The Great America Show - TODAY IS THE DAY WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Great America Show.

00:00:05.140 It's great to have you with us.

00:00:06.380 Thanks so much for being with us on this monumental day.

00:00:09.360 It's a monumental day that we've all been waiting for for the last almost four years

00:00:13.540 since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took the oath of office in January of 2021.

00:00:19.480 And just reflecting back and looking at our lives on that day and where we are now, you

00:00:24.740 hear us talk about it every single day on this show, folks, whether it's me talking

00:00:27.860 directly to you as the audience or with a guest, we're all paying the consequences of this

00:00:32.980 regime, whether it be a weak foreign policy that puts us very vulnerable at home for World

00:00:38.100 War III, whether it be inflation that's eating up the wallets of the average American, whether

00:00:43.520 it be credit card debt through the roof, whether it be mortgage rates through the roof, interest

00:00:48.680 rates through the roof.

00:00:50.300 This regime has managed to have an impact on every single person's lives, the transgenders 1.00

00:00:56.040 and men's sports.

00:00:56.840 The list really just goes on.

00:00:59.660 When Lou and I started this show three and a half years ago, we had one vision in mind,

00:01:04.240 and this was Lou's idea, the vision.

00:01:07.460 And it was to get Donald Trump reelected on this day.

00:01:11.260 Now, unfortunately, God had different plans for Lou and decided to take him home early,

00:01:16.900 which is why I'm continuing on the tradition of the show and not Lou.

00:01:21.800 But Lou is here in spirit and he's with me every single day.

00:01:24.740 And I think about Lou every single morning when I wake up and I think about Lou every

00:01:28.180 single evening when I go to bed.

00:01:30.100 And when I sit down here in my studio, I think of Lou and the impact he had on me, the impact

00:01:36.420 he's had on my career and the things that Lou has done for me.

00:01:39.960 You know, I'd sit here all day telling you all what he's done for me and what he's meant

00:01:45.860 to me.

00:01:46.940 So today is a special day for me and it's a special day for President Trump.

00:01:50.280 And it's a special day for Lou because everything we've done on this show over the last three

00:01:54.620 and a half years, almost to the day, was to get President Trump reelected.

00:01:59.300 And I like to think that we've done a great job at doing that.

00:02:02.180 We'll see the polls tonight on and how or tomorrow early morning on how that how well we've done

00:02:09.240 and moved the needle.

00:02:10.260 But from everything I've heard and I've read and I see, it looks like President Trump is

00:02:15.600 doing just well.

00:02:17.260 And we'll we'll get into that in just a few moments.

00:02:19.320 But President Trump was ending his campaign last night in Michigan, not getting back to

00:02:24.880 Palm Beach, Florida until around six o'clock in the morning, ending a rally at two o'clock

00:02:29.700 in the morning.

00:02:30.160 They're having a few sad things to say, some choice words about why he's here and who put

00:02:37.760 him here.

00:02:38.000 Take a listen.

00:02:39.040 But when I was down, it was there was no feeling like I had in the White House.

00:02:43.960 I mean, I totally was aware of everything.

00:02:46.180 But had I not made that turn, I wouldn't be with you tonight.

00:02:49.860 And that would have been that would have been bad.

00:02:52.380 And I hope that's right.

00:02:54.100 I hope that's right.

00:02:55.260 I hope that God did put me here to to really save this country.

00:03:01.320 This country's in big, big trouble.

00:03:06.680 Yeah, as I said, God has plans for all of us here on Earth and he had plans for President

00:03:13.620 Trump that day and we thank him for that.

00:03:16.180 And I wish Luke could be here today to witness, you know, the monumental turns this campaign

00:03:21.720 has taken because I know he's he's up top and he's smiling down on all of us and he's

00:03:25.740 smiling down on President Trump, telling him what a great job he's doing because President

00:03:29.600 Trump ended his campaign, I think, better than probably any candidate ever will for any

00:03:35.580 race of office in this country.

00:03:38.980 President Trump's a stand of America and he really does care about the people.

00:03:41.900 The sad part about it all is that we got to see President Trump do his last Trump dance.

00:03:47.280 I think we may ever get to see him do last night.

00:03:50.020 Let's reminisce on it a little bit.

00:03:51.780 Young man, there's no need to feel down.

00:04:14.160 I said, young man, hit yourself off the ground.

00:04:17.740 I said, young man, because you're in a new town.

00:04:23.960 President Trump is quite the entertainer, you know, for most of the folks who haven't

00:04:30.060 met him.

00:04:30.840 That's the man that you get in person.

00:04:32.800 It's the same person you get on television.

00:04:35.280 He's a born entertainer.

00:04:36.620 And, you know, politics, I guess, is his second job.

00:04:39.860 But, you know, President Trump has put everything on the line to do what he's doing, his family.

00:04:46.780 I never thought we'd see the day where we'd say he's put his life on the line.

00:04:52.160 Actually, metaphorically, obviously, that's been the case since 2016.

00:04:56.340 But actually, you know, looking back in July and August, the first failed assassination

00:05:03.280 attempt and the second one, luckily not being able to fire off any shots at him.

