The Great America Show - October 31, 2024


GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.


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30 minutes

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5,723

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439

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Lee Greenwood shares his experience opening up for President Trump at a recent event in New York City. He also talks about being held up by the Secret Service at the end of the event and how they handled the situation. Lee also reflects on his 40th anniversary of his debut album, The Patriot.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:05.320 It's great to have you with us.
00:00:06.920 We're just days away now from the most important election of our lifetime, and there is so
00:00:10.840 much at stake, folks, so much at stake for our future, for our children's future, for
00:00:15.840 this country's future, and for the sake of national security and everything that comes
00:00:20.120 with a new president.
00:00:21.700 We're obviously all hoping for a great outcome on Tuesday, November 5th, and you guys got
00:00:26.040 to remember to get out and vote and bring everybody with you that you can possibly bring.
00:00:30.720 Today on the show, we're going to be doing something a little bit different.
00:00:33.000 Usually, we have guests on the show, and we're selling books and politicians and stuff like
00:00:37.380 that.
00:00:37.960 It's a little bit different today.
00:00:39.460 I've got a recording artist on the show today.
00:00:42.800 Some of you guys might know him.
00:00:44.320 I'm going to bring him in.
00:00:45.160 His name is Lee Greenwood.
00:00:46.900 I don't know if you don't know him.
00:00:48.840 If you know him, excellent.
00:00:50.200 Lee was at MSG with President Trump on Sunday, and he sort of opened up for him.
00:00:56.600 I want to play the clip for everybody, for you all to check it out.
00:00:59.680 And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
00:01:13.700 And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
00:01:20.080 And I let me stand up next to you and defend her still today.
00:01:28.080 Cause there ain't no damn land of this land
00:01:33.860 God bless the U.S.
00:01:39.360 God bless the U.S.
00:02:01.640 Wow.
00:02:02.580 Lee, every time I hear your song, for you who didn't know who Lee Greenwood was before,
00:02:08.360 You obviously know who he is now. I would put the name to the face. Lee, every time I hear your song, it literally gives me the chills.
00:02:17.300 You were at MSG opening up for President Trump, the main act. Lee, your thoughts.
00:02:22.860 Well, I didn't think I could fill up Madison Square Garden without him.
00:02:26.940 So I was honored to be there. It's interesting because we were there most of the day.
00:02:32.400 As I came in through our limo early in the day, every barricade, almost every street was filled up with people.
00:02:41.620 When we finally got to the event, there was 19,500 people inside, 75,000 people outside.
00:02:48.800 That's a correct number. And everybody was so jammed in the barricades.
00:02:53.080 You could not even move with people solidly against the barricade, wanting to see President Trump as he came to the Madison Square Garden.
00:03:01.520 So being being allowed to come there and be but they could have easily played my music.
00:03:06.020 And he does every time that he has a rally. If I'm not there in person, he specifically asked me to be there.
00:03:11.660 And as you'll notice, it's funny, I was standing at the side when Melania walked out and majestically.
00:03:18.900 Oh, my gosh. I mean, she looked like a queen, you know, and slowly and very calmly walked the stage,
00:03:25.700 waving to the audience and delivered her message to the public and then introduced her husband and her president. 0.89
00:03:34.100 She turned to face him. I'm coming up the other stairs.
00:03:37.800 And the Secret Service was very adamant, like, you're not going to walk out there till we tell you.
00:03:41.720 I said, well, I'm going to walk when I hear the music.
00:03:43.840 And so somebody talked in the guy's ear that was holding me there.
00:03:46.700 He went, OK, let him in.
00:03:47.580 So I walked over. There's another gentleman, Secret Service, guarding the stairway, not looking at me.
00:03:53.680 He's looking at the stage. I tapped him on the shoulder.
00:03:55.640 He said, excuse me, can I go by?
00:03:57.020 He looked at me like and then he looked at the microphone is like, who in the heck are you?
