Show Open 08.17.24
-Back to school Target sale
-What happened during the 8 months leading up to the 1968 DNC convention
-Tay Tay is baaaack
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Show Open 08.17.24 - Back to school Target sale; What happened during the 8 months leading up to the 1968 DNC convention; Tay Tay is baaaack
"Are you ready? "Because I want you to pay attention. "This is the beginning of something." - You know that Tetris was my favorite game as a child. - Who is it again? - Pete, Pete McMurray. - How do you spell it? - P-E-T-E. - Oh, Pete. - I just grew up in a time when special K commercials told women to pinch their stomach and if there was an inch, you need to be a special K for the rest of your life. So I have a complicated relationship with cookies. (upbeat music) (laughing) - For you change it up. (laughing) - This is the Pete McMurray show. - Oh God, I laughed about that for a very long time. Hello and welcome into the show. Please follow the show on social media @pete McMurray and if you missed anything on the show, just search Pete McMurray show wherever you find your favorite podcast and we would love for you to subscribe. Did you really eat special K back in the day because it had no taste. My mother used to buy it. - You gotta get the one with the freeze-dried strawberries in it. - I never really understood that. Were they real strawberries? Were they fake? - They're freeze-dried. - Mm, no. - They're real strawberries. They were good. - Are you sure about that? - Listen, it's delicious and it's all punitive way. - This is it, man. Kids are headed back to school. Target has a school supplies on sale. Who needs a number two pencil? - Listen, Target has had school supplies since July. - I still use notebooks. I'm not kidding. For everything. - It's 'cause you're a dinosaur. - I just bought four from Target. I wanna say they were 35 cents a piece. They were having a huge sale. - That's super cheap. - Yeah. So if I'm driving somewhere and something comes to mind like a guest for the show or if I hear something on the radio, I write it down in the notebook. - While you're driving, yeah. - Yes, while I'm driving. - Gary, for the rest of us. - I probably have 20 notebooks in my desk drawer that I've filled up. - Listen, I used to see your desk on a daily basis. It was a tornado of paper. You've never seen so much paper in an organized fashion. Motivational quotes printed and cut out. - Oh yeah, that's the thing. I write down motivational quotes and I just picked up a notebook and I'm like, oh my gosh, I remember that quote. And now I put them in my phone. - And then you print them and then you cut them out into little shapes and then you stick them on things like lamps. - There was one right in front of me with Tony Robbins picture in this video. Oh my God, that's so funny. I'm listening to this book right now by Wayne Dyerd, it's called Real Magic. It's a very old book, I wanna say from the late 80s, early 90s, but it's about manifestation, about creating daily miracles, your mindset, relationships. So I'm taking notes now as I'm driving and listening to that book. - Can you take voice notes, please? - I do, but-- - I don't like you grabbing a pen and paper that requires two hands. - You know what, it's easier. I lay it on my seat and I write it down and then I write it later. - And then I stop play while you're going 80 miles an hour. Like, what are we talking about here? - All of the above, but the thing is, when I talk text into my phone, it never, ever gets it right. It drives me bananas. - That's how you take a voice memo where it's just recording your voice, it's not trying to turn out. - I don't wanna listen to my voice afterwards and then you got a lot of stuff to do. - No, you'd rather just write while on the highway and crash into somebody. - Oh yeah, so far so good. - By the way, I'm the greatest driver on the road. - No, you're pretty good. - Okay, thanks for that. Today's show is an award-winning show. - We wanna know more? - It's crazy what's happening on today's show. David R. Kett starred in the Scream movies as Dewey. Remember Dewey the cop in Scream? - Okay, listen. - Yeah? - I've only seen Scream number one. - What? - And I've only seen it like one time. - I know they're all the same, but you're not watching them on cable? I feel like I just ran through one, what is it? Four and five? - I'm not big into horror flicks, anywho. - But I do love David R. Kett. - It's kind of a comedy horror flick, that's the thing. Well, he's got a new movie with my girlfriend, Elizabeth Shoe, David R. Kett, will be on the show today. And what we say about him when we were talking to Elizabeth, he's such a likable guy. - Yeah, you just wanna like sit down, chew the fat, make us mores. - Right, okay. The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd and Jimmy Belushi will be performing at the old Joliet Prison where they film the Blues Brothers movie. Do you remember when Joliet Jake was in prison? - Yes, I mean, I've seen the movie, yes. - One was the last, how many times have you seen the movie? - Maybe twice. - You need to go to confession for that, okay? But in my defense, how many times have you seen Billie Madison? - Billie Madison with Adam Sandler, I've probably seen, I don't know, 10 times or something? - All right. - Yeah, what do you mean? By the way, the Blues Brothers were made, it was released in 1980, made in 1979. - Right, I was a