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00:01:17.860 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:01:21.880 Great to have you with us.

00:01:23.360 Hope you're having a great weekend.

00:01:24.880 The United Autoworkers Union is in its second day of strikes against the three main Detroit carmakers,

00:01:32.480 Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.

00:01:35.240 As of last night, roughly 11% of the 145,000 UAW employees were on strike.

00:01:43.200 A global research firm estimates that each of the three carmakers has a two-month supply of cars or on route to dealerships.

00:01:52.980 The last strike against General Motors back in 2019 lasted for 40 days.

00:01:59.620 The Biden regime ginning up its vast propaganda machine to defend the indicted son of the president.

00:02:06.500 Special counsel David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden this week on gun charges and the congressional investigation of his father is building.

00:02:15.780 An impeachment inquiry to President Biden has quickened its tempo.

00:02:20.500 Subpoenas are expected to go out soon.

00:02:23.600 Hunter Biden's attorney, Abby Lowell, wasted no time joining the Marxist media broadcast.

00:02:29.120 Lowell told Good Morning America that the indictment was brought because of, get ready, politics, not because Hunter lied and bought a gun illegally.

00:02:41.340 Our defense has multiple parts to it.

00:02:43.800 And the first is that there's a deal in place that should have prevented this.

00:02:46.980 The second is that courts are finding the statute unconstitutional.

00:02:50.340 And the third, if it ever gets that far, and we don't believe it should, there'll be a defense on the facts of this case.

00:02:56.140 And again, I need to point out for people who are paying attention that what's odd about this is the fact that this happened in 2018.

00:03:03.300 Law enforcement showed up.

00:03:04.700 No charges.

00:03:05.660 The U.S. attorney's office has known about this for years.

00:03:08.100 No charges.

00:03:08.900 When they found out about it and made a deal, it was for a diverted agreement.

00:03:13.640 What changed?

00:03:14.480 Not the facts, not the law, but all the politics that have now come into play.

00:03:18.260 Joe Biden hasn't commented yet on Hunter's indictment, but did tell a group of donors that the Republicans only want to impeach him because they want to shut down the federal government.

00:03:30.340 Failing to mention the already overwhelming evidence against him and members of his crime family.

00:03:37.620 Not to mention, the president himself hasn't denied the charges raised against him.

00:03:43.780 President Trump credits a federal judge for Hunter's legal issues.

00:03:47.560 The former president was asked if he still believes there's a two-tiered justice system with Hunter Biden now indicted.

00:03:55.980 President Trump says Hunter was only indicted because of a brave federal judge, Judge Mary Ellen Norieka, who threw out Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal with the Justice Department.

00:04:09.220 There's no question about it.

00:04:10.420 He had a plea deal that was the deal of the century.

00:04:13.260 The art of the deal.

00:04:14.860 You could write a book on it.

00:04:15.960 The art of the deal.

00:04:17.920 And all of a sudden, that was broken up by a judge who was able to, a brilliant judge, actually, who was able to see through what was happening.

00:04:25.580 And it's a sad situation.

00:04:27.200 I mean, nobody should be happy about this.

00:04:28.840 I'm not happy about it.

00:04:29.960 Nobody is.

00:04:31.040 It's a very sad thing.

00:04:32.180 It's so bad for our country.

00:04:33.360 But, you know, if you think about it, I've been under investigation from the day I came down the escalator and a phony investigation, fake investigations, investigations that I beat every single time, still under investigations.

00:04:46.380 But it's a very sad thing.

00:04:48.160 And it's a slippery slope and dangerous, very dangerous for our country.

00:04:52.640 President Trump straightforward even as he faces four criminal indictments from a crooked, corrupt Biden regime.

00:04:59.240 Turning now to a story we've been covering for months here on The Great America Show, the conservative consumer boycott and the rapid decline of what was once America's beer, Bud Light.

00:05:11.380 As major retailers struggle to sell Bud Light at all and all Anheuser-Busch products, Bud Light sales are still in the tank.

00:05:19.540 The retailer sales are down 30% six months after the transgender campaign that the company ran with influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

00:05:30.180 Bud Light has since lost its title of top-selling beer in America to Mexico-based beer Modal.

00:05:37.380 Here with us today on The Great America Show is the man whose family built the company and that brand.

00:05:43.140 Joining us is Billy Bush, his author and heir to the Anheuser-Busch dynasty.

