President Obama, for example,
Speaker 1: it seemed to me like, and this is just my
Speaker 1: personal I don't know that he probably didn't provide too
Speaker 1: much editorial advice in speeches that he gave. It seemed
Speaker 1: like he would be just kind of almost not a
Speaker 1: rip and reader. This is not to demean him at all,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying he seems to me to be
Speaker 1: more of the person that would kind of just take
Speaker 1: what was given and give the speech. Now, I will
Speaker 1: tell you this, I believe that Donald Trump probably would
Speaker 1: be one of the hardest people in the world to
Speaker 1: write speeches for because he tends to go off script
Speaker 1: from time to time at his whim. Would you like
Speaker 1: to take a crack at writing a speech for President Trump?
Speaker 7: You know, it's one of the funny parts. You can
Speaker 7: write an entire speech for a president and then they
Speaker 7: get out there in front of the podium and they'll
Speaker 7: just start talking. And I have to be honest, that
Speaker 7: happened to me more than once with President Bush. And
Speaker 7: I would sit back and he would and I would say,
Speaker 7: he's going to read the speech or and he would
Speaker 7: just start talking. And I have to be honest, most
Speaker 7: of the time it turned out far better when he
Speaker 7: just started talking to what was on his mind, and
Speaker 7: I would sit there taking notes and learn from the experience.
Speaker 7: And you know, that's what can happen when you write
Speaker 7: for someone who knows what they themselves want to say
Speaker 7: and it is comfortable on their own shoes.
Speaker 1: Was the fact that Ronald Reagan an actor make it
Speaker 1: easier or harder to write speeches for a president like
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 7: Well, I never had the pleasure of writing for President Reagan, obviously,
Speaker 7: but I know I know a lot of President Reagan's
Speaker 7: speech writers. Seems like it's such a special relationship between
Speaker 7: the president and his speech writers. And obviously to have
Speaker 7: that voice saying those words and on the famous lines
Speaker 7: you associate with the Reagan presidency, and what a period
Speaker 7: of time to have been a speech writer at the
Speaker 7: White House. I think of names like Taking Union and
Speaker 7: Peter Robinson, really fabulous writers that President Reagan had on
Speaker 7: his staff.
Speaker 1: Well, and like I said, writing to that person's voice.
Speaker 1: That's why I ask you initially, how well do you
Speaker 1: have to know someone to actually write a speech? For
Speaker 1: them in the way they would say it. It seems
Speaker 1: to me like it's almost made to order kind of
Speaker 1: thing for each individual.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, And President Bush had a very firm idea
Speaker 7: of how a speech should be structured. You know, he
Speaker 7: liked a certain way to begin the speech, he liked
Speaker 7: the middle of the speech structure, a certain way, he
Speaker 7: liked the conclusion structured a certain If you didn't follow
Speaker 7: those rules, you could be the world's greatest writer, but
Speaker 7: you weren't going to make it as a speech writer
Speaker 7: for the president because you wanted, ultimately to give your
Speaker 7: own speech, not to give the president's speech. And to
Speaker 7: be honest, the American people don't care what Jonathan Horne
Speaker 7: wanted to.
Speaker 1: Say on any issue.
Speaker 7: They wanted to hear what President Bush wanted to say,
Speaker 7: but they want to.
Speaker 1: Hear it in words that they could imagine him saying.
Speaker 1: So that's what I guess I'm getting at, is it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to write a pattern using words that that
Speaker 1: person would be believed were his own.
Speaker 7: Correct, absolutely absolutely, and you get a sense of what
Speaker 7: words the president feels comfortable with, what phrases the president
Speaker 7: feels comfortable with, And of course there are phrases that
Speaker 7: appear more than once in a president's speech, and it's
Speaker 7: because the president feels that line very deeply. That's what
Speaker 7: that represents, the president's conviction.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's fascinating stuff. Jonathan Holne is the author of
Speaker 1: The Fate of the Generals MacArthur Wainwright and the End
Speaker 1: of the War in the Philippines eighty years ago. The
Speaker 1: end of that great and terrible war, World War two.
Speaker 1: It ended in the Pacific, and MacArthur did return to
Speaker 1: liberate the Philippines two years after he left. And in
Speaker 1: his wake he left this General Wainwright, who seems to
Speaker 1: me like a very very heroic character and very brave
Speaker 1: in the face of torture and death at the hands
Speaker 1: of the Japanese. The book is out tomorrow. Anything else
Speaker 1: people should know about this tone, Jonathan.
Speaker 7: Well I hope that reading the book reminds Americans about
Speaker 7: the sacrifice and courage of the World War II generation
Speaker 7: that were made. These sacrifices were made for us, and
Speaker 7: also learned that there's always new stories like General Wainwright's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that have been kind of ignored or kind
Speaker 1: of lost in the fog of time. When you get
Speaker 1: a couple of generations in after a major historical event.
Speaker 1: Many times, sadly those stories are rewritten or they're not
Speaker 1: true to what actually happened. And I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: reading your book to find out how true to the
Speaker 1: core all this is. And if you're getting this, you're
Speaker 1: leanning these from papers and diaries of the two men,
Speaker 1: especially Wainwright. You have a pretty good source that's being
Speaker 1: tapped that hasn't been heretofore. I wish you great success
Speaker 1: with the book.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you so much. It's been a pleasure speaking
Speaker 7: with you.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Horne. It's the Fate of the Generals out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: If you're a history buff, and I am, it sounds
Speaker 1: like required reading.
Speaker 2: Take care, sir, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You bet you. J. T. Young on the other side
Speaker 1: and will also speak to Dan was the author of
Speaker 1: Good Gun, Bad Guy series of books, fur Ball, wild Man.