00:04:01.380 You know, and then somebody said in his ear, let him go.
00:04:04.480 That I walked up. I don't believe Melania knew I was standing behind her the entire time
00:04:09.560 until she turned around when the president came on to the stage and then faced me. 0.66
00:04:14.240 And then she turned around and faced me as well. And what a wonderful moment that was.
00:04:18.460 I can I can reflect on the 1984 RNC when I sang and Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan are standing watching me do the same song.
00:04:27.820 So as I as I look back in all of those years, we're at the 40 year anniversary of God Bless the USA
00:04:33.840 and the American Patriot CD that was released that year.
00:04:38.180 It's unbelievable. It's hard to believe that I'm still doing this.
00:04:41.300 Well, you know, I it's funny that you describe that whole reaction and transaction with that,
00:04:47.040 because I was sitting about you guys had their little VIP area and then I was about four rows up in the in the seating area.
00:04:53.900 And I'm looking at I'm reading the guest list and I see Lee Greenwood.
00:04:57.880 And I'm like, he's got to be opening up for for the president.
00:05:00.440 And then I see you sitting in the corner. I see you start walking your cowboy boots on.
00:05:04.400 And I see you take a stop before the stage and then I see you proceed up.
00:05:08.360 And I as I said to you when we started the show, every time I hear your song, it literally gives me chills down my back.
00:05:14.880 And it doesn't matter, you know, if I'm hearing it the first time, the second time or third time in a row.
00:05:19.820 When I grew up in schools, Lee, it was at a time I'm 30 years old now.
00:05:24.180 It was at a time I consider it the best times to have grown up, at least in the millennial era.
00:05:30.680 You know, we got to experience life without cell phones.
00:05:33.640 We got to experience life riding bicycles around the neighborhood, throwing toilet paper on people's houses during Halloween.
00:05:39.160 They'll stop there. That's all I've ever done.
00:05:41.460 So, you know, I got to experience life both ways.
00:05:45.520 And Lee, the most important thing is I don't even know if they're still doing the Pledge of Allegiance in schools nowadays.
00:05:51.040 It's how long I've been out of school.
00:05:52.640 But when I was in school, Lee, we've got to experience what it was like to be patriotic.
00:05:57.800 And I'll never forget in one of my great classes, we have these shows and your song was one of the songs that we had to learn.
00:06:05.220 So it really it just brings back memories.
00:06:07.620 And if you listen to the words of it, Lee, to every grain, it's literally just chilling.
00:06:14.020 But I'm reading this week that Will Ferrell now is trying to compete with you because he's tired of hearing about your song.
00:06:20.660 Lee, we've seen this transactional issue we're having in America now where they want to wipe away every fabric that this country was built on, the patrioticness of it, you know, the core being that America is a great place.
00:06:38.080 You just celebrated your 82nd birthday, which I don't believe you because there's no way you're 82 years old.
00:06:43.900 That's that's first of all. But in your 82 years on this earthly working for many presidents, working with many presidents, including many Democrats, what is your thoughts on where this country has gone?
00:06:57.540 Well, we're an interesting place. I think more and more were influenced by world events, as you see Russia trying to take out the Ukraine and then the attack on Israel and now the war in Gaza with Hezbollah and and Hamas.
00:07:12.820 And we're affected by that. And we shouldn't be. As a country, we should keep our own direction.
00:07:18.040 I am appalled to know that our current administration sent one hundred million dollars to Lebanon and knowing that the money is going to go to the to the terrorists.
00:07:28.500 When we had people in North Carolina suffering from Hurricane Helene, I, you know, the irresponsibility of of of of the left and and the White House is just it's unfathomable.
00:07:42.340 I have seen a lot. Yes. And I am like you. I was I was going places without a cell phone and they said, how did you get there?
00:07:49.560 I use the map. What's a map? It was a map. You open up. It's got streets on it.
00:07:53.740 You know, well, my phone's got streets on it. I didn't have a phone then.