00:05:48.540 And Billy, it's great to have you with us here on The Great America Show.

00:05:52.620 You have out a new book and I want to recommend it to everyone.

00:05:56.000 The title is this, and it's exact, The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty.

00:06:03.340 This latest debacle has to be gut-wrenching for you and the entire Bush family.

00:06:08.320 I will say that I probably was around during Anheuser-Busch's greatest growth.

00:06:16.080 My dad, who was running the company at the time, August Bush Jr., better known as Gussie,

00:06:22.420 took the company from 3 million barrels to 35 million barrels in about 25 to 30 years that he ran Anheuser-Busch.

00:06:31.440 And he opened up nine new breweries across the United States and he put theme parks around most of those breweries,

00:06:38.780 as you would probably know them as Bush Gardens.

00:06:42.260 He opened up our home, Grant's Farm in St. Louis, to the public and got the idea of opening up the Bush Gardens

00:06:50.680 around the breweries from opening up Grant's Farm.

00:06:54.480 He realized the great brand loyalty that brought to the brands that he was selling,

00:06:59.280 as well as the advertisement that that brought to the brands.

00:07:03.780 And he bought a baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals.

00:07:06.780 And so he was a great marketer.

00:07:08.900 He understood how to grow a business.

00:07:13.040 I watched him as he grew the business.

00:07:15.480 I learned some of the principles that he used during that time, how marketing was so important,

00:07:21.040 grassroots beer selling was so important, understanding every detail of the company

00:07:26.500 was very important to him, treating the employees right, giving back to his community,

00:07:35.060 giving back to the country was always important.

00:07:39.500 And that's what he did.

00:07:42.000 And I think that really helped him grow the company.

00:07:44.460 So, you know, it's just a different culture today.

00:07:46.940 What you see at Anheuser-Busch, it's no longer like that, I don't think.

00:07:52.060 And, you know, we're seeing that in the advertising that they're doing now with Bud Light.

00:07:57.240 And, of course, they've lost a lot of sales because of that kind of advertising.

00:08:02.880 A lot of sales.

00:08:04.480 And I know that the company was sold to InBev.

00:08:08.020 And things are quite different now.

00:08:10.900 But to get to the point we are now, where Anheuser-Busch has moved from sort of essential Americana,

00:08:20.460 every, I'll put it this way, in my generation, every kid ordered a Bud.

00:08:25.240 You know, it was just the beer.

00:08:27.340 And suddenly to see a transgender image on a beer can, you know, took us in a whole different direction. 0.93

00:08:38.040 And Anheuser-Busch, these people running your company, the company, I should say,

00:08:44.460 just really destroyed a piece of Americana.

00:08:48.620 Well, they did.

00:08:49.380 And it's unfortunate because, you know, when they bought the company, their advertising was doing well.

00:08:56.400 It was like a big ship sailing down the ocean in a single direction, moving forward, doing well.

00:09:04.520 And now that big ship is starting to turn.

00:09:07.860 And when you make changes like they made and it becomes a political message that you get into,

00:09:16.920 now you're dividing.

00:09:18.300 You're really advertising to a small portion of the world.

00:09:25.580 And my family would not have gone in that direction.

00:09:31.480 They believed in inclusiveness.

00:09:32.900 They believed in the motto, making friends is our business and bringing everybody together.

00:09:38.020 Beer is a social drink.

00:09:39.940 It's something that you drink when you're bringing people together and you're enjoying life and you're having fun.

00:09:46.900 And to push a political agenda like transgender, like the transgender culture into the beer drinker,

00:09:54.760 who doesn't really even understand that culture, who doesn't relate to it whatsoever,

00:10:00.240 was just the wrong message.

00:10:02.440 And I think they're paying for it now.

00:10:05.200 You know, I guess one way to put it, and I'm doing this with a tongue in cheek,

00:10:09.640 but that might be better advertising for the white wine crowd rather than a brewski.

00:10:17.040 I just have to wonder, the rest of your family, you've obviously, you've exited the company.

00:10:29.420 Your inheritance and your income no longer, as I would guess,

00:10:35.600 depending on how well Budweiser does or doesn't do.

00:10:38.740 But how does the rest of your family feel?

00:10:42.540 You know, I'm the first family member that's ever published a book about the family.