Speaker 1: It's all still ahead as we trod on on this
Speaker 1: Monday night in the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW. You'll
Speaker 1: show every once in a while, just so I can
Speaker 1: put a little bit of food on the table. Our
Speaker 1: next guest is very concerned about putting food on the
Speaker 1: table and where it comes from in this country that
Speaker 1: is part of a four generation a Midwestern family farm
Speaker 1: and is also the author of Land Rich Cash for
Speaker 1: My Family's Hope and The Untold History of the Disappearing
Speaker 1: American Farmer Brian Reisinger from Wisconsin. Right, Brian, is that
Speaker 1: where the family farm is.
Speaker 19: That's exactly right, more hundred years in southern Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. So obviously, the issue that everybody wants to
Speaker 1: know about from a farmer's perspective or from a farmer's
Speaker 1: family perspective is tariffs. Kind of the world's been turned
Speaker 1: topsy turvy since Donald Trump took office, and it's nothing
Speaker 1: that he did not tell you about while he was
Speaker 1: out in the campaign trail. In fact, he part of
Speaker 1: his campaign towards rural America and family farms was that
Speaker 1: we're looking out for America's farmers. Do you think he's
Speaker 1: trying to do that so far?
Speaker 19: Yeah, great question. You know, the reality is that a
Speaker 19: lot of people in farm country and rural area supported
Speaker 19: President Trump because they knew about his economic plans, and
Speaker 19: part of that was getting tough on trade that has
Speaker 19: been unfair to American farmers and American workers. And what
Speaker 19: we're dealing with right now is the reality that farmers
Speaker 19: deal with unfair trade as it is, and they know
Speaker 19: they've been been screwed by China and other places. It's
Speaker 19: also true that farmers can be subject to foreign retaliation
Speaker 19: when other countries put tariffs back on us can make
Speaker 19: it harder for farmers to sell their goods abroad. So
Speaker 19: both those things are true. Where we're at right now
Speaker 19: is I think farmers are looking to see, Okay, how
Speaker 19: is President Trump going to utilize the leverage with other
Speaker 19: countries who got about seventy countries that have come for
Speaker 19: and said they're ready to negotiate after the tariffs that
Speaker 19: he put in place and then eased up on. And
Speaker 19: so I think the big question for a lot of
Speaker 19: farmers right now is what kind of trade deals can
Speaker 19: the administration reach that are hopefully more fair while opening
Speaker 19: up markets brought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's already there are so many things against farmers,
Speaker 1: people who grow crops, people who raise animals. To begin with,
Speaker 1: you got mother nature obviously, and that's that's that can
Speaker 1: be enemy or friend number one, depending on how the
Speaker 1: weather goes. And there's nothing that any no matter what
Speaker 1: the climate terrorists tell you there's nothing any of us
Speaker 1: can do about the weather, about massive flooding, about droughts,
Speaker 1: tornadoes and the like that can simply wreak havoc on
Speaker 1: any farm that is touched by these adverse extreme weather conditions.
Speaker 1: But it's Mother Nature at work. So that's enemy or
Speaker 1: friend number one, depending on how that goes after that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, you speak to that.
Speaker 19: Oh I'm sorry, I was. I was just agreeing with it.
Speaker 19: You're you must be reading our mail.
Speaker 1: Continue, Gary job, Okay, great. But the second thing is,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, being competitive globally because while America's farmers,
Speaker 1: through all of the adverse events they fight through like
Speaker 1: the weather, still are some of the most productive farmers
Speaker 1: in the world. We have many many benefits in America.
Speaker 1: We've got great land, great soil, we've got not really
Speaker 1: that extreme weather conditions, even though I mentioned that off
Speaker 1: the top. But we also face and have faced this,
Speaker 1: this incredible hindrance to selling as the world's bread basket,
Speaker 1: to selling our goods around the world because of the
Speaker 1: imposements that these other countries put upon us. I know
Speaker 1: that someone was complaining and we had a new segment
Speaker 1: from ABC News which is probably the least pro Trump
Speaker 1: news source in America, if it's possible for one to
Speaker 1: be the least. ABC News, our affiliate, certainly seems that
Speaker 1: way in the way they slant their reporting. That being said,
Speaker 1: mentioning that American farmers sell thirteen billion dollars worth of
Speaker 1: soybeans to try it China every year and now that
Speaker 1: has been basically cut off. Can can the American farmer
Speaker 1: survive sustain while these tariffs do their work.
Speaker 19: It's such a good question. You're still right about the
Speaker 19: challenges that farmers face. In my book Langage cash Core,
Speaker 19: we talk about all these issues over decades that I've
Speaker 19: got our farms and we've dealt with our families star
Speaker 19: and we've seen the weather, the tragic farm accidents, the
Speaker 19: economic upheople, and you're so right when you layer tariffs
Speaker 19: into that, it is a really delicate situation. And here's
Speaker 19: the reality. In the short term, while there's hardline being
Speaker 19: drawn and negotiations going on, there's some time in the
Speaker 19: short term where that can be sustained. But we need
Speaker 19: to be able to have soybean prices and the price
Speaker 19: of other crops restored, and part of that is going
Speaker 19: to be making some progress for China but also walking
Speaker 19: and chewing them at the same time, which is to say,
Speaker 19: making some progress for China but also making progress with
Speaker 19: all of these other countries. So if we're still drawing
Speaker 19: a little bit of a hard line with China while
Speaker 19: also opening up these other markets that are going to
Speaker 19: be more fair, we can begin to do something about it.
Speaker 4: But I do think that.
Speaker 19: Going through you know, say, the rest of this year,
Speaker 19: with really difficult trade disputes going on with all of
Speaker 19: these different countries, it does mean that we're going to
Speaker 19: have lower soybean prices and other crop prices for our farmers.
Speaker 19: And you know, and I know that you know the
Speaker 19: President hears this as he travels through farm country for
Speaker 19: many of his supporters. Farmers don't have a lot of room.
