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Two astronauts are stranded on the International Space Station and no one has been able to reach them since 9/11. Biden rejected Elon Musk's offer to bring them home. Glenn explains why and why not. Also, Sean Gleason from the Professional Bull Riders Association is here to talk about the World Finals of the Rodeo and Kid Rock.
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So yesterday, in a press conference from space, we got confirmation that Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's bid to rescue the marooned astronauts on the ISS.
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And it is such a stark difference to what Trump has already been able to accomplish.
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And I show you what the difference is and what it all means.
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And Yellowstone is part of the change, in a way.
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Also, Sean Gleason from the Professional Bull Riders Association is here to talk about the world finals of the rodeo that's coming up.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Well, you know, in looking at the news today, I am overwhelmed by the weight of abandonment
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that has been hanging over America for the last four years.
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And next hour, I'm going to talk to you about it.
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This is an end of an era and the beginning of a new one, and I'll explain.
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But there is a shadow that was cast by Joe Biden that we all started to feel was inevitable.
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It was a presidency that turned its back on those it swore to protect.
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And the evidence is a little overwhelming, undeniable.
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Yesterday, one of the astronauts that has been marooned.
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They were marooned on the International Space Station.
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What he said yesterday, this astronaut, is basically this.
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Joe Biden rejected Elon Musk's offer to bring him and his marooned astronauts home.
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Not for strategy, not for principle, but for petty politics.
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The chance that it might make Donald Trump look really, really good and him bad.
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Symbols of a nation that once reached for the stars, now just content to let him drift in space.
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But this, unfortunately, wasn't an isolated failure.
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And because of the Taliban, because it's going to change now.
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But because of the State Department and Biden, we've never been able to get them out.
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We left interpreters, allies, families who risk everything to aid our troop.
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And yet we let the terrorists come across our border.
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The Biden administration, they abandoned people and left them to the mercy of the Taliban.
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And that week was one of the darkest weeks in my history of being an American, of living here and seeing it and going, that's not us.
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And then we just left a whole bunch of people to go into either a re-education camp or face a death squad.
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You know who sent in the planes and brave men and women to go in behind enemy lines and rescue them?
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History has taught the world over and over again the cost of deserting people.
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And yet Biden repeated it over and over again, ignoring the pleas of those who trusted us or who carried a blue passport.
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Abbey Gate, 13 Americans, service members, four America, died in that suicide bombing during that same week.
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He never even acknowledged the sacrifice in his public tallies of the war's toll.
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Their names faded into silenced, unavenged, unrecognized, unremembered by a White House too busy scrambling around to save face.
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After Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel, guess what?
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Americans were left stranded, scrambling for evacuation as the State Department faltered.
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The tales from Mercury One of the people that went in to help save and rescue Americans is just phenomenal.
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2024, U.S. citizens, thousands of them trapped.
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No real rescue mounted by the U.S. State Department or our government.
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Let's look at the abandonment of East Palestine or Palestine.
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You remember when the train spewed all of that gas into the air and yet Biden never came there.
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He never rallied his administration to cut through the red tape to stop the suffocation of that small town in Ohio.
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North Carolina drowned under Hurricane Helene's wrath just last September.
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Leaving communities and families and people, individuals, trapped on mountaintops or to claw their way out of the mud.
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Yet again, you showed up to do the right thing and you did it not for glory, not for fame, not for politics, not for headlines.
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But because it was the right thing to do, the American thing to do.
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A consistent refusal to prioritize the vulnerable, the forgotten, the American.
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Trump announced that he was captured and brought to U.S. soil two days ago.
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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz revealed Trump's team went, got him, and extracted a confession before even landing in Dulles.
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Delivering accountability when Biden offered none.
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The Gold Star families, one of whom cried out in anguish during the 2024 State of the Union.
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He had that guy removed who was just crying out and saying, justice, say my son's name.
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Well, this week they finally saw their pain recognized.
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Yesterday, he made his position on the hostages in Israel super clear.
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Quote, not a single Hamas member will be safe until you release every hostage.
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And yet, just in the first six weeks of this guy's term, Donald Trump personally secured 11 total confirmed hostages.
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These were poor Americans being held in some of the most, just most hostile, nasty areas of the world.
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None of these were grand gestures for applause.
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They were just smart and decent moves to bring Americans home.
