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00:00:00.000 Hello, and welcome to the Friday podcast. We have things started right off the bat with Bill O'Reilly going over the week. He's got some interesting things to say about not only the week, but the future of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party and Donald Trump that you don't want to miss.

00:00:15.460 Also, we talked to the deputy prime minister of Poland. They are very concerned about freedom of speech being lost to these American tech companies. They're trying now to put some new regulations on them. I don't like them for America, but the rest of the world is calling out and saying, hey, can you guys stop with this?

00:00:37.920 Also, Aaron Watson stops by, country artist. All of his CDs and albums go to number one without any radio airplay. It's one of the most incredible stories since probably Johnny Cash, who got very little airplay. But he gets none, none whatsoever, and still has huge hits.

00:01:00.840 We talked to him about the American soul, and also a sneak peek of this weekend's podcast that you don't want to miss with Jason Whitlock. And you can get that if you're a Blaze subscriber, you get it right now. If not, on Saturday around three o'clock in the afternoon, it will download and be ready for you to listen to Jason Whitlock's podcast. You don't want to miss it.

00:01:22.900 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:37.640 Goodness, we're starting the show with the author of Killing Crazy Horse, that bestselling book, that whole series of killing people. You're kidding me. And he is the guy, the no spin news.

00:01:51.600 He's that same guy, Bill O'Reilly. Welcome to the program from Bill O'Reilly dot com.

00:01:57.100 Thank you, Beck. How are you doing today?

00:01:58.860 Well, you know, it's been an interesting week.

00:02:03.500 What happened this week?

00:02:06.140 Nothing. Nothing really happened. Holy cow. Bill, where do you want to start on the week?

00:02:11.620 Well, I think that, you know, all of the things that Americans are seeing in the aftermath of the inauguration are predictable.

00:02:23.120 And, you know, I have a lot of liberal friends and I told them during the election, look, I understand my life.

00:02:30.060 You might not like Trump. I got it. Everybody's got it. All right.

00:02:32.880 The guy is very, very flamboyant. Let's be kind, flamboyant.

00:02:38.620 So you may not like his style, but if you vote for Joe Biden and if you get behind the progressive movement, you're going to get hurt.

00:02:49.720 It's going to hurt you personally.

00:02:51.600 And then most of them, you know, I can't be worse than Trump.

00:02:55.180 And I said, well, how is Trump hurting you?

00:02:56.960 How? Directly is President Trump hurting you?

00:03:01.920 Silence, crickets.

00:03:03.480 We never had. Well, it's just the way he could.

00:03:06.100 Yeah. All right. Fine.

00:03:07.560 So now Biden is doing exactly what the New York Times and Washington Post want him to do.

00:03:13.960 This is a very important point that the legions of Beck listeners should consider.

00:03:20.560 The country is being run by a man who craves approval from two newspapers, the Times and the Post.

00:03:34.800 And that is how he's going to make his decisions.

00:03:39.900 Those are the executive orders he's going to sign.

00:03:42.780 And it's frightening to me because these two.

00:03:47.760 Hang on. What makes you say that?

00:03:49.600 Because that is a terrifying thought.

00:03:51.560 I mean, Donald Trump craved approval as well, but at least he was craving the approval of the American people.

00:03:58.120 What makes you say that about Biden?

00:04:00.080 Because if you look at what Biden has prioritized in his first two days, it's all 100 percent based on Washington Post and New York Times editorials.

00:04:17.580 You want to run down a list?

00:04:19.160 Yeah, go to go do it.

00:04:20.320 Okay. Open borders.

00:04:23.800 Number one, shouldn't be any in inhibitions for anyone in the world to come in to the United States and not do the paperwork and not follow the rules.

00:04:37.040 So, Bill, you have you have done this job for many, many years.

00:04:41.960 You have seen many administrations back and forth.

00:04:44.840 Is this the first one that has done something this large without a carrot to the other side?

00:04:52.900 Sure, because they believe they have a mandate to correct the Trump administration.

00:05:01.300 And what gives them the feeling of this mandate with Congress and everything being so close?

00:05:08.400 Yeah, but they don't care about that. 0.94

00:05:10.100 They're basically saying, look, we have an opportunity now to put a progressive agenda onto the American people that we hope is going to be, you know, a long, long time.