00:05:08.040 But this is the world we've come to, folks.

00:05:09.940 This is the world that the Marxist Dems have us living in now.

00:05:13.240 And it's, you know, it's scary to think that.

00:05:15.480 And I hope all of you will go out and vote today and grab every single person you know

00:05:20.680 to get out and vote today because our lives do depend on it.

00:05:23.160 You know, you often hear people say, vote like your lives depend on it.

00:05:25.680 Our lives do depend on it, folks.

00:05:28.700 Everything from your kids in school to inflation, you go down the list.

00:05:32.780 We talk about it every single day here.

00:05:34.540 I don't want to sound like a broken record, but it's the truth.

00:05:37.900 I want to go over some early voting data that we're getting out this morning.

00:05:42.340 First, let's take a look at Arizona.

00:05:44.560 The early vote numbers are in from Arizona.

00:05:47.320 So now these are people who voted before Election Day, early voting.

00:05:50.260 The Republicans won early voting in Arizona by 212,000 votes, folks.

00:05:56.800 A million Republicans voting, 797,000 Democrats, 686,000 independents.

00:06:03.860 An absolute sweep in Arizona in early voting.

00:06:10.360 Taking a look at Florida.

00:06:11.840 Now, Florida is safe red.

00:06:13.420 But just to give you an idea of where the Republicans are at in Florida, and I think this is going to be the momentum we see across the country as we go into tonight.

00:06:24.440 In Florida, early votes plus Election Day early votes that were done on Election Day.

00:06:30.680 Republicans are up by a million, just over a million votes between the early votes and the votes cast today on Election Day.

00:06:39.840 Folks, these are numbers that are just absolutely unbelievable to see.

00:06:46.120 Now, to give you a better idea of the direction, I want to talk about Guam, a territory that's closer to Asia than it is to America.

00:06:55.960 Guam exit polls are showing that Republicans are flipping the legislator.

00:07:00.720 It has been Democrat for the last 16 years.

00:07:03.980 These folks over in Guam, miles and miles away, are feeling the wrath of the Biden regime.

00:07:13.080 So, you know, not that it means anything over in Guam and their legislator for us here on the mainland, I guess we can call it.

00:07:20.860 But I think that's just the direction that this country is going in with the Marxist Dems at hand.

00:07:27.320 And I think Republicans are getting out in forces.

00:07:30.280 At least that's what all the early numbers are telling us.

00:07:33.840 Independents are getting out in forces. 0.82

00:07:35.500 You look across the board, urban votes are down, which is things like deep blue New York City, deep blue Chicago.

00:07:43.180 And the rural vote is up. And those are the folks that have been hit by this Biden regime.

00:07:47.960 It's the farmers. It's the people who are out of these deep blue cities who watch what's going on,

00:07:54.620 who don't want to come into these deep blue cities because of the crime and the illegal immigration that happens and transpires in it.

00:08:01.860 Those votes are up, folks. The female vote is down. 1.00

00:08:04.700 Now, the female vote is usually largely Democrat. 1.00

00:08:07.800 So if you look at all these trends of things that are going on right now, it's a very good key indicator that President Trump is definitely outperforming where he did in 2020,

00:08:18.440 but probably outperforming Kamala Harris as of right now. 1.00

00:08:22.900 So I just wanted to give you guys those early numbers just to let you know where we're at right now to give you a little bit of peace of mind.

00:08:29.980 But as we know, what we saw in 2020, this thing can turn at any point, and that could be at two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning.

00:08:38.400 When we all go to bed, you folks all remember that big, nice, beautiful red line.

00:08:43.020 And then two o'clock in the morning, we saw the blue line go up, up and boom through the roof.

00:08:48.360 So we have to be vigilant.

00:08:49.820 If you guys are seeing any any fraud or any reports of any fraud, be sure to contact the local authorities and the Republican parties in the jurisdiction,

00:09:00.300 because we can't let what happened in 2020 happen here once again.

00:09:04.780 It was a disgrace and we can never let that happen again in this country.

00:09:09.460 So with that, folks, today's guest, I spoke with him last week.

00:09:14.200 He's a great American.

00:09:15.300 I wanted to keep today's episode a little bit light, try to stay away from politics for the most part.

00:09:21.720 Let the election day be enough politics for all of you.

00:09:25.700 I spoke with a Grammy award winning recording artist.

00:09:29.840 You guys may or may not know him.

00:09:32.820 I'm going to bring him in.

00:09:34.140 His name is Lee Greenwood.

00:09:35.900 I don't know if you don't know him.

00:09:37.840 If you know him, excellent.

00:09:39.900 Lee was at MSG with President Trump on Sunday.

00:09:42.780 And he sort of opened up for him.

00:09:45.580 I want to play the clip for everybody, for you all to check it out.

00:09:48.660 And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

00:10:02.700 And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

00:10:09.060 And let me stand up.

00:10:11.660 Next to you, you can defend her still today.

00:10:17.540 Cause there ain't no death out of this land.

00:10:22.840 God bless the U.S.

00:10:28.340 Love the U.S.

00:10:39.840 You just said bye, who's this guy?

00:10:45.900 Who was this guy?