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What the hell is your passport or you being an American worth?
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Biden's tenure saw a thousand Afghans with special immigrant visas left behind.
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Per the State Department's estimate, alongside with hundreds of Americans unrescued from the conflict zones,
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like Israel and Haiti, Trump's first term by comparison, he's freed over a dozen high profile detainees.
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Americans like Joshua Holt from Venezuela, the pastor, Andrew Brunson from Turkey, the same year.
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Relentless negotiation, relentless pursuit of what is true and right.
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Trump leaned in, Trump leaned in, often personally leaning in, like when he met with Kim Jong-un in 2018.
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He secured the release of three American hostages from North Korea.
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I'm a little soupy today because honor is coming back.
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This is about a covenant between a government and its people that are rooted in ethics and responsibility.
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It's about a duty, a covenant between a government and its people.
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Franklin Roosevelt, when he launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, he knew that covenant that we made.
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He ordered rescue missions deep into enemy territory.
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When Jimmy Carter fumbled the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, he at least tried.
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Not just of what he did, but he shamed us for being somebody who believed in these ethics in the American way, in the American responsibility.
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Not because America lacked the power or the willpower.
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He left us a legacy of shame because he lacked the will.
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We watched as our own were left to fend for themselves as their lives were like bargaining chips that were just too costly to play.
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Man, it feels good to be able to say that that era ends now.
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The capture of the killer at Abbey Gate, it's not just a win for justice.
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We are not going to leave our citizens, our people behind.
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And if you kill any of our people, we will hunt you down and justice will be served.
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The citizens that have been stranded in countries all over the world.
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The American towns and citizens that were ignored.
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This is about a people waking up, remembering that strength lies in protecting the least among us.
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And if you don't get it yet, let me just tell you.
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Let me say the unspoken truth that so many haven't grasped yet.
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It was a belief that America's role was now to retreat, to manage decline.
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He saw our reach as an overextension, our rescues as a liability.
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Trump, no matter what you think of him, sees very differently.
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Every American left behind is a wound to our soul.
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That's why he's vowed to rebuild whatever was neglected.
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A concept that America under Biden and the last 20 years has just been left to atrophy.
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But let me tell you right now, the era of shame is over.
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We're recommitting to the hard work of being a nation that actually stands by its own.
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From the astronauts above to the families below, from Kabul to Ohio, a promise is being rewritten again.
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That's the America that I've always believed in.
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There is no doubt that these first couple of months of the Trump presidency has largely been a relief, but we are clawing back four years of the Biden legacy, and that's going to take a while.
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It is going to get worse before it gets better.
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My eyes opened up to some things, and I don't know...
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I don't know exactly why, but some things really came clear to me yesterday.
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We think that that is what's driving, but it's not.
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And it's all wrapped up in the collective denial of what is true and real.
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Have you noticed that the cowboy, the rugged West, is making a comeback?
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And it's coming at the same time our politics are changing.
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The TV Yellowstone, or Taylor Sheraton and all of his many 800 shows that seem to be on television.
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It's not Kevin Costner on TV grumbling about the land and the legacy.
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In some ways, it's that jagged spine of the Grand Tetons.
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It's the open sweep of the grass that rolls out like God himself just unrolled it and was like, how far can that go?
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That's something that people all over the country have never actually seen themselves.
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But yet they have that thumping or humming in their chest.
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And it's something that has been in every American for a very long time.
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And it has been waiting for us to listen to it.
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You know, the press, mainstream media, they couldn't figure out Yellowstone at all.
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They just want that train station to actually exist.
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It wasn't the vigilante stuff that attracted us to Yellowstone.
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The bodies dumped in the dark to settle scores or how Beth acted or what she said.
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What got underneath our skin was that there was justice to it.
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Not vigilante, not perfect, not polished, but there was justice.
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A line, somebody was drawing a line in the sand, a common sense line that said,
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you know what, some things matter too much to let slide.
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It was a way of life that's worth planting your feet for.
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The whole show is about the Duttons losing the ranch.
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Or is it about fighting for something that cannot be left behind?
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Was it the Dutton Ranch or was it the American way?
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And not something on a bumper sticker or slogan, but a heartbeat.
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I don't care if you're kicking dust in Wyoming or you're kicking a coffee cup in the streets of New York.