00:10:48.660 And so I really had an opportunity to go back and to research and to really get an understanding of who my great-grandfather was,

00:10:58.580 Adolphus Bush, who started the company, as well as my grandfather,

00:11:02.940 who ran the company through Prohibition and kept all 2,000 employees employed during that time

00:11:09.780 and got to know my father in his younger years when he was coming up.

00:11:15.720 And they were writing letters back and forth, and I had access to all these letters to his grandfather, to his father,

00:11:24.960 and really got a great understanding of who they were and how they supported this country, how much they loved this country.

00:11:36.080 I mean, during the World Wars, they gave up most of the marketing on their products to market in a way that supported America through the wars.

00:11:47.280 They shut down some distribution, especially along the West Coast, so that America could use transportation on the West Coast

00:11:56.940 to move soldiers around and military equipment.

00:12:01.900 And so they always did anything they possibly could to support America.

00:12:07.100 And I really got that incredible sense, knowing that Adolphus came here to live the American dream,

00:12:13.780 the faith they had in this country, and it's just The Family Reigns, the book I wrote, has that history in it,

00:12:22.120 that great American history, which I think people will really, really enjoy.

00:12:26.660 And then growing up, you know, watching my father, having the experiences I had growing up, both good and bad,

00:12:37.600 I talk about that in the book.

00:12:39.080 And so I am closer to it than my, and then I kept the business going.

00:12:45.560 I kept the beer tradition going not too long after the company was bought by InBev.

00:12:52.800 So I got into the beer business.

00:12:55.680 We're still in the beer business.

00:12:56.860 We have the Bush Family Brewing and Distilling Company here in St. Louis and in Missouri.

00:13:04.060 And so I'm just much closer to it than the rest of my family, and I think I have a better understanding than they see it.

00:13:15.660 So as far as how they feel about how things are going today, we, in the book,

00:13:20.900 you can see that we had kind of a problem, a division in the family over our home where we grew up,

00:13:29.220 Grant's Farm, and it tells you all about what happened during that time, too.

00:13:34.760 So I'm not that close to my family any longer.

00:13:38.340 And so I really couldn't tell you, Lou, how they feel about what's going on.

00:13:44.960 But I'm sure it's got to affect them negatively also.

00:13:48.540 I think it's – I would hope that it does, but you never know.

00:13:54.920 A family as large and broad as the Bush family are going to have some –

00:14:00.540 division is not an unnatural state of affairs for families that large and over a number of generations.

00:14:08.360 I do want to ask you about St. Louis, though.

00:14:10.920 You've watched a lot happen.

00:14:12.440 And you've been a part of the country and St. Louis history.

00:14:18.360 St. Louis right now seems to be divided itself.

00:14:23.980 Give us a sense of crime and what it's like to live in St. Louis now versus when you were growing up.

00:14:30.440 Yes, unfortunately, St. Louis is not thriving like it used to.

00:14:34.360 It's not thriving at all, actually.

00:14:36.300 A lot of big companies have moved out of St. Louis.

00:14:39.900 There's a few of them left.

00:14:42.440 But we used to be a hub here for the airlines.

00:14:47.880 So you could pretty much go anywhere from here to any other city, any other state directly, and you can't do that any longer.

00:14:56.780 Unfortunately, a lot of the young talent who grows up here in St. Louis and goes to school here are moving away.

00:15:03.720 They go to other states to pursue careers.

00:15:08.040 We're seeing a lot of that.

00:15:09.700 And then, of course, the crime down there is just, you know, we have a Democratic mayor down there.

00:15:17.960 They're not convicting the criminals.

00:15:21.040 A lot of them are getting away with things.

00:15:23.040 They've funded the police in St. Louis City.

00:15:25.780 And so the crime rate is up more so than ever.

00:15:30.240 It used to be a great place to go.

00:15:32.340 There were wonderful places in the city.

00:15:35.040 The Landing, Central West End, you could go and eat and go to restaurants.

00:15:40.880 It's kind of dangerous going down in those parts now.

00:15:43.680 You know, even going to the St. Louis Cardinal game at the Busch Stadium, there's a lot of people are getting their cars broken into while at the game.

00:15:52.400 And it can be kind of dangerous doing those kinds of things, too.

00:15:55.560 So it's taken a terrible turn for the worse.

