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February 3, 2023

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A tragic day, but “the Music” continued

The legendary rock ‘n’ roller Buddy Holly headlined a package show in early 1959, known as the Winter Dance Party.

The itinerary was bananas. It covered twenty-four Midwestern cities in twenty-four days—there were no off days.

The tour schedule crisscrossed the upper Midwest with no apparent logic. Overnight jaunts of several hundred miles—all in sub-freezing temperatures—were commonplace.

Holly historian Bill Griggs had this to say about General Artists Corporation (GAC)—the operation which booked the tour:

"They didn’t care. It was like they threw darts at a map… The tour from hell—that’s what they named it—and it’s not a bad name."

On February 2nd, the show in Clear Lake, Iowa ended, and the tour headed about 400 miles northwest from Clear Lake to Morehead, Minnesota.

Holly famously chartered a plane for his band prior to the show. Buddy was concerned with getting some rest and making a head start to take care of some much-needed laundry for him and his tour mates.

Ultimately, only the headliners of the show took the charter.

Waylon Jennings, then playing bass guitar in Holly’s band, said he felt more comfortable riding on the tour bus and voluntarily gave up his seat to J.P. Richardson, the Beaumont, Texas disc jockey and tour co-headliner, known as The Big Bopper.

Richardson felt ill and needed rest.

The Winter Dance Party consisted of several contemporary and would-be stars.

Yet the party ended on February 3, 1959, for the 22-year-old Holly and 28-year-old Big Bopper when the plane went down in a blizzard shortly after takeoff, five miles northwest of Mason City, Iowa.

Also perishing in the infamous crash was 17-year-old Ritchie Valens of “La Bamba” fame.

Yet the tour played on. Sadly, in retrospect.

Future chart-topper Bobby Vee, then but 15-years-old, had Buddy Holly's material down cold. So, the Minnesota child filled in—in place of Holly—on February 3 in Morehead.

Jimmy Clanton, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian ultimately finished the tour in the place of the deceased stars.

Waylon couldn't get to Holly's funeral. GAC wouldn’t let him leave the tour.

To add insult to injury, venue managers regularly threatened non-payment for shows because the original headliners didn't appear. It didn’t matter that they had perished in a tragedy.

After the crash, Jennings continued for two more weeks on the tour with doo-wop stars Dion and the Belmonts amongst others. Lead singer Dion DiMucci is the last original headliner still alive today and is in his early 80s.

Jennings returned to Lubbock, Texas after the tour ended. Holly’s father looked after young Waylon.

In Waylon: An Autobiography, Jennings wrote: “Mr. Holley wanted to promote me, because he said Buddy believed in me, but I had enough sense to know that wouldn’t be right. He bought me clothes and things like Buddy would.”

Waylon returned to the job that got him noticed by Buddy Holly in the first place, as a radio disc jockey. He bounced around west Texas and Arizona as a DJ for the better part of a decade before he reappeared in the public consciousness as a musician once again in the late 1960s.

So, contrary to the schmaltz unleashed by Don McLean in 1971, “music" did not die that day.

It is more than unsettling that American Pie, McLean’s terrible—and entirely too long of a—…

The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 19, 2023

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Pat Buchanan

Archive of Buchanan’s columns

The Tom Woods Show – Ep 2276 The Political Significance of Pat Buchanan

Columnist Pat Buchanan Retiring (via newsmax.com)

Magazine mentioned: The American Conservative (co-founded by Buchanan)

Tom Brady

Brady says goodbye (for good [???])

Broadcaster mentioned: Steve Stone (on Twitter @SteveStone)

Tom Brady to join Fox Sports as lead NFL analyst upon retirement

Tom Brady career stats: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BradTo00.htm

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Our commitment here is to be consistent rather than coming at you every day at the same time. We will be here quite often.

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January 30, 2023

I sat down with NickyP and Lizzie of the Misfit Family Podcast. They interviewed me about my entrepreneurial journey.

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O’Leary on Misfit Family Podcast

Cabbie Seeks Freedom as A Content Creator: Misfit Family 004

Nicky P on The O’Leary Review Podcast

Episode 4 – Revisiting the Matrix

Consistency is the key

Podcasting is a different medium than talk radio.

Daily newsletters are different than a newspaper column.

Our commitment here is to be consistent rather than coming at you every day at the same time. We will be here quite often.

The point being…we’ve embarked on a new mission here and it is to help others launch and/or produce their own podcasts.

At this stage, I’m providing a free 30-minute consultation to see if we can be of any help. What can we do?

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 19, 2023

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Consistency is the key

Podcasting is a different medium than talk radio.

Daily newsletters are different than a newspaper column.

Our commitment here is to be consistent rather than coming at you every day at the same time. We will be here quite often.

The point being…we’ve embarked on a new mission here and it is to help others launch and/or produce their own podcasts.

At this stage, I’m providing a free 30-minute consultation to see if we can be of any help. What can we do?

Contact me and see if I can help: My Calendly

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 17, 2023

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They hate you for your gas stove. They hate that Tom Brady is still a great quarterback at age 45.

Thus it is reasonable to be a fan of cooking on a natural gas range and a fan of Tom Brady.

I could be speaking for any number of Americans: They hate me and want to snuff out all joy in my life, but cooking over a flame with a decent lick and watching Tom Brady play ball help me win. I derive joy from these simple things.

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 13, 2023

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District Attorneys mentioned:

Jim Garrison

Harry Connick, Sr.