Speaker 19: They don't have a lot of money they can lose
Speaker 19: before they get into even deeper trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're already dealing on a shoestring in
Speaker 1: most cases. I understand that, having some people in my
Speaker 1: family that have been generational farmers. Brian Reisinger, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this then, because a lot of people don't understand.
Speaker 1: Before Trump puts a focus on making trade more fair
Speaker 1: for American products and goods globally.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people who are outside
Speaker 1: of the farming community or outside of manufacturing really understand
Speaker 1: the impediments that American goods and products and producers face
Speaker 1: in some of these other countries in the EU, in
Speaker 1: name a country overseas that doesn't put major hurdles in
Speaker 1: front of American products getting in there. And that's why
Speaker 1: these tariffs are so important to leveling things out. I mean,
Speaker 1: do people really understand how, say, Wisconsin cheese is being
Speaker 1: impeded being traded and sold at a fair price in
Speaker 1: a foreign country. I don't think people get it.
Speaker 4: Until now I think that's true.
Speaker 19: You know, there are so many examples, Like there's another
Speaker 19: really good one just to the east of where I
Speaker 19: grew up in Michigan. Michigan asparagus farmers. Here's a trade
Speaker 19: in balance for you. They are not allowed to sell
Speaker 19: their asparagus into certain foreign countries that grow asparagus during
Speaker 19: those countries prime seasons. They can sell it during their
Speaker 19: off season, but they can't do it during their prime
Speaker 19: season because those countries want to protect their asparagus growers
Speaker 19: during their best season, but the reverse isn't true. Michigan
Speaker 19: asparagus farmers. They face foreign asparagus from those countries all
Speaker 19: year round, so that pushes the price of asparagus bound
Speaker 19: for your Michigan asparagus farmer, but you know they aren't
Speaker 19: able to go sell into those other countries year round.
Speaker 19: We need to wipe out unfair imbalances like that, where
Speaker 19: if two countries are in a trade deal and one
Speaker 19: of them wants to protect their prime asparagus season, it
Speaker 19: ought to be protected for both countries so that the
Speaker 19: farmers in each country are operating on a level playing field.
Speaker 19: That's just one of so many examples all across the
Speaker 19: globe of things that American farmers are dealing with it
Speaker 19: that are unfair and that are impacting their prices in
Speaker 19: their bottom line.
Speaker 1: And in your home state of Wisconsin obviously the number
Speaker 1: one cheese producer in the United States, as far as
Speaker 1: even just trading with our neighbors to the north in Canada.
Speaker 1: Didn't Canada have terrible tariffs on American cheese?
Speaker 19: Yeah, you know, I'm so glad you brought up cheese
Speaker 19: and dairy. You know, Wisconsin has one of the kind
Speaker 19: cheese all kinds of varieties made by our master cheese
Speaker 19: makers were the only state in the country that has that,
Speaker 19: and that's why it's so rare across country and why
Speaker 19: it can also compete abroad. But Canada, France, other countries,
Speaker 19: of course have a big hand in this. You know
Speaker 19: Canada not too long ago, a few years ago, especially
Speaker 19: during the last trade dispute of the first Trump administration,
Speaker 19: they were coming in and they were dumping or selling
Speaker 19: beneath market value all kinds of proteins and fats that
Speaker 19: come from milk. And so that's an example where they're
Speaker 19: pushing down our prices for what we can get for
Speaker 19: our milk and also for other products built off of that,
Speaker 19: and that's a real problem. Canada has a very protectionist
Speaker 19: policy when it comes to their dairy and it puts
Speaker 19: them in a position to protect their farmers more so
Speaker 19: than they do extend fair trade opportunities to us. So
Speaker 19: even though they're traditionally a friend and there's maybe types
Speaker 19: of trade with them that are good, there's also way
Speaker 19: that they have built up unfair barriers for all of
Speaker 19: our dairy farms across America as well.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: It's a wait and see situation as far as the
Speaker 1: tariffs on farm products and manufacturing products and everything else
Speaker 1: that is going on right now, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: a wait and see, and you believe, as the President
Speaker 1: has said, it's going to be a little wild and
Speaker 1: there's going to be some more pain, but hopefully at
Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel we come out into the
Speaker 1: sunlight of fair and free trade, truly fair and free
Speaker 1: trade across the globe and to help American farmers and
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. The book is Land Rich
Speaker 1: Cash for my family's hope and the untold history and
Speaker 1: the disappearing of a mirror and farmer. Brian Reisinger, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for your time again tonight. It's always
Speaker 1: good to talk.
Speaker 4: To you, so good to be with you.
Speaker 19: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Gary Jets, you bet you. The nightcap rolls on in
Speaker 1: moments on seven hundred WLW. After this interest rates have plummeted.
Speaker 4: It's we are.
Speaker 1: Talking now to my friend JT. Young, who was incredible.
Speaker 1: If you look up the word if you look up
Speaker 1: the word prolific in the dictionary, his picture is there.
Speaker 1: If I is constantly putting out fantastic, thoughtful material on
Speaker 1: the state of today's politics and the state of today's country,
Speaker 1: and what especially focused on what the left is doing
Speaker 1: right now to just simply oppose Donald Trump and his supporters.
Speaker 1: And it's been let's just say it's a movie we've
Speaker 1: seen before. The title of the piece last Friday on
Speaker 1: the eleventh and the American Spectator, where you can find
Speaker 1: a lot of JT's writings, the Left's heaven is actually hell.
Speaker 1: And it starts out with and I know that you guys,
Speaker 1: when you do pieces like this op ed pieces, you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily write the titles a lot of times, but
Speaker 1: it says, unfortunately for the hands off protesters, America has
Speaker 1: not forgotten what happened when they were in charge, and
Speaker 1: they tend to think that they are now. I mean
Speaker 1: no greater example, I mean, other than the last four
Speaker 1: years of the Biden travesty. The summer of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: when BLM, Antifa and the rest were conducting they're not
Speaker 1: so peaceful protests and trying to burn down the entire country. JT. Young,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. How are you?