00:05:25.700 Right.

00:05:25.900 We're going to you know, we're taking our shot now.

00:05:28.820 Mm hmm.

00:05:30.020 OK, but let's get back to the to the New York Times and Washington Post, because you're absolutely right.

00:05:34.540 This is frightening.

00:05:36.600 So the first thing is the immigration.

00:05:39.240 All right.

00:05:40.760 Stop the Wall. 0.98

00:05:42.320 Anybody who wants asylum can come here and maybe five years, six years from now, you'll get a hearing.

00:05:47.660 But in the meantime, you can do whatever you want.

00:05:50.400 Well, if I'm a poor person anywhere in the world, I'm going, I'm getting there.

00:05:54.460 Yep.

00:05:54.880 Me, too.

00:05:55.540 Me, too.

00:05:56.600 Yep.

00:05:57.200 There's not even a lottery.

00:05:58.600 It's just go.

00:06:01.220 Yeah.

00:06:01.440 It's just like if I can get there, even if I have covid, I mean, they're not putting covid testing stations south of the border.

00:06:09.280 Right.

00:06:09.940 Right.

00:06:10.560 Right.

00:06:10.860 People are marching up from Honduras and Guatemala.

00:06:13.900 Trust me, they're not social distancing.

00:06:16.020 And it's and it's what's what's really important to point out.

00:06:21.000 It's not the people who are coming over.

00:06:23.740 It's not their fault.

00:06:24.720 It's it's like saying it's like Disney World saying, hey, we're just going to have free admission.

00:06:29.640 You know, next hundred days.

00:06:31.960 It's just we're not even going to check tickets and you could stay in the hotels and we don't really care.

00:06:37.320 Of course, every family that could never afford to go to Disney would be there.

00:06:42.940 And but there's another component.

00:06:45.020 You can come to Disney World and stay in our hotels, even if you have covid.

00:06:49.680 Come on in.

00:06:50.980 Well, the covid thing.

00:06:51.900 Can we just sidetrack here for a second? 0.99

00:06:53.680 The covid thing is ridiculous. 0.71

00:06:55.380 First of all, his hundred million doses in a hundred in a hundred days and Trump didn't have a plan. 0.84

00:07:02.860 No, his plan was a million vaccinations a day.

00:07:07.380 So your plan is exactly the same as his plan was.

00:07:11.780 Then on top of it, all of these all of these states now saying, especially New York with Cuomo.

00:07:19.920 OK, we've we got to get back to business.

00:07:22.740 The mayor of Washington, D.C. opens up in dining restaurants again.

00:07:27.740 And she does it on the magical date of January 22nd.

00:07:33.080 Yeah.

00:07:33.560 There's all that.

00:07:34.680 But if you run down the checklist, the big one is let as many people into the country who are living overseas as possible, because if you do that, then Democrats will never again lose an election ever, because eventually all these people will be given citizenship.

00:07:55.500 And that was one of the first executive orders is, all right, they're going to get the DACA and a pathway eight years.

00:08:02.540 I'll draw this legislation up and we'll pass it.

00:08:04.740 Eleven million, eleven million people maybe made citizens in the next one hundred days and stopping or pausing deportations for a hundred days.

00:08:15.040 Right.

00:08:15.560 So, again, I, my liberal friend, I go, I, I, you like this?

00:08:21.340 Is this good?

00:08:22.520 And then there's no, there's no answer.

00:08:26.800 OK, so that's immigration.

00:08:28.820 And that's going to come back to bite.

00:08:32.120 Bite in two years, not four years, because people are going to see the siege at the border.

00:08:39.380 You're going to see the pictures now won't be reported, but there are enough right wing outlets and conservatives that you'll see it.

00:08:46.760 The stats will be there.

00:08:47.980 And, you know, all of that.

00:08:49.480 The second thing is the economy.

00:08:50.760 So people, you've got to assume that in five months or so in the summer by summer that COVID will be at least under control.

00:09:00.600 Most people will be vaccinated and the economy will surge again.

00:09:04.980 It will, because there'll be commerce much more than there is now.

00:09:09.340 Money will be circulating.

00:09:11.640 So the economy will get a nice bump.