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Those represent this, I guess, because it's the cowboy.
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A promise you don't break because your word is the only thing you own.
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And not just for yourself, but for your family, for your land.
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The things that you have been told for the last 20 years.
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It's righting wrongs when the law is too slow or too blind to see what's what.
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I don't have anything against you, but I'm going my own way.
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I'm going to do what others swear that just can't be done.
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Not as long as you have faith in God and the grit of an American, then nothing's too big.
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Whether you, I mean, I'm not somebody that would have crossed the Rockies in a creaking wagon.
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Strangely, I am kind of the guy that wouldn't mind being strapped to a rocket and shot up just to stab this red planet of red dust million miles away or however far it is with a flag.
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It's why the rest of the world never understands us.
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And yet, when we live up to those ideals, when we live up to what this land and God created with us, when we live up to who we really are, the world loves us.
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The mountains, the plains, the rivers that cut through stone, they're not just pretty.
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And when you answer, it's not about proving something to anybody else.
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Because that's what the soul of this country is asking for.
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No other country, no other people can feel it like we do.
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That's why I go to the mountains every chance I can get.
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Not to escape, but to remember to breathe the air that is sharp and clean, cold in the morning, hot during the day.
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Yellowstone was not big on TV because it was a show.
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And everybody else looked at the fun house part.
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That's what we felt, what we let slip through our fingers.
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Because we were too busy chasing other things or listening to other people convince us of lies.
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We're wrapping ourselves in denim that's not afraid to touch grass.
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And not because it's trendy, but because it's true.
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But the land, our way of life, our DNA is calling us back.
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And it comes again under the brim of a cowboy hat.
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But the guy who's, the one who seems to be doing it all, he would look ridiculous in a cowboy hat.
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He's a big city real estate broker from New York City that likely has never gone anywhere on horseback or climbed a mountain.
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His whole life is about doing something no one thought could be done.
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He didn't climb mountains or conquer the West in the traditional way.
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Instead, out of concrete and steel, he built mountains that tear at that American sky.
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He conquered what we all thought was, you can't conquer that.
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Mainstream media, he broke the back of that horse.
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And he is riding it, sitting tall in his saddle.
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And he's also making it very clear to all the outlaws of the world.
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And I can guarantee you'll go, yes, sir, when you hear this.
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He's making it very clear, this man from New York City.
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For Americans, it's the same kind of call, but to something different.
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It's a strange shadow of a horse and a rider against a sunset that bleeds red and gold.
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It's the creak of leather, the weight of a rifle in your hands when the world turns mean.
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It's the quiet of a night, so quiet you can hear your own thoughts.
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It's the roar of a river that reminds you some things just can't be tamed.
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It's the spirit that put us here in the first place.
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The part of us that says, I'll stand for what's right.
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From the first people that crossed the oceans to the ones who broke the trails through the mountains,
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The dreamers who looked up to the sky and said, I'll go to the moon.
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Knowing that there are some things that are just bigger than you.
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Yellowstone is, again, a mirror of us waking up.
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The photos of the peaks and the plains and the horses, they're not just pictures.
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It's the snap of the sound of that snap of a flag in the wind.
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You'll hear it in the stories we tell, the songs we sing.
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The way we look at the world and go, why can't people do it?
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We are truly going to see the rebirth of a nation.
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Not in the boardrooms or the ballots, but first and foremost, in the dirt, in the sky, in the soul.
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It's about a cowboy, an American cowboy coming home.
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Because finally, finally, he remembered where he belongs.
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Because no matter what the popular culture tells us, this is really who we are.
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The sun just dipped down low and the shadows were stretching long.
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But thank God America heard it whispering again.
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The PBR is a professional bull riders association.
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And I have to tell you, if you have never been to a rodeo, I went to the Coliseum probably 10 years ago when I first moved to Dallas-Fort Worth.
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And I go to the Coliseum and I'm with people from New York.
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And they're the kind that got off the plane and saw Dallas and went, where are all the cows?
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And as soon as the kids got on the back of the sheep, they immediately began looking for attorneys.
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But everywhere else in the country, that happens.
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We had the Kid Rocks Rock and Rodeo that we added and paired with the PBR World Finals.
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We not only brought in Kid Rock to help redefine the entertainment experience, but we turned
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rodeo into a team sport and head-to-head competition.