Speaker 13: I am, Greg, Gary, Jeff and even better to be
Speaker 13: talking to you.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much. And it does seem that
Speaker 1: the left's vision of heaven is anybody else's with any
Speaker 1: kind of solid, sane perspective is a picture of hell.
Speaker 1: It's a hellscape with violent criminals in the streets, with
Speaker 1: burning tesla or whatever. The next thing is that these
Speaker 1: groups like hands Off, you know in that funny JT.
Speaker 1: They always have these names for their organizations which are
Speaker 1: absolutely the opposite of what they are and what they believe.
Speaker 1: Hands Off is so hands on kinetically and violent in
Speaker 1: their intent and in their actions that it's just laughable
Speaker 1: for them to come up with a name like hands Off,
Speaker 1: Isn't it right?
Speaker 13: Oh, you're absolutely right, And it was.
Speaker 1: Fun.
Speaker 13: When I was writing the piece, I actually found that
Speaker 13: I had more examples than I could put in to
Speaker 13: all the different places where the Left has run a muck.
Speaker 13: And that was really the gist of the piece, which
Speaker 13: was to just kind of give an across the country look,
Speaker 13: from New York to Chicago, Minneapolis. You were already mentioning
Speaker 13: when it, you know, went up and flamed in twenty twenty,
Speaker 13: you know, the autonomous districts and Portland and then Seattle. Obviously,
Speaker 13: the homelessness and the drug use and crime in San Francisco,
Speaker 13: the wildfires out of control in Los Angeles, and then
Speaker 13: and everything that's going on in New York City. It
Speaker 13: was it was just there were there were it was, uh,
Speaker 13: you know, an embarrassment of riches, so many targets to
Speaker 13: go after here, and.
Speaker 1: So many Americans they see these pictures of these places
Speaker 1: that you've just mentioned in these occurrences of abject violence
Speaker 1: and just everything going against the grain of everything most
Speaker 1: of us want for our lives, and it seems to
Speaker 1: me JT. That the more America sides against them, the
Speaker 1: more violent and the louder they get. They're They're like
Speaker 1: a wounded animal in many cases, backed into a corner,
Speaker 1: aren't they.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I think I think you really you really see on
Speaker 13: a one of the lessons we get from this, which
Speaker 13: is they are becoming more and more concentrated within themselves.
Speaker 13: They're talking to themselves, they're acting with themselves, and I
Speaker 13: think that they are getting increasingly frustrated with the fact
Speaker 13: that America as a whole is rejecting their vision. And
Speaker 13: just as you were pointing out, I think that frustration
Speaker 13: boils over that they don't know which way to turn.
Speaker 13: You know, there's they basically have given up talking to
Speaker 13: America anymore. And so they're they're yelling at each other
Speaker 13: and yelling with each other.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. They are yelling at themselves and
Speaker 1: just getting louder and louder and louder, thinking that that
Speaker 1: is going to solve or that is going to win
Speaker 1: any arguments with anyone. And you look at the positions
Speaker 1: that the left generally holds, like unfettered abortion, which is
Speaker 1: murdering babies. That's their heaven, going back to your piece
Speaker 1: and the Spectator, their heaven is the fact that anyone,
Speaker 1: at any time can kill an unborn baby, and it's
Speaker 1: a right to do so, to commit murder, and that
Speaker 1: is absolutely the opposite of what is and should be
Speaker 1: considered virtuous and healthy and heavenly. You look at the
Speaker 1: pro Hamas protest wiping Israel off the map. They're not
Speaker 1: winning any friends or in influencing any people other than
Speaker 1: the ones as you mentioned, that are already singing that
Speaker 1: chorus or making up bad folks songs about Trump and Doge.
Speaker 13: It's so crazy, right, And you mentioned just two examples
Speaker 13: that really touch on the pulse of what's happened. When
Speaker 13: you were talking about abortion. You really capture that. You know,
Speaker 13: roe versus Wade used to be the mantra for the left.
Speaker 13: It's not anymore. Roe versus Wade is not good enough
Speaker 13: for him. As you just said, it has to be
Speaker 13: unfettered now. And this was something that Harris refused to
Speaker 13: talk about in the campaign. But if you'll notice, she
Speaker 13: was never saying Roe versus Wade.
Speaker 6: They want more than that now.
Speaker 1: They have up.
Speaker 13: Pianny And you mentioned the pro Hamas. Remember it used
Speaker 13: to be the moderate pro Palestinian position was it's two
Speaker 13: state solutions. They don't want that anymore. They want all
Speaker 13: of it. And just as you said, the chat is
Speaker 13: from the river to the sea, well the river to
Speaker 13: the sea means there's no Israel in between. And I
Speaker 13: think you see has done two great examples that the
Speaker 13: left have up the Andy dramatically.
Speaker 6: They are not the moderate left that we.
Speaker 13: Used to think of anymore. These are extreme radical and
Speaker 13: they're only talking to themselves, you know.
Speaker 1: No no doubt. J. T. Young is the author of
Speaker 1: the recent book Unprecedented Assault, How Big Government unleashed America's
Speaker 1: socialists left. We're kind of talking about that with his
Speaker 1: latest piece last Friday, in the American Spectator, how the
Speaker 1: left heaven is actually held. Another great example that we
Speaker 1: keep seeing over and over JT. Is this push for
Speaker 1: and and the uh, the actual grooming of children by
Speaker 1: the by the militant, violent transgender community in this country,
Speaker 1: who who are trying to convince parents and children that
Speaker 1: to be really happy they need to mutilate their bodies
Speaker 1: and the bodies that they were born in are not
Speaker 1: the right bodies and giving into this mental dysfunction. I
Speaker 1: think that's another excellent example how the left heaven is
Speaker 1: actually hell.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And I think just as you mentioned, and it
Speaker 13: used to be that the American sort of ideal was
Speaker 13: what you do in the business of your own personal
Speaker 13: space was your business. But the new agenda now for
Speaker 13: transgender is now people who identify biological males who identify
Speaker 13: as women should be allowed to compete and therefore push
Speaker 13: women and girls out of the sports that were their sports.
