TODAY IS THE DAY WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK
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On this day in 2021, President Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. It was a day that many have longed for and a day we've all been waiting for. President Trump's victory was a long time coming.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Great America Show.
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Thanks so much for being with us on this monumental day.
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It's a monumental day that we've all been waiting for for the last almost four years
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since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took the oath of office in January of 2021.
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And just reflecting back and looking at our lives on that day and where we are now, you
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hear us talk about it every single day on this show, folks, whether it's me talking
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directly to you as the audience or with a guest, we're all paying the consequences of this
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regime, whether it be a weak foreign policy that puts us very vulnerable at home for World
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War III, whether it be inflation that's eating up the wallets of the average American, whether
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it be credit card debt through the roof, whether it be mortgage rates through the roof, interest
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This regime has managed to have an impact on every single person's lives, the transgenders
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When Lou and I started this show three and a half years ago, we had one vision in mind,
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And it was to get Donald Trump reelected on this day.
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Now, unfortunately, God had different plans for Lou and decided to take him home early,
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which is why I'm continuing on the tradition of the show and not Lou.
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But Lou is here in spirit and he's with me every single day.
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And I think about Lou every single morning when I wake up and I think about Lou every
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And when I sit down here in my studio, I think of Lou and the impact he had on me, the impact
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he's had on my career and the things that Lou has done for me.
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You know, I'd sit here all day telling you all what he's done for me and what he's meant
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So today is a special day for me and it's a special day for President Trump.
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And it's a special day for Lou because everything we've done on this show over the last three
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and a half years, almost to the day, was to get President Trump reelected.
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And I like to think that we've done a great job at doing that.
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We'll see the polls tonight on and how or tomorrow early morning on how that how well we've done
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But from everything I've heard and I've read and I see, it looks like President Trump is
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And we'll we'll get into that in just a few moments.
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But President Trump was ending his campaign last night in Michigan, not getting back to
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Palm Beach, Florida until around six o'clock in the morning, ending a rally at two o'clock
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They're having a few sad things to say, some choice words about why he's here and who put
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But when I was down, it was there was no feeling like I had in the White House.
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But had I not made that turn, I wouldn't be with you tonight.
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And that would have been that would have been bad.
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I hope that God did put me here to to really save this country.
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Yeah, as I said, God has plans for all of us here on Earth and he had plans for President
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And I wish Luke could be here today to witness, you know, the monumental turns this campaign
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has taken because I know he's he's up top and he's smiling down on all of us and he's
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smiling down on President Trump, telling him what a great job he's doing because President
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Trump ended his campaign, I think, better than probably any candidate ever will for any
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President Trump's a stand of America and he really does care about the people.
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The sad part about it all is that we got to see President Trump do his last Trump dance.
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I think we may ever get to see him do last night.
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I said, young man, hit yourself off the ground.
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I said, young man, because you're in a new town.
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President Trump is quite the entertainer, you know, for most of the folks who haven't
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And, you know, politics, I guess, is his second job.
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But, you know, President Trump has put everything on the line to do what he's doing, his family.
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I never thought we'd see the day where we'd say he's put his life on the line.
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Actually, metaphorically, obviously, that's been the case since 2016.
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But actually, you know, looking back in July and August, the first failed assassination
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attempt and the second one, luckily not being able to fire off any shots at him.
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This is the world that the Marxist Dems have us living in now.
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And I hope all of you will go out and vote today and grab every single person you know
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to get out and vote today because our lives do depend on it.
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You know, you often hear people say, vote like your lives depend on it.
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Everything from your kids in school to inflation, you go down the list.
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I don't want to sound like a broken record, but it's the truth.
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I want to go over some early voting data that we're getting out this morning.
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So now these are people who voted before Election Day, early voting.
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The Republicans won early voting in Arizona by 212,000 votes, folks.
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A million Republicans voting, 797,000 Democrats, 686,000 independents.
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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.
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In Florida, early votes plus Election Day early votes that were done on Election Day.
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Republicans are up by a million, just over a million votes between the early votes and the votes cast today on Election Day.
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Folks, these are numbers that are just absolutely unbelievable to see.
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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.
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Guam exit polls are showing that Republicans are flipping the legislator.
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These folks over in Guam, miles and miles away, are feeling the wrath of the Biden regime.
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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.
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But I think that's just the direction that this country is going in with the Marxist Dems at hand.
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And I think Republicans are getting out in forces.
