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AP News Radio
Jury selection to begin in trial of former deputy accused of failing to confront Parkland shooter
"Jury selection is expected to begin today in the trial of a former Florida sheriff's deputy, who is accused of failing to confront a school shooter. Former Broward county deputy Scott Peterson is charged with 7 counts of felony child neglect, prosecutors Sagan February 14th, 2018, shooter Nicholas Cruz first killed 11 people and wounded 13 on the school building's first floor before Peterson arrived at the scene, but that once Peterson was there he could have stopped crews from running up to the building's third floor and killing another four students and wounding three. Instead prosecutors say Peterson remained outside marjory Stoneman Douglas high school with his gun drawn, and then backed away as gunfire sounded. Peterson says he thought the shots were coming from outside the building, perhaps from a sniper, and Peterson's attorney argues that under Florida law his client had no legal obligation to enter the building and confront the gunman. I'm Donna Warner
Mark Levin
Target Holds 'Emergency' Meeting Over LGBTQ Items
"Target they had their emergency meeting as they described it Emergency Emergency meeting not to get rid of their gay pride merchandise but to move it around in some bigoted stores in the south right We're still sticking with this We're not backing down Target holding an emergency meeting over its controversial pride merchandise the damage control mode coming as it desperately tries to avoid a so called Bud Light situation A target insider telling Fox News digital quote we were given 36 hours told to take all of our pride stuff and move it into a section that's a third of the size from the front of the store to the back I think given the current situation with Bud Light the company is terrified Fox News contributor Douglas Murray kills us now Douglas your reaction Well several things First of all of course they're trying to avoid a Bud Light moment I mean the buds share prices fell 25% in one week So of course target want to avoid anything like that Second thing is first of all we've got to be clear about this They call it pride merchandise Nobody has a problem with the LGB bit of this equation The problem that has erupted in America is the tea bit And it quite wrong for a company like target first of all to say pride when what we're talking about is clothes that are for people who believe that they are trans specifically for men who believe they're women To wrap all of this up in pride I think is a great insult to many people in this country Because they were selling a bathing suit that had that had instructions on how to talk So without getting too anatomical of course this is about this is about women's bathing costumes adapted for a man Now this also goes to one of the other things I've said for a long time on this It is worth noting in the whole trans issue The extent to which it is women who are repeatedly inconvenienced not
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fox News vs. Dominion: A Very Dangerous Precedent
"Some of you in the audience are not fans of Fox News. Okay, I think the country needs Fox News. I think the country needs real America's voice. I mean, the country needs all these platforms right now, especially talent like Jesse watters, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson. But let's put that aside. If you accept dominion's claim, that Fox defamed them. And it's hardly a slam dunk, then the amount they sued for was 44 times their annual revenue. This sense a very, very dangerous precedent for conservative and for heterodox media. This is not whether or not you agree with Fox News or disagree with them. It doesn't matter how much you hate Fox News or love Fox News. The reason this case goes as far as it did and reached the ludicrous damage amounts is because of the aggressive lawyers and the accommodating court, but also remember judges read newspapers too. The media was cheerleading for this nonstop. Non every move of this trial was covered by The New York Times, was covered by the Washington Post. And so there was a media cover job. You see, this is not about Fox News. This is about, should we change our legal standards just to try to get Fox and get the conservative media company? This is not about justice. This is about vengeance. The clear theme that arises from the dominion settlement from the Douglas Mackey case from the January 6th witch hunts from the NRA being in a legal quagmire from James O'Keefe having his apartment raided is that the left is fanatical about abusing the legal system to target hobble fine ruin and imprison anyone. They blame for putting Trump in power and that
The Charlie Kirk Show
Attorney James Lawrence on the Crucial Case of Douglas Mackey
"Important guest with a tragic story that I hope we could dive into. Maybe a little bit more freely now that the case is over, but I bet there's going to be an appeal. So we have to be, I could say whatever I want, but I really want to dive into this. It's really important. It's James Lawrence. He's a partner at and visage. Did I say that right, James? That's right. And envisage law. Very good. Okay, the Douglas Mackey case is one of the most disturbing things I've seen in my lifetime when it comes to criminal law to young man who now faces ten years in prison. Because of posting a meme against Hillary Clinton and it's a tragedy all the way through. So James, you were representing or your firm was representing Douglas, is that right? Well, we represented his legal defense fund to be clear. We did not try the case. But we've helped with that. So walk us through how the case went, obviously, it resulted in a conviction. What was the government's case? And how does it apply to future prosecutions? So the government brought a claim under 18 USC section two 41, which is a section of the civil rights act of, I believe, 1871 or 1870. And it's also known by the name the Ku Klux Klan act in the theory of prosecution was that mister Mackey's conspiring with people through DM messaging on Twitter and the publication of a meme, which invited viewers of Twitter to text their vote for former secretary Clinton to a particular number was sufficient to give rise to criminal liability. The trial, I believe, went on for three days in Brooklyn, New York, the jury deliberated, carefully over the issue for three to four days, and ultimately returned a guilty verdict against Doug and as you alluded to in the open, there are now a post trial motions that are going to be filed by Doug's criminal defense team in Brooklyn and federal district court and now the case is going to be teed up for appeal
The Charlie Kirk Show
Hypocrisy of Biden's State Department Exposed
"Beatty tweets, quote, breaking senior Biden State Department officials boldly protest political weaponization of Justice Department condemns a court escalating pattern of arrests against perceived critics of the government. Oh wait, never mind. That was Biden talking about Tunisia, Darren. Indeed, indeed, you know, it's all part of this banana republic reference. And what's really hilarious, darkly ironic at least about the whole thing is that imprisoning political opposition is not simply something that we associate with the quote unquote third world. It's something that our State Department and diplomatic force routinely condemns when it's practiced in other countries. And one of the recent pieces on revolver news is sort of a compilation of various high profile semi high profile cases of the U.S. government, Biden officials, State Department officials condemning foreign nations for imprisoning political opposition. So the one example was Tunisia. There are a bunch of other examples, but it's funny. There's a twist at the end of the article, which I'll give away because still there's a lot of great content in it. The twist is when zelensky, penalized and imprisoned his political opposition, the U.S. State Department actually called it a encouraging step toward democracy. So I guess with Ukraine and with the United States, it all gets down to the who whom question. That's really what determines everything else, whether it's an expression of democracy or whether it's a dangerous trend toward what they call democratic backsliding, all depends on whether the U.S. regime and the corrupt officials in it approve of the person doing it or not. And in the case of poor Douglas Mackey, the Biden regime does not approve and in the case of Donald Trump who has challenged and humiliated the system more than anyone else, perhaps in American history, this system most emphatically does not approve and so this is what you get. This is the phase we're in. We've moved from the deplatforming phase of shutting people up to shutting people down by putting them in prison.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
America Now Has a Two-Tier Justice System
"I want to lay a broader context by quoting a recent statement by Vivek Rama Swami, the young Indian guy who I'm going to have on the podcast, by the way, coming up shortly. Anyway, he goes America now has a two tiered justice system, and he gives three examples. Trump is indicted while Clinton pays a small fine. This is for campaign finance offenses. Antifa and BLM riders run free while January 6th protesters are imprisoned without bail. And his third example, Douglas Mackey faces ten years for the same joking memes that Christina Wong posts with impunity. So let's take a look. You guys, Douglas Mackey, who posted the following meme, and you can tell he's a smart aleck, he obviously thought this was really funny. And he has a poster of African Americans for Hillary. And he says, avoid the line, vote from home, text Hillary to 5 9 9 two 5. So what he's basically saying is, you know, if you want to vote, you can skip the line. You don't have to vote that way. You can vote just by sending a text. Now obviously he's joking, you can't vote that way. And this kind of stuff is all not only all over the Internet, but it's something that's been joked about for decades. I remember going back to the 80s and 90s people joking like, hey, listen, you know, we better get the word out of the Democrats. Make sure you vote on Wednesday election day. Given the wrong information, they show up in the wrong day. Obviously this is always been intended as a quip and a joke. And that's how Mackie intended it. But nevertheless, the Justice Department pretends like, oh, this is election suppression. This is a guy trying to discourage African Americans from voting, and it goes before a jury in New York, a left wing jewelry, by the way, the juries in New York, not a whole lot different from the juries in D.C. that are considering these January 6th, cases, and the jury finds Doug Mackey, guilty, and now this poor guy is facing, I kid you not ten years in prison ten years in prison for a meme.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"Mere Christendom" Author Douglas Wilson Has a Podcast!