baby. - You remember '79, right? - I was in the womb. - Yeah, you were. Dan Aykroyd is going to join us on today's show. - That's amazing. - He's a legend. - Donald Trump's nephew, Fred Trump, has a new book out called The Trumps and How They Got This Way. Fred Trump will join us on today's show to talk about his uncle and the book. - That's wild. - Yeah, it's wild. So Fred, the father of the family, had Fred Jr., who was the oldest, and then Donald. So Fred was Donald's older brother, and Fred the second had Fred the third. So Fred the third is on today's show. - Ooh, that's a lot of Fred's. - We got the DNC in Chicago next week. The streets are being shut down, helicopters are flying around, the protesters from the 1968 convention are popping up online, and in the news saying they will absolutely be protesting at the DNC in Chicago next week. - I don't know, I have like a good feeling that it's gonna be fine. - Let me take you all back to 1968, because I think we forgot what happened in '68. - My father-in-law was there. - At the convention? - He was in the National Guard. - Oh my gosh, you're kidding. - No. - Wow. First of all, early in the year in 1968, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson said, "You know what, I'm not gonna run for re-election." - Yeah. - The Vietnam War was going on in 1968. Voting age was 21, but you could be drafted at 18. - Yeah, I would imagine people weren't too happy about that. - They were so upset about that. Then, this is still first quarter of 1968. Then, April hits, Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in April of '68, over a hundred cities across the United States had huge riots. - Yep. - This is going on in the first four months in '68. Then, what happens during the summertime, RFK running for president, huge momentum in the race, then assassinated in June of '68, right after he won the California primary. This all happened before the convention in eight months in 1968. - Whoo, that's a lot. - And then, you have Mayor Daily One, who is an authoritarian, it's his way or the highway, the police clash with protesters, and it just wasn't good. - It's a lot of tension. It's a lot of tension in one year. Like, even you saying it, I feel very serious now. - Man, there was 11,000 officers of the Chicago Police Department on 12-hour shifts. There were 6,000 armed men from the Illinois National Guard called up to guard the International Amphitheater on Halstead, where the DNC was being held. - It was a wild night, it was chaos. - And then, on national television, police clashed with protesters called the Battle of Michigan Avenue in front of the Conrad Hilton. Watch by. - Well, it was back when there's only three channels. - This is going on. - So it's gotta be, but maybe not everyone had a TV. Millions, 10 million, 20 million. - 89 million people tuned in for the convention. - 89 million. - 89 million. - Wow. - For the DNC in Chicago in '68. - I don't think 89 million people will be watching this time. - No, I don't either. But I hope you're right. I hope things are very peaceful and they just get through the DNC next week. - I mean, we survived the last one, what was that? In the '90s, it came back to Chicago. - Was it '80s? - I thought it was the '90s. - It was 1998. - There we go. - Yeah. - That sounds more familiar. - I mean, that's just off the top of my head. I'm just throwing it out there. I think it was 1998. Yeah. Swifties are very happy. The concerts in London happened this week. The teens were arrested for that planned terror attack. How crazy was that? - God bless 'em, 'cause could you imagine how awful it would have been for a Taylor such a concert to be, oh, it was '96. - '96, convention. - To be attacked. - All those people there are having the most happiest, joyous night of their lives. Everyone's in such a good mood when they see Taylor. - But it makes you think, besides bands like Tay Tay and the Rolling Stones, you got Pearl Jam doing stadiums, Metallica and every other band, they have their own security, but they have to work with the FBI. You don't really think about that. So they're getting to cities early and doing recon work and seeing what's going on. - Yeah, and you have to trust them when they say, I really think you should cancel this 'cause it's gonna be a big problem. - Yeah, big, big problem. So everything, Tay Tay, Swifties, everything's okay in the world of Tay Tay. - And I'm sure she'll find a way to come back to Vienna for those people who missed it. - Does it bother you that I call her Tay Tay like we're old friends? - No, I don't care because I'm not a Swiftie. How many times do we have to go through this? - I kind of feel like you were at one point and then you jumped off the bandwagon. Are you sure about that? - Yes, listen, I listened to her last album. Found it kind of boring. - It was a little boring, I agree with you 100%. Why do you have to release so many songs? Just give me five, I'm good with five. - I think her lyrics are solid. I think the melodies are boring. - Boring, yeah, they all sound the same. But she brings joy to millions and I say. - She sure does, yes. We want everybody happy on this show. All right, quick break, coming up next, we're gonna talk to Dewey from Scream, David Arquette, who's joining us. We're already in a giggly mood, you know this is gonna be fun. - He's so fun. - David Arquette will join us next. - More of the Keith McMurry Show next. ♪ Summertime ♪