On today's show, we take a look at what might happen if next week's election is razor thin, and how it might play out through the next couple of months, all the way to January 20th. Also, Danny Gokey is with us, Emmy Award, I m sorry, not Emmy, but Grammy Award-winning artist Danny Goggins has an amazing song to share, and Christy Kendall joins us to talk about a divided nation and how do we, quote, undivide us?
00:12:02.320We got an email back that's very similar to the fact sheet they gave recently to Congress.
00:12:07.460We obtained that fact sheet, so this apparent nothing burger rated an official explainer to Congress and the explainers to lowly outlets such as us.
00:12:33.060Rather, it provides clarification and delineates the approval authorities for activities conducted by the defense intelligence components.
00:12:42.000While the paragraph that's been most frequently referenced on social media is new to this directive, it does not reflect any change to the DOD's policy regarding the use of lethal force by DOD personnel.
00:12:57.720That is addressed in DOD D-5210.56, arming and use of force.
00:13:06.020Revisions of DOD issuances are routine and ensure the departmental policies continue to be consistent with the law and executive branch policy, and they clearly articulate departmental policy.
00:13:19.040The release in no way is timed in relation to the election or any other event.
00:14:40.060At any rate, I find it suspicious, given the left's recent January 6th war game and what they discussed there, that we can use military force and lethal force on the American public.
00:14:54.620Now, again, I don't think the military, I don't think the actual soldiers would turn their guns on average American citizens.
00:15:08.780I just don't think that is part of it.
00:18:59.340I was invited to sing at my friend's celebration party and her father, who's a business owner, very successful, of a restaurant chain, Jeff Ruby.
00:19:17.880And I just started thinking, I need to release songs and redo some of these songs that celebrate America because we're not hearing songs about our country anymore.
00:19:26.980When the music stops, the patriotism stops.
00:19:29.260Just like if I stop singing to God, my passion for God fades away.
00:19:33.900If I'm not sending my wife music that is, you know, romantic music, the romance is fading.
00:19:54.240You understand, my wife's family was kicked out of communism.
00:19:57.760My wife's family, everything was taken away by a communist dictator that sold the whole country on these lies of how great they were and how they were going to help people.
00:20:08.260So I basically just gaslit the people and my wife's family was kicked out of communist Cuba.
00:20:14.600My wife's mother-in-law was, excuse me, my wife's mother was very wealthy and her grandfather was a very outspoken lawyer and had houses on the beach, houses inland.
00:20:23.320Long story short, my wife's mom lives with us and she was raised with maids and servants and now she lives with us at our house and she works at Walmart.
00:20:31.100Everything taken away at the young age of 18 years old.
00:20:34.200And so anyway, so I wanted to write a song, so I started writing this song called My America and how I just still believe in our country and how I still believe in the American dream.
00:20:45.280And I mean, I sat at the piano, I just started writing and this song was birthed out of it.
00:20:49.940It wasn't my intention to write a new patriotic song.
00:20:52.280My intention was to cover the old ones and reignite patriotism.
00:20:55.280But it just so turns out that our generation needs this type of, I believe, I'm not trying to, you know, top my own horn, but to my own horn.
00:21:03.500But I'm just saying, our generation needs believers again.
00:21:06.280We lost believers in the American dream.
00:21:08.340As a matter of fact, we have people who actually are turning their hearts against their own country.
00:21:13.080And it's when the music stops and the patriotism stops, this is what happens.
00:21:17.820I have to tell you, I mean, the first thing I said to you after I heard it, I came up to the stage in the soundcheck and I said, do you remember what I said to you?
00:21:50.340No, I just, I want to say thank you and I appreciate it.
00:21:52.340Where I'm noticing everywhere I go, I'm on tour right now.
00:21:54.420And I do this song at the end of my set because we're in election season, right?
00:21:58.240And I just, we just need people to kind of snap out of the, the rhetoric that has caused them to turn their hearts against the country and go back and remember the good things.
00:27:51.160So I went and did that, and you could tell when I got to the America part, his face lit up, and then he called me over by him to shake his hand.
00:28:01.760I still don't know if he really knows the song yet, but it was cool that I finally, because I wrote this song last year in 2023, and I finally got to sing it.
00:28:09.980But I'm hoping to sing it in front of the inauguration, because Trump needs to become like a father to the nation, like Lincoln and like Washington.
00:28:17.260You know, we're in such division, and hopefully, you know, when he wins, I hope, begins to follow the nation and bring people together again.
00:28:25.300And this is a song for people who lost faith in America.