00:07:57.100 And and so learning directions, learning about life.
00:08:01.040 And of course, World War one and two were something extremely critical in America's survival.
00:08:07.540 Oh, and and we got over it. My father joined the Navy right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
00:08:13.000 So I have military family. My wife and I have been married 32 years.
00:08:16.680 I did not serve in the military. I was three in the draft.
00:08:19.920 And and so I would have been a good soldier. I like discipline.
00:08:22.960 I like what my wife's tell me to do when I do it. 0.97
00:08:25.700 And so, you know, Kim and I have a wonderful existence.
00:08:29.780 We have two two sons that, like you, are twenty nine and twenty six.
00:08:33.920 And Dalton is is a biotech analyst in Chicago for a financial firm.
00:08:38.860 And our young boy who was chancellor scholar at TCU is now at the University of Miami,
00:08:43.500 getting a musical degree in production and engineering.
00:08:45.940 And this country has given me that chance.
00:08:48.680 If I was not an American and to to try to just map out where I would have gone early on in my life,
00:08:55.420 it wouldn't have been here. I would probably be in construction helping my stepfather build hotels or my grandfather work in the fields.
00:09:02.780 So, you know, here I am just very lucky and very blessed.
00:09:05.940 And I want to pass that on. And you mentioned about how you build patriotism early in children.
00:09:11.840 I get these videos all the time of kids that are like five, six, seven years old.
00:09:16.780 And they're standing there waving a little flag and they're singing, I'm proud to be an American where I'm free.
00:09:24.160 You know, it's just it just warms my heart to know that that people my age pass it to people that your age and now your people your age are passing to your kids.
00:09:35.460 Another generation of learning that God bless USA, like the national anthem, like God bless America and all of those songs that are on my American Patriots CD,
00:09:44.100 by the way, was released this year by Universal on a 33 and a third, which was never released early on.
00:09:50.680 It was only on a CD. So 40 years later, they're releasing the American Patriots CD to make sure people understand patriotism is still alive.
00:09:59.120 America is still the greatest country on the earth.
00:10:01.220 And we have to make sure we honor our veterans who have paid the price.
00:10:06.240 Yeah. You know, I was telling you before the show, Lou Dobbs is a massive fan of yours.
00:10:10.980 He loved your music. And before he passed away or after he passed away, his wife had given me a few things of his to remember him by this American flag pin is one of them,
00:10:19.400 which I wear every single day on the show to remember him.
00:10:21.760 But I was on an event, Lee, a few weeks ago, probably wearing this jacket or one like it, but I put it on every jacket I own.
00:10:28.480 And someone asked me, why are you wearing an American flag? What are you, a politician?
00:10:32.500 And I sat back and I thought, this is really how stupid society has gotten, Lee, that I have to be a politician to wear an American flag.
00:10:42.800 And it was sort of disrespectful, not on that aspect, that someone would call me a politician, compare me to a politician,
00:10:48.280 because I like to think I'm a lot more patriotic than some of these people who are sitting there selling out our country in Congress right now.
00:10:54.320 So we're going to take a quick break. We're talking with Lee Greenwood, a great American, an amazing singer and a staple of President Trump's campaign since 2016.
00:11:05.140 Coming right back with Lee. Stay with us.
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00:12:13.180 We're back.
00:12:16.400 We're talking with Lee Greenwood, the great Lee Greenwood, one of President Trump's, I think, favorite people.
00:12:21.740 If you saw in that video in the first segment we played, President Trump doesn't hug very many people.
00:12:26.140 So for him to go out there and give Lee a hug, and you saw, I could tell, Lee, that you were a little humbled by it as well.
00:12:34.100 Just unbelievable.
00:12:36.200 As you notice, when I left the stage, he gave me a whack on the back.
00:12:40.340 I saw.
00:12:40.680 As a friendly gesture, you know, to make you say, Lee, thanks, man.
00:12:45.020 You know, I can't engage in conversation right now, but I'll talk to you later.
