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This is the overt
from...
Tommy by the who.
It was actually named for me,
and
I thought that was very nice Peter Townsend
think of me when he wrote that
rock opera, if you will.
The who
and Tommy
is
maybe the most exciting piece of music
I ever heard.
Certainly listened to a lot of beatles,
rolling stones.
The
different
lead z,
all the major groups of the time,
and nothing comes close
to Tommy
for me. And
in a way,
Jeff Tall
is a great band, but they never wrote
anything like this. This has got 42
songs. It's what they call a rock opera,
which there had never been 1 before this
and
you know, rock music is kinda dead now,
so nobody really
is right more today.
But this is a
This
5 and a half minute
overt,
4 shadows,
a lot of songs,
in
the album in the in the opera, if
you will. It's about a blind boy.
Okay. The... I just sent you another 1
pat that 1 down, and
there's another a song that
is...
Is, like, the third song on the album.
You don't hear it much. Well, you don't
hear any of this stuff much, really?
Because it's not
it's well, I don't know where you would
hear this music anyway because I don't know
that there's...
I don't know what people listen to and
and the stuff that they listen to where
I work out is the most
miserable computer
dr
computer generated dr, and
It's not even music.
This is music. This is about...
This a song about the boy that was
born.
Got a feeding 21
is gonna be a good year.
Especially if you me see
together.
So you think 21
is gonna be a good year.
Could be good for me and Herbert you
and.
Never.
Had no reason to be
somehow
breathe bad weather.
What about the boy?
What about the
what about
you didn't hear
you see nothing
never
Okay. That one's called 19 21, and then
there's just 1 more
that I just sent Elizabeth that
I wanted to play, and I've been
people have posed this question
to me,
my whole life, the name of this song
has been posed to me
over and over again.
Can
I'm feeling this 1.
If you see the look on it her
if I don't bite it down yet. It's
only a minute to 30.
I'm gonna learn this 1.
0 lord.
Took the button down. It just trails off.
Okay. So those are
that's some of the music from the
Tommy by the who. I I mean, I
tell you, Which 1 of these songs was
the 1 that used to be the intro
music for this show? Was it the time...
It was a different version of Tommy, Can
you hear me? Tom.
I'll send it to you. Hold on.
Just for all time's sake. Yeah. Just for
old time's sake.
Let's see.
Or
Okay.
I'm pretty sure
it was.
Gotta get to your Psalm here pretty slow.
Alright.
Remember that.
We're not gonna take it anymore. No. It's
just we're not gonna take it.
To the Remember how the the show used
to start with that.
Let it go wow.
My name is
It's so nice Peter Thompson to put my
name in the
all these songs.
You've got I really feeling important.
Pork.
Put your folks put on your ass, You
know where to put the call.
Get?
Sorry? They stopped it before that? Yes. They
would stop the, keep it going. But the
thing goes on. Tells on.
This is.
Shooting ain't gonna follow me any of those
ways. Although you think you must.
And then is it used to end
as the intro to the radio show, we
both intro did not have the full song
in it. No. It didn't it at all.
Didn't say anything about getting drunk. They they
left off the hook on that 1.
Okay. Do you feel like...
I feel like you need to read your
phone, maybe. Okay.
If you all could have seen her face.
When it was...
Probably can hear.
I feel that wouldn't so much.
I'm
I... I'm having a hard I'm here.
Okay.
Psalm 63.
Oh, god. Thou art my god. Early will
I seek thee.
My soul thirst for thee, my flesh longer
for thee... In a dry and thirsty land
where no water is. Well, that's
up until yesterday, that's
in lexington, Kentucky.
To see that power in thy glory.
So as I have seen thee in the
sanctuary,
Because thy eye loving kindness is better than
life, my lips shall crazy thee.
Thus will I bless thee while I live
I will lift up my hands in their
name.
My soul shall be satisfied
as with marrow and fat in my mouth
shall praise thee
with joyful lips,
when I remember thee
upon my bed and meditate on thee
in the night watches,
Because thou has been my help, therefore, in
the shadow of thy wings, will I rejoice.
