Join us as we celebrate Don Henley’s birthday and reflect on the long-lasting legacy of the Eagles, a band that continues to captivate audiences with their timeless hits. As we delve into the significance of the Sphere and its unique sensory experiences, we explore the pros and cons of such overwhelming venues and how they affect concertgoers and movie enthusiasts alike. In this episode, we also dive into a discussion about Brad Pitt’s latest movie venture into the high-paced world of Formula One, examining what makes it a must-see on the big screen.
00:00:05 Don Henley’s Birthday and the Eagles’ Legacy
00:00:31 Thoughts on the Sphere and Sensory Overload
00:01:14 Discussion About the New Brad Pitt F1 Movie
00:02:07 True Crime and Donald Trump as a Spirit Animal
Life in the talk show fast lane. It’s the Eminem experience. Howdy Mike. So that’s some Eagles, Life in the Fast Lane, Hotel California, an album that will turn 50 next year. The great Don Henley on the vocal up front, Don Henley of the Eagles, is 78 today. Lots of Dallas connections for Henley, so happy birthday to him.
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Very cool, very cool.
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Did you see Eagles at the Sphere? I did, no.
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Yeah, I saw them at the Sphere, and I also saw them at that… Remember that 70s reunion thing they had at Met Stadium?
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I’m still conflicted about the Sphere. Everybody tells me I’ve got to go to Vegas, got to see some act, some musical act at the Sphere. And I hold it at arm’s length because I think it would just be sensory overload. It’s a lot. I mean, it’s essentially, can you even see the band when you’re surrounded by 360 degrees of massive graphics? I mean, I bet it’s awesome in a lot of ways. Yeah. I don’t know.
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I don’t know. Yeah, it’s fun. It’s an unusual experience. I mean, it’s a lot to see. It’s a lot to take in.
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And maybe this is a me thing, and I don’t know if it’s part of growing up. I don’t know if I need all that sensory overload. I don’t know if I can do IMAX movies anymore. Have you seen or heard of Brad Pitt in the F1 movie? Have you heard about this? Nope. No, no thing about it. Wow. Showbiz Mike, most talked about movie of the year, short of Mission Impossible. The F1 movie? Formula One racing. He’s a racer, supposedly a little bit past his prime. Has he got one more victory in him? And the direction of it, and they put you in the car, which is lovely for five minutes. Is the movie any good is my question. It apparently is. And everybody says, oh, you’ve got to go see it in IMAX. You’ve got to go see it in IMAX. I think my brain would explode. So give me the thing with the recliner and bring me some food and I’m happy. Or better yet, come to my house.
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We talk about movies and stuff in the culture that interests us. I swear when I saw Trump’s tweet yesterday about Brian Kohlberger, I thought, this man is my spirit animal. I’m telling you. You told me about this the other day.
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You told me about the true crime doc about this the other day.
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He’s as into this as I am because I think the whole world wants to know, why did this smart guy do what he did? Why?
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Because you know, this is also like Chinese to me as well. I mean, I paid attention to the news.
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The Idaho murders.
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Yes. So tell everybody what that was.
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Four college kids in the middle of the night, brutally, brutally slaughtered in Idaho on a college campus, off-campus housing, a little typical off-campus kind of townhouses. And it was a big mystery. They got this guy based on the DNA that he left behind. And he was a crime aficionado. He was a…
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You know, like a forensic criminal forensic to be some kind of criminologist.
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Yeah. I mean, he was he wanted to. And he apparently just randomly picked these kids. And in the middle of the night, went in and one by one, there were two of them that slept through the whole thing. There were six college kids in the house. And look, they were all drunk. So that was part of it. I mean, that doesn’t help. And they didn’t even call 911 until noon the next day almost. But there’s President Trump saying, all right, this guy got a plea deal. He avoids the death penalty. He pled guilty. He admits he did it. But Trump is saying, as part of the negotiation, if he’s going to get off the hook, you’ve got to at least explain why you did it. I mean, which I think is true. He’s right.