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At least that's what all the early numbers are telling us.
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You look across the board, urban votes are down, which is things like deep blue New York City, deep blue Chicago.
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And the rural vote is up. And those are the folks that have been hit by this Biden regime.
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It's the farmers. It's the people who are out of these deep blue cities who watch what's going on,
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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.
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Those votes are up, folks. The female vote is down.
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Now, the female vote is usually largely Democrat.
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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,
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but probably outperforming Kamala Harris as of right now.
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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.
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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.
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When we all go to bed, you folks all remember that big, nice, beautiful red line.
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And then two o'clock in the morning, we saw the blue line go up, up and boom through the roof.
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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,
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because we can't let what happened in 2020 happen here once again.
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It was a disgrace and we can never let that happen again in this country.
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So with that, folks, today's guest, I spoke with him last week.
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I wanted to keep today's episode a little bit light, try to stay away from politics for the most part.
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Let the election day be enough politics for all of you.
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I spoke with a Grammy award winning recording artist.
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I want to play the clip for everybody, for you all to check it out.
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And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
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And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
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Wow. Lee, every time I hear your song, for you who didn't know who Lee Greenwood was before,
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you obviously know who he is now. I put the name to the face. Lee, every time I hear your song,
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it literally gives me the chills. You were at MSG opening up for President Trump, the main act.
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Lee, your thoughts? Well, I didn't think I could fill up Madison Square Garden without him.
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So I was honored to be there. It's interesting because we were there most of the day. As I came
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in through our limo early in the day, every barricade, almost every street was filled up
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with people. When we finally got to the event, there was 19,500 people inside, 75,000 people
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outside. That's a correct number. And everybody was so jammed in the barricades, you could not even
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move with people solidly against the barricade, wanting to see President Trump as he came to the
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Madison Square Garden. So being allowed to come there and being, but they could have easily played
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my music. And he does every time that he has a rally, if I'm not there in person. He specifically
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asked me to be there. And as you'll notice, it's funny, I was standing at the side when Melania
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walked out and majestically, oh my gosh, she looked like a queen, you know, and slowly and
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very calmly walked the stage, waving to the audience and delivered her message to the public
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and then introduced her husband and her president. She turned to face him. I'm coming up the other
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stairs. And the Secret Service was very adamant, like, you're not going to walk out there till we
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tell you. I said, well, I'm going to walk when I hear the music. And so somebody talked in the guy's
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ear that was holding me there. And he went, okay, let him in. So I walked over and there's another
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gentleman, Secret Service, guarding the stairway, not looking at me. He's looking at the stage.
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And I tapped him on the shoulder. He said, excuse me, can I go by? And he looked at me like,
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and then he looked at the microphone. He's like, who in the heck are you? You know, and then somebody
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said in his ear, let him go. So I walked up. I don't believe Melania knew I was standing behind
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her the entire time until she turned around when the president came onto the stage and then faced me.
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And then she turned on and faced me as well. And what a wonderful moment that was. I can reflect
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on the 1984 RNC when I sang and Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan are standing watching me do the same
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song. So as I look back in all of those years, we're at the 40-year anniversary of God Bless the
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USA and the American Patriot CD that was released that year. It's unbelievable. It's hard to believe
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that I'm still doing this. Lee, you know, I, I, it's funny that you described that whole reaction
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and transaction with that because I was sitting about, you guys had their little VIP area. And
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then I was about four rows up in the, in the seating area. And I'm looking at, I'm looking,
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I'm reading the, the guest list and I see Lee Greenwood and I'm like, he's got to be opening
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up for, for the president. And then I see you sitting in the corner and I see you start walking
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your cowboy boots on and I see you take a stop before the stage and then I see you proceed
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up. And I, I, as I said to you, when we started the show, Lee, every time I hear your song,
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it literally gives me chills down my back. And it doesn't matter. You know, if I'm hearing
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it the first time, the second time or third time in a row, when I grew up in schools, Lee,
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it was at a time I'm 30 years old now. It was at a time where I consider it the best times
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to have grown up, at least in the millennial era. You know, we, we got to experience life
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without cell phones. We got to experience life riding bicycles around the neighborhood,
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throwing toilet paper on people's houses during Halloween. They'll stop there. That's all
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I've ever done. Um, so, you know, I got to experience life both ways and Lee, the most
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important thing is I don't even know if they're still doing a pledge of allegiance in schools
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nowadays. It's how long I've been out of school, but when I was in school, we've got to experience
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what it was like to be patriotic. And I'll never forget in one of my great classes, we'd have
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these shows and your song was one of the songs that we had to learn. So it really, it just
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brings back memories. And if you listen to the words of it, Lee, to every grain, um, it's,
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it's literally just chilling, but I'm reading this week, uh, that Will Ferrell now is trying
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to compete with you because he's tired of hearing about your song. We we've seen, uh, this, this
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transactional issue we're having in America now where they want to wipe away every fabric that
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this country was built on. Um, the patrioticness of it, uh, you know, the core being, uh, that
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America's a great place. You just celebrated your 82nd birthday, which I don't believe you
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because there's no way you're 82 years old. That's, that's first of all. Um, but in your 82
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years on this earthly, working for many presidents, working with many presidents, including many
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Democrats, what is your thoughts on, on where this country has gone?