Psalm 63 versus 1 through 7.
Okay. How much time we got?
Lenny. Okay. I wanna talk a little bit
about
the Republican
convention.
Now, a lot of people think I'm a
republican.
The truth is I'm not registered with any
party. I am definitely a Donald Trump guy.
The people around Donald Trump,
sometimes not so much, and that was sort
of the problem before.
But don't you attract
what is like you? No. Not always.
You attract people that want stuff that you
do.
But
look look at any big time guy, you
know,
and that's what happens. And then if you
got a big ego involved, it's very easy.
You don't want somebody giving you a lot
of lip,
I mean, I've tried to tell you.
How that work for you?
Okay.
Oh, it works great.
As as long as I accept things.
Okay.
I have a problem,
a small problem with the Vp
nomination.
Everybody's Oo in on. I'm just gonna get
elected.
No. It's not gonna be easy.
Here's the problem I have with
Jd Vance as vice president.
This is gonna sound
bad, but he's 39 years old.
I think should have gotten somebody 50 plus
little bit more experience
would have been a much better thing.
And that's still well under the age of
Donald Trump who 78.
I think it been... Should have been somebody
mid fifties to 60 ish
that's 1 thing. Number 2, if you look
at his,
biography.
I mean, the guy talks about coming from
tremendous amounts of dysfunction. Within his family.
Do you suddenly get it all together
by age 39.
I mean, how long has this gap been
going to...
Therapy or counseling or
A or something, you know, that might help
him process a lot of
what took place in his life earlier on.
My guess is he hadn't had a lot
of time for that.
He's kinda external
himself. He's, you know, wrote a book. He's
a big... Was a marine.
It's not to say...
That he's a nut, but sometimes
something happens to people,
in their late thirties, early forties, and
it can be a crisis at times,
and
the way
your basic beliefs don't necessarily have to change,
but sometimes they do.
But what sometimes changes is the way you
believe and see that the world works.
And I put anybody in their thirties is
still kinda like people in their twenties.
Still developing. Yes.
So that
I find
potentially... That also could be an upside if
you...
I mean, I told on what my concern.
Yeah Donald Trump molding you. I'm not... No.
That's not what you want.
I'm not here to argue. I'm here to
state what I see as a potential problem.
Okay.
I have a problem with the fact that
8 or 9 years ago, he was completely
on the other side regarding Trump. And didn't
like him and said so.
You can go back.
I've got about how many shows in the
can now
400 plus.
Yeah. I think it was well, I know
that since we started doing the radio show,
it's been a it's been closer to 800
shows.
And I don't think we can retrieve all
the ones that were, you know, 15 years
ago, but, I that's going back to about
20 17.
Yes that we've got them. That's 20 salty,
but we started doing it in no 8.
There's not a show out there.
Anywhere.
If somebody came up with it, and I
didn't...
Where I said anything
that I wouldn't say today.
Not a show.
I did... There... There... I've always
the the things that I said and believed
16 years ago, I say and believe today.
Jd Vance cannot say that. And guess what?
He's only 39 years old.
So there's
of a mall
there
that
you know,
I don't want Donald Trump potty training,
the vice president
because Donald Trump's has sc on 1 side.
He's a great leader on another side. It's
like Winston Churchill,
not a real likable guy.
Okay. Donald Trump you know, talks about grabbing
women by the private parts.
I know all about all that that he
I don't know about doing that, but... Golly.
It's a joke.
It's only a joke, And I actually think
it's a little bit funny. But
what I'm trying to say is
you don't...
What concerns me is that this guy is
not a fully formed man in some ways.
And he's going into a job.
And it it to me, it looks like,
Trump picks somebody that he knows
is not gonna give him any pushback. That's
my sense.
Now,
I also heard it was a Don junior
Pick.
Well guess who Don junior girlfriend is.
Gavin News ex wife.
This girl,
whatever last name is,
alexa
something or other.
She was married to the Sc bag,
let's run California into the ground.