Speaker 13: So again, it's not just enough that you're allowed to
Speaker 13: do whatever you want to do within your personal space.
Speaker 13: Now that's not good enough for him anymore.
Speaker 1: JT. Young, Thank you brilliant stuff and things that more
Speaker 1: and more Americans are agreeing about, the things we're talking about,
Speaker 1: and that's a good sign. It's a terrible sign for
Speaker 1: the radical left, and they are, as you mentioned, just
Speaker 1: floundering to try and find some foothold and their way
Speaker 1: with their insanity that flies in the against the face
Speaker 1: of not just decency but humanity in general. JT.
Speaker 13: Thank you, Thank you, Garry, Jeff, and thanks for carrying
Speaker 13: the flag.
Speaker 1: Yes, you bet, you bet. It's your turn next. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much, you got it. JT. Young and the Nightcap
Speaker 1: once again, brilliant guy. Love having him on and we
Speaker 1: will do so again whenever we have a show again.
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Speaker 1: Gary Jeff joining us now one of my favorite guests
Speaker 1: long time. If you're a Second Amendment enthusiast, which means
Speaker 1: you're a freedom enthusiast, you know this guy probably and
Speaker 1: you'll enjoy hearing him speak for a moment on the
Speaker 1: issues of the day regarding your right to own and
Speaker 1: bear firearms. The one, the Only Dan was from the
Speaker 1: Good Gun, Bad Guy series, the Loaded Mic show, the podcast,
Speaker 1: and all over YouTube. If you're a gun person and
Speaker 1: you know how important andtrinsically important they are to being
Speaker 1: an American citizen, Dan was welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: How are you my friend?
Speaker 8: Hey, Gary Jeff doing great? Thanks for having me on,
Speaker 8: and thanks for spreading the good word on Second Amendment.
Speaker 8: We really appreciate people like you, you know, putting the putting,
Speaker 8: putting it out there so everybody knows what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, first and foremost, there are people who don't
Speaker 1: appreciate the Second Amendment in this country, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them have to be uh happen to be leftist
Speaker 1: lawmakers in places like Colorado, including their governor Polis who
Speaker 1: I think is one of the dumbest people in elected
Speaker 1: office in this country. But that's my opinion. Uh, they
Speaker 1: have a new tack on gun control, make it harder
Speaker 1: to reload, and Colorado is now one of the most
Speaker 1: restrictive states regarding your right your right don't n bear firearms.
Speaker 1: Tell me what's going on in Colorado?
Speaker 8: Now, Dan, Well, there are two major things that I'm
Speaker 8: following right now. The first one is a bill called
Speaker 8: SB twenty five DASH zero zero three. It's called It's
Speaker 8: about semi automatic firearms and rapid fire devices, and it's
Speaker 8: a law that sign it was signing the law and
Speaker 8: it goes into effect August first, twenty twenty six, at
Speaker 8: which time the manufacturer, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of
Speaker 8: semi automatic rifles or shotguns with detachable magazines and gas
Speaker 8: operated semi automatic handguns with detachable magazines are prohibited. So
Speaker 8: they basically banned a whole a whole bunch of guns.
Speaker 8: And but what they did was they said accept certain
Speaker 8: twenty two caliber rim fire ammunition and special listed models.
Speaker 8: So so you might be able to keep a twenty
Speaker 8: two rifle for shooting squirrels. But as far as when
Speaker 8: it comes to defending your home and your family. Forget it,
Speaker 8: that's out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shooting the criminal squirrels that are invading your home
Speaker 1: becomes a little bit more difficult. Are a lot more
Speaker 1: difficult in the state of Colorado as of August of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Is there time to reverse that through
Speaker 1: the court system or whatever.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure there's gonna be strong battles
Speaker 8: going on until then.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: And but it sounds to me like they're they're trying
Speaker 8: to do exactly what New York has done with their
Speaker 8: so called New York Safe Act, where they basically neutered
Speaker 8: the you know, AR fifteen style rifles. But that's not
Speaker 8: all for this with Colorado. That's not the only thing
Speaker 8: they've now. SB twenty five also requires extensive training, extended
Speaker 8: player arms safety course. And then you gotta then your
Speaker 8: your course and your your name and all your information
Speaker 8: is going to be registered with the Division of Parts
Speaker 8: and Wildlife, which is another portion of this this law. Basically,
Speaker 8: they're creating an in house gun registry or gun owner registry,
Speaker 8: I should say. Now, they know they can't do that
Speaker 8: at the federal level because it's just it's un constitution
Speaker 8: it's not allowed. So what states like New York and
Speaker 8: now Colorado are doing is they're taking as much of
Speaker 8: their anti gun infrastructure in house so they can keep
Speaker 8: their own records.
Speaker 6: At the state level.
Speaker 8: It's so heinous. I can't even believe we're even talking
Speaker 8: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard for me to believe. Again, living in
Speaker 1: a freer state, let's say like Kentucky, the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: where I reside just across the river from Cincinnati, or
Speaker 1: in Ohio, you know, or in Indiana. I live in
Speaker 1: one of those states where your Second Amendment rights are
Speaker 1: respected and protected pretty much routinely, roundly. And then you
Speaker 1: get to Illinois and it's like being in another country,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I do know what you mean. And you know,
Speaker 8: I live in New York, so we're constantly fighting these
Speaker 8: battles up here in New York State. Now there's another
Speaker 8: thing that's happening in Colorado that I and it's really disturbing.