00:15:59.040 And all we can do is hope and pray that we get the right kind of governance down in the city to bring things back,

00:16:05.420 because a lot of people are exiting that area and moving out into the outskirts of the St. Louis area like St. Charles.

00:16:15.140 Well, that's terrible.

00:16:16.340 And everyone is sorry to hear that, except there is this.

00:16:20.880 And that is nearly every major city in the United States right now.

00:16:25.180 When we look, turn our eyes away from just a moment, from what all the Marxist Dems are doing in the nation's capital,

00:16:32.980 which is a tragedy that is larger than anything we could have ever imagined.

00:16:38.220 These large Democratic run cities, the crime rates are exploding.

00:16:43.700 The poverty levels, the homeless levels are a disaster.

00:16:47.240 And the Democrat Party, they were the ones that were supposed to be able to fix these things instead of fuel and worsen them.

00:16:56.340 It's a sad, sad moment in our history.

00:16:59.360 We're talking with Billy Bush.

00:17:01.000 He's the author of the new book, Family Reigns, The Extraordinary Rise, An Epic Fall of an American Dynasty.

00:17:07.740 We would get his sense of what he thinks corporate America is all about today

00:17:13.260 and how corporations are getting in the mess that so many of them find themselves.

00:17:18.980 We'll be right back.

00:17:20.260 Stay with us.

00:17:26.700 We're back now.

00:17:27.760 We're talking with Billy Bush.

00:17:29.200 His book is Family Reigns, The Extraordinary Rise, An Epic Fall of an American Dynasty.

00:17:33.820 And we're talking about the Bush dynasty in this country.

00:17:37.340 Billy, let's turn to what in the world is corporate America doing, in your judgment,

00:17:43.540 as you're watching what is happening, not just to the Anheuser-Busch enterprises, and your own,

00:17:52.200 but across the country.

00:17:54.320 We are looking at HR departments driving ESG, EID.

00:18:01.200 They're driving all sorts of nonsense that is just, on its face, laughable.

00:18:07.080 I'm speaking only for myself. 0.93

00:18:08.900 I mean, it's just, to me, this is a disgusting moment because this is specious.

00:18:14.320 It's sophistry rolled up as some sort of fancy psychosocial doctrine.

00:18:23.640 Your thoughts?

00:18:24.560 Yes, if you look at what Disney's doing, what Target has done, of course, what AB InBev,

00:18:31.640 what's going on with their advertising, these big corporations, what's, it just doesn't make

00:18:38.220 any sense to me.

00:18:39.200 I think they're trying, I think they're trying to be, maybe they're trying to be inclusive,

00:18:45.700 but inevitably it becomes divisive how they're advertising.

00:18:50.340 I think it's pushing a woke agenda down people's throats.

00:18:55.160 I don't think people relate to that kind of advertising that they're doing.

00:18:59.840 I mean, girls, guys dressing up as girls in Disney, and I have seven kids, Lou, and they're

00:19:09.500 all older now.

00:19:10.420 I've got two grandkids.

00:19:12.040 When I take my little kids or my little grandkids to Disney right now with that kind of advertising,

00:19:19.160 with what they've got going on as far as guys dressing up as girls, it's so confusing.

00:19:24.260 Little kids don't understand that, and it's not a wholesome way of going about things like

00:19:32.060 Disney used to have.

00:19:33.800 And then, of course, Target's pushing some of the woke agenda.

00:19:38.740 I think gender identity is something that's supposed to be the woke way of going about things, 1.00

00:19:45.220 using the correct pronouns, all these kinds of things.

00:19:48.820 And now you're taking kids into Target or to Disney or something like that, and exposing

00:19:57.120 them to these kinds of radical cultural behaviors.

00:20:02.500 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:20:05.080 That used to be a private issue.

00:20:06.600 Nobody cares.

00:20:07.480 You know, if people are transgenders, that doesn't matter, those kinds of things to us.

00:20:13.340 But we don't want it pushed in our face.

00:20:15.760 It's supposed to be a private thing.

00:20:17.620 And you know, the great thing about America, which we always love, is it's land of the free,

00:20:22.800 and people are free to make choices as long as they're not hurting anyone.

00:20:27.020 And I'm not against any of those free choices, but don't push it in somebody's face.

00:20:32.380 Yeah, I think those are good words for everyone to live by.