That's Don Junior.
Fiance or whatever.
Maybe fur Fiance,
in perpetuity, Are they ever gonna get married.
Whatever her name is,
You talk about somebody you how long she
been a conservative
3 or 4 years.
These are people that can kinda of flip
around.
And I have a problem with that if
you're gonna have to really
put a lot of weight on these people.
It's just
That's just me.
So these are gonna be areas,
listen when when the people Ally like get
in power,
I work even harder
because I know what happens to them.
I got 1 in Congress right now.
They get used to the lifestyle.
These are bigger jobs than any of these
people have ever had before.
You know, I get out of line and
and get a big head when my brokerage
account goes up.
Imagine if you put me in there, I'd
start thinking I was somebody, and I'm 67
years old. I know it's all Bs.
The guy who's 39 doesn't.
He might take himself real seriously.
The problem is
That job is a nothing job.
Until
it becomes a something job.
So it it concerns me.
And
I think it's something that has to be
watched.
Anybody who thinks
if you're a conservative that
Trump getting elected is gonna be just this
great thing for the country and that you
don't have to go back to
being concerned about anything or what have your
I thought you're gonna tell me if you're
gonna do this.
Are you taking me out?
We got
to wrap this segment up.
Give me some warning next time.
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This is
a song that was done by Pete Townsend
the front man for the who,
well, the focus was Roger Dal, but
It's about it's about Cleveland,
Ohio.
And he's he's got that pounding
guitar
the same way, a lot of the songs
from the who
have and that this is from his solo
album.
Called,
who came first.
And,
anyway,
I wanna play a clip
from Roger Dal who was being interviewed
about the early music of the who,
and Roger was the
the vocalist and
he describes Pete Town since mindset when writing
this music.
He was right... That they were writing
music
for girls.
Pete was writing in music for blokes. Yeah.
He was
and, you know, I think back at it
and... III do say this thing know,
the everyone else was going rock a rolls,
music to make loved and where rock, which
what those... Who was doing
and and still does
was music to fight him.
That's true pete but and pete understood that
And he was so ran songs for my
way where it's kind of arrogance about it.
Yeah. That's exactly right.
Yeah. He busted guitars and and stuff like
that. And
He was just a a really angry guy,
and he tapped into the way a lot
of guys felt.
And that's the energy
in the who. It's a very
bo
male,
energy. I mean,
give you an example.
I told this story before
I went to Camp In North Carolina.
And there was a kid there, named Matt
Bell, who was friends with Dan Clifton.
And Matt's
was just like another kid there, but, really,
the truth is his father was a big
music.
Record company
executive
in California.
And, he was friends with Roger Dal, and
1 day, Dan told me this story, this
this car shows up and this little guy
gets out.
I he's about 5 5.
And and he's
goes
to see Matt Bell. Next thing, you know,
all these campers are
getting around. It's Roger Alt tree.
He was on just like not touring, not
recording, not riding,
just out seeing in the countryside in the
Us.
And he ends up at Kent, and he
stayed there, I was told about
4 or 5 hours.
And he led
the campers in a game of what's called
Rover, which is, like, capture the flag. It's
the
British version of capture the flag.
And
then he got back in his jaguar,
took off, you know, to wherever he was
going next.
And
a guy's guy. That's that's the way... That's
why I love
music by the who because they were they
were they were boys boys.
And
they...
So anybody,
if you
never really listened to Tommy,
or the other rock they did call quad
or
who's next,
which is 1 of their albums,
Maybe 1 of the best rock and roll
albums
ever made,
It's not
all the same theme like
Tommy and Quad are, but
Just in terms of the collection of songs,
there's nothing better anywhere.
I'll stack it up against any rolling stones
album.
Really is in terms of rock and roll,
any beatles album.
Any lead z album.
Better
than all of them.
So,
I wanna talk a little more about this.
Thing we got going on at the Republican
convention.
I am a big believer in the hand
of god,
the providence of God. I have felt it
in my own life. Listen. It's undeniable.