Speaker 8: And it's not so much that it's going to be
Speaker 8: an effective law, but the idea that they're trying to
Speaker 8: use legislation to push propaganda. And I'll explain three Democrats
Speaker 8: from Colorado Democrat Representative Stephen Woodrow, Democrat Representative of Elizabeth Velasco,
Speaker 8: and Democrat Senator Nick Hendrickson. Well, they decided they're going
Speaker 8: to create a bill for the purpose of spreading anti
Speaker 8: gun propaganda and furthering the false gun narrative. A bill
Speaker 8: is called HB twelve twenty five, otherwise known as the
Speaker 8: Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act. Now, what this bill says.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 8: It's unlawful to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person who's
Speaker 8: voting or attempting to vote anything to do with voting,
Speaker 8: even people who are administrative. If you're open carrying a
Speaker 8: firearm while talking to these people or while doing anything
Speaker 8: related to voting, you are intimidating, threatening, or coercing. And
Speaker 8: they're trying to make this look like this is a bit,
Speaker 8: like this is an issue, like gun owners are actually
Speaker 8: doing this sort of thing to influence the vote, so
Speaker 8: it's really a propaganda piece. The bill specifies that any
Speaker 8: individual who carries a visible firearm, imitation firearms, or get
Speaker 8: ready for this Gary Jeff, even a toy firearm, while
Speaker 8: interacting with or observing any of the specified election related
Speaker 8: activities is presumed to be engaging in intimidation.
Speaker 1: The mere presence of a gun is intimidation. A toy gun,
Speaker 1: a toy gun.
Speaker 8: It's actually listed in this bill, even a toy gun.
Speaker 8: So people to understand that when the average person sees
Speaker 8: a bill like this, the Freedom from Intimidation and Elections Act,
Speaker 8: they believe that this is an actual issue, like this
Speaker 8: is actually happening, because otherwise, why would legislation be needed.
Speaker 8: But the truth is it's not happening. It's not happening
Speaker 8: anywhere in the country. But these Democrats are doing this
Speaker 8: to make it look like gun owners are threatening people
Speaker 8: to vote a certain way and by using their guns
Speaker 8: as as you know, intimidation.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess it's I guess you better not break
Speaker 1: out a finger gun either.
Speaker 6: Exactly that.
Speaker 1: Dana was good Gun, bad Guy dot Com, the Loaded Mike,
Speaker 1: and more. Thank you so much for your time on
Speaker 1: this evening. It's my only nightcap this month, so I
Speaker 1: knew I had to have you on.
Speaker 8: Appreciate it well, thanks thanks for having me PO.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, you bet you. Andy Furman is up
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Speaker 1: Truckers can expect the unexpected when driving, but a little
Speaker 1: hands up like this would still be nice break breaker
Speaker 1: truck driver. I'm wl W Andy, currently being held hostage
Speaker 1: by the Sons and Daughters of Italy as we do
Speaker 1: this this interview, Andy is everything.
Speaker 3: Okay, everythus great. You know, I got to say certain
Speaker 3: things and I get to thumb up with a thumb down.
Speaker 3: But let me let me move on over here, because
Speaker 3: you know they got me for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: I don't know why my rate is not that expensive.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a take on the masks. Okay, that
Speaker 3: someone has never said before. I swim upstream a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I mean this from the heart. Okay. The masses
Speaker 3: to me is a very selective situation for selective people. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's an elitist situation. And I've got one step further.
Speaker 3: Even think golf is a sport, I think it's recreation.
Speaker 3: That's what golf is all right, Why can't be both crazy? Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but maybe it is, maybe it's not.
Speaker 3: I think it's more recreation than a sport because there's
Speaker 3: no controversy, there's no defense. You know, honestly, people go crazy.
Speaker 3: You don't what because the timing of the Masters is perfect?
Speaker 3: But do what I mean by that? It's too early
Speaker 3: to get excited about baseball. Really, it's after opening day,
Speaker 3: it's after the NCAA basketball tournament. There's a great window
Speaker 3: for the Masters. There's nothing else going on. That's what's
Speaker 3: this happening right there. And the fact that they use
Speaker 3: the term master. In this day and age, you can't
Speaker 3: have used the term master bedroom anymore.
Speaker 1: I use the terms. I use the term master all
Speaker 1: the time. Sometimes it relates to an activity. Andy, there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the word master. There is nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with the Masters. And obviously you didn't even care about
Speaker 1: the incredible unfolding drama of the final round yesterday because
Speaker 1: you have this, oh, I would say, elitist tape on
Speaker 1: the Masters. The Masters is the greatest, is the greatest
Speaker 1: spectacle of the golf.
Speaker 3: Everybody who watches that as an elitist, you know, first
Speaker 3: of all, it's ninety percent white. That's basically what it is.
Speaker 3: It's there's too much money for the poor people like
Speaker 3: me to get involve to play golf, poor people like you.
Speaker 3: It's a selective it's a selective and elitist sport. That's
Speaker 3: basically what it is for the Bill cunning Hands of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 1: The guy who shopped, the guy who shops for overpriced
Speaker 1: cigars on a on a weekly basis, the guy who's
Speaker 1: got a swimming pool, an in ground swimming pool in
Speaker 1: his backyard. You're not an elitist. You're one of the
Speaker 1: regular guys. Is that what you're trying to sell me?
Speaker 3: So that that's my set pool. It's not in a
Speaker 3: swimming pool, but that's another story.