"Welcome back. I'm talking to Douglas Wilson, whose latest book is mere Kristen dumb, Douglas Wilson, so you have done many, many things. One of the things that you've done that we haven't even mentioned is you have a podcast. What is that called? It's called the podcast. The podcast. So I believe in plotting as a way I wrote another book called plot activity, where the way to get things done is to systematically plod through them. And so I have a podcast where I just chip away at different things. And is it called man rampant or something like that? I can't remember the title. Man rampant is an interview show that I have through canon, but I have through canon press. So man rampant is a video television show, a long form interview show. The podcast is simply a regular podcast. That's a weekly this is where I'm supposed to ask you, when do you sleep, sir?
The Eric Metaxas Show
Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church Is a Renaissance Man
"Am talking to Douglas Wilson, pastor of Christ church in Moscow, Idaho, the writer of all about a hundred books, and I can't even begin to list them. So you're kind of a renaissance man. You've been doing many, many things over the decades there in Moscow, Idaho, not just pastoring a church, but you found it a publishing company. You started a college. Tell me about these things. Yes, we started first logos school, which is a K through 12 classical Christian school. We started it for my oldest daughter's kindergarten year. And it's now a thriving school and sort of been the flagship school of the renewal of the classical Christian school movement in North America. Excuse me, I ought to have mentioned that upfront. I forgot how central you, sir, have been in the classical Christian movement in America. And so I do want to talk to you about that because that is huge. Absolutely. If you'd done nothing else that is just huge, do me a favor, just tell me how many kids go to the school in Moscow, Idaho. There are about 650, which when you consider the size of Moscow, it's an enormous school for a town on our size. And then the association of classical and Christian schools began here, and they're now hundreds of schools around the country. And some internationally that are following this model of classical Christian education. And then we started a new saint Andrews college, which has got a couple of hundred students in it. It's a small liberal arts college that we patterned ourselves off of the curriculum that Harvard had in the 1600s. So that was the baseline that we began with. And then adapted and modified for our era.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Douglas Wilson: You Can't Have Creation, Without a Creator
"A lot of wonderful books. The new one is called mere Kristen dumb. And what you were just saying, thank you for your kind words about my new book, led to the American church. But what you're saying is something that I have been thinking about recently is this idea that when you take God out of the equation, everything falls apart. Those of us who know God is real, who know that he is the source of all reality and truth in the universe. Know that that makes sense. But it's like we've been living in a dream this secular dream, this ideological fantasy, this fiction that we could somehow exist apart from God. And it's caught up with us. I think your average person is realizing like something's wrong. It's kind of like building a bridge and not using the right math. And when you get to the end of building the bridge, you realize that the sides aren't matching up or what went wrong, we failed, what is happening? How do we fix this? And then you realize, yes, you need to get the math right in the beginning. If you take God out of the equation, your doomed from the start. But it's taken us depending on how you look at history, but where we've arrived at a kind of unprecedented moment in history. It seems to me, and it seems like that's what you're saying. That's right. This bridge, this bridge that we're on, is way too bouncy. I don't want to bridge it, bounces this much. So and most Christians know, you can't have creation without a creator. You can't have law without a legislator. Well, right now, America can't have Salvation without a savior. We can not save ourselves. This is Christianity one O one. We can't save ourselves. We can't forgive ourselves.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Douglas Wilson Highlights His Upcoming Book "Mere Christendom"
"Talk about that pastor Douglas Wilson. What is the book mere Christendom? So mere Christendom is about how Christians should respond to the disintegration or the collapse of secularism. Secularism is not working. Secularism is on its last legs. People can not function corporately or individually without reference to God. We can not afford to be christless or godless. We have to order our lives around the revelation of God and Jesus Christ. Now, the first Christendom from the conversion of Constantine down through the reformation, let's say. The first Christendom had a long run of a thousand years. There were many missteps and things we did wrong that bugs that needed to be worked out. So what I'm talking about is a reboot of Christendom, where we abandon secularism, we don't do a repeat of everything we did in the first Christendom. We don't want to Spanish inquisition. We don't want to revisit certain things that were wrong and sinful and wicked in the first. That's why I qualify it with mere Christendom, riffing off of Lewis's mere Christianity.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric Shares His Thoughts on the Possibility of Nuclear War
"What do you think about the possibility of nuclear war? I feel like we had this question a month ago. I'm a begin it. Well, I think most people know that because we're living in crazy times, anything is possible. And I think that, first of all, if you think of Kim Jong-un in North Korea, that guy is a straight up madman, he is allied with China, I don't even think you need to think about Putin, Putin is enough of a malefactor that I don't think he would hesitate. I don't know. One thing I do know, I put my trust in God. I think that we're not supposed to live in fear, first of all, I'm not afraid of death because I believe that Jesus defeated death on the cross. And that by faith in him, we never die. I actually believe that's true. And so I think we should never be scripture says be anxious for nothing. So realistically, these things are possible. We don't know what the future holds. Our job is to do our job, to praise God, to obey him, to live heroically, bravely, freely, and what happens is not up to us. We're just to do our job.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Should RFK Jr. Be Elected Trump's 'Deep State Czar' in 2024?