00:10:47.660 Who was this guy?

00:10:48.600 Who was this guy?

00:10:50.420 Wow.

00:10:50.980 Wow. Lee, every time I hear your song, for you who didn't know who Lee Greenwood was before,

00:10:57.720 you obviously know who he is now. I put the name to the face. Lee, every time I hear your song,

00:11:03.060 it literally gives me the chills. You were at MSG opening up for President Trump, the main act.

00:11:10.020 Lee, your thoughts? Well, I didn't think I could fill up Madison Square Garden without him.

00:11:15.840 So I was honored to be there. It's interesting because we were there most of the day. As I came

00:11:22.340 in through our limo early in the day, every barricade, almost every street was filled up

00:11:29.960 with people. When we finally got to the event, there was 19,500 people inside, 75,000 people

00:11:37.200 outside. That's a correct number. And everybody was so jammed in the barricades, you could not even

00:11:42.800 move with people solidly against the barricade, wanting to see President Trump as he came to the

00:11:49.360 Madison Square Garden. So being allowed to come there and being, but they could have easily played

00:11:54.240 my music. And he does every time that he has a rally, if I'm not there in person. He specifically

00:11:59.580 asked me to be there. And as you'll notice, it's funny, I was standing at the side when Melania

00:12:05.880 walked out and majestically, oh my gosh, she looked like a queen, you know, and slowly and

00:12:12.440 very calmly walked the stage, waving to the audience and delivered her message to the public

00:12:18.320 and then introduced her husband and her president. She turned to face him. I'm coming up the other

00:12:26.060 stairs. And the Secret Service was very adamant, like, you're not going to walk out there till we

00:12:30.100 tell you. I said, well, I'm going to walk when I hear the music. And so somebody talked in the guy's

00:12:34.740 ear that was holding me there. And he went, okay, let him in. So I walked over and there's another

00:12:38.340 gentleman, Secret Service, guarding the stairway, not looking at me. He's looking at the stage.

00:12:43.500 And I tapped him on the shoulder. He said, excuse me, can I go by? And he looked at me like,

00:12:47.100 and then he looked at the microphone. He's like, who in the heck are you? You know, and then somebody

00:12:51.120 said in his ear, let him go. So I walked up. I don't believe Melania knew I was standing behind 0.85

00:12:57.300 her the entire time until she turned around when the president came onto the stage and then faced me.

00:13:03.200 And then she turned on and faced me as well. And what a wonderful moment that was. I can reflect

00:13:08.600 on the 1984 RNC when I sang and Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan are standing watching me do the same

00:13:16.200 song. So as I look back in all of those years, we're at the 40-year anniversary of God Bless the

00:13:22.580 USA and the American Patriot CD that was released that year. It's unbelievable. It's hard to believe

00:13:29.400 that I'm still doing this. Lee, you know, I, I, it's funny that you described that whole reaction

00:13:34.640 and transaction with that because I was sitting about, you guys had their little VIP area. And

00:13:39.240 then I was about four rows up in the, in the seating area. And I'm looking at, I'm looking,

00:13:44.460 I'm reading the, the guest list and I see Lee Greenwood and I'm like, he's got to be opening

00:13:47.940 up for, for the president. And then I see you sitting in the corner and I see you start walking

00:13:52.080 your cowboy boots on and I see you take a stop before the stage and then I see you proceed

00:13:56.540 up. And I, I, as I said to you, when we started the show, Lee, every time I hear your song,

00:14:02.180 it literally gives me chills down my back. And it doesn't matter. You know, if I'm hearing

00:14:06.280 it the first time, the second time or third time in a row, when I grew up in schools, Lee,

00:14:10.540 it was at a time I'm 30 years old now. It was at a time where I consider it the best times

00:14:16.520 to have grown up, at least in the millennial era. You know, we, we got to experience life

00:14:21.640 without cell phones. We got to experience life riding bicycles around the neighborhood,

00:14:25.700 throwing toilet paper on people's houses during Halloween. They'll stop there. That's all

00:14:29.200 I've ever done. Um, so, you know, I got to experience life both ways and Lee, the most

00:14:35.480 important thing is I don't even know if they're still doing a pledge of allegiance in schools

00:14:39.100 nowadays. It's how long I've been out of school, but when I was in school, we've got to experience

00:14:45.280 what it was like to be patriotic. And I'll never forget in one of my great classes, we'd have

00:14:49.860 these shows and your song was one of the songs that we had to learn. So it really, it just

00:14:55.720 brings back memories. And if you listen to the words of it, Lee, to every grain, um, it's,

00:15:01.620 it's literally just chilling, but I'm reading this week, uh, that Will Ferrell now is trying

00:15:06.800 to compete with you because he's tired of hearing about your song. We we've seen, uh, this, this

00:15:12.900 transactional issue we're having in America now where they want to wipe away every fabric that

00:15:18.600 this country was built on. Um, the patrioticness of it, uh, you know, the core being, uh, that

00:15:24.860 America's a great place. You just celebrated your 82nd birthday, which I don't believe you

00:15:30.800 because there's no way you're 82 years old. That's, that's first of all. Um, but in your 82

00:15:36.580 years on this earthly, working for many presidents, working with many presidents, including many

00:15:41.760 Democrats, what is your thoughts on, on where this country has gone?