00:28:35.060So we need, this is this generation, I believe, like proud to be an American because we've got to get people to believe again, to be proud again, to be.
00:28:43.360So I'm hoping that it's a song of unity that can be sung at the inauguration.
00:34:52.060But they, like, they created this amazing country and where disagreement should be part of the fabric of our country, not something we are just, like, terrified of.
00:35:09.420I feel like there is a gay agenda, and I feel like they're pushing it on children, which are the most unsuspecting, vulnerable group of people that we have.
00:35:22.060I spend a lot of time battling people on the Internet about this issue, and this is coming from a gay man.
00:35:28.900I just don't see the need for any of that to be taught.
00:35:31.340Teachers are kind of overstepping their lines.
00:35:33.700The students are not the teacher's children.
00:35:36.240They are there to educate them and teach them a curriculum.
00:35:39.780Carol, what did Drake get right about teachers and what you do?
00:35:45.040Well, I think I heard you say they have good intentions.
00:36:36.680It's actually, this is a great example.
00:36:39.120Because if you watch the film, what you'll see is that actually we ended up having Dre and Carol back for like a conversation just with the two of them to talk this through.
00:36:49.100And they actually came to a lot of agreement around like the parents should be informed.
00:36:56.400Like the experience that Dre was talking about, which is something he wasn't in the classroom all the time.
00:37:04.120He was hearing from his niece who was relating things to him and then also hearing a lot of other things going on in terms of the transgender conversation.
00:37:18.700And he obviously has a lot of stake in this issue.
00:37:50.880And so she's saying, I don't, I don't see that happening at all in school.
00:37:55.480And he's saying, well, I think it's in every school and everywhere.
00:37:58.980And so maybe there's some sort of common ground that they can, that they can come to in terms of, well, maybe what should happen should, should.
00:38:07.180And, and that like sensible discussion doesn't really happen right now, I think.
00:38:13.000So I agree with having those discussions as long as everyone is open to the actual facts, because it's not happening in every school.
00:38:20.560Um, but it is, it is an agenda that is being, is being pushed at high levels.
00:38:33.680What, what, what, what I really come down to is like, I believe that I believe that I want to know what's going on with my kid in my kid's school.
00:38:43.960And I'm interested in having these discussions on a local level.
00:38:48.080Like, I think that this whole national discussion gets a little crazy real fast in terms of people saying really extreme things on both.
00:38:58.140But how, how do you not have a national conversation when they've nationalized our education system through the Department of Education?
00:39:06.880Is that, because this way it was, it was designed to go that way originally.
00:39:10.840And they changed that in the seventies.
00:39:13.820There is, there is a certain amount that happens on the national level, but I actually think that's actually a little bit of a misnomer too.
00:39:21.880I mean, I haven't looked at the research for a while.
00:39:23.800You know, I did a, I did a special when I was back at 2020 on the need for school choice and education.
00:39:28.780Like it was pretty much one of the first hours that was ever done on school choice.
00:39:32.740Everybody, by the way, everybody should know you used to produce for John Stossel.
00:39:37.600So it's not like you're some left-wing activist.
00:39:41.580No, although sometimes my family treats me like I am.
00:39:45.780I'm just like, I'm like, let's, let's, let's just think about these things.
00:39:49.280No, I, I, I did, I did use to produce for John Stossel.
00:39:56.340But when we did this school, when, when I was really up to date on the education numbers, it was the federal funding for education is pretty small.
00:40:06.060And the federal control of education, what goes in and the, the power that they execute with those purse strings is relatively small.
00:40:14.540It's a state by state issue in terms of like, I think it was like 40 some percent usually comes from the state and 40 some percent comes from the local, local groups.
00:40:23.820And then like around 5% for the federal funding.
00:40:26.300But in terms of like who actually controls what goes on in the classroom.
00:40:30.980I think you're most people, their local school boards are the best place to go and have those conversations and then actually affect real change and localism, less national control.
00:40:43.140The whole point of the documentary is like, let's take these conversations off of this place where it's like, we have presidential candidates talking about which bathroom you use.
00:40:51.920Like that is not what I want my president thinking about.
00:40:54.780I want my president thinking about like the big issues, but I want the local governments and I want us to all of Americans be like, if we want to make a change in our communities, it's our moral responsibility to get involved on the local level.
00:41:10.500Where we can look at each other's human beings and have these conversations and actually make the difference.
00:42:48.120In one of our focus groups, we actually had a really hard time finding conservatives who would even come and participate in the focus group
00:42:56.060because they automatically thought, you know, this is going to be a setup against me.
00:43:02.240And conservatives are more likely to just, like, duck and cover, right?