Fight or Die

Hey everyone, a new show will premiere on Thursday night called Fight or Die on Discovery and Discovery HD at 9PM CST. A good friend of the show, Damon O’Steen, worked on this project and got intouch with me about it yesterday. You may remember we had Damon on The Chad Hasty Show a while back about his movie 29 Reasons to Run which premiered in Lubbock.

On Thursday morning  at 7:35am Kelly McPherson, the show’s writer and one the Executive Producers will join us to discuss the new show. I encourage all of you to check out the trailer for the show HERE.

There are some Texas connections to the show and it looks very good so let’s be sure to support them.

More info below:

From Executive Producer Randall Wallace (BRAVEHEART, PEARL HARBOR, WE WERE SOLDIERS, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK), comes FiGHT OR DIE, an exciting new epic documentary special that captures the personal experience of war in groundbreaking fashion by delving inside the psyche of the soldier under fire, allowing viewers to walk the Thin Red Line that separates sanity from madness and the living from the dead.

Harrowing personal accounts of battle are seamlessly blended with cinematic dramatizations, digitally remastered combat footage, and a bullet-ridden soundscape to present one of the most riveting, emotional, and realistic portrayals of war ever produced for television. ‘We all have the capacity for depths of courage, compassion and even cruelty that we can’t imagine when sitting in safety and comfort,” said Wallace. “FIGHT OR DIE explores these extremes of human character made apparent in the cauldron of conflict.’

The first episode tells the real-life story of a group of American soldiers whose lives were made famous in Wallace’s motion picture WE WERE SOLDIERS starring Mel Gibson. On November 14, 1965 in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray, 2,000 enemy soldiers surrounded 400 United States Army troopers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. FIGHT OR DIE is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.

Tim Russert Dead

NBC News as well as other media outlets have just announced that Tim Russert of NBC News collapsed and died today at NBC’s Washington bureau. Russert was just 58 years old. I was a big fan of Russert and his style especially during this election year. He will be missed. More from the NY Post HERE. He was one of those who inspired me to always go after all sides. He was a giant in politics…very sad.

From the NY Times Blog: LINK

Declining Church Membership = Decline In Faith or Religion?

On tomorrow’s LFN in the 8am hour we will continue our discussion on today’s USA Today article on membership declines in the Southern Baptist Church. Tomorrow though we want to know if you think someone can be Religious without attending a Church. Does a decline in attendance mean that people in the U.S. are abandoning Religion OR are they just staying away from Churches and organized religion. What do you think?

Rex Andrew Flashback

This may be the last night I can hold this against my morning show co-host…so here we go:

Delegate Math

Someone is wrong right now. As of 5:20 CST, FOX NEWS has declared Senator Barack Obama has clinched the nomination, and has 2123 delegates. However, CNN has Obama needing 12 more delegates while MSNBC claims he needs 13. How can they not all be on the same page?

IT’S OVER

Hillary Clinton will concede tonight according to the AP. Here’s the LINK.

On today’s LFN a listener brought up a name that I believe would look good as Obama’s VP…Gen. Wesley Clark.

I’ll have more of my thoughts later today and into this evening.

***SUPER UPDATE: OBAMA CLINCHES (LINK)***

Huffington Post: IT’S OVER

According to this story (LINK), Hillary Clinton is calling upon donors and her backers for Tuesday’s speech in New York City. Why? Well it looks as though Clinton is realizing that she has no hope of getting the nomination and she will endorse Barack Obama either tomorrow or within the next few days.

The big question now is will she be Obama’s pick for VP? I still don’t believe that he will ask, nor would she accept. Obama doesn’t need a VP that would overshadow him and Hillary would in many places. So dems…who should Barack Obama pick as his VP?