00:09:15.040 All right.

00:09:16.580 But, but if you look at the subtext, everything that Biden is doing is designed to take more money away from the American workers.

00:09:30.960 So I have to tell you, Bill, when you say the economy gets a bump, I think the big business, the banks and everything else, they're going to get a big bump.

00:09:39.660 The banks have already said if Biden does his taxes, we're just going to increase the the interest rate on loans.

00:09:49.420 And so they'll make their money.

00:09:51.460 The the ones and you see it with two things that Biden has done this week.

00:09:55.880 The Keystone pipeline, 11,000 job just gone.

00:10:01.040 The second thing that he has done is he just went and to his cabinet and said, I want you to look at the regulations that strengthen our agenda and play to our agenda.

00:10:16.580 Don't I don't care the cost of those.

00:10:20.280 The first thing Trump did is, look, what is the cost of these regulations to the American people?

00:10:26.860 And if it is costing the American people jobs or money, cut that regulation.

00:10:32.360 Now it's just the opposite.

00:10:34.980 I don't care what it does.

00:10:37.120 This is going to hurt.

00:10:38.220 This will help big business and it will hurt small business, which is already almost dead.

00:10:44.180 And the average American worker.

00:10:46.940 It's already happened.

00:10:48.560 Yeah.

00:10:48.740 So I don't know down in Texas what's going on, but here on Long Island, we're OK.

00:10:55.540 All right.

00:10:56.460 Gas, a price of a gallon gas gone up 12 cents.

00:11:00.900 Why?

00:11:01.480 Oh, because of yeah, because of yeah, they know what's coming.

00:11:07.240 Right.

00:11:07.880 OK, well, he's going to he's going to conduct a war on fossil fuels, which he will, because the New York Times wants him to.

00:11:15.400 And so we're going to get ahead of this.

00:11:19.400 And we're going to jack up all the gasoline prices.

00:11:22.200 And that will go everywhere.

00:11:24.420 But, you know, in New York, that's the crazy state, along with California.

00:11:30.060 So we're already up 12 cents a gallon.

00:11:33.800 Since inauguration day.

00:11:35.200 Wow.

00:11:36.860 All right.

00:11:37.860 Because you're absolutely right.

00:11:39.800 These corporations, they know every trick in the book.

00:11:42.980 They're not going to take.

00:11:44.360 No.

00:11:44.920 Get.

00:11:45.600 No.

00:11:46.160 They're going to pass the hit on to the folks.

00:11:48.520 Yeah.

00:11:48.640 So, again, I call my my liberal friends.

00:11:50.600 I go, hey, you know, did you see the gas prices putting gas in your big Hummer?

00:11:54.760 How about you that Hummer?

00:11:56.040 You know.

00:11:57.000 So it's going to take a while back.

00:12:00.480 But people are going to start to see that they're not as well off under progressive principles as they were under the free market Trump principles.

00:12:10.900 They will start to see it now.

00:12:12.800 I'm talking about people who work and generate money and who have homes and all of this.

00:12:19.040 Those are the folks I'm talking about.

00:12:20.640 And that's most of the country.

00:12:22.780 Well, wait a minute.

00:12:23.220 Wait a minute.

00:12:23.540 Wait a minute.

00:12:23.880 Wait a minute.

00:12:24.200 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:12:25.640 I agree with you on that.

00:12:27.660 But this $15 an hour wage that Bernie Sanders is pushing through.

00:12:33.160 If if we make that a national wage, $15 an hour decimated Seattle, just decimated it.

00:12:43.740 And you will see the people at the bottom of the ladder lose even more jobs.

00:12:49.460 But they'll gain more benefits, entitlements already today, this morning, Biden assigned executive order increasing food stamps.

00:13:01.280 So the people will be laid off and they will be because the robots are coming to the fast foods and all of that.

00:13:08.300 So, Bill, let me let me ask you this question.

00:13:10.280 I thought of this today when talking about this very thing where we're just reversing what happened four years ago.

00:13:17.900 And when Trump came in, he reversed what Obama did.

00:13:20.840 We can't live like this every four years or eight years.

00:13:25.040 We have got to decide if we are a socialist country or a free market and a free people or a people that just do what the the autocrats tell us to do.