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Okay, but why does Trump give this five seconds of his time?
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Because he’s a renaissance man.
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He’s got time for a lot of things. His multitasking is like nothing. He has more screens and more windows open than any… I’m telling you, he’s my spirit animal.
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Like him, I love my Diet Cokes. Like him, I’ve never missed a Big Mac that I didn’t love. And like him, I’m into true crime, and I want to know why Brian Koberger did it. Do you ever stop, Mark, and think about what this one individual named Donald J. Trump… goes through on an hourly basis, just over and over and over again, the judiciary coming at him, the media, Colbert last night telling him to go blank himself and all that nonsense. I mean, but every day, Iran, there’s a headline I talked about yesterday, Iran is absolutely hell-bent on assassinating him. Sure. They’re not going to stop. They want to kill him. They tried to kill him in Butler, Pennsylvania. Could a mere mortal survive everything that Donald Trump has been put through?
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And do it not just with this kind of resiliency, but this kind of energy. It’s like he turns it into a locomotive. Fuel. It’s like he thrives on it. It’s like, oh yeah, you bring it, I’m going to make you like the things I do. And he’s
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He seems to enjoy it. He sure does. He seems to like it. I mean, I’d be in the fetal position under the bed for the rest of my life to be put through what he’s been put through, and it never stops. They never let up. I mean, it’s like every day. Well, he wears it like a badge of honor. He sure does. And he should. He has what we call the right enemies. Absolutely. And you can be judged by that. I was listening to a fascinating chat. Prior to listening to you this morning, Chris Stegall interviewed Julie Kelly. And Chris said what you and I talked about yesterday, I do too, and you and I talked about, and my theory is, they’re going to go, you know what, to the wall on this whole Obama, you know, Hillary, Russia gate thing. They’re going to go, you know what, to the wall because of the Epstein thing. The way that was kind of fumbled by Pam Bondi, she ain’t going to fumble this. They’re not going to find… This has already been referred to her for criminal prosecution. I think there’s going to be some people that are going to be facing some arrests. We’re going to see. Because think about this. And Chris made a point that was so profound. They used an arcane… statute from the Civil War era to try to nail people on January 6th. And the exact specific one, it’s escaping me right now, but essentially if they could use some arcane law from the Civil War to prosecute January Sixers who were walking through the Capitol Surely they can do this over the coup that they attempted against Donald Trump. This ongoing treasonous conspiracy to handcuff and hamper and damage and sabotage his first term. And by the way, we never even talk about this. Maybe 2020. Because when you’ve got Russia hanging over your head, when you’ve got the idea of a fake, phony, collusion, steel dossier bunch of creeps, Crap hanging over your head. Maybe that cost you some votes in 2022. Could very well have. So this is all coming. How about Hunter Biden yesterday, Mark? Holy moly.
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I may surprise you on this.
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Oh, I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to pull a Greg Gutfeld. Oh, he’s real. He’s honest. He’s genuine. He’s authentic. Yeah, you go ahead with that.
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Go with that, Skippy. I think I’ll phrase it a little differently. So for those that don’t know, Hunter Biden sat down with some guys, a Pennsylvania, Philadelphia based podcast. They’re sitting outside under a tree and Hunter just goes absolutely profanely. Just just goes post that crap. Yep. Just F bombs every three seconds. Now, if some of his gripes are they came after his dad and he’s angry that they came after his dad. He’s angry at George Clooney. He’s angry at the party, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so, yes. And of course, Hunter is full of it and he’s a lunatic. And he also said, basically, F you, America, if you don’t like illegal immigration, who do you think cleans your hotel rooms? Who’s going to clean your toilet? Just absolutely. He’s wrong about everything, just like his dad. But the point that I did make, and then I did find out that Gutfeld had said the same thing, was that as I watched that, I said, wow, this guy is crazy. But there is something he brings to the table that AOC never will. Schumer never will. Gavin Newsom never will. It’s a kind of an odd guttural authenticity. He seems sincere. He means what he says.