00:20:37.840 The reality is that Disney's lost about a billion dollars on their last number of films

00:20:44.300 because of the woke attitudes, the transgender doctrines they're throwing out there. 0.53

00:20:53.100 It's not working as a business philosophy, and yet they're pushing it

00:20:58.340 because the ideological basis for it all is really anti-American.

00:21:05.500 And there's no doubt about that.

00:21:07.660 And what is difficult for me to comprehend is why shareholders are putting up with it,

00:21:13.320 why customers are putting up with it in any fashion.

00:21:18.060 I'm beginning to believe, and I was always against boycotts,

00:21:22.600 but I believe it's gotten to the point that the conservatives and Republicans and independents,

00:21:29.600 working men and women and their families who just want to be Americans and live the American dream,

00:21:35.600 they're being told, go to hell by American business.

00:21:40.240 And that's when things have to be stopped.

00:21:43.980 It really has to end there because that's the last power these folks have.

00:21:48.540 The elections are rigged.

00:21:50.380 The fact is that they're bringing in labor across that border wholesale to compete for wages, for jobs.

00:22:00.900 And the working man and woman in this country is just getting, I mean, they're getting destroyed.

00:22:05.960 Your thoughts?

00:22:07.420 There's no doubt about it.

00:22:08.940 In Family Reigns, the book that I just wrote,

00:22:11.580 I talk about how my family and the leaders of the company from the Bush family love this country and supported this country.

00:22:19.920 Would they support what's going on right now?

00:22:22.740 Heck no.

00:22:23.360 Would they speak up?

00:22:24.760 There would be a way they would speak up.

00:22:27.140 They wouldn't want to lose any of their backing, any buyers of their brands.

00:22:33.580 Of their brands, but they would still speak up because they believed in this country first.

00:22:38.940 The country always came first.

00:22:41.140 And that's why I'm speaking up, Lou, because, you know, I knew what this country,

00:22:47.240 I know what this country gave to our family because my family worked so hard to build this incredible beer empire,

00:22:56.440 and they couldn't do it in any other country except for this country, America, that we live in.

00:23:02.860 And what we see today with what's going on is just, I don't know the incentive behind it,

00:23:11.280 what's incentivizing companies to go in this direction, this woke direction.

00:23:18.980 It doesn't make any sense to me, but what they're doing, they're tearing down this country.

00:23:25.360 And I don't know if they're being incentivized, Lou, in some way that we don't see.

00:23:31.620 Maybe it's, you know, this administration that we have, I don't trust it.

00:23:36.400 I think that, you know, there could be, I think there was tampering in the election,

00:23:43.620 whether it was, you know, holding the Hunter Biden tapes back or the Hunter Biden computer back

00:23:49.760 so people couldn't see what was going on with the Biden family before the election.

00:23:55.660 That's tampering with the election right there.

00:23:58.480 So we know that there was some tampering being done.

00:24:02.000 But what this government is pushing over on, you know, you look and see what went on with the pharmacies

00:24:11.380 and the vaccine and the money that was made by government officials due to the vaccine,

00:24:18.440 pushing the vaccine on people.

00:24:20.980 And now we find out that it was all a bunch of baloney.

00:24:25.140 And could they be incentivizing these companies to go against America?

00:24:30.220 I just, it's just a really scary time that we have.

00:24:34.120 And why they're trying to break down our culture, what, where we came from and tear it apart, 0.51

00:24:43.020 canceling our culture and everything that we were founded on looks, is trying to,

00:24:50.060 they're trying to make it look like it's so wrong and so bad that, yeah,

00:24:55.580 I don't know what the underlying reason for it is, but something's going on here.

00:25:01.700 You're right.

00:25:02.580 There's something going on.

00:25:04.040 And most of us who've been following this and investigating it for some time,

00:25:08.900 I think it's it's pretty straightforward.

00:25:11.980 Now, the Marxist Dems are anti-American.

00:25:16.100 They're anti-America.

00:25:17.860 And we have to come to the understanding, which is difficult for all of us.

00:25:21.720 But right now, the Marxist Dems are in control of our federal government.

00:25:26.820 And the federal government is weaponized against the American people.

00:25:30.440 We're talking with Billy Bush.

00:25:32.660 His book is Family Reigns, The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty.

00:25:38.500 We'll be right back.

00:25:39.760 Stay with us.

00:25:46.200 We're back with Billy Bush.