"Junior. Well, he seems to understand deep state corruption better than anyone. When Trump is reelected, I think he should select RFK junior as his deep state czar, what do you say, Eric? Well, first of all, there is no such thing as a deep state czar. So somebody who have to create that term, I listen, I believe Trump will be reelected. And I believe that the reason they're coming after him is because the deep state recognizes him as the ultimate threat. They have treated him so abominably that he is aware that they despise him and they despise, not just the people that voted for him, but they despise the founder's vision of America and they have over the decades gained control. And Trump would be without question the best candidate to go against the deep state. So it seems to me that he ought to bring anyone in who can help him. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be tremendous. Of course, he's from a fabled democratic family and maybe running for president or something on the democratic side. But the point is he's basically a very, very, very good guy. And I think that it would be wonderful if Trump were able to use his help and the help of general Flynn and so many others who know exactly where the bodies are buried,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
What Happened to the Democrats? Professor Paul Kengor Explains
"A historian by training Paul. What happened to the Democrat party? You know, I think back to the likes of scoop Jackson and JFK. They never would have called for violence against somebody they politically disagreed with. And also they were Ardent anti communists. Have you, have you an explanation for what's happened? Yeah, you know, going back to JFK. I mean, they were, they reached across the aisle. In fact, speaking of anti communism, JFK ran against Richard Nixon for president in 1960. And years before that, the Kennedy family and Richard Nixon, they were all tight. They were all close. In fact, JFK's father Joseph Kennedy wrote a check to Nixon the Nixon Senate campaign when he was running against Helen gahagan Douglas, who was called the pink lady. And they said, defeat her dick, right? They cross party lines. Joe McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, who was a Republican, was very tight with the Kennedy family. Dated one of the Kennedy daughters used to hang out at hyannis port with at the Kennedy compound. Robert F. Kennedy worked for Joe McCarthy. In fact, Robert F. Kennedy's daughter, I think it's Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Her godfather is Joe McCarthy. And then fast forwarding to Ronald Reagan in another Massachusetts, famous politician, tip O'Neill. How they got along so well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
James Lawrence and Charlie Discuss the Case of Douglas Mackey
"Doing an event in Chicago and a young man came up and he buttered me up. He knew what radio station I was on, but he was a troll. And he said, quote, Charlie, that's why when the midterm elections came, I told all my Friends and family, there's only one way to stop the woke Democrat mafia, and that is to boycott these elections because they're never going to hear us if we don't really stop participating. It's a farce. It's a farce. Why should we participate? You said it yourself. Why should we participate? Now, I challenge him said, no, no, no, but he's a troll. He was a left wing activist, telling people not to vote, telling people he was trying to suppress the vote. I mean, the government is setting a precedent here that this young man should serve a decade in jail. And that's why we can't open this Pandora's box. That's why that's why it's so important that mister Mackey prevails in this case and that the door is slammed shut to this kind of prosecution because it will have a chilling effect on speech and it's just not where we should be going as a country. So again, I'd ask your audience to go on to meme defense fund dot com. So just spell it. Defense fund dot com. And I'd also like to encourage your audience at the same time. Romans 8 28 says all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose. And regardless of what the outcome is here in this case, ultimately we know who the author of history is and whatever the designs of the powers that be are, it's in God's hands, ultimately what happens in this case. And he will be glorified by the outcome of this. Regardless of which way it gets. Amen. But our prayer is that mister Mackie would be acquitted.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Most Important Court Case of 2023 With James Lawrence
"Now is James Lawrence, who's an attorney for the Mackey legal defense fund. You may or may not remember, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and now it's going to trial. It's actually went through jury selection. I would go into trial. Of the case of Douglas Mackey. Where they're trying to put a young man in prison who made Internet memes and jokes about the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, and they're trying to lock him up and throw the key away. James joins us now. James welcome back to the program. Charlie, thanks so much for having me again. Good to be with you. So James, give us the update. What is the status of the trial or the jury selection, fill us in? Yeah, so I believe we're in day three of jury selection and mister Mackey's case. But since we last talked, there are two developments that I would like to make your audience aware of with respect to the case. The first involved the government's plan to introduce evidence from a confidential witness and to just give your audience context around that request. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of Americans to be able to confront their accusers and open the court. It's something that goes to the core of the constitution as a native of Raleigh, north Carolina. I can tell you this is something that sir Walter Raleigh was complaining about from his prison cell and the Tower of London in the 1600s. I mean, this is how bad rock this is to our country. And in this particular case, the government plans to introduce testimony from a confidential witness whose name will be withheld from the public and the court has not only granted the government's request to keep that person anonymous, but also to prevent mister Mackey's trial team from engaging in a fullsome cross examination of the witness with respect to that individual's connections with the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the briefing, mister Mackey's defense team has learned that the confidential witness has a relationship with the FBI and back has pled guilty to the very same offense that mister Mackey is accused of and is continuing to work with the government, but
AP News Radio
Fatal shooting erupts at Georgia party with over 100 teens
"A weekend house party in Georgia turns deadly. Authorities in douglasville, Georgia, west of Atlanta, say two people under 18 were killed and 6 others wounded at a sweet 16 House party where over 100 teenagers had gathered, a confrontation occurred and shots rang out some time after ten 30 p.m. Saturday night, Ariel Gardner, who lives next door, told WSB channel two action news that she and her family suddenly heard gunshots and ducked for cover in their own home. Captain Trent Wilson, with the Douglas county sheriff's office, says investigators are still piecing together what happened, and they're putting out a call for potential witnesses to provide more information about how the shooting started and who was responsible. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Israel beefs up troops after unprecedented settler rampage
"Israel has sent hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli brothers and settlers swarmed through a Palestinian town. Schools of settlers on Sunday rampage through hawara, throwing stones and torching homes and vehicles in the worst such violence in decades the deadly shooting followed by the rampage raises questions about a Jordanian declaration that it had received assurances from Israel and the Palestinians to calm a yearlong wave of violence. It also lays bare rifts in Israel's new right-wing government, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has appealed for calm while a member of his ruling coalition praised the rampage. As deterrence against Palestinian attacks, according to gassan Douglas, a Palestinian official in the area attacks
The Charlie Kirk Show
Col. Douglas MacGregor Describes Differing Views of War
"You just go a little deeper on that on how Russia views war versus how the west views this war of use war? They have a different philosophy. They're willing to sacrifice greater numbers. They are willing to engage in a war of attrition. This is a concept that a lot of westerners, it's foreign to us. Well, I think that's misleading Charlie to be Frank. I think they've been very economical with Russian lives. All of the commanders have tried to maximize the use of standoff firepower. Missiles, rockets, artillery, to do as much damage as possible. And they've been very successful. 75% of Ukrainian casualties have been caused by those systems. So they have had great success in restricting the exposure of their troops to close combat. Now that won't be possible in the future once the breakout occurs, it'll be more difficult. But the Russians have never taken the heavy casualties at the west insist they've sustained. The west is running around with some crazy number of 200,000 casualties, pure nonsense. I'd be surprised if they had 50,000 to 60,000 casualties. And more than 20,000 dead it's the Ukrainians that have suffered terribly. So I think on the one hand, yes, attrition is part of this, but nutrition is focused on the Ukrainians. And the maneuver will follow the attrition. Once it becomes clear that the Ukrainians are completely broken and they're pretty close to it right now. And they fall apart, then the maneuver will commence.