When
I was told that Trump had been shot
at
on Saturday and it had missed him... It
didn't surprise me it a bit.
Because
I really believe that there are things that
He still has to do.
However,
Over the years,
I've read the scripture, the bible,
the old and new testament.
Repeatedly.
And 1 of the things is as you
get
older
And if you study the bible
again and again,
there... It doesn't ever
white wash,
the
character defects,
of its own heroes like David, like all
the kings in Israel. And so
they get anointed and something happens and they
come in
and they have a job to do, but
there's always a fatal flaw.
There always is,
Quite often,
the person who has the fatal flaw
is unable to see it.
They just don't have the
you know, the
emotional or
reflective
capacity,
to see their own
this dysfunction,
screwing things up. And Trump is no different.
So
if you're a Christian, if you've been praying
for our country.
And if you feel like
what
appears to be at least short term,
a big defeat for the left.
Is a response to answered prayer or is
an answer to your prayers.
I would advise you
sometimes the very worst thing you can have
is to have your prayers get answered. In
the way you wanted them to.
Because
now
you've got to
handle
the thing that's been
flipped over.
That can be the toughest of all,
success
is always harder than failure.
And so
the best and in my opinion only way
to handle success is with humility.
You've got to
be humble about it. If you're a liberal,
I don't know if any liberals listen to
this show. Maybe they do.
If you're a liberal,
you have got to do some self reflection.
The reason Trump is where he is,
is because you guys created him there. You
put him there.
If you had just left him alone and
ignored him
he never would have been as big a
deal.
It's because
you have repeatedly
persecuted him and gone after him and demon
him in speeches and now shot at him.
And why?
Why didn't you just ignore him?
Because paying attention to him, has created worse
of a problem for you,
then if you'd ignored him, listen, I gotta
live with him too if he gets elected.
You'll go back to making those craziest ass
tweets again.
Maybe, maybe not. I don't know.
It's hard to change when you're 78 years
old. 1 of the recurring themes
at the
convention
was...
That Donald Trump does not
need this job.
He is not a professional
politician
and
it would have been if the country hadn't
gone back into such disarray after
this lasted or during this last
administration,
If everything was kinda smooth, sailing,
he wouldn't have done it. Now I don't
know whether that's actually the truth. I think
the defeat. Of 20 20 was such an
open way. He thinks it was stolen, and
I do do. He feels like he's making
something right by doing it again. I don't
know it may be the hand of God.
I don't understand it. I know the country's
in terrible shape, former years of Biden would
not be good.
And and nobody's won any election yet. There
hadn't been an election. We don't even know
if biden gonna be the candidate... We don't
even know if there'll be an election. You
know, we... It's scheduled.
Well, and a in a candidate has been
Made it through the primaries as the selected
candidate of the
democratic party. Well, I'm I'm gonna tell you
this.
Getting Trump elected is not in any way
a full solution to the problems that this
country faces.
Not even close. And let me tell you
another thing. 1 of the biggest problems is
the national debt,
And I can't find a single Republican in
Washington, Dc
that thinks the debts a big problem. There
as bad as the Democrats.
In fact, there are a lot of issues
on which the Republicans are as bad as
the Democrats.
And
that includes Donald Trump.
So a lot of the things that really
need to be done that are gonna be
unpopular.
He's not a guy that's gonna wanna do
some of this stuff.
That's why I say to you folks who
are Christians
who pray.
Anybody who pray.
Who pray that you might not be a
Christian. You might be a Jew. You you
might be a Muslim who pray.
Just that you pray,
and you pray earnest
that the country
doesn't
go backwards
and that we don't get blindsided by our
own pride.
You know,
I'll tell you what I've seen in my
lifetime.
Is people
who
suddenly or after a long time,
find a lot of prosperity in their lives.
Something is happening
that that's never happened before.
They're wealthy,
they're
they have notoriety. It could be a lot
of things.
And you know what they do?
They show their ass.
They embarrass themselves. They
They act like fools.
You're not any different.
Because suddenly, you're worth a lot of money.