00:15:48.020 Well, we're an interesting place. I think more and more we're influenced by world events. As you

00:15:53.820 see Russia trying to take out the Ukraine and then the attack on Israel and now the war in Gaza with

00:15:59.640 Hezbollah and, and, uh, Hamas. And it, we're affected by that. And we shouldn't be as a country, 0.79

00:16:05.640 we should keep our own direction. Um, I, I, I am appalled to know that our current administration

00:16:11.900 sent a hundred million dollars to Lebanon, uh, and knowing that the money's going to go to the,

00:16:16.560 to the terrorists when we had people in North Carolina suffering from, uh, hurricane Helene.

00:16:21.520 I, you know, the irresponsibility of, of, uh, uh, of the left and, and the white house is just,

00:16:29.760 it's, it's unfathomable. I have seen a lot. Yes. And, and I am like you, I was,

00:16:34.960 I was going places without a cell phone and they said, how did you get there? I used a map

00:16:39.200 and it's like, what's a map? It was a map. You open up, it's got streets on it. You know,

00:16:43.000 well, my phone's got streets on it. I didn't have a phone then. And, uh, and so learning directions,

00:16:48.740 learning about life and of course, world war one and two, uh, were something extremely critical in

00:16:55.660 America's survival. And, uh, and we got over it. My father joined the Navy right after the bombing of

00:17:00.660 Pearl Harbor. So I have military family. My wife and I've been married 30 years.

00:17:04.960 32 years. I did not serve in the military. I was three in the draft. And, uh, and so I,

00:17:10.020 I would have been a good soldier. I like discipline. I like what my wife's telling me to do and I do it.

00:17:13.960 Uh, and so, uh, you know, Kim and I have a wonderful existence. We have two, two sons that

00:17:20.400 like you are 29 and 26. And Dalton is, uh, is a biotech analyst in Chicago for a financial firm.

00:17:27.580 And our young boy who was chancellor scholar at TCU is now at the university of Miami getting,

00:17:32.640 getting a musical degree in production and engineering. And this country has given me that

00:17:36.700 chance. If I was not an American and to, to try to just map out where I would have gone early on in

00:17:43.980 my life, it wouldn't have been here. I would probably be in construction, helping my stepfather

00:17:48.720 build hotels or my grandfather, uh, work in the fields. So, you know, here I am just very lucky and

00:17:54.420 very blessed. And I want to pass that on. And I, and you mentioned about, uh, how you build

00:17:59.100 patriotism early in children. I get these videos all the time of kids that are like five, six,

00:18:05.080 seven years old, and they're standing there waving a little flag and they're singing, I'm proud to be

00:18:10.780 an American where I'm free. You know, it's just, it's, it just warms my heart to know that,

00:18:15.800 that people, my age pass it to people that your age, and now your people, your age are passing

00:18:23.720 to your kids. Another generation of learning that God bless the USA, like the national anthem,

00:18:28.400 like God bless America. And all of those songs that are on my American Patriots CD, by the way,

00:18:33.580 was released this year by Universal on a 33 and a third, which was never released early on. It was

00:18:39.820 only on a CD. So 40 years later, they're releasing the American Patriots CD to make sure people

00:18:45.660 understand patriotism is still alive. America is still the greatest country on the earth. And we have

00:18:51.020 to make sure we honor our veterans who have paid the price.

00:18:55.560 Yeah. You know, I, I was telling you before the show, Lou Dobbs is a massive fan of yours. He loved

00:19:00.320 your music. And before he passed away or after he passed away, his wife had given me a few things of

00:19:05.760 his to remember him by this American flag pin is one of them, which I wear every single day on the

00:19:09.660 show to remember him. But I was on an event lead a few weeks ago, probably wearing this jacket or one

00:19:15.560 like it, but I put it on every jacket I own. And someone asked me, why are you wearing an American flag?

00:19:20.220 What are you a politician? And I sat back and I thought, this is really how stupid society has

00:19:26.220 gotten Lee, that I have to be a politician to wear an American flag. And it was sort of

00:19:32.800 disrespectful, not on that aspect that someone would call me a politician, compare me to a

00:19:36.880 politician, because I like to think I'm a lot more patriotic than some of these people are sitting

00:19:40.800 there selling out our country in Congress right now. We're going to take a quick break.

00:19:44.860 We're talking about Lee Greenwood, a great American, an amazing singer, and a staple of

00:19:51.640 President Trump's campaign since 2016. Coming right back with Lee. Stay with us.

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00:21:04.320 We're back. We're talking with Lee Greenwood, the great Lee Greenwood, one of President Trump's,

00:21:09.360 I think, favorite people. If you saw in that video in the first segment we played,

00:21:12.520 President Trump doesn't hug very many people. So for him to go out of there and give Lee a hug,

00:21:17.820 and you saw, I could tell, Lee, that you were a little humbled by it as well. Just unbelievable.

00:21:24.940 So-

00:21:25.280 As you notice, when I left the stage, he gave me a whack on the back.

