business and secondly, how do i wind up with a career like yours, a long one? you know, i always tell everybody start with, be sure that you love it be sure that you do love it enough to put up with the sacrifices and the aggravation and stuff you have to go through. the rejection and everything you have to go through to be a professional musician. if you want to get to another level. and it s. steve: you went through rejection? oh, yeah. you get a lookout of rejection. you have songs people don t like and have records that record companies are not going to like. you are going to do things that people don t like. then that there is that one thing do you people do like that makes it all worthwhile. brian: can you talk about that turning point when things changed for you. the first time i had a hit record in 1973 uneasy rider. spoken word sort of thing. it was a hit record. it was a hit record country and pop. but it was not a career builder because it s a novelty song it would i
looks like we re all winning this weekend. you re going down dad! navy federal credit union open to the armed forces, the dod, veterans, and their families. all the good people in tennessee bare foot carry gather around. steve: charlie daniels reading brian s brand new book comes out today. charlie has a brand new book that comes out today as well. ainsley: guess who is reading that one? brian. can we get a shot? steve: i think charlie wants more pictures in your book. brian: i have got to get a close up. this is unbelievable book. ainsley: is he losing the cover. brian: is he defiling it. brian: is all this stuff true? steve: absolutely. jillian has headlines.
16-year-old aaron dunfee. steve: and she joins us live in the studio. ainsley: i thought we were going to a sound bite. hey, erin, good to see you here. you had an american flag you were flying in your front yard. as a result you go to get the mail and what did you find. i found a really horrible racist demonstration basically depicting a african-american man holding knife to the throat of a white man how do you like your nullity cultural u.s.a. now? brian: what was your reaction. i was appalled because it was nothing i ever saw happening in my town. steve: did you think in the beginning something somebody just put in our mailbox. it seemed like maybe it was bigger than that and i was really i was curious so i posted it on social media the picture of the mail received and a couple friends within like 10 minutes sent me pictures of the one ofs they had gotten. steve: so hundreds were put in hundreds of mailboxes? yes.
ago. look, we all live this is not a critique particularly of npr or any particular institution. we all live in a bubble. our bubbles have become increasingly narrow and who he emergency news. we owe it to ourself to break out of our bubble and reestablish the bonds of affection that we can talk about the 150 years ago. brian: fascinating journey. ken stern, so now you are an independent. they have to win you over. that s right. every election is new referendum on ken stern. steve: the book is fascinating. it is called republican like me. ken, thank you very much. ainsley: thank you, ken. thank you so much. ainsley: residents targeted and threatened for flying the american flag on their front lawns. brian: my brand new book out today andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans. you will get an inside look straight ahead. steve: but, first, happy birthday to corey robertson
can we cut through it? can we scale over it? what happened? people are crossing. almost on cue a group of asylum seerks my grants not from mexico jumped over existing fence to turn themselves over to agents on. people jumped over in the middle of the day. girl in pink backpack. can you describe what s going on. this is everyday reality of border enforcement. united states is still the ultimate draw for people that have dire situations where they are at. we are going to continue to witness. this it plays out on a regular basis for us. and it did just here just now. just now, yeah. brian: turns out might need that wall. how about a better wall? ainsley: how about if you are going to jump the wall, which you shouldn t do. don t do it when national cameras are filming you. steve: msnbc accidentally showed why a wall is needed. ainsley: exactly. steve: way to go. brian: i m surprised they still aired it. steve: it was live. jillian: i know. props to them. good job. we do have br