Damn... The only one worth listening to is 45 lol.
I don’t listen to any of their words. Its a human voice, its clear, all I need to know. Many are not always political speeches, some are for a event cause they were paid to speak about, with a drip of politics. Ask me 5 min after what they said <shrug> I dunno, don’t care, pay me my money.
I can’t listen to talking head content. 50 words in my eyes automatically want to sleep. We rarely listen to content, we’d all be slicing our wrist.
SS is the PITA, but way more interesting. Good peeps, but extremely serious. We get to watch the practice runs of the 3 marine heles and ospreys for a sitting pres..
With Ford in 92-ish I played the SS for giggles to see if anything would happen. Mistake. Evidently my balls are bigger than my brain. They all sat in a hall by restroom. So I walked by them to go there and all I did was look straight ahead and shift my eyes one side to the other on purpose, ONCE. By the time I got to a urinal, two took their place on each side of me and one took the stall behind me. Pretty sure he had the uzi out. I didn’t play that game again. And I was working the speech with clearance. No one is going to pull ANYTHING over on them. Nothing is funny.
Ya can’t work these without SS bkg checks every time. I’ve had WH clearance for speeches since 91. Back then they even gave us a certificate to frame for the wall. Not anymore.
I’ve had certified active shooter training which includes spotting possible bombs, and planning exit routes. I’m not against guns, I’m against idiots with guns. Used to have 11. Shot guns since 10yrs old. Was an avid deer hunter. I qualify easily.
45 blew it for himself when he first started. Kept touching the mics and caused feedback and handling noise, which of course he blamed the sound engineer and said on open mic “don’t pay the sound guy”, its on YT video.
Well now, Mr, Idiot. IATSE is union. Say you were burning one of us and not paying? When the union assigns us, every one of us declined, except one. That was their first pres. and wanted it on their resume. Green horn fool.
This stuff means pretty much zero to a vet engineer with a full resume inside the biz, its only interesting to those outside the biz. I’m just digging ending my career on high notes.
I never liked 43s politics, Tumor and I went round and round back then. but 43’s a genuine nice guy with his heart in the right place. He’s been humbled. They all different out of office. All but one are really good people. We’re all humans trying to make our mark in the world and history. I’m no better than you or anyone else. We all just have diff POV in life.
I’m just Opie from a small country town like Mayberry, I’m still baffled how I ended up in show biz, it should not have happened. I was broke during the 80s recession and was offered work to move gear. It exploded from there totally unexpected. I didn’t attend after show parties, I went fishing on our property in farm land to wash down the plastic environment down the drain in silence.
Chicago Tribune did a full page story on my career, I still don’t understand why. Good story there about Rosa Parks sitting with me at the console while I mixed monitors for Aretha show. IF you know my real name you’ll find it. Worst pic I ever took, lol.
When I went to the bar, yrs ago, town cops would escort me home and beep when i pulled in the drive. What a weird life I don’t belong in. I’m just a dude with a weird job.