00:21:28.820 As a friendly gesture, you know, to make you say, Lee, thanks, man. You know, I can't engage in

00:21:35.040 conversation right now, but I'll talk to you later. I mean, that's what that meant. And it was so cool

00:21:41.420 to sing at least for a minute and a half of my song facing that fantastic couple. And I love them

00:21:50.320 both. I have sang for the First Lady before on an event in Washington, D.C. And many times for

00:21:57.080 President Trump since 2016. But as you know, and we mentioned before, God Bless the USA is a song

00:22:02.880 for all Americans. And when I wrote it, it had no political affiliation. I didn't intend to have it.

00:22:08.960 I am a conservative Christian. And yes, I'm drawn in because of that to use my material in order to do

00:22:15.440 what I think I believe in. And it's conservatism, if you will, and Christianity. That's why we have

00:22:21.340 the God Bless USA Bible. But you go back to the early days of my life and what I stood for.

00:22:26.660 I was probably liberal as a young man. You know, I think, yeah, I've been running wild. When I got

00:22:32.160 to Nevada, I was 17 years old, opened up the Stars Hotel with my own band in Vegas. And I worked there

00:22:37.980 20 years. My gosh, you think I was rocking and rolling. I ran with the Rat Pack and Elvis Presley

00:22:45.000 and all those, all those folks. And I got my country career. And I thought, well, this is the

00:22:50.280 next level. Because now I'm running with Reba McIntyre, George Strait, the Oak Ridge Boys and

00:22:54.620 Barbara Mandrell. You know, and everybody, Garth Brooks, it's like, good grief, you know, and country

00:23:00.120 then took a bigger piece of the pie. And that was about the time I got there in Nashville was 1980.

00:23:05.400 And here it's now country is like presenting Lee Greenwood on a stage with the president instead of

00:23:10.760 anybody else. I don't know who else I mentioned. You know, I'm surprised, Lee, that we haven't

00:23:15.540 gotten more from the left, accusing you of being a racist or a xenophobe or any of that garbage,

00:23:22.280 because it seems anybody who associates themselves with President Trump gets called any of those

00:23:26.800 adjectives, Lee, because it's just it's the way they do business. So for you to have passed all of

00:23:34.960 those name callings and all that stuff is truly remarkable. It must mean that you actually are a

00:23:39.980 great human being. And from everything I've seen, Lee, you really do love this country.

00:23:44.680 But if you go to the left and you ask them about us, Lee, as conservatives, they have this to say,

00:23:49.640 or at least their leader, Joe Biden, or de facto leader, Joe Biden has this to say about us.

00:23:54.920 Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people.

00:24:00.820 The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization is seen as unconscionable,

00:24:07.360 and it's on America.

00:24:11.660 So, Lee, we're just a bunch of garbage. And now he's obviously talking about, I don't know if you

00:24:16.420 were there in time at MSG, about Tony, a comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe. He's a comedian. Now,

00:24:22.580 I've had to explain this to people on Twitter, Lee, because I've gotten backlash on both sides and

00:24:26.320 people agree and disagree. It is what it is. He made a comment about Puerto Rico being an island of

00:24:32.120 floating garbage. Now, if you look into it, the Puerto Rico has an issue with landfill issues that

00:24:37.300 they're running out of space for garbage. Whatever. People took it out of context and out of the wrong

00:24:41.740 way. Two weeks before that, George Lopez was in Mexico at an event for Kamala Harris, where he

00:24:47.820 said all Mexicans are thieves. You didn't hear a word from the right, Lee, because it's comedy,

00:24:52.360 right? And comedy is not reality. And that's the problem that a lot of these people are having.

00:24:57.280 So I'm on Twitter, Lee, and I'm saying, you know what, it maybe wasn't the best timing that he

00:25:01.720 made a joke like that going into the election, but it's comedy. The day we let comedy die in this

00:25:06.200 country, Lee, is the day we let this country die. Then we get this comment from Joe Biden, Lee,

00:25:12.080 and there's less pushback from this comment than from that. Yeah, I'd have to tell Joe Biden,

00:25:17.680 Mr. President, please stop talking. That's first. And then I would say to Vice President Kamala Harris,

00:25:24.700 please stop talking. Neither one of them can say anything that has any substance at all. And when

00:25:30.380 they do speak, they speak in circles. I passed the litmus test. And I think the reason is,

00:25:36.580 is because if you go back to my, my history, when I got to Nashville, Tennessee, and we're not going

00:25:41.760 to talk about the years in Vegas, there were 20 years of those. And I dealt cards in the casinos. And

00:25:46.640 I had no career, really. I was a working musician and a writer and in reviews. But I, my passion

00:25:54.360 became supporting the military when I got to Nashville. We started a number of our USO tours,

00:25:59.040 which I had done already as a teenager out of California. I worked, I went to Alaska before it

00:26:04.080 was a state. I worked all of the up and down Air Force bases, Marine, Army bases in California.