00:13:37.940 Can we go on as a country going back and forth like this?

00:13:41.840 Well, I don't understand.

00:13:44.540 Most people don't understand the battle between free markets and socialism.

00:13:48.260 They hear it, but do they know what it really is?

00:13:51.580 No.

00:13:52.580 But you're absolutely right that Obama is back.

00:13:56.600 So it's really Obama running the country, not Biden.

00:13:59.820 And everybody knew when Susan Rice was appointed Biden's top domestic advisor.

00:14:07.000 That was basically, hey, Barack, tell me what to do.

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00:15:24.860 The Deputy Minister of Justice and a member of Parliament in Poland.

00:15:29.800 His name is Sebastian Kalata.

00:15:32.520 And he joins us now from Poland.

00:15:36.080 How are you, sir?

00:15:36.940 Hello, Glenn.

00:15:39.400 I'm fine.

00:15:40.520 How are you?

00:15:41.360 I'm very good.

00:15:42.400 Thank you for coming on.

00:15:44.480 It's a pleasure.

00:15:45.200 We want to talk to you a little bit about what Europe is doing.

00:15:49.940 You guys don't have the First Amendment that we have, a guaranteed right by our Constitution for freedom of speech.

00:15:57.140 So you guys have to address it a little differently.

00:16:00.240 But you are one of the stronger voices, not only in Poland, but all in Europe, warning about what is happening with big tech.

00:16:09.480 Tell me what it is like in Poland.

00:16:12.600 What's happening?

00:16:13.180 Maybe we don't have a First Amendment because we have it directly stated in our Constitution.

00:16:22.500 The freedom of speech is one of the most important freedoms in our Constitution, in our tradition.

00:16:30.380 And we saw that big tech companies, especially Facebook and YouTube, from time to time censor several content which is not illegal.

00:16:47.120 For example, Christian or patriotic content, and they decide that this is hate speech.

00:16:58.300 And we thought it was disturbing because who will judge?

00:17:04.720 Who will judge what is hate speech?

00:17:06.720 And these anonymous moderators decide what is disputed publicly, what is discussed publicly.

00:17:17.140 And we started to draft a bill on free speech on social media.

00:17:24.600 We finished drafting that bill on December.

00:17:27.900 And we are aware that some kind of big tech are enforced right now in Germany and in France.

00:17:37.420 But their approach is to force social media to delete some content.

00:17:43.000 But our approach is to prevent the legal content from being censored.

00:17:49.040 And we finished drafting our bill on December.

00:17:54.300 And last week and last weeks we saw this big dispute in the U.S. regarding banning Donald Trump, President Donald Trump.

00:18:06.040 And many publishers, many politicians right now are interested in our concept because we saw that freedom of speech is in danger and we want to protect it.

00:18:20.180 So we're talking now to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Poland about free speech.

00:18:27.720 You know, in doing my work on history, Poland is a country that just gets walked on over and over and over again through history.

00:18:38.700 If you just look at World War II, you're the gateway to Europe or the gateway to Russia. 0.83

00:18:44.500 And the saddest tales, I think, come from these great freedom fighters who were fighting the Nazis only then to be occupied by the communists who did much of the same thing.

00:18:59.940 So we don't have that here in America.

00:19:02.780 In America, we don't have a history of somebody telling us what to do.

00:19:07.580 And we're, I would say, a little soft, but we're very soft.

00:19:12.640 We are very fat and we don't, we just don't think it could happen here in America.

00:19:19.240 Tell us what you're seeing and is there a historic context that makes Poland more aware of the value of being able to say whatever it is you want to say?

00:19:34.320 You know, our history is rich on the events where we saw censorship.

00:19:44.880 In 18th century, Poland was stolen away by free countries and both were under slaves of Germany, Russia and Habsburg, Austria.

00:20:03.540 And in 20th century, like you said, we were under communist power.

00:20:11.960 And my parents remember the censorship even in the 80s of communist regime.

00:20:21.320 We in Poland are very careful about freedom of speech.

00:20:26.500 We think we are cheering freedom of speech because in some time we cannot free speak of our minds.

00:20:39.940 I can give you a nice historical example of censorship on history because you mentioned that Poland was occupied by German Nazis.