00:12:48.640 I mean, that's what that meant.
00:12:50.140 And it was so cool to sing at least for a minute and a half of my song facing that fantastic couple.
00:13:00.100 And I love them both.
00:13:01.880 I have sang for the First Lady before on an event in Washington, D.C., and many times for President Trump since 2016.
00:13:10.160 But as you know, and we mentioned before, God Bless the USA is a song for all Americans.
00:13:15.600 And when I wrote it, it had no political affiliation.
00:13:18.540 I didn't intend to have it.
00:13:20.180 I am a conservative Christian.
00:13:21.500 And, yes, I'm drawn in because of that to use my material in order to do what I think I believe in.
00:13:28.300 And it's conservatism, if you will.
00:13:30.740 And Christianity.
00:13:31.860 That's why we have the God Bless USA Bible.
00:13:34.380 But you go back to the early days of my life and what I stood for.
00:13:37.880 I was probably liberal as a young man.
00:13:40.120 You know, I think, yeah, I've been running wild.
00:13:42.920 When I got to Nevada, I was 17 years old.
00:13:45.280 I opened up the Stars Hotel with my own band in Vegas.
00:13:48.680 And I worked there 20 years.
00:13:49.960 My gosh, you'd think I was rocking and rolling.
00:13:53.420 I ran with the Rat Pack and Elvis Presley and all those folks.
00:13:58.580 And I got my country career.
00:13:59.820 And I thought, well, this is the next level.
00:14:02.420 Because now I'm running with Reba McIntyre, George Strait, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Barbara Mandrell.
00:14:07.320 You know, and everybody, Garth Brooks.
00:14:09.120 It's like, good grief.
00:14:10.760 You know, and country then took a bigger piece of the pie.
00:14:13.120 And that was about the time I got there in Nashville.
00:14:15.100 It was 1980.
00:14:15.920 And here it's now country is like presenting Lee Greenwood on a stage with the president instead of anybody else.
00:14:23.540 I don't know who else I mentioned.
00:14:25.260 You know, I'm surprised, Lee, that we haven't gotten more from the left.
00:14:29.160 He's accusing you of being a racist or a xenophobe or any of that garbage, because it seems anybody who associates themselves with President Trump gets called any of those adjectives, Lee, because it's just it's the way they do business.
00:14:43.100 So for you to have passed all of those name callings and all that stuff is truly remarkable.
00:14:49.780 It must mean that you actually are a great human being.
00:14:51.860 And from everything I've seen, Lee, you really do love this country.
00:14:55.900 But if you go to the left and you ask them about us, Lee, as conservatives, they have this to say, or at least their leader, Joe Biden or de facto leader.
00:15:03.800 Joe Biden has this to say about us.
00:15:06.140 Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware.
00:15:09.800 They're good, decent, honorable people.
00:15:12.060 The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.
00:15:15.680 His demonization is seen as unconscionable.
00:15:19.120 And it's un-American.
00:15:22.860 So, Lee, we're just a bunch of garbage.
00:15:25.640 And now he's obviously talking about, I don't know if you were there in time at MSG, about Tony, a comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe.
00:15:32.400 He's a comedian.
00:15:33.420 Now, I've had to explain this to people on Twitter, Lee, because I've gotten backlash on both sides and people agree and disagree.
00:15:38.960 It is what it is.
00:15:40.100 He made a comment about Puerto Rico being an island of floating garbage.
00:15:44.320 Now, if you look into it, Puerto Rico has an issue with landfill issues that they're running out of space for garbage.
00:15:49.740 Whatever.
00:15:50.480 People took it out of context and out of the wrong way.
00:15:53.800 Two weeks before that, George Lopez was in Mexico at an event for Kamala Harris where he said all Mexicans are thieves.
00:16:00.600 You didn't hear a word from the right, Lee, because it's comedy, right?
00:16:03.920 And comedy is not reality.
00:16:05.720 And that's the problem that a lot of these people are having.