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Well, we're an interesting place. I think more and more we're influenced by world events. As you
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see Russia trying to take out the Ukraine and then the attack on Israel and now the war in Gaza with
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Hezbollah and, and, uh, Hamas. And it, we're affected by that. And we shouldn't be as a country,
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we should keep our own direction. Um, I, I, I am appalled to know that our current administration
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sent a hundred million dollars to Lebanon, uh, and knowing that the money's going to go to the,
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to the terrorists when we had people in North Carolina suffering from, uh, hurricane Helene.
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I, you know, the irresponsibility of, of, uh, uh, of the left and, and the white house is just,
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it's, it's unfathomable. I have seen a lot. Yes. And, and I am like you, I was,
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I was going places without a cell phone and they said, how did you get there? I used a map
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and it's like, what's a map? It was a map. You open up, it's got streets on it. You know,
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well, my phone's got streets on it. I didn't have a phone then. And, uh, and so learning directions,
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learning about life and of course, world war one and two, uh, were something extremely critical in
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America's survival. And, uh, and we got over it. My father joined the Navy right after the bombing of
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Pearl Harbor. So I have military family. My wife and I've been married 30 years.
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32 years. I did not serve in the military. I was three in the draft. And, uh, and so I,
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I would have been a good soldier. I like discipline. I like what my wife's telling me to do and I do it.
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Uh, and so, uh, you know, Kim and I have a wonderful existence. We have two, two sons that
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like you are 29 and 26. And Dalton is, uh, is a biotech analyst in Chicago for a financial firm.
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And our young boy who was chancellor scholar at TCU is now at the university of Miami getting,
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getting a musical degree in production and engineering. And this country has given me that
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chance. If I was not an American and to, to try to just map out where I would have gone early on in
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my life, it wouldn't have been here. I would probably be in construction, helping my stepfather
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build hotels or my grandfather, uh, work in the fields. So, you know, here I am just very lucky and
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very blessed. And I want to pass that on. And I, and you mentioned about, uh, how you build
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patriotism early in children. I get these videos all the time of kids that are like five, six,
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seven years old, and they're standing there waving a little flag and they're singing, I'm proud to be
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an American where I'm free. You know, it's just, it's, it just warms my heart to know that,
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that people, my age pass it to people that your age, and now your people, your age are passing
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to your kids. Another generation of learning that God bless the USA, like the national anthem,
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like God bless America. And all of those songs that are on my American Patriots CD, by the way,
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was released this year by Universal on a 33 and a third, which was never released early on. It was
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only on a CD. So 40 years later, they're releasing the American Patriots CD to make sure people
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understand patriotism is still alive. America is still the greatest country on the earth. And we have
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to make sure we honor our veterans who have paid the price.
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Yeah. You know, I, I was telling you before the show, Lou Dobbs is a massive fan of yours. He loved
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your music. And before he passed away or after he passed away, his wife had given me a few things of
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his to remember him by this American flag pin is one of them, which I wear every single day on the
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show to remember him. But I was on an event lead a few weeks ago, probably wearing this jacket or one
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like it, but I put it on every jacket I own. And someone asked me, why are you wearing an American flag?
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What are you a politician? And I sat back and I thought, this is really how stupid society has
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gotten Lee, that I have to be a politician to wear an American flag. And it was sort of
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disrespectful, not on that aspect that someone would call me a politician, compare me to a
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politician, because I like to think I'm a lot more patriotic than some of these people are sitting
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there selling out our country in Congress right now. We're going to take a quick break.