00:20:52.380 And today we have a decision of Facebook which banned an advertisement, a campaign by Polish Institute of National Remembrance.

00:21:06.360 And this institute wanted to present the history of a ghetto for children, Polish children in Łódź.

00:21:14.940 Where they were like, it was like a concentration camp and many of them died there.

00:21:24.700 And Facebook banned this material to be promoted as a part of showing Polish history.

00:21:31.360 And we see that there is a problem with censorship.

00:21:35.420 There are many dangers in big tech companies which we should face.

00:21:45.420 We should try to regulate because in history we have many innovations like railways, like phones.

00:21:55.640 And at the beginning it was a private, only private organization.

00:22:03.260 But when the moment when these devices were used by everyone in our lives, these companies create monopause.

00:22:14.140 And this monopause in some way started to be regulated by the state because every citizen must be protected.

00:22:23.220 The rights of every one of us should be protected.

00:22:26.200 And it is very important to be protected to preserve democracy itself.

00:22:30.940 So that's why we decided one year ago to start drafting this kind of bill.

00:22:38.320 And now we are trying to adopt this law.

00:22:41.100 So the difference here in the debate we're having right now is you're seeing Silicon Valley as a monopoly, a cartel, I think, is what you've actually described it as.

00:22:51.340 And so the government, what your proposal is, what you're moving towards, is the government has to decide what speech is hate speech and which is not.

00:23:04.080 That concerns many of us and concerns me here in America for our system because I don't want the government to decide what free speech is.

00:23:13.420 That's not their role in under our Constitution with the Bill of Rights.

00:23:19.220 Our Constitution says that they cannot do those things.

00:23:23.300 Are you concerned at all after seeing decades of oppression in Poland from an out of control government?

00:23:30.680 Are you concerned at all that that could be turned around against the Polish people if a bad government gets in?

00:23:38.280 Our proposal is different than the similar proposals in Germany, France or even the European Commission because they presented also in December the project of Regulation Digital Services Act which obliged the big tech company to comply with European law.

00:23:59.860 And our proposal is that the government may step in only if someone in Poland complains about being banned.

00:24:10.820 So this decision of government is not about to order Facebook or Twitter or YouTube to delete your account or your content, but to restore it if the decision of big tech company is not complying with Polish law.

00:24:32.120 So we want to protect freedom of speech in this mechanism.

00:24:35.540 And thank you for this question because it's tricky if governments say, okay, okay, we are protecting freedom of speech and we decide which is what's legal and what is legal.

00:24:47.540 And at the beginning in regulation, we want to protect even them from criticism of banning some stuff because you have some content which is illegal like, I don't know, pornography, terrorism, etc.

00:25:09.940 And the government should be able to react.

00:25:13.940 However, there is an area like freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, public discussions on crucial topics.

00:25:24.900 And the government should protect your right to speak freely and our proposition is different because we want the government just to check if the ban given by big tech is in line with Polish law.

00:25:48.780 So this kind of regulation could preserve some people, some users, which are banned on social media because, for example, hate speech and the government may say, no, it's not a hate speech.

00:26:08.520 It's an opinion, which is maybe maybe hard, maybe controversial, but it is opinion.

00:26:17.580 And this opinion is covered by freedom of speech preserved by Polish constitution.

00:26:23.200 And this is the effect we want to make.

00:26:25.460 Talking to the deputy prime minister of justice, member of parliament of Poland about the regulation of high tech over in in Poland, I thank you very much for your article in Newsweek and your your wake up plea to the United States and everything that you're doing for your country.

00:26:45.480 I will tell you, I've I've been to Poland once.

00:26:48.420 It's absolutely beautiful.

00:26:49.480 The history there is is amazing.

00:26:51.520 I have friends that go over quite a bit and they tell me I've I've wanted to go back just to witness this.

00:26:58.800 They tell me that your youth, the millennials in Poland are wide awake and are are some of the best scholars on freedom and and and liberty that are in the in the world.

00:27:16.440 And I find that exciting that that that your younger generation is appreciating what was so long and hard fought for by your parents and grandparents.

00:27:28.520 Very nice to hear that.

00:27:29.860 And I think that you should definitely go back to Poland and I will be happy to have a coffee with you in Warsaw.