00:16:08.600 So I'm on Twitter, Lee, and I'm saying, you know what?
00:16:11.140 It maybe wasn't the best timing that he made a joke like that going into the election, but it's comedy.
00:16:15.980 The day we let comedy die in this country, Lee, is the day we let this country die.
00:16:20.760 Then we get this comment from Joe Biden, Lee, and there's less pushback from this comment than from that.
00:16:26.660 Yeah, I'd have to tell Joe Biden, Mr. President, please stop talking.
00:16:32.040 That's first.
00:16:33.300 And then I would say to Vice President Kamala Harris, please stop talking.
00:16:38.600 Neither one of them can say anything that has any substance at all.
00:16:41.380 And when they do speak, they speak in circles.
00:16:43.580 I passed the litmus test, and I think the reason is because if you go back to my history when I got to Nashville, Tennessee, and we're not going to talk about the years in Vegas.
00:16:54.420 There were 20 years of those, and I dealt cards in the casinos, and I had no career, really.
00:16:59.660 I was a working musician and a writer in reviews, but my passion became supporting the military when I got to Nashville.
00:17:07.660 We started a number of our USO tours, which I had done already as a teenager out of California.
00:17:13.780 I went to Alaska before it was a state.
00:17:16.360 I worked all of the up and down Air Force bases, Marine, Army bases in California.
00:17:21.720 And then when I got to Tennessee, I started traveling to Tennessee National Guard, and we did 16 USO tours around the world.
00:17:28.240 So right away, I have to mention my passion has been to build homes for wounded warriors.
00:17:33.360 And there's a profound foundation called Helping a Hero.
00:17:37.660 Which over the past 12 years, as their ambassador and live performer, we built 220 homes in more than 16 states.
00:17:46.140 And so I think when you talk about you want to slap my hand because I'm a conservative, it's really difficult for the left to do that to me as the American patriot.
00:17:57.620 I think that's the thing they have trouble with.
00:18:00.060 And I'm not hostile.
00:18:01.740 My music is not hostile.
00:18:03.580 And so they kind of like sidestep.
00:18:07.320 And recently, there was an article about someone else that tried to attack me, and it was completely flat.
00:18:13.240 Yeah.
00:18:13.440 I mean, and Lee, the thing is, and you're entitled to make as much money as you could possibly make.
00:18:17.840 That's what America is about, right?
00:18:19.140 The American dream.
00:18:20.360 But when you were going out here doing these USO tours, Lee, I can almost bet you weren't charging them a million bucks to sing.
00:18:26.680 A hundred dollars a day.
00:18:27.780 There you go.
00:18:28.740 But a hundred bucks a day.
00:18:29.860 I don't think there's a working at McDonald's where you can make less than a hundred bucks.
00:18:34.660 It's unbelievable.
00:18:35.880 And, you know, if you will, tell the audience, because I don't think many people know about this.
00:18:40.180 When Ronald Reagan sort of brought your song out to God Bless the USA to use it as his campaign slogan, and obviously we see the parallels between President Trump and Ronald Reagan.
00:18:49.380 It seems he's probably his biggest fan, President Trump being the biggest fan of Ronald Reagan.
00:18:55.420 Tell them what you charged Ronald Reagan to use your song on his campaigns.
00:19:01.080 Well, interestingly enough, you know, my manager at the time named Jerry Bentley, who's deceased now, unfortunately.
00:19:07.020 He was my manager for 33 years.
00:19:08.800 He was a Marine and wounded in Vietnam.
00:19:11.720 And he understood my appreciation for the military.
00:19:14.980 And he understood about Ronald Reagan being a true American patriot, even though he was an actor.
00:19:21.260 I mean, you remember that show we had on television for a while?
00:19:23.300 I can't remember the name of it, but he's a true horseman.
00:19:26.760 And he impressed us as a real rural American, somebody that we loved a lot.