VS
"douglas" Discussed on VS
"She's perfect she's beautiful. She looked like linda gregor thin. It's for any choy. And they're writing a poem. After maya angelou called still i ride the dick dennis smith and you're listening versus the podcasts. Were poets confront the ideas that moved them. And we're we disrespect to our elders and our teachers where we burn bridges with living people. Take it as a compliment undergraduate as flies fuck you could grow into a very nice. Linda gregson aesthetic. You have glasses. You have the short hair. You have everything. Yeah that'd be thrilling to and you know and my angelou was a woman of many trades And i am a faggot. Who has many. I would've were i would have worked in my angelou's little little brothel back in the tech is i would i would you know. Do i'd have been her best. How are you today. Well how okay with. That is interesting is how you doing pretty good. Yeah packing for my first time on a plane since the corona making. Sure that i'm gonna be cute but also making sure that like you know we will be left. Both like medically and spiritually protected as we make our way. That is a good point. 'cause like one can wear mask in order to protect oneself from the viral threats of the world but what what does one where to protect oneself from the spiritual threats of the world. What's your go to sort of like armor like spirit armor. When you're walking around in the world. I mean i carry a couple of stalin's with me you know psychotherapy Some warlords courts. Always people a love and a little clarity near me You know we keep amnesties you know. Let's say amnesty no matha too cold amnesia and these yeast and now osama amethyst that okay it is purdie and it make my spirit feel good. I think one thing that can like really adore. You like your rituals right. And so like i feel like mornings are really sacred time for me just getting up and like you know reading the little bit writing a little bit time to pray are usually talks like my mom bursting in the morning. I'm not christian. Whatever but i do. I like i say something to like god in the universe and all that in the morning just like you know about the day just like you know my hope for the world and i feel like that is like thing that can keep me center that i you know an armor that i can put on myself first hour of the day and after that i can just like walk into it. Yeah how about you. What you yourself like. Masking parole What are you army yourself with these day. What's the pure l. For the spirit. Chicken doodo perot for the phone You know. I like a stone in the home but if i put it in my pocket then it'll just be in the pocket it'll be in the washing machine. I'll have leave a trail of crystals like fucking hansel and gretel franson gretel frenzel and fred. Okay But i would say that any combination of like eyebrows and like a hat like a dad like one of my one of my four five dad hats. I think that if i have those. I'm good i can like you. Know negotiated deal i. Can mike talk to a person a stranger. Yeah i feel like i can do anything. I have those. I've literally seen this transformation in youtube like snail just like a slug wrapped in a blanket and then put on browse dad hat. And i'm like let's go by car ready for the day like i know it's sacred time. It's like let any finish her. Goddamn so that we will get better. Results will win the slab. Okay i mean these things are so they seem so fake in some ways right but are obviously have mike real results like these these rituals and Bits of armor that we crashed or adorn ourselves with it matters. It actually does do thing to protect us Whether it's like a placebo effect or not you know and we are really excited to share with you all this conversation with the one only douglas curreny A poet who we have loved for many years for many But he talks about what it means to kind of like craft- protection spells with his poems. And how that sort of a different direction in some ways from the work that he has been doing in the past his work is completely one of a kind and also deeply interdependent with a community of writers and thinkers And so we are so excited to share this conversation with doug kearney who is one of the geniuses truly of our time douglas tierney has published seven collections including show from wave books in two thousand twenty two bucks studies from fence books in two thousand sixteen winner of the theodore rookie memorial poetry award the c. l. impede firecracker award for poetry and the california book award silver medallist in poetry. Carney is a two thousand. Twenty one recipient of opera america's campbell opera librettist prize created generously. funded by librettist. Lyricist mark campbell. His operas include suction more dake crescent city sweetland and comment a commissioned by the american modern opera company he has received a whiting writer's award a foundation for contemporary arts side tomboy award for poetry residencies and fellowships from conham. The russian bird foundation and others born in brooklyn and raised in alta dena california currently teaches creative writing at the university of minnesota twin cities in lives in saint paul with his family family. He lived in my hood. Y'all where i grew up so You know. I messed with Literally like our poetry uncle father. We are so excited to bring you this interview with the luminary Genius douglas kenney. Who will start us off with one of his incredible palms. This is a poem called i. She cuts the stands and it was written for your harvey. Who is one of my first teachers in poetry and one of my dearest friends so this is a problem for her systems. Are the end of a rope and.
Broken Record
"douglas" Discussed on Broken Record
"Crazy gas. I signed his first record. Deal in nineteen seventy four and in the years since he's released twenty four hours. His latest leftover feelings recorded with jerry. Douglas douglas was a famed producer and session musician as one. Fourteen grammys for solo. Work and collaborations so they seem of successful musicians. He's also known as one of the foremost masters of the dobro. An instrument similar to the lap steel on today's episode. John hiatt jerry. Douglas performed three songs off their new album. And talk to them about how they came together to record that album and the studio. That's known as the birthplace of the nashville sat. john hiatt also explains how one of his new songs helped him forgive the horrific abuse endorphins order brother when he was growing up. This is broken record notes for the digital age. I'm justin richmond. Here's bruce had them with john. Hiatt and jerry. Douglas tell me a bit about you hadn't worked together. I don't think it directly together before. How did it even come about that. You are working together. Jiri how in the hell. We wound up with each other while we. We're both suddenly under the same. Managerial umbrella are managers. Got together and talked and said well. Why don't those guys do a record together. They know each other. Why haven't they ever recorded together. We actually have recorded together on a the second circle be unbroken record. I was in the house band that played every day and john came through with roseanne. Cows we we did a song for that and Jerry was yeah. Jerry played with everybody. Yeah so we were. We did do that. And we've known each other for a long time and had some great conversations. Not when it came up i thought yeah that'd be great and who wouldn't want to do it record with john hiatt anyway so i felt the same way i was excited about the ideas idea plan with. So you know the man who was the logical next Prints of the dobro. Tyrod taylor like aldridge in josh graves. And then you have jerry. Douglas boom now. Did you come in with with all the songs ready to go or was it. We picking through songs looking through files. And i sent jerry about fifteen tunes couple of older ones. One of which we did on the record Song called good night. Which i wrote on my thirty three year. Old daughter was born. But i'd never recorded it so that was kind of fun and then we redid A song all the lilacs in ohio which was on a record. I put out in two thousand three. Everything else was relatively new about five or six of them. I wrote odd. Call them pandemic songs. We were both ready. Do record and everything and one of the cool things especially for me as we were going to use. My band is going to be on the tour and it all the recording as well with john so it just gave him a completely a different. Twist on john hiatt. We didn't know what was going to sound. Like either which i was very excited about. Of course we never do. But i'm interested when you did all the lilacs which is as you said a song about almost twenty years old. I mean who said we gotta do that song and put an very different. It's still fast. It's still got a lot of energy but it's very different setting. Well i sent it to jerry. Because i talked with him and his band fiddle and upright bass dobro that would really lend itself to to the song. I felt like the song. Although i thought it was a successful recording for what it was but i felt like the story in the song mata mata gotten lost This to me is a little more focused in terms of being able to follow this story which was basically an idea. I stole from one of my favorite movies lost weekend. And that was actually a line in the movie. Uranium land talking to sam the bartender telling him raid plays drunk. Who wants to ride. Weren't we all and don't we all wanted we've been through. That part talks about this girl. He's just met in new york city and he says you know i go to see her in the The sunlight hits the grave drainpipe on her building. And then she can't meet me at the time but she sends a note down to be given to me by the doorman. And i open it and it smells like all lilacs in ohio. came from. Yeah it's so beautiful. It's a beautiful store and i'm from ohio and i never saw any lilacs in ohio so i really was concerned. Yeah you should just be stealing songs from old movies because like those old kind of tough guy. Ben hecht dialogue. Listen i'll steal from anywhere. Any idea laying about so when you heard the songs jerry. Now you've produced a lot of records but what did you think it going to be your band. But did a certain sound at a kind of atmosphere. Come to mind when you going through the songs. I always thought of us the band as an electric band. I mean i didn't take away. We're making record with john hiatt. We're going to sound like john hiatt. You know we're just gonna be chameleons and tap into whatever it is that he's hearing here and we're just gonna give it legs the song of the lilacs in ohio. I heard it as like a sing along for a lot of people in an audience. You know when it gets to the line although lilacs in ohio and it's a real easy thing for people to pick up and attach themselves to sing it you know. Sing it loud a lot. It'd be a great live concert kind of song. I always kind of try to imagine us onstage. Planning songs for somebody. Well that's interesting because it's pretty much. All we did in the studio live performances. I've played and sang live. What you wanna play is what you got your studio that we recorded in. Rca studio beak was one of the first. Real recording studios in nashville is owned by the country music hall of fame and they let us go in there and record. Their people. don't usually record in there anymore. They run tours through there so we got in during kobe so there were no tourists so nobody bothering and we didn't have to tear down or anything so we just sat up and recorded but like nine months after we were supposed to. They gave us four days. We we made the record and four days did a few overdubbed later but the basic records was done in four eight. Is that the fastest. You've ever done a record. It's tied bring. The family was four days. It's a really good way to do it. That's a good omen. You don't have time to over. Think anything yeah you did. The last one. If bring the family did with nikola who's famous for not over thinking things no. He's no over sinker under.