Speaker 1: So that's the largest septic tank in Florence, is what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: After you've been in it, you if you if you
Speaker 3: don't agree with me, that's a selective sport, that's a
Speaker 3: selective situation, then you're wrong. Okay, As I say, I
Speaker 3: saw the play, well I saw the end of the
Speaker 3: Then that was someone intrigued by it. And again I
Speaker 3: do it because that's that's my living sports. I want
Speaker 3: to know what's going on. I'm I, I'm I happy
Speaker 3: with them. Well, I like it. Know. Let me tell
Speaker 3: you something. If the Masters is in my backyard, I
Speaker 3: pulled the shades, That's what I would do. I pulled
Speaker 3: the shade. That's what I would do, and you wouldn't go.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this. I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 3: couple of questions.
Speaker 1: Well, Andy, the players and the patrons would appreciate it
Speaker 1: if you draw your shades because nobody needs to see that.
Speaker 3: Would you rather the Masters or the Super Bowl? Well?
Speaker 1: I would I would rather be. I would rather be
Speaker 1: at the Masters.
Speaker 3: Actually draft, what the draft is the bigger?
Speaker 1: Who the hell wants to go to the draft unless
Speaker 1: you're want to a player in the first round gonna
Speaker 1: be taken to the first round. I don't care about
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. I'll read the results later. I don't
Speaker 1: need to be there.
Speaker 3: You watch it next Thursday on the TV and see
Speaker 3: how many people are there, and every city's clamoring to
Speaker 3: get there that event in their city.
Speaker 24: Really, all right, I'm I'm not clamoring if it were
Speaker 24: if it were next door, if the NFL Draft was
Speaker 24: held in Cincinnati next year, I wouldn't even get close
Speaker 24: to the River.
Speaker 1: Andy. Again, it's a The NFL is a made for
Speaker 1: TV sport. And I'd rather be at the Masters in Augusta,
Speaker 1: Georgia at Augusta National than watching a bunch of heathens
Speaker 1: drunk Heathens. Uh root for for teams and players in
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. I want the game. I don't care about.
Speaker 3: You about the opening day parade. How dare you talk
Speaker 3: about the side opening Day trade.
Speaker 1: I didn't mention the opening Day parade. I'd never mentioned
Speaker 1: the Opening Day pride.
Speaker 3: You mentioned drunks and heathens.
Speaker 1: Well, that could be opening Day, Andy Red's Opening Day,
Speaker 1: the all day long. That could be every Bengals game.
Speaker 3: Every every Bengals game. You're right about that. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I'm not going to those. Okay, let me let me say.
Speaker 3: Do you hear what Howie Roseman, the vice president general
Speaker 3: manager of the Philadelphia Eagles said. And I'm sure he's
Speaker 3: a spokesman in a shield for the ownership of the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles. I don't think this decision came from him,
Speaker 3: but he said the Eagles will not even scout players
Speaker 3: who have been violent against women. Quote, I won't even
Speaker 3: watch them. It's just a deal breaker for us. He
Speaker 3: did it ten years ago and he learned from it.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't work for us. Can you believe that?
Speaker 3: But think about that if Mike Brown had that same
Speaker 3: thing as Joe Mixon in the Cincinnati Bengals and they
Speaker 3: drafted mixing.
Speaker 1: And nobody deserves a second chance. Ever, they make one
Speaker 1: mistake and they're on the blacklist forever in your book,
Speaker 1: right in Rosen's.
Speaker 3: Book, you know, and you better define the term mistake
Speaker 3: for me. You know, punching a woman in the face
Speaker 3: is a lot different than having a slur being said
Speaker 3: by Tom Brenneman did and when the mic was open,
Speaker 3: you know, he got a second chance. He got to
Speaker 3: wait a little too long in my book, but he
Speaker 3: probably got his second chance of us.
Speaker 1: I know you wanted to talk real briefly about Yeshiva University,
Speaker 1: which is an all Jewish university, the Maccabees and they've
Speaker 1: had something wonderful happen, and you want to do illustrate
Speaker 1: that for a moment.
Speaker 3: Highlight that they have been undefeated since last Tuesday.
Speaker 4: You know why.
Speaker 3: It was their first win since February twenty seventh, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. They lost one hundred straight baseball games and
Speaker 3: I'm trying to did some research on this. I don't
Speaker 3: know if the coach was fired or not. I doubt it.
Speaker 3: I doubt it. But you lose one hundred games in
Speaker 3: a row, something's got to say. I mean, really, how
Speaker 3: does that happen? I mean, what they what they do?
Speaker 1: Did they hire a new manager?
Speaker 2: College?
Speaker 3: Leman College? In the Bronx they beat Leman collor next
Speaker 3: year they put Leman on every day every day they
Speaker 3: played le Can you image those kids for Lema how
Speaker 3: they feel? I mean, really don't believe you're right about that.
Speaker 3: You talk about handicap, you know, yes, see if the
Speaker 3: university they should be able to play twelve against nine,
Speaker 3: that's what they should. They should have a handicap in baseball.
Speaker 3: Do you see the university.
Speaker 1: Speaking of handicaps? We're watching the commercial. It was a
Speaker 1: wonderful commercial during the Masters with the player a couple
Speaker 1: of players that were one armed and at the bar
Speaker 1: and somebody said, he hit it was one arm. I said,
Speaker 1: well he only had one arm, I said, And the
Speaker 1: great thing about golf is if you only have one
Speaker 1: arm and you're playing, people know what your handicap is immediately.
Speaker 3: No doubt about that I don't want to joke about it.
Speaker 3: I thinking of handicaps. You know, at the Point Perk
Speaker 3: and I work at the Point, they have a coffee
Speaker 3: shop one of the operations that they have one of
Speaker 3: the enterprises. We have a coffee shop, we have the
Speaker 3: laundry service, we have in apparel shop, a pretzel store.
Speaker 3: But in the coffee shop. They had a film and
Speaker 3: it was filmed last week and they entered a nationwide
Speaker 3: Easter Seals contest for disability, and there was a disability film.