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I have to tell you, there is, I was with, last summer, the summer before, I think, I was
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And he was like, you know, they pick up, you know, the big stumps and they throw them, you
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And he said beforehand, he's like, this is ridiculous.
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This guy was, you know, in their special, the highest level of their special forces.
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The gate opened and the first 10 seconds went by and he looked at me and he said, why haven't
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And I mean, you think about it and at one point in time, rodeo was the only sport in America.
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And it's amazing to me after 26 years of travel in this country, just how far removed
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people in urban environments are from one of this important pieces of history and heritage
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in our country, the sport of rodeo, Western sports, Western lifestyle.
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And so I've had the good fortune to travel this country back and forth from Madison Square
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Garden to LA and teach people a little bit about it.
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So do you guys go into Los Angeles and those areas?
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We sold out three nights at Madison Square Garden in January, just a couple months ago.
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And I'm like, well, if you go to New York City, Friday night's a bunch of suits that come
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Saturday is women between the ages of, you know, 25 and 40 that are looking at cowboys
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And then Sunday's a bunch of families where people bring their kids.
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And it's just an amazing experience to bring some of those values back to urban places like
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New York that haven't seen it in a long, long time.
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We did a story on something where there's some kids were, you know, a mom is what it was.
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A mom was arrested for letting her kid go across the street from his house at eight
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And the cops came to her and arrested her for child neglect.
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And I read a story and this is how much we have changed.
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And this is, I really think this is the spirit of the rodeo.
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Um, when you're responsible and you understand your kids and you understand, you know, what
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There were these two kids in, uh, California that wanted to meet Teddy Roosevelt.
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These two kids, eight and 10 told their parents they wanted to go meet him.
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It took them three months to get to Washington DC.
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But by the time they got there, there were so many press reports about these two kids
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that just wanted to go see the president that they actually met Teddy Roosevelt and went
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You know, it's just, it's just so different now.
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I mean, you know, some people would like us all to wear bubble suits.
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I guess we put, we put, you know, 150 pound cowboys on the backs of bulls and, uh, and
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And some people have criticized that and said, we shouldn't allow that.
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But it also is, I mean, it's not, it's not a sport that is just played for sport.
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You know, when you see the cowboys go out and they rope the cattle, uh, that, that, that
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is a skill they use every day, you know, and the combination of those horses.
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I mean, I know why they cost millions of dollars, the way those horses anticipate, uh, and, and
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I mean, cowboys fed America for a long, long time.
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And that's where it was born out here in the West.
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And, you know, they had to, uh, it was the greatest cultural melting pot too, if you think
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about it, because it was freed, freed blacks from the East.
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It was, um, Irish immigrants that couldn't find work.
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They hooked up with native Americans and the Mexican vaqueros and they created the cowboy
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They lived on the trail and they drove those cattle back and forth and, and fed the East coast.
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And it's one of the, the great stories of cultural diversity and hard work, honesty, integrity,
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People don't, people have no idea who Bill Pickett is anymore, but he was a black man.
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He was probably one of the most famous black men in the 1920s in all of America.
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Uh, and the things that he would do, um, what did he call bulldogging?
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And he, uh, you tell me if this is true or not.
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I think it is that he, he was a, he was a rancher and just tough as nails and also a
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And, uh, he said that he saw his dog grab the bull, jump up, grab the bull by the lower
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And you know, we have, he actually would get onto the ball.
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He would jump off his horse, grab the bull with his mouth on the lower lip of the bull
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And, uh, a few years back, we put the very first black rodeo on national television on
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CBS had huge ratings and, uh, have supported those guys ever since.
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And, uh, we have now an event in Cowtown two weeks ago, sold out Cowtown for Bill Pickett
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I heard that I was talking to the guy who's running Cowtown now and that is the arena in,
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Bill Pickett occasionally when, uh, their tour permits.
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And, uh, PBR actually partnered with the Stockyards Heritage Group.
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We actually run that building and facilitate all those events now.
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I was living in New York and I was on CNN, uh, to my shame, but I was on CNN and, uh,
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I used to say all the time, look, I don't know what I'm doing.
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Uh, you know, I'm a rodeo clown and in trying to tell you the news.
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And then I got a, a letter from the president of the rodeo clown association.