00:19:31.860 And so when the campaign reached out to us, Jerry and I talked, I said, don't charge them.
00:19:36.680 I said, let them have it.
00:19:37.720 And he said, we have to charge something.
00:19:39.380 And I said, OK, how about a dollar?
00:19:40.520 Sure. So actually, there was actually a contract for a dollar to let them use the campaign, use the song in the campaign.
00:19:47.740 If that's not a great American, folks, I don't know who is.
00:19:51.100 I remember hearing your song.
00:19:52.700 I'm a New Yorker, Lee.
00:19:54.440 After 9-11, and we're in World Series season now, it literally just encompasses every time you hear the song.
00:20:02.260 It has to do with something extremely patriotic.
00:20:04.940 Obviously, after 9-11, the country was going through a massive healing period.
00:20:09.060 And to see Lee Greenwood out there on the mound in the – I guess it was in New York you were in, right, when you're saying it?
00:20:16.160 I went to New York three times.
00:20:18.160 I was sequestered in Los Angeles for the two weeks that the planes were not flying.
00:20:22.460 And Mayor Giuliani asked me to come to New York and sing the Fireman's Memorial.
00:20:25.700 I did that at Yankee Stadium.
00:20:27.120 300 firemen were killed.
00:20:29.280 It was Bette Midler, myself, and Mark Anthony.
00:20:32.040 At that time, President Clinton was there on the stage with Governor Pataki from New York and all the cleric.
00:20:37.960 And my wife was with me.
00:20:39.620 We were sobbing in the dugout.
00:20:41.160 It was so, so emotional.
00:20:43.160 The police commissioner put together a memorial for the policemen that were killed, and I sang at Carnegie Hall two weeks later.
00:20:49.360 And then I came back for the fourth game of the World Series, as you mentioned.
00:20:52.380 It's the same time frame as now.
00:20:54.740 And to be there and wear that red, white, and blue jacket, which a lot of people said you shouldn't wear colors and clothing.
00:21:00.820 I said, you know what?
00:21:01.520 I want the rest of the world to know we are not on our knees.
00:21:04.820 We are after the terrorists, and America will have its sports.
00:21:08.800 We love our sports, and you're not going to take that away from us.
00:21:11.540 And so it was an emotional moment the entire time I was in New York.
00:21:15.220 And we went back there quite a few times, and it was great to be back again for Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, too.
00:21:21.440 That was awesome.
00:21:22.680 We need you back here more often, Lee, because we're stuck with people like Beyonce and all these other people.
00:21:29.300 We're just terrible people.
00:21:30.260 I want to take one more quick break and continue this conversation on the other side.
00:21:34.380 Believe it or not, folks, I may have told you Lee was 82 years old, just turned 82 years old.
00:21:38.660 But he's still out there working.
00:21:41.800 We'll tell you what Lee's got up his sleeve.
00:21:43.280 We're coming right back with Lee Greenwood.
00:21:44.660 Stay with us.
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00:22:51.040 We're back.
00:22:54.380 We're talking with Lee Greenwood.
00:22:55.800 Lee, as we went to break there, we were talking about the celebrities that be now.
00:23:00.300 And there's not very many people like you anymore who care about this country.
00:23:04.040 You really only find it in country.
00:23:06.300 If you look at the other side, the rap music culture, the hip-hop and R&B, you've got guys like P. Diddy running the industry.
00:23:14.440 And we all know the operation P. Diddy has been running now for the last 20 years.
00:23:18.920 Wow.
00:23:19.180 How do we get more Lee Greenwoods in this world?
00:23:23.700 Well, we have a – I try to be a good image for everyone.
00:23:27.040 And as a footnote to that, my music goes on now for over four generations, and we've just released a rock version of God Bless the USA on iTunes.
00:23:38.680 The pre-sale comes out this Friday.
00:23:40.540 I tried to get it done on my birthday, and my birthday was the same time as Madison Square Garden performance at the rally.
00:23:46.520 It was a little bit late.