00:27:38.360 Oh, that'd be great.

00:27:39.100 Thank you so much.

00:27:40.220 I appreciate it.

00:27:40.920 The deputy prime minister of justice, member of parliament of Poland, Sebastian Kalata.

00:27:49.960 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:52.640 You know, I I have a good friend that I just I just love because he is one of the few people that is a big star that is actually 100 percent real.

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00:28:44.060 Can you absolutely tell me where this came from?

00:28:47.480 When was it over the summer you sent this to me?

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00:28:55.940 You know, between the honeydew list and my new garden and the chickens.

00:28:59.680 Right.

00:29:00.080 You know, my during schedule kind of halted for a while.

00:29:03.300 Yeah.

00:29:03.500 But I just for me over the last year, even before the pandemic, I thought to myself, I said, you know what?

00:29:12.140 It's important that I start making more music with meaning.

00:29:16.380 And I actually started this album before all of this.

00:29:21.140 You know, but this building, it's been building.

00:29:24.620 Yeah.

00:29:24.720 It's we've talked about it a couple of years ago.

00:29:26.600 And really so much of the advice you've given me with your independent status and the way you think really inspired me to to make music for my fans, make music for this country, music that makes the world a better place.

00:29:43.860 Even if it's only in my little corner, just even if I'm only having a positive influence on my neighborhood or my community to do something that makes the world a better place.

00:29:55.300 And I wanted to write a song where it's like, hey, you know what?

00:29:59.700 This country has been through hard times before.

00:30:02.780 This country has had its ups and downs and we need to stay positive.

00:30:08.220 We need to love each other.

00:30:10.420 You know, I always tell people they're like, you know, when they're talking about what's going on in Washington, D.C., I was like, you know what?

00:30:16.820 I'm trying to focus on what's going on in Taylor County right now.

00:30:20.040 You know, it's like I want to make sure that I'm taking care of the people in my community.

00:30:24.200 And I think this song, American Soul, I want it to be a song that I'm not trying to change the world.

00:30:33.200 I just want to make music that that that puts a smile on the faces of my fans, but also gets them.

00:30:42.180 When we're so surrounded with bad news all the time, kind of takes them back to.

00:30:47.320 Yeah.

00:30:47.540 What matters matters and what you felt.

00:30:50.100 I listen to this over the summer, over and over again, and I just loved it and have waited for the day.

00:30:56.140 Yes, today's the day.

00:30:57.680 Today's the day that you can you can hear it.

00:31:00.660 It's called American Soul by Aaron Watson.

00:31:04.220 Listen.

00:31:04.440 All the old men at the diner, telling tales too tall to tell.

00:31:20.600 They're all bragging about the good old days and how this country has gone to hell.

00:31:25.620 But as for me, I believe we got a heartland full of hope.

00:31:32.040 We're coming back around cause you can't hold down the American soul. 0.68

00:31:37.840 It's the joy of grandma laughing at grandpa's funny jokes.

00:31:43.740 It's the rumble of those old baseball cards flapping between the spokes.

00:31:49.120 It's the fourth of July picnic.

00:31:52.280 It's farm-made and rock and roll.

00:31:55.380 From town to town, you can hear the sound of the American soul.

00:32:00.700 Oh, say, can you see the flag that you wave?

00:32:06.540 Freedom made free in the home of the brave.

00:32:11.280 It's the roots and the boots from the hard hat to the steel toe.

00:32:18.600 It's the hustle and bustle, blood, sweat, and tears that build the backbone of the American soul.

00:32:34.200 It's the words of amazing grace.

00:32:37.140 It's born in the USA.

00:32:39.160 It's those Yankees in the playoffs.

00:32:43.320 Those cowboys on a Sunday.

00:32:46.080 It's a red, white, and blue.

00:32:49.120 It's the yellow, brown, and black. 1.00

00:32:51.680 It's those rotten old Republicans. 1.00

00:32:54.780 And those darn old Democrats. 1.00

00:32:57.200 Say, can you see the flag that you wave? 1.00

00:33:03.000 Freedom made free in the home of the brave.

00:33:07.420 It's the roots and the boots from the hard hat to the steel toe.