00:26:10.480 And then when I got to Tennessee, I started traveling to Tennessee National Guard. And we did

00:26:13.780 16 USO tours around the world. So right away, I have to mention, my passion has been

00:26:19.960 to build homes for wounded warriors. And there's a profound foundation called Helping a Hero,

00:26:26.560 which over the past 12 years, as their ambassador and live performer, we built 220 homes in more than

00:26:34.020 16 states. And so I think when you talk about, you want to slap my hand because I'm a conservative,

00:26:40.720 it's really difficult for the left to do that to me as the American patriot. I think that's the

00:26:47.200 thing they have trouble with. And, and I'm not hostile. My music is not hostile. And so

00:26:53.160 they kind of like sidestep. And recently, there was an article about someone else that tried to

00:26:59.020 attack me and it didn't, it was completely flat. Yeah, I mean, and Lee, the thing is, is, and you're

00:27:04.360 entitled to make as much money as you could possibly make. That's what America is about, right? The

00:27:08.040 American dream. But when you were going out here doing this USO tours, Lee, I can almost bet you

00:27:12.800 weren't charging him a million bucks to sing. Um, a hundred dollars a day. There you go. But a hundred

00:27:17.960 bucks a day. I don't think there's a working at McDonald's where you can make less than a hundred

00:27:23.020 bucks. It's unbelievable. And, you know, if you will tell the audience, cause I don't think many

00:27:27.980 people know about this one, Ronald Reagan, uh, sort of brought your, your song outside God bless the

00:27:32.840 USA to use it as his campaign slogan. And obviously we see the parallels between president Trump and

00:27:37.520 Ronald Reagan. Um, it seems he's probably, um, his biggest fan, president Trump being the biggest

00:27:42.820 fan of Ronald Reagan. Tell him what you charge Ronald Reagan to use your song, uh, uh, on his

00:27:48.420 campaigns. Well, interestingly enough, you know, my manager at the time named Jerry Bentley, who's

00:27:53.840 deceased now, unfortunately he was my manager for 33 years. He was a, he was a Marine and wounded in

00:28:00.100 Vietnam. And he understand my appreciation for the military and he understand he understood about

00:28:06.320 Ronald Reagan being a true American Patriot, even though he was an actor. I mean, you remember

00:28:10.400 that show we had on television for a while? I can't remember the name of it, but he's a true

00:28:14.200 horseman and, uh, and he impresses us as a real rural American, somebody that we loved a lot.

00:28:20.340 And so when the campaign reached out to us, Jerry and I talked, I said, don't charge them. I said,

00:28:25.840 let them have it. And he said, we have to charge something. And I said, okay, how about a dollar?

00:28:29.760 So actually there was actually a contract for a dollar to let them use the campaign. Uh,

00:28:34.700 there's a song in the campaign. If that's not a great American folks, I don't know who is.

00:28:39.720 Uh, I remember hearing your song. I'm a New Yorker Lee, um, after nine 11 and we're in world series

00:28:45.780 season now. Um, and it literally just encompasses every time you hear the song, it's, it has to do

00:28:51.780 with something extremely patriotic. Obviously after nine 11, the country was going through a massive

00:28:56.900 healing period. And to see Lee, Lee Greenwood out there, uh, on the mound in, in the, uh, I guess it

00:29:03.040 was in New York. You were in right. When you say it, I went to New York three times. Uh, I was,

00:29:07.060 I was sequestered in Los Angeles for the two weeks that the planes were not flying. And mayor Giuliani

00:29:11.940 asked me to come to New York and sing the fireman's Memorial. I did that at Yankee stadium. Uh, 300

00:29:16.900 firemen were killed. It was Bette Midler, myself and Mark Anthony. Uh, at that time, president Clinton

00:29:22.200 was there on the stage of governor Pataki from New York and, uh, and all the cleric. And my wife was

00:29:27.600 with me, uh, we were sobbing in the dugout. It was so, so emotional. Um, the police commissioner

00:29:32.980 put together a, uh, memorial for the policemen that were killed. And I sang at Carnegie hall

00:29:37.080 two weeks later, and then it came back for the fourth game of the world series. As you mentioned,

00:29:41.060 it's the same timeframe as now. And, uh, and to be there and wear that red, white, and blue jacket,

00:29:46.340 which a lot of people said you shouldn't wear colors and clothing. I said, you know what? I want the

00:29:50.660 rest of the world to know we are not on our knees. We are after the terrorists and America will have

00:29:56.080 it's sports. We love our sports and we, you're not going to take that away from us. And so, uh,

00:30:01.160 it was an emotional moment the entire time I was in New York and, and we went back there quite a few

00:30:06.040 times. It was great to be back again for, for Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden too. That

00:30:10.300 was awesome. We need you back here more often, Lee, cause we're stuck with people like, uh, Beyonce

00:30:15.560 and, uh, and all these other people. We're just terrible people. I want to take one more quick break

00:30:20.220 and continue this conversation on the other side. Believe it or not, folks, I may have told you Lee

00:30:24.940 was 82 years old, just turned 82 years old, but he's still out there working. We'll tell you what

00:30:31.140 Lee's got up his sleeve. We're coming right back with Lee Greenwood. Stay with us.