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"douglas" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"Initially did all those canopy analyses and basically said well. Actually it turns out that there's a whole ecosystem up here. There's a salamander that does not of nobody knew this. I know and i. It's something that you know. I'd read about for so long and could comprehend as someone who is trained in ecology you hear about this stuff you can recognize the importance of this but until you see it in person especially because i'm sorry there's no amount of pictures that can do this justice just can't do until you see. Just don't comprehend the the vast nece sizes you're talking about and the complexity and people will bemoan reductionism and i get it to an extent but there's so much about reductionism that's useful because here you have. You could talk about species composition and like i said it's the sweepstakes that can change but when you really get down to it it's about structure and then you add the time component four said structure to develop. And when you just reduce it to those two things you realize how irreplaceable within often multiple human lifetimes this sort of thing becomes because those large branches that can support trees that are probably bigger than most of the trees in my neighborhood. Hundreds of feet into the canopy. Like you said you do not get those overnight. You don't get those in fifty years and when they're lost they are essentially lost. Yeah it's it would be as if we are remembering what the forests were like in you know. Spain win columbus decided that he wanted to go west. You know it's like well we're no one remembers with those were like the whole place is completely different. So it's like that's the timeframe that we're working with. Is you know these trees were alive. And i think we drove by one and you know they have signs pointing to like this is what happened when it was on each ring and like tourists taking pictures next to this. Cut tree the hamlet. Which should be lamenting this. This shouldn't be like look at me. An excellent big tree is a. That's a tragedy. A tragedy from eight hundred years like what was going on eight hundred years ago and then like. Try to conceptualize this. So yeah. we're not going to get it back. And that is. I think that's one of the biggest things that i think. I need to start focusing on a little bit. More is really trying to nail that home and try to convince people we've got enough of the old growth down. Let's just leave the last five percent intact. Move onto the other stuff half the time. We don't even have mills that can handle size of wood. That's kinda the surprising thing. I talk to some guys years ago. And they're like we don't want the old stuff. It's got decay in the middle. It's got cracks in it like the wood itself is not useful until you get way up to the the higher reaches of the tree where it's been less-battered for whatever reason whether there's no fail schnittke the basal decay in douglas fern. It will go up the tree for another fifteen feet if you just let it live for that long. And they're like we don't even want that part of the tree also we don't even have mills big enough to handle it. They want this perfectly straight farm grown. You know you know polls so it's great. Let's just do that then of that. Yeah wouldn't cut that down fifty years and and we're not going to be stoked about it but we'll be more stoke than if you cut down the ones that have been completely untouched there but in thinking about sort of the age of these things i mean when you look at douglas for its its might not be like methuselah bristlecone pine that's thousands of years old but eight hundred is absurd. I mean for a living thing as a forester. Do you give much thought into like you know you're thinking a lot about the anatomy of these trees. How they're growing. What shapes them over time how their health develops over time. What allows the species to live. That long i mean have you given much thought to like what predisposes is a tree like douglas for two eight hundred potential years of existence. I not not in a specific way. But i think in a broadway. I certainly have in the biggest thing that i used to try to describe. This was a an article that i read i. i can't. i wish i could remember who wrote. It was an arborist news through the international society of our culture and essentially what that author was saying. Is we have every tree just like anything has a budget as a budget of energy and it needs to use that budget and put it towards certain things and he listed off. I think reproduction health and defense. Those are three things that they used and so say well something like an alder tree would put most of its effort towards reproduction and growing fast. That's what he wants to do. Wants to get big. But it's not gonna pull out on defense because he doesn't care if something eats it's you know leaves. They're going to drop and then come back. It doesn't really care dies because it's just gonna sprout back or it's just going to move on usually dies quickly anyway because of you know water for next restrained gets you know crushed by a flood but then he would say well then you have. Other trees are so decay resistant that they will just keep on cooking for a really long time but they're putting all of their efforts into defense. So trees are one that a lot of people think of an walnuts where they don't grow especially fast but they just won't decay you just you can nigam. And they're just going to keep on growing and but they're not going to be the tallest and they're not gonna have the most fruit all the time so those trees like well. I'm gonna put a lot into defense. I'm going to grow a little bit slower. But i will grow a do the rabbit rather or the hair rather than. I'm sorry the tortoise rather than the hair get on my bed right here metaphors and there's still tells care exactly so essentially just take that different strategy and your budget towards something else so for the douglas firm. It's a semi decay resistant tree. It definitely gets decay definitely has plenty of fungal associates that associate with it they interact in different ways and so as long as that tree can continue to grow and basically build efficiency. Then i think that's that's really. The key thing is efficiency which with its budget in terms of. Let's put just enough to decay resistance that we can keep putting as much as we need towards growth to outgrow the decay so if we can just keep it at bay like having someone talking to you and just hey well i just have a quick question for you real quick decay. You're coming up I just want to know what's your. What's your favorite kind of needle. I'm just i'm curious. Meanwhile you have your builders you know putting more would behind you constantly you know trying to waylay the decay and and then at the same time it also puts out just enough towards reduction that it's a super successful tree in can grow on almost any kind of like we said you can go on the western slope the northern the southern slope the eastern slope. It can do just about anything except literally with its feet in watered. So one thing that douglas i do not really prefer but if they just have enough of that each one of those things is perfectly balanced then you put in a place like the pacific coast where it can just grow. It.
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"douglas" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"A volcano of species. Because right now like there's so many different you know. I think in terms of species of pine tree mexico the country the whole country has more species than the united states does of just pine trees and that is when i read that as like. That's stunning to me. And but a bunch of those inner breed all the time. So that's if that's the case then that must be that they are in the process of spec- -ation right now and then give it another couple millions of years and then maybe that volcano gets a little higher maybe gets dryers some nothing cross over this peak then muslim. Boom you have two different species that have been geologically separated or two different one species geologically separated in a spec- species so i think you're exactly right the fact that we're like okay. Now we were aware of it boom. It's stopped it's like well probably not and Yeah it's it's hard to put things in box. The more i am more. I tried to put nature into a box. The harder it gets from me. I think that but that's kind of fun of it too. Is you still get to have that sense of wonder off. It's not like science. Neuters that ability for you to to go out and enjoy and really feel connection and sort of a a dumbfounded. Nece like a healthy dumbfounded. Nece in the face of something. You can never fully understand right. I mean it's just so cool to go out and even just to see an old tree you know. I mean a tree that can live for eight hundred years. You go back a few thousand years many generations of humans but for that tree. That's like three generations. Exactly yes that's they remember each other. They were growing for hundreds of years with each other. Right right yeah. That is that is stunning. I really appreciate also healthy dumbfounded. Nece that seems. Like i just wanna make like bumper stickers of all these things yeah that would be a good one kind of head scratcher for the life. Yeah he really smarter immediate. I can't tell should welcome to the club place to be so you were just in the olympic peninsula though and when you think about a tree like douglas for that can live for many centuries place like the olympic peninsula that has largely been intact. Things live things die. There's disturbances but you think about this context of old growth forest and you start hearing trickles in the media. At least that's finally starting to pay attention to the fact that like we're kind of ignoring the age of these things when we're going in and just clearcutting or even cutting a lot of this stuff without really any thought. Most of the time to what the consequences are. And it's not just like we got an old tree it said which it is but it's also this context of like old growth ecosystems and the species that comprise them are all just. It's so vital. To the existence of ecology of this planet of the health of the planet the biosphere. And i would guess out west. Douglas firs are big component of that. If they're living so many centuries yeah they are one of the foundational species of of this whole idea and if you just take the time to consider how long all these connections must take in order to solidify and actually become as complex as they are. There's no possible way in our lifetimes. In several of like you said several human lifetimes trust to recreate this we can manage forests and try to speed it along to get big trees and leave down what he stuff..