I've been in this business for 46 years.
I never saw a lot of money make
somebody
totally happy.
There's a lot of problems.
They think, oh, you know, I've got all
this money. I've known people
who wrote down every day.
Exactly how much money they had.
And wrote it every day.
I have this much.
That person's not with us anymore.
What's good is it doing that person now.
I know people that
gave money away when they had money and
they wanted to make sure their name was
on everything they gave away.
This is something I did.
You didn't do it.
You're saying that person.
No. That's what they're saying.
They're saying. I did this. That's what they
are saying.
Are you kidding me?
This is about your ego?
Here's the problem with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump may be the only person in
the Donald Trump
administration.
It doesn't care about power.
The problem is that people around him.
That's always the problem. You look at business
people you've known
you sitting there.
What were the people around them like?
Honest,
trustworthy
or shifty.
I think it's a real study
about leadership. You didn't answer the question. I
will
answer it
in a minute.
Okay. I think that leadership is a real
study because a lot of times,
leaders, entrepreneurs are very strong personalities.
And they have a lot of blind spots.
And as a result of the strong personality,
dates. Some of them don't want resistance.
And so they surround themselves with yes, men
and much weaker
individuals. Dates who will be good soldiers.
Yeah.
Those don't always make the best
teammates
because they will not speak up.
When the emperor has no clothes.
They'll let that emperor march around buck naked
and say, oh,
sir, you look wonderful
Yeah.
And the person that says, you don't have
any clothes on. They risk
does not want that person A risk getting
fired. They risk getting fired, or they risk
losing their position of power. Here's the problem
I have
with the Jd D Vance for instance. You're
putting somebody who came from living essentially in
a trailer
in the second most powerful position in the
world. He's never had
a job like this.
I say that to Andy Barr, You know,
you never had a job like this.
You know,
you get it... You get promote. Now you
got this big salary. You got this budget
and all this. Look look at... Look, you're
you're putting people in charge
of a lot of stuff
that don't need to be the people doing
this because they've never managed this kind of
stuff before,
The 1 thing he is like if I
went out here and had an election and
said whoever gets elected can run the company.
You haven't done anything to put you in
charge of a company.
You're all of a sudden because you want
an election. You're in charge of all this
stuff.
I don't know. I mean, the Trump is
the only guy I trust in the position
that he's in. I wish he'd gotten a
businessman.
Or somebody that have been in in politics
long enough that they didn't care anymore. They
weren't look... You don't get elected vice president
because that's where you wanna stop.
Well, the first time he he got somebody
that had experience and and
how did that go? Well, it, you know,
it went the way it went.
Okay. There may have been... I look back
on Pence. I don't think he's a complete
fool.
He's a fool.
But he's... Turn the other way too. You're
same thing the weight of Jd Vance did
now he can't. Listen when the thing gets
really rough again,
we'll see who really stands with Trump. He'll
have people diverting him right and left again.
He... Anybody... He knows that they'll do it
this time,
I would gotten a businessman.
Somebody that's actually failed at some things.
You know, those are the people I trust.
I like I like people that have failed,
gotten up and kept going.
I am hopeful.
That this Jd D Vance
will be a really good quick study.
I'm hopeful
With without a proven track record, you have
no I no way of knowing that. But
1 thing we do know is he's a
bright fella that has overcome a lot of
odds to this point.
And maybe,
He will surprise this all. And it could
it could be in the next month or
so. He really rises the occasion and develops.
In his
political last night or we're pre recording this
show. But after he spoke at the convention
we switched over to
cnn just to see what they were saying.
And
there won a lot of wasn't a lot
of negative,
which was surprising, but the other thing that
they they said that
They said this was 1 of his first
major political speeches.
And with that in mind,
just keep that in mind.
I think if you pray for our country,
keep praying. Well, and I think that that
that's an ongoing theme,
anyway,
you've got to pray for our leaders
because they... We're in a very precarious time
and
they need guidance.
They do. And and
unless they being trapped by their own egos.
Yeah. And that's a whole another.
Subject.
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