WHY TALK ABOUT LBJ TODAY?
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | All right, we've got Simon on the line. |
| 0:09.0 | Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they? |
| 0:13.0 | What are you fucking? |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to McDonald's. |
| 0:15.0 | Have to get the six minutes, please. |
| 0:17.0 | Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year. |
| 0:23.6 | How's your night? |
| 0:24.6 | Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush. |
| 0:29.6 | Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's. |
| 0:47.1 | According to Robert Cairo's book, Johnson would call AIDS into the bathroom while he was taking a shower and continue to talk without pause. |
| 0:50.4 | The water would be running, steam filling the room. |
| 0:54.2 | You were standing there. You were trying not to look anywhere, |
| 0:56.4 | trying not to concentrate on what he was saying. |
| 0:59.5 | He knew exactly what he was doing as he talked to you from the shower. |
| 1:06.8 | And Johnson would be shouting questions through the shower curtain, |
| 1:12.4 | demanding answers immediately. |
| 1:24.1 | Now, we don't know which aid that Robert Cairo's talking about, but it's probably Bill Moyers, |
| 1:31.3 | Jack Valenti, George Reedy. While we're on the subject of the shower, a lot of people have printed out an interesting detail in Robert Carroll's book, Passage of Power. |
| 1:36.9 | I hope we get another book, by the way. I really do. But Carrow has talked a little bit about |
| 1:43.5 | Johnson as president, just for like one year, his first year as president, in passage of power. |
| 1:49.1 | And one of the things he talks about is how he just made the White House plumber Reds Errington, his name because of his bright red hair, his life, a living hell because of his request for extreme |
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