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"douglas" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"I mean literally. Millions of years before humans came onto the scene disturbance wasn't having their landslides there where fires lightning strike. He's right and and so you got to realize that like maybe they weren't as common at some point but even then the idea of like a community and how species move across the landscape like there is so much sweepstakes level to ecology through time and you had glaciers new had climate change over time who knows right and we have pollen records. We can find fossils but it's really lucky to think of like we know exactly how this should be in how it's going to play out like okay. Did we we. We need to talk. We got to sit you down statistics. Yeah exactly yeah. I really liked the idea. I think he just said a sweepstakes. There's there's a sweepstakes level to everything. I love that that's good. That's a good term. Use like well you know. Here's what we think but we're just going to throw everything into hat and see what happens right. and it was a book by ec. Pipe pilot or pay lou. I can't butchering her last name. But it's a fantastic book called after the ice age. And i think everyone needs to read that because it just goes to show you that this whole i mean i realize most restoration ecologist far beyond this mindset. But there's no like as it was before and you know growing up in the northeast. Where literally if you go. Eleven thousand years ago you were under a mile thick worth of ice. You look at the species that have made it back some species that are still stuck in the south and you realize what was it like in every interglacial. It's not like communities move altogether like all right. Everyone pickup and we're going to be disturned forest up here. It's like montana. Yeah every species. Doing its own thing. And sometimes there's a lot of luck involved in that process but it goes back to kind of what we were talking about with the douglas. Vernon it's variety. Is we try to pigeonhole these things into nice. Little bins and taxonomy is really useful. It is an amazing tool to understand the relationship of life and understand like where we need to start thinking of conservation and even in the context of modern times. but we when we evolved. And when we got here and started thinking about this like boom evolution has hit a stopping point. We can start to been these species together like it. I think douglas for goes to show you that. It's it's a dynamic process. That still ongoing. Yeah that's exactly right. And i like i. This is been something. I've been thinking a lot about is doing a show especially because we'd sit down and research. These trees awesome like. Wow there's things. I didn't even know that you know there's all these questions i think the ponderosa pine and the douglas for both were one of those species whereas like wow. There's all these different varieties. And then i was like well. You know i think variety is just a pre species given another couple of million of millions of years. Then there's going to be like oh no that's the eastern logical pine this is the western lodge bull pine and i use mexico.
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"douglas" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"Bend and move. So they're they're no spruce by any means i dig that yeah right at one prefers a nas perjury and it grows huge especially especially here on the west coast There are trees that are absolutely massive massive in proportion from thirteen fourteen feet in diameter allegedly tallest tree that ever grew was a douglas for and someone cut it down and then measured that. I think it actually might of broke. And then they cut it down and then they put the two pieces together. And we're like this was the single largest tree anyone's ever measured fan but then they cut it up and no one actually ever officially like said yes in china. You really thing so. It's still one of those things where it's like. Well we had the biggest one and it runs like yes. sure sure. I wouldn't magnificent cut it up. Cut it up irving but yeah so the big thing to tell the parts of the cones and this is the douglas. I specifically Over here in the west they have these little combs maybe about two inches long and they have extended brax that come off of each one of the cone scale in those brax look very very similar to a rats butt so opening thankfully be mouse. The old saying is that there's a forest fire douglas. The mouse was like i gotta get into cover a jumped underneath the the the scales of this little For come and then if you really want to balance it usually the for is like quick. Come in here. i'll protect you. So then the mouse jumped up into the cone scales and then Couldn't quite fit so it's little mouth but two legs in its tail or hanging out. That's how you can tell the douglas firm so if you see a with that kind of cone hanging on it or you see it covering the ground with this really thick big dark brown. Dark grey furrowed bark almost furrow that you could stick your hand in between the the ridges and climb up the tree. That is probably a douglas for nice. Yeah some really good In the field that you don't have to like really stress over. Pull out a hand lens to really pick out. And i gotta say. There's a lot of great cones out there big cone fan over here but douglas firs top three for me for sure and it's really a little mouse butts three because again when you know you're learning plants you're looking for anything you can grab onto to be like. I'm pretty confident about this. And like i said they were planted out here and they get big enough to make cones and it was just one of those that i could grasp onto. I knew what i was looking at. And that charming little story it just connected in my head and it stuck with me ever since so yeah. I got type top three. It's exactly that's such. I love when. I hear these stories because everyone has it. I definitely have one of my old classmates. He learned the scotch pine which is pinal silvestri and the way he remembered it is always said to himself sylvester. Stallone really loves scotch. That's how he put those two things together to remember the names all those little whatever. Little pneumonic works. Help you remember tree or make a connection with it. Just makes my shout shoutout to sandy geffner at university of buffalo. But he's to say the the needles of scotch pine or a little twisted. When you drink scotch you get a little twisted. I always thought that was like look appealed to the union's yeah right. Exactly you gotta do is somehow. That's fun but yeah so you mentioned the bark to being really thick and that brings up something. That's you know. Unfortunately something that's getting worse out west but thick bark and fire. I would assume hand in hand so do douglas. I tend to grow or have evolved in areas that would have historically experienced some level of fire. Maybe not you know. Complete landscape destroying fires but fire on the less. Yeah they definitely did and that is kind of. That's the the the real thing that is fascinating about the douglas. For in my opinion is that not only has it grown and evolved grown adapted to almost every situation you can imagine it does that through different forest succession stages so it is the initial colonizer of burned over area it will just pop back in droves if there is a a whatever kind of disturbance whether that's logging or fire or a hurricane you know whatever it is they'll come back and drove. They'll grow up there shade intolerant species so they will grow up and live Usually when you get those early successional trees. They would die off in some amount of time. These take eight hundred years sometimes. Five to eight hundred year old is the kind of average range for what these trees would be growing. If we let them grow right now we cut them at literally one percent of that too. I guess now i'm sorry. Ten percent of that eighty fifty. Two eighty dollars is though in bar. Yeah real big bummer. So these trees would live that long. And of course you're gonna have some fires that come through at that time on the the far western coast and the west side of the cascades. They just generally don't have a lot of fire..
The Science Show
"douglas" Discussed on The Science Show
"The whole time out. Bear in the council's every penny. It's got have you hung dawn and quoted and trump. you waits until until you add enough also time get here. There's only ten seconds. And when i finished i'll take all those little bits and i i jump on them. Don't carry on dumping on house quick over here. What the hell is age. It's a fleet of flying saucers. What do you think it is going to get hold of this wrong. What do you mean flying. Sources just status of vogue on construct up lee a watch a gun. Constructively picked up news arrive in a few hours ago. Oh my sub. Eat the radio four. I don't think i can cope with any more of this. I think just gonna have a little lie down somewhere. Just stay here keep calm and just take hold of this earth. Your attention please. This is protecting vogue on jokes of the galactic hyperspace banning cancer as well the plans for the development of the outlying regions of the western spot along with the galaxy required the building of a hyperspace express route through your star system and regrettably your planet is one of those shadow for demolition process will take slightly last and two of your earth minutes. Thank you very much. Pointing acting room supplies. The by j.j. All planning charts diminish orders have been on dispatch your local planning department in alpha doriva fifty of your earth years to had pinned your time to lodge informal complex and it's far too late. Start making fuss about it. Now what do you mean. You're never been outsourcing turi over. it's only four light years. I'm sorry but if you can't be an interesting local says that your car energize the demolition beams gum. Apathy dotty mentioned the told. I think we have to be optimistic. If you don't want to live in the blade runner future everything looking like rusty version of los angeles. the best way in the future is to invent it. So it's down to us to have your future. we want some. Oh and thanks for all the fish. Douglas adams and he died twenty years ago the sancho on our n..