00:33:14.980 It's the hustle and bustle, blood, sweat, and tears that build the backbone of the American soul.

00:33:21.780 Oh, say, can you see the flag that you wave?

00:33:36.580 Freedom made free in the home of the brave.

00:33:43.020 It's the roots and the boots from the hard hat to the steel toe.

00:33:50.100 It's the hustle and bustle, blood, sweat, and tears that build the backbone of the American soul.

00:33:56.920 All we need is a little love to knock off a little rust.

00:34:14.440 Take time to shine that penny so we can read in God we trust.

00:34:21.740 Aaron Watson, American soul.

00:34:27.360 When I heard that, I heard something that I've really only heard Donald Trump try to relate to, and he did, which is the guy that nobody's listening to.

00:34:40.740 The guy that nobody's noticing.

00:34:42.820 You know?

00:34:43.940 Absolutely.

00:34:44.640 The little guy.

00:34:45.160 It's the American people.

00:34:47.840 I mean, that's what makes.

00:34:50.120 The soul.

00:34:51.020 The soul of this country.

00:34:52.240 It's like they talk about the church.

00:34:54.680 It's not the building that makes the church.

00:34:56.500 It's the people within the church that make the church.

00:34:58.940 And that's what makes America, America.

00:35:01.440 It's not this select elected a few, elected few people that.

00:35:06.680 That's not America.

00:35:08.120 That's part of our government.

00:35:09.440 But this country was built on the American people.

00:35:15.300 And I tell people, I was like, I don't care if Mickey Mouse is elected president or Donald Duck.

00:35:20.540 I care about my country.

00:35:22.280 But regardless of who gets elected, I'm going to wake up every morning.

00:35:26.560 I'm going to work hard.

00:35:28.460 I'm going to pay my taxes.

00:35:30.200 I'm going to be the best dad that I can be.

00:35:33.380 And I'm going to focus on the things that I can control.

00:35:36.200 And I mean, I care about the future of this country.

00:35:38.860 I know you do.

00:35:39.700 And that's why I thought to myself, you know what?

00:35:42.380 What can I do to make an impact?

00:35:44.760 And I was like, I have my music.

00:35:46.400 The American people have, they're tired.

00:35:50.000 They're tired and they're beaten down.

00:35:52.880 And, you know, I listen to, are you familiar with the group AJR?

00:35:57.340 I've heard of them.

00:35:58.040 Okay.

00:35:58.640 I think they're really good.

00:35:59.740 My son turned me on to them.

00:36:00.960 And I think they're really good.

00:36:02.000 I listen to them, like I listened to them on the way in today, because their lyrics are positive.

00:36:07.000 You know what I mean?

00:36:07.760 They're, they're, they're just, you don't give up, you know, don't listen to what other

00:36:12.780 people say, just do it, you know?

00:36:15.540 And everybody has their own gift.

00:36:18.680 And instead of doing what everybody else is doing, or you're doing what your gift is

00:36:24.740 and adding to the puzzle piece.

00:36:27.200 Yeah, exactly.

00:36:28.360 Can I, can I ask you, because I know this, I used to be a music programmer for radio for

00:36:35.740 a long time.

00:36:36.520 And I know how the music industry works.

00:36:41.060 Yeah.

00:36:42.020 And I know how freaked out.

00:36:44.440 I remember, you remember, Stu, were you with me when somebody in Nashville called me into

00:36:48.760 their office and, uh, and I just started the blaze and they said, do you have any advice

00:36:54.920 for us?

00:36:55.520 Because it was the record industry was falling apart, falling apart.

00:36:59.740 And they didn't, they didn't have any idea what to do.

00:37:03.180 And I remember walking out of the office thinking, boy, they just don't get it.

00:37:06.360 Um, you're the only and, uh, the first, and I believe the only artist to chart at number

00:37:14.480 one as an independent with almost no stations playing you, which is incredibly unheard of.

00:37:25.000 Yeah.

00:37:25.600 Uh, and very hard to do.

00:37:27.720 Your last five albums have all charted top five, even though now corporate radio refuses

00:37:36.360 to play you because of the, the pushback from the record labels, because they don't want

00:37:42.040 other artists to do what you've done because then they're out of business.

00:37:45.840 Yeah.