00:25:48.000 And I asked Billy to come on the show to give us his perspective.

00:25:52.600 His book is a book about America and the journey that most of the folks in my generation have taken

00:26:01.520 and which the current generation will continue.

00:26:06.280 It's going to be quite a different path than most of us followed folks in my generation.

00:26:12.640 Billy, I want to just get your sense, first of all,

00:26:15.160 exactly where this country is in your judgment.

00:26:20.200 You talked about how serious the situation is.

00:26:24.300 But what do you look to for inspiration?

00:26:27.600 What do you look to as a path forward?

00:26:30.260 You don't strike me as a fellow who's either is going to be irrationally optimistic

00:26:35.560 or irrationally pessimistic.

00:26:38.020 Give us your thoughts.

00:26:39.040 Well, I'm the kind of person that looks at things as glass half full.

00:26:45.120 I do believe that we have enough people in this country who understand what's going on right now

00:26:51.820 and the predicament we're in.

00:26:53.180 I think that people are waking up to it more and more that we do have division in this country.

00:27:02.040 It's very polarized that we have one side who doesn't particularly care for this country

00:27:10.040 and what it was built on.

00:27:11.560 They want to tear it down.

00:27:14.020 They want us to become more socialistic.

00:27:20.360 They want to change it in every way.

00:27:23.720 But I still think we have enough people in this country who understand that we're still the greatest country in the world,

00:27:30.140 that we were built on freedom and where you can where dreams can be made possible here in this country.

00:27:38.140 And I think that's why we have this flood of illegal immigrants coming into this country, 1.00

00:27:43.580 because they see it also that this country is the land of opportunity.

00:27:48.140 And I think because we're built on that strong foundation,

00:27:52.040 I think the the opposite side is going to have a really, really tough time tearing it down.

00:27:58.860 I see all this stuff going on with with Donald Trump and how he gets he every every time he turns around.

00:28:08.660 They're looking for a way to get rid of him, to get him out of there.

00:28:12.260 And, you know, he's he's a strong guy.

00:28:15.540 He keeps fighting.

00:28:16.300 And I appreciate the fact that he keeps fighting for this country.

00:28:19.680 I really think that he is he's for.

00:28:24.780 This found for what we what we believe in, for what this country stands for.

00:28:30.600 I feel a lot like him.

00:28:33.800 So I think we're we're going to be OK.

00:28:36.080 But I do think it takes people to stand up and not hide from it, not hide from the fact that we we're having this problem,

00:28:46.300 but to stand up and speak out against it and stand up for what's right for this country.

00:28:51.840 Well, that's I think that that's that's first of all, well said.

00:28:56.360 We're we're at a point where I think people are also starting to realize they've been bystanders.

00:29:00.880 They've been watching this all happen over a series of years, depending on their age and and what they're doing for for a living.

00:29:10.860 Most Americans just want to go about their lives and rely upon their congressmen, their senators to be good and true men and women representing American values and their family.

00:29:26.620 We've moved a long way from that.

00:29:28.520 We have we have different cultures in this country.

00:29:32.040 Suddenly we're multicultural, to say the least. 1.00

00:29:34.440 And I'm not talking about just race here.

00:29:36.320 I'm talking about the values of Minnesota or a Georgia or California and the Midwest.

00:29:47.000 It's a clash.

00:29:48.200 And we are now separate peoples in separate states.

00:29:52.240 It's not just about red and blue.

00:29:54.040 I mean, it's this is a definitive difference amongst our people right now.

00:30:00.220 We're not just simply as President Obama once said, you know, red states and blue states were the United States.

00:30:07.700 We're not.

00:30:09.340 And people have to understand that, I think.

00:30:11.420 Don't you?

00:30:12.700 Oh, I completely agree.

00:30:13.940 We're not that way anymore.

00:30:15.100 And, you know, before it gets out of hand, I think we need to come together.

00:30:19.940 We need a savior coming in, whether, you know, Donald Trump's reelected.

00:30:23.900 But I kind of remember a little bit of an instance similar to what we're dealing with right now during Jimmy Carter's time.

00:30:33.500 And to me, he was not a good president.

00:30:36.500 But then we had Ronald Reagan come in and he unified the country and he helped the economy.

00:30:42.260 And he brought strength and courage and faith back to everyone who lives in this country.

00:30:49.020 And it made a huge difference.