MikeyPod
"douglas" Discussed on MikeyPod
"In love through street I'm falling in love through street I'm falling in love through a screen in the middle of quarantine. That was through the screen from Christian Douglas. Thank you, Christian, for being on the podcast this week. Thank you listeners for listening to Christian Douglas on the podcast this week and me thank you to me. What? No, stop it. So yeah, thanks for listening to this. If you want to hear more from me and Christian, you could check out the bonus podcast that will go up on Patreon this Wednesday. We'll be breaking down another track from the album called sonnet ten. It's a really good one and it's a little more I want to say it's a little more unusual, it's fantastic. The whole album, come on, you should check out the album. As always, support the artists. I bring to you here if you like them. There was something else I was going to throw out to you about this week. Oh, not about this week about future weeks. And you know what, why don't I just pull up my little notes here? Because there's some really good guests coming up. I've got Jessica Watkins who is a comedian, but she decided to make a documentary of herself walking across the United States doing stand up and creating a documentary about that process along the way. It's really interesting. Also, we've got Martin Rowe coming up, who's a good friend of mine as well as a poet and a publisher. We'll be talking about his book, the animals are leaving us, which was a collaboration with Joey Macarthur, a photojournalist who you've heard on the show before. We got Jeffrey John Davies from the violin channel. We've got, wait, there's one more person that I'm forgetting. No, I think that's everyone, right? Nope, I'm forgetting somebody. No, I got everyone. So we got some good I'm glad this is at the end of the podcast that only the hardcore fans are still listening to hear me fumble. That's it. I hope you're doing great, I hope everything is well in your world. And I would love to hear from you as always. I mentioned in the beginning of the show, reach out to me on social media, email me. I would really love to hear from you. So, all right, that's it. Thanks for listening and I'll talk to you next week..
The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
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The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"And the that record your first record. I did front gold and and I think it went platinum as well. And so You know he said you're you know i want you to produce this next Alice cooper how jack richardson will be with us. Well so i'm like wow he. He didn't want do it because he didn't want it was the last group album and he wasn't even want to be at the funeral and so i went and i said out to la subject san and And and that record and that was muscle of love that was the one you produced. Yeah what were your thoughts analysis. An artist at that time. I got here very guarded. Really daughter and i loved you. Know what. I love the bombs production. That was a big influence on me. I mean bob's production techniques. You know they were very formal. And you know i just learned a lot about how to lay it out. You know the way he did. I was just way looser than bob. I was going to ask you about that. Because i know bob and i've interviewed him and i've done the same thing i'm doing with you with him. And when i talked to so many artists who've worked with bob that's the thing he he's also a legend in his field but he's thing is the is the taskmaster he's the guy who's really going to crack the whip. Did you pick that aspect up from his injury or no no. I didn't i never use that. That wasn't a part of my In my paintbox. At all. Because i always felt that that the best ideas always come from the band especially you know. That's why when you listen to bob's albums. Indo bob produce you know it you know and and which is beautiful but for me. I wish i want the every album. I do to sound like. It's the band's record and not mine. So i always even if i thought they had crazy ideas and i had good ones. I'd always go to them first and then let them try it and then i would make much suggestions about where we should go and that kept a lot of artists coming back to me. You know plus. I have a lot of fun making and i like to spread the fun around and and You know. I always think that making records and making music in general was joyous thing and you know i like to keep the vibes good and And that's kind of what i like in the control room in the studio and rehearsal everywhere in the whole thing so So that so jack was. What was it through as seraing. 'cause 'cause on on on Get your wings. The second arrowsmith record which you produced bob esser in has executive producer credit. If i'm not mistaken so was it as that brought you to aerosmith. Initially no it. It was it was like this. Aerosmith was the baby band of the dolls with lebron krebs management. Okay so they wanted. Bob produced the record right so they went to bob. The produce record rob said jack. Douglas produced this record. Okay now as far as they were concerned. I had just done them. A solid by bringing home the near dolls record right and so in in their book. That works for bob it was. He's gotta get executive producer and a and a chunk of the royalties and for me. It was all good. you know. Probably never interfered he. All he did was Listening to some ross. Listen define record and tell me. The finally sets a good record and You know he didn't interfere at all and it was just he was just encouraging all the way and you know it was more than happy to give him wherever credits in percentage you on that so okay so just so just because again. There's so much want to talk to you about it i i. I don't wanna take all your time. But i just i got so many things i wanna ask you about all this stuff and so when you to my ears as a massive aerosmith fan quantum leap from first album which you had nothing to do with in terms of production the sound of the band the way stevens sang to get your wings and then even further leap as we move forward from there but strictly speaking for the first album you worked with. Which is the second album. Get your wings. did you what. What were your impressions of the ban and ask and let me ask you. This always been a discussion that on get your wings and this is something that as pretty known for throughout his career that you had to bring in some outside musicians to play a couple solos because aerosmith just wasn't there yet in terms of their ability to play. Can you talk about all that and what you went through with. Get your with them. Well first of all. I went to see the band..
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"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"For me. I got to produce that That comeback out that we did an old five which rolling stone. It was like the shift most important how much of the year according to roy so so i mean it was well received. Didn't sell them. You know in this country very much so go overseas But we got through that project and at the same time you know. I had been engineering. Bob israel doing these alice cooper records and And he said to me one day Somewhere along the billion dollar babies which you work on that record. Jackie did was billion dollar babies. The first record you worked on for alice. I helped a little bit on School's out Billion dollar babies. I was really involved because an engineer. So he's bob. Bob and i became fast friends first of all. He was canadian. Because i played so much. In canada i had A landed immigrant status in canada. Which meant i go working. Canada could do over and we talk about toronto. I lived in toronto for a while. You up to where. I live there so he said to me you know you. You were producing near dolls album. You should be producing you. You have the talent you arranger by this point ori scored a tv show a composer. I had a lot Music that goes envision composer arranger and engineer you said you should be producing. That's the only thing missing from your suitcase right now so i should eat. He said one or two come join. The endless nine is production company and come up to canada. I should you know making almost one hundred thousand a year on the kid on engineering. You want me to read this staff said yeah leave it. You'll you'll do better. So i took a chance and enough to toronto. And he had me produce some canadian bands up in the nimbus nine studio as.
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"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"That would go on. After we went out. Every night i went up there The way that keith. Moon got into pete's group or stunning he would come through the window. Which meant that which meant that. He opened the window and his sweet climbed out on allege was really narrow nine floors up above central park south. Climb across the window. Open pete's window. And then in and i was gone i was the only person thought that that was like really strange. Everybody else is just like hey keith. So so did you. Did you Outside of this initial early phase of the. Who did you. Did you ever in your career work again with the who in any capacity or was that it not no except that Except that pete used to write me and sending me demos which i thought he used two semi these great letters and and At said that he was going to recommend recommend me other people and that we had a great time. And i had a good future And i saw him. You know not too many years ago at a at a rehearsal. He was walking in the some record president and some talent this girl that he square moaning And and i ran into the hall. I said pete and he just looked at me for a second. I said jack. Douglas and he said oh my god wow and he introduced me to his artist friend And he said. This is jack douglas. We made him famous one hundred years and and and that was. That was the last time i did they. They were playing They were playing while we were doing his records and while we were going out nightly on these adventures we go to clubs and they were just bust them up. I mean i didn't know existed. And there would be insanity you know keita so so earlier so i just wanted to tell you where so They were playing at The tennis the far hills and shake. That's where they were doing this gig Which was the whole reason. They are in new york and they were kinda recording illegally So they they said to me we want you.