00:37:46.480 I'm definitely, my business model is a threat to the, the mainstream, uh, major label way

00:37:53.740 of doing things.

00:37:54.460 Cause if all of a sudden you have all these independent artists out there, not needing

00:37:58.480 major record labels to have radio success, then it, it puts them all out of a job.

00:38:04.120 So it's, it's the politics, but for me, it became, it becomes very personal because music

00:38:09.920 is the family business.

00:38:11.620 So when I have program directors at stations that have been playing me, telling me I'm getting

00:38:18.380 calls from New York telling me I cannot play you anymore.

00:38:23.180 It becomes personal.

00:38:24.800 And for me, it's more, it's not like, I'm not bitter.

00:38:27.900 I'm so blessed.

00:38:29.860 I mean, just like you said, I mean, the reason why we charted an album number one on country

00:38:35.820 billboard is because God's blessed me with the best fans in the world.

00:38:39.400 I mean, what you've done for me with the Vaccaro record, the red bandana record.

00:38:45.880 I mean, it's been amazing.

00:38:47.340 Your fans and my music go hand in hand.

00:38:53.000 Yeah, they do.

00:38:53.620 It's been amazing.

00:38:55.180 I mean, before all this shutdown, you know, after every show I'm hanging out at the merch

00:39:00.680 booth, you know, you buy a ticket.

00:39:02.840 I always tell people you bought a ticket, the hugs are free, you know, after shows.

00:39:07.580 So many of your people coming and supporting me, but it's one of those things where I finally

00:39:14.740 have taken it very personal.

00:39:15.900 There's been so many, we've done things.

00:39:17.540 We have, there's only been three songs in 60 years on top 40 radio that have charted top

00:39:25.280 10 by an independent artist.

00:39:27.140 And I think, well, Out of Style was the only one to do it in the last 20 something years.

00:39:34.200 And then we had a couple of top 40s, but we started, we just, we got ousted, we got booted.

00:39:39.820 And you know what?

00:39:40.380 I thought to myself, I don't have to put up with this.

00:39:44.880 I'm going to fight for my business.

00:39:48.800 It's, it's remarkable to me how we're fighting for our voice to be heard and we're independent

00:39:55.280 and everyone who's not independent is suddenly coming to us going, how do we do this?

00:39:59.540 How do we do this?

00:40:00.220 How can we do this quickly?

00:40:01.320 How can we do this?

00:40:02.020 Um, because they're snuffing out voices.

00:40:05.320 People don't realize that the voice of the independent artist is also gone.

00:40:13.440 It's just gone.

00:40:14.800 It is absolutely gone.

00:40:16.680 And that's where I thought to myself.

00:40:18.520 So it's, you know, I, I know, I know from a business standpoint that since I'm the custodian

00:40:25.140 and the CEO at my label that I need to be talking about everyone going and buying the new album,

00:40:30.140 American soul or downloading and streaming it and it's out there now, but I put this album

00:40:36.720 out last Friday and then I went back in the studio two days later and I recorded another

00:40:42.000 record, which you would never do if you were on a label.

00:40:44.560 Never, never, but I'm, I'm hungry and I'm, I'm, I'm fired up and I'm excited about the

00:40:51.800 music and I'm excited about being that voice for, for not just independent artists everywhere,

00:40:57.900 but the small businessman, I mean, you don't have to, I mean, I'm not going to go down without

00:41:04.420 a fight and, and, and rather than throw punches with my fists, we're going to do it melodically

00:41:11.520 speaking and it's fun and I have something to say.

00:41:16.060 Are you back on the road again?

00:41:17.240 Um, no, we, we had a little, we, we, we, we took the little four month, um, involuntary

00:41:24.220 vacation, had the time of my life.

00:41:27.200 Yeah, we did too.

00:41:28.220 You know, we talked to you and I talked on the phone about it and I've told people, I'm

00:41:30.780 like, listen, shows were canceled.

00:41:33.760 A lot of money was lost and I made priceless memories with my family.

00:41:38.340 Likewise.

00:41:39.020 And that's all you can do is look at it like that.

00:41:42.360 Um, I found ways that more than anything, it showed me that there is, you can find a

00:41:50.040 way to get it done.

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