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00:31:39.740 We're back. We're talking with Lee Greenwood. Lee, as we went to break there, we were talking

00:31:47.100 about the celebrities that be now. And there's not very many people like you anymore who care

00:31:51.700 about this country. You really only find it in country. If you look at the other side,

00:31:57.080 the rap music culture, the hip hop and R&B, you've got guys like P. Diddy running the industry.

00:32:02.920 And we all know the operation P. Diddy has been running now for the last 20 years.

00:32:07.220 Wow. How do we get more Lee Greenwoods in this world?

00:32:12.020 Well, we have a, I try to be a good image for everyone. And as a footnote to that,

00:32:19.140 my music goes on now for over four generations. And we've just released a rock version of God

00:32:24.940 Bless the USA on iTunes. The pre-sale comes out this Friday. I tried to get it done on my birthday.

00:32:30.600 And my birthday was the same time as Madison Square Garden performance at the rally. It was a little

00:32:35.580 bit late. I couldn't quite get it done. But it's available now. So if people want to hear

00:32:40.380 another version of God Bless the USA that'll rock your world, try that. 0.97

00:32:44.840 Why don't we just play a little clip for him right now, Lee? What do you say?

00:32:48.220 Are we locked?

00:32:48.540 Go ahead.

00:32:48.860 Here we go.

00:32:49.760 Go ahead.

00:32:49.940 Go ahead.

00:32:49.960 Go ahead.

00:32:50.200 Go ahead.

00:32:50.660 Yeah.

00:32:50.680 I'm proud to be an American.

00:32:54.600 Where at least I know I'm free.

00:32:57.940 And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

00:33:04.020 And I gladly stand up next to you.

00:33:09.120 And if it hurts no day.

00:33:11.620 Cause you're in your down and on this land

00:33:16.980 God bless the USA

00:33:22.140 Wow, that one even gave me bigger chills, Lee.

00:33:30.820 That's available this Friday for pre-order.

00:33:34.400 Folks, I don't ask you guys to do much on this show.

00:33:36.660 Maybe every now and then buy a book or two,

00:33:38.320 but it's for the good of the country

00:33:40.000 and the good of your own knowledge.

00:33:42.580 Go out there and pre-save it, pre-buy it,

00:33:45.820 do everything you can.

00:33:46.640 Apple, where else can they get it, Lee?

00:33:49.440 Yeah, I want to be on number one on the rock charts.

00:33:52.880 That's the only charts we've never been on.

00:33:55.040 And I'm not a rocker,

00:33:56.140 but I did play a lot of rock music when I was younger.

00:33:58.420 My favorite band, Tower of Power from Oakland, California.

00:34:01.420 I sang Earth, Wind, and Fire, Chicago.

00:34:03.080 I sang all of that.

00:34:04.480 And as a country artist,

00:34:05.540 we have a little bit more of a contemporary flair.

00:34:07.920 But if you want that song,

00:34:08.900 go to my website, LeeGrimba.com,

00:34:10.600 or go to iTunes and click on the pre-sale

00:34:13.080 and download it.

00:34:14.320 That would be cool, man.

00:34:16.280 Now, Lee, from what I understand,

00:34:18.200 are you still touring?

00:34:20.440 Yes.

00:34:22.060 Tell us about where are you going to be

00:34:24.000 over the next few months, years?

00:34:26.180 What kind of venues are you doing?

00:34:28.240 Yeah, I'm in residence at High Point University.

00:34:30.440 I'll be there next, this next weekend.

00:34:32.700 Of course, I'm going to just go to Mar-a-Lago

00:34:34.740 and watch the election returns first

00:34:36.500 and make sure that we're on the right page here.

00:34:39.120 But I'll be touring all through 2025.

00:34:41.440 So go to LeeGreenwood.com and see our tour schedule.

00:34:44.960 God bless you, Lee.

00:34:45.760 I don't know how you do it.

00:34:46.920 I mean, like I said, I'm 30,

00:34:48.060 and I'm looking for every way possible

00:34:50.040 I could to retire.

00:34:51.160 I mean, I understand your job is probably

00:34:52.800 a little bit more fun than mine.

00:34:54.380 You have a little bit less enemies than I do.

00:34:56.320 But nonetheless, it's unbelievable.

00:34:58.340 As we wrap up here, Lee,

00:34:59.540 I want to give you the chance,

00:35:01.320 as a man who's seen a lot of things,

00:35:03.400 God bless you, you look as healthy as possibly can be.

00:35:08.060 I want to give you an opportunity to tell our audience,

00:35:11.300 the younger folks who tune into this show,

00:35:13.420 the older folks who have grandchildren and children,

00:35:16.160 what we can do, Lee, to get this country back

00:35:18.780 after November 5th, pending, you know,

00:35:21.200 President Trump wins and takes this country back.

00:35:23.160 What can we do to instill the patriotism

00:35:26.340 back in this country that we saw after 9-11, 0.54

00:35:29.340 a united country, Lee?

00:35:30.600 And now 9-11 is probably not a good example

00:35:32.360 because we had just come from a bad time.

00:35:33.960 But that was the last time, Lee,

00:35:35.260 I remember this country being united

00:35:37.240 and the American folks sticking together

00:35:39.780 and raising their fist that we're Americans.