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"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"What works. What doesn't you know. I'm really really learning An assistant jay messina. He's jingle king. We're doing ford commercials airline commercials. That's like those start at nine in the morning. Sometimes forty piece orchestra rhythm section background singers lead singer and announcer done leaves with the mix in four hours so learning that you you you know. It may take longer to set up the chairs. Then do the section watching jay you know. He was unbelievable they. They sold them from a fact because they wanted a little bit of jingle business in the morning you know to fill. This was basically a rock studio so empty in the morning. So assist england jazz dates and then You know really get my chops together. And then they put me on the made me the guy doing people's for trek game. Oh so one day This this artist comes in like unknown iran. I recognized him because he played in the hassles and i used to see that band. We used to play the same clubs island. Sometimes so it was billy joel already ripped brought and billy joel to record demos You know was just a piano. He's recording demos to try to get an you'll for columbia and i'm recording these demos for track and this and this and jack this would have been because before billy joel operating under his own name. He actually was in a hard rock band. I think called attila. So this was after that i would imagine. Oh yes well after it tila because between them because the hassles were in the sixties anyone's put the horns on right You know with that. Attila thing and then this was his chance to go so but i remember very well from the hassles. You remember me but you know. I've mentioned that i've seen him at I can't remember the name of the club out in the island that you played going off dinosaurs and i think the rolling stone as well Open for the vegas but anyway So hardy ripped Brings them in. Arne was a client of mine for davos all hooked on. Because you know he didn't pay much for them and You know ardy rip is no. I don't not know personally.
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"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"A day or two that gig and this englishman called the liverpool set. Only one of them was released from england. One another one from scotland one was from lafayette. And i don't know you know in a couple of from candidates but anyway they came in they were having. It's around you know regional heads and their bass player had been deported back to canada and they were looking for baseball and so turns out that i ended up in that band and jaakko pistorious came in everybody's mind he ended up in the cc rights. And so i took off with this band ripple set and we were signed to columbia. We did recordings columbia. Had regional hits all over the place. And i you know turns out we were paul shafer's favorite because he he lived in In way up on the lake head of lake superior no bands went there. But we did. He would go anywhere. We had this manager mocking us and they were just. You know like we would do a one nighter in sudbury ontario. And then you know like the night after that we will be in milwaukee you know if there was a gig so You know we've bounced all over the us and canada this band and recorded as well so after that band i came back to new york played briefly in a band called the swamp seeds and we are to have we run epic. We added hit and when that ran. It's course i ran into eddie Just left the soul survivors sixty nine and he said to me it. Have you heard spend leads up the album. It just come out. And i said yeah.
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"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"Revolutionary like any other fetal records isn't really cool took my record and walked out onto the street undecided but rooker by cook. I gotta figure out a way to stay in the report and so across the street from the record store heroes a newspaper office liverpool echo then and still now that the biggest newspaper in liverpool and so i walked into those offices and i told the receptionist that i was an american musician being held hostage on ships in the harbour. Your gummy really should really funny like standing in front of and i escaped and so she said wait here. She's the one thing i can tell. You are an american. That's the only thing that's obvious at this point and so An editor came out. And i told him my story about coming here. Being american musician always english musicians for america and they were doing fine. But you know. I come over my buddy like they wouldn't even let me in blah blah. She's just had an interesting story and so he said i'll drive you back to the harbor watch you go back on the ship then tomorrow. Newspapers from all over ring all over this story by the way you're hungry and said yes and instead of you had english insurace it never. I'm so we stopped and we got you know. Newspaper wrapped fish and chips. Like the best thing that ever had my life and then he drove me down to the harbour and watch me through the gate and back up again. Clanking i to him. And that was it so i walked back on my friend anyways like really surprised to see me. You know you said. I thought you were gone. I said no coach ethnic. we're going to get. I think i have a plan. This is gonna work and So you know my rubber soul album or a little. You know phonograph little tiny little player from somebody on one and we listened to that album all night and you know you said you know there. Nobody's coming for us. I got convinced that he was telling me the truth but the next morning there was a knock on. The door was one of the coupons and important newspapers. Before you don't wanna talk to you and we will You know we went out. We did all these interviews and You know took pictures of us. One of the coolest pictures still have the front page of that newspaper is he and i on on the bowels of the ship me with my last paul him with this. You know this just on the front page of the liverpool echo and just a really cool picture case america's banned from landing and also.
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"douglas" Discussed on The Eddie Trunk Podcast
"Anytime you want full shows audio video. More on the sirius. Xm app this week. I am bringing you an interview and people love when i do these guests on the show behind the scenes people in this case a producer a legendary producer by the name of jack douglas. Jack douglas did work with cheap trick. John lennon all the classic aerosmith albums zebra so much more in the interview. You're about to hear which got tremendous response. Jack tells his story early in life. And in all honesty i had to rush a little bit when we got to some of the arrowsmith records because he was running out of time that he had for me but he still gave me a good amount of time. And we'll do a part to them down the road but people love this interview. And i personally love getting the stories from the folks behind the scenes that made the records that we love so much. Jack douglas is certainly one of the biggest. And i think you're gonna love this interview. Got a lot of great response. When it aired live on my show on sirius. Xm so without further ado. Let's get to jack. Douglas the legendary producer. That's what we have for you this week on the trunk. Podcast enjoyed all right. It's eddie trunk and this trunk nation on sirius. Xm volume and it is a great great honor to welcome this guy to the show. It somebody that. I've been wanting to talk to and have an extended conversation about his amazing career for a really long time. We welcome now the great producer. Jack douglas jack. Thank you so much for doing this. How are you. i'm good a little bit. Embarrassed by the intro. Well when you look at the resume. Jack and you run down the resume and you see everything from john lennon to aerosmith. You certainly deserve an intro like that You know before we get into. And you know as i told you off the air the my audience is more on the hard rock side of things so they are absolutely going to be interested in that end of your career but the career is so diverse in so many amazing things you've done but in all the great producers that i've had on this show i liked obviously start at the beginning and get the story of how you became a producer most of the producers. I talked to out wanting to be musicians and being musicians themselves and then transitioning from there. How did it all start for you. it started You know when i was. I mean they used to be things called hootenanny and and that was like the folk scene in the early sixties. So while i was still in high school You.
Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"douglas" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"I'll be land. To and i was right next. Door shooting about three I can't say eric drums playing but it's a really amazing character. And it's all practical and james wan and gary doberman work directing me and These guys have it down. I mean they are. they're great team. That work with michael clear executive producer. And now there's very successful. And now i know why so. I was very exciting to be a part of that franchise. Also yes. she's coming back. They took some liberties with the dow but it was actually a raggedy ann doll in real life Oh yeah it is. And it's it's a true story. I mean they the warrants. Have her in still in that glass case in so she doesn't get out but new. You can take some liberties. No i know when. I when i did some research sites i i heard that it was based on a true story and i wanted to try to find out how my character got involved in it But yeah it's really neat neat and These guys are there. Another speaking of practical. James wan those guys atomic monsters. They're all about practical. They love to shoot anything make impractical and whatever they can then they'll digitally enhance it but they're they're they're like a guillermo or they want to do things on camera and and i i appreciate that. And that's why. I think a lot of their movies or success not only their done gray but just just having especially in horror and stuff having things shot on camera and and relating to it and it just draws you in more and they're really good about that. Yeah yeah i'm a. I'm a big fan of makeup and as as you can tell talking to me. But i appreciate it you know. But but you know it's it's digital. I mean look what it did to terminator two. I mean it just totally blew everything out of and they wouldn't have been able to do the first jurassic park without it so you know it. It has a place de a tool like anything. And you know you know we. We tend to fall in love with it and use it a lot. But it's it's cool right. Why don't we take a short break. I'm here with douglas pains into new hell boy movie and he's going to be an nfl as well Than a new sequel to that but We're not gonna can't say too much about that. Obviously but we'll be right back right back on sci-fi talk with Douglas tait so you mentioned james wan. How does he like to work as a director onset though precise about what he wants and he will keep going until he gets it and i don't i don't say that that he's.