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Oh, he’s sincere.
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And I’m not saying that to try to elevate him to credibility.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, but you are. But you are. Because they’re already calling for that. They’re already saying Hunter 2028. And what do we think of that? Well, don’t help it. Which means you think I have a point. I don’t know if you have a point or not. Yeah, he’s an authentic crackhead. Then you shouldn’t worry, should you? And by the way, that’s not a pejorative. He literally, in that same interview, made a convincing case for why crack cocaine isn’t so bad. I’m not kidding you. He sat there and said it’s cleaner than other types of cocaine. I mean, oh, yeah, that’s a presidential fodder, all right. But you know what? But in the world of Zoran Mamdani and Omar Fatah, this isn’t beyond the pale.
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This is what I mean. Is there any candidate that will make Democrats go, oh, no, that’s just too much?
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No, no, there’s not. And see, this is what I mean about the course correction. They are trying to course correct what they think is the craziness of the Trump era. They think that it’s so crazy on the right. Well, let’s just go crazy on the left. Let’s get a self-professed Marxist to be the leading candidate for mayor in a big city. And let’s put Hunter Biden up there because you know what? People like Mark Davis and Greg Gutfeld claim he’s authentic. Yeah, he’s authentic. Hemorrhoids are authentic. Yes, they are. Give me a break. Authenticity. I mean, what a lunatic. You know what? And what’s infuriating about Hunter Biden, the bottom line is he’s only not in prison because his daddy wrote him a pardon. Well, or the auto pen did. That’s the one that he did. Yeah, that’s the one he did. He carried out a $20 million shakedown of shady foreign interests with the consent and participation of daddy. He paid no taxes on it. He had the fake painting that this guy is scum of the earth. And that’s the only… Yeah. He’s authentic. Oh, he’s real. He’s real. I like his authenticity, says Mark Davis.
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Keeping it effing real.
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Hunter 2028. Keeping crack clean again. Making crack great again. Oh, my Lord in heaven. I’m telling you what. I’m loading up one bus. I can make it to the border by midnight. I’m out of here. We need you. Stay where you are. I’m gone. I’m gone. Hey, by the way, how about the Trump threatening to hold back the stadium deal for your beloved Washington Redskins? Love it. Love it.
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I grew up eating Burgundy and gold. I came to Texas. I got better. John Riggins was not a Redskin. Sonny Jurgens, excuse me, was not a commander. Art Monk was not a commander. This and Cleveland Indians need to be brought back. Little things mean a lot. Absolutely. Do you follow John Rocker on social media? I don’t, but I know his history is kind of a free spirit. He got himself in trouble for some things.
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He’s authentic. He’s authentic. So John Rocker, he gets really edgy on social media. But here’s what he wrote. Here’s what he wrote. Former pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. Very, very politically incorrect. Far right guy. Here’s what he writes. Have you ever met an Indian actually offended by a professional sports team named after an Indian? No. Hint. He says hint. It’s not the Indians. It’s liberal white people. Of course. The same people who want to pay out reparations. Of course. The same people with Ukraine flags hanging next to their front doors. The same people who drink soy milk and take Ozempic. The same people who pray for George Floyd every night. The same people who watch Jimmy Kimmel and I’d add Stephen Colbert. These are those who don’t know a thing about baseball or football.
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Indian communities, actual Native American communities. It was an actual Native American, proud Native American, who crafted and drew that proud Redskin Indian hand logo. It is a purging of the… And here’s what’s weird. Redskins and Indians had to go, but Seminoles, Chiefs, Braves are still there. Yeah, why is that? Why is that? Because those franchises have a spine and respect their history.
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Those franchises told the white liberals to go pound salt. They sure did, and good for them for doing it. Absolutely. All right, we’re fired up. Happy Tuesday. Here we go.
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Mike is ready for his Tuesday program soon as we are done. 10 o’clock right here on 660 AM.