00:23:47.820 I couldn't quite get it done.
00:23:49.320 But it's available now.
00:23:50.560 So if people want to hear another version of God Bless the USA that will rock your world, try that.
00:23:55.640 Why don't we just play a little clip for him right now, Lee?
00:23:58.680 What do you say?
00:23:59.600 Are we locked?
00:23:59.920 Go ahead.
00:24:00.680 Here we go.
00:24:01.140 Go ahead.
00:24:01.340 Yeah, I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
00:24:09.320 And I won't forget the man who died, who gave that right to me.
00:24:15.400 And I gladly stand up next to you, and you can burst your day.
00:24:22.980 Because you're indoor down in all this land.
00:24:28.940 God Bless the USA.
00:24:39.540 Wow.
00:24:40.200 That one even gave me bigger chills, Lee.
00:24:42.200 That's available this Friday for pre-order.
00:24:45.760 Folks, I don't ask you guys to do much on this show.
00:24:47.960 Maybe every now and then buy a book or two, but it's for the good of the country and the good of your own knowledge.
00:24:54.220 Go out there and pre-save it, pre-buy it, do everything you can.
00:24:58.020 Apple, where else can they get it, Lee?
00:25:00.820 Yeah, I wanted to be on number one on the rock charts.
00:25:04.260 That's the only charts we've never been on.
00:25:06.440 And I'm not a rocker, but I did play a lot of rock music when I was younger.
00:25:09.800 My favorite band, Tower of Power from Oakland, California.
00:25:12.800 I sang Earth, Wind & Fire of Chicago.
00:25:14.380 I sang all of that.
00:25:15.920 And as a country artist, we have a little bit more of a contemporary flair.
00:25:19.240 But if you want that song, go to my website, LeeGreenwood.com, or go to iTunes and click on the pre-sale and download it.
00:25:25.700 That would be cool, man.
00:25:27.700 Now, Lee, from what I understand, are you still touring?
00:25:31.860 Yes.
00:25:32.180 Tell us about where are you going to be over the next few months, years?
00:25:37.560 What kind of venues are you doing?
00:25:39.660 Yeah, I'm in residence at High Point University.
00:25:41.840 I'll be there this next weekend.
00:25:44.100 Of course, I'm going to just go to Mar-a-Lago and watch the election returns first and make sure that we're on the right page here.
00:25:50.500 But I'll be touring all through 2025.
00:25:52.820 So go to LeeGreenwood.com and see our tour schedule.
00:25:56.200 God bless you, Lee.
00:25:57.140 I don't know how you do it.
00:25:58.200 I mean, like I said, I'm 30, and I'm looking for every way possible I could to retire.
00:26:02.580 I mean, I understand your job is probably a little bit more fun than mine.
00:26:05.740 You have a little bit less enemies than I do.
00:26:07.740 But nonetheless, it's unbelievable.
00:26:09.720 As we wrap up here, Lee, I want to give you the chance, as a man who's seen a lot of things, God bless you.
00:26:16.160 You look as healthy as possibly can be.
00:26:19.460 I want to give you an opportunity to tell our audience, the younger folks who tune into this show,
00:26:24.500 the older folks who have grandchildren and children, what we can do, Lee, to get this country back after November 5th,
00:26:32.000 pending, you know, President Trump wins and takes this country back.
00:26:34.500 What can we do to instill the patriotism back in this country that we saw after 9-11 and united country, Lee?
00:26:42.060 And now 9-11 is probably not a good example because we had just come from a bad time.
00:26:45.280 But that was the last time, Lee, I remember this country being united and the American folks sticking together and raising their fist that we're Americans.
00:26:54.040 We're in this together, and it's America versus everybody else. 0.58
00:26:57.580 What is your message to those folks, Lee?
00:27:00.620 Well, the first thing would be don't destroy the past.
00:27:03.060 We try to learn about the future from what we've been through.
00:27:06.640 Don't try to destroy the documents of how we got started.