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And he said, do you have any idea what rodeo clowns do?
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And I, you know, I hadn't been to a rodeo in, since I was a kid.
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And I don't think as a kid, you can fully appreciate what those guys do.
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I I've never said that about myself ever again.
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Uh, not often killed because they're pretty damn good at what they do.
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But you know, we, uh, no disrespect to the rodeo clowns organization, but we, we took
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them, we took them out of the clown outfit and we put them into uniforms.
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And one of the reasons we did that is because they're the best athletes on the field.
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They face every bowl, every, uh, protect every cowboy on every single out.
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And they're on that dirt for every single one of the outs.
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And the, but the thing I'm most proud of is they wear the U S border patrol uniform because
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So let me ask you, uh, the, you're using the Coliseum in, in Fort Worth, uh, coming up.
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And you're using the cow town Coliseum, which is a new venue.
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And I won't mention the old venue because I don't even know if this is true, but I hear
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the old venue wouldn't allow the United States border patrol to come in with guns.
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You wanted to honor them and they wanted to come in with guns and they said, we can't
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So you're not, you're, you've moved it to a much smaller venue.
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Well, we also took the final state TNT stadium, which is the largest venue on the planet.
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So we have both the smallest and the largest venue, but yeah, it's actually, you took it
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And one was in Charlotte, North Carolina, where, uh, the building basically said the
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U S border patrol couldn't come in with their sidearms.
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They wanted them to surrender them to a guy in a shack at the back of the building in order
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And that was the color guard from the U S border patrol.
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Have you, have you checked on, I think it's illegal, right?
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You have a badge and you are a law enforcement.
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Well, they're federal law enforcement officers.
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And so that's, that's what bugs me is the disrespect that was given to the U S border
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patrol with them, not recognizing that they could disarm the local Charlotte or, or Fort
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worth police officers who has, what is making $8 an hour that they could arrest them for
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and, and charge them with obstruction of justice.
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I mean, or a failure to allow a federal officer to do their job, a, a, a, any policeman with
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a badge, any, you know, current law enforcement and on the federal level, you can't, it's
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And I thought we had ended that in Charlotte six or seven, eight years ago, and we haven't
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And I ran into it in another building in Fort worth.
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I don't, uh, most of the time it's, you know, it's a building policy.
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And they're, they're in place to, to protect the patients that are there.
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It's a, it's a federal agent, but not the federal agents.
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And especially not my, my heroes at the U S border patrol.
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It's just don't disrespect the federal officers.
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And one of the things that I think we wanted to accomplish with it is rodeo has become the
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So if you go to Houston, nothing against Houston, but it's 21 days of concerts that
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are preceded by a rodeo and people have become accustomed to showing up a little late, not
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really hanging out for the whole rodeo because they're waiting for, they're waiting for whatever
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artists is, is coming up at the, in the evening show.
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And we've never at the PBR, I've never allowed, uh, the PBR to be an opening act for anybody.
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Because when I, he and I sat and envisioned this whole plan, I said, we have to change
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the paradigm on how entertainment is delivered to the fans.
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And we've integrated his performance pre, during, and post.
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I tell you, every time I've seen these places do like 4th of July events and it was all about
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And then over years, the act had to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
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People were coming for the concert and they really didn't care about the patriotism and
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the message of the day and erected or the sport, you know, the sport itself and our athletes
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go through too much and are, um, too committed to being professionals to allow them to be overshadowed
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by the music act or another form of entertainment, sort of like the Kamala Harris rallies from
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She's throwing Beyonce on the stage and they all leave.
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Uh, but I will tell you, Rody, if you've never been to one, you've got to go.
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And I will tell you, kid, I said this to kid yesterday and he's like, right.
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I said, the sexiest women on the planet are the women who are on the horse with the flag
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at the beginning of the rodeo that ride around the ring with a flag.
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There is something about that that is just back carrying, carrying the red, white, and
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And they usually have on shiny outfits with some fringe on them.
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I mean, it just, I mean, I feel a little kind of dirty looking at it.
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Cause I like, that's beautiful, but it is, it's beautiful.
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If you want to find out more, go to their website, PBRworldfinals.com.
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And again, the finals are starting May 8th and Kid Rock's Rock and Rodeo with partnership
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That's May 16th through the 18th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.