00:30:51.640 And I'm just hoping that somebody comes out of the woodwork and can.

00:30:57.940 Can kind of take over like like Ronald Reagan did during those days.

00:31:03.640 Yeah, I a number of people have said that we need a Ronald Reagan.

00:31:08.400 But honestly, I think we need a Donald Trump right now.

00:31:12.440 We have to have a warrior who can take the viciousness of the left, who can I mean, the blows that he has endured over the course of eight years now, the political persecution.

00:31:26.160 I think every Republican, every elected Republican has to stand with him, because if they do not, the Marxist left will prevail.

00:31:35.300 And if they prevail, there won't be an election in 2028.

00:31:39.840 I can almost assure you of that.

00:31:43.460 Billy, we've really enjoyed talking with you.

00:31:45.460 I want to get we always give our guests the last word.

00:31:48.640 And if you will, you're concluding thoughts here.

00:31:52.120 Well, first of all, I think it's important.

00:31:53.620 I just want to reiterate that I think it's important that people speak up.

00:31:57.400 I think we're in a situation right now that is dire and that we that we need to speak up.

00:32:05.640 We need to be for this country.

00:32:07.360 We need to get rid of some of this craziness that's going on.

00:32:11.500 This woke ism, this ultra liberalism that is taking over our country.

00:32:17.780 That's turning our country into a socialistic society.

00:32:21.820 There's trying to anyway.

00:32:23.360 And we need to speak up and stand firm against it.

00:32:27.120 And then I'd like for everyone to go out there and purchase the book, Family Reigns, that I just wrote.

00:32:32.800 I think you get an incredible American history going all the way back to when my great grandfather, Adolphus, started the brewery all the way up until it was sold.

00:32:43.020 And then to where the Bushes are today, what it was like growing up in the Bush family when I grew up there, having a pet elephant, traveling in a private railroad car, which I thought everyone did at the time.

00:32:56.100 And then I realized how unique that was.

00:32:58.500 And so there's some great stories in there that people will be able to relate to history, business, family dynamics, succession.

00:33:07.100 All that sort of thing is in the book.

00:33:09.080 I think people will relate to it and enjoy it.

00:33:11.860 So please go out and get that.

00:33:13.680 And you're going to see that in the book that, you know, how my family stood by America and believed in America.

00:33:20.440 And that's what really caused them to be able to build such an incredible beer empire.

00:33:28.160 Billy, it's been great talking with you.

00:33:29.800 And we recommend Billy's book highly.

00:33:32.740 The Family Reigns, The Extraordinary Rise, An Epic Fall of an American Dynasty.

00:33:37.680 And you just prompted one of my childhood memories, my great dream.

00:33:41.440 You were talking about traveling and you're a private railroad car.

00:33:45.560 My dream was to get one of those push wagons that they had, you know, where two guys get one guy gets one in and they pedal the thing down the rails.

00:33:56.080 I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

00:33:59.760 That's what I was aspiring to at about the age of seven or eight.

00:34:03.620 So they're all perspectives in this country and there should be room for all of them.

00:34:07.560 Billy Bush, thanks for being with us.

00:34:09.060 And we appreciate your time.

00:34:11.900 God bless you.

00:34:12.820 My pleasure, Lou.

00:34:13.780 Thank you very much for having me.

00:34:15.560 Thanks, everybody, for being here today.

00:34:17.480 And thanks to Billy Bush.

00:34:19.100 Tomorrow, as the drumbeat is growing louder for mandatory masks once again, the urging of more vaccinations, even as experts say the masks don't work, the vaccines don't prevent the China virus contagion.

00:34:31.880 We take up the issues and controversies surrounding the virus and the vaccines.

00:34:38.020 Our guest is noted physician, epidemiologist, virologist, as well as medical scientist, Dr. Robert Malone,

00:34:44.840 who is credited with playing a major role in the discovery of messenger DNA, MRNA.

00:34:51.620 Please join us for that tomorrow and join us each and every weekday.

00:34:55.240 Follow me on Twitter and Truth Social at Lou Dobbs and on Facebook and Instagram at Lou Dobbs Tonight.

00:35:01.540 And be sure to check out loudobs.com.

00:35:04.340 Thanks, everybody.

00:35:05.160 God bless you, and may God bless and save America.

The Great America Show - September 16, 2023

BEER BATTLES & CULTURE CLASHES

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