00:35:42.660 We're in this together,

00:35:43.680 and it's America versus everybody else.

00:35:46.200 What is your message to those folks, Lee?

00:35:49.240 Well, the first thing would be,

00:35:50.320 don't destroy the past.

00:35:51.680 We try to learn about the future

00:35:53.860 from what we've been through.

00:35:55.280 Don't try to destroy the documents

00:35:56.960 of how we got started.

00:35:58.120 And the God bless the USA Bible,

00:35:59.560 you'll find the Constitution,

00:36:01.700 the Declaration of Independence,

00:36:02.900 and the Bill of Rights,

00:36:03.560 things we should never forget

00:36:04.760 and how this country got started.

00:36:06.380 Those people that signed

00:36:07.160 the Declaration of Independence,

00:36:08.680 they put their lives,

00:36:09.980 their fortunes on the line

00:36:10.960 to start this country.

00:36:12.340 Let's not forget that.

00:36:13.700 We don't owe anybody anything in the world

00:36:15.900 except to be the free country that we are.

00:36:18.600 Every time you go through an airport anywhere,

00:36:20.880 thank a soldier.

00:36:22.020 That's first and foremost.

00:36:23.660 Teach your kids what patriotism is.

00:36:25.480 Let them be independent thinkers.

00:36:27.040 But when the time they get your age,

00:36:29.500 John, I think they're going to go,

00:36:31.440 yeah, I'm a conservative.

00:36:33.500 Yeah, I mean, Lee, I have three sisters.

00:36:36.680 I was the only boy in my family.

00:36:38.640 And my father, we grew up,

00:36:40.260 my father gave us no choice.

00:36:41.840 You have to be conservatives.

00:36:42.620 Now, I went to school down

00:36:44.020 in Daytona Beach, Florida

00:36:44.900 to be a pilot,

00:36:45.800 probably a little bit more conservative.

00:36:47.180 I had teachers who were

00:36:47.800 former Air Force and Navy guys.

00:36:50.100 Two of my sisters went 0.56

00:36:50.860 to liberal arts schools,

00:36:51.740 and it shows that they went

00:36:52.980 to liberal arts schools.

00:36:54.400 Lee, I spent all day

00:36:55.380 on this damn phone group texting

00:36:56.820 with them, arguing with them

00:36:58.040 about Donald Trump.

00:36:59.580 And they're just so brainwashed.

00:37:01.500 They both work in American America.

00:37:03.300 Lee, they're so brainwashed

00:37:04.440 by what they're told.

00:37:07.000 They're told to say

00:37:07.860 that Trump's a fascist.

00:37:08.900 He's a racist.

00:37:09.880 He's a xenophobe.

00:37:10.800 He's this and that.

00:37:11.700 And it's truly sickening.

00:37:13.780 And it actually makes me upset

00:37:15.000 to think that people think

00:37:16.040 that of him.

00:37:16.900 You and I both know him,

00:37:18.020 and that's not who he is,

00:37:19.120 but that's what this country

00:37:20.540 has come to, Lee.

00:37:22.040 Where could people go out

00:37:23.280 and buy your Bible,

00:37:25.400 everything else, Lee Greenwood?

00:37:27.220 Go to the website,

00:37:28.300 godblesstheusabible.com.

00:37:30.520 Go to my website,

00:37:31.840 leegreenwood.com.

00:37:32.820 Find all our merchandise,

00:37:33.880 our discography,

00:37:34.780 and our merchandise

00:37:35.760 that will be sale online.

00:37:38.960 Lee Greenwood,

00:37:39.480 you're a great American.

00:37:40.320 Thanks for everything

00:37:40.800 you've done for this country

00:37:41.700 over the last,

00:37:42.700 we'll call it 82 years.

00:37:44.900 It is.

00:37:45.300 It is.

00:37:46.720 Thanks.

00:37:47.360 See ya.

00:37:48.280 Thanks, everybody,

00:37:48.960 for being with us today.

00:37:49.960 I appreciate you guys

00:37:51.180 continuing this journey with me.

00:37:53.260 Like I said,

00:37:53.840 Lou and I started

00:37:54.500 three and a half years ago.

00:37:56.340 It's been a wild rollercoaster,

00:37:58.000 mostly ups,

00:37:59.100 you know,

00:37:59.340 some downs.

00:38:00.180 We'll see what happens tonight.

00:38:01.500 Hopefully, that's an up.

00:38:03.300 But I really appreciate

00:38:04.280 you guys sticking with me

00:38:05.540 as I am on this learning journey.

00:38:09.500 You know,

00:38:09.980 I have a great deal of fun

00:38:11.260 coming out here

00:38:11.780 every single day

00:38:12.500 and doing this

00:38:13.140 and putting on a show

00:38:14.980 for you guys

00:38:15.680 with the best guests

00:38:17.340 I could possibly get

00:38:18.280 and the truth.

00:38:20.000 That's what Lou wanted

00:38:21.140 and that's what Lou's got

00:38:22.660 as he watches down from heaven.

00:38:24.860 As always, folks,

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The Great America Show - November 05, 2024

TODAY IS THE DAY WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK

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