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We're talking about Lee Greenwood, a great American, an amazing singer, and a staple of
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President Trump's campaign since 2016. Coming right back with Lee. Stay with us.
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We're back. We're talking with Lee Greenwood, the great Lee Greenwood, one of President Trump's,
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I think, favorite people. If you saw in that video in the first segment we played,
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President Trump doesn't hug very many people. So for him to go out of there and give Lee a hug,
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and you saw, I could tell, Lee, that you were a little humbled by it as well. Just unbelievable.
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As you notice, when I left the stage, he gave me a whack on the back.
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As a friendly gesture, you know, to make you say, Lee, thanks, man. You know, I can't engage in
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conversation right now, but I'll talk to you later. I mean, that's what that meant. And it was so cool
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to sing at least for a minute and a half of my song facing that fantastic couple. And I love them
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both. I have sang for the First Lady before on an event in Washington, D.C. And many times for
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President Trump since 2016. But as you know, and we mentioned before, God Bless the USA is a song
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for all Americans. And when I wrote it, it had no political affiliation. I didn't intend to have it.
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I am a conservative Christian. And yes, I'm drawn in because of that to use my material in order to do
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what I think I believe in. And it's conservatism, if you will, and Christianity. That's why we have
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the God Bless USA Bible. But you go back to the early days of my life and what I stood for.
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I was probably liberal as a young man. You know, I think, yeah, I've been running wild. When I got
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to Nevada, I was 17 years old, opened up the Stars Hotel with my own band in Vegas. And I worked there
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20 years. My gosh, you think I was rocking and rolling. I ran with the Rat Pack and Elvis Presley
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and all those, all those folks. And I got my country career. And I thought, well, this is the
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next level. Because now I'm running with Reba McIntyre, George Strait, the Oak Ridge Boys and
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Barbara Mandrell. You know, and everybody, Garth Brooks, it's like, good grief, you know, and country
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then took a bigger piece of the pie. And that was about the time I got there in Nashville was 1980.
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And here it's now country is like presenting Lee Greenwood on a stage with the president instead of
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anybody else. I don't know who else I mentioned. You know, I'm surprised, Lee, that we haven't
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gotten more from the left, accusing you of being a racist or a xenophobe or any of that garbage,
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because it seems anybody who associates themselves with President Trump gets called any of those
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adjectives, Lee, because it's just it's the way they do business. So for you to have passed all of
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those name callings and all that stuff is truly remarkable. It must mean that you actually are a
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great human being. And from everything I've seen, Lee, you really do love this country.
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But if you go to the left and you ask them about us, Lee, as conservatives, they have this to say,
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or at least their leader, Joe Biden, or de facto leader, Joe Biden has this to say about us.
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Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people.
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The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization is seen as unconscionable,
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So, Lee, we're just a bunch of garbage. And now he's obviously talking about, I don't know if you
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were there in time at MSG, about Tony, a comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe. He's a comedian. Now,
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I've had to explain this to people on Twitter, Lee, because I've gotten backlash on both sides and
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people agree and disagree. It is what it is. He made a comment about Puerto Rico being an island of
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floating garbage. Now, if you look into it, the Puerto Rico has an issue with landfill issues that
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they're running out of space for garbage. Whatever. People took it out of context and out of the wrong
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way. Two weeks before that, George Lopez was in Mexico at an event for Kamala Harris, where he
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said all Mexicans are thieves. You didn't hear a word from the right, Lee, because it's comedy,
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right? And comedy is not reality. And that's the problem that a lot of these people are having.
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So I'm on Twitter, Lee, and I'm saying, you know what, it maybe wasn't the best timing that he
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made a joke like that going into the election, but it's comedy. The day we let comedy die in this
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country, Lee, is the day we let this country die. Then we get this comment from Joe Biden, Lee,
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and there's less pushback from this comment than from that. Yeah, I'd have to tell Joe Biden,
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Mr. President, please stop talking. That's first. And then I would say to Vice President Kamala Harris,
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please stop talking. Neither one of them can say anything that has any substance at all. And when
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they do speak, they speak in circles. I passed the litmus test. And I think the reason is,
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is because if you go back to my, my history, when I got to Nashville, Tennessee, and we're not going
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to talk about the years in Vegas, there were 20 years of those. And I dealt cards in the casinos. And
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I had no career, really. I was a working musician and a writer and in reviews. But I, my passion
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became supporting the military when I got to Nashville. We started a number of our USO tours,
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which I had done already as a teenager out of California. I worked, I went to Alaska before it
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was a state. I worked all of the up and down Air Force bases, Marine, Army bases in California.