00:27:09.300 In the God Bless the USA Bible, you'll find the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights,
00:27:14.940 things we should never forget and how this country got started.
00:27:17.760 Those people that signed the Declaration of Independence, they put their lives, their fortunes on the line to start this country.
00:27:23.720 Let's not forget that.
00:27:25.140 We don't owe anybody anything in the world except to be the free country that we are.
00:27:30.020 Every time you go through an airport anywhere, thank a soldier.
00:27:33.400 That's first and foremost.
00:27:35.040 Teach your kids what patriotism is.
00:27:36.860 Let them be independent thinkers, but when the time they get your age, John, I think they're going to go, yeah, I'm a conservative.
00:27:44.880 Yeah, I mean, Lee, I have three sisters.
00:27:48.060 I was the only boy in my family, and my father, we grew up, my father gave us no choice.
00:27:53.220 You have to be conservatives.
00:27:54.000 Now, I went to school down in Daytona Beach, Florida to be a pilot, probably a little bit more conservative.
00:27:58.580 I had teachers who were former Air Force and Navy guys.
00:28:01.480 Two of my sisters went to liberal arts schools, and it shows that they went to liberal arts schools.
00:28:05.240 Lee, I spent all day on this damn phone, group texting with them, arguing with them about Donald Trump, and they're just so brainwashed.
00:28:12.900 They both work in American America.
00:28:14.660 Lee, they're so brainwashed by what they're told.
00:28:18.380 They're told to say that Trump's a fascist.
00:28:20.280 He's a racist.
00:28:21.300 He's a xenophobe.
00:28:22.180 He's this and that.
00:28:23.100 And it's truly sickening, and it actually makes me upset to think that people think that of him.
00:28:27.860 And you and I both know him, and that's not who he is, but that's what this country has come to, Lee.
00:28:33.460 Where could people go out and buy your Bible, everything else, Lee Greenwood?
00:28:38.600 Go to the website, godblesstheusabible.com.
00:28:41.900 Go to my website, leegreenwood.com.
00:28:44.200 Find all our merchandise, our discography, and our merchandise that will be sale online.
00:28:50.360 Lee Greenwood, you're a great American.
00:28:51.700 Thanks for everything you've done for this country over the last, we'll call it, 82 years.
00:28:55.560 Thanks so much, brother.
00:28:57.380 It is.
00:28:58.100 Thanks.
00:28:58.740 See ya.
00:28:59.720 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today, and thanks to Lee Greenwood.
00:29:02.400 I thought it was important to bring him on the show with everything this country is going through right now,
00:29:06.880 and the healing period that we're going to need after Trump wins on Tuesday.
00:29:11.940 It's truly sad what the Democrats have done to this country, but with people like you and I and people like Lee Greenwood,
00:29:18.620 I think we can get out of this mess, and I think we could be a united country once again.
00:29:23.340 And I don't see any other way forward without being united.
00:29:27.880 The Marxist Dems on the left have to come to the table and realize President Trump is going to be the next president of the United States,
00:29:34.120 and he means no harm to this country.
00:29:36.320 He wants to do one simple thing, make America great again.
00:29:40.480 He wants the American people to thrive.
00:29:42.720 He wants no wars over in the Middle East.
00:29:44.760 He wants no wars over in Asia.
00:29:46.280 He wants everything to just be calm and people to become rich, Americans to become rich, our industries to become rich.
00:29:53.020 Is that so bad of him to want that from this country?
00:29:57.400 In my opinion, no, but in the Marxist Dems, he's the devil, as they call him Hitler.
00:30:03.720 He's the furthest thing from it.
00:30:05.820 Folks, thanks so much for joining us today.
00:30:07.480 Please be sure to join us back here tomorrow for The Great America Show as our quest for truth, justice, and the American way continues.
00:30:13.600 We'll see you back here tomorrow.
00:30:14.760 May God bless you, may God bless America, may God bless the great Lou Dobbs.