Speaker 3: And it's wonderful, it really is, and hopefully they got
Speaker 3: some notoriety on that some press. Two young women did it.
Speaker 3: One was in a wheelchair, and obviously the one of
Speaker 3: the rulings of this film is that you have to
Speaker 3: have a handicapped person or persons to into this and
Speaker 3: be in the film. That's amazing. And they did the
Speaker 3: film at the Point per coffee shop last week. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and people with people with people with
Speaker 1: physical disabilities should be able to compete against other people
Speaker 1: with physical disabilities, just like biological men should never play
Speaker 1: against women. Ever.
Speaker 3: Ever, well, ever, I liked the way it's funny way
Speaker 3: back in the day when I was doing sports talk
Speaker 3: on seven hundred WLW, I forgot who was a gentleman's
Speaker 3: sports illustrated for I got who wasn't occumet to me eventually,
Speaker 3: and we had a big argument about a young man
Speaker 3: who was a wrestler, and he was he had a disability.
Speaker 3: I think he had no legs, maybe no legs in
Speaker 3: the ones, but he was wrestling and he was wrestling
Speaker 3: against people who are not disabled. And I had a
Speaker 3: big argument with him at the time, saying, I don't
Speaker 3: think it's fair. It's kind of like having men running
Speaker 3: against women. You just do it. So he said to me, no,
Speaker 3: he should have every opportunity in there was You know what,
Speaker 3: that's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Every opportunity
Speaker 3: given the Kistia car, give them the keysty call and
Speaker 3: drive your car there.
Speaker 1: Really well, Andy, Andy misson And in spite, in spite
Speaker 1: of your obvious disabilities, I always love having you on.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 3: You're cutting new off. I have to get cutting New off.
Speaker 1: I have to go.
Speaker 3: I'll see you goodbye, bye.
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Speaker 20: A legal battle bruise in Norwood over funding with the
Speaker 20: eleven thirty re parts, I'm lee mawin breaking now, the
Speaker 20: Norwood City Schools are suing the City of Norwood over
Speaker 20: tax breaks for local developments that could leave public funding
Speaker 20: for the local schools tapped. Local property taxes are the
Speaker 20: district's most reliable and stable funding source, according to school
Speaker 20: board President Brandon Atwood. He adds a plan to give
Speaker 20: one hundred percent abatement for commercial properties could cost anywhere
Speaker 20: from hundreds of thousands to millions.
Speaker 10: Of dollars in loss funds.
Speaker 20: Residents echo their frustrations at a March eleventh council meeting,
Speaker 20: saying some money out of any deal should at least
Speaker 20: go to the schools. The big development in this affair
Speaker 20: is Factory fifty two, which is an entertainment district near
Speaker 20: I seventy one with restaurants, shops, and apartments that are
Speaker 20: Wood school Board is calling on a temporary restraining order
Speaker 20: of the Ordnance. Now the latest traffic and weather together,
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Speaker 16: Partly cloudy overnight this temperatures will be a bit cooler,
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Speaker 16: at about fifteen miles per hour as you go through Tuesday.
Speaker 16: Mostly cloudy through majority of the day with winds gusting
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Speaker 16: Only looking at a high of fifty four with a
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Speaker 20: It's fifty six degrees with mostly cloudy skies. Renewed worries
Speaker 20: about public officials receiving threats, and it stems from the
Speaker 20: fire at Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence early Sunday morning.
Speaker 20: Judge Esther Sellas, who lost their son Daniel and the
Speaker 20: deliberate attack five years ago, talked to ABC's Lindsay Davis
Speaker 20: about new threats, which include pizza deliveries sent to judges
Speaker 20: using her son's name.
Speaker 25: We're in unprecedented times. I think we can look to
Speaker 25: statements that are coming out from our leaders and these
Speaker 25: positions of power and say we're in new territory when
Speaker 25: we see members of Congress calling for the impeachment of
Speaker 25: judges for doing their jobs.
Speaker 20: Meantime, bail denied for Cody Baumer. He's the suspect in
Speaker 20: the arson. He's expressed to stay for Democrats on social media.
Speaker 15: In the Oval office, President Trump on the incident, the
Speaker 15: attacker was not.
Speaker 4: A fan of Trump.
Speaker 26: I understand just from what I read, from what I've
Speaker 26: been told, the attacker basically wasn't a fan of anybody
Speaker 26: who's probably just a what job and certainly a thing
Speaker 26: like that cannot be allowed to happen.
Speaker 15: Balmer was denied. Bailey told the judge he had no
Speaker 15: mental health problems.
Speaker 20: With the report from Harrisburg ABC's Aaron Koturski, a Sunnment
Speaker 20: home completely gone after a Monday evening fire. The first
Speaker 20: calls came into the Ripley County dispatchers around five o'clock
Speaker 20: for a blaze near State Route one twenty nine in
Speaker 20: East Prattsburg Road. The Delaware Community Volunteer Fire Department and
Speaker 20: eight other companies responded, using a nearby pond to douase
Speaker 20: the fire. A ten roof hindered efforts to extinguish the
Speaker 20: flames from the walls and basement. One firefire was treated
Speaker 20: for heat exhaustion. The cause of the blaze still under investigation.
Speaker 20: A Monday morning crash in Turtle Creek Township leaves one
Speaker 20: person dead a second one injured. Happening on State Route
Speaker 20: seven forty one south of Green Tree Road close to
Speaker 20: eleven fifteen, a Ken Wharfs semi truck driver drove north
Speaker 20: and veered off the right side of the road, overcorrected,
Speaker 20: entered the path of David Wills going southbound. Wills was
Speaker 20: pronounced at the scene. The semi truck driver taken to
Speaker 20: Atrium Medical Center in Middletown with non life threatening injuries.
Speaker 20: The crash remains under investigation. Our next update is at midnight.
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