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And then when I got to Tennessee, I started traveling to Tennessee National Guard. And we did
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16 USO tours around the world. So right away, I have to mention, my passion has been
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to build homes for wounded warriors. And there's a profound foundation called Helping a Hero,
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which over the past 12 years, as their ambassador and live performer, we built 220 homes in more than
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16 states. And so I think when you talk about, you want to slap my hand because I'm a conservative,
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it's really difficult for the left to do that to me as the American patriot. I think that's the
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thing they have trouble with. And, and I'm not hostile. My music is not hostile. And so
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they kind of like sidestep. And recently, there was an article about someone else that tried to
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attack me and it didn't, it was completely flat. Yeah, I mean, and Lee, the thing is, is, and you're
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entitled to make as much money as you could possibly make. That's what America is about, right? The
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American dream. But when you were going out here doing this USO tours, Lee, I can almost bet you
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weren't charging him a million bucks to sing. Um, a hundred dollars a day. There you go. But a hundred
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bucks a day. I don't think there's a working at McDonald's where you can make less than a hundred
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bucks. It's unbelievable. And, you know, if you will tell the audience, cause I don't think many
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people know about this one, Ronald Reagan, uh, sort of brought your, your song outside God bless the
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USA to use it as his campaign slogan. And obviously we see the parallels between president Trump and
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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
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Vietnam. And he understand my appreciation for the military and he understand he understood about
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Ronald Reagan being a true American Patriot, even though he was an actor. I mean, you remember
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that show we had on television for a while? I can't remember the name of it, but he's a true
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horseman and, uh, and he impresses us as a real rural American, somebody that we loved a lot.
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And so when the campaign reached out to us, Jerry and I talked, I said, don't charge them. I said,
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let them have it. And he said, we have to charge something. And I said, okay, how about a dollar?
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So actually there was actually a contract for a dollar to let them use the campaign. Uh,
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there's a song in the campaign. If that's not a great American folks, I don't know who is.
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Uh, I remember hearing your song. I'm a New Yorker Lee, um, after nine 11 and we're in world series
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season now. Um, and it literally just encompasses every time you hear the song, it's, it has to do
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with something extremely patriotic. Obviously after nine 11, the country was going through a massive
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healing period. And to see Lee, Lee Greenwood out there, uh, on the mound in, in the, uh, I guess it
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was in New York. You were in right. When you say it, I went to New York three times. Uh, I was,
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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
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firemen were killed. It was Bette Midler, myself and Mark Anthony. Uh, at that time, president Clinton
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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
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put together a, uh, memorial for the policemen that were killed. And I sang at Carnegie hall
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two weeks later, and then it came back for the fourth game of the world series. As you mentioned,
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it's the same timeframe as now. And, uh, and to be there and wear that red, white, and blue jacket,
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which a lot of people said you shouldn't wear colors and clothing. I said, you know what? I want the
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rest of the world to know we are not on our knees. We are after the terrorists and America will have
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it's sports. We love our sports and we, you're not going to take that away from us. And so, uh,
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it was an emotional moment the entire time I was in New York and, and we went back there quite a few
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times. It was great to be back again for, for Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden too. That
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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
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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
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Lee's got up his sleeve. We're coming right back with Lee Greenwood. Stay with us.
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We're back. We're talking with Lee Greenwood. Lee, as we went to break there, we were talking
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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,
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the rap music culture, the hip hop and R&B, you've got guys like P. Diddy running the industry.
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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?
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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.
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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
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another version of God Bless the USA that'll rock your world, try that.
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Why don't we just play a little clip for him right now, Lee? What do you say?
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And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
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Folks, I don't ask you guys to do much on this show.
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Yeah, I want to be on number one on the rock charts.
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but I did play a lot of rock music when I was younger.
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My favorite band, Tower of Power from Oakland, California.
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we have a little bit more of a contemporary flair.
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Yeah, I'm in residence at High Point University.
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and make sure that we're on the right page here.
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So go to LeeGreenwood.com and see our tour schedule.
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God bless you, you look as healthy as possibly can be.
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I want to give you an opportunity to tell our audience,
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the older folks who have grandchildren and children,
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President Trump wins and takes this country back.