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January 9, 2023

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Week 18 Games Mentioned:

Lions 20 – Packers 16

Texans 32 – Colts 31

49ers 38 – Cardinals 13

Dolphins 11 – Jets 6

Steelers 28 – Browns 14

Falcons 30 – Buccaneers 17

FKA Redskins 26 – Cowboys 6

Seahawks 19 – Rams 16

NFL Final Regular Season Standings

https://www.nfl.com/standings/

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Hamlin update

Bills’ Damar Hamlin back in Buffalo to continue recovery

Magnesium supplements

CALM (Natural Vitality) https://www.naturalvitality.com/

I use the powder (raspberry-lemon flavor)

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 6, 2023

Happy Jan 6th … If you celebrate

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Tweet mentioned:

“Stormin’ Norman” – the late Norm Macdonald (original Tweet is now reportedly lost, but some great archivists took the time to document it while it was up).

“I loved when the violent terrorists made sure to respect the velvet ropes in Statuary Hall.”

https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1611325061440602113

The story of Damar Hamlin and his recovery

Links via, ESPN … take them for what they are worth…Damar Hamlin begins to awaken, moving hands and feet, doctors say

Uncle says Damar Hamlin still ‘fighting,’ family grateful for support

Today: Damar Hamlin has breathing tube removed, FaceTimes with Bills

As a result, the NFL has to scramble to save face and: NFL approves plan for possible neutral-site AFC title game

Why do I say take these stories from ESPN “for what they are worth?”

ESPN is compromised on many fronts. As I Tweeted earlier this week:

“Moral hazard for ESPN if either likely scenarios are true.

They’ll never admit that football is a gladiatorial pursuit w/ obvious known risks that most players, coaches, fans & media choose to ignore.

If he “shook a clot,” there’s no way they could square the circle on that one”

https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1610127880851460099?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q

Other football related story mentioned:

Reports: Ex-NFL star Peyton Hillis in ICU after swim rescue

Podcast mentioned: TSOL After Hours

Tom Woods School of Life After Hours: The Facilitators talk about Collaboration

https://youtu.be/iKQd05Ewdmc

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Guest mentioned: Barbara Williams

Episode 15 – The O’Leary Review Podcast

https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/barbara-williams-coaching-for-impact#details

Guest mentioned: Jeremy Evans

Episode 2 – The O’Leary Review Podcast…

The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 5, 2023

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The story of Damar Hamlin and his recovery

Links via, ESPN … take them for what they are worth…Damar Hamlin begins to awaken, moving hands and feet, doctors say

Uncle says Damar Hamlin still ‘fighting,’ family grateful for support

Why do I say take these stories from ESPN “for what they are worth?”

ESPN is compromised on many fronts. As I Tweeted earlier this week:

“Moral hazard for ESPN if either likely scenarios are true.

They’ll never admit that football is a gladiatorial pursuit w/ obvious known risks that most players, coaches, fans & media choose to ignore.

If he “shook a clot,” there’s no way they could square the circle on that one”

https://twitter.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1610127880851460099?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q

A Substack I subscribe to, written by Steve Kirsch, continues to put out informative material on this front.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile

The Death of Journalism Podcast

Episode 21: Mr. Speaker?

W/ host John Ziegler

https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1611079760846917632

Joe Biden

This is your president, folks…

"I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do."

https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1610703648400572418

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Guest mentioned: Sean Kennedy

Ep 7 – The O’Leary Review Podcast

Better Entrepreneurial Action Network — beaction.net

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The Brian D. O’Leary Show

January 3, 2023

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Update (moments before I hit publish):

Horribly sad, if true.

“There is a lot of speculation on the Internet about whether or not Damar Hamlin will recover from his injury.

I am very sad to report that this is unlikely.

While I very much hope that I am wrong about this, the evidence that is known is not favorable.”

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-most-likely-scenario-is-that

I link to another Steve Kirsch article later…

What happened last night on Monday Night Football?

In broad strokes, we know what happened: a young ballplayer, Damar Hamlin, went into cardiac arrest during the course of play.

But the reaction to this terrible event has been all over the board with virtue-signaling from all sides without a concern for the truth.

There has been no legitimate reporting on the event from the news or sports media. Anything we’re finding out is because of independent media. I am not sure what all of this means, but I have some thoughts…

In this podcast, I analyze last night's events and it only runs about 30 minutes. But if you want to get a bird’s eye view of what I’m talking about, the rest of these show notes should suffice.

The talking heads on ESPN were stuck with talking about an event that nobody can really prepare for. Instead of rising to the occasion, the hours of coverage—until they strangely cut to an axe-throwing competition after the Bills-Bengals game was ultimately postponed for the night—were full of fluff and talking for talk’s sake.

We learned very little about what happened to Damar Hamlin other than he received CPR and went to the hospital and remained in stable but critical condition.

Here’s the play:

https://youtu.be/r1Z9Vd53yhI

The folks on ESPN emoted and talked. We learned nothing other than certain people lack composure on air when push comes to shove.

Ironically, an article that came my way earlier today praised the efforts of the entire ESPN team and its coverage, going so far as to call it a “masterclass” and that “we’ll be teaching their coverage of Monday night’s story in journalism school for decades.” This is from a supposedly credible writer.

He went on. “There was no speculation. No rumors. No reporting of what was being speculated on Twitter. Just honest conversations, straight reporting, real human emotion.”

In case you’d like to know more about these factual but feckless statements, I analyze the situation in more detail on the podcast.

One thing we didn’t mention was Skip Bayless’s reaction to all of this. In the first place, Skip is a world class jerk and he doesn’t help himself when he tries to Tweet or talk himself out of the various predicaments he caused by his own words.

Jason Whitlock Tweeted what are essentially my sentiments about Bayless in this situation:

“It’s all so phony. All of it. The outrage toward Skip and this reaction by Skip. It’s all performance. Sad and embarrassing.”

https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1610288252925222912?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q

The problem in all this coverage is that nobody was even the least bit willing to put on the mere façade of being a journalist.

As I saw it from the beginning, ESPN was in no position…